BMITHFIELD NEEDS:
—Bigger Pay Roll.
—A Modern Hotel. '
—Renovation of Opera House.
—More Paved Streets.
—Chamber of Commerce.
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SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1925 * *
Know Your County
Do you know that Johnston, Wil
son and Pitt counties raised more
produce per acre in 1922 than any
like area in the United States?
Number 105
Tobacco Brings
Good Price Here
! Mr. Vance Hales Sells A
Large Load At Average
Of About 30 Cents.
Mr. Vance Hales, of near Kenly.
was in town yesterday and sold
about two thousand pounds of to
bacco at an average of about thir
ty cents per pound. Mr. Hales was
on the Wilson market Wednesday
and came to Smithfield the same
day. He said he noticed that to
bacco was selling better here than
in Wilson, so he brought a load
here yesterday and was well pleas
ed with the price he received for
it. Mr. Hales has sold about eight
thousand pounds on the market
here this season. He says he ex
pects to sell something like twenty
thousand pounds in all before the
season closes. The load he brought
yesterday was sold at the New
Smithfield Tobacco Warehouse.
Mr. Hales is one of the best far
mers in Johnston county. He has
been one of the county’s best to
bacco growers for several years.
He knows the value of tobacco and
when it brings its worth.
Town Pays No Taxes
There is so much said and writ
ten against municipal ownership of
public utilities that Elizabeth City
folks in their venture in the elec
tric light, water, and sewerage
business will be glad to learn
something of Ponca City, Okla.
Ponca City with a population
of 15,000 is free from taxes. No
board of tax assessors sits at the
town hall once a year to listen to
the lies of taxpayers and no tax
gsthPTPr'ever comes around. Ponca
City owns its lights, water, and
power plants, and the profits on
these public utilities, owned and
operated by the city, pay all the
rest of the expense of running the
city.
And water, light, and power
rites in Ponca City are lower
than in other places where citizens
pay taxes and also dhrich the pri
vate owners of public utility cor
porations.
Of course some one will say
that Ponca City, Okla-, is a long
way from Elizabeth City, N. C-,
Abut one will find a nearly parallel
case at Warrenton, N. C., a little
town of 1,000 population, where
they have built streets, schools,
and a hotel largely out of profits
from their municipally owned pub
lic utilities. The tax rate in War
renton is only SI.00 and Warren
ton always has a surplus in the
treasury.
The secret of the success of
municipal ownership in Warren
ton, Ponca City and elsewhere lies
in efficient and honest manage
ment. In Warrenton the best bus
iness men in the town give their
time freely as directors f<f the
town’s public utilities and are
proud to serve the town in that
way and make just as good a
showing in the town’s business as
they make in their own. Elizabeth
City has just as good business
men, with just as much honesty
and integrity as one can find any
where else. We've got to learn
how to use our business sense.—
Elizabeth City Independent.
It will pay to buy feed rather
than sell dairy cattle this fall
thinks John Arey, dairy extension
specialist at State Colege. Cul! out
the poor producers but keep the
best cows he advises.
AUNT ROXIE SAYS—
By Me
A cyar aint lak a clock is, Or
dangus kind er gun; Tic mo ycr
tries to wind it, De wus it hates be
run. ^
Digs Own Grave
frA^DCx.grjg];:
Twenty years ago Walter Hansel
lug his own grave, but hasn't need
•d it yet. He says he hates th<
sound of clods falling on a caske
luring a funeral. Hansen’s horns ,
a near Arkansas City, Kansas.
TRAINING SCHOOL
AT FOUR OAKS
Will Begin At The Baptist Church
Next Sunday With a Mass ,
Meeting In The Afternoon
Four Oaks, Nov. 18.—A Train
ing school will begin at the Bap
tist church Sunday, November 22, j
with a mass meeting in the after
noon at 3:30 o’clock. At this time
an address will be given by Mr.
Ben S. Beach. The teachers for
the training school are: Mr. Ben
S. Beach, Sunday School Field
Worker for the State; Miss Gladys
H. Beck, Sunday School and B.
Y. P. U. worker for Johnston As
sociation; and Rev. jas. A. Ivey.
