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=Tlltll!lllilltll!l!lllii7= A home newspaper dedicated 3 to the service of Washington = County and its 12,000 people. 3 ■iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* § Advertisers will find Beacon i and News columns a latch-key to 3 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLIV—NUMBER 5 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, February 3, 1933 ESTABLISHED 1889 -tumimmiiiiiiiiiiir COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEMS WILL BE MERGED BY PLAN Would ’(Make Washington, Martin, Bertie, Tyrrell One Unit If the plan introduced into the North Carolina General Assembly to abolish the 100 county boards of edu cation and 100 county superintendents of education in the State is passed, then Washington, Martin, Bertie, and Tyrrell will be organized as division number 29. The bill would eliminate the 'County boards of education and the county superintendents of schools in each of the ,.ur counties named above, and one board of education with members from each county would be organized and a division superintendent of schools be appointed instead to look after the schools in the four counties. This would also eliminate the office of rural supervisor and attendance offi cer in each of the counties that have them and transfer their duties and re sponsibilities to the division headquar ters. And the act specifies that the division superintendent’s office would not be in a courthouse in either coun ty The superintendent's office will he as centrally located in the division as possible, from the standpoint of high way accessibility, economical and offic cient service to the entire division. The divison superntendent wll have an office costng not to exceed $50 monthly in rent. The division superintendent must he a person of gloi^d moral character, good business qualifications and execu tive ability and a grade of a standard college with a reputable physican’s certificate certifyng good physical fit ness, and freedom from any infectious disease, and he must reside in the di vision where he is working. The district superintendent’s salary will be $3,000 annually, with an assist ant superintendent’s or supervisor’s salary placed at $1,500 a year. Sal aries of the clerical assistants will not exceed $2,400, while office expense is figured at $829.80, with $1,500 annual travel expense for the supervisor and superintendent. The division board of education for the Martin, Bertie, Tyrrell, and Wash ington Counties would be composed of eight members, including two from each county, and these members would he nominated, elected, and appointed in the same manner as now prescribed by law. If this act is passed, then an organization meeting will be held the first Monday in April, 1933. The total salaries and expenses of the division office shall be paid from the State’s six-month school funds. The eight members of the division board will receive for their services a total of $512 for per diem and travel expenses. LOCAL MEN ON OVERDUE BOAT —® Concern Felt For Safety of Five County Men On Army Dredge Fear was felt for the safety of Vance Satterthwaite, Wilbur Angie, A. S. Arnold, Haywood Sasser, and firnest Lucas, who were aboard the “Chinook” a dredge of the United State Army Engineers Department, which was a day overdue at Norfolk 'Tuesday of this week. The boat was known to have been on the way from Philadelphia to Nor folk when a gale hit the coast along the Delaware breakwater. It pulled over to the Delaware bank after turn ing back from the breakwater and lay over there until the weather became better. Miss Ruth Satterthwaite, a sister of Vance Satterthwaite, wired Major Gordon R. Young, chief of engineers, inquiring about the safety of her brother and the other members of the crew, and he wired in reply that the ship was in Norfolk with all the crew safe. The young men named above are from Washington County and were a mong the 90 men aboard the dredge when the fears for the safety of the boat and its crew caused a search to be started by airplanes and boats in the (section in which the boat was last seen. To Make Plans For District Meet Here Miss Violet Alexander, Beaufort County agent, Miss Ethel Nice, Pitt County agent, Miss Georgia Piland, Tyrrell County agent, and Miss Paul ine Smith, district supervisor, with Mrs. Brooks Tucker, Mrs. H. S. Dav enport, Mrs. Taylor, and Mrs. Boyd, all council presidents, met with the home agent Tuesday morning to make plans for a district meeting of home demonstration clubs which is to be held here in May. f BELIEVE IT OR NOT 'I v.J (Tarboro Southerner) Tuesday morning Harvey Pitt man, who runs an eating stand in Tobacco Town, came to The Sou therner office and had with him something that is not often seen by