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ailffllUIIIIIIHMUIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIimiUlllllllHIIIIII^ § A horn* newspaper dedicated 5 § to the service of Washington §f § County and its 12,000 people. S ^llUllillllllilllllllllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllir The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ***★★*★ 9nii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'miinir .11111111111111' = Advertisers will find Beacon § and News columns a latch-key to E 1.100 Washington County homes, rilllllllilllllllllilllllliilliliiiiliiliiiiilllliiliillllliliiiiiiiiiiiii VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 22 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, May 31. 1935 ESTABLISHED 1889 “ nmtimiiiiiiiiii.i BAILEY NOT YET DECIDED ABOUT ENTERING RACE Local Man Is Considered Leading Candidate for Lieutenant Governor -• Whether or not Carl L. Bailey, well known State Senator, will run for the office of Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina is indefinite today. ‘‘It is barely possible that I may yield to the pressure of my friends,” said Mr. Bailey today when asked about reports emanating from State Capitol circles that he would enter the race to oppose Paul D. Grady, of Johnston, who has already announced his intentions. Again this week, Bess Hinton Silver in her column used by many weekly papers, “Through State Capitol Key holes,'” mentions the possibility of Mr. Bailey entering the race and avers that “Mr. Bailey could give him (Mr. Grady) a run for his money.” Attention has been called to the availability of Mr. Bailey as a can didate for this office by a columnist in a State paper who mentions Mr. Bailey as being in the picture. Ru mors coming in here have been to the effect that an announcement from Mr. Bailey would be well received. Mr. Bailey won a sweeping victory for the State senate in this district in last election even though his home county opposed him as an administra tion candidate. In this new endeavor to get Washington County before the people as their candidate he will probably overcome local opposition and carry this county in the new ef fort. Many of the local people who op posed him on the grounds of local controversies last election are ex pected to flock to him in this effort to get the first lieutenant governor from Washington County in its en tire history. Information also has it that Mr. Bailey can get a good lineup of support from out of the county. Meanwhile the entire State is await ing the final decision of Mr. Bailey who is quietly making the rounds and having conferences with people in every section who are favorable to his ■candidacy. Magistrates Will Attend Meeting Magistrates from Washington coun ty are expecting to attend a meeting of the North Carolina Association of Magistrates that will be held in Greenville, Friday, June 1, in the Pitt County Courthouse, at 7 p.m. Judge J. Paul Frizelle, of Snow Hill, will be the principal speaker. Home and aiib News By Mis* Eugenia Patterson Camp Next Week The 4-H annual camp for girls will be held next week beginning Monday afternoon June 3rd to Friday after noon, June 7th, at Camp Leach. Since there are five Sundays in June, the Schedule for the women’s clubs will be one week late this month, for ex ample, the meetings that are usually held the week after the first Sunday will not be held until the week after the second Sunday. Please, all sec retaries and club officers remember this as well as the club members. The home agent will attend camp with the girls and this will make it neces sary to run the schedules a week later. -® Special to 4-H Campers The truck carrying camping sup plies and campers will leave the courthouse at one o’clock sharp Mon day, June 3rd. Each camper will car ry a picnic lunch so that supper will not have to be prepared after reach ing camp. All girls W’ho can go and are plan ning to go, and haven’t sent in a card, please rush it. We want to make our number at least twenty-five. Usher Board Union Meets July 6 and 7 — •.— The Usher Board Union will con vene with the Lilly of the Valley Baptist Church on route one, Ply mounth, July 6-7, it was announced today by Rev. G. W. McNair, presi dent. Rev. G. C. Owens is pastor of the host church. An interesting pro gram has been arranged for the event. -® A sale of 1,000 bushels of irish po tatoes was made by Haywood County farmers last week. McLean Accepts Position as County Superintendent Here H. H. McLean, of Washington, who was named superintendent of public instruction of Washing ton County, by the county board of education last Monday, has ac cepted the job and is expected to report for his duties here on July 1. Mr. McLean, who has been head of the Beaufort county schools for 17 years, comes here highly recommended. Immediately after his arrival he will seek a residence for his family. He first hesitated to accept the local job until he was certain that he would not be reelected in his home county. In shifting to Plymouth, Mr. McLean succeeds James W. Nor man who has served as principal and county superintendent for years and who has been connect ed with the system for 30 or more years. C. H. Aderholdt, who was not reelected by the old local com mitteemen at Creswell, was re elected as principal of the Cres well school again by the new lo cal committee, appointed at the meeting of the County Board of Education last Monday. FARM NOTES By W. V. HAYS, Farm Agent Bankhead applications for