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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE \ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BV OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEE VOLUME LV—INUMBER 15 William Mon, Martin County, Korth Carolina, Tuesday, February i 9. 1952 KSTNBLISIIED 1899 8 —- .. . " 1 ‘OPS Will Review | Pricing Charts In Meeting Here Two-Day Session To Be Hetil In Woman’s i’.lulj Room Next Week • All merchants in the Williams ton area operating under Ceiling Price Regulation 7 are required to attend a price-chart correction clinic to be held here February 26 and 27 by the Raleigh Office of Price Stablization, District Di rector Alton G. Murchison has an nounced. Mrs. Nina M. Shaw and J. C. Allers, Jr., from the Raleigh of fice will be at the Womans Club from 10 AM until 12 Noon and ^from 2 PM until 4 PM each day. Merchants have been notified as to which day’s session they are expected. . “We expect merchants to at tend these clinics because it is compulsory that all pricing charts be mathmatically correct without further delay; and, for the mer chant, this is the most practical and convenient plan we could de vise", Murchison said. ^ Merchants must bring their pricing charts and work sheets to the clinic, the OPS said. The OPS representatives will bring with them the charts filed by local merchants with the Raleigh office showing the necessary mathemat ical corrections The analysts will personally assist merchants in making similar corrections on the chart retained by them. The morning session will be devoted to a discussion on pric king rules and application of 'the chart, with the afternoon hours spent in making necessary cor rections on individual charts. The OPS said that if the manager oi Owner cannot be present, he i |hould send the person respori Sible for marking the merchandise for the firm, or several people from the same firm can attend. Murchison cautioned merchant: that this was the final phase o; the OPS program to bring abou (Voluntary compliance, and tha accelerated enforcement activity would be instigated. "This visit to wiiuamston Dy experienced personnel who are bringing the charts with them to personally assist businessmen in their own city represents the at titude the Raleigh OPS has shown from the beginning to do every thing possible for the people",! Murchison said, "and we feel we <tavc done more than our part, and it is up to the people to meet their obligations' The OPS official stated that at other clinics, of an expected at tendance of 800, there have been only 8 willful absentees; and urangements were made for those with justifiable excuses to attend similar clinics in nearby cities. The Raleigh OPS cautioned that any merchant who does not at ijnd must submit a new and cor rected chart to the Raleigh of ficc within 15 days after this clin ic, ana is subject to investigation by the Enforcement Division at any time. /\t the conclusion of the clinics, consideration will be shown only to those merchants who have made an honest effort to correct and properly use their pricing charts, OPS officials said. Failure to meet these requirements sub lets a merchant to rdl penalties (Continued on Page Eight) Hold Brotherhood Dinner Tomorrow r : The Williamston Christian Church joins with thousands of Churches in its Brotherhood for the Week of Compassion, Febru ffv 17-24. During this week and culminating with an offering for the-broken hearted and destitute of Europe and elsewhere the goal of one half a million dollars will come from the compassionate of heart. The Brotherhood Dinner, a part of this Week of Cornpassion among Disciples of Christ, will have for its guest speaker, the Rev. C. N. Barnett, Pastor, First Christian Church, Plymouth. The ^dinner will be held in the cafe teria of the Williamston high ' ochooJ''-wr^YedtiWKbb' ^vfficTT time uie offering of the local Church will be made. Local Business Firms A re j Offering Record Bargains j At no time in the history of merchandising have Williamston merchants offered greater bar gains than those advertised for greater booster days on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Cooperating one hundred per cent in the movement, members of Williamston Boosters, incor porated, are posting real bargains in every field of merchandise, in cluding hardware, clothing, fur niture, jewelry and other items. While prices are not the lowest on record by any means, bargains have never been greater, and j thousands of thrifty