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VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 41
Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 21, 1953
ESTABLISHED 1899
| Closing Programs In
| County High Schools
Thursday, Nay 28!
Last Day Oi Term(
For The Schools
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Two Hundred and Fifteen
Are Candidate* For Gra
duation This Year
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Eight Martin County high
schools—five white and three col
ored—are closing the current term
next Thursday when orators will
give the 215 candidates for gradu
ation neat packages of advice for
the future. Commencement events
lire getting under way this week
end with the annual sermons
jcheduled for Sunday morning
and evening, and graduation night
on the 28th. The youngesters are
anxiously anticipating the final
event which will climax another
successful term for the schools in
Ihis county. Elementary schools
will complete their exercises earl
ier in the week and join in with
Ihe high schools departments for
Ihe finals on Thursday.
Starting out as one of the small
rst classes in a number of years,
Ihe seniors are fewer in number
Ihis year than in several years in
the white schools. The count in
the white schools is 35 helow the
record of 179 established in 1951,
ind 21 below the 165 figure for
1952. Farm Life's high school is
not in the picture this year for
the first time in a long time, but
Ihe patrons there are hoping to
have the department in the rec
ords next year.
A new colored high school at
Dak City is in the picture this
year for the first time, Principal
Turner Slade announcing that the
ichool there has eight candidates
lor graduation next week. The
three combined colored high
tchools —Williamston, Parmele
and Oak City—are offering 71 pu
pils for graduation next week, as
compared with 52 last year. Wil
liamston is boosting its number
from 18 to a record of 42, Princi
pal Holmes announced. Parmele
ts reporting a reduction from 34
to 21.
Of the 144 candidates for grad
uation in the five white high
lehools, 67 arc young men and 77 j
■re young women.
A brief schedule of closing ac
tivities in the several white high;
lehools follows:
Jamesville
Class night exercises, Friday,!
•Jay 22 at 8:00 o’clock in the au-1
ditoriurn.
Commencement sermon, Sun
day, May 24, 8:00 o'clock p. m. in
the school auditorium. Speaker,
the Rev. Lewis Styons, Jr., of Roa
noke Rapids.
Commencement, Thursday, May
211 at 8:00 o’clock in'the school
auditorium. Speaker, Dr. D. Ray
Lindley, president of Atlantic
Christian College, Wilson.
The names of the seniors:
Elmer Ray Beat-ham. Donald
Mitchell Brown, James Douglas
Gardner, Bobby Clark Hardison,
Nathan B. Lilley, Bobby Clifton
Moore, Babby Ray Rogers, Janie
Louise Coltrain, Nancy Lee Coop
er, Peggy Jean Gardner, Thelma
Joyce Gurganus, Louise Faye
Hardison, Suzanne Hardison, Bar
bara Ann Holliday, Nan Mizelle
Holliday, Peggy Louise Mizelle,
Agnes Marie Padgette, Erline
Berrv Lillie Mae Pierce,
Bear Grass
The Bear Grass seniors open the
commencement series there Fri
day at 8:00 o'clock when they hold
their class night exercises, cen
tered around the legend, “The
Magnolia Blossom".
The commencement sermon will
be preached Sunday evening at
8:00 o’clock in the school audi
torium by the Rev. P. E. Cayton.
The commencement exercises
will be held Thursday evening at
8:00 o’clock. James Butler, E.
C. College Alumni secretary, is
to address the seniors. Mr. Leroy
Harrison, member of the Martin
County Board of Education, will
present the annual awards, and
Mr. Chesley Jones, committtee
man, will deliver the diplomas.
Names of the seniors are:
Alston Ausbon, Clifford Britton,
Eddie Harris, A. C. Harrison, R.
(Continued on Page Five)
| PLAN APPEAL
J
Meeting: in the community
house-at Macedonia Tuesday
evening:, school patrons in
that area, representing just
about every home in the dis
trict, mapped plans to go be
fore higher officials and ap
peal from a Martin County
Board of Education order di
recting a number of pupils
from the local school to the
one in Bear Gras&.
Details for advancing the
the appeal wpre not disclosed,
hut there was strong support
for the movement, according
to information reaching here.
“We have nothing against
Bear Grass, but we went to
school in W'illiamston and we
want our children to go
there,” several patrons were
quoted as saying.
The meeting lasted about
an hour, and some action is
scheduled for the next few
days, according to one unof
ficial report.
