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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER S,M0 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 102
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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
Williamston, Aartin County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 20, 1951
ESTABLISHED 1899
Charge Operators
With Having No
Drivers' License
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■’ ’Tough*1
Policy To Go Into
Effect Shortly
i The business of operating mot
; or vehicles without drivers’ li
; censes is in for some tough going
in the future, Judge R. T John
son warned in the Martin County
. -corder’s Court last Monday
when fifteen alleged drivers’ li
cense law violators were brought
before him.
The warning came after pa
thetic appeals were made, but
anyone entitled to the right to op
erate a motor vehicle can easily
get the necessary license and
those who can’t qualify should not
be allowed to drive, it was point
ed out. ,
It is understood that quite a
few are allowing their driving
permits to expire, while a few in
the court this week admitted they
had never had a license. The court
advised that no further warning
will be given, that a $25 fine is to
be expected as a minimum, plus
court costs.
Pleading guilty of operating a
motor vehicle without a driver's
license, Jas. H. Hunter was fined
$25, plus costs.
James C. Clark, pleaded not
guilty. He was found guilty and
v s fined $25 and taxed with the
. c< sts,
Leslie A Griffin was sentenced
to the roads for ninety days, the1
court suspending the road term1
upon the payment of a $25 fine
and costs. The suspension was
granted on the further condition
that the defendant surrender his
1 operator’s license voluntarily for
six months.
Other defendants, charged with
operating motor vehicles without
drivers’ licenses Slid who were
taxed only with the court costs,
include:
James Edward Wood, Wm M.
Browning, Charlie Lorenzo Moore
of Jamesville, J. T. Bailey, Clyde
Williams, colored, M. S. Taylor,
B. C. Bray, Ponce DeLeon Sykes,
Kathleen Griffin, James C. Clark,
Gladys Whichard and Ilughie
Fields.
Wilson Griffin was taxed with
the cost for allowing an unlicens
ed operator to drive a motor ve
hicle.
The court will not meet next
Funeral Held For
Ralph B. Mizelle
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Ralph B. Mizelle,30, resident of
Wiiliamston, Route 2, in the Batts
Crossroad community of Beaufort
C'Hmty. died at his home Tuesday j
morning following a critical ill
ness of three months. He was born
in Beaufort County, a son of Jesse
E. and Della Cratt Mizelle. He at
. tended the Rose of Sharon Free
Will Baptist Sunday School class.
Survivors are his parents; two
I brothers, E. D. Mizelle of Route 1,
Washington, N. C., Jesse I Mizelle
of Newport News, Va; five sisters,
Mrs William Thompson and Mrs.
Marvin Little of Newport News,
Va., Mrs. Lester Harrison of Route
V Bath, Faye and Zylphia Mizelle
, of the home. Funeral services
"■ere held at the Rose of Sharon
Free Will Baptist Church near
Batts Crossroad Wednesday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by
Jin' Rev. Charlie D, Hamilton, pas
!,>r. Burial was in the church
[cemetery.
[Monday.
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GUNNINGS
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Although it still holds a
! ,0w third rating in the list of
crops, cotton staged a wallop
ing come-back in this county
i this year, according to a re
port released this week by the
• . S. Department of Com
merce, Bureau of the Census.
Cp until the first of this
month, 2,204 'bales of cotton
had been ginned from the
H15I crop, as compared with
541 bales ginned up until
December 1, 1950, from the
1950 crop.
Cotton, once a miilion-dol
lar crop in the county, ev®n
with its fantastic come-back
will gross less than half mil
lion dollars this year in Mar- i
tin County.
Mail Deliveries In Rural
Section Sunday Considered
Making every e°r‘ f'<>' expt
-»<■ its largest volume !
uf mail and parcel post, the Vfii
liarnston Pont Office is contem
plating deliveries in the rural
sections Sunday with the possi-1
bility that two trips will be made
next Monday. ‘‘While we are mak
ing arrangements for the “emer
gency" deliveries Sunday and a
second trip next Monday, we will
not order the trips until some
time Saturday," Postmaster W. E.