shoppers from several counties m mis sec tion of North Carolina are ex pected to attend the three-day event and take advantage of the savings. Clerks are being added to the i sales forces to take care of the j brisk business certain to come during the three days. Merchants, anticipating a business increase, have added to their stocks, and the bargains are being extended to cover all merchandise. Direct mail invitations have been extended to thousands throughout this section to par^ ticipate in the big three day shopping event. Funeral In Oak [ City Wednesday For Mrs. Johnson | Native* Of Bear (irass Dieel In Seotlanel Neck At INeion Monday Mrs. Susie Rogers Johnson, a nalive of Bear Grass and a resi dent of the Oak City community for about 47 years, died at the ; home of her daughter, Mrs. Susie 1 Braddy, in Scotland Neek Mon day afternoon at 12:15 o’clock. Af 1 ter enjoying splendid health just about all her life, she suffered a heart attack at 5:00 o'clock last Saturday morning and her condi I tion hud been critical since that ; time. She was born in Bear Grass 168 years ago on September 29, | 1888, the daughter of the late ! Thomas and Martha Ausbon Rog ers. She spent her early life there, joining the church at Christian i Chapel in girl hood. Following S her marriage in 1905 to Jack I Johnson she moved to Goose I Nest Township. Shortly after Mr. j Johnson^ death last year she I i went to Scotland Neck to live j with her daughter there. A j thoughtful neighbor, she was held i in high esteem in her native and dnptecl communities. Surviving are five daughters, vlrs. Florence Warn., of Oak "ity, Mis. Francis Harrell of familton, Mrs. Susie Braddy of Scotland Neck, Miss Alice John on of New York City and Mrs. dartha Williams of Roberson 'ille; three sons, Jonas Johnson if Palmyra, Samuel Johnson of seaboard and Johnny Johnson of Bethel; a step daughter, Mrs. Ma rne Sorrie of Enfield; a sister, Mrs. Elsie Morrell, of Society Hill, South Carolina; thirty grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Funeral services will be con ducted in the Oak City Christian Church Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by the pastor, the Rev. Olon G. Fox, assisted by the Rev. W. W Thomas, Pentecostal Holiness minister of Scotland Neck. Interment will be in the Oak City Cemetery. Participale In Speaking Contest Participating in a National For ensic League speaking contest, sponsored by the Greenville Lions Club in the high school auditorium there last Saturday morning, four local high school students gained recognition. Ernest Taylor, speaking on "An Analysis of Socialized Medicine,” won honorable mention in the di vision of original speeches. There were 27 participants in that group. Three other local students, Lelia Mae Goff, ‘‘A Tribute to Robert E. Lee”; Katherine Spruill, “A Tribute to Abraham Lincoln,” and Wayne White, "A Tribute to Ben jamin Franklin,” were given splendid ratings and tied for hon orable mention in their division. Each speaker appeared three times before a seven-man judging team, and gained ratings from one to six. Debating coach, W. D. Joyner science teacher, could not accom pany the group to Greenville, anc Professor Mayhue Edwards, com merrial teacher, went with them Local banks, the post office - •*> -is wws&e** few wiV — . serve Washington’s birthday as ; holiday Friday, February 22. L ABSENCES ) _____ -» After holding to a fairly low point during most of the "term .absences, traceable to colds and influenza, flared up in the white schools here yes terday. Principal B. G. Stew art reported 184 absences, including 98 in the first five grades. Of the other 8fi bb sences, more than forty were reported in the high school department. A preliminary check this morning revealed conditions morning revealed an increase in absences at the high school and several teachers absent. Former Resident Oi County Dies Mrs. Myrtle I. Moye, a resi dent of Oak City for ten oi twelve years, died in a Norfolk hospital last Saturday evening a fi:45 o’clock. She was born in Beaufort County 48 years ago, the dough ter of Henry A. Bowen and th( late Corinthia Davenport Bowen She attended the Oak City Higl School and was married to Jael H. Moye, moving to Norfoll twenty-six years ago. Besides nor husband, .lack H. Moye, she is survived by four other sons, Jack H. Moye, Jr. Randall D. Moye, Lenwood K Moye, all of Norfolk, and Cpl Billy F. Moye, USAF; four grand children; her father, Henry A Bowen, of Beaufort County; one sister, Mis. Willis Bowen, <>f