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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,0*0 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THF. ENTERPRISE IS READ B* OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 8 Williamston^ Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. January 27. 1953 Bonner Reports To Constituents In The District —*— Reviewi> Work of Commit tee Imestipatinp Waste In Defense Dept. -—« With the change in administra tions I have had to decide whether to be a member of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries or the Committee on Government al Operations which is the inves tigating body for the House of Re presentatives. I have decided to stay with the former on account of its importance to my District. I have regretfully given up the investigating committee work which can do so much for the peo ple of the United States if the members will bore into the mass of details in the Government, especially in the Department of Defense and lay bare the ineffi ciencies and waste to the Con gress. This takes long hours of hard work since there are thous ands of . military installations all over the world. Also the organi zation is tremendous and involv ed. We listed in one of our re ports 640 committees and boards of various kinds in the Office of the Secretary of Defense alone. There are hundreds of pieces of legislation that apply to the mili tary services that take dozens of lawyers to interpret. The services also have sonic 3.6 | million officers and enlisted men j and 1.3 million civilian employees. They have assets of 146 billion dollars and spend 59 per cent of the annual budget of 79 or 80 bil lion dollars. The job of under standing this big organization re quires days and months of inten sive study, plodding through in stallations and detailed hearings. Except in a few cases I cannot criticize individual military pt - pie. They arc capable, well-train ed, intelligent and devoted to duty which is the protection of our countryv What is wrong is in the organizatWri AT ftie’‘'system!'' It must be strengthened and stream lined if we are to have defense* without economic collapse. As Chairman of the so-called “Bonner Watchdog Subcommit tee" for 4 years, I have come to the conclusion that the best in vestment the taxpayers can make is to spend a few dollars investi gating economy and efficiency in the Department of Defense. During a 4-year period my sub committee spent only $50,000. but we saved at least $400 million through direct appropriation cuts. Our reports and recommendations also laid the foundation for legis lation and directives that will save billions of dollars. Of much greater importance than the cuts has been the contin uing influence on the Department of Defense to improve its organi zation and management. In speak ing of the subcommittee’s work Secretary of Defense Lovett stat (Continued on Page Five) Biggs Is Awarded DFC For Bravery The Distinguished Flying Cross has been awarded to T Sgt. Curtis Biggs, son of Mrs. Sallie Biggs, formerly of Roberspnville. The orders granting Sergeant Biggs the DFC were published the day before Christmas. He receiv ed the Air fw-rj ivrmr.A iac his efforts in saving a C-124 Giobemaster in flight. On Octo l>er 9, 1952, his plane was return ing from Korea to Japan when a fire was discovered in the num ber one engine of the 124. It was Biggs' duty to check each engine at intervals. After notifying the pilot of the trouble, and after the engine fire extinguishers were un able to control it. Biggs crawled fifteen feet inside the wing and battled the blaze for thirty-five minutes with hand fire extin guishers. At all times he was in danger i of either being severely burned or suffocating by fteadly carbon monoxide fumes. He put the safe ty of the aricraft and its pne hun dred and thirty five passangers above that of his own life. His ef forts saved the aircraft from al most certain disaster. Sergeant Biggs is now serving as first engineer on C-124 flights. He is married to the former i Miss Susie Revels of route one, | Williamston, who is with him in I Japan. * 2 Disease Takes Heavy Toll Among Hogs In The County Disease has taken and continues to take a heavy toll among hogs in this county, according to in formation released yesterday bv Assistant County Agent D. W. Brady. It has been estimated that 1,000 or more hogs have died in the county during recent weeks, one farmer. Tom Bell, of the Oak City area, reporting a loss of 67 pigs during the past few days. Agent Brady, declaring there is little or no evidence in this county of the dangerous disease called vesicular exanthema, be lieves the hogs deaths