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War Plans Pointing
To An Invasion Of
European- Fortress
Bombing I» intensified with
Land Attack Expected
To Follow Soon
While there's a lull in land fight
ing in the western European arena,
plans are believed in the making for
a direct attack on Hitler’s fortress.
Official spokesmen for the Roosevelt
Churchill Quebec Conference assert
ed last night that Allies would
“bomb, burn and ruthlessly destroy”
the Axis, that Germany and Japan
would be wiped off the map. Bomb
ing operations, directed against air
fields in France and all along the
Coast, are being intensified ,and ob
servers are daring to say that an in
vasion of France and Italy will fol
low within a month. French people
along the coast are being notified to
be ready for the zero hour, and Ger
mans fleeing northward in Italy are
leaving the southern part open to
invasion. Whether the Allies will de
pend on the air offensive lo knock
Germany out of the war without a
land invasion is yet to be determin
ed, but apparently plans are being
made to follow through if the at
tack from the air does not produce
th,e draktd' rtf ults.
United States warships are pound
ing the Italian mainland for the first
time in history, interrupting and
cluttering the German withdrawal
north.
Following the completion of the
Sicilian campaign, correspondents
tell that the Germans at Messina
were subjected to a terrible batter
ing. David Brown, describing the Al
lied attack on the straits city said:
No earthquake could have been
more effective in destroying Messi
na than was the Allied bombing. “I
have never seen any damage like it,”
said one officer. “All the ugly recol
lections of heavy bomb damage in
Palermo, Catania, Bizerte or Sousse
faded out by comparison with this
havoc.”
The railway station, one of the
largest and most modern on the is
land is a mass of rubble. Cars and
engines are smashed. Oil containers
were wrecked by direct hits.
The famous “Corso” promenade
along the waterfront is nothing but
a heap of stones and bricks. Half
submerged ships are lying along the j
mole. A cloud of dust and smoke \
hang.s wer li.e eiciues. Tilt* main
street is dead. Hardly a window pane j
is left.
Most of the people were evacuated
to nearby villages and towns. Many
were taken to Taormina where the
Axis had military headquarters. The
village of Sparta, a few miles to the
north, harbors five times its normal
population. Houses and bungalows
had to be cleared to make room for
evacuees.
“Four thousand have taken refuge
in Italy itself, but they now regret it,
I expect,” said one man. “They will
probably have Ihe experience of Mes
pr sina all over again on the mainland.”
{some heavy blows have been di
rected against German airfields in
Northern France and Holland dur
ing ihe past few days, and the RAF
was over Berlin again last night, it
was announced this morning A Ber
lin correspondent for the Stockholm
newspaper, “Dagoes Nyheter,” re
ports Nazi circles think it “not im
possible” that the Allied air offen
sive against Western Europe may be
connected with “Allied rumors” of
a second front.
Included in the devastating raids
this week was one against the great
German research and development
(Continued on page six)
Seven County Men
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Accepted By Army
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Seven Martin County white men,
answering the August draft call,
were accepted by the Army of the
United States recently, according to
an official audit just received by the
draft board. No men were chosen
for the other service branches.
According to one report, fifteen
men answering the call on August
*(T, it l.i -d
that: fifteen wrexe-. found physically
unfit and that three were below men
tal and-or literacy standards.
The names of those men accepted
are: Raymond William Comstock,
Frank Edward Stevenson, Samuel
Leo Andrews, Elbert Harvey Which
ard, Joseph Elmer Mizelle, Mavin
Earl Copeland and Leroy Godard.
Returning home the second day
after they reported at the induction
station ,the seven men are scheduled
to return on or about September 4
for active duty.