Ply mouth, N C., and four brothers, the Rev. Miliary Bowen and Les ter Brown, of Baltimore; Timo thy Bowen, of Salisbury, Md., and H Wilmer Bowen, of Ply mouth Funeral services were conduct ed at noon Monday in a Norfolk funeral home by the Rev Walter F. McGowan, pastor of the First Christian Church, Norfolk. Inter ment was m Forest Lawn Ceme tery, Norfolk. Mrs. Moye made many friend ships during her residence in Oak City where she was held in high esteem. Suffers Injury In b'ail j'rii.las! livening Mrs. Pat Crawford was report ed to be getting along very well this morning in a local hospital where she is undergoing treat ment for a back injury received in a fall at her home on Haugh ; ton Street last Friday evening. While her back was not broken, ! it was splintered slightly in two places, one report said. She is to i be a patient in the hospital for at ! least two weeks. ! [ ASSISTANCE A deputy collector of the | Internal Revenue Department will be in the Williamston post office lobby next Mon day and Tuesday to assist federal income taxpayers in preparing their tax returns for 1951. There’ll be no charge for the service. Re turns must be filed on or be fore March 15, and any per son whose total income was 1 $<>00 or more in 1951 is re quired to file a return. The deputy will be in the J- yf-tisf from Ji.00 ^ m untjj^ > I 5:00 p. m. on eacn of the two | days. • Meteor Reported In Dismal Swamp Section Monday Loral People Saw Blinding Object Fall Shortly Before. Noon A meteor, it glaring light al most blinding many who saw it, fell somewhere between here and the Virginia coast at 11:30 o’clock yesterday morning, late unofficial reports stating that the object possibly burned it self in the Great Dismal Swamp. The falling object, seen in at least three states from Charleston to Norfolk and beyond, fooled just about everyone who saw it. Workmen, making repairs to river bridge here, saw the shoot ng object for almost half a min ute. “We were fairly certain it fell between the river and the end of the fill," one of the work ers said, adding that they first thought it was a falling jet plane. A Hamilton Township farmer declared that he thought the ‘thing" fell back of Representa tive Andy Anderson’s fish pond not far from Hamilton. Certain that the object fell in that section, several joined in a search for it. According to Farmer Dallas Roe buck who saw the object the greater part of half a minute, it cut a streak through the sky about two hundred yards wdde and was about three hundred yards long with a black ball, measuring possibly fifty feet or more across, on its tail. Mr. Roe buck said the glare was so bright „hat it almost blinded him. A transport plane pilot said he .lew through the vapor not fai from Moyock over in Currituck County. Searching parties went into ac tion over a wide area, but so fai the object has not been found Coast Guard and weather bureai - officials believe the "thing" fel ) in the Dismal Swamp, that i . isn't likely that any trace of i 1 will be found since the objec ; could have buried itself in tin ; mud. Polio Fund Drops I To A Low Figure The 1952 infantile paralysis fund dropped to a new low fin ure in this county, according to a preliminary out fairly complete report released by Chairmen Jim Edens and C E. Mangum. Stand ing at $3,601.34, the fund drive this year is more than $1,000 rhort of the amount raised in 1951. Of the amount the schools re porting to date, accounted for $2,153 54, as follows: White Williamston Robersonville Jamesville Oak City Everetts Hamilton $1,316.54 191.00 127.00 119.00 117.00 56.00 Colored Robersonville Parmele Everetts .■ 122.00 81.00 . 24 00 $2,153.54 The above amounts are approx imately what was contributed by the schools, it was explained, with one or two more to report. In addition to the $2,153.54, Mr, Sherwood L. Roberson raised $180 from business firms in Roberson ville. Approximately $200 was raised from the lung coin col lectors and the remainder of the $3,661.34 was raised through di rect maii appeals. Boards Will Hold A Joint Heeling Members of the Martin County Draft and Agricultural Mobiliza tion Boards will meet in the coun ty agriculture building next Mon day evening at 7:30 o’clock tc make a study of farm production it was learned today. Major Rietzel, agricultural ad viser for Selective Service, is tc attend the meeting. According to unofficial informa tion, the joint meeting will dis cuss per unit production on farm: in an cfforAo determine a sfancT ard for future action. Long