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r * TEE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COCNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ——- -- ' t .—r=r:rr:—:-- ■ ■ —— ■ ■■■■ ■■t-—— VOLUME LV—NUMBER 20 — WilUamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 6, 1952 ESTABLISHED '899 Bloodmobile Will Hake F ourlk Visit Here On March 21 -- Two Hundred Volunteers Being Asked To Meet At The Methodist Church # It has been only a year since the first Bloodmobile Unit visited Wil liamston, And since that time, many pints of blood have been used locally to help save lives.1 You are part of this program to 1 help save lives; a part of the never-ending story of helping to save lives. For, as surely as life it- \ self must go on, the business of helping one's fellowman, must al- ' so go on. | On Friday. March 21. the Blood- j Mobile will make its fourth visit j to V/illiamston and will set up j in the Methodist Church Recrea- ' tion Room instead of the American I Legion Post as has been the prac- | tice in the past. Blood donor recruiters for this visit are Paul Simpson and Bruce Wynne, who succeed Wheeler M. Manning and V. J. Spivey. Both Messrs. Simpson and Wynne are optimistic that this visit will be successful as those in the past and urge those who wish to give blood to contact them immediate ly The quota for this visit is 150 pints of blood, and to be certain that this amount can be collected, at least 200 pledges will be need ed. All civic clubs, church groups and fraternal organizations are being asked to cooperate in help ing obtain the needed pledges, and individual citizens who are not i#embers of such groups are re quested to call either of the re cruiters, Mrs. Edna Bondurant at the Red Cross Office. In addition to the blood used in the local hospitals through the Red Cross Blood Program, many pints of this vital life-giving fluid have been shipped over-seas to our Armed Forces in Korea. Many Stories of the lives saved, as a (re sult of having blood available when needed, have been written, atad many more will be told be fore there is peace in the world. All of these stories are mere chapters of the one Big, never ending story; the story of saving ijives. Will you help write a chap ter when the Bloodmobile visits WiJliamston, March 21? Volunteers are urgently asek to contact either of the recruiters or the Red Cross office in the City Hall. f HELP TAXPAYERS Slate Deputy Collector E. lions Fronebergcr will be in his office in the Martin Coun It.v courthouse on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satur day of next week to help North Carolina State income taxpayers prepare their tax returns. * Single persons making $1,000 ormnre and married persons "making $2,000 or more must file rturns not later than March 15. All per sons are to list intangible properties, such as money on hand, notes, bonds, mortgages, or other evidences of debt, or shares of stock, by March 15. * Contract Let For Addition To Oak City Negro School { A contract, calling for the ex penditure of approximately $55, 000.00, for the construction of an auditorium-gymnasium as a part of the new Oak City Negro school unit now nearing completion, was let Wy the Martin County Board of 'Education in special session Tues day afternoon. J. T. Hardison and Son. Wash ington contractors, submitted a low base bid on the general con struction work in the sum of $45, 708, a figure $9,042 below the high bid submitted by the Wrenn-Wil (son Company. The $2,000 bid sub mitted for the electrical contract by Fountain-Patterson of Tarboro wjs accepted along with the $3, * 596 heating bid submitted by D. R. Sugg, also of Tarboro. Coun ty forces plan to handle the plumbing work at a cost of ap proximately SI,00ft. The archi- ! tect’s fee of approximately $2,- j 560 will boost the \otal cost of the structure to approximately $55,000. Nine general contractors sub mitted bids and ♦hev with the wir ing and heating contractors filled the countv grand jury room to overflowing, making it appear as if the contractors were holding a convention. The bids were considered favor able and arc said to reflect a slight downward trend in building costs. The successful bidder on the general contract is now complet ing the. construction of a Negro school in Oak City, costing right at $91,000.00. However, it is not to I be occupied before next fall when the contractor hopes to have the auditorium addition completed or nearly completed. Recruiting Blood Donors r I —— J. Paul Simpson, left, and L. Bruce Wynne, right, are solicit I ing blood donors for the regional blood bank. The Red Cross Bloodmobile will make its fourth visit to WUliamston Friday, March 21, and at least 200 volunteers are being sought. Succeed ing Bill Spivey and Wheeler Manning, who handled the recbuit ing service for the first three visits, the new recruiters will ap , predate the cooperation of the public. Contact them or the Red Cross office today and participate in