NEARLY 4.000 COPIES OP THE
ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
THE ENTERPRISE
NEARLY 4,MM COPIES OP THE
ENTERPRISE GOIKtt INTO THE
HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY
AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN
V0lI;31& XUX — M MBEii l
Williamston, Martin ( aunty, North Carolina, 'tfiday, January II. 1946
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" ESTABLISHED 1899
Twenty-Three Cases
Called Last Monday
In oolites.i mart
Fines, Aniornitmjr To 8260,
_Are Colleoted During
*" Three-Hour Session
Holding his first session of the New
Year, Judge J. Calvin Smith called
twenty-three cases in the Martin
County Recorder’s Court last Mon
day, and completed the scheduled
task in about three hours. Fines,
amounting to $260, were collected
and several road sentences were im
posed. Solicitor Paul D. Roberson
prosecuted the docket.
In the first session of the year,
1945, the court called twenty-five
cases for trial, but that session fol
lowed a week holiday.
Proceedings in the court last Mon
day:
James Purvis, charged with non
support in one case and an assault
with a deadly weapon in another,
failed to answer when called, and
papers were ordered issued for his
arrest.
In the case charging James Goss
with bastardy, prayer for judgment
was continued until the first Mon
day in July upon the continued pay
ment by the defendant of $5 a week
for the support of his illegitimate
child.
The bewhis ™ed case charging S.
A. Mobley i violating the fire
laws was fi' disposed of when
the court den- 1 the defendant not
guilty.
The case c.i mg Lollie Bryant
Williams w'ith support was con
tinued under pu/er for judgment
until the first Monday in July, 1940.
upon the payment of the costs by the
defendant.
Frank Williams, charged with an
assault with a deadly weapon, failed
to answer and papers w'ere issued
calling for his arrest.
Called at a previous session to
answer a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon and failing to answer,
Askew Brow'ii and Mark Duggin had
not been arrested and the case was
continued.
Lester Bailey failed to answer in
the case charging him with drunken
driving.
Charged with drunken driving,
William Revels pleaded not guilty.
Adjudged guilty he was fined $50
and taxed with the cost. Appeal
was noted, and bond was required
in the sum of $100. The court did
not suspend his driver’s license
pending appeal.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him with drunken driving, Dallas
Godard was fined $100 and taxed
with the cost. His license to operate
a motor vehicle was revoked for a
year.
The case charging Edgar L. Keel
with drunken driving was continued
until January 21.
Elmer Purvis, pleading guilty of
drunken driving, was fined $60, tax
ed with the cost and had his license
to operate a motor vehicle revoked
for a year.
Charged with an assault on a fe
male, Sam Williams was fined $20
and required to pay the court costs.
Charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon, Jack Dixon was
found not guilty.
Solomon and Collisie Lynch and
Navin Hawkins, charged with as
saults with deadly weapons, were
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Vets Acknowledge
Christmas Parcels
Letters, expressing grateful appre
ciation, were received this week by
Mrs. John A. Ward, chairman of the
American Legion Auxiliary gift com
mittee, from several patients in a
veterans’ hospital at Oteen.
One of the letters of appreciation
was from a veteran who contracted
pneumonia on a long march while
Loner by the" GeiTnul
later developed tuberculosis and !
when he was returned to this coun-1
try and discharged he was sent to the j
hospital without going home. “Tilings ;
are quite different this year from I
last Christmas as I was in the Bel- j
gian Bulge and taken prisoner on
January 12,” the veteran said, and
added, “last Christmas was spent in
a fox hole, and I certainly do know
how to appreciate the United States
even if I am not at home.”
Another veteran who has lain flat
of his back since the first World war,
also wrote a letter of appreciation
for the gifts he received. The veter
an, his head almost white now, said,
“ ... it was the least of my thoughts
of being remembered . . . and I want
to thank you again and again for re
membering me so kindly.”
Heading the special gift commit
tee, Mrs. Ward collected quite a
number of useful gifts in the county
just before Christmas, and judging
from the numerous letters of appre
ciation they were well received and
greatly appreciated.
