THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE \ I THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK % VOLUME LV—NUMBER 43 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June .1, l,f.r>2 ESTABLISHED 1899 Former RFsTBenl Is Fatally Injured In Norfolk Wreck Funeral Arrangements For Mrs. Leon Stalls Not O Yet Completed -® Mrs. Daisy Gurganus Stalls, 48, was killed instantly in an auto mobile accident at a street inter section in Norfolk last night at 10:30 o’clock. Her husband, Leon Stalls, was slightly injured, and their grandson, Edward Compton, was not hurt. Few details of the accident could be learned here immediately, but it was reported that another car, operated by a ^ sailor, ran through a red light and crashed into the side of the Stalls car, throwing Mrs. Stalls to the pavement and fracturing her skull. The daughter of Mrs. Ida Glis son Gurganus and the late Henry Gurganus, both of Martin County, Mrs. Stalls was born in Tarboro. Following her marriage to Mr. Stalls she made her home in Wil liamston for a number of years before locating in Norfolk in the *ate twenties. Surviving besides her mother and husband are six children, three daughters, Mrs. Russell Compton of Norfolk, Mrs. Doro thy Jones of Virginia Beach and Mrs. Libby Hogshire of the home in Norview; three sons, Leon Stalls, Jr., of South Dakota, Bill Stalls of Wilson, and Paul Stalls of Norfolk; three brothers, Paul, Claude and Haywood Gurganus, * (>f Norfolk, and two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Allsbrooks. Funeral arrangements had not boon completed early today, but it is expected that the last rites will be conducted in Norfolk to morrow and that burial will fol low there. Johnny E. Bland Died Suddenly * Near Hamilion f Fimerul Service To Be Held Wediiewlay; Burial In Robersonville Johnny E. Bland, well-known farmer of Hamilton Township, died suddenly at his home there at 7:45 o’clock Monday morning following a short illness. He suf fered a heart attack a few days ago, but was thought to be im proving until he started to get up Monday..morning fte-..was®-partis dressed when he was stricken Bgain. Returning to bed, he died p short time later. The son of John and Mamie Knox Bland, he was born in Pitt County 46 years ago on January 23, 1906, and spent his early life there. He moved to this county %hen a young man and had lived and farmed with Mr. Clayton House near Hamilton for about fourteen years. He was married to Miss Annie Leggett "and* sne Survives" w*tfT eight children, six sons, Hubert Bland of Williamston, Robert, Edsel, Guerney, James and John Bland, and two daughters, Sarah Frances and Ellene Bland, all of the home; four grandchildren; a brother, Hosea Bland of Hassell, •ind a sister, Mrs. Foy Rogerson of Roberson ville. Funeral services will be con ducted at the Hassells Holiness Church Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with the Rev. E. A. Killette. Free Will Holiness minis ter of Pikeville, officiating, assist ed by the Rev. R. H. Murray, Free Will Holiness minister of Rocky Mount. Burial will be in the Rob ersonville Cemetery. ♦ -* Maintain Drive Against Typhoid The relentless drive against ty phoid fever is to be started in this county next Monday by the health department, it was announced this week by Dr. J. W. Williams, health officer. Ok A schedule and the immuniza tion centers appear in this paper. There has been no typhoid fever in the county in nine years, and the health authorities are urging the people to cooperate in keeping it out. CountyBoardSounds Stern Economy Note Holding Weliare Budget For'52-53 To Same Figures Officials In All-Day Ses sion Monday Handling Regular Business The Martin County Commis sioners sounded a stern economy note in their regular meeting Monday when they withheld an increase proposed in the 1952-52 welfare department budget. While no final action was taken, the 1951-52 figures for the depart ment were tentatively approved by the board in its all-day meet ing. Provisions were made to care for 350 old agers, and extend aid to 100 dependent children families and to fifty partially and per manently disabled persons. The old age pension, averaging about $24, will cost right at $100,800, oi which the county is to pay $14,700 Aid to the 350 dependent child ren, averaging $15 each pci month, will cost $63,000, of which the county is to pay $8,450 Aid to the 50 partially and permanently disabled persons, averaging $26 per month, will cost right at $15, 600, of which the county is to pay $2,400. The board is holding the administrative costs to the old figures, leaving the superinten dent's salary at $310 per month instead of $330 as proposed. Sal aries of case workers are to re main at .4220 instead of $240 as proposed. The senior stenographer clerk retains a $200 salary instead of the $220 proposed, and the junior stenographer cler k’s salary remains at $170 instead of $ 19C as proposed in the new budget The board is expected to meet in special session later.in -the month to study and adopt the new budget for all departments. The board apropriated $250 to ward the erection of a jail in Oak City with the provision that coun ty prisoners are to be cared for there when necessary. A contract was entered into with Frank Butler for auditing the county books for $600. ^ resolution was passed, favor ing the retention of the high school department at Farm Life, and one of the board members, H. L. Roebuck, is accompanying a large-delegation to Raleigh Thurs day s-ppr-ar .before a full meet ing of the State Board of Educa tion. The board went on record as favoring the Abandonment of the old road running from the Slade fishery to the paved road near the North Carolina Pulp Company plant in Jamesville Township. In his monthly report to the board, Tax Collector M. L. Peel (Continued on Page Eight) Large Vote Cast In Martin County —*— Martin County, while setting no new record, piled up one of its largest primary election votes last Saturday, the count exceeding the most liberal predictions by sev eral hundred votes. It is believed the race for the State House of Representatives was one of the main vote pullers. According to unofficial but re liable reports, the county cast 3,848 votes in the last Saturday primary, including three or four cast in the Republican column. The vote for the 1948 and the 1952 primaries follows, by pre cincts; 1948 1952 Jamesvillc _ 309 391 Williams „ 102 151 Griffins_ 254 363 Bear Grass 249 276 Williamston I ___ 371 535 Williamston II „ 521 698 Cross Roads . 157 180 Robersonville 486 571 Gold Point 126 107 Poplar Point 93 108 Hassell . 93 78 Hamilton 160 164 Goose Nest . -- 228 226 3149 3848 HEARING ! -/ A fairly sizable delegation is forming and making ready to go to Raleigh to appear be fore a full meeting of the State Board of Education in behalf of the farm Life High School. Headed by the local committee and with Attorney Clarence Griffin as its spokes man, the delegation is to be heard Thursday, it was re ported. An appeal had been direct ed to a sub-committee, and this is the first time a hear ing has been scheduled be fore the full board. I Han Fatally Shot Playing 'Cowboy' With Young Niece Coroner W. W. Bifgpts Com pleting Investigation In Whitehead Death Willis Hubert Whitehead, 30, was fatally shot in the home of his sister, Mrs. Jamie Copeland, in this county and not far from Palmyra, while playing with his 15-year-old niece, Janice Parker, about 6:30 o’clock last Saturday | evening. It was the only tragic accident reported in this county .during the long Memorial Day '■ week-end. ! According Mr. W. G. Peele, local insurance man and agriculturist, suffered a broken right ankle at the old fam ily home in Bear Grass Township early Sunday evening. The break was limited to a small bone, and he has been fitted with a walking cast. A dog was about to attack some children, and Mr. Peele ran to chase the dog away and turned his ankle over, breaking the small bone. He is confined to his home at present. Town Board Molds Regular Meeting Here Last Evening Call For Paving Estimates On Several Of The Town Streets -* Holding their regular meeting last night, the local town com missioners crowded much business into a short session and took leave of absence for another month. The officials were advised that a ruling, in the underpass case on West Main Street was expected about