Express Thanhs i
With Hound Dogs
Some months ago, C. D. Car- I
starphen .former cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank, was i
discussing a "dead” savings ac- j
count during a ‘ bull” session at |
the police station court room. Of i
ficcr Arthur Perry said he knew I
the man. Contact was established
and the savings accourt, amount
ing to several hundred dollars, •
was turned over to the owner. |
It was pointed out that the own- \
cr of the money' had placed ^t on i
deposit while working for the :
old Dennis Simmons Lumber
Company, that he moved away
and forgot all about the account
Now, the Virginian is a great
dog man. To‘show his apprecia
tion he offered Mr. Carstarphen
two dogs some time ago. Asked
if he wanted more, Mr. Carstar
phen shopped around and found
a ready demand. The Virginian
was advised that he could use
eight.
Accompanied by Messrs, raui |
Johnson, Luther Leggett and El; |
Nicholson, Mr. Carstarphen rode j
to the Virginian's farm near Em
poria early this week. Prompted
by his traveling companians, Mr. I
Carstarphen asked for all twelve 1
of the hound puppies, the four J
assuring the Virginian that the |
dogs would be given good homes J
1 and all that. So greatly impressed
, with the dogs, the four men asked I
about buying the mother. "You're
welcome to the pups, but I want
the old dog," the owner was quot
ed as saying.
In a matter of time, foxes, deer,
rabbits and other game are al
most certain to face uncertainty
with the importation this week
end of a dozen choice hound dogs.
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Many Attended
Football Game
Among those attending the Wil
liamston-Weldon high school foot
ball game Tuesday night in Ahos
kie were Mr. and Mrs. James Eul
luek, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Peelc, I
Wheeler Manning, Spit Martin,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Welch, Mrs.
Mary Bonner Gurganus, Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Gurganus, Edgar
Gurganus, Miss Ann Beasley, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Mangum, Miss
Sue Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Wor
rell, Robert Cowen, Miss Mar
; jorie Brady, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
i Skinner and W. I. Skinner, Jr.,
Elbert S. Peel, Sr.. Elbcrt.S. Peel,
Jr., Joel Muse, Jr„ Mr. and Mrs.
John Henry Edwards, Mrs. W. O.
Griffin, Mrs. George Peele, Mr.
| and Mrs. Sam Getsinger, Alex
Jones and Alex . Jr., Billy Grif
' fin, Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Holloman,
I Wanda Jones, Mr. Marvin Baker
j and daughter, Joyce, Mr. Ira Har
! ri.son and daughter, Sarah, Dillon
Wynne, H. O. Peel, Tootsie Rob
erson, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thrower,
Mr. W. C. Manning, Jane Man
ning, ^Gail and Sandra Margolis,
Billy Dudley, David Carson, Jerry
Forehand, Ben Selby, John Wob
bleton, Charles Sieeloff, Virgil
! Wobleton, Buddy Jarmen, Warren
' Goff, Francis Barnes, Billy Watts,
I Miss Pinky Parrott, Mr. A. J.
Manning and daughters, Mr. Bob
Manning and sons, Mr. and Mrs.
Milton James, Dick Elliot, Fred
Taylor, Sammy Taylor, Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Rogerson, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Baggett, Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Cherry, Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hines, Mr. and Mrs.
D. D. Stalls, Miss Mildred Thomas,
Van Ralph Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Everett, Mr. and Mrs. George Hat
ton Gurganus, Mrs. Hugh Spruill,
and children, Kathy and Jimmy,
Mrs W. M. Myers, MV. and Mrs.
Hilton Forbes, Mrs. Joe Rober
! son, Jr., Rev. and Mrs. John L.
Goff, Mrs. Bob Leggett, Rev.
Stewart Simms, Mr. and Mrs. |
Dick Taylor, Mr and Mrs. Roy
Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Travis Mar
tin, Mr. and Mrs. Joe David
Thrower, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Par- I
ker, Dr. and Mrs. C. 1. Harris, j
' Dr. and Mrs. G. G. Himmelwright,
Dr and Mrs. J S. Rhodes, Sr.,1
Rev. E R. Shuller, Mr. and Mrs. ,
Herbert Whitley, Mr. and Mrs. j
C. B. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Stancil
j Hardison, Mr. and Mrs. Junior
Warren, Dr. and Mrs J. T. Lle
wellyn, Mr and Mrs. B. G. Stew
art, Mr and Mrs. J. D. Page, Ben
Courtney, Charlie James, Mayo
Modlin, Lawrence Eason Lillev,
Reuben Williams, Mr. Tom Bran
don, Sr., Mrs. Irvin Coltrain, Tray
lor Modlin, C. T Roberson, Bill
1 Wobbleton, Bobby Taylor, and Eu
| gene Boney.
Forest fires each year destroy
enough pulp size trees to produce
( 3,250,000 tons of newsprint—
i enough to supply every newspap
• er in the U S. for one year.
