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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE I- l -—1.1 — THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LV—NUMBER 44 Williamston, Martin Couniy, North Carolina, Thursday, May 29, 1952. ESTABLISHED 1899 “ifi^eieenCases ~ In Connfy Court’ Monday Morning lines Collected In The Sum Of $333 During Short Session I -« Judge R. T. Johnson handled nineteen cases during a short ses sion of the Martin County Re corder's Court last Monday morn ing. Fines were imposed in the sum of $255. Proceedings: The case in which Willie Benny Garris was charged with drunken and hit-and-rup driving, was nol pressed, subject to be re-opened at a later date. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the cases charging William Gray and Frances Lucille Futch with op erating motor vehicles without dirvers' licenses. Pleading not guilty, Annie M. Goss Johnson was adjudged guil ty of an assault with a deadly weapon and was fined $15, plus costs. Ida Mae Bazemore was found • lot guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. In the case in which Lennie Bell Chance and Lizzie Perkins were charged with an assault, Lizzie Perkins was found not guilty and the other defendant was adjudged guilty of a simple assault and fin ed $10, plus costs. Pleading guilty of drunken driving, Eldner Smith was fined $100, plus costs. He loses his li gcense to operate a motor vehicle for a year. Adjudged guilty of violating the liquor laws, Wesley Ormond was fined $10, plus costs. Pleading guilty of passing a school bus while passengers were being discharged, James Willis Rodgers was fined $50 and taxed with the costs. Charged with violating’ the li quor laws, Noah Gardner was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the l road term upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs. The defen * dant is to violate no liquor law | during the next two years, t Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Geo. Cowan was charged with violating the liquor laws. Ben Edwards, pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle ^lthout a driver’s license, was lined $25, plus costs. Richard Hill was sentenced to (Continued on Page Six) Scad Grapes Ter Leukemia Victim —#— Reading in the Sunday News and Observer about a young leu kemia victim wanting some white * apes, Farmer Vance E. Ben nett of this county got busy and forwarded a box to the little girl, Elizabeth Finch, in Charlotte] Tuesday. lie looiwi^Pgi 'ipe.y i 11'oi a li t t z cr locker and packed them in dry ice. Explaining the mission, Mr. Bennett was asured that they would reach their destination without delay. The bus driver, pulling out of Williamston early that morning, turned them over «o a Charlotte bus driver who said lie would take his own car when lie reached Charlotte and deliv er them in person to the little vic tim without delay. ---«> Pleads Cause Of Farm Life School ^The Farm Life School Com lnil tee are pleading the cause of pie Farm Life Hiuh School de partment in a conference with Mi. .1. A. Pritchett, a member of tin North Carolina State Board of Education in Windsor this af ternoon. Members of the commit tee are being accompanied by Principal Carlyle Cox. Definite arrangements have not been completed, but the commit tee plans to carry its cause before full meeting of the State Board in Raleigh the latter part of next week. It is not certain whether the committee will be accompanied at that time by a delegation from the community. fceatSinti Iktfnn'mtkrrktlTiacr Despite the heated accusations directed on the political home front, interest in the Saturday primary still centers around the two leading candidates for governor, Hubert Olive and William B, Uinstead. A third candidate, Manley Dunaway, for governor, has all but been lost in the closing days of the race. Eleven Awards Presented During Final Exercises —®— New Trophy ami New Cash Scholarship Athletl To List This Year Eleven special awards'were pre sented to five members of the 1952 graduating class, one junior, a rising freshman and a school or ganization as recognition of out standing work, during the gradu ating exercises at Williamston High School Tuesday evening. Two new awards were includ ed in the group. Attorney Clarence Griffin pre sented the first award- the W. C. Manning Valedictorian Cup. This is