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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 76 T Williamston, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Tuesday, September 25, 1945, ESTABLISHED 1899 \ oluriteer Firemen “Tiear Brockwell Monday •.ew Firtiiausc Promised Soon As Possible By Mayor John Hassell Holding their annual dinner meet ing at the Woman’s club last night just two weeks before the annual ob servance of national fire prevention week, members of the Williamston Volunteer Fire Department, their u ives and friends heard Sherwood Brockwell, state fire marshal, de clare that the first three to five minutes after fire breaks out in a house Lj the sole responsibility of the householder. Just a few minutes before Mayor John Hassell had assured them that a modern firehouse would be con structed as soon as possible. “No power on earth,” the veteran trainer of volunteer fire departments said, “Can help you during that first two and one-half to three minutes between the time the fire starts in your home and the time the volun teer firemen arrive dence. National slatt it will be approximately five min utes before the firemen, on the aver age, can get into your home with even so much as a chemical hose. Statistics also show that persons per ishing in fires in homes are dead or have jumped and injured themselves, within the first four minutes after the blaze is discovered.” These statements by the fire mar shal were in support of a statement made previously by State Insurance Commissioner William P. Hodges, a native of this county, to the effect ; that fire prevention was to a large extent a matter of good housekeep- | ing. Both Hodges and Brock well emphasized the fact that houses do not catch on fire themselves unless it be as a result of the burning of a house next door. It is always, they said, the contents of the house that catch on fire and the house is in turn set afire by this blaze. Premises should be kept free of dangerous debris and inflammable material and ell possible safeguards should be lakeii to prevent fires and control them. You should be sure,” he told the firemen, 'That when you warn your neighbors and friends against fire hazards that there are none of the : same things in your own household.! Be sure that there is no trash lying around to catch on fire or to help make a big fire of a small one.” Mr. Hodges, who was described as having grown from a newspaper car rier boy in knee pants to his present place of commissioner of insurance in a few short years spoke just be fore Mr. Brockwell. He said that tie did not know a lot about fighting fires but he did know about the cost of them. He pointed out that the difference between a small fire and a conflagration is often just a mat ter of five minutes. As an illustration of this he told how odds and ends, fruit baskets, old crates, etc., such as is often found around the average home, were piled in an old government building in (Continued on page six) -- County Boy Writes From Philippines —*— Writing from Leyte in the Philip pines, Reuben Bailey, young Martin County man, told relatives that he was glad to get away from Saipan where there were no trees for shade and it was hot as blazes. He had been down in New Caledonia for a few days, “and liberty wasn't too bad there. At least there was a good sized town there and it was the first one we had seen since leaving Pearl Harbor,” he said. “I didn't see any action, but that didn’t make me unhappy at all. I wish I could tell where I am going, but I don’t know, and even if I did, that’s the one thing that we aren’t allowed to tell. I’ll let you know when we get there.” County Boy On Ship Landing In Japan —*— Thomas R Harrison, Martin Coun ty young man and ship’s cook on the USS Adams, was one of the first to land on the second largest of the Japanese islands, relatives were re cently advised. His ship went in to clean up mines and other obstacles to an American landing. Japanese were taken aboard to help locale and remove the mines, it was explained. The young man has been in the service sixteen months and hopes to get his discharge about the first of next year. His wife and son are making their home w'ith his parents, near Rober scnville. Court In Session Only A Short Time Here Monday Opening the second of a two weeks term here yesterday, the Martin County Superior Court was in ses sion only a short time handling a couple of divorce cases and clearing one or two others from the calendar by the compromise route. Criira* Vml WiVIpnlw Flare fcp I»-~Seetion Several Persons In County Attacked; Two Badly Injured \ andaU Tear Down Mail Box es Am1 Wreek Tenant House Near Oak Citv -* There was considerable action on the crime front here and throughout the county last week-end when sev eral persons were attacked and van dals ran loose front this township to a point near Oak City. Aggravating the bad crime situation were several automobile accidents just over the county line and a suicide within the county. His body battered and bruised, W C Curry, Jamesville man continues in a painful condition at bis home foil.