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ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
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ENTERPRISE GOING IN TO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
AND TO COUNTY SEE VIVIEN
VOLUME \LVHI—NUMBER 56
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 17, 1945.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Thirty-One County
™ 'Entered 'Mcrnferre
For Pre - Induction
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Twenty-Four of the Group To
4 Get Gall Are Just 18
Years of Age
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Thirty-one Martin County colored
men were called this week to re
port for their pre-induction exam
inations. Twenty-seven answered
the call Monday and four were trans
ferred to other draft boards. The
call was the largest received by the
draft board in this county in re
cent months.
Twentv-four of those called this
week are only 18 years of age, the
ages of the others ranging up to 30
years. Twenty-two were called from
farms.
John D. Manning, Parrnele and
Baltimore.
Robert Ermond Brown, William
ston Route 2 and Philadelphia. Pa.
Hubert Walton Howard, Balti
4 more.
» Leste>- Highsmith, Robersonville
Route 2 and Baltimore.
Sam Moore. Robersonville Route
No. 2.
Paul Daniels, Williamston, Route
No. 3.
James Edward Williams, William
ston.
Jesse Lawrence Brown, William- j
ston Route 2.
James Lester Stokes. Williamston.
'"William Thurston Lawrence, Wil
4 liamston Route 3.
Alex Junior Powell, Oak City
Route 1.
Octavius Brown, Williamston
Route 2.
Mose Junior Sheppard, Oak City
Route 1.
James Dennis Williams, Oak City j
Route 1.
Arthur Hudgins, Williamston j
Route 3. j
James Sheppard, Oak City Route
4 No. 1.
Bermon Briley, Robersonville'
Route 1.
John Daniel Shaw, Robersonville
Route 2.
Lester Jones, Oak City.
Roosevelt Andrews, Robersonville
Route 2.
Earl Rogers, Williamston Route 3.
John Thomas Cloman, Roberson
ville Route 2.
Ernest Jenkins, jr., Robersonville
Route 2.
4 James Henry Wiggins, Hamilton.
Jason Flowers, Palmyra Route 1.
Daniel Exum, Palmyra Route 1.
James Reuben Lee Jones, Everetts.
Bennie Frank Wallace, Everetts.
Joseph Hunter, Williamston
Bennie Ruffin, Robersonville.
Jesse Lee Andrews.
Four men were transferred, as fol
lows: John D. Manning to Baltimore,
Robert Ermond Brown to Philadel
4 phia, Hubert Walton Howard to
Baltimore, and Lester Highsmith to
Baltimore.
Place Truck Driver
Under $500.00 Bond
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Charged with running down and
^ seriously injuring Miss Elizabeth
Holliday, young daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Holliday at their
home near Dardens several weeks
ago, Kader Brown, colored truck
driver, was bound over to the su
perior court under bond in the sum
of $500 by Justice J. L. Hassell at a
preliminary hearing held here last
evening.
The victim was not able to appear
and testify, but Mrs. Holliday, John
^ Allen Mizelle, James R. Mizelle,
Walter Barnes and Patrolman W. E.
Saunders were heard. The witnesses
stated that the girl got off a pas
senger bus and was walking toward
the house when the truck, allegedly
traveling about 60 miles an hour,
ran off the highway and struck her
quite a little distance from the con
crete highway.
After undergoing treatment for
several weeks in various hospitals,
▼ the victim is gradually improving
at her home and is able to be up
part of time, and is walking some
with the aid of others.
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I Vernon E. Casper Killed In
utrTtorrNem dkfnmmrMity’9'
Fireman l/c Vernon Everett Cas
per, Mai Un County youth, was killed
i in action in the Pacific theater of
war, presumably in the Okinawa
area, or on about May 9, 1945, ac
cording to a telegraphic message re
ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Waylon Weaver Casper, in Oak City
last Sunday. Few details were of
fered in the message. The young
man was on the U. S. destroyer
“Luce,” which was attacked and
sunk near Okinawa on or about
May 9. He was the fifty-second
Martin County man reported to have
been killed in all theaters of war
to date, and the third from the coun
♦ y mcikc the supreme sacrifice
during the month of May, 1945.
