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aiimiimmiimmr. A home newspaper dedicated jf to the service of Washington = County and its 12,000 people. = The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ★*★★*** -^jHHtiHimimiiiiiiimmmitiiiimiwiiii!' ? mimmi 1 Advertisers will find Beacon 1 and News columns a latch-key to = 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLV—NUMBER 28 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, July 13, 1934 ESTABLISHED 1889 MiMiimmimmui.T IMPROVED BALL CLUB IN SECOND HALF PROMISED —®— Better Support Is Asked in Order To Turn Out Winner -® A rejuvenated baseball club will en ter the second half of the Albemarle League to represent Plymouth, it was announced here today by P. W. Brown business manager, who asks that all who want baseball to support it bet ter. The local club has waded through the first period of the loop in a helter skelter manner, managing only to eke out fourth place, although for the most of the time they hung around the third rung of the ladder. Up to Wednesday they had won Id and lost 18, making an average of .406. Williamston has been officially named winner of the first half. Last Wednesday morning /Plymouth had dropped as low as fifth place, losing 18 and winning 13 for an average of .406. Only the lowly Windsor club was below them in the standings. The expense to the baseball faith ful in Plymouth for the local club is close to $300 weekly. This includes salaries, board and room, travel and equipment. Some weeks it may be more than this amount. Two pitchers earn as much as $25 weekly each, while a good infielder averages around $15 weekly. This is too expensive on the small group that supports the club for the kind of ball and their standing in the league averages. The club has been hitting fairly well, but the strategy has been glaringly missing. Manager Brown promises a better arrangement next half. Preston Chappell replaced Prot. Red Scully as manager at the begin ning of the season. Playing and man aging was too much for Chappell, and part of his duties were passed on to Clyde Humphreys, ace left-hander acquired from Norfolk of the Pied mont League. Then, too, the hurling staff has been weak. Erstwhile pitchers have come here from as far away as Penn sylvania to prove only a flop. How ard Burnham, Sneeze, Jack Wilson, Humphreys, and Ben Singleton have done the best work so far for the lo cals. Maybe the hurlers have not been handled right, as most of them have complained with sore arms. There is no complaint against the hitting. Most all of the club has been Hitting around .300, which is a good av erage for a group of ball players. The fielding has been poor in some instances, though some good work has been done in this department. Last Friday, Plymouth defeated Elizabeth City there 7 to 6 and came right back home the next day and gracefully handed the Jays a victory with the same score, except that Eliz abeth City had the odd run. Ayden hooked Plymouth Sunday, 8 to 4, in an exhibition affair. Clyde Humphreys held Edenton to 6 hits, but his mates could not solve the offerings of Hoot Hoens and Ply mouth lost 2 to 0 Tuesday. Johnson with a scratch hit, and Van Horn, with a clean single, were the only blows Plymouth secured. Ahoskie will play Plymouth an ex hibition game here Sunday afternoon, July IS, at 4 p. m. This club with drew from the Albemarle League this week, but will be back in the league at the first of the second half. They scampered out to save the expense for this week, it appears. Manager Brown promises that Jak ie May, formerly with the Chicago Cubs ami other major league entries, would hurl for Ahoskie Sunday. He is combing the bushes for a pitcher of the same class for Sunday’s fray. May was in the bright light a few years ago when he fanned Babe Ruth twice in a World Series game. Plymouth fell on two twirles of the lowly Windsor club for 16 hits to de ftat them 12 to 7 Wednesday. Monk Morris and Johnson, with three each, led Plymouth while Eason with five hits out of as many times at the plate led Windsor. Davis and Singleton hurled for Windsor while Jack Wil son was liberal with 12 hits he al lowed to Windsor. -® Contest Between Colored Choirs Monday Night -» A choir contest will be held at the New Chapel Baptist church in Ply mouth Monday evening, July 16th, with the First Baptist Church of Wil liamston, and the local Baptist church competing. In addition to the choral music there will be a special program of songs, recitations, and special features. A section will be reserved for the white people who wish to attend. "The choirs of the two churches are well trained and composed