the program. I SURVEY Messrs. Randy Perrow, in dustrial representative of the Virginia Electric and Power Company, and R. E. Pierson, geologist for the Atlantic Coast Line Ratlroad Com pany, are gathering data as a part of a county-wide indus | trial survey. They are work ing in cooperation with the ! Williamston Boosters and va i rious governmental agencies | and individuals. The survey is being ad i vanced on a county-wide bas is, preliminary reports stat ing that quite a few ideal in dustrial sites had been map ped. Other data are to be col lected and a report will be | issued later. I Red Cross Drive Makes Progress No complete reports are yet | available, but it is understood that the current Red Cross fund drive in the Martin County Chapter is making splendid progress. Fund Chairman W. Iverson Skinner has been out of town, but Co-Chairman Pete Austin said late yesterday that the canvass wa» iieaiing completion in some areas, that the contributions were holding up unusually well. No reports have come from the vari ous townships, and the drive is .just getting under way in the re- j sidential section here. Mrs. W. H. Carstarphen, work ing with Miss Irene Tetterton in lining up the residential canvass here, announced the following | workers: Mesdames H. B. Wyatt, Henry Griffin, Chas. I. Harris, Connie B. Clark, Bill Abbitt, Robt. Newell. W. H. Coburn, I. M. Mar golis, Lennie Manning, Wrn. H. Sessoms, J. C. Eubanks, F. M. Manning, Reg. Simpson, Urbin Rogers, Ethel Watts and C. D. (Cu vena ugh, and Misses Marjorie I Lindslev, Bernice Ward and Ruth ' Manning, and Mr. M. Stuart Dav I is. Miss Tetterton is announcing her list of canvassers over the week-end. Mr. Skinner is hopeful that at least one-half the quota will have boon raised an dreported by the early part of next week. Firemen Receive Two Calls Here t t i i Williamston's volunteer fire men were called out twice last Tuesday morning At 10:50 they were called to a Whitaker Lumber Company pick up truck on the dirt road connect ing U. S. 04 with Highway 17 at Skewarkey .The vehicle, unat tended when firemen reached it, was ditched and in eighteen inches or more of water. No sign of fire was found, and the firemen re turned . Forty-five minutes later they were called to the home of Mrs. C. A. Harrison, corner of Aead ; omy and Hassell Streets. Its origin unknown, fire started in an up I stairs clothes closet and was just before spreading when firemen reached it and brought it under control: No official estimate could he had immediately, but it is be lieved the damage will approxi mate $2,000 or more since the en tire house was badly smoked. While the fire did not spread much, the dense smoke was so hot that curtains across the room were left in ashes. Discovering the fire, Mrs. Har rison tried to smother it with rugs and was badly burned on the left hand and arm, but she is getting along very well. Miss Ayers Wins | Essay Contest; The beverage alcohol essay con test was won by the Roberson villc High School a tain this year.! The winning essay, "Alcohol; Its Effects on Society" was written by a senior, Annel Ayers. In the school contest, Patsy Roberson and Annel Ayers tied for top honor, each receiving ten dollars. Jean Brown won third place, Peggy Cherry won fourth place and Hester Martin won fifth ula.ee In the county contest, which was held at the Williamston High School Auditorium, March 3, An nel Ayers won first prize, and Ernest Taylor from Williamston won second prize. Joseph Griffin from Farm Life won third place, James Stewart from Oak City won fourth place, Faye Lee from Bear Grass and Shirley Barber from Jamcsvillc won fifth and places. Last yeai Palsy Robttrson from Robcrsonville won first prize in the county contest. NEW CHURCH PLAN ____> The Williamston Christian Church on last Sunday morn ing voted to build a Norman fJofhte type of. structm- on its newly purchased lot on North Smithwick Street, Just beyond the local high school. It is hoped by the congre gation and its building com mittee that construction may begin in the not distant fu ture. Mr. Davis of LevviSr burg, Ky., the supervising architect, is making ready the pl^ns for the new site and will offer for bids shortly thereafter. The crowded con dition of the educational department makes the erec tion of the building very ne cessary. Complain! File4_ In Sail Againsi Highway - ACL | Judge J. Paul Frbraclle To Hear Case Argued Here On March 20th ' Signing an order a few days ago, directing the defendants in the suit brought by the Town of Williamston against the North Carolina State Highway and Pub lie Works Commission and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company to show cause why something should not be done to relieve the dangerous traffic con dition on West Main Street where the railroad company’s tracks cross over the highway or street. Judge J. Paul Frizzelle will hear the case argued in the Martin County courthouse here on the morning of March 20, according to