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/ THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,3W MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER- -2,300 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TW*CK EACH WEEK V OLUME LVII—NUMBER 65 Williamstoti. Martin County. North Carolina, Thursday, August 19. 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Peele Has Twenly-SixCases * In County Court -O Fines Add Up To $320 In Three-Hour Session Monday Morning Judge H. O. Peele and Solici tor Clarence Griffin handled twenty-six cases in the Martin County Recorder’s Court during a three-hour session last Monday. Quite a few of the cases involved % speeding. Fines added up to $320. and one or two road sentences were imposed. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of drunken driving and speeding 65 miles an hour, David Frank Dick of Ra leigh was fined $100 and taxed with the costs. He loses his op erator's license for a year. Charged with speeding 65 miles an hour, William Thomas Arrants of Plymouth was taxed with the costs. Judgment was suspended in the case in which J. E. Reason was charged with- speeding 70 miles an hour was nol prossed. Rufus Andrews was adjudged not guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. Pleading guilty of assaulting a female, Levi Hill was sentenced to the roads for ninety days, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. The case charging Sarah Lee Andrews with disorderly con duct, was nol prossed. Charged with abandonment, j Betty Jean Keel pleaded not guil ty and was adjudged not guilty, i The case in which Hubert Barb er and Jean Barber were charged j with larceny was nol prossed. Pleading guilty of operating a | motor vehicle without a driver’s license, Joyce K. Clemons was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Felindo D. Beuneamino of Brooklyn failed to appear when Q called to answer to a 65-mile speeding charge, and papers were issued for his arrest. Pleading guiity of operating motor vehicles without drivers’ licenses, Matthew Gainer and Clarence Page were each fined $25, plus costs. ® Cecid Dan Coltrain of Wil liamston RFD 3, pleaded guilty of speeding 65 miles an hour and was fined $10, plus costs. Charged with speeding 65 miles an hour, Raymond 1. Reul of | (Continued on Page Eight) • Rnriians Meet Ai Farm Life The Farm Life Ruritan Club! met last Tuesday evening at 8:00! o’clock at the call of Vice Presi-! dent Gabe Roberson who presid- j ed in the absence of the president, Evan Griffin. Carlyle Manning led the club in song and the Rev. W. B. Harrington made the in vocation prayer. Following the reading of the j minutes of the previous meeting by Archie Coltrain, the club dis cussed and voted to make a $5 gift to those being hospitalized from communities represented by members of the Ruritan Club. The objective of the month is for the recreation committee to give' the pupils of Farm Life School a wiener roast, f The club proposed and voted I to give an invitation to all to- | bacco buyers, government grad ers, and various members of to bacco wareltouses in Williamston i for supper. Archie Coltrain introduced the j speaker of the evening. Mr. V. B. I * "rZWSXim™ j Charles Hanley, the agriculture j teacher of Williamston. Mr. Hairr, * the Leut. Gov. pf Ruritan Na- j tional, made a brief speech. A delicious meal was served I by George Griffin. Suffer« Broken Arm In Fall Here Wednetilay Mrs. Della Green, well-known local resident, suffered a broken right arm at the elbow in a fall ^ at her home on North Haughton Street yesterday morning. Fol lowing first aid treatment in Brown’s Community Hospital she was removed to Rex Hospital, Ra leigh, for further treatment. Last reports stated she was getting along as well as could be expect ^ ed. Work Stained On New Unit At The-Lacal.High-School After a delay of several weeks, the contractor, M. L. Skinner of New Bern, started work yester day on a .new dnit for the local high school. Superintendent E. O. Register located the position yesterday and plans to pour the foundation this week, prepara tory to starting the masonry work early next week. The building, costing approxi mately $20,000 exclusive of heat ing and wiring, will be one story and measures / seventy feet in depth and about 65 feet in width at one point. The addition is to house a manual arts shop and a class room for agriculture in addi tion to offices and storage room. The building will be of block and brick construction. If there is no delay in steel de [liveries, Mr. Register said yester j day that the project should be completed