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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HE OVER 3,*00 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B* OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 33 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 23, 1953, ESTABLISHED 1899 r BedTrpss Drive Nearing Its Quota In Local Chapter j|-o(al of $4.25S-i22 Beev? Ruined To Dales One Ditttriri To Report The 1953 Red Cross Fund Drive is nearing its quota in this chap ter .according to a report releas ed late yesterday by Chairman W. I. Skinner who explained that the campaign will go over the top if Jamesville (yet to be heard from) and one or two other spe cial canvassers maintain the mo mentum set by others in the five townships making up the chapte-. A total of $4,255 22 has been raised and reported to date, leav ing the drive only $293.78 short of the quota plus a small balance can However, there was a $5,000 goal ■which the committee set up with the idea of supplementing the program of the Martin County Chapter of the organization. If the quota jlus a small balance can be raised, the work of the organi zation, including the blood pro gram, can and will be maintained another year. The contributions, by districts and groups, follows: Williamston special gifts, $2, 228.00; Williamston employes, $195.92; Williamston town and township residential areas, $689.72, Williams Township, $106.54; Griffins Township, $205.80; Bear Grass Township, $192.35. The colored citizens in the chapter have exceeded their quota by about $60. Colored citi zens, under the leadership of John M. Slade, chairman, and R. T Coles, treasurer, raised $377.43 to carry the drive among that group over the top. The local colored citizens exceeded their quota by $77.43. A review of the fund support in the other colored dis tricts in the chapter shows the following totals: Dardens, $70.31; Williams, $51.25; Rodgers, $72; Biggs, $50, and Burroughs, $40. Individual contributions not previously acknowledged will be published next week. During the meantime, Fund Drive Treasurer R. J. Hardison reported the following special gifts had been made since the last report: Homer Barnhill, canvasser: B k W Tire Company. $5; Murtin Elliott Co., $10; Central Restaur ant, $3; Roanoke Lockers, Inc., $15; R. L. Ward Coal and Wood Co . $5; Dr W F Coppa«e. $V James Bulluck, canvasser: Col onial Stores, $20; Martin General Hospital, $50. W. I. Skinner, canvasser Gen era! Electric Company, $25, Vir ginia Electric and Power Co., $35. William Everett, canvasser: Dixie Motor Co., $50; Griffin Mot or Co., $27.50; Lindsley Ice Co., $25; Lindsley's Checkerboard Store, $5; Home Laundry. $20; Thrower Hardware k Appliance, Co., $10. R. J. Hardison, canvasser: Clark's Pharmacy, Inc., $20; Mar tin County Building and Loan As sociation, $10; Pioneer Shoppe, $5; Woolard Hardware Co., $5; Zemon’s Ready To Wear, $5 Anxious to make his final re port, Fund Chairman Skinner to day appealed to all canvassers who have not done so, to complete the drive and submit their reports in as soon as possible. An unooficial report states that the Robersonville Chapter, the other Red Cross unit in the coun ty has raised about half of its quota of approximately $1,800. Negro Citizens Support Drive —♦— Serving as district chairman, Professor W. E. Honeyblue an nounced this week that the Negro citizens in the Robersonville Chapter are supporting the Red Cross fund drive this year. Re ports to date from the other Red Cross chapter in this county show that the colored citizens are sup porting the 1953 campaign fund. Over in the Robersonville Chapter the following reports were submitted this week. Hamilton, Mrs. R. E. Keyes, chairman, $51; Whichard-James district, W. C. Bunch, chairman, $45; Everetts, E. L. Owens, chair arid 'Edjiur Gutter brides. «t chairman, $33; Salsbury district, G. T. Hyman, chairman, $21. The chairmen were assisted by faculty members and patrons in raising | $150.29 in the four districts. Gountv’s Cljampioii } losr Raiser I Freddie Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Martin of Jamosville, is recognized as the champion hog laiser in Martin County. The champ, member of the Jamosville 4-H Club, exhibited his prize Du roc Jersey at the county fat stock show a short time ago and received forty cents u pound or or $76.00 for thi animal which was bought by the Dixie Motor Company at the sale. Accumulated Docket Faces County Court Here Monday Resuming its sittings after re maining idle for two weeks while the superior tribunal was suppos ed to have been in session, the Martin County Recorder's Court will face a crowded docket next Monday, Clerk L B. Wynne said early today. Up until late yesterday, 72 eas es had been placed on the docket, but all of those cases are not scheduled for trial next Monday. When it became evident that the court could not handle the large docket in one day, quite a few of the cases were scheduled for trial at later sessions. While drunken driving and speeding cases lead the count, worthless check and larceny charges are beginning to appear in greater numbers, an enforce ment officer stating that