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THE ENTERPRISE
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
ESTABLISHED 1899
VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 91
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 12, 1946
rarmer of County
■"■fftSrly Drowns In
* Lanai Last hrlday
Iceland Williams I)rags(*»l
From Water By Herbert
L. Roebuck
Ltvlaiid Williams, young Martin
County farmer, almost lost his
life when he fell into a canal
while fishing several miles below
Columbia last Friday. Dragged
unconscious from the water, Wil
liams responded to artificial res
piration after several minutes and
was removed to a Columbia hos
pital for treatment.
Fishing from the bank of the
narrow but fairly deep canal, Wil
liams apparently fainted and fell
into the water. Joe Wynne, fish
ing nearby did not see him fall
but heard the splash. Running to
the spot, Wynne saw Williams
floating on his back, his motion
less arms outstretched1 and show
ing no sign of life. Wynne called
his fishing companions, Herbert
L. Roebuck and George Wynne.
Before they could reach the spot,
Williams went down. Shown the
spot where he submerged. Roe
buck pulled off his coat and dived
in, grabbing the man by the col
lar and pulling him ashore.
George Wynne, trained in the
ways of first aid while a member
of the armed forces, applied arti
ficial respiration, and about six
minutes later the man showed
signs of life. One of the party
drove to Columbia for a doctor
but the medics were busy patch
ing up victims of an auto wreck
and could not go. Returning to
the canal, the party member
found Williams alive and they
placed him in the car and carried
him to the hospital.
Rendered almost crazy from
shock, Williams was fastened to
'the bed, but gradually improved
and was able to return home a
few hours later.
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Plan To Organize
AMVETS Here
All Martin County veterans of
World War II are urged to attend
the organizational meeting of the
AMVETS (American Veterans of
World War II) Wednesday night.
November 13 at 8:00 in the Wil
liamston High School auditorium.
At this meeting the principles of
the AMVETS will be explained
in detail and definite plans drawn
up for the election of officers and
future meetings. Provision will be
made for all colored veterans who
are interested in this organiza
tion.
The AMVETS was organized in
December of 1944. It is the larg
est World War II Veterans or
ganization in existence. AMVETS
is a non-political, non-party or
ganization and supports no “ism.”
Its primary purpose is to promote
good will toward others and help
to obliterate any attempt of a na
tion or nations to wage war on
others.
The AMVETS were instrument
al in the delegation of Command
er Harold E. Stassen to the United
Nations Conference held at San
Francisco. It was the belief of
this organization that a member
of the armed forces of the United
States should be appointed to at
tend this conference which will
weigh heavily in the future.
The A MV ETrS led the fight for
terminal leave pay for enlisted
men of the armed forces. Other
activities of this veterans organi
zation include winning permis
sion from President Truman for
a non-military medical corps for
the Veterans Administration, an
investigation leading to the con
viction of corporations making
artificial limbs under the anti
trust laws, bringing about the dis
missal of General Hines from the
Veterans Administration and
other activities.
The chapter to be organized
here is being sponsored by local
veterans who believe that such a
chapter will serve this community
and the county beneficially in the
future. At the initial meeting
copies of the principles of the
AMVETS will be distributed.
Auto Catches On Fire
On Street Here Sunday
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Catching fire when a glass gas
filter broke, a Buiek automobile
was slightly damaged on the main
street here last Sunday evening
at 5:45 o’clock. The fire depart
ment was called out and the fire
was put out before much damage
was done.
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iTwentv-two Divorce
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Few Defendants
Contest Claims
For Separation
Plaintiffs Allege Adultery
In Only Two Of The
Twenty-Two Cases
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Twenty-two divorce cases have
been booked for trial during the
special term of Martin County
Superior Court convening next
Monday. Few defendants are con
testing the claims for absolute
separation and adultery is alleged
in only two cases. Most of the
marriages went on the rocks
during the last war years, some
breaking up after a number ot
years of teamwork.
In his suit against Lelia Faye
White, tlw plaintiff, Lester White
says he left this country for for
eign service in January. 1944
that in February, 1945, the dc
fendant gave birth of a child ir
Ohio. The action is not contest
ed.
The divorce action of Lucy B
Andrews against William B. An
drews is based or. two years' sep
aration, but the defendant ha;
been dead for some time.
Inez R. Keel is suing Roddit
Moye Keel, Sr., for divorce on the
grounds of two years’ separation
Married in 1938, the plamtif
claims custody of the one child.
