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THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME L—NUMBER 42
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 27, 14J47
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FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
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Safety Crusade
Gaining Support
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Extensive Program Being
Planned for the Next
Five-Year Period
North Carolina's Traffic Safety
Crusade, a comprehensive five
year plan designed to reduce traf
fic fatalities and accidents, was
materially aided this week by two
significant events. Many news
papers, cooperating to ine fuilco!
wit.. . ,e C mmittto
for Traffic Safety, Inc., are pub
lishing a full page account of Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry's personal
safety letter to the people of
North Carolina. In addition, cer
tificates designating each motor
vehicle owner or driver as a traf
fic Safety Crusader have been
mailed from Raleigh. This desig
nation of every automobile owner
as a safety crusader, over the sig
▼ nature of the Governor of the
State is intended to impress our
citizens with the importance of
joining in this program to meke
North Carolina highways safer.
Realizing that the State is fac
ed with a serious condition—traf
fic tragedies happening hourly,
Governor Cherry called a State
Traffic Conference to consider
this vital subject. On the recom
mendation of this conference he
named the State Committee for
Traffic Sc*"':’ T-e fc f :v:.I
and means of enlisting the sup
port of the public and to prepare
a comprehensive traffic aaici^
program.
This Committee, with Coleman
W Roberts, president of fa*—
Jina Motor Club as chairman ana j
H. Galt Braxton, publisher o. m,, ,
sten Daily Free Press as Vice j
Chairman, is made up of a group ;
of far thinking and deeply inter- ;
ested State leaders. These men j
have designed a five year plan
which should help North Carolina
lose its unenviable position as
third high State in regard to traf
fic accidents.
Under leadership of the officers
and board of governors of the
State Committee for Traftic Safe
ty, Inc., the five year plan was
evolved. This program contem
plates: a mobilization for traffic
safety, teaching adults and stud
ents how to drive, conducting safe
driving courses in schools, driver
testing with accurate devices, pro
viding technical service to com
munities, the renewal of drivers'
licenses after examination, the in
spection of all motor vehicles, the
building of safety into highways,
the certainty of punishment for
traffic violators, improvement of
state and local traffic laws, in
creased state highway patrol anti
local traffic forces and recogni
tion for the best traffic safety re
cords.
The General Assembly, acting
in concurrence with the Gover
nor’s recommendations, enacted
motor vehicle legislation this year
which is far-reaching and a pro
gressive move in fighting traffic
fatalities and accidents. To make
this legislation effective, however,
it is necessary to have the full co
operation of the people.
Now, with Governor Cherry's
letter reaching the people through
the cooperation of the State press
and individual sponsors, a person
al challenge is issued to every citi
zen of North Carolina. How can
1 aid.this Traffic Safety Crusade?
You can aid this program by be
ing careful yourself, by boosting
safety to others, by cooperating
with county and town officials in
working out local traffic safety"
programs and by donating to this |
campaign.
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Meeting: in the law offices
of Critcher and Gurganus
here Thursday evening of this
week at 8:15 o'clock members
of the executive committee
of the Martin County Tuber
culosis Association will out
line a program for the furth
erance of the fight against
tuberculosis in the county.
Members of the committee
include, Mrs. P. B. Cone, Miss
Mary Taylor, Mrs. Eva
Grimes, Chas. H. and J. C.
Manning, Philip Keel, John
W Williams and Edgar Gur
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Advertising Drive Planned
Meeting in the law offices of
Peel and Manning last week-end,
a special committee headed by
Elbert S. Peel, chairman; A. J.
Manning, vice cahirman; R. Ed
win Peel, secretary: and Leman
Barnhill, treasurer, advanced ten
tative plans for an extensive to
bacco market advertising cam
paign for the 1947 season. Much
interest was expressed in the
plans which call for a $5,000 cash
l appropriation, personal solicita
! i-- u” kening in the
I market a id its possibilities. The
| meeting was well attended by
business and professional men. in
cluding representatives from each
of the warehouse firms.
