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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES _K_ A Mer?er of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 40th YEAR, NO. 11. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEB. 6, 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Joseph DuBois j Heads Morehead Commerce Group Dr. Darden J. Eure, Presi dent oi Chamber, Announ ces New Appointment Joseph A. DuBois of Morehead City has been appointed to succeed John Sikes who recently resigned as manager of the Morehead City chamber of commerce. His ap pointment was announced today by the chamber of commerce presi dent. Dr. Darden Eure. DuBois attended George Wash ington university, served overseas during World War I, was American vice-consul at Zurich, Switzerland and later an assistant professor at Cornell university. For the past 25 years he has been engaged in various fields of selling and sales promotion. He came to Morehead City in 1935 with the New Business depart ment of Tide Water Power com pany and while here became a charter member of the Junior chamber of commerce and of the Lions club. In American Legion activities : he has served as post adjutant, dis trict commander, a director of the Carteret Fair association, manager of the Legion Junior Baseball club, chairman of the Sons of the Le gion committee, instructor of the S.A.L. Rifle club, chairman of the Marksmanship Committee for the Department of North Carolina, and National Committee Member for four years. * Transferred to Whiteville by Tide Water, he became Civilian Defense Coordinator for Columbus county. When transferred to Wil mington in 1942 he was appointed chief air raid warden for down town Wilmington. For the past seven years he has been engaged in the promotion of electrical ap pliances and kitchen moderniza tion in Washington, D. C. Returning to Morehead City in November, he became associated with the Sound Appliance com pany. Mrs. Du Bois is the former Hilda K. Williams of Crab Point and Joseph A. Du Bois, jr., i* in the eighth grade at .Morehead City sAool. 14-Hour Blizzard Blankets County with Snow Manhunt Ends ; A. V. Josey Charged j With Pumping Four Bullets info His Wife Agassiz Carries Out Three Daring Rescues over Weekend Craft Clutter j Naval Air Crew Bomb Targets Small craft near water targets in Pamlico and Albemarle sounds are hindering training of Naval air craft crews, according to Col. R. C. Brown, district engineer. United States Army Corps of Engineers. Colonel Brown said in a commun ication received here Friday that this matter has been brought to his attention by the Commander, Naval Air Base, Fifth Naval district. The engineer said that the small craft are hampering training and also exposing persons aboard the craft to danger. Danger areas are shown on U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey charts numbered 1227, 1228,' 1229 and 1232. A detailed listing of the areas which craft should avoid can be obtained by writing Corps of En gincers, U. S. Army, Office of the J District Engineer, Wilmington: District, 308 Customhouse, Wil- 1 mington. N. C. The areas are listed j generally below: Northern part of Currituck Sound, north of Currituck Beach light, south and southeast of Caffey Inlet Coast Guard station, in Albe marle sound south of Powell point, along north and south shore of Al bemarle sound, Bodie islar4. Long shoal in Pamlico sound. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Dill Attend Governor's Reception j Lions Will Hear ? Talk on Scouts v Robert Howard, Morehead City, member of the Carteret District council. Boy Scouts of America, will speak to Morehead City Lions on Boy Scout work at the Lions meeting, 7 p.m. Thursday in the Hotel Fort Macon. The Lions have scheduled a talk on Scouting in conjunction with the national observance this week of the Boy Scouts' 41st anniversary. At Thursday night's meeting Lion Duffy Roe, railroad express agent, spoke on his life. Thanks was received from Mrs. D. Cordova, Morehead City school, for the $25 contributed by Lions to the lunch room and Lion Robert Garner also expressed his appreciation for flowers sent him while he was in the hospital. The club agreed to cooperate on the plan for purchase of a grand piano for the school and Fred Lewis reported that the club's funds were used to purchase glass es for a girl with defective vision. Boad-Bnilding Crews f Finish Inlet bland Boad The State Highway commission has completed work on an addition al road project in Carteret county under the $200,000,000 bond issue program. The road, seven tenths of a mile, was finished during January. It runs south on Inlet island -from highway 70 between Morehead City and Beaufort. Official year-end figures show that the State Highway commission has completed 48.4 per cent (or 