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Irish Potato Goals Are Mailed To Columbus County Farmers Columbus County farmers who are planting Irish potatoes for market this year will be eligible for price support under a Gov ernment purchase program, if such a program is in effect, pro vided they have planted within their established acreage goal. The 1948 goals have been mail ed to those farmers whose pota to history indicated they were eligible for a goal of three or more acres, according to D. H. Jordan, vice-chairman of the Col umbus County A. C. A. Any farm for which a goal of 3.0 or more acres was not established is eli gible for a non-commercial goal not jo exceed 2.9 acres. The planting of potatoes in ex-, cess of the 194S goal for a farm shall, subsequent to the date of | , such excess planting, render any , person having an interest in | i such farm ineligible to participate ' in the 1948 potato price support i ; operations. Any person having an! i interest other than as owner or I operator in potato production from one or more non-commercial [farms is ineligible also. I The closing date for accepting ( an application for a "New Farm" goal is February 15, 1948. A j I "New Farm" is one on which po-1 Itatoes have not been planted since; : 1943 and on which the 1948 farm ' operator's personal history of j potato production since 1943 is [not used in determining the farm goal. Greer's Boxers Outslug Tigers Hallsboro Boys Prove Noj Match For Wolfpack; Powerhouse, Losing By j Wide Margin BY JIGGS POWERS HALLSBORO. Feb. 9.?Com pletely outclassing their opposi tion. Lee Greer's Whiteville lea ther-slingers defeated the Tiger boxing team of Hallsboro High in the local gym last Thursday night by a score of six and one-half to two and one-half. With several of the heavier hoys of the Wolfpack unmatched,' it was feared at the beginning that the Tigers might upset the j unbeaten Whiteville pugilists.1 However, several of the untried boys, along with some of the I vets who were matched, soon ex-! pelled all thoughts of victory j from the mind of the Bogue fol- j lowers. Among the more powerful! of the Whiteville boys whom the; local outfit did not match were j Eldred Williamson, Rone Ander son. Robert Simmons, and sev eral others. Leading the 'Pack to their third consecutive triumph were the same old combination of the Williamson boys, Furman Hol comb. Bobby Harwood, and the Pridgen's. In the first combine, Eldred was missing but Carl and Crowell carried on with the help of the baby of the famous family, Robert. The latter gained a draw in his first public appearance in the ring. It came in the 65 pound class, the first fight of the even ing, and his opponents was David Corbett. ' Tracy Rhodes. Whiteville's plucky little 70 pound southpaw, gave Lewis Sellars of Hallsboro never a dull moment as he slug ged out a clean-cut decision over him, and gained the visitors first whole point. Haywood Corbett, 82 pounds of Hallsboro gained an unpopular decision over Matt Nel son. of Whiteville. Greer's ever dependable Fur man Holcomb gained a technical knockout over Phil Ray, of Halls boro. when the latter failed to answer the gong for the opening of the 2nd round. This was in the 90 pound class. Carl Williamson, visiting 100 pounder, won a very popular de cision over Van Dyke Baker, in spite of the local boys rough and ready tactics. He was just no match for the ring skill of the Whiteville slugger. Bobby Harwood, Whiteville's 107 fighter met his toughest op ponent of the season thus far when he scored a close win over Jimmy Baldwin. The Hallsboro pug showed more class than more of the most experienced boys on the local team of Coach Homer Thomas. Davis Pridgen, 112, of Whiteville took his match by scor ing the second Whiteville TKO. He banged Elbert Smith around so readily that the local boy was unable to answer for the 3rd lap. Crowell Williamson, Whiteville's classiest boxer at 122 pounds, gave Hallsboro's pride, Skin Meares, a lesson in the manly art as he scored a clean-cut margin over the Bogue boy in the three round go. The Fayetteville Gloder, Gloves winner was never in trouble, leading all the way. In the final battle of the card, Doug las Pridgen, 134 pounds of White ville. learned how Joey Walcott felt when that worthy fought Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis not long ago, as the visiting leather-thrower apparently bang er Bruce Clark of the local school all around the ring, but dropped a close and very unpopular de cision. Coach Homer Thomas Tigers seemed willing but their inex perience was their downfall. They fought all the way and, with