in about three r. oi.ths. “We plan to rush the construction work," Mr. Register said. Work is fairly well advanced on a sizable high school unit in Robersonville, but no part of it will be ready for occupancy early in the new school year. Construction is well advanced on a two-room addition to the pri mary building here, and it is pos sible that the two rooms will be ready for occupancy soon after the term gets under way Septem ber 2. Even with the completion of the primary buildirig addition the school will be one room short to care for all its classes, it was said. Holding Funeral Today For Mrs. Gideon Harrison —•— Well-Known Citizen Died At Her Home In Beur Grass Wednesday Mrs. Rena Harrison, well known county citizen, died at her home in Bear Grass Wednesday morning at 5:30 o’clock following an illness of more than one month. Suffering a slight stroke, she was critically ill about three week. The daughter of the late David B. and Mary Gurganus Whichard. she was born in Pitt County 62 years ago on September 15, 1891, and spent her early life there. She made her home in this county for many years, marrying Gideon A. Harrison April 3, 1913. Mr. Har rison died about seven years ago. Mrs. Harrison was a devoted member of the Rose of Sharon Free Will Baptist Church which she attended regularly. Surviving are a son, C B. Har rison of Bear Grass; one daugh ter, Mrs, Lee Savage of near Wil liamston; four . half-sisters, Mrs. Ira Price, Mrs. Palmer White, Mrs. Ethel Weathersbee and Mrs. Charlie Hoell, all of or near'Wil liamston; four half-brohters, Sum Whichard of Robersonville, Clau die Whichard of Williamston, Paul Whichard of Norfolk and David Whichard of St. Pauls, N. C. The funeral service is being conducted in the Rose of Sharon Free Will Baptist Church this aft ernoon at 3:30 o’clock by her pas tor, the Rev. C. D. Hamilton of Fountain, assisted by Elder A. B. Ayers, Primitive Baptist minis ter and friend of the family of Bear Grass. Interment will be in the Harrison family cemetery. The boity will be moved to the church one hour prior to the serv ice Towns Plan To Buy Fire Trucks .-A Hamilton and Oak City are planning to purchase fire-fighting equipment, but no definite ar rangements have been made at this time, as far as it could be learned here today. Oak City is said to be consid ering the purchase of a $9,000 trbck, and Hamilton has already made plans to equip a truck of its own. Both machines will carry from 500 to 784 gallons of water, and the pumps will be of the high pressure type. Hamilton has purchased a 1951 Ford chassis and has'a tank ready for installation. Plans call for the Mists {S&tkw*'* 'it.a . j?®8Gj»S-. pump Muwevel, 'ir v\ as*“fate; .efTHK that the promoters of the fire de partment there that might con sider the purchase of a new chas sis. It was also learned that ap proximately $1,500 had been rais ed in Hatnilton by poplar sub scription to finance the purchase of a fire truck. Attack Victim Improving In Hospital Thin H eck ■ » - < Suffering a heart attack at his home over in Williams Tdwnslnp about three weeks ago, Mr. Chas. L. Daniel, prominent farmer and president of the Martin County Farm Bureau, is improving in a local hospital. He is able to sit up during short intervals daily, and piar^ to return to his home in about a week or ten days. f BLOODMOBILE 1 -J The Red Cross bloodmobile will make its quarterly visit here on Thursday, September 9, it was announced today. No definite quota has been as signed this chapter, but it is likely that the center will need at least 150 pints. The chapter fell a bit short of its quota in June, and It is hoped that the response next month will offset the shortage. Volunteer donors are asked to contact the Red Cross office and pledge a pint. Rabies Inspector Issues Warrants Closing in on alleged violators of the rabies laws, Inspector A. R. (Clab) Roberson of Everetts is carrying quite a few defendants into the courts. Eight rt«g owners were cited to the courts in the Robersonville area. Fourteen warrants have been served in the Williamston Poplar Point section. Cited to appear before Justice W. M. Tet terton, four of the fourteen were convicted. They were taxed with the costs and directed to have their dogs vaccinated. Nine were found not guilty when they pro duced proof showing then dogs had been vaccinated. Eleven warrants have been is sued in the Oak City-Hamilton area and the defendants are to ap pear before Justice Edmond Early in Oak City for trial. Expect President To Sign New Farm Program Bill Soon —^| First Drop In Support Will Come Next Year And Another In 1956 The