of some of the best singers in eastern North Car olina and those attending wil be af forded a musical treat,” said Moses L. Towe, president of the choir. WRAPPERS CALL FOR MORE PAY AT PLANT HERE -<s> Strike at Tomato Station Avereted By 2 1-2 Cent Increase In Wages -® Success greeted the efforts of the first strikers who started a walkout over low wages in this historic old town. Last Thursday 40 workers in the Plymouth Mutual Exchange, Inc., a produce organization specializing in the shipping of green-wrapped to matoes, stopped work and retorted that they would not wrap another to mato until they were paid more than 12 1-2 cents an hour. The employers were faced im mediately with a serious situation as they could visualize the fast ripening tomatoes decaying and being useful only in filling garbage cans. So they acceded readily to the demands of the strikers and the wages are now quoted at IS cents an hour. “We didn't walk uot,” explained one striker. “We merely quit and laid around on the boxes as if they were beds, yawning whenever we were told to go to work. Tomatoes kept com ing into the plant. No one moved. Then the manager agreed to a higher price and we all got up and went to work.” j This organization is expected to jship tomatoes grown on close to 200 ■acres this season. Members did fairly well after expenses were paid last fall. Roy Manning is manager of the plant and his efforts last year were success ful as not a single member lost any money through their organization. So far as could be determined this is the only strike of any organization ever to be made as a group of em ployees recorded in this county. PROCEEDINGS IN COUNTY COURT Former Tomato Buyer En ters Plea of Guilty on Bad Check Count Persistance won out for O. H. Lyon. Back in August, 1932, S. S. Corbin. SS, white, was purchasing tomatoes for shipment. He was stationed in Plymouth during the season. Some how or other, he passed, among a number of checks, one to O. H. Lyon for $9378. Immediately afterward he left. Mr. Lyon began issuing the necessary pa pers to get him back. He was traced to Crisfield, Md„ and from there to Washington, D. C., and back again to Crisfield. Extradition papers were prepared and honored by the Mary land Governor. He stood trial in recorder’s court here, pleading guilty to the count. Judge John Darden sentenced him to two months in jail, suspended upon payment of the check or satisfactory settlement with Mr. Lyon. He managed to scrape up the court costs and $40 for Lyon. Other checks in evidence against Mr. Corbin were up to about $50, but he had distribut ed a good deal more than this amount hereabouts. This released him of any crime here but immediately after he left the court room he was rearrested and held for Maryland authorities on a warrant charging him with securing money under false pretense. Yesterday they took him back to Kent County for trial. Ramon Clifton, 34, white, was or dered not to drink nor to abuse his wife and family during the period of two years under pain of a six months sentence to the roads by Recorder Darden. We was accused of an assault with a deadly weapon, which included a table fork, leather strap and also his fist. The warrant was sworn out by Mrs. Willie B. Clifton before Magis trate J. F. Snell. Work on County Home To Be Resumed Next Month ^ Resumption of construction of the j Washington County home will begin by the middle of August, according to a statement today by Julian E. j Gibbs, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Mr. Gibbs lias been assured by of ficials that this project will be the next to be started and completed in this county. A small allocation by the State to this county has necessi tated a decrease in workmen, and it was thought best to complete the gymnasium and Macedonia school be fore starting on the county home a gain. When work does start, all of the relief forces in the county will prob ably concentrate their efforts on this one task until it is completed. It will cost in materials and labor more than $30,000, it is thought. r ' FARM NOTES By W. V. HAYS, County Agent | Mr. Marsh, from the State Board of Review, met our corn-hog committee men Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Marsh reports the contracts from Washing ton County outstanding, since very few revisions were made. Mr. J. W. Starr, president of the Washington County Farmers’ Club, was chosen as chairman of the pro gram for the Wenona Fiekl Day Pic nic. He urges every man of the Far : mers’ Club to bring his family and a well-filled basket to Wenona on the 19th. -® Cotton and tobacco grown under contract and also rented acres will be