t THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
VOLUME L—NUMBER 34
THE ENTERPRISE
Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina, Tuesday, April 20. 1947
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
ESTABI 1899
names
lonor
Pupils In Local
Schools Listed
Scholastic Requirements
Are Met By 160 During
Recent Period
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The names of 160 pupils appear
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on the honor list in the local
schools for the six-week period
recently ended, it was announced
this week by Principal B. G. Ste
wart. Only 12 of the honor names
belonged to pupils in the high
school.
The names of honor pupils, fol
low", by grades:
Miss Baker’s first grade: Billy
Ray Bowen, Billy Carstarphen,
Jimmy Cooke. Constance Ches
son. Dianne Cherry, Mary Claudia
Cherry, Leona Coltrain, and Bet
sy Davis.
Miss Hardy’s First grade: Ray
Pate. Bobby Perry, Guy Thomas,
Jr.. Gerald Stalls, Sandra Modlin,
Dorothy Moore, Mary Lynn Pate,
Beth Spivey, Peggy Ann Steven
son and Ora Whitaker.
Mrs. Morris’ first grade: Sue
Eubanks. Sally Grey Griffin, Eu
genia Hoyt Glover. Roberta Har
rison, Francis Johnson. Betty
Modlin. Kenneth Gurganus. James
Daniel Leggett, Danny Manning.
Lee- Roy Rogerson, and Samuel
M. Rogerson.
Mrs. Carstarphen’s second
grade: Carolyn Beauchemin, Nan
cy Britton, Peggy Godard,
Blanche Manning, Jane Pecle,
Mary Lee White, Jimmy Hardi
son. and Clayton Weston.
Miss Crawford’s second grade:
Nancy Bullock, Ann Darden, Em
ma J. Godard, Henry Handy, Pat
tie Lee Hardison, Ann Harrison,
Allan Modlin. Joe Murphy. Janie
Peaks, Tommy Phelps, and Gene
Silverthorne.
Mrs. Kimball's third grade.
Faye White. Vivian Pate, Gerald
White. Ive'son Skinner, Joseph
Clayton, John Clinton House, An
geline Dickerson and Rudy Ward.
Mrs. Froneberger’s third grade:
William Battey, Jan Clark Billy
Dudley, G'ady Godard, Jamer
Herbert Ward, Jr.. Saudi u Gard
ner. Joyce Lilly, Jane Adams
Manning. Sandra Margolis, An
nette Rogers, Ellienc Smithwick.
Miss Manning's third grade:
Jeanette Raynor. Faye Peele, Jean
Nicholson, Phyllis Jones, Jane
Barnhill, Joyce Baker, Billy
Simpson, Rodney Pittman, Billy
Partin,
Miss Everett's fourth grade
Barbara Cherry, Doris Rogers,
Jean Coltrain, James Pittman,
and Janie Mobley.
Mrs. Bussell's fourth ffrade:
Freddie Harrison, Bobby Man
ning. William Moore, Edwrard Ro
gerson, Mary Elizabeth Britton,
Jessie Marie Corey, Frankie Ever
ett, Patricia Harrison, Sylvia Per
ry, and Kathryn Spruill.
Miss Jenkins’ fourth grade: An
nette Brack, Melva Wynne, Joyce
Manning. John Dunn, Janice Rog
ers, Robert Weston, and Lelia
May Goff.
Miss Bailey’s fifth grade: Betty
S. Clark. Lee Handy, Judith Rog
,rs;jmdWjlliam Clyde H,;be;rw:.
MiiCCoburns fifth grade: Jan
ice Manning. Betty Helen Mobiey,
Janet Ross. Patricia Wynne. Doro
thy Mobley, and Wilber Stewart.
Miss Modlin’s fifth grade: Wil
liam Cullipher, David Davis, Jr.,
Charles Johnson, Ralph Parker,
Judith Barden Avers, Anne Craw
(Oontinued on page eight)
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Child Slightly
Hurt In Accident
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Billy, two-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Modlin was only
scratched and slightly bruised
when he was thrown out of the
Modlin car in a highway accident
a few miles out of Jamesville on
ff the Plymouth highway early last
Thursday night. No others were
hurt but considerable property
damage resulted. W. E. Saunders
and W. T. Simpson, of the high
way patrol, reported following an
investigation. Later reports stal
ed Mr. Modlin was suffering with
a sore neck.