Republican farm program, designed to knock the props from under the American farmer be ginning next year, is now await ing President Eisenhower’s signa ture. While the proponents of the new hill maintain it will help keep production in line with de mand, others see the new law as a direct threat to the well being of American agriculture. Early yesterday, the Senate completed congressional action on a controversial farm measure fea turing a system of flexible price supports for the basic crops of wheat, cotton, corn, rice and pea nuts. Officials said the President probably will sign the bill at his vacation place in Colorado next week. Under the flexible system, price floors for the crops will operate on a sliding scale- moving down as supplies of an affected crop increase and going up as supplies decline. Under a war-born system to be supplanted, supports were at a rigid base, irrespective of supplies. Next year the supports will range between 821 ■ to 90 per cent of parity and between 75 and 90 per cent thereafter, as things now stand. Present supports are at 90 per cent. Parity is a price de clared by law to be fair to farm ers in relation to costs they must pay. In recommending and debating the new system, the Eisenhower administration contended that the high, rigid supports deprived agri tculture of the needed tools for guiding its production. It said those supports encouraged farm ers to produce big crops regard less of whether they were needed. As a consequence, large supplies which could not be sold were un loaded on the government under the support system. Under the new plan, supports will be reduced when there are over-supplies, in an effort to dis (mirage overproduction. Nevertheless, next year's farm program will depend more upon government crop planting restric tions than on reductions in prieg supports to solve the surplus problem. Crop controls already announced by Secretary of Agri culture* Benson are the most stringent ever imposed on Ameri can farmers. Slight Increase In Supports For Peanuts-Colton -9> Peanuts Given A 11.80 Per Ton Increase Over The Level For 1953 Support prices for 1954 peanuts! and cnl in types of cotton havej been slightly increased, accord ing to unofficial information gain ed here recently. The support level on the 1954 crop of peanuts was raised $1.80 per ton to a national average of $244.80. The minimum national support, level announced by the depart ment April 7 was on the basis of parity at that time before plant ing. Since then the parity price has increased and the new na tional average minimum support is based on July 15 parity prices. At the same time the average loan rate for 1954 upland cotton grading nodding 7-8th inch staple was raised from 411.25 cents a pound to 31.58 cents. This is based on a July 15 parity price of 35.09 cents per pound in contrast to the preplanting parity of 34.72 cents per pound. Department officials said the 33-100ths cents a pounds could mean "several million dol lars” additional to the cotton farmer. Support price for extra long staple cotton remains at the 85.53 cents a pound rate announced in March because of a decline in par ity price for this staple. The average rate for middling 15 1 fiths inch cotton will be 1.65 rents a pound above the average rate for middling 7 8 inch of 33.33 cents a pound, the department said. The rate for middling 15-16 inch will vary from 34.26 cents a pound in the concentrated mill area of the Carolines to a low of 32.411 cents a pound in California and Arizona. Plan Rruinlrutitm For kitilrruurlvn infinxt 2.1 l’ii' school registration for the Ministerial Community Kinder garten will be held in the annex ol the First Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, August 25th from it until 11:00 a. in. This registra tion is,, for the purpose of find ing out bow many children will be enrolled for this school yeg' beginning September 10 and clos ing in May. All children between the ages of 4-6 are eligible to at tend ‘Further information may be obtained on registration day or by calling Mrs. R. L. Bolling or Mrs. R. E. Tarkington, Jr. Civil War Diary of Docton Warren Bagley Installment No. 3 After -adopting rules and regu lations, the patriots began to raise money for the Southern Cause. Mr. Bagley listed the pledges, ex plaining: The following obligations were read and subscriptions were made. The undersigned promise to pay the sums opposite their names to D. W. Bagley, Treasurer of the Volunteer Fund, for the purpose of arming, equipping and sup porting volunteer companies from the County of Martin and to pro vide for the support of the fami lies of volunteers who may be called into service, April 27, 18til: Jesse M. Ewell, $1,000; S. R. Spruill. $500; Joseph D. Biggs, $500; John L. Knight, $100; A. H. Coffield, $200; Dennis Simmons, $200; John A. Manning, $100; Asa Biggs, $250; Samuel Rogers, $200; Joel Smithwick, $100; F. W. Moore $100: Jesse S Stallings ..