Mr. Beach will teach “Teachers
that Search.” Miss Beck will teach
“Sunday School Normal Manual”,
and Rev. Jas. A. Ivey will teach
“Winning to Christ'.” There will be
classes each * night beginning on
Monday. The hours are from 6 to
8 o'clock. At 6 o’clock is Devo
tional; 6:15, class; 7:00, lunch;
7:15, class, and 8 o’clock, address,
All present teachers and officers,
all assistant teachers, all members
of Intermediate, young people’s
and adult classes(are expected to
attend- All the Sunday school
workers of Blackman’s Grove and
Burnell, and any others from these
churches, or neighboring churches
arc invited to come. The Four Oaks
church plans through this train
ing school and others to follow,
to make possible its ambitions
largely toward trained teachers,
with every teacher and officer hold
ing a normal Sunday school di
ploma. This purports to be the
greatest training school this
church has ever known.
Start Now To Prevent
Rotten Fruit Next Year
An orchard that has mummied
fruits hanging on the trees, and
is full of grass and weeds, is a
regular breeding place for insects
and fungous diseases that, will
cause trouble for next year’s fruit
crop. Literally millions of disease
spores may be found on these mum
mied or rotted fruits that are hang,
ing on the trees and that are on
the ground under the trees. Weeds
.and grass also often harbor these
insects and diseases, but more es
pecially are they hiding places for
rabits and mice which often do
material damages, especially to
young trees.
When the orchard is in the con
dition described above, no better
job can be done during the next
few weeks than to pull these
mummied and rotted fruits off
the tree, pick up those on the
ground, and either burn or bury
several feet deep. If grass and
weeds are there, plow them un
der. This work will go a long way
toward reducing the insect and fun
gous enemies of next year’s crop.
Too many folks look upon work
of this kind as being something un
important, but this is a mistake,
ebcausc to leave the orchard in
such condition is to make sure of
trouble for next year.—Progressive
Farmer.
We can only conclude that if
Damascus had any of its celebrated
steed it was no match for French
rifles.—I^allas Journal.
Auction Sales In
Johnston County
All Real Estate Deals Not
Confined to Florida;
Valuable Property Sold
All the real estate deals are npt
eonfined to Florida by any means,
tis Johnston county is well aware
from the advertisements of var
ious land sales conducted in this
section during recent weeks.
Honeycutt, Abell and Gray, sell
ing agents, have sold quite a bit
of valuable property including the
1\ S. Ragsdale farms, about four
and a halt' miles from town on the
Smithfield-Wilson’s Mills road,
the Woodard and bank property in
P;incetoji and the Wellons lands
and Pilkington farm located at
Batten’s Cross Roads, five miles
north of Selma.
A Greensboro auction company
conducted a sale of residence lots
in the town of Kenly on Nov. 6;
the property of the late George T.
Poole, was put on the market at
auction last Monday; a Raleigh
Land company sold a valuable
Cleveland township farm yester
day; W. H. Austin is advertising
a lot of good town property to be
sold to the highest bidder tomor
row, and L. T. Royall is offering
for sale at auction next Tuesday
the W. L. Brown homeplace near
Princeton.
The Ragsdale farms formerly
owned by Mr. Mitchiner, were
bought, by Mr. Adam Whitley and
bis son. Ira C. Whitley. Mr. and
Mrs. Ira Whitley expect to move
to this farm within the next few
weeks. This property was sold for
a consideration between $17,000
and $18,000. The tract consists of
157 acres.
Considerable interest was man
ifested in the George T. Poole prop
erty, and the interest was sustain
ed when Mr. Grayson D. Thornton,
one of the proprietors of the New
Smithfield Tobacco warehouse,
bought the lot known as the Cen
ter Brick warehouse lot, for $12,
500. Speculation is rife as to what
he intends to do with the lot. This
lot had been cut up into small lots,
and was first auctioned off sepa
rately bringing $8800. and then
sold as a whole bringing a much
better, price- Eight tenant houses
located on Market, Sixth and
Johnston Streets, were sold at the
same time bringing approximately
$7500.
Father of Coolidge
In Serious Condition
Plymouth, Vt., Nov. 17.—The
condition of Colonel John Cool
idge, father of the President, has
taken a turn for worse and is now
serious, his physicians, Dr. John
C. Cram, of Bridgewater, said to
day. The “heat block” from which
he has suffered, became more pro
nounced yesterday and today, and
he «has been ordered to abstain
from all unnecessary activity.
Dr. Cram said that Col. Cool
idge, although not in a critical
state, was less well than he had
been at any time since last sum
mer. The physician is making two
calls daily to the Coolidge home
and will go there again tomor
row morning.