the m With approximately 800 de linquent accounts on the county tax books, Collector M. L. Peel made special ap peals to the properly owners earlier in the month and the response to those appeals has been very encouraging, U was declared today. One-fourth of the group cleared their ac counts, and others explained they would act before the early part of May Science Teacher For Local School Joseph Lassiter of Conway lias been appointed a member of tilt Wiljiamston High School faculty to fill the position made vacant by the death of Professor Whita ker last fall. He is to enter upon his new duties next fall, it was announced. In addition to his duties as a teacher in the science department, he will assist the athletic coach. Mr. Lassiter was graduated from East Carolina College where he earned his master of arts de gree. He majored in science and physical education. Following his studies at the college he taught two years in the Clinton city schools, and is completing his se cond year in the Ahoskie schools. Speaking Contest Friday After noon A declamation contest, sponsor ed by the Patriotic Order Sons of America, will be held in the Mar tin County courtroom tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o’oiock, it was announced by the president of the Order this week. TSiVci ■ujiuaKers. one from Vv'o...!i ington County, another from Pitt County and still another from this county, will compete, it was learned. Jamesville is supplying the contestant for this county. creasing number of bad checks is causing some concern. Sixteen different laws are al leged to have been violated ac-' cording to the warrants docketed! in the court during the past few' weeks. Speeders account for eighteen of the cases. Drunken drivers, numbering thirteen, are I second in the number list. Eight other defendants are charged with careless and reckless driving. The docket also lists seven larceny cases, five liquor law violations, four assault cases, five worthless check warrants. Three persons are charged Ivith operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, and one each with failing to re port an accident, failing to yield right-of-way, false pretense, pub lic drunkenness. Two are book j ed for non-support. Food Handlers In Special School Sponsored by the Martin Coun ty Board of Health in cooperation j with the State Board and the | North Carolina Restaurant Asso ciation, a special food handlers school is attracting a large attend ance from every section of the county. Sixty-tive tood handlers andj I restaurant proprietors were in at tendance Upon the opening ses sions yesterday when W B. Gay lord, Jr., county sanitarian, pre sided. M. M. Melvin, executive vice president of the North Caro lina Restaurant Association ad dressed the first-day meetings, after the visitors were welcomed by Dr. John W. Williams, county health officer. W. C. Lackey, sanitarian for the Eastern District and representing the State Board of Health, is pre siding over the sessions today, and | W. A. Broadway, sanitarian for | the State Board’s Western Dis trict is addressing the groups on "Methods in Food Handling.” On the third anrl final day of the school tomorrow, Sanitarian Lackey will have for his topic, "Bacteriology.” I EISENHOWER IN ’56?} . —_ Senator Robert A. Taft (R) of Ohio has forecast that Pre sident Eisenhower will run again in 1956 and be reelect ed. Persistent, although un verified, reports have circu lated -in Washington that Mr. Eisenhower wants only one term. Senator Taft, Senate Ma jority Leader, said in an in terview he never had heard any one-term suggestion from the Pi evident or his intimates. The senator said that in any event he firmly believes Mr. Eisenhower will he convinc ed he ought to seek a second term when the time comes. Presbytery Has All-Day Heeling -'A*—- — Approximately 75 ministers and laymen of Albemarle Presbytery met in all-day session in the First Presbyterian Chureh here Tuesday. These represt nted the north and central counties of Eastern North Carolina. Rev. J. Don Skinner was host to the as sembly. Among a number of important matters on the doeket was the election of moderator. Rev. W. P. Burns, pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Washington, was chosen to this office. Five ministerial candidates ap peared for examination and ordi nation. These men will assume duties with the Presbytery begin ning June 1st and will serve the following churches: Messrs. Ver non McGehee, the Wayside-Wan oca group, Washington; Yorke Pharr, Rivermont in Kinston; Dan Norman, Johnson and Cobb Mem orial Chureh: ■, Tarboro, James MaeKenzie, Edenton and Swan Quarter; and Herbert W. Dale, the West Greenv'Ue-Ballards group. Committee reports registered notable progress in accessions of membership, building operations, income and the opening of new fields during the fiscal year, 1952 53. The Presbytery organized lately its 50tn church An unusual feature of the meet ing was the announcement of in dependence of financial subsidy •from April 1, 1953, of three former Home Mission organizations. These churches are West Haven, Rocky Mount, of which Rev. Rus sell B. Fleming is pastor; House