Bonnie E. Bland in his ease
against Elcase Moore Bland al
leges the defendant committee
adultery in the summer of 1944
in this county. The defendant
now of Fayetteville, denies th<
allegation and apparently wi!
contest Hu' action in the courl
next Monday.
Basing her action on two years
separation, Della Whitehurst i;
suing William Whitehurst for ;
divorce. In the complaint, th<
plaintiff says they were marriei
in 1928 and separated in 1940 aftei
nine children were born to tin
union, all but five..of whom art
now self-supporting.
Robert A. Wilson is asking ar
absolute divorce from Florent
Wilson, the plaintiff claiming that
they separated in 1943 after mar
lying in 1942.
Elder L. Gardner is suing LoU
Gardner for a divorce on tin
grounds of two year:;’ separation
The couple separated in 1943 aftei
about one year of married life.
In the case of W. D. Bell again, t
Jennie Bell, the plaintiff claims
they separated in 1944 following
their marriage in llJ43.
In the case of James Washing
ton against Mary Washington, the
defendant, contesting the action
admits they separated in 1944 fol
lowing their marriage about ten
years previously, but that she was
forced to leave,. She alleges thal
after she was forced to leave, the
plaintiff took another woman into
the home and cohabited with her
The plaintiff also claims that she
worked hard and helped pay foi
the home.
George Washington Joyner is
suing Dorothy Joyner for a di
vorce based on two years’ separa
tion, They were married in 1942
and separated in 1943.
In the case of Paul Cherry
against Mildred Cherry, the plain
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Cars Crash Here
At Intersection
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No one was hurl but consider
able damage was done last Satur
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
when two cars, a $2,000 Chrysler
job and an old model Chevrolet,
crashed at the intersection of
South Haughton and Railroad
Streets. James Clifton Abdell,
1768 Fontainblew Crescent, Nor
folk, was driving his new Chrys
ler into town when R. J. Duggins,
RFD 1, Williamslon, started to
make a left turn at the intcrsec
t ion.
Both are booked to appear .in
the county court December 2.
Abdell for driving too fast and
Duggius for operating a car on the
wrong side of the road.
Damage to the Chrysler was
estimated at $2C0 by Chief C. R.
Mobley who investigated. Repairs
to the Chevrolet will cost between
$25 and $50.
Rl'/fl KISS
All precedents in the local
charge were broken last
week-end when liev. B. T.
Hurley was returned by the
Methodi: t Conference at Hen
derson for his seventh year
as nastor of the Methodist
church here.
Petition Signed
By Many Voters
Willi approximately* 40 percent
el the local vote is’ signatures al
ii ady appealing on the petition
to request the next legislature to
change the town's election of city
' officials’ from the long-used con
vention type election to a prim
ary type and have the town divid
I ed into wards, the members of the
: Jaycees’ Civic Improvement com
• niittei are beginning this week a
i canvass of the residential sections
; of the town.
After having eireulated the pe
tition through the business sec
tions of the community last week,
i the committee members expect to
| reach a large number of voters
| during their campaign which is
expected to ku-t until the entire
town lias been canvassed.
The Jaycees will work in teams
■ of two, with the several teams be
! ing assigned to different streets
Since most of the club members
j work during the day, the petition
-will be circulated in the resi
lient.al sections at night. Consid
erable interest is being shown in
| the move, several voters having
requested the committee to bring
1 the petition to them in order that
tiny might sign it, the Jaycees re
ported.
Hunters Attacked
By Wild Animals
Hunting deer on the Conoho
Hunting Club reserve last Satur
day morning, Nathan Bullock and
Albert White were attacked by
wild hogs. Attacking dogs used
i ill tracking dter, the imgs, a sovt i
we.ighing about 300 pounds an i 1
three pigs, turned on the hunters
who were forced to shoot them to
protect themselves. Several other
pigs ran away but not until they
j had often d to attack the men and
were shot and wounded slightly,
j The four animals were dressed
| and placed in a freezer locker.
MELTING
v--y
The first meeting of the
local parent-teacher associa
tion since ifs organization a
few weeks ago will he held in
l the high school auditorium
Tuesday evening at 8:00
o'clock, President Hugh G.
Horton announced.