ginning certificates will he made again this year the same as last year. Cotton committeemen at convenient points in each township will be there to re ceive applications for three days, only. Please tell your neighbors that appli cations must be made at that time otherwise it will be necessary to go to the County office to make applica tion. A definite date will be sent each contract signer also each person who made bankhead application last year giving the place and date for making application. -® Hog prices are continuing to ad vance and according to the best in formation should be expected to hold good through September. A number of inquiries have come into the Coun ty office from prospective buyers wanting to know' of any available hogs and pigs in the county. If you have hogs for sale the County office might be able to assist you in selling these hogs. Where corn and other surplus feeds are available I would advise carrying these hogs, shoats and pigs to about the first of Sept. -* I would like to locate about ten demonstrations on rust control with cotton in different sections of the County, the American potash Cor poration will furnish a small amount of potash for this purpose. Anyone interested in finding out whether or not potash will control this trouble should drop the Farm Agent a card. We will be glad to put on a demon stration on rust control. A letter from the Wool Growers Asociation states that the Washington County wool which was pooled in 1934 has been sold and that a final settle ment will be made shortly. The Asso ciation held most of the wool from last year’s crop until a few weeks ago. The American Woolen Mills have begun to buy and prices are expected to strengthen. The price which could be advanced on wool at this date is somewhat less than the advances for last year and the Association advises our not holding a pool before the mid dle of June. A letter will be sent to all wool growers in Washington and Tyrrell Counties giving the price and date the sale will be held at the Creswell depot on either the ISth or 22nd of June. -C Compliance or the measuring of to bacco and peanuts will begin about the 1st week in June. A meeting for the purpose of instructing of super visors in the measuring of land was held on the 29th. Any assistance giv en the supervisor in making his work easier and, faster (will certainly be appreciated and at the same time will save our contract signers money. -® Conference Is Held At Creswell Church —®— Creswell — The first quarterly M. P. Conference was held Sunday after noon at Mt. Hermon Church. . New officers were elected as fol lows: Mr. W. A. Davenport, secre tary; Mrs. C. N. Davenport, Mr. D. W. West, W. P. Davenport and Mrs. Sallie Davenport as advisory commit tee. Mr. Roy Davenport anid Mrs. Tom Smith were appointed as dele gates for the annual conference. 1 in 6’ Mixture Best Flea Beetle Control -®-: Dusting with the "1 in 6” mixture is the only effectual control for flea beetles in tobacco fields. This mix Paris Green to S pounds of Arsenate ture is made by mixing one pound of of Lead. For newly set plants this should be applied at the rate of 3 pounds to the acre. For half grown or larger plants the application should be increased to from 4 to 6 pounds an acres. This mixture will also control hook worms. Further control can be had by plowing up the plant beds and killing all plants immediately after set ting in completed. FEW EXEMPTIONS FROM SALES TAX ARE PERMITTED -<$ Raw Mijlk, Textbooks and Farm Products Sold by Grower Exempted Raleigh, —- While the principal change made in the sales tax by the recent general assembly was the re moval of the exemptions, there are still some articles which are exempt from the sales tax, Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell pointed out today. The most important of these is fresh, liquid milk which will not be taxed whether sold by stores at retail or by dairymen direct to the customers it was pointed out. Sales of textbooks for use in the public schools of the state are also exempt from the sales tax, as are farm products sold by the farmers who prduce them and fish sold by the fishermen who caught them. Neither are gasoline or fertilizer subject to the sales tax, since they are taxed under other laws. Exempted from the sales tax also are sales of commodities to the state, counties, municipalities and to agents of the government relief administra tion, while the sale of forest and min eral products by either the owners of the land from which they are taken or by the manufacturer may be exempt ed under certain regulations. The new sales taxe section of the revenue act also relieves the mer chants of having to $1 a year each as a registration tax and thus will save them more than $30,000 in direct taxes The new act provides, however, that every merchant must make a report of his sales and send in the amount of sales tax collected every month, re gardless of the amount collected. The old law provided that merchants who collected less than $10 a month in sales tax did not need to make re turns and send in their sales tax col lections but every three months. Under the new revenue act, which becomes effective Julyl, every merchant will have to send in a report on his gross sales and remit the amount of sales tax collected, even if it amounts to only a dollar or two a month. This is expected to aid greatly in the admin istration and collection of the sales tax as well as to simplify the auditing of the sales tax returns. The annual