Quite a few boys are being re
habilitated and they are enxious to
get discarded silk hose which tiiey,
"wiii make into rugs. The auxiliary
is receiving the stockings and will
forward them to the proper destina
tions. Anyone having discarded silk
hose are asked to contact Mrs. Ward •
or any member of the Legion Auxii
iary.
Increased Activities Reported
On Peanut Market This Week
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' inactive'"for’ tne “m usFpaS oh1^ft*
count of unfavorable weather jusi
prior to and since the- holidays, the
i focal p<<anat market this week re
ported iairiy large sines. A few were
reported last week, but deliveries
totaled several thousand hags or
each of several days here this week,
it was learned today.
The weather has not been very
favorable during the past few days,
but some farmers managed to com
plete the harvest and make deliveries
to the market.
Approximately 90 percent of the
crop, it is estimated, has been har
vested and marketed in this county,
but some farmers declare they will
not be able to complete the task be
fore some time in February and pos
sibly not before March in a few cases.
Peanuts are moving to the market
Tiere"irom oTSe^counties where 'the*
harvest is not as far advanced as it!
is in this county Buyers state that 1
it will take longer to handle the less j
tha”. b^^L.crpp this .season than it !
did to handle r y crop in recent
years. Cleaners have been running
their plants on a limited schedule
with a longer holiday for Christmas
than usual, and yet they have been
able to keep up with the crop move
ment by storing comparatively few
peanuts.
Prices while hardly as strong as
they were before Christmas are
holding up well and sales bringing
around ten and one-half cents on an
average are being reported with the
price climbing to as high as eleven
, cents in a few cases. Buyers com
; plained this week of receiving some
| peanuts in a wet and damaged con
1 dition.
| MOVING PRISONERS
v,
No date for closing the prison
er of war camp here has been
fixed, but the prisoners are be
ing moved out to Butner in fair
ly large numbers. It was learn
ed this week that no more pris
oners would likely be made
available for agricultural jobs in
this count v. Some prisoners are
remaining here for use in indus
trial jobs, and it is nossible that
a few of the surplus ones will be
made available for farm jobs at
various times. Regular farm
labor contracts are being cancel
ed, it was said.
I ast month 719 prisoners
worked 5,215 hours on farms, the
farmers paying $1,564.65 for the
labor. Very few prisoners have
worked in agriculture this
month.
Quite a few surplus prisoners
have been moved from the camp
recently, 59 going out yesterday
to Camp Butner.
Fifteen County Men
G e t Pre-Induction
Test At Fort Bragg
Eleven Of Colored Men Leav
ing Last Wednesday Came
From Farms
Fifteen Martin County colored men
left lust Wi dnesday for pre-induc
tion tests at the Fort Bragg reception
center. Tht cull was one of the larg
est answered by registrants in this
county in some time. While the
calls for pre-induction tests con
tinue fairly large, comparatively few
men are being taken into the ser
vices under Selective Service. Only
one colored youth answered the fin
al induction call in the county this
month, and it is understood that less
than half a dozen white men will be
called for final induction the latter
part of this month.
Eleven of the fifteen colored youths
leaving for the preliminary physical
tests this week came from the farm.
None of them was married as far as
it could bo learned from the records.
The ages of the boys ranged from 18
to 24 years, eleven of them being
only eighteen years old.
Names and addresses of the men
c alled this week for the pre-induction
test:
Jimmie James, RED 1, Jamesville.
Nathaniel Brooks, RED 1, James
ville.
Horace Davis, Williamston.
Eddie Mack Bliley, RFD 1, Rober
sonville and Portsmouth.
Willie James Dickens, Oak City.
James Russell Clemmons, RFD 2,
Robersonville.
Loraneo Elisha Taylor, Parmele.
Romulus Moore, Jr., RFD 3, Wil
liamston.
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I nun# Veteran* Return
To Old Positions Here
Discharged after long periods of
service in the armed forces, Clarence
Britton and Rudolph Saunders have
returned to their old positions with
the Chas. H. Jenkins Motor Company
here.
