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VOLUME XLIV—NUMBER 33
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, August 18, 1933
ESTABLISHED 1889
CONTROL BOARD
HOLDS UP WORK
ON PLANT HERE
Decide It Would Be Unwise
To Permit Erection of
Additional Plants
Hesitancy of the industrial control
board fo the National Recovery Ad
ministration in granting permission to
Mr. Mitchell to begin construction on
bis lumber plant here has delayed for
the past several days action on this
important matter as concerns Ply
mouth.
The control board asserts that it
has the authority to resist the steps to
build the plant here on the grounds
that the consumption of the product
of manufactured lumber is much less
than the output today and that it
would be unwise to allow them to
build here until the market was bet
ter.
This is another step in President
Roosevelt’s efforts to bring this coun
try back to normalcy. The control
board is of the opinion that there is
a plenty of manufactured lumber in
the states to supply the demand and
that should another mill enter the
business at this time it would create
a greater surplus of lumber.
However, Mr. Mitchell and Mr.
Rose are not discouraged. They are
using every effort possible to induce
the control board to grant them a
special dispensation to erect a mill
here on the site where once stood
the old Crockett tomato cannery and
fertilizer factory and the plant offic
ials are eager to start construction.
If they can secure from the indus
trial commission a special grant to
begin construction they can have the
plan built and equipped for business
in a few weeks. Mr. Mitchell has re
sorted to the lumbermen's association
of which he is a member in an effort
to get the permit to build and operate.
Mr. Mitchell has expressly told Zeb
Vance Norman here that they are sat
isfied with negotiations for a plant
here at the present time and are us
ing every effort to get the matter
through so that they can be in a po
sition to put the mill up and begin
work as soon thereafter as possible.
Meantime, Mr. Norman and the lo
cal people here are offering every as
sistance they can to Mr. Mitchell in
an effort to rush along the matter,
and they are of the opinion that with
the lumbermen’s association to help
Mr. Mitchell that he can get a permit
through in a short time.
CONFERENCE
AT REHOBOTH
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Held Sunday Afternoon;
Elect Blount Delegate
To Convention
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Skinnersville.—Tlie third quarterly
conference of the Creswcll charge of
the Methodist Protestant church wasj
held at Rehoboth Sunday afternoon, j
The pastor, Rev. J. C. Russell, led
the devotional and J. B. White acted
as secretary in the absence of O. D.
Hatfield.
No other church in the circuit was
represented. W. If. Blount, of Roper,
who walked eight miles to attend the
conference, was chosen over Mrs. C.
N. Davenport as delegate to the North
Carolina M. P. Annual Conference i
that will be held in Burlington this
fall. j
The fourth quartely conference of j
the Creswell charge will be held at.
Woodley’s Chapel the third Sunday
afternoon in October.
100 Acres Planted To
Gardens in County
The subsistence and gardening pro
gram which lias been sponsored
throughout Washington County dur
ing the spring and summer months
lias resulted in the planting and culti
vation of approximately 100 acres, it
was learned today from Mrs. W. C.
Brewer, superintendent of public wel
fare.
In this number of acres there lias
been estimated a total of 250 individ
ual family gardens to provide food for
the fall and part of tbe winter. Clias.
A. Sheffield, assistant director of the
agricultural extension division of State
College, supervised these activities
that were pushed locally by tbe home
agent, farm agent, and welfare work
ers.
This gardening program lias suc
ceeded beyond our most optimistic
predictions,” said Mrs. Thomas O -
Berry, director of relief in Ibis state.
'Our idea in originating tbe movement
was that families would produce
enough food for their own consump
tion giving them a balanced diet and
train them in cultivating tbe soil.”
Little Miss Mary Elizabeth Camp
bell is visiting her aunt, Mrs. S. 1).
Jones, in New York City.
BASEBALL
SIDELIGHTS I
Overcoming a four-run lead Ply
. mouth again defeated Columbia, 8 to
! 4, Thursday of last week. This was
jthe third defeat handed to Mark Paige
| by Plymouth. Furches, ' Mjorris, J.
Brown, and Sculley led Plymouth with
! two hits each, while Columbia hit
Jack Brown for six hits and four runs
in 2 1-3 innings. Frank Furches went
! the remainder of the route for Ply
* mouth, allowing four hits and no
' runs.
