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ESTABLISHED 1809
VOLUME L—NUMBER 11
Williamston, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Friday, February 7, 1947
Schools Donate
Large Amount To
March of Dimes
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One Grade Raised Over
$80 In Recent Drive In
This County
Few appeals coming from suf
fering humanity ever struck a
more receptive cord than the one
advanced in behalf of the infan
tile paralysis fund recently. The
county exceeded its quota by
more than a thousand dollars, and
new per capita contribution rec
ords were established in both the
white and colored schools.
In the local schools, Principal
B. G. Stewart’s charges really did
themselves proud when they
plugged tenaciously to boost the
fund by a total of $757.83. The
drive reached a climax in Mrs.
Fussell's fourth grade where the
little folks rounded up $80.05.
Miss Bailey’s fifth grade was a
close second with $79.66. While
the accomplishments were not as
great, other grades in the school
worked diligently in support of
the drive. Striving for a lead
position in the campaign, one
grade readied into its treasury
and extracted approximately $30
to outdo another grade. The lead
grade was ahead by about $30
when representatives of the other
“snooped’’ around, learned the
marginal difference and went to
the treasury to take the lead
away by a 24-cent margin.
With the exception of a few
weak spots, found mainly in the
high school, the individual grade
contributions reflect a generous
and thoughtful group of young
sters, as the figures below clearly
indicate:
Primary and elementary build
ings: Miss Morris’ 1st grade, $20;
Mfss Baker's 1st grade, $19.68;
Miss Hardy’s 1st grade, $6; Mrs.
Carstarphen’s 2nd grade, 21.13;
Miss Crawford’s 2nd grade, $11.40
Mrs. Kimball’s 3rd grade, $24.33;
Mrs. Froneberger's 3rd grade,
$37.74; Miss Manning’s 3rd grade,
47.G2; Miss Jenkin's 4th grade,
$2104; Miss Everett's 4th grade,
$57; Mrs. Fussell’s 4th grade,
$80.05; Miss Bailey’s 5th grade,
$79.66; Mrs. Coburn’s 5th grade,
$39.40; and Miss Modlin’s 5th
grade, $34.22.
High school building — Miss
(Continued on page eight)
Wreck Victim Is
Returning Home
Miss Esther Mane Corey, critic
ally injured in an automobile ac
cident near Columbia, South Car
olina, just before the Christmas
holidays, is being transferred
from a hospital there to the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Corey, in Jamesville this week
end. She is to make the trip in a
BiggS ambulance.
Suffering a broken back, hip
and fractures of both legs, Miss
Corey is in a cast from her chin
to her feet and has been a patient
in the hospital since the accident.
Employed in Columbia during
the latter part of 1946, Miss
Corey was returning to her home
there from a dance when the car
door came open and she fell to
the pavement, according to re
ports reaching here.
WEATHER j
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Local people for once did
more than talk about the
weather Wednesday and
Thursday of this week when
the mercury tumbled within
a few hours to a low of 16 de
grees Wednesday night. They
started firing their heaters
and pulling out the long red
flannels. Fooled by the
weather man so many times
in recent months, quite a few
did not believe the mercury
could drop from the sixties
to the teens, but he hit it
right on the nose and respect
for the prognosticator in
creased.
Hie mercury climbed a bit
Thursday with a still greater
climb promised. But the re
lief is to be of short duration,
the weather man turning the
section loose for a flay or two
just to get a better cold
weather grip over the week
end when the mercury is pre
dicted to nose dive again.
Permits Necessary Before
Burning Brush Or Woods
Forest Fire Warden Marvin,
Leggett pointed out this week
that permits must be procured
before anyone should burn brush
in or near woodlands during the
forest fire season months. To
burn brush without first procur
ing a permit from a designated
warden, one is subject to indict
ment and conviction in the courts.
The warden pointed out that two
defendants, Sam Stevens and Joe
Williams, of the Robersonville
area, stand indicted for burning
brush without permits last Satur
day and Monday. Their cases are
scheduled for a review in the
county court next Monday. The
warden added that damage done
by the two fires amounted to ap
proximately $300.
