THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT
OViSR 3,000 MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES
THE ENTERPRISE
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI
OVER 3,000^ MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
VOLUME L—NUMBER 16
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 25, 1947
ESTABLISHED 1899
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Senator Pepper !
Says GOP Policy j
Leading To War
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Declares Thai Republirans
Are Seeking To Split
East ami West
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While the people are apparent
ly more interested in prices, low
er taxes and a plentiful supply of
automobiles, the Republicans, ac
cording to Senator Claude Pepper
of Florida, are advancing policies
that can lead to war. In an hour
long speech in the United States
Senate earlier this month. Sena
tor Pepper warned that Republi
can policy clearly designed to re
build Germany as a bulwark
against Soviet Russia and is lay
ing the foundation for a devastat
ing third war.
The senator answered John
Foster Dulles’ address delivered
in Chicago in January when
Dulles proposed a western bloc.
The senator said, in part:
This statement from Mr. Dulles
comes on the heels of a series of
declarations by Republican lead
ers on the political and economic
aspects of our foreign policy. Sen.
Vandenberg, chairman of the For
eign Relations Committee of the
Senate, speaking recently at
Cleveland, ignored the announc
ed recommendation of Gen. Mar
shall, and threw his full weight,
without qualification or reserva
tion. behind the Chinese faction
which Gen. Marshall had found
corrupt, incompetent and, in a
large measure, anti-democratic.
In the same Cleveland address,
Sen. Vandenberg would have us
lead our sister American repub
lics into a common hemisphere
defense pact with Argentina,
light in the face of the stern de
claration by the then Secretary
of State, Hon. James F. Byrnes,
that Argentina had not purged
itself of its fifth column of Nazis
and Nazi confederates.
Within the past few weeks,
leading Republican House mem
bers have introduced legislation
to suspend the Reciprocal Trade
agreements Act. And on tins
floor, Sen. Butler of Nebraska has
denounced the Trade Agreements
Act as a “gigantic hoax,’’ provok
ing the New York Times to in
quire in a recent editorial,
"Which Way for Republicans?’’
Sen. Butler said that he spoke
for himself, but at the same time
Sens. Vandenberg, Taft and other
leading Republicans advise, ac
cording to the press, Under Secre
tary of State. Mr. W'llliam L.
Clayton, “not to go too far,” that
is. not to exercise his full author
ity under the Trade Agreements
Act. . '
Just this past week, Republican
Sens. Hickenlooper, Knowland.
and Vandenberg insisted, in hear
ings on the confirmation of the
atomic energy commissioners,
that the military be allowed to sit
in on every session of the com
mission in such a w'ay that it
would virtually become an inte
gral part of the commission. Their
insistence suggests the reversal
of the decision duly made by the
Presidon^^nd the Congress that
ti lu^^^n^^Koitions our Gov
ernment, the civil authority shall
always be superior to the mili
tary.
few weeks, in a series of declara
tions backing reaction in China
and Argentina, trying to reverse
our trade agreements program
for international collaboration,
repudiating Potsdam, the Repub
lican Party has emerged from the
cloak of a bi-partisan foreign
policy and is causing more and
more concern to people who ask
whether it is the same Republi
can Party with the same policy
which undermined the founda
tions of peace and prosperity aft
er the first World War . . .
In order to understand clearly
how far Mr. Dulles and the Re
publican Party- propose to thrust
this nation and the world along a
new path in foreign policy by
subverting the Potsdam agree
ment—and lest it be obscured by
those cunning interpreters whe
seek to obliterate great differ
ences by small words—let us ex
amine what Britain, the Soviet
Union and the United State*
sought to accomplish at Potsdam
It was the industrial and military
disarmament of Germany.
It was against the Prussian
dominated conquest-made, inhu
manly savage Germany, whicl
had made criminal war upoi;
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First Report Slums Gains
In Counties Tax Listings
County Tax Supervisor M.
Lu'her Peel will not yet offer an
estimate, but it is apparent that a
fairly sizable increase will follow
in the county's 1947 property list
ings for taxation.
The fir^t report, recognized as
iust about complete, shows that
Popular Point Township gained
slightly more than $20,000 in its
personal property values this
year over the 1946 listings. Tax
Lister L. H. Taylor, it was learn
ed, contributed about $1,500 to the
increase, while another property
owner accounted for about $6,000.
leaving the listing for the small
property owners about unchang
ed, for the most part. All but
about $300 was traceable to in
creases in personal property val
ues. It was thought that consid
erably more construction was
handled in the district last year
than is reflected in the listings
there.