5,811 miles) of the 12,000 mile sec ondary road paving goal set by Governor Scott two years ago. Ap proximately one-fourth of the 35, 000-mile stabilization program was finished by the end of 1950, and more work was in progress on the primary road system than at any time in the commission's history. Tanker Docks The Esso tanker, Kern Hills, brought fuel oil and gasoline to Morehead City Friday afternoon. It discharged part of its cargo at Charleston, S. C., prior to mak ing port here. Its port of depart ure Was Baytown, Tex. George W. Dill. Carteret county's representative in the general assem bly, and Mrs. Dill attended the re ception for legislators at the gover nor's mansion in Haleigh Thurs day night. Mr. and Mrs. Dill return ed lo Morehead City Friday. Dill commented Sunday that the motor vehicle inspection bills "were ridiculed out of existence" at the public hearing Wednesday in Raleigh. "They told some of the darndest stories about those in spection lanes you'd ever want to hear." he declared. About 300 people attended the public hearing Wednesday in the hall of the House. The state lair grounds is going to get its coliseum, the Carteret legislator remarked, only because not to continue with the project, it seems, would reflect upon "the faith and credit of the state." Dill termed the whole thing "mighty fishy" and pointed out that the contract for the so-called coliseum was not let until Jan. 3, 1951 and the contract was approved Jan. 8 by the state Agriculture com mission in special session. A con tract approval was rushed through, the legislature feels, before the legislative investigating committee could report. Quick Digging "Then the contractor rushed out there, dug a hole called the foun dation and slapped a couple con crete blocks together so they could say work had already begun!" Dill i declared. "Then the state fair director made the most foolish statement of all," Dill added. "He said that the state fair commission would never ask for another thing. How can he ' say what's going to be done or even know whether he'll continue to be director or not!" "That coliseum business was the most debating they've had on the floor besides that elevator mess," reported the assemblyman. He See DILL, Page 8 Tide Table Tiilrs at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Feb. 6 8:16 a.m. 8:33 p.m. 1:53 a.m. 2:33 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7 9:02 a.m. 9:20 p.m. 2:45 a.m. 3:17 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8 9:45 a.m. 10:07 p.m. 3:32 a.m. 3:59 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9 10:27 a.m. 10:53 p.m. 4:19 a.m. 4:40 pjB. The U. S. Coast Guard cutter Agassiz returned to its Morehead City home port in yesterday after noon's brilliant sunlight with the towering 325-foot river-type motor vessel, Holiday, in tow. The Agassiz looked like a pert new spring hat, the Holiday like an exhausted goose. The cutter was ordered to the rescue of the Holiday, rudderless and totally helpless off Diamond Shoals, at 8 a.m. Saturday. The trim Coast Guard vessel not only completed her assignment of as sisting the Holiday but engaged in two other rescue missions on the way. Also sent to the rescue of the Holiday were the U. S. Coast Guard cutters Cherokee and Marion from Norfolk. The Holiday, owned by the Wills Lines of Boston and Bal timore, had left Baltimore Friday for Miami to operate as an excur sion vessel. The Agassiz plowed through mountainous seas at maximum speed, waves washing completely over her, and through snow that reduced visibility to absolute zero. All the time radio messages were coming from the Holiday reporting that the vessel to be in imminent danger of sinking. At midnight Saturday reassign ment orders were radioed to the Agassiz directing her to go to the rescue of the tug Wathen and its tow. The hawser between thtem had broken. The Cherokee and Marion had reached the Holiday at that time and were standing by. The Agassiz reached the Wathen about 3 a.m. Sunday and stood by until noon Sunday when the tug retrieved its tow. She then re sumed her Holiday mission and leached that wallowing vessel at 9 p.m. Sunday and acted as an es cort to both the Cherokee and Holi day as the Cherokee towed the Holiday to Cape Lookout Shoals. The Marion had been ordered back to her Norfolk port. At midnight Sunday the Agassiz See AGASSIZ, Page 8 Two Cars Collide AlOtway Crossing A 1950 Ford, driven by Stanley Dail, teacher at Smyrna school, was severely damaged in an auto accident at Otway at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Dail received a minor cut over the left eye and driver of the other car involved, Sgt. Lee Victor Turner, formerly of Beaufort route 1, has been charged with careless and reckless driving. Turner was uninjured. According to State Highway Pa trolman