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NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OF THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OF THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES Of MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 62 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 7, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1899 Thirty-three Youths An Induction Center Twenty**/ Then. Come from Industry; Ten Rejected Previously Thirty-three Martin County col ored men were called today to report to Fort Bragg for their pre induction examinations, the call be ing one of the largest received in this county in recent months. Twenty of the men come from oc cupations other than farming, the records showing that many of the thirteen from the farm had just re cently reached their eighteenth birthdays. Twelve of the men are just eighteen years old, while the ages of the others run up to thirty seven years, ft was pointed out that most of those, if not all, in the older age group were called because they had quit their jobs without per mission of the draft board. Ten of the men have made trips to the serv ice center previously and were re jected. Twelve of the men are married and they leave behind LWenty-six children, one leaving five. The names and registration and last-given addresses of the men call ed, are are follows: Herbert Feddarough Cherry, RFD 1, Robersonville. Herman Mooring, RFD 2, Rober sonville. Roland McKnight Latham, Wil liamston. . Burnice Roosevelt Brown, Rober sonville and New York. Elisha Speller, Williamston and Jamesville. Charlie Hardison, RFD 3, Wil liamston and Portsmouth. Frank Baker, RFD, Williamston and Flint, Michigan. John D. Griffin, RFD 3, William ston. Albert S. Boston, RFD 1. James ville. , Morris Brown, RFD 2. Williams ton. Thadious Spruill, Norfolk. James Bryant, RFD 1, Palmyra. Haywood Morris, Jr., RFD 1, Oak City. Walter Lee Wilkins, RFD 3, Wil liamston. James Elbert Daniel, RFD 1, Jamesville. Thomas Jefferson Purvis, Hamil ton. Willie Jasper Parker, RFD 1, Oak City. Edward Long, RFD 2, Hobgood. James Henry Williams, Williams ton. Jesse Lee Fields, RFD 1, Palmyra. Aulander Page, RFD 2. Bob'rson ville. Leon Brown, RFD 2 Williamston. Earma Staton, Oak Cit\ Joe Henry Spruill, RFD 2. Wil liamston. | Raleigh Albert Jonee RFD L Wi’ liamston. Robert Lee Gainer. P rr U Norman Little, RFD I Roberso: - ville. Aaron Andre Berner., WiPiai ifio: James Spruill, RFD 1, Roberson ville and South Norfolk. Abel Smallwood, Willnm.-ton and New York. James Mayo, Willi;- ton and New York. Andrew Wilkins, RFD 1 Robei sonville and Greenville. Gadys Peel, RFD 1, Jamesville and St. Louis. The following men were transfer red by the Martin County Draft (Continued on page four) County Authorities Hold Short Meeting In a short meeting held here yes terday, the Martin County Commis sioners drew sixty citizens for jury service during the September term of superior court, recommended the widening of a county road and hand led routine duties, adjourning before lunch. Final plans for establishing a re tirement fund for county employees similar to the one now in effect for school teachers, were made, the fund to be supported by a 10 percent de duction, four by the employees and six by the government. The commissioners recommended the widening of the road leading off U. S. Highway No. 64 at Nurney’s store and running thence in a south erly direction via Major Gardner’s Fairview church, Gus Moore farm, Andrew' Hardison’s and Dick Hardi son’s to Highway No. 171, a distance of about three and one-half miles. In his report to the commission ers, Tax Collector M. L. Peel stat ed that all but $5,417.93 of the 1944 tax levy of $194,044.17 had been col lected, that there remained unco llected $1,673.15 of the 1943 levy, $1,568.48 of the 1943 levy and $1, 444.U8 of the i941 levy. In her report for the month of July, the welfare department super intendent listed expenditures as fol lows: salcnes, $645.00; travel, $68.08, office expense, $42.74; county home expenses, $352 69; tuberculosis san atorum, $395.19; general relief, $118; drugs, $48.43; hospitalization, $337.83 and 221 old age grants, $2,583.00; 33 grants to dependent children. $947.; 11 aid to blind grants, $232, making a total of $5,769.96, of which amount the county paid $2,631.30. Ensign Nathan Edmondson rU^tm^ad~K41hdLOibJLvhf-i5- ■ Ensign Nathan T. Edmondson, USNR, was killed in operational combat the ISth of last month, ac cording to a message received last Thursday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Edmondscn, RED 2, Robersonville, from Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of