A wild pitch in the tenth inning by
I Red Sculley allowed the runner for
! V. Lloyd to score the second tally
I for Tarboro as the Edgecombe coun
i tv nine eked out a 2 to 1 victory vic
! tory over Plymouth.
J. Frank Lurches hit a homer in
the second to start the scoring while
Abie Hood clouted one over the left
field fence in the third to knot the
score. Plymouth had men on third
base with none out in two innings
but lacked the scoring punch.
Red Sculley allowed seven hits and
Lloyd check Plymouth at four safe
ties.
Old Slim Gardner checked Angier
with two hits, while his mates pound
ed three hurlers for 18 blows to sub
merge the visitors under a 14 to 0
score here Wednesday. Bugg, Du
pree, and Doc Smith pitched just
right for the Plymouth hitters.
Tex Edens led Plymouth with the
stick with a homer, two doubles, and
a single, while Furches and Morris
each annexed three hits apiece. Col
lins and Fisher annexed a double
each for the only safeties for Angier.
Gardner struck out nine.
The Dr. Pepper team of Raleigh'
will play in Plymouth Sunday, Au
gust 20, at 4 p. m.
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J0V1 Caddell, coach at Wake For-1
est College, was in the bleachers here ■
Tuesday when Tarboro defeated Ply
mouth 2 to 1. He was observing the
play of Preston Chappell, flashy short
stop for the local club. It is under
stood that he will attend school at
Wake Forest this winter.
He also came down to see Sandy
Peele play, but he had returned to
Snow Hill, and so another represen
tative from the Wake Forest school
will look him over at Snow Hill.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Harrison have j
returned from Raleigh, where they
spent their 10-day vacation with Mr. j
and Mrs. A. W. Swain and family, j
Plymouth defeated Morehead City,
here 13 to 1 and 22 to 2 in a double
header Sunday afternoon before a •
large crowd of fans. Slim Gardner
hurled the first game and Harry Van J
Horn the second for Plymouth, while j
the opposition used seven pitchers in j
both affairs. Buddy Richardson hit
a homer in the first game to start the
scoring.
Tarboro defeated Plymouth there
Saturday, 3 to 1. Red Sculley allowed
only four hits, but errors by his mates,
led to his downfall. Plymouth an
nexed 10 hits but could not make
them count for tallies.
Slim Gardner continues to lead the
hitting of the Plymouth club with a
percentage of .432, while others of
his mates are climbing into the hard
hitting few also. Team’s average in
hitting is .317 for the season. The
following includes Sunday’s double
header:
Name AB H Pet.
Gardner 44 19 .432
Erroneous Construction
Placed on Recent Story
The editor and also Mr. Dupree re
gret there seems to be an erroneous
construction placed by a few railroad
people on the article appearing in the
Roanoke Beacon la^i week in its refer
ence to the vast improvements in op
eration of trains now as compared
with olden days in reporting the re
tirement of Mr. Dupree from the Rail
way Mail Service.
The editor gleaned from his inter
view with Mr. Dupree that in the
period of his 37 years’ train service,
the improvements and wonderful
progress the railroads had made in
giving the public this sc-t vice was keep
ing with the times until it is a con
ceded fact that they are recognized
now as giving to man the safest mode
of travel known in this age.
Peele
Purdies
Chappell
H. Brown
Van Horn
Edens .
Richardson
Sculley
J. Brown
Morris .. .
Davis .
Gurganus
118 45 .381
177 67 .379
178 60 .337
133 44 .331
181 58 .320
141 45 .319
100 31 .310
31 9 .290
41 12 .289
155 43 .277
55 13 .236
95 29 .211
RECALLS FACTS
OF HISTORICAL
INTEREST HERE
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The Mackeys family came from
Perquimans. The stream through
Washington County at Roper was
named after this family as well as the
town of Mackeys. Formerly it was
Kendricks Creek. Now it is Mackeys
Creek.
Lees Mill Township came from the
name of the mill that used to stand
over the creek in Roper. It was called
Lee'|; Mill. People from miles a
round came to this place to have their
corn ground by the swirling waters
that gave to the plan its power. The
mill is torn down now and only the
site is left.