information released this week by the town attorney, Chas. H Manning. The complaint reads, in its en tirety, as follows: The plaintiff complaining of the defendants alleges and says: No. 1: That the plaintiff is a •' municipal corporation organized ' and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of North Carcdna; That the defendant, the Atlantic Coastline Railroad Com- 1 pany, is a corporation duly organ- 1 ized and existing according to law. That Dr. H. W. Jordan is a resident of Randolph County; that H. G. Shelton is a resident of Edgecombe County; that W. Guy Hargett is a resident of Onslow County; that A. Wilbur Clark is a resident of Cumberland County; that Dr. R. E. Earp is a resident of Johnston County; that J. A. Barnwell is a resident of Ala mance County; that George S. Coble is a resident of Davidson County; that M. Otis Poole is a re sident of Montgomery County; that Mark Goforth is a resident of Caldwell County, that Joseph Graham iB a resident of Lincoln County; that L. Dale Thrash is a resident of Buncombe County. No. 2: That the defendants above named, with the exception of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad Company are the duly qualified and acting members of the North Carolina State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission, and Dr. Jordan is the duly appointed and acting chairman of said Commis sion. No. 3: That U. S. Highway No. 04 passes through the plaintiff, I The Town of Williamston, and | serves as the Town's main street, j and the said highway and main street arc a part of the State I Highway System; That said street is thi. plaintiff’s principal thor-j oughfarc; That the Atlantic! Coastline Railroa'd Company maintains a railroad track across said street on highway well with in the limits of said town, and an underpass is maintained at said crossing through which motor and | pedestrian traffic can pass with 1 out criming in contact with the I said railroacTtracks' "mr I No. 4. That said underpass lo ! cation is lower than the surround 1 ing area and was made so when said underpass was constructed, and when same was constructed, (Continued on Page Three) Hundreds Attend Opening Of Caie Tne reopening of Griffin’s Quick Lunch in its enlarged and I modernized home, corner of | Washington and Haughton Streets, j hjSt evening was intended by I between 1,500 and 1,000 persons, according to an estimate by the owner-manager, Mr. George C. Griff,\n». .’J--. "We handled 2,000 rolls in three hours between fi'00 and 900 o'clock," Mr. Griffin said, adding that several hundred pounds of barbecue, approximately 1,600 soft drinks and light lunches were consumed "on the house'’ in the short period. Extra help was employed to handle the rush, but even then the waiters could not keep up with the task assigned them. Enlarging his dining room and adding a new modern kitchen and a large store room, Mr. Grif fin was highly complimented on his new business home. ijiaoieen Cases ! In Connty Conri Monday Morning Grinirx Gets 18 Months On Roads for Drunken, Careless Driving Nineteen cases were handled before adjournment at noon in the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday. Fines, amounting to $295, were imposed by Judge R. T. Johnson. Charged with drunken and careless driving resulting in a serious highway accident near Robersonville on last January 2, William James Grimes pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guil ty and was sentenced to the roads for eighteen month#, twelve months for drunken driving and six months for careless and reck less driving, the last sentence to begin at the expiration of the first. George Clemmons was fined $10, plus costs, for speeding. The ease in which Robert Pur vis, Jr., was charged wdth non support, was no! pressed, subject to be reopened at any time. Jacklyn H. Lucas was taxed with the cost for speeding. Pleading guilty of careless and reckless driving, James Page, col ored, w'as fined $10 and taxed wdth the costs. Pleading innocent, Robert Lee Manning, colored, was adjudged guilty and was fined $100, plus costs, for drunken driving. He loses his license to operate a car for twelve months. Johnnie W. Petaway was tax ed with the court costs for speed ing. Charged with drunken driving, Johnnie Bryant pleaded not guil ty. Adjudged guilty, he was fined $100, taxed with the cost and lost his license to operate a motor ve hicle for a year. Pleading not guilty of allowing ! an unlicensed, operator *'1 driv* fl motor vehicle, Ananias Thompson ; was adjudged guilty and was lin ed $25, plus costs. David Thompson, pleading guil- , ty, was fined $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle with out a driver's license. The case charging James IJoyd Price with non-support, was nol pressed Finding probable cause of guilt in the case in which she was charged with breaking and enter ing and damaging property, the court bound over Lucy White hurst to the superior court for trial week after next. Unable to s'-range