Range rarnt| Program Deserves Serious Thinking Few Farmers anil Others At Meeting In County Last Thursday No marked change is expected or even planned for tomorrow, next week or even next year, but a meeting of county farmers in the courthouse last Thursday af ternoon clearly proved that it is about time to start thinking about a long-range farm program. While future events could be ser ious, the farm leaders, in a bus iness like way, pointed out what is to be expected and what, in their opinion needs to be done to meet changing conditions over the next 25 years and the quarter cen turies to follow. It is estimated that there'll be 38 million more people in this country about 1975 than there are now, meaning that where there are now four plates, there'll be a fifth one about 1975 to fill A fifth plate does not sound big, blit it is estimated that meat production will have to be in creased by more than five billion pounds annually to fill that fifth plate or feed the 38 million extra people. To give the people as much as they received in 1950, milk production will have to be increased by thirty billion pounds annually. In other words the need ed increase is equal to what thi states of Wisconsin, Michigan anc New York are now producing Nearly fifteen billion more egg; will be needed annually to teec the increased population. The na lion is now consuming sixty bil lion eggs annually. It was pointed out that produc Tion OI ail lanil nmunmmu-a »•' about 38 percent greater now than the pre-war average, that the same rate of increase will have to be maintained if the food needs are to be met in 1975. There’s no over-night food shortage predicted, but to meet future needs farmers, business men and others must think about and consider ways or increasing production. To meet the anticipated increase in demand about 1975, an extra million acres, or a territory about the size of the states of Wiscon sin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, will be needed. That much new acreage is not available, and for some years the increased de mand has been nu t out ol increas ed per acre production. But to meet future food requirements, the farm leaders declare that acres must be built up still more. They are suggesting in combina tion: the application of research, balanced conversion, expansion of fertilizer capacity, farm ma chinery, equipment and electri cal power, adequate credit, and fair farm prices. It was explained that increased use of lime can build up acres, that the 24 million tons of lime spread in 1949 through the soil conservation service, 20 million more tons of hav and pasture were made available which, it converted to beef, would have ! added one and one-half billion pounds to the meat supply. Three I million towns of phosphates used for conserving practice in 1949 resulted in 23 million tons mon hay and pasture forage which, in terms of beef, added 1.7 billion pounds to the meat supply. Oth er practices and plans were men | tinned. The leaders pointed out that in 1920 there were 3 1-4 harvested acres per person in this country, I but by 1950 the figure had drop ped to 2 1-4 acres per person. It was also explained that many acres are better, due to soil im provement, but the acres that are losing in fertility outnumber i t.husf that .~rr c;,inine and the soil is not being improved fast enough to offset the decline, and (Continued on Page Eight) Loral Man Continnr* < Ouilr III In llo*inlnl Removed to Duke Hospital, Dur ■ j ham, last Wednesday, Mr. J. E >; King, prominent local busines; | man, continues quite ill there, ac cording to lust reports reachinf ■ i here. His condition, however, wa il believed to be slightly improver vToTiTIWTrtg'IT mi-r.j restfn. tiar’/**' i terday. iMegro Council Calls For School Facilities Education Board, Making Study Of; County Problems SfUMulin^ More Than Onar-1 ter 1\1 it I i«>ii On Nej^ro Schools In ('oimly Now Declaring there are glaring in equalities existing between the white and colored schools in this county, the Martin County Con gress of Colored Parents and Teachers are petitioning the board of education for an immediate remedy. Following a recent meeting of the congress or council, resolu- \ turns were passed and prefaced by the following statement: "We, the members of the Mai I tm. County Colored Parents and Teachers Association, cognizant of the fine race relations that have existed in the county for years and not wishing to disturb this relation, wish to make known the following facts that concern