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NEARLY 1000 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 READING THE ENTEPRISE LN ALL PARTS OF THE W'ORLD EACH WEEK. VOLUME XLVI1I—NUMBER 15 WUliamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 20, 19L%. ESTABLISHED 1899 Marines Invade Iwo J ima In-I^arni** Move* o ^ est anil Last Fronts In the Making In a daring move, American Ma rines last week-end invaded Iwo Island to carry the war to Japan's doorsteps, the action placing the Americans within 780 miles of Tokyo. The invasion met with fierce resistance, and, according to some reports, is proving costly. However, victory is now in sight, late reports stating that the approximately 20. 000 Marines have driven all the way across the lower end of the eight mi!" square rock island and now hold about one-fourth of it. Supported by an 800-ship invasion fleet, the Marines first encountered resistance that was deceptively light, but two hours later the entire battle area was described as an in ferno, the island defenders fighting back from fortified caves, pill boxes and blockhouses. It is estimated that the Japs had between 15.000 and 20,000 men on the tiny island, that apparently many ] of them survived a terrific bombard ment by American warships and j bombers. The invasion of Iwo Jima is re garded as a g*eat forward move in the Pacific war. Tire two airfields and space for a third will furnish a valuable base for air attacks on Tokyo. Observers boldly predicted that the actual invasion of the Jap home islands is now on the Ameri cans' schedule. Some officials went so far as to say that the Japs are about ready to talk peace, but he \ warned against any settlement short of complete and unconditional sur render. While the Marines are clearing a path to Tokyo, American superforts were over the Jap capital yesterday in record numbers, delivering dam aging blows to vital installations. The big raid took place before the enemy could count his losses incur red last week-end when carrier based planes dealt a heavy blow to shipping and important targets in and around Tokyo. Over 500 e nemy planes were knocked out of the sky . and about thirty enemy ships, in cluding several war ships, were sunk or damaged by the carrier-based planes. In the Philippines, Manila has just about been cleared of the Japs. In the European Theater, there’s spotted action on both the Eastern and Western fronts, but the big news is expected when the Allies coordinate their strength and launch simultaneous drives on both fronts. The Russians are said to have al ready pulled up arid placed as many as 400 big artillery pieces along the central front before Berlin. Just now the Russians are busy clearing out pockets of resistance miles from the front-line positions. East Prus sia has just about been mopped up. On the Western Front, the Ca nadian Army, including Scottish forces, is making progress in a drive from the north and now holds two-thirds of the city of Goth, a strong fortress point barring the road to the industrial Ruhr hardly more than fifteen miles aw»y. During the meantime, it is fairly apparent that General Eisenhower is making preparations for an all out push along most of the Western Front. Unconfirmed reports declare that the Germans are pulling out of Italy, that they are moving by motor, train and on horses and on foot and mov ing to Austria where some observers believe Hitler will continue the fight even after the fall of Berlin. In this country, War Mobilizer i Byrnes has ordered a mid-night curfew on cabarets, bars and other amusement places. The order brought bitter denunciations from some of the merrymakers, and some of the brazen scoundrels even hint ed that the order would mean the re turn of the speakeasy, that the fun lovers must be accommodated even while men sacrifice their lives in battle. Jamesville Boy At Reassignment Area Miami Beach, Fla.—S/Sgt. Edwin H. Carson, 23, Jamesville, N. C., has arrived at Army Air Forces Redistri bution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassignment processing after completing a tour of duty outside the continental United States. Medical examinations and classi fication interviews at this post, pion eer of several redistribution stations operated by the AAF Personnel Dis tribution Command for AAF re turnee officers and enlisted men, will determine his new assignment. He will remain at the redistribution sta tion about two weeks, much of which will be devoted to rest and recrea tion. He flew 42 missions as a B-24 en gineer and gunner during 14 months overseas and holds the Air'"Medal five clusters inipeH tan a af August 14, 1942. His father, O. G. Carson, lives at the same address, while his wife, Dorothy, lives at 305 East Mulberry Slicci, Goluoboio, N. C. Plan Distribution Of Large ~Qiaintity