Ration Board In Weekly
Meeting Each Friday
Reporting recently the office hours
of the Martin County War Price and
Rationing Board office, it was stated
that the ration board members met
each Monday. The statement was
made in error. The board members
meet each Friday, and any one hav
ing business with the board mem
bers should make his appearance be
fore evening when the board and
panels meet to handle other business
matters. _
AXIS NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO USE THESE MINES
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THE RAPID ALLIED ADVANCE :n Sicily caught the Axis (latfootcd in many places. This huge mine dump
i ai R 1 c i alunba was a ptured 1 >i g before the enemy had an opportunity to i lant the explosives in
an attempt to slow up American, Canadian, and British troops. Oflirinl British photo. (Internalioral)
More Martin County
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Men Called By Army
Boys In Teen A^es
Form Great Part
Of Current Quota
Few Married Men Are Includ
ed in Group Leaving for
ludiielion Center
Unable to meet the draft quota in
its entirety for the month of August,
the Martin County Draft Board
bundled up what colored men it
could scrape from the bottom of the
barrel and sent them to an Army in
duction center this week. Seventeen
or about two-thirds of the group
were boys in their teen ages, or boys
who did not have a chance to quali
fy for a “C” classification or snatch
a deferrable status as an employee
in an industrial plant. Four of the
contingent were married, and three
had exhausted their deferments in
industry. One selectee who had lost
) oc . forfeited his “C” classification
| was included in the group. It could
I not be learned why he had lost his
j “C” classification, but rumor has it
! that he did not measure up to his
moral contract with those lads who
are fighting, suffering and dying on
the battle fronts.
One registrant, Hezekiah Briley,
Jr., scheduled to make the trip to
the induction center, failed to report
and he was listed as delinquent.
The group left for the induction
center the same day that eleven
white men from the county returned
to enter active service.
Names of the colored men making
the trip to the induction center fol
low :
Mark Hardy, Ilassell.
Elton Hodge, Williamston.
Elbert Mitchell, Williamston and
Newport News.
Edward Louis Hines, Williamston
and Greensboro.
Wiiiiam Robert t Johnson, RFD ,
Jamesvillc and LaGrange.
Samuel Teel, Robersonville.
Douglas Cromwell Respass, Wil
liamston and Philadelphia.
Kelly Crandell, RFD 1, Roberson
ville.
Golden Williams, RFD 1, William
ston.
T. C. Johnson, RFD 1, Bethel.
Wtfitanr Eari 3ie-.er>s<-->v
Robersonville.
James Roscoe Council, RFD 1,
Bethel.
.Wiiiiam KalVigii Beii,'HiTTT, Wil
liamston.
S. L. Godard, RFD 3, Williamston
and Washington.
J. C. Stanley, RFD 3, Williamston
James Alonza Keel, Everetts and
Baltimore.
Russell Johnnie Jasper Dickens,
Robersonville.
(Continued on page six)
j STOVE K VTIO.NTVG )
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The rationing: of all types of
stoves will go into effect next
Tuesday, and certificates will be
necessary where purchases are
to be made. In connection with
the rationing program, all re
tailers and wholesalers in this
county are to register on Sep
tember 1, 2, or 3, it was announc
ed by the local board this week.
Anyone needing a stove after
next Monday may apply to the
County War I'rice and Rationing
Hoard by filing an application
on Form R-!)00 for a stove pur
chase certificate. The board will
then consider the application.
Lieut. Billy Biggs
In Army Hospital
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According to a letter received by
bis parent , Mr and Mrs S Rome
Biggs, here last Wt dnesday , morn
ing, Lt. William W. (Billy) Biggs is
in an Army hospital supposedly in
North Africa. Whether the young
man was wounded or hurt could not
be learned, but his letter, dated Au
gust 9th, stated that he would be in
the hospital at least three more
weeks. Using a pencil, the young
soldier was able to write the letter
himself.
Billy is a paratrooper and it is now
fairly certain that he was among the
airborne troops that landed three
hours ahead of the main invasion
forces in Sicily on July 10.
No message has been recc ived from
the War Department advising why
the young man is in the hospital.
About 3 o’clock, or several hours
before the letter stating the young
man was in the hospital was receiv
ed, the young man’s mother dream
ed he had been wounded, that his
companion, Bill Lang, of New Jer
sey, had been killed. Yesterday
morning a second letter was receiv
ed by Billy’s parents and it stated
that young Lang “was not with them
any more.” Billy and his companion
spent their last leave in Williams
ton in eariy April of this year.