Driving toward Plymouth, Mr.
Modlin started to make a left
turn with his 1938 model car just
about the time Delbert Davis, Jr.,
driving a 1941 Chrysler, started to
pass. The Modlin car was turned
over and the child was thrown
several feet and clear of the
wreck. Property damage W'as es
timated at about $200.
Coroner Will Probe
!W. R. Bowers’ Death
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PRESIDENT
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Hildreth P. Mobley was
elected president of the local
parent-teacher association at
a meeting of the organization
held in the grammar school
last evening. He succeeds
Hugh G. Horton.
Believe Chemical
Will Eliminate
Tobacco Suckers
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Maryland Kxprrimrii! Sta
tion Is Making TVsIs
Willi Tobacco Now
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Martin County tobacco farmers)
are anxiously awaiting the com- I
pletion of tests that will, it is be- !
lieved, eliminate tobacco suckers
and lighten the burden for the
grower during his busiest pel iod
j of the year. No costs were men- i
tioned in the first stories coming
from the experiment station in
Maryland, but if the chemical
| isn't priced higher than gold and
will handle the job, there is good
j reason to believe it will find a I
I i eady market.
The story, announcing the ex
periment. follows:
A spray that causes tobacco!
i plants to f,a ge t how to grow any- |
thing except large leaves has been
discovered by the plant industry
station of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md.
The purpose is to cut the ex
pense of growing fine tobaccos.
The announcement was made to
day in the weekly journal, Sci
ence, by Robert A. Steinberg.
Tobacco growers now get the
large leaves by cutting off the
tops of the plants at the flowering
stage. This cut deprives the plants
of a hormone present in the grow
ing tips. Lacking this hormone,
plants stop growing taller.
The plants then try to grow
w i1!and lnc;a. r, 1 ,v ■ ra yhil* '
larger leaves. But they overdo,
by putting out new buds down
their stems. The buds, called
suckers, interfere with the broad
ening of the leaves already pres
ent. The farmer has to pick off |
these suckers by hand, a consider
able labor job. t «
H.a mom :< already vyere katmt ■
to control nmst everything else
except suckers in the growth of a
plant. Some hormones even
would grow roots in the air So
the U. S. scientists hunted lor a
sucker harmone. They found one
that was as effective as hand pick
ing. It is a synthetic chemical
produced byithe Dow Company,
Midland, Mich. The synthetic’s
name is a-naphtylacetic acid me
thyl ester. ,
When plants are treated in the
laboratory with this chemical, the
leaves grow just as large us with
hand suckering.
The method is under trial now
in tobacco fields to learn whether
it will work as well outdoors.
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Announce llirlli And
Death Of Infant Son
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Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cherry,
Jr., announce the birth and death
of a son. Thomas Frederick, in a
Washington hospital on Wednes
day, April 23. Graveside services
were held in Woodlawn Cemetery
here Thursday morning at 11:30
o'clock by Rev. B. T. Hurley, local
Methodist minister.
Principal Witness
Offers a Jumbled
Story Of Tragedy
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Ini|iH'*t to he Held Tonight
At 8:00 O'clock At
Courthouse Here
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Making little progress and ad
mitting they are somewhat baf
fled in advancing their investiga
tion. county officers stated yester
day they would hold an inquest ir
the courthouse tonight a*. 8:0f
of Wm. Robert BoweYs. Pitt
County farmer, who lost his life
in a Roanoke River hunting lodge
in Poplar Point early in the morn
o’clock into the tragic death
ing of Aoril 19. Eight witnesses
William Ray Bowers, Joe Melton
Fate Gurganus, Ottis Bullock. A
C. Currie. Latham Wynne anc
Bryant Wynne, have been sum
moned to testify before Coronei
S. R. Biggs at the hearing.
During the meantime the offic
ers are trying to piece togethei
what evidence they can, late re
ports stating that the represents:
tives of the law are finding it dif
ficult to reconcile some of the evi
dence offered.
The officers were of the opin
ion that W. T. Currie, keeper, was
not at the lodge wlien the small
building was fired early in the
morning of April 19. Later evi
dence indicates that it was possi
ble for ihe man to have beer
there when the fire started, even
though witnesses stated he was
seen a mile or more away before
the fire had gained much head
way.
