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VOLUME XLVIII-—NUMBER 58
Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 21. 1945.
ESTABLISHED 1899
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Story Of The One
ml
Hundred and First
Airborne Division
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Brief Review of Daring Fart
Handled by During Men
\ In European Theater
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 by local people because
Lt. Billy Biggs, son of Mr. and Mrs.
3. Rome Biggs, of Williamston, and
possibl yother Martin County boys
are members of the 101st.
Tne third installment of the story
follows:
Bastogne—“The Hole in
the Doughnut”
Less than two weeks after fight
ing in Holland, the 101st was alert
ed for another mission. At 2400, Dec.
17, unit commanders were told that
Germans had broken through Allied
lines, were rolling westward across
Luxembourg and Belgium.
The situation was tense. Many
" American units had been overrun,
others were staggering under the
unexpected power of the Wehrmacht
blowr. The 101st was ordered to move
within 12 hours.
Clerks, draftsmen and typists hur
riedly were awakened. In the dim
early morning hours, division, regi
ment and battalion headquarters
personnel raced to ready maps and
vital information needed by the first
groups before departure. Gen. Tay
^ lor was in Washington on urgent
War Department business. Gen. Mc
Auliffe was in command.
Fighting men awoke at dawn. In
some cases it was “Be ready to leave
in four hours!” Others had more
time.
It was incredible yet true. Die
well-deserved rest of the 101st was
short. Men were needed. A1J fight
ing equipment had been turned in.
so Division supply room doors now
_ swung open. “Take what you need
® and be sure you have enough. No
forms to sign—no red tape— help
yourself!” Every man quickly found
equipment to transform him from
a “resting” soldier tack to a veter
an ready for combat.
German objectives were Liege, Na
mur. across the Meuse to Antwerp
The plan which sent speeding Pan
zer columns westward along Bel
gium’s highways called for capture
of Bastogne, vital hu b of a commun
0 icaticn network of seven highways
three railroads. Seizure of Bastogne
was imperative to insure develop
ment of the German attack. Without
the city, Germans could hardly hope
to succeed.
The 101st rolled to Bastogne in
huge carrier trucks. Re-routing
sometimes was necessary, but by
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Teacher Shortage
Continues Acute
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The shortage of school teachers
for the 1945-46 term in this count}
continues acute, according to a re
port just released from the office oi
the superintendent.
Approximately thirty teachers
have resigned in both the white anc
colored schools and replacements
have been limited so far. Ten of the
twenty-eight positions made vaean1
by resignations since last term hav<
been filled in the white schools, anc
it was reported that several art
applying for the two positions made
vacant in the colored schools.
The shortage, it was pointed out
is more acute than it was a yeas
ago. When the schools were open
ed for the term last fall, severa
teachers were recruited outside thi
regular professional ranks. Few, i
any extra ones, will be available fo
the ne wterm.
Three of the eighteen opening;
are in the Williamston schools. Mis;
Frances Turnage, able first gradi
teachers for the past several years
resigned a few days ago, and tha
position has not been filled alonj
with the eighth grade and publi
school music posts.
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Has Many Narrow
Escapes In Pacific
Cpl. Franklin Moulin, a veteran o
six campaigns in the Pacifict Thea
ter of War, returned home last wee’
for a forty-five day furlough wit
relatives in the county and with hi
brothers in Williamston.
Cpl. Modlin never returned horn
after he passed his pre-inductio
physical examination at Fort Bragf
He was wounded slightly the earl
part of last February on Luzon, re
ports stating that he was able to rc
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time later.
The young man. according to ir
direct information had many na:
row escapes in the Philippine are:
Going out on a patrol with five othc
men, Cpl. Modlin and the othei
were cut off from their base by th
Japs and they lived on cocoanu
for foo dand coco.-mut milk for nine
teen days. He was quoted as sayin
that he could smell a Jap sever:
hundred feet away, that about tl
only thing the Jap soldier unde:
stood was bullets.