Commenting on his return here
Mr. Britton said it certainly felt good
to be in civilian clothes again and
back at his old job.
SPRINGTIME
After offering the coldest De
cember in ten years the weather
man did an about face and
brought springtime in January,
pushing the mercury well into
the seventies here and causing
flowers to bloom this week.
Spirea bushes, without leaves,
showed their snow-white blooms,
and several gardeners pulled
their tools from the storerooms
aria stalled making ready tor
planting.
Old-time residents declared
they had never seen the like
since they were born. The high
temperatures renewed the spring
fever for many.
Complete PJans For
Infantile Paralysis
Fund Raising Drive
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County People Are A*kerl To
Contribute $2,120.00
This Year
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Plans for the annual drive to raise ■
money for the fight against infantile '
paralysis are just about complete for !
this county, Chairman L. Bruce I.
Wynne announced yesterday. The
drive will center around direct mail i
solicitations and in the °chools, |
Chairman Wynne said.
This county is being asked to raise ■
$2,120.00, an amount nearly $1,000 ,
! less than the total raised in the 1945 ,
j drive. Chairman Wynne is confident
! that the amount can and will be rais- ;
ed without great difficulty during ;
j the drive ending January 31.
Aided by Mrs. Glenn Norman as i
! chairman in Robersonville, County j
Chairman Wynne next Monday will
mail out approximately 450 letters .
11‘> citizens in various parts of the ;
county. The chairman is depending ]
on the answers to carry the drive to- |
I ward its goal, but special appeals
will be made to and through the (
schools, it was explained. The (
schools last year did an able work 1
in pushing the drive over the top, ,
and Chairman Wynne believes they ,
will accept the challenge and ma- .
terially help the drive this year to a ]
successful conclusion. Last year, j
the Williamston Elementary School
alone raised $212 19 for the fund, and <
other schools made splendid records, |
the chairman explained. <
Individual donations made by mail <
ranged from $1 to $25. most of the 1
contributions being in the amount of (
five dollars, and free will offerings ,
at the theaters in the county amount- ]
ed to $563.96. ,
Of the $3,026.83 raised last year,
$1,513.43 was sent to the National f
Foundation. An additional $500 was ’
sent to the emergency hospital at ;
Hickory. Special equipment was |
bought for victims in this county, and (
$115 was spent in transporting coun- |
ty victims. More than $100 was spent
within the county in aiding needy t
victims, the chairman explained, and t
there is a small fund in hand for |
emergencies.
The National Foundation, coming
to the aid of victims in this State,
contributed nearly three-quarters of
a million dollars to thfe emergency 1
hospital at Hickory and the perma- j
nent hospital in Charlotte during the
past two years. Over $200,000 was
contributed to the hospitals and spe
cial cases last year.
When the infantile paralysis epi
demic struck this State year before 1
last, the National Foundation acted 1
without delay in relieving condi- i
tioris. The contributions from the 1
National unit have been far greater 1
than the amounts raised in the State i
and turned ovei to the organization.
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this county to meet and pass its quota ;
and establish solid claims for the (
treatment of any cases developing in
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Wife Files Suit In
Court For Alimony
Aftei her husband, Oliver Whaley,
filed for a divorce last fall, Verna
Whaley turned to the superior court
this week and asked for a regular al
lowance and alimony without a di
vorce. The husband based his suit
on two years of separation.
A hearing has been scheduled be
fore Judge W. C. Harris in the Wash
j ington Countny Superior Court to
i have a tentative allowance fixed.
No report on the hearing could be
had immediately.
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Slightly Injured In Car
Accident Friday Evening
Lee Thomas, local young inan, was
slightly bruised and shocked when
| ids car turned over near the Midway
filling station in Bertie County last j
Friday evening. Julian Jackson, his ;
companion, was not hurt. The car,!
a Ford sedan, was damaged consid
'erably. one estimate placing it at j
! $700.
