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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ ST OVER S,*00 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B" OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 32 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 21, 1953. ESTABLISHED 1899 Edmondson Named i _ Of Education Board James C. Hanning Re-Elected Head Of County Schools ■—<*>— Portion of the Williamson District Annexed To Bear Grass -e>— A young group of men took over full responsibilities as mem bers of the Martin County Board of Education Monday morning when J. D. Woolard of Williams ton and Geo. C. Griffin of Griffins completed long years of tenure and quietly withdrew from the education scene. The board, as it is now constituted, is about the youngest to head up the most im portant business in the county, that of educating and training be tween seven and eight thousand youths. Urbin Rogers, Williamston man, and LeRoy Harrison, of Bear Grass, joined the board as new members in accordance with the last county primary vote and the appointment by the legislature a few days ago. They accepted the oath of office along with Board Member Cecil Powell of Roher sopville who is completing four years on the board. The oath was administered by Clerk of Court L B. Wynne. Ernest Edmondson, of Hassell, and Howard Gaylord, of Jamesville, are now in the middle of four-year terms, Edmondson having completed seven years and Gaylord having served two years as members of the board. Before the old board turned over the reins to the new body, part of the Wiiliamston School District was lopped off and an nexed to Bear Grass, the area be ing between Old Mill Inn and Corey's Cross Roads and along the Price Mill Road. Approxi mately forty pupils are affected by the change, including eight in the high school and 32 in the ele mentary grades. The survey was made some time ago, and opposi tion to the change was voiced in only four cases, it was learned. It was pointed out that the move will strengthen the Bear Grass School position. Taking over the duties of office the newly constituted board im mediately perfected its organiza tion. On a motion made by mem ber Gaylord and seconded by Ce cil Powell, Ernest Edmondson was elected chairman of the board. Mr. Edmondson, express ing his appreciation for the nomi nation and second, explained that it would be more convenient if the chairmanship were in Williams ton, and suggested that his nomi nation be withdrawn in favor of Urbin Rogers. LeRoy Harrison expressed the same opinion, but after discussing the issue, Mr. Gaylord suggested that the chair manship be allowed to go to Has sell and if it is found inconvenient there it could be returned to Wil liamston. Mr. Rogers was named vice chairman. Committees were named for most of the districts, but delayed until a special meeting is held within the next week or two. James C. Manning was unani mously re-elected superintendent of the county school system. It is his twelfth term in that position. Working well past the lunch hour, the board recessed for a short time and returned to the task of acquainting tne new board members with procedure and du ties. There was every evidence that the board as now constituted is extremely interested in the schools—all the schools—and that its every member is determined to struggle for the advancement of education. Church Group lu District Neeiing -—*—. , More than fifty ministers and officers of the Presbyterian Church are in a district meeting here today. Following the morn ing session, the visitors will be served lun£h in the church dining room. Pr6rAin e n tc h u ivh r.'.aiv arv lead ing the sessions for members of the Albemarle Presbytery which comprises that territory from Wil son and Wayne Counties north eastward to the coast. OUT OF TOWN Safety Examiner Parvin will not- meet his regular Wednesday appointment at the driver’s license bureau at the State Highway Patrol of fice in the courthouse tomor row (Wednesday), it was an nounced yesterday. He is being called to Ra leigh on business, but will be at his station as usual on Thursday of this week, it was explained. Acer edit at ion For School In County The Bear Grass Elementary School was inspected Friday, April 17, by Mr. Homer Lassiter of the State Department of Edu cation. His inspection was for the purpose of certification. Mr. Las siter visited each of the elemen tary grades and talked to the teachers and children. The school plant and school supplies were in spected as to the requirements set up by the State Board of Edu cation. After visiting the class rooms, Mr. Lassiter called the teachers together and made com ments on his observations. He mentioned the following: 1. The school showed evidence of a good community spirit. 2. The class rooms were attrac tive and livable. 3. There was evidence that the children were getting cultural training. 4. The teachers were sharing their materials and ideas with each other. The materials for good leachihg were available. 5 He saw evidence of emphasis ! being placed on science teaching,! and he advised the teachers to I continue this. 6. He mentioned the variety of j supplementary books available,] and he advised the administration to continue buying good supple mentary books. 