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A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and its 12.000 people. The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ★*★★★★* Advertisers will find Beacon and News columns a latch-key to 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 25 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, June 19, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1889 PLAN BOXING AND BAND TRAINING HERE NEXT TERM -® Being Urged for Washing ton County Schools; Little Expense -• Boxing and band instruction are the extra curricular activities that are being urged for the Washington County schools for the next term. Cecil Beasley, Plymouth, who has managed and trained boxers, 'can be secured to instruct those who like to learn this art of self-defense. He would alternate in giving this physi cal training to the boys in Roper, Plymouth and Creswell. This is little or no expense to this activity as only boxing gloves, punch ing bags and such are needed. Boys can wear their bathing trunks as gym suits. Benefit smokers can be given to defray the expense of the equipment that will be used. Mr. Beasley has managed and trained Johnny Roberts, Huntington, W. Va., who has boxed six world champions and has been one himself in the welterweight class, and Russ Rowsey, champion light heavy weight who boxed Maxie Rosen bloom when he was champion. The same system is urged for the band instruction. Already there are students in Plymouth and Rop er who have learned to play instru ments. They need continued help. H. J. McDonald, science teacher in Plymouth, will not return next year to conduct the Plymouth band. It has been suggested that J. E. Aiken, who is away playing for the summer, be employed by Roper, Plymouth and Creswell schools for alternate lessons in the schools. This would work similar to the boxing schedule but would not conflict. Athletic interest has been on the increase in the schools for the last two years. Baseball among the three schools have claimed much at tention and basketball for boys and girls has come in for its share of the spotlight also. Bouts would be arranged by the boxers with teams in other high schools near by which have this sport functioning and band music would be enjoyed at every func tion in the county. -$ May Borrow Funds For Organization of Farm Cooperatives -<s>- ■— Resettlement Administra tion To Aid in Setting Up Cooperatives -# Farmer cooperative enterprises may now be organized in Tyrrell and Washington County with the aid of funds loaned to such organiza tions by the Federal Resettlement Administration, C. G. Hutcheson, county rural rehabilitation super visor, announced today. Funds have been made available, Mr. Huteson said, for loans to com munity and cooperative associations and to farm families for participa tion in such associations as well as in existing cooperatives. This is one of the means by which the Federal Government is helping the farmers to gain new economic security. Loans will be made to coopera tives that submit sound plans on a basis of a real community need for the service and there must be as surance that such an enterprise will be able to operate on a self-sustain ing basis,” Mr. Hutcheson said. Mr. Hutcheson said he will be glad to receive suggestions of Tyr rell and Washington County farm ers at his office in Plymouth. -® Rules Against Date Change for Primary A proposal to change the date for holding the second democratic primary in this State met with dis approval at the hands of State elec tion officials, and arrangements are going forward for holding the con test on Saturday, July 4. The elec tion officials received suggestions asking that the primary be held the following Monday, and the proposed change was considered but without favor, reports stated. Following the long delay in get ting the complete returns in from the first primary the 6th of this month, many people over the State are urging the proper authorities to effect changes in the system fol lowed in counting the ballots. Some are proposing that the count be started several hours before the polls close on election days, making it possible for the poll holders to get the count in before Sunday. Little Activity So Far on Part Of Second-Round Candidates Resting after the June 4 battle, political candidates are saying prec ious little just now, but three groups have already planned to extend their campaigns, and others have until Saturday to ask for a second primary. Until then the definite line-up for a second contest on July 4 will not be known. Dr. McDonald has asked for a sec ond primary and will contest the nomination with Clyde R. Hoey, W. P. Horton, Pittsboro man, has stat ed he will run against Paul Grady for lieutenant governor, and Thad Eure will appear against Stacey Wade for Secretary of State. They are the only contests that are as sured, and