Dunn announced, explaining that
the volume of mail will determine
at the last minute whether the
trips are to be made.
It was pointed out that if the
mail volume is maintained right
up to the last minute, the regular
j’k rs will not bo able to handle
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bo pressed into service, ‘Hepoi ts
from terminals in eastern Caro
lina declare that the mail volume
is so la.ge that trains are operat
ing as many as three hour.-, late,
that the jam possibly cannot be
cleared until after Christmas.
Postmaster Dunn said yesterday
that the office here was handling
record mails. On Tuesday, 23,000
pieces of mail were handled, the
count being exclusive of parcel
post. The count is likely to push
toward a figure between 25.000
and 30,000 a day by the last of the
week. The volume so far this year
is about ten percent larger than
it was a year ago.
$406,982.00 i
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The Nello L. Teer Company
of Durham has submitted to
the North Carolina Highway
and Publie Works Commis
sion a S400.982.00 bid for wid
ening and rcsurfaeing of U.
S. fi4 from Williamston to the
Washington County line at
Welch's Creek. The bid was
included in a list of eleven
highway projects, the overall
cost running slightly less than
estimates.
The Teer company bid will
be given consideration by the
commission in a meeting on
Friday of this week.
Various Christmas
Programs Planned
The Christmas calendar in local
churches gnd other centers is
crowded with special events this
week-end, including programs by
combined choirs, dramas and par
ties for the little folks
Williamston's .layeees are hav
ing their big annual party in the
Woman's Club Friday evening for
a goodly number of little folks in
the town and immediate com
munity.
The Methodists are having a
Christmas tree program for the
Sunday school members Friday
evening at 7:00 o'clock.
Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
in the Christian church the com
bined Methodist and Christian
Church choirs will present tne
cantata, “Chimes of the Holy
Night." The program will be
broadcast over Station WIAM.
At 5:30 o’clock Sunday after- ]
noon, a Christmas pageant will be
presented in the Church of the
Advent.
There will be a Christmas j
drama, “A Wise Man from the i
West” will be presented in the
Presbyterian church Sunday eve-.
ning at 7:30 o’clock.
The Bethany Pentecostal Hoi:
ness Sunday School will present
a Christmas program Sunday
night.
Tile Williamston Pentecostal
Holiness Church is presenting its
annual Christmas play Sunday
night at 7.30 o'clock.
Many Soldiers Are
Camping Ai Home
Quite a few of the Martin Coun
ty‘young men, stationed at Camp
Stewart, Ga., are camping at
hoiru during the holidays, includ
ing:
M/Sgt. Leslie T. Fowden,
M Sgt. Garland B. Wynne, SFC
Benjamin U. Bunting, SFC Joseph
F Davenport, SFC Robert F. Gur
ganus, SFC Paul H. Peel, Jr., Sgt.
Rush W. Bondurant, Jr., Sgt. Reg
inald W. Colt) am, Sgt. Jesse D.
Gurganus, Sgt. Hugh G. Horton,
Jr., Sgt. Clayton Keel, Everetts,
Sgt. Laurence E. Lilley, Sgt. John
D. Lilley, here and Washington,
Sgt. Franklin V. Modlin, Cpl.
Henry Bellflower, Palmyra, Cpl.
Charles D. Edwards, Cpl Dallas
A. Griffin, Cpl. Horace R Gur
ganus, Cpl. Hubert W. Hollis, Cpl.
Roland B Leggett, Jr., Cpl. Alon
zo F Maning, Oak City, Cpl. Ed
ward E. Smith, Palmyra, and Pfc.
Dennis H. Barber.
