THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,MO MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI OVER 3,(.'00 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEH VOLUME LV—NUMBER IOO Williamston, Marlin County, North Carolina, Thursday, December II, 1952 ESTABLISHED 1899 Roy H. Gurganus Died In Hospital Early Yesterday -1 Funeral This Afternoon At Funeral Home For Businessman a —— LeRoy H. Gurganus, retired business man, died in a local hos pital at 7:40 o’clock Wednesday morning following years of de clining health. His condition had been serious following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered during last July. He was removed to the hospital Sunday when his condi tion became critical. A son of the late Eli and Sallie d Mobley Gurganus, he was born in Williamston 56 years ago on December 23, 1895, and spent all his life in Williamston. He was prominently connected with his father in business, and was close ly associated with the operation of a peanut factory here for a few years. Later he represented the Planters Nut and Chocolate Com pany for a number of years on the local market, and was em ployed by local warehouse opera tors during the tobacco market mg season. Ill health forced his retirement several years ago. His honesty and integrity were estab lished in the dealings he had with hundreds of farmers throughout this county and section and in his association with others He was a member of the Skewarkey Ma sonic Lodge here. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Rose Crowell of Wil liamston who he married Septern j^ber 11, 1914; two daughters, Sarah Gurganus of the home, and Mrs. Hugh Baker of Washington; and a sister, Mrs. M. C. James, of Nor folk. Funeral services are being con ducted in the First Methodist Church here this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by the Rev. E. R. Shuler, former pastor of the local Meth odist Church, who is now in Con way. Interment will be in Wood lawn Cemetery. Plan Program Of Christmas Music —•— The Music Department of Wil tiamston High School will present h program of Christmas music on Wednesday, December 17. at 8:30 in the high school auditorium. The Glee Club, under the direc Hun of Miss Mary Wallace Foy, will render the first half of the program with the Green Wave Band, under the direction of Jack Butler performing in the last half. The program will contain music appropriate to the season of the year including the following by the Glee Club and its soloists: Jesu Bambino, Pietro Yon, Girls Chorus; I Wonder as I Wan der, solo, Janice Manning; The King and the Star, Christmas Cantata, Noble Cain, Mixed-Chor us (Jean Mobley, incidental solo ist). The band will render the fol lowing numbers: Chorale, Bach; Children's Prayer, arranged by Johnson; White Christmas, Ber lin, Leidzen; A Merry Christmas, Frangkiser. 1 The program is started late so avoid conflict with prayer serv ices at the various churches in the city. The public is invited. *Bloodmobile Here For Regular Slop —*— If all the volunteers show up and they are in good physical condition, the Red Cross blood mobile quota can be met, accord ing to a report coming from the center in the Legion Hut on Walts ..Street short! v i efero, ,j uon mxmrjmm With late pledges coming in, the number of volunteers climb ed to nearly 150 by the time the center was opened this morning, and it is possible that the 130 pint quota can be met from -hat group. However, drop-ins (those who signed no pledge card) arc urged to visit the center before closing time at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon. So far, Martin Cojn #y Red Cross Chapter has met its quotas. It was learned, however, that quite a few cancellations were being made at the last min ute. The bloodmobile will be in Ply mouth tomorrow. Soil Conservation Program Advancing In The County Soil anti water conservation practices have broken a 1T records in Martin County this year, ac cording to a preliminary report released this week by H. F. Mc Knight of the Soil Conservation Service with headquarters in Wil liamston. Briefly reviewing the work, Mr. McKnight said: “Bv the end of the year, at the present rate, 78 farmers repre senting approximately 7,000 acres, will have started conservation farming in the district program, an all time high. In addition, the Soil Conservation Service has as sisted PMA participants in plan ning and applying permanent type practices on their farms. "There were 632 acres of pas tutus seeded during the year on district cooperator's farms, 6 farm ponds constructed, 7.5 miles of : dragline ditches dug on individual | farms, 64.000 feet of farm drain ■ tile laid and 2 miles of terraces ! constructed. "In addition, the following work was done by groups of farmers, working