Farmers Skeptical
Over Increase In
Acreage
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Agriculture Secretary Calls
To Previous Allotments
Discussing the 10 percent boost
called for in the 1946 tobacco allot
ments by Agriculture Secretary Clin
ton Anderson, representative farmers
in this county immediately declared
they were skeptical about the mo
tive underlying the call for an in
crease. Some of those questioned
following the announcement declar
ed that someone was behind the ord
er, that they saw in the action a fly
ng wedge to whittle down tobacco
prices. Others said they could not
tell what was behind the announce
ment, but they expressed the wish
that no increase would bo granted
this year.
It was pointed out that Martin
farmers lost tens of thousands of
sounds of tobacco last year on ac
count of the labor shortage, and
hey added that the prospects on the
abor front are not very encouraging
’or this year. It is quite certain that
Herman prisoners of war will not be
ivailable at harvest time next sum
ner, and hardly more than one out
if ten returning soldiers are going
jack to the farm, it was pointed
iut.
The ten percent increase in acre
ig<\ Secretary Anderson pointed out
vas ordered primarily to provide to
lacco needed for export. Flue-cured
obucco is used largely in the manu
facture of cigarettes.
The increase will be made effoc
ivo through a 10 per cent addition
o each grower's acreage allotment
or 1946 as determined under pre
ciously-announced provisions of the
'overnment’s program for the 1946
crop.
The allotments will total 1.250,000
icres, including this general increase
md previously-authorized increases
n some individual allotments. The
lew total compares with last year’s
illotment of 1,120,000 acres.
Anderson said the new allotment
hould provide a crop of about 1,-|
100.000. 000 pounds compared with
ast year’s crop of 1,175,000,000
lounds.
Anderson said that countries which
ould not import American flue-cur
ed tobacco during the war had ex
austed their stocks. Other countries
vhirh continued to obtain supplies
vere forced, he said, to reduce their
tocks far below normal levels,
fence, a favorable export outlook
or flue-cured tobacco.
“Foreign countries," the secretary
aid, "desire flue-cured tobacco both
or immediate use and to rebuild
eriously-depleted stocks. While sub
tantia! quantities of this type of to
ihcco will go abroad from the 1945
■rop, an extremely large demand re
nains unfilled and will remain un
illed until 1946 and subsequent
Tops can he shipped.”
Anderson said it is estimated that
tocks of flue-cured tobacco held on
uly 1, 1946, in foreign countries
nd in this country for export need
o be increased by approximately
30.000. 000 pounds to restore normal
evels.
Anderson usid there also appears
o be a need for some increase in
tocks of tobacco la id by domestic
manufacturers.
“Even with the proclaimed in
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Max Finzimer, 8(),
Died Last Sunday
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Max Finzimer, father of Mrs. M.
A. Levin of Williamston, died at his
lome in Philadelphia last Sunday
norning at 6 o’clock friends of the
amilv were advised here this week.;
At. Finzimer, 89 years old, had been !
n declining health for several years.
Funeral services were conducted
fgwmyierr. iw—j, j■ •»*
nd interment was in Mt. Sharon
Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Besides his daughter here he is
urvived by his wife, seven daugh- j
ers and two sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Levin and son, Ron
iy, attended the lates rites.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Motorists, traveling Martin |
County highways, painted a
mighty dark picture for the
record during the first week of
the New Year One person, a ,
pedestrian, was killed and two
were slightly injured. Others
escaped unhurt when their car
turned over and landed in a
swamp. In the first week of 1945
not a single highway accident
was reported in the county.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each vea/ to the present time.
First Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Bani'ge
1946 3 2 1 $ 400
1945 0 0 0 $ 000
Comparisons To Date
1946 3 2 i $ 400
1945 0 0 0 $ 000
Receiving Stations Selected
For Victory Clothing Drive
Stations for receiving used -ereth -
ing ;n the nation-wide Victory Cloth
ing Drive have Keep selected in this
couutiTaiKl -Drive Chairman Bob
Tat. enton is directing ac\ earnc M
pea) to all Marlin citizens to support
the worthy and urgently needed un
dertaking Detailed plans for the
county-wide collection are not yet
complete, but arrangements have
been made to receive used clothing
at Davenport and Hamilton’s store
in Jamesville, Manning and Gurkin's
store in Farm Life, Terry Brothers'
store in Bear Grass, Virginia Electric
and Power Company’s office in Wil
liamston, J. S. Ayers' store in Ever
etts and Slade-Rhodes Company's
store in Hamilton.
tn addition to those centers, clothes
will be received by the schools in
Robersonville where Mr. Marvin M
Everett is serving as chairman for
that district.
