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|v Greater Bargain Dcys4*Full Swing In Williamston Offer Gulden-Opportunities To Thrifty Shoppers THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY I FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK 1 HE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEE* VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 16 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 25, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 1 Ho Bond Allowed f\ * Jas. Hawkins At Tuesday Hearing Augustus Hodges’ Murder Is Traeeable To Drunk en Brawl Saturday -»-— Charged with the fatal stabb ing of Augustus Hodges on Martin Street here last Saturday after noon, James Hawkins, 29-year-old colored man, was denied bond at a preliminary hearing held by Justice Chas, R. Mobley in the grand jury room here last Tues day evening. Pleading not guil ty, Hawkins offered no testimony and was returned to jail to await trial in the Martin County Su perior Court during the week of March 15. The room was pack ed for the hearing, dozens finding it impossible to gain entrance. Testimony offered by the two main state witnesses, Roslyn Stokes, self-admitted girl friend of the murdered man, and Robert Everett, was bogged down in am biguity. However, it was fairly evident thaf the fatal attack cli maxed a drunken brawl follow ing hours of merrymaking in and near the Stokes home. Their talk, blurred by the rapid fire of jaws packed with chewing gum, both witnesses could offer clear evidence, but the woman said she saw Perkins stab Hodges in the back, leaving the court in doubt as to when and where the chest blow was plant ed. The Stokes woman declared that Hawkins and Hodges had been good friends and were merry together in their drinking dur ing Saturday. Hodges, according to the wit ness, went away that morning and j purchased food. She prepared his meal and called him to dinner from the nearby home of Robert Everett Hodges was sitting at the end of the table eating when she ; went to a neighbor’s home to | borrow a broom. The witness claimed that just as she entered \ the kitchen door she saw Hawkins ; drive the long-bladed pocket knife into Hodges’ back. The Witness explained that Hodges was too drunk to be walk i.JA..iSS.:v'.‘V. *tr£tIs, thal sj,t_ railed 1'.;m into her house and sat him down at the table. She also said that Hawkins went to her bedroom i while Hodges was at his meal, ! that Hawkins was laughing. It is possible that Hawkins had al ready stabbed Hodges in the chest. On cross examination, the wit ness said that Hawkins nad been drinking that day. Everett, the second witness foi the State, said he was standing in the kitchen door, but it was ap parent that he thought he was on the spot, he saw little or nothing. Everett admitted that he had been drinking, too. He said that the three of them had been walking around that day, having a jolly good time, slapping one another on the back and pranking. Eve rett said they went to his home, that Hawkins stretched out on a bed and the Stokes woman sent for Hodges, advising that his din ner was ready. Everett said he went with Hodges to the Stokes home, taking a stand at the kit chen door and asking for a snack handout. Hawkins followed a short time later and took a stand against the wall between the 1 stove and door “Somebody said * q something,” the witness told the j (Continued on Page Six) --•—•*-— County Farmer Quite lit In The Hospital Mr. Chcstei Taylor, well-known Martin County farmer, continues quite ill in a Richmond hospital following a major brain operation there about two weeks ago. It is planned to return him to a local hospital during the next few days. . c ROUTINE Routine meetings are in prospect for both the hoards of commissioners and educa tion here next Monday. The county hoard is scheduled to draw juries for the special April term of the superior court, but no other special business had been placed on the calendar up until early today. The education board is slat ed to hold an evening meet ing, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. | Farmers Interested |In New Fertilizers IfINCREASE v__/ A preliminary report re leased this week by Tax Su pervisor M. L. Peel shows a ^ain of about $6,000 in assess sed property values in Bear Grass Township, the first district to submit its tax re cords for 1954 in the county. The picture there is not as bright as it would seem to ap pear, the supervisor said, ex plaining that about a $24,000 valuation incorrectly listed in Cross Roads Township last year had been transferred to Bear Grass where the proper ty is located. No other townships have •submitted final reports, and some districts