NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OP 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 ^LVIII—NUMBER 97 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, December 7, 2945 ESTABLISHED 1899 Seven Districts In County Pass Goals In War Bond Drive Eighty Percent of “E‘* Bo>mI Quota Been Subscribed, According to the latest available figures, just about eighty percent of Martin County’s “E” bond quota has been subscribed, a late report show ing that seven districts—Jamesville, Williams, Griffins, Cross Roads, Rob ersonville, Hassell and Goose Nest— had gone over the top. Sales in the Victory Loan Drive, the eighth and final campaign of its kind, are lag ging badly in Williamston, and are far from the goals in Bear Grass, Poplar Pomt and Hamilton. Sales recently skyrocketed in Rob ersonville, Township Chairman D. R. Everett stating that they were in creased by approximately $40,000 since the last report was made. Wil liamston reported an increase of only about $4,000 during the same period. While Robersonville was increasing its “E” bond purchases by $40,000, Chairman Everett reported l/iat been invested in ne onds by citizens in that dis trict. The amount is $16,000 greater than the negotiable bond quota for the entire county. The little community of Hassell still holds the spotlight in the Vic tory Bond parade, the citizens there exceeding the quota nearly four times. Since the last report Williams and Goose Nest went over the top and did so with some to spare. Bear Grass Chairman A. B. Ayers called his canvassers into a meeting earlier this week, and a drive to reach the goal is now in progress there. Little has been accomplished in Williamston, and sales for the most part, have been without direct solici tation. A similar situation exists in some of the other districts, it is un derstood. First scheduled to close on Satur day of this week, the “E” bond drive has been extended a few days, and another appeal is being directed to the people of Martin County, urging them to buy and give “E” bonds for Christmas. Reports indicate that the number of sales has been somewhat limited, that a comparatively few persons have boosted the figures with the purchase of bonds of large de nomination. A review of “E” bond sales to date, by districts, follows: Quota 7,300 4,700 12,250 8.500 103,000 7,300 73,000 4,850 9,800 5,000 7,300 Jamesville Williams Griffins Bear Grass Williamston Cross Roads Robersonville Poplar Point Hamilton Hassell Goose Nest Sales 14,175.00 5.362.50 14.306.25 2.062.50 33,658.75 8,531.25 83.435.25 1.950.00 2.587.50 18,862.50 9.300.00 $243,000 —<& $194,231.50 € \ 1 » ’ i Eight Cases Called In Justice’s Court Justice J. L. Hassell handled eight cases in his court during the past few days. Charged with being drunk and dis orderly, J. Leander Hardison was fined $5 and taxed with $7.50 costs. General Columbus Freeman, oper ating a motor vehicle on the wrong side of the road, was fined $10 and required to pay $7 costs. Charlie Hodges was fined $10 and taxed wtih $6 costs for operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes. Ella Ewell was required to pay $8.50 costs for disorderly conduct. Dave Melton was fined $3 and tax ed with $7 costs in the case charging him with disorderly conduct. disorderly on £'l.j.vg-s«r two counts, Elbert Whitehurst was sentenced to the roads for thirty days in each case, the justice suspending the road terms upon the payment of $19 costs. Roosevelt Butler, charged with op erating a motor vehfcle with improp er brakes, was fined $10 and taxed with $6 costs. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Lillie Wynne was bound over to the county court under bond in the sum of $100. Operating a truck without a clear ance light, Isaac Johnson Brickhouse was fined $10 and taxed with $6 costs. -4 Young Man Is Hurt I Painfully In Wreck \ Frank House, 32-year-old Green- 1 ville white man, was painfully but 1 believed not seriously hurt when he t ran his Plymouth car into a mail 1 truck between Williamston and J Janies viiie last Tuesday evening 1 about 6:30 o’clock. Suffering head { injuries and chest bruises, he was treated in Dr. E. T. Walker’s offices c here and later removed to his home, i T. Mack VanLandingham, driving 1 bis truck toward Williamston, was i not hurt. i Investigating tlje accident, Patrol man W. E. Saunders said that ap- 1 proximately $200 damage was done i to the car, that about $50 would re- ] pair the truck damage. , i Limited Decorations For The Christmas Season In Prospect For the first time since file 1941 Christmas season, Williamston’s holiday street lights again, adding a bit of cheer to a com I'munity trying to* recover from the [sorrows of war and to readjust itself. The lights were installed after the exact pattern followed in those pre war years, but quite a few of the larger bulbs had to be replaced by smaller ones. Turned on last evening by