--tn.’.'g an alleged attack on min bv Harry Jones and Raymond Wil liams, also of .Jamesville Curry was said to have had both eyes closed tightly and staggered away from the scene of the attack with large knots on his head and bruises on his body. Raymond Williams, a tenant farmer on the Gaylord farm near James ville, is al his home with a large number of shot in his body, one re port stating that he was spotted by shot from the top of his head to his feet. According to reports reaching here, the three were engaged in a poker game on Roanoke River just below the hill in Jamesville and an argument arose over a "pot”. Jones and Williams are said to have attack ed Curry, beating him unmercifully. His attending doctor was quoted as saving that he had never seen a man beaten more unmercifully. Curry went away and is alleged to have borrowed a shot gun and returned, firing two loads of shot into Williams as he stood near a ditch not fur from the old bank building on Jamesville’s almost deserted main street. The man fell into the ditch and remain ed there until about daylight Fri day. Williams, already under indict ment for allegedly attacking his landlord, W. B Gaylord, is now charged along with Jones with as saulting Curry. Curry is charged with assaulting Williams with a deadly weapon. Asked if he shot Williams, Curry was quoted as say ing that if he did he aid not remem hi r it. Jones’ gun was found on the main street with the barrel rip ped open, one report maintaining (hat possibly the three started a shooting bee among them and that Jones gun went out of commission early in the game. No motive has been definitely es tablished for a shot-gun attack by Lester Morgan, colored man, on his brother-in-law Emanuel Saunders al the Sherrod farm near Hamilton early last Saturday night. One re port stated that Morgan wanted to have some fun, but the attack is proving quite painful for Saunders who is walking around with six shot in his left leg and several in his rump. Saunders, riding in Ernest Jones’ car, was accompanying his sister, Mary Lee, home with her groceries. When they reached the Morgan home, Morgan came out and advised Saunders that he was going to shoot him. Saunders was said to have dis missed the threat, but when Jones explained that Morgan was taking the gun from its rack in the house, Saunders started running down the highway. Saunders admitted that he lost little time in leaving, one report stating that he kicked the fire out of the pavement, that he increased his speed when he was struck. Mor gan, with twenty-five acres of pea nuts to be harvested, was placed in jail and bond was not arranged im mediately. Two persons, Lonnie Bullock and Tvimmie Bland, were assaulted on local streets Saturday night, and the life of another was threatened. Large numbers congregated on the stieets, and some mighty loose talk (Continued on page six) HIGH WATER vs Rising about seven inches in the 12-hour period ending at 11 o'clock this morning, the Roan oke River was believed to be nearing a crest slightly below fifteen feet, flood stage, at this point. At 8 o’clock this morn ing the official reading was 14.7 feet, meaning the stream was al most five feet over its banks at this point. The rise was fairly rapid last ! night, but the rate of increase slower. It was first predicted that the river would rise to about thir teen feet at this point. The ad ditional rise has cost farmers in the lowlands much money in crop losses and the war prisoner camp maintained details all last night working on a dike to keep the water from flooding the camp from the rear. f farm bureau ) V_ _) Meeting here last Friday night, members of the Martin County Faim Bureau Member ship committee turned in over TOO names, the president, Mr. Chas. Daniels, pointing out that only eighteen of the thirty-two canvassers were present, that a full report would possibly show a membership of more than 1,000 at the present. The organization has a goal or 1,600 members for its current drive, and it Is believed that it will meet again on October 5 In the courthouse. Captain Williams Describes Landing In Jap Homelands —t— JapuiiHsc Dress Is Comical ami Yei Pailielie, Soldier Says In Letter After experiencing dangers and privation in long months of jungle warfare, Captain John Williams [sailed into Tokyo bay perched in a comfortable deck chair, smoking a cigar and attired in clean clothes. In the following letter to his parents, Dr and Mrs. John W. Williams, the young man describes the “invasion” and briefly tells of existing condi tions in Japan: “Well, here I am in Japan! I wish i I could adequately describe how 11 feel about what I’ve seen. If some- 1 one had told me six months ago that I'd sail in here, sitting up on deck in a dec’- chair, in nice clean, starch | ed clothes, smoking a cigar, with a stomach full of turkey, ice cream, l etc., well. I’d have called them the biggest liar in the world. I can’t say just exactly where 1 am —in fact 1 really don’t know—be- , cause of censorship, but after listen ing to the radio tonight from the States I’m sure you’ve heard that we’re to be the first troops in Tokyo with MacArthur. We're just waiting for the Nips to get settled. We’re set up in former Jap quarters at present. The trip up was the most pleasant I've ever had. The Navy couldn't do enough for us and to top it all I did three appendectomies dur ing the voyage. The landing was quite uneventful. It took plate in what was and I mean was, one of their large industrial cities. I mean the air corps has laid it low and how. The civilians paid scarcely any attention to us—just acted as if we’d always been here. They don’t look sullen or mad or \ bitter. We’re not allowing our men ! to fraternize with them, but knowing the GI, I’ll bet in a few weeks the kids will be speaking English. The soldiers aren't giving us any trouble and even salute our privates. The people I’ve seen tickle me in regards to their clothes—everyone wears some kind of uniform of the darned est design I've ever seen. They ap parently made one stock size and is sued it to everyone, large and small. It's really comical, and yet somehow pathetic. These people had no business fighting anyone. After seeing the place it’" just as fantastic as if Mexi co would jump us. They’ve mimiced big powers so long that they really believed they were one. Apparently they could copy ideas, machinery, etc., factories, but that’s all. They ap parently have no idea of mainten ance. Here, where to be sure their equipment ought to be good, it’s fall ing to pieces. Remember I’ve writ ten they made no attempts to im prove places they’ve been, well the same is true here. They’ve built what were good highways and then never maintained them. Their street tars don’t appear to have ever been serviced, etc. There’s just one thing I’ll give the Jap—he’s the greatest digger I’ve ever seen. He’s really dug in here, too. The countryside is nice—houses [aren’t as quaint, clear, etc., as I ex [pectcd but the Nip can put every inch of land to work. There are no shoulders to the roads—and the soil looks rich as the dickens—like the Mississippi delta country, black. I’ve seen rice, sweet potatoes, onions, squash, tomatoes, rubarb, corn, what have you. Thank heavens there are not cocoanut trees, but rather yellow pine, fir, cedar, scrub oak, sycamore, etc. The climate to me is wonderful at present—chilly. I’m going to u%e blankets and really enjoy them. Now maybe some of this “jungle rat” (skin disease) will disappear. . . .” -* (Leaves For Maryland For Assignment In Foreign Land -* | Pvt. William D. Leggett, complet ing a twelve-day furlough spent at home, left Sunday for Foit Meade, \ Maryland, where he expects to draw an assignment for from one to three I year’s service overseas. He and his .wife spent his furlough with his par |ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Leggett, j The young man w< s recently awarded the rifleman’s infantry badge. Victim Of Accident |. raises hiTTospital an S Monday Afternoon Funeral Near Bethel Today For Perlie Leo BuHoek, Of Norfolk Perlie Leo Bullock, native of Pitt County and for the past four years engaged in business in Norfolk, died in a local hospital yesterday after noon at 2:25 o’clock of injuries re ceived in a motorcycle-automobile crash near the eastern end of the Roanoke River fill last Saturday night at 9:30 o'clock. Suffering a fractuerd skull and other injuries, Mr. Bullock never regained con sciousness. Riding on a motorcycle with Don Reubincam, of Potsdam, New Jersey, and U. S. Naval Air Station, Eden jton, Mr. Bullock was on his way to Greenville to spend the week-end with his family. The motorcycle, be lieved to have been driven by the young seaman at the time, struck a car being driven by Joe Bell of Wil liamston The front wheel of the car n\)s /mu off and Mr Bullock was ihcwyrn about thirty feet, fading on .his head on the concrete. Seaman Reubincam. suffering a compound fracture of the left leg and other In juries, was given first aid treatment in the local hospital and later re moved to a base hospital in Norfolk. Mr. Bullock borrowed the motor cycle from a friend in Norfolk and picked up the seaman in Edenton. It is believed that they exchanged seats and that Reubincam was driving at the time. The son of J. H. Bullock of near Bethel and the late Mrs. Viola Whit field Bullock, Mr. Bullock was born in Pitt County on June 12, 1902. He spent the early part of his life on the farm and was married to Miss Grace Wilson of Ay den in December, 1919. He lived in Pitt County most of his life, going to Norfolk four years ago to enter business. Surviving are his father, widow and four children, Mrs. Martha E. Hicks of Norfolk; Jarvis Bullock