license fee for whole sale merchants was reduced from $12.50 to $10 a year, but the rate was increased so that it is now' one-twen tieth of one per cent of gross sales in stead of one-twenty-fifth of one per cent. Interest Growing In Vital Impurities Practical farmers, agricultural stu dents and soil scientists throughout the South are showing deep interest in the new knowledge of rarer elements and their importance as plant foods. The subject of these lesser known elements —impurities, they are commonly call ed—gives new interest this season to the whole subject of fertilization of Southern crops. Chilean Xitrate of Soda, because of its natural origin, is known to con tain many of these vital impurities. Be cause it was created during the ear liest centuries of the world’s develop ment, it is thought to contain as many of the rarer elements as sea-water— at least thirty-five of them, perhaps many more than that. Scientists have already discovered that this natural nitrate gives to crops the important rarer elements — iodine, boron, copper, iron, sulphur, mangan ese, strontium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium and lithium. Authori ties are inclined to believe that these impurities are almost as important to growing crops as the quick-acting nitrogen which Chilean supplies so abundantly. They are inclining also to the belief that these rarer elements combine to form thalt mysterious quality that has always distinguished the natural Chilean soda from other nitrogen materials, and made it so extra-ordinarily effective as a side dresser for cotton and other Southern cropM. SURVEY M/VDE OF ELECTRIC NEEDS IN THIS COUNTY Not Yet Known Who Will Handle Work in This Section -* Significant estimates are made re garding Washington County by Or. Clarence Poe. chairman of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Com mittee, who has in his possession, re ports of a survey of this county made in view of the country people having an opportunity to secure electric cur rent for their homes and outbuildings. Here is the summary of the report: Five lines surveyed; these surveyed lines are 24.07 miles in length; there were 142 interested prospects; thus making 5.00 interested prospects a mile; estimated connected load in kil owatts was given at 286.0; the esti mated cost of all lines surveyed was given at $38,004. Estimated connected load in killo watt per mile was 11.90; cost of the line per mile was $1,579: line cost in dollars per prospect $268; annual rev enue would be $3,232; annual revenue per mile was $134; annual revenue per prospect was given at $23; an nual consumption in kilowatt fiour 45,864; annual consumption kilowatt hour per mile 1,905; estimated annual consumption kilowatt hour per prospect 323. The next move following the ren dition of the above report on Wednes day will be for Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus to appoint an agency known as the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority with six members with terms two, four and six years. This the chief executive is ex pected to do shortly after the rendi tion of the report as possible. The United States Congress has ap propriated a hundred million dollars to start this project and other ap propriations will follow. President Franklin Roosevelt has said that “this rural electrification ,can relieve the drudgery of the housewife and lift a great load off the shoulders of the hard-working farmer.” . Careless Breeding of Calves Is Costly Method to Farmer —®— Certain Periods Should Be Observed for Breeding Purposes -® Careless breeding methods are cost ing North Carolina beef cattle grow ers large sums of money. One of the most serious faults is that of allowing the hull to run with the herd throughout the year, said L. I. Case, animal husbandman at State College. This practice results in calves be ing dropped at all seasons. Late sum mer and fall calving is had for both the cows and their offsprings, Case pointed out. Usually cows which have to nurse calves during the winter are kept in a poor condition, and the calves tail to make a good growth. Death losses of cows and calves are increased. Case further stated that calves which do not get a good growth early in life seldom develop into high grade animals. Spring seems to be the most favorable calving season for beef cat tle. Records have shown that spring calves gained an average of 271.5 pounds from May 1 to November 1, while fall calves gained only 199.5 in the same length of time. At the Blackland experiment sta tion, Wenona, N. C., the hull is al lowed to run with the herd only in May, June, and July. The calves are dropped the following hebruarv, March and April. They arc weaned in No vember and wintered separately from the rest of the herd. , This practice appears to give the best results, Case pointed out, and it may be followed on practically all North Carolina farms. Just 2 People Left To Produce Goods —®— Below is a confidential memoran dum to J. O. Everett here from a business firm on "The State of the Nation”. Population of U. S. reported as 124.000. 000. Those eligible for old age pension bill under Townsend Bill, 30,000,000. Persons working for Federal, State, County, city and other governments, 20.000. 