Miss Lissie Pearce, elemen
tary school supervisor for the
county, will address the meet
ing while Mrs. J. S. Blair of
Wallace, state field worker of
the Parent-Teachers Associa
tion, will make a brief talk
and conduct a round-table
discussion of problems. Mrs.
W. H. Hrvant. district super
visor, of Ahoskie, will also be
present.
Several business matters
will be placed before the
meeting for discussion, in
cluding plans for staging a
special show oh Friday night
1 ol next week.
James G. Staton
Died at His Home j
Here Last Friday!
Funeral IfeM tn OnneU of
The Advent Saturday
Afternoon
Funeral services were conduct
ed in the Church of the Advent
here last Saturday afternoon at
3:00 o'clock for James Grist Stat
on who died at his home on the
corner of Main and Haughton
Streets Friday morning at 9:00
o’clock. The Rt. Rev. Thomas C.
Darst of Wilmington and the rec
tor, Rev. John W. Hardy, officiat
ed, interment following in the
family cemetery on the old home
farm, Kelvin Grove, near Wil
liamston.
In declining health for the
past ten years or more, Mr. Stat
on had received treatment in
various hospitals and spent
months in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
About five years ago he disposed
of all his holdings and virtually
retired from all activities except
for hunting and fishing, a past
time which he had greatly enjoy
ed from boyhood. He was forced
to give up that sport and had been
confined to his home most of the
time during the past two years.
For about a week before the end
he did not feel very well and
spent most of the time in bed,
but his condition was not re
garded as serious until last Fri
day morning whgn he suffered a
heart attack at 4:00 o’clock and
died in his sleep five hours later.
Mr. Staton, son of the late
James Thomas Adrian and Ella
Bonner Grist Staton, was born at
the home of his maternal grand
parents in Beaufort County, near
Washington, on September 2,
187-4. and lived there until the
death of his mother. When he
was eleven years ,Jd he moved
with his lather and two sisters to
his father’s old home near Wil
liamston where hi' prepared him
self for a colorful career in agri
culture.
When a young man he turned
from the farm for a few years to
study telegraphy and serve as
Coast Line agent and mayor of
Everetts for a short period. Leav
ing there he located in Williams
ton, engageing for a while in the
mercantile business with the late
Eli Gurganus. Quitting the mer
cantile business, he helped organ
ize the local tobacco market in the
early part of the century and was
prominently connected with its
operations for about twenty-five
years. During the meantime he
engaged in extensive farming op
c rations in this and Washington
Counties, ranking at one time
with the largest landowners and
farm operators in this section of
the State. He owned and operat
ed a cotton gin, was a partner
with Henry Daniel at the old Dan
iel and Staton mill for many
years, and was interested in other
lines of business. lie was one of
the founders and president of the
Peoples Bank until its liquidation
in tiie early twenties after which
he limited his attention princi
pally to farming operations.
Mr. Slaton served several terms
a., .r member of the Mtului Coun
ty Board and the Williamston
Town Board of Commissioners.
As a member of the county board
he advocated good roads, and un
der his administration the first
clay was placed on the road lead
ing to Washington by an organiz
ed commission. He was also 9
member of the town board when
the town’s water system was in
stalled in the late teens. He serv
ed as a member of the State De
partment of Agriculture under
two governors, Gardner and Eh
ringhaus.
A communicant of the Episco
pal church here for fifty years, he
served many years as its treasur
er and us senior warden, and held
the 32nd degree in Masonry.
In early manhood he waf mar
ried to Louallic Poole, a first
cousin. Three children weic born
to that union and they died in in
fancy. Following his wife’s death
arid on September 2, 1908, he was
married to Mrs. Fannie Chase
Biggs, a native of Virginia, who
survives with a nephew, Charles
H, Godwin, Jr , of Williamston.
It was the family’s request that
no flowers he sent.
Active pallbearers were,
Messrs. Victor Champion, F. U
Barnes, H. A. Bowen, Henry
Handy, Lewis Roberson, Clayton
Moore of Winston-Salem, William
Chase of Norfolk and Hubert
Morton of Kinston.
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Question Recaptured Convict
In " Connection With Assault
Child Killed By
Run Driver Neat
Hit-A mi-1
Oak City \
The life of McKinley Jones, 13
year-old colored youth, was snuff
ed out suddenly between sunset
and dark when he was run down
by a ruthless truck driver on N.