more training and fights under their belts, promise to give .trouble in days to come. , The results of Thursday's 'night's matches are as'follows: 65 lbs. Robert Williamson (W) ; drew with David Corbett (H) 70 lbs. Tracy Rhodes (W) de cisioned Lewis Sellars (H) 82 lbs. Haywood Corbett (H) decisioned Matt Nelson (W) 90 lbs. Furman Holcomb (W) won 2nd round tko over Phil Ray j (H) 100 lbs. Carl Williamson (W) | decisioned Van Dyke Baker (H) I 107 lbs. Bobby Harwood (W) idecisioned Jimmy Baldwin (H) ESSC-ALL THE WAY! Gascline - Motor Oil - Lubricants You simply cannot beat them for sen-ice And Satisfaction ! WILSON ARNOLD U. S. No. 17 Supply, N. G. -INSURANCE AUTO . . LIABILITY . . FIRE . . COLLISION LIFE . . HOSPITALIZATION J. B. HEWETT ? Insurance of All Kinds ? SHALLOTTE, - - NORTH CAROLINA GET READY FOR INSPECTION! Save time, save money, save embarrass ment. . . . Let us get your car or truck ready to pass through the inspection lane with every item checked "O.K." Big Line of Genuine Plymouth and Dodge Parts. WILLIAMSON MOTOR CO. Dodge ? Plymouth Dealer SHALLOTTE, N. G. The Boy Scout Goal Farm Forester's Notes By Walter VV. Barm-*, Farm Forester There are a lot of things we can do to make our woodlands more productive. One is culling out weak, deformed and low qual ity trees. These can be utilized for pulpwood, fuelwood for the home or tobacco barn. Uncontrolled woods fires annually take a big pile of wood up in smoke and flame which could be better used In the heater or cook stove. Thou sands of acres of woodland burn over every year; 99 per cent of these are caused by man. chiefly through carelessness. Our forests can be protected if we take the same interest in them that we do with other crops; You wouldn't let fire burn your barn or home if you could help it. If you saw your neighbor's barn burning, you would help fight the fire. Why not cooperate in a like manner in helping to control forest fires? Harvest your timber crop every year as you do your tobacco. You don't pick your tobacco until it Is matured and ready to pick. Apply the same principle to your timber crop. Harvest it when it is ready to harvest. You may only get a few loads of pulpwood or a few logs during the winter. The value of the material cut out may not be so great but quality and value will be added to those trees remaining since you are im proving their growing conditions even as you apply fertilizer to i tobacco to improve it's growing conditions. The real opportunity for adding dollars to your bank account through good forest management is knocking at the door of every farmer who owns timber. What will you do with your opportunity? This district, including Colum bus. Brunswick, Robeson and Bla den, has a Farm Forester who can and will be glad to help you with your forestry problems. 112 lbs. Davis Pridgen (W) scored tko over Elbert Smith (H) in 3rd round. 120 lbs. Crowell Williamson (W) decisioned "Skin" Meares (H) 134 lbs. Bruce Clark (H) de cisioned Douglas Pridgen (W) It is important that peanuts be grown on soil that can be kept loose because the plant flowers above ground and then that part of the plant goes underground to develop the pod or shell. Want to salvage that old chest In the attic? Paint it shocking pink or emerald green and use it as the only bright aocent in a white-walled room. Acquit -Whitten In Assault Case Returns Verdict Of Not] Guilty After Deliberating Case For Thirty-Eight Minutes TRIAL OF PATROLMAN CONSUMES TWO DAYS State Hospital Psychiatrist Says Braswell Man Is Suffering From De mentia Praecox | State Highway Patrolman R. E. I Whitten was acquitted late Fri-j day in Columbus County Superior Court for an alleged assault upon Rev. Ed Williams of the Braswell section near Chadbourn. After sitting through the two- [ day trial, the jury required only' 38 minutes to return a verdict of! not guilty. ? The case was placed in the hands of the jury at 6:06 p. m. j after Judge Q. K. Nimocks, of Fayetteville had spent two hours j in making his charge. Because of the lateness of ther hour, less than 125 people were in the court room when the jury returned at 6:44 o'clock. Specta tors sat quietly as a not guilty verdict was announced on the count of assault with a deadly weapon and there was only an occasional murmur when a simi lar verdict was given on the less or count of simple assault. I There was no demonstration. I However, numerous spectators later gathered around the patrol man to congratulate him upon his exoneration. I Testimony in the case was j completed before the noon Ad journment. Returning to the court room, arguments of counsel be gan. Whitten was defended