can be traced mainly to pneumonia and other diseases resulting from a weakened condition of the anim als brought about by unbalanced diets and the consumption of sour or decayed oeanuts and soy beans. The heaviest single loss in one herd of hogs, was reported some time ago by M. L. Peel and son who lost 120 pigs. Cholera is believed to have caused some of the hog deaths SEED BEDS With favorable weather prevailing, a majority of Mar tin County farmers will have seeded their (oharen plant heds hv the end of this or ear ly next week. Quite a few have already sowed the seeds and placed the canvas on them.. A few farmers arc experi menting with the gas treat ment. but most of them are depending unon plain old weed killer and gambling on nematode damage. Campbell Alumni Cboe$e Officers —*— W B. Gaylord, Jr., of Williams ton, was elected president of the I Martin County Campbell College | Alumni Association when thc| group was organized at a dinner meeting in Williamston Thursday! night. John L Hassell ot Oak City became vice president and Mrs. I). W. Manning of Williams ton was named secretary-treasur- ! er of the organization. Dr. Leslie Campbell, president of the college, spoke to the group on the growth of the institution, describing the newly-erected ph.v- ( siea! education plant and plans tor a new dormitory for women stud ents. Dr. V. E. Brown, Williamston man recently elected trustee of the college, spoke briefly and C. W. Hart, public relations director' of the college, showed color slides! of college events and buildings. Present for the meeting held tnj the George Reynolds Hotel were Dr. Brown, Mr. Gaylord, Mrs. Manning, Messrs. N. Cortez Green, | Ralph Mobley, Worth Mobley, W.l Chesley Jones, and Eh M Taylor, Mrs. Mamie G. Taylor, Mrs. Will Taylor, Messrs. D. L. Simmons, Sidney Beaeham, J. T. Barnhill, Jr., William Ira Harrison, all of Williamston, Leggett Roebuck, Hassell, W: L. Osborne, Roberson ville, J, M. Hassell, Merry Hill, Reuben L. Bailey, Everetts, and , W. Herman Everett, Hamilton, and Mr. Hassell of Oak City. Bound Over For A Knife Assault Finding probable cause of guilt. Justice Chas. R. Mobley last night bound Augustus Williams over to the county court for as saulting James Henry Wiggins' with a knife. Bond was fixed in the supi of $100. Pleading not guilty, Williams did not take the stand, and the cause of the argument, climaxed by a several-stitch gash in Wig gins’ hip, was not revealed. Wil liams was said to have been ready to pay the costs in the justice’s court, but Judge Mobley explain ed that it was not within his jurisdiction to. settle it. The attack took place in front of the Little Savoy Cafe on Wash ington Street about 9:30 o’clock last Saturday night. Saying she was attacked by a "lady,” Letha Hardy was treated for a cut on her hand, but the case did not reach the courts. reported in the county, but most farmers have Taken precautionary steps against that disease. Suspending activities voluntar ily last Friday, hog markets in this county continue closed to day as a result of the presence of vesicular exanthema reported in the Smithfield area. Several farmers found it necessary to turn back and carry their hogs home from the markets when op erations were suspended. Hogs were shipped from Smith field to Richmond and the pack ers in the Virginia city went off the market. Specialists arc work ing on the disease, described as being similar to the hoof and mouth disease among cattle, and have ruled out anv danger. The markets have reopened over the State, and activities will be re sumed in Virginia late today. Prices on the local market when buying was resumed this morn ing at 10:30 o’clock stood at 18.30, or about 25 cents a hundred be low the closing figure last Fri day. Relatives Quarrel And Delay Travel Tramps of the road, speeders with little or no money, and the general run of hard lurk eases have presented local police with problems week in and week out, but officers reported something new Sunday morning when a family quarreled and the trip south was delayed the 'greater part of two days for a man, his wife and his aunt. "There’s something suspicious about it all," Chief John Roe buck declared when he learned Richard J Murad, Mis. Murad and an aunt, Catherine Chater don of 38 Sedwick Street, Ja maica Plain, Massachusetts, had left town late yesterday after noon and this morning. "We un derstand they lift,” the officers said, explaining that they had disappeared. The officers were called into the case without knowledge of the trouble. Murad was quoted as saying that he had driven twenty hours, and that he had to stop for rest against the wishes of his aunt. She was said to have