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..1 I'liiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiMiiimiiiiiiiiiir. A home newspaper dedicated = to the service of Washington § County and its 12,000 people, g iimiminiimmiiimimiiimiHJiiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiii' The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ★★****★ • wmwimmr g Advertisers will find Beacon f g and News columns a latch-key to g 1,100 Washington County homes. nniiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiitiiHiiiiiiimmiiifffmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. ESTABLISHED 1889 VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 51 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, December 20, 1935 Give Local Merchants First Chance With Your Christmas Shopping—Hundreds of Bargains Await You . H&Vs. 'OSfcl. AAA BENEFITS TO STATE FARMERS NEARLY $3,000,000 -9 Largest Sum Went to To bacco Growers; Cotton Growers Next The Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration poured almost $3,000, 000 in to the pockets of North Caro line farmers during the months of July August and September, Rental and benefit payments to farmers cooperating in the crop ad justment programs accounted for $2, 578,086.70 of the total, said Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College. The largest sum went to tobacco growers, who received $1,443,792.83. Cotton growers got $997,218.76, corn hog producers $128,642.57, and wheat growers $8,432.63. In addition, cotton growers who placed surplus tax-exemption certifi-1 cates in the national pool received $1,361.73 from the sale of these cer-j tificates to other growers. The $437,904.53 in administrative expenses went largely to pay com mitteemen, farmers who help ad minister the programs locally, Dean Schaub pointed out. The rental and benefit payments are still flowing to the farmers, he added, but the amount for October and November have not been tabu lated to date. The payments rae made from funds raised by processing taxes onj the commodities covered by the var-j ious adjustment programs. Benefit payments on all crops in' counties of this section for July, Au-I gust and September were as fol lows: Martin, $32,636.24; Washington, $10, 06.50; Tyrrell, $2,727.75; Bertie, $19, 635.19; Beaufort, $41,542.09; Halifax, $47,102.57; Pitt, $153,019.99; Edge combe, $60,261.39. -$ Credit Associations Save Farmer Money Production credit association loans bearing a low rate of interest have enabled many North Carolina farm ers to save money during the past year. The interest on these loans is 5 per cent a year, said Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College, who point ed out that buying on long-term credit often adds from 10 to 40 per cent to the cost of the goods. The production credit associations were established to provide loans at low cost to farmers who run short of cash and would otherwise have to finance their farming operations at high interest rates. The associa tions are farmer-owned and con trolled. Another advantage of borrowing through the associations is that a farmer may secure his loan in in stallments as he needs them, paying interest on each installment only for the time he actually uses the money. For example, a farmer may bor row $1,00.0 In the spring he may receive an advance of $300 on which he will pay interest for nine months. Three months later he may receive another $300 on which interest is to be paid for six months. The re maining $400, received at harvest time, would bear interest for only one month. In this way the total interest would amount to $20.41, as com pared witfr $38.50 he would pay if * the entire loan had been issued in one installment to bear interest for nine months. E. F. Warner, secretary-treasurer • of the Raleigh Production Credit As sociation, pointed out that his asso ciation loaned $270,000 to approxi mately 1,000 farmers in 1935. Prac tically all the loans have been paid back, he reported. Value of Tobacco Exports ' Show Increase This Year Washington. — Tobacco exports during the first nine months of this year dropped in amount but rose in value. Shipments, the commerce depart ment said, totalled 225,985,954 pounds valued at $73,515,528, as compared with 299,813,219 pounds valued at $72,236,381 during the corresponding period last year. ---- LEGUME CROP BEST FOR RENTED ACRES A legume crop that may be used for improving the land is the best crop to plan on acres lemoved from the cultivation of cash crops, say ex tension officials at State Colelge. Seven Wake Forest i Students Are From J Washington Conntv! Roper Man is President of Sophomore Class; Others Also Campus Leaders -® Seven men from Washington! County are included among the 1,000 students enrolled this year at Wake Forest College, Three are from Plymouth, three are from Roper, and one is from Creswell. Four are sophomores, two are juniors, and one is a senior. All are taking courses leading to the bachelor’s degree, except Mr. Bate man, who is preparing to enter the law school. Listed according to home towns, they are: Plymouth: R. S. Cahon, a junior, son of Mrs. M. W. Cahoon; R. B. Campbell, a junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Campbell; L. W. Alex ander, a sophomore. Roper: F. W. Bateman, a sopho more, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Bateman; G_ WW. Holton, a soph omore, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Holton; E. L. Spruill, a sophomore. Creswell: E. Y. Brickhouse, a senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Brickhouse. Washington County men are tak ing a prominent part in campus life at the Baptist institution. R. B. Campbell, of Plymouth, is president of the Euzelian literary society, a member of the Statemen’s Club, and and assistant in the department of social science. F. W. Bateman, of Roper, is president of the sophomore class and E. L. Spruill, also of Roper, is student assistant in the depart ment of English, During the past five years, the administration of President Thur man D. Kitchin, the enrollment at Wake Forest College, has almosi doubled, and the physical plant has been materially expanded. Beginning in 1932 with the con struction of a new medical building, not a month has passed when some building project was not under way. The college now points with pride to over $600,000 worth of new build ings, including, besides the medi cal school structure, a new admin istration building, athletic stadium, gymnasium, and students’ union. This recent development at Wake Forest, North Carolina’s senior Bap tist institution and the oldest and largest Baptist college for men in the United States, was made possible largely by its 15,000 alumni whose contributions have paid for all of the new plant, except $50,000; and contributions are still coming in. C. W. Burnham Gets Promotion —*— Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burnham are expected to leave the first of Janu ary for Charlotte, where Mr. Burn ham will become assistant superin tendent of a district for the Gate City Life Insurance Company, of Greensboro. Mr. Burnham has been with this company in Plymouth as agent for about two years. He also was a right-handed hurler for the local baseball club when it was a mem ber of the Albemarle League and since. Cleve Cratch, well-known young man, will succeed Mr. Burn ham as local agent for the Gate City company. Roper and Columbia Split Pair of Games 1 —®— | Roper.—The Roper girls team de feated Columbia girls, December 11, 'by a score of 33-27. Although de feated, Columbia showed excellent teamwork. In the boys’ game, Roper lost by failing to take advantage of easy scoring chances. Liverman, of Co lumbia, led in scoring with 10 points. The final score was 21-15 in favor of Columbia. Creswell and Roper Divide Double Bill —«— The Roper girls’ team defeated Creswell girls by a score of 27-5. Ida Spruill led in the scoring with 16 points. Blanche Furlough was the outstanding star for Roper. In the boys’ game, E. Davenport and R. Davenport were the most outstanding players for Creswell. ! Creswell defeated Roper by a score 'of 23-14. Christmas Shopping Picking Up at Local Stores; Large Stocks Are Being Displayed Shopping continued to increase in the down-town section of Ply mouth today as the temperature continued to drop, heralding the advent of Christmas. Stores here are stocked with merchandise. And cold weath er was adding to the incentive to shop and the people from a round this section were spend ing their money in the home town, and in return they were securing tickets that entitled them to a free chance on an au tomobile and cash prizes. There seemed to be no need of shopping elsewhere, as the stores here are loaded with merchan dise that hews to the line with Santa Claus and his desires. It can be truthfully said that nev er before was the stocks of the stores of such variety for gift purchasers. Today in Plymouth there are three drug stores, (wo jewelry stores, soon to be four beauty shops, three clothing stores, one large department store, two 5c and 10c stores, two barber shops, two places for purchasing ra dios, two cafes, three garages, five grocery stores, and a good theatre, everything to keep the shoppers at home. There are a number of busi nesses here, such as the bakery and other such enterprises that have little or no local competi tion. These enhance the value of the trade-at-home program. So the stocks are here for the people. Watch the paper and the show windows and go into the stores and ask for what you want. Never go elsewhere to buy ex cept as a last resort. Knight of the Road. Harry Boedker, Is Visitor Here Again -- Returns After 15 Years; Has Traveled All Over Country -■*> Harry Boedker is in town again. A follower of the road, there is not many places he has not been in his jaunts across the nation. But he always come back to Plymouth. This time after 15 years. His life has been varied efforts and mode of living. Yesterday he had plenty, but today he is down in the dumps again. Like a true knight of the open road he has his battles with dqjme luck. Back in the Spanish-American war he took his life in his hands and served in the secret service in Mexi co. His duty was to obesrve the shipping of the enemy. He would pass along his information that would reach