Questioned in the county jail
over the week-end, Currie told e
fantastic story, proving that he
remembers little or nothing about
the events leading up to the tra
gedy.
The following is about what
Currie said when questioned Sat
urday: “We got up. prepared and
ate breakfast. Mr. Bowers want
ed some liquor and we went to
Williamston and got a supply and
continued to drink during the
day. The lodge caught fire about
4 Oil o'clock that afternoon and I
ran to a logging camp. Mr. Wiley
Burroughs Rogcrson carried me
to Williamston and placed me in
jail.”
Currie got his facts and time all
mixed up. He could offer no de
tails about how the fire started.
Questioning persons at the log
ging camp, a mile or more from
the lodge, otficers were advised
that Currie rat} there almost out
of breath and said that the lodge
was burning.
The charred remains of the 70
year-old Pitt farmer were found
about 8.JO o'clock that morning
by his sen, William Ray Bowers.
It is fairly certain that the eld
erly mao haU becil drinking, that
he was unable to get out of the
burning building. Witnesses said
that they left the victim and Cur
rie drunk in the lodge the night
before.
No charges have been brought
against anyone, Sheriff C. B. Roe
buck said this morning.
jamesville Names
Its Town Officers
Attended by about 25 citizens, a
nominating convention held in
Ihe school building there last
Thursday night virtually settled
J'amesville’s town politics for an
other two years when Leslie W.
Hardison was named for mayor,
and Tom Gaines, James Long and
Herbert Sexton were named for
commissioners.
The list of nominees includes
no names of the old official fam
ily. it was learned.
The ticket is subject to vote in
Ihe regular election scheduled for
Tuesday, May 6.
If there is no independent tick
et apd the convention nominees
pass the regular election test on
May 6 they will succeed Garland
Anderson, mayor, and J. G. Long,
U. S. Hassell and Clyde Brown as
commissioners.
A Corey served as chairman of
the convention and C, B. Martin
was its secretary.
|Stocl?Conipaiiy io
Construct Modern
MaideJlcuiseJHere
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PIhiis Call For $48,000.00
Structure Near Brown’s
Grocery Store
Plans arc just about complete
for the construction of a theater
I here on Washington Street for the
colored citizens of the town and
community, according to unof
ficial but reliable information
gained over the week-end. A
stock company whose subscribers
have not yet been made public
was formed a short time ago and
a lot between the Smith Funeral
Home and E. L. Brown’s grocery
has been purchased.
Architect’s plan’s, calling for a
building 110 feet long and forty
feet wide, have been submitted
and tentatively approved, it was
learned. Representatives of the
company were in Raleigh and
Charlotte recently making ar
rangements for materials and
equipment for the construction
and operation of the movie house
which, according to preliminary
estimates, will cost approximate
ly $48,000.00.
Construction work on the build
ing is scheduled to get underway
within the next two weeks, and
the project is to be completed on
or about July 31, a representative
of the company explaining that
the completion date was a tenta
tive one.
The building, seating approxi
mately 550 persons, will be of mo
dern construction.
A representative of the com
pany, discussing the project, ex
plained that the stockholders had
realized for some time that the
colored ciitzens of the town and
I community had long needed a
place of amusement of their own,
but that plans for a theater had
been delayed on account of high
building costs and the shortage of
materials. Conditions are more
[ favorable now, and the company
j plans to start and rush the project
1 to completion tiie representative
added.
As far as it could be learned,
no building permit has yet been
issued for the construction of the
theater.
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Plan Bijr Peanut
Acreage In 1947
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l947 peanut plantings indicated
as 3,847,000 acres-—3 percent less
than 1948—according to Crop Re
porting Board of Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics in its Prospec
tive Planting Report for 1947 . . .
Virginia-Carolina area expects
little change—slight increases in
Virginia and Tennessee offsetting
a decrease in North Carolina. A
3 percent decline anticipated in
Southeast due mostly to sharp
acreage reductions in Alabama
and some in Georgia and Missis
sippi with South Carolina and
Florida planning moderate in
creases.. Southwest expects 59
Ooo acre '-eduction in T. 5 “TV*
partly offset by prospective in
creases in Louisiana and Okla
homa, picking and threshing esti
mates not to be made until Aug
ust but on usual estimating basis,
about 3,100,000 acres should be
utilized for picking and threshing
in 1947 with the picked and
ibiitshca production'slightly uun>
than two billion pounds, such a
production, if realized, would be
the sixth consecutive year of pro
duction exceeding two billion
pounds.
