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TH£ ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ S'* OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 9 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 29, 1953 ESTABLISHED 1899 Direct Speeders To Surrender Licenses Judge Peele Hears Thirty - One Cases In County's Court -- In Afternoon Session, The Court Imposes Fines In Amount Of £385 --—* Handling thirty-one cases in the Martin County Recorder's Court last Monday, Judge Herbert O. Peele gave several alleged speed law violators something to think about. He shifted from a schedule of fines to license revo cations in several cases. Now, it remains to be seen if the new system will have any marked ef fect on motor vehicle operators. Several of those who were direct ed to surrender their operators' license were teen-agers. The court, imposing lines in the amount of $385? was in ses sion until about 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon, having .aken time out for lunch. Proceedings: The case in which Tony Steve Passomondie of Camp Lejeune was charged with speeding, was nol pressed, subject to be reopen ed at a later date. Pleading guilty of-an assault with a deadly weapon, Bill Brown was sentenced to the roads for six months. The court suspended the road term upon the payment ->f a $10 fine and costs. The sen tences may begin at the direction nf the court at any time during the next two years. Anna Brown, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was found not guilty. Pleading not guilty, William Jones was adjudged guilty of as saulting a female, and was taxed with the costs. Charged with drunken driving, Jesse Staton pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for three months, the court suspend ing the road term upon the pay ment of a $100 fine and costs. He loses his driver's license for a year. Adjudged guilty of non-suppor*. L. B. Peel was sentenced to the roads for three months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of the court costs, and the defendant is to pay $30 a month for the support of his chil dren. Performance bond was re (Continued on Page Six) Says Rash Probes Curb Free Speech —— New York.—Arthur Hays Sul/- j berger, president and publisher of j the New York Times, says Amen-, cans are not so free today to speak their minds as they were two de cades ago. Mr. Sulzberger spoke at the seventh annual Alexander Ham ilton dinner of Columbia College alumni. A 1913 Columbia gradu ate, Mr. Culberger received the association’s 1953 medal "for dis tinguished serv'd* and aecoin- I plishment in any field of human endeavor.” , I Mr. Sulzberger, to support his! contention, cited among othei thing.- the ban-in wttn- -Aswrrwe.. cities on books, brochures, and organizations on what he termed "unsupported suspicions" of their i motives. Concerning the nation's fear of | communism, the publisher said: | “I do not believe that the pic-1 ture is either as black or as red as it has been painted. “I do not believe, for example, that Messrs. McCarthy and Mc Carran represent the real feeling of the American people.” Mr. Sulzberger was referring to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R) of Wisconsin, who has spear- j headed probes of communis..! in! government, and Senator Pat Me | Carran (D) of Nevada, who heads! the Senatt Internal Security sub committee. ”1 have great faith in the basic common sense and the fundamen tal fairness of the nation,” Mr. Sulzberger said. “But there is move fear in the country than the facts warrent. Beset by doubt, the nation listens to those who seem to offer a cure, even though the medicine be more harmful than the disease. ’ NO DEV ELOPMENTS I Some progress has been made, but no new develop ments in the $5,000 peanut theft have been made public. Only three arrests have been made so far in the case that j was cracked by local police early last Sunday morning when a truck load of peanuts moved out of the Roanokc Dixic Warehouse. Julius R. Williams, one of the trio arrested, arranged $2,500 bond without going to jail. William Henry Brown, after a delayed struggle, ar ranged $2,500 bond and gain ed his freedom last evening. Oscar Burnette, third man implicated in the daring thefts, continues in jail in de fault of $2,500 bond. Work On Highway Projects Advances Despite adverse weather con ditions existing much of the- time, work on display construction pro jects in this area is advancing fair ly rapidly. Highway engineers said yester day that more than three miles of a leveling surface had been laid on highway 04 from Williamston to a point near or beyond Holly Springs Methodist Church. All the route has been widened to 24 feet from Williamston to the Washington County line at Ward's Bridge, and |he repair work is complete. After the first one inch coat of asphalt is laid, the contractor will place a one-inch sealer or surface asphalt coat on the road. It will be quite a few weeks beforck^the project is com pleted in its entirety. Work on widening U. S. 17 from the Bertie highland to Windsor is being delayed considerably by the weather. However, some pro gress is being made Al the pre sent time the contractor is pour ing concrete piling for a new bridge,over Roquist Creek. Cabinet Learning! About Washington -$ New York-Jan. 26.