advised the nephew that she would report him for operating a motor vehicle without a license if he did not prepare for the road within twenty minutes. Apparent ly the aunt did not know that it was unlawful in this State for a person to allow an unlicensed driver to operate a car. Later in the morning, the aunt had the eat moved, and Murad and his wife thought they were stranded. He turned to the po lice again, explaining that he did not want to indict his aunt for j stealing the car, that he was wir ing his mother for instructions and money. Finally, about 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Murad charged the aunt with taking the car and his clothes, and the highway patrol was advised to stop the aunt. Later that day, the car was found parked in a car lot here with the keys gone and his clothes locked in it. The order, directing the patrol to stop the aunt, was cancelled, and Murad took the license tags off the car and turned them over to police. During their investigation, of ficers said they were advised that Muiud was supposed to have made the payment or. the car, the aunt claiming that she advanced him the money to make the pay ment. The aunt was planning on going to Florida and Murad want ed to go to Aiken, South Caro lina. Mrs. Murad caught a late Mon day afternoon bus for South Car olina, and Murad went to the open road, depending on his thumb to get him to South Caro lina, presumably. The aunt was said to have continued south in the car this morning. Religion h Leader Here For Short Stay Sunday The Rev. Ross Allen, secretary of the North Carolina Christian Missionary Society, and Mrs. Al len were here for a shdrt stay Sunday. The minister made his first appearance in the pulpit at the Christian church during the Sunday evening services, after which Mr. and Mrs. Allen continu ed to their home in Wilson. Officers Conduct Raids In Hassell Saturday Evening Old-1 imp Bootlegger Tried In The (Ionilly Court Monday Morning Striking the little county town of Hassell'last Saturday evening, Sheriff M. W. Holloman and De puties Dallas Holliday and Roy Peel interrupted What was de scribed as a flourishing bootleg liquor business. The raid paid off at only one spot, the officers ex plaining that everything was "dry as a bone" in two other spots—a store and a private home. Entering Walter Collier’s one room shack where the 63-year-old cripple lived alone, the officers found one-half gallon of white li quor and several freshly emptied containers. Only thirteen bottles of beer were found, the sheriff declaring that the man had en ough empty bottles squeezed in and around the shack to stock a brewery. Carried into the county court Monday morning, Collier was said to have admitted selling bcear without a license and handling liquor as a means of a livelihood. He also admitted that he consum ed a little himself. The man’s infirmities appar ently saved him a substantial fine and possibly a term on the roads. Judge H. O. Peele suspended judg ment upon the payment of costs, but placed a conditional sentence on his head. The court, at its own discretion may invoke a six-month road sentence at any time during the next two years, meaning that if further complaints are heard against Collier he will be called upon to serve the road term. Minor Accidents On County Roads -- With two minor exceptions, motorists using the highways and streets in this county had a wreck less holiday during the past week. Two school busses bumped at a Robersonville street intersection early in the week, and a pick-up truck turned over on the Wil liamston-Poplar Point Road about 9:15 o’clock Sunday night. James Gainor, Parmele school bus driver, stopped his bus for a traffic light, and David Brown, driving another bus, bumped into it at the intersection near the Better Chevrolet Company gar age. No one was hurt and dam age was limited to about $15 to the truck Brown was driving, ac cording to Officer Wade Vick and Patrolman B. W Parker who made the investigation. Driving on the Poplar Point road, Ervin Baker of Hamilton drove off the black top to miss a dog and lost control of his pick up truck when he tried to turn back on the hard surface. The truck turned over, causing about $75 damage. Baker was not hurt, Patrolman P. O .Arthur said fol lowing the investigation. Painfully Cut In' Hatchet Accident -9 Billy Marshall. 