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(npownl ( topics | ia:aw::::::=:=-;;a Ronald Waters of Plymouth was the winner of a large cake which was raffled off at the horse show in Washington Sunday. A large crowd was oil hand for the event and Ronald was quite pleasantly surprised to be a winner. He was accompanied by Mrs. Waters and son, Hugh, and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Weaver and daughter, Diane. Miss Constance Williford, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Williford of Plymouth, recently was appoint 4ed reservations agent with Capital Airlines, Inc. The appointment fol lowing closely her graduation from the Airline Career Division of Northwest Schools in Chicago. “Wings” were presented by Clyde Sundberg, regional manager, North Central Airlines, at a special cere mony last month. State Highway Patrolman W. N. I Murphy will leave next Monday I for Chapel Hill for three months | of schooling. Patrolman Murphy was sworn into the patrol along j with 30 other recruits on July 2 and assigned to Roper. However, during July he has been stationed at Williamston. He is a native of Elizabeth City and a graduate of Central High School, is married 1 and has a six-month-old son. His t family remains at Elizabeth City 1 but will move to Roper on or about j November 1, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Whitehurst ; spent Wednesday at Morehead City where they attended the eastern district meeting of the North Caro lina Chiropractors Association. The «feting was held in the offices of r. R. O. Barnum. Chief of Police and Mrs. P. W. ' Brown and their granddaughter, j little Miss Patricia Adams, are spending this week in Silver j Springs, Md., with Mr. and Mrs. J Brown’s son, Charles E. Brown. ! They expect to return home next Sunday. City Clerk W. A. Roebuck left here last Sunday morning to drive the chief and Mrs. Brown to , Silver Springs, returning the same night. Seven county 4-H Club members and their advisors, Mrs. Frances M. Darden and Assistant County Agent J. L. Outlaw, are reported to be having an enjoyable week at State College where they are at tending the annual 4-H Club Week. The program opened Monday and will continue through Friday, with the county group planning to re turn home Saturday. Club mem i bers attending from the county in elude Larry Hopkins, Henry Tur ner, Helen Manning, Rachel Peele and Mary Margaret Atamanchuk, i all of the Plymouth club, and Diane i Spruill and Emily Mizelle of th* Roper Club. _ iMr. and Mrs. Willis Bowen re turned to Plymouth Saturday after £ one week trip to Baltimore, Md., and the Eastern Shore. Willis, gen ial FHA county supervisor, reports a most pleasant vacation. While away they saw the Baltimore Ori ( oles humble the Chicago White Sox in a double-header at Balti more by identical 5-3 scores; took in seven horse races at Ocean Downs, Md.; and caught a ‘good bunch" of flounder at Chincotea gue. Couldn’t get Willis to say whether or not he won any money on the horses. To Canvass Low Bids Next Week -$ Members of the State Highway Commission will meet with High way Chairman A. H. Graham and Chief Engineer W. H. Rogers, jr., Thursday of next week in Ralpigh £to canvass the low bids received for driving test piling on the pro posed bridge across Alligator River ' on US 64 between Sandy Point and East Lake. The letting is scheduled for Tuesday of next week on the bids. !* The work, it is said, will be part of a preliminary survey to ascer tain the negessary length of piling and the approximate cost of the j bridge. The letting will not actually com mit the state to construction of a bridge across the Alligator River but persons in this section long hopeful of such a structure are taking encouragement. The state now operates free fer ries across the river where it is proposed to construct the bridge. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and its 13,000 people, jij VOLUME LXVII—NUMBER 30 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 26, 1956 ESTABLISHED 1889 * Mt \! V MAITH UNfhK mM ? HEALTH TENTER Shown here is the new Washington County Health Center which is rapidly nearing com nr u- . . , .. , .. . . pletion. The new facility is located on Washington Street just north of the old county ho ne building. First step in securing the new center was taken in May of 1955 when the Washington County Board of Commissioners empowered Chairman Frank L. Brinkley of Plymouth to sign all papers pertaining to the project. Federal, state and county funds are being used in construction of the building which will provide much-needed space and modern offices for the county health department, now housed in a wing of the old county home building which is now owned by J. L. Horner of Plymouth. The project was secured through the Medical Care Commission The move by the department from present quarters to the new building is expected soon. —Staff photo. County Total of Salk Shots Thus Far 3,122 Teaching Spots Still Wot Filled The 12 vacancies on faculties of Washington County Schools remain unfilled, it was reported this week, but several interested persons have applied and are be ing interviewed, it is understood. There are no vacancies in the colored schools of the county, but white schools list six vacan cies at Plymouth, five at Cres well and one at Roper. Disaster Station List Is Released For This County Seven Stations Already Set At Creswell, Roper and Plymouth; Four Others Tentative Seven hurricane-disaster stations have been designated in this coun ty with four other sites tentative ly planned. Disaster stations already definite ly set include the old Pettigrew House at Pettigrew Park, Creswell High School, Creswell Colored School, Roper High School, Wash ington County Union School at Roper, Plymouth Colored Elemen tary School and the Veterans Building at Plymouth. Roy F. Lowry, county disaster chairman, said tentative plans are to set up disaster stations at We nona, on Highway NC 32, at Mac keys and at Skinnersville. This would bring the total number of such stations in the county to 11. A Disaster Preparedness organi zation was perfected at a meeting held here Monday night of last week. The meeting was held in the auditorium of the Agriculture Building and was presided over by Dr. A. L. Whitehurst, county Red Cross chapter chairman. Purpose of the meeting was to set up a program for the county in anticipation of the coming hurri cane season. The program would include such vital matters as shel ters, communication, food and clothing. In addition to Mr. Lowry, others named included E.. E. Harrell of Plymouth, vice chairman; Aubrey Dixon, chairman, and Jack Leary vice chairman at Roper; A. K. Spencer, chairman, and Mrs. Gladys Davenport, vice chairman, at Cres-j well. '•Deadlines Extended For Soil Bank Entry! Deadlines for the soil bank acre age reserve have been extended. Tobacco, cotton and corn sign ups can now be made up to Friday of this week. Previously, July 15 was the an nounced deadline for placing to bacco crops in the soil bank and July 20 the deadline for cotton and corn crops. The latest deadline for disposing of crops to get in the soil bank has been changed from July 31 to Aug ust 3. Farmers must not have be gun harvest before turning under. ASC officials caution that no fanner should take any action to participate in the soil bank until he has signed an agreement at the county ASC office. A total of 17 applications has been received at the local ASC of fice for the Soil Bank acreage re serve and of these eight have been approved by the county committee. Total approved includes 147 acres of corn and .8 of an acre of cotton. Total maximum compensation, if final approval is given, would be $4,240, according to ASC Office Manager Miriam Ausbon. Total of 1,276 County Per sons Have Had At Least Two Doses; Unvaccinated Urged to Get Shots A total of 3,122 doses of Salk anti-polio vaccine had been given in this county as of Wednesday of last week. The figures were obtained from the health department here. According to health department records there are 334 county per sons who have had one Salk shot, 1,276 who have had two, and 112 who have had three doses. The record is broken down by communities and races as follows: One dose—Creswell white, 12; Creswell colored, 2; Roper white, 31; Roper colored, 23; Plymouth white, 84; Plymouth colored, 75; Two doses—Creswell whife, 89; Creswell colored, 15; Roper white, 102; Roper colored, 269; Plymouth white, 669; Plymouth colored, 74; Three doses—Creswell white, 13; Creswell colored, none; Roper white, 9; Roper colored, 3; Plym outh white, 80; Plymouth colored, 7. Six pre-natals have been given one shot and 17 pre-natals have had two shots, it was said. Vaccine is available at the health department and persons up to 19 years of age are urged to get shots or booster shots if they have not already done so. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis recently released information to show why children should be vac cinated against polio now. Vaccine given in July and Aug ust will prevent paralytic cases and even deaths in August and Septem ber, it is stated. A Public Health Service report from 22 states and New York City in 1955 showed that among the unvaccinated there were 29.2 cases per 100,000 persons, whereas among the vaccinated ones the average was only 6.3 cases per 100,000 persons. Hence, all who have not received the Salk shots are urged to get them as soon as possible. -® Calls for Seven Men August 28lh -« As previously announced, pre induction and induction calls for registrants from the local draft board have been scheduled for Tuesday, August 28. According to Mrs. Lorraine Hunter, clerk to Selective Service Board No. 95 here, calls have been received for one man for induc tion and six men for pre-induction to be sent to the Raleigh Reception Center on that date. The registrants are due to renm-t at the board office in the basement of the county courthouse at 9 a. m. on that date. They are scheduled to leave for Raleigh by chartered bus at 9:40 a. m. on August 28. ' -* CYF To Sponsor Bake Sale At Womble's on Saturday A bake sale, sponsored by the Christian Youth Fellowship of First Christian Church of Plym outh, will be held at - Womble’s Drug Store Saturday of this week, it is announced. The sale of home-baked sweets will begin at 10 a. m. -«. Big Business Hunters and fishermen have con tributed to the nation’s business turnover by more than five billion dollars annually. Number of County Growers To Send Leaf lo Georgia W. T. Freeman and J. L. Knowles Plan To Leave Saturday With 4 0,000 Pounds of Tobacco ; A good many county growers plan to send tobacco to market in Georgia soon, it was learned here today. W. T. Freeman said he and J. L. Knowles will leave Saturday for Georgia with 40,000 pounds of Washington County and Martin County leaf. The markets in the Georgia Florida Fljkie-Cured Belt opened for sale of the 1956 crop Wednes day of this week. This year there are 29 markets in the belt, Sylvan ia, Georgia, being the newest ad dition. County growers who plan to send tobacco Saturday include W. H. Marslender and Elbert Tarkington, Paul Hardison, Lewis Styons, John West, George Phelps, L. L. Mizell, W. T. Freeman, J. L. Knowles, Bob Harden, Emery Modlin, Bill Har den, Bennett Ambrose, C. M. Bar ber, Roy Simpson, C. C. Chesson, Goldie Simpson, David Craddock, J. W. Allen, J. H. Riddick and John Davenport. Several East Mar tin County farmers will be repre sented in the load, also, it was said. Loan levels by grades for the Georgia-Florida tobacco which is sold untied is 5 cents per pound less than for tied tobacco of the same grade. Individual loan rates by grades range from 7 cents per pound for best thin nondescript to 69 cents per pound for choice lemon wrappers. Rates were raised by 1 to 7 cents per pound over the preceding year on nearly two thirds of the grades. Higher levels were allowed chiefly for leaf and lower quality grades of other groups. Rates lowered by 1 to 3 cents per pound on most better grades. The official standard grades for flue-cured tobacco have been sup plemented to provide sub-grades for tobacco having a pale, bleach ed or washed-out appeaarnce. These new sub-grades are identified by the symbol “LL” and carry loan rates which on the basis of limited information available reflect their relative market value. Loans will be made available to eligible producers at their option through the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation. An eligi ble producer is one who has been issued a “Within Quota” marketing card under applicable quota regu lations. Loans were made to farmers on 31,535,000 pounds or 16.2 per cent of net sales in the area last year under the government loan pro gram. Auctions will bfc conducted for 51 hours nor Hnv with n hncW.f — £ " f''-* (i uaonti limitation of 400 per hour per set of buyers. The maximum basket content is 300 pounds. -$-— Expect To Receive Some Peppers Here on Friday Due to a depressed market the local Produce Auction Market has not received any peppers this week. Manager W. T. Freeman stated Wednesday morning. However, Mr. Freeman said he had received a call from a buyer stating that the pepper market was clearing and an advance in price is anticipated. Mr. Freeman feels certain that the market will advance and he said that the local market expects to receive some peppers Friday of this week. Last prices paid here were 90 cents a bushel net to the grower. No Action Yet on New County Agent