7. He said that he saw much creative writing and art and stressed the importance of doing more of this kind of work. 8. The school 's providing for individual abilities, by giving the j children who can do things with : their hands a chance. A work shop1 ! is provided for those children who 'can work with tools, j Mr. Lassiter ended his talk ■ witii the teachers by stating that | the final rating of the school ! would be left to the State Board j of Education, but he said that he was going to recommend that the ! school be placed on the accredited list of elementary schools. He j added that the rating board gen erally followed the recommenda j tions of the person making the in spection. Court Holds Last Session Thursday —<*,— The machinery of the Martin ! County Superior Court was ! thrown into high gear last Thurs 1 day shortly before noon when the 'tribunal closed its books and ad journed for the term. Scheduled I to sit for two weelyt to hear civil I cases, the court worked less than four days before calling it quits. .The last entry of the term was the case of C. E. Smith against j W. M. Cutler. Alleging misrepre I sentation, Smith asked $135 The jury awarded the plaintiff noth ing, but in a counterclaim, Cut ler was given a judgment in the sum of $100, the plaintiff to pay the cost of the action. No court of any kind was held this week, the county tribunal having surrendered its time to the big court and the big court hav ing called off its work abruptly last Thursday. Suffers Back Injury .it Lumber Mill Near Here Howard Cherry suffered a back injury at a lumber mill near here on lligliwav 04 late yesterday aft ernoon. First reports indicated the injury was not serious. The young man was said to have been lifting a tool box when he hurt i his back. School Committees Changed But Little By County Board —~ Appointments Are Delayed In Bear Gras*, Farm Life And Williamston -« In one (if its first acts the newly constituted Martin County Board of Education Monday discussed local school committee appoint ments in the several districts. Per sonnel was named in all but three of the districts, and few changes were made. Appointments were delayed in Williamston, Bear Grass and Farm Life districts, the board members explaining that they wanted to contact some of the committee members. It was pointed out that the status of the districts is pending, that it is not certain about consolidation and annexation plans centered in the three districts. Committeemen will be named in the three dis tricts when the Bounty board meets in special session within the next week or two, it was learned. Member Howard Gaylord offer ed the same members of the Jamesville committee for re-ap pointment, including Arthur Mod lin, Wendell Griffin and C. A. As kew. Robersonville is retaining its old committee at the suggestion of Board Member Cecil Powell, the group including S. L. Rober son, Chas. Forbes, Eugene Rober son, Oscar Ayers and J. M. Kil patrick. A sub-committee for the Everetts school in the Roberson ville district was renamed as fol lows: Garland Forbes, Alton Keel and Oscar Ayers. Upon the motion of County Board Chairman Ernest Edmond son were re-elected to committee posts in the Oak City district, and R A. Haislip, Jr., was named to fill the position made vacant by the death of Mr. N. M Worsley. A sub committee for the Hamil ton school was renamed as fol (Continued on Page Seven) -« Officers Strike Liquor Dealers ——A After scoring heavily on the il licit manufacturers, County ABC officers last week-end switched to the retail end of the illicit liquor business and scored two runs “We got a hum steer in another case,” one of the officers explain ed, adding that in another a trans porter unloaded his cargo before they could overtake him Visiting in the Stingy Point Hassell area last Saturday after noon Office' s Cecil Bullock. Wiley Craft, Garland Bunting and Roy Peel visited a retail outlet and found two fre.-hly emptied jugs. No charge was made. Saturday evening Officers Bul lock, Peel and Craft accompanied by Deputy Dallas Holliday invad ed Jamesville Township and searched the Leon Rhodes home where they found three quarts of white liquor. Three customers were found there. Going from there to the Hoover James home in the Free Union area, the officers found three pints of illicit liquor and two car loads of alleged customers. An automobile horn was sounded, and the James woman hid the li quor under the bed and between the mattress and springs. The al leged violators in the two cases are scheduled to appeal before Judge H. O, Peele in the county court next Monday. A third raid in that section of the county did not "pay off”, the officers said'. Returning Home From Korean War With the 25th Infantry Div. In Korea.—Pfc. William E. Roebuck, son of Leamon Roebuck of Route 3, Wiltiamstorf, N. C., is neturning to the U. S. from Korea under the Army’s rotation program. He served in the 25th Infantry Division, now the senior Ameri can division on the peninsula. It landed in July 1950, shortly after the Communists attacked the Re public f>f South Korea.