12-year-old son iif Mr, ftnd. Mrs. Hi hei.t..,lf„ciuiu*isw was badly cut on his left hand in a hatchet accident on West Main Street last Saturday noon. Playing with his neighbor, Robert Sullivan, the lad started to climb an umbrella tree that young Sullivan was chopping on with a hatchet. Just as Robert made ready to strike the tree, Billy put his arm around it, the blade of the hatchet cutting across the knuckles and scv< ring the ten dons. He was released from a lo cal hospital following treatment. Add Member To Fire Department —*>— Bruce H Strickland, local man ager of the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, was unanimously elected to member ship in Williamston’s volunteer fire department at a meeting of the company last evening. His election leaves the department still one or two me i short of its lull strength. Officers Crack Large Peanut Theft Ring Here Early Sunday Several Hundred Bags Are Stolen In Recent Weeks —*— Nine-Day Wnteli l*ui<l Off At Warehouse Early Sunday Morning —'—*>— A large aqd daring peanut theft ring, involving several hundred bags of goobers valued at approxi mately $5,000, was cracked by lo cal officers here early last Sunday morning, the action climaxing all night watches dating back about ten days. Complete details have not been released, officers explaining that they are still working on the ease and that additional arrests are ex pected shortly. William Henry Drown, 25-vear old local colored man, continues in the county jail in default of a $2,500 bond, and Julius Williams, 67-year-old Bertie County colored man, is at liberty under bond. Both men were implicated in the case after Williams’ old model truck and approximately fifty bags of stolen peanuts were aban doned on East Main Street shortly after 5:00 o'clock Sunday morning. During recent weeks peanuts had been missed from time to time from the Planters Warehouse here by the Williamston Peanut Com I pany. On the night of January 16. the local police department started maintaining an all-night watch, first inside the house and j later in a ear parked in a neigh boring driveway, Sunday morning at 3:00 o'clock, Officer Arthur Perry saw a truck move into the rear of the ware house district, but instead of stop ping at the Planters warehouse, it moved on to the Roanoko-Dixie. A large door was opened and the truck was backed into the house. Officer Perry, radioing the move | to police headquarters, saw throe men come out of the house, dose the door and leave. He advised the department to await further developments. About 4:00 o'clock, two men moved around the house and entered the floor, and at about 5:00 o’clock, the door was opened and the loaded truck moved out. Three men remained behind and closed the floor and two men car ried the truck away. Officer Per-; ry, picking up the trail, radioed the poliei department to block; the outlets, but the truck pulled I into South Houghton and then turned into Marshall Avenue. Duiing the meantime, Officers Clayton Rogerson and Tom Giles- - son, in the police ear, were mak-1 ing ready to question a suspicious! character in the warehouse dis trict. They withdrew when in-! structions were given, calling for a road block at the intersection of I Harrell and Main Streets. Just before the officers could reach that spot, the truck and Officer Perry turned into the main street and continued toward the river. Near the foot of the river hill, Of ficers Rogerson and Chesson pull ed up beside the truck, and the driver and his companion jumped out while the vehicle was moving about thirty miles an hour. The men darted back of the Andrews home and escaped, the truck com ing to a slop after clashing into a Williams’ name was on the (Continued From Page Six) -p Jamesville Boy In Korean Fight With the 2d Infantry Div. In Korea.—Pvt. Jessie Jl. Jackson, son of Mrs. Mary E. Jackson (father deceased) of Route 1, Jamesville, N. C., is serving in Korea with the 2d Infanrty Di vision. The 2d Division captured "Heartbreak Ridge” ,n October 1951 and took "Old Baldy” last July. World War 11 veterans will re member this same division landed at Omaha Beach on D plus 1 (June 7, 1944) and mflved on to capture Hill 192 in France, the key German strongpoint on the road to St. Lo. Jackson, a rifleman, received his basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. Polio Fund Drive Lagging Far Behind Goal In County With less than a week left t( collect funds for the 1953 March o Dimes campaign, officials an staging a last minute push to brins Martin County up to its goal o $5,984. Letters were mailed the first o! this week to some 700 individual: who do not ordinarily contributi through business establishments and members of the drive com mittee were busy contacting busi ness organizations for their polii contributions. No figures art available on the exact amount taken in for the drive but cam paign leaders say it is far below what they had hoped to have b\ this time. Concert Program Thursday Night -<$ Possibly because