The committee, working in
close cooperation with the mar
ket operators, "oposes to go on
the air over at least two radio
stations, support a newspaper
campaign, advance indirect adver
tising and back it all up with a
personal interest in behalf of the
GOOD SEASON * |
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Experiencing unusually hot
and dry weather for several
weeks, this county, with the
exception of one or two small
r •~>nviile,
had a fine season Sunday
V'hon rain fell and conditions
turned more favorable for to
bacco transplanting and the
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Tobacco transplanting, de
layed the greater part of
A,- _V.J ,„in
high gear yesterday with Ihe 1
, -ssibility that the crop will
be transplanted in its entire
ty before the end of this
week, leaving possibly a little
resetting to be handled in
early junt.
Two Minor Road !
Wrecks Saturday
One person whs hurt and an (
lutomobile was badly damaged in i
wo highway accidents, both in s
he Jamesville section, last Satur
iay.
Will Roberson, 88-year-old coi
ned handyman around the yard
if Mr, and Mrs, Leslie Hardison,
ell out of a horse-drawn cart a
ew miles out from Jamesville on
he Farm Life Road and broke
me or more ribs. Roberson, said
o have been imbibing a bit too
reely, went to the Hardison lot
rhere he had worked for years,
litched up a young horse to a cart
nd started to the country to get
hair cut. When he fell out of
ic cart he was a mile or more
cyond the home of his friend
here he was to have his hair cut.
[e was treated in a doctor’s office
t Plymouth.
No one was hurt but damage,
stimated by Patrolman W. E.
aunders resulted when a 1941
ontiac club coupe, driven by Jeff
avis McNair, colored, of Roper,
ad a Ford truck, driven by Arth
r Godard Shepard, white, of Wil
amston, sideswiped each other
aout one and one-half miles this
de of Jamesville at 4:00 o’clock
st Saturday morning. The truck
jlongcd to the Moore Ice Com
iny of Windsor.
chool Closing
Tomorrow Night
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Williamston’s school closing
ogram, following the com
encement sermon in the high
hool auditorium ■Sunday night,
ill center around the senior class
cercises tonight at 8:00 o’clock
ith the big event—graduation—
heduled for Wednesday night at
e same hour.
Hugh G. Horton, local attorney,
ill address the seniors and spec
1 awards will be announced and
esented along with diplomas.
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finor Robbery Reported
.It Lunch Counter Here
Tearing a panel out of the back
tor, a thief entered Jernigan's
nch room on Washington Street
Me Sunday and stole about a
>und of barbecue and possibly a
w pints of wine.
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market. Known as “Williamston
Tobacco Market Boosters,” the
newly formed organization is out
to get every local citizen" to talk
tobacco, think tobacco and invite
the sale of tobacco in Williams
ton.”
Arrangements were made to
place the market on the air each
day between 12:20 and 12:25, and
A. J. Mantling wras directed to ex
pand the program. W. C. Manning
was named to head the newspaper
advertising program, and Thad
Harrison was instructed to ad
vance an indirect advertising
movement calling for special
wmrds to be stamped on direct
mail letters ana other media. J.
Rossell Rogers and Urbin Rogers,
recently joining the market's op
erating personnel, were named to
prepare the radio advertising pro
grams, and they are to contact
other advertisers in an effort to
have them include a "plug” for
the local market.
Funeral Service
Held Friday For
Soldier’s Widow
Mrs. Kffie Harrison Win*
berry Died In Sanatorium
T' - '.v Morning
Funeral services were conduct
ed in the Rosp of Sharon Free
Will Raniist Ch.ireh L,. 7, ;d„y
afternoon for Mrs Ff,;- ,T—:—
~;.loerry „„„ „,.v.
**->rtin County Sanatorium the
■norning before. Her pastor, the
Rev. D. W. Alexander of near
Bethel, conducted the last riles
ind interment was in the church
yard. Her death was the second
epc.rted in the sanatorium last
week, and the third tuberculosis
ieath in her family; a grandfather
ind a sister having preceded her
n death.
The daughter of Mrs. Lillie Pol
ard Harrison and the late Alonzo
larrison of the Bear Grass sec
ion, she wt^s born on June 3, 1922.
Vhen about sixteen years of age
he fell victim of tuberculosis and
uceessfully underwent treatment
a a state sanatorium. Following
er discharge from the institution
he was married to Earl L. Allcox
f Pitt County, in August, 1942.
le was killed on the Western
ront in France on February 3,
945, a daughter, Alice Virginia,
ten 18 months old, surviving.
