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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,006 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE 5 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LV—NUMBER 14 Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 14, 1952 ESTABLISHED 1899 S Marriage Licenses In The Past Month —•— Issuance Is largest For Any January In The Past Four Years Twenty-four marriage licenses, were issued in this county during the month of January. The num ber of licenses going to white cou ples was only half the count is sued in the corresponding month last year, and the number going to colored couples was three times greater than it was in the same month of 1951. The issuance last month was the largest for any January in four years. Licenses were Issued, six to white and eighteen to colored couples, last month, as follows: White Joseph R. Schanzer of Wil liamston and Sylvia L. Robinson of Marblehead, Mass. Earl Manning of Bethel and Joyce Harrell of Palmyra. Edward Gray Strickland and Minnie Leg Coward, both of Greenville. 0 Wiley Spencer and Terressa Barnett Cowles, both of South Mills. Jackson Askew Sharpe of Har rellsville and Peggy Gray of Rob ersonville. , Curtis Knox of Robcrsonvillc and Ruby Lee of Williamston. Colored Joe Dawson and Ellen Heck stall, both of Plymouth. John Davis and Thelma Louise Wilson, both of Oak City. • Andrew Thomas and Bettie White, both of Oak City. Melford Keys of Jamesville and Laura Jane Downing of Plym outh. David Lee Parker and Lena J Bell Ebron, both of Williamston. Eli Davis and Lillie May Hig gins both of Oak City. Robert Gilliam, Jr., and Vir ginia Dare Purvis, both of Wind sor. James Gilliam and Nettie Spell *er, both of Windsor. William Earl Jones of Oak City and Magdalene Cooper of RFD 1 Hobgood. Roosevelt Reeves of Williams ton and Emma Moore of James ville. Frederick James and Carrie Del! Whitehurst, both of James ville. Oleaster Coburn and Carrie Le tha Sheppard, both of Roberson faille. Elmer Goss and Shirley Stokes both of RFD 2. Robcrsonvillc. James Briley of Roborsonvilh and Bertha Council of hamilton. Willie Clyde Brown and Elsi< Ryan, both of Williamston. George Thomas Stokes anc Louise Williams, both of Wil liamston. Ernest Evans Scott and Edit! Mae Whitley, both of Williamston Walter Bland and Lucy Lei Lloyd, both of Robersonville. • -- Reports On TB Survey Pending ■ - Reports on the rectal mass T5 survey are still incomplete, thi Martin County Health Depart ment announced today, addini that the delay in tallying the re suits is due to the follow-up worl and the retakes of X-rays whicl <|s now in progress. In cases wher bad or unclear films were evi dent, those persons must be no tified and called in for new X ravs. it was explained All individual reports on th X-rays have not been mailed ou but are expected to be in th mails within a few days. The department expressed it sincere appreciation to the civi organizations, who helped great! •i publicizing the survey and co operated so generously towar the success of the survey, and t each and everyone who partici paled. ISutive Of County Much Improved In Baltimor Although she continues ill a her home at 1? N. East Stree Baltimore, Mrs. N. W. Perkon: a native of this county, was rt • ported much improved yesterda following treatment in a hospiti there. Mr. A Corey, her brothei and Mrs. Corey have returne home following a visit with Mr Perkins. CT af ~Maj or- -Road" Projects In This Area EQUIPMENT ) Machinery and other equip ment, direct from the factor ies, are being unloaded this week for Taylor's Dairy plant here. No official information has been released, but plans, formulated some months ago to make the dairy plant one of the most modern in this section of northeastern North Carolina, are rapidly going forward. The last of the special equipment reached here yes terday from the factory. Cos! Of School Lunch Increases f ollowing an inspection Dy Mrs. Fabie Reid of Plymouth, district lunchroom supervisor for the state lunch room department, and a letter from the department at Raleigh telling Principal B. G. Stewart that milk will have to be added to the regular lunch and included in the established price, the charges for lunch at the high school and grammar school cafe terias will move to 25 cents on Monday with milk offered with each lunch. Under the new regulations adopted by the state authorities