Dr. Cram as yet has taken no
steps to call in the advisors who
were in consultation with him last
spring, including the President’s
physician. Major James F. Coupal.
“I don’t think it> is serious enough
yet,” he said. “I have ordered him
to take complete rest for the past
few days because he has not been
in the best of health. His old
trouble seems to have returned, but
although there is no way of fore
casting what turn it may take, I
don’t believe there are as yet any
critical developments in sight.
“He must not attempt to do any
active work about the house for
the present because even slight
exertion might aggravate his con
dition—Associated Press
Two Marriages at Court House
Wednesday afternoon about two
o'clock Justice of the Peace D. T.
Lunceford married two couples at
the court house within about ten
minutes of each other. The first
couple was Miss Cassie Lee and
Mr. Kobert. G. Massengill of Four
Oaks, while the other couple was
Miss Lena Mae Hinnant and Mr.
Louis Melvin Barnes of Princeton
PINE LEVEL GETS
INTO THE MOVIES
Author Selects Town By That
Xante For Scene of
Novel.
Kinston, Nov.' 16.—The moving !
picture people have pulled a boner :
in referring to Pine Level, as a i
place whose only contact with the j
outside world is through the med- 1
iums of the United States Postof
fice and an occasional drummer.
Pine Level has been immortalized
in a silver sheet thriller shown at
a local theater the past week. i
Eastern Carolina Chamber of I
Commerce officers got wise to the \
“reflection” upon the Johnston 1
county town as a rustic comraun- j
ity sleepily ignoring the great out
side. As a matter of fact', the town
is a hustling place of about 500
population, one of about fifteen
rival communities in the same sec
tion competing for the lion’s share
of Johnston county’s enormous cot
ton. grain and tobacco crops. It is
located in one of the richest ag
ricultural districts in the country.
Pine Level provides the hero, the
heroine and villian for a multiple
reel screen drama. A part of the
scenes are laid at West Point,
where the hero and villia are cad
ets, a part of them at Pine Level
and a part of them on the Amazon
River. But there is nothin*; primi- j
tive about Pine Level despite the |
rural scenes depicted and( the I
Southern Railway furnishes it an
outlet to the rest of the world.
NOTE—In other words, Walter
Eberhardt has written a novel call
ed “Classmates,” in which the
scene is laid at Pine Level, N. C.,
and the story has been put on the
screen. It is problematical wheth
er the author knew of the exist
ence of a town by that name, but
there is no reason why Pine Level
should not claim the honor, any
way.
A Good Cotton
Picking Record
Mr. J. D. Daughtry and his
three sons, Robert, Hubert and
Milton, of Princeton, Route 1,
were in the city yesterday. Mr.
Daughtry’s sons have an unusual
cotton picking record of which
they should be proud. Recently in
four days they made $51.33. Robert
is fifteen years old, Hubert, four
teen years old and Milton, twelve
years old. They are in the fifth,
sixth and seventh grades respect
ively. They picked cotton for Mr.
Gilbert Beaty who lives on Mr.
D. B. Oliver's land, receiving St-25
per hundred the first day and S1.50
per hundred the other three days.
Milton, the youngest, picked 310
pounds one day by four o’clock in
the afternoon. This is a pretty
good record. The boys had earned
their money and they were here
yesterday to spend it.
Methodist Appointments
For Raleigh District
Presiding Elder. M. T. Plylcr.
Bailey: E. C. Maness.
Benson: J. E. Blalock.
Cary and Apex: Wr„ C. Bell.
Clayton: Marvin Seif.
Creedmoor: B. E. Stanfield.'
Four Oaks Circuit: E. D. Dodd.
Franklinton: E. II. Davis.
Fuquay Circuit: K. F. Duval.
Garner Circuit: G. W. Fisher.
Granville Circuit: L. II. Joyner.
Kenly Circuit: W. B. North.
Louisburg: O. W. Dowd.
Millbrook Circuit: S. W. Starnes,
j Oxford: A. I,. Ormond.
I Oxford Circuit: J. II. Fanning. ’
Princeton Circuit: G. B. Perry.
Raleigh: Central, H, I. Glass;
Edenton Street, W. A. Stanbury;
I IJpwcirth, D. N. Caviness; Jen
kins Memorial, W. II. Brown.
Selma: O. P. Fitzgerald.
Smithfield: A. J. Parker.
Tar River: J. C. Williams.