measured beginning on the 16th. The contractor or the growers should as sist this supervisor or inspector in measuring these acres. -® Application blanks have been sent tobacco growers where more than one person will do the marketing. In this case fill out the form and return. If the producer alone does the selling do not return the blank. -<$> Cotton grown outside of a contract will be handled under the Bankhead Allotment Act some time about the 20th. Forms for making application nor blanks have as yet been received ] for this work. Notice will be given in this paper when ready. -® It will pay to dust tobacco even this late if the worms are bad. Use I three to five pounds of lead arsenate | (with a dust gun) per acre. -® ROPER SCHOOL i HEAD RESIGNS ——a E. N. Riddle Accepts Offer To Head Schools At Conway Next Term -e After nine years as principal of the Roper High School, E. N. Riddle has offered his resignation to take effect about August 1. Mr. Riddle has accepted an offer made to him by a delegation of school officials who came to see him Thursday from Conway. Living con veniences and a better salary are the inducements used by the visiting school people to secure the agreement of Mr. Riddle to accept their posi tion. And the school unit there has 18 tachers against 12 in Roper and the comparisons of the plant and equip ment prove that Conway has every thing over Roper. A gymnasium is on the grounds and excellent labora tory equipment is available. Mr. Riddle did not apply for the job as he had already been offered the place back in Roper for the com ing term. When Mr. Riddle first came to the school here it was not on the state's accerdited list. Now it stands in group two and class A, which is as high as it can go unless were to add another month to its term. “If they were so eager to get me to go as to come over here to see me and offer me better living quar ters and a better salary, I decided I was nqts enough to give it a try,” Mr. Riddle commented. However, Mr. Riddle explained to the Conway school authorities that he might not be in that school one ; year as an opportunity for education- i al work in a different field rnigh de velop for him and he would leave them. Mr. Riddle also might enter the law profession as he is a licensed attorney. $7,700 Paid To Depositors Of Closed Creswell Bank -® Creswell.—Close to $7,700 has been ; distributed to depositors of the Bank of Creswell by W. O. Crump, who was appointed liquidating agent of the closed institution by Guerncy P. Hood commissioner of banks of North Car olina. This represents 30 per cent of the amount that the patrons had to their j credit when the bank was thrust into j the hands of receivers last year. This ( amount was divided among several ( hundred depositors. Most of the de positors live in Washington and Tyr- j rell Counties. -® Home Agent Announces Schedule for Next Week -® The home agent announces the fol lowing schedule for next week: Monday afternoon, July 16, County Bridge. Tuesday, July 17, Pleasant Grove. Wednesday, Swain. Thursday, July 19, all day, Wenona Picnic. Friday afternoon, July' 20th, Alba. Saturday morning, 8:15, curb mar ket. I ABOLISH COUNTY WELFARE OFFICE AT BOARD MEET —®— Mrs. W. C. Brewer To Lose Position After 31st of This Month s Abolition of the office of full-time superintendent of public welfare of this county was made in a joint ses sion of the county commissioners and the county board of education here last Thursday at a special session of these groups. This means that Mrs. W. C. Brewer who has held this position for a cou ple of years, more or less, will be [thrown out of a job. She with her I husband accepted the work when it was first established here and since i that time she has been working in that capacity. The commissioners and educational officials dropped the ofijice irt the form of a resolution that was duly drawn up and mailed to Mr.-. Brewer. It becomes effective on July 31. The motion to abolish the office was made by E. R. Lewis and seconded by O. ; R. Armstrong, with all of the offic ials voting in favor of it. J The officials came to this decision as the state pays no portion of this [salary of this office, as was the case at one time. Mrs. Brewer received $86 monthly, with a travel allowance [of about $40 monthly in her work. At [one time a portion of this was paid I by the state. Recently, the county has paid all of the salary and expense. The resolution read that it was be ing done on account of the necessity I for economy and that the emergency |which caused the establishment of the |office was past. It was also thought !that with the Federal Emergency Re lief