Mrs. Allcox suffered a relapse
nd after that was married to El
icr Winberry of this county. She
.'entered the State Sanatorium
id while there in lath October of
st year her husband, acting
jainst the advice of her attend
g physicians, took her out of the
stitution. Her disappearance
lused much concern for possibly
n or fifteen days or until she
as found critically ill in a Tar
no hotel where her case was }
lied to the attention of the Red
oss. She was removed imme- 1
ately to the Martin County San- j
orium where her condition re- I
ained virtually unchanged until 8
st a short time before the end v
3t Thursday morning. Reports '
ite that. Winberry had not visit
her in about two months, that r
generally visited her about F
ce a month or about the time
r allotment or pension checks J
ached her. Winberry’s recent
lcrcabouts is not known to au- 1
orities, but letters written by 1
n a short time ago were post
irked at Otcen.
me case had teen m the hands
welfare authorities for some
ne, but they were unable to
pe with all the existing condi
ns which apparently kept her
t of a regular sanatorium.
Besides her small daughter and
sband, she leaves her mother;
: sisters, Lillian, Nellie and hlir
Mae Harrison of the home
ar Gold Point, Mrs. James G.
ckson of Plymouth, Mrs. Jim
e Lee and Mrs. King E. Cratt of
ar Grass; and four brothers, A.
Harrison of Tarboro, Albert
irrison of Greenville, Thomas
irrison of Newport News, and
soph Mayo Harrison of the
me.
Mrs. Winberry was held in high
eem by all who knew her, and
Dorts from the county sana
'ium stated that she accepted
r -ufi .ring with great patieii/vw
Victim of Attack
Late Last Sunday
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Eighty Small Shot Counted
In William Ruffin's Foot
Following Attack
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William Ruffin. 28-year-old col
ored man, was painfully and pos
sibly seriously hurt late last Sun
day night when he was attacked
by an unknown assailant on a lit
tle used street in Jamesvillc. Of
ficers were working on the case
late Monday but a report on their
investigation was not revealed
immediately.
Brought to a Williamston doc
tor's office for treatment, Ruffin
carried eighty small shot in one
foot, a report stating that a few
had found their way into the
other foot, most of them piercing
the shoes and lodging at or near
the bones. A report coming from
the doctor's office stated that no
bones were broken, that after re
ceiving treatment, Ruffin was re
turned to his home in Jamesville.
Walking along the little used
street or path, Ruffin was accost
ed by a man believed by some to
have been white with a shot gun.
“He told me to turn around and
run back where I came from,”
Ruffin was quoted as saying. A
preliminary report on the attack
stated that Ruffin did as he was
told, that he had hardly started
running before he was fired upon
at fairly close range. The man's
assailant, believed to have been
drinking, left the scene, and
neighbors, hoaiintr the shot founH
... mm.. hi,,, to the I
doctor’s office. I
It was reported that the assail-1
ant had talked with another man |
at or near the same spot where!
Ruffin was shot, a short time lat
er, but details of the conversa
tion held by the two could not be
learned.
Following an investigation last
night, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck said
this morning that an arrest could
be expected shortly.
Ruffin has been making his
home for the past six or eight ■
months in Jamesville where he •
was employed by Contractor Les- I
lie Hardison. He told officers thut i
is far as he knew he had made t
10 one mad, that he had no ene- <
nies. I
Rare Stamp Has
Value of $50,000
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An inch-square piece of paper
had special cops and the Centen
ary International Philatelic Exhi
bition in a very rare tizzy recent
ly in New York.
It was the British Guiana one
cent magenta postage stamp, val
ued at $50,000, and worth that
much to well-heeled collectors
because so far as is known
it is the only one of its color ever
made.
The stamp, which King George
V once vainly tried to buy, is on
display at the exhibition in an ex
pensive mounting in a blue velvet
I box in a glass case, guarded by a
special cop. All of a sudden it
vanished. After frantic search it
was found—under the mounting.
The heat from the spotlights had
melted the glue which held it in
place.
Meanwhile, the Postoffice re
ported that the Centenary was
being observed by philatelists and
others who bought 7,586.267 three
cent stamps with a value of $227 -
588.01. The previous record, 80,
000 less stamps, was set last Feb
ruary with the Edison stamps.