Alfred Harrison
Died In Hospital
Early Yesterday
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Funeral Bciii^ Held Today
In Bear Grass For
Young Man
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Alfred Smith Harrison, will
known young man of Bear Grass
Township, died in a local hospital
yesterday morning at 5:50 o’clock.
Suffering with diabetes, he had
been in declining health since
1942, but supported by a strong
desire to live, he continued fairly
active until last October when his^
condition worsened. Since that |
date he had spent much time re-1
ceiving treatment in various hos- |
pitals.
The son of Ephraim C. and
Maggie Wynne Harrison, he was
born in Bear Grass Township 22
years ago on November 24, 1930.
He spent till his life there, work
ing on the farm when he was able
and attending the Rear Grass
schools. Despite declining health
he maintained a keen interest un
til his last serious illness in the
event of the day and his com-1
panions, and was highly respect
ed. He never married.
Suiviving besides his parents
are two sisters, Nancy and Dianne
Harrison, both of the home, three
brothers, Levi Harrison of Ever
etts, Eli D Harrison of Gastonia,
and Billy Harrison of the home.
Funeral services are being con-,
ducted in the Bear Grass Primi
tive Baptist Church this afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock by the pastor. Elder
A. B. Ayers, assisted bv Elders E.
C. Stevenson of Hamilton and W.
E. Grimes of Pitt County. Inter
nment will be in the family ceme
tery on the home farm.
Oak City School
Principal Resigns
13. F. Sloanc, principal of the
Oak City schools for the past four
years, last week tendered his re
signation, it was announced by
Committeeman Sidney Mallory
yesterday. The school man. re
ciceted for another term at a pre
vious meeting, did not disclose his
plans for the future.
Accepting the resignation, the
local committee in a meeting to
night will consider several appli
cations for the position it was an
nounced.
The committee is composed of
Mr. Mallory and Messrs Elmer R.
Edmondson, Clayton House, R. A.
Haislip, Jr., and Henry Worsley.
Full Recreation (troop
Meets At 8:00 Tonight
Chairman T. L. Hastings is call
ing a meeting of the full Martin
County Recreation Committee for
8:00 p. m, today in the Episcopal
Parish House here.
Plans for the summer's recre
ation program are to be complet
ed. If financial arrangements can
be made the new coach, Roger
Thrift will be here this summer.
Extensive Damage
Caused In Area By
Hail-Wind Storm
Hundreds of Acres of Field
Crops Ruined By Storm
Tuesday Afternoon
Several hundred acres of field
crops were laid waste and some
other damage was caused by a
hail and wind storm that swept
over this area shortly after 2:00
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. No
estimates of the loss could be had
immediately, but it will run well
into the tens of thousands of dol
lars in this immediate section
alone, it was declared by farmers.
Complete reports could nqt be
had, but the storm in this county
was centered mainly in parts of
Poplar Point and Williamston
Townships. Damage was reported
in the Spring Green area on down
through Poplar Point, across an
estimated three-mile strip into
Bertie, skirting the northwestern
section of Williamston.
On the Mary Cherry farm,
about three miles from Williams
ton, the storm struck with such
fury and so suddenly that farm
ers were caught in the fields.
Farmer Roy Martin could not hold
a pair of mules hitched to a plow
and they ran to the house. Reach
ing shelter in a small outhouse,
Farmer Martin was badly bruised
about the shoulders by the hail
stones, some of them being as
large as one’s fist.
On the Cowen brothers’ farm at
Sandy Point, the hail left the
fields almost bare, making it dif
ficult to tell just what had been
planted there. Windows were
broken out in homes and shelters
were ripped from farm buildings
in that community.
Seventy-five acres of choice
spring wheat on the Conoho farm
belonging to the Lindslevs were
laid waste, the owners declaring
there was nothing to do but aban
don the crop. Approximately
twenty acres of tobacco were wip
ed out on the Peel farm, one and
one-half miles from here on High
way 125.
Highway 17, north, was literal
ly covered with the hail stones,
and the resulting fog created a
traffic hazard.