Permits are issued by the coun
ty warden and by district war
dens in 1 his county ns follows:
John Roebuck, Williamston; A.
P. Barnhill, Everetts: Chief Wil
liam T. Smith, Robersonville; D.
G, Matthews, Hamilton; Ervin
Terry, Bear Grass; C. B. Bur
roughs, Hassell; Marvin Jones and
George Hopkins, Jamesville.
Forest fire losses have been un
usually heavy in this county in
years past, but tire damage has
been limited in more recent
periods by a coordinated preven
tion program supported by pub
lic cooperation. Warden Leggett
and his assistant district wardens
will greatly appreciate the con
tinued cooperation of landowners
and tenants in holding forest fire
losses to a minimum in this coun
ty.
It was pointed out that viola
tors are subject to a $50 fine or a
30-day jail sentence or both.
CHAIRMAN
Claude B. Clark, Jr., World
War II veteran and local
druggist, has been named
chairman of the 1941 annual
Red Cross fund drive in this
chapter, it was announced
this week. Asked to raise
$2,500 this year, the chapter
officials will work with the
chairman next week in foiv
mulating plans for the drive.
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Big Farmers' Day
Event Is Planned
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Extensive plans are bung made
fur the John Deere farmers’ day
program here on Friday after
noon of next week, it was an
nounced today by a representa
tive of the Lindsley Ice Company,
the sponsoring organization.
“We are booking an unusually
interesting show beginning that
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the
Williamston High School audi
torium,” the spokesman said. Fol
lowing the show a goodly num
ber of contests with valuable
prizes will be held. A buffet sup
per, including sandwiches and hot
coffee will be served in the
gymnasium, it was announced.
The company has installed spe
cial heating equipment in the
gymn for the comfort of approxi
mately 800 guests expected here
for the big program. Piesent in
dications point to a big day here
on the 14th for farmers in this en
tire section.
India Missionary
To Speak Friday
Dr George E. Miller of the
United Christian Missionaiy So
ciety and a missionary to India
for thirty-nine years, will speak
in the local Christian church on
Friday evening of this week at
7:30 o’clock and again at the same
hour on Friday of next week, it
was announced by the chairman
of the local Woman’s Council.
Dr. Miller will center his ad
dress around India and its peo
ple.
Miss Gladys Whitley, secretary
of the Albemarle district, will
speak to the C. F. and C I’. Jun
iors in the church Friday after
noon of this week at 3:30 o'clock.
The two leaders, Mrs. H. I). Har
rison and Mrs. Herbert T. Tay
lor, are anxious for a large at
tendance.
Other church groups and the
general public ore invited to hear
Dr. Miller in both of his address
es.
Athletic Group
Proposed Here
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Looking to the organization of
an athletic association, several
local citizens recently appointed
a temporary committee to accept
memberships and function until a
permanent association can be per
fected.
With the Lindsley Ice Company
agreeing to sponsor the associa
tion in its infancy, temporary of
ficers recently named include,
“Hack” Gaylord, president;
“Zero” Holliday, vice president;
K P. Lindsley, promotional di
rector; “Fitz” Fussell, secretary
treasurer, and “Lyn” Taylor,
coach.
In launching the program, the
committee plans to schedule two
basketball games here this month,
between civilian teams in the
Norfolk area and two in the
Goober league. The committee
later will turn its attention to
marble tournaments for the kids,
a member of the committee ex
plaining that the games will be
played under the national tourna
ment rules. Other sports events
will be included from time to
time, including tennis and track
and possibly others.
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Legionnaires tt ill
Meet Here Monday
Tmnnrtani Kniw;inr*<« u/ill ht»
i cussed at a meeting of the John
Walton Hassell Post, American
Legion, in the hut here next Mon
j day evening at 8:00 o’clock. A
I dutch barbecue supper will be
I served and a speaker will address
| the group, it was announced.