all of us. "We as parents and teachers are aware of the many inequali ties that exist between the white and the colored schools in Martin j County. Some of these inequali ties have been cited to you in a previous petition We are asking j that these same things be remed ied immediately.” i hr- group cued mo touowing “The completion of indoor toil els at all schools and especially at those where rooms have been provided, “That all Negro children be provided with bus transportation wherevei needed, “That more classrooms be pro vided and the completion of all buildings be speeded up, "That all two-teacher schools be consolidated, “That all colored high schools be provided with gymnasiums, “That more playground space be provided where needed, "That the same facilities and courses be provided in the color ed schools as are provided in the white schools.” » The Martin County Board of Education is making a studv of the problems, and the first phase of a Negro school examination project is well advanced. It is estimated that the present expaii sion program for Negro schools will cost aproximately one-quar ter million dollars No official comment is to l» had just now, but u consolidatioi program, called for in the peti tinn, could run costs up to inori than a million dollars. Consolida tion is fairly well advanced in tin county already, and |t is planner (Continued on Page Eight) Eirrmrn EuUvd Onl Early East Evening called h Local firemen were the Sam Will.'»■»* .a Wilson and Sycamori Streets about 7:110 last evening when ai oil stove went out of control. Tin house was smoked a bit, bu damage was said to have beei slight. add to fire call . . . The firemen wort* called ou again this morning shortly befor 0:00 o'clock when White's Heatin, and Sheet Metal Works’ tar wag on caught lire, corner of Smith wick and Church Streets. No dam age w'as caused by the fire. r KOUNIMJI' r Eleven persons, charged with violating various laws, were arrested and detained in the county jail during last week-end. Three were charg ed with public drunkenness, and one each with non-sup port, no operator’s license, lar ceny, drunken driving, disor derly conduct, assault, reck less driving. The eleventh one, no place for her in an institu tion, was jailed tor mental ill ness. Ages of the group ranged from .11 i.o.iS.-V.f.Ari. iUHl.jlL1. were colored except one. r l TRAFFIC Although the main season for tourists traveling south is about spent, traffic on Highway 17 continues to move in volume, acuording to a count made between 4:00 o'clock last Friday afternoon and 12:00 o'clock that night. According to Hugh Spruill who made the check, 1,248 vehicles crossed over the river bridge during the eight hour period. The vehicles in cluded 002 North Carolina cars. 470 out of state cars and 170 trucks ami busses. Negress Is Booked For Manslaughter At Robersonville \\ . tleiirv CoflieM, Struck tty Axe February 2, Diet! Iii llo»|>iliil riiiirsday Struck in the mouth with an axe, allegedly in the hands of Alice Spencer, at) year-old color ed woman, on the night of Feb ruary 11 m Robersonville William Henry Coffield, 55-year-old Ne grovv, died in a Williamston hos pital last Thursday night, the victim of lockjaw. Investigating the death, Chief of Police William Smith said that Cot field went to his death, refus ing to tell about the attack or prefer charges against the wo man. Suffering cuts on his lips and possible injury to his teeth and gums when he was struck with the axe, Coffield claimed he ac cidentally fell on a piece >f tile and hurt his mouth. He did not j go to a doctor until Tuesday of ! last week, ten days after the at I tack, and tetanus had already set in A plumber’s helper in Rober sonville, the victim was carried to Ward's Clinic and later remov ed to the hospital by his employ er. Chief Smith, explaining that the attack took place in an apart I ment in the old Park Building on ! (he eastern edge of Robersonville, I said few details could be learned i immediately. The woman s ar rest last Saturday followed an investigation, and at a prelimj nary hearing held before Justice H. S Everett Monday eveioi... bo was formally booked tor an as sault with a deadly weapon, in flicting fatal injuries to William Henry Coffield Placed under a $200 bond, thi (Continued on Page Eight) "Mile 01 Pennies" Drive Is Extended The '‘Mile of Pennies" drive i t i t \ I)<>n sored “f^TTiT^ vv iluamstoo Par ents Teachers Association, has been extended and will close tri day, February 22, in order to give everyone