An only child, the youth, just 20
years old last February 2, entered
the service two years ago, last June
2nd. After receiving his basic train
ing at Bainbridge, Md.. for six weeks
he returned home for his first and
last leave with relatives and friends
He then reported to a post of duty
in the State of Washington and went
overseas fot service in the Pacific
theater of war about 15 month* ago
His father was a veteran of World
War I, receiving his discharge 25
VERNON E. CASPER
yeais ago the second of last month.
Me was the 166th Martin County
i man to he included in the list of war
casualties in all theaters of war to
date.
Building and Loan
Associations’ Assets
Increase 32 Per Cent
Will Be Prepared To Finance
Buildup Program in
Post-War Years
During the three war years 1942
1944. savings and loan associations
which are members of the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Winston-Salem
increased their assets by 32 per cent,
O. K. LaRoque, president of the
Winston-Salpm Bank of the system,
announced recently.
The combined resources of those
403 home financing institutions in
the district totalled $746,840,000 on
December 31. 1944, as compared with
$564,156,000 at the end of 1941, Mr.
LaRoque said.
Ove r the same period, he report
ed. government bonds and cash held
by those associations rose from $28,
267,000 to $202,825,000, with the re
sult that their liquid assets now are
i quivalent to about 27 per cent of
their total resources—an all-time
record ratio.
•'During the war years, excess
funds of IIk- pul lie have flowed into
saving and loan associations in high
volume,” said Mr. LaRoque. ‘Re
payments on home loans have risen,
and the proportion of withdrawals
to new investments in the associa
tions has dropped. At the same time
the outlet for investments by the
institutions in construction loans has
narrowed sharply, because of neces
sary war-time restrictions on home
building. Increasingly, associations
have placed their surplues monies
in government bonds, a relatively
new form of investment for them.
“In consequence—as one by
product of our present economy—
these associations will go into the
post-war period prepared to finance
a large share of the great number
of homes that will be built in the
years following the final defeat of
Japan.”
In addition to their purchases of
government securities, these 403
member institutions of the bank sys
tem have sold War Bonds and
stamps in the amount of $130,000,000,
making a total contribution of ap
proximately $330,000,000 to the U.
S. Treasury’s war financing pro
gram, he said.
Other three-year changes in the
combined balance sheet for the as
sociations included:
A rise in mortgages held from
$513,175,000 to $527,024,COO;
An increase in reserves and un
divided profits to $53,748,000, or by
47 per cent;
A decline in “real estate owned’
—often a troublesome item for fi
nancial institutions in the early
’thirties—from $3,643,000 to a nomi
nal $1,544,000.
Lemuel Harrison
Passes Suddenly
Lemuel Harrison, industrious j
young farmer of Bear Grass Town
ship, died at his home there yes-!
terday morning at 1 o’clock, fol-,
lowing an illness of only a few hours.
Apparently in his usual health, he j
was sitting up at a tobacco barn on
the Gid Harrison farm Sunday j
nignt and died a short time later, j
The son of the late William R. j
and Sallie Gurganus Harrison, he j
was born in Bear Grass Township
thirty-four years ago and farmed
all his life. He was a hard worker
and was well known.
He never married and is sui vived
by four brothers, Messrs. Roy, Oliv
er,' Elms? • s?«i -Simon Harrisesir&iwl
a sister, Mrs. Archie Wynne, all of
the Bear Grass community.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the late home this afternoon
at 4:30 o’clock toy Elder* B S. Covin
and A. B. Ayers. Ini :i mem will
follow in the family cemetery near
the home. •
Okinawa Wildlife
Taken In Its Stride
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Okinawa.—In the early days o
the Okinawa campaign a Coas
Guardsman fro man LST anchorec
off the island was caught ashor
overnight. He shared a fox hoi
with a former buddy, a soldier wh
had gone ashore from his Coas
Guard vessel on D-Day.
The sailor, not an old fox-hole wat
rior, heard a rustle In the low l» i
Such nocturnal slithering could onl
be a Jap. He roused fhe soldier wh
list;.red intently foi a moment an
iti-weh—‘-Now,"' he aid, “take
easy. Wait.