Several county boys who are in
the armed forces but stationed at
other camps are expected home ,
during the holidays also, t
4-H Club Members
Hold Achievement
Program Saturday
Miss Josm (inrol < Ini train i*
Now I’rpsidt'nl Of The
Count) Council
The Reverend J. Don Skinner,
Pastor of the Williamstnn Pres
byterian Church, was pi incioal
speakei ; I the Annual 4 II Clnh
Achievement program held in the
courthouse in Williamston last
Saturday He encouraged club
members’to take their Club work
seriously and to view their 4-H
Achievements not in terms of
awards won but in personal value
received. He pointed out that often
the individuals to whom 4-H club
work had rendered the greatest
service did not indicate its worth
to them later in life when the
practices and good habits learn
ed through Club work were put
into use.
Jimmie Knowles, President of
the 4-H Club County Council, pre
sided. The program commenced
with a devotional given by Crissie
Gurkin and Bobby Gurkin, mem
ber^ of the Farm Life Junior 4-H
Club. Songs were led by Joan
Carol Coltrain, Council song lead
er.
The following special activity
reports were made: 4-H summer
camp, ■ Murl Griffin, Jamesville;
4 H Farm and Home Electric Pro
gram, Corrone Bryant, Williams
ton; 4-H Club Week, Joan Carol
Coltrain, Farm Life. Special guests
introduced by Caroline Wallace,
Jamesville, were Miss Edith Rog
11 son of Bear Grass, former out
standing Martin County Club
member, and Robert W. Parker of
Macclesf ield, past president of the
State 4-II Club Council.
Achievement certificates were
presented to club members who
had satisfactorily completed a
year’s club work. County cham
pion awards were made as fol
lows:
Dairy foods team demonstra
tion, Joyce Whitfield and Janvce
Whitfield, Robersonville; clothing,
Caroline Wallace, Jamesville;
dress revue, Lynctte Ifaislip, Oak
City; food preparation, frozen
foods, dairy foods (Individual),
arm and home electric, Joan Carol
Coltrain, Farm Life; junior can
ning. Catherine Rogcrson, Bear
Grass; garden. Jean Bailey, Eve
retts; meat animal production,
Corrone Bryant, Williamston;
maintenance, Jimmy Hopkins,
Farm Lift; dairying, Jimmie
Knowles. Jamesville; field crops.
Lewis Gurkin, Farm Lfc.
A. L. Jameson, representing the
V E. P C' presented ceitificates
to Joan Carol Call rain and Cor
rone Bryant for achievement in
the 4-H Farm and Home Electric
program.
E. Ross Froncbcrgei, represent
ing the Williamston Lions Club
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Hc-Elet ted To Tin• Soil
Conacrvat'um Comm it Ice
J. Linwood Knowles, prominent
Martin County farmer of the Dar
dens Community, was rc-elcctcd
te the Martin County unit com
mittee of the Coastal Plain Soil
Conservation district in an elec
tion last Thursday, He was with
out opposition and polled a unan
imous vote. He is to serve three j
years, succeeding himself.
Urbin Rogers and C. A Rober
son are the other members of the
committee.
Urging Eighteen
Thousand to Have
Chest X-Ray Made
(Tuberculosis Cheek To bet
Under Way In County
On January 11
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Mass chest X-ray Survey has
been found to Do me most effec
tive method yet developed for
finding early tuberculosis. It is
for this reason that the Martin
County Health Department, in
conjunction with the Tuberculosis
Association of the County, and the
North Carolina State Board of
Health, is sponsoring a case-find
ng program.
Tuberculosis Statistic data of
North Carolina Board of Health
reveals that approximately 10,000
persons at this time have some
type of tuberculosis. This figure
represents a much smaller inci
dence of the disease than ever be
fore recorded The death rate as
recorded in 1949 reveals 956 per
sons dying in North Carolina. In
1950 there is about 757 North
Carolina has shown a gradual de
crease in mortality rate since
1920 at which time it ranked se
cond in the leading cause of death.
At present the disease ranks num
ber l ight in the leading cause of
death. Improvement in incidence
of death late indicates a vigorous
attempt to eradicate the disease,
and d i-i known that moi;e vigor
ocs'aUeijipts \V111 have to bo made
to completely rid the state and
nation of this disease. In Martin
County there arc about 27 known
cases of tuberculosis, many of
whom have been treated in tuber
culosis sunatoriums and returned
in an arrested state to useful liv
ing.