any one. In a tin cup he had an oyster, and in the mouth of the oyster was a small rat whose front leg had been caught by the oyster and held there fast and strong. The rat was afterwards killed. Evidently this rat wandering a rourd in the night looking for something to eat had stepped on the oyster which closed down and caught him fast. COLLECTION OF TAXES TO DATE AHEAD OF 1932 Many Firms and Individ uals Have Paid County Taxes Exidence that people are trying much harder to pay'their taxes this year than last in the first month of the year was revealed when it was found that $8,000 more in taxes had been paid in January, 1933, than in the same month in 1932 by Auditor Geo. W. Hardison. The Wilts-National Veneer Corpor ation plant here and the Atlantic Coast Line Company'g payments as well .as other large firms aided in in creasing the amount of collections, but Mr. Hardison also found that more of the county people had taken •the welfare of the county at heart and dug down harder to pay their dues to the county. The Norfolk Southern Railroad has not paid, but most of the firms and many of the county people paid so as to avoid the 1 per cent penalty that began February 1. The exact amount of the collections were not given out by Mr. Hardison, but it was announc ed that the increase in comparison was so well above last year that the offic ials were well satisfied. Sheriff J. K. Reid has not officially accepted the 1932 tax books, but col legions are being received by Audi tor Hardison and now it has been an nounced that collections for Skinners ville and Scuppernong arc in charge of Deputy Sheriff W. D. Peal, of Creswell, as is the usual custom. The tax gatherers appreciate very much the response of the appeal for the payment of taxes made by those who have the interest of the county at heart and who could possibly do so and have paid their taxes. Every one is urged to pay up now and avoid fur ther penalties and help the county .financially. COUNTYAGENTS AID FARMERS TO GET SEED LOANS Details Not Yet Completed, But Agents Will Have Active Part While definite regulations governing the placing of seed loans with farm ers of North Carolina during 1933 have not yet been released from Washington, it is a certainty that county farm agents will be called upon again to have an active part in the placing of these loans. Dean I. O. Schaub, director of the agricultural extension service at State College, received a wire last week from W. C. Warburton, of the United States Department of Agriculture, ad vising that the county agents should hold themselves in readiness for this work. There will be full cooperation between the county agents and the crop production loan organization a long lines similar to previous years. There will likely be included m the application tor a loan a certificate which the county agent must fill out regarding the proposed cropping plan of the applicant and the amount of money which will be needed to carry out this plan. In many cases the field inspectors will request space in the county agents’ offices for the execu tion of applications for loans. This indicates, said Mr. Schaub, that the county farm agents will be doubly important to the farming interests of the state this spring. Many farmers, unable to get credit from other sources will be forced to rely upon the gov ernmental loans. Last year the loans were made to about 40,000 farmers in 08 counties of the state, amounting to | approximately $4,500,000. To date a ' bout 90 per cent of this money has been repaid. Mr. Schaub said North Carolina farmers have received much favorable commendation for the way in which j they have repaid the loans of 1932. HOLD TWO FOR ROBBERY HERE FRIDAY NIGHT $400 Worth of Merchandise Taken From Store of Abe Adler Moses Thompson and Louis Clarke j entered a plea of guilty here in record- i er’s court Tuesday on a charge of an ! attempt at robbery as the result of their efforts to enter Thompson’s store here last Friday night, when they are also alleged to have entered Abe /. ' ler’s store* t ’ They we.c each sentenced to eight months in jail on this charge, and then were sent to the roads to work until the next term of superior court, when they will be arraigned for burglary. In the meantime efforts have been made to find a confederate who has not yet been arrested. It is said here that Mr. Adler has in his possession only one of the three bags of clothes that were taken from his establishment. Some think he will get the others, while others doubt it. It was once reported that all three of the bags had been found, but two of 'them have not been turned over to Mr. Adler. The thieves entered the store here Friday night of Abe Adler and tookj ■clothing and merchandise value at a round $400. Entrance was gained thru a rear window