the proper source. Agai.i he invented a generator ap pliance and contracted for a patent on one thing and another, but in the end he always lost. His wide exper ience has given him conversational facts on most every kind of job. Right now he is sign painting. To morrow he may be repairing a deli cate article that ranges from an heirloom to any old antique. Ill health in the latter years have beset him. A skin cancer and a sore leg keep him sick and almost on crutches. But he continues to shamble around, always ready and anxious to pick up odd jobs that will net him and his son the necessities of life. They offered his 25-year-old son a place in a CCC camp. But they declined because the boy was to draw $10 and another family the other $20 out of the monthly check, thus leaving the crippled father out of the bargain. Harry Boadker knows the life of a poor man, as he has been shuttled back and forth between the county home and a place of his own. And he can tell you how the poor, even though helped by the county, suffer on account of neglect. Unusual Act Here Thursday, Friday Thursday and Friday the New Theatre brings to the people of this section the unusual mind-reading act of Evonne, a young woman re putedly endowed with mystic pow ers and “second sight” which has proven so popular with audiences all over the country. The act, declared to be the most unusual of its kind, proves mysti fying in the extreme, as the young woman voices the unspoken ques tions in the minds of the persons in the audience and answers them. She wil be on the stage afternoons and nights during the two days of this week. Von Reaf, a member of her company, will drive a Chevro let blindfolded through the princi pal streets of the town, starting at the New Theatre on Thursday aft ernoon at 3 o'clock. Also Bob Wil son will play his uke and sing in his specialty on the stage. -s Services Sunday at Methodist Church Rev. C. T. Thrift, pastor of the Methodist church, urges all of the Methodists and as many others as will to be at the Methodist church Sunday. The Christmas attitude will prevail and all of the people of this section are urged to avail themselves of this opportunity to attend worship. .Farm Notes By W. V. HAYS, County Agent The county office will be closed December 24, 25th, and 26th. Plans have recently been set up which should maintain a price of around 3 1-8 cents per pound to the growers delivered to oil mills where peanuts grade around 65 per cent meat content. We are informed that any oil mill can contract with the Government to handle these pea nuts. The closest mills which have made these arrangements to date are the mills at Farmville and the Southern Cotton Oil Company at Weldon and Hertford. By the time this paper is read arrangements will probably have been completed with the Edenton mill. There are two distinct types of contracts or plans by which peanuts are handled. One is the regular way in which the miller buys peanuts at market price and in turn crushes the peanuts and receives the adjustment payment from the government him self. Peanuts in this case are mar keted in the usual way. ! The other-plan is where peanuts are sold on a meat or shelling basis !to be crushed for oil, where the miller pays about 2 1-8 cents and gives the producer a receipted form known as PN-27, which is a gov ernment contract which in turn is delivered by the producer to his jcounty- agent and the producer is paid an additional $20 a ton. In this way the producer receives the ad justment payment from the govern ment, whereas with the other meth od the mi I V himself receives the adjustment payment. I Peanuts that will shell better than 05 per cent should bring the grow ler $1 a ton more than each addition al per cent these nuts shelled above the 65 per cent. This is a good way ! to dispose of inferior or discolored peanuts that ordinarily would not tbring such good prices as shelling stock. This plan will be explained jin detail by some one in the county office to interested producers. The |contract or form used as a receipt is available in the county office and jshould be carried or sent by the producer with his peanuts to the |mill. Only reduction contract sign ers are eligible to participate in this plan. I _ We are receiving daily the neces sary forms for hndling the irish po tato allotment or the exemption cer tificates to producers. We have re ceived from Jones & Co. or J. A. ,West at Columbia statements sup porting potato sales for 1935. Frank !Griffin, Billy Houtz and W. S. Cara , wan will have these certificates ready and will send them direct to the county office, where they may be called for or may be left until needed. Where potatoes were planted with some dealer or contractor outside the county it will be necessary to get the special form used for support ing evidence and mail to him for his signature. A supply of these forms are being mailed Mr. Walker at Cres well and blanks may be secured from him. It will be about the first of the year before these forms are available from Mr. Walker, and it may be that he will send them di rect to the county office, in which case it will not be necessary for the growers to ask for them. All cotton producers who have surplus cotton tax-exemption certifi cates on hand and desire to sell these must bring them to the county a gent’s 4 ffige not later than Decem ber 23. Producers who are selling their cotton and wish to participate in the cotton price adjustment pay ment plan must file their bills of sales in the county agent’s office not 1936-39 COTTON PROGRAM TO BE MORE FLEXIBLE .