NEARLY 1040 MARTIN COUNTY
SERVICE MEN NOW READING
THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK.
THE ENTERPRISE
NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
SERVICE MEN NOW READINO
THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK.
VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 65
Williamston, Marlin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 18, 1944.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Asked To Complete
Surgical Dressings
By First Of Month
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Current Quota Added To Late
July Shipment Calls for
50,400 Dressings
An urgent appeal for volunteers
is being issued by the local Red Cross
Bandage Room, the chairman, Mrs.
J. B. Taylor, stating today that ma
terial is on hand for a total of 50,
400 surgical dressings. Nearly half
the number was to have been made
m July, but an apparent shortage
delayed shipment until a few days
ago. While it can’t be helped, the
chapter is considerably behind, and
an urgent call has been received
for the preparation and shipment of
the dressings by September 1. The
chairman feels that it is next to im
possible to complete the task in the
next fifteen days but every effort
will be made to meet the challenge.
One box or enough material to
make 3,600 4 by 8 dressings has been
delivered to Jamesville where vol
unteers are working every available
minute to help get the dressings
ready. A quota has been accepted
by volunteers in Bear Grass, and the
chairman, Mrs. G. A. Peel, is keep
ing the room open each afternoon.
Hamilton has made plans to open
a bandage room and help handle
the task and it is understood that
volunteers are available in Everetts.
These two towns are in the Rober
sonville Chapter and there is some
doubt if projects can be shifted from
one chapter to another.
Volunteers in the Macedonia Com
munity are not planning to open a
special room, but beginning tomor
row they will report in fairly large
numbers to headquarters on the sec
ond floor of the building between
Pittman’s and the Guaranty Bank.
It is now planned to keep the room
open every afternoon from 2 to 5:30
o’clock, including Saturday and Sun
day, and every evening from 8 to
10 o'clock except Sunday night.
Up until last night, 1,473 dressings
had been prepared and packed, leav
ing 48,927 to be prepared. Local peo
ple are earnestly asked to consider
the size of the job and volunteer as
much of their time as they possibly
can.
The following instructors have
volunteered to keep the room open:
Monday afternoon, Mrs. Elbert
Sherman, Mrs. G. P. Hall.
Monday night, Mrs. George Harri
son, Mrs. J. C. Manning.
Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. W. E.
Warren, Mrs. D. R. Davis.
Tuesday night, Mrs. Bill Howell,
Miss Bolton Cowen.
Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Tom
Brandon, Mrs. Herbert Taylor and
Mrs. C. C. Parker.
Wednesday night, Miss Mary E.
Keel.
Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Elbert
Sherman.
Thursday night, Mrs. M. M. Levin.
Friday afternoon, Mrs. G. E.
Thorpe, Mrs. J. D. Page.
Friday night, Mrs. Coy Roberson,
Mrs. W. E. Dunn.
Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Johnny
Gurkin.
Saturday night, Mrs. J. B. Taylor.
Sunday afternoon, Mis. J. B. Tay
lor.
The names of those who found
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Two Boys Improving
In Atlanta Hospital
LeRoy Godard and Thomas Men
denhall, two county boys who were
seriously wounded in action, God
ard in France and Mendenhall in
Italy, are getting along very well in
Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta,
young Mendenhall’s mother said fol
lowing her return from a visit to
the hospital this week. She was ac
companied on the trip by Mrs. Neal
Godard and Mrs. Mo! i is Stalls,
mother an dsister of LeRoy.
er and sister of LeRoy.
Young Mendenhall, his right arm
gone from just above the elbow
down, is able to get out for short
trips around the city, but LeRoy, his
right foot and part of his leg miss
ing, is still unable to leave his bed.
It was stated that his leg is fastened
to a weight, and tfiai .
time before he will be able to return
home. The Mendenhall young man
is still waiting to undergo a final
operation and it will be several
months before he is discharged.
The two boys and their relatives
had a very happy reunion, it was
stated.
Godard and Mendenhall are pa
tients in Ward 15-A, Lawson General
Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., and it is cer
tain that they’ll greatly appreciate
and enjoy letters from their friends
and acquaintances.
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Will Hold Sunday Services
In Presbyterian Churches
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The Rev. Mr. Ruff of Western
Carolina will conduct services in the
several county Presbyterian churches
Sunday, it was announced today.