awarded each year to the grad uate having the highest scholar ship average for the four years of high school work. It went to Er nest Taylor whose average was 97.025. Jn presenting the cup At torney Griffin took occasion to praise the fine character and spirit of the late Mr. Manning which prompted the giving of the award. Miss Margaret McDaniel, head of the home economics depart ment of the school, presented the Sarah M. Manning Home Eco nomics Cup to Joyce Ward, a jun ior, as the outstanding student in her department during the year. Miss Irene Tetterton, acting president of the Williamston Wo man’s Club, awarded the club's Civic Cup to the High School Glee Club as the organization making "the greatest contribution to the life'.if rjT.-r.dw.-4 Patricia Taylor accepted the eup :r> president of the Glee Club Trophy was presented by Mr. Goodnion himself to Russell Rog ers as the boy in the senior class selected as the outstanding ath lete. Described by one of the teach (Continued on Page Six) J. B. Cherry Will Filed ThisJHfifik The last will and testament of Joseph B. Cherry was filed in the courthouse here this week. Limited to a few words, the document named Mrs. Lena C. Gordon executrix. Except for $2,200 listing on personal prop erty valuation, there was no men tion of the value of the estate. In one section, he willed an “an tique washstand in his bed room on the J B. Cherry home place farm to Lena C. Gordon.” “All the rest and residue of the estate was willed to Lena C. Gor don and Willie Lassiter “in equal shares as tenants in common, ab solutely and in fee simple.” The paper was prepared on No vember 16 of last year and wit nessed by J S Rhodes Jr. M. D„ and Bennie Lilley, Suffers Heart Attack Here Yesterday Morning well-known Griffins Township farmer, was reported to be get ting along very well this morning in Brown’s Community Hospital following a heart, attack suffered early yesterday morning. He was making a wholesale milk delivery to Taylor’s Dairy plant on South Haughton Street when he was stricken. lY Gondmori Athletic f KLECHON UPTURNS | In keeping with a custom maintained over a long period of years, The Enterprise will canvass and post the elections returns Saturday evening of this week. All election officials have been cordially asked to co operate in the undertaking, and a fairly quick count is an ticipated. The office telephones will he choked in the early eve ning with official calls from the precincts and to the State press agencies. During the early hours, the general pub lic will help speed up the work by delaying their calls for returns until after the pre cinct officials have had time to make their reports. Bear Grass Over The Top In The Cancer Campaign .— —<$>- ~~ Mrs. I.eKoy Harrison Ke ports More Ilian #15 Over the $ 100 (Juola -# Assisted by Co-workers Mrs. Sampson Hodges, Mis. Henry Whiie, Jr,, Mrs. Pete Mendenhall, Mi's. W. L. Mobley, Mrs. Irving Terry and Misses Mavis Brown and J.oyce Mendenhall, Mrs T,e Roy Harrison, chairman, recently reported Bear Grass over the top in the current cancer fund drive. A’sked to* raise .yfi/U fri the uisCrfcf, the workers exceeded the quota hv SIS 57 il Was till III Iri alstilCl 111 the county to reach and pass the as signed quotas, and makes the cur rent drive more encouraging. Complete reports are expected from the remainder of the dis tricts within the next few days. Contributions in the Bear Grass district include the following: Mrs. Mary Woolard, 25c; Mrs. (Continued on page eight' Two tfnrFsrioiuHy Injured In Auto Tractor Accident ProjiVrCy Uama^c Kslimal • ed At 12.300 In Tuesday Afternoon Vi reek Two persons were painfully but believed not seriously injured in an auto-tractor accident about six miles south of here on U. S. High way 17 at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday. Farmer Wiley M Woolard suf fered a 10-stitch cut on his knee and injuries to his arm and neck. Mrs. Vincent Gubitosi suffered a knee injury and a small cut on her forehead in addition to body bruises and shock The driver of the car, Mr. Gubitosi, was not in jured. The victims were discharg ed from a local hospital later in the day after receiving medical attention. Starting to drive his 1949 Model Fordson tractor across the high way at the Green farm a short distance the other side of Old Mill Inn, Farmer Woolard is be lieved to