One or two trees were blown
into the highway south of Conine
Creek bridge, and the causeway
was almost covered with leaves
for two miles
Farmers immediately started
making plans to put their trans
planers back into operation, sev
eral of them explaining that it
would be cheaper to transplant
the crop in its entirety rather than
attempt to replace the damaged
plants by hand. The extent of the
damage will hr’ determined large
ly by the success of the renewed
operations. It is getting a bit late
to transplant tobacco, and failure
could follow as a result of the late
season for those whose crops were
damaged or completely destroyed.
The storm, described as the
worst of its type to strike this
county in about thirty years, w^s
followed by a second one about
6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening. The
storm, centered in Poplar Point
Township and following a part of
the same course of the first strike,
was not so severe1.
In the early thirties a bad hail
storm struck in the Gold Point
Hassell section. Insurance com
pany representatives found it ne
cessary at that time to make de
tailed inspections. They merely
drove to the edge of the field
and wrote checks for maximum
amounts. The early thirty storm
struck in July.
'fotflPor mor. insurance adjust
ers are expected in here early
Saturday morning to start a de
tailed survey of the last Tuesday
storm damage.
Band To Attend
Potato Festival
The Williamston High School
Marching Band will take part in
the big parade at Elizabeth City
a week from this coming Satur
day and three majorettes from the
band will enter the twirling con
test, Director Jack Butler has an
nounced.
The parade is to begin at 11:00
in the morning and the twirling
contest will be held that night.
Further details are expected to be
ready for release over the week
end.
Contracts Let For Another
Large Storage House Here
Contracts were let this week by
the Williamston Storage Corpora
tion for the construction of an
other huge storage house here, it
was announced yesterday by W.
Iverson Skinner, president. Con
struction work is already getting
under way, Mr. Skinner said, and
itis planned to have a part if not
all of the warehouse ready for use
next fall.
Designed to store ten thousand
hogsheads of tobacco, the new
house, measuring 448 by 160 feet,
will be located just back of a si
miliar unit completed by the com
pany last year just off Washing
ton Street at the end of Peele
Street.
A contract was entered into ear
lier in the week with the Clark
Construction Company for the
grading work. The company will
also pour the concrete floor. The
Howell Steel Company of Weldon '■
was awarded a contract yesterday
for handling the steel construc
tion. White’s Heating and Sheet
Metal Works will build the roof,
and a third contract for the wood
work is pending with the possi
bility that it will be completed to
day or tomorrow.
The storage firm already holds
a contract with the Tobacco Coop
erative Stabilization Corporation
for the storage of a large quan
tity of tobacco, much of which is
processed by the W. I. Skinner
Company before being placed in
storage here. Contracts are being
entered into with manufacturers
and dealers for the storage of con
siderable quantities of leaf here,
it was learned.
Fifty Candidates
For Graduation
In Local School
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Sermon Sundi.y Opens Fin
als Program; Address
Thursday IN'iglit
Entering the last lap of their
local school careers, fifty candi
dates for graduation are looking
forward to the current term com
mencement program which gets
under way here Sunday evening
at 8:00 o’clock when the Rev.
Thomas L. Hastings, rector of the
Church of the Advent, delivers
the annual sermon in the high
school auditorium.
Class night exercises will be
held next Wednesday at 8:00 o’
clock, and on the morning of the
28th the awards will be announc
ed at 9:30 o’clock in the high
schoi auditorium. The commence
ment address will be delivered
Thursday evening, May*28, at 8:00
o’clock by the Rev. D. E. Earn
hardt, pastor of the First Metho
dist Church, Washington.
Of course there is the little mat
ter of final examinations to be
attended to. Beginning tomor
row, the seniors will have all of
them cleared away by next Tues
day.
The local high school is gradu
ating one of its largest classes
this year. Drawing heavily on
the young boys and girls who
came in from Farm Life last fall,
the school hus fifty candidates for
graduation, including 26 boys and
24 girls. Eleven of the fifty are
from the Farm Life area. Last
year the school graduated 43, and
the year before the number of
graduates was fifty. Principal B.
G. Stewart announces that the
school this year has the largest
rising junior class in its history.
The names of the candidates
for graduation are:
Ben Andrew’s, Ray Bell, Samuel
Bullock, Ernest Carraway, James
Coltrain, Jesse Cowan, Wilbur
Edwards, Harrell Everett, Buddy
Fussell, Wade Gardner, Carl Gar
rett, Jr., Ernest Goddard, J. C.