the candidates are al ready planning their second line of battle. However, speaking engage merits will be limited by the major candidates, and present indications point to a marked decrease in in terest in the contest. There continues the possibility that T. B. Attmore will ask a sec ond primary against Robert L. Co burn for the State Senate from this district. Mr. Attmore has not com mitted himself, and he could not be reached today for a definite state ment; however, reliable reports in dicated he would not enter a second contest. Mr. Attmore was reported traveling over the district Monday but whether he was out in the in terest of a second campaign for him self could not be learned. He was said to have left late yesterday or early today for Washington City on business. 22 County Club Girls Go To White Lake For Week in Camp —#— Mary Charlotte Jones Vot ed Second Best Camper Out of 104 Girls -® By Miss Mary Frances Misenheimer County Home Agent Monday, June 8th, was a red-let ter day for the 4-H club girls in Washington County. Twenty-two club girls met at the courthouse early Monday morning, with bags packed and plenty of food for a week’s stay in camp at White Lake. Mr. Linwood Knowles sent us down in one of his nice large trucks. Thanks to him for accommodating us as he did. We arrived at White Lake at 2:30 to find Pitt and Edge combe County, the two counties we camped with, there and ready to get acquainted. The girls spent a happy week to gether. There were 104 girls in the camp. The following schedule was fol lowed while in camp: Rising, 6:30; swim, 6:45; breakfast 8; clean up, 8:30; hikes 8:30; class 10:30; free 11:30; lunch 12:30; quiet 1-3; swim 4:30; supper 6:15; stunts 8-9; free 9-10; in bed 10. We returned to our county Satur day afternoon. While we were in camp we had the privilege of at tending a federation of the 4-H clubs of six counties. A good program was given by the different clubs. Mary Charlotte Jones, of Plym outh, was voted second best camper out of the 104 girls. -<*. T. F. Connors Gets New Sales Territory —®— Announcement of the appoint ment of T. F. Conors, of Plymouth, as sales representative for the south east territory, including the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, was made known here today by the American Fork and Hoe Company, with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Connors was in Cleveland last week looking over the new lines of tools that the company is getting ready to put on the market next sea son. Mr. Conors, with his wife, left today for a two weeks through his territory on his first jaunt. Mr. Connors will continue as man ager of the National Handle Com pany, local unit of the American Fork and Hoe Company, which posi tion he has filled for upwards of two years. Two Local Men On Trip To Bermuda —» — H. E. Beam, cashier of the local unit of the Branch Banking and Trust Company, and A. L. Owens joined the members of the North Carolina Bankers’ Association on their cruise to Bermuda last week. They left Norfolk Sunday after noon a week ago and arrived in Bermuda Tuesday. This island is included in the British Empire and is 24 miles long, 3 miles wide in the Atlantic Ocean. There were 540 bankers and friends on board the large ship. Aboard ship the financiers were entertained by orchestras, floor shows, musical comedies and mov ies. In Bermuda they went sight seeing and enjoyed the sports at the resorts. They returned to Plymouth last Sunday. Bermuda is 670 miles from Norfolk, where they boarded the ship This island claims only one man ufacturing plant and that industry makes perfume. There is a total population of 31,00. It is a rich man’s playground. FIRE TOWER AND SITE APPROVED FOR THIS COUNTY -■ Expect To Begin Construc tion in Near Future; Other Activities ——« Close to $7,000 has been or will be expended in Washington County as the result of this county’s coop eration with the State and Federal governments in forming a fire-fight ing unit to protect game and timber from fire, according to S. D. Darden, forest-fire warden. Already $1,700 in work from the Civilian Conservation camp has been rendered in fighting fires. A tower and site has been ap proved. The order for the tower has been approved and it is expect ed shortly. The site was secured from the Plymouth Box and Panel Company on a high ridge on their property fronting on the road lead ing from the highway to the plant. Near this tower will be a resi dence built for the use of the fam ily of the lookout, who will serve about five months in the year, a certain period in the spring and fall to help in detecting the fires and speeding help to the areas where needed. rne nouse is to ne neauuned witn shrubbery and is to be kept in good condition. The lookout will be al lowed to live in the house the year around to keep it in good condition during the periods he is not work ing on the