* ■ r. wn.n Pugh, $100 Joseph B. Peal, $50; J. S. Yarrell, $50; John H. Brown, $50; Malic hi Green, $50; Anthony Burroughs, $50; W. R. Wheatley, $25; James Coburn, $25; Elisha Everett, $75; F. Fagan, $50; John Ward, $50; John R. Lanier, $50; H. B. Robason, $25; Davis B. Har rison, $50; W. W. Taylor, $50; Si mon Gurganus, $25; William S. Ward $25; John L. Ward, $25; W. W Robason, $50. Henry T. Brown, $25; John A Griffin, $50; George M Burras, $100; Eason Lilley, $25; S. W. Watts, $50; P. G. Foster, $50; William Jenkins, I $25; Jordan Smith, $25; William H. Harrell, $50; Eli H. Robason, $25; C. B. Hassell. $100; L. S. Ya tes, $200; Clayton Moore, $100; and five shares in Stdamer Styles; Henry P. Gibson, $50; Simmons, I Grandy and Co., $300, H M. Bur roughs, $25; Randolph Whiehard, $25; Simon D«.Ward, $25; Leonidas Clary, $25; William .1 Moore, $50; Noah Gurganus, $25; Kenneth Stallings, $25; John E. Moore, $25; Zephanias Bateman, $25; Ken neth Daniel, $25; William B. La nier, $100, Mizelle and Waters, $50, John A Rage, $25; George T. Johnston, $25} David L Brown, $25; Henry Rogerson, $500; Ed win B. Robason, $25; George O Robason, $50, Charles Robason, $25; Simon S. Ferry, $25; Joseph J Martin, $100; O. C. Gray, $25; Me. G. Robason, $25; Wm. G. Whitfield, $50; Harmon Lilley, $25; W W Purvis, $25; Ai C. Wil liams, $60, W A. WeatViersbee, $25; W H Carstarphen, $100, Ransom S. Rogerson, $25, S. S. Shepherd, $100; Joseph Lilley, $10; J. H Burnett. $50; D. W. Bagley, $50: Standley . Duggan, $25; Jas. H. Ellison, $10; Warren W Andrews, $25: J H. Stubbs, '/■ »•L.v "r'l Abner S. Coburn, $50; Matthew Hasty, $50; Jesse Moore, $200; Estate of Me. G. M Staton, $500; Alfred Jordan, $31; William Rog ers, $100; Jordan Jenkins, $3; L A. Andrews, $5; and J L Ewell, $100. (Given when patriotism was running high, some of the pledg ers failed to meet their pledges and at the April (1804) term of court, Treasurer Bagley asked the court for relief. He listed unpaid notes as follows. Jesse M. Ewell, John L. Knight, William R Wheatley, Dr. L. S. Yates, Dr. I. H. Burnett, William R. Purvis, Shepherd R. Spruill, R. B. Smith, Standley Duggan, Jesse Moore,' A. J. Mizelle, Samuel S. Shep herd, Dr. James L. Teal* (balance: of $132 18), Dennis Rawls, K. B 1 Whitfield and Win i i'ii W And t lrw addition to contributions made bv its citizens. Martin Coun ty issued bonds to help finance the bond buyers below). 1 tit) 1 Adam James, $1,900; Mai ichi Green, $125; John Watts, John C. Lamb and Peter J Foster, $25 each; William Roberson, $100; William Gray, $150; 1002—George W. Wynn, Simon T. Price, C. B. Hassell, John Woo lard, Irvin Page, Wallace And rews, F W Moore, Joseph B. K. Andrews, Stephen W Gutter- j bridge, Joshua L Kwell, William Rogers, John W Sherrod, Ben jamin Martn, Robert J Carson, William II Carstarphen, Joel Smithwick, Jesse J. StaJIings, $100 each; Dennis Rawls, $50; Malichi G.een, $50; Helen B. Slade, $1,000; McBilbra Rooason. $25; George O. Robason, $50; Asa v: I . CAJ.tJ..C 1'etei G. 1" osier, $50. Simon i. Price, $100; Ruffin Hardy, $50; C. C Hines, $50; Win. A Mat thews, $25; Henry T Brown, $25; Wm A. Weathersbee, $25; Wil liam A Robason, $25; William W Robason, $50; W. W. Robason, $50; Anthony Burroughs, $25; Da vid L. Brown, $25: Henry D Roba son, $50; Peter G Foster, $150; Jesse J. Taylor, $25; John A Page, $25, Staton Fverett, $25; Samuel j Rogers, $200, A C Williams, $50; Abner S. Coburn, $50, David Woo-1 lard, $50, W T. Cotanch, $25,1 Joseph D. Biggs, $500; James M. Corphew. $25; R. D. Matthews, $25; John J. Sherrod, $50; Wil liam W, Sherrod, $25; John W. Purvis, $150; James Saisbury, $50; Helen B. Slade, $150; Henry L. Sherrod, $50; Thomas W Har the war and care for dependents of volunteers. Mi Bagley listed ri ll, $25; James Jinkins, $25; Al lied Jiirdan, $25; Henry B. Roba snn, $25; Wade H. Everett, $25; Matthew Iiustey, $50; Henry B. Gibson, $50; Wm. It. W Sherrod, $350; 1 11103 Dickerson Baker, $50; John A. Griffin, $50; Eason Gil ley, $25; Anthony Burroughs, $50; Benjamin L. C Bryan, $25; Jo seph G. S. Parker, $15; Samuel ft Harrell, $50; Samuel A. Long, $75; James It Hyman, $10; Wil liam H. Harrell, $50; John Bryan, $100; Bryant Bennett, $100; Jos eph B Peace, $50; William B. Long, $50; Thomas J Baker, $50; Davis B