of Lime iiviftounty of lime in this county in early spring were advanced by county agricul tural leaders this week. \ contract ing firm is expected to make deliv eries direct to the farms from six distribution centers in the county. Some of the lime, the first ever or dered in large quantities, will be shipped to Jamesville, Everetts, Has sell and Oak City for distribution, but most of it will be handled in the Robersonville and Williamston areas, it was said. March delivery has been promised, but no definite dates have been men tioned. It was also learned that the contracting distributors had placed orders for fifty spreaders, but there Is some doubt if they will be made available in time for use in this county next month or even in April. SMOKEHOUSE KEY _j Lost since last spring the key to Martin County's smokehouse was found last Thursday eve ning when Joe Smith dipped two nice-sized herring from the Roanoke River here. For years, Ira Coltrain and son had usher ed in the season at Jamesville, but Smith was a day ahead of them this year, hut both are running behind the regular schedule. Mr. Collrain picked up eight herring last Friday, and now spring can't be so terribly far away. Of course the old ham eaters have packed their meat in am ple quantities for another sea son, hut the coming of the her ring means more food for many. Just as soon as the weather moderates, fishing will get un derway on a large scale, hut it will be the middle or latter part of March before the commercial fisheries start operations. Gets Citation For Meritorious Duty Sgt. Paul C VanLandingham, son of Mrs. Emilv D. VanLandingham, William ton, \.as recently awarded the certificate of merit in recogni-; lion of conspicuously meritorious1 and outstanding performance of military duty. Wounded three times1 and now in an Army hospital in Belgium recovering from frozen feet, the young man holds the Pur ple Heart and Oak Leaf Cluster. The citation recently issued by his commanding officer, Major Gener al L. S. Hobbs, reads: “For meritorious conduct in action against the enemy on October 4, 1944, in Germany. For a five-hour period on this date, Sgt. VanLand ingham, 117th Infantry Regiment, was instrumental in stopping a de termined enemy counterattack sup ported by tanks. Largely through his aggressiveness and bravery, his unit was able to hold its ground against a numerically superior on emy.” Sgt. VanLandingham was first wounded in July of last year in France ,and a second time just be fore Christmas somewhere along the Western Front. He was d’-o reported missing four days. On oanuary 20 he was wounded in Belgium a third time, and is now recovering from wounds and frozen feet. A brother, John Foster VanLandingham, is al so a patient in an Army hospital re covering from wounds and frozen feed. Paul was recently promoted to sergeant, relatives recently learned here. Cpl. Samuel L. (Hinson Is Wounded in Action Recently -r./ According to unofficial informa tion reaching here over the week-; end, Cpl. Samuel L. Glissori, son of Sam Glisson formerly of the Ham ilton community, this county, was slightly wounded in action on Jan uary 26th in Belgium. No details i could be had here. | AFTER FOUR YEARS \_ S/Sgt. James A. Wynne, after four years overseas, returned to the States recently and is now in Itahoran General Hospital, Sta ten Island, New York, receiving treatment for a crushed shoulder received in a fall about three months ago. It is likely that he will be a patient in the hospital for some time, one report stat ing that he will undergo an op eration on his shoulder. Sgt. Wynne, since leaving the States four years ago, has seen service in Iceland, England, and action in France, lielgium, Ifo' land A of a First Army engineers’ com pany, the young man called his mother, Mir. Fannie Wynne, here a few nights ago from the hospital. the spreaders. It is not too late Jo place orders for lime, but for a farmer to get spring delivery he must place on or der immediately. A few carloads of lime have been bought yearly in tiiis county over a period of years, but. this is the first time in the his tory of the county's agriculture that such large orders haye been placed at one time. It had been hoped that 2.000 tons would be ordered this year. The lime, its analysis guaran teed, is being made available to farmers at a very low cost. In addition to lime, the govern ment is making available a small quantity of superphosphate to Mar tin farmers this year. If they are in terested in buying any, orders should be placed with the office of the county agent at once. i Seventy-Nine Ti res Allotted In County | Seventy-nine tires— 69 for cars and ten for light trucks—were allot ted by the Martin County War Price and Rationing Board last Friday1 night. Certificates for passenger car tires were issued to the