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i 1 HE KOANOKE oEACON County and its 12,000 people. = ... • — ».......... if. if if. if if jf if and Washington Bounty jnews^ ★★★★★★ § Advertisers will find Beacon = and News columns a latch-key to = 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLIV—NUMBER 44 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, November 3, 1933 ESTABLISHED 1889 'iiiimmimiiiiiiin? RED CROSS CALLS FOR REPORT OF FAMILIES AIDED Record Enrollment Hoped For At Annual Roll Call On November 11th -» The American Red Cross in view j of their approaching roll call No- , vember 11, has requested that a full report of flour and cloth distribu tion in Washington County >ince the j first was received, June 1932, be pub- j lished. In North Carolina and other states, wind storms, floods and other disas- j ters have been a severe strain on the financial resources of the American Red Cross and it is hoped that there will be a record enrollment of mem bers on November 11th when the an nua] roll call in Washington County will be made. The help given through the Red ! Cross, especially in clothing, has re- j lieved a great need among the school children that would have been im possible for local resources to meet. ' Following is a report of the Red Cross materials, etc*, given out from November, 1932, through October 10, 1933: Total yards of cloth given out, 12,944; 275 pair men’s work and dress socks, 304 pair women’s hose, 433 pair children’s hose, 156 pair infants' ; hose, 132 pair men's union suits; 72 pair women’s union suits, 204 pair children’s union suits, 276 pair boys’ union suits, 170 pair men's overalls, 48 pair men's jumpers, 192 pair boys' overalls, 182 pair ladies’ vests, 389 pair ladies' balbriggan bloomers, 835 sweater coats and slipovers, 24 in fants’ shirts, 29 boys’ dress shirts, 24 boys’ work shirts, 68 boys’ knickers, 101 men’s trousers, 180 boys’ play suits, 4 comforters, 34 blankets. Total number of families aided with cloth by yard, 708; total number of families aided with ready-made gar ments, 547; total number of bags of flour given away from June, 1932, to date, 11,920; total number of fam ilies aided in the distribution of same, 1,015. Eight hundred and seventy-three garments were produced by the re lief sewing room, where 10 women are employed. FUTURE BRIGHT FOR BUSINESS -e> Most Vigorous Upturn Is In Retail Trade, Caused By Cooler Weather -s New York.—While general business conditions were reported as some what brighter this week in nearly a'l districts, the most vigorous upturn occcurred in retail distribution which was stimulated by cooler weather. Regarding the industrial trend, the review said that the indices are “some what more favorable, although lack ing sufficient uniformity to establish a definite trend.” “Retail trade,” continued the re view, “responded to the first touch of wintry weath, which gave a sudden spurt to the movement of seasonal merchandise, although department store sales depended heavily on profit sharing sales to move stocks. “A further incentive to buying was provided by the continuous emphasis placed by store advertising on the im minence of higher prices. Textile lines are still the most active, with women’s wear, including coats and suits, selling better than last week. “Wholesale orders have fallen be low the total for the corresponding week last year, even though the vol ume of merchandise moved was larg er because of shipments on old con tracts.” "Industrial operations are being in creased gradually, as employment was slightly higher than a week earlier, but general operating schedules, how ever, are expected to continue at a diminished rate until labor disturb ances will have been cleared up.” Rev. R. H. Mason To Preach At Mt. Zion -® Roper.—Rev. R. H. Mason of Ay den will preach at Mt. Zion church Saturday night and Sunday. Every body is invited to attend. -<s Hogs Should Not Be Fed For 24 Hours Before Killing -$ Hogs should be kept without feed for at least 24 hours before they are killed, but should be given plenty of water. This allows time for all feed to pass out of the stomach. It is easier to get a good bleed when the system is not gorged with food, and the meat always cures better when the small blood vessels are free from food particles and blood. Plymouth’s Tax Rate Is Fixed At $1.80 -$ Plymouth's tax rate for the 1933 property will he $1.80 on the $100 worth of real estate. This is the | same rate as in 1932 despite a hori zontal reduction in valuation of 20 per cent that is effective in Plymouth ; as well as the entire county. The City Council feel that they will j be doing well if they maintain this rate and it is thought now that by frugal living and a general reduction ) of expenses that everything will be J all right this year. -<j> PROGRAM FOR FARM CLASS IS OUTLINED - Creswell Chapter Draws Up List of Objectives for Year’s Work -<$> By C. H. RABON Creswell.