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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME L\ —NUMBER 43 THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK SI ESTABLISHED 189§ Williamston, Marlin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 27, 1952, Cancer Campaign His V««?*s!v.ii! Report $127.01 Raised --'» Goose Nest went over the top in the current cancer fund drive last week-enqh according to a re port filed by Mr. N. Lawrence Hyman, chairman, and his co chairman, Mrs. Bionzie Harrell. Accepting a quota of $125, the leaders there raised a total of $127.01, giving the fund drive an encouraging boost in the county. Contributions were reported as follows: Minton Beach, Jr., $1; B A. Long, 50c; Minton Beach, $2; Car ter Jones, $2; Jack Smith, $1; Haywood Crisp, $5; Jack Whit field, 50c; N. W. Johnson, $2; J. W. Bclflower, Jr., $1; J C. John son, $5; A. S. Hyman, $5; F. S. Barrett, $1.74; John Hassell, $5; Z. D. Cox, $2; Cecil Brown, $1; F. B. Worsiey, $2; Graham Clark, $2; Paul Woodsworth, $1.50; J. R. Rawls, $5; Mayo Harrell, 50c; Ka tie Copeland, $5; H. J. McCrack en, $1; L. H. Hux, $1; J. B. Whit field, $1. Mrs. H. Z. Hyman, 10c; Alma English, $2; K. S. Bunting, $1; J. F. Crisp, $5; W .V. Daniels, $3; Mattie Allsbrook, 50c; Bionzie Harrell, $3; Wiley Bunting, $1; Harry Daniels, $1; John Daniels, $1; E. N. Harrell, 50c; Dewey Preast, $1; Mrs. W. O. Council, $1; Mrs. W. E. Tyson, 10c; M P. Manning, $2; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Casper, 50c; Frances Riddick, $1; Christine Waic-rs, $1; Isabelle Goodson, $1; Mrs B F. Sloan, $1; Dan W. Jones, 50c; Misc. 32c; Hay wood Harrell, 25c; Donald E. Bunting, $1. M. O. Crisp, $1; Doyle Bunting, $ 1; Hurtford Smith, $1; Wiley Craft. $1; E. T. Smith, $1; N. W. Worsiey, $1; H. H. Worsiey, $2; Henry Early $1; Russell Turner, $1; John Sledge, $5; Robert Hais lip, $2: M. E. Council, $2; W J. Whataker, $1; R. E. Turner, 50c; Nancy Worsiey, $2; James H. Ayers, $5; N. L. Hyman, $5. • R. R. Rawls, $2; Tom Pearson, $2; E. H. Harrell, $1; J. C. Ross, $1; Mrs. Alice Tyson, $1; R. E. Tyson, $1; Mrs. M. C. Liverman, $1; Madaline Davenport, $1; G. W. Barrett, $2; -® Engineers to Heel at Roanoke Rapids The- May meeting of the East Carolina Engineers Club will be held in Roanoke Rapids tomor row. Guest speaker for the meet ing will be Mr. Ha's old Couch "f the Babcock and Wilcox Company - one of the leading manufactui ers of steam boilers and associated equipment. Mr. Couch will speak on “Steam for Power” and will present a short color movie ilustrating re 1 cent developments and techniques in this field. The meting will be held at the Virginia Electric and Power Com pany’s recreation hall at 7:30 p. m --_-4)-_ The Navy Has A New Submarine! The Navy has h now submarine, j the Trigger, which is powered j | with new radial-type diesel en gines and has a higher speed sub merged than it has on the sur face. This is due primarily to the tear-drop streamlining of the hull. While the speed of this vessel is still a military secret, it is ap parent that the Trigger, is sub stantially shorter than other fleet submarines. The Navy reveals that its new design makes it possible for it to maneuver better than w the long narrow-type underwater craft. Suffer* llroken Thigh In At'rident Monday Master Ralph Jones, three-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Verble Jones, suffered a bad fracture of the right thigh in a freak acci dent at their home on Union Ave-1 nue early last evening. The little fellow was with his father who was working in the garden when some lumber fell or. him. Removed to n local hospital, the victim was reported to be getting along very well this morning. Commission Board Candidates Wm. M. (Bill) Harrison, incumbent, farmer of Bear Grass Township, and J. C. (Jimmie) Gurkin, Griffins Township farm er, are in the race for county commissioner from the Griffins Bear Grass District. Theirs is the only contest for a place on the board of commissioners, and while they set k the one seat on the board allotted the Griffins-Bear Grass District, they will be vot ed on county wide.' Illicit Liquor Traffic Increasing In County Wreck Ten Plants In County During Past Two Weeks Quantity of Liquor uiul 2, OOO GuIIoiih Mash Pour ed Out by ABC