Naval Per sonnel. Apparently there is some misun derstanding about dates as the young man wrote a letter and dated it July 16, the day after he was re ported killed in action, giving rise to the hope that the message was sent by mistake. The young man enlisted for serv ice at Atlanta in 1942, and was call ed for duty in January, 1943, train ing at Atlanta, Columbia, S. C., and Pensacola. He received his wings and his commission as an ensign in the Naval Air Corps upon comple tion of his training at Pensacola on August 29, 1944, and was immed iately sent to the South Pacific where he was serving on a carrier when he was reported to have been killed. In his letter to his parents under date of July 16. the young man said “I'm OK and getting along all right, and expressed the hope that all were well at home and were not worrying too much over the crops. Ensign Edmondson was a fine young man, and had a promising ENS. NATHAN T, EDMONDSON future. He went from the Roberson ville High School into service, and was in line for promotion. A brother Pfc. Roy H. Edmondson, is serving with the American forces in France at the present time. He is the fifty-fourth Martin County young man reported to have made the supreme sacrifice for his country in the war to date. r MORE BARNS BURN v* At least two more tobacco barns have been destroyed In the county by fire, reports stating: that County Commissioner Josh ua L. Coltrain lost one over in Williams Township last Satur day and Farmer E. N. Harrell lost one in the Oak City section last Sunday morning. At least fifteen barns are known to have been destroyed by fire in this county so far this season. Many farmers arc completing the harvest in the county this week and by the latter part of next week virtually all of the tobacco crop will have been har vested. Authorities Allow New Sales Outlets For Beer and Wine Discuss Possibilities of an Air Port for the Town and Martin County Aside from a study of the tentative 1 udget for the 1945-46 fiscal year, t' e town commissioners in their rr ;i iar session here last night dis cussed varied subjects, but limited action to just a few cases. Two li cense- to sell beer and wine were issued, one to Russell Griffin, oper ■ tor of the Sinclair station on Wash ington Street, and one to Dr. Edward Early, owner of Duck Inn (and duck out) also on Washington Street. Li pi ns -s to sell beer were denied Ethel R;u Wilson, daughter of Joe Wilson, o’- Warren Street, and J. D. Gray on South Smithwick Street. No action was taken in connec tion with a storm sewer leading from the haeklots at the rear of the Sta ton store buildings to Church Street. The owners propose to sell the sew er line to the town for $200. The trash pile at the end of East Church Street was mentioned, but no action was taken. The possibilities of building an air j ort for the town and county were discussed by the board at the sug gestion of E. S. Peel. It was point (d out that population centers had been budded first along the rivers, and then along the railroads, and still later on highways. No cost figures could be had immediately, but the authorities plan to look in into the matter and search out the possibilities of building a modern air port in this area. It was learned [that several independent companies | were interested in establishing air line service for this section, and that Congress had adopted resolu tions to include small towns on air (Continued on page four) -* Gum Vendors Yield Lions Much Money The approximately forty ball chewing gum machines being oper ated by the local Lions Club yield ed $263.55 in cash, along with a lib eral quantity of slugs, during the six weeks period ending last week, according to Lion K P. l.indsley, chairman of the gum machine com mittee. Of this amount, 20 percent goes to the club’s fund for the blind. The amount is r.ot a record take, hut if the gum can be made avail able, the committee hopes to push the sales to the extent that the club will realize $1,000 for its Blind Fund during the current fiscal year. Several Lions have beer, placed on the committee in an effort to keep all the machines in this area serv iced and supplied. Farm Security Has Meeting of Special Committee Here Albert T. Gurkins Succeeds W. ill. Ilar/ison As Mem ber of (Committee The Martin County Farm Security Committee met in the office of the organization in the courthouse last Saturday to begin making plans for the work to be done in 1946. The committee is composed of Mr. Chas. L. Daniels of Williams, Mr. George Oglesby of Hamilton and Mr. Albert T. Gurkin of Griffins. Mr. Gurkin succeeds Mr. W. M .Harrison of Bear Grass, who