—The Creswell chapter , of Young Tar Heel Farmers have,! since the organization of the work! here, endeavored to work together in carrying out the annual program of i work. We make it a part of our pro-; gram to draw up a list of objectives | at the beginning of the school year, j in which each member has a duty to | perform, and by all cooperating and j working together, the goal is never i ,far away when the year’s work is over, j The goals of accomplishments to I be achieved for 1933-34 and the meth- | ods to be used in reaching some of these are as follows: 1. Conduct one or more father and son banquets during the year. The food to be used will come from the farm, and each boy will be assigned /certain products to bring. The type ^ of banquet will be decided by the , chapter. 2. Conduct some form of cooper alive buying and selling. Members of ■the chapter will keep in touch with farmers of the community as to the products to be sold, such as poultry, eggs, vegetables, and hogs. Also as to the buying of seeds, feeds, fertiliz ers, spray material, and will cooperate in th* bjying and selling. 3. Improve the (agricultural class room, such improvements will be car ried out as needed. 4. Beautfiying the school grounds. Each boy while at home will collect different plants and shrubbery to be brought to the school and placed on the grounds. 5. Arrange for chapter debates. De bate^ will be arranged between near by chapters, with the subjects cen tering around our agricultural prob lem.s 6. State dues to be sent to the state pffice by October 1. Each member will do his part in paying the dues early. It will be left to the treasurer to collect the dues. 7. Aid in arranging evening classes for farmers. Students will act as ad vertisements in having their parents and other farmers to attend the eve ning meetings. 8. To conduct one or more chapel programs during the year. Chapel programs will he conducted with all members taking part. The stage will be set and the ritual used the same as at regular Y. T. H. F. meetings. 9. Conduct group visits to projects, when the projects are at their best. All students will gather in a body and visit each boy’s project together. If possible, the teacher of agriculture, county superintendent, district super visor of vocational agriculture, and editor of the county paper will be in the tour. 10. For each member to read and report on at least two hooks relative to griculture during the year. The books will come front the agriculture library. 11. At least 90 per cent of students attending the Y. T. H. F. camp at White Lake. 12. To have reporter publish news items about chapter activities at least twice a month. News articles will include all chapter activities. 13. Conduct at least three socials other than father and son banquets. 14. To maintain our chapter slogan. 15. To arrange for the purchase of a radio to put in our classroom. 1 he funds for purchasing the radio will I come from the chapter treasury. 16. To construct an agriculture workshop. 17. To have charge of one parent teacher association program. Rev. Russell To Preach Farewell Sermon Nov. 11 -® Skinnersville.—Rev. J. C. Russell, who has been pastor at Rehoboth M. P. church and Creswell charge lor the past three years, will preach his farewell sermon at Rehoboth on the second Sunday in November at 11 o’clock. All denominations are cordially in vited to attend. MERCHANTS ARE URGED TO FILE RETURN OF TAX Deputy Cofnmissioner Ad vises Immediate Action To Avoid Penalty -$ In a statement issued here early thi> week, John D. Langston, Jr., deputy commissioner with the State Revenue Department in this district, urged all merchants who have not yet filed a sales tax return to get in touch with him at once in order to avoid the possibility of a penalty. "Many merchants in this territory apparently have failed to file sales tax returns for the quarter ending October 1st," Deputy Langston said. "These reports were due to be filed by October 15th. All merchants have been advised of this by letter from the Department of Revenue, in 'w/hich they were instructed they should not wait unless they found it impossible to make it otherwise. “A list of delinquents in this ter ritory will be furnished from the De partment of Revenue within a few days and we are anxious that none of the merchants in this