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Minor Accident
Last Thursday
Property damage, estimated at
$275 by Cpl. W. T. Simpson of the
highway patrol, resulted when a
taxi driven by Lloyd H. Viek and
a jeep; driven by Leslie Rober
son, crashed on the Slaugthcr
House Road last Thursday morn
ing at 7:22 o’clock. No one was
hurt, the patrol officer said.
Roberson, according to the re
port, was getting ready to make a
turn in front of the slaughter
house, and Vick, was traveling
toward the railroad when the ve
hicles crashed, doing $175 dam
age to the Tari, a Dodge couch,
and $100 to U:c jeep.
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Economy Directed
Against Tlie Farm
Would Also Lop About
Thirty Million from
School Lunch Fund
The House Appropriations Com
mittee, seeking ways to slash ex
| penses in order to reduce taxes,
proposes to save $383,000,000 at
the expense of the nation's farm
■ ers and school children.
It slashed this amount (or 32
per cent) from the Agriculture
Department’s $1,190,000,000 bud
get, cutting deepest into funds re
quested for the school lunch pro
gram, for soil conservation, crop
insurance and loans to tenant far
mers.
To justify cutting the school
lunch budget from $75,000,000 to
$45,000,000, the Committee assert
ed that ‘only one child out of
nine receives a free meal." Then:
“It does not seem too much to
suggest that the cost of school
lunches for the children of Ameri
ca, most of whom are able to pay
for them, might well be borne by
the States."
To the farmers of the U. S. A.,
the Committee offered a New
Deal, asserting that the time has
come for agriculture to solve more
of its problems through individ
ual and community action rather
than through “paternalistic Fed
eral grants and subsidies.”
Informed of the Committee ac
tion, Secretary of Agriculture
T. Anderson repeated
wluit hf, had said in testimony,:
that the nronnsed cut would cri^
pie the farm program; that it
would eliminate functions "which
are mandatory under laws."
The cuts, if upheld by the House
after debate, will boost to slightly
more than $2 .billion the total re
ductions made Dy the House in its
drive to lop $6 billion from the
President's 37 1-2 billion budget.
Here are the major cuts that hit
the farmer:
Soil conservation: Cut from
$267,620,754 to $150,000,000, the
amount which may go in direct
payments to farmers for follow
ing practices intended to conserve
the soil and promote more pro
duction over a long period of time,
practices which have proved
themselves in the light against
erosion.
Farm Tenant Loans: The entire
$35,000,000 budget request was
denied because, the committee
said, present farm values are in
flated and arc “certain to collapse 1
and farmers saddled with loans
at current inflated values will
surely come to grief.” Loans for ■
production and subsistence were
cut $90,000,000 to $60,000,000 be
cause “bunk credit is available
in abundance.”
Crop Insurance: Cut from $9,- '
330,000 to $2,000,000 and put on an (
“experimental basis until a sound |
and actural approach is develop- ,
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Frit' Altrndiiiii Typhoid
1 in in u n izati on Clinic a
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Very few persons acted to pro
tect themselves against typhoid
fever when the first in a number
of immunization clinics were held
in the lower part of the county
yesterday, according to a prelim
inary report coming from the
county health office.
A schedule of the clinics ap
pears on page two in this paper,
and the attention of the public is
directed to it with the expressed
hope that thousands will act in
their own protection. Two cases
of the fever were reported lust
year, and one of them has proved
to be a carrier.
APPLICANTS
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No official information lias
been released, but it was re
liably learned this week that
several persons had filed ap
plications for the position of
local police chief. Some of
the commissioners, it was
learned, had been contacted
personally by some of the
present officers and several
outside the department. They
were instructed to file their
applications in writing: for
consideration possibly at the
regular meeting next Monday
of tilt lull board.
For jNew Proprietor
Chas. J. Brady To
Take Charge Here
On June The First
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New Owners Planning 15
Room Addition to Pres
ent Hotel Building
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Purchasing the George Reyn
olds Hotel property from the Cun
ninghams several weeks ago,
Messrs. Sid A. Mobley and Robert
L. Coburn announced this week
that the hotel had been leased to
Chas. J. Brady and that the new
operator would take over the
management on June 1. The K.
A. Whites, operators of the hotel
for the past several years, are
planning to make their home at
Ocean View, it was learned.
Mr. Brady, although a young
man, has had 28 years experience
in the hotel business, having op
erated the Vance for several years
in Henderson where he made
many friends. Mr. Brady, coming
here highly recommended as a
hotel manager, will be accompani
ed by his wife and 15-year-old
son.