Urging Tobacco Farmers To
Farmers who are interested in
securing Uramon for the control of
weeds on their tc>h..rco feejls next
winter should submit theii names
to the local county agent, because
the ^ar Production Board has
clamped certain restrictions upon
the use of the chemical, according
to Dr. F,. R. Collins, agronomy
specialist of the State College Ex
tension Service.
Picking weeds on a plant bed is
a back-breaking and timeconsuming
job, Dr. Collins points out. The
plants are frequently damaged, the
root system is disturbed, and dis
eases may easily spread to healthy
plants.
It is an accepted practice to con
trol plant bed deeds with chemicals
at the Experiment Station Farms.
Many farmers are also finding up
to 95 per cent control of weeds when
chemicals are correctly applied.
Poor weed control is sometimes re
ported due to incomplete mixing
with the soil, late application, or
breeding the soil too deep at the
timo the seeds are planted. There
fore, directions should be followed
carefully in treating plant beds. The
correct methods are discussed here
| m order to avoid failures from in
correct applications.
Consideration should be given to
your specific conditiohs in electing
the chemical to use. Cyanamid and
Uramon have both given satisfac
tory weed control. Uramon has
given outstanding control of soil
borne diseases (root knot, black
root rot, and Granville wilt). This
permits permanent plant bed sites
at convenient locations where the
soil type is suitable and there is a
good supply of running water.
Cyanamid does not control soil
borne diseases. Cyanamid should
beu sod on the dark colored, low
land soils of the Coastal Plains, be
cause Uramon has not been too sat
isfactory on this type of soil. Cyana
mid is also preferred on the clay
i soils of the Old Belt area where
Uramon has given some unsatisfac
tory results.
ROUND-UP
After a fairly quiet period
on the crime front, law enforce
ment officers had a fairly busy
time last week rounding up
seven alleged violators of the
law.
One young man was called to
answer for failing to register
for the draft. Three were book
ed for assaults with deadly
weapons, and one £ach for lar
ceny and receiving, operating a
motor vehicle without a driver’s
license, and one for public
drunkenness.
All but one of the seven were
colored, and most of them were
in the tender-age group.
Bombers Wreck Jap
Shipping; from The
East Indies to China
Observers Still Believe Bosnia
Will Join War Against
The Japanese
American airmen nave caiueu
the war to the Japs on land and sea
and in the air these past few days,
late reports stating that Jap ship
ping has been dealt telling blows
from the China coast right on down
to the East Indies while Halsey's
Third Fleet was pounding the main
Jap island of Honshu. Airmen of
the Third Fleet centered on the
enemy’s great naval base of Kure,
observers declaring that the attack
was a part of an over-all plan to
wipe out the remnants of the Jap
fleet.
While the tempo of war is in
creasing, developments are believed
brewing on the diplomatic fronts.
There have been many rumors of
Jap peace feelers. The Big Three
meeting in Potsdam is being as
sociated with the peace talk. Presi
dent Truman is said to have made a
good impression on Premier Stalin,
and observers are still predicting
that Russia will join the war against
the Japs.
In the latest United States Third
Fleet attack, Adm. William Hal
sey sent more than 1,000 carrier
planes against the Japs, striking
them on a 950-mile stretch from
northern Hokkaido to southern
Honshu.
The sixth carrier strike in fifteen
days on the quaking enemy home
land, followed an assault last Wed
! nesday against the great Yokosuka
naval base and the Tokyo area in
which the battleship Nagato, one of
Japan’s few remaining capital ships,
[ was damaged heavily and possibly
’ sunk by aerial bombs.
“ | In the land fighting, the Aus
' tralians are advancing on strategic
Dj points in Borneo.
;; The Big Three meeting in Pots
' dam, German, apparently is nearing
an end despite rumors that it would
continue another ten days or two
weeks. Much progress has been
made at the meeting, and far-reach
ing developments are expected to
* follow.
t Award Young Man
; Bronze Star Medal
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Technical Sergeant Joseph H.