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EVERY TUESDAY
SOCIAL
GAME
NIGHT
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JOHN W. HASSELL POST NO. 163
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
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Champs Of Albemarle Aiul Northeast
Winning their eighth game in a row and annexing the
Northeastern District Championship in Ahoskie last Tues
day night by defeating a'surprising Weldon eleven, Wil
liamston High School’s Green Wave football team on Fri
day night, November 24, goes against the team of Massey
High of Cumberland County for the championship of blast
Carolina in Class A competition. The Green Wave advanc
ed in district competition after winning the Albemarle
Conference crown-with a record of 5-0. Although he has
experimented with the T, Coach Stuart Maynard relies on
his single wing attack to keep his team rolling. Six back
field men have averages of better than 5 yards per carry
aver the 11-game route. The team is built around a veter
an tackle, Jimmy Myers, a ti' 2”, senior who is 17 years old
md weighs 220 pounds. Jimmy has been co-captain for
the past two years and calls the plays. .Another senior,
Jack Edwards, does the kicking and passing for the team
with able assistance from a freshman, Wallace Warren.
Both can run the ball although Lindelle Ward, fullback,
and Russell Rogers, halfback carry more often than the
at her four backfield men. Members of the team pictured
here are: Front row: Coach Stuart Maynard, Jack Ed
wards, Jack Welch, Lindelle Ward, Wilbur Edwards, Billy
Spruill (co-captain). Jack Daniels, Buddy Fussell, Ben An
drews. Second row, left to l ight, A. J Abdalla, assistant
coach, Ward Perry, Watson McKeel, David Davis, Wallace
Warren, Norwood Keel, Harrell Everett, Theodore Bowen.
Third row, left to right, Billy Ray McKeel, manager, Rus
sell Rogers, Raymond Robertson, Billy Allsbrook, Hugh
Lindsley, Bobby Goff, Reg Coltrain. Fourth row. left to
right, Johnny Frank Allsbrook, Jack Ross, Jimmy Myers
(co-captain), Glovden Stewart, Jerry Nicholson, Joe Rob
ertson, William Manning, 111. manager. Maynard has nev
er had a losing athletic team at Williamston High.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
Ineptness With an Equalizer
Even Found Among Gangsters
_i-By BILLY ROSE
Because I sometimes tote around more than two dollars, and be
cause my house has demonstrated a tendency to get burgled, I have
a license to carry a revolver—and sometimes do.
But I certainly hope 1 never get into a spot where I have to use it.
Because I doubt whether I could hit the back wall of a brewery If I were
iO feet away.
And it isn't because I haven’t practiced a-plepty. There's a make
ihift pistol range hack of my house up at Mt. £isco, and over the years
[ guess I’ve used up enough ammunition to keep a small Balkan war
toing. But no matter how parefluly
light and squeeze the baby gun
s'ilh the short nose, I’ve never been
ible to do much more to the bulls
\ye than glare at it. And two will
jet you 20 that most_
if the Dead - ey*
|3icks you read
11 b o u t can't do
' nuch better.
Thp U. S. army
ividently agrees
vith me about the
lilficulty in hand
ing this tricky bit
-,t mechanism effec
tively. Next time
i?ou see newsreel
Bill; Ram
junscnps of the kids whc re doing
fighting in’Korea. look closely
I ind you’ll see. they're armed with
I ifles—Garands and Browning au
! emetics—but about the only place
rou’ll see a six-gun will be in the
lolster of a two-star general.
• • •
I FIRST LEARNED that expert
.hooting with a revolver is more
mil than bullseye when I moseyed
!«wn to Ft. Worth 14 years ago to
lage that city’s centennial expo
ition. One of the whoopty-doos I
»ut on, “The Last Frontier," was
t wild west show, and the cast
Deluded the best hoss hands in the
nisiness—Galahads in 10-gallon hats
vho had won prize money in every
odeo from Pendleton to Madison
Iquare Garden. Naturally, 1 want
d to Include an exhibition of pis
ol shooting, and as a charter mem
■er of the Zane Grey club I fig
ired that almost any one of my
ironco buster* could pop a clay
»ipe out of a girl s mouth at 30 feet.
Well, I figured wrong. There w as
I to one in the cast who could hit the
,ipe without taking the mouth with
t, and I wound up having to im
lort the national pistol champion
i skinny kid from Brooklyn who
tad learned marksmanship in a
’oney Island shooting gallery.
This inepluess with what Da
mon Runyon used to call "the
equalizer” is even more com
mon among gangsters. Sura,
the hoodlums ol the '20's pis
toled many a citizen, hut almost
, ml ariahly the victim was in a
i motor car, and the range a
I couple of inches Irons the nape
I •/ -hit neck. Whenever the
, I__
corpse-to-be figured to he more
than a few feet an ay, the kill
ers used sawrd-oll shotguns
with a three-foot spread, or
tommyguns which produced a
spray like a garden hose,
A few years back, an ex-bootleg
ger—now vice president of a na
tional whiskey company—told me ■
story about A1 Capone which illus
trates my point. It seems A1 was
tipped off that one of his body
guards was playing footsie with a
rival gang, so he threw a banquet
for 200 of his hired help, and after
the feed rea.de some complimentary
remarks shout the double-crosser
and asked-Jirm to get up on the
table and take a bow. Ar, the gue.'.t
of honor was bowing, the 200 hood
lums reached for their rods and let
him have it. But when Capone—
always the good bookkeeper—count
ed the bullet holes, he found only
20 in the carcass—180 of the trig
germen had missed.