The new owners announced
plans for a renovation prog>',’>"
costing several thousand dollars. I
for the hotel, including new fur
nishings and equipment. Leasing
me properly ior nve years wun|
the new manager will operate a
modern dining room.
Commenting on the renovation
program, one of the new owners
stated that they planned to make
•he hotel a good, clean and com
fortable one. The hotel will be :
aperated only partially during the
month of June when the owners
plan to complete the renovation
work, including painting and pap- '
-'ring. 1
It was pointed out that no ex- |1
ensive modernization program ! '
would be attempted just now, the
lwners explaining that they are j1
till considering plans for the con- *
(ruction of a 45-room addition to '
he present property. "We have *
uid blueprints prepared, and we ;
tope to build the addition at some 1
uture time,” Co-owner R. L. Co- J1
>urn said, explaining that no at- i1
erupt to build the annex would!1
'C made until construction costs ■1
noderate to some extent. i1
Man Attacked And
Leit On Highway
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Karl Cooper Hollowcll, young
World War II veteran, was beat-)
en and left on the Slaughter
House Itoad lute last Thursday
night. Picked up by Deputy
Sheriff Buck Holloman and local
officers, Hollowed, a roof work-1
or, was placed in the hospital here ;
for treatment. Said to have been
drinking, Hollowcll was not badly
hurt and was able to leave the
hospital the next day.
The young man went to the
Slaughter House Cafe and tried to
get a check cashed. While there
he was reported to have insulted j
patrons, several of whom were (
from Windsor. He was ordered
from the cafe and he was found
in a semi-conscious condition
stretched out on the highway.
He told officers that a white
man, weighing about 200-pounds,
wearing a sport shirt and driving
a one-seated black car, beat him.
No arrests have been made in the
case.
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Firemen Called
Out Last Night
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Fire, believed by Fire Chief G.
1*. Hall to have started from u cig
arette on the floor of the dark
room, wrecked the Bcddard
Photo Shop on Huilroud Street
here at 10:50 last night. Smould
ering apparently for several
hours, the fire smoked up the ap
proximately 12x12 room and
wrecked all the equipment. Fire
men brought the fire under con
trol with a small hose line.
No estimate on the loss could
be had immediately.
SLICK THEFT
Approximately $.100 in 10
and 20-dollar bills were stol
en from Bruce Holloman, op
erator of the Centi a' 'irrv' a
Station, here aoout 9:00
o’clock last SunUa.r
Preparing La close his busi
ness for the night, Mr Hollo
man packed the bills into a
money sack. He laid the sack
down to wait on a late cus
tomer and someone, using a
sharp knife, cut a small hole
in the bag and slipped the
money out.
The owner did not detect
the theft until about 2:00
o'clock Monday morning
when he got up to answer an
emergency call and looked
into the bag for change and
found the money gone.
Hold Funeral For
Mack Henry Scott
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In County Monday
Retired Farmer Died at Mis
Home [Near ttak liilv
j fairly Sunday
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the home near Oak City J
i Tvlutidav afternoon ... ...
for Mack Henry Scott, retired
farmer, who died there at 5.CG
I o’clock Sunday morning. His pa:
J tor Elder Thurman Phelps of the
'Tarboro Mormon Church con
ducted the last rites. He was as
sisted by Elder J. R Bass of
Rocky Mount, and Elder Lee 11
Hendrickson, who recently came
to eastern North Carolina from
Jerome, Idaho, to do mission work
for the Mormon church, inter
ment was in Williamston's Wood
lawn Cemetery.
The son of the late John and
I Bettie Scott, he was born near
j Robersonville on September 1,
1892, and lived and worked on a
| farm all his life, or until he was ,
[forced into virtual retirement by
a heart ailment about three years |
ago. His condition, while serious ;
for some time, was not considered
critical until about three days hi-- ■
fore the end when he was forced | \
to his bed. I
Mr. Scott was first married to ,
Miss Dora Pollard of the Parmele
Community and following her i
death he was married to Miss |
Sadie Squires of Pamlico County.
