THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
TVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME LII—NUMBER 5
Williamston, Marlin County, ISorth Carolina, Tuesday, January 18, 79 #9
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ HI
OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT!
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEI
ESTABLISHED 1899
Dairy Plans For j
County Discussed
Bv Farmer Group
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County Import injj More
Than $1,000 Worth of
Milk Each Week
The need for expanded dairying i
in Martin County was discussed
by farmers at a meeting of the ;
Martin County Farm Bureau in
the courthouse last Friday even- ]
ing. The farm leaders expressed
much interest in an expanded j
dair- program for the county and
ur/der construction in the county
it is believed that a new source of
income to supplement that receiv
ed from farm crops will be cre
ated.
While the county is actually im
porting more than $52,000 worth
of raw milk annually, no mention
was made of other dairy products.
If ice cream and other dairy pro
ducts were manufactured at j
home, an industry running into j
several hundred thousands of dol
lars could be established.
Addressing the meeting briefly,
Mr. Van G. Taylor who is Con
structing a plant in partnership
with his nephew, Van Ralph Tay
lor, said that his dairy in Poplar
Point was buying milk from near
by farms for about 70 cents per
gallon. He explained that the
plant would consider establishing
milk routes in the county and cre
ate a market for surplus milk on
the farm.
Farmer Mayo Hardison said he
was milking two cows, that first
there was plenty of milk, cream
and butter for his household and
that he was selling the surplus to
the dairy for about $90 a month.
"It isn’t all profit, to be sure, but
it is a mighty good source of in
come besides the ample supply
provided for ourselves,” Mr.
Hardison said. He is convinced
that Marlin County can go into
the business not on any big scale
but with two or three cows on the
individual farm and make money.
It was pointed out that Farmer
Roy Taylor in Poplar Point is sell
ing about $100 worth of milk to
the dairy each month,, that the
farmer had found it necessary to
buy very little feed and that lie
had hardly missed the feed given
the cows on his farm.
Interested in the progress of
their county the Messrs. Van G.
and Van R. Taylor will gladly dis
cuss the business as a source of
individual income witli farmers
and help them launch the project.
An expanded dairy program for
the county will be discussed at a
muss meeting of farmers and other
interested citizens at a date to be
announced.
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^ ill Speak Here
Dr. L. N. D, Wells, noted
churchman, will speak in the Wil
liamston Christian Church Friday
evening of this week ih 7:30
o’clock, and the public is invited
to hear him.
Dr. Wells, former pastor of East
_ Dallas Christian Church, one of
the larger* churches
orhood of Disciples of Christ is
Chaiman of the Advisory Section
of the Crusade for a Christian
juat for a Chi is ciair
World is fortunate in having ob
tained the services of Dr. Wells for
Crusade Chairman. He is widely
known throughout the brother
hood as a dynamic personality and
his qualities of aggressive leader
ship are deeply respected and
highly esteemed.
As Crusade Chairman of the
Advisory Section, Dr. Wells will
be chairman of the hundreds of
World Crusaders, consisting of re
presentatives of the states and
provinces on the Crusade Advis
ory Committee, the Board and the
state and provincial leaders, and
including ministers, laymen, lay
women and young people.
Sheriff Improving In
A Washington Hospital
Entering a Washington hospital
for treatment ]a=t Saturday aft
ernoon, Sheriff C. L. Roebuck was
reported slightly improved this
morning.
Peanut Harvest Just A bout
Completed In This County
Between S3 and 99 percent of
the peanut crop has been harvest
ed in this county, late reports de
claring that there is only an oc
casional crop left in the fields.
Favorable weather prevailing for
more than a week made it possible
for most farmers to complete the
harvest last week,'a task ordinari
ly Kindled days before Christmas.
The goobers have been moving
to market in volume and while
prices have held to government
support levels few buyers ivere
active. Most of thf deliveries this
year were made «\o government
warehouses to be converted into
oil stock. Prices have ranged
around eight cents for oil stock
while the open market rarfged
from about 10 to 11 cents. The
cleaners found too many wet and
damaged peanuts, and the buyers
in several instances withdrew
from the market. Fossibly sixty
percent of the crop h^s moved in
to government channels.
Large deliveries were reported
on the market here yesterday and
storage facilities are now taxed
almost to capacity. This week, it
is almost certain, will see the last
of the marketing rush.