Mayor John L. Hassell, the lights did not at tract anything like the attention they commanded when they were install ed for the first time, but quite a few voungsters, grown out of their baby hood and taking cognizance of the various-colored bulbs for the first time, were really gleeful last night: as they looked longingly from their ' nearby windows. Possibly much of : that which so msny, fought, suffered Lifeijiied for, is reflected ir, the lit j tie faces of the tots. I While the town dwjw from its .old stock cf...material, individuals will! find it difficult to resurrect their old lighting materials and since new sup plies are limited if not almost non exstent, it isn't likely that individual or group decorations will be advanc ed on any appreciable scale here this Christmas season. Shop operators explain that new supplies were not to be had, and carry-over stocks are minute, meaning that outside decora tions this year will be the exception rather than the rule. Interior decorations, permitted during the war, will possibly be maintained, but there they will be very modest. Pfc. Jos. Gurganus Says Fight For Iwo jima A Tough One —$—. Loral Young Man Says Hr Had Any Number of Nar row Battle Escapes -s> Writing to The Enterprise under fate of November 28 from Guam, Pfc. Joseph S. Gurganus, local young nan, pointed out that he had many larrow escapes. His letter follows: To my friends of Williamston who nay have wondered whether I was ■aptured by the Japs, this is to let hem know I am okay and in the best >f health, even though at times I vasn’t sure what the outcome would >e. In a replacement draft of approxi nately seventeen hundred Marines, left San Diego, California, Novem >er 8, 1944, and arrived at Pearl larbor five or six days later. Most if the draft was sent to the 4th Ma ine Division stationed on the island if Maui, one of the several Hawaiian slands. Quite a few of the boys, in vhich group I was located, joined the th Pioneer Battalion, whose job in ombat is to keep a steady flow of upplies going in to the infantry at he front. On a small island like Iwo Jima, >ur outfit was constantly under ene ny fire because our supply dumps Here one of the main targets for Jap nese mortar and artillerymen, and nfortunately they destroyed quite a ew of our supply dumps the first ew days. As with all Marines who partici ated in this battle, I had plenty of arrow escapes, but luckily and with lod’s help, I was uninjured through ut the operation. Before the 4th division left for Iwo, /e thought the battle would last bout ten days, but that “rock” turn d out to be a veritable fortress, liter about fifteen days or more /hen resistance was weakening, it /as a joke to watch the Japs fire nti-aircraft fire into the sky when one of our planes were above. 1 uess they just wanted us to know hey still had it. But soon after /ards, an end was put to that! Our ifantry and planes took care of hat! When the f: st news of the Japs’ lirrender was broadcast, you can nagine the jubilee which burst arth from our camp! Hardly any ne had even a« hours sleep that ight and all the talk was, “when are re going home?” To the Marines lat fought all of the division’s bat les and to men who had fifteen lonths overseas by September first, riis was soon to be a reality. The 4th la l ines division left for the states jmetime in October, and low-point len left were put into various drafts j be sent to the forward areas I came to Guam in the Marianas dands. If looks are ever deceiving, :’i? i* Vr .. tlii> island. An lac Dwns were destroyed when our irces returned here last year. At :ie present. Guam is crowded with housands fo Marines, sailors and oldiers. We have a nice camp, with good ood and plenty of recreation. My ab is that of operating a “bull-doz r,” which is an interesting type of /ork. I guess quite a few boys are re urning home. This is good news to 11 of their people. I hope to return ome time in February. If this is rue, I hope to see everyone then. -« 'ire Destroys Home And Contents Here Last Night -• Its origin not definitely known, ire destroyed the huifible home of iherman Bonds, aged colored man, ust off Railroad and Sycamore itreet here last evening at 7 o’clock. Tie fire had gained considerable eadway when the alarm was sound d, and nothing was saved from the louse other than a few papers and rticles inan old trunk. Firemen hrc'.v water on the fife dai reater part of an hour. Bonds, about 75 yearsof age and [uite feeble, was led from his burn ng home by firemen. He shared his iOmc with a soldier’s family, and it nas reported that the family lost lost of its personal belongings. An inventory of the fire could not ie had immediately, but the loss will un into several hundred dollars and ossibly more, depending on the raiue of theowner’s personal effects. I PEANUT PRICES v_____ Peanut prices continued to climb on the markets in this sec , Mon during the past few