Foreign Students
In United States
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Of the 17,000 foreign students
in American educational institu
tions, 3,133 are pursuing engi
neering courses, according to a
roster published by the State de
partment in Washington. There
are 937 engineering students from
nine Middle and Far East coun
tries alone., They include twenty
nine from Greece, 178 Turkey, 287
India, forty-seven Egypt, thirty
seven Iran, eighteen Iraq, 300
China, thirty-eight the Philip
pines and three from Afghanis
tan. Among the students are 955
studying mechanical engineering,
708 civil engineering, 288 chemi
cal engineering, 274 mining and
metallurgical engineering and 283
electrical engineering.
"James V i IIPTIanl
Reporting Small
..Catdies - Of Fish
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Thin! or Fourth Season the
Fishery Has Had Little
Success
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For the third or fourth straight
season, the commercial fishery ut>
Jamesville is experiencing little
success in its operations. Reports
received late Monday afternoon
stated that the big seine was dip
ping up less than 100 herring at a
haul and that only three rock
were taken during the day's oper
ations. Hardly more than three
or four days of good fishing have
been recorded so far this season,
and the time for the spring fish
run is rapidly drawing to a close.
Ordinarily the season is schedul
ed to close on May 10 but it is
possible that an extension will be
granted. However, few fish are
to be expected on or after that
time.
No definite reason for the poor
fishing season lias been offered,
but reports yesterday stated that
the cold weather at that time is
believed to have reduced the
catches to a bare minimum.
Individual fishermen have met
with little success in their opera
tions so far this season, but they
are making ready for a big rock
season during the next two weeks
or more.
While tin- catches have been
limited, prices have held to a fair
ly high level. Monday's quota
tions listing herring on the bat
tery at $2 pee hundred, rock, 30
cents a pound, and perch, 20 cents
a pound. There were few' fish
being offered at that price, one
1 report stating that nothing was
offered except two fairly large
German carp.
Notwithstanding the poor seas
on as a whole, to date, fishing op
I orations have not been without
high spots. Using a shad net,
iJennis Pierce and Earl Lambert
last week dipped a 32 1-2 pound
! rock out of the river at James
ville. The young men, working
to save their net, and, incidental
ly to land their catch, battled the
fish for a good ten minutes before
1 landing him safely.
While quite a number of visitors
have traveled to the Roanoke
during the past few' weeks to fish
! and get fish, the numbers have
been somewhat limited as com
pared with pas! records
John J. Williams
Dies In Hospital
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John Jesse Williams, sawyer
for the WiUiamston Lumber Com
pany at its plant on the Washing
ton Road, died suddenly last
Thursday afternoon of a heart at
tack. Suffering the attack while j
at the post of duty, he fell uncon
scious and was removed to the
hospital where he died a few min
utes later.
The son of the laic Lemuel and
Lizzie Bonham Williams, he was
iNic-Js.OR-'ri'jw .Omnia
12, 18110. He had been employed
i by the local company hardly more
than six weeks and was recogniz
ed us a valuable employe.
He was married to Miss Grace
Russell and she survives.
The body was turned over to an
Elizabeth City undertaker later
tn >.( •jftersu'tu.i.jli'l,
to the family home at 201 Fearing
Street, Elizabeth City, where fun- ,
era! services were conducted Fri- |
day afternoon. Interment was in
Elizabeth City's Hollywood Ceme
tery.
ROUND-UP
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Local, county and state of
ficers had their busiest period
of the year last week when
thev rounded up and tempor
arily detained nineteen per
sons in the county hoosegow.
Two of the victims, given a
chance to redeem themselves,
were charged with violating
their paroles. Four were
charged with drunken driv
ing, eight with public drunk
enness, two with avsaults and
one each with carrying a con
cealed weapon and with op
erating a motor vehicle while
his driver's license was re
voked.
Twelve of the nineteen
were white, including several
i young men.
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Xelepliones-Iii-Jum
Laying New Cable
Underground For
System Expansion
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Additional Lines to Provide
For Better Rural And
Toll Service
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The modernization program,
calling for a general expansion of
telephone service throughout this
area, is advancing rapidly, and
tentative plans call for a change
from the operator to the auto
matic or dial system in early
June, according to information
released this week by W. T,
Thornton, local manager of the
Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph Company. No definite date
for the switch-over can be deter
mined, but the local manager ex
plained that five workers, headed
by Chief Engineer Hilton of the
Automatic Electric Company, are
well advanced with the task of in
stalling the automatic equipment,
including a six position board for
handling long distance calls.