territory shall be found delinquent and penalized for default in payment of this tax, which they have collected from their cus tomers. I am urging the merchants who have failed to file their returns to immediately do so and if neces sary to get in touch with me about it. This is extremely important from their standpoint, as well as the standpoint of the Department of Revenue, which at all times is ready to assist and cooperate all possible.” TO REGISTER UNEMPLOYED Complaints Made That Ad vantage Is Taken Of Relief Work -«■ Complaints have been made to Mrs. W. C. Brewer, superintendent of welfare, that a great many people are taking advantage of the office and that some people will not try to ob tain work as long as there is hope of obtaining something for nothing and in order to verify or disprove the above statement an office will be opened Monday to register the un employed, where all those who are out of work and willing to work have a chance to register. The roll will be open to those who can use workers and it is hoped that they will cooperate with the super intendent of welfare in carrying on the work to the best advantage of all. This employment office is for the county only and has nothing to do with the reemployment office that will perhaps be set up here later. The place of registration, Monday and Tuesday, office of chief of police, Plymouth, Thursday Roper, N. C., Friday Creswell. Only eight men will be sent to the reforestation camps from Washing ton County, they will leave Wednes day, November 8th, for the recruit ing station in New Bern and will have to pay their own transportation from here to the place of enrollment, two alternates will be taken in case any of the original eight are refused. CLUB WORKERS ARE VERY BUSY —®— List Of Women Who Have Done Outstanding Work The year 1933 is the best in the history of county home demonstra tion work. The following women have been outstanding in their clubs this year in beautifying their home grounds: Alba—Mrs. Tullie Allen; Albe marle, Mrs. Furlough; Beech Grove, Mrs. T. E. Furlough; Cross Roads, H. Chesson; Cherry, Willie P. Dav enport; Creswell, T. C. Holmes; Cool Springs, H. J. Woolard; County Bridge, Miss Florence Parrisher; Chapel Hill, Mrs. Eli Phelps; Hoke, Mrs. J. T. Browning: Pleasant Grove, Mrs. W. B. Davenport; Piney Grove, Mrs. Lillie Collins Ange; Scupper nong, Mrs. Lindsay Snell; Swain, Mrs. J. J. Burdine; Roper, Mrs. L. L. Mizelle; Wenona, Mrs. Glenn I'urbee. Mrs. Tullie Allen boasts of every single club member improving their yards (Alba). Mrs. Glenn F'urbee of Wenona had 15 members to improve yards. Mrs. Jim Furlough of Albe marle reports 11; Mrs. J. T. Brown ing of Hoke 10, also Mrs. H. J. Woolard of Cool Springs. Swfiin, with Mrs. J. J. Burdine as leader, has 12, and every single one had sev eral, sending in a total of 162 yards improved in 1933. REGISTRATION v/ Registrations in this county for ! the prohibition election on No vember 7 were few. Little inter est is being manifested by the wets, while the drys have done but little more than to have speakings one time in each sec tion of the county. W. A. Swain is the dry candi date while Wilbur M. Darden is the wet aspirant. W. L. Whitley, chairman of the board of elec tions, announces that everything is in readiness. Political prog nosticators see no heavy voting. FARM NOTES By W. V. HAYS, Farm Agent V.__ Do not delay in digging sweet po tatoes. Rains and frost-bitten vines will damage the potatoes, lessen their ( keeping qualities and sales value. A good tobacco barn makes a pretty good potato curing house. More good potatoes can be taken out of a to bacco barn than a bank. -$ Get the SOW'S bred during Novem ber for early spring pigs. Pigs prop erly handled and fed out will bring in handy money next August and Sep tember. -<e>—4 Make the hogs in the field ample warm and dry shelters. ^ on will save pigs from flu and pneumonia. It also takes feed for fuel to keep them warm. -- Board up the hen house on all but the south side so as to keep out the draughts. It is a good idea to feed the hogs all the corn they will eat the first few days they are turned into the bean fields so as to get them used to the beans gradually. FARMERS’ CLUB BEING FORMED IN THIS COUNTY -$ To Meet Once Each Month For Instruction and Entertainment There is in Washington County be - ing organized a Farmers’ Club. I he purpose of this club is purely social. The aim is to bring together once each month the farmers at a dinner. At these dinners there will be an in teresting and entertaining speaker to talk on some timely subject. The dinner will be furnished by Miss Pat