—The facts of Washington life are beginning to force themselves on the atten tion of the businessmen the new Administration has brought to Washington, and the prospect is for wrangles between Capitol Hill and the White House as spirited as any that enlivened the Democrats’ long tenure: 1. Charles E. Wilson, before the cloud over his confirmation arose, pledged a ‘‘quick re-examination of materiel procurement and basic planning." Materiel and procure ment snafus may be straightened out to the satisfaction of all, but already the particular friends of each of the three services in House and Senate are preparing to de fend their pets’ autonomy. 2. George M. Humphrey, new Secretary of the Treasury, told Senators the budget must be bal anced first, with tax cuts await ing an appropriate time But House KCMiiutiorTNo 1 is a bill to cut taxes June 30 without refer ence to the state of the budget. 3. Gradual shortening of the term of government bonds over the last 20 years has horrified all students of finnacial management. The administration was going to ■ get the $267 billion debt into long term obligations. But now comes the first refunding operation and the longest-term security is a six year one. Restoring a proper bal ance of debt maturities will pro bably take a whole term, or two. (iroup Will Meet In hlizubfth City Methodist ministers and laymen of the Elizabeth City district will meet at the First Methodist Church in Elizabeth City next Tuesday in a preparation confer ence for the Methodist evangelis tic mission. The evangelistic mission is an attempt by nine Southeastern states to win 150,000 persons to Christ, and the Elizabeth City ses sion will be to outline plans for the mission in this district, Lillie Time Left To List Properly In Narlin Cjjmly -- No Time Extension Likely And Late Listing Sul*, jeel To Penultitv* There's precious little time left to list property for taxation in this county, and several hundred pro perty owners are fairly certain to find waiting lines at the listing centers as they report between now and closing time Saturday to handle the task and avoid penal ties and possible prosecution in the courts. Complete reports could not be had from all the listers, but Tax Supervisor M. L. Peel said late yesterday that the work is fairly well advanced in most of the townships in the county. Wil liamston reported well over 2,000 names on the books to report its work possibly further advanced than it was at the same date a year ago. Williams Township was said to be considerably be hind. Poplar Point, holding off its listings until the last few days in the month, is gaining rapidly, according to an indirect report coming from List-taker Roy Tay lor. No extension of time for listing properties and polls is anticipat d, meaning that late listers will be made subject to penalties and possible prosecution in the courts. It has been pointed out that the list-takers in nearly every one of the townships remained almost idle day after day during the ear ly part of the listing period, that owners listed their holdings with out much delay. In view of that condition, property owners have little to complain about when they find waiting lines at the listing centers these last few days. Commenting on the trend in values, Supervisor Peel said that mo*t townships were apparently holding their own with some gains reported in others. A decrease in the mule count is being felt in some districts. In others the number of new cars is not as large as it was a year ago. New buildings are not as numer ous as they were a year ago and some merchandising stocks have dwindled a bit. "While we may not show much of a gain, we believe values .will about hold their own,” Supervisor Peel said in assessing tht situa tion on the basis of the prelimin ary reports from several of the list-takers. Veterans Are Told Of Farm Classes —$— Martin County veterans of the Korean War have until March 1 to enroll in the on-the-farm training program now open to them, Vaden Hairr, instructor at Jamesville, pointed out today. Men recently returned from overseas who wish to enroll in Ihe training program should con tact John Hassell.*’ instructor in the Oak City school, or Mr. Hairr at Jamesville. The abso lute deadline is March 1. After [hat date, registrants must wait until October to enroll. The two training centers for white veterans in Martin County are located at Jamesville and Oak Cdy, afld are sponsored by the '/ehrlms Admfn'stratidn*rtfirough the cooperation el the State De partment of Public Instruction. Practical training is given and light classes arc taught in the application of modern farm prac ices. Veterans in the classes •any on their regular farming iperations as part of their in struction program. Application blanks may be ch ained from Edgar Gurganus in kVilliainston, veteran service of ficer for this county. f-N TAX ADVICE f *-:- J Pur citizens suffering from their annual headache over income tax forms, a represen tative of the Department of Revenue will he in town Feb ruary 9 and 10 to help them. He will set up headquar ters in the post office building from 9 o’clock in the morning until 5 o’clock in the after noon. Citizens are invited to take advantage of his serv- i icci. J Solemn Warning, Issued To Vehicle Operators In State | A solemn warning, meaning that no excuses will be in order, is being issued to all motor ve hicle owners. Those owners