‘ Private First Class Roebuck was a cook in the 65th Engineer Combat Battalion. He entered the Army in Sep tember 1951. Education Board Members i Messrs. Urbin Rogers of Williamston and LeRoy Harrison of Bear Grass entered upon their duties as new members of the Martin County Board of Education Monday morning when they subscribed to the oath of office before Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne. Accepting the oath of office, the two young men settled right down to work, it being generally agreed that they with others have a difficult row to hoe. ROUND-UP Activity on the crime front in this county was held to a low point last week-end when only three persons were ar rested and detained in the county jail. Two others were booked for liquor law viola tions, but they were not jail ed. Two were charged with drunkenness, and one with an assault. One of the three was white and the ages of the group ranged from 25 to 44 years. Speech Specialist Talks To Kiwanis -* The story of a progressive movement in the education of physically handicapped children in fhe Martin County School System was told by Miss Addie Lee Meador to the local Kiwanis Club at its meeting last Thursday evening. Miss Meador, who spec ializes in corrective speech train ing, is working with 138 children of all age groups during the cur rent school year. Miss Meador explained that there are 150 special teachers in 67 administrative units through out the State, who are engaged in working with physically hands capped cnildren. These teachers work with children with speech, sight and hearing defects, with cerebral palsy patients, with slow learners and with children who are home bound by illness. Miss Meador described the various types of defective speech cases that she was working with, and she concluded her talk by emphasizing three points to be considered bv parents with such I handicapped children. First, she stressed the importance of se curing professional help. She then pointed out the value of en couragement to the handicapped child. Lastly, she emphasized the need for keeping the handi capped child in good physical con dition. Miss Meador, whose talk was well received by the club, was introduced by L. Bruce Wynne. Directly preceding the address, several guests were recognized, as was Russell Roberson, the high school senior ‘‘Kiwanian of the Month.” The guests were pre sented as follows: Dr. Robert Sheridan by Herbert Taylor; Al len S. Hadfield by George Mahler arid W. B. Pugh by Dave Davis. President R. Vernon Bunting presided over the meeting. Bear Grass Pupils Make Inspections ■ —•— Accompanied by their teacher, Mrs. Mary Warren, and school pa trons, members of the Bear Grass third grade visited the town in a group and inspected several places last Friday. The youngsters gracefully overlooked a dirty fire station and centered their attention on the two fire wagons. Following a visit to the radio station, the group visited The Enterprise office where the little folks grasped a general idea of print'trig as they watched the newspaper press in operation. The girls and boys may not have gained all the fundamentals but they showed a keen interest in all the things they saw. Brief Summary Of Aclivilies In The Slate's Legislature Assembly Has Appropriat ed $630,895,873 St. Far For Stale Serviees -» Ten more days of concentrated work should briny adjournment for a weary General Assembly which bore down to reach major policy decisions in this fifteenth week of continuous session. While much important work remains to be done, the foundation has been laid "for speedy action on meas ures remaining before each house. Appropriations Few if any persons suspected on Tuesday that the biennial appro priations bill to be reported out from subcommittee would pass both houses last week, and yet to day the Senate has but to con cur in a House amendment before ratification. Just one issue slow ed this rapid action. On Tuesday the joint committee approved over $4,000,000 for an annual ad ditional increase of 2.$ percent in teachers' pay after having refused to vote for a 5 per cent increase. This amendment threw the rec ommended budget out of balance, and on the folowing day the Gov ernor's legislative counsel, Frank Taylor, reported that the Gover nor wanted the pay increase but also wanted a balanced budget. By a close vote in which almost unanimous action by tile Senate members was decisive, the 2.5 per cent increase was withdrawn and the budget balanced. On Thursday the scene moved to the Senate chamber where, un der suspension of rules, both the appropriations and permanent improvement bills, were passed and sent to the House for action | on Friday. Then, before debate began on the House Floor, the pay issue underwent a subtle change. A motion to remove HB 391, which revises the $15 sales tax limit, from the unfavorable cal endar on the ground that, if pass ed, it would produce enough rev enue to grant teacher salary in creases failed to secure the neces sary two-thirds majority. Per haps because the House had re fused to supply these revenues, the forthcoming amendment to add funds for the 2.5 percent in crease for teachers failed passage by twelve votes following a pro tracted debate lull of conflicting and confusing statistical argu ments. By late Friday afternoon a cum (Continued From Page Six) Convention Names Everetts Officials Attended by very few citizen, a nominating convention held in the Everetts school Monday eve ning virtually settled the munici pal politics there for another two years when nominees were named for mayor and the five seats on the town b- aid of commissioners. J. W Peel was re-nominated for mayor, and George W. Taylor, M. P. Mobley and H. S. Hardy