by J. K. Powell of Whiteville and Ray mond Mallard of Tabor City, while j the prosecution was in charge of Solicitor Clifton L. Moore and j Recorder's Court Solicitor Joe | Brown. The trial began Thursday morn ing and only about an hour was required to select a jury. Mrs. Ed Williams, wife of the alleged victim of the assault, was the first witness. She testified that on the night of November 29, her husband retired about 8 o'clock, got up to treat an asth matic condition shortly before midnight and then got up again about 2 a. m. Sunday. She said MILLIONS OF WOMEN HAVE THEIR HEARTS SET ON A MAYTAG aren't you glad you waited for a new /Mesutaa Com* in and let us demonstrate the leader of them all KING'S ELECTRICAL SALES CO. SHALLOTTE, N. C. he left home at 2:30 a. m., but that she didn't know where W Lafefft was developed that WilHams a part-time preacher ITSU. ?nt to Chadboum where he was found walking along the highway and was placed un der arrest by Patrolman Whitten who got Chadbourn Night p^ce* man L. W. Haggins to accompany him to Columbus County Hospital. M the local hospital, Williams was examined by a nurse Mr . Robert Heath, and later by Dr. j T. Wyche. From the hospital. Williams was carried to the coun ty jail where he remained until bonded out a few hours later Williams was again taken to the hospital, remaining theie about tsvo hours before being carried home by relatives. After Williams was taken home, Patrolman Whitten requested a noi pros in the case id which the officer had charged the man with walking on (he wrong sid of the highway and resisting ar rest Thus the case against Wil liams was nevt- heard in Re corder's Court. Three days arter the alleged assault and arrest, a warrant against Whitten and Haggins was sworn out by George Williams a brother of the preacher, charging them with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, as sault with a deadly weapon and simple assault. Mrs Williams testified that her husband had bruises on-his forehead and a cut on the back of the head when he was return ed home. She denied that he was 'not normal mentally, but admitt ed on cross examination that he had preached to his children foi an hour before going to bed on the night of his trip to Chad bourn and admitted writing a let ter in which she said that for several years he had complained of a hurting in the head Which would sometimes "almost lift his top off." . Star witnesses for the State included Henry Stephens and Var dell Todd, who were sitting up at the hospital when Williams was brought in by Whitten and Hag gins. They quoted Whitten as saying that he had hit Williams with his gun after the pistol had failed to fire when he pulled the trigger. He said the patrolman looked at the inert figure of Williams on the emergency table at the hospital and said. "If this gun hadn't failed" to fire, you d be a shot man tonight." Patrolman Whitten was his own best witness. He sai<f he first saw Williams walking alon? the highway on the wrong side of the road in violation of the .pedestrian traffic law and that thecman acted in a furtive man ler, pulling his hat down to con 'ceal his face and drawing his | coat close to him. He said he noted that the man had some ob iect under his arm. When he at tempted to question Williams, Whitten said the man ran off into the field and that as he did so, he (the officer) snapped his gun twice in an attempt to | get the fleeing man to halt. He said he had the gun pointed up in the air. The gun failed to dis charge. Later Williams, whom he did not know, came back onto 'the highway and turned the door knob of two filling stations, Whit ten testified. The officer said he then iden tified himself and told Williams he was under arrest. He said Wil liams broke away and struck him on the shoulder. Whitten testified that he then hit Williams on the shoulder with the palm of his | hand and Williams sagged to his knees. After he had taken hold of the man again, Whitten said Williams again broke loose and grazed his shoulder with another blow. Whitten said he then hit Williams with his hand and Wil ' liams fell next to a gas tank on to the concrete surface. The officer denied categorically that he had struck Williams with any object other than his ' open hand and said he had used no excessive force in making the ar rest. Two of the best witnesses for the defense >vere Dr. Wyche, who made the examination at tjie local hospital, and Dr. R. G. Blackwel der, superintendent of State Hos pital where Williams was carried 10 days after the alleged assault. Dr. Blackwelder, himself a psy chiatrist, said bluntly that in his opinion Williams