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FUND
Lute contribution!! report
ed this week boosted the In
fantile Paralysis Fund in this
county to $3,250.74, Chair
man L. H. Wynne announced
yesterday. Two schools, Par
mele and Kobersonville High,
were yet to report at that
time.
Williams ton’s colored
school contributed $90.75.
Farm Life raised $40.05, and
the colored school at James
ville contributed $20.90.
The fund now stands at $1,
130.74 in excess of the origin
al quota, and when the re
ports are complete possibly
the excess will approximate
$1,200.
Judge J. C. Smith
Has Twenty Cases
In County’s Cour
Fines Imposed In the Sum
Of $160 A| Session
Last Monday
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Judge J. Calvin Smith called
twenty cases in the Martin Coun
ty Recorder's Court last Monday
and imposed fines amounting to
$160. Several road sentences
were meted out before a fair-siz
ed crowd during a comparatively
brief session.
Proceedings:
The case charging Thomas Pur
vis with non-support was nol
pressed.
Alleged to have violated a land
lord-tenant law, Tom and Naomi
Brown went into court and plead
ed guilty. It was pointed out
that a settlement had been made,
and judgment was suspended
upon the payment of the costs.
Robert Lee Neal pleaded not
guilty in the case in which he
was charged with speeding. He
was adjudged guilty and judg
ment was suspended upon the
payment of the court costs.
Selma Clark, charged with an
assault, was sentenced to jail for
thirty days to be transferred to
the county home.
In the case charging Ed Goss
with issuing a worthless check,
the defendant pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the road for six
months. The term was suspended
upon the payment of the amount
of the check given to Cecil G.
Leggett and the court costs.
Charles Slade, charged with
larceny, was adjudged not guilty.
Jesse Whitley, colored, charged
with non-support, was sentenced
to the roads for six months, the
I court suspending the sentence
'upon the condition that the de
jfendant pay the costs and $20 a
| month for the support of his chi 1
| dren.
I Pleading not guilty of non-sup
' port, Harvey Bryant was adjudg
ed guilty and was sentenced to
the roads for nine months. The
sentence was suspended upon the
payment of the costs and $10 a
week for the support of his three
children during the next eighteen
months.
I James David Lackey, pleading
guilty of drunken driving, was
fined $50, taxed with the costs
and had his driver’s license re
voked for one year.
James William Brown, public
ly drunk, pleaded guilty and was
fined $20 and taxed with the
costs.
| Joseph Longdale pleaded guil
ty of being publicly drunk and
was fined $20 and required to pay
the costs. A case of beer found in
the possession of Longdale and
his companion, James William
i Brown, was ordered confiscated
and destroyed.
Drunk and disorderly, Willie
Bonds pleaded guilty and was
! fined $10 and taxed with the cost.
Jesse Lawrence Brown, charg
ed with speeding, was fined $20
and required to pay the court
costs.
Charged with operating a mot
or vehicle with improper licenses,
William Perkins pleaded guilty
and was fined $10 and taxed with
the court costs.
Ella Ewell, charged with being
drunk and disorderly and shop
lifting, pleaded not guilty. Ad
judged guilty, she was sentenced
to jail for two days and required
to pay the court, costs.
Charged with hunting on Sun
(Continued on page eight)
Baffling Case Faces County Authorities
The business of raising and
spending public money requires
much study and thought, but it
offers no baffling problems simi
lar to one encountered by the
Martin County commissioners re
cently.
A son-in-law went before the
commissioners seeking permission
to gi t his mother-in-law into the
county home. That caused the
authorities some concern because
they do not believe in all the
stories they have heard about
mothers-in-law. But the son-in
| law went on to explain that he
simply wasn’t able to provide for
the old lady any more, that she
had to be taken to the county
home, and that he wanted to
know something “light now.”
It was brought out that the
mother-in-law had suffered a
light stroke and that she had not
left her room in four months.