C. Highway No, 125 about three
and one-half miles west of Oak
City, A large hole knocked in his
head, both legs broken and the
body mangled, the little fellow
died instantly.
Few details of the tragedy
could be learned immediately, but
members of the highway patrol
and other officers are still con
ducting an inspection of vehicles
and checking enough evidence
which, it is believed, will lead to
an arrest within a few days. “We
have gained a fair description of
the death vehicle and feel certain
it can be identified,’’ a member of
the highway patrol said tins
week, explaining that no positive
action is being considered until
evidence now in hand can be
checked.
The position of the boy in the
CLOSING
V_'
The Williamstan Tobacco
Market will run down the
curtain on the lf)4(i marketing
season at the close of sales
Wednesday. A fair amount of
tohaeeo was placed on the
floors over the week-end and
Monday for Tuesday’s sale,
hut it is quite certain that the
total for the scascin will fall
approximately hall a million
pounds short of the record es
tablished last year.
Prices last week when a
quarter of a million pounds
were sold, averaged right at
$44 per hundred, observers
declaring that the trend ap
peared to weaken following
the election last Tuesday.
Monday was a holiday on
the market.
District Health
Promoters Meet
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Under the direction of Harry
B. Caldwell, executive secretary
of flic North Carolina Good
Health Association, a district
meeting of those persons charged
with the responsibility of promot
ing the Good Health Campaign in
the State was held at Greenville
last Thursday at noon.
State Senator Ciias. H. Jenkins,
local automobile dealer, called
the meeting which was attended
h.v Dr. John Williams, local health
officer, Hack Gaylord, local sani
tary officer, and Mrs. B. B. Ever
ett of Palmyra, vice chairman of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee who went along as a
i opresentstive of Halifax County
and the Hobgood section.
Things Secretary Caldwell uig
ed county and district leaders to
do included promotion of an ora
torical contest in the high schools
of each county upon the subject,
“North Carolina’s Number One
Need—Good Health”; the spon
sorship of a county wide meeting
some time during the next three
weeks at which all the facts and
needs of the Good Health Pro
gram can be explained to the citi
zens of the county directly, and
the promotion of the program in
general through adv< rtising dis
plays and cooperative advertise
ments in the local newspapers.
Opening of the good health
campaign was held Saturday eve
ning at. 7 o'clock when Kay Kyser
and other movie stars and cele
brities from North Carolina pul
on a show lrom Hollywood with
the assistance of a few of their
Hollywood friends.
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Attorney Improving In
Rocky Mount llospitul
Suffering an attack ten days
ago and entered in a Rocky
Mount hospital last Wednesday
for treatment, Mr. Wheeler Mar
tin, local attorney, was reported
very cheerful by friends visiting
him over the week end. His con
ditiori is slowly improving, but he
is scheduled for a stay of four
weeks in the hospital.
road just before he was struck |
could not be determined. The
body, according to the findings of j
Cpl. W. S. Simpson who investi
gated the case, was found lying
on the left side of the road lead
ing from Hobgood to Oak City.
The little fellow's head apparent
ly struck the hard'surface just of
the left of the center of the road
| and was knocked thirty-three feet
down the highway.
Walter Gardner, the boy’s
grandfather, did not see the boy !
run down but he heard the crash
from where he was working 75
feet away and looked up in time
j to see the vehicle and describe it
to th.e officer. One of the front
headlights was broken. Coroner
S. R. Biggs investigated the death,
but since it was apparent that
tin1 bov v^a» the Victim uf a ruth
less hit-and-run driver, no formal
inquest was considered necessary.
The son of Arthur Jones and
wife, the child had been making
his home with his grandparents.
Rmiptiuv Four
Escaped Convicts
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Four of the eight long-term
convicts who escaped from the
Martin County prison camp near
Wilhamston on the night of Nov
ember 3 have been recaptured.
George Baldwin, Florida Negro
sentenced in New Hanover Coun
ty in 1941 to serve 20 to 30 years
| for carnal knowledge, was taken
in Edenton on November -I when
he went to a store to buy some
tiring to eat.
Charlie Campbell, al'ler being
harbored all day on November' -1
| in a home near Wilhamston, was
arrested in a Plymouth rooming
house about 3:00 o'clock the fol
lowing morning. Sentenced in
j Guilford County in 1940 to serve
1 20 to 30 years for armed robber y,
j said Ire walked iirto the rooming
1 house, that someone went out and
soon the law came itt.'
j Arthur Nicholson, sentenced in
Forsyth County in Jun, 1041, for
second degree burglary to serve
from 14 to 24 years, was recaptur
ed irr Trenton, New Jersey, last
week.
