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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER S,t00 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LV—NUMBER 30 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 10, 1952 I ESTABLISHED 189* .-•JEexTaififAdde'!, Tc The Calendar In Superior Conri Judges Godwiu and Friz zellc Scheduled To Pre side Over The Term 4 * % Continued during the regular March term on account of the ill ness of Judge Paul Frizzelle, the civil calendar carries about the same case line-up with a few add ed ones for trial when the Martin County Superior Court opens a special two-week term next Tues day. A few civil cases were re moved from the calendar when the litigants compromised the issues and consent judgments were entered in the records. Two new divorces have been placed on the calendar, boosting the count to twenty-three for con sideration when the court opens the term next Tuesday. No ses sion of the court will be held Eatser Monday, it has been an nounced. The two new divorce cases to reach the calendar since the March term are those of Matt Jones against Katie Jones, and James F. Finch against Marie Little Finch. In th£ Jones case, the plain tiff says they were married in Fayetteville in 1926 and separat ed in October, 1947, that no child ren were born <Jf the union. In the Finch action, the plain tiff charges adultery. He says they were married April 15, 1946 and were separated June 4, 1950. He alleged that on or about June 1, 1950, the defendant committed adultery with one Richard Mob ley and various other persons un known to him. The plaintiff fur ther alleged that the defendant on or about March 10, committed adultery with the said Richard Mobley, and that on December 15, 1951, she gave birth to a female child in Washington, Beaufort County. It is claimed by jthe plain till that the birth was recorded In the office of the Beaufort Coun ty register of deeds, and that the birth certificate gave no name of the father of the child, and that the defendant listed herself as be ing unmarried, giving her name as Marie Little. There is also a 2-year-old child, of which the de fendant is the mother. In the list of civil cases that have been added since the March term are the following: In the suit of Harrison Oil Com pany against Vernon L. Moses Gurganus, the plaintiff is asking $284.26 alleged due on account, pius interest from August 16, 1948. On the calendar several times since it was instituted in March, 1949, the case of U, S. Hoffman Maehienry Corporation against Leander Bowen is bai^k on the docket to recover on machinery sold the defendant. Another old case is that of the Ohmlac Paint and Refining Com pany against W. T. Hurst in which the plaintiff is suing to recover $778.50 alleged due on account. Harrison Oil Company is suing J. D. Harrison, Jr., asking $55J.95, elleged due on account. William E. Bowen is suing T. A. Loving and Company for $25,000 for damages sustained in a fall on May 1, 1951. The plaintiff says he was working on the Johnston County Hospital at Smithfieid, N. C., on that date and fell about for-, ty feet dowm an elevator shaft, breaking his back, crushing his (Continued on Page Five) --—i No Trace Found Of Missing Man —1>— No trace of any kind has been found of Arthur Glasgow, young Nash County man, who is be lieved to have drowned in Gard ner’s Creek between here and 9 Tamesville in thp early hours of last Saturday morning Dragging operations were Con tinued for several days but were finally abandoned wfaen the task appeared hopeless. The area has been searched repeatedly by in dividuals in boats, on foot and in private plane. Abc^t a dozen dynamite charges were planted in the creek in the hope that the body, if there, would be paired loose and surface. A watch is still being main tained, but old river men, admit ting that one ran never tell, are ' of the opinion that the body will not surface before the week-end. ■m miViUAdd A notkwM-ile. The Town’s Sewage System Meeting in special session yes terday morning, the local town commissioners erjtc-red into a con tract with the Clark Construction Company of Greenville, calling for an addition of approximately one mile to the town's sewer lines. The addition will be centered approximately 800 feet in West End, 1,200 feet on Warren and Elm Streets and Griffin Avenue, 1,500 feet on Roberson and Hamil ton Streets, and about 1,600 feet on East Main Street. The contract is based on old figures, calling for a cost of $1.37 per foot for eight-inch pipe laid from zero to four feet. The contractor is planning to | move hit- equipment here within the next day or two or just as soon as work or. a project is completed in Robersonville. Construction on the new lines is to get under way just as soon as pipe can be de livered, possibly the early part of next week. It was pointed out that the ex tensions are being financed out of the spetial sewer rental fund, money set aside solely for extend ing the system facilities. At the present time, $10,363 is in the fund, and costs on the new pro ject will be limited to that amount, the commissioners rul ed. While in session, the commis sioners ordered parking be lim ited to one side of Liberty Street. Sunrise Service In Cemetery Here A special sunrise service will be held in Woodlawn Cemetery here Sunday