days, unofficial rejmrts declaring that sales had been made for as much as 10 1-2 cents per pound with the average holding right around ten cents. Fairly heavy deliveries were reported during the early part of the week, but bad weather has delayed movements since Tues day. It is estimated by some that from one-half to two-thirds of the crop in this immediate sec | tion has already been marketed. James S. Rhodes, Jr. | Begins Practice Of Medicine This Week -4 Just Recently Returned Home Front Campaigns In The European Theater Dr. James S. Rhodes, Jr., entered upon civilian practice here in his home town last week-end in part nership with his father who handled burdensome duties during the war years when there were few doctors available. The junior doctor, just recently back from the European war theater, spent several weeks studying at Duke hospital and in the Medical Center in Richmond before entering practice here. Jim, Jr., was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1937 and earned his doctor’s degree at the Medical College of Virginia in 1941. After his interneship at Roper Gen eral Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina, in 1941-42, he entered the service on July 1, 1942, marrying Miss Jean Jackson, of Lexington, Ky., that year. On June 8, 1942, he was moved to the African-European Theater of Operations, participating just behind the front lines in the Sicilian, Salerno-Naples, Rome-Arno, Southern and Northern France and .Central Germany campaigns. Returning home less than three jmonths ago, he is maintaining offices with his father on Smith wick Street, and he and Mrs. Rhodes and their j young son, Jimmie, are at home in the Tar Heel Apartments. The young doctor, his hair greyed a bit by war service, is welcomed back to his home town where he will be a great asset to the profes eion. J. Herman Reason Dies In Hospital J. Herman Reason, well-known! farmer^jfOjig^j^gns community, ■ died in i^Di^amnospita] Iasi Mon day noon following an illness of about one year’s duration. He had been confined to his bed for five weeks, death resulting from a cere bral hemorrhage. The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reason, ha was born in Washing ton County on November 13, 1879. He was married to Miss Annie Jones of Roper and located in this county eighteen years ago. Mr. Reason was an able farmer and highly respected citizen, both in his native and adopt ed communities. Surviving are his widow, six sons, Pete, Bryant, Ben and Carlton, of Jamesville, Lomas, of near Williams ton, and Ernest Reason of Norfolk; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Phelps of Plymouth, and Mrs. Oscar Jackson of Jamesville; one brother, Bruce Reas on, of Norfolk, and three sisters, Mrs. M. K. Jones of Ahoskie, Mrs. Letha Jones of Richmond and Mrs. Bettie Rawls of Norfolk. Funeral services were conducted at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. P. B. Nickens, IBaptist minister of Plymouth, and (interment was in the Dardens Meth | odist Church Cemetery. - A few divorce cases are to be ; scheduled for trial, but the civil cal endar isn’t likely to list many cases. • The damage suit brought by Holli . day against Kader Brown and Wil ■iamston Lumber Company has been ! set for trial during the week, and it is likely that the tribunal will be in session possibly through next Thursday, if not longer. Tile twenty cases listed on the criminal docket: N. S. Godard, assault and battery, had his case continued several times. Henry Paul is charged with man slaughter as a result of a truck wreck near Everetts on last March 14, costing Jeremiah Brown his life. A true bill was returned by the grand jury last June and the case was continued. William E. James, charged with hit-and-run driving and manslaugh ter, struck and fatally injured Jeff T. Matthews at Oak City last Sep tember 2. The administrator was re cently awarded a judgment for $5,000 in a civil action brought against James. Kader Brown is charged with reck less driving resulting in serious body injury to Miss Elizabeth Holliday near Dardens last May 31. Robert Bunn stands charged with hit-and-run driving resulting in seri ous bodily injury to Jesse Bullock near Robersonville last August 25. The case charging Jesse Ben Rob erson with shooting Hugh M. Gray was continued under prayer for judg ment last September and comes up for final disposition. Tobey Barber is charged with the robbery of $1 from the person of W. M. Cherry last July 21. Alleged to have given a mortgage on property he did not possess, John E. Williams is charged with false pre tense. Josh Rascoe appealed from a coun ty court judgment in the case charg ing him with the possession of illicit liquor for the purpose of sale. Charged with speeding, Ralph Eu geni' Andrews appealed from a lower court judgment. Nettie Parker is charged with as saulting Will Biggs with a deadly weapon with intent