were renominated for places on the board. M. S Tarkington and Floyd Stalls were newly nominat ed, succeeding- W. -M Ayeb: and Clarence Faulkner, The slate of nominees will be placed before the voters there in j a general election scheduled for1 Tuesday, JV{ay 5. N. H. Savage Has Great Attendance Record At Lodges -- Oak City Man 1 I t Meeting During The Past Year -<p Mr. Mack Henry Savage, Oak City man, last year built an at tendance record for others to shoot at, and it is fairly certain there'll be a great deal of shoot ing before the record falls. The story of the record as it appeared in a recent issue of the Orphans' Friend and Masonic Journal, fol lows: We have often heard the re mark that a certain person was a “joiner,'' meaning that he be longed to/just about everything under the sun. While we do not know just how many people are in this classification, it’s a sure thing that there are many of them. Brother Mack Henry Savage, from down Oak City way, some time ago showed the writer a most interesting -record which prompts us to create a new title, and cal’, him the champion “at tender” of this Grand Jurisdiction. It is our opinion that he richly deserves this title .and herewith so name him. Of course, there may be other brethren in North Carolina who can beat this re cord, but until we hear from them, we’ll call Brother Mack the “champ." Before going into the matter of explaining why we have thus de signated our good friend and ble ther, it might we well to give our readers a brief biographical sketch of this fine fellow. Brother Mack Henry Savage ob tained employment with the At lantic Coast Line Railroad as agent-telegrapher on January 10, 1910, and was quite an expert in both the Continental and Morse Codes of Telegraphy. He continu ed working in that capacity until reaching the retirement age on February 1, 1947. Since his retirement Brother Mack has had considerable leisure time, being another of those indi viduals known as bachelors, with no family responsibilities. He is a most friendly person who likes people, and he is intensely inter ested in Masonry in all its phases. Many years ago he made up his mind to attend meetings and en joy the fellowship of the brethren as often as possible, and launched out into the business of expanding his association with the members of the Craft and attending meet ings whenever possible to do so. We have never seen a man who loves to mingle, with members of our ancient Fraternity as does Biother Mack It was our pleas ure a little more than a year ago to meet him in two district meet ings in three days. He would have (Continued on Page Light) Native Oi County Died Last Friday -•€► Mrs. Jennie Bullock Everett, a native of this county, died at the home of her son, Louis Everett, near Belvoir in Pitt County last Friday evening at 6:00 o’clock. She iiad been in declining health for several years and critically ill a week. Mrs. Everett was born in Bear Grass Township, this county, (ill years ago. Ii^ early life she was married to Joseph T. Everett and located in Pitt County about fifty years ago. Mrs. Everett was a member of Gum Swamp Free Will Baptist Church in Pitt County, Surviving are her husband; six sons, Horace Everett of Tarboro, Louis Everett of Belvoir, Leslie anrl Obie Everett of Faulkland, Arthur Everett of Old Sparta and Roy Everett of Greenville; six daughters, Mrs. C. A. Peeden, Mrs. Thomas Hathaway, Mrs ,1. L. Moore and Mrs. Ray Nichols of near Greenville,, Mrs. J. A. Bob bitt of Norfolk and Mrs. Royston Jones of Baltimore; forty-two grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs Clus Hardison of near Williams ton, and Mrs. George Hoeli of Williamston; a brother, Joe Bul lock of near Greenville. Funeral services were con doned Sot may al lerooori HI .i.Wi o’clock at the home by the Rev I). W Alexander, Free Will Bap tist minister of Bethel. Burial was in the Bullock cemetery in Pitt County. St a r l--Transplantmg— [Tobacco In Countv - -f W TO SPEAK HERE X-S Brandon Hodges, North Carolina State Treasurer, will address the annual meeting of the Williamston Boosters here on the evening of May 4, it was announced this week by Al Sweatt, executive man ager of the organization. \ special program is being planned for the event, and members will be notified of the hour and place, Mr. Sweatt said. Food Handlers School To Open A food handlers school opens at the Martin County Health Center, corner of Harrell and Ray Streets tomorrow morning at 9:HO, the first portion closing at 11:00 a. m. From 2:30 to 4:00 p. m., the same program will be carried out so that persons attending one of the sessions each day will get the full benefit of the program, en abling food handling establish ments to send part (it their per sonnt’l m the morning and the others in the afternoon. Wednesday's program includes remarks on the purpose of the school by Dr. John W. Williams. Bacteriology discussion by W. C. Lackey, presentation of a flim, Stoway No. I. and a question and discussion period. The same hours will be observ ed Thursday and Friday as on Wednesday. Thursday. W. A. Broadway will discuss Methods in Food Handling and there will be a'film "Hashslinging to Food handling,'’ followed by another question and discussion period. What tin customer expects will be discussed by M. M. Melvin on the Friday program and a film "Company Is Coming”, will be