Harrison, $50; Malichi Green, $50; William It Bowers, $100; Jesse Kill, $50; J. J. Smith, administrator of Me It. Smith, $50; 1804 J. J. Smith, $25, William B Lanier, $100; John ft Lanier, $50; and James Coburn, $25. (According to the records, Mar lin County citizens in District Ho 7. pAvie phdgid $10 074 in on eel contributions arm subscrib ed $0,480 in bonds to help finance the war and care for the volun teers’ dependents. It is quite no ticeable that- poverty and wante stalked the land in late 1803 and early 1804 and bond subscriptions were few and cash contributions a-most non-existent (While District No. 7 was busy raising funds, Hamilton was re ported to have raised $7,300 in less than an hour, and there were many volunteers. To boost the fund, Helen B. Slade lent the Ha milton district $5,000). In the next installment, Mr Bagley puts the fund to work, buying provisions of all kinds for the volunteers, and dependents. The hundreds of items are listed in detail). Tobacco Sales Hold ToSmaH'Pmmdaffc" C7 r~ j LOAD OF GEAR J Under (he watch of a sp< cial armed guard and an es cort car, a navy truck moved through here yesterday mor ning, apparently carrying a valuable cargo. The truck, heavily loaded, was said to have been en route from Nor folk to one of the marine bas es either at Cherry Point or Lejeune. Asked what was aboard that required a special armed guard, the warrant officer accompanying the shipment, merely said ‘‘a load of gear”. Others along said they did not know what was aboard. Court Ruling Not Applicable Here A State Supreme Court decis | ion, ruling out arrests when a misdemeanor is committed, is not applicable to this county, it was learned following a study of a special law passed by the Legisla ture during the 1949 session. The special legislative act, in troduced by Representative A. Corey and passed on March 14, 1949, says, in part: “It shall be unlawful for any person on any public road or highway, or in the immediate vi cinity of any public place in Mar tin County, in the hearing of two or more persons, to be drunk or drunk and disorderly, or to use indecent, vulgar or profane lang uage so as to disturb others." The law provides a penalty up to $50 fine or thirty days in jail. The court ruled that where there is no specific law, a drunk cannot be arrested unless he is disorderly. Briefly stated, officers, includ ing members of the highway pa trol, may make arrests in this county without first obtaining a warrant. Miss Marlin To Appear In Television llerilal Miss Jane Martin, daughter and pupil nf Mrs. Edith Tarkington of Everets, will appear in a tele vision recital over the Greenville station next Monday evening at 7:15 o’clock. The program is be ing sponsored by the Reid Music Company of Rocky Mount Heavy Offerings Hardly Expected Until Next Week -<* Majority of Farmers End ing Green Harvest This Week In Goimly Tobacco sales continue light on the market here and throughout the belt, but prices are holding fairly firm, according to govern ment reports released early to day for the local market. After holding a capacity sale i on opening day last Monday, the | market saw its deliveries dwindle ; to almost a mere trickle on Tues day, followed by a slight increase in pounds yesterday and this mor ning. Tuesday, the market slipped I a notch or two in its general av ! erage, but the decrease was minor j and was traceable for the most J part to the quality of the leaf rather than to a change in prices Yesterday, the market sold 3b. 170 pounds for $19,813, an average of 54.78. To date, the market has sold slightly in excess of a quarter million pounds for an average of j $54.00 per hundred pounds. A fairly sizable sale is expected on the market tomorrow, but no great poundage is predicted until farmers complete the current bar vest. A majority of farmers are completing the harvest this week, but quite a few will be busy with the harvest next week while still others are not planning to com plete the task before week after next. Several farmers declare they will not finish the harvest before the first week or ten days I in September. I Sales are expected to show a | fairly sizable increase next week, but no block sales are anticipated before week after next. While tobacco is moving slow ly to markets, it is reaching the market from a wide territory, one report stating that eight counties were represented on the market here yesterday Farmers, while expressing no great dissatisfaction, are of the opinion that prices for the poorer and medium quality grades are a bit lower than than those re ceived for similar grades, last