of Greenville, Mrs. Oakley Johnson of Ei Centro, California, and Raymond Earl Bullock of Greenville; one brother, Raymond Bullock of Green ville, and a sister, Mrs. W. C. Bryant of Roberson ville; two half brothers, Parry Bunting of Williamston, and Paul Bunting of Tarboro; five half sisters, Mrs. Clarence Mozingo of Bethel, Mrs. Powell Satterthwaite of Tarboro, Mrs. Fabian Roberts of Tar boro, and Miss Bernice Bullock of Bethel. Funeral services are being held in the Johnson Presbyterian Memorial church near the old family home in Pitt County this-afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by the Rev. J. W. Walkup, pastor. Interment will be in the Whitfield family cemetery, near Bethel. | Youth Home After Long Stay Overseas —«— T/5 James E. Stalls recently re turned home after spending three and one-half years in foreign ser vice. The county young man, a mem- j her of the 38th Engineers Regiment, was inducted on March 21, 1941, and served with that outfit until just a few months before he was discharg ed. He received his basic training at Fort Belvoir and Fort Jackson, and left Charleston on March 14, 1942, for service on the Ascension Islands, going from there to Africa. He later went to England where he received his pre-invasion training and moved into France with the first invasion forces, driving a truck most of the lime while on the continent. The young man sailed for home on September 3, and arrived in New York on September 12, going fronij there to Fort Bragg where he was honorably discharged. He holds the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Medal, Euro pean-Mediterranean Campaign Med al with two Bronze Service Stars, one Bronze Star arrowhead and the Croix de Guerre. -« County Youth In Army University The U. S. Army University Center in England, designed to give soldiers a chance to get college instruction while waiting to return to the United States, has started its first semester here with an enrollment of 3,611 students, including S/Sgt Tyree Bryan Tyson, 20, of Oak City. Sergeant Tyson, a member of the First Infantry Division is studying accounting, business typing, business engineering. He attended Oak City High school. His parents are residing in Oak City. A selection of 300 courses is offer ed in the fields of liberal arts, sci ence, engineering, fine arts, journal ism, education and cornmeice. Each student is allowed to register for Dim1 courses, and his hours of in* struction wiil be equivalent to a sum mer semester at a civilian institution. Courses are taught for the most part by civilian educators from the Unit ed States authorities in their respec tive fields. Relieve 7hbacco Market Block MUM.1 (4.u vesting is likely to relieve u> some extent, at least, the glut experienced on the tobacco market since t In opening last month. While there is more than a million pounds on the floors at the piesent time, deliveries are not as rushed as they were a week ago, and farmers are finding it possible to place their tobacco on local floors only a few' days ahead of the buyers. Since thn opening of the season the 21st of last month, the market here has sold a record poundage at what possibly is the highest price average ever reported, 'through last Friday, the market here had sold 5,665,76(1 pounds for nearly two and one half j million dollars or an average of right at $-1-1 per hundred pounds. Sales “ *,irttrra!. sixiy per cent or more or the crop in this immediate section has been sold, that the market will have to get out and hustle if it is to reach ten million pounds. At no time in the history of tobac co marketing in this belt has a crop been offered for sale so rapidly. If the present rate is maintained, sales will be completed in their entirety before the end of October. However, marketing is almost certain to slow down now that farmers are busy try ing to save their peanuts, and it is likely that almost twice as much time will be required to market the remainder of the crop as was needed to sell the first six million pounds. Despite the stepped-up marketing activities, prices have held unusually firm. Young Man Killed In Truck- Wagon Mishap |l>. K. Taylor Loses j Life In Bear Crass Monday Afternoon ——$— hiinrral Services Are ISeine HH«I Today For Younp; Farmer --- H. K. Taylor, young Martin County farmer, was instantly killecj, in a truck-wagon accident not fat from Sweet Home Church in Bear Grass Township yesterday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock. Driving a wagon team out of the yard at Clybert Whitaker's home on the Harris farm, Young Taylor had just reached the road when a truck, driven by Lester Gray Ward and loaded with green lumber, struck the wagon near the left front wheel and the tongue hitch. The wagon was knocked around and Tay lor was thrown to the ground, the rear right dual wheels running over and crushing his head. Taylor was turning into the road to go toward the church and the truck