It is for the above reasons hat
your county health department
will execute a thorough casc-find
ing program by encouraging 18,
000 citizens to get their chest X
rayed. Your health department
will not be able to do this alone.
Every individual must consider
himself n potential tuberculous
case and have himself X-rayed in
order to hi' sure. It must be em
phasized that tuberculosis is like
a house on fire in that it can only
be put out when it is discovered
early. The most likely people to
have tuberculosis are those be
tween fifteen and forty-five years
of age. This does nut mean to ex
clude younger or older groups and
especially do we find tuberculosis
in people of old age.
A second survey will be con
ducted from January II through
February 2, 1952, and will be
made by four mobile X-ray units
which will be spotted in every
community throughout the coun
ty. X-rays will be taken of every
individual submitting himself for
examination free of cost. X-ray
ing will be done without remov
ing clothing and will only require
one to two mini ‘ ’s. These sur
veys will be made for five days a
week, six hours a day. Children
over four and under fifteen years
of age who have been contacts of
cases of tuberculosis may be re
ferred for X-rays by public health
nurses and private physicians.
Each person receiving an X-ray
may expect a report from same
in from two to three weeks. If,
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Recovering From
Accident Injury
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Badly hurt in an automobile ac
cident about throe weeks ago, J.
Eber Manning, MarBn County
man and a mcmbc r of the Chowan
College faculty continues in a
Norfolk hospital for treatment,
i'e was hurt in an automobile col
lision at Norfolk, according to re
ports reaching here.
Mr John D Mizclle, riding with
him at the time, was slightly
hurt, it was repot led.
/-or/// Man C.ontinui'H
('•rawly III la llim/iilal
Suffering a stroke about two
weeks ago after having a leg amp
utated several months before that.
Mr. Claude B. Clatk, Sr., promi
nent local citizen and druggist,
was reported gravely ill in
Brown’s Community Hospital here
Wednesday evening. His condi
tion, while serious since the at
tack, worsened rapidly during the
past two days.
Disturbance Ai
Piccolo Center
More Confusing
jVrobabVc i-ausn Found And
Three Defendants Go To
Trial January 7
A disturbance at Jim Bell's pic
colo joint near Gold Point on the
night of December 8 was left in ;i
highly confused state at the close
of a second round of hearings held
before Justice Chas. R. Mobley in
Williamston Monday evening.
Minor charges were handled at
the first hearings held a week be
fore, and deadly weapon assaults
were aired this week.
The trial justice could get
neither heads nor tails to the
squabble during the first hear
ings, and after listening to con
flicting evidence heard Monday
night he still had not found the
true facts or the underlying cause
of all the trouble which included
two stabbings and a shot gun at •
tac k.
Thomas Purvis, young Negro
who just got out of the hospital
last Saturday, carrying between
50 and 100 shots in his legs, was
charged with stabbing Willie
James Lawrence, He pleaded not
guilty, and then Lawrence came
up with a fantastic story. "1 was
standing beside the counter when
Pm vis came in, holding no grudge
against anyone and having d me
, no one any harm," Lawrence said
Unsuspecting of the attack. Law
rent e s aid lit' did mit act until
Purvis raised his hand to strike
him with a knife. The prosecut
ing witness explained that he act
ed to ward off the attack and was
cut slightly in the hand. Law
rence explained that he turned to
pick up a piece of stove wood
and that Purvis stabbed him in
the shoulder, making a wound
that required twelve stitches.
Lawrence said Purvis ran out
of the store, and the next thing
he knew Purvis had been shot al
legedly by Jim Bell.
Probable cause of guilt was
found by Justice Mobley, and
Purvis was booked for trial Jan
uary 7 under $100 bond.