Lilley, son of Mrs. Elsie Lilley was
recently awarded the Bronze Star
Medal for heroic action in connec
tion with military operations against
the enemy on March 15, 1945, ir
Germany.
Vfhrr «pees«grv trWljmh a steer
grade of two miles, Sergeant Lilley
in charge of a heavy machine gur
section supporting a rifle company
alternately relieved his gunners anc
ammunition bearers. When five oi
his men were wounded, Lilley pre
sonally administered first aid tc
three and assisted them to cover
although forced to expose himsel:
to sniper fire.
In the service since Novembei
1942, Sergeant Lilley has been in th«
European Theatre of Operations foi
approximately ten months.
To Complete Final
Engineering Plans
For Flood Control
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Propone To Locale Dam 2(1
Miles Below Clarksville,
Virginia on Roanoke
Colonel R. E. Cruse, District Engl
neer, U. S. Engineers Office, Norfolk,
has been directed by the War De
partment to initiate immediately the
final engineering studies and anal
yses preliminary to the preparation
of plans and specifications for con
struction of the Buggs Island dam
on the Roanoke River, 20 miles be
low Clarksville, Va.
This project was reported to Con
gress by the Chief of Engineers, U
S. Army, in May, 1944. The report
recommended adoption of the proj
ect on the basis that it was eco
nomically justified and that it pro
vided for the control of floods, the
generation of hydro-electric power
low-water regulation, and other
beneficial uses of the waters of the
Roanoke River.
Congress, in the Flood Control
Act of December. 1944, authorized
construction of ihe Buggs Islanc
project substantially in accordanct
with the recommendation of the
Chief of Engineers. This act stipu
lated that the Buggs Island project
together with many others through
out the United States in a similai
category, was authorized with s
view to providing a number of use
ful and worthy public works foi
the postwar construction program
The act further provided, however
that in order to be prepared foi
rapid inauguration of this postwai
program of construction, necessarj
preliminary work, including prepar
ation of plans and specifications
could be prosecuted during the war
Funds have now been made avail
able to Colonel Cruse for this pre
liminary work on the Buggs Islanc
project. Actual construction, how
ever, is dependent on the cessatior
of hostilities and the further ap
propriation of funds (or this pur
pose by Congress. ,
The general plan of developmeni
reported to Congress by the Chiel
of Engineers included a tentative
design for the project. The detail
ed engineering studies and analyse!
now being initiated by engineers or
Colonel Cruse’s staff are for th(
purpose of determining whether anj
[changes in the preliminary layou'
of the Buggs Island dam and reser
voir should be made, and if so, th«
: nature and scope of the changes. I'
is contemplated that these engineer
ing analyses will be completed earlj
in 1946 and will then serve as the
basis for preparation of the fina
plans and specifications.
The interests of the people to b<
affected by the construction of th<
Buggs Island project are of conceri
to the War Department. With thi:
in mind sufficient engineering plan
ning will be undertaken to make eer
tain that construction of the dan
and relocation or alteration of th<
affected highways, railroads, am
other utilities will create a minimun
disturbance to business and soeia
activities in the area.
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Liquor Plants Are
Wrecked in Count)
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Illicit liquor manufacturers ar
experiencing one set-back after an
other in this county. In addition t
unfavorable weather, the manufac
turers have lost one plant afte
another to enforcement officers wh
i have wrecked eight in the past tw
1 weeks.
After upsetting six week befor
last. Officers J. H. Roebuck and Ro
reei' went about three miles froi
Williamston and raided just off th
old Greenville road. The first plar
was equipped with a 100-gallon a
pacity tin rig and there were foil
barrels of sugar beer about read
for the kettle. Less than a quarte
mile away, the officers found an
1 wrecked a second plant equippe
1 with a 50-gallon gas drum. The
' poured out 250 gallons of molassc
beer.