Later in the month. Chairman
r xjfkenton aided by a cornffinUtc j
from the Lions Club, the sponsoring i
organization here, will arrange ai
town-wide canvass in Williamstnn. i
i1 ■jw■ U>■:, v who
can spare a useful article of old
clothing is asked to deliver it to the
receiving station.
Stories of pathetic conditions are
pouring out of the war-torn countries
across both oceans. For instance, in
Norway not a single new pair of
shoes has been seen, and the bare
foot have stood in line day and night
in winter weather waiting for a pair
of second-hand shoes collected in the
drive some months ago. Little relief
is to be expected after a normal
fashion this coming winter and next
winter, and the drive now under way
is planned to lessen suffering and
misery at that time. Plan now to
participate in the current Victory
Clothing Drive to the fullest extent
possible.
Make Few Changes In
Business Line-up Here
Several Firms Are
Planning To Move
To New Locations
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INVw Firms To Enter Itiisiness
Here; Home ItuililiiiK
(»els dmler Wav
-e
Held at a standstill during the war
period, business is gradually ex
panding here and quite a few
changes are to be expected during
the coming months. The expansion
program is still hampered by mater
ial shortages ad a “tight” labor mar
ket, but business is forging ahead de
spite the odds.
A brief but fairly complete review
of the expansion program as propos
ed by business for the months im
mediately ahead follows:
Forming a partnership, Dillon
Cobb and Russell Griffin are remod
eling the store formerly occupied
by the pool room on Washington
Street and they wdl open a soda
shop there within the next two
weeks. Operating in the York build
ing, Mr. Cobb is vacating for the
new owners, Wier Furniture Com
pany, who are already remodeling 1
the structure preparatory to moving I
their business from the Tar Heel <
apartment building stores. ,
The Woolaid Furniture Company
lias rented the store now occupied
by the Wier company, and will oc
cupy the property as soon as it is (
available, possibly for the operation .
if a second store here.
A new firm, composed of Messrs. |
George Hatton and John Hatton Gur- ,
?anus, brothers, is completing the ]
construction of a new building on ;
Washington Street between Elm and ,
Sycamore and will open in early |
February a cleaning and pressing |
stablishment. The young men, en- ■
ering construction work to hasten |
he completion of their building pro
gram, are now locating machinery in |
[heir new building and will operate i
older the firm name of Ulue Star i
Cleaners. !
Forming a new partnership,
Messrs. R. T., J. E., W. O. and Jos.
Griffin and Hoke Roberson are mak
ng plans for the construction of a
lew building next to the Blue Star
Cleaners to operate an automobile
igency. They plan to handle Chrys- j
i rs and Plymouths.
Mr. W. R. Banks is rapidly com- I
pleting the consti uction of a garage j
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raFnffifS^irUrerl
4,(MM) Pounds Wool
Delivering 4,200 pounds of wool to
i cooperative pool maintained here
last summer, farmers in Martin,
Beaufort, Pitt, Washington, Bertie,
Chowan, Jones, Hyde, Edgecombe
md Nash Counties, this week receiv
ed their final payments. Nearly 200
farmers in the ten counties patron
ized the pool, and received a total of
10,004.58, the juice averaging close
to 14 cents a pound.
Four farmers in this county, W
Harrell Everett, W. Robert Everett,
D. M Roberson and J. R. Fisher, sold j
5153 pounds for $326.93.
