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tHI ENTERPRISE IS READ N OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTEKF&1SE 18 BEAD ; OVER 3,006 MARTIN COCK} FAMILIES TWICE EACH WFfc volume lvi—number 101 Willicmalon, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 31, 1933 ESTABLISHED J8<« Twenty-Six Cases •Ift-CfrBCjy; CckeI Monday 'HCTning —# ed Violations Of The ">K' •*w*w***.««»f * ’PM .»*.**.• r« Traffic Laws Twenty-six cases were handled by Judge H. O. Peele and Solici tor Clarence W. Griffin during a comparatively short session of the Martin County Recorder's Court last Monday morning Most of the charges involved traffic law’ vio lations, many of the cases reflect ing the urge to get some place in a hurry during the holiday season. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Roy Boston was taxed with the' court costs. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Jim Wynn w5s charged with careless and reckless driving. Charged with the larceny of furs, William Slade pleaded guil ty, pointing out to the court that it was the first time he had ever been in trouble. He was sentenc ed to the roads for six months, the sentence to begin at the direc tion of the court at any time dur ing the next two years. He was fined $25, taxed with the costs, and ordered to refund the cost of the furs Preston N. Spruill pleaded guil ty of allowing an unlicensed driv er to operate a motor vehicle and was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Pleading guilty of the unlawful removal of crops, Bob Dail was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case in which Kay Ward, Jr., was charged with careless and reck less driving. The apparent victim of a cruel world, unwanted by society and without hope of any support from an aged mother, John Henry White went into court and plead ed guilty of vagrancy. The color .ed man ia an epileptic and has ex perienced hunger and privation on frequent occasions. He im bibes freely when intoxicants are to be had, and has presented prob •—•feme- when.kept at the county home. The court suspended judg ment in the ease, and the defend ant returned to his wandering on the streets and alleys of Wijiiams ton. White was given 'sanctuary Tuesday night at the county home for the present, at 'east. Charged with an assault, Oscar Cabe was found not guilty. Louis B. Mitchell, down from White Plains, New York, plcad »d guilty of drunken driving and was fined $100, plus costs. One of the first cases involving (Continued on Page Six) Slightly Hurt In Car Accident —•— Mrs. Herbert L. Whitley was painfully but believed not badly injured in an automobile accident about three miles from Williams ton on Highway 125 at the Com munity Church Tue-sdu/'wight. No* one else was injured. Driving their 1953 Oldsmobile toward Williamston, Mr. Whitley was forced off the road by an ap proaching cor in a curve When he tried to drive back onto the road, he lost control of the ma chine which skidded across the road and a ditch and crashed into a telephone pole. Mrs. Whitley was thrown out of the car and was bruised about her face and body. She was able to continue to her home here. No official estimate on the dam age could be had immediately, but a member of the highway pa trol said that the loss possibly would approximate $900 or $1000. f EDUCATION BOARD J Meeting next Monday, the Martin County Board of Edu cation is scheduled to employ an architect for the proposed Negro high school in Robcr sonviflc. Plans for the project are to be pushed as rapidly as possible. A site of approximately nine acres and adjoining the present Negro school plant, has been purchased for around $9,400, it was learned. Enter Into Contract For Si+rfachig- L-eca l— Stfceets A contract waa^Wfered into j yesterday morning by the town pany for the surfacing of two io cai ^tieetb. Inc prujecTa i.it.iuau. that portioii of Elm from Wash ington Street to Main, and a street between Wier's Coffee Shop and the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse, running from Washington Street to an alley near the plant of the W. I. Skinner Company. Only two bids were submitted and the Kinston firm was low with a bid of $1 per square yard. The other bid, submitted by F. D. Kline of Raleigh, was for $1.25 per yard. The contract calls for the shap ing and compaction of the streets and the laying of sand asphalt two inches thick. No completion date was mentioned, but the contractor ■***»—BMM— »i <i of February. Tow n forces recently graded the sheets and laid a rock dust base for the asphalt. There are approxi mately 6,OCO square yards in the streets, including the one near the warehouse which measures fifteen feet and eight inches in width. The contract was let at a special meeting of the board yesterday morning at 11:0C o'clock. The town and Coast Line are about to get together with the promise that Railroad Street from Washington to Smithwick will be paved sometime in early 1954. HEALTH OFFICER J The position of health of ficer for this county has been tentatively filled, according to unofficial information re ceived here today. Members of the health board recently interviewed a second appli cant, and the offer has been tentatively accepted. The board is scheduled to meet with the applicant with in the next few days to con firm the acceptance, it was learned. Surrenders After A Brief Freedom Following a freedom period of less than two days, Allen War ren, Jr., surrendered to Sheriff M.