Honorable Army Release
Joseph Pender, Jr., after spending
several months in a New Jersey
Army hospital, was given an honor
able discharge a few days ago. Ap
parently having regained his health,
the young man, after spending a few
days here with his parents, plans to
go to Philadelphia to accept em
ployment in a war industry.
He had been in the Army for a
bout two years.
Must Exchange Old
1> \nd ( t^iik4)<H>ks
Holders of old "B" and “C” gaso
line ration books -books issued be
for August 11 are directed to ex
change them for new ones between
now and September 1. The old books
will be worthless after that date, it
was explained. It was pointed out
that the exchange will be made tic
kit for ticket, that if a person has
five coupons in his old “B" or ‘C”
book lie will u reive five coupons in
his new book. In those eases where
the coupons have been exhausted, no
exchange is necessary and no ra
tions will be issued until after the
expiration of the old book In other,
words, if a motorist was issued a
book and it was supposed to last
him until September 9 and he has
already used it up, he is not to gel
a new allotment until on or after
the expiration date.
The old “B” ration coupons have
reading on the back. The new ones
arc plain on the. .hack . The old “C”
coupons are in a booklet The new
“C” coupons will be in a flat sheet.
Filling station operators must sur
render to their wholesales all old
“B” and “C” coupons on or before
September (j.
When exchanging their old “B”
and “C” coupons, vehicle owners
A ill be u.’lwd to submit their tin-j
records for routine inspection.
Martin Comity Roy
Writes From Sicily
No details of the fighting have
been mentioned by them, but Martin
County boys are writing home from
Sicily. ]! is known that several |
youths from this county took part in |
the Sicilian campaign, that one, T,t j
Bilik Bigg... was hospitalized sunn
ten days or two weeks ago.
Writing to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. S. Revels, of RED 3, William
ston, Pfc. William H. Revels said a
few days ago, in part:
“I am now on the island of Sicily.
And it is a very nice place for a sin
gle man like me to be.” Young Rev
els had notiiing more to say about
Sicily, but he did point out that the
war will make a lot oi men appre
ciate home when they get, out. He ex
plained that he had only one thing
to worry about, and that was the ap
parent shortage in mail. “When mail
comes, everybody is happy,” he said
The young soldier would make it
enemy fire and shell, that he wor
ries when no mail reaches him from
home.
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) oullt Escapes On llis
II ay To Training School
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Making his escape while being car
ried to a training school by the
superintendent of public welfare in
this county, Henry Hatem, white
youth, was taken into custody in
Rocky Mount Tuesday night after
he had appropriated for his own
use another’s bicycle. He was turn
. *.
Deputy J. H, Roebuck
Young IJatem, asking to be aiiow
ed to stop at a filling station, jump
ed and ran 1 uesday near Rocky
Mount.
FtTST TobamrFront Current'
Crop Moves To Market Here
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The first tobacco of the current
crop started moving to the market
here late yesterday, and with a mark
ed increase in deliveries today it is
now believed that a large “break”
will be on the floors for the opening
sales next Tuesday. However, no
record opening is anticipated by mar
ket observers.
George Thomas, colored farmer,
was the first to unload a portion of
the new crop here yesterday. He has
320 pounds on the floors and is op
timistic. Quite a few' farmers visit
ed the market late yesterday, mak
ing plans for delivering their first
loads.
The selling time this season is be
ing reduced to five hours daily, but
that will be about the only change
in the marketing of the crop. The
daily selling time was curtailed in
an effort to relieve the pressure on
the redrying plants where acute
labor shortages exist. Starting at
I
9:30 each week-day morning except
Saturday, sales v.ull be continued
until 12:30 p. m., the buyers return
ing from lunch at 1:30 for two hours
to complete their purchases for the
day. Sales will be limited to 360
piles an hour and 350 pounds will be
the maximum amount allowed in one
basket. Tobacconists, however, point
out that farmers should exercise
equal care against making their
grades too small. Medium-sized
grades, ranging from 223 to 275 oi
300 pounds, are possibly the most
advantageous size when it comes to
saving floor charges, it has been log
ically pointed out.