those children who have been purchasing milk at fi cents will save a penny on each lunch but those who do not or cannot drink milk will have to pay the 25 cents just the same for their lunch. Milk will still be sold to those students who have been bringing their own lunches. Principal Stewart said yester day that he had hoped to delay the adidtion of milk to the regu lar lunch and the resulting in crease in price until after the high school department had mov ed into its new cafeteria but state ; authorities notified him by letter I that it would have to be done at I once. While the increase in the price for lunches is deplored, he said, it must be remembered that the price of lunches at the school has not been increased now for several years although the price of food and supp.ies has moved up considerably. He is mailing a letter to parents explaining the situation and asking their coop eration. State authorities have placed much emphasis on the need ot I milk in the diet of school child ren and this is one reason why they insist that milk be a part , of the regular lunch whenever it is available. They report that i the use of milk by farm families in Martin Coun'y is low—about one cow for every 10 persons. ___—--— Making Ready To Dig A Deep Well ' Machinery and equipment are ■ being placed on the lot at the mu ! nicipal water plant, preparatory to digging a deep well for the t town’s water supply. Layne At ) lantie Company of Norfolk h ? handling the project. The well will be the eighth one - dug here since the municipal wa - ter system was installed more than thirty years ago. Three of the ? wells were abandoned when t pumped dry, and a fourth one was ■ abandoned on account of an ex tremely high salt content. s It could not be learned when the :• contractors plan to start work on ! the new well which will be locat - ed near the water plant on Syca 1 more Street, but it is planned tc > have it in operation in time tc - help relieve the demand taxec against the three wells now ir use. P Almost Loses Finger While Handling Knifi t -<* ;, LeRoy Hines, young colorec i, man, almost lost his forefingei - from his left hand when he stum y bled at his home on Washington 1 Street yesterday afternoon and •, cut it with a butcher knife. i The wound was treated, and i1 j is believed the finger can be sav I ed. Will Widen Route 17 And Black Top Bear Grass Road No Action Taken On Truck Route Around William stoii On No. 17 —♦— Several major highway pro jects,, including several to be let within the next month or two, will be centered in this area dur ing the coming months, according to unofficial information gained here this week. Two of the projects are outside the county, one running from the Roanoke River fill to Windsor and the other from the Martin Coun ty line to Washington. It is un derstood that 17 is to be widened and improved from Windsor to Edenton, but no reliable informa tion could be had on that project. Work is to be started without de lay on two new bridges, one at Salmon Creek between Windsor and Chowan River and the other at the U. S. fish hatchery between Chowan River and Edenton. In addition to widening the route between Williamston and Windsor, the highway commission expects to “ease" some of the curves, especially the one where several people have been injured or killed about six miles from Williamston. There is some doubt if the bridge at Roquist Creek will be removed immediately, ac cording to the best available in formation. In this county work is tenta tively scheduled to ge“t under way on the U. S. Highway 64 project between Williamston and the Washington County line about the first of next month. Bids have been asked for the re moval of several buildings where the road is to be relocated. The Highway Commission has pointed out the advisability of building a truck route around Willimaston, connecting U. S. 17 at the foot of the river bridge over a more or less direct line ti a point on the same route at Ske warkey, and continuing on t< connect Highway 64 in West End j a point near Chesson's store. Ni 1 action has been taken, but the j commission is said to be ready | to handle the work along with j the improvement project on High i way 64. Only one sizable county roac project is now in the making, anc it will hardly get consideratior before March, if then. Plans cal for surfacing of 6.5 miles of roac in Bear Grass Township The road, slated to have a black tof surface, starts on the Bear Grass Everetts Road, about two-tenthi of a mile out of Bear Grass anc runs 1,9 miles to a road leadinj from the Beaufort County line t( the Prison Camp Road, the 4.