Some few farmers are holding
their peanuts on the farm in the
hope that the goobers will diy- out
sufficiently to permit their sale on
the open market.
Cieaners declare that the 1948
49 season was the most hectic on
record, and it is readily admitted
that if the government had not
been present with a support price,
the bottom would have dropped
out of the market.
Band, Float And
Car To Appear
For Lions’ Club
Green Wave Band Presents
Full Dress Rehearsal Of
Routine Toniirlil at 7
The Williamston High School
Green Wave Band, a float and an
official car will represent Wil
liamston at the District. Lions’
convention in Rocky Mount to
morrow in the feature parade. A
full dress rehearsal of the part
Williamston will have in the pa
rade will he presented tonight at
7 o’clock when the band will go
through its routine and the float
will be on display.
Final plans for the local club’s
participation in the convention’s
big parade tomorrow morning at
11 o’clock were announced at a
meeting of the Lion’s club last
Thursday night at the Woman's j
Club. Louis Day, Deputy Dis
trict Governor of District 3t-C at
tended the meeting Thursday j
night. From Rocky Mount he
brought details of the big conven- j
lion plans. The Mid Winter con-!
vention starts tonight with a big j
dinner dance at the Club Carlyle. I
The big event of the convention
v. ill be the mammoth parade Wed- j
nesday morning at 11 o’clock
when the Williamston Green!
Wave Bartd, representing the Wil- j
liamston Lions, will compete with!
ten other of the state’s best high j
school bands for first prize.
Faced with such imposing com
petition as the bands from Eliza
beth City, Henderson, and Wil
mington, Professor Butler has
been putting his charges through
their paces daily to perfect a new!
routine for the parade. Local citi-1
zens who can not make the trip |
to Rocky Mount will be afforded!
Wf TffflCTWB;fllfjMW?’
routine tonight on Main Street.
International President Eugene
S Briggs of Enid, Oklahoma, will
be in the reviewing stands when
the Green Wave Band passes in
review and the entire proceedings
will be broadcast over the Dixie
tions.
The band and all others attend
ing the big parade Wednesday are
S< ’ ldl'nt !
just before 9:00 a. m. and will |
travel in a unit to the convention!
city. The bus carrying the band !
and tho-o-^^unnlomentinc it wiU
als > return as a ut-i tr. the early
afternoon.
Following Lion* Day’s conven
tinn report the club was treated to
a fifteen minute thanseribed pro
grain on Lionism by Ted Malone,)
(Continued on page eight) !
ABOUT HALF
Approximately one-half of
the taxable property has been
placed on the books for the
1949-50 tax year, according to
information coming from the
office of County Tax Super
visor M. L. Peel. The listing
period continues through Jan
uary 31, no provision having
been made to extend the time
for listing after that date.
Values are holding their
own with several districts
showing some gain, the tax
man explained.
LEAF ACREAGE 1
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Martin County has been al
lotted 11,390 acres of tpbacco
under the 1949 program, the
office of the county agent
announced this week. Last
year the allottment was 10,
840 acres.
It is fairly certain that the
entire allotment will be plant
ed this year.
Funeral Here For
Richard P. Hawes
Graveside services were con
ducted in Woodlawn Cemetery
here this morning at 10:30 o’clock
by Rev. E. R. Shuller, Methodist
minister, for Richard P. Hawes,
retired naval engineer, who died
in Doctors’ Hospital, Washington,
D. C.. last Friday. He had been in
declining health for some time
and his condition had been serious
for about two weeks.
Mr. Hawes was born tin Groves
Street. New York City, 75 years
ago and entered the naval service
when a young man, serving fifty
two years and during two world
wars as an engineer of naval ord
nance at the Washington Navy
Yard (now the Naval Gun Fac
tory). He was to have retired
in 1941 but continued at his post
of duty when World War II start
ed.
He was married here to Miss
Mary Roberson of Williamston on
October 26, 1919, and later located
in Lanham, Maryland. He attend
ed Columbian College, now
George Washington University.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by his pastor in the Hine^s Fun
eral Home, 2901 14th Street, NW,
Washington, D. C., Sunday after
noon.
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Hawes served for a number of
years as chairman of the house
committee of the Washington Golf
and Country Club. He made an
nual visits to Williamston over a
period of years, enjoying hunting
trips with friends here, and show
i keen interest in the town
and community. He was a mem
ber of the D. C. Society, Sons of
the American Revolution.