Quite a few of the buyers, their
assistants and others who are to be
connected with the market this sea
son have aireay reported, some of
them coming here directly from
Georgia. All warehouses aie open
and “tobacco town” is already alive
with activity.*
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V
O THE FRONT
To be sure, many copies are
sunk or lost, but reports de
clare that The Enterprise is
moving right along with the
Martin County hoys to the
fighting fronts.
In a letter to his mother here
a lew days ago, Captain Jim
Rhodes, Jr., stated that the paper
had made its appearance in
Sicily in almost record time, that
possibly his copy was the first
ever to reach that island.
A review of the paper’s mail
ing list shows copies moving out
regularly to nearly every part
of the world except Hitler’s
lands, and it is hoped that it
will be possible to get one there
soon.
Serious Pulpvvood
Shortage Likely To
Affect War Effort
Situation Is Soriotis KnonuHi
So Justify l ntisual Vets
\inl Practices
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Recognizing the seriousness of a
growing pulpwood shortage, Donald
Nelson of the United States War
Production Board is addressing an
appeal to all farmers, urging them
to help relieve the seriousness by
devoting three days work in build
ing up the stock pile.
Indirect reports indicate that
the shipment of some vital supplies
is being delayed because pulp manu
facturers cannot get sufficient wood
to produce the necessary material
for making the containers. This pa
per ,along with others in the main
pulp wood areas throughout the na
tion has been asked to carry the
appeal to the farmers, and point out
to them how they can help relieve
the serious situation.
Mr. Nelson’s appeal:
‘II every one of the more than 2,
' .the twenty -seven
pulpwood producing states were to
devote three extra days in UI43 to
cutting pulpwood we could over
come the threatened 2,500,000-cord
shortage with wood to spare,” Mr.
Nelson declared. "1 urge every A
meriean farmer to get in touch with
his nearest Department of Agricul
ture representative to find out
whether he can be of service in the
production of pulpwood. I, of course
realize the increased war load which
our farmers are bearing today, but
the pulpwood situation is serious
enough to justify this call for an ex
tra effort.”
In anticipation of the present crit
ical shortage in pulpwood supplies,
the War Production Board called up
on the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture for assistance. The Forest Serv
ice, Regional Extension Directors,
Extension Foresters and county
agents were requested to assist in
stimulating pulpwood cutting by ad
vising farmers of the serious need
lor more1 wood and on sound cutting
practices, mill prices and specifica
tions.
Farmers and woodland owners
are urged to harvest their pulpwood
“right now” when the country needs
it most. But farmers are not asked
to go out and destroy their timber
growth, but to follow conservation
practices and give the lighting man
the support that he needs.
The War Manpower Commission
has classified pulpwood production,
cutting and transport to the mills,
the manufacture of pulp, paper and
paperboard products for packing
vital supplies as essential activities.
Notice of this ruling was sent to
Selective Service Boards and U. S.
Employment Service offices, to es
tasblis lithe eligibility of these es
sential workers for draft deferment.
The critical nature of pulpwood
(Continued on page six)
Young Soldier Hurl
In Auto Accident
Pvt. J'. W. Bellflower was painful
ly but not seriously hurt when his
car went out of control anti turn
ed bottom side? up on the Oak City
Hamilton Highway, near Conoho
Creek, about 3 o’clock last Tuesday
morning. Driving his sister’s car, the
young soldier is believed to have
dropped off to sleep and lost control
of the machine.
According to reports reaching here
the young man’s nose was almost
td'rif oliC'iJffWIte bane was not." Brok
en. He also suffered a knee injury.
After receiving first aid treatment
m Lh'hthO.hewasca riled to a Tar
boro Yms'intal where he was dis
charged later in the day.
Damage to the car was unofficial
ly estimated at $300.
Home on a fifteen-day furlough,
Bellflower was given a five-day ex
tension, and is now scheduled to re
turn to his station at Camp Phillips,
Kansas.