have misjudged the speed of the 1951 Mercury which was traveling south. Gubitosi was quoted as saying that he did not see the tractor in the highway until he was almost on it. The car, striking the tractor on the right front, snapped the steel axle in two and ripped away a wheel and cracked the tractor housing wide open. The farmer was knocked into the air several feet and he fell under the tractor. An official damage estimate was not available immediately, but the car, with its engine driven back under the floor dash board, its front end smashed and the rear housing knocked several inches out of line, is just about a total loss. One report said the car dam age will approximate $1,500 or more. Damage to the tractor was estimated at $450. A third vehicle, J. K. Taylor's Henry J., was involved m the ac cident and damage to that will ap proximate $300, according to a preliminary report. The Henry J., parked beside the road while its owner was talking with Mr. Wool ard's son in the field, had one side smashed in when the Mercury plowed into it after tearing down the tractor. Married last Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Gubitosi, of 3439 Boston Road, Broxn, N. Y , were traveling south on their wedding trip. f votin'*; hours V_.__/ • .voters .jviii I have exactly twelve hours to get their ballots into the box es in their respective pre cinct:) Saturday. The "battle ol the ballots" gets under way thud morning at 6:30 o’clock and closes at 6:30 o’clock that evening. There's no absentee voting in the primary except by members of the armed forces, and the number of service men participating is limited to a very few. New Registration Slightly Above Average In County Contrary to repeated reports, I maintaining there is compara I tively little interest in polities | in this county, the recent regis tration comes along to indicate that there is right much interest in the ballot, after all. The new registration, including transfers, was placed at 501 by C. D. Car starphen, chairman of the Martin County Board of Elections. The new registrants included the names of 102 colored citizens. In 1950 there were approxi mately 1,000 new names added to the registration books, but that was unusually large. The aver ago, fur years, has held to a fig ure belew 000 with few excep tiuns. Despite tho fairly large regis tration, the vote Saturday 1 hardly expected to go abov 3,500, a figure slightly in execs of one-third of the total potentia of 8,350 registered voters. The following figures show1 th 1952 registration- white and col ored—the total number of nev names added to the books thi year and the total of all names o' the registration books, bv pro cincts, and the primary votes n 1948 and 1950: I Jamesville Williams Griffins Bear Grass Williamston 1 Williamstun 2 Cross Roads Roberson ville Gold Point Poplar Point Hassell Hamilton Goose Nest Grand Totals New Registration White Col. Total 22 16 38 14 3 17 20 0 20 21 2 23 48 17 65 135 25 160 14 4 18 58 28 86 6 0 6 9 0 0 8 2 10 26 3 29 18 2 20 399 102 501 Grand Primary Vote Total 1948 195 758 309 44 360 102 22 513 254 35 548 249 34 1104 371 . 71 1413 521 88 552 157 29 1388 486 77 253 126 18 250 93 15 243 93 10 376 160 22 601 228 32 8359 3149 501 V. MEETING J The $600,000 damage suit brought by a group of nine teen Negroes will be the main topic for discussion when the Martin County Board of Ed ucation meets in special ses sion here next Monday after noon at 2:00 o'clock in the superintendent’s office. Very little other business is scheduled for discussion at that time. Suffers Fracture In Fall Tuesday Miss Annie Glasgow, act’d and well-known resident of the James ville community, suffered a frac ture of her right hip in a fall at her home there late Tuesday af ternoon. She was attending to a few chores in the yard whin she fell. Removed to Brown's Com munity Hospital by Biggs Ambu lance, she was rcgojjh;d Hus morn, mg to be resting fairly comfor tably. i lo Jcs.