terson, the home agent, and her club in the particular community where the meeting is to be held. A small charge for each plate (say 25 cents) will be made, the proceeds of which will go to the club of the community furnish ing the dinner. These meetings will be held at Plymouth one month, then Roper, then at Creswell. The first meeting will be held at Roper early in November. The date will be announced later by card. At this first meeting we have been for tunate in securing as a speaker Frank H. Jeter, editor of the North Caro lina Extension News Service. Mr. Jeter is a most interesting, entertain ing and able speaker on farm sub jects. Any one hearing him once would drive a long way on a bad night to hear him again. We want every farmer who can to attend this meeting. To meet other farmers in other sections of the coun ty, to discuss our problems among i ourselves and when we understand mutual problems we can better face what comes before us. Second Meeting Of Agriculture Class -$ By Woodrow Collins Roper. — The Roper Agriculture Chapter held its second meeting Fri day afternoon. The officers, having learned the form of conducting our meetings, carried it out in full with John McLoud presiding. After the minutes of last meeting were read, we discussed two import ant questions: How to make money to buy agriculture books? and how to improve our class room? We are very interested in our work and wish to succeed in making our class room interesting and attractive. A small museum is one attraction in oui'j room. We are very proud of our col-j lections. The Y. T. H. F. charter which was won by the agriculture class was presented at the meeting. I his char ter will he framed and left in the classroom as permanent property. -$ C. L. Reynolds, of Cannock, Lee! County, reports harvesting 600 pounds of lint cotton per acre from 25 acres of land this fall. The cotton was an improved Cleveland strain. MANY STARS ON PROGRAM AT THE NEW THEATRE “Ann Vickers” Outstanding Picture On Thursday And Friday By all means see Sinclair Lewis’ greatest novel and best seller at the New Theatre on Thursday and Fri day. “Ann Vickers,” starring Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Na gel, Bruce Cabot and Edna Mae Oliver. The book that swept the na tion like a fire ... a dramatic thun derbolt on the screen. On Saturday Tom Mix with Tony Junior will give you his best perform ance in a brand new western, a thrill- ! er, “Flaming Guns." Remember, there will be continuous showing on J Saturday, beginning promptly at 2 o’clock. Monday and Tuesday brings “Se-1 crets" with Mary Pickford and Les lie Howard. No finer role could have been given any actress to play! No j actress could have played it finer j than Mary Pickford. A picture with the charm of 'simlin Through — while lie spent his life keeping se crets from the woman he loved, she j spent hers keeping him from know-' ing that she knew them and had, known them all the time. Who keep ■ “Secrets” bettrr. men or women? “Zoo In Budapest," starring Lor-! etta Young and Gene Raymond will I play only for one day—Wednesday, j Don’t miss the best romance of the j season — youth finds love in the | strangest of settings. Primitive ro-1 mance . . . tender . . . thrilling . . . en acted against the background of a zoo park . . . where a heroic youth saves the girl he loves from escaped animals reverting to jungle instincts and clashing in a primal fight death to TO START DRIVE FOR REDUCTION ACREAGE SOON Will Proceed Early in No vember to Form Leaf Control Groups Recently Principal R. I. Leake, >f the local schools, proposed the “T - bacco-Magazine” project as a scheme for raising money to buy magazines for the high school library. In re sponse to Mr. Leake’s proposal, the The program to reduce the crop of flue-cured tobacco to about 500,000,0011 pounds in 1934 will start in Nortl Carolina within the next few days. Instructions received at State Col lege from the tobacco section of the Agricultural Adjustment .administra tion indicate that all forms, contract!, and regulations have been prepare! and that county farm agents may pre ■ceed early in November to begin tb : formation of county tobacco contrt 1 associations. Farm agents in the 5/ counties growing flue-cured tobacco in the State have been instructed to meet at the college on November 3 and 4 o receive instructions in procedure. t£. Y. Floyd, tobacco specialist for t ie extension service, has been in Wash ington for over a week securing all information necessary to handling the campaign. Mr. Floyd will have active charge of the movement in this state under the general supervision of Dean 1 O. Schaub. Mr. Schaub says that two or more men from the tobacco section of the AAA will come to State College for the county agent meeting on Novem ber 3 and 4 to aid Floyd in prepar ing plans for the campaign and in giv ing instructions to the agents. North Carolina growers gave al most unanimous support to the to bacco program by signing up over 95 , per cent of the land put to tobacco during the past three seasons. There were 55,771 agreements, representing 581,757 acres signed in the September campaign. Similar action was taken by tbe growers of South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. Bishop Darst Will Be At St. Luke’s Church Sunday , Roper.