^.W. Holloman near the Mar tin-Pitt border late Tuesday night and turned ovei to prison au thorities. Warren, sentenced from this county last September to the roads for six months in each of three forgery counts, escaped from the Halifax camp last Monday after noon. Hi: companion, Joe Gur garius of Belvoir, was arrested Tuesday "night in Kinston, it was reported. Warren told the officer that he and Gurganus hired a taxi to take them to Scotland Neck and anoth er to carry them to Oak City late Monday. They hired a colored man near Oak City to carry them to Kinston where they spent the night. Following a casual argu ment, Warren said he and Gur ganus separated >n Kinston. War ren rode a bus out of Kinston to Greenville and hired a taxi to bring him to this county. After talking with relatives and friends, Warren surrendered. Native Oi County Died Last Monday Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’- j clock in a Plymouth funeral home j for Mrs. Ferrell Cahoon Dixon who died in Elizabeth City iate Mi nday The Kev. P. B Nickens, T'JymoUiVnSSpHST’minister, con ducted the rites, and interment' was in the Jackson cemetery near j Plymouth. The daughter of the late Leon ard 55.,:.ond .wif;.of Jjgrr.c: ville, Mrs. Dixon was born in Jamesviile 52 years ago. Before locating in Elizabeth City two years ago she made her home in Hertford. She was a member of the Norinon Church in Elizabeth City. Surviving are her husband, Sam Dixon; two daughters, Jacqueline Allen of Middleton, Conn., and Mrs. Audrey Oszman of St Paul, Minn.; one son, Charles R. Allen of Middletown, Conn.; tnree grandchildren six half-brothers, Humbert, Archie, Gitis and Ro- j bel t of Jamesviile, Bennie of Ply mout and Everett Hardison of Newport News, Va., one sister, Mrs. Rufus Coltraine of Oak City; her step-mother, Mrs. Ella Hardi son of Jamesviile. Holidaya End Monday For School Children -• Following a two-week Christ mas holiday, more than seven thousand Martin County school children are to return to their studies next Monday morning.! January 4. Sixteen Speeders In The Recorder's Court This Week -— Two Defendants Surrender Their Drivers’ Licenses For a Year Quite' a few defendants paid and paid dearly for the urge to get somewhere in a hurry during the holiday season when they ap peared in the Martin County Re corder’s Court last Monday morn ing. Two speeders, pleading guil ty, surrendered their drivers’ li censes for a year in addition to paying fines ranging up to $50, not to mention the $23.05 cost in each case. Other speeders, posting bond and automatically pleading guilty in absentia, were able to get away by paying only the court costs. A few others paid fines and still held on to their operators’ licens es. Pleading guilty of speeding 55 miles an hour in a 35-mile zone, Robert Henry Beacham of RFD 3, Williamston, was taxed with the costs. Thurman M. Mayo of RFD 1, Creswell, war fined $10, plus costs for speeding G5 miles an hour. The case in which Grover Lee Simmons - of RFD !, Sutton. Va , wlls—cTiarged ' with 'speeding tfi miles an hour was nol prossed, subject to be reopened for trial. Laurence Thomas Fury of St. Petersburg, Va., was fined $25 and taxed with the cost for speeding 70 miles an hour. Emanuel Stancill of RFD 2, Robersonville, lost his driver’s li cense for a year and Vas fined $25, plus costs, when he pleaded guilty of speeding 70 miles an hour. The court suspended a 30 day road term. Charged with speeding 80 miles an hour, Theodore Rudolph Bunch of Williamston pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the road term on condition that he surrender his operator’s licens for a year and pay a $50 fine, plu court costs. The following defendants charged with speeding, pleaded guilty and each was taxed with -$ (Continued on Page Six) Zoning Survey Nap Completed —•-— A zoning survey- for the- tnwn has L< cn completed hv a reprt sentative of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, and the map will be placed before the zoning commission at an early date, it was learned this week. The map and recommendations arc to be studied bv the commis sion in a meeting with Leigh "Wil son of the League. Following that meeting the commission is ex pected to carry the proposal be fore the town commissioners for final consideration. The map has not been made public. Consider Half Holiday Schedule Year Around A number of local merchants and other business men are con sidering Wednesday afternoon closings the year around except ing that period from the tobacco opening through the Christmas season. The plan is to be submitted to all local business operators with in the next few days for consid eration, it was learned today. Forecasters Are Eaessiag Qe The General Rromn*l 1 f*7iTin- Pr*,M(K ill In Hoi Waler Washington.