-* Will Be Possible To Adapt Program to Local Conditions -« The new 1936-39 cotton program to be administered through cotton I adjustment associations in each counj ty, will be more flexible than the old! program, according to Dean I. O. | Schaub, of State College. The - associations, composed of . growers, will be in a position to | adapt the program to local conditions; and the requirements of individual] growers, he said. The associations will be organized! in the next few weeks. All contract ing cotton growers will oe eligible for membership. Under the new contracts, growers may adjust their 19.36 crops by an amount e jual to 30 to -t5 per cent of liheir base acreage, and receive ad jiustment payments accordingly. The rate of the payments will be 5 cents a pound on the verage pro duction of the land retired from cot ton cultivation. The entire amount ol' the pajment each year will be ;made at one time. ! Payments to landlords and ten 'ants will be divided thus: 37 1-2 per cent to the person furnishing the iiand, 12 1-2 per cent to the person 'furnishing workstock and equip ment, and the remaining 50 per cent 'distributed in the same proportion that the cotton or its proceeds is di .vided. | A grower nay terminate his con tract at the end of any contract year 'during the 1936-39 period. I andlords signing contracts will be required to keep on their farms 'the same number of tenants tney had in 1935. ! Acreage withdrawn from cotton cultivation n ay be used for soil im provement or erosion-preventing crops, pasture, fallow, forest trees, food and fe id crops for home con sumption, oi any other purpose the Secretary of Agriculture may pre scribe. The new four-year contracts will ^ be offered tne growers shortly, Dean Schaub said. -$ Don G. Davis Offers Christmas Bargains Don G. Davis is offering this' Christmas the largest selection of gifts that have been shown in this section for some time. His second Christmas is being celebrated with! a feast of bargains. A number of I comments from customers have been heard on the attractiveness of his displays. He is giving free tickets on the auto gift campaign. He is offering an additional prize himself if the lucky ticket for the car comes from his store. This has no connection with the other prizes, but is solely for the benefit of his customers. later than seven days after the date of sale. All producers who have tobacco1 marketing cards that have not been turned into the county agent’s office should do so at once. 'These cards must be checked and submitted to Washington through the state office before the adjustment payment can be received for 1935. All producers having corn-hog contracts should turn into the coun ty office their sales slips for hogs bought and sold during the year 1935. These sales slips must be in before the final compliance forms can be approved and the second ben efit payment received. Tri-County Unit of Future Farmers in Meet Last Friday —— Next Meeting Will Be Held In Jamesville Latter Part of January Decision to meet with the James ville High School in Martin Coun ty on January 31 was reached at the first meeting of the Tri-County unit of the Future Farmers of Amer ica, whi'-h held their first meeting in Roper last Friday. Upwards of 200 students of vo cational agriculture in Jamesville, Columbia, Plymouth. Roper and Creswell were present. Officers were elected as follows: Louis Alli good, Creswell, president; Grayson Everett, Roper, vice president; Her man Cahoon, Columbia, secretary; Thomas Holliday, Jamesville, treas urer; William Darden. Plymouth, re porter. Present in an advisory capacity were the teachers of agriculture in these schools, including: A. H. Guy, Columbia; C. H. Floyd, Roper; A. H. Tucker, Creswell; J. O. Cooper, Plymouth; R. C. Jordan, Jamesville. Principal D. E, Poole, of the Roper school, welcomed the students. Program included: Report on Roper Club by Bill Bell; talks by Harold Swain, Joe Holliday and Earl Spruill; quartet, Grayson Everett, Paul Brey, Harry Chesson, Wood row Collins; harp music, Gordon Chesson and Cecil Craft; music by Roper school band. Objectives for the coming year in clude: More association between the chapters; visit and obesrve other chapters at work; create friendly ri valry between chapters in athletics, public speaking, livestock judging, father and son banquet; summer pic nic; promotion of rural leadership. Christmas Program At Union Chapel A very interesting program has been arranged by the Sunday school of Union Chapel Church, to be giv en on Sunday night, December 22, at 7 o’clock. A play, “The Star Gar den,” by Elsie Duncan Yale, carry ing the Christmas spirit, will be pre sented along with other features of the season. A cordial invitation is extended the public to attend