• • •
YEARS AOO, I used to haunt the
42nd street shooting galleries, and
got so handy with a .22 rifle that 1
could knock the dancing celluloid
ball off the stream of water five
timi s out of ten. And I was plenty
cocky about my marksmanship un
til one day when I went up to see
Ben Hecht at his place in Nyack.
Hecht, fed up with my big talk
about small arms, suggested I shoot
it out with Charlie Lederer, the
screen writer, who was spending
the weekend with him.
"I've got nothing against Led
erer,” l said modestly, "Lai
him live."
"The target will ha a toma
to can at 10 feet,” said Ben,
"and you and Charlie tan taka
turns with my .22 aulomatit
pistol."
We went out on the lawn and 1*4
, erer, sighting carefully, hit the ean
two out of three times. I didn't
even nick it.
Last month while vacationing la
Hollywood, I lunched with Hecht
and reminded him of the debacle
w hich ended any career as a marks
man.
‘‘I might as well have been ahooV
ing blanks," I said.
"As a matter of fact," grinned
Ben, "you were."
Report Increase
In Potato Yield
Reports as of November 1 from
sweet potato growers in North
Carolina indicate that the crop
this year will produce 6,210,000
bushela. This is 6 percent above
production in 1949 but 1(5 percent
below the 1999-48 average. An
average yield of 115 bushels per
acre is expected from this year s
crop which is 2 bushels above
1949 and 8 bushels above 1949
and 8 bushels above average
Acreage for harvest is estimated
at 54,009 - 2*000 above last year
[but 18,000 below average.
Final Report On
Bell Leal Sales
. .
The 15*50 marketing season end- )
ini. last week on Eastern North j
Carolina Hue-cured tobacco mar
kets. Only two markets, Rocky
Mount and Wilson, operated dur
ing the final week and these clos
ed Friday, November 17. Steady
to lower average prices by grades,
light volume of offerings, and
poor quality marked the week's
auctions
Gross sales amounted to 1,694,
172 pounds averaging $47.07 a
hundred, avoiding to the I’edeial
State Market News Service The ,
average represented a drop ot
$4 20 from the week before Sea
son sales totaled 447,541,900
pounds at an average of $50.40,
while the local market averaged
$57.29.
Several scattered grades eased
$1.00 a hundred pounds lower than
last week. Other grades held most
ly unchanged.
Marketings consisted of a grout
ed percentage .a ■ common
Report Increase
In Cigarettes
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Cigarette production, which
takes 75 to ill) percent of all to
bacco used m the U. S probably
will set another new record next
year. This will keep demand for
cigarette tobacco strong. Flue
cured supplies are fairly tight
but there are ample supplies of
Burley and Maryland tobaccos.
qualities and nondescript. A rel
atively large proportion of dam
aged and unsound tobacco was of
fered
Growers turned about 111 per
cent of weekly gross sales to the
Flue-cured Stabilization Corpora
tion under the Government loan
program. Around 4 per cent of
sales went under loan during the
entire season.
Stocks of all types of flue-cured
tobacco owned by dealers and
manufacturers on October 1 a
mounted to 1,056,538,000 pounds
(farm-sales-weight). This com
jpares with holdings of 1,940,936,
'000 pounds on October 1. 1849
Oak City Senior
Play Big Success
The Seniors of Oak City pre-1
sented their play Friday night,
November 17 It was a comedy,
'Meet the Folks," directed by Mr.
Jack Howard, the Senior advisor.
The folks were portrayed bv. Mrs.
Smith, Mary E. Harrell; James
Smith, David Etheridge; Pa Smith,
i Herman Etheridge; Mary Jane
i Smith, Joan Leggett; Parker, the
1 maid, Viatories Hudgins. Guests
and friends: Chuck Sage, E. D.
Holliday; Jewel Cartwright, Dor
othy Harrell; Harold Watson, Den
cy Briley; Hedy Harrington, Joyce
Harrell; Marta Davis, Ann Bunt
j ing: Gilly Gillenv'-d.nr, Charles
Smell Pecan Crop
Forecast In State
The November 1 estimate for
pecan production in the state is
1.492.000 pounds - nearly 35 per
cent below last year’s crop and
24 percent below average. It is
estimated that 89 percent or 1,
089.000 pounds will be of the im
proved varieties and 11 percent of
205.000 pounds will be from seed
ling varieties.
Edwards; Prompter, Norma Lew
is; Stage Manager, Earl Smith;
Assistant. Alton Bullock.
The play was enjoyed by every
one. A production of it is being
given in the Hamilton School
otr.i time neat -vmv k
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