—There is consid erable debate among the economic experts today as to whether 1954 will really bring with it a reces sion. Ever since 1951 the predic tions have run strongly on the pessimistic si^e. But by late 1952 they were almost unanimously pessimistic. For instance, in October of 1952 McGraw-Hill predicted an eight percent drop in manufacturer’s investment programs. Instead of a drop, though, investments kept going up in 1953. McGraw-Hill said the election changed things, which might be true. But even so, the same business predictions have been heard for twenty-four months now, and they have all proved incorrect. Government figures so far show little indication of a recession. There is a definite leveling off, ! since defense expenditures have reached a peak and are settling to a constant level, and since sup ply has caught up with demand in such trades as the automotive. But government figures for the first nine months show gen eral business activity continued to rise despite all the spring pre dictions that summer and fall could see a definite downturn, in business activity. Just recently several prominent business ex perts have changed their tunes— they now see good business in 1954. Some economic experts con tinue to say there will be a drop of as much as ten per cent in business next year but some are now predicting there will be an increase of as much as five per cent! No doubt there are many signs of a leveling-off, but the i question i:-t whether they are I signs of a recession. Some of the forecasters, and [some publications, are striving to prove that their predictions from far back, were correct. They may (Continued on Page Eight) Holds Position In Big Company —*— William B. McCloskey, brother of Mrs. J. D. Woolard of Williams ton, was this week given responsi bility for the operational groups of the Davison Chemical Corpora tion, according to an announce ment released yesterday by M. G. Geiger, president of the big chem ical firm. Mr. McCloskey who has visited here on quite a few occasions, was made vice president of the com pany with headquarters in Balti more last May 1. He went with Davison in 1930 from the Nation al Fertilizer Association. He is now responsible for the operational groups of engineering, production, traffic, purchasing and industrial relations, it was said. I Big Legislative -Events Scheduled In This Cuffiirt ('luling Five Billion Oif [T ins tmTsTlmT LOW - cring Manpower Washington—Things are going to start happening so rapidly ini Washington soon that it will take' a quick eye to follow them. As the boom of the Jan. 1 whistles marks the new year, taxes that bring five billion dol lars annually to the Treasury au tomatically expire. Simultaneously half' the na tion’s pay checks will be altered as social security deductions— both by employees and employers —rise automatically January 1 from one and one-half percent to two percent. A few days later, Jan. 4, Pres ident Eisenhower goes on radio and TV channels to give the na tion a preview of his new legis lative program. On January 5, the President will explain the pro gram to Democratic congression al leaders at the White House. Congress itself comes back next week, January 6. On Jan. 7, Mr. Eisenhower goes in person before the Senate and House of Representatives to de liver his State of the Nation Mes sage, which is a more detailed spelling out of what he wants Congress to accomplish. Then in quick succession come the budget message and the an nual economic report. \Vhat all this means is that the wheels of Washington will be turning again, full blast, soon. Advance signs indicate a sub stantial increase of partisanship over the year just concluded. In fact, most observers feel the country will be lucky if it escapes heavy political weather as the two parties stiffen their positions in Congress, as things are now shap ing. Simultaneously, attention is turning to economic prospects. The big stake in 1954 is the con gressional election next Novemb er. Nearly everything done on the domestic front will be directed toward it. It now appears that economic conditions as much as conditions may uffviM the result. Dr. Gabriel Hauge, one of Pre sident Eisenhower’s two top econ omic advisers declares the econo mic outlook is "good” for 1954 no matter how it is figured. On the other hand, Senator Paul H. Douglas (D) of Illinois, wdio is a former professor of econo mics, declares that “a real reces sion” is already here. (Continued on Page Six) ■ - ■» Haber son ville Stores Tit be Open January I -* Contrary to a previous an nouncement, Robersonville stores will remain open for business as usual. The bank will observe the day as a holiday and there’ll be no rural mail deliveries, but the stores will remain open, Mr. Chas. Wilson announced. May the New Yea* make a happy landing in your home ENTERPRISE Mobile X-Ray Unit Coming .To-This CountvNextWeek l hi'1 "North CaroViha St<i'n of Health in cooperation witn the Martin County Health Depart ment atvfiv^ Martin Countv Tu nereumsis two mobile1--X-ray-units into this county next week to make a mass tuberculosis survey. The service is free to all persons fifteen years of age and older. One of the units will be station ed in Main Street Williamston from next Wednesday, January 6, through January 23. A second unit will be stationed at the Williams ton basket factory one day only on January 6. Leaving the basket factory, the unit will move to Oak City on January 7 for a three-day January 12, anH in Jamesville for two days on January 13 and !4. After a .stay of oin- day .