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in addition to acting;
ag these activities one
1 one. that interests
da it not a one-shot
but is planned as a
it institution; so Join
It is hoped that two or three
plays may be dories this season
in -public performance, and in
addition there is to be a series
of private “workshop” perform
ances as well as play readings to
United States farmers produc
ed an estimated 1,203,000,000
bushels of wheat this year, 10
per cent above average.
bf70«mem
Prices paid by North Caro
lina farmers for most feed it
ems have changed little this
year.
Milk cows on United States
farms totaled 22,100,000 in June,
2.6 per cent more than a year
earlier.
Brief Monday Session
is At «bj6 of the briefiest ses
sions held in recent months
the Jones County Board of
Commissioners adopted a
resolution which will place all
dponty employees under the
Social Security System and
heard reports from the farm
and ‘homo agents.
ardson of PollocksviUe was in
dieted for trespassing.
During the tobacco market
ing year just ended the United
Kingdom imported about 110,
000,000 pounds of United States
flue-cured tobacco; purchases
for the 1953 crop are expected
to be slightly less.
rork Is Not All ‘Cops and Robbers’; Other Jobs To
police work is not au "cops and
. Bobbers.”
And most any cop that will
stop to talk—and most of ’em
will—will tell you that far more
of his time is spent hi routine,
relatively unexciting chores
than in chasing the criminals
that make up such a small per
centage of our population.
V A perfect case in point was
about 18 hours of “police work”
hut week in Lenoir County which
Jan about like this, to put things
in there proper order.
Martin Luther Pridgen and
4tlS wife, Sarah, of the Graingers
‘section in Upper Lenoir Coun
ty, decided to .'go fishing at
abodt ll * a. m. 'last Thursday.
Which was not unusual, since
twl^i were fond of fishing and
jpf&gen, a carpenter was tem
porarly “at leisure.”
As Pridgen retold the events
of the day to officers, and to
e fishing trip went all right
late in the afternoon when
wife said, ‘Tut not going
to the house.” They were
in Neuse River not too
:k of their home which is
uth of the Du Pont plant
Greenville • Highway.
, -so her husband
her doctor later re
from migraine
most painful
. gw
C
on nearing the landing where
they kept their boat, Pridgen
says his wife Jumped out of the
boat and onto the shore and the
last he saw of her she was run
ning op the river bank and re
fusing to answer his call.
Pridgen says he went out to
their car and had trouble start
ing it and finally had to walk
out to his house to get an older
daughter and another car to
push the car off. On returning
to the car, he then became
alarmed, since his wife had still
not “showed up.”
Then on getting the other
car started he drove to Grain
gers where from Roy Hamilton’s
filling station he called the sher
iffs office and asked for help
in finding the lost wife. He told
officers that he did not believe
she was “in the river, because
I do'nt’ believe she’s got nerve
enough to Jump in” another by
stander said, “Low as Neuse Riv
er is now, she’d have to hunt for
,a hole deep, enough to drown
in.”
Along with the officers, were
many .neighbors, and just plain
curious. In the dark it was all
but useless to walk around look
ing for a small woman who ap
parently had no tjssire to leave
the mosquito-infested swamp.
But some expressed the feeling
that a bloodhound might “find
her if she ain’t in the river” .
So Deputy Sheriff D. P. Wil
cox, who was in charge of the
search at ..
the spot where Pridgen said ills
wife had jumped ashore. The
dog and his human friends
equipped with flashlights could
find no tracks In that vicinity.
So rambling around until aft
er midnight the hunt was call
ed off until the next morning,
when with the aid of daylight,
the officers felt they could do
“more good.”
At shortly after noon time
Friday G. T. McArthur, who lives
near the Pridgen home and who
had been a member of the
searching party both the night
before and the following morn
ing was nearly two miles down
stream from the point where
Mrs. Pridgen was safd to have
gone ashore. He suddenly came
upon her.
She recognized him and re
portedly said, “I reckon Luther
has roused the whole neigh
borhood.”
But beyond that she was not
to coherent ,
She still refused to come out
of the woods.
Mac Arthur ran out of the
woods and got enough help to
“bring her out” and went back.
' This time the heavily drug
ged woman was brought out,
much against her will.
Taken to the court house for
examination by District Health
Officer Dr. R. J. Jones, Mrs.
not tp be
for her
stay In
■ Dr.
Above Deputy Sheriffs D. F.
Wilcox, Jr., and Claude Bui-,
lock are lis^n^ .to Martin Lu
ther Pridgen tell of the disap
pearance last Thursday evening
of his wife In the Meuse River
lowground back of the Du Pont
plant. Pridgen at left, Wilcox
in Die center and .Bullock at
right. (Polaroid Photo-hi-a
minute by Jack Rider.)