week after next. The case has been pending for several months. A petition was received for the incorporation of several homes in West End, including several on the west side of Edgewood Ave nue. Incorporation plans are to be executed. Street lights were requested at the corners of Simmons Avenue and Harrell Streets, Sycamore and Hyman Streets and on Harris Avenue. Paving estimates were called for on Sycamore and Railroad Streets and School Drive. The board was advised that no money may be borrowed for the projects in anticipation of revenue from the highway fund next October. It is likely that the planned pro jects will have to be held in line with the approximately $14,000 on hand at the present time. • Petitions were received for curb and gutter on Vance Street between School Drive and Biggs Streets and on Beech between Watts and Harrell Streets, and on Smithwick between Liberty and Vance Streets. The hoard appropriated $1100 for colored recreational facilities, the iimoi'!. being rlrm! miy a i i of t ie entire advalorem six oike from colored property owners Treasurer C. M. Cobb reported aprortimatHv $11,570 on hand in U.e regular fund, $10,731 in the sewer rental fund and $14,300 in the street fund. Taxes are due in th(* aitiifuii(“0i' $4,j'5i .Si'" litco'fiu* from parking meters last nonth amounted to $589.09, and sewer rental fees for the period added (Continued on page eight' County- Settled Politics For Another Two Years Saturday Representative Fined $50 In Obscene Picture Case Jesse Robert Henderson, rep resenting the Steede Amusement Enterprises of High Point, was fined $50 in the recorder's court Monday for causing an obscene moving picture to be shown in a drive-in theater near Williamston last March 15. A 60-day road term was suspended, and the de fendant was ordered not to bring the film, "Battle of Burlesque” back into this county ever. Judg ment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case against John Mobley, theater op erator. Judge R. T. Johnson, hearing the case, first ordered the film confiscated and destroyed, but there was some doubt as to his authority and he released the film into the custody of the company representatives. Very little evidence was offered in the case, the court and others having witnessed the showing of the film by special arrangements some weeks ago. Defense attor ney, Hugh G Horton, said that he saw the picture at the request of his client, and while there was some wiggling and twisting it. was not as bad as what went ( 1 at carnivals sponsored by the Lions Club. Jaycees and firemen and where women cast off all their clothes. The defense attor ney went on to explain that North Carolina has no censureship board, that it had been passed by other boards in other states and that the film had been shown in various theaters, mostly the drive ins, in this State. In defense of his client, Attor ney Chas. II Manning said that Mr. Mobley would not have shown the picture if he had been warn ed anything was wrong with it Many Gather For Election Returns A record crowd gathered at Tlic Enterprise office to get the election returns last Saturday night, and at one time almost blocked the main street. Mr. Mayo Hardison was the first to start the running account on the score boards, bet si vovul of the elections officials were do laved in getting their returns in. "I tried for an hour to gel the number, but it was busy time after time,” Registrar Giadv God ard explained The office was swamped by per sons calling in for inhumation early in the evening, and the task of compiling the returns was de layed considerably. A few off-remay ks were heard, but the election “party” went iff fairly smoothly despite the rain ROUND-UP r v Despite politics and a lone week-end holiday, crime was rather limited in the county during the past week-end. Only seven persons were ar rested and detained in the county jail, two each for as sault, public drunkenness, and lar ony and one for dtunken driving. < Two of the seven were vd i •• : ml ages of ,ho groun ranged 1 em 18 to 55 years. Mr. panes Kin” Haenlcrs Local Hospital Sal n i day Mr. James Iv King re-entered a fktMSrdsy--f.fr treatment. 