have not yet completed their listings, it was learned. County Teachers To Neel March 2 On Tuesday, March 2, 7:30 P. M. the Martin County Unit of the NCEA will hold its second regu lar meeting of the year in the Bear Grass School Auditorium. The officers for 1954-55 will be nominated and elected to this meeting. A panel discussion on the Code of Ethics will be the feature of the program. The panel will in clude such members as Mr. Mann ing, County Superintendent, Geo. P. Cullipher, Principal of Oak City, Mrs. Mary Woolard, third grade teacher of Bear Grass end C. B. Martin, Principal of Ro berson ville. A social hour will wind up the evening. Melody Masters Organized Here The Melody Master, incorporat ing some of the finest voices in this section, are rapidly develop ng~I©ii<jwm£ -their- •argaEketiart-' nere last November, and are now ivailable for appearances in churches, before civic clubs and it other events. Under the direction of Mrs. fid Grady, the Melody Masters ire practicing weekly on various :ypes of songs, including hymns, spirituals, popular and folk songs ind novelty tunes. Hilton Forbes is president, W. G. Peeie, Jr., secretary, Frank Weaver, treasurer, and Miss Lela Mae Goff, pianist. Members'li'itiude, Wifford Grif in, W. O. Peele, Jr., Benny Tay lor, Bob Grady, J. D. Baldree, 3aul Burgess, Ed Laughinghouse, : ien Bunting, Evan Griffin, J. T. Uriffin, Roy Griffin and T. P. Wood. Planning Water Safety Program Meeting with interested persons n the chapter Red Cross office lere this afternoon, Bill McDon dd,, JJ.orth Carolina water safety epresentative for the Red Cross, s discussing plans for inaugurat ng a water safety program in this rea during the coming summer. It is the plan of the Red Cross j train one or more instructors ! nd then have them conduct class- ! s and train as many as possible. I Other safety program features, j uch as first aid. are also being i iscussed, Mrs'. Lucille Cowen, xecutive secretary of the chap er, said. flinor Accident On County Road; —*— , No one was hurt and property amage was limited to about $100 1 hen a 1952 Chevrolet pick-up * id a 1948 Chevrolet crashed near le Red Rooster a short distance om Hassell last Saturday night . Walter Scott of Bethel was " riving the pick-up toward High ay No. 11, and the car was being ishu(l by another. Jusi as the uck and car met, the car swerv- v 1 to its left and into the side of 8 e truck, the investigating of- i -er said. Damage to the truck 1 as estimated at $65 and that to fc e car at $25. fc Demonstration On |Use Of Anhydrous Ammonia Is Held Special Tests Plots Located On Pierce Farm Near Hamilton —-♦ Used on a limited scale in this county last year for the first time, anhydrous ammonia, the latest thing in crop fertilization, is be ing put to a wider use and more exacting tests this year by Mar tin farmers, according to infor mation gained at a special field demonstration and a discussion period last Tuesday afternoon and evening. The field demonstration held on the Pierce farm on Highway 125 just outside of Hamilton Tues day afternoon featured the first in a three-plot test. Under the di rection of Andy Tlcox, anhydrous ammonia was placed in the soil at the rate of about 100 pounds per acre and at a depth of about eight or nine inches. Corn is to be planted in each of three plots, and anhydrous am monia will be placed beside the corn when it is about six inches tall in the second plot. No anhy drous ammonia will be placed in the third plot but instead, 500 pounds of bulk fertilizer will be used along with about 400 pounds of 5-10-10 fertilizer. It is planned to use 400 pounds of a 5-10-10 fertilizer on the first and second plots also. Public attention is directed at the special demonstration plots which are located diagonally across the highway from the old Sherrod farm home near Haniil Sponsored by the Mathieron I Chemical Corporation, Standard I Fertilizer Division, the field test ^ demonstrated the application of | anhydrous ammonia, and Dr. J. D -t company, explained the nature of the fertilizer, its reaction and what is to be expected from it. Assisting in the tests, Assistant 1 County Agent Larry Hodges said 1 that the anhydrous ammonia will ' cost about $10 an acre on the bas is of 100 pounds to the acre. It can be applied by special con- l tract at a cost of about $2.50 per ' acre on a basis of 10 or more 1 acres, or about $3 per acre under ' ten acres. ’ The fte’d demrmst ratjgjji , ac- , tually handled by Ronald White and his approved equipment, was handled without a single hitch. Mr. Alcox explained the details , about the equipment and Dr. Campbell answered questions re- ( lating to the chemical make-up of ( the material. • ( In the