an opportunity to be contacted, Mrs Irving Margolis chairman, said this morning. Slightly less than halt a nrilc has been built Leading in the entire school am in Liu 5-8 grade group is Mrs Crawford's 5th grade Mrs. Cher ry’s 4th grade is leading in th< ! grades 1-4 group. In the lugl school Miss McDaniels 10th anc Mi. Edwards 10th grades hav< been running neck and neck witl the latest report indicating Mis. McDaniel’s group has taken tin lead. The sponsor: request that any one who has not been eontaetei call a menibi r of tin- finance com mittee who will gladly send fo the contribution ow pick it up. Tit committee includes: Mrs. Irvin Margolis, Mrs. R. D. Elliott, Mi J, C. Eubanks, Mrs. It W. Bon durant, Mrs. W. 11 Carstarpher Jr., and Mrs. W. 11. Sessoms. PNEUMONIA VICTIM Elder E. C. Stevenson, well ! known county minister, is quit j ill at his home near Hamilto j with pneumonia.”” •even Accidents Qn County Roads Streets Recently \o Om* Injured an<l I'rop erlv Damage Limited I« Less Than 81,000 No one was hurt and property Jamage was limited to less than me thousand dollars in a series >f automobile accidents reported m streets and highways in this jounty during the past week, ac cording to reports coming from the State Highway Patrol office this week. Livestock, loose on the high ways and streets, accounted for at least two of the accidents, it was explained. In addition to in vestigating accidents, members of the patrol assisted owners in get ting loose stock off the highways. It has been pointed out that it is unlawful for owners to allow stock to run loose, that the own ers are subject to prosecution and damages resulting from accidents. The first in the series of acci dents was reported early in the week when a front tire blew out, causing the owner-driver, Gar land Whitley, to lose control of his Ford coupe on a curve in the Williamston-Bear Grass Highway. The machine went into the ditch, causing damage estimated at illM »U I flU''. Askew liniwn, Jr., young col ored man, lost eontrril of his 1935 Fold pick-up truck in front of the Hamilton school on highway 125 last Thursday morning and broke a telephone pole in two. The fall ing pole fell across and tore down an electric light wire. Damage to the truck was estimated at $35. Investigating the accident, Patrolman B W. Parker said there was a front wheel mechani cal defect, causing the driver to lose control of the machine. Last Saturday evening at 9:15 o’clock, George R Bullock, while traveling on 903 toward Stokes, ran over and killed a 100-pound hog, belonging to Mrs. Harvey Williams Patrolman Parker esti mated the damage to the car at $35 Driving north on Highway 17, ; Sunday evening, Delmus Eugene Logan of Port Orange, Florida, I applied brakes on his 1948 Buick I to avoid striking a car coming out of the Bear Grass Road near the K L. Perry farm. The Buick skidded and turned around, its rear end coming to a stop in a ditch Investigating the accident, Cpl M C. Byrum said the dam age was negligible, that the driv er of the car entering Highway 17 without stopping could not be found. -n.Aing m-i oi.Unobiia toward Williamston on Highway 125, James Henry Wiggins of RFI) 2, Williamston, stopped to render aid to a broken-down car. lie was backing up and had crossed the center line about six teen inches when Ottis Gray Sheppard of Washington, D. C., driving a 1950 Pontiac toward Hamilton, struck the Olds. Pa trolman R. P. Narron estimated the damage to tin Pontiac at $50 and that to the Olds at $10. The accident happened near the Ed : wards service station about o.OO I o’clock Sunday evening. At 10:00 o’clock Sunday morn ing, Roger Williams of Minneap olis, was driving toward Hobgood on Highway 125 when a large milch cow ran into the road. He (Continued on Page Eight) Hurl In Rocky Nouni Accident I . Irvin Johnson, driver operating 1 out of the Texas terminal here, was painfully but believed not : seriously injured early last Thurs day morning when he was run ] down by a car on a dirt street 1 | m Rocky Mount Suffering a hip ' i injury, a eut on his hand and 1 bruises about the body, he was i hospitalized in Rocky Mount and - : was reported yesterday to be gct '' ting along very well. While unloading a cargo of ’ gasolina at the Rocky Mount sta tion, Mr Johnson started down the street to get something for a headachi There was no sidewalk ■ and he was walking at the edge ui the sheet when the eai stiuck i and knocked h;m about twenty ieet.......
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