000. Those ineligible to work under child labor laws, 60,000,000. Number of unemployed m nation, 13,999,998. Number remaining to produce na tion's goods, 2. (Just you and me, and I’m getting tired). New Impetus Given Drive for Bridge at Meeting Wednesday Farmers Complaining of Poor Cotton Stands Cue To Weather and Insects Hither the unfavorable weather that has prevailed for several days or a general inferiority in germinating qualities of cotton seed have caused complaints from the majority of cot ton farmers. In most instances only a half stand has come up and corn has been transplanted in the cotton rows. In some cases around Robersonville the cotton fields have been plowed up and replanted in cotton while others are waiting, hoping that warmer wea ther will produce a stand. A large portion of the cotton was planted two or three weeks ago and was struck with a dry season, fol lowed by the cold and damp weather of the past several days. Consequent ly few of the seed were sprouted and where scattered plants came through they were subject to attack of dis ease and insects. Strange as it may seem, practically every farmer who used 1933 seed got a good stand while those who used 1934 seed have only a half stand. In many instances the old seed were used to complete the planting when there was a shortage, and the 1933 seed gave better results than the new seed. HEADQUARTERS FOR P. W. A. ARE ELIZABETH CITY -9 Complete Report Is Made As To Needs on Five Proposed Lines -* Washington with other nearby counties were placed in district No. 1 with headquarters in Elizabeth City of the new Work Progress Division of the administration of the new four billion dollar work relief fund which has been appropriated by the United States Congress to increase employ ment. No personnel has been named for this work as yet. It is not known who will handle this work in this sec tion. Work of State relief administra tors will begin to taper off on July 1 when the job of transferring those on direct relief to work relief will be gin, a process which will take six or eight months for completion in the State. In the meantime, direct relief will continue to be administered and the State relief organizations will cer tify the names of those on their rolls to the New Work Progress division, which will have charge of the actual work. $6 Daily Minimum Wage Is Restored By Ford Motor Co. —®— Smallest Amount Received By Any Ford Worker Is $6. a Day Now Detroit, May 21. — The Ford Mo tor Company announced today the res toration of the $6 a day minimum for all employees. The prepared statment, issued by the company’s advertising counsel, said that all employees working at the pre vious $5 a da\® minimum have been advanced to the $6 a day standard, which, the statement added, was the 1929 minimum wage for the Ford company. Employees engaged at rates above the minimum were also advanced to higher wage levels through hourly rate increases of 5 cents and more. The statement said that the new scales go into effect at all Ford and Lincoln Motor Company plants and affect 126,000 employees, 81,000 of them in Detroit. Of the Detroit work ers, 41,000 are minimum wage employ ees. The statement estimated the cost of the increase at $2,000,000 a month. The Ford minimum was increased to $7 a day alter the depression set in late in 1929 and remained in effect un til near the end of 1931 when the $6 daily minimum was resumed. A year later the minimum was dropped to $4| a day, and in March, 1934, it was in creased to $5 a day. Give Calf Grain and Hay at 10 Weeks Age -9 Small amount# of both grain and hay should be offered the calf when about two weeks of age. No more grain, however, should be fed at any time than the calf will clean up. The feeding of hay should be sparing at first and gradually increased as the calf becomes accustomed to the feed. Use a clean bright mixed hay for the first three or four weeks. After that a good leafy alfalfa hay is best but any good legume hay may be used. The kind and mixtures of grain for the growing calf are given in Extension Circular No. 177 arid copies may be had free upon application to the Agri cultural Editor at State College. HALF HOLIDAYS Business houses in Plymouth will observe their usual half day holidays for the summer on each Wednesday beginning and includ ing the first Wednesday in June and concluding on the last Wed nesday in August, it was announc ed today by W. M. Darden, sec retary of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, who has a list of the establishments signing the closing agreement. These merchants and business men urge their friends and custo mers to do their trading at times other than on Wednesday after noons. They are doing this them selves to give the clerks and their employers a much needed after noon for recreation. Every one is urged to purchase their mer chandise before or after Wednes day afternoon as they will not be open at this time. Report 32 Cases of Infantile Paralysis In East Carolina While at least 32 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in eas tern North Carolina during the past few days, the situation is not viewed with any alarm by public health offi cials, according to reports reaching here today. A few deaths have been reported as a result^of the attacks. Even though reports are correct that there are now 32 cases in North Carolina there is little need'of alarm or any extraordinary precaution health service officials said. They urged that each case be isolated for at least three weeks. They expressed the belief that efforts at any general quarantine in the past had been and in the future would be futile. “It is utterly foolish to try to stop people from riding on street cars and going to theatres and other gatherings, a prominent