of vehicles bearing 1952 license tags on and after February 1 will be subject to prosecution in the courts. It has been pointed out I that owners will be made sub ject to penalties even if they are caught with old tags even if they are on their way to buy new ones after the expiration date of January 31. The law says the new tin plates must be displayed not later than midnight Saturday, January 31. Earlier this week, the State license tag sale stood at less than 700,000, or about 30,000 be hind the sale at the same time a year ago. The total 1952 sale in the State was 1,274,075 tags. The sale of State tags at the license bureau here in the offices of Harrison and Carstarphen yes terday was progressing fairly SURVEY Moving in late today or to morrow, a survey group of the North Carolina State High way and Public Works Com mission will start a final sur vey early next week for the proposed truck route for 17. | S. Highway 17. Owners whose property will be crossed are being notified of the survey plans, and a definite loeation is expected to be fixed for the i by-pass within the next few days. Fire Hits Family For a Third Time: —t— Fire struck the Walter Rogers family here at 9:15 o'clock for the third time over about a five-year period. The third strike was lim ited to oni' bid room while the other two just about wiped out the | family’s earthly belongings. Believed to have started from| an over-heated wood stove, the fire completely wrecked one bed room, burning two mattresses and charring dressers and chairs. Neighbors, called to the home, beat back the fire and held it un-1 der control until fire-fighting] equipment reached there. The fire i was eating its way into the attic | when it was checked. No official estimate on the dam age could be had immediately, but i the loss will run into several hun dred dollars. Insurance was car ried on the home and contents, it was learned. The call was the third answered within the town by the fire de partment so far this year, Fire Chief G. P. Hall pointing out that fewer calls had been handled so far this month than in any cor responding period during recent years. » Cow Killed On Highway Today —«— A mileh cow, belonging to Hai ris Brothers, was instantly killed on Highway 17 about two miles south of here this morning short ly after 5:00 o’clock. I*..ThtwtBiiatali-:m ;id to. have been lying in the highway anti was struck by a truck owned by Colonial Storage and driven by Leon A. Brunna of 1232 22nd Street, NW, Washington, D. C. Brunna was not hurt and no damage was done to the truck, ac cording to Cpl. M. C. Byrum who made the investigation. Project headerh Attend Training CIumm Toduy The county home demonstra tion office is conducting a train ing schoo1 this afternoon for leaders uf five home demonstra tion club projects—home beauti fication, house furnishings, home management,, clothing and nu trition. Approximately fifty women j are attending the sessions pi e- ] dded over by Mrs. Thad Harrison, tome agent, and her asistant, Ruby Lee. Spencer. Project leaders of the fourteen dubs are given an outline of heir duties and the purpose of dub projects is explained in the tuuy course. 1 |l ( i I I < c C 1 c 1 I r i f s t t t t e ( v tl rapidly, and was not too far bo hind tho sale of a yt ar ago. Up until January 2!), 1952, the bu reau here had sold 4,997 tags Up until yesterday, 4 920 of the 1953 tags had been sold here, leaving the new sale trailing the 1952 count by only 77 plates. The lo cal bureau sold a total of 8,666 tags for 1952, meaning that sev eral thousand vehicle owners will not be able to get and display the new tags on or before February 1. Traffic is certain to be af fected the first few days in Feb bruary because of the license ob stacle. In Williamston two-thirds or about 600 new tags have been sold to vehicle owners living in side the corporate limits, leaving about 300 to be sold. Local ve hicle owner save advised that they are subject to penalties if they drive without displaying the new 1953 plates on and after Febru ary 1. Forty-Three Men Called In County For Service Test -<$. Seconil (lull To Be Answer etl By Thirty-Seven Men Few Days loiter --V Forty-throe Martin County young men have boon notified to report tomorrow for a trip to a service center in Raleigh where they are to undergo pre-induction examihations. Thirty-seven men are being notified to report on Thursday of next week for similar tests, it was learned. Then on February 26, another group of thirty-seven men are to report for the pre induction exams. During the meantime, thirty-five men are scheduled to report on February 16 for final induction into the armed services from this county. Two men, Allen Elmo putter bridge, formerly of Everetts, is | transferring to Newark, and, Herman Frederick Davis, form erly of Williamston, is transfer ring to Greensboro. A third man, Johnny Lee Andrews, is trans ferring to the board in this coun ty from Baltimore, and he is scheduled to* make the trip to morrow marning. The group is to report at 7:00 /clock and go to Raleigh by ■barter bus. In the group leaving tomorrow are thirteen white and twenty aim colored men. Their names are: White—Samuel Morris Beaeh nn, William Archibald Cherry,! Harvey Deli Brown, James Billy Rawls, Clarence Clifton Wil iams, Burnicc Tippoman War on, Albert Ray Phelps, William Frederick Griffin, Ralph