-$
Large Shi/tmeni '/obucco
Move* In Pml Feu' Day*
Fifty-six carloads of redried to
bacco moved out of here during the
past few days for export. A greater
portion of a train load, thirty-three
cars, moved out in one day for Nor
folk where it is being placed on a!
shin for overseas delivery I
In addition to the tobacco ship
ments other produce and manufac
tured goods are moving in fail sized
juantlties. Shelled peanuts, bushel
baskets, logs and fertilizer are some
>f the other items moving in cariots
these days.
RAINFALL j
s_/
Despite unusually heavy rains
during several months of 1945.
the total rainfall for 1945 fell
slightly below the ten-year av- .
erage for this area, according to
figures just recently released by
Hugh Spruill who keeps an of
ficial gauge at the river here.
The December rainfall, tire
second largest recorded since '
1930 for the particular month,
was exactly the same as the re
cording for December, 1942.
The rainfall for November was
3.22 inches and slightly above '
the average. Itut the heavy falls t
in those months only boosted the
total for the year to 44.36 inches,
or 1.54 inches below the ten
year average and several inches
below the normal annual precipi
tation. In 1944, 46.07 inches of
rain fell here.
\dd New Members
To Board of Health
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Meeting^last week-end, the consti
uted members of the Martin County 1
Board of Health, in accordance with
m act of the last legislature, increas- |
■d the board membership and made i
i few changes in the personnel.
The constituted members, R. L. i
’erry, representing the board of i
ourity commissioners, John L. Has
•f 11, mayor of the county seat town,
md J. C. Manning, superintendent
if county schools, named D. R. Dav
s, Williamston pharmacist, Marshall
Cilpatrick, Robersonville dentist, Jas.
I. Rhodes, Sr., Williamston medical
loctor, and LeRoy Everett, Hamil
on, member-at-large, to the board ‘
lersonriel. Messrs. Davis, Kilpatrick ‘
md Everett are new members of the ;
>oard.
No formal meeting date has been *
ixed, but the new board is likely to 1
told its first session of the year some '
tine during this month or in early '
i'ebruary. f
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Native Of County
Dies In Norfolk
James Henry Williams, a native of
11is county, died in a Norfolk hos- (
dial last Saturday morning follow
ng a long illness. Funeral services t
were conducted at the home of his ,
n> .-v. -i. ic
ngton, Wednesday afternoon at 2 j
/clock by Itev M. Elmore Turner,
lurial was in the family cemetery in
tear Grass Township.
The son of the late William W. and
ccelia Bailey Williams, he was born ,
n .his county 05 years ago, and
noved to Bi lhaven where he lived (
i long number of years before mov- |
ng to Norfolk to make his home.
Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. j
Daisy Smith, Mrs. Ellen Newkirk
ind Mrs Janie Mae Wagoner, all of |
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Gladys Wat
;on, of Norfolk, and Mrs. Maggie (
Sawyer, of Elizabeth City; and two
listers, Mrs. C A. Beacham of Wash- j
ngton, and Mrs. Herbert Fokin,'of
'few York. !
AGENCY
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Two young army captains, i
their discharges pending, are
contemplating opening a new
automobile agency here, accord
ing to unofficial but reliable re
ports heard this week. The i
young men came here from
Rocky Mount and fimwipi) v<a
eral possible sites for a building,
it was learned. One of the sites
inspected is located on South ,
Haughion Street.
In addition to the auto agency, {
the men plan to handle farm i
machinery and equipment. t
Justice Hassell Has
Dozen Cases In His
{^ourt Since Monday
( nmj.iif.ttiv>!* Hea-y Finr«
Are Impo^rd In
Instances
Following a big round-uo by local
officers during the first few davs of
the New Year, Justice J L. Hassell
was unusually active in his court
since last week-end Twelve cases
were handled and comparatively
heavy fines were imposed in several
instances.
Charged with reckless driving and
operating on the wrong side of the
oad, Russell Thompson was bound
over to the county court for trial.
Bond in the sum of $100 was requir
’d. In another case. Thompson was
charged wilh disorderly conduct, the
'ourt imposing a $20 fine and taxing
he defendant with $8.50 costs.