DIVIDING LINK
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Despite 20-degree mercury
readings recently, Williams
ton is almost the exact spot
where the South begins.
Snow has covered the ground
between here and Windsor
several times while only a
lew' flakes fell here.
An inch snow was reported
in the northwestern section
of the county Sunday night,
and an unusually heavy fall
was reported in progress over
around Aulander for a while
Sunday evening. Cars com
ing here from Windsor that
evening were covered with
snow.
Arrest Negro Man
For Manslaughter
John D. Wooten, 24-year-old
Pitt County colored man, was ar
rested last Saturday night and
placed in the Martin County jai!
for alleged manslaughter.
Wooten was driving one o!
three cars figuring in an accidenl
which cost three colored person;
their lives on the Robersonville
Stokes Highway late Sunday aft
ernoon. December 15. Badl>
hurt himself, Wooten had just re
cently gotten out of bed and was
app; t hendvu paliolmeii whei:
he was stopped for operating ;
motor vehicle without propet
I lights.
A hearing, tentatively schedul
ed in the case yesterday, was
postponed when it was learned
that one of the witnesses, Webb
Ward, was still in a cast and
would be unabie to appear at a
hearing within six or eight weeks
Wooten was returned to Pitt
County yesterday where he was
booked for driving a ear without
proper lights and while his oper
ator’s license was revoked.
Henry Ward. (57, Mai'y Brown,
12 and Gladys Mae Reddick, 17,
were critically hurt in the De
cember 15 accident.
J The tax supervisor explained
that several of the big property
owners had asked for extensions,
I that one or two owners of fairly
i extensive holdings had not listed,
' and that corporation listings
, would be certified later by the
j State Utilities Commission. The
; North Carolina Pulp Company,
after holding to unusually low
; listings, is expected to show an
I appreciable gain when its listings
| are submitted sometime in early
March.
| No trace of the listings of ex
tensive land holdings by foreign
corporations and companies has
been found in preliminary re
views of the tax abstracts. Tracts
! of land, reportedly selling from
three-quarters of a million on up
into the millions, have not been
; listed so far. At least no such
| values are to be found on the
| books.
Funeral Tuesday
For Mrs. Hollis
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Mrs. Elizabeth Hollis, 76, died
at Tayloe Hospital in Washington
at 10:00 o’clock Sunday night
after being ill about two weeks.
Funeral services are being held at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Sanford Roberson, 318 West Main
Street, here, at 2 o’clock this aft
ernoon Burial will be in the
Roberson family cemetery near
Bear Grass.
Mrs. Hollis had made her home
for the past several years with
her children. She was first mar
ried to Mr. Jimmie Roberson, who
died in 1902. She later married
Stanley Hollis. She was a mem
ber of the Bear Grass Primitive
Baptist Church.
Surviving are two daughters
Mis. Sanford Roberson of Wil
liamston and Mrs. W. K. Roebuck
of Robersonville; three sons
Judas Roberson of Williamston
Jimmy Roberson of Robersonville
and Edward Hollis of Norfolk
Virginia. Also surviving are fif
teen grandchildren and twelvt
great-grandchildren.
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1 Signal* Mixed lip In
Assault ('.use Her*
t Lonnie Rogers was painfully
'but not badly hurt when ho was
attacked hero last Saturday after
nuon by a nephew, S. L. Rogers.
, The altuek victim explained in
i open court Monday that his as
Isailant called him, threatened to
(cut him, that he turned away and
I then received a rock against his
I head. The defendant maintain
I ed that the other guy called him
\ and started the trouble, that he
1 acted In self-defense.
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t.orinth Ladies Aid To
Elect Of fivers Saturday
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Meeting with Mrs. Vivian Wat
ers on Saturday of this week,
I members of the Corinth Ladies
t Aid vc..'i vicci i.tsi .VtTiveis tor the
new year. All members are ask
I ed to attend.
Charge Young Man
With Attempt To
Rape Minor Child
Samuel Brady, Jr., Arrest
ed In Oak City Satur
day Afternoon
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Samuel Brady, Jr., young wliite
I man of Oak City, was arrested
| there last Saturday afternoon by
I Chief Edmond Early for allegedly
I attempting to rape Marie Leggett,
I 13-year-old Edgecombe County
girl, in or near Scotland Neck last
Friday evening.