-, than i wt el do:;: . t . sons, including Miss Glasgow, have suffered limb fractures. Mrs Sudie Baker of Williamston and Mrs. S. J. Totterton of Williams Township underwent operations in a hospital here yesterday morn ing. Wayne Johnson, Robersonville young man, suffered a broken leg in an automobile accident there Monday. Representing llotariahsnr in Little League Holding a .500 standing. the youngsters above an ably representing the Rotao Club in Wil Uamston's Little Baseball League. They arc: (left to right) Bottom row, Charles Menkin, Ronnie Reese, Billy Thrower, Jimmie Cooke, Lonnie Welch. Second row, Danny Manning, Billy Wind ley, Sherwood Daniels, Griffin Ross, Kenneth Mobley. Third row, Mickey Hardison, Richard Hardi son, Van Taylor Harris, Eddie Taylor, James Leggett. Voters Of County Not Winners But Generally Righl ('ounty \ol«‘«l For A Win uiny (lovrrnor Hack In 'Flu* 1*>2I < .ainpai^ii Much lias bean said about Mai Im County voting wrong in gubet natorial primaries. It is true th; the county has not been on th winning sale since 1932, or twer tv years ago, but that does n< mean the local voters were ni right. It is also noted that the vot margin has gradually narrowe down through the years to th point where only about 10(1 vo<i separated the winners from th losers. The last time the county vote for a winner was on June 7, 192‘ when Angus W. McClean cai ru'd the county over Jo. iah V Bailey by a vote of 1,598 to 781 ! f Jltu'C Was ,*,•»>■ V1. | primary when O. Max Gardni | got the nomination by default. in .the iunt \ 1 : 72 for II. T Fountain, 834 for J. I Khnnghaus and 305 for A. . Maxwell. In the second primar of that year, Fountain got 1,82 votes, and Ehringhaus polled 71 votes in tin- county but went o to win the contest in the State. The 1936 campaign was a hi one. Ralph McDonald polled 1.31 votes, Sandy Graham 970, Clyd Hoey, 811, and John A. McRae gi I 14 in the county for governo got 1,240 votes in the second pr mary that year. By a fluek, Lee Gravely carrie (Continued on Cage Six) Raiders Gel Two More Liquor Still: Building up what appears to b a record for recent times, ABC ol I liceis J. 11. Roebuck ami Cec I Bullock arc continuing then wor i against the illicit liquor busincs I in this county. Last Tuesday, the officei wrecked two plants in the Sting Point section of Robersonvill | Township, a .short distance of ! Highway No 1 I Both plants wor poorly equipped, the officer smashing 30-gallon oil drum still and pouring out 100 gallons o mash al each site. Slarl ( onstriu tiim (hi Sion• llnihlini • Construction work is under wa. on a small store building uni next to the Jenkins barbershop oi Harrison Street here. A renta agreement has been effected, bu no public announcement has beei made. 'Thirty-two Names Appear On Three Primary Tickets Four of Tlo- IVn Contests Liinilc.l To Can.li.laics hi This homily Martin C'. iim,v voters, between I 3,500 and 1,000 strong, will choose county and State officers from a field if twenty eight candidates in the primary on Saturday of this week, with the possibility that sevi nil of the contests, including 1 one in this county, will be car ried over into a second primary ' for final settlenient.. Two tickets, one carrying the j lames.of eleven candidates for of ) tires m this county, and another 1 carrying the names of fifteen | candidates for State offices, will ^ be placed before the Democratic 1 voters in this county. In addition l to those ballots there'll be one, | carrying two names, for the Re ( publicans to choose their nominee i for lieutenant governor, i The county ticket includes the ^ following: ^ For House of Representatives (Votfe for One) [~] Elmer N. Modlin ] E. G. Anderson | | A. Corey For Judge Recorder’s Court (Vote for One) [ ] J. A. Ayers ] R. T. Johnson . For County Commissioner (Griffins Rear Crass District) (Vote for One) [ ] W. M. Harrison ["] J. C. Gurkin For Hoard of education ( (Vote for Three) e n C- U- Ro£erS f~~[ Cecil B. Powell 1 Q LeRoy Harrison Mrs. Frances R. Lawton The State Democratic ticket ha; I nineteen names on it but four ol them are repeated since there is a s contest for both the short am long terms for associate justice ol the State Supreme Com t. Then I <i e five contests for the D.