Following the Sunday school hour,
the minister will preach in the local
church at 11 o’clock. Other appoint
ments for the day are, Roberson’s
Chapel, 12:30; Poplar Point, 3:30, and
Bear Grass at 8:30 p. m.
To Mail Tobacco Marketing
Cards to Farmers Next Week
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Approximately 1,500 tobacco mar
keting cards will be mailed to farm
ers in this county next Thursday, the
office of the county a ,nt announc
ed today. About fifty other cards
will be held in the office until the
farm operators call for them. In 20
cases, farmers have not reported
their acreage measurements and no
cards will be made available to them
until the reports are submitted. In
the thirty-two other eases, the far
mers overplanted and they will have
to call for their marketing cards. If
they get their community commit
teemen to estimate the poundage on
all their farms and pay the penalty
on the estimated excess, they will be
issued white marketing cards, it was
explained. A final accounting will
be effected when the crop is sold in |
its entirety.
Those farmers who have qualified
for the white marketing curds and
who do not receive them by Satur
day of next week, are directed to call
at the office of the county farm
agent.
A few farmers have inquired
about the marketing cards, but none
has been delivered in this county to
date. Ordinarily a few loads of to
bacco are carried from this county
to the border markets before the
sales are started in this belt. How
ever, no tobacco has been hauled to
the distance markets by Martin far
mers this season. A few loads from
across the river have moved through
here during recent dates, presum
ably for the border belt markets.
( UNIFORM OPENING j I
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A uniform date for the open
ing of all public schools in this
State was fixed by the Board of
Education meeting in special
session at Raleigh yesterday.
The date fixed by the State
board corresponds with the one
agreed upon by Martin County
education authorities in a spec
ial meeting here earlier this
week.
The State authorities declar
ed that an “emergency" exists
because of the infantile pa
ralysis epidemic, and declared
that the delayed opening was in
order despite the fact that the
action might slightly impair the
success of the school term to
some extent.
Expecting Paris To
Fall To the Allies
Within Few Hours
Russian* Reported Fighting
on ‘Sacred Soil’ of Hiller’s
Pre-War Germany
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Generated by "Old Blood and
Guts” Patton, the United States
Third Army was reported nearing
Paris today, some observers going
so far as to predict the fall of Paris
within the next twenty-four or thir
ty-six hours. While late official re
ports placed the Americans within
ten miles of Paris, it was rumored
by other sources that the Allies are
in the suburbs of the French capital.
It is fairly certain that the French
underground is making it extreme
ly hot for the Germans in the city,
and possibly the unconfirmed re
ports referred to the action by those
forces. The Germans are said to be
fleeing Paris as Wits flee before a
flood. The Vichy rats are also re
ported to have fled, seeking tempor
ary refuge in Berlin.
The invasion of Southern France
is rolling forward, late reports plac
ing the Allies more than forty miles
inland. While their course is not
iefinite, it is possible the invading
armies will move up the Rhone Val
ley and work to join the nothern
Allied forces some 250 miles away.
Then there is a apossibility that
maneuver will be effected to cut off
or neutralize enemy forces in Italy.
The success of the latest invasion is
not only measured in terms of miles
and objectives taken, but it is also
measured in terms of life casualties
suffered by the invading forces. Up
until noon yesterday, the Americans
had lost only 300 men killed and
wounded. German prisoners, taken
up to that time, numbered slightly
more rhan 7,000.
Opposition was said to be increas
ing at some points along the ap
proximately 40-mile Riviera front,
but the resistance continues weak,
for the most part.
In the Pacific, American airmen
are pounding objectives ever nearer
the Jap homeland, late attacks hav
ing been directed at the Bonin Is
lands and the Dutch East Indies.
The Japs have been cleared out of
India and the Chinese have launched
an offensive against the Japs in
•Si-'v'jfhv.'ig'-l:, Hupeh Prm^ye
Over on the Eastern Front^Rus
sian troops for the first, time in thirty
years carried war forcefully to the
(Continued on page six)
Damage To Peanut
Plant Is $6,690.00
Damage to the plant of the Wil
liamston Peanut Company near the
Jamesville-Washington Road inter
section last Thursday night was of
ficially estimated at $6,690 by insur
ance company representatives a few
days ago. The loss was about equal
ly divided between the plant and
stock.
Workmen are making temporary
repairs to a portion of the plant in
an effort to get part of the machinery
in operation so the approximately
5,000 bags of old-stock peanuts can
be milled. As scon as the old stock
is handled, extensive repairs are to
be made to the plant and machinery-.