Complete details of the alleged
attack were not revealed, but re
i ports reaching here stated that
| the young man. a veteran about
21 or 22 years of age, took the
girl in a car to Halifax County
and attempted the crime. Break
ing away from the man, the girl
was said to have run to a home,
sought help and returned by
friends to her home. A warrant
was issued by a Tarboro justice
of the peace at the request of the
father.
One report stated that the
young girl was painfully bruisecl
but not otherwise unharmed.
Following a premliminary
hearing before Justice of the
Peace Creech in Tarboro, the ac
cused was placed under bond in
the sum of $1,000. It could not
be learned immediately here if
bond was arranged. It was stated
that the case was tentatively set
for trial in the Edgecombe Coun
ty Superior Court.
Brady was described as an in
dustrious young farmer before he
entered the armed forces. Follow
ing his return, reports reaching
here, stated that he had been
drinking some.
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Special Interest Meeting
At Oak City Thursday
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The second in a series of Spec
ial Interest Meetings will be held
Thursday, February 27th at 2:30
p. m. in the Home Economic Lab
of the Oak City High School.
The demonstration on ''Pre
paration of Fruits and Vegetables
for Freezing” will be given by
(Miss Ruby Scholz, Specialist in
Food Marketing and Conserva
tion.
All people owning or renting a
freezer locker and other interest
ed citizens are urged to attend
tiiis meeting.
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Local officers were unus
ually busy over the week-end
rounding up drunken drivers,
drunks and attackers. The
score board in the jail listed
eleven arrests during the
period, three for drunken
driving, four for public
drunkenness, one for larceny
of a hog, two for assaults
with deadly weapons and one
for manslaughter. Several
others arranged bona with
out going to jail.
Four of the eleven arrest
ed arc Millie, the SQc.i ul the
group ranging from 22 to 67
years.
First Of Salary
Bonus Drawn For
County Teachers
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Over $20,000 Rein^ Added
To Salary Checks
This Week
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Struggling against high living
costs for-years, Martin County
teachers and other school em
ployees this week arc being offer
ed over $20,000 to help keep the
wolf from their doors. Coming in
the form of a special legislative
bonus and aside from any pay in
crease the current General As
sembly may determine, the $20,
000, after all, a mere pittance
when thrown against a cruel eco
nomy.
Under the terms of the special
legislative act, Martin County
teachers and other school em
ployees are to receive approxi
mately $41,605.29, one-half of
which is being included in the re
gular February salary checks to
be delivered on Wednesday of
this week.
It was learned this week that
the State would pay two-thirds of
the bonus for teachers employed
jointly by the State, county and
federal governments. In four in
stances where teachers have not
been certified by the State De
partment, the county will make
some allowance.
The average bonus ranged
around $180, half of which is be
ing paid this week and the re
mainder during the next three
months in equal installments.
Salaries for teachers in the coun
ty this month, including the bon
us, will range from $160.33 to
about $308. The lowest salary is
subject to a withholding tax ol
$17.20 and a $3 retirement fund
fee, reducing the amount tc
$140.13. The highest salary if
subject to a tax of $41.90 and a re
tirement fund fee of $7.48, reduc
ing the pay to $258.62. Nexi
month the low-salaried teachei
will receive only $112.33 less
taxes and retirement fund fees.
The office of the county board
of education has been working on
, the new pay roll schedule for sev
oral days, figuring the bonus
I amount and payroll tax reduction
and retirement fund fees.
Slightly Hurt In
Minor Car Wreck
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Benjamin Clarence Pate, young
service man, was slightly hurt on
the lip when his car went out of
control, ran into a ditch and
turned over at Sunny Side Mar
ket here late last Thursday night.
Damage to the car was estimated
at about $200 by Police Officer P.
A. Ballard and Cpl. W. T. Simp
json who investigated the acci
dent.
' Pate explained that he started
to turn into the market-filling
station, and seeing he had mis
judged the location of the ditch
he speeded up to pull out of the
He was booked for reckless
driving.