TOWN - FARM
IN WARTIME
(A weekly news digest from
the rural press section of
the OW1 news bureau'
Tiie Government needs and asks
its citizens in this 190th week of the
war to:
Do your part in the vast job of
transporting men and materials for
the big push against Japan by:
Taking a top-priority railroad
job if you are a railroad worker.
A hundred thousand experienced
workers are needed to haul three
million returning veterans, a hun
dred million tons of war materials
plus essential crop shipments. Ap
ply to your local U. S. Employment
Service Office.
Waiting at home for your return
ing soldier. By meeting his boat,
you add to already serious problems
of transportation and housing in
seaports.
Putting your sea experience to
work with the Merchant Marine.
Delayed sailings because of incom
plete crews may upset carefully
planned military schedules. Wire
collect, Merchant Marine, Washing
ton 25. D. C.
No Permit Needed For Repairs
Home owners need no longer
apply to the Federal Housing Ad
ministration of the National Hous
ing Agency for authorization to pur
chase lumber needed for emergency
repair, WPB and NHA announced.
The home owner may now certify his
own purchase order and buy the
lumber directly from a distributor.
Labor On Move Can Get Tires
Passenger car owners using their
automobiles for a bona fide change
of residence for which they were
issued special gasoline rations are
now eligible for Grade I passenger
tire purchase certificates, subject to
quota and other restrictions, OPA
announced. This extension of eli
gibility is particulaly needed now
that increasing numbers of persons
are moving from one city to another
OPA explained. It will allow the
following groups to apply for new
tires if they have a tire failure while
making a permanent change of re
sidence:
War workers moving from one
city to another as production shifts
from one type of war goods to an
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U TJ TJ
I wo Hurt In Road
Accidents Saturday
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Twc persons were painfully but
believed not seriously hurt, one or
two others were slightly bruised and
considerable property damage re
sulted in two highways accidents in
the county last Saturday.
What was at first a minor acci
dent almost developend into a
serious one. Miss Mary Elizabeth
Holliday, drivin ga pick-up truck,
was going out of town at a very
moderate speed when Jesse Gardner
started to walk across the highway
at Sunnside Inn on the Washington
Highway. Miss Holliday tried to
turn out for him, and he jumped in
to the path of the truck. Struck by
the machine, Mr. Gardner was
thrown under a pair of mules his
son was holding at the side of the
road. The lad became frightened,
jumped fro mthe wagon and the
team ran away, throwing Mrs. Gard
ner from the wagon. She was re
moved to the local hospital and later
dismissed after receiving treatment.
Mr. Gardner was treatpd for slight
bruises, Patrolman W. E. Saunders,
investigating the accident, reported.
Late last Saturday night, Dick
Raker, driving Lawrence Wil
liams’ 1939 Chevrolet, was traveling
without lights and in a drunken
condition toward Palmyra on the
River Road, a few miles out of
Hamilton. Running on the wrong
1 side of the road, he erased head on
into the 1942 Chevrolet driven by
Eli iDavis. Frank Williams, 63, rid
'■ ing in the Davis car, was cut and
1 bruised about the head and almost
1 paralyzed, temporarily at least.
Pat-olman Saunders estimated
' that the damage to each car would
i ■.nnrnvimatf $300. Baker was charg
“ ed with operating a motor vehicle
I ithout lignts and while in a drunk
1 en condition. Harper M. Peel, of
l 'Tnmilton answered the cal) to the
wreck.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
J After maintaining a fairly
good record for two weeks, mo
3 torists on Martin County high
ways broke into the accident
r columns in rapid order, Pa
3 trolmen investigating thre be
3 fore the period ended. No one
was badly hurt, but several sajs
e were smashed so badly they will
V go to the junk pile,
a The following tabulations of -
e fer a comparison of the accident
t trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
r for each year to the present time.