( miles between the county lim ’and the Prison ChTOP.... .or ole Greenville road to be suifacet also, making a total of 6.5 miles. Several other roads are slatec for widening and stabilizing (Continued on Page Eight) THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists using Martin County 'highways and st'keels have,so far this year, had more accidents, injured twice as many persons and almost doubled property losses com pared with tiie record foi the corresponding period in 1951. As for sheer numbers, a re cord was believed to have been established last week, but human life escaped. The following tabulations offer aJkfhriparison of the ac cident trend: first, by corres ponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 8th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1952 12 5 0 $ 4,575 1951 4 2 0 1,315 Comparisons To Date 1952 38 18 0 $14,055 1951 37 9 0 7,940 Died Wednesday —•— Mrs. Elizabeth Edmondson Pitt, a resident of this county for a long number of years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. D. Dixon, in Whitakers Wednesday after a long period of declin ing health. The daughter of the late Wil liam and Sallic Cross Edmondson, she was born in Edgecombe Coun ty 84 years ago on April 11, 1867. In early womanhood she was married to James A. Pitt, Martin County man who was a member of Co. E, 43rd Regiment, North Carolina Troops, and served in the Civil War. He died in 1903. Following her marriage, she had made her home in this county most of the time, living with her children near Oak City and in Edgecombe County. Mrs. Pitt was possessed of a Christian character and was held in high esleem in her native and adopted communities. She was faithful to her friends and family until the last, giving in full mea sure of her means and services for the enrich|nent of the lives of others. Funeral services arc being held in the Hamilton Church of Christ where she was a member, Thurs day afternoon at 3:00 o'clock by the Rev. D. A. Hudson. Burial will be in the Hamilton Cemetery Surviving are two sons, Hen ry Pitt, Oak City, Leroy Pitt ol Portsmouth, Va.; four daughters Mrs. George Edmondson, Scot land "Neck, Mrs. D. D. Dixor Whitakers, Mrs. Thomas Brown Greenville, and Mrs. Ed Warren Oak City; one brother, John Ed mondson, Hobgood; one sister Mrs. Mollie Lynch, Scotlanc Neck. Wreck Five Stills la A Single Da] —♦ — ABC Officers J. H. Rocbuc) and Cecil Bullock wrecked fiv< illicit liquor stills in the count' on Tuesday of this week. One o the plants was brand new anc had not been completed. The of ficers poured out 300 gallons o beer and upset plans for futuri operations at the site in the Fret Union section of Jamesvillt Township. Another partial plant was alst wrecked, the officers pouring on j 300 gallons "f beei and dcstroyini barrels and equipment. A thirt plant was also wrecked in tht Free Union section that morning the officers pouring out 200 gal Ions of beer and destroying bar rels and a large cooler. / Moving into the Bear Gras area that afternoon, the officer wrecked two plants, and pourei out 500 gallons of beer. No kettf could be found at one plant. Th< second plant was equipped witl a 50-gallon submarine type still. ABC Officers Ward, Mannin, and King of Pitt County were ii on the raids. --♦ Board Of Education Mem her Continuex II "■ ™ ——* Suffering with arthritis, Ernes Edmondson, member of the Mar tin County Board of Edticatior continues ill at his home in lias sell. Mr. Edmondson rcturne home last week-end after undei I going treatment in Duke Hospita and is still unable to walk. Jcs^ AHSalwssca Died Al His Home Here Last Night Funeral Services ^ it! Be Conducted At Home On East Main Street Joseph Adolpheus Roberson, retired, died at his home here on East Main Street last night at 10:15 o’clock after a long period of declining health. He had spent several weeks in hospitals during the past few months and was j»ct 1 ting along very well until last Tuesday. His condition had been critical since that time ! The son of the late John and Mollie Williams Roberson, he was born in Hamilton 69 years ago on August 28, 1882, but lived I there only a short time before lo cating in Williamston where he spent the remainder of his life. He was first married to Miss Del la Wynne, and one son, John Hay wood Roberson of Portsmouth, | survives that union. His second marriage was in 1904 to Nancy Coburn who survives with three sons, Raymond A., Joseph A., Jr., and Onward L. Roberson, all of Williamston; a daughter, Mrs. Frank Edwards, Jr., of Norfolk; and a sister, Mrs. T. C. Cooke, of Williamston. 