following: Margarette Ricks, B. F. Lilley,! Mack Bowen, W. K. Stroud, Ernest J Highsmith, Wiley Milliard, C. H. Whitehurst, D. O. Bowen, Luther Tyson, Mayo Simmons, Jack Smith, Raymond Williams, Paul 11 Peel, Clyde Revels, S. II. Biggs, Amanza j Cherry Roberson, J. R. Winslow, 11. M. Peele, L. I). Hardison, Benjamin j E. Griffin, J. E. Andrews, Coy J. Roberson, Willie Lassiter, S. T. Ev erett, Claud Keel, H. G. Harrison, Mildred Bonds, Bernard Moore, Jas per Taylor, R. F. Crawford, Dr. E. L. Early, J. L. Gibson, Clyde Rober son, H. O Jarman, James Thomas Moore, J. M. Dixon, I,. F. Warren, Paul Barber, Albert D. Williams, Charles Beachum, Arthur Peel, Dan iel Moore, J. J. Meeks, T. H. Mat thews, Curl Lee Beacham, Johnnie Griffin, M. E. Rogers, A. E. Purvis, Nellie Smith, Herman Moore, Pal mer Taylor, B. B. Etheridge, Irene McClaren, Beatrice J. Edmondson, Pender Lock, C. II. Beach, Council Smith. Willie Mack Bryant, Martha O. Harris, R. H. Taylor, Mrs. E. W. Jones, J. Walter Gurganus, R. D. Chandler. Tractor and small truck tires were allotted the following: Marion Evans, Town of Williamston, E. E. Brown, Town of Robersonville, El H. Manning, Eastern Telephone Com pany. Assault Case Jumps To Superior Court Originating in Justice J. L. Ifas st■ 1! . court here last week when a wan ant was drawn, the case charg ing N S. Godard with an assault re sulting in serious Irodily harm was sent to the county court yesterday where it bounced right on into the superior court. Appearing for Manual M. Schwartz the pro eeuting witness, Attorney W B. Hodman of Washington made a motion to amend the warrant and incorporate theiein secret assault. Tl motion was granted and H. G. Horton, defense attorney, immed iately called for trial by jury. Ordi narily the county court would have called a six-man jury to hear the ease. but a special law passed by the State legislature on February 9th eliminated jury trials in the county tribunal, and fhe case was automati cally docketed for trial in the su-, perior court. The case will be called some time during the third week in March. Navy Clots Stuck On llifih I Ain 11 In County Last Week A big Navy tractor-trailer got stuck a short distance south of Cor ey’s Cross Roads on U. S. Highway 17 last week and it looked as if the oufit would be there for the dura tion. Traveling from New York to Charleston with a special cargo, the driver stopped to rest a while and when he drove on the shoulder the vehiqle slid and settled down. Two wreckers and a tractor were unable to budge the outfit but with the help of a truck loaded with about 15,000 pounds of fish finally freed the Navy after a delay of nearly three hours. -it Former Local Baseball Player in Army lloaf/ilal Wounded a short time ago on the Western Front, S/Sgt. W. Jefferson Grant, former ball player for the Williamston Martins, is now recover ing in nn Army hospital in France Grant said he hadn't heard from William r< or, in a mighty long time that he would appreciate a letter from old friends and acquaintances Mr. Joe David Thrower has the ball player s address and he will be glad to share it. PAREXTS-TEACHERS ) V✓ The local parent-teacher as sociation will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow aft r ersuMM. M Jn< mar school w mfi I Cohurn, president. Miss Margaret idliott's fourth grade will appear in a special program and the nuhlic is invit TOWN - FARM IN WARTIME ——•— (A weekly news digest from the rural press section of the OWI news bureau) “Time to Time" Food Shortages Civilians may continue to expect food shortages “from time to time” as a result of multiplying military and Lend-Lease needs, but these shortages will not be serious if far mers repeat their record productiv- j it.v and if Americans plant victory gardens and do much ning as possible, Marvin Joiu^^wnr Food Adminsitrator, declares. “There is need for all of the meat and milk and vegetables and grains and doz ens of other foods that the nation’s farmers can produce," Jones said. “Farmers are being asked to plant more acres to crops this year. Far mers and their wives as well as old er people and children on farms are working to the limit of their ability, and the help of city and townspeo ple will be needed lit addition to meet this year’s needs.” He said the! surest way to assure a full supply of fruits and vegetables for home i use is to grow a garden and do as much home canning as possible. Illack Market Report Organized black markets in meat and sugar are reappearing in dan gerous proportions in the United States, and their existence is de pendent largely on counterfeiting of ration coupons, the Office of War Information said on the basis of in formation provided by the Office of Price Administration, U. S. Se cret Service and the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Treasury