Sum rural Mobley, Clay Winfield Harris, Donald McCoy Jones, (Continued on Page Five) Make Plans For Fat Stock Here I -- Meeting in the agriculture ruilding Wednesday afternoon, nembers of a special committee advanced plans for the annual dai tin County Fat Stock show' to >e held on April 9 and 10. It was reported that indications loint to h big show this year with ibout thirty club members plan ring to exhibit thirty-five beef alvcs and sixty other club work- j •rs making plans to exhibit 85 legs. , j The Committee, composed of ’rofessoys V. B. Iiairr, chairman; ohn Hausell, J. H. Dixon and Ihailes II. Hawley, and Larry L.; lodges, W. Brady, T. B. Bran on and; R. M. Edwards of the ounty /agent’s office, and Riley ’ew of; the Roanoke Lockers, rc omm/nded that hogs weighing ictwiten 180 to 240 pounds be ud littefl for exhibition. It was also eeoinmended that animals pass ispmtion of the committee he- | are they are allowed to enter the j hoVv, and that all animals must e registered with the committee ! y'February 1 Pigs will be en •"cd in h>ts of one and lots of iree. and a club member may xhibit more than one of each lot. h tly FFA, 4-H and NFA member s ill b( eligible tn participate in )|i show. I Urgent Appeal Is Made For Support Of Polio Campaign -vt> Additional Contribution* Hadlv Needed If Goal Is To Be Met -«— Business establishments in Wil liamston were Rettir»n tile atten tion of the March of Dimes lead ers this week as the polio drive draws near its close. L. Bruce Wynne, co-director of the drive, is in charge of con tacting local businesses for their aid in the polio fund campaign and he reminded those who have not given that more polio suffer ers than ever before are counting on the March of Dimes for need ed financial aid. Funds from a movie at the Twilight Drive-In Theater near Williamston tonight will be add td to the polio fund collection and campaign workers urged at tendance at the show, “Duchess of Idaho," starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams and John Lund. Admission is forty cents per per son and shows will begin at 6:30 and 6:30 o’clock. “We simply cannot let a single patient suffer for lack of funds," Mr. Wynne and Mr. W. Marvin Bapker, co-directors of the drive, said. “We must raise enough money to care for 36,000 who were stricken in 1952 and prior years and who still need our help." “This is in addition to the more than $7,000,000 in unpaid bills inherited from last year, to gether with the responsibility for pushing our research program to the limit. We simply can't coast during the last few days." Although local campaign lead ers are hopeful about the results of this year's drive, none of them could say whether or not the necessary funds will actually be raised. Half of all money contributed to the March of Dimes is used by the Martin County Chaptei to help pay the cost of treating In cal polio patients or, in emerg encies, ploio patients elsewhere. The other fifty percent finances reaseareh, professional educa tion and epidemic aid programs There have been times when Martin County received money from the National Foundation to, help cure for victims within the1 county. Official Boards To Neel Monday —•— County and town officials, in cluding the county and town commissioners, are scheduled to hold regular meetings next Mon day. The county commissioners, with nothing but routine business on their agenda at the present time, are to meet, at 9:30 o'clock that morning. Only routine business is scheduled for consideration by that group. Meeting at 6:00 o'clock that evening, the local town commis sioners are expected to announce a decision in the cases of two lo cal taxi operators, John Keddiek and Chas. Joyner. A hearing was held for the taxi operators last week when they explained that they were the victims of circum stances and about to lose their licenses. THE KECOKL) SPEAKS . . . During the first three weeks in the new year, mot orists wrecked more vehicles than they did a year ago, but they killed no one and injur ed fewer persons at the same time. The property loss this year was less than it was in the corresponding three weeks in 1952, according to reports coming from the high w ay putm! office in this coun ty. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: first, bv corres ponding weeks in tins year and last and for each year to the present time Third Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam’ge 1953 2 0 0 $ 90 1952 4 1 0 400 Comparisons To Date 1953 22 3 0 « 4,150 1952 15 6 0 5,755 James E. At Home | FUIN'KRAL FRIDAY Funeral services will he conducted at the home here Friday morning at 11:00 o’clock for James K. King, prominent tohaceonist and leading citizen, who died last night at 11:20 o'clock follow ing a long illness.