courthouse Tuesday t evening, more than 100 farmers | listened to Dr. Campbell tell more | about the comparatively new pro- j j duct. He explained that a few 11 farmers in Illinois used anhydrous ( ammonia in 1947, that an addi-1 f tional few joined in the follow-it ing year. Now, un,t< cent of the farmers there are using I u it. After explaining the manufac ture and use of the liquid fertili zer, Dr. Campbell was subject ed tu heavy questioning, the farm ers meaning business when they wanted to be assured that the material would not damage to bacco land. He explained that an lydrous ammonia would not dam age tobacco land any more than ether types of fertilizer, but he idvised caution. “You would lardty plow under a legume ihead of tobacco,” he explained. Anhydrous ammonia can be us 'd to advantage on Martin Conn y soils especially for corn, cot on, pasture and small grain. The naterial is made available to ilant roots without rain, mean 1 (Continued on Page Six) ---,— ontlruction Project Underway In Hamilton -#-— Construction work is well ad aneed on a large building for a eneral store and filling station i Hamilton. Located next to the lamilton Theater, the project is cing built by Messrs. Dan Roe uck and Sons. G V at VI C t! tl Powerful Forces Shaping the Farm Picture In Slate ——♦— Dr. R. W. Cumming* Ad dresses Press Institute In Raleigh ——«* Many powerful,, behind-the scenes forces arc shaping our North Carolina agriculture. Dr. R. W. Cummings, Director of the North Carolina Agricultural Ex periment Station, declared in a recent farm press institute held at State College, Raleigh. Among those influences are the flow of farm labor to cities, the swing to mechanized farming, speedier transportation and com munication, better education, more comfortable housing and healthier diets. All these depend largely on the level of farm income, which in turn depends on how we use our land, capital and management know-how. At the center of all this com plex mixture of forces shaping our farming pattern is the Agricul tural Experiment Station. Its job is to continually discover new facts in all branches of agricul ture for rural people to use in their constant striving for better farming and better living. In this work the Station is literally a "Powerhouse for Agriculture.” Cummings mentions these few practical results of recent Station tests. Two new promising chemi cals to control blue mold in to bacco plant beds are being field tested this year. N. C. 1 and N. C. 2 peanut varieties, released last year, have produced a good 15 percent larger yield than old varieties. Studies are now under v* o.y on jiican ving uuu semen ai 110 degrees below zero-—perhaps For years and years—so that our sest sires can become even more valuable, v Another exciting discovery is hat liquid nitrogen sprays will till weeds as well as fertilize corn it the same time. Poultrymen can set more eggs with less feed and ess work by seif-feeding whole ,'rfein in hoppers to hens once a A-eek, instead of hand-feeding mce a flay. Chemical sprays are •hajTKe.s.t.di: sp.. ul ipples for orchardists. Thf'se achievements all arise rom scientists’ attempts to solve tome farm problem in their spe cial field. These problems, of •ourse, develop from the social orces affecting our farm life. Take the migration of farm jeople to cities. Our 4 million peo- j >le in the State are divided | oughly into one-third living on j arms, one-third in small towns | mdrr 2,500 population and one- j hird in larger towns and cities, j •o tiiv U.-S. only about one-sixth if the people live on farms—not me-third as in North Carolina. This high farm population nakes for low income per person -only about $700 in 1952. Even hough our total yearly farm in omc pushes the $1 billion mark o place us about 12th in the na ion, we still rank about 40th in arm income per person. No wonder then that young leopie especially leave our farms, t’s been estimated that the 260, 00 persons, most of them farm eople, who left the State during he 1940’s were worth an estimat .*15 billion in the value of oods and services they would ave bought if they’d stayed. More production per farm worker is the big answer to rais ifi farm income and living stand ids, declares Cummings. Me liani< al and electrical power are nportant w-ays to boost output, j. Another trend where editors (Continued on Page Five) - -♦— . — I lecruit Donors ] For Bloodnobile —•>— An extensive recruitment pro-' "am for blood donors is now un-1 ^ sr wa.y in most sections of thisj( lapter for the bloodmobile. Eg- j j mraging reports were coming in!) om several recruiters, but the f ogress was slow in one or two , stricts, according to a prelimin- ( y report gained this morning. j Mesdames W. I. Skinner, Henry ! ( riffin, A. L. Jamcsjnn, W. T. Ross, j ictor Brown and R. W. Bondur it are carrying the appeal to the ; trious districts, Mrs. Lucille J jwen, executive secretary for s e local Red Cross chapter srid a is morning. Commercial Fish Boats In Roanoke Subject To Taxes —.