THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNT? ♦ FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE! VOLUME LYII—NUMBER 85 W'illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 28. 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Peele Has Twenty-One Cases |b Corniy's Cear! Fines Add Up To $695.00 During Short Session Monday Morning Judge H. O. Peele and Solicitor! Clarence Griffin handled twenty-1 one cases during a short session J of the Martin County Recorder’s j Court last Monday morning, me docket included five speeding cas 0s. Fines added up to $695. Proceedings: Charged with careles#, reckless and drunken driving, John Carroll Williams, Jr., pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guilty of drun ken driving and the court fined him $100, plus costs. He loses his driver’s license for a year. Notice of appeal to the superior court was given, and $250 bond was re quired. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Earl Taylor Mann was fined $25, plus costs. Wardnell Hadnott was fined $100 and taxed with the costs for! drunken driving. He loses his op- : erator’s license for jg year. In the case charging James ; Stokes and Jasper Perry with an j assault with a deadly weapon, Perry was adjudged not guilty, und Stokes was adjudged guilty nf simple assault. Judgment was | suspended upon the payment of j the costs. The case in which Robert B. Gault of Norfolk was charged with speeding 75 miles an hour, was nol pressed with leave, the defendant begging the court’s par don for being slopped out with the lJ. S. fleet before he could be tried. Charged with forcible trespass, Boss Alexander first pleaded guil ty and then changed his plea. Ad judged guilty, he was sentenced to the roads for six months, the rourt suspending the road term upon the payment of Ihe cost*. ® Pleading guilty of gambling, ; ruJson Mack Whitfield end Willie I Shorty) G i.ha/U were taxed Judgmen?^m?^S(Kndce ami a Few Others •— —" Whilr the Republicans and De mocrats are locked In mortal com bat in various parts of the coun j try and even in some of the cun j gressional districts in this State, I Martin County voters are giving only casual attention to the State j ballot, and comparatively few are! j expected to participate in the I general election r.< xt Tuesday. | 1 There are onlv five districts and ■'^'Zxztsbsz ; •V**ns offering no opposition in j the race for twenty-two offices, most ol the posts be in |{ centered in the judiciary. In the district eon^st, W. T Love, Republican, is contesting I tin* office now held by Congress- I man Herbert C. Bonner. Love will get a few votes in this county. Possibly the race for the Unit-' (Continued on Page Eight) i API'ROYKh r I j New car models placed on display here today by the Itoanoke Chevrolet and ('has. II. Jenkins and Company, are attracting much attention at the showrooms here today. And they are receiving a firm stamp of approval by the gen eral public. The cars are also to be plac ed on display at the county fair this afternoon, it was reported. Civil War Diary of Docton Warren Bagley Installment 23 I On the evenings of the 4th and j 5th, October, 1861, the young gen-) tlemen have a concert in the Mas onic Lodge for and on account of "The Ladies Soldiers’ Relief So ciety of Martin County,” led by Captain Knight and Lieutenant Sitterson, which resulted in the collection of $48.90, which I paid over to the president, Mrs. Knight. On the morning of the 6th of October, 1861. 1 received a mess age from Mr. N. B. Fagan, 1st Lieutenant, saying his men were suffering for blankets, etc., and that sick soldiers had to lay upon the ground with but one blanket to cover, and asking me to see if aid could not be sent to them from the county. 1 wrote to Mr Bennett on the subject', learning that the ladies had a large collection at Hamil-j ton. .1 On Monday, the 14th, Messrs. T. Jones, W. R. W. Sherrod, Baldy| Staton, and Bryant Bennett met us here and reported the articles. of blankets, quilt.-', comforts, I sheets, drawers, etc., they had on hand at Hamilton from the work' and free contribution of the up County Ladies, which with a por tion we iiave here from a similar collection and from the “Ladies Soldiers Aid Society”, we conclud ed to send Captain Hives’s com pany aid at once, and Messrs. B. Staton and Bryant Bennett gen-j eruuoly offered to accompany them and see they were delivered. (Mr. Bagley submiled a list of j the articles with Mr. C. B. Has-' sell). j Messrs. Bennett and Staton left 1 on Thursday, October 17 with the ! goods. (On December 30, 1861, Mr.j Bagley had to alter his bookkeep-j ing records, the State having re fused to accept all the items char ged against it) Judge Biggs rendered the fol-l lowing account of deductions from our account against the State: Hedrick and Ryan, gold lace, $5.39; camp chests, 12 deducted,! $16; Lamb, bounty, $11.50; ex penses of public meeting, $35; excess in mattresses, 15 of them, $37.50; excess in board, $136.95; j vouchers for bounty. $940; rosetts,' I $14; trunk straps, $85c; combs, I 20s; popper and box, 25c; spoons, I $4.90; pan, 25c; peppty, $!0c; to j bacco, $15; excess in meals, $68.94; bounty charged, $1,215; Sundries, stools, tables, etc., $54; Thrower, $2.50; needles, gai ters, etc., $5.05; mattresses, $25; shoes, $1.25; sundries, 65c; trunk straps, $2.55; needles, 10c; spoons, $1.25; stone pitcher, 65c; sundries, $2.30; gilt lace, sundries and er ror in addition, $7.49; sundries, $1.05; carpet bags, knife, etc, $8,37; officers’ equipment for both companies, $169.10, C, $72. The companies A and C, having drawn bounty money from thej State, the bounty paid by me was! not allowed fThe amount deducted added up to $2.855.14 ) Deductions were made in tire account for the Hamilton Com pany, as follows: Eggs, $3.60; apple brandy, $35.20; eggs, $2.40; canvas and ex penses, camp stools, $19; Gilliken stools, $9.33; cash paid bounty, $2,080. Free negroes, $42.50; lan terns, $1.70; matches, 80c; wash! pans, $2.40; pepper, 35c; milk, $6; j, crush, 3.72; sleights