The superintendent of welfare
was called in for a report. It was
explained that the mother-in-law
1 had been “dumped out” at the
county home several times by her
daughter and son-in-law, that
they would later call for her and
take her back home. “It just
seems that when she is in flip in
stitution they want her out, and
when she is out they want her
in,” the welfare head said. “We
talked with the old lady before
she left the institution the last
[ time some months ago, and also
explained to her relatives that
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they should decide whether to
keep her there or keep her rut,”
the welfare spokesman said.
Assured that she would he kept
and cared for at home, the wel
fare authorities added the old
lady’s name to the pension list
and approved a $24 monthly al
lowance. It was not so stated,
but there is that apparent possi
bility that the wrangle and most
of the trouble are traceable to the
cash allowance.
One report says that the son-in
law gets none of the money, that
the pensioner is spending the tax
payers’ perfectly good money for
liquor.
Well, the more the commission
ers heard about the case, the more
complicated it became. 11 the old
lady wasn’t able to leave her
room, how could she get the
money. Doing a bit of surmising,
the commissioners, or at least one
of them, came out with the opin
ion that the son-in-law was buy
ing the liquor and that the two
were dividing the spirits, that
when the allowance went for li
quor the family’s economy pinch
ed somewhere else. Still without
thi' real facts, the authorities ad
mitted the possibility that the old
lady was holding u*i to the money
because she did not think she
was getting her money’s worth.
So, that’s the way it goes in at
least one case. And to relieve
themselves, the authorities, but
tled. lor a proper solution, eaih 1
for an investigation.
Draw Jurymen For
County Superior
Court Next Month
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Change In Grand Jury Per
sonnel Scheduled At
That Time
Fifty Martin County citizens j
were drawn by the commission- i
ers at their recent meeting for j
jury service, beginning the 17th
of March. Nine of the group will
bo selected for service as grand
jurymen during the coming
twelve months, succeeding Paul
Harrington and eight regular
members of the current jury.
Thirty-two of the fifty men
drawn recently are to report for
duty on March 17 when the court
opens for a two-week term to
hear criminal and civil cases.
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle of Snow
Hill is tentatively scheduled to j
preside over the two-week term.
It has been some time since Judge
Frizzelle presided over a term of
the superior court in this county.
Names of citizens recently
drawn for jury service follow, by
townships:
First Week:
Jamesville: H 1. Ange, J. Carl
Griffin, P. M, Ange and James H.
Barber.
Griffins: Bill Gay. John E. Grif
fin. J Davis Roberson and Me. D.
Hardison.
Bear Grass: Joseph S. Griffin,
J. Collins Griffin and W. W.
Whitehurst.
Williamston: Fernando Bowen,
J. D. Harrison, C. S. Rawls, Ira
Rogerson, J. C. Anderson, Mack
M. Bowen, K. 1). Worrell, Russell
Biggs, G. P. Hughes and James
E. Bullock.
Cross Roads: John R. Jones and
S. T. Wynne.
Robersonville: Thurman Rob
erson and D. A. Brown.
Poplar Point: C. M. Edmond
son.
Hamilton: C. S. Johnson, Rob
ert L. Pierce, W. E. Everett and
H. S. Johnson, Jr.
Goose Nest: Louis A. Thomas
and R. N. Crisp.
Second Week
Jamesville: M. D. Tavis and J.
Tilmon Coltrain.
Williams: Bennie M. Hardison.
Griffins: Elbert Roberson, 15. F.
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Succeeds Mitscher
I VICi-Admiral William II. Blandy
I above) will succeed the late Adm. ,
Marc A. Mitscher as commander ot
the Atlantic Fleet. Blandy com
manded the Joint Army-Navy Task
Force which conducted the atomic 1
bomb tests at Bikini atoll. U.S. j
Navy photo. (International) '
Oak City
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Successful
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Dejtosits Amount
To About Quarter
Million Dollars
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Hi" Barbecue and Holiday
Given To Celebrate
The Opening
After being without direct
banking facilities for a long num
ber of years, Oak City was put
back on the financial map last
Wednesday morning when lead
ing citizens there opened a bank
in cooperation with the Edge
combe Bank and Trust Company
of Tarboro. Supported by the en
tire community after a really co
operative fashion, the opening
was very successful, several of
the local committee members
stating they were mightily and
greatly encouraged.