-Jaiin.uy- j J"j -~?n' wilt bo located in RobersonvtUe on January IB to remain through January 23. It takes only one or two minute's to get a chest X-ray, and one does not have to undress for it, just merely remove all metal objects from clothing. A confidential re port will be mailed each person Who has an X-ray made. There is no eost to the individual, and every person in the county is in vited and urged to have an X-ray made. Contest To Cite Progress Hade In North Carolina High School Pupils Invited To Participate In The Special Event 1 ligh school students of Martin County today were invited to par ticipate in a Statewide contest offering more than $(>,600 in prizes. The invitation was extended by bankers of Martin County who are promoting “The Big Change", an oratorical contest sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Association, it was announced by Mr. D. V. Clayton, chairman for this county. The contest is designed to call attention to North Carolina's pro gress since the turn of the cen tury, and to cause high school stu dents to devote some thought to how this progress may be continu ed in the future. The contest will begin with high school eliminations during the first week of March, 1954. The winners from each high school in the county will compete on March 10 to determine the county win ner. The county winners, in turn, will compete on March 17 in group eliminations. The State lias been divided into ten groups for the contest, roughly ten counties to the group. On March 24, the ton dividion winners will compete in division eliminations. The State has been divided into three divisions for purposes of th ccontest. On March 111, the three division winners will compete in the State Finals in Raleigh. There will be prizes on all le vels, with the three finalists winn ing $1,000, $500 and $250 respec tively. Kaeh county winner will receive a $25 Savings Bond; each group .inner will receive a $100 Savings Bond The three division winners will receive $500 cash. The Bankers Association, in sponsoring the contest, points to the remarkable progress made in North Carolina during the past half century—in education, in in dustry, in farming and in general welfare. The number of school teachers today is almost three times as great as in 1900. There were less than a dozen colleges in North Carolina 50 venrs ago; today there are 59. There were 20 public high schools in the State in 1900 today there are 959. In 1903, cotton farmers in North Carolina received $28 million for (Con/muert on ofige eight) Leaf Allotment Values Increase -4* Martin County farmers—a ft w |at least—arc looking forward to a good year, according to a report corning from a tobacco allotment lease sold at auction in front of the Martin County courthouse here yesterday at noon. ' The town of Williar.iston offer \ ed its 4.7 acre tobacco and 1.6 acre peanut allotments to cash lease and th< high hid for 1954 was $560, a figure $50 higher than the lease hid for 1953. The bidders started off with a $325 offer. After jumping rapid l.y to $500 the bidders moved more cautiously, making bids as low as $5. Guy Thomas was the suc cessful bidder. The property where thy alot ments are owned by the town ad join Woodlawn Cemetery and is a part of the Halbersladt farm. I GKNKRAI, HOLIDAY J Tomorrow—New Year's Day—will be observed as a general holiday by local stores and other business houses. There’ll be no postal deliver ies either in the rural areas or in the town, and Sunday hours will be observed by drug stores and a few other places of business. Several "watch” parties are being planned to greet the New Year, hut no special ser vices have been announced. Native Oi County Dies In New Bern Fred S. Powell, native of this county, died in a New been hospi tal early Tuesday morning. He had been in declining health for some time and quite ill during several months. He was born in Parmele 58 years ago, the son of Mrs. Ella Craft Powell and the late David Smith Powell. After spending his early life in Parmele where he was associated with the old Par ffiole Ranking and Trust Company and other business interests be- i fore going to Bethel. In 1941 he went with a firm in New Bern. He was a veteran of World War-T j and a Mason. Funeral services wore held in Pie Bethel Methodist Church yes terday afternoon at 3.00 o'clock by th -Hi v. H. li. Lewis, pastor, 1 assisted by the Rev. W L. Clegg. Interment was in the Bethel Ce metery. Surviving bsides his mother are his wife, the former Miss Malena Ward of Bethel; one daughter, Margaret Rose Powell; two bro thers, Guy E. Powell of Parmele and Larry G. Powell of Charlotte, and two sisters, Mrs. F. E. Moses