Louisburg Circuit: E. C. Craw
ford.
Zebulon Circuit: E. M. Hall.
Franklinton Circuit: V. A. Roy
al.
Business Manager N. C. Advo
cate, T. A. Sikes.
Superintendent Methodist Or
phanage, A. S. Barnes.
The use of ground limestone as
sures success with clover. No one
can afford not to be successful
this year due to lack of hay and
grass.
Sale Of Woodard
Property Tuesday
Geo. F. Woodard Home
Place In Princeton Sold
—Aho Other Property.
\ -
Princeton evinced considerable j
interest in the sale of property
conducted in and near that town
last Tuesday, when the property of .
the Merchants and Farmers Bank, ,
which closed its doors last Febru
ary, was sold, and also the prop
erty belonging to Mr. George F.
Woodard, cashier of the defunct
bank.
The entire lot of property i
brought less than $10,000, in spite ;
of the big number that attended
the sale. The Woodard home place
with about twenty-four acres of
land was bought by Mr. Charles
Tilton at $0,097.50. Two other
lots of land brought $160 per
acre, or $3,150.00. There is some
coijtention concerning this proper
ty,! and the courts will have to
decide, according to our informa
tion, who gets the proceeds of the
sale. After the failure of the bank
last winter, Mr. Woodard, who was
cashier, gave a deed of trust to
the hank for his house and farm
lands. Later he went into bank
ruptcy, and now the courts will de.
termine whether the hank or his
bonding Company benefits from [
the sale of the property. Mr. Carl j
F. Gordon is trustee for Mr. Wood- j
ard.
The other property sold liuesday
included the bank building, two
other brick stores and two vacant ;
lots in the business section. The !
bank building, which is a brick j
structure, was purchased by Mr.
Sygf. Fail at $2,302. The two brick
stores, formerly owned by IV. C.
Massey, but were sold to A. F.
Holt and Sons together with a
vacant lot adjoining for $3,950.
Another vacant lot was bought by
W. H. T. Durham for $245.
The entire sale was subject to
confirmation.
The sale was conducted by Hon
eycutt, Abell and Gray of this city.
Mr. N. L. Perkins was the auc
tioneer and the Riverside Sere
naders, local juvenile brass band,
furnished music.
Banquet Meeting Of
The Workers Council
■Wednesday evening the Work
ers Council of the Methodist Sun
day school held a banquet meeting,
the central idea of the occasion
being a discussion of Teacher
Training. Mr. T. C. Young, the
Superintendent of the school, had
invited Mr. L. L. Gobble, Sunday
School Field Secretary of the North
Carolina conference, and Rev. M.
T. Plyler, presiding elder of the
Raleigh District, to he present,
and both of these gentlemen made
talks concerning Teacher Training.
A questionnaire at each plate fur
nished the necessary information
to the superintendent for the or
ganization of a training class. It
was decided to meet on Wednes- ;
day evenings following a forty- i
five minute prayer service. Mr. I
N. C. Shuford, superintendent of
the city graded schools, will teach
the class. The text books will be
announced later.
Thirty- three officers anil teach
ers were present Wednesday eve
ning, about double the number us
ually who attend the Workers
Council, and it was decided that
for the next few months at least,
the council will have a monthly
supper meeting each one paying
for his own plate. A most delic
ious turkey menu was served
Wednesday evening.
Annual Thanksgiving Service
Kenly Council No. 136 Jr. O. U.
A. M. will hold their annual
Thanksgiving service Sunday, No
vember 22, at 11 o’clock. All the
members of the Order are request'
ed to meet in the Junior Order hall
at 10:45 and from there they will
march in a body to the Methodist
church where the service will be
held. Rev. W. B. North, local pas
tor, will deliver the sermon. Spec
ial music will be rendered. The
public is cordially invited.
HENRY G. WATSON, R. S.
The good farmer now has a good
pair of scales, say farm engineer
ing workers of State College.
Eagle Scout
Layton Paisley, Kinston’s first
Eagle Scout. He is a member of
Droop No. .1.
Young Folks Plans
Special Service
Thanksgiving Program To
Be Given Sunday After
noon atfWilson’s Mills.
“America and Prosperity” is the
:opic upon which Mr. F. H. Brooks
if this city has been invited to
speak at Wilson’s Mills on next
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock,
l’he Christian Endeavor Society of
the Christian Disciple church has
arranged for a Thanksgiving
service with “God’s Bounties” as
the theme.