to kill him on October 6. Auston Everett is charged with an assault on a female. Charged with being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest and an assault with a deadly weapon, Ben Long Stevenson appealed from lower court judgments in both cases. Harry Lee Spruill is charged with stealing a car from Charlie Forbes ' last April 1. The old pocketbook flim-flam game is slated to be aired again when Roger Howard faces trial for ' allegedly obtaining $229 from Luke Biggs last September 21. Howard “Ted” Scott is charged ' with disorderly conduct and resist-1 ( ing arrest. Charles Fuller faces two breaking and entering and larceny and receiv ing counts. He is alleged to have ; stolen $35 worth of clothes from the I, laundry last July 1, and in a second , alleged trip he stands accused of ■ stealing $50 worth of clothes on Sep- ( tember 23. Lester Gray Ward is charged with , operating a Jrurl^^i^^^oroner brakes"and manslaughter^! he vie- , tim of the accident, Bonnie K. Tay lor, Jr., was fatally injured last Sep- , tember 24. I Baby Ray Hill, Billie White, Rus- ( sell Sherrod and Wheeler Jones are charged with attempted rape. , In the courts for more than a year, i the case charging Herman Manning , and Joe Martin with aiding and abet- j ting in an illegal operation, is up for final entry on the judgment docket, , the courts having held that the two j are to start serving two-year road | terms next week. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . The accident season reached a climax in the county last week end when six wrecks were re ported. One person almost lost his life and a property damage estimated at $1,500 was report ed. It is about time to start slow ing down and chiving with greater care 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. Forty-Eighth Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge 1945 6 3 0 $ 1,500 1944 110 237 Comparisons To Date 1945 78 43 6 15,695 1944 66 41 6 12,237 Fifty-five Cases Called fn The County's Court F ines Amounting To $870. Collected To Establish A Record Large Croud Hears Proceed ings; INo Session County Court Next Week ---. All previous records are believed ,to have toppled last Monday when Judge J. C. Smith called fifty-live cases and imposed fines amounting to $870 in a regular session of the Mar tin County Recorder’s Court. In ad dition to the fine collection, several road and jail terms were meted out to make it a hectic day for alleged violators of the law. The county court had been idle while the super ior tribunal was scheduled to handle the trial of civil cases. Judge Smith and Solicitor Paul Roberson were shucking out the cases so rapidly that Clerk L. B. Wynne had to line the defendants up to accept their fines and costs. The costs were not added immediately, but with the fines they will go well over $1,000 for the day. Proceedings: _ Called for further judgment, Jas. Iv Strawbridge, defendant in a non support case, was directed to con tinue the payment of $25 every two weeks for the support of his wife and child, and reappear for further judg ment on the first Monday in June, 1946. Booker T. Mizelle, charged with reckless driving, failed to answer when called and papers were issued for his arrest. The case charging Lester Morgan with an assault with a deadly weapon was continued until December 17. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Jack A. Farmer was sentenced to the roads for six months. The sentence was suspended the following day upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs. His license to operate a motor ve hicle was revoked for one year. Charged with disorderly conduct and drunken driving, James Everett was adjudged guilty of the first count and drew a $25 fine plus the costs. Kenneth Harrell, called for further judgment in the case charging him with bastardy, was ordered to con tinue the payment of $10 a month for the support of his illegitimate child ' and reappear on the first Monday in ' June for further judgment. Charged with operating motor ve hicles with improper lights, the fol- ' lowing defendants were each fined ’ $10 and taxed with the costs: Lee ! Edward Best, William Jake Moore, William Burton Bell, Jesse W. Wil- * liams, Hill Webb. Robert Lee Williams, charged with 1 operating a motor vehicle with im- , proper lights, and Jesse Roberson, charged with operating a motor ve- 1 hide with improper brakes, failed to ! answer when called and papers were 1 issued for their arrests. Clarence Rudolph Coffield, charg- f ed with operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Curtis f Smith was sentenced to jail for seven 1 rlays, fined $25 and taxed with the ( cost. The court recommended that 1 no operator’s license be issued the de- J fendant for six months. Archie Mizelle was fined $10 and 1 required to pay the cost in the case f charging him with operating a motor vehicle with bad brakes. ( Judgment was suspended upon the 1 payment of the costs in the case I charging Kenneth Ervin Semmons 1 with operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license. The court rec- | ammended that no license be issued " the defendant for one year. Charlie Andrews, charged with reckless driving, was fined $30 and taxed HwMogfeMttMaw*- «v was revoked for 90 days. William Perkins, operating a motor I vehicle with improper brakes, was i fined $10 and required to pay the ‘ costs. 