They waited while the noise cam
doscr, j ignt up to ihe edge of fl;
■fox h'Oie. a iien, oii tup oh them uro
ped a short, thick-bodied snak
Scrambling quickly out of the wa,
the soldier reached out with a sue
and gave the snake the bum’s rus
heading it clear of the hole.
Nonchalantly the sold r said, “It
just Lana. Comes around evei
night about this tune.”
TOWN - FARM
IN WARTIME
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(A weekly news digest from
the rural press section of
the OWI news bureau)
Civilians at War
The Government needs and asks
its citizens in this 189th week of the
war against Japan to:
1. Return to duty if you are one
of the 30,000 inactive graduate reg
istered nurses or a trained Nurse’s
Aide. Your local hospital needs
you to help care for a record num
ber of patients.
2. Buy only what you need and
at ceiling prices. Supporting
price, wage and rationing con
trols will save your money and
help prevent the ruinous inflation
which, in World War I, came aft
er fighting had ceased.
3. Help care for the wounded or
fill another important Navy job
by joining the WAVES. Twenty
thousand new recruits are needed,
and food and housing allowances
have been substantially increased.
See your nearest Navy Recruiting
Office.
Fill Fuel-Oil Tanks
Announcing that powering the Pa
cific war will lake 8,400,000 more
gallons of petroleum products daily
at its peak than is being used today,
Chester Bowles, administrator of
OPA, and Ralph K. Davies, deputy
petroleum administiator, cautioned
fuel-oil consumers that home-heat
ing oil supplies will be tight next
winter and joined in an appeal to
householders to fill their fuel-oil
storage tanks immediately.
“Military needs for fuel oil are
continuing to increase and will reach
a peak this winter at the lime when
civilian fuel oil needs too are heavi
lest,” Mr. Davies said. “Obviously,
demands on the nation’s heavily bur
dened transportation system will
follow a similar pattern, making it
imperative for householders to stock
up early this summer so that deal
ers can refill their own storage tanks
while transportation is still avail
able.”
Maximum Sugar for Canning
Fifteen pounds of sugar is the
maximum to be allowed to any one
person foi home canning, OPA em
phasized, correcting a misunder
standing by housewives concerning
home canning sugar allotments. On
ly housewives planning to can
enough foods to require this amount
of sugar are eligible to receive this
much, and they will receive it only
where local sugar quotas permit such
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Ship Makes Round
Trip In Short Time
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Boston (Special).—Only seventeen
days aftei she shoved off from Bos
ton, the Coast Guard-manned troop
transport ‘‘Wakefield” returned
crammed with 5,000 battle-weary
1 veterans of the European theater of
operation. Among the number were
; men who had been repatriated,
I wounded, and soldiers due for hon
* orable discharge.
The Coast Guard ship set a new
> round-trip record for itself for
* crossing the Atlantic.
! During the European war days
■jthe “Wakefield” traveled without
convoy from the States to Europe.
i; It covered the course through the
0 : sub-infesled waters—on a zig-zag
1 ging pattern—in a 21-day period.
t 1r, peacetime the former luxury
liner had as its record round-trip
e ; time 28 days. •
«j T> the men at Commonwealth
t"':i Pr helbecs dock the Atlantic
jt seemed t though the
<< jcl. - f the ship’s last arrival were
k still ranging in their ears. One sailor
i, | stammered, “When I turn my back
I she's gone and before I have a
’» j chance to digest my lunch, the
y "Wakefield” is back waiting to be
j docked again.”
The Story Of The
Airborne Division j
I Brief Review of Daring Paris
Handled by Daring Men
In European Theater
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The story below offers a review
of the daring work handled by dar
ing men in the U. S. Army’s 101st
Airborne Division. It will be read
with interest by all Americans and
especially <jy local people because
Lt. Billy Biggs, son of Mr. and Mrs.
5. R. Biggs cf Williamson, is a
member of the outfit.
The first of the installments fol
“You have a rendezvous with des
tiny!”