bond, she was returned to jail. huo La t June;-, i.bar-ceil with I speeding, pleaded guilty and was taxed with the cuurt costs. Willie Watson, pleading guilty, was fined $25, plus costs, for op erating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Charged with an assault, Wil liam Gray was found not guilty. Bryant T. Rogerson was taxed wit!; the costs for .speeding. Driving without glasses with restricted license, Paul Griffin pleaded guilty and was taxed with the costs. Failing to comply with a judg ment handed down in the court last January 7 when he was tried (Continued on Page Six) Logging Stopped By Flood Waters High water in the Roanoke has just about paralyzed logging op erations in the lowgrounds along the stream, and mills, dependent upon the area for their logs, are about to be forced to close down, according to reliable but unoffic ial reports heard this week. The local veneer plant, getting most of its logs up the river, is now being supplied entirely from other sec tions. Heavy rains, falling in this area recently, have made logging op erations difficult on high land, but no mills have closed here as yet. The Roanoke is now at 10.7 feet, or almost a foot over the banks here, and is expected to go about 11.3 or 11.5 by the latter part of the week. Most of the rise is said to be traceable to the her.vy rains failing in this section dur ing the past ten days. Presbyterains Begin Work j! On New Educational Plant I Work on the construction of a new educational plant for the Williamston Presbyterian Church, corner Main and Watts Streets, was started yesterday by H. B. Wyatt, contractor. Plans for the structure were completed only a few days ago, the pastor, the Rev. Don Skinner, announced. Covering a space about forty by fifty-two feet, the new two story building will house six Sun day school rooms, kitchen and re creation hall, the latter two on the second floor. In addition to the new unit which is to connect with the pre sent structure on the side, exten- | sivc renovations arc to be made I to the old building, it was ex- I plained. The present Sunday ! school auditorium is to be parti tioned for class rooms and other alterations will be made to tie in with the new building. Construc tion will bo of block and brick. Listed as a $1(1,000 project, the new building is to be ready for use in early June, it was learned. Organized about a quarter cen tury ago, the denomination in re cent years has enjoyed a marked j growth, the pastor explaining that i the additional room had been | needed for some time. Election Case Back In Superior Courl Alleged Contempt; Of Court Action Set For Hearing Special Order UiriTls Tin* Defendant* T« Appear In Court Urn' Battered around in the courts from here almost to the South Carolina border for almost five months, the case centering around i Jamesville's contested municipal election is back in the courts. This time, by-a special order signed by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle in Edge combe Count Superior Court this week, the defendants are to ap pear during the March term of Martin County Superior Court, and show why they should not be held in contempt of court. Holding nn to the town books and monies, the defendants have given due notice to the claim that * they are duly constituted officers of th»' town of Jamesville, main taining that the recent primary and election have no legal stand ing. Ill the matter of “A. Corey and others against L. W. Hardison and James Long”, the plaintiffs re viewed the election ease before Judge Frizzello in the wording be low. Judge Frizzello's order fol lows it. Judge Frizzell*1 is sched uled to preside over the court here week after next. The review and order follow: ‘Plaintiff.; respectively show to the court: That the General Assembly ot North Carolina, oft the 9th day of March, 1951, enacted Chapter 2811 of the Laws of 1951, requiring a primary election in the Town of JamesviUe, said act Ixir.g made a part of this Motion, to all intents and purposes just as if same were set out verbatim herein. “That the defendants were elected Ma,yor• a-:>» 1 of the Town of Jamesville in the 1949 election and failed and re fused to order a primary and call an election as ordered by Chap ter 232 of the Laws of 1951. "That after a petition signed by several voters of the Town of Jamesville asking that an elecv tion be called was disregarded by said officers of the Town of Jamesville, a suit was brought in the Superior Court of Martin County entitled as above, on tin day of October, 1951, praying for a mandamus to force said of ficials to call an election as re quired by law. "That at the November Term 1951 of the Martin Countv Su perior Court, said cause came on (Continued on Page Seven) I SI'COND MONDAYS ! ,-' A representative of the dis trict social security office will be in Williamston each second Monday, beginning next Mon day, at 10:00 o’clock to dis cuss problems and answer questions relative to the so cial security