^jjurvtying besides Mrs. Hawes
is a brother, John C^,"H?wes,", per
sonnel officer of the tabulating di
vision, Census Bureau, Washing
ton, D. C.
Peanut Farmers
Facing Problem
Martin County peanut farmers
along with others in the old pro
ducing areas are certain to face a
problem this year. A reduction of
approximately 22 percent has
been ordered in the crop, and the
problem now is to apply the re
duction.
It is quite likely that the old
growers who did not materially
increase their acreage will be cut
considerably below a normal al
lotment while comparatively new
growers will have a fairly promi
nent place in the production pic
ture.
Peanut production figures in
(he county are being prepared and
they will he submitted to the Hal
elgii office where an allotment,
formula will be determined. '
Delegates Report
On National Farm
Bureau Meeting!
Marlin County Now Has 2,-j
076 Members; 1.325,
000 In The Nation
Reporting on the national con-!
vent.ion of the American Farm
Bureau Federation held in Atlan- j
tic City last month, delegates from
this county to the meeting said in
the courthouse last Friday night
that the nation’s farm leaders
were fairly optimistic about the1
future. The delegates admitted,!
however, that those leaders point
ed out that there were problems
to be solved.
The Congressional proposal to1
knock cut the 90 percent-of-pari
ty plan was discussed at length,
the delegates reporting that the
convention passed a resolution
favoring the continuance of the
plan where controls are maintain
ed. The substitute plan as ex
plained by the delegates would
allow parity to drop as low as 60
percent of cost of , production.
While such a plan would be bet
ter than no plan at all, it does not
fit into the picture as it exists for
industry and labor in our nation
today, it was explained. The
meeting last Friday night adopted
a resolution, urging the continu
ance of the 90 percent-of parity
program.
The meeting voted to pay $900
into the state educational founda
tion to promote research work in
plant diseases such as black shank
and root rot in tobacco and for the
never ending fight against insects
and other pests. The Martin
County Farm Bureau previously
had agreed to pay $1,000 as its
share of the cost in supporting the
program.
Pointing out that the need for a
strong farm organization is great
er now than ever before, President
Chas. L. Daniel, one of the dele
gates reporting on the national
convention, said that Martin
County now has 2.076 members,
that the State has 67,504 and the
nation 1,325,000 members. Geor
gia, with 73,000 members, leads
the South in membership.
T. B. Brandon, Geo. C. Griffin
and Reuben Everett were other
delegates who r eported briefly on
the national meeting held in the
New Jersey city.
Mayo Hardison, Tom Brandon,
C. L. Daniel, Henry Early, Geo.
Griffin, Garland Forbes, V. G.
(Continued on puge eight)
Asks Substitute
For “Mud Taxes’’
In a special message to a joint
session of the State Senate and
House of Representatives Monday
*> ..IT pwi
posed a bond issue and p one
cent additional gasoline tax as
substitutes for “mud taxes ’ i i
North Carolina. The one cent g.e,
tax increase and a 200 mill if •
dollar bond issue would be us.
to finance a secondary road pro
.ih'g- -
Declaring that his program
would be cheaper than the mud
tax the j ural people arc now pay
Lna>[ firott ..would J»:i
or treat 12,000 miles of secondary
roads, roads neglected, more or
less, all these years.
The proposed- issue is about !
twice as large as all previuusruatT
bond issues of the past.
Lane Inspecting
Many Vehicles
Ending a five-day stay here, the
State lyiotor Vehicle Insp< ction
lane handled several hund'ccl
motor vehicles, Supervisor M. L.
Baker, Jr., said. The lane will he
reopened on February 11 for six
days.
All 1936 and prior models were
scheduled to have been inspected
this month and 33 and 39 models
will be inspected next month.
Supervisor Baker said {hat it is
permissible to inspect any model
at any time, but that deadlines
were necessary to prevent conges
tion. All models are to be inspect
ed before June 30 and a second I
tuile iiazj j ear bvleii; -ill-r
31, 1
Funeral Saturday
\\ est End Church
For Pic. New hern
Young \3au Gave llis Life
Diirinj' World \\ ar II In
Battle Of Bulge
Funeral services will be con
ducted in the West End Baptist
Church Saturday afternoon at 3:00 !
o'clock for Pfc. John C Newbern,
Jr., who gave his life during
World Wor II along the French
German border. The pastor. Rev.