1 Charged with operating a motor r venicle without a driver's license, 1 Willie Edward Burns, Jr., failed to s answer when called. Papers were issued for his arrest. J Sam Latham was fined $20 and t taxed with the cost in the case charg- t ing him with operating a motor ve- i hide without a driver’s license. The i court recommended that no license \ be issued the defendant for six i months. s A continuance until December 31 i was allowed in the case charging i Lonnie B. Griffin with reckless driv- f ing. t Charged with speeding, Francis P. Gavingan was fined $10 and required 1 to pay the costs. r The case charging Henry L. Har vey with drunken driving was con- j tinued until December 17. Grover Knox was fined $50, taxed with the cost and had his operator's .revoked for r-!-~ v.-. *v,. ase charging him with drunken dnv- 1 ing. ‘ Charged with drunkenness and dis- ; orderly conduct, Andrew Hardison was fined $20 and taxed with the { costs. Charged with being drunk and dis- £ orderly and damaging property in ' Wiliiamston’s Cotton Club, Marshall ‘ Scott was sentenced to the road for six months. In a second case, Scott ' (Continued on page six) i Li SICKNESS Colds, aggravated in quite a few cases by infections, have materially affected attendance records in several of the county schools, reports from the office of the superintendent stating that 35 percent of the pupils in the YVilliamston Elementary School were absent several days this week. While the condition apparently is becoming no worse, it certainly hasn't shown much improvement during the past few days, it was explained. Most of the absences were re ported in the schools here and at Farm Life. While there are many cases of sickness, there is no real epi demic and in most cases the vic tims are ill only for a few days. Sickness has been widespread in parts of this State, and one or I"' MWMMBIMtaiat iVriv stales have reported numerous cases of influenza. |River Project Is Favored By Group In Recent Meeting _„v__ r | Further Action Is Now Pcml iiitf In Upper House Of The National CongresM -<*> While there was some vigorous op position expressed, the program of flood control and power development for the Roanoke River Valley was favored by a group of about five hundred delegates at a public hear ing held in South Hill, Virginia, on Wednesday of this week. The meeting, despite the opposi tion, went on record as favoring the expenditure of approximately 31 million dollars for controlling flood waters and developing new power souices. As far as it could be learn ed, this immediate section was not represented at the hearing. The opposition, led by delegates from Vance County, declared that the proposed dam at Buggs Island, Virginia, would cause the dam wat ers to cover approximately 11),()()() acres of land, including several thousand acres of fine farming conn try. Railroad companies also oppos ed the proposed project, but power companies voiced no opposition, ac cording to reports reaching here. Led by the Carolina Power and Light Company, the opposition is expected to submit written briefs against the program. The little community of Soudan, Virginia, a section which will be completely covered by water if the power dam is thrown across the river in Virginia, is said to have gone on record as favoring the program as originally proposed. A million-dollar appropriation for starting work on the project was de nied by the House Appropriations Committee a few days ago, but the item was included in a deficiency measure and passed. The United States Senate is now to consider the item, and the project is likely to en counter some stiff opposition there. In their regular meeting last Mon day evening, Williamston’s town commissioners appropriated $100 and passed a resolution endorsing the program. -* County Young Man Writes From Japan Stationed in Japan, Clarence Pate, Martin County young man, said in a recent letter that he was seeing “some really beautiful country. The landscape is wonderful, mostly mountainous. I have done quite a bit of traveling and am now in Hon shu. “My brother, Maurice, is here in Japan, also. He came to the Pacific theater two years ago, but I beat him to Japan even though I did not leave until last August. We haven’t seen each other, but we hope to meet. I was at Tokyo for the international rodeo on Labor Day, and hoped to see my brother there but did not. Anyway, I'm not really worrying be cause I’ll see him