General Eisenhower
Expects Germans To
Fight To Last Man
Tactical Victories Don’t Mean
That the War Is Won,
General Warns
Supreme Allied Headquarters. —
Gen. Eisenhower, declaring that the
Allies have won a great tactical vic
tory in France warned recently that
the Germans may be expected to
fight to the last man.
“This week is marking a very def
inite climax in one phase of the op
erational plan that has been in effect
since D-Day,” the chief of Allied
forces in Europe said. “Just what will
be the result in sum total, no one
can say.”
“It is certain that the German
forces congregated on our front ate
taking a good sound beating. In the
campaigns lying ahead, numbers of
such tactical victories must be won.
Even if we realize our fondest hopes
in a situation such as this we are
still a long way from the Rhine.
“All of us are keyed up to keep
intensifying our efforts to the mo
ment of final victory, no matter how
long it may take.”
Eisenhower emphasized that the
Allies have won a great tactical vic
tory in France, but previous tactical
victories in Tunisia at Foggia and at
Rome did not mean that the war had
been won. When an opponent is
groggy,” he said, “that is the time
to keep on punching and punching
him hard.”
Eisenhower said his order of the
day was intended to impress on the
Allied troops the fact that they had
a great opportunity now to take ad
vantage of Hitler’s mistake in trying
to hold on to the area south of Caen
to* long.
It was not the time to think of ex
pense, but of the ultimate economy
such effort now might result in la
ter. If losses now would save much
heavier losses later, now is the time
to make the supreme effort.
The General declared that a
glance at the map showed how im
portant it was from the very begin
ning for the Germans to hold in the
Caen area.
It formed the pivot of their de
fenses. Knowing this, they bolstered
the area strongly with most of their
panzer strength which explains the
speedy advance on the U. S. wing.
Eisenhower cited the stern Ger
man resistance against the Canadian
push toward Falaise as a dampener
on too much optimism regarding an
“arly end of the war. if the Germans
knew they were beaten, he said, they
would not be fighting so desperately
there. They would be anxious to get
out of it. Instead the whole German
nation lies in the grasp of a group
which has nothing to lose if it fights
to the last man.
Wreck Victim Is Not (idling
Along Very Well in llos/tital
. <$
A .C, Caudle, Raleigh man who
lost his arm in a truck-car accident
at Everetts two weeks ago is not get
ting along very well, according to
reports reaching here a few da; g ago
from a Raleigh hospital where he
was carried for treoUwcvffPMfr
Mrs. Caudle was here recently
handling unfinished business rela
tive to the operation of her husband’s
truck operations. She expressed her
appreciation for the aid and cour
tesies extended Mr. Caudle. It was
reported soon after the accident that
had it not been for first aid render
ed by Miss Clell Moore, trained
nurse who was in Everetts at the
time, that possibly Mr. Caudle would
have died before he could be carried
to a doctor.
The Caudles have three sons in
the service.
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Mrs. Borel Is Named To
Faculty At Bear Grass
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Mrs. Agnes W. Borel has been
elected home economics teacher in
the Bear Grass School, it was an
nounced by the office of the county
superintendent yesterday.
Mrs. Borel, wife of Lt. Borel who
is stationed at the prisoner of war
camp here, is a graduate of Louis
iana State.
HEADACHE!
LOOKING as though he didn't have
a friend in the world, this dejected
Nazi soldier is shown seated on an
improvised scat behind the barbed
wire of a prisoner of war com
pound in Normandy. He was cap
tured during the American drive
into France. (International)
MARTIN COUNTY
In WORLD WAR I
(Reviewed from old Enterprise
files twenty-seven years aico)
November 9, 1917.
For several months, Williamston
men and women have been working
in the Red Cross Auxiliary, and
good work has been accomplished.
Each Friday afternoon, the workers
assemble at the Masonic Hall and
make the articles called for by the
Red Cross headquarters. Eighty-two
members have joined. Mrs. Charles
II. Godwin is chairman. The local
chapter will send 24 Christmas pack
ages to headquarters to be sent to
nearby camps, cantonments or Nav
al stations. One million of these pack
ages are required and 24 was the
number allotted to Williamston. Each
package is supposed to cost $1 00.
The Martin County Board of Ex
emption has posted the names of Jas.