Thad Ashley and Rev. E. R. Stew
art, Baptist minister of Hamilton,
will conduct the service, and a de
tail from the John Walton Hassell
Post of the American Legion will
be in charge of the military rites
itt the graveside in Woodlawn
Cemetery here. The young man’s
body will reach here Thursday
afternoon from the Brooklyn de
pot and will lie in state at the
Biggs Funeral Home until one
hour before the service Saturday
afternoon.
The son of John C. and Mrs.
Willie White Newbern, he was
born in Bertie County on April
13, 1921, and spent his early life )
there, attending the county
schools and later completing his
education in the Windsor High
School. In 1938 when his famjjv
moved to this county, the youth
went to Newport News where he
was employed in the ship yard
and later in a drug store. He was
married in 1940 to Miss Agnes El
liott of Edenton and she survives
with two children, Arnette and
John C. Newbern, lit, all of Kan
sas City, Missouri. Also surviving
are his parents; one brother, Dav
id L. Newbern of Williamston;
and two sisters, Mb's Bessie New
bern of Newport News, and Miss
Pearl Newbern who is now study
ing at Berea College, Berea, Ken
tucky.
He entered the service in
March, 1944, from Newport News,
and following his basic training at
Ft. Benning, Ga., he went to the
European theater in November,
1945, participating in the Battle of
the Bulge. Pfc. Newbern was with
the 401st Glider Infantry Battal
ion, 101st Airborn Division, and
was killed on February 18, 1945,
while ori a night patrol in Ila
guenau Forest near the French
German border.
He was a promising young man
and was a member of Green’s
Cross Baptist Church in Bertie
I County.
Insurance Finns
Consolidate Here
The insurance firms of K. B.
Crawford and Harrison and Car
starphen have boon consolidated
here, and offices will be maintain
ed tn the hotel building, it was
Inublirly announced this week.
Oi gam/ts i o s
Crawford, the Crawford agency is
'o«inj? its office in the Guaranty
ij nk li 'ding and the senior Mr.
t . v . (1 and his son, Asa, will be
asst elated with the Harrison and
Or.. tarphen agency.
S' consolidation will in no
Way ' elite, (,Ti eliWT/WlPiW^W
policies written, and die Messrs.
Crawfords will welcome their old
customers and friends in their
•WPW-ltx stion,
Farmers Receive
“ Soil Payments
j
The first checks for soil build
ing Ie ,,' ta < ! tui i itil Oiit in 134,"
have been icceived by farmers in
this county. Approximately 200
checks, amounting to around $3,
000, have Ije, n delivered to date,
the office of the county agent an
nounced this week.
It is estimated that farmers in
tins county are eligible for total
payments in the sum of $22,000. It
was pointed out, however, that
nearly 100 farmers who qualified
to participate in the program had
not reported to tie* county agent’s
office to sign the proper applica
tions. All eligible farmers have
been notified by direct mail and
yet about 100 have delayed sign
ing.
Martin County farmers: tan earn
tliis year possibly mor>* than $fin ~ <
000 by rallying out certain soil!
h'jiMir':.* nr:]'1!in- *■■■•♦ • *-rj*♦ *»>■/• I
ly that they will earn that much. I
Extensive Drainage
Program for Countv
CT7 J
i OFF TO GOOD START
v
The annual drive to raise
$4,700 in this county for the
Infantile Paralysis Fund was
off to a good start last
Thursday, Chairman L. B.
Wynne said.
D. A. Brown, Robersonville
man, led the drive when he
submitted a $5 donation
Other contributions, averag
ing more than double those
received in the 1948 drive, fol
lowed.
The chairman is depending
upon the various school prin
cipals and ('has. Gray in Rob
ersonvillc to help carry the
drive over the top between
now and the last of this
month.
Mrs. Robt. Hodges
Died At Her Home
Early Last Friday
Funeral Srrviee Condueted
At 3:00 O'dloek Satur
day Afternoon
Mrs. Robert L. Hodges, highly
esteemed citizen, died at her home
on the Washington Highway in
Bear Grass Township at 3:30f
o'clock last Friday morning of a
heart attack. She suffered an at
tack two weeks previously, but
was thought to be getting along
fairly well until last Thursday
night when she was fatally stride
en by another attack.