*— No Tax On Sports Fishing; Commercial Bonis Tax ed Fifty Cents a Foot ♦ Boats powered by outboard mo tors which are used in the taking of fish for sale are subject to a state boat tax of fifty cents per foot length, but there is no in tention on the part of the De partment of Conservation and De velopment to attempt to collect any such fee from sport fishing boats of this nature operating on the Roanoke River and using skim nets. This statement was made yes terday by Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland Neck, chairman of the Commercial Fisheries Division of the Department of Conservation and Development. Rodgers spoke out on the matter in an attempt to clarify a misunderstanding which came out on the matter in an attempt to clarify a misunder standing which came up during the past week when an inspector of the Commercial Fisheries Di vision was active along the Roa noke River in measuring boats. He said that the General As sembly of 1953 enacted the boat tax and made it applicable to craft driven by outboard motors when they engage in commercial fishing, that is, the taking of fish for the purpose of sale. Some folks who engage in rock fishing on the Roanoke River became ap prehensive because of the fact [.that ordinarily boats which use nets are placed in the status ol commercial fishing and are sub ject to tax. Rodgers said however that the skim net is permitted by law under the jurisdiction of the I I'll!! Ill Viti umid YYIlUllie XYCSnUIC-| es Commission, which collects the net tax, and the Department of Conservation and Development has no jurisdiction in that parti cular matter. He added, however, that the Commercial Fisheries Division has no recourse except to collect | a tax on boats which engage in j commercial fishing because the General Assembly enacted the law, and the Department is cirarg-rri with carrying it out. However, the prerequisite to the ' payment of any tax is a declara- ' tion by the owner of the boat that he expects to engage in cummer- j cial fishing. The measuring of the boats which was carried on this past week was merely a routine function so as to huve the boats properly registered with the Com mercial Fisheries Division and their length shown in the event that any of them enter into com- j mercial fishing, and no attempt i was made to list purely sports 1••■■o'lg *w?Tf^!tjT“s6me of them i may have been measured. He ex pressed the belief that there would be no change in the fish ing situation so far as taxation is concerned from what it has been j in the past few years, and saw no j reason for alarm on the part of the sports fishermen on the Roa- ! noke River. Rodgers made his statement af-' ter he had conferred with Ben E. Douglas, director of the Depart- • nv-nt of Conservation and Dc- ! velopment, und C. Gehrmann Hoi-1 land, Morehead City, assistant I commissioner of fisheries in charge of law enToWHfoW!^ As a result of the conference, Mr. Douglas issued the following statement yesterday at Raleigh. [ The public laws of North Ca rolina adopted by the General As- , lembly of 1953 include in chap-,' er 1134 an amendment to the i General Statutes of North Caro- ; ina relating to license fees and ' (Continued on Page Five) Husband Killer Given Freedom Mrs. Doris Crocker, Wilson bounty young woman who was ound guilty by a Martin County ury last fall after a drunken Vilson County juryman on a irevious occasion had caused a iistrial, gained her freedom yes erday when the North Carolina luprcme Court found that the de endant had been placed in double jopardy The case has attracted much ■ttention in this county since lartin citizens constituted the icond jury in the case and since local attorney Robt. II. Cowcn, ppeured for the defendant. o g c d c e u To Start Red Cross Drive Next Monday Chapter Asked To Raise $4,590 For ■The Current Year —«■— Fluid Chairman Hugh Mar lin Says Plans For Drive Are Completed -*— Plans for launching the annual Red Cross fund in this chapter have been completed. Fund Chair man Hugh M. Martin announced today. Scheduled to get under way next Monday, the drive is to raise $4,590 to finance local acti vities, including the blood bank program, disaster work in the na tion and the many other services offered by the organization in this country and abroad. The line-up for handling the drive in the chapter which in cludes Jamesville, Williams, Grif fins, Bear Grass and