Forest, New Bern, under the lead ership of Rev. Denver S Blevins; anu Meadowbrood, Greenville, Rev. C. D. Patterson, pastor. The Presbyterian Church U. S., of which Albemarle Presbytery is an integral part has recently launched a campaign to raise $2, 000,000 for the enlargement of its wink among the negroes of the South. Presbytery confirmed the pur chase of a Conference Grounds Site, located on Bogue Sound near Morehead City. This beautiful piece of property will be open this summer. Its use will be chiefly by Presbytery’s youth fellow ships, but it w'ill be available also for men’s and women’s' groups. Presbytery will meet in the First Presbyterian Church, New Bern, Rev. J. Murphy Smith, pas tor, in July for its next regular session. The following representatives were present from Williamston: Rev. J. Don Skinner, F. L. Fussell, Dillon Cobb, Sidney Bcacham and IV. T. Martin. V1R. IIA ARISON CONTINUES II AT BEAR GRASS HOME Mr. Hem v Hauison well-I mown Martin County citizen, mntinues ill at his home in Bear Jrass, according to late reports caching here. He has been in de lining health for some time. Peace Officers To Form Association In Two Counties —t— To Share iicf Plan In Washington and Martin Counties -« Supported by a special act of the North Carolina General As sembly, thirty-four peace officers in Martin and Washington Coun ties, will form an association early in May for administering the new ly created Peace Officers' Relief Fund in the two counties. The officers—24 from this and 11 from Washington County—are scheduled to meet in the Martin County courthouse on the night of May 5 to perfect their organiza tion, it was learned. The bill, paving the way for the creation of the association and providing the relief fund, follows in detail as passed and ratified by the legislature a short time ago: Section 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known and may be cited at the Martin and Washing ton Counties Peace Officers’ Re lief Act. Sec. 2 Definitions. Peace of ficers shall be deemed to include all peace officers of the Coun ties of Martin and Washington, I North Carolina, or subdivisions thereof including all cities and towns and members of the State Highway Patrol and game ward ens, who are required by the terms of their employment or elections to give their full time to the preservation of public or der, the protection of life and property, and the detection of crime; and all special officers or citizens who are injured or kill ed while aiding or assisting regu lar peace officers or while acting as such peace officers. Sec. 3. Creation of Association. An association to be known and designated as the Martin and Washington Counties Peace Of ficers’ Protective Association shall be formed, the membership of which shall include all peace of ficers and game wardens in Mar tin Counties and the members of the State Highway Patrol as de fined above. Sec. 4. Registration. Peace of ficers who are entitled to mem bership in the association, in or der to share in the benefits pro vided for in this Act, shall make application for membership in the association on blanks to be furnished for that purpose, giving such information as may bo re quired by said association, and shall pay an initiation fee and annual (lues to be fixed by the executive board; however, such initiation tee shall not exceed $!"> and such dues shall not exceed $12 per annum. Provided further lhat the provisions of this Section shall not apply to special officers or citizens who have not had a reasonable time fioi'n date they were appointed, summoned or deputized, to registei with said association. And further pro vided that said reasonable time shall not exceed thirty days. Sec. 5 Creation of Executive Board. The executive board shall consist of five members of the association, in good standing, to be elected by majority vote of said association at the last regu lar meeting in December of each calendar year, such board mem bers to hold office until their suc cessors are elected and qualify The said board shall elect a chair man, secretary anti treasurer at its first meeting in each year. A majority of members of said ex ecutive board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Sec. (5. Treasurer. The treas urer shall give bond in the a mount specified by the executive board in some approved bonding company, approved by the board. Sec. 7 Sources of Revenue. In all criminal actions in Martin and Washington Counties, North Car olina, brought into courts of jus tices of the peace, mayor’s, re corder's and superior courts, wherein the defendant shall en ter a plea of nolo contendere, a plea of guilty, or shall be adjudg ed guilty by a jury, a fee of one dollar, to be known as the Of ficers’ Emergency Fee, shall be collected as all other costs in criminal cases are collected, by the justice of peace, clerk or other officer of the court author ized to receive costs; and such funds so received shall be ac counted for monthly, arid turned (Continued on Pago Five) JSiSfiblc Cain J&,Bmperiy. Values Certain In County A sizable sain in 1953 Martin County property vain nnw rnt^accordinsji^rc:i,!i;ii ary report released