The program to which the pub
lic is cordially invited, is as fol
lows:
Invocation.
Doxology.
Responsive Reading, Leader, Mr.
Nathan Womack.
Prayer, Rev. Chester Alexander
Chorus. Choir.
America and Prosperity, Mr. F.
/H. [Brcfoks
Song, America, Congregation.
Short Topics:
Americans as Resevoirs God’s
Bounty, Tenth grade student,
Mr. Ray Casey.
Why ’a Thank,ful Heart is a
Promoter of Thrift, Tenth
grade student, Mr. Alfred
Byrd.
Solo, Miss Irene Myatt.
A Continuous Gratitude Toward
God, Rev. Chester Alexander.
Poem, Thanksgiving, Miss Imo
gene Murray.
Duet, Miss Irene Myatt and Mr.
Paul Eason.
Benediction.
. Book Week Observed
Kenly, Nov. 18.—Following a
window display of book posters
and books in the business section
of the town during the week, Book
Week was observed in Kenly high
school on Friday morning. Some
quotations on the value of good
books, a solo, “My Mother’s Bible,”
by Mrs. H. M. Grizzard. an in
structive talk by Rev. Mr. F.vans,
and songs made up the program.
“Books are the history of the
pash, the ears of the present, and
the eyes of the future,” Mr. Ev
ans said. “The man who reads is
the man who leads.”
The program was concluded by
Miss Pearlstine’s sixth grade sing
ing the following lines to the tune
“Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here:”
“Books, books, we all want books,
Books that make us readers,
That make us better leaders;
Books, books, we all want books
Books for every girl and boy.
"Books, books, we all want books,
Books that give us knowledge.
That give a thirst for college;
Books, books, we all want books
Books for every boy and girl.”
Bringing Him Home Alive
Tat was visiting a friend in the
lion country. Borrowing a gun. he
set off one day in search of game.
Some time after his host heard a
distant report, and going to the
window, spied in the distance Pat
hot-footing it for home and be
hind him a huge lion, gaining with
every step. Nearly spent, Pat
reached the door in time to cry::
“Quick, quick, Mike, open the door;
I’m bringing him home alive.”—
Exchange.
Jury Finds Jesse Wyatt
Guilty Of Manslaughter
FOUR OAKS MADE
SAD OVER DEATH
Funeral of Little Girl Who Was
Burned Held.. Monday
Afternoon.
Four Oaks, Nov. 17.—Our en
tire town was deeply saddened
Sunday when it was learned that)
Hazel, the ten-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Parker, was
dead.
One morning nearly four weeks
ago she was standing in front of
an open grate when her clothing
caught fire. She immediately ran
to her mother for aid. Mrs. Par
ker did all in her power to smother
the flames or remove the clothing.
She could not do so before the
child’s back vTas severely burned.
Medical aid was rendered and
everything possible was done to
cure her. In fact, she was slowly
improving until early Friday mor
ning a change for the worse took
place. From then on she rapidly
grew worse until her death about
one o’clock Sunday.
Hazel was one of the sweetest,
prettiest and most admirable
children Four Oaks has ever
known. She was an exceptional
child for several reasons. Her po
liteness and gentleftess made her
friends numerous. Other notable
qualities were devotion and dig
nity with which she was greatly
endowed. She, too, was an unus
ually bright child in every respect.
Her sweet disposition and winning
ways made her a friend of many
among both old and young. The
smile that continually gleamed on
her face was a real inspiration to
all with whom she came in con
tact. Other qualities she possessed
were kindness, goodness and un
selfishness. These she lived in her
daily life among her friends and
loved ones. She was indeed, then,
one of the most lovable children
our town can loathe to give up.
As a member of the Methodist
Sunday school she has been a reg
ular attendant since she was q
very small child. Her place tljere,
and in her fourth grade at school,
will be very hard to fill, in fact,
another Hazel Parker cannot be
found.
Hazel was born April 38, 1915,
thus being ten years old at the
time of her death.
She leaves her heart-broken
parents, three small brothers and
numbers of other relatives to
mourn her loss.
On Monday afternoon she was
laid to rest in the cemetery at
Four Oaks. The numerous and
beautiful floral designs were only
tokens of the high regard and
great esteem in which she was
held by both old and young.
Hazel has left us for awhile
Tfe go to her Heavenly home.
Yet, she still leaves us her smile
Although, from us she has gone.