1 Mr. Roberson was engaged in the timber business for some time, but spent most of his life handling commercial fishing op erations on the Roanoke River. He built many fishing machines and made thousands of nets dur ing his active years. I He was a member of the local I Christian Church and his pastor, i; the Rev. John L. Goff, assisted j by the Rev. R. E. Walston, pas tor of the First Methodist Church, will conduct the fuheral service at the home Friday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Interment will be in > Woodlawn Cemetery. -♦— Representative ut OPS Coming Here Field service facilities <>f the Raleigh OPS will be available to the businessmen of the Williams ton area on Tuesday, February 19 when Robert 'Wells from the 1 Raleigh office will be in town calling on local firms. Wells will 1 be here to assist with OPS reg ulations and filing requirements. : I Special emphasis is being giv l|en new businesses, and any con ■ templating opening a new firm , should contact the Raleigh OPS as far in advance of the opening date as possible, because any new business must have the ceiling > prices approved by OPS before > it can legally operate, the Ral I eigh office explained.. Any busi '■ ness which opened since Decern ' ber 19, 1950 without having es > tablished the prices with OPS is urged to contact the Raleigh of t fice. > The Raleigh OPS said that compliance with Ceiling Price Regulation 34 was extremely low in this area. CRP 34 covers var I ious types of businesses rendering services to the public Jtvfevafc t a fee is charged. This field service is a plan de , vised by the Raleigh OPS in an - effort to make information easily i available to the public of eastern - Carolina, and businessmen of this , area are urged to take advantage of this opportunity. ■ Kerr Dam Having Little Effect On River So Far The Kerr Dam at Buggs Island apparently is having very little effect eii; the flow of the Roa noke River at this point, and little chn be learned about the potential power the dam will have in controlling the flood wa ters of the stream in the future. Unofficial reports state that it will be June or later before the darn will go into operation as a flood control factor. It was ex plained that highway and rail bridges had not been raised in the territory above the dam, making it impossible for the dam to start holding the water in check. And after the dam goes into operation, it is not certain that the river ! will be confined to its banks at . this point. The river, out of its bunks here for a number of days, reached a crest of 11.4 feet lute last Monday night or about six-tenths of a food below the high point pre dicted last week by the Weather Bureau. High waters have just about eliminated logging activities along the river for several weeks, and fishing hasn’t been too good during the past few days. The high water here is trace able to heavy rains far up the valley, Hugh Spruill, bridgekeep er at this point, stating that only 2.48 inches of rain fell during January and that less than one inch of rain had fallen so far this month. „ Cooiey Speak Out In Recorders Court On Farm Program Nan Appeals from Two-Year Term In Assault Case KiMrs, Vnioiinliiif! to I hi posed In Ml-|)av Session Monday Judge R. T. Johnson and So licitor Clarence Griffin worked all day Monday clearing thirty cases from the docket in the Mar tin C'ountv Recorder's Court. Be fore closing for the day at 5:45 o'clock, the court had sentenced several defendants to jail and .the roads and imposed fines amounting to $835. James Perkins, referred to as a preacher appealed to the su perior court when he was sen tenced to the roads for two years for brutally attacking his wife in early January. Bond was re quired in the sum of $1,000 which was arranged Tuesday morning. Other proceedings in the court: Charged with drunken driving, Hiram Waller JAird asked for a jury trial and his case was auto matically placed on the superior court docket. Pleading not guilty of drunken driving and speeding, Daniel Earl Simpson was found not guill.v of drunken driving. Ad judged guilty of speeding,, he was fined $25, plus costs. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes and without a driver’s li cense, David Best was fined $35 and taxed with the costs. Adjudged guilty of drunken driving and operating a motor ve hicle with improper brakes, Dan iel Ryan was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $110 fine and costs. Simon Jenkins, pleading not guilty, was adjudged guilty and was fined $25, plus costs, for vio lating the liquor laws. Charged with bastardy, Rus sel! Brown pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a medical bill and $5 a week for the support of iris child Lula Lee, pleading guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon was sentenced to serve six month: in women’s prison. The court suspended the prison term upon the payment of a $25 fine, plu. costs, and Hazel Spruill’s doctor': bill. The defendant is to violate no criminal law during the nexl two years. Booked for bastardy, Clavoi Lyons pleaded guilty and wa: sentenced to the roads for si> months. Execution or the roac sentence was suspended upon till payment of the court costs and $1 a week for two years for the sup port of his child. Willard Whitaker was finei I2fi. plus costs, tor ..operating i motor vehicle without a driver’: license. Pleading guilty of speeding Aibert Lawrence Tapp, Jr., wa taxed with the corn l costs. The case in which Phillip Wors ley was charged with selling bee without a license, was nol press ed. Charged along with Jame Wesley Wnrsley in another casi with violating the hi;.-. " laws he pleaded not guilty. Both wen found guilty and each was sen tenced to the roads for si: months. The road terms were sus pended upon the payment of $5i fines each and one-half the costs The defendants are to violate m liquor laws for two years and ; piccolo joint, called “Red Rons ter" is to be closed for six months The place of business, a gatherini place for goodly numbers of peo pie from two counties, is locator near Foreman’s fire tower oi Highway 171 in Griffins Town ship. James Moore, pleading guilty u violating the liquor laws, San Brooks was sentenced to tin roads for six months, the cour suspending the road term upor the payment of a $25 fine ant costs. He is to violate no liquoi (Continued on Page Eight) | SUNDAY SCHOOL | v.__; Realizing the need of Sun day school rooms for several months, members of the West Knd Baptist Church staked off the ground and made pre liminary plans for the new addition to the Church last week. The pastor, the Rev. W. C. IWedlin, said yesterday two rooms would be constructed on the West side of the church. Pcrlie Thomas, lo cal contractor and builder, will supervise the construc tion of the two new Sunday school rooms. Farm Ownership Borrowers Meet —jt,— The farm ownership borrowers of the Farmers Home Administra tion held their annual meeting m the courthouse here Tuesday. The day was spent with the an nual check out, and educational materials shown. The morning was spent reviewing 1951 busi ness as revealed by actual records kept by these farm families. This included inventories, gross cash income, net cash income, debt payment, and the systems of ‘ farming being carried out. Other items mentioned were record keeping, farm outlook, and shifts m farming. The afternoon was spent entire ly by the showing of three films as follows: “Wild Life Conserva tion", a film m North Carolina by the Wild Life and Game Com mission. “Tobacco Insects and Their Control”, and “Greener Pastures For North Carolina”, the latter two are Extension Ser vice pictures secured from the I Visual Aids Department of State j College. Those a tending the meeting J other than Martin County Ft) far mers and county personnel were Mr. Marion C. Holland, State field representative, Goldsboro, and Mr. Garland H .Forbes and Mr. Lee D. Hardison, Martin County committeemen. There were eighteen families | present, and a delicious picnic i lunch was served. -^ Churches To Have Laymen's Meeting Laymen’s Day will be observ ed Sunday at the First Methodist Church m Williamston at 11:00 a. m. and at Holly Springs at 19:45 o’clock The guest speaker for this observance will be Mr I Clifton L. Moore of Burgaw, N. C. Mr Moore is prominent in lay activities of Methodism, active in Boy Scout work in the Wilming ton area, and