at 5:27 o’clock with al lthe town’s ministers partici pating in the program. Hundreds have atended the special Easter morning service here fore a num ber of years, and with favorable weather an even larger congrega tion is anticipated this coming Sunday. If the weather is unfav orable, the service will be held in the Memorial Baptist Church. Similar services are being held in various parts of the county, in cluding one at the Tice Commun ity Cemetery in Griffins Town ship, another at the Rose of Sha ron Cemetery in Bear Grass Township, and still another in the Robersonville Cemetery, and still another at the FairView Church in Williams Township, according to announcements made this week. A special program has been planned fur the service here in cluding a number by the high school club with Miss Ann Roy ster directing, a solo by Mrs. Ruth Brown. Miss Jean Mobley is the pianist. County Artists To Appear In Shows Martin County's own artists— tops in the profession— are to ap pear in a series of variety shows on several stages during the next few days. Performances have been sched uled in the Everetts School Aud itorium Friday evening of this week, at Williamston next Mon day night and at Bear Grass next Wednesday night. The Rurilans are sponsoring the shows in Eve retts and Bear Grass, and the Jay eees are sponsoring the perfor mance here with A. B. Ayers, Jr., as master of ceremonies. The special feature of the show centers around “The Laryngitis Five”, Pete Rogers, Bill Peele, Evan Griffin, "Blue” Manning and Theron Gurganus. “Blue” Man ning will add to the program with his magic powers. An Extra ! feature at Bear Grass will be a! special program by the Bear Grass Trio. Yes, the boys have been on the radio and even TV. Fireturn Culled Out Yesterday Morning Firemen were called, to Griffin Street just off Jamesville Road here yesterday morning at 11:30 o’clock when fire threatened the home of Sim Smith. The fire started in the kitchen and burned part of the wall paper and card boarding, but did very little dam age, firemen said. IN EIGHTH DAY The Western Unto- Tele graph Company strike went into its eighth day this morn ing with the office here still closed tight. Service has been restored in a few cities, throughout the country, but it could not be learned when the local and other offices would be reopened. The telephone companies in some sections of the coun try 'tfiT&toWt’KnttctiK - operations here continue | about normal. f EASTER HOLIDAY --- With the exception of the post office, other federal of fices, and a few other busi ness firms, all stores and of fices in Williamston will ob serve Easter Monday as a hol iday, according to an an nouncement released by the office of the Williamston Boosters released by the of fice of the Williamston Boos ters this week. All schools in the county will be closed for the day. The Wednesday half-holi day schedule for local stores does not go into effect until the 23rd. Open Fat Stock Show Here Today Martin County's annua! fat stock show was opened in the Planters Warehouse here this morning. All prize-winning steers were in place by 10:00 o’clock, and the youthful owners immed iately got busy brushing and combing them for the judging at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon. Jack Kelly and A. V. Allen of the animal husbandry department of the State Extension Service are judging the entries. Only a few hogs had been pen ned early this afternoon, but a sizable show is expected when the entries close at 6:00 o’clock today. The hogs will be judged tomor row morning at 8:30 o’clock. Plans are complete for the big Farm Bureau barbecue, held each year in connection with the.stock show. More than 2,000 members are expected for Ihe meeting which wil be held at the high “school, beginning at 4:30 o’clock or soon after the fat stock show sale. Thirty pigs are being cook ed for the Farm Bureau event and Commissioner of Agriculture L. Y. Ballentine will address the meeting. Organize Amvets In This County — — With a $200 million State bonus apparently as -their goal. County veterans ,of World War II in a meeting in the courthouse last evening organized an Amvet unit with Bernard Harrison as post commander. Other officers include, Edward Lee Martin, first vice commander; 4ac^ Curtis, 2nd vice commander; Hubert Bland, 3rd vice commander; Wm. Leggett, adjuster; Joe Hollis, fi tance officer; L. H. Hardisorf Judge advocate; C. E. Mangum, service oficer; Thurman Mat thews, public relations officer; Edward Modlin, provost marshall; Roland Cherry, chaplain; Wilbur Gardner, surgeon general; and John Henry Cooper, Historian. The Negro veterans- wor to [have organized a post of their 'own, but no report op their efforts could be had immediately. They were all over the courthouse pre paring membership applications following a meeting attended by more than 300 veterans. One report stated that 94 mem* bers were signed up, but it could not be learned immediately if they were paid-up members or appli cants for membership. The next meeting of the Am vet post is to be held next Tues '!1 '*va'*^*“‘*^** ' V-‘hi courthouse, Thurman Matthews reported. Recorder's Court Monday Morning Next Session v>f slxr County Court Will Be Held On Monday, April 28 ■ * ♦ — Thirty cases were handled in the Martin County Recorder’s Court in a two-hour session last Monday morning. Just a week previously the court was in ses sion all day long, carrying over quite a few cases for trial this week and on the 28th of this month and a few even longer un til May 5. The county's old hall of justice will be empty next Monday when the courts and officers will ob serve the day as a holiday. The superior court is to be in session on Monday, April 21, and the ounty tribunal will not convene again until April 23. Proceedings in the court last Monday: Charged with drunken driving, Martin L. Whitfield asked for a jury trial and his case was auto matically booked for hearing in the superior court in June. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Johnnie McCray was fin ed $25, plus costs. Jack J Weiss, pleading guilty of speeding, was taxed with' the costs. The case in which Mrs. Eula Cooper was charged with drunken driving was nol prossed with leave. Pleading guilty of driving a motor vehicle without an opera tor's license, Howard B. Purvis was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the court staying exe cution of the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and the court costs Charged with careless and reck less driving, Robert Wm. Small was fined $23, plus costs, He pleaded guilty. Pleading guilty, William Henry Harrell was sentenced to the roads for six months for drunken driv ing. The road term was suspend ed upon the payment of .a $100 j fine and costs. He loses his li cense to operate a motor vehicle for a year. Charged with non-support, Booker T Brown pleaded guilty and drew six months on the roads, suspended for two years upon the payment of the court costs. He is to provide adequate support for his family. A similar judgment was handed down in the non-support case against James Spruill who also pleaded guilty, j Pleading guilty of publi-' drunk I enness, Gcui go W. Arp was fined ! $10, plus costs. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the court costs in the case in which Ralph Lee Gat lin pleaded guilty of speeding. Charged with violating the li quor laws, W. E. Wells and Rufus Edward Sullivan were found not guilty. Claude Albert Joyner, pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, was taxed with the court costs. Robert B. Adrian, pleading guilty of speeding, was taxed with .the court rcvsls. Charged with violating the li quor laws, Dennis Hoell pleaded guilty and was taxed with the court costs. A nol pros was taken as to Bill Hoell and Charlie and Bennie Bullock, defendants in the (Continued on Page Three) Taxi Operators Losing Licenses Faced with the loss of their li censes, local taxi drivers were said yesterday to be making ef forts to retain the privileges granted by special town ordi nances. 1he 'license's were revoked for one year when John Riddick and Charlie Joynet1 were convict ed in the courts foq violating the liquor laws. One of the defendants is now proposing to appeal to the higher courts, and the other is holding conferences with his at torney. It was reported that the license of John Little was being revoked. Little’s driver, Robert Small, comes up in court later this month with the possibility that his li cense will evaporptc at that time. lF<5v* i v* ..v.7, i., our, t vvY. /fei nscs have ben revoked, those of John Riddick and Charlie Joyner, pirrfcTHSrrlTf.'* On Political Front In County Annual Red Cross Drive In Sight 01 Its $4,200.00 Quota -<?> Chairman Reports $.'{,800 Been Raised; To Hear From Six Areas The Martin County Chapter is now in sight of its annual Red Cross Fund Drive goal, Chairmen I I W. Iverson Skinner and Pete Aus tin announced yesterday. Right at $3,800 or $3,793.60, has been raised and reported. The chair men explained that six reports were still outstanding, that if the momentum can be maintained, the goal will be reached with pos sibly a little to spare. Reviewing the work to date, the chairmen listed the following group contributions: Williamston special gifts, $2, 032.69; business house employees and residential sections in Wil liamston, $671.24; Williams Town ship, $100; Jamesville Township, $301; Griffins, $225; Bear Grass, $192.37; Biggs School District, $65; Dardens School district, $57.50; Burroughs School District, $33.35; Williams Lower School District, $51.65; and Rodgers School Dis trict, $45.69. Reports are due in from three Williamston residential areas, and from the colored schools districts of Williamston, Smithwick and Jamesville and a few individuals. The reports from the colored schools have been very encourag ing so far, and Chairman Skinner is counting on the outstanding reports to carry the drive over the top. I Griffins Township Mrs. Jesse Griffin and Mrs. : Hoyt Manning, canvassers: I Mrs. Hcbor Peele, $1; Saunders | Revels, $1; Arthur Revels, $1; (Continued on Page Six) Former Kesidenl Dies In Virginia J II. Clark, a native of Enfield . and a former resident of this . county, died in Newport News . | last nif?ht at 10:00 o’clock. He had been in declining health for about two years. Mr Clark, 74 years of r.r;e, i spent most of his life in Halifax , County, engaging in farming. He located in this county and super vised operations on the Sherrod farm near Hamilton for a number of years before moving to New ; port News sixteen years ago. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. H. B. York of Williamston, and Mrs. Robert Surry of New port News; two sons, Willie and Henry Clark of Enfield; a sister, Mrs. D. W. Barnhill of Fort Lau derdale, Fla., and six grandchild ren. . Funeral services will be con ducted in the Branch Funeral Home in Enfield Friday afternon at 3:00 o’clock, and interment will be in the cemetery there. Mr. Clark made many friends during his stay in this county. Raise $500 For Crippled Tots Asked to contribute $1,000 to the crippled children fund, the J people- of this county have ad vanced to approximately $500 to date, according to a preliminary report released this week. It was explained that the drive is drag ging just now, that the opportun ity to help several cripples will be geared to the response to the appeal during the next few days. Approximately 92 percent of the money raised is retained in this county and is directed to the aid of-needy crippled children. It was learned that $300 is past due, the money having ben spent for crutches and treatment in an tie ipation of a strong support for the current Easter Seal sale. Consid erably more than t‘he‘$l'o00 asRccT could be used to great advantage, it was said r~ SPEAKER .J L. Y. Balleiitiue, isorth Car olina State Commissioner of Agriculture, will address the annual meeting of the Mar tin County Farm Bureau in the Williamston High School auditorium Friday afternoon of this week at 4:30 o’clock. Appeal Follows Multiple Births Nation-wide publicity given the) multiple births in a local hospital > last week is bringing all kinds of appeals to town officials and others. A syndicate in New York City wanted pictures of Viola Brown and her triplets, but the most un usual request came from a man down m Florida. A bit humorous and certainly a bit pathetic, the appeal from Miami follows: “1 read in the paper about the I lady who had all those children ! When 1 was a small boy living in North Carolina, I heard of a spring where a few drinks would have a wondrous effect. We have not children but want them bad ly. Would you please tell me d the woman who had all those babies drank any particular kind of water there? Is the water she used from any kind of a mineral spring in your county? J would be willing to pay almost any price to obtain a supply of the water for my wife if it i.-, possible to get some of it.” The mother, 2M years old, left the hospital this week, and al though the triplets were detained there they are doing fine Fifteen children have been born to the mother sthce l!)4t>. It was reported that a milk company had pledged a year’s supply of milk for the babies. The multiple births have at tracted attention throughout the nation. Persons as far away as Seattle, Washington, New York and Chicago have sent clippings of the story to relatives and their friends here during the past few days, and now the pictuies an : going to a syndicate. Seine Fishing Running Behind liloeked by high waters for more than three weeks, seine fish- I ing is tentatively scheduled to get under way at Jamesville next Monday. The schedule is depen dent upon water conditions, how ever, late reports stating that the liver is falling very little there. Other types of fishing are go ing forward, the catches varying with weather conditions. No definite facts are to he, but the freshet in the rivet has been described as a staravation one. The water has been out of the banks for months and fishing and log ging operations have been badly hampered. It is thought by some that the Buggs Island dam is turn ing loose enough water to keep the river over the banks in this area. Since fishing operations at the fishery are uncertain no fish fes tival is planned at Jamesville next Monday. However, many visitors are TiTmosfeeTi a~ n“i iTg oTrfer etui i‘-"i ing the day, weather conditions! being favorable. Two Contests For j Offices In County Developed So Far Klrctions Itoanl Will Meet April 12; Deadline For Filing Is \pril 19 While it is fairly certain that no office will go begging, few candidates have filed for political berths in this county, according to information released today by C. D. Carstarphen, chairman of the Martin County Board of Elec tions. Eight names have been official ly entered in the primary, leaving at least ten other places wide op en .including the offices of treas liter, judge and solicitor of the recorder’s court, surveyor, three places on the bord of education and at least three constableship . Up until noon today A. Corey of Jamesville had filed for county representative in the North Caro lina General Assembly, but two others, E. G. Anderson of Rober son vi lie and Elmer Modlin of I Jamesville, have announced, as suring a three-way contest. J Sam Getsinger filed today to suc ceed himself as register of deeds, and all the old members of the county board- of commissioners i paid their filing fees, including J. • II. Edwards, chairman, of Wil liamston, Frost Martin of James ville, Bill Harrison of Bear Grass, 11. L. Roebuck, of Cross Roads and Henry S Johnson of Hamil ton. Jimmy C. Gurkin filed a few days ago, creating a contest for commissioner from the Griffins Bear Grass district. The terms of R. 11. Smith, trea surer; R. T. Johnson, judge, and Clarence Griffin, solicitor of the recorder's court; O. B. Roberson, surveyor; Geo. C. Griffin, J. 1) Woolard and Cecil