shown. Questions and discussions will close this program also. Wednesday’s theme is: “Good Sanitation Is Good Business,” on Thursday it will be: "Good Meth ods Assure Safe Food” and on Friday, "Your Health and Your Customers.” Certificates will he awarded to those persons who attend one ses sion each day. Each establish ment will be awarded a 100 Pei Cent Certificate fui their compli ance in the school. W. B. Gaylord, Jr., county Uni tarian says the school es aimed at showing that: “Sanitation is a way of life. It is the quality of being that is ex pressed in the clean home, the clean farm, the clean business and industry, the clean neighborhood, tiie clean community. "Being a way of life it must come from within the people, it is. nourished by knowledge and grows as an obligation and an ideal in human relations.” Minor Accident On County Roads No one Weis injured and only limited property damage resulted in a lone automobile accident re ported on the roads of this county last week end, according to in complete reports coming from po lice departments and the office of the highway patrol in this coun ty. Willie Lite Rogers, colored, was driving his la'll Ford on a dirt road near the Claude Smith farm m Robersonville Township short ly before noon last Saturday and buried part of the front end in an embankment, according to Patrolman H. W. Parker who made the investigation. Rogers apparently overran an intersec tion anrl struck the embankment across the way after skidding about thirty-two yards. Damage to his car was estimated at $100. Continues (Jnitc III In I Local llos/iitiil —<*> Suffering a heart attack last Friday morning, Mr. James E. Harrison, Sr., continues seriously ilf in a local hospital. He was re pot trri to lie mi hi lira Ins ovu \ ills morning, however. Mi Harrison, 83, entered the hospital Friday morning after spending a restless Thursday night, it was reported. Fate Oi The Early Transplaniings Is Not Very Certain -<* Mod Farmers In This Area Are Fumigating Soil For Nematodes Acting to save their advanced plants and gambling on weather conditions, quite a few Martin County farmers started trans planting tobacco last week, and several of the early planters de clared yesterday they were of the opinion that more would have been accomplished if the large plants had been pulled up and thrown away. The Griffins boys out in Grif fins Township are reported to have been the first to start the task this year, one report saying they transplanted a portion of their crop early in the week. Sam Reason on the Jordan farm at Dardens started transplanting in a big way a week ago, complet ing seven acres in a short time. He had planned to w'ind up the task today, but the cold snap is believed to have delayed his schedule a hit Farmer Haywood Rogers, be tween Willjamston and Everetts, put out a few plants last week, along with Farmers Amos Perry, Daney Taylor and Edmond Harris in Bear Grass Township. Farmer Gurganus transplanted a limited acreage last Friday on the Clark j farm between Everetts and Wil li amston, and other farmers various parts of the county start ed the work the latter part of the week A report that a small acreage had been planted to the crop on the 8th of this month could not be verified. Reports heard during the week end indicated that possibly twen ty five'percent of the farmers in this county have already started preparing their ground for trans I planting, that most of them are | fumigating their soil against nem j dories. Most of the farmers are j employing the row system, it was | stated. i The mercury, after running I wild, in the low places during the wet k-end and yesterday mor ning, is gradually climbing today, and transplanting is expected to j be fairly well advanced by the latter part of this week. How , ever, it was lea ned that a few j farmers are pulling up and throw ing away their advanced plants, | deciding to gamble on a supply of plants rather than the weather. Detailed reports on the condi tion of the early transplantings could not. be had from all the growers. Farmer Connie B. Clark declared thijt the wind whipped his plants badly, that the rains came along and beat them down Sunday morning and the freezing I weather Monday morning left them in a pitiful condition. All the early transplanters are wateh fing their crops closely with the (Continued on Page Eight) Group Discusses Plans for League Meeting m the courthouse last Thursday evening, representa tives from several towns in the county discussed plans for organ izing a county-wide little league baseball league. No defiite action was taken at that time, but final plans for the circuit will be formulated at an other meeting to be held in the near future, according to R. H. Coweii who heads up the league as it is now constituted. Wallace Reid Bullock and R. B. Lee represented Robersonville at the meeting, Mr. Bullock explain ing that ^is community was de finitely’ interested. Everetts, l while not represented at the meet ing, advised Mayor Cowen that the Ruritan Club there was ready to enter a team. Hamilton is de bating plans for entering a team, and a definite decision is expect eo shortly. Bear Cltuss 13 sbs considering entering a team in the league. Other communities interested in the league are invit ed to contact Williamston's may or, Robs. H. Cowen.
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