Planning All-Out War
Fund Driv e In County
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Committees Will Be
Named Soon To Help
Raise Record Figure
Money Y\ ill (»o To Service
Men uiul Suffering People
In Several ('omitries
Tentative plans for advancing one
of the greatest fund raising drives
ever heard of in this county and in
the name of fighting men and suf
ering humanity were advanced in
this county last Tuesday evening
when a small group of interested cit
izens met with special representa
tives to discuss the need or whole
hearted action on the home front.
Detailed announcements are ex
pected within the next week or ten
jdays, outlining plan.* for the cam
paign which is to be formally launch
led throughout the entire nation about
the middle of October. During the
j meantime, the people of this county
I are asked to consider the cold facts
growing out of this war and measure
their ability and willingness to sup
port what has been well described
as one of the greatest drives ever
launched in the name of humanity.
Exclusive of the Red Cross, the
campaign is to finance the activities
of seventeen agencies. There’ll be
no other drive for funds for any war
or relief agency, the sponsors ex
plaining that the one response will
j eliminate repeated Calls for financial
I support for this or that agency how
■ ever worthy each may be.
Martin County is being called upon
to raise $9,091 as its part in the State
quota of $1,888,000. The twelve coun
ties in this district are being asked to
raise right at $191,000.00. Headed by
Winthrop Aldridge, the drive in the
nation has a quota of 125 million dol
lars. In this State, Governor J. M.
Rioughton r, bon<r,ary chuitmEUi.
Robert Haynes, of Winston Salem,
is chairman, and Gurney P. Hood,
bank commissioner, is vice chairman
for thi' Eastern Division. The leaders
of the drive in this county will be
named within the next week or ten
days.
Without remuneration and coming
io this county at their own expense
to help perfect plans for the drive,
Messrs. A vela and Ward ,of Rocky
Mount, with Mr. Kerr, of Winston
Salem, explained that other coun
ties they had visited had expressed
a willingness to meet their quotas,
that pledges had already been re
ceived in all of them in the district
with the exception of Martin. While
the quota in this county is a record
figure for size, it is small when com
pared with the $35,000 quota for Pitt
County and those in most of the oth
er counties in this section.
Approximately half of every dol
icti contributed will go for the use
of America’s own fighting men. The
fund will allow' $81,227,000 for this
service with the assurance that ev
erything humanly possible will be
done to lighten the burden now rest
ing on the service men, including
these from right here in Martin
County. A similar aid will be made
available to those men who man the
nation’s merchant ships. It is pro
posed to spend $4,125,000 in the name
ol those men who have been injured
or who have met with adversity in
carrying munitions and food to the
fighting men. Two and one-third mil
lion will be used in maintaining in
every way possible, and there are
wav s »v r n j hi, i;i $ 111 (h f 11 <m jyh <. v
be, a hope for prisoners of war.
Approximately 10 million dollars
will be made available for Russian
w.o relief,.™ anri about the same
amount will be made available to the
valiant and war-weary Chinese.
Ab°tit P5 million dollars will be used
(Continued on page six)
\VOlM)KI>
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Pfc. Howard B. Cone known
to have been entered in an Army
hospital somewhere in the Pa
cific, was reported this week by
the Adjutant General to have
been “seriously wounded in ac
tion on July 19th. No details
could be learned from a letter
dictated by the young soldier to
a hospital companion or from
the official message received yes
terday from the Adjutant Gen
eral. The letter stated that he
had an infection of the middle
finger and that he would be in
the hospital for about two more
months.
The young man's rnanv friends
join his mother and others in
hoping for him a speedy recov
ery.
Judge j. C. Smith
Calls Eleven Cases
In Recorders (ourt
I'rihiiiiul In Session Almost
l util Noon ('louring llig
Dorkot Monday
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After handling very few cases last
i week, the Martin County Recorder’s
had a big session on Monday of this
week when Judge J. Calvin Smith
| tailed eleven cases. The tribunal
i was in session until almost noon
clearing the docket. An unusually
large number of spectators attended
the session and more interest was
shown in the proceedings than at
any other time in recent weeks.