He and his family had made their \
home in the Hamilton-Ha.- sell i
Communities for a number of ]
years before locating on the Hois- *
lip farm near Oak City a few i
months ago. He joined the Mor- ,
mon church in Tarboro about a j h
month ago. ,
Surviving are his widow and I
twelve children, James Henry, i
Cleman, Raelu-l, Frank, Clyde, e
Lillian, Muck Henry, Jr., Fred J ,
Johnnie, Bessie Mae and Huddie 1
Scott; three brothers, Samuel
Scott of Pitt County, Stephen .
Scott of Plymouth, and Bert |
Scott of Oak City; one sister, Mrs.
Emma Page of Oak City; fifteen
grandchildren and one great
grandchild, |c
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Decision Expands
Authority of Law
The United States Supreme ‘
Court recently handed down a 5 j
to 4 decision holding that law of- !
ficfcrs arresting a man at his home
on a wurrunt may search the pre
mises and use against him any
evidence they find of law-break
ing. The four who disagreed said
the court was striking down the
constitution’s protection against
unreasonable search and seizure.
Chief Justice Virson delivered
the court's majority decision. Dis
sents were entered by Justices)
Frankfurter, Murphy, Jackson \
and Itutlcdge. The decision up-)
held the conviction of an Okla
homa resident who was tried for i
draft law violation on evidence!
accidentally uncovered by F. B. I.
agents during a search of his1
home in connection with another
mutter.
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Mumper Ham i! i ;ur
Of UNRRA Relief
“Steal Food From Starv«
iiifl, Self It and Pocket
The Money
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Robert St. John, author and
new- —-mmentator who has just
arri" in v" -nsi,,- ,, at — -«.»ncj.
big some time in Greece, reports
th ‘ Gre'-' officials are v.ithhcld
>ne UNRRA food from thousands
of villages.
In a letter to American Relief
for Greek Democracy St. John
declares:
“The EAM (coalition of left
parties) has just sent proof to
the government that 3500 villages
in Greece have received no UNR
RA food for an average of six
months. An UNRRA official in
Athens and another at Salonika
state that 'many of the villages
have received no food for 11 or
12 months.’ The EAM is being
conservative.”
One reason Greek villages get
no food, St. John discovered, was
that “under the law, the Nomar
ch ia (head of the county) can is
sue the village's food ration only
to the president (of the village).
So the president posts a notice on
a telephone pole that unless the
people,of the village call for their
rations within five days, he will
v..opuse of tile food.
“Then, when they don't appear
because they already have been
warned to stay where they are,
— r .. .u« nt sells die peoples
food and pockets the money, after
spinung with various other Greek
oi'i icials,” St. John reports.
ht. John describes his visit to
the village of A vestario, with a
population of (172. He vwrit.es:
I he children all have sores on
laces arms and bodies. I held one
in my arms. Its belly was like
that ol a Tammany alderman.”
"Have you any food in town rug
the children?” St. John asked.
"No.”
“What are you living on?”
“Roots from the forest.” (St,
John comments that doctors told
'ini that the roots have no real
lourishment and merely fill and
)loat the belly).
Three women stepped forward,
me with live children, one with
our, one with three. The three
lusbands were serving long sen
ences in exile.
One of the women said, "We
wuld give our children away if
re could be sure someone would
eed them. And we love them, but
ve cannot see them starve.”
1 here are no medical supplies
n the village, a doctor has never
-ceil there, and there is no school.
In the general store, St. John
eports, "the shelves are empty
xeept for 13 boxes of the finest
rejich face powder 1 have ever
ecu (probably imported and
meed on the shop owner by one
f the ‘admirable’ characters
nuwn as a Greek 'unporter-in- »•
ustrialist’), one string of rotten
gs, five pounds of white beans,
iree one-pound boxes of mouldy
hocnlates, one bottle of aspirin.’’
American women of today, ac
cording to a survey made by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, have an average life span
"f sixty-nine and one-half years,
as compared to sixty-four and
one-half years for men. The fig
ures show a gain of sixteen and
two-thirds years life expectancy
since the turn of the century.
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v.
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There were several figIlls
and a guu attack, hut only
lour persons were arrested
ami plaeed in the county jail
here over the week-end. No
arrest hail been made late
Monday in the shot gun at
tack.
One person was jailed for
public drunkenness, one for
an assault, oue for being
drunk and disorderly and one
for operating a motor vehicle
without a driver's license.
The ages of the group, in
cluding one white, ranged
from 13 to 1. years.