Switching from the role of pro
secuting witness to defendant,
Willie James Lawrence was
charged with assaulting Thomas
Purvis with a pen knife. Purvis,
switching places will) Lawrence
at the preliminary hearing, said
he was in the floor dancing, that
he went to the piccolo to play an
other record, declaring that, fight:
were in progress “all over the
place.” While standing at the
piccolo, Purvis declared he felt
something sting him in the leg.
"I turned and saw Lawrence run
ning, and I hit him in the chest,”
Purvis declared, maintaining that
he had no knife and that he did
not stab Lawrence. Purvis said
! he ran out of the p'aee when he
| saw Jim Bel) reach down and
I come up with a shot gun, explain
! ing that he was fired upon as he
j ran across the road.
Lawrence was booked for trial
in the county court on January
I 7, Justice Mobley requiring bond
in the sum of $100.
Jim Bell was next called to
; answer for the shot gun attack on
Thomas Purvis. Called to the
I stand again, Purvis, a young Ne
gro who lives near Hamilton, do
| dared the attack was not provok
ed, that while others were alleg
edly fighllng all over the plan
he was attending to his own busi
ness. He explained that because
Bell was a friend of Lawrence and
because he (Purvis) had hit Law
rente in the chest. Bell took up
the trouble there with a shot gun
On cross examination, Purvis de
mod having collared Bell and
backed hint against the wall. F'ur
vis also denied he had been stab
bed with an ice pick by one Katie
Frances,
Bell, pleading not guilty, did
not take the stand but on the
Purvis evidence, Justice Mobley
found probable cause of guilt and j
booked him for trial in the re-]
(•order’s court January 7. Bond
w as required in the sum of $100. j
Reports from the Bell amuse
ment center declared that all was
quiet there lust week-end.
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Local Li It r ary To Lot
A TliroP'Day Holiday
The Williamston Public Library J
will be close Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of Christmas
week, it was announced this week
by librarian, Mrs. Ethel Ander- j
son.
Countv Court Holds
Extra Long Session
Handled Largest
Docket Recorded
In Court History
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Sixty seven Case* Cleared
During l.ung Session:
$1,035 In Fines
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Handling one of the largest if
not the largest doeket on record,
the Martin County Recorder's
Court cleared sixty-seven cases
during an all-day session l ist
Monday. Fines, imposed during
the session lasting until 5:1)0
o’clock, amounted to $1,035, anil
several defendants drew terms in
prison and on the roads.
The list of eases included fifteen
m which defendants were charged
with speeding. Quite a few
others were charged with operat
ing motor vehicles without opera
tors licenses.
Proceedings:
Orange “Sid” Harris was sen
tenced to the roads for six months
for an assault with a deadly wea
pon and destroying personal pro
perly He pleaded not guilty, hut
the weight i f the evidence was
j against him
Charged with violatin ', the li
quor laws and being drunk and
disorderly, John Hague pleaded
guilty and was fined $25, plus
George Modlin and Samuel
Johnson were fined $10 and taxed
with the costs when they pleaded
guilty of public drunkenness
Henry Wiggins was found not
guilty of non support.
Lester Franklin Bailey, plead
ing guilty of public drunkenness
and violating the liquor law's, was
fined $15, plus costs.
Charged with drunken driving,
Ellison Barrow was found not
guilty.
Pleading guilty of careless and
reckless driving, Robert Earl liar
key was fined $10, plus costs.
Oscar Burnett, pleading guilty
of an assault with a deadly weap
on, was fined $25 and taxed with
the costs.
Pleading guilty of an assault
w'ith a deadly weapon, Lucy Mae
Coburn was sentenced to woman’s
prison, Raleigh, for six months,
the court suspending the prison
term upon the payment of a $25
fine and costs and a $75 doctor’s
bill. She is to remain of good be
havior for two years.
Facing the court on two counts,
Joe Roberson was fined $25 when
found guilty of an assault w'ith a
deadly weapon. Pleading guilty
of assaulting a female, he was j
sentenced to the roads for three :
months, the court suspending the
road term upon the payment of a 1
$25 fine and costs.
The ease in which Luke Thomas
Knight was charged with disord
erly conduct was nol pressed.