The former Miss Mary Whitley,
she was born in this county sixty
one years ago on September 6,
1 BUT, the daughter of Che late T.
C. and Christine Biggs Whitley.
Following her marriage to Mr.
Hodges thirty-nine years ago, she
made her home in Griffins Town
ship for a year, locating then in
Bear Grass Township where the
family had since made their home.
She was a faithful member of
the church at Macedonia a long
time, and her pastor, Rev. Preston
Cay ton, assisted by Rev. Dennis
Warren Davis, a former pastor,
conducted the funeral service at
the home at 3:00 o’clock lust Sat
urday afternoon. Interment was
in thi‘ family cemetery on the
home farm.
Surviving besides her husband
are two daughters, Mrs. J. L.
Stalls and Mrs. Frank Holliday;
one son, John Archie Hodges, all
of the home community; a sister,
Mrs. Lon Lilley of RFD 1, Wash
ington; two half-sisters, and six
half-brothers.
Big Presidential
Inaugural Planned
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1 The Democrats with the help of
I the Republicans are making ex
i-*' -'I'iVi ; - v,.' : ■ -!: for .Pves.ule.ut
Hairy S. Truman’s inaugural
ceremonies on Thursday of next
week.
^Thc-cxi'-nsivi^onmar;11ions had
their beginning during the Eighti
eth Congress when the Republi
cans, convinced beyond a shadow
that Thomas Dewey
would be the man to be inaugur
ated. went all out despite their
tight-fisted economy and appro
priated big money for the . vent.
It just so happens that the Repub
licans are paying for the big time
the Democrats are going to have
n.-xt week.
To handle the ceremonies, the
planners used nearly one million
board feet of lumber to build the
stands where the high officials
and 15,000 invited guests will
view ihe four-hour-long inaugural
parade. That’s about enough lum
ber to build almost 100 homes.
Most of the lumber will be salvag
ed, of course. It’ll cost around
$15,000 to demolish the stands and
remove the nails from the lumber,
it is estimated. The platform, I
built in front of and around the!
President’s stand, covers about 1.0
acres.
Over 500 North Carolinians are
planning n< attend the ipiu'gur'1
tion. I
Plan For Project
Well Advanced In
Several Sections
T/rntative Surveys May Be i
Called for Without (lost !
To, I'he Individual
An extensive farm drainage |
program was discussed by County
Sanitarian W Bj Gaylord and H
F. McKnight of mo Soil Conserva
tion Service at a meeting of the
Martin County Farm Bureau in
the courthouse last Friday even
ing.
Recognizing the need for such
a program, Farmer Van G. Tay
lor admitted that it'll be one big
job "if it keeps on raining.”
Mr. Gaylord explained that
there were seven natural water
sheds in the county, fed by small
er streams. He listed the main
ones as Welch’s Creek, Warren
Neck Creek, Gardner’s Creek.
Sweet Water Creek, the canal in
the Williamston area, feeding in
to the river; Bear Grass Swamp
| and Conoho Creek. The tribu
taries include Smithwick Creek,
Turkey Swamp, Flat and Collie
Swamp, to mention a few.
It was explained that farmers
living in any one of the water
sheds may petition the Soil Con
servation Service and get a sur
vey without cost to the individual.
If the survey shows that improved
drainage is necessary, that it will
prove beneficial then plans can be
advanced for creating a special
drainage district. Petitions, it was
pointed out .have already been
circulated in some areas.
Heading the soil conservation
work in this county, Mr. Mc
i Knight went into the program in
I more detail, declaring that im
' proved drainage is badly needed
throughout the county. He added
that some sections were more in
need of drainage than others.
Approximately one-half million
feet of drain tile have been laid
in the county during the past two
or three years, that it would do
more good if adequate drainage
was made available,
Martin County has done little
or nothing to clear its streams and
they are filled with tree tops, de
i bris and dirt, one, report stating
that tiie "runs” in some swamps
have been lost.
The conservationist explained
that the cost of the drainage pro
jects will be baser! on benefits to
be derived. If a farmer is ma
terially benefitted he will be ask
ed to accept a greater share of the
costs than the farmer who is far
ther removed and whose benefits
will he limited.
.iUTM n.-iinm.LM.-.t—.IftlD... vvm-t;
can be advanced very cheaply
now and that the government will
accept about two-thirds of the
cost. The costs run about 15 cents
a cubic yard, the price having
dropped,from 30 cents to that fig
ure fairly recently.