retired as a regular committeeman last June 30. The committee review some of the work done in the past, and re-certi fied to that work, and laid the foundation for recommendations to the county personnel for the work they are to do for the next twelve months. It is the duty of this com mittee to steer the program in every respect in this county. The pro gram consist chiefly of three main divisions: the farm ownership phase which deals with the loan to tenants with which to buy a farm and home. No application can be processed by the county workers until the ap plicant has first been approved by the committee, and no loan can be made to an aproved applicant until the committee inspects and approves that farm that tJie loan is to be made for, the Rural Rehabilitation loan program which makes loans to the low income farmers to purchase fired, seed .fertilizer, hired labor, living expenses and medical service. Every application for this type serv ice must be approved by the com mittee before the county personnel can process the loan docket. Those who have been on the program three or more years are required to be recertified by the committee before further asistance is given; the third program division is the Farm Se curity Administration’s assistance to the returning veteran. An additional member is added to the committee to assist with the veterans’ pro gram. This member is Mr. Hugh G. Horton, of Williamston. At present the Farm Security Ad ministration has only one returned veteran of World War II * on the program. This applicant received assistance to purchase work stock and equipment and subsistance for the current farm year ,in order that he could return to the farm and take his place as a citizen again. Other applications were taken, but refer red to different agencies due to the fact that they were applying for help outside the field that Farm Se curity is set up to handle. The committee was enthusiastic throughout the meeting, and made several solid and firm recommenda tions to be followed for the coming year. They based all recommenda tions on strict business, and adher ed closely to the general policies of the Farm Security Administration on all decisions. Many applications were approved and a collection policy was established to be followed for the coming heavy collection months. The committee adjourned after a two and one-half hour ses sion to meet again upon call of the county supervisor, who is executive secretary to the members. ■-<h County Youth Stationed On a New De$troyer Reuben Clyde Williams, 18, sea man, second class, U. S. N., of 'Wil liamston, has arrived at Norfolk to train for duties on a new destroyer, of the Atlantic Fleet. He has com pleted a period of instruction at the Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland. Array Expects Long AadJiasd, .Situ j$3 e. In the Pacific Area ..1" l Atomis' Bmnb ('mild Change Plans and Hasten End Of the Jap War -$ High-ranking Army officers, ad dressing a group of newspaper men in Rocky Mount last Sunday after noon, warned that preparations had to be made, in fact, were in the mak ing, for a long and hard struggle against Japan. While they could reveal no vital information, the Army men declared that it is not yet time to think the war against Japan is about over, that it is time to reconvert to a peace-time econ omy. They frankly pointed out that it would be dangerous to accept the stories that Japan is whipped and that surrender was only a few days off. Several of the men are just back from the Pacific fronts, and they pointed out quite plainly that much is yet to be done before victory can be expected in the West. They told how the Japs had improved their tactics, how n:;.4MMKv they had in Manchuria, China and Thailand. They compared the task with the one recently completed in Europe, and frankly pointed out that the task in the Pacific is almost certain to prove a greater one. It was apparent that the Army men are disturbed over the accusa tions of hoarding and of disturbing the domestic economy, but they po litely explained that the Army was doing all in its power to curtail war production where curtailment would not delay the war, but they main- [ tained that there was a job to be done, and that the Army planned to make that the primary job until every Jap flag was lowered and the last soldier is returned home. Territory held by the Japs is sev- I oral times larger than Germany was before the close of the European war, it was pointed out. Much of that territory is highly industrialized. The group was asked to consider the plain facts, and once they were care fully considered it could be seen that there was nothing else