29th Week Comparison
Accidents InJ’d Killed Dam’ge
1945 3 2 0 $ 900
1944 3 0 0 75
y Comparison To Date
s 1945 33 15 3 $8050
1944 .40 21 1 7575
Army ‘Wood for War' Show
C.nurthnutf Thursday NiZllL
The U. S. Army "Wood for Wnr"
Motorcade now touring the Eastern
part of North Carolina will put on a
night show here m Williamston tot
all workers, both white and colored,
working in lumber mills and woods
industries of this vicinity. Included
on the program will be the personal
appearance of five distinguished
combat veterans of World War II.
The highlight of the program will
he the moving picture “San Pietro,"
a combat film, made under fire by
the U. S. Army.
The show in Williamston will be
held a* the Court House an Thurs
day, July 26, at 8:30 p m
This show is honig sponsored by
the U. S Army, the. Timber Produc
tion War Project and the War Man
power Commission. It is designed
to combat absenteeism in the woods
industries.
Employees from all lumber, pulp
wood, veneer industries and others
in this vicinity are invited to attend
the free show
The motorcade, starting a 1,500
i tour yesterday, attracted consider
I able attention in the first towns
i where stops were scheduled.
Heavy Rains Damage
Crops In The County
No Cash Estimates
Offered On Losses
Caused In Section
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Nearly TVn Inches of Rain
Fall Here in a Lillie
Over Four Weeks
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No cash estimates could be had,
but most farmers are agreed that
right much damage has been done
to crops in this section by excessive
rains during the past few weeks.
The reports vary, some farmers
stating that portions of their crops
have been drowned, that tobacco
has flopped and peanuts afe rotting
around the roots.
Farmers in the upper part of the
county state that many crops have
been damaged considerably. South
east of Sweet Water Creek, recent
heavy rains have exacted much
damage, and from a point a short
distance from Bear Grass to the
Beaufort County line, losses are of
substantial size.
It is fairly certain that the crop,
as a whole has been damaged, some
farmers stating that young tobacco
failed rapidly and to a surprising
extent during the three-day period
ending yesterday. The "life” has
been washed out of the leaf and the
plant is being attacked bv disease
in many instances. Much of the
tobacco crop has ripened too fast
and losses from inadquate barn space
are aggravating the prospects for a
successful harvest.
During the period, June 20 to
July 20, nearly ten inches of rain fell
in this locality, and so far in this
month rain has fallen on seventeen
of the 24 days. While the total pre
cipitation for July to date is not as
heavy as it was for the same period
two years ago, it came on top of
a fairly wet June. Since June 25
when 3.60 inches of rain were re
corded on Roanoke River here, thr
weather has been fair only a few
days in a row, making it impossible
for farmers to plow their peanuts
and hold the grass down
Prospects are bright for a bumper
corn crop, hut the late corn, it is
believed, has been damaged to
some extent.
Reports from Georgia indicate
that the tobacco crop has been re
duced considerably in some areas
by excessive rains, one report stat
ing that rain has fallen in one area
there 28 days in a row, reducing
the yield several million pounds.
While some areas have had ex
cessive rainfall during recent weeks,
othei areas have had it unusually
dry. The Roanoke River watershed
in the upper regions has been fairly
dry and the river has not been in
fluenced very much. Heavy rains
in the lower watershed have caus
ed the river to overflow its banks
here by a few inches. The strearr
is expected to reach a crest at this
point soma time today and fall
gradually during the next ten days
or two weeks.
Discussing the quality of the cror
already cured in this section, farm
ers declared it is very good, one
declaring that he just finished cur
ing one of his best lots in five years
One or two farmers are expectinj
to complete the harvest this week
a few will finish next week, hut
under normal conditions, the rna
jority will likely be harvest much o
the crop during the first two week;
in August.