hei audience was more familiar with them than her other selections, Frances Bi ble’s presentation of excerpts from Bizet’s “Carmen” was the most popular portion of her concert here last Thursday night. The young mezzo-soprano’s pro gram presented in the Williams ton High School auditorium was well-balanced in mood and theme as well as in the number of songs in English and other languages, but Miss Bible sensing the wishes of her audience pleased them bv presenting an encore of somewhat lighter music that included "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," a love song, "Put Love In Your Heart", and a gay tune, "Philoso phy.” Wearing a gold brocade sheath over a dark green net skirt, the charming brunette captured her audience's attention with her first number, a selection from Tschai kowsky's "Jeanne d’Arc" and held it throughout tin- evening with her rich, striking voice and her fresh, appealing personality. The attentiveness of her audi ence which included many child ren was an indirect tribute to Miss Bible's performance. One of her songs, "The Lemon-Colored Dodo” appealed particularly to the younger concert-goers and others planning appearances in Williams ton would do well to take note and include more such numbeis for children who make up a large share of the audience at musical events here. Stanton Carter, pianist who ac companied the New York City Opera star, presented for his por tion of the program "Prelude in A Minor" by Poulenc and "Humo resque” by Rachmaninoff. For an encore he played a Spanish Rhumba. Miss Bible’s selections ranged from the gay "Epiphanius" by Hugo Wolt to the somber "Neb bie” by Respighi. Each selection w'as applauded with the largest ovation going to tin1 Carmen se lections and her presentation of “Mountains” by Rasbach District Potato Show In County By R Mek. Edwards, Negro County Agent Martin County will be host to the Northeastern District 4-11 sweet potato show and sale to be held at the Robersonville colored Elementary School Wednesday, January 28, at 10 a. in. Each county in the district will exhibit five bushels of sweet potatoes and enter a judging team in the con test. Highlights of the program will be a welcome address by Mr. Shei wood L Roberson, chairman of Roberson ville School Commit tee; purpose of the show by Mrs I. J. Randell, assistant 4-H club specialist; leetuie demonstration on sweet potato production by T. W Flowers, extension horticul turist; and awarding of prizes by R. A. Ponton, director of member ship relations, FCX Raleign, N. North Carolina FCX Stores are sponsoring the show and furnish rig ribbons and awards. Another effort to raise funds | is the special showing of the mo vie, “The Duehess of Idaho’’ at the j Twilight Drive-In Theater Thurs day night at 6:30 o’clock. Admis sion to this comedy, starting Van Johnson, John Lund and Esther Williams, is 40 cents per person with all money taken in going to the March of Dimes. Biggest collection thus fat has come from the county schools w here the children are staging tin ambitious drive for funds Figures on the total amount they have col lected w ill not he available until the end of the week when they make their final report on collec tions. ROUND-UP v./ Following a week of little activity, county and local offi cers reported an increase in business last week-end. Nine persons were arrested and jailed, lour for public drunk enness, two for drunken driv ing and one each for larceny, breaking and entering and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. Fight of the nine jailed were colored, the ages of the group ranging from 16 to '>0 years. Holding Funeral For Mrs. Simpson —_ Funeral services are heinii eon thu'tccl iit the home near Williams ton on tlie old Greenville Road j this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock for Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Simpson 1 who died in the Eastern North j Carolina Sanatorium at Wilson I Sunday evening at 11:00 o’clock, j The Rev. Mr. Casper is conducting I the service and interment will he in the Bowen Cemetery in Dear Grass Township. The daughter of the late Law lienee Wynne and wife, she* was born in Cross Roads Township forty years ago on October 111, j 11112, and spent her early life there. She was married to Ken noth Darrell Simpson February 14, 11)2,1. I In declining health ha some I time, she entered the Wilson sunu I torium last week following treat j mont in a local hospital and the j i Martin County Sanatorium Mrs. | Simpson lived in this county all j her life. Surviving besides her husband are four daughters. Mrs E. C Gale of the home, Mrs. Clifford Mobley of Oak City and Misses Letha Vir ginia and Annie Dr-lores Simpson and a son, James Darrell Simpson, all ol the home; a brother, James | II. Wynne of Washington, and a | half-sister, Mi s. Polly Clark ol J Everetts. 