driver was [traveling from the church. Details of the accident could not be learned immediately, but patrol men, investigating the tragedy, were quoted as saying that the motor ve j hide was not properly equipped with brakes, but it could not be learned 11 the mechanical fault contributed to the accident. No charges have been brought in the case against the truck driver as far as it could be learned here today. The young man attended the Bear Grass schools and is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Taylor, and eight brothers and sisters. Bon me Taylor, U. S. Army, now be lieved to be on his way home from the European theater; William, Catherine, Christine, Hazel, Elsie, James and Alton Taylor, all of the home Funeral services are being con ducted at the home on RFD 2, Wil liamston, this afternoon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. I). W. Alexander, Free Will Baptist minister of Bethel. In terment will follow in the Jackson family cemetery. ! FREEZER LOCKERS __ ■\ I Applications have been receiv ed and filed for nearly 200 stor age units in the freezer locker plant proposed for this county. Few solicitations have been made, and most of the applica tions have been submitted by in dividuals in person, it was learn ed. The capacity of the plant will be limited to 500 lockers, and it is now believed that sufficient applications for space will have been received by the latter part of this week for the promoters to start work within a short time. Hundred And Fifty Tires Are Allotted By Rationing Board —&— Issuance Is Largest l{t-pnrlc<l In 'I'liits (bounty During Recent Mouth* One hundred and fifty tires—125 for a: tomobile and 25 for pick-up and light trucks—were issued h.y the Marlin County Wat Pi ice and Ra tinning Board last Friday night. The issuance was the largest reported in the county during recent months. While available stocks are not very large, dealers have been able to fiii most orders. Passenger tires were allotted to the following: James A. Hardison, Mrs. Bettie Williams, W. M Davis, B. W. Staton, E. L. Fields, Jr., Joe Purvis, Joe Henry Purvis, Perlie Rodgers, J G Mndlin, Jesse Lee Hale, W. Jackson Holliday, J. J. Williams, R. C. Grif fin, D. L. House, Elmer R. Edmond son, Ben H. James, Joseph E. Grif fin, Ellsworth Beacham, L A. Bul lock, H. A. Bowen, A R. Johnson, Sr., I I. G. Keel, I.. R. Everett, Larry Bunt ing, J. V. Andrews, H A. Johnson, T. H Wynn, L. J. Davenport, G. R. Tay lor, Bawlie Lynch, Joshua L. Col train, li ving Margolis, L. R. Long, Sadie Mae Jones, Charles Platt, J. C. Cooke, Jay Coltrain, J. H. Jackson, Ira T. Hardison, Dewey Hardison, Henry Roberson, H. H. Matthews, G. P. Hughes, George Mobley, W. C. Faulkner, J. T. Holliday, N. M. Hy man, Mary S. Gray, J. T. Taylor, Ro land Sills, L. J Mills, Jr., Charles M Peel, Dannie Mobley, Russell Grif-1 fin, W M Baker, H. A. Sexton, Ken neth Roberson, H. H. Corey, Fenner L. Hardison, B. F. Roberson, W. A Rogers, J. Leonard Coltrain, Dr. W E Ward, S. V. Sills, C. D. Jenkins, Mancy Roberson, Tullie Cherry Tay lor, Rufus Lynch, S. H. Mobley, W. M. Lilley, W. A. Manning, J. H. Hop kins, Charlie Bryant, C. J. Freeman, J. T. Coltrain, W. I. Watkins, H. M Ayers, William D. Rogerson, Bill Gay, Henry Edmondson. Truck tires were released to the following: Harry Jones, Albert Roberson, John Wier, F. F. Pollard, Vance L. Peel, Better Chevrolet Co., Edward James Estate, Taylor Mill and Gin Co., John Gurkin, Harrison Oil Co., J. E. Andrews, S Claude Griffin, W O. Abbitt. Man's Car Sidesuiiped On HetheCHassall llif'lnmy -Stl Claude Freeman, RFD 1, Bethel, escaped unhurt but about $79 dam age was done to his car when it was sideswiped by a hit-and-run driver on the Bethel-Hasseli Highway about 8:30 o’clock last Sunday night. Whit Saunders and Bill Hunt of the high way patrol, investigated the acci dent, the third investigated by them in two days. -•* MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage licenses were issued in this county last Saturday to Rufus S. Gurganus and Sybil Peel, both of Williamston, and to Joseph Henry Chorley, U. S. N., of Chicago, and Laura E. Lilley, of Williamston. Attend District Juyeee Meeting In Wilmington -« Attending a district meeting of Jaycecs at Carolina Beach last week end, representatives of the newly or gani/.ed club here reported ori its ac- | tivities. President Clarence W. Grif- I fin offered the report. Entertained by the Wilmington1 club, Clarence Griffin, Ernest Wears, Exurn Ward, Jr., Wheelei Manning, N. R. Manning, Carroll Jones, H. D j Harrison, Jr., and John Miller at i tended the meeting as representa | lives of the local organization i SKKS OINK midi: only Emphasizing the need fur a new firehouse here, State Fire Marshal Sherwood Broekwell last night told the annual dinner meeting of the Williamston Fire men and their guests how State Insurance Commissioner Wil liam P- Ilodgcs rushed down to the fire department on his arriv