Proceedings:
Charged with vagrancy, Geo. Ben
Manning, white man. was sentenced
| to the roads for a term of thirty days.
The road sentence was suspended for
six months upon the payment of the
costs and on condition the defendant
| be gainfully and regularly employ
I ed.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
i ing him with drunken driving, J. S.
- Crandall was fined $60 and taxed
I with the cost. His license to oper
| ale a motor vehicle was revoked for
I fifteen months.
The case charging R. B. Spruill
with an assault with a deadly weap
on and with disorderly conduct, was
nol prossed.
Charged with violating the liquor
laws, John Mason pleaded guilty of
possessing illegal liquor. The plea
was accepted and the defendant was
sentenced to the roads for six
months. The road sentence was sus
pended upon the payment of a $30
fine and the case costs, and on fur
ther condition that the defendant
have no illegal liquor in his posses
sion in the future
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him with drunken driving, Jas.
Stanley Ayers was fined $50 and
taxed with the cost. His license to
operate a motor vehicle was revok
ed for one year.
The case charging Ernest Shep
pard with larceny and receiving was
continued until next Monday.
Charged with attempted assault,
Bud Williams pleaded not guilty.
He was adjudged guilty and the
court continued his case under pray
er for judgment until next Novem
ber 18.
In a second case charging him
-T tba. i-,-v;:;:m.-.-.v ■
found not guilty.
Entering a plea of nolo contendre,
or neither denying or admitting that
E. W. Williams was dismissed upon
the payment of the court costs and
the amount of the check.
Charged with speeding and oper
atin ga motor vehicle without a driv
er’s license, Ernest Lanier pleaded
guilty and was fined $25 and taxed
(Continued on page six)
()rder Permits ‘C’Registrants
To Do "Non-Essentiaf’ Work
Barred heretofore from withdraw
ing from their “C” classifications,
farm registrants, whether single or
married, with or without children
and irrespective of age, may now be
released for work in what has been
rated "non-essential” jobs, accord
ing to an unofficial but recognized
ruling received by the county draft
and war boaids here yesterday. The
fuii meaning of the new ruling is
not quite understood, but under it
any farm registrant “enjoying” a
"C” classification may ask to be re
leased from the farm to engage in
tobacco marketing, ship building or
any other type of work for at least
ninety days. Already approximate
ly 75 persons, including white and
colored, young and old, have asked
for their releases from the farm.
The draft and war boards, recog
nizing the shortage of labor not only
in and around warehouses but also ;
in nearly every line of endeavor, I
sympathized with the requests for
the release of farm registrants, but
in the face of printed Selective Serv
ice instructions they hesitated to
grant any such requests until yester
day when the new ruling was an
nounced.
No comment could be had from
draft and war board members and
it could not be learned whether a
farm release would affect the draft
status of the registrant. Apparently
it will not.
I ho new ruling is causing some
confusion for the officials who have
been and are still handling the farm
classifications. At the present time
requests for “C" classifications are
pending along with requests for re
lease from the “C” classifications.
Those persons who asked for and
were denied releases a few days
ago may now get them, it was an
nounced, but tenant farmers must
first get permission from their land
Director Of Growers
Peanut Cooperative
: ,i( T.Vil’.'JJillflPlP
torney and farmer, was recently
elected a director in tiie Growers
Peanut Cooperative by representa
tives of the organization in a district
meeting held in the county court
house a few days ago. He succeeds
Director W. Robert Everett, of Pal
myra, who had served the organi
zation for five years. This, the sec
ond district, comprises ten counties
in this section of the State.
Next Thursday, the organization
will hold its annual membership
meeting in the courthouse here at 11
o clock a. m Representatives from
the states of Virginia, Tennessee,
South Carolina and North Carolina
are expected to attend the meeting.
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Escapes Injury In An tie
Truck Accident Tuesday
D. M. Roberson, local man, escaped
with only minor injury during the
rainstorm last Tuesday afternoon
when a Maxwell Wholesale firm 1
truck plowed into the side of his car
on West Main Street. Damage to the
car and truck was estimated at about