-nui L eratic nominations, as follows: For Governor (Vote for One) I, Q] Hubert E. Olive ° .1 r □ Manley R. Dunaway For Lieutenant Governor (\ ,/tt iot Uvw > 1 [ | Marshall C. Kurfees y p] Roy Rowe 9 Luther 11. Hodges y □ Ben J. McDonald " For Commissioner of Insurance . (.Vote for One) 2 □ Waldo C. Cheek , *’] John N. Frederick t For Associate Justice Of Supreme Court ((Jimtihueu on Page 1 County And Town Boards To Meet » Comparatively little busme • is .scheduled at this time 1m yum t sideiatimi by the county and town boards of commissioners next Monday morning and evening, ae cording to Clerk .1 Sam Getsing * er fm the county board, and C 4 M Cobb for tin town officials. h Budget estimates are not quite ready, and the county board is s likely to return the latter part of ’ June to work over the figures. Paving projects are likely to be 1 discussed by the1 town officials, hut there is nothing more than routine m.dices on the agenda 1 just now 1 At their last regular meting, the teiwn eftiei.il:; had e'onsielcrcd borrowing money m anticipation of the' Powell street money re j lease' late r in the' year. Such a plan is out, acceirding to the law, erne' re-port pointed e>ut. The offi t eials had ceinsidereu launching a i fairly e'xtensive street paving pro 1 gram with the $14,000 alrearU’ ein I hand and with an e xpe cted $14, i 000 or mmc coming in about next I October. Tortf*three Finish High Sc&wfrWwtr Tuesday Evening V alctlirloriiin i’mmij'i-'. Jiis (lla*s lo !' ill fill it- < Mi tigations l«» <ionnlry Offered counsel and congratu lations by then elders and pledg es! by their valedictorian to serve the best interests of their state and nation, forty-three young men and women closed out their careers at Williumston High School Tuesday evening as they marched across the stage to receive their di plomas. Three seniors received double honors during the evening and one Junior broke into the charm ed circle to take away a coveted award. Although illness took two mem bers of the cast out of action for tlie evening, the graduation exer cises moved to a successful con clusion before a capacity audience of friends and relatives. Dr D. Ray Landle.y. president of Atlantic Christian College, was unable to make the commence ment address because his doctor had ordered him to bed for a rest and young Billy Blaekerby, one of the class mascots, fell prey to the measles a day or two before. Robert L. Coburn, chairman of the Williamston school board, sub stituted for Di Lmdley on short notice. He cautioned the young graduates against yielding to the current vogue of being critical of everything and everybody. He challenged them to a life of ser vice. reminding them that they had reaped the fruits of the labors of those who hud gone ahead and should respect their obligation to contribute something of their own. The speaker declared that the graduates who now are adults and must make their own decisions, can make of their lives about what they wish. “You will get out of lift' about what you put in to it." he said. “If you would have friends you must be friendly, if you would be loved you must love others." Referring in the current tend ency among the peoples of the world to be critical of everything, the attorney urged the young people to get the facts, all the facts, and then form their judg ment, He pointed lo the Bible’s story about how God was willing to spare two cities if but ten men who were rightei us could be lo cated in them and remarked that too often people today reverse Vi1 d ■ . '-"I < « — »: ;■! place should hi1 destroyed that contains ti n unrighteous men. tContmued on Page Bight) Make Reports On Cancer Campaign A preliminary report from Mrs. F. C. Stallings, chairman, states that Jamesville has exceeded Us current cancer fund drive quota by a large margin. A detailed re YJOi , will Ik it 1&„ *• ■ y h a preliminary report released i is week, Chairman Jos. W. Bail v explained that the quota in 'it s Hoads had not been reached. Those who have not been con Iacted and who believe m this worthy cause, are asked to get a contribution to the chairman,” Mi Hailey, adding that any dona tion will be appreciated and that efforts are being made to end the drive within the next few days »- ; — Accused Spy To Speak In Church Just returned from foreign soil, Missionary Kills It. Back of the Tibetian Border, will speak at Oak drove Christian Church. At • 11:00 o'clock on Wednesday, June 4, he will bring a thrilling ac count of harrow mg experiences during lus capture and escape from Communist aggression m Ti bet. While on a long, perilious journey on,foot over the Tibetian mountains, he was captured by the Communist .accused of being a >py, but finally reached safety in India. Everyone is invited u> hear Mr. Back’s firsthand information of Commumst-harrussed Tibet.
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