111• was reported this morning to he holding his own. Mr. King just recently returned lrom Duke Hospital. Kiwanians Crash Win Column In Little League Winning their first victory last Thursday evening the representatives ot the Kinwanis Club in the local Little Baseball League have served notice they’re still in the loop. The names oi Kiwanis team members are: Bottom row (left to right) John Woolard, Frankie Roberson, Carlyle Brown, Joe Whitaker, Bobby Perry. Second row, Boyce Ross, Arlan Mizeli, Roger Mobley, Ralph Bowen, Carroll F. Brown. Third row, Alton Nicholson, Melvin Bowen, Arnold Howard, Hugh Raynor, Don Skinner, Jr. Unofficial Vote — Democratic Primary In Martin County. May ill, 1952 PRECINCTS Jamesville Williams Griffins Bear Grass Williamston No. 1 Williamston No. 2 Cross Roads Robersnnville Gold Point Poplar Point Hassell Hamilton Goose Nest TOTALS |! House of Represent’ves County Judge 1 V •o e < t © t g % ! County 1 Com. || Bd. of Education Governor Lt. Governor Inc Com. $up. Ct. Short Trm Supreme Ct., Regular Term s e S •S C - u, s * M * <§ s. c © ■ 9 0 1 f x 3 I 1 C8 G 9 fi 9 2 ^ 5 it V 5 i 2 -a w © © © £ ! xs DS S ll U 1. o C ’u 'Z ± c T3 j 4< £ !! 13 U. > u £ ! £ - 1 15 2 •2 * u O a * •" ‘S =5 -as -S •2 I A rt A* CU <3 i6 nr m 134 5fi 197 16 18 323 16 149 99 31 146. 340 : 41 243 398 9. 97 68 10 480 7 75 6 16 9 40 16 89 23 107 657 16 2 214 76 24 88 27 56 86 94 268 26 116 31 311 37 220 101 416 222 180 505 347 57 116 131 406 7 100 18 89 19 60 1 71 88 69 149 84 284 54 37 34 64 115 Tffil I85TI7f! 240: 104 131 90 68 941 26 359iI 2331 209 236, 53 55 196 170 256 26 290,! 381; 332 420 124 322 485 403' 510| 187 80 114 124' 141 16 202 402 479 410 86 4.3 76 99 77 j 11 63 80 84 86! 84,1 351 54 i 441 85 94 105 104 70 123 124 136 9 29 49 65 208 166 77 60 165 175! 130 130 317 187 427 262 94 76 245 304 31 71| 51 51 33! 42 83 70 117 102 ~rr 8' 4 14 21 42 7 21' 4 8 6 12! 8 “ 0TT25T 20 36 47 119 48 94 114 268 141 3461 '72 157 363iI 207 35 87 16 12 9 30 84 75! 2.37 49! 52, 42 68 68 25 45 34 115 17 121 45 339 59 443 13 75 37 327 27 04 a 5 30 152 26 112 94 ' 228 126 318! 43 66 TfT“ 30 7, 47! 3 43 25 175! 21 220 TO* 7 7 5 175 52! 144 100 9! 29 234 46 274 3 .3 171 12 9 9 16 54' 54 50! 80 116 195 21 , 21 25 12 37 40! 291 11 i9 118 45- 110 401 241 51 34 31 50 38 62 11 18 37 31 74 100 334 1536 1899 841 2844 1538 2044 249H 2422 2754 785 1975 1705 34 173 709 1583 367 1978 705 1614 104 1116 190 1179 6 6 5 3 24 26 6 7 1 3, 0 1 51 7' 93 125 T3’ G9t 2i 211 Tl 42! 9 36, 15 5 '3 11 10 137 23 43 171 198 3 451 91 238| 501 32 8 27 5 24' 26 46! 71 88 1003 143 Miss Second Race For The House By A 29-Vote Margin -<» Jmlp- l{. T. Johnson Tin* donutv I’itkct \% ii!» 2844 Voles Going to the polls in greater I numbers than was expected, Mar tm County voters last Saturday (settled their polities for another two years m an election that wax ed warm in spots. The settlement just was effect ed when A. Corey, Jamesville I candidate, polled, a majority of only 29 votes over his opponents, E. G. Anderson of Robersonville and Elmer N Modlin of James ville in the race for the State House of Representatives. The House race was the only one where a second primary was pos sible on the county ticket. R. T. Johnson, candidate te succeed himself as judge of the Martin County Recorder’s Court, led the ticket with 2,844 votes and LcRoy Harrison of Beat Grass followed closely with 2,754 votes in the four-way race foi places on the Martin County Board of Education. The winners on the county ticket include: A. Corey for the State House of Representatives, K T John son for jinb e of the Martin Coun I tv Recorder’s Court, Jimmy C ; Gorkin of Griffins for county coniiiii." a nor from 111 - Gr.ltm (’•car G r, ,1 s r cl, 1. Re I lar ■ii; ii of Bear Grass, C. U. Royer |of Williamson, and Cecil Powel ! of Gold l’onit for places on Uu Mai tin County Board of Kaueu tion. While the board of edueatio members are appointed by 111 legislature, the nominations made in the primary have been recog nized down through the years, and there is reason to believe the appointments will follow in due course about next February or (Continued on Pagt}. Eight) hurl In Sunday Night Accident li ving Bembridge, young white