E. Harper, of Parmeie, and Clarence
Mason, of Williamston, as the next to
be called to service in the army of
selected men. To date the county has
sent about half of its quota to the
training camps.
November 16, 1917
Williamston has sent another boy
to serve his country in the Navy.
Samuel Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs
Fred Gardner, has enlisted in the
Navy, and was assigned to the patrol
boat, Messiek. He is only seventeen,
but he will make an active Tar in
Uncle Sam’s Navy.
Reginald Burrell, son of Rev. and
Mrs. W. R. Burrell, has been at home
Ibis week, leaving yesterday. On
Monday he enlisted in the Navy and
will train at the Portsmouth training
camp.
County Young Man
Is Hurt In Accident
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Bernice Bennett, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bryant Bennett, was dangerous
ly hurt in a motorcycle accident near
Suffolk late last Tuesday ..f'^rnoon.
Details of the accident coul.l ■ ' he
learned here, hut at fir l ■ i i>i h< j e
was held for his recre. i • i ale re
ports state that he is imp: e.ing. hut
that his condition is .fill - i mu.
The young man is employed hy a
railroad company and i. lationcd al
Suffolk.
Relatives were called to his bed
side in a Suffolk hospital lust Tues
day night.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
The thirty-second week of the
year is proving to be about the
safest in the year, past records
showing that there have been
fewer highway accidents in that
period than for any other period
of the year.
Last week there were no acci
dents reported on the highways
in this county, but the total this
year is almost double that for
the first 32 weeks in 1343.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
32nd Week Comparison
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge
1944 0 0 0 $ 00
1943 0 0 0 00
Comparison To Date
1944 43 23 1
1943 26 12 5
7700
3575
Fourteen Cases Are
Called In County’s
Court Last Monday
Attorneys Boh Covven and Ed
gar Gurganus Prosecute
The Docket
In one of the longest sessions held
in recent weeks, Judge J. Calvin
Smith called fourteen cases for trial
in the Martin County Recorder's
Court last Monday. The tribunal,
after devoting much time to the trial
of two cases, completed its work at
1:15 o’clock that afternoon.
Attorney Bob Cowon prosecuted
the docket, and he was assisted by
Sergeant-Attorney Edgar Gurganus,
home on a furlough from Fort
Bragg this week.
The court proceedings:
Pleading not guilty in the case
charging him with bastardy, Ken
neth Harrell was adjudged guilty.
It was also found that the defend
ant had not been supporting the il
legitimate child. Prayer for judg
ment was continued in the case un
til the first Monday in January and
bond in the sum of $150 was requir
ed.
Pleading guilty of drunken driv
ing, William Roberson was fined
$50, taxed with the cost and had his
license revoked for one year.
Considerable time was given to
the trial of the case charging Gadys
Peel, colored, with knocking his
wife’s eye out. Attorney Pete Bell,
special prosecutor, pleaded with the
court for a substantial road term, de
claring that it would not be treat
ing his race right if the defendant
was released upon the payment of
a cash fine. Peel pleaded not guilty.
He was sentenced to the roads for
twelve months, the court suspend
ing the last six months. An appeal
was noted and bond in the sum of
$200 was required.
Irving L. Morgan was fined $5
and taxed with the cost in the case
charging him with speeding.
Charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon, John Davenport, of
Williamston, was found not guilty.
Henry John Dunstan, charged
with exceeding the 35-mile per hour
speed limit, was fined $5 and taxed
with the cost. He pleaded guilty.
Charged with drunken driving,
Jesse Bright pleaded guilty and was
fined $50, taxed with the cost and
hud his driver’s license revoked for
one year.
Richard Smith, colored, was ad
judged not guilty in the case charg
ing him with assaulting a female.
Christine Clay, charged with as
saulting another with a deadly
weapon, pleaded guilty and was fin
ed $10 and taxed with the cost. She
was also directed to pay $7.50 to
the prosecuting witness for a doc
tor’s bill.
Mary Smith, colored, charged with
an assault, was adjudged not guilty.
The case charging Grover B. Lil
ley with speeding and operating a
motor vehicle after Ins license had
>een revoked, was continued under
irayer for judgment until Septem
>er 11, 1944.
D D. Hill, charged with assaulting
i female, was sentenced to the roads
or sixty days. He pleaded not
guilty, but the weight of the evi
dence was against him, Judge Smith
ruled.