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Placed Under Bond
For Store Robber)
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Probable cause appearing, Andrev
Everett, colored youth, was placei
under bond in the sum of $300 at
preliminary hearing held befor
Justice J. L. Hassell here last Fri
day evening in the case charging th
18-year-old boy with breaking int
the Martin-FJliolt Wholesale house
few days before. Unable to raise th
bond, the defendant continues in th
county jail.
Few details of the robbery wer
released by local police, but it wa
learned that Everett went on top o
the wholesale building and enterei
through a sky light. He is charge;
with stealing five dollars in casl
and tampering with the firm’s safe
As far as it could be learned u
goods were stolen.
| TO FIX DATES ]
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Scheduled to meet next Mon
members of the Martin
County Hoard of Education will,
among other items, discuss and
fix dates for opening the schools
this fall. If old schedules are
considered, it is likely that the
schools will he opened on or
about Wednesday, September 5.
School authorities are literally
struggling with preparations for
opening the new term. Repairs
are being made to buildings and
the county school garage is over
hauling the forty busses, thirty
seven for the whites and three
for the colored. The county has
been promised several new
busses, but there is some doubt
if they will be made available
in time for use early this com
ing term.
Joseph A. Ausbon
Died Thursday At
Cross Roads Home
Proiiiinrnl C.omily Wan Mini
i Itec'ii lit Declinin'; llcallli
For Abonl One Year
Joseph A. Ausbon, one of the coun
ly’s most highly respected citizens
I and a leader in the church foi
! many years, died at his homo ir
Cross Roads Township last Thursday
| afternoon at -I o’clock. He had been
I in declining health for about one
year, hut his condition was not con
I sidered critical until just a short
time before the end. He was forced
to his bed about a week before, his
condition gradually growing worse.
Mr. Ausbon, a member of thi
old school and possessed of qualities
characteristic of the true southern
gentlemen, was born in Cross Hoads
Township seventy-five years age
last February. He spent his entire
life there, engaging successfully in
farming arid living peaceably and
neighborly with his fellowman dm
mg a long and useful life. Mr. Aus
bon was a member of the Christian
Chapel Church at Cross Roads for
51 years, and he was loyal and ac
tive in its support. lie purchased
the ground for the parsonage and
aided in repairing and modernizing
the strucluie. He was a devoted hus
band, a thoughtful father and an
accommodating neighbor and citi
zen, one who walked humbly before
his Maker and one who valued the
friendship and good will of his fel
lowman.
In young manhood he was married
to Miss Sudie Leggett and she with
on#- son, Willie Ausbon of the hom<
community, survives. He also is
survived by two brothers, Messrs
Jeff Ausbon of Beaufort County
and Dave Ausbon of this county
one grandchild and one great grand
child.
Funeral services were conducted
at the late home Friday afternoon
at 4 o'clock and interment was in the
family centetery, near the home. Hit
pastor, Rev. Dennis Warren Davis
assisted by Rev. Luther M. Ambrose
conducted the last rites.
Five Seek Divorces
In Superior (lourl
At least five suits far divorce wen
• field in the superior court of thi:
county during the first three week:
in this month, Deputy Clerk Main
' E. Keel said this week. About ;
• dozen other suits were also startei
• during the period, but most of then
• were considered of little import
■ ance.
The divorce actions, based on fw<
> years’ separation, loiiow:
• | T. Y. Dawson against Mary L
2 Dawson.
Christine Gale against John S
Gale,
Bettie G. James against Essii
’ James.
f Pete M. Williams against Annii
1 Lee Williams.
1 Elder L. Gardner against Loli
i Gardner.
At least one of the plaintiffs i;
> in the armed forces, it was learn
ied.
Farmers In County
Having a 1) i f f ieult^
Time Curing Leat
c
Tliiril VJorr Oil Thitn l ii»nul
HHng l *<><i Thi* Year,
(irnwers Declare
Planting thoir largest crop since
1939. Martin County farmers are
experiencing all kinds of trouble
in harvesting and curing their to
bacco this season, according to re
ports reaching here this week.