The event, by coincidence,
came right along with the coldest
day of the season, but while near
ly everything else was about
frozen, assets literally poured in
to the bank the first day. No of
ficial figures were immediately
available, but deposits Wednes
day approximated a quarter mil
lion dollars, Director Myrick of
the home office stating that the
deposits in Oak City were just
about twice as great as those
handled when the Edgecombe
Bank and Trust Company opened
in Tarboro five years and one
month ago to the day.
Leaving their beds as early as
3:00 o’clock that morning, to pre
pare a delicious barbecue and
Brunswick stew dinner, the peo
ple of Oak City and community
proved that they were interested
I in having a bank in their town,
and that it would receive a liberal
and loyal support. Working in
freezing weather, the citizens bar
becued sixteen pigs donated by
first one farmer and then an
other, cooked two large pots of
just about the best Brunswick
stow ever boiled in this county
and had the meal ready for sev
eral hundred friends and visitors
shortly after 1:00 o’clock. Mr. E.
T Smith was the main chef at the
'Brunswick stew pots, while the
corn bread, slaw and barbecue
proved there were also some
other good cooks in that section
of the county.
A half holiday was called in
some quailers there, but the se
vere weather limited the size of
the crowd and large quantities of
food were left.
Extending a cordial welcome to
all, Nat Johnson, Oak City's
popular young mayor, stated that
leaders there had tried for sev
eral years to get a bank for their
community. "It was not until
July of last year that w'e found
and interested a bank in opening
a branch,” the mayor said. “Now,
we have a bank, and in welcom
ing the bank I express the senti
ments of this entire community
and section,’ he added.
Henry C. Bourne of Tarboro
responded on behalf of the offic
ers of the Edgecombe Bank and
Trust Company, and declared bis
people appreciated the opportun
ity extended them to establish a
branch and be neighbors. Mr.
Bourne briefly reviewed the his
tory of the Oak City section, ex
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Bank Has
Opening
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DIES SUDDENLY I
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(>. Max Gardner, power in
North Carolina and national
polities for a generation, died
suddenly in New York early
Thursday just as he was
making ready to sail for I'.ng
land where he was to serve as
Ambassador to the Court of
St. James. Strieken with a
heart attaek at 3;30 Thursday
morning, lie died in his St.
Kegis hotel room at 8:25.
Funeral services will be held
in Shelby Saturday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock.
Man Wrecks Car
| Late Wednesday
Cun nil Colti am narrowly es
caped injury when his car, a Ply
mouth si clan, went out of control
and turned over in a corn field
about one mile east of Roberson
";lu '711/1 0’dock Wednes
vide about 7:IK)
day evening.
I Traveling alone in the direction
of Robersonville, Coltrain was
thrown out. the ear continuing
for about sixty feet add coming
to a stop against a telephone pole
with all four wheels in the air.
apparently made
Its top was mash
seats.
curve just beyond
crossing, Coltrain
came up behind a
applied the car
The machine
j one full turn,
ed against the
| Round the
| the railroad
stated that
truck, that
he
he
he was
the man’s
! pass m time to avoid a crash with
an approaching vehicle. The
| brakes jammed on the left back
wheel and threw the car out of
j control. The machine tore aero s
i the left side of the highway,
| climbed a low ditch hank before
j entering the cornfield.
Knocked off when
thrown from the car,
glasses and wrist watch were lat
er found unbroken.
Investigating the accident Cpl.
W. T. Simpson estimated the da
mage at about $6W).
The accident was the
reported that day, one
stating that John Watts
Fordi into a ditch at the corner of
Pearl and Railroad Streets some
time (luting Wednesday evening.
No one was hurt as far as it could
be learned and the damage was
negligible.
second
report
ran his
To Observe* Boy
Seoul Week Hen'
National Scout week, K foruury
7-14, will be observed locally with
thi Scouts and C'ub-s displaying in
local merchants' windows pro
ducts of scouting activitie.-.. The
windows arc to be completed to
day.