Lad Fatally Hurt In
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Accident Near Here
Floyd M. Thomas,
Eight Years Old,
Buried Yesterday
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Kicliunl Davis Han Down
Child On Biryrlc
Llisl Friday
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Floyd McCoy Thomas, eight
years old, was fatally hurt when
he was run down on his bicycle
about two miles west of here by
Richard Davis, driving an old
model car, at 4:00 o'clock hist Fri
day afternoon. Suffering a bad
head wound and other injuries,
the little fellow was removed to
the local hospital where he died
about four hours later without re
gaining consciousness.
Living with his grandmother,
Mrs. Odessa Srnithwick, superin
tendent of the Martin County
Sanitorium, the child was on his
way there from school. He had
rounded the curve just beyond
West End and wuis riding his bi
cycle on thi' right side of the road
when Davis, driving Lester R.
Meeks’ car, overtook him. Davis
said lie sounded the car horn and
pulled to the left to pass when the
boy turned to his left and appar
ently lost control of his bicycle.
The car struck the front wheel of
the bicycle and threw the boy to
the concrete. Believed by some
to have run over the child’s legs,
the car swerved to the left and
came to a stop in a ditch a short
distance away.
Investigating thi' accident, Cpl.
| W. T. Simpson, assisted by Pa
trolman W. K. Saunders, stated
i that Davis, driver, accompanied
by the owner of the car, had both
had a drink, but explained that
neither of them was drunk. Davis
I was operating the motor vehicle
without a driver's license, and he
J was booked on that charge along
with manslaughter and drunken
driving. At a preliminary hear
| ing before Justice of the Peace
Jas. S. Ayers here last Saturday,
Davis, a resident of Poplar Point
| Township, waived examination
■ and bond was fixed in the sum of
j $750. His case is to come up in
the superior coutrt next month.
The son of Charlie and Odessa
Srnithwick Thomas, the child was
born in Windsor on December 10,
1038, and moved to Williamston
with his parents a few years later.
When his father entered the arm
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Churned II illi Larceny
Of Lead From Navy
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Robert Harold Bullock, whose
address is listed as Williamston,
! was arrested last week-end in
Charleston for the alleged theft
of over 50.000 pounds of lead
I from a government surplus prop
: erty warehouse there. The young
jNavy man wuis one of several ar
[iCsicu iti Connection with the ai
| leged tlu-f by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
SIAMESE TREES 1
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The unusual in trees was
displayed here yesterday by
Farmer W. W. Griffin of Wil
liams Township. Strolling
through a section of his vast
timber holdings recently, Mr.
Griffin found two small holly
trees perfectly joined to
gether about two feet above
the ground. The connecting
limb is two and one-half
inches in circumference, and
the trees measure 7 and three
and one-half inches in cir
cumference respectively.
Old-time woodsmen, view
ing the oddity in The Enter
prise window, said they had
never seen anything just like
it before.
Justices 01 Peace
Hold First Cases
The bottleneck caused by a
shortage of inferior court officers
in the handling of minor law in
fractions was completely remov
ed over the week-end when two
new young justices of the peace,
Squires Jas. Staton Ayers and
' R. T. Johnson, went into action.
Agreeing to serve just so long us
Justice John I,. Hassell is unable
to serve on account of illness, the
new justices shared the mayor's
office in handling their first eases
last night.
Although they had had some
experience in .1 P. work, it was
fairly evident that someone had
been studying court procedure,
for both of them handled their
courts after a masterly fashion.
Both of the justices, booked
their cases for 7:30 o’clock last
evening in the same office, and it
was thought there would be con
flict. But the two displayed di
plomacy and politeness that
would have put Alphonso to
shame, Judge Johnson was given
the floor.
The east' of Henry Price was
i called. Charged with an assault,
Price said that he went to Wilson
Staton’s home to inquire after a
certain young woman. “I went
there in her interest and look
what trouble 1 got into," Price
explained. "Staton cursed me, I
cursed and grabbed him, but in
flicted no injury,” he added.
Since no damage was done, and
it appearing that Staton aggra
vated the attack, the trial justice
suspended judgment and required
the defendant to pay $(1.25 costs.
Judge Ayers had a somewhat
complicated case, and decided it
was a case for the higher courts.
He sent it on up with the hope
that it could be unraveled there.