a few days ago by Tax Supervisor M Luther Peel. Two townships—Jamesville and Hamilton—have not submit ted reports, and the figures for all the other eight townships are not final, U was explained. How | ever, it is now believed that the listings this year will reflect a gain of at least three-quarters of a million dollars over those re corded for the tax year of 1952. Small gains were recorded in one or two townships and one, Poplar Point, reported a loss of $11,712 in its values, including $7, 557 in real and $4,155 in personal property holdings. The figure is not complete, but a gain of approximately $300,000 and possibly more is expected in Williamston Township, aside from the corporation listings. Rober ! son Vi lie reported a ! $197,211. including $189,559 m real airii"$7,832 m personal property holdings. Wilhamstun Twri'Vp, line of the smallest in the county, reported about the largest per centage increase, the real values showing a $3(1,794 gain. Personal property values increased $147 for a total of $36,941- Griffins report ed a gain of $9,339 in its real [property values, but a loss of $5, 476 in personal values pulled the total increase down to $3,863. Bear Grass came through with a gain of $54,955, including $50,270 in real and $4,685 in personal pro perty holdings. The gain in Cross Hoads was $46,456, including $43, 547 in real and $2,909 in personal property values. Goose Nest had a $14,252 gain in real property listings but a $17 loss in personal property values, the district show ing a net increase of $14,235 Locusts About To Return Following 17-Year Absence —<*■— IV'sl Is No Serious Threat To Crop But May Dam age Trees Slightly -* Washington.—Some soft May night soon millions of crayfishlike cicada nymphs the “17-year lo custs’’—will begin to crawl stealthily out of the soil. Twenty thousand or more may climb from beneath a single tree, where they have been developing for 17 years. Then will come the spectacular individual struggles in which the cicadas burst from their old shells and emerge as soft, milky-pale winged adults, says the National Geographic So ciety. They will harden by morning into active 1 1-4 inch black insects with transparent, orange-veined wings and fiery red eyes. Soon they will begin their resounding daytime wailing. They feed harm lessly on plant fluids and mate during the month before they die. They will also be fed on by birds, insects and animals. These creatures, Brood X of the periodical cicadas are cousins of the harvest fly. Scientists de signate the 17-year broods bv Ro man Numerals from I to XVII. Brood X (1930, 1953, 1970) ... the.* largest. It will appear through out the eastern United States from New England to Wisconsin and down through Georgia, with heavy concentrations in the mid die Atlantic seaboard I;, diana and adjacent areas and eastern Tennessee. A dwarf va riety will emerge at the same time. Indians regarded the’mystei ious appearance of the cicadas with awe as did early European set tlers. When the Pilgrims at Ply mouth Colony first heard the cica das keening in 1534, they mistook them for crop-devouring locusts and feared a plague such as rav aged Pharaoh’s Egypt in Biblical times. Thus the popular misnom er “locust” originated, though ci cadas are in no way related to those hungry-jawed grasshoppers. Seventeen year cicadas wear a dark "W” marked on each wing. Early settlers, noting that several conflict closely followed cicada visits, regarded the insect as an omen of war. The creatures have no sting, but another superstition arose that they would sting babies to death. The only serious harm done by cicadas is during their egg-laying process. The female chisels gash es in tree twigs with her long, (Continued From Page Six) BROADCAST v Russell Roberson, Wil liamston 411 Club member and son of Mr. and Mrs. |,eo Roberson of near Williams ton, will broadcast over Sta tion W»*TF, Raleigh, at 12:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The youth will discuss the va rious phases of soil conserva tion, it was announced. He will be introduced by Assist- ; ant County Agent Larry llodges. The broadcast is a part of a regular club program on the Raleigh station. MOVING? 1 \ Unofficial reports heard this week maintain that the union bus terminal here will be closed any day and that busses will stop at a llaugh ton Street service station near the A. t'. I;. freight depot. The report could not be con firmed immediately. The present operators of the ter minal said yesterday they were operatina from day to day with no definite instruc tions as to when the change would be made. The opera tor of the filling station where the busses are to make their slops said yesterday no de finite arrangements had been made for using his station us a terminal fur the busses. The Belk-Tvler Company, owners of the bus terminal site, is said to be making ready to construct a modern store building there, but no official announcement has been made. Education Board I t Its organization perfected only i last Monday, the newly constitut ed Martin County Board of Kdu- 1 cation- Ernest Edmondson, chair- j "me; Urbin Rogers, vice chair man; Howard