together on larger drain age jobs: three jobs planned in cluding 5 miles of canal, 4 jobs consisting of 17 miles of canal and 206.000 cubic yards of dirt remov ed. One job almost completed 10.5 miles in length and 189,000 cubic yards of dirt removed. There is another job in the pro i eess of planning involving 25 I miles of canal and approximately 496.000 cubic yards of dirt.” | SANTA IN PERSON™^ v/ Santa Claus is coming to Williamston for four whole days preceding Christmas. With his visit here sponsor ed by the local Merchants As sociation, he will wander around town lending an ear to the children's wants and cheering holiday shoppers from the time of his arrival on December 20 through Christ mas Eve, December 24. His friends, young and old, are invited to visit Wiliiams ton to talk with him. Harvard's Dean Oi Law Ciles Danger In Tax Proposals —— I'ropoM-d (iliaiifit' Is \liuosl Ortain To Open Way for National Sales Tax ■-* Washington, D. C’.—It’s time to wake up to what is going on and to fight hal'd against this fool hardy plan.” warns an ‘'Atlanta Monthly" magazine article on the "Millionaire's Amendment.” The article was written by Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Harvard University Law School, who "has made an extended study of Fed eral taxation.” The 'Millionaire's Amendment,’ as Griswold explains, would put a top limit of 25 per cent on Fed eral taxes on personal incomes, corporation profits, and the estate and gifts of the wealthy. "Knowing that Congress yvould never adopt such a plan,” Gris wold points out, the "Rich Men's Lobby” is trying to put the amendment into the Constitution in a new way, by first slipping it through state legislatures. “Some thing like 27 legislatures have al ready adopted, in one form or another, a resolution asking Con gress to call a “Constitutional Convention" to act on the amend ment. As Griswold says, the situation is somewhat confused, but "it is plain" that the backers of the amendment "are close to the t* tal” of 32 states required to start it on its way into the Constitu tion. Then Griswold proceeds to point out the "inescapable conse (Contmued on page eight) Few Tenants Seek Places In County —*— Unfavorable weather is believ ed to have kept many farmers and larrn tenants away from the first Farm Employment Day held last Friday by the local offices of the Employment Security Com mission. Only ten farmers sought farm us?.»•;lr 1 (1 places at the offices during the hours set aside especially for farm employment, officials said. Another of the farm employ ment days when applicants for places and landlords meet in the the employment offices in the Tar Heel building will be held on Friday of this week from 9:00 a. m. until 3:00 p. m. Farm tenants will be interviewed and farm owners will place their orders for next year's helpers or tenants. After matching farm orders with applications, employment person nel will give tenants and farmers an opportunity to talk to each other, it was exlaineci. Grand Jury Files A Routine Report In Superior Court (oimly School Busses Saul To Be In Good Meehan ieal Goiuliliou -4> Completing their work in h I single day, members of the Mar tin County Grand Jury, after passing on bills of indictment made their customary inspections, filed a routine report and recess ed late Monday afternoon for the term. The report, signed by W. H. Carstarphen, foreman, stated that all the county school busses were found in good mechanical condi tion. Following is the detailed report as submitted to Judge Clawson L. Williams: All bills of indictment were passed upon. Reports of the justices of the peace were checked and found filed with the clerk of court, and all fines paid to the country treas urer with the exception of fines from the court of Justice of the Peace O P. Wolfe. We inspected the county jail and found eight colored male, one colored female and three white male inmates. The jail was found in exceptionally good con dition. We inspected the county home and found jt in good condition. There were two white men, four white females, one colored fe male and three colored male in mate in the county home, and two white male, six colored male and seven colored femak patients in the tuberculosis wards.' Patrolman B. W Parker report id to the jury that all school | busses had been inspected in the county and that they were found (Continued on Page Seven) School Russes In Minor Accident —*, No one was even bruised or shaken and comparatively little damage resulted in a minor school bus accident on the Ballard Bridge Road about one-half mile off Highway 125 yesterday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock. Frederick Earl Holliday, 16, had stopped his 1951 International school bus and was waiting for James Arthur Gainor to pass in his 1952 International school bus. The dirt road was narrow and slippery, anckGainor’s bus skidded into the left front fender of the other machine, the rear end i 1 the 1952 machine sliding into a ma chine ditch. Investigating the accident, Pa trolman M. F. Powers who was pinch-hitting in this territory while other members of the patrol v.y.