at home in the near future—if a couple of years can be thought of as the near future.” In closing, Pfc. Pate stated he was hoping to get The Enterprise in the next mail. llnilertfoes Operation For Removal Of Safely Fin -»>. Catherine, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mis. Claude Baxter Clark, Jr., successfully underwent an opera tion in a Richmond hospital last Tuesday for the removal of a safety pin from her stomach. Swallowing the open pin in a flash, the little girl apparently felt no ill effect and she was reported today to be getting along very well. She is expected to be able to return home Sunday or Monday. Mr. Clark returned home Wednes day evening. | Brothers From This County Met A Short Time Ago fn Europe J M«‘i l iH'xpertedly For Long (’hat In Regensburg, (iermanv Two Martin County brothers, Pfc. Louis Wynn and Pfc. George W. Wynne, met a short time ago in Reg ensburg, Germany. They had not seen each other in sixteen months. Stationed ’n Klatovy, Czechoslo vakia, Louis, in a letter to his par enis, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wynne, said under date of November 14: 1 bet you will be surprised when you read this letter. Here 1 am in Regensburg, Germany, with “Bud.” 1 got here about 2 o'clock yesterday. 1 asked a M. P. could he tell me where F. Co. of the 25th Cav. was. He stopped a jeep with two M. P.’s in it and they said they knew where it was and would take me there. “Gee” was "Bud'’ surprised to see me. He’s the same old "Bud" only so much larger than lie was the last time I saw him. There is an extra bed in fiis Un i at iv so 1 sleep m the same room with him. All we have been doing is sit aiound and talk about what we have seen and done since we last saw each other. “Bud is in a good outfit now. He doesn't do any training and they have P. W s to do all their work for them, shine their shoes, clean the , barracks, and make their beds. “Gee” if we don't hurry and get out of this Army we will be so lazy we won’t be able to do any work. “I think we will go to the show tonight. "Bud" said “A Thousand and One Nights” was on, and was a good show. "1 certainly hope my outfit doesn’t move before 1 get back. We are sup posed to move by the first of De cember. As soon as I move I’m going to send "Bud” word where I am and 1 want him to try to get a pass and spend Christmas with me, that wouldn’t make Christmas so bad. “I bet it is getting cold back home now. We have had lots of snow in Czechoslovakia but there hasn’t been very much here in Germany. “Mama I hope each and every one has a very nice Thanksgiving. Tell everyone hello. Bud and I are get ting along fine.” Geo. W., writing at the same time, said: "1 feel the best today I have felt in many days. Just think when I ate supper last night Louis ate with me and we slept in the same room. Yes terday I received 10 letters, 1 hadn’t received any in 7 days 1 was lean ing back in a chair with my feet on a table reading one letter saying that Louis’ company had moved and that he hoped he could come and i see me, when the door opened and he walked in. Mama, I couldn’t move, I lie was coming toward me and I thought I never would get up. I was so glad to see him. lie’s the same old Louis, talk, he can still do that, I fi ll like I was home for a few min utes. “We went over to the P. X a while last night and drank coca-colas and talked. “He’ll be with me for about 7 days. Don’t worry about us. I am taking care of Louis and he is taking care of me.” Call Thirteen Tor Pre-Induction Test -3 Thirteen Martin County colored men were called this week by the armed forces for pn induction ex aminations. The group left one day after several colored youths report ed for final induction on Monday, December 3. Ten of the thirteen were called (ions, an'uTTTi *f tflffiTt' were listed as being single. All are eighteen years of age except three whose ages range from 21 to 24 years. The names and addresses of those culled for the preinduction tests last Tuesday follow: Milton Theodore Outterbridge, RFD 3, Williamston and Norfolk. John Henry Wynne, Jamesville. Henry Clayton Bullock, RFD 3, Williamston. Ernest Charles Mooring, Jr., RFD 2, Robersonville. Willie Edward Burns, RFD 2, Rob ersonville. Elijah Williams, RFD 1, Oak City. Vanderbilt Meeks, RFD 2, Rober eonville. Ernest Daniel, Jr., RFD 3, Wil liamston. Joseph L. Noah Godard, RFD 1, Williamston. John Wesley James, RFD 1, James ville. Curtis Lawrence Turner, RFD 1, Robersonville. Theado Staton, RFD 1, Oak City. \early Four Hundred Tires /lr«* Allotted t tos County -* Nearly four hundred tires—347 for passenger cars and 44 for trucks— have been allotted this county for ra tioning during the current month, it was announced by Mrs. Gladys Brew er at the Martin County War Price and Rationing Board this week. The car tire allotment is slightly larger than the one for November, but the truck tire quota is a bit smaller.