ToReplacePruden W. H. Pruden's Resignation Effective Tuesday of Next Week; Board May Meet Next Monday Indications are that Washington County will be without a county agent for some time after Tuesday of next week. That is the date on which the office will become vacant, County Agent W. H. Pruden having an nounced his resignation effective July 31. The resignation of Pruden, who came to this county from Hyde County about four years ago as county agent, was accepted with reluctance and the commissioners endorsed W. H. Hays of Plymouth for the job. Mr. Hays served as county agent here for about 19 years, resigning early in 1952. At their regular July meeting Monday, July 2, the county com missioners instructed Clerk J. Rob ert Campbell to write to John E. Piland, eastern district agent of State College Extension Service and furnish him with excerpts of the minutes of the June 22nd meet ing of the commissioners regard ing endorsement of Mr. Hays to succeed Pruden as county agent. This was done, Mr. Campbell said, but the letter was not acknow ledged. Mr. Campbell stated Wednesday that Mr. Piland called him over long distance telephone Tuesday of this week to apologize for not having answered Campbell’s letter. The chairman of the board of commissioners, Frank L. Brinkley of Plymouth, is ill at this time in a Durham hospital. It is understood that Mr. Brinkley will return home late this week but he will be in capacitated for some time, it is said. Commissioner Hubert L. Dav enport of Skinnersville is acting chairman of the board. There is strong likelihood that a special meeting of the commis sioners will be called Monday of next *Veek to consider the m, iter, but nothing definite could be learn ed here late Wednesday. The county is fortunate in having an assistant county agent at this time. J. L. Outlaw of Seven Springs assumed his duties as assistant agent here late last year. He was placed in charge of boys’ 4-H Club work in the county as well as other duties. -» Funeral Services For Bob Gurganus ♦ Last rites for R. H. (Bob) Gur ganus II, 65, of Plymouth, were conducted from Christian Hope Church of Christ Wednesday after noon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. W. C. Chesson, minister of the church, assisted by the Rev. C. N. Bar nette, minister of First Christian Church of Plymouth. Burial was in the church cemetery. The body remained at Horner’s Funeral Home here until one hour prior to the services when it was car ried to the church. Mr. Gurganus died at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at Washington County Hospital following a brief illness. He had been in declining health for the past three and a half years. He was born in Washington County May 22, 1891, son of the late R. H. and Margaret Browning Gurganus of this county. He spent his entire life in the county and was a member of First Chirstian Church of Plymouth. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Mike Atamanchuk, of Plym outh, Mrs. Ralph Roebuck of Nor folk. Va., and Mrs. Pete Browning of Hillsboro; five sons, Aubrey Gurganus, Sherill Gurganus, Ray Gurganus, all of Williamston, and Bill Gurganus and Robert II. Gur ganus III, both of Plymouth; three sisters, Mrs. Vicki Cutler, Mrs An nie Nobles and Miss Pet Gurganus, all of Plymouth; and 23 grandchil dren. ■-—« Education Board To Meet Monday - - 4 A called meeting of the Wash ington County Board of Education will be held here Monday of next week, H. F. Lowry stated yester day. Mr. Lowry, who is superin tendent of county schools, acts as secretary to the board. Mr. Lowry said it was discover ed that action by the board was necessary by August 1 to decide whether teachers will be paid on a fixed date each month or not. This matter will be the principal items on the agenda, Mr. Lowry said. It is expected that school bus j drivers and custodians will be ap-1 proved, also, but this is expected' to be a mere formality. 1 Mixed Reaction to School Plans Now Being Studied IV lrl^ rB^BII7l7« This is w,,at rema'is of a four ill I I IlMj MJ» door sedan after it left US 64 and „ . „ , . hit a pine tree on a curve at Uak Grove Church in the Skinnersville section early last Thursday morning. The car evidently was turning over when it hit the tree several feet above ground level, peeling the top back and critically injuring the driver and only occupant, Hector Quesnel, a Marine from the Ivdenton base. A helicopter landed at Washington County hospital here about noon Thursday and removed the still unconscious Marine to the Naval hospital at Portsmouth. There were unconfirm ed reports here that the man was dead upon arrival in Portsmouth, but Highway Patrol officers said Tuesday he was still alive at the time. Patrolman L. N. (Red) Walters, of Columbia, said this was the sixth wreck he had investigated which involved the same tree. —Staff photo. 