Group The illicit liquor traffic, after holding to what was described as a normal level for months, flared up in this county during the past two weeks, according to a prelim inary report released this week by ABC Enforcement Officer J. H. Roebuck. A shortage of money was said to have prompted action in several sections, the officer said. During the period, ten liquor stills were wrecked in the county, the officers pouring out approxi mately 2,000 gallons of mash and confiscating more than 24 gallons of liquor. Accompanying the il licit liquor traffic were breaks in marital relations. The officers would release no detailed report, but it was declared that one plant operator employed a helper and while the helper was at the still the boss camped in and around the helper’s home. It was report ed that the wife and several chil dren left their home for another part of the county. In addition to the work in this county, the Martin ABC officers cooperated with enforcement agencies ii; two' qthti counties and intercepted large quantities of li quor believed destined for retail markets in Williamston. Thirty six gallons of liquor fell into the hands of officers over in Bertie last Saturday. Two weeks ago, Officers Roe buck and Cecil Bullock wrecked two plants in Bear Grass Town ship and poured out 400 gallons of mash. Both plants were cheaply equipped. Returning to the same township the next day, the offic ers tore down a 100-gallon oil drum and poured out 100 gallons of mash. After resting over the week end. the officers went into Rober sonville Township and wrecked a 200-gallon still of the submarine type and poured out 300 gallons of mash. They confiscated a lone gallon of white liquor. On May 13, the officers confis cated a 50-gailori copper kettle in Bear Grass Township. There was no mash on iiand. That afternoon, the raiders wrecked, an oil drum still and poured out 100 gallons of mash at a plant hid way back in the woods in Hamilton Township. Returning to Hamilton Township on the 15ih, the officers wrecked another oil drum still and poured out 100 gallons of mash. Before the day was spent, the raiders had wrecked a 100-gallon submarine type still and ten fermenters and confiscated ,250 pounds qf corn meal in JamesvilJe Township. Returning to Jamesville Town ship that evening, the ABC Offic ers, assisted by Deputy Raymond Rawls, confiscated nineteen gal lons of white liquor all ready for the market at the home of Naomia James. While the officers were there two young white boys from (Continued on Page Seven) START WORK Work has started on a new Christian church home just beyond the high school and bordering North Smithwick, Liberty and Vance Streets. Special equipment is digging a ten-foot basement, and ma terials are to be placed on the lot immediately. Jule T. Martin of Rober sonville is the building con tractor. (> nul not in# U ilh Honors From Local High School In publishing the list of candi dates for graduation last week, The Enterprise inadvertently j omitted the names .of Misses Mil lie Priscilla Roberson and Patricia Taylor. In addition to making the correction, the editor points out that the young ladies are graduat ing and with honors. Given Piares Sir ’ By the Democrats C. B. Marlin Named Alter nate t o Convention In Olieago, Jul\ 21 Martin County people were Riv en ten spots in the State Demo cratic party convention at the convention held, in Raleigh last Thursday, but the county did not rate a delegate to the national convention which is being held July 21 in Chicago. As far as it could be learned here there were no contests among the Martin County delegation for places in the organization. C. B. Martin, Robersonville school man, was named an alter nate to the Chicago convention, and it is expected that he will at tend. John G. Clark of Greenville and J. Emmett Winslow of Hert ford were named delegates from this, the First Congressional Dis trict, to the national convention. Lloyd Griffin of Edenton and Ral eigh is the other alterate. It is believed that Martin Coun ty has had no delegate to a na tional convention since the late Dr. John D. Biggs went to Balti more in 1912 when Woodrow Wil son was nominated. By some ma neuver, the delegates have been chosen during the past forty years, one from near the coast and