H. G. Woolard who inves tigated, Dail was traveling west on 70. Turner, in a 1940 Pontiac, was headed south, proceeding out of a dirt road at Otway. He stop ped at the stop sign but then con tinued directly into the path of the Ford, smashing in its front, the patrolman reported. Damage to Dail's car is estimat ed at $500 and to the Pontiac $200. Foor Negroes Face Trial v For Whiskey Law Violation Four colored men have been placed under $300 bond each for their appearance at the April term of federal court in New Bern. Bennie Jacob Becton. Albert Lee Culley. James Roy Willough by. and Joe Hill, all of North Har lowe. were arrested at a whiskey still Monday. Twenty-eight hun dred gallons of mash were confis cated. The arrests were made in the North Harlowe section of Craven county by M. M. Ayscue, Carteret county ABC officer. Murray Thom as. deputy sheriff of Carteret coun ty; E. A. Bennett and C. C. Church ill, jr., of the Craven Alcoholic Tax unit, Joseph K. Clay and Carl yle D. Chambers, New Bern ABC officers. Meter Receipts Reported Beaufort's parking meter re ceipts for Janurfy were $804.11, Dan Walker, town clerk, announced yesterday. Snow Cancels Symphony's Concert a! Ocracoke j The Little Symphony of the North Carolina symphony went back ota schedule yesterday with two concerts in Morehead City, after being forced to cancel their concert in Ocracoke Saturday night because of the weather. After giving a concert at Buies Creek, they were unable to con tinue on to Ocracoke because of the heavy snow storm Satur day. The cancellation of that con cert was a major tragedy to the orchestra, since photographers from the State News Bureau and from Life magazine joined them here to accompany them to Ocracoke. A later concert is planned for Ocracoke, and Life photographers expect to join them. The symphony will play in New Bern today and a children's mat inee in Robersonville Wednesday. Civil Defense Officials Plan , February Alert Civil defense officials have tent atively scheduled a daytime alert in Beaufort for Tuesday, Feb. 20. This will follow erection of the siren on top of I he water tower at the town hall and the showing of a film at the school on air raid pro tection. The film will be obtained at Cher ry Point and there is the possibility that it will be shown at the February PTA meeting. Gene Smith, civil defense director, com mented yesterday. When the air raid alert is given, the fire department will disperse to various sections of the town and traffic will come to a standstill until the alert is over. A three-minute blast on the siren will be the signal for the alert. A sound truck will pass through the streets announcing what the sig nal is for and giving instructions to pedestrians and motorists. Sim ultaneously information will be broadcast by radio. At a meeting of the civil defense committee Thursday night in the Merrill building, John Miller who is in charge of recruiting and train ing block wardens, stated that more I block wardens are needed. They may enlist at either civil defense recruiting office, at the town hall or Eastern Rulane Sales and Ser vice. Plans were also made to request cooperation on the part of the town, insofar as certain basic needs on the part of the civil defense pro gram are concerned. Pamlico, State J Boat, Nay be Sold The possibility that the State's newest fisheries patrol boat, the Pamlico, may soon go on the auc tion block was revealed several days ago by Conservation Director George Ross. Ross told the Joint Appropria tions committee that the boat prob ably will be sold if the Commer cial Fisheries division finds that an airplane can be used for the off shore patrol work for which the cutter was purchased last year. The Pamlico is a 112-footer which was obtained for approxi mately $20,000 as Navy surplus and was renovated to fit into the State fleet. "We got a good boat," Ross de clared. "but we're finding that it is rather expensive to operate." He said his department is con sidering selling the boat and buy ing a plane, or perhaps selling some land which C&D owns in the Morehead City area and using the proceeds for the airplane. Either way. if the plane proved a feasible method of checking on offahort trawlers the big boat very likely would be sold. The biggest manhunt in Carteret county in recent yea^s ended at 1 o'clock yesterfey afternoon when two state highway patrolmen ar rested Anthony V. fJosey at his home on highway 101 on a charge of assault on his wife1 with a deadly weapon with intent ^o kill. His wife, Mrs. Josephine Josey, is in MoreheajJ City hospital with four bullet wounds in her body and was reported to be resting comfort ably yesterday afternooa at 3 o' clock. Mrs. Josey was admitted to the hospital at 11:45 yesterday morn ing. A warrant had been sworn out for her husband about half an hour