Gurkin, Jr., Paul Harrington,
Billy Harris, Preston Hughes,
Rodney Lilley, Shelton Lilley,
Billy Ray McKeel, LeRoy Peele,
Bobby Perry, Henry Roberson,
Russell Roberson, Jerry Savage,
Edward Ward, Joe Williams,
Willie Lou Bowen, Carolyn Bul
lock, Joyce Ann Cowan, Margie
Cullipher, Betty Lou Dudley,
Hilda G. Hardison Jean Hardison,
Nanette Harrison, Jean Holloman,
Jane Hopkins, Jean Howard,
■Wanda Jones, Mary Ann Manning,
Jean Ward Mobley, Jo Ann Mc
Lawhorn, Myrtle Nicholson, Zadie
Pate, Barbara Peed, Marie Peele,
Ann Raynor, Sallie Roberson,
Gloria Taylor, Irma Wainwright,
Joyce Ward.
Respiratory Tit Shouinfi
Marked Decline in U. S.
An "extraordinary" average
drop of fifty per cent in the an
nual death rate from respiratory
tuberculosis since the end of
World War II, has been reported
by the World Health Organization
which considers the decline “one
of the most sensational develop
ments ever recorded in the field
of public health”.
Using mobile X-ray units, the
health authorities have made con
jsiderable progress in routing the
disease ‘in this county during re
cent years.
POPPY DAY
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Saturday is National Poppy
Day throughout the United
States, and a good response to
the sale of the little poppies is
anticipated in this county.
The poppies are made by
disabled veterans in hospitals
and are sold to raise funds
for the disabled and needy
veterans.
Members of the legion aux
iliary of the John Walton
Hassell Tost of the American
Legion will handle the sale
here.
Funeral on Friday
For Mrs. Woolard
Near Bear Grass
liitorinonl Will Bo In Tin*
Woodlnwn Ceinclrry To
morrow Aftornoon
Mrs. Vostie Louise Woolard, 4!),
died in a hospital here yesterday
atfernoon at 3:30 o’clock following
a long period of declining health.
Her condition became serious
about two weeks ago and she en
tered the hospital on May 0 for
treatment and a major operation
from which she never fully ral
lied.
The daughter of the late Gray
and Sidney Osborne Brown, she
was born near Hamilton 49 years
ago on July 15, 1903. Following
her marriage on October 28, 1917,
to Mr. Wiley M. Woolard she
made her home in Beaufort and
Pitt County for a number of years
before returning to this county
and locating in Bear Grass Town
ship about seven years ago.
Mrs. Woolard was a iv._,uber of
the Rchoboth Pentecostal Holi
ness Church for almost a quarter
century, and was faithful in at
tendance upon its services and in
its work. She was a devoted wife
and mother, and a thoughtful
neighbor and friend to all.
Surviving besides Mr. Woolard
are four sons, Hardy Gray Wool
ard, stationed with the N. C. High
way Patrol in New Bern, Wiley
M. Woolard, Jr., of Plymouth and
Billy and John Gray Woolard,
both of the home; two daughters,
Mrs. Jack D. Liverman of Plym
outh and Miss Lorainc Woolard of
the home; three brothers, John
Brown of Stoke, Zeb Brown of
Robersonville and Edward Blown
of Edenton; one sister, Mrs, Lela
Whitaker of Robersonville, and
two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at the Rchoboth church
near Bear Grass Friday afternoon
at 3:30 o'clock by the pastor, ths
Rev. Geo. A. Casper, assisted by
the Rev. Charles Hamilton, Free
Will Baptist minister, of Fountain.
Interment will be in Woodlawm
Cemetery here. The body will be
removed from the home on High
way 17 near the Old Mill Inn to
the church one hour before the
service.
Explain* Ilea* on For
Hcsigniiiff An Officer
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"It was mit on account of
health, but on account of the long
hours and being away from home
so much at night that caused me
to resign as a member of the Wil
liamston Police force,” Mr. Clay
ton Rogers explained yesterday.
Mr. Rogers has been succeeded
by Maurice Whitehurst, native of
Bear Grass and a former member
of Washington's police force.
Attacks On Girl
Denied by Father
At Local Hearing
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Frank Edwards Pitt Native,
Returned To Jail In
Default Of Bond
A 14-year old girl, hardened to
the abject cruelties of life by a
debased father and an apparently
indifferent mother, told a pitiful
story in the Martin County court
room Tuesday evening when the]
scoundrelly father, 45-year-old
Frank Edwards, a native of Pitt
County, was given a preliminary
hearing before Justice Chas. It
Mobley on the charge of carnal
knowledge and incest.