—-The Right Rev. T. C (Darst will hold his annual confirma tion and service at St. Luke’s hpisco ,pal church, Roper, November Oth, at 7:30 p. m. All are invited to attend. Cabbage Growers Get Fair Prices This Fall Produce merchants in thirteen states have sent trucks into the Hamburg secton of Jackson County this year to buy cabbages. Growers arc getting fair prices for tbeir product, and the demand is heavy, says County Agent G R. Lackey. 88-Year-Old Woman Registers For First Time -$ Skinnersville.—Mrs. Mollie Wiley, who is 88 years old and has never registered before, walked with her daughter one mile on Saturday after noon to register before Mr. C. L. Kverett, poll-holder, in order to cast her vote against the repeal of the eighteenth amendment on November 7th. SPEED GARDNER STILL PINES FOR RACING THRILLS Famous Speed Driver Will Enter Classic In Spring Of 1934 -$ Unmindful of injuries that kept him in a hospital for several weeks and a leg hurt that has kept him on crutches for five months, William Horace fSpeedj Gardner still pines for the thrill of the auto race track, despite the fact that he narrowly emerged from his last “pile-up" alive. He was taking the curves on the Indianapolis, Indiana, speedway at 124 1-2 miles an hour hack in May when the machine he was driving skidded and threw him and an auto mechanic riding with him into a re taining wall, fracturing a skull, break ing his left leg in two places and busting five ribs with the mechanic escaping without a scratch. This crack-up was during the qualifying round when Gardner was within a mile of the auto speed record last May as he was getting ready for the annual spring speed classic. His auto mechanic caught a ride with another driver in the race and was killed when an anto wrecked in the annual go. . His Dusenberg Special built racing car is now awaiting him in Pitts burgh, Pa., and he will enter the driv ing classic again in the spring of 1934 if his leg retains none of the stiffness at that time. It has been rebuilt from top to base since the "spill" at Indianapolis. Gardner is 37 years of age and has driven in auto speed classics in 40 states in the Union in his day. He has never won any of the big races hut finished in the money a number of times and in 1929 he was the third in the race. His urge to return to the hazardous sport is prompted by a sportsman’s hunch that he is due to win. This local boy comes back to his old home every year except in 1932, when he was out on the Pacific coast traveling in a racing itinerary that kept him away during the winter. He talks with freedom of Fred Frame and Johnny Weir and tells of the hardships and pleasure of those who make their living by their ability to make an auto go. Not long ago in a newsreel the home folks caught a glimpse of him in action when they saw a picture of the auto racing fraternity and the highlights in the group. He men tioned very casually the crashes and deaths common to those of his trade. Also he is a sports enthusiast and likes most any kind. He and five others leased a box in the Pittsburgh ■ Pirates park where he mingled with the elite of baseball. And then he makes friends easy of the athletes as he attends football and other games. Game Warden Harry Stell here, a relative, who Gardner is visiting, re cently gave to the local baseball team and retains a number of balls given to him by Gardner with the auto graphs of Hughie Critz, Jakie May and many others. In the off-racing season he is a truck salesman for a Pittsburgh auto | concern. Fellow sportsmen some times purchase their cars when Gard ner is out but he gets the commission l as usual. He left Plymouth about 15 years ago after having been employed by L. \\ . Gurkin here, who possibly had the first auto garage in this section, lie went to Newcastle, Pa., a suburb, where he started to racing. He has cleaned up as much as $20,000 in a single race and that was at Syracuse, N. V., a few years ago. The mother of the racing driver is Mrs. Clode Gardner, of Portsmouth, who has been visiting Mrs. VV R. White here while the driver himself has been a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stell. Freshman Class Of Roper High School Has Meeting Roper.