Gaylord, LeRoy Harrison and Cecil Powell is ra pidly moving to give education in this county what might well be a I shot in the arm. I The several members apparent I ly have agreed to give of their time and efforts to size up the I educational plant and to work for an effective administration of the whwl system. Beginning next Monday the hoard members will start an extensive survey of the physical properties in every one of the several districts. The in spections, getting under way fol lowing a brief meeting at !):()() o’clock that morning at the court house, will be centered first in the local district, it is understood with the possibility that they will be extended into the Bear Grass district before the day is spent. Plans Inspections -<%, Jajges F*. Harxisw Died In Hospital Here Early Today Fum-rai Lo ra! (Citizen Will Be Hold TKilay Afternoon James Eh Harrison, pi'ominent local citizen, died in a hospital here this morning at 3:00 o’clock following a several-day illness. Apparently in his usual health a week ago, h ■ was taken ill sud denly last Thursday night and was removed to the hospital a short time later. Death was at tributable to a heart attack. De spite his advanced years, he con tinued unusually active after re tiring from the farm some years ago. A son of the late Cushing Biggs Harrison and Martha Elizabeth Taylor Harrison, he was born in Bear Grass Township 83 years ago on October 21, 1871, and spent his early life there. Following his marriage to Miss Henrietta Swain in 1892 he located on a farm in Edgecombe County near Tarboro m 1900, returning to this county in 1910 and making his home for a number of years on the old Whit aker farm near Williamston. In recent years he had made his home here. Possessed of a friendly spirit, . he had a ready smile for every one, and always extended a will ing hand to help others along the way, supporting worthy causes and taking a definite stand for the nobler things in life. Mr Harrison was a member of the local Christian church and his pastor, the Rev. John L. Goff, will conduct the funeral service Fri day afternoon at 3:00 o’clock in terment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Surviving besides Mrs. Harri son are three daughters, Mrs. Katie Wynne, Mrs. Mary H. Col tram, Williamston, and Mrs. Nor man Conrad of Miami; seven sons, Henry D., James E„ Jr., Ira and Bernard Harrison, all of Williams ton; C. B. Harrison of Rocky Mount, Robert Harrison of Tar boro and Lewis Han ison of Pulas ki, Virginia; one brother, Robt. G Harrison, of Henderson; a sis ter, Mrs. Della Green, of Wil liamston; twenty-four grandchil dren and twelve great-grandchil dren Many Attending Special Clinics Early reports from the pre school clinics now being held in this count', point to a record en rollment in the first grade next fall. Williamston reported 100 at the two-day clinics for the white school this week and Roberson vilie had seventy at its clinic yes terday, it was reported. Principal B. G. Stewart said the number reporting for the prelim inary examinations was about ten percent greater tnari the pre vious record, that possibly twen t.v-five others expected to enter the school next fall were unable to attend the scheduled clinics this week. No report on the clinic findings could he had immediately. Local Nan Facing New Court Charge Walter (Little liud) Freeman. 34-year-olcl colored man, is in the hands of the law, this time for allegedly assaulting Emma Minns and breaking into her home on White Street last Sunday night about 10:00 o’clock. At a hearing held .butfout Jus tice Chas. R. Mobley last eve ning, probable cause of guilt was established and Freeman was re turned to the county jail in de fault of a $1,000 bond. The prosecuting witness said that Freeman had chased her away from her home Sunday morning, and that he returned that night, bursting through a locked door. She ran away again. Freeman claims he was drunk when he allegedly broke into the home, that he remembered noth ing about it. Freeman, often in the courts as a defendant.' was arrested Tues day. The prosecuting witness wanted to know how it w.jr he could not remember the alleged crime and yet was able to evade i officers for more than two days. I Beginners' Band On PTA Program Band Director Jack Butler of Williamston High School is sche duled to present the beginners’ croup of his band in a brief pro gram tt the Parents-Teachers As sociation meeting Monday even ing, April 27, in the high school auditorium. The meeting opens at 7:45 with President Fletcher Thomas pre siding. It was not announced whether the band program will precede or follow the brief busi ness session. Included in the program will be two numbers by the Junior Band, clarinet trios d the 6th and 6th grades, Clarinet quartet from the 7th grade, flute duet from the 7th grade, flute duet from the 6th grade, flute trio front the 6th and 7th grades, bass solo, 7th grader, cornet ensemble from 6th grade, tod clarinet duet from the 6th These are the groups from vhich recruits for the senior band ■vill come and their work ind: ates stronger bands for the fu ure.
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