2nd Death on Streets Here Last Thursday Anion Kolpak Dies in Local Hospital Thursday Night Of Multiple Injuries From Wreck Anton Kolpak, 23, of Plymouth, Thursday became the second traf fic fatality of the year in Plym outh. Kolpak died at 10 p. m. Thurs day in Voter County Hospi tal of multiple injuries susiameu about two hours earlier when his truck went out of control on East Main Street Ext. and clipped a telephone pole and power pole near Peele’s Cleaners. The truck was heavily damaged, according to Officer H. B. John son of the local police department who made the investigation. It was said that Kolpak apparently swerved to his right to avoid a car coming onto the road from a serv ice station and lost control of his vehicle. He was rushed to the hospital here but died later without regain ing consciousness. The first traffic fatality in Plymouth this year came on Fri day, March 30, when Catherine Bell, 6-year-old daughter of Samuel Bell, Plymouth Negro, was struck by a pickup truck operated by Henry Gray Spencer, 25-year-old Plymouth carpenter. That accident took place north of the intersec tion of Wilson Street and Carolina Avenue. Two Marine sergeants from Edenton met instant death in the county Friday, April 27, in a bridge mishap involving just one car. They were William W. Lajoie, 20, and Lawrence Richard McLares, 21. Kolpak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kolpak of Plymouth, was employed by Julian Brinkley. He was a native of Nowogrudek, Po land, born June 16, 1933. He had lived here about four years, com ing to Plymouth from Columbia, lie was a member of the Catholic Church. Kolpak is survived by his par ents. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a. m. Saturday from St. Ann’s Catholic Church at Edenton with Father Joseph F. Bauman offici ating. Interment was in the church cemetery. New Station To Open on Monday Plymouth’s newest business is slated to open Monday of next week, although a formal grand opening will be held at a later date. Modlin’s Gulf Service, located at the corner of Washington and Main Streets, is the new business. It will be managed by Carl Modlin and will carry a complete line of Gulf gasoline, oils and greases. A handsome new station with pump islands facing both Wash ington and Main Streets has been erected by an Edenton contracting firm on the lot which was formerly occupied by First Christian Church. The old church building and an nex was torn down early this year [ and the lot cleared I Mr. Modlin said the date of the I grand opening will be announced later. j Blank Shank in j I County Tobacco j Tobacco farmers of Washing ton County are suffering an un usual amount of blank shank this season, County Agent W. H. Pru den declares. .e dread tobacco disease is principally where no rotation of crops was used, Pru den stated. Tobacco was follow ed by tobacco and in such cases even such resistant varieties as Oxford, Coker and Dixie Bright tobaccos have fallen victim to blank shank, it was pointed out. This is strong proof, the county agent declared, that planting re isstant varieties alone is not enough—tobacco growers must rotate crops to avoid the disease. Wheat Marketing Quotas Approved For Coming Year Overwheming Vote of Ap proval in 36-State Area; Nine of 10 Eligible in County Vole Nine of 10 eligible voters in the county took part in the wheat referendum last Friday, voting unanimously for approval of mar keting quotas. Voters in the 36-state referen dum overwhelmingly approved quotas, voting for the fourth straight year to allow Uncle Sam to restrict the production and sale of wheat. The proposal of the Agriculture Department voted on Friday is de signed to restrict next year’s crop so that it will not add to a record breaking surplus overhanging mar kets and crowding the nation’s storehouses. The favorable majority of over 85 per cent was far in excess of the necessary two-thirds. Virtually complete but unofficial returns gave 228,839 votes for federal mar keting quotas and 32,767 against In approving controls, farmers Eight Bills Submilled To Exlra Session of Legisla ture Monday; Favored by Governor and Commission Mixed reactions have