season. Unofficial reports show the William,ston market at the top in general price averages, and farm ) ers who have not been seen in a i number of years were marketing thir tobacco here this week with | the assurance tl at they planned to go all the way this season. There was a fairly noticeable | trend this morning in prices for j the medium quality grades, and I bidding on all types was more j competitive than on any other day so far this season. Deliveries * were much heavier this morning than yesterday, and selling was not completed until after 11:00 , o’clock Fairview Club Submits Report -<fe The Fairvicw Home Demon I stratum Club raised $8.25 for the | cancer fund, as follows: Mrs. Gladys Gardner, 1.00; Mrs. I James Perry, 1.00; Mrs. Joe Per ' ry, .25; Mrs. Henry Dawson, 25; | Mrs. Pete Dellon, .50; Mrs. Wal ter Gardner, 1.00; Lorenzo Spill, 1.10; Asa Moore, 1 00: Lonnie Mod ■: ;r ■-f-il- t-r*:..-?,-, Ke.; on .. .. - | Godard, .50; William Griffin, all, Other Contributions, 05. II indaor 1‘etf/de Brotent (.urlailed Mail Servin' According to information re-1 reived here yesterday, patrons of the Windsor post, office are protesting the curtailed mail ser vice in their area Work Started On Annex To Agriculture Building Contractor Hugh B Wyatt started work on an addition to the Martin County agriculture building this week. The annex will be two stories and will be used as offices. Plan To Reduce Crop Acreage In Slate Mexl Year < .it'll l ti(lt>r Itrii'oii*!* IMan \\ ill B«> Cut Bv 712.000 Acres Agricultural administrators and department heads at State Col lege learned this week that North Carolina farmers stand to lose 712.000 acres of land from cash crn production under a new acreage allotment program an nounced last month by Secretary of Agriculture Benson. At a meeting called bv Dean of Agriculture D. W. Colvard to con sider ways that the college could help farmers meet the loss of these acres and maintain their net income, Horace D Godfrey, State administrative officer for the ASC, explained the new "cross compliance" and "total allot ment" provisions. Godfrey pointed out that his of fice had not yet received instruc tions for carrying out the direc tive, but essentially it calls for twm things: 1. Farmers, in order to receive price supports for any crop, must comply with acreage allotments for all crops. 2 Farmers who have more than 10 "diverted acres” will be re stricted to "total allotment" which they cannot exceed and still receive price supports. North Carolina crops for which allotments have been announced arc cotton, tobacco, wheat, pea nuts and corn. A farmer who. foi instance, would receive price sup ports on his tobacco must plant within his allotment for cotton, wheat, peanuts and corn, as well as tobacco II farmers plant with in these allotments, they will re move approximately 7i2,QOO acres irom the production of cash crops in 1955. Godfrey pointed out that di verted acres will be ligured on Hie basis of 1952 planting, a year when there were no acreage re strictions on corn, cotton and wheat, and hence, a year that will (Continued on Page Two) Injured In Auto Wreck Last Night James Herbert Ward, Jr, .suf fered a painful head injury and a bruised elbow, and Eddie Dan iels received bruises and shock when their car went out of con trol on a curve in the Smith wick’s Creek community last night and plowed into a ditch. Following treatment in Brown's Community Hospital, Daniels was discharged. The other young victim continues in the hospital. A small portion ol \oung Ward's scalp was left in the broken wirid shield, it was reported. Daniels was driving his moth er's Pontiac, damage to which was estimated at about $f>50. Firemen Called To Trash Fire Volunteer firemen were called to the old Wells-Oates Lumber Company site on Hast Mam Street yesterday morning shortly after 11 00 o’clock to extinguish a trash pile lire No damage was done, and it was the well established opinion ol foremen and others that the entire pile of junk should have been allowed to burn. No outward signs, looking to a general clean-up of the site, have been noticed. Tobacco Curing Barn Destroyed Believed to have started from a burning cigarette flipped out of the barn onto the shelter, fire de stroyed a large tobacco curing barn belonging to Perlie Moore on Highway 125 neai here early this afternoon. The barn had just been filled with green tobacco and no fire had been started in the oil curers. Firemen, called there, almost had the barn fire under control when the water supply gave out. They withdrew and stood by a large packhuu.se which was i>i line of the fire. i]