Unable to turn even to her
mother for protection against a
despicable father, the little victim
seemed to be in a daze at times.
But she told a damaging story of
the common and sordid treatment,
treatment that would have been
out of place in a filthy hog stye.
The little victim told how her
father had mistreated her the first
time hack in 1951, how she had
beggingly appealed to her mother
for protection. The evidence
showed that the mother slept
through or remained silent dur
ing one of the attacks, and then
allegedly participated as an acres
ory after the fact. She told about
the last attack, alleged to have
taken place in a taxi along a coun
try roadside in Pitt County less
than two weeks ago.
“We'll not go into detail, but
you were attacked in between
those times?” Justice Mobley ask
ed. She said that she had, in
cluding one attack that took place
about three months ago while her
mother was away from home to
see a doctor.
It was brought out that the fam
ily occupied a four-room house
over in Williams Township. One
was used as a kitchen, and the
others were bed rooms. The 14
year-old daughter, since 1952, had
slept in one bed with her mtoher
and baby sister in one room. The
father and a son slept in another
room, and a married brother and
his wife occupied the third bed
room. "That was the only way we
could arrange it,” the daughter
explained on cross examination.
Sheriff M. W. Holloman, mak
ing a detailed investig ition, re
viewed his findings, leaving Jus
tice Mobley nothing ( c to do
but find probable cause of guilt.
The sheriff related that taxi driv
er, Joe Godard of Wallace’s Sta
(Continucd on Page Five)
Handle Nineteen
Cases In County
Court On Nonday
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Deadly Weapon Attack Nelts
Hoail Term; Finox Add
tip to $305.00
Judge H. O. I’eele nnd Solicitor
Clarence Griffin handled nineteen
cases in the Marlin County Re
corder's Court last Monday be
fore adjourning the tribunal about
the noon hour. Fines added up
to $305’ One defendant, charged
with assaulting a female with a
deadly weapon, drew four months
on the roads.
Proceedings:
Charged wild drunken driving,
la gged Roebuck was found not
guilty.
The case in which Albert Alston
Thompson was charged with
reckless driving, was nol pressed.
Adjudged guilty of drunken
(hiving, Sam Roberson was fined
SlOu and taxed with the costs, lie
loses his operator’s license for a
year. 1
Charged with speeding 75 miles
an hour, William Earl Sheppard
of RED 1, Robersonville, was
sentenced to the roads for sixty
days, the court suspending the
road term on condition that the
defendant surrender his operator's
license for a year and pay a $25
fine and court costs.
Pleading guilty of an assault
with a deadly weapon, Tommie
Saunders, was taxed with the
court costs.
Charged with an assault with
a deadly weapon, Sarah Lee An
drews pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to jail for thirty days. The
jail term was suspended upon the
payment of the costs.
Pleading innocent, James Au
(Continued on Page Five)
Dr. Jno. W. Williams
Last Rites Held For
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Dr. John W. Williams, Mar
tin County Health officer for
more than thirteen years, died
in a local hospital Tuesday
afternoon at 3:05 o’clock. The
funeral was conducted in the
Presbyterian church here yes
day morning, and interment
was in Oakdale Cemetery,
Washington, his native home.
Former Resident
Died In Hospital
This Morning
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Funeral Here Saturday At
3:30 I*. M. For Mrs.
Mattie Waters Walker
Mrs. Mattie Waters Walker, a
resident of Williumston for a
number of years, died in a Vir
ginia hospital early this morning.
In declining health for seven or
more years she had been a pa
tient in the hospital for some
time.
The daughter of the late James
It. and Evelina Smith Waters, she
was horn in Washington County
tit) years ago on February 5, 1885,
and moved about five years later
to Williumston with her family.
She attended the loeal schools and
was employed in the office of the
Martin County Register of Deeds
for a number of years. She was
later employed by Margolis
Brothers. Going to Norfolk about
thirty years ago she was married
there to Edgar Walker, and had
made her home in Hampton for a
long time.
She was a member of the Meth
odist church, and is remembered
here as one possessed of a pleas
ing personality and a friendliness
that endeared her to everyone.