this program and enjoy together an hour of wor ship and singing together Christ mas carols and anthems. Community Sing To Be Held Here 22nd —•— Of great interest to the people of Washington County will be the Christmas community sing to be held in the Plymouth High School auditorium December 22 at 3 o’clock. Announcements have been sent to Roper and Creswell and to the schools and churches here, inviting young and old to come and join in this Christmas Jubilee. The event is sponsored by the community service committee of the American Legion Auxiliary to usher in the holiday season with a true Christmas spirit of gladness and good fellowship. No admission will be charged and no offering taken. -®--— Lespedeza Again Proves Its Worth —*,— Lespedeza has scored one of its greatest successes as a soil builder on the farm of Charles A. McCall in McDowell County. A one-year crop of lespedeza. plowed under last fall, gave the big gest increase in corn yield this year that has ever been witnessed by E C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College. In 1934, McCall sowed lespedeza on his wheat field and allowed it to grow through the summer. Bolh weeds and lespedeza were plowed under in the fall. This year he planted corn on the field, with the row's running from the lespedeza area into a section where only w'eeds had grown. No fertilizer or manure was applied, but the corn was cultivated W'ell. On the two areas there was so much difference in the corn that .T Gordon Blank, cofinty agent, meas ured the yields. CIVIL CALENDAR IS PREPARED FOR [JANUARY COURT Two Weeks Term Will Be gin January 6; Criminal Session First -® Washington County Superior Court will convene here Monday, January 6 for a two-weeks term, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week will be given to clearing the criminal docket. Four civil cases will be called the first week with 23 to be called the second week, as follows: Thursday, January 9: Washing ton County vs. J. & W. Land Co., et al; Vonnie M. Harris vs. E. H. Liv erman: American Agricultural Chem ical Company vs. W. C. Davenport, et al; B. F. Twiddy vs. J. C. Tarken ton. Monday, Jan. 13: Lillian Shugar vs. E. D. Kemp, et al.; W. C. Daven port vs. Tom West; S. A. Ward vs. L. C. Nurney. Tuesday, January 14: J. J. John son et al vs. W. B. Coppersmith et al; Plymouth Wholesale Co. vs. John Atamanchuk et al; L. W. Hawkes vs. J. R. Carr; J. J. Johnson vs. A. R. Patrick; W'inton Oliver vs. Na than Oliver. Wednesday, January 15: Willie Oliver vs. Daniel Davenport et al; D. O. Patrick vs. C. H. Lamb; S. B. Beasley vs. W. H. Clark et al; Hugh Allen et al vs. W. H. Clark et al; J. L. Strickland vs. Ernest Rose. Thursday, January 16: Ercel Jack son et al vs. Branch Banking and Trust Company; Harrison Wholesale Co. vs. J. C. Spruill et al; Harrison Wholesale Co. vs. L. O. Horton, et al; Mary E. Linyear vs. A. L. Owens. Friday, January 17: Cox Motor Co. John Atamanchuk; The Cooper Corp. vs. D. R. Satterthwaite et al; G. H. Cox et al vs. J. H. Gaylord III; Clara Hedgebeth vs. Home Security Ins. Co.: Cox Motor Co. vs. J. H. Gaylord III. Divorce and motion cases to be called at pleasure of the court. Control Household j Insects Easy by Use Of Sodium Fluoride Placing of Clothes In Sun Will Check Moths To A Large Extent -® Sodium fluroide is recommended as an insecticide to rid a houce of cockroaches. Dust the fluroide on places where the roaches run, said Dr. B. B. Ful '.on, ivasearch entomologist at State College. When they lick the dust of!' their feet, it poisons them. Since your roaches are likely to hatch from eggs already laid, he continued, the dusting should be re peated every few weeks until they disappear. If the roaches continue to infest a house, it is evident that they come from some source where at least some of the roaches are not reached by the dust. Clothes moths cannot live in a high temperature. Of fabrics are spread outdoors on a warm, sunny day. Dr. Fulton continued, they will soon develop a temperature fatal to the moths and eggs. Saturating clothes with dry clean ing fluid and then putting them out in the sunshine to dry is recommend cd in cool weather. After they have dried, they may be stored by tying them up in paper or muslin bags. The simplest treatment for moth infested furniture is to take it out of the house on a warm, sunny day and drench the fabric with dry cleaning fluid. Allow the furniture to remain in the sun until dried. Sodium fluoride, mixed with eight parts of wheat flour to one part of fluoride, is an effective control for silverfish, Dr.- Fulton added. Place ihe bait in the attic, basement, closets, on shelves, behind books, the space under the bathtub, and any other place where the insects may be. -® PLEASANT GROVE CLUB HAS CHRISTMAS PARTY The losing side in a membership drive contest sponsored by the Pleas ant Grove Club entertained the win ners at a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Ida Hodges last Tues day evening. Many games and con tests in keeping with the holiday season were enjoyed. Santa paid a visit and left a gift for every one. The hostesses served a delicious sweet course of syllabub and cake.