On Sunday morning then will
bo a special program at the
Methodist church arrange d by the
National Scout Committee at
which time Rev. Mr. 1C T. Hurley
wdl deliver an appropriate ni< s
sage. In connection with this ser
vice all Scouts and Cubs are ask
ed to meet outside tiie church at
10:45 Sunday morning in order
that tin1 group may enter as a
body. Den mothers and Scout
Masters will attend with their re
spective troops.
Troop 27 will decorate Wooi
ard’s Hardware window. Horace
Ray is Scout Master of the troop.
Belk-Tytler’s window will be de
corated by Carol Jones’Snoop 21).
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Legislature Sets
Traps For Labor
In Proposed Laws
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Nothing Morn 'Irani From
Proposal Orating
Town Primary
Turning to the agricultural
areas, the labor haters in Norths
Carolina this week recruited
fronts to spon-m anti labor laws
in the State Legislature. At. ihe
same lime a committee approved
a bill creating a closed shop for
funeral directors. Passage of the
funeral licensing board bill would
increase to twenty-two the nura
bi r of examining boards in this
state, meaning that one must pass
certain requirements and possi
bly pay certain fees before he
could follow hi chosen profes
sion.
Few details of the proposed bill
are to be had here at the present
time. The measure, introduced
bv Scott of Heaufort, C. B. Mar
tin of this county and Hathaway
of dates, read s "To protect right
to work and to declare the public
policy of the State with respect
to membership or non-member
ship in labor organizations as af
fecting the right, to work, and to
make it unlawful and prohibit
contrails or combinations which
require mem-bei ship in labor un
ions etc., as a condition of em
ployment.'' The proposal was re
ferred to the committee on manu
factures and labor.
The propos'd bill was imme
diately rccm'io os! by impartial
observers "in reality an anti
labor bill a d 1 ul I be called by
its right nanu .” and added, '‘If
any -late in the Union should be
content to lot well enough alone
in regard to its industrial rela
tions that state should be North
Carolina. . .
LcRoy Scott's proposal to re
lax the Ians against drunken
driving in North Carolina was
discarded in the House this week
after a In a ted debate lasting fo$
more than an hour.
The legislators are completinj
another week in Raleigh, «r
little m the way of langil'Je^M
gre. . has been accomplished. TM
law makers are still holding
hearings on teachers’ pay and the
four year hospital phase of the
Good Health Program.
Tentatively scheduled for last
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No ()w‘ Hurt In
Stow Expose
Four im■: in iniruculoustyj
t--1|.'i i.l un • iu't early Wednai
afli i .. w hen a water iack<|
a cim! stove exploded andt
out windows. and shattered a|
I " \ : I icm?
Nook ni .*1 to tla Had Front Gum
I fry on We liinyton Street here'Jj
The blest. tore out one of, th|
roumls ( I a tool ou which ortl
of the occupants was seated, ‘b$j
she we not hurt. Ali four of:tU|
occupant in the room where u|j
cxplo ion tool place were cov«NM
' etl with soot when the . tore pip^
fell to the floor.
"It sounded like a eharj
dynamite," one of the occupy
said,
A biisket of clothes near;
.hi ve wa.-. fired, but the fire
not pit ad to the building and
alarm was sounded.
No estimate of the ctul
could be hue! immediately,
is fairly certain the- repairs.,
cost more than $11)0.
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The told wave tins w<
(!<d not ealih this sectii
short ol' a coal anil wood su
ply, local dealers dechuia
they liaiulled it readily, til
they were prepared with
dozen cars of coal and hiu
(lreds of cords of wood. Her
tofore, the fuel supply hit
held to a dangerously lov
point, hut one dealer said Umi
he unloaded eleven cars
thirteen days and had to cat)
cel siheduled shipments,
U was teured at one tiui#1
that the wintry weather
would find eoai supplies de*; |
pieted following the lone mal
strike, but more coal has
been available since
strike than was to he