by removing the iron bars that protect the glass windows. It appeared that they had stolen peanut bagg from the Plymouth Pea nut Company here on the edge of 'town before they made their success ful entry to Adler’s, as a coat with j peanuts in the pockets belonging to one of the robbers was found in the store by officers. A brace and bit was iiged in boring holes into the rear door at Thomp son’s store, but the tools were left there when they were frightened off ,by some one, and apparently they nev er renewed their attempt to break in to this store. Night patrolman George Coburn made his rounds to punch his clock at the rear of Adler’g store at 5 o’ clock in the morning, and everything was all right, but when he returned 6 o’clock on his last round he discov ered where the thieves had made their entrance to the place of business. Chief of Police Brown was notified at once, as well as Mr. Adler, who checked up on his gtock and found that about $400 worth of men’s ap parel and other merchandise was miss ing. Mr. Brown called several near by towns in an effort to head off the culprits. Moses hTompson and Louig Clark, megroes, were apprehended Saturday morning in New Bern by officers, who found them with the clothes in a sack and immediately Chief Brown was no tified and with Mr. Adler and Deputy [.Sheriff Fenton Reid they went to [New Bern and brought the negroes back Saturday night. A third negro was in on the robbery but has not been apprehended yet. . Reports have reached here that a watch is being kept for him. The negroes came from New Bern here bent on a mission of robbery. After accomplishing the act they re turned to New Bern on the freight train that passes through Plymouth about 6 o’clock in the morning. Sev eral people saw the negroes hanging I around Plymouth Friday before the robbery that night. Next day they were missed. A local negro who had been arrest I ed by ®hief Brown charged with own ership of the coat that was found in the robbed store next morning proved to the satisfaction of the officers that he was not in the robbery and neith er did he know anything about the crime, and so he was released. REMODELS HATS AT SMALL COST -«$> Alba Club Woman Gets “Spring Bonnet” at Cost Of 25 Cents By Miss Eugenia Patterson Mrs. Millard Darden, one of the star members of the Alba Club, and home management leader of the club, told the club last week at their regu lgf meeting how she had saved money on hats. Mrs. Darden has a beautiful black spring hat that she is wearing that is in perfectly good style and looks brand new. She is talented in the art of sewing and planning new wearing apparel. This she has done for 10 years and is going strong on the 11th. The total cost for remodeling and keeping up with fashion has been the small sum of twenty-five cents. If all the women would take a little time | for remodeling, we would score old man depression” off. Try a little dye and new ribbons. Change shapes to suit the styles. You j will surprise yourself. RAILROAD FILES NOTICE IT CAN NOT PAY TAXES Norfolk Southern Railroad Now Owes County About $50,000 -1— - Tax assessments in Washington County against the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company for 1931 had not been paid February 1, and it is not k-own when the carrier company can pa„ the sum, which amounts to up ■tf’ffrds of $50,000 in its entirety. The receivers of the railroad, G. R. Loyall and W. H. Windholz, of Nor folk, are reported to have endeavored to borrow money frm the Federal Re cnstru:tion Finance Corporation to pay their North Carolina taxes, but were unable to get the money and al lege that they have not secured the revenue to pay up their taxes due. Collections on the 1932 taxes in Washington County have begun and still the railroad has not paid anything for last year, and today the penalty of 1 per cent is in effect on these col lections in the county, while the Town of Plymouth has advertised the con cern for taxes in 1931 amounting to about $400. So this firm is behind in taxes here. Col. W. B. Rodman, tounsel for the railroad, has said that during the four months that the road has been in op eration under the receivers it has fail ed to pay operating and tax costs a mounting to $60,000, notwithstanding no interest was paid on investment in that period. The Norfolk Southern, which has leased a track from the state that ex tends from Goldsboro to Beaufort, has failed to meet its obligations to the state in three ways: 1, by failing to meet payments due January 1 under its lease; 2, by failing to pay State franchise taxes due last October; 3 by not paying local property taxes, now incurring a penalty. The railroad has given formal no tice that its financial condition is such that local property taxes (including Washington County) will