4 Many People 111 In This Counly Quite a few persons arc suffer ■7T«ETn«T-rtlllft,' V ITW^i’iiK'CWisn’S’ and mild attacks of influenza in this county. With the exception of a few cases, the sickness is not bt lieved to be serious and the vic tims recover fairly quickly fol lowiim treatment and rest According to reports, the colds and flue attacks have not mater ially affected the school popula tion. However, “older” persons! in tile schools have fallen victim of flu and have been away from their posts. Local hospitals have reported capacity treatment for about ten days or two weeks f ormer Resident's Mother j Dies Satunlax \lorninf>\ -_ j Mrs Lela McNeil Privette, mother of Miss Ida Underwood] Privette who made her home in! Williamston for a number of years, died early Saturday morn ing at her home in Spring Hope. Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon in the First Baptist Church of Spring’Hope. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery at Dunn, Corey Oilers Two New Local Laws In The Assembly One Bill Wotilil Provide Primary and Election In Oak City Representative A. Corey offer. |ed two new local bills in ,he House of the State Assembly last week. His first bill, offered week before last, would establish a relief fund for all law enforcement officers in the county. Apparently taking a cue from the election differences reported in Jamesville about a year ago. citi/ons of Oak City appealed to the representatives for a uniform election law of their own. For more than half a century and even before the town acquired its pre sent name. Oak City provided an annual election of its town offic ials. Details of the newly pro posed law could not be learned immediately, but one report said it provides for a primary and elec tion every two years. During the meantime, a precise and uniform law providing pri mages and elections for the town of Jamesville is being advanced. The second hill introduced by Representative Corey last week would exempt volunteer firemen m Robcrsonville and Williamston from jury duty. Heretofore mem bers ol the volunteer fire depart ments m the two towns have been excused from jury duty. The pro posed law would make the i xcus es yalid. The proposed law reads, as fol lows: Section 1. All active volunteer firemen of the Towns of Williams ton and Robcrsonville, in Martin County, who have performed all duties required of them as volun teer firemen, and who are in good standing with their respective fire departments and with the North Carolina State Firemen's Associa tion, shall be exempt from service . as jurors. On the first day of [January and July of each year, [beginning with the first day of July of the year 1953, the Fire Cluel of each of the Towns of Williamston and Robcrsonville shall file with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County a statement giving the name of each member of his organization who is m good standing with his fire department and with the Ninth Carolina State Firemen's Association, and who lias perform ed all duties required of him as a volunteer fireman during the pre ceding six months; and any mem hei of any such fire department (Continued on Page Six) Small Farm Home Burns In County —<$>— A four-room tenant house on the It A Haisltp farm near Has sell was destroyed b> tire about 9 00 o'eloek Monday morning. Few detail.- about the fire could be learned immediately. It is under stood that the fire started in the front part of the house while Mrs. A F. Weaver, alone there at the time, was m the kitchen. I’asscrsby helped save a refrig erator, one or two beds and a few other articles. The smoke was so thick in the house that Mrs. Wea ver and others found it impossible to enter the front rooms it was Tt i~'Ti f 7 TT The Weavers were living there while a new home was being built foi them in Hassell. Benjamin F. Moye Fighting In Korea With the 2nd Infantry Division m Korea.—The Combat Infantry man Badge for excellent perform ance of duty under enemy fire in Korea recently was awarded to Sergeant First Class Benjamin F. Moye, whose wife, Jessie, lives at 1132 N. Ridge Rd., San Francisco, Calif. He is a member of the 2d Infan try Division, which captured Heartbreak 'Ridge" in October 1951 and took "Old Baldy” last July. SFC Moye. who has been in the Army since December 1945, mined t hr 2d last September. He is assigned to the unit as a mess Howard. His mother, Mrs. Nannie B. Moye, lives at Oak City, N. C. A
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