According to the evidence, Lyn
wood Mobley bought a watch
j from a jeweler. In a friendly
tussle lu1 missed the watch. It
I was olained that the
! watch, apparently pawned, was
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Reestablish Jury
System For Court
In Martin County
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Senator Horton Introduces
Several Technical
Insurance Bills
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The jury system, knocked out
by special act in the State Legis
lature two years ago, was rees
tablished for the Martin County
Recorder's Court last Saturday
when the measure was passed in
the Mouse of Representatives. Al
though there was little sentiment
expressed in favor of the propos
al, no opposition was heard and
Representative C. B. Martin had
it passed in the House last Satur
day morning. The bill was intro
duced by Senator H. G. Horton.
While no copy of the new law
has been made available to the
public. Senator Horton said this
week that it provides a six-man
jury upon the demand of any de
fendant entering the court. Two
years ago the jury system was
eliminated in the county record
er’s court, the law as passed at
that time providing for the auto
matic transfer of any case to the
superior court when the defend
ant called for a jury trial. Sena
tor Horton also explained that
the bill does not give the county
court jurisdiction in divorce
cases. “That provision was drop
ped when members of the bar ex
pressed little interest in the pro
posal and when it was estimated
the cost to the county would
amount to approximately $1,000 a
year.
Before quitting last Friday for
the week, Senator Horton drop
ped five bills into the Senate
hopper. One of the measures
proposed a $25,000 appropriation
for the reconstruction of the Lost
Colony theater. The others were
described as technical insurance
bills, recommended by a special
committee following a study of
existing insurance laws. The na
ture of the bills was not disclosed,
but the senator left the impres
sion all of them were in the pub
lic interest and not necessarily in
spired by or for the companies.
The stage has been set in Ral
eigh for some hot action, but
teachers’ pay increases and the
good health program have not yet
| been calendared. Last week the
lawmakers working in committee
virtually ruled out a law design
ed to help slow down the pace
divorce actions are traveling in
North Carolina. Two-year sep
uration will continue, the com
mittee voted, as one of the main
grounds for divorce. The year
count has been reduced time to
time from ten to two years.
Passed in the House by a large
majority the “wildlife” bill, call
ing for a separation of the game
and fish division from the De
partment of Conservation and
Development, is scheduled for
consideration in the Senate this
week. While the Senate is bat
tling with the "hot potato” the
House is slated today to consider
a bill called the anti-closed shop
measure but one impartial ob
servers recognize as being oppos
ed to workers, it has been inti
mated that big industrial plants
in the county have called upon
lawmakers to sUDDOlt the plan,
English Girl Has Close
Race With Immigration Authorities
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and that it is a part of a nation
wide scheme to hit labor.
The proposal to tax farmers’ co
operatives created such a tury
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Atlraclivc Londoner 1m
prettM'd By Friemllinens
Of Americans
A romance centering in London
in 1943 and growing out of the
war has encountered one ob
stacle after another, but BM 1-c
Arthur Ad ants of Parmele and
his English fiancee, Olive Muriel
Harris Green successfully battled
each one, including a close race
with the immigration authorities.
The war over and their plans
cleared with the help of the Navy
Department and Red Cross in the
embassies in two countries, the
young couple are keenly antici
pating easy sailing from now on
out. and, no doubt, will figure in
the news of the social world soon,
possibly on Thursday of this
week.
The young seaman, now com
pleting his tenth jeur in the U. S.
Navy after seeing action in near
ly every theater of war and sur
viving one sinking m the Atlan
tic, met the attractive young lady
in a serviceman's club in London
during tlu dark d ubtiul days of
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the war. Ari engagement grew
lout ol the meeting, but swiftly
I moving events separated the two.
i The young man was ordered back
I to the States and a few weeks lat
er he war transferred to the Pu
cific where he spent eleven
months. Duty called for his re
turn to the States a second lime,
ari'd following a short stay with
his parents in Pa mele he was
back on the Atlantic, traveling
for his new assignment in French
Morocco.
During the meantime the young
man started making arrange
ments to have his future bride
come to this country, hopeful all
tlie while he could get leave
and marry her. After repeated
appeals to the authorities and the
handling of almost endless red
tape, the young man’s fiancee had
her papers approved and she was
given a passport allowing her a
stay of three months in this coun
try.
j Traveling by plane she landed
1 in New York on November 22,
reasonably convinced that their
marriage could be arranged and
hvr temporary stay made ptrau
jnent. A regular Navy man,
Adams found, that the brass hats
could have done no better job of
upsetting his plans had they de
liberately chosen to do just that.