William E. Mobley pleaded guilty
in the case charging him with drunk
en driving, and was fined $50 und
taxed with the cost. His license to
operate a motor vehicle was revohr
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Former County Man |
Passes In Hobgood
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Charlie Bryant, formerly of this
county, died suddenly in Hobgood
last Wednesday night of a heart at
tack. Mr. Bryant was taken ill and
fell in his grocery store and died be
fore he could be removed tn his
home.
Mr. Bryant lived with his parents,
M and Mrs. Joe Bryant, on the Sta
i n farm near Williamston up until
bout twenty-five years ago or un
til the family moved to Halifax
County.
Besides his widow, a Miss Warren
f this county before her marriage,
he is' ki/n ived by three daughters,•
Mr . F. E. Guthrie of Norfolk, Mrs.
Julia Bell of Suffolk, and Miss Bet
ty Bryant of Hobgood; two brothers,
Willie of Newport News, and O. C.
.ryant, of Fayetteville; three sis
ers, Mrs. Tom Carson of Hobgood,
Mrs. N. J. Medford of Fayetteville,
and Mrs. Minnie Terry of Macon,
Georgia.
Funeral services are being con
ducted at the home in Hobgood this
afternoon by Rev. A. C. Lee, Metho
dist minister of Scotland Neck. In
terment will follow in the Hobgood
Cemetery.
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llringa Suit To Recover
Alleged Tire Damage
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A suit to recover $1,500 damages
alleged to have resulted from a fire
started by the defendant’s agents,
was filed in the Martin County Su
perior Court this week by J. E. Hed
rick.
The fire, it was claimed in the
complaint, destroyed much valuable
timber on the plaintiff’s lands.
More Men Report For
Fre - Induction Exams
WOUNDED
Stall Sergeant William I..
Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Min
ion Taylor, RFD 3, Williamston,
was wounded in France on June
30. His wounds were not serious,
the War Department explained.
County Bookmobile
Will Make Regular
Schedule Next Week
Now Books Added To Collec
lion for Distribution
In 'I bis County
The tri-annual report just complet
ed for the Regional Library Associa
tion shows much development in the
library service of Beaufort, Hyde and
Martin Counties. When State-aid be
came available • 1 July, 1941, these
counties had no rural library serv
ice. There were six small public li
braries with WPA librarians. In
September of the same year the B
II M Bookmobile began operations
covering the rural area of each coun
ty. All help for that was supplied by
the Wl’A except the regional librar
ian.
Today with WPA assistance gone
the library service continues to grow.
Four of the libraries now have inde
pendent budgets and maintain their
own library operations Two have
part-time librarians and observe
open hours adaptable to the com
munity. One new library has been
opened at Engelhard and a deposit
station on Ocracoke Island.
During the three years the book
mobile ha snperated throughout
these counties, it has missed only
seven scheduled operating days due
to high water, snows and impassa
ble roads.
This recent report shows the fob
lowin gfigures for the bookmobile:
Registered borrowers, 2,297; total
book circulation direct from truck,
150,945; circulatin of bookmobile
books in schools and public librar
ies, 51,519; books owned by three
counties excluding public libraries,
7,305.
With increased county appropria
tion, State-aid and a greater demand
for books, a steady increase in use
of the service is anticipated for 44
45.
The schedule
lows:
for this county fol
_ y, ' e, 21—10:00, Ed'wnttia
Service Station; 10:30, Sherrod farm;
11:00, Hamilton Bank; 1:00, Oak
City; 2:30, Smiht’s Store (Palmyra
Road).
Tuesday, Aug. 22—9:15, Everetts;
10:15, Cross Roads Church; 11:15,
Parmele; 12:00, Edmonson’s St rvice
Station (Hassell highway); 1:00,
Hassell; 2:00, Gold Point; 3:00, Rob
ersonville library.
Wednesday, Aug. 23—9:30, Dar
den's (Jordan’s Store); 10:45, Brown
ing’s Store; 11:45, Ange Town; 12:30,
Poplar Chapel Church; 2:00, Jnmes
ville (Brown’s Store).
Thursday, Aug. 2<—9:15, Griffin’s
Service Station; 9:45, Farm Life
(Manning arid Gorkin. Gore): 11:00
Smiui'Jvieft s c-iic k; 1 .Ann, Corey’s4
Cross Roads; 1:15, Bear Grass (Ter
ry Bros. Store).