physician of the health service said. “One can't tie up all commerce in a state just because 20 or 25 people are ill. Such efforts in the past have not been successful.” The federal health officials refused to view the reported 32 cases in North Carolina as an “epidemic.” They said under normal conditions infantile pa ralysis cases are expected to average from one to two for each 100,000 per sons. Under this rule North Carolina could have as many as 65 cases before any unusual prevalence would occur. The federal officials said the pres ence of 32 cases might indicate some little unusual outbreaks of the disease in North Carolina sections, pointing out, however, that this is the wrong time of the year for protracted epi demics, they said there was little like lihood the disease would spread in North Carolina if proper precautions were taken to isolate each case. Dr. J. C. Knox, state epidemiol ogist, although concerned about the steady daily increase the past week, was hesitant in declaring the real danger of an epidenmic. Eleven coun ties are represented in the official total. Receives Certificate! in Scoutmastershipi —•— Hughes Respass, of near Plymouth, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Respass, was one of thirteen students of At lantic Christian College, at Wilson, to receive certificates in the elements of scoutmastership at the college cha pel service last Thursday. Dean Cecil A. Jarman, former pas tor of the Plymouth Christian Church and also chairman of the scout lead ership training committee, presented the certificates to the young men who had completed the course. This is: young Respass’ second year. FRED P. LATHAM OF BELHAVEN IS MAIN SPEAKER Committee Wil Tour Sec tions Involved To Stim ulate Interest -® New impetus was given to the ef [ forts for a bridge across the waters j connecting the north and south side j of Albemarle Sound Wednesday night when friends of the movement from other sections gathered at a Plym outh Chamber of Commerce banquet to pool their interests. Principal among the speakers was bred P. Latham, of Belhaven, who urged that the entire section join in one urgent demand for a span to pro vide a method of communication and transportation for the people on the Plymouth side with markets on the Edenton and Norfolk sides of the sound. it was decided that a committee from this organization should tour Washington, Tyrrell, Hdye, Bertie, Chowan and parts of Beaufort in an effort to arouse sentiment among the neighbors who are cut off from the north side of the sound by small rivers and a yawning and sometimes turbulent sound. As soon as the sentiment has been created in the different sections then a great mass meeting is to be held with people from each county going in a calvacade to Raleigh for an inter view with the State Highway commis sion, and there they will plead with a united front fro passage over the sound. J he dominent figure in the meeting with wisdom and influence was Mr, Latham who presented the plans of a sectional concerted effort with no division as to the place but leaving that to the State Highway engineers. W'ith Mr. Latham were L. R. Smith, mayor of Belhaven and J. F. Bishop. f rom Bertie came Jim Dorsey I 1 helps and S. Cherry who lived in I the ( ashie Neck section which is bottled up between two rivers with no [convenient outlet to Plymouth. They are in favor of some kind of bridge or road for them to have access to the south side of the rivers. Also hints of a hard surface road from Plymouth to Belhaven were heard at the meeting. They were re ceived favorably by persons at the meeting from both ends of the road. Speakers included W. F. Winslow, J■ R- Manning, Mrs. S. F. Nurney, P. H. Liverman, T. F. Con nors, Dr. C. McGowan. W. M. Darden, J. F. Jordon, W. L. Whit ley, W. H. Johnson, J. W. Darden, ami W. A. Davidson. The president, Z. \ . Norman served as toastmaster. Special guests included J. H. Bowen, C leveland and E. F. Roemer, Bowling Green, who were here visiting local officials of the National Handle Co. Proper Cultivation Raises Cron Yield A concrete example of what a good farming practice will do for worn out soil has been found on the farm of t ■ J. Hunt, in Guilford County, says h-. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College. In the fall of 1926, Hunt enlarged his farm by purchasing a five-acre tract of land from one of his neigh bors. 1 he land had been planted to corn, with the rows running up and down hill, and had washed badly. Hunt planted corn on the lot in 192/, but make such a poor crop that he decided something must be done to improve the soil’s fertility He planted wheat that fall; then’ sowed lespedeza on the wheat the following spring. d he lespedeza was allowed to grow on the land until the spring of 1931, when it was turned under for corn! The corn gave a better vield than be fore, but still fell short of a good crop. Barley was sown that fall, and les pedeza was ploughed under. Hunt planted a cotton crop, fertilized with 400 pounds of 4-12-4 to the acre. The yield was five 500-pound bales on the five acres. Meanwhile, the neighbor continued to farm his land in the old way. Di rectly across the road from Hunt's rolling land, the neighbor has a five a.re tract of level land which has been m row crops, mostly tobacco, for 15 years. Last year the neighbor planted cot ton on this tract, farming in the old way, and got a yield of only one and a half bales from the entire five acres.
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