not be paid by February 1 that the company will, instead, pay the 1 per cent penalty. The Norfolk Soutnern Land Com pany and the John L. Poper Lumber Company arc thought to be subsidi aries of the railroad, and they are be hind about $10,000 or more in taxes, and it is not known what steps have been taken to pay this amount. The county needs the money and the large firms will come under the tax penalty provision for delay as well as other taxpayers. The county is now contesting the efforts of the Norfolk Southern to dis continue their branch from Mackeys to Columbia before the State Corpora tion Commission. If this would pass |the county would possibly lose the tax on this road, which is estimated at $7,000. The railroad is valued at a bout $23,000 a mile. Reversing this condition is that of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany, which has about six miles in this county in the main and sidetracks, upon which is paid a tax of $3,500 Saturday in plenty of time to escape the tax penalty. Looks Like Long Session Oi Legislature This Year A reporter prowling around the legislature in Raleigh has this to say about Carl L. Bailey, who was home last week-end but who could not be reached for a statement as to what he thinks will be done with the import ant bills coming before the assembly: “It’s beginning to look to me as though we’re in for a long session,” commented Senator C. L. Bailey, of Washington County. "However, I should worry. Representative Spruill (should have been Mizelle) of my ■county, was in the army for 30 years and he's got a pull with the Quarer master General’s Department. If the legislature keeps us here very long over the 60-day limit, we’re going to get us an army tent and pitch it right outside there on the capitol lawn, and then they can keep us here as long as they please.” Jack Weede Now Selling V-C Fertilizers in County Tom J. Swain, a representative of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Cor poration for this district for a number of years, has been transferred from this distri :t to another unit that com prises Pitt, Wilson, Edgecombe, Franklin, and portions of Green and Halifax and other counties. Despite the fact ihat he is working in that section, he continues to reside in Plymouth with his children attend ing school here. His firm desires him to move, but he persists in living here, as he likes this section better. The firm wants him up nearer his work. W. E. (Jack) Weede has been ap pointed agent in Washington County [ for the Virginia-Carolina Corporation To Work 3 Days Week on County Welfare Projects By W. C. BREWER The County Department of Wel fare spent over $700 more than the $3,000 allotment from Federal relief in February. There is so much demand for work and relief of all kinds that it is difficult to find the cause, whether the times are harder or because some of the people have become accustomed to calling on some one else for help. There are no more funds jn sight after February, and the wel fare officers urge people of the county to cooperate a little closer to keep some funds in reserve to meet future needs in case no more money is available. Therefore, in order to give as many as possible some work through the next few weeks, it has been decided to work only three days per week on all projects, which will alow more men to work and as many as pos sible receive some money to care for their actual needs. No one ought to work on the welfare funds when he can make a living otherwise, especially those on farms, who have their meat and corn, ought not to want to take jobs from those who have not anything. BARTER SYSTEM LOCAL CHAMBER IS VERY POPULAR COMMERCE IS FOR WITH READERS ALLOTMENT BILL Many Take Advantage of Beacon Offer for Farm Products New and renewal subscriptions are coming into the office daily in the campaign now being conducted to se cure paid-in-advance subscriptions to The Roanoke Beacon, as the paper continues its liberal price offers for farm produce and commodities that are valuable as food or otherwise use ful about a home. Higher than market prices are al lowed on produce. Chickens, eggs, corn, peanuts, and cash are among the items that have been used to pay up delinquent sub scriptions and then to pay them ahead for as much as two years at a time in some cases. New subscriptions have been coming into the office also as the people continue to cooperate. This week new prices for farm prod ucts go into effect and they are slight ly lower than those announced some time ago that were good until Febru ary 1. No matter whether what you have to trade or barter for subscrip tions is listed here or not, bring it to the Beacon office if it is useful and a trade for subscriptions will be made with a reasonable value placed on the object offered. seven