Administration in operation here that there was a duplication of effort. All of the duties of the superintend ent of public welfare now rests on the shoulders of James W. Norman, superintendent of public instruction, who may employ a cleric to look after this and also be allowed some travel expense, but he must do his share of the work without additional compen sation. There are certain duties, including juvenile work, parole and prisoners’ check-ups, enforcement of school at tendance and such woik that will to be done by some one. In this case it falls on James W. No-man. And it is mandatory under the law. None of this welfare work can be done by the local emergency relief organiza tion. In some cases the case workei s for relief have aided Mrs. Brewer, but in most of her work and in certain in vestigations, in adition to the dut es mentioned, the welfare superintendent has to do the work herself. TO ISSUE CARDS FOR MARKETING! LEAF THIS YEAR Possession of Card Will Be Necessary in Marketing Tobacco 1934 Crop Arrangements are going forward for the marketing of the tobacco crop this coming season, it was learned this week from the office of County Agent " z.- i . Letters are being mailed to every contract signer, asking him the number of cards he will need in mar keting the crop. If no answer is re ceived by next week, the office will assume that the farmer will want only one card and that the total poundage allotment will be entered on the one card. Where only one card is neces sary, no reply to the letter is neces sary, it was pointed out. The letter going to farmers follows, in part: “One or more marketing cards will j he issued to you. A marketing card will probably be necessary for each j person who sells tobacco under your I contract. For example, if you have five tenants and grow some tobacco yourself, you probably will want six marketing cards. All of the market ing cards will be issued in your name exactly as you signed the contract. Space wil be provided on the market ing card for your use in case in you desire to enter the name of some oth er person who may be selling tobacco for you. “You will be issued tax-payment | warrants for 80 per cent of your base . tobacco production. The base tobac co production is shown in column 11 j of Form CRXT-201 (or on Form T-36) and the total poundage request ed for all marketing cards must equal 80 per cent of this base tobacco pro duction. Even though 80 per cent of your base tobacco production is allot ted on your marketing card or cards, the rate of your adjustment payment will not be reduced if you sell 70 per cent or less or your base tobacco pro duction. If you sell less than 70 per cent of your base, you will receive a deficiency payment, as provided in the contract.” Field Day At Wenona Test Farm To Be Held July 19th OWENS URGED TO RUN FOR HOUSE AS INDEPENDENT —<»— Entry Would Greatly Help Republican Chances in Fall Election i Complicated politics in Washington County may be further confused if Ambrose L. Owens decides to yield to the pressure of friends and enter the race as an independent in the gen eral lection in November for the of ' fice of Representative to the North : Carolina General Assembly. I I Numbers of friends have pledged their support and have been entreat ing Mr. Owens to announce his can didacy. But up to July 12 Mr. Owens had not agreed to enter the race. It has been said that 100 people have asked Mr. Owens to make the race the three-cornered. j Harry Stell was nominated in the | second primary with only 15 votes to spare over Edward L. Owens, a son of Mr r. Owens, to be the Democratic | nominee. J. Richard Carr will be on .the Republican ticket for this office. And if the elder Owens was to enter | as an independent there would be a j hot campaign. Observers believe that if the elder I Owens was to enter that it would ' divide the vote so much that it would [more titan likely result in the defeat I of the Democratic candidate. This is j more titan probable in consideration I of the fact that in some campaigns , the vote between tlte two parties has been close. Mr. Owens is possibly the wealthi est and most successful business man in Washington County. He lias serv ed on the board of commissioners as a nominee of the Democratic party, t He has also been a mayor of Ply mouth. He was defeated in tlte 1932 race for the house by Captain Chas. E. Mizelle, who died last year. “My candidacy is in tlte bag,” said Mr. Owens, "but I am awaiting de velopments before announcing myself for tliis office." -® TO MAKE CHECK OF LAND RENTED BY CONTRACTS Growers Who Overplanted Must Reduce Acreage or Cancel Contracts -$ Cotton and tobacco growers who are under reduction contracts are being cautioned by Charles A. Shef (field of State College to make careful measurements of their planted and rented acres. He is also urging them to designate which acres have been set aside from cotton or tobacco production so that the committeemen who will make a check of the acreage can do so as rapidly as possible. It will be to the farmers' advan tage, he said, to have their produc tion as nearly in line as possible. Growers who have planted more than their contracts allow will be required to reduce their acreage or cancel their contracts and refund any rental payments they have received. .