al in town Monday to take a look at the new fire truck only to find that he could see hut half of it. “There was just room for him to walk down one side of the new truck,’’ Broekwell said, “And just room also to walk down one side of the old truck which is to be rebuilt. It was embarrassing. These firemen need a place to Keep their equip ment and a place to meet and en tertain themselves and iheir friends Not only is it necessary that they have good equipment but they must also have some thing that will helo to keen l‘-»ir morale high. Morale is a mighty important factor in a fire fight ing unit.” Mrs. J. |{. Corev rv-j i4k!s Her Lit< «gnnm Tv ^riffiiis i)m\is!iij> ■Hwrrar1*' t>v 1ivy“ni<-!7 ~ • Va>l Saturday V'leriionn I" or Krs|M‘<'tc<l Citi/an -s Experiencing declining health and greatly depressed since the death of her husband la. February a year age. Mrs. Apha Gertrude Corey end ed her life at her home in the Farm Life section of Griffins Township last Fi iday afternoon at 2:35 o'clock Taking a sho* gun, Mrs. Corey went to the wash shed in the back yard and fired a load of No. fi shot into her stomach, the load ranging up ward and striking her heart and causing instant death. Several days previously Mrs, Corey had suggested that she saw no ieason for not ending her life. Mem hers of the family removed all gun shells from the- house, but while no one was at home she went to her daughter's home nearby and got a shell. Mrs. Corey was alone that, after noon and when members of the temHy md neighbors just, across (he toad heal'd (he report of the gun. Messrs. Tom Roberson, J. W Williams and J. R. Pierce ran to the wash house and found her dead. The daughtei of the late William Riley and Susan Ann Griffin Revels, Mrs. Corev was born in Griffins Township 65 years ago. In early womanhood she was married to J. Rome Corey and spent her entire life in Griffins Township, living peaceably with her neighbors and holding the respect of all who knew her. She was a devoted and faithful member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Sinithwicks Creek for for ty-one years. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Rufus Hardison, Mrs. Garland Tice and Mrs. Bruce Coltrain, all of Griffins Township; two brothers, John Alfred Revels, of Griffins and Staton Revels of Bear Gross, and five sisters, Mrs W B Harrington and Mrs. James Revels of Griffins, and Mrs. Alonza Rogerson and Mrs. Ben Ward of Bear Grass Township, and Mrs. Slade Stallings of Scotland Neck. A son, Willie Corey, was ac cidentally killed by a falling tree some years ago. Services were conducted at the home last Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by her pastor, Elder P. E. Getsingei, assisted by Rev. W. B. Harrington and Rev. Luther M Am brose. Interment was in the family plot in the Hardison Mill Cemetery Farm Security To Noh! School Hero Approximately eighty Farm Se curity Admimstratinn Committee men from twenty one eastern North Carolina counties will meet here to morrow foi a one day school of in struction which will be held in the grammar school auditorium. In each county there is a commit ee of three regular members for FSA work, and one additional member for considering application for returning veterans This committee has the power and authority to steer the program within ils county. However, they must stay within the bounds of limits set up by congress. At this meeting the committee1 members will be instructed on the laws and limits of the 194(1 program in order that they may intelligently guide the county personnel with their work. The meeting will be conducted by Mr. S. E. Wilson, district FSA super visor, from Raleigh, and other dis trict and state personnel whose names have not yet been revealed. Oak City Students Hold Class Meeting Meeting recently, the Onk City tenth grade pupils perfected their class organization with the election of officers under the leadership of their home-room teacher, Miss Fran ces Bakes. Officers are: Lundy Hudgins, president: Inez Smith, vice president; El wood Boyd, secretary; Dolores Barrett, treasurer, Alice Edmondson, news reporter; Frances Bryant, Sybil Tyson, Gladys Thomas and Lundy Hudgins, program committee; Gay nelle Briley, Eleanor Eubanks, Coy Bryant and Vernon Suits, entertain ment committee. The class colors are blue and gold and the class flower is the hyacinth. Local Man In Auto Wreck In Bertie —^— No one was hurt but considerable damage resulted when two cars crashed on U. S. Highway No 17 near Windsor last Saturday night about 10:30 o’clock. Carl M. Mobley, driving from Nor folk where he is stationed in the [Navy, reported damage in the sum | of about $150 to his car. John A. Freeman, colored man of Windsor, and operator of the other car, report ed damage of about $50. Details of the accident could not be learned here immediately. Cpl. W. S. Hunt and Patrolman W. E. Saunders of the State Highway Patrol investigated the accident.