the other from the far side of the dis trict witli the consolation falling in between, as a rule. Clarence W. Griffin, county so licitor, was named a Presidential elector, a job that is fast losing its meaning. Hugh G. Horton and Mrs. E. S. Peel were named members of the party's State Executive Commit tee; and J. H. Gray, Jr., and E. S. Peel were named on the First Congressional District Executive Committee. N. C. Green and Clarence Grif fin were made members of the Second Judicial District Com mittee, and H. G. Horton and J. R. Winslow were named for mem (Continued on -Page Seven) Ma ryland Fanners Receive Foie Prices for 7 'obacco Cro p Voting to do away with the con trol program last year, Maryland tobacco farmers are now staring starvation prices right in the face, according to reliable reports reaching here. Home from the Ilughcsvil'r market for the week-end, Mr. Evan Willard said the auction market-, an awr.igmg hard)' ,15 cents as compared with a 50-eent average received last year. The farmers were said to be dissatis fied, that possibly fifty percent of them are snatching the tags off their tobacco and taking it back home. A few are letting their crops go, but there is much wailing and weeping on all sides. There’s competition on the mar kets, to be sure, but apparently the buyers realize they do not have to pay the price and they are holding the average to a low fig ure, it was pointed out. “We haven't got to pay for it, and we are not going to,” one company representative was quoted as say ing. No one seems to know how much “freedom” thr Maryland growers surrendered under the program in past years, but re liable reports Emphatically state they are losing their shirts right off their backs now. One buyer was said to have made extensive purchases, but tags were turned on all but two piles. But the tag turning is hav ing little or no effect on prices, it was explained. To Handle Reeruilin^ Fro #r rani Messrs. Hildreth Mobley and Edgar Gurganus have agreed to handle the recruiting of donors for the Red Cross bloodmobile which is scheduled to make its fourth visit to the Martin C ounty Chapter on Thursday, June 12. it was announced by Dr. J. S. Rhodes, Jr., chairman. The cooperation of the public is earnest ly solicited, and volunteers are urged to contact the recruiters and help line up 200 potential donors. Hundreds Receive Special Awards In High School Here —$— Ftirly-niiir Pupils (lliulk lIp Prrfrrl Atleiulmu'e Up ronls In ’5 I -52 Two hundred and forty-one stu dents in the local schools this morning were given special recog nition for extra-curricular activ ity during the 1951-52 term. The awards, including forty-nine for perfect attendance, were present cd during a special program held this morning in the high school auditorium. The' names of those receiving the awards: Perfect Attendance Elementary School Joyce- Hol liday, Carolyn Price, liobbv Ho wen, A. I). Harris, Jr., Paul [tarn hil, Jr., Joyce Moore, Carl Ht-ath, Hannah Glenn Charlie Crisp, Ralph Bowen, Hilly Boyette, Kan dy Allen, Lonnie Welch, Kenneth Mobley, Gene Leggette, Jane God dard, Carla Reese, Ernestine Smithwick, Sylvia Moore, Doro thy Bowen, Jeannette Leggett,', Billy Ray Bowen, Patricia Ldley, Betty Modlin, Beth Spivey, Lee Glenn, Virginia Holloman, Jean ette Raynor, Margaret Bather, Jerry Sherrill, Jackie Rawls. High School Annie Louise Bland, C\ d Bnrnc-ltE Su sie Griffin, Bettie Carole Gurgan us, Faye Mod.in, Janice Holliday, William J. Moore, David Steven son Marion Sisson, Melba Wynn, Theresa Modlin, Virginia Price, I Patricia Smithwick, Joyce Faye Bowen, Betty Sue Clark, Regi nald Turner Manning, Lillian Marie Peele, Mary Elizabeth Brit (Continued on Page Seven) Take Early Lead In Little League Play Catching the others by surprise, th<‘ Jaycees put a cracker-jack team in action, and the youngs ters are now holding a clear lead in Williamston’s Little Baseball League play. Member? of the team are: Bottom row: Billy Wynn, Russell Stalls, Shelton Chesson, Billy Hay Bowen, Rog. Rogers; Second row, Nat Meakin, Joe Heater, Gerry Skinner, John Wells, James Copion; Third row, Murry Struwbndge. Tony Underwood, Henry Oakley, Gerald Robot son and Jerry Mack Rawls. r PROGRAM CIIANGK A last-minute change in the local school commencement program has