—j>» cay for an inspection, es timated the combined damage-de the busses at about $100. Join* Crumde Fur Freedom Committee •—— — Mr. l,eRoy Harrison, represent ing Bear Grass Township, yester day joined the Crusade for Free dom Committee in this county, it was announced today by County Chairman Carlyle Cox. Martin County citizens are be ing asked to support the Crusade by making contributions to be used in piercing the Iron Curtain with fgets and other information and in the futheranee of peace. Twenty In Court | For Driving Too Fast In County —*— , I Judge Johnson Hold Court In Session Until I I*. M, To Clear Docket Adjudged guilty or pleading guilty without formal trial, twenty alleged speed law viola- j tors were fined a total of $285 in the Martin County ReeotderV Court last Saturday morning by j Judge R, T. Johnson. j Joe Mobley of Williamston, I charged with traveling eighty j miles an hour, pleaded not guilty. | Adjudged guilty, he was fined! $100, plus costs. He appealed and I bond was required in the sum of $200. Archie Brown of Roborson ville was fined $25, plus costs, for speeding. Charged with scooting along at 75 miles per hour, Willie Tayloe Woolard of Washington was fined $35, plus costs. James Taylor of'RFD 1, Tren ton, N. C„ was charged with speeding seventy miles an hour and he was fined $25, plus costs. Arnold Ernest Fredericks of Detroit was fined $50 and taxed with thi' costs for traveling 75 miles per hour. Frank Micalizzi, Jr., of High lands, N. J., and William W. Stiles of Roselle, New Jersey, were each fined $25 for speeding seventy miles per hour. The following, charged with driving more than 55 miles per hour and not more than 65 miles an hour, were each taxed with the $22.05 court costs: Elmer M. Leggett of William ston, Avont Howard of RFD 2, Robersonville, James Parker of Stokes, Ernest Earl Judge of R FD 1, Palmyra. Raymond Dixon of Williamston, Edward Leon Roberson of Tarboro, Charles Henry Gibson of Rocky Mount, Rev. Mose Dickerson of South ampton, Virginia, Harold R. Ad ler of Peoria, Illinois, David Glucksman of New York City, Ivan Eugene Meyer and William David Connor, both of Camp Le jeunc. Grand Jury Solves Law Flaw Tangle The Martin County Grand Jury this week solved a flaw in the law thut provided the automatic transfer of cases from the county to the superior court when the de fendants wanted a trial by jury. The supreme court had ruled [that such a transfer was illegal, that defendants were being tried 'in the superior courts without the advantage of proper indictment. Drunken driving cases, placed on the docket for trial in the su perior court this week after being docketed in the county court and after the defendants had asked for jury trials, were placed in good standing when the grand jury in vestigated and returned true bills of indictment in'all of them. ('.omiArlinn Training At Larkluml Air h orrr Ilnur -«_ Auckland Air Force Base, Tex as.—George G. Corey, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Corey, Williamston, N. C., is completing his AF basic airmen indoctrina tion course at Lackland Air Force Base, the “Gateway to the Air Force." Twenty-Five Get Licenses To Wed In Martin County Idilutin' Lust Month Slight- | ly Above Average for the i Month of November j Twenty-five marriage licenses ( were issued in this county last j month by Register of Deeds J.i Sam Gctsinger, the issuance hold ing to a tigure slightly above the average for November. The issu ance was the second largest for any month this year, dropping three behind the figure for last Juue. White James Patrick Wynne and Ag nbs Rogers, both of Williajnston. Roy Watson of Pantego and Iva Jean Lilley of Williamston. Edward Earl Mobley of'Hamil ton and Sally Biggs of Everetts. Simon Lilley, Jr., and Alice Peaks, both of Williamston. Clarence Mayo Weathersby of RFD 1, Bethel, and Dorothy Har rell of Palmyra. Samuel Mansfield Fishel of Vaughan and Dorothy Ruth Ev erett of Robcrsonville. Julius T. Sadler of Tarboro and Beatrice Turner of Palmyra. Asa Harris of Williamston and Eleanor Pippon of Philadelphia. William Harold Wynn and Shir ley Louise Rogers, both of Wil liamston. William Oscar Peele, Jr., and | Mary Ola Lilley, both of Wil liamston. Colored Ernest Lawrence, Jr., and Jose phine Dixon, both of Williamston Lee Jackson Pugh of RFD 4, I Windsor, and Dorothy Mae Brown ; of Williamston. 