serves as District ; Solicitor of ^ the Eighth Judicial Contractor Died Tuesday Morning --I George T. Norris, contractor who constructed a number ^ol homes in Williamstun, :ncludinp many of those in West End, died in u Wilson hospital Tucsda\ [ morning alter a two-year illness Ih w11. ti .I car., old, a nati\c ol , Virginia, and a resident of Eden ton for 3! years. I Funeral services were held ir Edenton yesterday afternoon anc Intel rot nt WdS in Bcavei Hi* ( | Cemetery there. Messrs. J. C : White, W. B. Gaylord and Georgi | Coiev were among those fron WiJliamston who attended the las rites. Local Young Man Hals Promoted To ('.orflora -«,— George C. Moore, Jr., son o Mr and Mrs. Geo. Moore, S. of Williamston, was recently pro moted to the rank of corpora! The young man completed i special training course at For Jackson, South Carolina, ana tv joined his outfit. Battery C, 150th AAA Bn., at Fort Dix, N. J Stsino Farm ftiircau Leaders Drelare Government Is Getting; Too IJifi -<m Congressman Harold Cooley and Secretary of Agriculture Chas. Brannan ably defended the nation's program against attacks by some farm leaders and sel fish politicians when they ap peared before the North Carolina Farm Bureau convention in Ral eigh this week. Charles B Shuman, president of the Illinois Farm Bureau and apparently a Republican, assert ed that the question now is big government against freedom, “whether we want more and more dependence upon a strong cen tralized government or whether wo will preserve the traditional American system of emphasis upon individual initiative, indi vidual opportunity, individual freedom.” Shuman, talking about soil con servation payments, said more is being paid to get people to do the things they ought to do than is being spent on research. Brannan told the farmers that he was for sound price support program, a program which would permit the farmer sufficient re turn to continue producing abun dantly and to take proper care of the land. The nation’s strategy is two fold to become and remain strong militarily, and to combat hunger, poverty, disease and il | literacy on a world front. "In the projection of the American ag ricultural system over the world there is hope,” the secretary said, “hope that one day there can be established conditions in which peace is a reality.” Replying to Shuman and those I politicians who would cut agri culture loose to fend for itself while industry continued to fat ten at the government trough, Congressman Colley said: “Yes, we have big government—for we are dealing with big problems, problems national and interna I tional in scope. What group of counties or group of states could have dealt compcntly with the problem of soil conservation, a problem that knows no state lines? Or with ! REA? Or the rural telephone : system? Or the ■ - 'em of Fedor* i al Land Banks'.’ “No farmer has a more vital interest in the world than the farmer of tins State and district because we are dependent on exports. What would happen il exports wen restricted on tobac co and cotton? “The farm program saved the farmer from ruin. It could not possibly have taken place except at the level of the Federal Gov ernment. It has operated so well and so successfully that no man who is well advised would advo eate the repeal of a single vital (Continued on Page Eight) Native Oi County _ Dies In Hospital Norman Griffin, native of this county, died in a Belhaven hospi tal yesterday after a brief illness. He was born in Jamesville 39 years ago, the son of Mrs. E. N. Gi iff n and the late Mr. Griffin. He had made his home in Bel haven for the past 24 years, serv | mg as fire chief for a number of years and more recently as chief of police there Surviving besides his mother are five sisteis, Mrs. Cecil Smith of Koutc 1, Pinetown, Mrs. Terry Engels of Bethesdn, Md., Mrs. Jesse Harold of Oak City, Mrs. C. B. Respass, of Belhaven; and three brothers, Clarence Griffin of Washington, Leslie Griffin of U. S Army stationed in Germany and Ernest Griffin of Washing ton, N. C. Funeral arrangements had not f been completed early today. HORACE ( 01 TRAIN COMING HOME FROM KOREAN WAR Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coltrain received a cablegram from their son. Horace E Coltrain, statinff that he left Korea Monday and is. | . on his way home. Horace has been in Korea for nine months.
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