1 Thomas , Blouift sjame here fjpom
Chowan. He was the son of James1
Blount. Both of these men were im
portant in political affairs of their
time. There are a number of Blounts
in this county today who are descend
ants of these men.
The Episcopal church here was used
as a horsestable by the Union sol
diers of the North in the War Be
tween the States. After the conflict!
a suit was brought against the Gov
ernment for damage done. A Mrs. j
Jackson, mother of Mrs. R. A. Wil
liford here, was asked to testify in
the court hearing.
“You are so sure that horses were
placed in the building, and why are
you so sure?" asked an attorney.
“Because 1 saw the heads of the
animals sticking out of the window,”
replied the witness. The government
paid the damages.
-ast year. This increased
amount docs not indicate a spreading
of the disease among poultry but in
dicates a Use of the preventative ma
terial by an increasing number of
poultrymen in the state, Dearstyne
said.
I
I POTENT INITIALS
v
Paste this in your hat, for you
are going to need it in keeping up
with the government’s various
projects. The initials, or abbrevi
ations, are often used for the sake
of brevity:
NRA—National Recovery Ad
ministration.
RFC—Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
CCC — Civilian Conservation
Corps.
NIRA—National Industrial Re
covery Act.
AAA—Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
TVA—Tennessee Valley Au
thority.
HOLC—Home Owners’ Loan
Corporation.
FERA—Federal Emergency Re
lief Administration.
HUBBLE WRITES
FRIENDS HERE
Former Principal of Local
Schools Recalls Facts
Of Interest
Excerpts from a letter to the Ro
anoke Beacon from L. H. Hubble,
food administrator of Southwestern
State Hospital at Marion, Va., who
for several years was superintendent
of the Plymouth city schools, is very
interesting, and so the Beacon passes
it on to its readers:
“For the few months that I have not
had your edition my loss on the affairs
in our town has been momentous. I
say our town, though I have been
away from Plymouth now for three
years, I continue to have a deep feel
ing for the place and more especially
the people.
“After having lived and worked with
you folks for the period of time I did,
there grows a tie that not even time
can break. Most assuredly and se
curely for those younger ones of the
town, those I dealt with and tried to
do something for their good.
“There are some old names that
stand out as landmarks when we re
call the old crowd, such as Mr, J. W.
Norman, Dr. C. McGowan, Huck
Lyon, Jim Ausbon, Lawrence Jones,
Bill Waters, Tom Burgess, Pet Dar
den, Y'atice Norman, Ben Sumner,
George Hardison, Dick Hardison, D.
V. Clayton, Joe Norman, and dozens
of others, then we have all those hun
dreds of boys and girls.
“But no crowd in Plymouth would
be complete without the boys of the
barber shop, the Swain boys—Jim and
Roy—and George Sexton. Then we
must think of Bob Edwards, who did
Siore to keep up the pep of the place
than any ohe individual.
“If Walter Paramore is the pres
ent editor, we must think of him as
a very capable young chap.
“This is too much of the above sort
tf. rambling along, so here closes this
piece of hooev.”
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Excellent Programs
At New Theatre
Music and dancing are an important
‘feature of “Best of Enemies,V the
Fox comedy romance now enjoying a
successful engagement at the New
Theatre on Thursday and Friday with
a matinee each day at 3:30 p. m. Mus
ical background, under the direction
of Arthur Lange, accompanies the ac
tion of the film as it passes from pro
hibition days down to the recent re
turn of beer. Sammy Lee, who will
be remembered for his staging of a
number of the famous Ziegfeld shows,
is rsponsible for the dance arrange
ment in the film. Buddy Rogers and
Marian Nixon have tjae principal ro
mantic roles in “Best of Enemies,",
with a supporting cast that indues
Frank Morgan, Joseph Cawthorn,
Greta Nissen, and others of notable
performances. “Best of Enemies"
marks the return of Buddy Rogers to
the screen.
“Adorable" on Monday and Tues
day brings our queen of the movies
—Janet Gaynor—in her latest hit.
Henry Carat is the leading man. It
will be shown at a matinee each day.
Cokesbury Training School!
Is Held At Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Grove.—The Cokesbury
Training School for the Roper charge
was held last week at Pleasant Grove
chur.ii. The school, which was un
der the supervision of Rev. R. H.