Department. Fresh mushrooming of counterfeit activities constitutes the principal problem now confronting govern ment enforcement agencies. Printing of bogus coupons lias become wide spread in the meat and sugar fields whereas it was formerly flagrant in the gasoline business, officials said. OPA executives said that the il legal diversion of gasoline through counterfeit and stolen coupons has been almost stopped while organ ized black market activities in b quor have been virtually eliminated. They denied the existence of any' (Continued on page six) Young County Man Garland W. Harris, will-known county farmer, died in the local hos pital at 12:110 o'clock last, Saturday morning following a short illness. The son of the late Robert and Alice Britton Harris, he was born in Bear Grass 41 years ago and lived and farmed there all his life. He at tended the public schools and Camp bell College and was a deacon in the Sweet Home Christian Church where the last rites were conducted Sun day afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. Dennis Warren Davis. Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery here. In early manhood he was married to Miss Estelle Hampton and she survives with eight children, foui sons, Clay W., Robert H., Jack A. and Albeit Garland Harris; four daugh ters, Dorris Hampton, Sybil Ray, Eleanor Gail arid Virginia Lane Har ris, all of the home; three brothers, Willie Paul Harris of Robersonville, Asa Robert Harris of RFD 2, Wil liamston, and Henry Luther Har ns, U. S. Army, now in service ov erseas, and a sister, Mrs. Rena Har ris Whitehurst of Virginia. Minor Accident lie/mrled I\eur Par nude Saturday -- No one was hurt and very little damage resulted when a pick-up truck owned by Malcolm Barefoot and a poultry truck owned by the Moseley Poultry Company of Kins ton sideswiped each other on U. S. Highway 64 near Parmele Damage to the pick-up truck was estimated at about $50 by Cpl. W. S. Hunt who investigated the accident. WOUNDED I --- 1 Cp). James t. Taylor was wounded a short time ago while in action in Germany, his par ents, .'Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tay lor, of near Wiiliamston, were recently advised. One report stated that he was wounded in the foot and hand, hut the ex tort of his injuries could not he learned immedaitely. The Purple Heart has been awarded him and he has for , warded it home io his wife and three children. To Map Plans This Week For ~P~ed'(1ross Drive Next Month Fn •!' i • r: de VA of R\ Xt War Fund drive in this chapter. Chairman J. C. Manning announced yesterday. Fund Chairman V. Spivey and Chapter Chairman .1. C. Manning will carry tire plans for the drive to the district canvassers on Thursday of next week, and leading citizens representing the colored population will meet to map their fund drive plans in the courthouse that night at 8 o’clock. On Tuesday of next week, Williamston canvassers will be called into a meeting at the courthouse to complete plans for handling the drive here. Chapter leaders, after serving in every drive, pointed out that possi bly someone else would head the task, but when Red Cross officials pointed out the urgency of the drive they willingly offered their best Arniynien Routed By 'Crazy Woman Here The entire local police force went into action. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck was summoned from bis bed, Roy Poe! temporarily deserted his post at the jail and, according to one re port, army men were routed late last Saturday night when a “crazy woman” went on a rampage on East Mam Street 'there was consider able' excitement for a short time. J. E. Harrison fired one or two sluds when his yard was invaded by the strange characte r. Several persons called for help, admitting after a vague' fashion they were a bit fright ened. Ttie charae-tor went into high gear about 11:30 that night at the Harrell and Main Stre.t intersection. Two colored girls nnu along, and the1 character, waving an old pocketbook and declaring complete sanity, wag ered “she” could beat them in a foot race to the river. No race de velope'd, but one report declared the two girls blazed a trail down the river hill. The “crazy woman” then started I climbing the sidewalk steps in front of the Geo. A. Harri-i home. “She” would walk up one or two and roll back to the bottom. After climbing the steps, the character ordered the telephone poles to move. Yards were invaded. Officers inquired about the where abouts of the “crazy woman.” A sol (tier, hearing about the search but who hud not seen the character, was later accosted. After a ling around the neck and a deep red lipstick kiss had been planted on his cheek, the armymun broke away and heeled it to greater safety at the prisoner of war camp. Just as the officers were closing their searched they