Surviving besides her husband
are a sister, Mrs. II IV Moore, of
Norfolk, a brother, W. II Waters,
of Bertie County and several
nieces and a nephew.
The body will he brought here
late tonight oi tomorrow and the
last rites will he conducted in the
Biggs Funeral Home Saturday af
ternoon at 3:30 o’clock by the
Rev. K K. Walston, pastor of the
local Methodist church. Interment
will he m the family plot in
Woodlawn Cemetery.
Four Members Oi
Faculty Resign
Immediately following the re
election of all members of the lo
cal school faculty, the local school
committee reluctantly accepted
four resignations at a meeting
held last Tuesday evening.
Miss Sue Henderson is resigning
to accept a teaching fellowship in
France next term. Another fourth
grade teacher, Mrs. Sarah Cherry,
tendered her i ( agnation on ac
count of illness m her family. Mrs.
Jane Brown, seventh grade teach
er, is leaving to join her husband,
Walter Brown, in Raleigh. She
has accepted a position in the city
schools there. Mrs. W. H. Aber;
nathy resigned as home economies
teacher, Principal B. G. Stewart
announced.
The committee —Messrs. R. L.
Coburn, R. H. Goodman, W. Iver
son Skinner, Marvin Britton and
W. Clyde Griffin—held its first
meeting following the re-elections
by the Martin County Board of
Education earlier in the month.
County's Health
Officer Died In
Hospital Tuesday
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Funeral Held In Presby
terian Clitireli Here At
10:30 Wednesday
Funeral services were conduct
ed m the Presbyterian church
here yesterday morning at 10:30
o'clock for Di John W. Williams,
Martin County health officer, whc
died in a local hospital Tuesday
afternoon at 3:05 o’clock. His pas
tor, the Rev. J. Don Skinner,
conducted the rites. Interment
was in Oakdale Cemetery, Wash
ington, his home town.
In declining health for several
months, he had received treat
ment at intervals in several hos
pitals. Suffering with a heart con
dition, he entered the hospital
here about ten weeks ago, and his
condition had been critical since
that time.
The son of the late Samuel II.
and Elizabeth Williams, he was
born in Washington 69 years ago
next July. Completing his early
education in the schools there, he
entered the University of North
Carolina and went on to get the
doctor of medicine degree at the
University of Maryland in 1906.
He practiced medicine several
years in Everetts soon after com
pleting his medical education, and
also practiced in Vanceboro. Suf
folk, Va„ and his home town. In
1926 lie entered Johns Hopkins in
I Baltimore where he trained for
-public health work. A year later
-lie located in Louisiana, heading
public health departments at Bas
. trttfynnd Monroe in that State un
11i 1 1935 when he went to Asheville
to head the city health depart
ment there.
Coming to Williamston from
Asheville in January, 1940, he
took over the duties of health of
ficer for Martin County and ex
panded public health services
throughout the county, opening
clinics in the various towns and
sponsoring the construction and
opening of a modern health center
m Williamston. He showed a keen
interest in public health work,
and championed the right of
everyone to share in an adequate
health program and medical care.
The records clearly show a mark
ed improvement in maternal and
infant care during the pel iod he
headed the department in this
county.
(Continued on Page Six)
Gels Behind With
Fishing Schedule
Here on a rush errand this
morning, County Commissioner 11.
L Roebuck admitted he was get
ting a long way behind with his
fishing schedule. Hardly ever
missing more than a few days all
\ ear around, the commissioner ex
plained that he had not been to
a creek in three or four weeks.
One would think the fish would
have a chance to multiply greatly
; m his absence, but Mr. Roebuck
! pointed out that Frank Hailey and
flic other boys were still on the
fishing job. Farm work and a
home repair project are keeping
the fisherman at home these days,
; lie explained.
Fishing is now recognized as
one ■•!' the ereatest past-times for
the people in this section. The
highways are lined with fisher
men each Wednesday afternoon
and every week-end, going to the
various streams to test their luck.
The big fishing season in the
Roanoke is spent, and it passed
without any one losing his life
in the stream. It was the first
time in many years that no
drowning was reported during the
herring-rock fishing season that
no drowning was reported along
the Martin County shores.
More herring were taken from
the Roanoke during the season
recently ended than in any other
period in many years. The catch
es weie so large'that the fisher
men could not handle them at
times and the fish were dumped
back into the stream by the tens
of thousands. The rock catch in
this area was small, however.