1 Ulysses Brown and Doris Whit : field, both of Robcrsonville. Wheeler Brown, Jr., and Aletha Black, both of Williamston. William Randolph and Ruby I Harris, both of Bethel. Charlie B. Speller , and Ruth Jones, both of Williamston. Willie James Wesson and Flor ence Perry, both of RFD 2, Whit . akers. | Julius C. Hargett and Norvella ! Brown, both of Williamston. Roosevelt Evans and Avon Ho ; 1 ward, both of Williamston. | George 11. Purvis, Jr., and Viola 1 Whitley, both of Williamston. Harold Grant and Survilla Wat ! son, both of Windsor, i Jesse Parker of RFD I, Roberj sonville, and Ernestine Lynch of j RFD 1, Oak City. Elmer Lee Griffin and Naomi | Wilkins, both of Williamston. Willie Warren Moore and Ver nita Teel, both of Robcrsonville. Levy Council and Edna Louise Moore, both of Robcrsonville. Borrows Truck I And Wrecks II "Borrowing” a pick-up truck I from the yards of the R. L. Ward ! Coal and Wood Company on Pearl Street here last night, an un known driver wrecked it shortly [after 10:00 o’clock last night at the corner of llaughton and Academy Streets. Driving toward Main ■Street, the "borrower” tried to make a right turn into Academy Street and crashed into a pick-up [truck belonging to the Nello Teer ] Company and parked in Mrs. W. E. Warren's yard. The driver ran from the scene and officers are continuing their : investigation. Patronize The Home Folks For A Happier Christmas -(M, Reports declare Williamston merchants are carrying the most varied and largest stocks this Christinas season than at any othe 'ne in history, that the ex tensive goods display is supported by price advantages and a friend ly service. Already comparisons have been made and it is found that Wil liamston shoppers are finding bet ter bargains, that hundreds of new customers are being added to local store lists. All Williamston stores will be open until 9:00 o’clock p. m. on Friday of this week, and begin ning next Thursday, December 18, and continuing through Christmas Eve, the business houses will re main open each night until 9:00 o’clock. The extra hours will give patrons more time for leisurely [shopping and the personal selec , tion of exacting gifts. Th< spirit of the holiday season ; is prevailing town-wide. The j store windows are all aglow with attractive gifts i.i appealing set tings. The Christmas lights art* burning nightly in the business 'districts, and trees and fixtures and equipment are moving out of the stores rapidly for individual home decorations. While the never-ending rush, characteristic of so many mortals especially at this season, is developing day by day, but it is being accompanied by the spirits of the season, tran scending the little inconveniences such as parking space shortage and other little things. Patronize the home merchants and make for a happier, merrier Christmas for all. Give Drunk Drivers Road Term InComi Superior Court In, Final Session Of Term Wednesday —«>-r Record Fine For Speeding In County Impost'll By Jndfie Williams Although adjournment came a bit prematurely, the Martin County Superior Court ended a regular criminal term here last evening at the stroke of l’ 00 o’ clock with a bang. A few cases were continued, but a review of the work handled by the court during tlu' three days it was in session shows six persons in pris on, four others on the roads and fines collected in the sum of ap proximately $000. Presiding over the short term, Judge Clawson L. Williams hit a soft spot now and then, but he hardened when it came to drunk en driving cases. The jurist went on to establish a new high rec ord in fines for speeding in this county. When he was in the county last September, Judge Williams sen tenced drunken drivers tried and convicted in his court to three months on the roads. He increas ed the time from three to six months on his visit this week. Pleading for the chance to spend Christmas at home, one defend ant was instructed to post a $1,000 bond and start serving his sen tence January I. The bond ar rangements were not made im mediately. Three defendants, charged with drunken driving, went into court and pleaded I guilty, and they were each fined l $100 and taxed with the court costs One defendant, Julius ' Peel, colored, gambled and won. (lie pleaded not guilty and was | found not guilty by the jury. The j three defendants, Elmer Rogers, I Esel Winbush and Floyd Grimes, ; pleaded not guilty. Found guil I ty, they were sentenced to the | roads for six months for drunk en driving. The record fine for speeding | was imposed on Joe Mobley, who, in addition to the $500 fine and about $56 court costs, lost his license to operate a motor ve hide for sixty days. Charged with speeding eighty miles an I hour, Mobley pleaded not guilty. Taking the stand in his own he half, he admitted driving between 65 and 70 miles an hour