James Thompson, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was fined $20 and
equired to pay $8.50 costs.
Charged with disorderly conduct,
fames Henry Hill was fined $5 and
axed with $8.50 costs.
Ben Ward, facing a similar charge,
vas fined $5 and required to pay
•osts in the sum of $9.50
Arthur Sheppard, charged with
lisorderly conduct, was fined $5 and
axed with $8.50 costs.
Percy Tyner was fined $5 and re
tired to pay $9.50 costs in the case
•barging him with disorderly con
luct.
Charged with disorderly conduct,
Monza Biggs was fined $20 and tax
'd with $7.50 costs.
Following an inspection of local
jarber shops, M. C. Whitney, State
nspector, cited Eddie Watts Brown
fames Ridley and B. F. Little to the
ourts for alleged violation of the
tate barbershop laws. Brown was
•harged with operating an unsani
ary shop, without a certificate of
egistration and without a health cer
ificate. He was sentenced to the
oads for 30 days on each count, the
•ourt suspending the sentences upon
he payment of $5.50 costs and on
he further condition that he comply
villi the regulations. Ridlev, charg
’d with operating an unsanitary
;hop, was sentenced to the roads for
hirty days, the court suspending the
icntence upon the payment of $5.50
•osts. Little, facing the same charges
is faced by Brown received the same
udgment.
Indicted by C W Moore for oper
itmg a motor vehicle and causing
iamaged to personal property, to
vit: one dog, G. L Willoughby of
lertford County was bound over to
he county court for trial. Bond in
he sum of $50 was required. G. S.
Alley was charged with aiding and
i bet ting tiie alleged violation. Ac
cording to evidence offered at the
mating, the defendant, Willoughby,
an over the plaintiff's dog last Go
ober 25 and did not stop. The ani
nal lias been in a dog hospital since
hat time.
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Bridal Party Has
Hectic Trip Home
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Fred Hardison, young son of Mr.
nd Mrs R. J. Hardison of near here,
md his youthful bride had a hectic
rip home during the holidays from
[Vxas where he is stationed in the
Javy. The trip attracted the atten
ion of Mack McKay, Salisbury Post
niter, and a few of the incidents
Here listed by him in the Post a few
[ays ago. Commenting on the story,
lardison said that McKay did not
aention minor troubles such as fiat
ires. "We lost count of them after
ne had six,” he declared. The Post
tory follows:
Charles Barger, Jr., ART 3-c, son
f Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Barger, 915
ineolnton road and Fr-. d Ha dison
f Williamston (a former Duke
ackle) and a navy buddie of Charles
r.), and his new bride, are willing
o testify that buying a car and try
V1 Ct.U \ ■
ucli wi a the i as we had Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday is a big order
. . and not at all a swell honey
10011 1 ide foi newlyweds, Hardison
ays.
Hardison gave $1,100 for a car at
Corpus Christi, Texas, and as they
Here driving homeward, they were
he victims of a freak accident. They
ift Corpus Christi last Friday.
They met a car in Alabama driven
>y an army officer, the car ran over
tire tool that had been lost on
he road, flipped the tire tool and
t sailed through Hardison’s radia
or. They bought a new radiator,
ost $60 (had to send to Meridian,
Hiss., to get one, delay 1 1-2 days) . . .
titer they got started again and
lad driven about 20 miles, a Negro
Irove his car into the rear of Hardi
on’s car at a stop light hitting it
o hard that the motor was driven
orward, and forced the fan through
he new radiator. The Negro took
hem up to a bank and drew out $100
tnd gave it to Hardison. They were
jetting short of spare cash. . . .
Phen when they hit Georgia and
bund poles and trees cluttering up
he highways, they were about ready
o give up . , . at one stage they
StspiMr round -> tra is Hite w-.-,;*: .-w
ituck up in a field . . . several
lailors came along and they all nick
id up the car and carried it back on
he road . . . They arrived at the
larger home here at 8:30 Christmas
light, the Hardisons resuming their
rip to Williamston at once.