program, it was announced this week. The representative will be in the employment office, Tar Heel Apartment building, each second Monday at 10:00 o’clock a. in. Mr. W. Clyde Griffin, cash ier of (he Branch Banking and Trust Company, has been ap i pointed a member of the Wil liamston School district com mittee. lie fills the position made vacant by the ileath of Mr. C. B. Clark, Sr. Other members of the committee are: Messrs. It. II. Goodmon, K. L. Coburn, W. Iverson Skinner and Marvin Britton. Green Wave Band Planning Concert The Williumston High Seho'il | Green Wave Hand is planning its | 'ur.v .tfWflWITJT' c< >i icer l 101 Tliuis day, April .’1, at B: 15 p. m. in the high school auditorium ,Director Jack Butler announced this week. The program is being planned to suit the musical taste of every one, he said Classical, modern, contemporary music, swing num bers and novelties are on the pro gram along with several good Rehearsals have been under way for some time and there will be an intensification of the re hearsals between now and concert time. The event is under the sponsor ship of the Williumston Band Bar ents Club and prices of admission will be small again this year in order to make the concert avail able to all who wish to hear it from all sections of the county. Draw Fifty—Six County Citizens For April Jury I'*IiTt!4-ol Super- - ioi‘ Court To Open In County On April 15 Created by .special act of legis lature some years ago, the April term of the Martin County Su perior Court will convene on Tuesday, April 15, for the trial of civil cases only The term is scheduled to run for two weeks, and is not to be confused with the regular two-week term of court opening on March 17. No judge has been assigned to pre side over the term. Citizens were drawn for jury duty during the April court by the county commissioners in their regular session this month, as follows: First Week Jamesville Township: J. Brown Holliday, A. Corey, J. Ernie Gard ner, Julian Fagan, E. G. Coburn, M. D. Davis, Durham Davis and r. C Blount, Jr. Griffins Township: W Rufus Hardison and Henry S. Griffin. Hear Grass iownsmp: bumey Beacham. Williamstun Township: Ben D. Courtney, F F. Carstarphen and Fletcher G. Thomas. Cross Koadi Township: Wil liam N. Cherry, Willie Long and Paul Bailey. Kobersonville Township: Guy O. Rawls, Jr., Kenneth H. Rober son, Clarence Briley, S. L. Rob erson, R. B. Nelson and C. II. House. Hamilton Township: R. A. Ed mondson, John 1. House, Janies Wynne and Vance Whitfield. Goose Nest Township: J. A. Stalls, Jr. Second Week Jamesville Township: S. F. Davis, Clyde Modlin, and A. L. Griffin. Williams Township: Hubert Gardner and Jos. H. Perry. Griffins Township: Coy Griffin. Williamston Township: M A. Price, W. M Baker, D. V. Clay ton, Eustice Jones, Mrs. W. O. Abbitt, Horace A Ray, Russell Biggs and Jesse F Roberson. Cross Roads Township: Silas Leggett and W C. Bullock. Kobersonville Township: J S. Crandall, D. D. Roberson, J. R. Nelson, A. M. Haislip, Ernest Johnson, Janies A Roebuck and W. T. Bunting. Hamilton Township: Marvin Haislip Goose Nest Township: Mrs. R. j R. Thompson, C S Johnson, W j B. Cannon, Jr., ;yid Mrs Sue Bunt liKI*OKT ABC Enforcement Officers | .1. II. Itoebuck and Cecil Bul lock wrecked fourteen illicit liquor manufacturing plants in the county last month. were* fa'f- — ly equipped, mostly with cheap kettles, and the mash was described as being of in ferior quality. Six persons were arrested and six were convicted, the road terms adding up to 48 months and the fines amount ing to $220. The officers poured out 1,850 gallons of mash and conQscated about thirty-four quarts of liquor. County To Participate In ‘Better Government' Plan - 1 Plans are advancing for local) participation in the Citizen's Bet-j enmittee, a v statewide organization now func- ■ J turning m all thirteen districts of the state, it was announced this week by llev. Ralph Ferguson, of Hobersonville, chairman of the 13th district. The organization, headed by llev. T. G. Cashwell of Gastonia, is not a religious organization. Rev. Ferguson explained, but a statewide organization of citizens) interested in promoting better government. Every effort will be put forth, it was stated, toward getting a statewide referendum on liquor, eliminating the evils of legalized gambling in North Car olina and abolishing gag rule in the State Legislature. Questionaires relative to these issues will be mailed out to each candidate for public office in the name of the Citizen's Committee, and the candidates will be advis ed that their answers will hr pub lished in county papers in the form of paid advertising. Each county will take care of its own candidates, Rev. Ferguson said. Rev. Ferguson, whose district is comprised of Martin, Pitt, Beau fort, Hyde, Tyrrell and Washing ton Counties, announced that Henry S. Jc.hrson of Hamilton will act as chairman of the Mar tin County committee. Mr. John son will select his assistants to help in the committee’s work.