negro, $16.60; officers’ equipment, $114.50; offi cers’ trimmings, $6.08; excess on the dhers, $119.50; officers’ share of tailor’s bill, $2.50; additional for ; officers, $74.07; four gallons of! brandy, $7; spoons, $1.40; whiskey,; $1; brandy, $6.12; jug, $1; powder and allot, 20c; 43 1-2 gallons of j whiskey, $15,211; forty gal lofts of whiskey, $14. The Company B having receiv ed bounty money from the State, it is now allowed. Company B claimed $5,811.54 but the Board of Claims (State) allowed only $3,395.35. Companies I A and C claimed $6,727.76, but the i Board of Claims allowed only $3, 1 872.62. (Allowed only $7,267197, the! county vlounteer fund apparent ly was called upon to make up the amount of $5,271.33 the Board uf, Claims rejected, the amount in-, eluding $2,155 bounty paid Com panies A and C and $2,080 paid t Company B. .In the next installment, No. 24, ; Mr Bagiev jumps to February 15, I i 1862, telling about picket duty j , and listing dispatches) Native Of County Dies In Maryland Mrs. Li.shii Ballard Wheatley, a native gf this county died late ] Monday afternoon in Hebron, ! Maryland, the victim of a heart I attack. Employed in the offices of a branch of the Alla.- Plywood Corporation, she suffered the at tack and died before she could be moved to a hospital. She was born in Griffins Town ship, the daughter of the late Byrd and Hattie Manning Ballard. She was first married to Richard Bassett and had made her home in Maryland for the past eighteen or nineteen years. Her second marriage was to Atlas Wheatley, also of Maryland. Surviving besides her husband are four children, Danny, Bettie, Willard and Benny Bassett, all of Hebron; two sisters, Mrs. John Dickerson of Oklahoma City, and Mis. Mary Sharpe of Cambridge, i Maryland; and one half-brother, | Dalton Brown, of Robersonville. The funeral service will be con ducted Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the Smith Funeral Cha- ! pel in Sharptown, Md., and inter-1 nient will be in Galetown, Mary- [ land. Mrs. Eula Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Biggs, Mrs. Sallie Mobley, Mrs. Shirley Ward and Mr. Dal ton Brown are leaving today to attend the funeral tomorrow. Drunk Subdurd It Thv Carnival llvrv Thin Week —-*§>—* No report was released by of- 1 ficers, but it was learned that car- j nival attendants devised a way of their own for taking care of drunks here this week. A rather boisterous fellow' was subdued, tied securely and rolled under the warehouse to sober up. As far as it could- be learned he w as not hurt or robbed Proposed Changer In Constitution Up To The People Five VnteiMlmentss Before Tile \ (tiers In Kleetion On November 2nd North Carolinians will vote November 2 on live proposed amendments to the State Consti tution. The first one would authorize the General Assembly to provide for recalling retired supreme court justices to fill temporary vacancies caused by illness or other emergencies. The second would authorize the General Assembly to create a board of paroles and confer upon it the authority to grant, revoke and terminate pansies which is now exercised by the Governor. The third would limit to one, the number of State Senators from any one county. The fourth would reduce from four months to 30 days, the time a voter must reside in a precinct before becoming eligible to vote. The fifth would permit the Gov ernor, in filling a vacancy in the executive or judicial departments to appoint a person to serve the balance of the unexpired term if that term is to expire on the first day of January after the next general election. Under existing statutes retired supreme court justices become emergency superior court justices and may be called on to hold terms of superior court. There is no existing authority to recall them for duty on the supreme court. The amendment creating a pa role board would terminate the Governor’s power of granting, terminating and revoking paroles after July 1, 195b. Under present laws, it is per missible for one county to have two or more senators. The effect of the proposed amendment would be to prevent any one county from having more than one senator in the General Assembly at any giv en time, whether the county alone composes a .- -natorial distric* or whether it is combined « th other ; countn - ITfAiich a di. met. i ii'‘making ap|» uitivul,- accord ; mg to existing statu* the gov ( riuir': appointee to fill a vacancy can hold office under the appoint ment only until the next regular election. At this next regular elec tion, any person seeking the office in question must run for election j for the period of time between the election and the end of the term to which the person vacating the office was originally elected, and must also run for a regular term to commence at the end of that short term. Grass Fire Goes Out Oi Control Several homes and outbuild ings were threatened shortly af ter 3:00 o'cloek yesterday after noon when a grass fire went out of control on West Main Street between Brown’s Community Hospital and tin- railroad trestle. Said to have started from a trash pile, the fire was burning rapidly along the railroad right of-way in both directions. Called to the scene, firemen were able to cut off the fire on the west with small hose lines, but a large and long hose line had to be con nected with the town water sys tem to check the fire at the eas tern end. More than an hour was spent bringing the fire under control and returning the equipment to the station. VOTING HOURS I v__...__/ The polls for the general election next Tuesday will be open in thirteen precincts in this county from 6:30 a. in., until 6:30 p. in. Even though there is no opposition expressed to the county ticket, .Martin Coun ty voters are being urged to vote in numbers to offset op position to the ticket in the I'irst Congressional District and also in the State. The Enterprise will not post the returns, but it has been asked to canvass the re turns for the press associa tions and the State press. Poll holders are asked to tele phone in the returns.