letters have been mailed to subscribers in various sections of the county whose subscriptions are delin quent and they have until February 15 to pay or their paper will be dis continued. This method will be fol lowed with a number being paid up or cut off without further notice each two weeks. So do not wait until your letter of invitation to renew has been mailed, ■but pay up now to avoid this cost and also because when the letter reaches you it is possible that you will not be in as good condition then to renew as now and that will mean your paper will stop. Sample prices for produce that will hold good until February 13 follow: Corn, 55 cents a bushel shelled; soy beans, 55 cents a bushel; peanuts, 2 cents a pound; cotton, 8 cents pound; eggs, 17 cents dozen: old hens, 12 cents; frying size chickens, 14 cents pound; smoked hams, 17 cents pound; fresh hams, 14 cents; and other useful items at higher than market prices. Here is a list of those who paid up last week; A. F. Arnold, A. R. Phelps, T. F. Marriner, J. Richard Carr, \V. W. Satterthwaite, .1 J. Burdine, C. S. Heynen, Mrs. Josey B. Askew, Mrs. Sarah Swain, Charlie Bowen, Arthur Vail, W. E. Allen. Fire Sunday Night Does Little Damage Fire that originated possibly in a faulty flue damaged the top of Mamie Nat Pettiford’s home reported to be long to Nancy Coffin, Sunday night, when firemen were called out into the cold weather to battle the flames. Screams from terrified w/omen and occupants of the house and firemen s orders were clearly heard a distance away on account of the stillness of the night. The furtjiture was not damaged much, and only the roof of the house was damaged except by wa ter. A passer-by notified the gleep ing negroes. License To Marry Is Issued Saturday License to marry has been issued to William M. Hopkins, of Plymouth, to Madeline Davis, of Jamesvillc. Mrs. Mary O. Sawyer, as register of deeds, filled out the license blanks Saturday, but no report has been filled with her yet of the time and place and by whom : the ceremony was performed. Wilson County will plant the larg est tobacco crop in history, according to plans now being made by the grow ers, says County Agent. W. L. Adams. Also Ask Legislature To Permit Banks To Extend Facilities A resolution was adopted by the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce and members of the Plyouth Mutual Ex change asking the legislature to allow banks in operation now to open units where they are desired by the citi zens of a community without the usual charge against their capital. This action was taken so as to en courage Representative C. E. Mizelle anti Senator C. L. Bailey to aid in the passage of a bill that will be intro duced in the General Assembly this week in an effort to secure banks for towns like Columbia, as in all of Tyr rell County there is not a bank of any kind. N. G. Bartlett, sccretary-man.^er of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, explained that there were 5 county seats, three counties, and 42 towns with populations of from 500 to 3,500 people that do not have a banking institution at 11 within their borders. The joint meeting also passed a res olution asking Senators Josiah W. Bailey and Robert R. Reynolds to aid in the passage in the senate of the farm allotment bill which makes it pos sible for the government to effect a price on farm commodities, including peanuts, in an effort to boost th4 price. Mr. Bartlett also asked for an opin ion on the sales tax in the North Car olina General Assembly, but there was some discussion on this matter and nothing definite was done. Some fav ored a sales tax after exhaustion of other methods if this tax was passed on to the consumer. Others did not favor this. So no vote was taken. The matter was dropped. HOLD-UP VICTIM IS NEAR DEATH Walter Bateman, 66, Struck Over Head by Unknown Negroes Walter Bateman, 66 years of age, is expected to die in a Washington hos pital as the result of injuries sustain ed Tuesday night on the highway be tween Belhaven and Pantego when three negroes attempted to hold them up. Mr. Bateman was riding in a car with Jack Read, a local automobile tire salesman, when three negroes threw an obstruction across the highway, causing the car to halt and then they i endeavored to secure the personal be longings of the two occupants of the car. Mr. Bateman is thought to have started down the road for help when Mr. Read with his car key's in his pocket darted into a near-by negro house where aid was rendered. Mr. Bateman was hit on the head by a blunt instrument after he left Mr. Read, it is thought. Meager reports reaching here were to the effect that Mr. Bateman was found unconscious on the streets of Belhaven Wednesday morning bleed ing profusely from the ears and about the head. Little