Otis Haglaild was recaptur ed iir
Williamslon Township by a large
pi s.-iC last Fi iilay afternoon, leav
ing four escapees, Walter Lewis
Pulley, Albert Bowser, Chester
Marsh and Horace Platts, still at
large.
Vicitm Of Burns
Home From Duke
Critically, burned while assist
ing her. mother. Mrs Sallie Pad
get! Jackson, rn tire kitchen at I
their home near- Jamesville the
18th of last April, little Miss Em
ma Padgett, returned from Duke
hospital last Thursday. Skin was
grafted in several operations to
her left arm and side, and the
wounds have just about healed.
Transfi ri ed to the hospital
here form Duke, the little girl,
rated us one of the best patients
cv» r to receive treatment in the
local institution, plans to continue
to her home within the next day
or two.
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V_s
Alter going through week
before last without arresting
and jailing a single alleged
violator of the law, local,
county and state officers had
a busy period last week w hen
they rounded up and jailed
fifteen persons. Three of
those arrested were charged
with assaults. Five others
were hooked for being drunk
and disorderly and five more
were detained on charges of
public drunkenness. One
each was jailed for breaking
and entering and aiding an
escaped prisoner.
The ages of the group rang
ed from 21 to till years and
live oi the iiitecu were white.
Otis Ragland. j
Is Being Held In
Undisclosed Jail
--
l.arar I’osso Kt'i'iiphiri's
Man In W illiain> Tmvn
»hip Friday Vflrrnooti
Otis Ragland, one of eight con
victs escaping from the Martin
County prison camp on the night
of November 3, was recaptured
by a large posse in Williams
Township late last Friday after
noon and is being questioned in
connection with a brutal attack on
Mrs. Floyd Moore earlier in the
day. Officers have not disclosed
all their findings, but premlinary
ri ports strongly indicate that the
2!)-y ear-old convict is involved in
the attack.
Her head injured when she was
knocked to the floor and choked
when hit1 tied a tabit cuvei ovt r
her head and mound her neck,
Mrs. Moore suffered greatly from
shock and was placed in the care
of a physician. She was later said
to be getting along very well, but
continued highly nervous.
Mrs. Moore was working in her
kitchen during the noon hour
when her assailant burst through
the door, threw an old jumper
coat over her head and knocked
her down. When lie made ready
to leave a li w .minutes later, he
removed the jumper coat and tied
tin' table cover around her head,
and told her not to move for two
hours. A few minutes later Mrs.
Moore heard a car traveling the
highway and she got tip and ran
out of the.house but was too late
to tlag it down. Sin- then ran up
the road about two hundred yards
to Nurney’s filling station and re
ported the attack.
Within half an hour, Sheriff C.
B. Roebuck and Capt. J. E. El
bridge, superintendent of {he
prison camp near William.-ton,
was heading a large posse, includ
ing a number of highway patrol
men, guards and citizens, num
bering possibly 100 or more.
Bloodhounds were brought to the
scene in record time from the
Pitt County prison camp. and
they picked up a track at the
house and after following a zig
zag course through the woods lor
about two hours, Ragland was
surrounded possibly some over a
mile from the Moore home. While
the chase was in progress other
officers look pictures of the tracks
and they were said to match per
fectly those made by Ragland.
Placed in the county jail for a
short time while officers ques
tioned him and doctors made cei -
tain tests, Ragland was spirited
awa.v a short time later to an un
disclosed jail. Officers, admit
ting that they were only taking a
chance m obtaining evidence in
the case by having the tests made,
would not reveal their findings.
It was learned that preliminary
tests were made lure, that the
smc.ii > vi ci c li, iiv r* u o, >*m i is 1
messengci to a hospital labora
tory and that they were later ear
ned to the state laboratory.
The group participating in the
hunt for the criminal was angry,
but there was not outward sign
of violence. However, officers
were of the opinion that the man’s
(Continued on page eight)
Return Fugitive
* To Prison Camp
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Serving ten months in prison,
his sixth term over a period of
ten years, Percy Williams escaped
from the Marlin County camp on
July 21 of last year, and was re
captured in Edenton last Friday.