earlier. The two have been separated for the past several years and a pending divorce action was expected to be cleared in the coming term of superior court. Josey, a totally disabled war veteran, is being held now in the county jail without bond. He told officers that he did not shoot his wife. Mrs. Josey was wounded in the upper left part of her chest, one bullet entering her left flank, one through the right buttocks, and another on the right side. Dr. John Way, attending physician, said he did not know what type of bullets I hey were. Officers reported that the weapon, which has not been found, was a rifle. When Josey could not be located by Deputy Sheriff Murray Thomas and Marshall Ayscue, ABC officer, bloodhounds were used and the state highway patrol was called in to assist in the search. Three hours after the hunt be gan. Josey was found at his home and made no resistance when Pa trolmen W. J. Smith, jr.. and W. E. Fickard placed him under arrest. As a disabled veteran he was supported by compensation from the government but frequently worked at odd jobs He was wounded following the first world war while serving on a ship when ** sbMJ exploded He received his discf&.ge about 20 years ago at the age of 24, according to C. L. Beam, county veterans service of ficei and has been under guardian ship for 15 years. His present guardian is Gene Smith, Beaufort attorney. The defendant is hard of hear See MANHINT, Page 8 Three Arrested In Sex Probe The promised arrests in the probe of perverted sexual practices at Cherry Point and New Bern have not yet materialized. Two men, Louis (Bump) Shipp, and James Louis, New Bern, were arrested last week on charges of "crime against nature." A third man, Emil Pearson, 42, a civilian employee at Cherry Point will be tried in the Feb. 12 term of Craven superior court on the same charge. He was indicted at the January term and tried. But a mistrial was ordered and Pearson was freed af ter posting bond. State and federal investigators went to work on thex alleged sex perversion cases several weeks ago. Although it was rumored that such investigation was in progress, no arrests were made until last week. Deputy C. C. Weatherly of Cra ven county has remarked that per haps the three arrests already made will be the only ones because of lack of evidence. It is reported that warrants for two "out-of-state men * are in the hands of Marine authorities and lave not yet been served. Those warrants were sworn out last month as the result of the sexual pervers ion probe. Shepard Willis Home Damaged by Monday Fire ' Fifty dollars damage was done Monday morning when fire from a loose chimney flue broke out in the home of Shepard Willis at 30th and Arendell St., Morehead City. Slight damage was caused by the water used to put the fire out, and some by the tearing off of the wall boards to get at the source of the blaze. Morehead City firemen answered the call which went in at 8:30, and the all clear was sounded at 8:50. BASH Dance / The dance to raise money for the Beaufort Armed Services Hospital ity recreation program will take place at 8:30 Saturday night, Feb. 17, at tbe Channel club, Beaufort. Chuck Steven* and his band, from Cherry Point, will play. Tickets are on sale by members of all Beau fort c'v'c organizations. Newport Citizens Get Desired Action From County , Commissioners Authorize County's Withdrawal From Zoning Agreement The Carteret county board of commissioners passed a resolution in session Monday morning at the court house requesting that George Dill, Carteret county's representa tive in the legislature "take the proper action" to have Carteret county withdrawn from provisions of the 1949 legislative act which put a section of Carteret county under jurisdiction of the Carteret Cherry Point zoning commission. This action followed presentation of a petition by a delegation from , Newport, the area affected by the zoning provisions. The petition bore signatures of 110 persons against the present Carteret - Cher ry Point zoning laws. 20 persons who were neutral and three who stated that they had no opinion < on the matter one way or the oth er. Harold Wilton of Newport pre sented the petition to the board and told the commissioners that 94 per cent of the landowners in volved wanted to get out from un der the zoning regulations. He stated that many of the persons are in favor of some sort of zoning but they did not want imposed up on them regulations which they had no part in making and regula tions which they claimed were made and arc being enforced by military authorities. Claud Vftieatly, Beaufort attor ney who was consulted several months ago by the irate Newport residents, was at the meeting and told the board that "these cit izens have been placed under mili tary control. This law in itself is fine, but