was suffering from dementia praecox?a mental disease?and that "most certain ly his condition could not have been caused by any blow." Dr. Wyche said he saw only a three-quarter inch laceration on the back of Williams' head and that his immediate diagnosis was that the patient- was suffering from dementia praecox or some other mental disorder, and that he had so informed the officers. He said he had advised them to | have Williams watched so that he would have no opportunity to harm himself. Earlier, the State had put sev eral witnesses on the stand to quote Whitten as saying he had had to "work a man over." At the conclusion of State's evidence, Judge Nimocks over ruled a defense motion to non suit the case. The jurist, how [ ever, did non-suit the felonious j charge of assault with a deadly | weapon with intont to kill, but | allowed the jury to pass upon; the indictment of assault with a I I deadly weapon and simple as sault. Character witnesses included four Roxboro and Person County | officials. Whitten resided in Per | son before being assigned to I patrol duties in the Whitevllle area. The witnesses from his i home county were Sheriff Clar ence Holeman, Roxboro Police Chief George Robinson, Clerk of Court Alex Bass and County Com missioner R. D. Bumpass. A child 12 years old requires about twice as many calories in his diet as a child three years jold. ? I No matter how many medicines yon have tried you get relief from your oough or your money back. LEGGETTS LEGGETT'S PHILCO 141. Designed for outstanding performance, de pendability, operating economy! Powerful Permanent Magnet Speaker gives rich, undistortea tone. Concealed C'Sii QC Battery Block, "On-Off" Flag. Highly sensitive! 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C., and Whiteville's pugs in their first two starts, the j Tigers have shown much promise I for a team in its first year at | the 'beak-bustin' sport and have | several boys that give notice of J becoming real competitors ere the season is complete. "Skin". Meares, who holds a record of [ one win and one loss thus far, is probably Thoma^' best fighter. His loss came last Thursday even- j ing when he met Whiteville's classy Crowell Williamson. This was no black mark against his( I record, as the shifty Whiteville 1125 pounder is one of the best in I the South in his class. Another! boy who is expected to carry his share of the local burden is,' Jimmy Baldwin, who showed up as one of the better counter-j punchers on the Tiger fistic ag- j gregation. Although he lost a de cision to Whiteville's Bobby Har wood, Baldwin gave him quite a ' battle before succumbing. Others on the squad who may see action include David and Haywood Cor bett, Lewis Sellars, Phil Ray, Van Dyke Baker, Elbert Smith 3n Bruce Clark. Several other m? , bers who have not yet may be matched by members i the Florence team. The Invaders have always hv powerful boxing teams, having ready fought the Whit.-\ ipa,. this season. Their 1 ,i,.r_ (!.| Cooper, has always had h:s puj lists among the top team; ~ South Carolina and the p>,r,i, Belt. His outfit of nils is , exception, as Hallsboro f. .Mow, r 'will see come Thursday r.^ht. I Private Watts \ow Stationed In .Japan j WITH THE EIGHTH ARM1 IN TOKYO. JAPAN Prfvati i Joseph M. Watts, son of Ruby Cartrette, of Whitevill? , North Carolina, is now servini with the famed fight ? g pjj Cavalry Division, which is o| 'occupational duty in the ten pro fectures of the Tokyo-YokobaiJ j area of ccntral Honshu Island Japan. | Private Watts entered the arm] in May 1947, and received h:' basic training at Fort Ord, Calij ornia. Overseas since S. ;.t? i,,b;? 1947, Private Watts Is ing with "D" Troop. 1st Squad ron, 5th Cavalry Regiment as | Machine Gunner. Private Watts | distinguished student of White ville High School, plai s to t rite Ohio State University when ni leaves the army. About 4.000 stage show* will casts represent Ing every level ? talent from amateur veteran-pa tients to leading stage scree) and radio stars were given fa| patients in Veterans Administra tion Audiences during the peri<>4 totaled 330,000. Only five per cent of V. a overseas travel was organized ii cruises in 1930, but 2S per cen was so organized by 19:;8. "Hold it. we'll be back 'oon... we just entered the great Pepsi-Cola 'Treasure Top' Sweepstakes and Contests!'' ? Look for hidden design under the cork in every Pepsi-Cola bottle top. ? Enter Pepsi's great $203,725"TreasureTop" Sweepstakes and Contests. ? Every entry gets a Treasure Certificate for the big Family Sweepstakes Prize of $25,000.00 Cash. ? 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