With this, Maj. Gen. William C.
Lee, the original commander, con
cluded his activation speech to the
101st Airborne Division. Screaming
Eagles have found meaning and ex
pression in these words. They kept
that rendezvous with destiny.
They kept it in Normandy by ini
tiating the Allied assault on Hitler's
Fortress Europn, Juno 6, 1944; by
storming and capturing Carentan—
initial proof of the division's strength
in coordinated ground action.
They kept it in Holland by liberat
ing the first Dutch city, Eindhoven,
and blazing a path of liberation 20
miles northward in a campaign that
kept them fighting 73 days without
relief.
They kept it at Bastogne where
against overwhelming odds they held
tenaciously to doom von Rundstedt’s
December counter-offensive to fail
ure.
Success of the division has been
the result of a happy combination of
brave men commanded by bold lead
ers. Mutual confidence of the 101st
is exemplified by the remark of an
Eagle soldier during the siege of
Bastonge: “They've got us surround
ed—the poor bastards.”
A British Corps Commander near
the end of the Holland campaign
told Screaming Eagle soldiers: “I !
have commanded four Corps during 1
my army career, but the 101st Air j
borne Division is the fightingest out- j
fit I have ever had under my com-1
mand.”
Maj. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe
(then Brig. Gen.) voiced the opinion I
of division officers for their men \
when he said at Bastogne: “With the
type of soldier I had under my com
mand, possessing such fighting spirit,
all that I had to do was to make a
few basic decisions—my men did
the rest."
His words pay tribute to the gal
lant fighting Eagle Division men,
who k”pt their “rendezvous with
destiny" in Normandy, Holland, and
Belgium.
Normandy, 1st Rendezvous
With Destiny
June fi, 1944: The echoing rifle fire
of a 101st A/B Div. “baggy-pants"
paratrooper heralder the greatest
military operation of its kind. The
invasion of Europe for which an
anxious world waited had begun—
—born in hedge-row-lined fields, in
apple orchards and in the country
lanes of Normandy where para
troopers and glider fighters of Maj.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor’s Eagle Di
vision had dropped behind German
troops manning beach defenses.
As daylight mellowed into dusk
June 5, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower j
circulated among 101st troops at
England’s departure fields to wish
them Godspeed, good luck.
Cocky fighters, armed to the hilt
and assigned the mission of striking
the first blow at Hitler’s Fortress
Europa, wisecracked as they board
ed C-47's. Less than four hours la
ter in Normandy, these Airborne sol
diers wrote the first pages of their
glorious story with blood and cour
age.
They penned the lines of a combat
diary with a phrase in French and
a hand grenade at Pouppeville, with
German dead stacked in roadside
j ditches on the march to St. Come du
Mont, with a blinding bayonet dash
across the swampy approaches to
Carentan.
From 0015 in the darkness of June
6, 1944, when Capt. FranJc L. Lilly
man, Skaneateles, N. Y., leader of
the Pathfinder group, became the
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THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
The current year highway
accident record is taking on a
better appearance gradually,
especially is this true when
compared with the 1944 figures.
A year ago there were six ac
cidents on the highways in this
county in the 28th week. This
yeaj there was only one report
ed by highway patrolmen in the
county. The record this year is
better in three ways, but de
cidedly worse in one other way.
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.
28th Week Oompa ison
Accidents InJ’d Killed Dam’ge
1945 1 0 0 $ 150
1944 6 3 0 400
Comparison To Date
1945 30 13 3 $7150
1944 37 20 1 7300
Father and \ onus*; Son
*•»■.»» '<tf ■ mum mi i» » 9tmm0>m m '—on——f
Drown in Edenton Bay
I KILLED ON OKINAWA
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Pvt. Reginald Fleming Rawls,
son of Mrs. Dora Rawls, of near
Robersonville, was killed on
Okinawa last May 27, his wife,
the former Miss Ruby Itailey,
was recently advised.