Yes, we will miss her every day,
In everything we do and see,
But on earth she could not stay,
For Jesus said: “Suffer the little
Children to come unto me.”
A. L. F.
Attends Insurance School
Mr. Lewis Keen, who represents
the Pilot Life Insurance Company
at Four Oaks, attended the Agents’
training school at the Home office
of the company at Greensboro last
week.
Six full days are consumed by
(he training course, which con
sists largely of lectures by Home
office officials. Mr. T. D. Blair,
Assistant Agency Manager of the
company, is in charge of the
school.
It was the first day of school
and the teacher was taking the
names of the children, those of
their fathers and the business of
each one. Small Lucy gave her
name and that of her father, but
hesitated and became silent when
it came to his business. Urged
by the teacher, she blushingly
said:
“He is Aunt Jane that does the
woman’s page and the beauty col
umn of the Daily News.”—Country
Renew to The Herald.
Recommendation for Mer
cy Accompanies Ver
dict Brought In Shortly
Before Midnight Wed
nesday Night; Judg
ment Continued Until
December Court.
THE JUDGE’S CHARGE
Manslaughter with recommeiNa
tion for mercy was the ves'<!
brought in by the Durham County
jury in the case of Jesse H. ’ -
att, former Raleigh-,police off • r,
Wednesday nig'ht at 11:19 o’e
after it had been out for tw'o ho1 4
and 20 minutes.
Prayer for judgment was c< •
tinued until the December te
of Wake Superior Court by Jude
Garland Midyette, of Jackson, a
also his bond of ten thousand d
lars, which was given after t 1
fatal shooting of Stephen S. He .
Smithfield lawyer. The return of
the verdict was witnessed by •
small crowd that remained in t
courtroom while the jury deln
crated.
Trial Lasts Six Days
Judge Midyette, who for :b:
days had presided over the trial
with a patience that was equal
only by the patience of the Dor
ham County jurors, goes today »
Louisburg to open a term of So.
perior Court, which was due to be
gin Monday, but had to be post
poned on account of the Wy.
(rial.
No more patient jury ever
in Wake county court house. F
three days the jury listened to tv
evidence and for two days it lis
tened to eleven lawyers, who ta' -
ed for fourteen hours. No c:
in Wake county was ever contc -
ed with more tenacity - on b< u
sides.
Big Array of Lawyers.
Solicitor W. F. Evans was - in
sisted by Col. Ed S. Abell am"
F. Ward, of Smithfield: H. G.
Hendrix; of Durham, and Brant:
Wombje of Raleigh. Appearing : r
the defense were James H. Pou.
W. B. Jones, J. Wr. Bunn, Judgv
Lloyd Horton and Banks Are
dell of Raleigh, and R. G. Gar
and J. W. Barbee, of Durham.
As church bells were ringing 1 1
mid-week prayer meeting servio -
in Raleigh, the tired jury filed ir »
the box at 7:15 o’clock last eve
ning to hear the charge of Jude:*
Midyette. They "listened with ch *
attention as he went into the v >•
ious phases of the law includ .
the opposing contentions and do
initions of second degree murder
an'd manslaughter.
A Day of Oratory.
All day the court house had be •
filled with people who had listen
ed with close attention to Janies
H. Pou, W. B. Jones and Bar »
Arendell for the defense, and v
Solicitor W. F. Evans and H G
Hendrick, of Durham, for
State. The Solicitor closed at • :'su
o’clock and R. E. Hurst, forma
the jury, said he and the o’ •
jurors would like to get a bill' o
eat before hearing the jud - !
charge. »
The minimum sentence for ma
slaughter in North Carolina is fi ^
months in the county jail. Mi
was made by counsel for the >
fenso in their argument of the f
that jail sentences in Wake Coui *
automatically mean road senti ■
ces. The maximum penalty is tw<
ty years in the State prison.
Continuance of judgment ur
the December term of Wake Su
perior court, which opens on D •
cember 14, stayed other motions
and in the meantime attorneys for
Wyatt will decide whether or i -
they will appeal. Solicitor Eva >
did not press for sentence li 5
night, but consented to the cor -
tinuance.
State Is Satisfied
Present with Wyatt when Iho
jury came in were his wife ar 1
seven chiklren, who had been cm-*
stantly by his .side daring t‘»**
trial. The scene was quite a mis -
ter of fact in outward appearan. ,
The jurors were thanked by Ju i
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