Appeals were made to his sup
erior officers and they were
heard with great sympathy. But
the appeals bogged down some
where along the line, and the
young fiancee's stay begun run
ning out rapidly. The first month
passed and when the second
month went by without any tan
gible results in their behalf, the
young lady told her story to Clerk
of Court L. Bruce Wynne. Doubt
ful if an appeal could be cleared
with the immigration authorities
in time, the court clerk suggested
that she contact the Red Cross.
The area chapter at Robersonvillc
oontacted the organization’s na
| lional headquarters. The organi
i nation's international office heard
the story. The Navy Department
went into action, and the young
: man was finally booked for plane
j passage across the Atlantic ahead
j of high ranking officers. Weather
j conditions at Ne wfoundland
! threatened to delay hi* trip., but
he finally made his destination, I
reaching the county lust Sutur-!
day.
The lust obstacle was cleared
that day when his bride-to-be and
j members of Ins family went to]
Rocky Mount to meet him. Com- |
ing in on an earlier tiuin than j
was expected, the young man!
I missed the welcome in Rocky J
Mount and traveled to Parmele ]
without delay. His fiancee, a bit
disturbed to be sure, searched
every train for several hours,
finally agreeing to return home.
It was a happy reunion, and it
should have been after a wait uf
more than two years, the young
lady declaring that the hours
spent in Rocky Mount were the
most trying ones.
Nothing has been heard from
the immigration authorities, and
lit is fairly certain that no depor*
| tation action can or will Lie taken
; before the young lady becomes a
full-fledged American citizen.
The young lady, radiantly hap
py when she recalled Sunday the
numerous obstacles they had suc
cessfully encountered, talked lit
Lie about the war. Her family wo
"blitzed out" twice during the
war, but the challenge was met
willi u fortitude and determina
tion to carry on. A recent letter
from her mother stated that con
ditions were not very favorable
in I,or,don just now, but the peo
ple there aie acting to meet them,
it was explained.
Readily accepted into the home
of Mr. and Mis. Tom Adams, her
near-future parents-in-law, the
young lady, quickly adjusting
herself in a new country, quickly
learned this country’s monetary
system, but after a costly fashion.
Her English pounds were ex
changed at about $11, a figure con
siderably below the existing ex
change rate. "1 was so glad to
be in America, 1 could hardly
realize 1 was here, and the matter
of English pounds and American
dollars did not cause any great
concern. 1 thought abuut it lat
er," she explained.
In company with another Eng
lish woman who had spent some
time in the States and who made
the trip across with her, the fu
ture Mrs. Adams employed a taxi
at LuGujidu i ieid and went to a
New York hotel to spend the
night. Not certain about the
value of certain United States
coins, she held several pieces of
silver in her extended hand. ‘ The
taxi man although quite friend
ly, took d ail and smiled and
smiled,’ she said, adding that that
w as a costly ride.
Starting out on her own the fol
lowing morning, she went to the
hotel dining room, and then and
there she gained a most favorable
impression of America. I could
hardly believe all the words on
the menu. It had been such a
long time since 1 had seen so
many of the items that I could
not hold myself in check,” the
young lady declared, shyly stal
ing that she ordered grapefruit,
juice, orange juice, tomato juice,
a double serving of eggs', etc She
continued to talk about eggs, re
calling how scarce they had been
back home and how long it had
been since she had seen one. "The
waitress seemed a bit perplexed
by the enormity o! my order, and
she was almost stunned when she
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Raleigh last week that a new bill
is being offered this week, alter*
ing the tax program.
April 10 lias been suggested a"S
a, closing date for the Assembly,
but if the work is completed by
that time the lawmakers will
have to work faster and do more
than they have done in the past
seren weeks.
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Jailed For It eat in ft
H'i/e Here Saturday
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Ben Clemmons, making a habit
of beating his wife, was jailed
Sunday night after he had attack
ed her the night before. Ben,
claiming he remembered very lit
tle about the attack, said that
both had been drinking, that she
had visittxl one of the town's
trouble spots, a beer hall. The
wife, Essie, said she did not know
what trouble started her husband
on a rampage.
Said to have a "house full of
young’uns,” Clemmons was ilk
line for a long sentence, but for
the sake of the children t-hc court
called for a 30-day road term
only,