United States And
British Join Forees
In Drives on Japan
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Staggering Blows Delivered
By Carrier Fleets in the
Tokyo Area
Joining forces, the American and
British fleets, one of the largest na
val combinations ever to assemble
in the Pacific, loosed an estimated
1,500 carrier planes in a mighty at
tack against the Japs in the Tokyo
area today. While the carrier planes
were in action, between 450 and 500
B-29’s dropped 2,500 tons of bombs
on the Honshu cities of Namazu,
Hiratsuka and Kuwana and Oita on
the northeastern tip of Kyushu. The
Superfort attack came just after
Tokyo reported 150 Iwo-based Mus
tang fighters had attacked six air
fields on eastern Honshu in a day
light raid yesterday.
No report on the damage has been
released, but the combined fleet
attack was decribed as far more
powerful than the one made just a
few days before.
In the earlier raid on Honshu and
Hokkaido, eight cities were attacked
and 28 ships were sunk while war
ships poured heavy shells on shore
positions from a distance estimated
at not more than ten miles.
No answer was received from the
enemy when the fleet pounded his
shores and no Jap planes were seen.
The powerful Allied naval battle
fleet -including six of the greatest
American battleships confronted
Japan with the migrtiest armada
ever to steam into Japanese waters.
The carrier plane strike was being
combined with the B-2!) assault to
pulverize specific Japanese targets
in raids which the enemy could not
or would not expose.
To date, 43 Jap cities have been
scourged by B-29's in their knoek
out drive started last March. Over
136 square miles have been burned
out in 39 cities, sixteen of which
were more than 50 percent destroy
ed.
President Truman is in Berlin for
the Big Three conference, called to
help iron out some of the troubles
in the European area.
In this country, Congress is de
bating the Bre ion Woods issut , and
will take up next Monday the World
Security Charter which is expected
to pass without much delay.
Off icers Installed by
Lions Club Recently
The local l.ions Club recently in
stalled its new officers for the 1945
46 fiscal year, which began on July
1st. John Henry F.dwards, local
auto dealer and a member of the
county board of commissioners, suc
ceeded Roy L. Ward as president.
Frank E. Weston and R. E. Tarking
ton moved up to the post of first
and second vice presidents, respect
ively, while K. D. Worrell is the
new third vice president.
Lion Gene Rice, the perennial
tail twister, succeeded himself, as
did Ernest Mears as Lion tamer.
D. V Clayton entered his sixth year
as treasurer and Wheeler Manning
began his third year as secretary.
Two new directors were installed
for a twotu<n, Cii> j being
Lions W M. Baker and W Clyde
Griffin. Lion A. P. Hassell con
tinues.as. song .loader. The.....two
other directors, with another year
to serve, are H. P. Mobley and E. T.
Walker.
The chairmen and membeis of the
various committees appointed by
the president were announced al
the last meeting of the club, at which
time they were urged to do theii
best during the new year.
Father Surrendered
His Life in Effort
To Save \ oung Son
Three Others Barely Escape
When Boat Capsized
Near Shore
Floyd E. Bufflap, faithful and
highly esteemed employee of the
j Enterprise Publishing Company, and
his nine-year-old son, Floyd (Ed
die) Bufflap, drowned and three
others, W. C. Manning and his young
son and ,T Edwin Bufflap, father and
grandfather of the two victims, bare
ly escaped with their lives last Sat
urday afternoon shortly after 3
0 clock, when a small boat m which
they were riding capsized in Eden
ton Bav near the oil docks and hard
ly more than 75 feet from shore.
The lather and son and the Man
nings went to Edeoton early that
afternoon to atten dlo business, and
while there they joined the elder
Bufflap and planned to go to a
near-by creek to fisli a short time.
The party got in the boat and planned
to move along the shore until they
reached the creek. Just as they
made ready lo turn a wave washed
into tlu' boat and drowned out the
motor. A second wave caused the
boat to capsize. The water was
very rough, and the party was sep
mated, the father catching the two
boys while the others were washed
in almost opposite directions. The
young Mr. Bufflap and the boys
were swimming along very well un
lil they became excited apparently
and started swimming away from
shore. The senior Mi. Bufflap called
for help, and Mr. Conger, Texaco
ml representative, and a young man,
1 lionel Cabmess, took a boat and
went to the rescue. In the mean
time, a sailor whose name could not
he learned, pulled W. C Manning
sr., out of the water .and 11 it' senloi
Mr. BulTlap, clinging to the over
turned boat, drifted helplessly down
the bay but toward shore. The
rescue boat reached the Manning
youth just as he was about to go
down either for the third or fourth
time. They threw him a life belt,
hut lie was too weak to grab it and
Cubiness jumped overboard and lift
ed him unconscious into the boat.