hope is entertained for his recovery. Mr. Read is at home here. Brinkley Hotel Here Reopened This Week Ashley Fleetwood and Theodore Kampas have rented or have come in to the management of the old Brink ley Hotel, thus reopening this estab lishment that has been closed since the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Brinkley, moved bark to their Main Street residence a month ago. It is the plan of the new managers to rent the rooms, while the lodgers can secure meals at the Plymouth ford, while Mr. Kampas has been op Cafe. Mr. Fleetwood is from Hert erating the cafe here for several years. HIGH HONOR FOR CLUB MEMBER OF PLEASANT GROVE Mrs. W. B. Chesson Listed “Who’s Who” in Club Work of Country -• By EUGENIA PATERSON Mrs. W. B. Chesson, of the Pleas ant Grove Home Demonstration Club, has won a distinction for herself, and for Washington County, that makes her rank among “Who's Who in Women’s Clubs’’ in the United States of America.” Mrs. Chesson has always been active in community life wherever she has been. She is one of the most public spirited women in the State of North Carolina. “When a woman makes a success of her home life and her club work, when she has so well earned the esteem of her friends and fellow workers that she is elected to high of fi:e, there are always some to envy her 'luck.' But there is little ‘luck’ in such success. “The brilliant careers of our fam ous statesmen, lawyers, bankers, doc tors, clergymen, merchants, and in dustrial leaders are no more important to the strength of our social structure than the wholesome service rendered daily by those individual women who give so generously of their time and energy.” The activities of well-known men tend to have a far more reaching in fluence than women, and it is because the recognition of their work is more widespread. The public finds out their work because it is in the outside world while the woman's work is mostly in the home. When a woman’s work is known, there is more inspiration in the work of the leaders of women’s activities because their work is so un selfish. To give women a fitting recog nition the registrar of women’s clubs has a new roster for the 34th edition of the “Who’s Who in Women’s Clubs,” season of 1932-33. Only two of each hundred club women are eligible for this roster, and for the first time these two women may be represented in the national “Who’s Who,” devoted exclusively to club women. Mrs. Chesson's activities have en titled her to this deserved tribute to her service. The following is Mrs. Chesson’s biographical sketch, which will serve the purpose of providing added in centive for those who are to follow: Mrs. W. B. Chesson, before her marriage Miss Annie Belle Tippett, of Vance County, N. C.; student at Littleton Female College, graduated, specialized in music and literature at Sunny Side Seminary. Past president of Pleasant Grove Home Demonstra tion “Club; p^t secretary of County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs; past secretary of County Coun il ok Home Demonstration Clubs; past chairman of Better Homes in America; chairman of Board of Stew ards of Pleasant Grove M. E. church; first vice president of U. D. C. chap ter at Plymouth; secretary of parent teacher association at Roper; grade mother for eighth grade, Roper; Pleas ant Grove Home Demonstration Club, F. W. C.; writer for papers; composer of songs; teacher of must:; formerly a high school teacher. STATE FIRE LOSS FOR PAST YEAR More Than $5,000,000 Goes Up In Smoke During The Past Year Raleigh.—Fire loss in North Caro lina in 1932 was $5,655,439, as com pared with $5,525,437 in 1931, resulting from 2,630 fires last year and 2,585 the year before, the annual report of In surance Commissioner Dan C. Boney shows. Mr. Boney expressed pleasure that the loss had been held so low, particularly in these times of distress. Residence fires, 1,637, resulting in $1, 317,695 loss last year, as compared with loss of $1,530,309 from 1,516 fires in 1931, the report shows. December reduced the monthly damage average, the 218 fires resulting in loss of $438,295, as compared with $846,634 los sfrorn 232 fires in Decem ber, 1931. Nineteen fires, 14 urban and 5 rural, caused $202,638 of the loss, the remaining 197 fires causing loss of $236,657. Five of the December fires, result ing in damage of $138,416, or nearly one-third of the entire damage, were in the city of Charlotte. Yard Improvement Work Is Under Way in County -• Any club member desiring assistance with yards, please let the home agent know. Save all shrubbery and bulbs that you don’t need to give to the home agent for county distribution. The Alba and Cool Springs Clubs are ahead in yard work. Other clubs are beginning work next week.
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