Charged with stealing prison
clothes anil escaping from the
camp. Williams was carried be
fore Judge J. C. Smith in the
county court Monday and was
sentenced to serve fifteen months,
the teim to begin at the expire
tion of the sentence he is now
serving. m
Williams explained to the com t
that he did not.steal any clothe,
that they were given to him by a
fellow convict in payment of a bill
for washing. "And, Judge. I did j
nut broke away, I found the
kitchen door open and iust walk- I
id away, in. explained.
Issue Twenty-Five
\\ info 1-n:)W'" l urrr-i For
\nv OcIoIht In i he
!*a*t Ten \ears
Twenty - five marriage licenses
wri; i.-.-ued ;n this county last
month. The number of licenses
issued to white couples was the
largest for any October in the past
ten years. A total of 2fi3 licenses
have already been issued in the
county so far this year op 54 more
than were i sued during all of last
year, and if the marital business
holds up this month and next, a
record issuance will have been
made.
Licenses were issued, fifteen to
white and ten to colored couples,
as follows:
Herman J. Williams and Betty
Lcis Cherry, both of Bethel.
! Ifmcft Capps and Lola Verniso
I Hardison, both of Williamston.
| Haywood Cherry. Jr., and Irene
Butler, both of Williamston.
John R. Howell of Scotland
Neck and Susa Malissa Jenkins of
llobgood.
J Janu s Robert Moore of Rieh
1 itumd and Kllen Cowan Tvviddy of
i Will i a nisi on.
! Julian H. Fagan of Jamesville
|and iWda Johnson of Roberson
I ville.
Roy M. James, RFD 2. Bethel,
land Evelyn Gray Matthews of
i Parmdo. Jesse Leon Taylor of
| St ok i and Mae Wyatt James of
Rubersunvillo.
James Garland Carson of Bcth
i 1 .aul Doris Matthews of Rober
| sonville.
| Billie Jon i Haislip, RFD 1,
B< Hid, and Mildred May Cannon
of Robetsonv die.
Edward Ray Guiganus and
I Martha A! la Robe ■ n. both of
I Williamston.
Janit Calvin Ingram of Eli/.a
j belli City and M iry Elizabeth Ka
I nicy of Williamston.
| Jaiiu , O. Wynne, RFD 3, Wil
| liamston, and Daisy Bullock of
Oak City.
Gcoire Hyman Whitaker and
Liu y Gray Modlin. both of RFD 3,
| Williamstun.
Garland Edward Pierce and
Gwendolyn Martin Hurley, both
of Plymouth. ♦
General Parke:, Jr., and Char*
ii■ 111■ Etheridge, both of Windsor.
Janies E. Williams of Washing*
(Continued on page eight)
White
Colored
Plan Christmas
(Him* Mowmcnl
Holding then' lvgulai- monthly
nu'i'ting. the board of directors of
the local Lit Cub went on
record to continue their Christ
mas Cheer Program for the in
digent blind and Ihe needy of the
community. Lion Clyde Griffin
was appointed to serve us chair
man of this project.
The board members also dis
cussed plans for the sponsoring of
a school boy patiol in connection
w it! i t.i s.iLly .it
children in crossing the streets to
and from the public schools. Fur
ther action was delayed pending
receipt of more information re
garding cost of uniforms and
other requirements.
The Lions Club will again un
dertake the project of selling
shelled extra large raw peanuts
to members of Lions Clubs in
other part- of the country, the
proceeds to lie applied to the
Scout Hut Fund. Lions J. It. Ed
ward.- and F. G. Thomas arc co
chairmen of this project, which
will be tin second year that the
club has undertaken such an ac
tivity.
Fu.tber plans for help to the
blind and visually handicapped
were outlined, with the club ex
pected to extend aid to several
needy cases, through climes and
individual contacts. It was an
nounced that the club had pur
chaser) a new radio and placed
in thi home of an aged local citi
zen w ho is now m tailing health
and who is having difficulty read
ing due hi poor \ ision.
Several minor matters were
discussed at the meeting, which
w as la til at the home of Secretary
Koss I'Tonvbeiger. with Lions H.
P. Mobley, J. H. Edwards, C. D.
Pittman, D. C. McLawhorn. W.
Clyde Griffin. W. M Baker, J. VI.
Harrell. D. V Clayton. C J. Good*
amn, Homer Barnhill and Wheel
ei Maiming attending.