for the Army to do but go ahead with all-out plans for an all-out fight against the enemy. While the Army continues its (Continued on page four) Eighty-eight Tires Allotted By Board —<*,— Eighty-eight tires — eighty-three for cars and five for trucks—were allotted by the Martin County War Price and Rationing Board last Fri day evening. The issuance was some smaller than preceding ones: Car tires and in a few instances trailer tires were allotted to the fol lowing: W. J. Johnson, Mrs. Effie Rogers, C. C. Martin, John A. Manning, Joe J. Johnson, J. T. Phelps, G. P. Hughes, Mildred Purvis. Lenward Cowan, Russell Holliday, W. Clyde Manning, Benjamin L. Harrell, C. J. Kincaid, Claude B. Clark, Benny Stokes, N. T Tice, Joseph Holliday, Joe Ward, Fletcher G. Thomas, Paul H. Peel, A. S. Hardy, D. R. Davis, R. T. Chance, S. L. Andrews, Sgt. Peter J. Byrne, A. L. Oakley, Alice Forrest, M. E. Roberson, C. L. Nel-1 son, J. E. Parrisher, Mary B. Hodges, H. H. Williams, R. C. Gur ganus, Joseph W. Weathersbee, Jas. D. Riddick, Howdard F. Williams, Hoyt Cowan, Dr. James Rhodes, Henry D. Harrison, Bert Lee Rober son, Blonzie P. Harrell, Frank Hop kins, J. R. Jones, J. W. Bland, John Stalls, Mrs. Bessie Whichard, Car lyle Langley, T. J. Roberson, E. G. Anderson, Henry Myrick, R. T. Tay lor, Herbert Lassiter, Hugh Pitt, R. L. Bryant, J. H. Chesson, C. B. Saun ders, J. A. James, J. J. Pierce, Geo. E. Whitehurst, Council Smith, M. W. Bissell, Rufus Coltrain, Manson Council, Jack Everett, S. G. Burnett, Z. D. Cox, Matthew Cotten, Jr., Joe G. Modlin, Claude Keel and E. C. House. Truck tires were issued to the following: G. D. Grimes, Jr., Roy Peel, S. A. VanLandingham, Robersonville Ice and Coal Company. ROUND-UP After the sleepy drunks clut tered private lawns and drive ways and streets several days before, the pugilists last week end took over and bloody shirts verified their striking power. Two cases reached the courts early Saturday night and others, following closely, were booked for an airing in the court later. The whites started off early but the colored soon took over and it was almost 4 o’clock before peace had a ghost of a chance. None of the pugilists was Jail ed, but four other persons were jailed during the week-end. Two sailors were detained for the alleged theft of a taxi in Norfolk. One person was jail ed for apparently violating the health laws and a woman was placed behind the bars for be ing drunk and disorderly. Town Board Proposes Budget Proposes A $98,970 Expenditure For 1945 1946 Period Ad Valorem Tax Rate Same As One In Effect Last Year Meeting in regular session her. last evening, the local town commis sioners approved a $98,970.00 budget and tentatively fixed the new fisral year tax rate at $2.00 per $100 asses sed property valuation, the rate re maining the same as it was last year The figures were review at length, the treasurer, N. C. Green, pointing out that the town was now in the best financial condition it had been in for years. The budget, while anticipating no postwar improvement program, does reflect a trend toward normal oper ations and provides for the purchase of new equipment and materials, costing approximately $10,000. The nearly $11,000 increase in expendi tures this year over those of a year ago will be financed by a gain in property values, and increased reve nue from the income-producing de partments. On the basis of a property valua tion of $2,667,087—an increase of $86,048 over last year’s total valua tion—the $2.00 tax rate will raise approximately $53,541.74. It was pointed out that about $41,525.16 will be collected during the fiscal year. Other main sources of in come include a bank cash balance of $26,944.84 and $3,250.00 from previous year tax collections, privi lege licenses, $525.00; penalties on taxes, $650.00; auto tags, $300.00; fines and forfeitures, $475.00; pav ing assessments, $2,200.00; County ABC Board, $3,000.00; swimming pool, $1,200; water sales, $18,650.00; water connections and fees, $250.00, making a total of $98,970,00. Last year the town started the fiscal period with $ 18,424.00 cash in banks. Treasurer N. C. Green, comment ing on tax collections, explained that all unpaid taxes, including land sales, amounted to approximately $5,500.00. Plans were made for em ploying a special collector to round up the unpaid accounts, starting within the next few weeks, A review of the estimated expen ditures for the fiscal year 1945-46 and the fiscal year 1944-45 follows with the 1945-46 figures appearing first: Mayor’s salary, $600 and $420; clerk’s salary, $25 and $25; treasur er's salary, $300 and $300; assistant clerk’s salary, $1,560.00 and $1,560; commissioners’ salaries, $1,000 and $800; legal and audit, $1,000 and $1, 000; listing taxes and preparing tax books, $250 and $250; stationery and office supplies, $550 and $500; vital statistics, $75 and $75; insurance and bond premiums, $1,450 and $1,000; telephone and telegraph, $150 and $200; library, $600; cemetery sup plies, $850 and $770; cemetery labor, $4,250 and $3,000; improvement, $5,500 and nothing last year. The commissioners propose to enlarge the cemetery and fence it. Demands for lots have just about taken up all available lots. Fire department: telephone and telegraph, $50 and $50; salaries, $1, 380 and $1,200; repairs to equip ment, $850 and $500; supplies, hose, etc., $2,200 and $600; gasoline and oil, $300 and $300; conventions, $150 and $150: miscellaneous, $600 and $450. Police department: salaries, $9, 500 and $8,250; gasoline and oil, $480 and $450; supplies, $600 and $500; re pair sto police car, $250 and nothing; new equipment (police car), $950 and nothing. Street department: superintend ent’s salary, $1,300 and $1,100; labor, $6,550 and $5,500; supplies, $4,650 and $3,650; gasoline and oil, $1,650 and $1,450; repairs to equipment, $1,150 and $1,250; miscellaneous, $1, 000 and $850; new equipment (two trucks and body and cement mixer), $3,750 and $1,500, Water department: superintend ent’s salaiy, $1,300 and $1,250; labor, $4,750 arid $4,000; supplies, $3,250 and $1,450; gasoline and oil, $950 and $850; repairs to equipment, $1, 250 and $1,500; water analysis, $75 and $75; telephone and telegraph, $75 and $60; advertising, $75 and $75; new meters, $300 and $300; miscel laneous, $1,250 and $1,250; new equipment, (truck), $1,650 and noth ing. Debt service: principal on bonds, $15,000 and $14,500; interest on bonds, $13,525 and $14,155. County Boy Studying Motor Torpedo Boats Marion Taylor Holliday, 23, sea man, first class, of Jamesville, is receiving instruction in the repair and maintenance of motor torpedo boats at Melville, it. 1. He will be assigned later to a mo tor torpedo boat tender. Holliday is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson Holliday, RFD 1, James ville. A brother, Joseph L., also is in the Navy. fj’IHMPmF ( V^l Al.TY ] Pfc. Clyde E. Mi'/.elle, James ville young man, died In the Philippines on July 20. his mother, !\lrs. Minnie Mlzellc Koberson, Ill'll 1, Williamston, was notified last week by (he War Department. Jamesville Youth Fights at Okinawa On West Virginia Famous OI«l “Bailie Wagon” lias Participated In All Lauding Campaigns Aboard the USS West Virginia in the Western Pacific. Je.sjte J. Bow cn, seaman, first class, USNR, of Jamesville, N. C'.. fought at Okinawa aboard this venerable man o' war, the only battleship which lias taken part in every major landing opera tion in the Pacific in the last six months. Blasted at Pearl Harbor by twm bombs and at least six torpedoes, the old battleship was resurrected and repaired, then joined the fight against the Japs with a vigor that has won her a reputation as the "one \ ship task force." In the last year and a half the West Virginia has fired more than 3.000 rounds from her new 10-inch rifles, nearly 30,000 rounds from her secondary batteries and more than 200.000 bullets from her automatic weapons, a total of 5,500 tons of am munition. The West Virginia made her first combat strike by leading a column of fire support units into Leyet Gulf, Hying the same colors she flew when she was damaged at Pearl Harbor. She poured salvo after salvo into the Jap lines, interrupting the bom bardment to splash her first plane. With other old battleships of the Fleet, she helped sink two Jap bat tleships and three destroyers in. the epic battle of Surigao Strait, j She was the first to take the Jap ship sunder fire. Haler, at Mindoro and Lingayen, she operated with a protective screen for carriers and transports. She arrived at Two Jima just aft er tin' first Marines landed, bom barding the enemy. From Iwo she traveled to Okinawa. She emptied her magazine several times in bom barding the Japs during that opera tion In all her action, there have been less than twenty casualties. So pesky has she proved to tin Japs that Tokyo Rose, the notorious propaganda broadcaster, once an nounced thousands of tin Japs' best fliers were attending their own fu neral services before taking off to destroy her. They didn't. Seaman Bowen and the others in the crew have served well. -« Martin County has been well represented in many of the hot spots j in all theaters of war, but it would seem that more than its proportion- j ate number has been in the attacks j over in the Pacific. No doubt, men! like Seaman Bowen who have lived through the ordeals will have some great stories to tell when they re turn home. Painfully Hurt In Car Wreck Sunday Mrs. Mayo Matthews was painful ly but not seriously hurt last Sun day evening at 0:45 o’clock on High way 64 near the Martin Sandwich shop. She was removed to the local hospital treatment and i.