Williamston Townships, is headed by Mr. Mar tin with the following townships chairmen, co-chairmen and spe cial assistants: Jamesville, Mrs. Camille F, Rawls and Vaden Hairr; Williams, Floyd Moore: Griffins, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Griffin; Bear Grass, A. B. Ayers, Jr.; Williamston, V. J. Spivey, spe cial gifts; Mrs. W. H. Abernathy and Mrs. Edna -Bondurant, resi dential; and Mesdames I. M. Mar golis, D. R. Davis, Ernest Carra way and W. R. Glower, employee I (111 V CID*'. The several principals in the I colored schools will head up the drive amunR the colored citizenry throughout the chapter, it was announced by Chairman Martin, Announcing plans completed for the drive, Mr. Martin direct-j eri an earnest appeal to ail the I people of the chapter, both white! and colored, to get behind the movement and help put it across, j explainer) that the j Red Cross blood program is-worth' more than the entire amount the chapter is being asked to raise. Martin County has been favored in the blood program, but it can not be maintained along with the many other services unless the people in this chapter lend the fund drive a liberal support, it was frankly explained. Tht chairmen along with Mr. Martin arc asking volunteers to respond to the call for work in the canvass, beginning next week. .’■?.!.'J.,those .who have agreed to lend a helping hand this year have been associated with other campaigns and many other wor thy causes. They are giving of then time and means without any remuneration whatever. They are helping to keep a worthy pro gram in operation. Our people can't afford to make their task any harder than it is already, and they can’t afford to come up short in their support of the Red Cross. This chapter met its quota last year, and Mr. Martin again ap peals to the people to see th it the 54,590 quota is met. The figures, listed below by lownships and districts, repre sent the quotas for this year and Ire amounts raised last year: Townships: larnesville Villiams Jntfins tear Grass iVilliamston: Special Gifts Residential Employees Colored Districts: amesvillc lardens Villiamston lodgers bggs tui roughs Williams 'otals 1954 $ 300 100 250 250 1953 209.80 106.54! 205.80 192 35 ,250 500 200 2,277.90 699.72 195.92 I 50 75 400 75 50 40 50 $4,500 41.45 3 70.31 I 377.43 i 72.00 l I 50.00 I 40.10 51.25 11 $4,590.47 leer cation Center At Woman'* Club Saturday The Woman’s Club hall will be pen from 8:00 to 11:00 o’clock aturdav night for teen-age re reation, it was announced to ay. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Jameson will laperone the group for the veiling, and ail teen-agers are iviled. C ! 5 I TOWN BOARD I v__J In addition to their routine duties, Wi I liainston's town commissioners are expected to study a proposal for pav ing a number of streets. Petitions, requesting the of ficials to study the need and make plans for an extensive program, are being prepared, and apparently there Is a strong support for the pro posal. It was learned unofficially that the proposed paving pro gram will cost approximately S200.000. However, the figure is not definite since the pro gram scope has not been de termined. It was pointed out, however, that the cost esti mates cover most of the prin cipal streets now without pavement. World Day Of Prayer March 5 This community will join in prayer for world peace on Friday, March 5, with Christians in 20, 000 other U. S. communities and in more than a hundred countries around the world. On the World Day of Prayer, March 5, prayers will rise in hundreds of the world's languages and dialects, asking that the churches "speak the word of heal ing to this troubled world"; that the United Nations may "be given the grace to work together”; that the “leaders of the nations of the world" may be given wisdom to work for peace. The World Day of Prayer, held on the first Friday' in Lent each year, is an observance that dates back to 1887. when a Presbyterian woman in Boston called for a na tionwide day of prayer for home missions. Today the World Day of Pray-, er is observd by people of al cveiy Ch.istian .church around the globe. It is sponsored in this country by the., United Church Women, a general depart men of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A., and by state and local councils of church women and special prayer groups across the country. Offerings from World Day of Prayer services support church enterprises in many nations. In the U. S., yearly offering?of more than a quarter of a million dol lars are shared among interde nomination;!! mission projects at home and overseas, as a practical expression of Christian brother hood. World Day of Prayei services in this