*\iter me commiueemen nave niauc their check, government surveyors will make a recheck of a few farms chosen at random to determine the accuracy with which the first check was made. Corrections will be made when necessary. The check will also be made to de termine whether the growers have re tired from production land which is of good average fertility and whether they have planted on the rented acres crops which are prohibited under the contracts. Farmers who are not complying with their contracts in every way will be given, a chance to do so. If they do not bring their farms into compliance, their contracts will be forfeited. Due to drought conditions in the middle west, the contracts have been modified so that a grower can plant forage and feed crops on all the rented acres. He may also grow for j sale such crops on non-rented acres,1 says Sheffield. -$ Holding Revival At Scuppernong Church -® Scuppernong.—Rev. Roy O. Res pass is conducting a revival meeting at Scuppernong Christian church. It began July 11. The public is cordially invited to come and join in the serv ices. Janitors' School To Be Held in State Capital They all go to Raleigh for instruc tion. Nearly every week there is some kind of a school held for public in ] struction in the Capital City. Coun ! ty superintendents of schools, reliet | administrators, and all go up sooner ! or later. Now, the Washington County Com | missioners have agreed to pay the \ traveling expenses of janitors in Wadi t ington County schools to go to a jan I itors’ school in Raleigh. AGRICULTURE TO BE TAUGHT HERE IN HIGH SCHOOL -<&— Local School Is Third in County With Course in Agriculture -<t A third teacher of vocational agri culture will be added to the educa tional system with the announcement 'this week that in addition to Roper , and Creswell, the Plymouth school will have a vocational agriculture in structor. The local school was the last in the county to ask for this service. E. F. Still, Z. V. Norman, and J. L. Rea met the officials as the Plymouth com mittee and asked that the course be added, and so it was. An appropria tion has been made for the teachers in the three schools. The new teacher will get a part of his salary from the state and the oth er part from the county. Other voca tional agriculture teachers in the coun ty are getting part of their salaries from the Federal government, but as the local teacher’s salary was not in cluded in the recent budget of the Federal government there are no funds to pay it for this year. The salaries of these instructors range from $100 for the first year, with $5 monthly added for each year’s experience. In other words: The first year $100 monthly; second year $105 monthly; third year $110 monthly. This increase keeps up for five years. The local school committee will sec that equipment for the course is pro vided. These instructors will be al lowed $150 annually for travel in visit ing projects of the students and other such work that requires traveling on their part. Revival Begins At Holly Neck Monday Night -® Pleasant Grove.—A series of reviv al services will be held at Holly Neck Church of Christ in the Pleasant Grove section of Washington County beginning on Monday night, July 16, and continuing through the fourth Sunday and into the next week. Special prayer services will be held preceding the meeting by the loyal members of the church. Evangelist M. L. Ambrose, of Creeds, Ya., will be the speaker. "His themes will be Bible themes, calling Bible things by Bible names, and his slogan will be down with the j devil—onward for Christ,” said J. R. Davenport, a leader in the church, in i announcing the welcome of every one. i -3> Total of $74,000 Spent in County on Relief Work Despite the fact that Washington is one of the smaller counties in North Carolina, a total of $74,209.81 has lnen spent in this county during the fiscal year which ended June 30, by the Civil Works Administration and Federal Emergency Relief Adminis tration. A total of 3,966 men have been em ployed with an average of 180 men working each week. The average pay roll per person has been $9.75. Of the total spent, $4,952,02 was spent for CWA material. The amount spent here was small, compared to the $19,098,998.15 spent in the entire state. -® To Measure 16,000 Fields In Surry County Alone -«>— It will be necessary to measure 16,000 tobacco fields in Surry County to survey tbe acreage affected by the adjustment contracts signed by grow ers. -® Corn After Lespedeza Shows Best Results That corn planted on land where lespedeza was grown last year has made best growth in Caswell County so far this season. 