greeted proposals for retaining segregated schools in North Carolina which have heen submitted to the special session of the General Assembly since it convened in Raleigh Mon day at noon. However, it is believ ed the legislators will favor the eight bills proposed by Governor Luther Hodges and the state ad ministration to carry out recom mendations of the State advisory committee on education. Local people questioned about the proposals this week reserved their opinions for the most part, although some are outspoken for or against the proposals All of those questioned were in favor of maintaining the schools on the present basis, but there were dif fering opinions as to the best meth od of doing this. Quite a number indicated they probably would go along with the governor's recommendations, al though some had grave doubts about the wisdom of permitting lo cal units to vote to suspend public schools when threatened by inte gration. Main objection here seems to be that any action to suspend schools should be taken on a state wide basis rather than by local units in order to present a united front. Those who expressed this view said opponents of segrega tion would have a far easier time breaking down the school system on a unit-by-unit basis than they would if they had to make the at tack on the entire state. While opinion has not yet cry stallized, it is generally believed the governor’s proposals will be carried in this section. Quite a number of opponents of the ad ministration plan appeared at pub lic hearings in Raleigh early in the week, including a Duke professor of constitutional law, who express ed the belief that the administra tion plans would not stand up in the courts. Others, including sev eral ministers, opposed segrega tion in principle, but it is not like ly these views will receive much support in this section. Governor Hodges told the Gen eral Assembly Monday night that the Pearsall Plan for meeting the school segregation problem is a “sensible and acceptable” program which offers “the best possible course of action at this time.” He addressed a joint session of House and Senate but much of his speech was directed, persuasively, toward the public who eventually will pass judgment on the basic proposals of the Advisory Commit tee on Education headed by Thomas J. Pearsall of Rocky Mount. The Governor stressed (1) that the Pearsall plan leaves to local communities the decision of what to do with their schools and (2) that it is his belief “the people of North Carolina expect their Gen eral Assembly and their Governor to do everything legally possible to prevent their children from being forced to attend mixed schools against their wishes.” He said the State would not de fy the Supreme Court, but “we are going to use every legal means we can devise to insure that the effects of what we feel is an er roneous decision by the Supreme Court are not forced on our State m a fashion which could deprive us of one of our dearest possessions —namely, our public schools.” The Governor was interrupted 15 times by applause and drew his longest applause with an aside from his printed speech in which he said. “Let me say I do not agree with the Supreme Court decision, I do not favor integration ... I be lieve the majority of white and Negro people of the State feel the same way. Anyone who says other ]v,sf'”„ he “is twisting the truth. « - _See_QUOTAS, Page 12_^Sec^SCHOOLS^^g,, V2 Agent Offers Advice On Curing Wet Leaf In view of recent heavy rains here, information on handling to bacco that is full of water should be of interest to growers. The fol lowing was released this week by S. N. Hawks, Extension Tobacco specialist: “Tobacco that is gorged with water at harvest time should be well ripened and mature. Yellow ing should be accomplished with considerable ventilation to remove all water possible before raising the temperature to the leaf drying phase. “Tobacco that contains excessive water frequently has very little gum, oil and resin. If considerable water is lost during the yellowing period you have a better chance of drying the leaf with a minimum amount of sweating, sponging, brown scald and blackening. "As the tobacco reaches the yel low stage provide plenty of venti lation and advance the tempera ture to dry the leaf fairly quickly. If you push the temperature up without providing ventilation to help hasten drying, mottling, scald, sponging and dark color, will re sult,” Hawks concluded.
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