learned Buster Old, dressed in woman’s attire, had “pulled” an exciting prank. They did not think it very funny at the lime, hut they chuckled later when the < : capade was discussed at h»adquat tors. Prayer Service Is Well Attended Here The special service held in ob servance of World Day of Prayer was well attended in the Episcopal Church here Iasi Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock, and a fairly large at tendance upon a similar service in one of the colored churches was re ported . Mis. Pigford, representing the Baptist Church, led the service in the Episcopal Church with real de votion and a deep spirit of fellow ship. Tlie special offering amounted to $27 arid the colored citizens added $6.00. It is expected that a special plea will he made to owners and opera tors of business houses next year, urging them to suspend their activi ties for the service. —-a,-——— County Colored Man Found Dead in Ditch Near Stokes Norman Chancey, 53-year-old Ne gro tenant farmer of this county, was found dead in a roadside ditch near Stokes Sunday morning, Pitt County authorities investigating his death, stating that the man died of exposure. Chancey was said to have roamed (he community late Saturday night, that he was carried home once and lent home a second time. Later in the night he went to the home of S. Wallace and was told to go home. Hi was found dead several hours later. fjl. Don Johnson Is Homo From ISorlh African Area After a lung^Ki etch of duty in ■forth Africa, Lt. (.ig) Don E. John on has returned to the States and - t*ny in 41h:>n- CJ.nne Island) Java! hospital for a check-up. Flying the Atlantic, the office! •inded in New York last week and opes to get a leave for a visit at )ome within the next week or two. handle the work, but tin y are re- , minded that the Rod Cross and suf-1 fering humanity ate in greater need | than ever before and that no one should hesitate in working and giv ing willingly and liberally in sup port of the .great organization. The Martin County Chapter is hi nig asked to raise $6,600 during the drive getting underway on Thursday of next week, March 1st. Our people over subscribed the war bond quotas and they have never failed to dig'down in their pockets and contribute their proportionate part to worthy causes. Some of the drives have dragged, to be sure, hul in the end the quotas were met and over subscribed. The fund chairman is anxious to launch and complete the 1045 Red Cross drive in record I ime. rm\<:ir\L .lust recently named to suc ceed Is. Itourne, resigned, Mr. Sam l>. Kundy, a native of I'armville, entered upon his new duties as principal id' the local schools yesterday. World War I Veteran Passes in Jamesville A.-.a IJoyl Iiardison, Wo) Id War ! vet".an and well-known farmer of Jamesville Township, died at his home Hi re last Saturday at 9:30 p. m following; a long period of declin ing health. Although he had suffer ed willi arthritis and complications for about two years Ins condition war; not considered critical until last Thursday when he was forced to his hi d. The son of the late James Asa and Sallie Modlin Hardison he was horn in Jamesville Township on Decern her 14, 1(1112, and spent all his life there with the exception of about 18 months spent in the service of his country during Woi Id War 1. He ere lured the service in itll7 and was honorably discharged soon after his icturn from overseas in April, IBIS), following almost a year of foreign service. He was married in Septem ber, 1919, to Mi ,s Mary Frances Mod lin, who died about seven years ago. He is survived by one son, James If. Hardison; a granddaughter, of the home; one brother, Kd Hardison of William: ton, and a half-sister, Mrs. Louise Lilley, HKD I, Williamslon. Funeral services were conducted at Ihe home Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. W. B. Harrington, county Baptist minister, and inter ment was in the Moulin Cemetery at Cooper Swamp. -% I'lsca/ir Injury In Minor Auto II rnrlt Last II 4‘l A No one was hurt and no ureal property damage resulted about 2 o’clock Iasi Time-day morning when Floyd Spruill, colon d, ran his car into the rear of Hen Griffin's auto mobile on 1 he Jamesvjllc Highway, a short distance from Nurney’s store. Griffin was turning off the high way when Spruill, traveling in the same direction, plowed into Hie buck of the Griffin car. CpI. W. 3. Hunt, investigating Hie accident, estimated the damage lo He- Spruill car at $50 and that to Griffin's car at $25. .NOT AN All, \|{|.K l Ruled out by priority ratings held by industrial plants, far mers in this county will not be able to employ prisoners of war for a short time, according to information released by the of fice of the farm agent this week. Quite a few farmers have been using prisoners of war on their farms cutting tobacco wood, ditching and shrubbing. During the next few davs the prisoners w'iil be allocated to fertilizer plants, lumber mills and other industrial plants..