Rowell, mem bers of the Martin County Board of Education, are expiring this year along wth the terms of sev eral constables. According to un official reports, Mr George C Griffin, after serving almost twenty years as a member of the -. duration board, is considering re tiring, but he has made no official a nnouncement. The deadline for filing is 6:00 o’clock p m., Saturday, April 19, Elections Board Chairman Car starphen pointed out today. So far, little interest has been (Continued on l’age Six) Officers Wrecked Stills This Week Raiding in the "Stingy Point" area of Robersonvilie Township early this week, ABC Officers J. H. Roebuck and Cecil Bullock wrecked a crude liquor distillery and poured out 100 gallons of ■ roa-'i Thr ;.hnd equipped with a 50-gallon capacity steel drum which was used for a still. There were three small fermen ters, doubler and cooler. Working with Bertie County ABC Officer J. W Waters, the two officers wrecked two illicit plants i nthe Indian Woods sec tion Tuesday. One of the plants was equipped with a 100-gallon copper kettle Reports maintain that the output of both plants was finding its way mainly info this county. [ WON’T ItK LONG | ^/ |l won’t belong—possibly another week or ten lia.ys— before Martin County farm ers start transplanting the 1!)52 tobacco crop. However, it will be the latter part of the month or early before transplanting gets tender way on any sizable scale. Tobacco plants have been growing rapidly despite cool weather, and reports indicate that the supply is sufficient. As far as it could be learned here, blue mold has not made | its appearance in this county to date. However, farmers are spraying against the mold. I Referendum la | North Carolina Several ilidiilifd \Uemled Mooting in Courthouse Hero Last Night Attending u mass meeting in < the courthouse here last evening, * -several hundred Martin County veterans lined up unanimously for a two hundred million dollar State bonus and went on to take mem- : bership in the AMVETS and pledge their suport of a petition, j calling for a referendum on the issue in North Carolina. A de- j tailed report eould not be had im mediately, but there was a big i rush on at the end of the meeting ' to take membership even though, according to the report, the $5 membership fee was not available m most eases. Opening the meeting, Cindy Del Vescovo, a native of New Jersey but now a resident of Graham, N C., and State director of the AMVETS, explained there was a determined drive on in this Stete to provide or literally force a re ferendum on the bonus issue, that 55 counties had already per- i feetecl organizations and that the outlook was bright for lining up every one of the 100 counties. Without a single dissenting vote, the group, about fifty per cent colored, favored the bonus issue whiyh is based on $15 month for that time a service man spent in domestic service with a mixi mum of $500, and $20 a month for foreign duty with a $750 maxi mum. Cindy Del Vescovo briefly re viewed the history of the drive to advance the bonus issue in North Carolina. A group of about ten veterans organized an Alamance 1 association in 104!) and started work. They were advised that 150,000 signitures were needed to get the issue before the voters. Pe titions were circulated with little effect and when they were recall ed at the end of six or eight months, only 8,000 signatures had been attached. In March of 1951, the petitions were sent to Raleigh and a hear- I ing before the finance committee ' was asked. No immediate reply was to be had, and 500 veterans 1 moved in on Raleigh from Ala mance County. They called on the governor who advised that the least the committee could do was give them a hearing. A hearing was finally scheduled and the ! committee killed it, Vescovo 'ex plaining that the committee op posed it 100 percent. A short lime later, 4,500 vet erans returned to Raleigh and an other hearing .ras arranged with the same result. Meeting on the r capitol grounds a short time later, the veterans agreed to go to every part of the State and work up from grass roots. In June of last year, the organization went on re cord as favoring the bonus refer- ! endum. The State director explained that 38 States had paid a bonus, that there was sufficient strength among veterans to make North Carolina tile 39th ui the list, riu said there are 805,000 voters in the State, that there are 351,000 World War 11 veterans, 80,000 j World War I and about 30,000 vet erans of the Korean war. Peti tions, calling for a State-wide (Continued on Page Three) Road Forces Start Work on Highway Delayed several weeks by un« favorable weather conditions, tha Nello Teer firm started moving in its equipment this week to widen Highway 64 and relieve a_ little bit a few bad curves on the route between Wiliinmstuii and tha Washington County line at Ward's Bridge. Work on a Imp ted scale was started early in the week, but more and larger machines are be< ing located on the project today, and work is progressing in tha Gardner’s Creek area. The contractor has 240 ways to . handle the project, which, after being whittled down to the Siza of a liny red-headed stepchild by the powers that be, is costii hardly one-third what the or _ nally-planned project would hav* cost
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