Alexander Do I berry, pleading
guilty of an assault, was taxed
with the cost.
Charged with issuing a worth
less check, John C. Adams plead- i
ed guilty end was taxed with the
costs
The eases in which Win. II
Brown, James Williams, John'
Adams, Allen Rnscoe and Oliver!
Bonds were charged with gamb j
ling, were no) pressed, along with
one m which William J. Knox
was charged with abandonment
and non-support.
Kenneth Earl Bryant, pleading
not guilty of caielcss and reckless
driving, was found, guilty/ the !
court fining him $25, plus costs. I
Clyde Fi reman pleaded guilty I
of drunken driving and was fined ;
$100, plus costs, and lost his opt i ,
a tor's licensi for a year
Tin careless and reek less di iv- I
ing charge against Ivory Doughty
was dismissed
Pleading guilly of drunken
driving, C. G. Curtis was fined
(Continued on nage eight'
I, in'll I Mnn Continue*
III In The Hospital
James L. Harris, Jr., Woolard i
Furniture Company associate, I
continues quite ill in a Rocky
Mount hospital where he has been
receiving treatment for a hoar,
attack suffered more than two
weeks ago.
f THIRD AND LAST? I
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Williamston's fires have the
uncanny way of comine in
eroups of threes. A call, the
third in less than ten days,
was received Tuesday morn
ine at 11:40 o'clock, and fire
men expressed the hope that
it would be the last to mar
the holidays.
An oil stove went out of
eontrol in the home of Mo
zeiia Brown on Perry Street,
but other than smoke damage,
there was no loss. The house
belonged to J. K. fiedrick of
Jamesvilla and was just
across the town line, and two
doors from the lot where
thc( Mobley home was des
troyed by fire last Sunday
morning.
Many Speeders In
Recorder's Court
Motor vehicle operators, alleg
edly rising the highways and
streets as speedways, had a con
vention in the Martin County Re
corder’s Court last Monday.
.hide.*' 11 T Johnson taxed inns
of them with the costs, hut .ines
in other cases ran up to as much
as $50.
John Henry Livcsay of Rocky
Mount was lined $25 and taxed
with the costs. He pleaded not
guilty and when the going became
tough in Judge Johnson’s court,
Livesay appealed to the higher
courts.
Robert Lee Warren, also of
Rocky Mount, was fined $50, plus
costs, lie pleaded not guilty and
appealed when judgment was pro
nounced.
Albert Reddick, of HKI) 2, Wil
hamston, was fined $25, plus
costs.
Carlton Brooks of Elizabeth
City, was fined $10 and taxed with
the costs.
The following defendants,
pleading guilty, were taxed with
the court costs:
John Walter Mayo of Clayton;
Kenneth Hall Cupp of Washing
ton, Johnnie Hines of Elizabeth
City, Charlie Hampton Lancaster
of Goldsboro, David Ordway
Speir of Bethel, Wrn. M Wil
liams of Hobgood, Carlton Brooks
of Elizabeth City, Kadcr W Ward
of RED 2, Williamston, Doris L.
Moore of Greenville, Shelton Le
roy Berry of Norfolk, R. E. Smi
ley of Wilson, and Arthur L.
Greenwalk of Miami.
County Youth In
List Of Prisoners
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The name of S/Sgt. Martel Har
dy, young son of Mis A U. Hardy
of HKD 3, Williamston, and the
lute Mr. Hardy, was included in
the list of war prisoners released
by the Chinese Reds to the United
Nations in Korea this week The
sergeant’s name was heard called
over a radio broadcast late Tues
day night along with hunderds
of others.
Kgt Hardy was reported miss
ing on November II of last sear,
and nothing more was heard from
him until late last month when
Ins mother received a lettei from
him under date of September H,
1051. He stated lie was getting
along all light in a Chinese camp
for United Nations war prisoneis.