—The freshman class of Roper High School held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Miss Sarah Leary. After business a social hour was enjoyed, in which games and contests were enjoyed. A deli cious sweet course was served. Miss Josephine Covington is class ad visor. The next meeting will be at | the home of Miss Christine Chesson. SEEKING AID TO SECURE MONEY FOR NEW SCHOOL Delegation From Scupper nong Secure Petition For Federal Funds Creswell.— Armed with petitions that will proclaim their dire needs of a school plant, a delegation of citi zens from down in Scuppernong will descend upon the Washington County ■commissioners and the Board of Education Mon lay asking the offi cials to secure Junds tor a new edu cational plant here. C H. Aderholdt, principal of the Creswell school, wid drr.w up the documents for the go up who will ap peal to the board for better housing facilities for the children dowrn the county. Associated v. i h him will be such men as H. (,. Walker, J. C. Gatlin, Rev. W. H. H Howell, C. N. Davenport, Jr., and others. This invasion by the patrons of the Creswell school will come as the result of a meeting held in the sciiool auditorium Tuesday of this week when the citizens were loud in their protestations of what appeared to them to be discrimination as some of their children were taught in a small room, poorly ventilated, while in other county schools there was com fort. They heard W. F. Credle, superin tendent of the school house planning division of the North Carolina Board of Education, tell them of a plan whereby under a national recovery act they could secure money from the federal government to erect the structure. The speaker also pointed out that the Board of Education and commis sioners could borrow against the cre dit of county a um of money with the government handing out as a gift $3 out of every $10 borrowed with the $7 to be paid back at a low rate of interest. Numbers of the speakers advanced the ideas in the discussion that now I was the time to build. A sum could be borrowed for this project and al i low the gifts that the government was to donate to pay the first five annual installments and thus no money would have to be put out by the county in this period of time. There was some intimation that none of it would have to be paid back as the federal government was spon soring this building program not as an emergency for the needs of the improvements but to provide employ ment for those who needed work and to increase the buying power of the jiation, but Mr. ( redle maintained that “as far as 1 know,’’ it will have to be paid back. it was also made clear by those who are in favor of the plan that there was no purpose in mind to move the Cherry children to Roper as has been mentioned but the motive of the movement which has resulted in delegations going to Raleigh to see school officials was to get a better plant for the Creswell children. W. R. Hampton, chairman of the board of commissioners, admitted the need of tiie comfortable school quarters for the children but brought out the fact that any talk of issuing bonds for new school buildings in times like this would bring instant [protest from the burdened taxpayers. [ L. E. Hassell, chairman of the Board ! of Education, agreed with Mr. Hamp ton. O. I). Hatfield, chairman ot tne lo cal board, presided over the meeting. Miss Sally Carter played a violin solo accompanied by Mrs Roy Hopkins on the piano. Educational talks were made by Miss Mamie Simpson and Jesse Craddock, students. Rev. W. H. Hollowed said the opening prayer and pronounced the benedic tion. New Yorker Lectures To Teachers And Students Miss Mary Emma Smith, of New York, a representative of the So ciety for the Conservation of Eye sight, was in Washington County this week visiting the schools, making lectures and demonstrating to the teacher the correct diffusion of light in a room. She pointed out that the arrange ment of the window shades and the way the pupils sat and other matters tended to show that they were in need of correct adjustment so as to get the most benefit from the light allowed by the windows. Holly Neck Evangelistic Meeting Comes To Close -$ Skinnersville. — The revival meet ing came to an end at Holly Neck Disciple Church on Thursday night. Rev Gilbert Davis, of Plymouth, who is the pastor, held the services. There was one addition.