- now get ting along very well. Mr. Matthews, accompanied by his wife, was driving west on the high way when a car, driven by John Le Hoy O’Mary of Greenville, pulled in to the highway and crashed into the Matthews car, throwing Mrs. Mat thews against the steering wheel. Damage to the O’Mary car, a 1938 Ford, was estimated at $150, and damage to the Matthews car at $100 by Corporal W. S. Hunt of the High way Patrol, who investigated the ac cident. I Young County Men In the Past Month i/•-! Inrlnilt** Several Young Men Roomily Given Tlioir Disrharpes l>\ Army Twenty-nine Martin Countv men, most of them just have reached their eighteenth birthday, registered for the draft during the month of July. Sixteen of them were colored. In cluded in the group of thirteen white men were five veterans of the cur rent war, but in accordance wdth the regulations, they registered after receiving their honorable discharges. Twenty-four of the men are grouped in the sixth registration, two were added to the first regis tration which began in October, 1940. and three tire listed in the third registration which began in February, 1942. The names and addresses of the latest group of registrants follow: Sixth Registration James Junior Taylor, col , RFD 1, Oak City. Willie Davis Hassell, col., RFD 2, Williamston. James Vend B. Reddick, col, RFD 2, Williamston James Whit Clemmons, col.. Wil liamston. Cortez Hassell, col . RFD 2, Wil liamston. Raymond Jasper Modlin, w, RFD 1, Williamston. Clyde Delmus Holliday, w, RFD 3, Williamston. Augusta Wiggins, col, Williams ton. Eugene Fields, col, RFD 1, Pal myra. Raymond Moore, col., RFD 1. Wil liamston. Melvin Brady, w, RFD 2, Hamil ton. Ingran (Jack) Tillery, col., Star Route, Hamilton. Vance Lee Clark, w, RFD 3. Wil liamston. James Howard Keel, w, RFD 3, Williamston. Marshall Augusta Scott, col., Wil liamslon. James Harrison Ghee, col, RFD 1, Jamesville. Alton Ray Bullock, col., RFD 1, Robersonville. Joseph Harold Harrison, w, RFD 3, Williamston. Manule Edward Harris, w, RFD 2, Williamston. Samuel Morris Rogerson, RFD 2. Williamston. Merlin Lee Ward, col , Hassell. Robert Andrew Williams, col., R FD 1, Oak City. James Edward Lee, col., RFD 3, Williamston. Clarence Edward Hooper, col, R FD 1, Jamesville. First Registration Howard Franklin Williams, w, of Williamston. Linwood Knox, w, Hassell. Third Registration George Ben Warren, w, Rober sonville. Earl Caudill, w, Robersonville. J. D Taylor, w, RFD 2, William ston. Funeral Yesterday Funeral services were conducted in the Hamilton Baptist Church yes terday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock for Mrs. (Pennie) Margaret Mizelle Clark who died in a Philadelphia hospital last Saturday following a long illness. Rev. E. C. Wilkie, a former pastor of (he church, officiat ed and interment was in the Hamil ton cemetery. The daughter of the late Eli Mi zelle and Mary Catherine James Mizelle, Mrs. Clark was born near Teens in Pitt County on January 2R, 111(12. Completing her education, she located in Goldsboro where she taught school for some time and mar ried B. Frank Clark about thirty years ago. Following her marriage, she moved to Collingswood, New Jersey, where she had since made her home. Mrs. Clark was a faith ful member of the Baptist church since childhood, and was held in high esteem in her adopted homo community. Besides her husband she leaves three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Everett of Hamilton, Mis. M. FI. Faison and Mis W. G. Lynch of Roanoke Rapids, six brothers. Billy, Ben, Sam, P. Les ter, Grover and Chester, preceding her to the grave. The body was carried to Hamilton yesterday morning where it lay in state in the Baptist church until services were held. County Youth Hoping War With Japs W ill End Soon -3> -- Writing from a distant point in the far Pacific to have his mailing address changed, Pfc. John Rodgers sa'd, "I hope the war will soon end so the boys and I can come home.” The young man continued, "I’m somewhere in the Pacific, doing well and filing fine. I'm still get ting The Enterprise although some of them are far between. Yet, I'm aware of the fact that this is due to the many thousands of miles the paper has to travel. While in the Hawaiian Islands I visited Pearl Hurboro, Honolulu and many other places of interest including the famous Waikiki beach."