and at the conclusion.of the evidence, he entered a plea of guilty. When the trial of that ease was completed, the court was adjourn ed for the term. Other proceedings in the court not previously reported: Found guilty of issuing worth less cheeks, G. 11. Whitfield was sentenced to the roads for from 12 to 16 months on each of two counts, the second sentence to begin at the expiration of the first. The road terms were sus pended upon the condition that the court costs were paid im mediately and the amount of the checks paid within sixty days. The defendant is to issue no worthless cheeks or violate any criminal law. Just before pro nouncing sentence, Judge Wil liams said the higgest nuisance there is today is flooding of the country with worthless cheeks. "The practice destroys confidence in trade and commerce," he add ed. O. C. Johnson, charged with breaking and entering, was sen tenced to the roads for not less than twelve and not more than eighteen months. Pete Pritchett and Bryant Scott, charged with breaking into and robbing Earl Jones’ station near Hamilton were each sentenced to the roads for twelve months. The road terms were suspended and defendants placed on probation for three years. They are to re imburse Jones $15 for goods stol en. Ide Walter llarry Davis drew three to five years, Charlie Lester Lyons i^ot eighteen months to three years and James Miles was given two to three years for the robbery of Lindsle.y’s store in WiJ liamston a few weeks ago. Miles pleaded not guilty in the ease. The case charging Earl Colum (Continued on Page Seven) IMT.HKI TTi;i> After getting oft' to a splcn did start early in the season, the peanut harvest lias been interrupted several times by unfavorable weather, leaving a fairly sizable percentage of the crop still in the fields in this county. Even then the harvest is much more advanc ed in this area than in many of the counties in the produc ing area. Rains yesterday again interrupted the harvest. Except for a rush during the early part of the season, marketing has gone forward in an orderly fashion with no price fluctuations. Seal Sale Return Is Running Light; Response Needed Only 8 1ltrou<'lil In lly Oninpai^n In 'III (anility — - - Tilt1 returns from the Christmas Seal letters mailed out to resi dents of Martin County now amounts to $ 1,258, Mr. W t!. I’eele, Counts Seal Sale chairman, announced today. Although early returns ait: light, Mi I’eele said, it was Imp ed the public response' to the Christmas Seal Sale would be as generous as in past year lit pointed out that HO percent of tin Christmas Seal fund remains ir the county to buy specific servicer i for the health of our whole com munity. This fund supports tin light against tuberculosis in Mar tin County through health eduea [ Imn, rehabilitation and easefind ing. Casefinding is a most important I function for unless tuberculosis is located in the people then e little need loi a tuberculosis pro : gram. I Since ll)4tt, the Health. Uenart men! has emphasized mass chest X-ray servicr through the mod mm ot county-wide mobile units I The two mass X ray surveys wen conducted by the Martin County Health Department and linancei by money contributed l>\ Martii County citizens through the pur chase of Christmas Seals and Tu berculosis Bond.- In addition ti this the little seals and bonds fur nish film to the health depart mnet all year-round for free X rays. Dr. Williams staled that while l we continue to make headway u I ridding our county ol tuhereulo | is then- are still hidden eases ol tile disease in this community and we need to buy seals and bunch to rebuild .i fund which wa. greatly depleted by the easefmd ing program. The total cost ol the two mass surveys amounted ti $2,035.1)3 and 23,327 free X rays were taken Now more films arc needed for more X rays The Christmas Seal Side will continue until December 25. Truck Accident At Jamesville No diu' w;is injured lint a po tential danger cl great propur tions was present when a pul) wood truck erashed into the suit of a largo Texaco highway tank er at a street intersection m Jamesville at 1:30 o'clock yester day afternoon John Sidney Hapei, HJ. was driving the loaded tanker toward Plymouth when Horaet Lie Hall 19, of Jamesville drove the Inter national pulp wood truck from Roberson's service station into the side of the tanker According *o a report released hy Patrolman .1 (). Arthur who made the investigation, Hall was given a clear signal hy a passen ger riding to his right on the front seat, and drove into the highway without seeing for himself if all was clear. Patrolman Arthur estimated the damage to the International truck at $350 and that to the Diamond T tanker at $100. Final Report On Rural Overseas Relief Program — — Tola! of 1.21 I ltii.«li<*ls Of