9 -$_ BRUMMITT WILL MAKE ADDRESS IN AFTERNOON Many Prominent Officials Are Expected To Be Present for Event Wenona.—The principal address at the tenth annual farmers’ field day that will he held at the Blackland Test Farm here on July 19, will be made by Dennis G. Brummitt, of Raleigh, attorney general of North Carolina, it was announced this week by J. L. Rea, jr., assistant director in charge of the experiment station. Mr. Brummitt will be introduced by W illiam A. Graham, of Raleigh, commissioner of agriculture of North Carolina. Rev. Cecil Jarman, new pastor of the First Christian Church of Plymouth, will pronounce the in vocation. F. E. Miller, of Raleigh, director of all the test farms in this State will make the welcome address. J. Walter Starr, of Creswell, presi dent of the Washington Countv Far mer's Club and vice president of the Washington Crop Production Asso ciation, wil preside over the event. Music will be provided for the occas ion by the Belhaven String Band. The corn and hog adjustment pro gram will be discussed by Claude R. Wickard, of Raleigh, associate direc tor of the corn and hog section of the Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration. W. H. Rankin, of Raleigh, agronomist, State College, will speak on the progress made in agronomy in North Carolina. Earl H. Hostetler, professor in the extension department of State College Raleigh, will introduce Mr. Wickard. An explanation of the events schedul ed for the day will be made by J. L. Rea, jr., who is in direct charge of the test farm here under the super vision of Mr. Miller and the State department. The exercises will open at 10 o’ clock that morning. Dinner may be purchased on the grounds from Bob Melton who, every year, runs a bar becue stand on the grounds, and sandwiches may be purchased from club women. Usually there are some families anti groups that bring their own lunches. A ladies’ program will be held in the afternoon beginning at 2 o’clock with Miss Eugenia Patterson, home demonstration agent, of Washington County, in charge. She will have a prominent woman speaker. She will probably be Miss Mary Thomas, an extension worker. Also entertain ment will be enjoyed by the farm women. file feature of the occasion will be diversification in farming and agricul tural research. The central commit tee is composed of J. L. Rea, jr., H. V. Latham, F. E. Miller, W. V. Hays, Miss Eugenia Patterson. Marshalls will include A. P. LeFever, Bryan Harris, Holland Allen, Herbert Allen, J. K. Reid and Carlos Manning. There will be a horse judging colt test with three small prizes offered for the best judging work. A horse shoe pitching contest will be super vised by R. E. Dunning, a former farm agent in this county. A number of farm exhibits will be arranged. Experimental plats will be open for inspection and labeled as far as pos sible. -a>.. New Minister For Christian Church Here -« The First Christian church of Ply mouth has had a new minister since the first Sunday in July. Rev. Cecil A. Jarman, from Richlands, who has just completed a graduate course at Yale University, has been leading them. The services have been well attended during the past two weeks, and the church seems to be taking on a renewed interest. Two services are held each Sunday. The morning worship service is at 11 o’clock and the evening service at 8. Next Sunday the minister will speak in the morning on "Misconceived Sue cess,” and in the evening his subject will be, "Moral Grasshoppers.” The public is cordially invited to at tend all services. -$ Annual Yard Tour Will Be Held Tuesday, 24th -® The annual home demonstration yard tour will be held Tuesday, July 24, it was announced this week by Miss Eugenia Patterson, county home demonstration agent, Mrs. Georgia Piland Cahoon, former demonstration agent in Tyrrell County, wil be tin judge. The first prize will be a free trip to the state short course. There will be many yards to enter in the contest. The agent hopes to see many of the interested people on the tour.