* Uncertain Where Secretary Stands Are the American people en titled tn believe that, whim an important public man speaks or writes, he is telling the truth as he sees it? That questions was raised last week when members of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee questioned John Foster Dulles, in hearings on confirmation of him as President Eisenhower's Secre tary of State. In general, the committee gave Dulles a very friendly reception. However, he had some embarras- ! sing moments. i Dulles told the committee J there will be no sudden or great changes m Uncle Sant's foreign policies. Then Senator Guy M. Gillette (Democrat of Iowa) reminded Dulles that he was the chief an thor of the foreign policy plank.' adopted by the Republican Nat ional Convention last summer. That plank pictured the Truman Administrations foreign policies as miserable failure;. Vet now Dulles says thei e won’t fie much change Gillette asked Dulles how he could reconcile Ins conflicting statements Dulles admitted the words he put into the G O. IV plank "arc not the language 1 would want to use today,” but he tried to laugh off his embarrass merit During election campaigns, Dulles told Gillette, the two po litical parties “are like two law yors. Then jobs are to present1 the cases of clients I can’t believe.’ Gillette re plied, "that when extravagant statements are made in a earn- 1 paign you can forget all about them until the next election I am not willing to concede that the public interest is served by distorting the picture." In short, Dulles said om thing before the election campaign, the opposite during the campaign, and something else now What will hi' say next? -+--— Dies Folloiriiif! Short Illness In llos/ulnl Taken suddenly ill while on tin streets here last Monday aftel noon, Eva Baker Wimbush, 35, was removed to a Windsor hos pital where shi' died yesterday afternoon at 1:40 o’clock, tile ap-, parent victim of a heart attack, j Hei husband, Robert Wimbush, i survives. Funeral arrangements | were not completed immediately. 1 V. S. Fofiulolion Mores Inil rhunizeil I t ens * - -— Almost hall of the population if the United States lives in 157 j urbanized areas, which contain ess than five per cent of the land iri'ii of the country. The popuki- , i ion per square mile of these ur- i ximzed areas iA 5,438, while the j I iverage density outside the ur I tailized areas is 27:7 persons per j j quare mile. ji King Died Last Night fr -<*a Funeral Services At Home Friday Al 11:00 O'Clock Lrailin^ Cilizen flail Rent In Declining Health For Twelve Years James Edwin King, h leading citizen and prominent tobacconist, died at his home here on Main Street last night at 11:20 o'clock following a long period of declin ing health and a critical ten-day illness. Suffering with a heart condition since about 1940, he had received medical treatment in sev eral hospitals during long periods at intervals since that time. He had been in virtual retirement for about one year, but an indomit able will to live helped him to weather one crisis after another. And through it all he found hap piness in his daily touch with members of his family and con versations with friends. A son of the late Robert Allen King and Rattle Johnston King, he was born in Caswell County on December 25. 1895, and spent his early life on the farm. After at tending the Reidsvilie Seminary, he entered the University of North Carolina. Following his gradua tion there in 1917, he entered the armed si rvice during World War 1 Receiving his discharge from the service, he laid the foundation for his life's work when he went with Liggett-Myers Tobacco Com pany in Durham, later going with the Winston-Salem Leaf Tobacco and Storage Company in Winston Salem. In the early twenties he went with the Wilson Tobacco Company in Wilson, transferring to Washington about 1925 to man age tl Washington Tobacco Com pany for almost three years be fore forming a partnership with the late W I. Skinner and locating in Wiliiamston in July, 1927. During the more than a quarter century he spent in Wiliiamston, Mr. King figured prominently in every phase of community add religious life, lending a liberal support to every worthy under taking and extending a helping hand to his fellowman. His busi ness operations were developed extensively during that period, his company's tobacco finding its way into export channels to various parts of the world. He was de voted to his family, faithful to the church and loyal to Ills friends, graciously working in the interest of others and asking little in re turn for himself. Mr. King served the church as treasurer for a long time, and was a director of the Martin County Uuilding and Loan Association and director of the Guaranty aBnk and Trust Compnay. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club un til declining health forced his re tin incut. While m Wilson he was married to Miss Elhm Inman on July Hi, 1924 Surviving besides his widow are two daughters, Mrs. C. M. Bowers of Washington, D. C., and Miss Jane King, student in the N C Memorial Hospital School a! Nursing, Chapel Hill; and a brother, Robert Allen King, of Rocky Mmtift’ Mr. King was a member ol the Baptist church here, and his pas tor, the Rev. E. Gordon Conklin, will conduct the funeral service at. I lie home Friday morning at 11 00 I’clock. Interment will be in Wood lawn Cemetery. Cooley To Speak To Farm Group - —.j North Carolina Farm Bureau 01 lends announced this week that .'onugressinan Harold D. Cooley O' Nashville, former chairman of lie House Agriculture Conimit ee, will be one of the major .peakers lo address their 17th mnual convention which will be leid m Charlotte next week, he mming Sunday and continuing hruugh Wednesday. Mr. Cooley, who is the dean of he State's Congressional dele sation, represents the predomi tantly agricultural Folirth Dis rict of North Carolina. He is ( hedufed to deliver his address m the morning of February 4.