country are held in church es, schools, hospitals, and other institutions; in fields where mi gratory farm workers are going >ut to pick the crops; in trailer ! tamps spread around new defense installations. The day itself is j narked in many places by procla mations from mayors and gover nors, by the ringing of church sells and the closing of business establishments .tuvd.wuvy4 nublic prayer in the streets and squares. Griffins Gives To Party Funds i --_ Griffins Township Democrats ontributcd to the fund raised for lie Jefferson-Jackson day din ler in Raleigh recently. The old < larty stalwarts and quite a few i ■oung ones who steered clear of he Eisenhower camp in 1952 i ontributed $50, Chairman B. i 'rank Lilley announced as fol- I iws: Clarence Gurkin, Evan Lilley i nd Joseph Lilley, 50 cents each; i .ester Griffin, $2; Howard Col- t rain, Elbert Griffin, W B. Har- s ington, Andrew Griffin, Wilford I riff in, B Frank Lilley, Hugh B filliam Peel, .1 R, Griffin, J. T Iriffin, W. D. Daniel, John Ward,| iilbert Ward, Herbert L. Mann-1 lg, Roland C iffin, Elbert Ro erson, Harmon Rogers, Robert riffin, Hoyt Manning, E. H. tanning and Jim Gurkin, $1 each; lmo'Lilley, $0.50; Roland Lilley,! i; John A. Griffin, $3; and J I a^oi; Lilley Estate, $10. {Eighteen Cases ; In County Court Monday Morning -.» | Fines ami Forfeitures A«l«l Up To .$29o In Brief Meeting -w In n session lasting hardly more than two hours. Judge H. O. Peele and Solicitor Clarence Grif fin handled eighteen cases during the morning session of the Mar j tin County Recorder’s Court last | Monday morning. Fines and for feitures added up to $295. Proceedings: Failing to report for trial. Leo Long, charged with bastardy, had his $100 bond forfeited. Papers were issued for his arrest. The case in which Joel H. Pierce was charged with dispos ing of mortgaged property was nol prossed. Charged with drunken driving, Percy Dorsey Evans was adjudg ed not guilty. Willie Cecil Teel of Roberson ville was taxed with the cost for speeding 65 miles an hour. Maintaining he was innocent, i Eddie demon Lilley, charged j with careless and reckless driv | mg, was adjudged guilty and was I sentenced to the roads for sixty j days. The court suspended the road term upon the payment of a $50 fine and costs. The defend ant is to surrender his operator’s | license for a year. It was said that Lilley, young colored man, pass ed a school bUs on the right side of the road, that school children had to jump into a ditch for safe ty. Pleading not guilty,1 Woodrow Hilton Keel was adjudged guilty of non-support and was sentenced to the roads for three months. The road term was suspended up on the payment of the costs and $25 a week for the support of his wife and children George Davenport, Sr., was fin ed $25, plus costs, for operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license Judgment was suspended upon tlie payment of the cost in the case in which Robert Lee Tinsley of Cherry Point was charged with speeding 70 mites nn hour . . Pleading innocent, William" Byron Thomas was found guilty of speeding 65 miles an hour and was taxed with the costs. The young Scotland Neck defendant explained that his speedometer was slow. James Lucy Johnson of Wash ington was fined $10, plus costs, for speeding 69 miles an hour. Pleading guilty of speeding 75 miles an hum, cJUward Replan of West Chester New York, was fin ed $25, plus costs. Charged with operating a mo tor vehicle without a driver's li cense, Savanah II. Smith was fin ed $25 and taxed with the court costs. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs when Odd Reinert Lindevald of Brook lyn pleaded guilty of speeding 65 miles an hour. Pleading not guilty, Jesse Lew is was found guilty of an affray and damaging property. Judg ment was suspended upon the payment of courst costs. In a see •nd ease, Lewis pleaded guilty of in assault with a deadly weapon amoves fined $25. plies costs. Pleading guilty, James A. Du tuid of Williumston was taxed (Continued oil Page Six) THE RECORD SPEAKS . . ._ After averaging almost one a lay l uring the first 45 days of his year, motorists cut the nuni ter of accidents to a new low dur ng the 7th week, according to ‘ Ports coming from the highway >atrol and police departments. Last week only one reportable evident was entered in the re ords. No one was reported hurt nd the property damage was mall. The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend first, by corres ponding weeks m this year and last and for each year to the present time Wrecks Inj it Killed Damage 1954 1 0 0 $ 350 1953 9 3 0 2.900 Comparisons To Date 1954 41 21 1 $17,900 1953 39 11 0 9.000
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