The labor shortage is proving to
be the most serious problem, and a
marked change in the weather is al
most certain to aggravate bad har
vesting conditions. Unofficial re
ports state that a few farmers have
already lost some of their tobacco
because it could not be removed
from the fioIHs in time
German prisoners of war were
made available in limited numbers
last week for aiding the tobacco
harvest, but the number was so
small that no material relief fol
lowed except in a comparatively
few cases. “We could have placed
500 or more prisoners each day dur
ing the past
resentative in
ty agent explained this week. Near
ly 100 farmers in the county ask
ed for the prisoners labor during
the first two days.
Reports from farmers state that
the prisoner labor is proving very
valuable, one farmei declaring that
lie handled his harvest so quickly
that he was able to take them to
an adjoining farm and complete the
harvest there within the lime origi
nally allotted him. “Loopers” com
plained that th(' prisoners handed
tobacco faster Ilian it could be hand
led a linos I
A few of the prisoners are going
into Beaufort and Pitt County to
aid in the tobacco harvest there.
The problem isn’t solved after
the tobacco is in the barn, farmers
explaining that they are having
considerable trouble in curing the
leaf. The leaf stems are unusually
large and curing time has to he ex
tended several hours. Even before
the leaf is placed in the barn it is
wet and considerable time elapses
before il dries sufficiently before
much heat can be applied.
Normally about 125 gallons of oil
are needed to cure a barn of tobacco,
but the same farmers say they have
used as many as 300 gallons in cur
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office of the coun
Local Man’s Mother
Dies In Yorktown
Mrs. Lucy Hopkins Crockett,
mother of Mr. C. G. Crockett, Sr.,
of Willuimston, and widow of
Thomas W. Crockett, died at ther
home in Yorktown, Virginia, lust
I Thursday.
The daughter of the late William
IH. and Susan C. Hopkins, she was
j born in York County, Virginia, on
September 7, 1878, and lived in that
! community all her life, spending the
Iasi 38 years in Yorktown.
Besides her son here she is sur
vived by three children, Paul Crock
ett, of Yorktown and a member of
the Virginia House of Delegates, C.
H. Crockett, of Yorktown, and Lt.
Doris C. Hammond of Fort Mc
Pherson, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. J.
W Davis, of Summitt, N. J., Mrs.
P. L. Herring and Mrs. Ade L. Jones,
of Norfolk; two brothers, C. P. Hop
kins, of Yorktown, and W. H. Hop
kins, of Norfolk; seven grandchild
| ren and a great-grandson.
Funeral services were held at 3
J p. n>. Saturday from the home in
! Yorktown. Interment was in the
j family plot of the Episcopal church
icemetery, also in Yorktown.
Me. I). Hardison. Jr.
Home from Overseas
.—<$> -
After spending six months in the
European Theater of War, Mack D.
Hardison, jr., returned home last
week for a furlough with relatives
and friends in the county.
"With the exception of letters from
home, “The Enterprise" was the
greatest friend I had while over
seas,” the young man stated.
Telling about his stay in Europe,
the young man said, "I went into
the combat zone on January 29 and
remained there until the Germans
surrendered. About all I can say is
' that I w'as lucky and am fortunate
; to be back alive and in good health.”
; Hardison said he visited Bugen
wald prison camp. “Although it
1 had been cleaned up to some extent,
1 there was much evidence that it had
1 been a living hell for the prisoners
who were confined there,” he declar
ed. “Approximately 2.500 people
• lwere quartered in a small building,
and there they had to live, eat and
• wash, only there wasn’t much of
either,” he added.
Bugenwald had the reputation of
being one of the worst concentra
; tion camps in Europe, and, accord
ing to Hardison, it was just as bad
• as pictured in the papers and on
the screen.
i Pvt. Hardison has the combat in
fantryman's badge, two battle stars
> and good conduct ribbon. He is in
the 87th Infantry Division, Known
as the Acorn Division.
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