man, w ,s painfully but apparent IJ,y not. seriously injured in a mo j tovchn !e aceiden't on Whitibv s I Mrirlgi in Poplar Point Towushin late Sunday night. He suffered cuts and bruises on the front anti back of his head. Bembridge lost control of his 11)50 Chevrolet pick-up truck he entered the bt idge and tore down part of the bridge railing. He was knocked unconscious, according to a story told Cpl M C. Byrum, the investigating officer, and did not comp to until about O'00 Damage to the vehicle was es timated at $500 by the officer. There were two other accidents in the county during the week end, There was a minor one on Church Street here Saturday af ternoon at the alley between Os car Davenport and a Peaks boy. Damage to the vehicle- was less than $100 Damage, estimated at $700, re sulted when two cars crashed at a street intersection m Koberson villc late last Saturday night. No one was reported injured. Died In Hospital Here Early Today •uh. . . ... Funeral W«*»«lay \ftrr uoon to Thr Riddick s Grove Baptist Church Irving D Coltrain, well-known young farmer and a leading citi zen of Williams Township, died in a local hospital this morning at 3:45 o'clock. He had been in de clining health for a long time, suf fering with a heart condition. However, he was getting along very well Sunday and attended a family reunion and dinner in the county. Late that day he was taken ill, and his condition be came critical over night. The son of Joshua L. Coltrain and the late Mrs. Martha Peete Coltrain, he was born in Williams Township 48 years ago on May 89, 1904, and spent all his life on the farm there. He was mar ried to Miss Clyde Hardison on October 37, 1933 Mr. Coltrain was a member of the Riddicks Grove Baptist Church since boyhood, and was faithful in its support and in at tendance upon its services. Pos sessed of high ideals, he was a thoughtful neighbor and an ac commodating friend, one whose company was enjoyed by all. He attended school in Williams Township. Surviving besides his widow and father, are his step mother; a son, Sgt. Reginald Col train, stationed with the Martin County National Guard unit in Fort Hix, New Jersey; a brother, Joe Lawrence Coltrain, of Wil liams Township; and two sisters, Mis. Tom 1 helps and Mrs. li ving K< berai n, l>< Hi < i Wildnmston. ’ em .:.I s ever will be coll ude 1 m (he 11 Idr kV. Grove i •aptis Cm rco We n< iay at 2:30 \ lock l \ his pa ;! r, the Rev. W. B liar iugh'0, and interment wild" in W' oh In wn Cemetei y here. I 0 jtfioH Taken On Extensive Timber Acreage In Easi <*• Second Larj;e Land Deal In Eastern Carolina During Iteeenl Weeks —^ Following tlu- proposed sale of thousands of acres m Dare Coun ty to the west Virginia I’ulp and Paper Company, an option lias been taken by the Continental Can Company on several hundred thousand an. • f o?!.u ’and. ev.stei-n North Carolina, according ■ ■ - j.jnui recently in the Virginia press. The story, written by Frank Sulivan, fid lows: The majority holdings of the Roper Realization Company, Inc., representing approximately 270, 00 acres of cutover and timber lands lying principally in Eastern North Carolina, have been taken under option by the Continental Can Company for possible pur ernge commissions, according to the Wall Street Journal Confir (Continued on Page Eight) Umsiead Wins By Margin Oi 25,000 ! - William B. Umstead, carrying (>2 of the State’s 100 counties — Martin not included—won the North Carolina gubernatorial nomination by a margin of ap proximately 25,000 votes in the primary election last Saturday. The Durham attorney trailed Ins opponent, Judge Hubert Olive of Lexington, during the early re turns, but gradually took over the lead early in the evening and late Saturday night victory was assur ed. Luther Hodges, retired indus trialist of Leaksville, led the ticket for lieutenant governor. Waldo Cheek, popular State In surance Commissioner, won easily over his opponent, John N Fred erick, Charlotte insurance man, and R. Hunt Parker led the ticket for associate justice. It is not certain that there'll be la second state-wide primary, but two contests, those of lieutenant governor and supreme court jus tice, were without majorities.