The telephone building on
Smithwick Street lias been re
modeled and enlarged, the local
company representative explain
ing that a few minor building de
tails could not be completed un
til all the automatic equipment is
insta Hed.
Conduit, placed under ground
here during last Christmas seas
on, is being filled this week with
cable. Manager Thornton explain
ing that the expansion program
will provide approximately 600
lines for local use and a goodly
number of additional circuits for
long distance messages. Added
toll circuits have already been
built to surrounding towns and
they will be hooked to the new
lines being laid underground on
Main and Washington Street heie
this week.
Its present system overtaxed,
the company will soon be able to
handle all demands for telephones
and better service.
Reviewing briefly the expan
sion program, Mr, Thornton said
that additional lines had been
built to Windsor, Plymouth and
Columbia for improved long dis
tance service.
A completely expanded system
is also being completed for the
rural areas served by the Wil
liamston exchange, the manager
stating that possibly 125 rural
telephones would be connected
with the system within the next
few weeks. Poles have been set
for an expanded service in the
Farm Life, Bear Grass and Srnith
wick-Gj iffinx territories. Eight
circuits are under construction
for service in the Farm Life area
where a goodly portion of the ru
ral telephones are being located.
The rural telephones will work
automatically as well as those in
Uc^ t e 1 c p i i O H7
been installed here, but at the
present time they have not been
connected with the automatic
equipment.
The effect the new system will
have on the number of switch
board operating personnel could
not be learned, but one report
sfinod that all present cmpioyvs
would be retained.
Recently purchasing the Rober
(Continucd on page eight)
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Farmers’ Strike
Closes Markets
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Tobacco markets in Maryland
were closed last week when far
mers struck for higher prices, Mi.
Jimmy Taylor, local tobacconist
associated with the LaPlata mar
ket, stating that tentative plans
had been made for resuming the
auction sales the middle or the
latter part of this week.
Farmers, it was said, became
angered and forced a suspension
of sales when the price fell ten
cents or more below the 70-cent
top received a year ago. The gen
eral price average was reported
right at 50 cents for the sales
handled the first few days the
market operated last week.
Home for the week-end, Mr.
Taylor returned lo his market
this afternoon,
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BOARD MEETING
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VVilliamston's e n 1 a r g c il
j school committee will hold
its first meeting following ap
1 pointment the early part of
' this month in Attorney It. I..
i Coburn's office this evening,
it was learned yesterday. Sev
eral business matters are ten
j tativelv scheduled for consid
eration, one report said.
No information has been
released, but unofficial re
ports indicate that there have
been some teacher resigna
tions in the local school, and
the board will consider appli
cations.
Reports state that all the
other school committeemen
in the county met some time
ago, perfected their organi
zations and already have
made tentative plans for the
new term.
Member of ("lass of
| "24 Writes Letter to
| Oak City Seniors
! Howard F. Brown Itegrrh
He'll Be Unable To
Alleml Meeting
writing mint ms adopted dome
in Waukegan, Illinois, under re
cent date, Howard F. Brown,
county native and a member of
the 1924 < lass of the Oak Cits
High School, advised that he
would be unable to attend a meet
ing of the alumni association re
cently organized by the 19-17 s, n
ators. His letter follows:
“The invitation to attend youi
! first Alumni Banquet on May 9th
was greatly appreciated, and it i*
with deep regret that I will be
unable to (tend. Nothing would
afford me greater pleasure, how
ever, than to meet each of you,
and the many other alumni who
have gone before von. To see
and talk over old times w ith my
old class mutes of 2-1, some I have
seen only a few times since that
memorable night when we sat on
| the tag'- of the auditorium
j awaiting the presentation of that
long sought diploma for which we
had worked so hard.
"There were only nine of u ,
three girls and six boys, an un
usual combination to be sure. The
girls, as 1 remember, were dress
ed in beautiful white dresses, and
the boys "duked’’ out in blue
coals and while flannel trousers.