C
it'.c drainage work
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other counties with that left un-1
done in this county, McKnight
said that Pitt County has had
twelve drag lint's in operation the
gieatei past two ycai ...
that vast improvements had been
made to farm land there. "Martin
County, it would seem, is missing
ct good chance t,j ■ . . Apt
farms,” McKnight declared.
The Farm Bureau group was
impressed by the plan and endors
ed the program.
> KOI MM I*
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State, county and local of
ficers rounded up thirteen al
leged law violators and de
tained them temporarily in
the county jail last week-end.
Fussin', figrhtin’ and feudin’
led the charges, the jail book
showing that ten were arrest
ed for assaults with deadly
weapon. Local police placed
five or six in the jail at one
time last Saturday night. The
other charges were of a minor
nature.
Two of the thirteen were
white and the ages of the
eroup ranged from 17 to 39
years.
I Several Persons
I Injured In Auto
Wrecks Recently
i
! Two (lars Turn Over Near
Oak <liiv; Car Strikes
Truck In Everetts
Several persons were hurt, none
seriously, in three motor vehicle
accidents in this county last week
end, and Mrs. Bettie Barnhill, of
Robersonville, was gravely injur
ed when her car struck a truck on
Highway 64, a short distance west
of Bethel last Thursday evening'.
Complete details could not be had
on all the three accidents in this
county but patrolmen said no one
was badly hurt in them.
Reports from a Tarboro hospital
where Mrs. Barnhill was carried
for treatment stated yesterday
that if no complications resulted
she had a chance to recover.
Driving east on the 64 highway,
Mrs. Barnhill was said to have
turned to avoid striking a dog,
that her new Kaiser car, missing
the front part, plowed under a
j truck loaded with peanuts and
I driven by Milford B. Holliday of
I near Williamston. She was said
to have suffered fractures of the
skull, elbow and ankle and severe
lacerations. Patrolman Perry, in
vestigatinglhe accident, estimated
the damage to the truck at more
than $100 and said the new car
was damolished.
In one of the first motor vehicle
accidents in this county so far in
the New Year involving personal
injury, Wendell Manning was cut
badly on one hand and Samuel
Hardison was cut around the left
eye. Leslie Godard and Wayne
Manning, riding with Hardison
and Wendell Manning, were not
hurt.
Harold Griffin parked his pick
up truck on a dirt street in Ever
etts in front ox a dance hall last
Thursday night, and Wendell
Manning, driving a 1936 Plym
! outh, plowed into it.
j Investigating the accident Pa
jtrolman B. W. Parker estimated
the damage to the car at $300 and
that to the truck at $50,
A 1941 model car wras said to
have turned over on the Hamil
ton -Palmyra road early Saturday
night, but late yesterday patrol
men had not completed their in
vestigation and few details could
be learned.
Sunday morning about 9:00
o’clock Frank Owens Freuler of
Tarboro lost control of his car and
it turned over on a dirt road near
Oak City, injuring his right leg
and doing about $200 damage to
the machine, according to a report
coming from Patrolman R. P. Nar
ron.
Oak City Man Is
Critically Hurt
JVin'lk'i" AiiMMi i-.oCh.tr, crullifc ”
Nest Township colored man, was
critically wounded when Russell
Sherrod, also colored, drove a
knife into his lung, climaxing a
gambling quarrel in Oak City
early last Saturday evening.
Treated in Dr. E. E. Pittman's
--1 a Our. C ity, the victim was --
removed to a Tarboro hospital.
Sherrod and Charlie Manning,
Roman Locke, Duke Bryant, Bud
colored, were reported to have
been gambling at a gin house in
Oak City when Locke walked up
and bet Slierrod that he could not
make a point. Sherrod made the
point, and when Locke did not
pay up he was attacked, according
to information coming from Gene
Tyson, the arresting officer.
Warrants charging them with
gambling, have been lodged
against the gamblers. Sherrod is
being held in the county jail and
a hearing in the case is being de
layed pending the outcome of
Locke’s condition.
Hotly Of County Youth
Coming Homo from Pacific
The body of Pfc. David Wilson
Hardison who lost his life on Oki
nawa in May, 1945, is on its way
home for burial in native soil, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee D.
Hardison, were advised last week
end.
The bodv i<* hoind bandied by
the Atlanta distribution center
and it likely will be several weeks
reaching home.
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