of High Point and Mrs. John G lingers of Greensboro. Threaten Sheriff For Handling Job —, Anxious to balance the accounts before the New Year quite a few creditors have turned execution papers over to Sheriff M W. Hol loman for service. The job is not at all pleasant, but no serious difficulty hud been encountered until this week when the wife of a tenant farmer near Jamesville threatened the offic- j it's life with a gun Gradually closing in, the officer caught the barrel of the gun and turned it aside before the weapon fired. No one was hurt. The officer declared that the 'foreclosure papertf were being i. sued in greater numbers this year than at any other time in years. Most of those who are in debt to their landlords have caused no trouble, but 'he officer explained that he was receiving little co operation. In one or two casts, the officers had to plan and super vist the harvest of crops to satis fy judgments. Minor Accident At Intersection N<j one whs injured and pro perty damage was limited to less than $1.10 when two ears were in collision at the intersection of Pearl and Washington streets here at 2 If) o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Noah Davis Nicholson was driv ing across Washington Street when Anthony G. Macon, Con cord, Massachusetts, man, plowed into the side of his ear. Damage to Nicholson's 1953 Pontiac was estimated at $12167, and that to Macon's 1952 Plymouth at $10. President Tries Par An Effective TyniiTiiMlinTTnefn Frea-oirv Set To I,o*e Five . FtfWsj'/w -)»rTn»in» ■El'i ii—i Day Of New Year Washington.—President Dwight D. Eisenhower has ahead launched his public relations ef fort for 1954. Starting befort Christmas Ike began inviting kef. congressional leaders to the White Hi use. He told G. O P. legislators only teamwork could put the Repub lican program over in the final session of the 83rd Congress. As some of the lawmakers sat there, listening to Ike, they themselvs didn’t know what was included in his 1954 legislative proposals. The President will go before a joint session of Congress on the 7th and end the speculation. He will outline a Republican legisla tive program which is more in clusive in benefits and scope than any ever before offered by a Re publican Prsident. It will almost amount to a continuation of most of the Democratic social legisla tion of the last decade. Ike feels that only if the Re publican Congress now in its last year enacts much of this program will the party by sustained in the fall's congressional elections. And only if the party is sustained in this year’s elections will the party oe in a position to make any fur ther record in the remaining two years until the next Presidential election in 1956. The President knows he is deal ing with two elements in his par ty and his hope is that harmony meetings such as he initiated last spring will unify the party behind his program. It may be more dif ficult than Ike thinks, however, for it will be hard for some of the conservative members of the party in Congress to support some of the Presidential program. Considering the stakes, Ike is doing the only tiling he can do attempting to solidify support in the GOP for the Presidential re commendations. It may be the roughest political job he has ever undertaken. In spite of howls from the mili tary, especially the Army, the ; Administratmn hits gone ahead i with |'i.op'i.s.e.d inis and 11s* i.wtcst report indicates the 1955 budget (which covers the year beginning (Continued from Page Six) Native Oi County Dies In Norfolk Mrs. Ellen Davis, native of this | county, dual at the home of her I daughter in Norfolk Tuesday I night at 11:00 o'clock. She had I been indeelining health for some time. The daughter of the late Eli and Annie Gyrkin Rogers, she was born in Jamesville Township 92 years ago in IHtil, and spent most of her life in this county. About fifteen years ago she moved to Plymouth, locating in Norfolk seven years ago to make her home She was the oldest living member of the Corinth Free Will Baptist Church in Jamesville '1'ownship. She was married in early "u iaiuih\'i• >i,u to oharles H. Davis who died some years ago. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. J. T. Nicholson, of Norfolk; two sons, Mack and Tom Davis, both of the old. home community in Jamesville Township; nineteen grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren. The funeral service is being conducted in a Plymouth funeral home this afternoon at 2:30 o' clock b> the Rev. P. B. Nickens, Baptist minister. Interment will ‘ be in the Davis Cemetery in Jamesville Township. j I FIRST MONDAY ^ The first Monday in the year will find just about all public boards in session, but with no extensive business scheduled for consideration. The county board of com missioners is slated for a fair ly short session, its business limited mainly to routine mat ters. The board of education will discuss plans for a new Negro high school in Rober sonville, and Wiiliamston's commissioners have compara tively little business on their calendar at this time.
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