the execution of it is wrong." Citizens in the areas zoned, which they say includes a great deal of farmland, state that they have to go to Cherry Point to in quire about the regulations, to get building permits and then they arc given the run-around and have no agency or board to whom they can express their grievances. Wilton, who remarked that some type of zoning would be desirable, said to the board, "Let us meet with you and we'll dope out Some thing, something we'll have a voice in, but we don't want this!" The Newport delegation said that two petitions were signed, one of which was presented to the board and the other to go to Rep resentative Dill. In approving the resolution that would exclude Carteret county from the 1949 legislative act, the board also stipulated that some type of zoning between Newport and the Carteret - Craven line would be desirable, providing the majority of people in the area affected approve. See NEWPORT, Page 8 It snowed and blew and blew and snowed from 2 a.m. Saturday until 4 p.m. Saturday ? fourteen hours of blizzard that was a more than adequate sample of what most northern states have been Kointf through ever since November. When it was all over, five inches of powdery snow, piled into drifts more than a foot deep, covered Carteret county. This area was sharing with the rest of the south one of the iciest cold waves on record. Snow fell ; in several of Florida's tourist met cas. St. Augustine got its first snowfall in more than 40 years j while below-freezing temperatures threatened citrus fruit crops, veg- ! etable crops, and thousands of farm ; animals. 25 Degrees jjfhe temperature hit an all winter ! low in Carteret county Sunday, j The official thermometer read 21 J degrees and on Saturday it regis tered just 4 degrees higher. 25. The cold wave was not confined only to the south, it covered the middle west, extending northward j into Michigan. Deaths from free/ I ing temperatures, traffic accidents, i and other weather connected caus ; es rose to more than 2(H) for the nation, approximately one fourth of these occurring in the south. By 8 o'clock Saturday mornini; the snow here was 3 inches deep. Folks rubbed their eyes as they looked out the windows and a few ; went right back to bed, they "knew" they were dreaming? The unusual winter visitor made everybody friends. Everybody talk pd to everybody about the phe nomenon and iried to recall when it had snowed like thai before. Some said 1930, others disagreed. Mothers made snow cream, a concoction of snow and pineapple the youngsters love, one shopper fit a paper bag over his head to keep from turning white before his i time, boots and galoshes were re urreeted from closet and attic, and the few sleds in the county, owned mostly by families who have mov ed here from the north, were shov- j ed giddily through the snow by school-free youngsters. Yes. it : couldn't have happened at a bet ter time as far as the kids were concerned. It was Saturday! Careful Drivers Motorists traveled cautiously. State road graders went to work on the highways arVd"wuh lowered blades pushed the snow aside. Fortunately, the county suffered no breakdown in electric service or telephone service. This storm was a lark compared to the ice storm of January 1948 that snap ped off telephone and power poles and coated everything outdoors with two inches of ice. No harm was done as far as the Carteret farmer was concerned. Some tobacco seed beds had been started, but R. M. Williams, farm agent, stated that few of the seeds had shown signs of life and the snow merely acted as an extra blanket over the beds. The sun poured down with fa miliar warmth and intensity Sun day and before long, icy streets were streams of slush and water. By sundown most highways were dry; only the city streets furnished material that was bound to be muddy Monday slush. Official Weather Report E. Stamey Davis, official weath er observer for Carteret county, reported .82 inches of rainfall Thursday afternoon and .17 Friday. Snow precipitation amounted to .54 inches. Temperature readings follow: Max. Min. Thursday 88 45 Friday 81 33 Saturday 37 25 Sunday 42 21 Beaufort Choral Club Presents Splendid Concert Friday Night The Beaufort Choral club pre sented a beautiful concert Friday night at the Beaufort acbool. High lights of the evening were Mra. Ralph Hancock's solo, Carrissima, and the choral number, The Blind Ploughman. Mrs. Hancock's full, rich soprano voice brought forth applause that warranted an encore and she sang The Desert Song. The Blind Ploughman was so beautifully done by the chorus that one could eas ily have been convinced that Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians were on the stage. All numbers by the chorus were splendidly executed, but Sanctus, Homing, Because, and Hallelujah were