Taylor, of Florence, S. C., was a
complete success. The three churches,
Roper, Mackeys, ami Pleasant Grove,
cooperated at each service and re
ceived some splendid training.
Quite a number of the attendants
received certificates. Miss Nellie
Tarkenton, a former teacher at Ply
mouth, was among the number.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton en
tertained Rev. Taylor during his stay
in the community. Rev. R. E. Atkin
son assisted in the work of the school
PUT UP OVER 5,000
QUARTS FRUITS
AND VEGETABLES
Will Be Used for Relief
Work and School
Lunches
Over 5,000 quarts of vegetables have
j been canned by volunteer services of
! our home club members and other
i women in the towns and rural sections
j °f Washington County, states Mrs.
W\ C. Brewer, superintendent of pub
I lie welfare, w^ho purchased over 7,000
i quart jars and tins through Federal
aid funds.
\-fiss Eugenia Patterson, home dem
onstration agent, called for volunteers
to can 6 quarts each as a donation to
the county welfare winter relief. The
response was so great an order was
wired for 4,000 additional quarts by
Mrs. Brewer.
Xot only club women, but others
who live in Plymouth, Roper, Cres
well, and Cherry are returning jars
to be used in the school lunches and
winter relief. Each community is to
receive full benefit of all work done
in their zone. It is the same splen
did cooperation that we have received
in our welfare work for the past four
years, stated Mrs. Brewer, and too
much praise cannot be given to the
fine women of our county for the
hearty way that they have always re
funded to every worth-while cause.
LIST ARTICLES TO
TAKE TO CAMP
Will Be Held for Club Girls
At Mackeys School on
August 22-25
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A county encampment for the 4-H
club girls will be held at the Mackeys
School Building August 22, 23, 24,
and 25, it was announced today by
Miss Euegnia Patterson, home dem
onstration agent. Those attending
must he at the schoolhouse by 10 o’
clock Tuesday morning.
Every one must arrange for their
own transportation. They must bring
their first lunch prepared. Visitors
will be welcome to the camp. Scis
sors .scraps, paper, pencils, and 25
cents must be brought by the camper
and Miss Patterson will aid all in
having a good time.
Each camper must also have the
following: Plate, knife, fork, spoon,
cup, dessert saucer, three towels, soap,
quart of canned fruit or vegetable,
loaf bread, three pounds of ham or
one chicken, pound of flour, half cake,
dozen eggs, dozen ears of corn, or
other fruits or vegetbles, half pound
butter, half peck irish potatoes, two
sheets, blankets, pillow, toilet articles,
lantern and pound sugar.
A day's schedule at camp will be
as follows: 6:30, rising bell; 7, morn
ing watch; 7:15, setting-up exercises;
7:30, breakfast; 8, clean up rooms;
8:30, kitchen duties; 9, classes; 10,
music; 10:30, etiquette: 11:45, dem
onstration; 12:30, lunch; 1, rest period
3, recreation; 6, supper; 7, recreation;
9:30, bedtime.
This program will be followed strict
ly and each camper wil Ibe asked to
contribute their best efforts to abiding
by these arrangements and every one
will he assured of a good time.
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Attorney Z. V. Norman
Represents Land Bank
Persons seeking loans from the
lederal Land Bank of Columbia are
invited to see Zeb Vance Norman,
who has been the local representative
for this finance organization in Wash
ington County for the past 15 years.
Already in the past few days there
have been 20 applications made to
Mr. Norman for loans, and he is ac
cepting others and those who wish to
get loans through the government's
bank should see Mr. Norman as early
as possible.
First Open Boll Cotton
Put On Display Here
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The first open cotton boll brought
to the Beacon office and now on dis
play at the Branch Banking and
Trust Company here was grown on
the farm near here of Edgar Bate
man It was found on August 6.
Joe Weede brought in the second
open boll that was plucked from his
farm in the Charitable Brotherhood
I-odge community.
Farmers To Get Over
Five Millions lor Cotton
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Farmers in North Carolina will re
ceive $5,045,136 for the plowed up
cotton if the cotton held on option
sells at 10 cents a pound. For each
penny under 10 cents that the cotton
brings this total will be reduced by
$536,775.