Up until Wednesday of this
week, if, llil) names of Americans
held prisoner by the enemy had
been released, the list including
that of Major General William K
Dean who was reported missing
in July of last year
The 11oi handed the United Na
tion.', command this week includes
11,559 names, a figure far short of
the estimated 11)1), 1)00 United Na
tions per. nine! reported missing
since war broke out m Korea in
June of last year.
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1 tarlin-l’ill Sunday
School l.onvcnlion j
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The Martin-Pitt Sunday School
Convention will meet Sunday, De
cember 23, at 3:00 o'clock in the
afternoon at Sweet Home Church.
Each Sunday school is asked to j
tie represented at the meting.
Mother and Young
Daughter Buried
In Cemetery Here
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\w Asks
Thai Doll Hr Buried Willi
Lillie Vceiileiil Victim
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A doub'e funeral service was
held in the Cedar Grove Free Will
Baptist Church in Poplar Point
Wednesday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock for Mrs. Mamie Clyde
Manning and daughter, five year
I old Mamie Sharon, who lost their
lives in an automobile accident a
few miles out of Suffolk on the
four-lane Portsmouth highway
late last Sunday afternoon Still
confined to a Suffolk hospital
with serious injuries received in
the accident that cost the lives of
his wife and their little daughter
and injured his son, James Roy
Manning, Jr., two and one-half
years old, the father requested
from his hospital bed that the lit
tle doll purchased by him and
Mrs. Manning for her for Christ
nas, be buried with her.
Rev. Marshall Joyner, assisted
by Rev E R Stewart, conducted
the service, the large crowd over
flowing the church where Mrs
Manning held her membership
since early childhood Interment
was in double graves, side by side,
m Woodlawn Cemetery here The
Hamilton Baptist Choir sang
Mrs. Manimg, ■> , was killed
'slant''.' and I,it tie Mamie Shat
m died early next morning in a
Suffolk hospital of injuries re
ceived in the late Sunday after
noon automobile accident. Mr.
Manning, driver of the Mercury
car oil the return trip to their
home in Portsmouth after visiting
relatives and friends here during
the week-end, was critically in
jured, but his condition was re
ported improved yesterday fol
lowing an operation Reports
reaching here stated his jaw bone,
one arm and one leg was broken,
that he was badly cut about the
face and head and that one foot
was mashed Suffering a broken
collar bone, minor lacerations and
bruises, Roy, Jr, asleep on the
hack seat of the car at the time
of the accident, was reported to be
getting along very well and would
be ready to leave the hospital
shortly while it is likely that Mr.
Manning will continue there for
weeks.
Reports reaching here stated
that the Mannings were traveling
toward Portsmouth on the ex
treme right of the four lane high
way, that two ears were in the
lanes to his left und a car, driven
by John I). Mvers. 21, pulled ta
the left of the two ears to pass,
sideswiped a tar driven by Chus.
C. Carson and swerved right into
the path of the Manning ear. Man
ning said he saw the ear sideswipe
the other machine and then move
toward him, hut he did not have
time to get out of the way.
Mrs. Manning, daughter of Hoyt
and Minnie Swam Holliday, was
born m this county on June 2(i,
l!)2ii. She made her home in and
near Williamson except for a
short time spent in the Oak City
Community, until she married Mr.
Manning nine years ago and lo
cated in Virginia. They lived near
Suffolk while he worked in the
Navy Yard In 1945 they located
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Tin; RKCOKI)
SPEAKS . . .
Martin Count} \s u.Ty acci
dent record was aggravated
unmercifully last week when
tin figures jumped up to
show for the year through
December Iti, 250 accidents,
127 injured, many of them to
carry scars the remainder of
then days, five killed arid a
eoiisei vutlvC'ly estimated $57.
7li0
The following tabulations
offer a comparison of the ac
cident trend' first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time.
50th Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam'ge
1951 5 0 0 $ 2,200
1950 6 1 0. 1,700
Comparisons To Date
1951 250 127 5 $57,700
1950 188 81 3 41,240
Note. One person was kill
ed on the highways in this
county this week, a year ago.