been necessary by the serious illness of l>r. Ray Lindley who was to de liver the main address at the finals event this evening. Robt. L. Coburn, chairman of the local school committee, will speak to the graduates. It was also announced that the young son of Coach and Mrs.. Blaekerby who was a class mascot will he unable to be present on account of measles. Otherwise, the program is i all set to proceed according | to plan. Few Licenses To ; Marry Issued In County In April Issuance A mono Smallest For IVloiilli of Vpril Thau In Twelve Years I After making considerable pro | gross during the first three i months of this year, Dan Cupid started dragging behind in his work during the month of April, according to a report coining from ! the office of Register J Sam i ( /! ' Iit |g i I There were thirteen licenses is sued last month, the count being the lowest for any month since last July and considerably below the average for the month of April. The thirteen licenses were is sued, foui to white and nine to colored couples, as follows: White Horace W Gooding and Ruby Idell Mullock, both of Wiiliams j ton. Harry Wiggins of Wilhamoto.i and Helen White of Colerain. James Albert Collrain and Cel ia Gardner, both of Jamesville Clyde H. Dawson and Mary Legget, both of Windsor. < dlorcd Donald Whili of Ahoskie and I lies,sic Marie Cherry of Aulan der, Jaine Arthui Brown and Wen nil Gray, both of Williarriston. I.onnii Parker of Palmyra and Glislene Ward of KFD ,'i, Bidhel. Clarence Hams and Lucy Rene Smith, both of Bethel. James Biggs and Kellie Clem (Continued on Page Seven) h'ormvr I-oral I toy In llruil Of Mimm Juyvvvn Bill Holloman, former Wil liamslon hoy wlm is a physical therapist at Miami Beach, was re cently named president of the Jaycecs there, according to infor mation reaching here last week end. The young man, son of Mrs A T. Perry and brother of Sheriff M. W. Holloman, was the organi zation’s first vice president, and a past director of the State orga nization in Florida. Papers Served On County Officials Monday Afternoon lYlilinn Sij'iN'il Itv INim* te«*n Nepro I’alrons In This County A group of nineteen Negroes has filed a suit in the federal court, Eastern District, against the Martin County and State Boards of Education and J. C. Manning, superintendent of Mar j tin schools, asking $600,000 dam ages for alleged discrimination and numerous other “malicious errors". The suit is broken down into $100,000 compensatory and $500, 000 punitive damages, and fol lows a lengthy petition filed with the county board some months ago, Herman L. Taylor, Negro lawyer of Raleigh, and Samuel S. Mitchell, Negro lawyer of Fay etteville, represent the nineteen petitioners who, for the most part, are located in a comparatively small area of the county. The petitioners include: Hen rietta Kecle, Bessie Little, Eula R, Bellamy, Marjorie Marrow, Syl vester Williams, Elisha Crandall, Magnolia Coffield, Eva Roberson, ! Lillie B Council, Annie Moore, i Annie Little, James Wallace, Johnnie Mizelle, Harvey Briley, Annie M Roberson, Bert Moore, Blossie Perkins, Lonnie Roberson and Raymond Lloyd, all Negroes Papers were served Monday af ternoon on the *uper interment of schools m this county as an indi vidual, but members of the coun tv board were not mentioned in dividually. It could not be learn ed immediately if papers had been served on the members of the State Board of Education as in dividuals. The defendants have twenty days in winch to file an answer, but it could not be learned when the case would be calendered for trial. A preliminary study of the pe tition shows that the charges and complaints cover several pages. It is not quite clear just what the suit is all about in the form of compensatory of the fabulous ball million dollars for punitive dam ages or for better schools for Ne gri >es. Representatives of the board and E. S. Peel, county attorney, are to start work on an answer lit iiat it wa limn ed Former Resident Injured In Wreck J I), Gurganus, formerly of this county, was badly injured in an automobile accident over in Pitt County near Pactolus Sunday af ternoon. Few details of the acci dent could be learned immediate ly. However, one report said hr ditched his car, and -that two other machines figured m the ac cident. Suffering