The father and son, undetected up
until that time by the rescue partv,
were seen to go down a short dis
tance away.
Manning and his young son were
treated immediately after they were
taken from the water and later ear
ried to a doctor’s office, returning
home that evening.
The lather , body was recovered
just before 7 o'clock, and the son’s
body was taken from the water a
short time later. Volunteer search
ers, headed by Chief of Police Tan
ner, recovered the bodies, just he
fore a special detail was moving in
from the 1J. S Coast Guard Station
near Elizabeth City to join in th ■
search.
The father, it was said, unselfishly
gave Ins life in an attempt to saw
his son’s life.
Over Hundred Tires
Allotted !>v !>ourd
More than oiu hundred passenger
lai tires arid about 13 for truck'
were allotted m this county las'
Friday by thi War Price and Hat a
ing Board.
Grade I tires w< re issued to tin
following: J. It. Overton, Rufus J
Corey, V. G. Taylor, Jeremiah Ful
fold, Everett and Williams Grocery,
I.indsley Ice Co., J. Bynum Rober
son, M. T. Gardner, R A. Haislip,
Joe Everett, Ov i ton and Oscar
Jame: . Luther M. Craft, F. B. Bir
mingham, I. F. Keel, Hyman Clark,
Urnee Bunting, Eli Rodgers, A. D.
Griffin, jr., James E. Griffin, A B.
Ayers, John A Ward, J D. Holli
day, John L Hassell, Julian Fagan,
F. S. Barrett, A. B. Ayers, jr., H. G.
Harrison, Mrs. Lydia Gurkin, Daniel
DeMary, W Robert Taylor, G. W
Coltrain, M II. Leggett, W A. Rog
ers, A B Ores, William Bowen,
Annie L. Roberson, J. G. Everett,
C. L. Tyson, D. G. Modlin, It. L.
Bryant, Charles It. Gray, Jasper Ev
erett, Jim Davis, P. C Edmondson,
jr., John H. Everett, S. J. Williams,
J. M. Andrews, J. H. Gray, jr., W.
F. Thomas, J. E. Copeland, sr., W.
L. Whitaker, W. II. Cannon, M C.
House, John Mobley, jr., J. H. Bell,
J. C Johnson, V,'. A. Bailey, Mark
Chesson, H L. Swain, David Mizelle
M. D. Davis, S. L. Andrews, O. S.
Green, Emma W. Powell, W. J.
Ward, Mrs. Dora C. Rawls, W. C.
House, Eva P. J s, J. B. Whitfield.
Luthei Lee Winn.eld, Mrs. Elizabeth
Eure, William Roberson, W. I. Wat
kins. William J. Cordon. Tom Letch -
wort.h.. Mrs. .K- A., White..Esssie
Cowin Shelton, Joseph D. Hodges,
Levi McGowan, jr., Charlie Hoell,
Bettie L. Bullock, W. J. Miller, W.
H. Williams, J. D .Thrower.
Truck tires were issued to the
following: Town of Wi’liamston, II
L. Roberson, J, S, Ayers, sr,, Tayloi
Mill & Gin Company, G. W. Barrett
Williamston Lumber Co.
Funeral Y esterday
u
mu
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\nd His Y ounff Son
, Jtiirs II,-M ;!} iiomr
Oil Mnralitill Vvnnm*; In
terment in Roek\ Mount
Funeral services were conducted
at the home on Marshall Avenue
here yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
for Floyd E. BufTlap and his young
son, Floyd Edwin Bufflap, jr., who
lost their lives by drowning tn the
Edenton Bay shortly after 3 o’clock
last Saturday afternoon. The Rev
B. T. Hurley, local Methodist min
ister and family pastor, conducted
the service, and he was assisted by
the Rev. H. F. Surratt, of Eden
ton, and the Rev. R. E. L. Moser, of
Rocky Mount. Interment followed
in the Rocky Mount cemetery.