Local Youth Downs
An Enemy Airplane
According to reports reaching
here recently, Ensign Burras Critch
er, Jr., downed his first enemy plane
somewhere in the Pacific a short
time ago. The young man was said
to have chalked the emblem of a
Jap plane on his own ship, clearly
indicating that he had scored against
the enemy. The young man is getting
along all right.
Completing his training in this
country last February, Ensign Critch
er spent a short leave at home at that
time, reporting a few days later to
an embarkation center on the West
Coast. He is believed to have been
operating from a carrier possibly in
the Marianas or Saipan area when
he knocked down the enemy plane.
More Than Half Of
The Group Married;
One-Half Off Farms
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Call This Week Just About
Exhausts Reserve In The
26-To-29 Age Group
Fifty Martin County white men
were called this week to report to
Fort Bragg for pre-induction exami
nations, the group including twenty
eight married men who left behind
twenty-three children. All but six
of the men come from the group
whose ages range from 26 to 29
years, inclusive, one or two of them
missing exemption by just about one
month.
Twenty-six of the group called this
week come from the farm, the 24
others coming from the various vo
cations.
One of the men, Paul Mayo Bar
ber, PFD 1, Jamesville, failed to
answer the call and make the trip to
the service center. James Philip
Keel, of Williamston, was transfer
red to Dunn. His place was filled in
the current call by Monroe Everett
Turner, formerly of Williamston,
who was transferred from Rocky
Mount.
Names of the men included in the
current call:
James Philip Keel, Williamston
and Dunn.
John Lawton House, Hassell.
Homer Mizell Holliday, RFD 1,
Jamesville.
Ottis Whitehurst, RFD 3, William
ston and RFD 5, Greenville.
Plum Leggett, RFD 2, Williamston
Thelston Anglus Weaver, RFD 2,
Robersonville.
John Gray Taylor, Robersonville.
John William Bland, RFD 3, Wil
liamston and RFD 1, Robersonville.
Herman Burros Daniel, RFD 1,
Williamston.
Robert Taylor, RFD 2, Williams
ton.
Elwood Ayers, RFD 1, Oak City.
James Evan Lilley, RFD 1, Wil
liamston and Elizabeth City.
Justus Brown Coltrain, RFD 1,
Williamston.
Eustice Lee Jones, RFD 2, Wil
liamston.
Paul Mayo Barber, RFD 1, James
ville.
Jesse Hubert Peel, RFD 3, Wash
ington.
Robert Darrell Grimes, RFD 2,
Williamston.
William Herbert Mizell, RFD 2,
Williamston and Elizabeth City.
Moses Paran Wheeler, Williams
ton.
Wiliam Ashey Gurganus, RFD 2,
Williamston.
William Woodrow Tice, Williams
ton.
Joseph Alfred Hardison, RFD 1,
Jamesville.
Herbert Lynn Brown, Everetts
and Portsmouth.
Henry Davis Harrison, Williams
ton.
(Continued on page six)
Man In Wild Drive
Down Main Street
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With the horn blowing full blast,
boo Adams, Washington tobacco
ah sman, to;< through the main
•trcef here iate last Tuesday after
noon, traffic giving him a clear
path.
Local patrolmen, picking up his
trail a few minutes later, were un
able to overtake the man, but Pa
trolman Scarborough of Windsor was
i adioed to stop the man. The Wind
sor | atrolman’s efforts were futile,
the salt sman continuing his wild
drive several miles beyond the Ber
tie capital and finally wrecked his
commercial body truck on a curve.
Most of the man’s hair and large
patches of skin were burned from
his face and head as he skidded down
the highway, one report stated. Ren
dered unconcsious, Adams was
>~*bspilulized in Windsor and-l»SMW>
moved to Washington. It was said
that the man was placed under a
$200 bond for reckless and drunken
driving.
Bridgekeeper Hugh Spruill and a
guard from the prisoner of war camp
were on the bridge and started to
dive overboard when the salesman
rounded the curve there. One report
declared they would have jumped
had they had time.
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Lttcal Young Woman In
Accident At Plymouth
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Miss Sophia Donaldson, local
young woman, was painfully but not
badly bruised on her knee and side
yesterday morning when the car
she was driving figured in a street
intersection wreck at Plymouth. The
second car was driven by A. L. Al
exander, Plymouth man.
Damage to the Donaldson car was
estimated at $300 and that to the
Alexander car at $175. Alexander, al
though seen limping after the wreck,
was not badly hurt