* It could not be learned when prisoner labor would again be made available to farmers, but just now all that available type of labor is being allocated to in dustrial plants. Pfe. Bennie Weaver -Tells Of Invasion Back to < a\ ili/atioii After Slay in Now Guinea After a long stay in the jungles of New Guinea, Pfc. Bonnie Weaver, local young man, is enjoying a re turn to civilization over in the Phil ippines, Centering his interesting letter on conditions in the Philip pines, he wrote under date of Jan uary 27. as follows: “To begin with, I’m mighty glad to be out of the jungle into civiliza tion once more! “As you may already know I was in on another invasion and I’m al lowed to say, ‘Opposition light and we landed successful’! “The weather here is real pleas ant and reminds me lots of the sum mers at home. It rained very little because it's summer time now and the rainy season comes about June. "When we first came in sight of land, everyone was all eyes, includ ing myself We all tried to get a look through a pair of binoculars which was more powerful than oth ers we had. "Everyone could see something different and w'e would all have to see. It really was funny but we had been in New Guinea jungle for so long that anything resembling civi lization looked good to us. “We could see houses and rice fields and mountains in the back ground. After getting a good look from a distance we then had the job of unloading our supplies but we could hardly work for looking. "When we hit shore, Filipinos were all around but very few women, be cause as we found out later, they were still in the mountains. “The first souvenirs gotten, of course, was Jap money, and there was plenty of that. They told us it took 120 pesos for about a pound of rice when the Japs were here and other prices name?! were outrageous. Anyway, the next few days we got to talk to hundreds of Filipinos and all were suffering from mul-nutri tion. They were starved and had rags on for clothes. The kids, well, it was pitiful to see them eat and all were hungry. In chow line they would come around with old cans gilting what we didn’t eat. It’s an awful sight all over, but gradually all these people are being fed and clothed. “At nights it was hard to sleep for our big guns were blasting the Japs out of the mountains continually. But now I’m used to it and can sleep real well, even with shells whizzing aver my bead. "All the fellers were getting sou venirs and listening to the stories the Filipinos had to tell about the way Die Japs treated them. All stories wire about Jap barbarism, and I see sights of d all around. “I got myself a Jap compass, Jap money (10 yen piece), etc., from anno guerillas, and believe me, they ire tough. All their equipment was laken from the Japs but a few pieces were American, gotten either at Bataan or smuggled in some way or itlier. This band I was talking to aas a score of over a thousand Japs Lo their credit. There are hundreds if such bands and they should bo jiveil credit lot keeping the Japs molested and also getting a good per centage of them. They all hate the Japs and everyone says they are in line, winch isn’t hard to believe af ter some of the stories they tell. “About the scenery—just iike in looks, with rice fields, pigs, caribou (streamlined steers, 1 call them), and Filipinos with wide hats or a large jot on their heads. Now we have moved into a town mil it’s funny to see buildings, tele graph poll: , people riding in carts lulled by caribou, old model cars (most of which are without tires), women’ with bright dresses, not grass skirts, signs such as Drink Pep i Cola, Notary of Public, Atton. at Law, General Merchants. Cafe, Ho (Continued on page six) Kiwanians Hold Boy Scout Honor Court —®— With Uic ntnviy installed president, Walter Martin, presiding, the local Kiwanis Club held its bi-monthly meeting in the library of the local nigh school last Thursday night. After the introduction of the visi tors and the usual routine, the meet ing was turned into a Boy Scout Court of Honor. Wheeler Itjartin, scout executive, spoke briefly, re viewing the history of Scouting in Martin County, and the progress the boys’ organization has made since it was first sponsored by the iocal Ki wanis Club. After the introduction of the local Scoutmaster, Rev. Jos Huske, Mr. Martin introduced Ben jamin Bunting, who was raised to the rank of an Eagle Scout. Benja min is the son of Mr. and Mrs. V. U. Punting, Williamston RFD 2, and is the sixtn Wiiliamston Scout to re nf>\yp> <hf» pnvvtffj tb** est honor that can be attained in Scouting. The presentation ot the medal was made by Mrs. Bunting, who with her husband, was present at the meeting.