outstanding. The group show ed evidence of brilliant direction and excellent training. Soloist Ruth Webb Bailey sang Mana Zucca's I Love Life with verve and color that the composer would have loved. On her first try she was out of breath ? and told the audience so. They applaud ed encouragement as she walked off the stage and several moments later welcomed her back with ap plause. She vas rushing around back stage and actually was out of breath when the curtain opened for her solo. When she did sing, it was with the professionalism and artistry that have always thrilled her audiences. Mrs. Jarvis Herring, who sang, the solo part of Sanctus, beautiful ly highlighted that number which was performed only by the women members of the chorus. Mary Lily Haynes and Marie Webb, voice pupils of Mrs. Charles Hassell, choral club director, show promise of becoming fine vocalists and Miss Merry Johnson, piano so loist who played Clair de Luiic (De bussy) did so with feeling and dis play of true talent. With the chorus humming Be cause. A. C. Blankcnship recited Elizabeth Barrett Browning's son net, How I Love Thee. The pro gram concluded with the familiar and popular numbers. Jerome Kern's OJ' Man River and Vincent Youmans' Hallelujah. The same concert will be pre sented in Morehead City Friday night, Feb. 16, under the sponsor ship, of the Carteret Business and Professional Women's club. The Beaufort concert was spon sored by the Beaufort Junior Wo man's club.? rip. Radio Equipment For CAP Unit / Flown to Beaufort A. D. Ellsworth, Adjutant, Says It Will Be Used In Civil Defense Equipment for installing Carteret county's Civil Air patrol rqdio sta tion has arrived at Beaufort-More head City airport and the station will he used in conjunction with the local civil defense program, A. IV Ellsworth, adjutant, announced today. The equipment was flown to Beaufort from Charlotte several days ago; "Efforts had been made several times to transport this equipment from Charlotte by truck," com mented Kllsworth-, "hut again North Carolina Wing headquarters of the Civil Air Patrol has shown their interest in the local squad run by taking advantage of the lit s t transport plane available to fly this equipment here." The "radio station," crated in 20 l.if.e boxes, is another step for ward -for the Carteret squadron, See CAP I? A MO. Page 8 Social Security Representative j Interviews 41 January in regard to social **ur * benefits They conferred on the lirst and third Wednesdays in January at the Beaufort pnrt ottiee witii N. A A vera, social sciurity representative. Avera. who is manager of the Wilmington social security Held oHice. Will he at the Beauortpost office at 1:30 tomorrow a Urnoon Wednesday, and again on the thud Wednesday of this month, fcb. at the same time. The social security representa tive. commented rccenty as follows. ? We suggest that when a person becomes lift years of age he should net in touch With the Social Se curity office in order to obtain in formation that he should know When the wage earner dies, his survivors should contact a ropre scntalivo. either by writing " W" to this office or contacting the rep resentative in Beaufort on either the Hist or third Wednesday of each month. We can assist them m filing the necessary claims so that no benefits will be lost Explaining the procedure lollow ed filter an interview with a per interested in collecting social security benefits. Avera said In I l,e course of developing the claims It is necessary for us to get the wage earner's name. Ins account number :-x,~ and places of employ ment. We then request their wage records from our Baltimore office Where the Social Security accounts are maintained. This wage record wfll show us whether or not the wage earner is Hilly insured, i.e. paid I hi' taxes for the required length of lime. "Then we assist either the living wage earner or the deceased wage earner's survivors in processing their claim the actual filing of the Claim and obtaining the ne cessary proofs: proof of age, proof of marriage, proof of death which ?rc necessary for total and final ad judication. This material is brought into the Wilmington Office where final adjudication is bandied and the amount of the benefit is dc '"I'hcMKMal security representative urges anyone who believes he may be entitled to a claim, to call it _the Beaufort postoffice cither the first or third Wednesday of each month. Town of Beaulori Clears Up Fire Departnwni Debi The town of Beaufort paid oil its last lire department debt Feb. I. town ofiicials announced today. The note on the rebuilt Amen tan LaFrancc tire truck was clear ed. a debt of S3.650 plus W125 in terest or a total of $3,7^.25. The truck was s^ht to the factory for rebuilding several years ago and the money was borrowed to meet payment of the cost of re pairs.