The double funeral, climaxing the
tragedy, was one of the few ever
held in this county and the first
since the young Misses Mendenhall
were buried near here about one
year ago. The last rites were large
ly attended, and the floral offering
was extensive.
Master Eddie Bufflap was born
in Rocky Mount nine years ago,
tin' son of Floyd E and Eunice Fel
ton Bufflap. He moved with his
parents to Williamston in August,
1937, and as he grew to young boy
hood he became known as one of the
best and most polite little fellows in
the community. Often he would
drop by The Enterprise office to
say hello to his dad. A question,
asked just foi an always polite an
swer would bring a “yes, sir,” or
“no, sir,” packed with a pleasing
and friendly smile. The little fel
low always spoke with reverence,
and hi' was a favorite among his
school chums and friends in the
neighborhood.
The son of Editor and Mrs. J. Ed
win Bufflap, of Edenton, Floyd Buff
lap was born in York, Pa., 31 years
ago last April. When he was six
years old he moved with his par
ents to Elizabeth City, locating three
years later in Edenton, where he
attended school and was graduat
ed lb- attended t.ouisburg College
and then accepted a position in
Rocky Mount, where he met and
man ied the former Miss Eunice Fel
ton. After a residence there of a
year or two he accepted a position
with the Independent in Elizabeth
City, coming to Williamston eight
years ago to accept a position with
the Enterprise Publishing Company
Jolly and friendly, the young man
had a cordial greeting for every
one, and a large friendship circle
was cherished and enjo ’od by him.
During the eight years he was with
The Enterprise, tie P .>!< a keen in
terest in its operation He was a
willing worker and i capable and
efficient journeyman, giving freely
of his time as mechanical super
intendent in handling extra duties
and responsibilities re ulting when
three of the company's employees
inswered the call of their country.
II accent, dll'e clia'h gc and work
ed long hour vail: in and week
out (nb 1. I wi k he worked ev
ery night iruil !!..■) or 12 o'clock
i ;;i 11.s. I■ ' |,. i catch up with
the work.
The youii;', to >n u as a member of
the Mi tlmiii I chi ch. If he ever
I eld a hale for an one, it was never
i xprt . i d, and lew persons ever
livid a 111e1 ■ unselfish life than the
one li d by him.
Hesidi In wife and parents, he
is sutvived by a daughter, Sondra;
ail r, Mi Dorothy Bufflap, of
Edenton n I a brnther, Dance Buff
I ip U, S. Naval Reserve, now sta
tion, d '.newhere m the European
an a,
Mrs. !No;ili Beacham
Dirs Near Jamesville
Mrs. Fannie Beacham, widow of
Noah Beacham, died at her home in
Jamesville Township Sunday night
at 10 o’clock. She had been in
declining health for some years, but
was able to be up until just a few
hours before her death.
She was born in Jamesville Town
ship 82 years ago, the 10th of last
I month, the daughter of the late Jack
| I.illey and wife, Christine Rogers
Tilley. She was a member of the
church at Old Ford for a long num
ber of years.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mis. J H. Jackson with home she
made her home near Jamesville,
and two sons, Tommie Beacham of
Beaufort County and Claytan Beach
am of RFD 1, Jamesville, and a
number of grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
graveside near Old Ford Church in
Beaufort County yesterday after
noon at 3 o’clock by Rev. F. A. Tilley
of Washington. Interment followed
in the family cemetery not far from
the church.
Undergoes Successful —i
Operation in Hochester
-<tf;-—•~
.... -George -Sfe-K-'iscn, j-r., troubled sev
eral years with a bad knee injury
received in an automobile accident,
underwent a successful operation in
a Rochester, Minnesota, hospital last
■ Thursday, reports stating that
permanent relief is almost assured.
' The young man will continue in
, the hospital for about four weeks,
according to reports reaching here.