a bad cut in lus neck, the victim was treated at the Hob ersonville Clinic where about nine stitches were necessary to close the gash. .. —». Im/>»•<»I'iiifi it Hii* Home hillouinfi Recent Attack Suffering a slight attack about ten days ago, Mr. Eli Edmondson, grand old man of the Hassell Community, is reported to be im proving He is able to be out a bit now, it was learned. According to preliminary reports, many teachers are resigning in the schools this year. No official information has been released, but it was rumored that seven were quitting (he local schools, some for other positions, oth ers for personal reasons, and still others who plan to change vocations. it was also learned that few new applications are on file just now. Several Critically Accident Sunday t wo I urs lii lloil-On Col* iisiioii 'rar Oak City Oil Highway 125 Four pi rsons were injured, sev eral of them believed critically, in an automobile wreck about one mile west of Oak City on High way 125 at 10:00 o’clock Sunday night, according to a preliminary report released by the highway patrol office in this county. Last reports stated that one of the vic tims, Evelyn Everett, young col ored woman of Palmyra RED, had regained consciousness in a Tar boro hosiptal where she was car ried in a Fields ambulance for treatment. She was said to have suffered cuts on the face and head ani] possibly a skull fracture along with internal injuries. Christine Wiggins, also of RFD 1, Palmyra, was badly injured in the accident but she is expected to recover if no complications re sult, according to an unofficial re port coming from the Hospital. Thurston Spruill, of Goose Nest Township,, was cut about the face and knee and was able to leave the hospital late Monday. The two women victims, riding with Spruill in a 1941 Model Ford, were removed to the hospital by ambulance. Sam Short, driver of the. other cur, a 1929 Chevrolet, was carried by car along with Spruill to the hospital. Short, suf fering severe cuts on one knee, was able to leave the hospital following treatment. It was first thought that two of the victims were killed, and all three members of the highway patrol force in the county report ed to the scene. A heavy rain was falling and the patrolmen encoun tered difficulty in getting the in jured to the hospital and clearing up the wreck. Short, who lives on RFD 1, Hub good and crashed head-on into the Spruill car, demolishing both. The engine in the Chevrolet was driven hack into the. front seat and the steering wheel of the ear was pushed through the windshield, according to Patrol man R, P. Narron, oye of the in vestigating officers. Damage to the rnaehtnes, listed as total, will approximate about according to an unofficial re port. Teacher Here Gels Yale Scholarship Mr Oh-ir' :ttr Abernathy, toUCHei m lilt V* lli I ttUlialoi’l sCii' *Oiis, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Summer School of Alcoholic Studies at Yale Univer sity, New Haven, Connecticut, July ti to 31st, it was announced last week by S. K Proctor, exec utive director of the North Caro lina Rehabilitation Program. The scholarship has been ap proved by Mrs. Esther W. Hen derson, administrative assistant at the university, and Mrs. Aber nathy plans to leave here the lat lei p,.rt of next month for the special course of instruction. With all her expenses except transportation paid, Mrs. Aber nath.\ is one of twenty-five in North Carolina to receive scholar ships. The student group, numbering , \eral hundred, will include teachers and others from every state in the Union, and ten for eign countries. The school will deal with the growing problems traceable to al cohol, and suggested action for solving those problems, it was stated. Tiro Suffer Fractures lu Fulls Ou Tliursiluy ——S' ■ Mrs. Stuart J Tettcrton, broke her left thigh at her home in Wil liams Township last Thursday morning when she made a bad step on the porch. The break is in the same place where she suf fered a fracture sotnu time'^go. Mis. Will Baker broke her left hip in a fall in the yard at her home on East Main Street last Thursday afternoon. Both arc pa tients m a local hospital. Mrs. Tettcrton is to undergo ait operation in the hospital here • morrow morning.
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