The heat was terrific and the ten
sion greater as we sat waiting to
be called, and never will 1 forget
as each of us arose our chairs fol
lowed. This brought a roar from
the audience, but only a flash of
embarrassment from a group of
dignified seniors who wi re for
TneFTm their gooeffiiv
“I have long hoped that some
day some graduating class would
start an alumni association, and
it pleases me greatly to Know
that you, tlie class of 1947, have
taken the step. If organized and
conducted properly it will mean a
let to your own satisfaction as
wet! a.-. a*ei ,. oi contribution to the
school and community in which
you live, but with Mr Ainsley to
guide and direct you, you can’t
go wrong. »
(Continued on page eight)
Critically Hurl
In Auto Accident
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L. H Rawls, Oak City man. was
critically hurt in an automobile
accident on the Raleigh Rittsboro
Road the early part of last week,
reports from a Raleigh hospital
stating yesterday that he was gel
ling along as well as could be ex
pected.
Riding with two other friends,
the used ear dealer, is known to
have suffered a broken neck, sev
eral fractured ribs and possibly a
back injury. His condition was
said to be so serious that a com
plete examination would have to
wait possibly several more days.
The cai went out of control,
skidded quite a distance and then
crashed against a telephone pule.
MMNWM
Hamits- 1 eadirrs
In Last Meeting
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New Officers I'ilected East
Evening for llie School
\ ear of I Ml 7-48
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Meeting in regular session at
the grammar school last evening,
the local parent-teacher associa
tion witnessed a very entertain
ing playlet staged by Miss By
rum's sixth grade, heard a few re
ports, elected new officers and
completed a short but very suc
cessful year. The association at
tracted 427 members during the
current year, and the group, num
bering approximately 100 parents
and interested patrons, was urged
to continue its cooperation in the
new year.
Tiie organization is closing the
year with a fairly healthy bal
ance, the retiring treasury. Miss
Mary Whitley, reporting a total
of $lf>9.,')ti in the bank plus $113.70
raised by the civic organizations
for playground equipment.
Presiding over the meeting, re
tiring president Hugh G. Horton,
the first man to serve in that posi
tion here, called for special re
ports. Mrs. J. W. Watts, vice
president, explained to the body
that a .special committee appeared
before the county board of educa
tion at a recent meeting of that
group and outlined the need for
a new building to house class
rooms, cafeteria, showers and
band room. The board was also
asked by the committee to coop
erate with the town in the con
struction of paved streets to and
near the school buildings. "We
.also called for a five-member lo
,cai committee and got it. and we
i hope sometime to have a ‘mama’
numbered among the committee
members," Mrs. W itts said.
Serving as chairman of a nomi
nating committee. Miss Ruth Man
ning reported the committee ac
tion, and the nominees, 11. P.
Moble} piesidont: Mrs. I. M. Mai -
golis, vice president; Mrs. Marvin
Bruton, treasurer, and Miss Es
telle Crawford, secretary, were
unanimously elected.
Asking to be heard, Rev. John
1.. Gofl. speaking for the member
ship, exp vssed appreciation to
the retiring officers for their ef
forts and the work they hud
handled during the term. The
newly elected piiaidiiil made U
few remarks and pleaded for the
continued cooperation of the
members, pledging in return, his
best efforts in making the new
year a successful one in the life
of the organization.
Badly Injured In
Fall From Truck
Lynetto (Squirrely) Coltiain,
13 yi'ciiold daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Coltiain of Griffins
Township, was critically hurt in a
! fall from a pick-up truck in front
| of the Rufus Hardison home at
c». . j i,, ,v •
noon.
Preliminary examinations made
in the local hospital showed that
her back was broken and that two
other vertabrae were injured. The
victim was removed in a Biggs
ambulance to Duke hospital yes
terday afternoon for treatment
winch will continue, it >■- thought,
for -eel ral months.
Riding with several other young
I friends, the young girl lost her
| balance and toppled out of the
i truck on the side to the dirt. The
truck, driven by a young man
named Liiley, was hot traveling
very fast, witnesses said.
Purchases Local
Heilig-Meyers Company, opera
tors of a number of furniture
stores in this State, purchased the
Wier Furniture Company on
Washington Street here last week
end, and took over active manage
ment this morning. One of the
partners was here for the trans
action.
Mr. J. 15. Bell, associated with
tl e company for the past twenty
five years, lias been named local
manager for the company and he
will enter upon his new duties to*
Furniture Store
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