tower. Mr. Darden used as many as 125 CCC boys fighting the recent fires. A United States inspector coming over here with W. C. McCormick, state forest warden, made the state ment that the interruption made at the railroad and B canal was one of the best “fire breaks” he had ever seen in the south. -® Tenancy Gains Are Shown by Figures —*— The trend from individual owner ship to farm tenancy was described as one of the major problems of the United States by C. G. Hutcheson, of Plymouth, rehabilitation super visor of the Resettlement Admin istration for Tyrrell and Washing ton counties. Mr. Hutcheson quoted figures compiled by the Resettle ment Administration showing that near half of all farmers in the Unit ed States are now tenants. “Every agricultural section of the country,” he said, “has some ten ancy.’’ It ranges from around 8 per cent in the New England states to better than 45 per cent in parts of the corn belt and a high of more than 75 per cent of all farmers in some parts of the cotton belt.” The figures of the 1935 census of agriculture indicate that farm ten ancy is still increasing in all major sections of the country. Tenancy in the states of this region is as fol lows: North Carolina, 142,158 tenants, a gain of 3 per cent since 1930; Vir ginia, 58,386 tenants, gain of 16 per cent since 1930; Kentucky, 103,215 tenants, gain of 16 per cent since 1930; Tennessee, 126,607 tenants, a gain of 11 per cent since 1930; and West Virginia, 27,021 tenants, gain of 76 per cent since 1930. -* Special Service at Creswell Church —i— A children5s day program will be given at the Methodist Protestant Church in Creswell Sunday morn ing at 11 oOclock by the children of the Sunday school. The public is invited to attend. ABOUT TOWN W. F. Winslow, superintendent of the Sunday school and vestryman of the Grace Episcopal church, tells of this human incident in the life of Bishop 'fhomas C. Darst, who has grown so popular with his church that the Diocese of Eastern Carolina complained that he was giv ing too much time to the national church. The bishop was being awarded a degree from his old college. As he walked down the aisle attired in cap and gown with other dignitaries he espied at the end of the row of seats an old ice customer of his in his college days. He halted the proces sion, stooped down and whispered into the old lady’s ears the iceman’s query, “Any ice today, lady?” Recorder’s court has been on the decline in the number of cases han dled lately. Sheriff J. K. Reid is of the opinion that most of the peace disturbers are in the irish potato fields here or are in Virginia work ing. They will return with money in about three weeks. Then the of ficers will have to get busy. -® Much has been said about a po litical promise and a poker debt. Mostly the conversation is that neither is very valuable. Now H. S. Midgett comes forward with the expression that “at one time the of fice seekers were two-faced, but now the voter has to be that way.’’ However, in the last election some aspirants were more considerate of the voters than to pin them down for a direct answer. Some folks say that a liar is never justified. Witness what John W. Darden tells about an acquaintance. A visitor at the State hospital was met by a courteous trusty. He was shown through the building, ending the tour on the roof. The inmate looked down and pressed upon the visitor to jump. Whereupon the averred that anyone could leap from the top, but that he could go down to the ground and leap to the roof. Instead he sent the attendants up to get the man with the warped brain. David G. Brown, of Norfolk, is here visiting relatives. He is chief stock man for a chain dime store. This store has 18 employees regular ly and does a business of $200,000 a year in low-priced merchandise. Managers of the large stores get upwards of $3,000 annually. Rev. Walter R. Noe, of Wilming ton, secretary of the Diocese of East Carolina ,will speak in the Grace Episcopal church in Plymouth at the evening service Sunday. With him will be John H. Toler, of Fay etteville. The two are on the staff of instructors at Camp Leach, an Episcopal resort for young peole, near Washington. The two are ex pected to be either at Creswell or Columbia in the morning. Rev. S. J. Matthews will be at the local church also. J. C. Tarkenton, of Pleasant Grove, in town this week expressed the opinion that Governor Alf M. Landon, of Kansas, and Col. Frank Knox, of Chicago, are the best team to lead the Republican ticket that could be mustered by his party. Mr. Tarkenton, chairman of the Wash ington County Republican Executive Committee, says that the odds may be against the Republicans, but that they will wage a strong fight na tionally and locally for success at the polls in November. I James A. Bateman, of Ahoskie, was in Roper during the week-end visiting his mother, Mrs. Josephine Knowles Bateman. Young James is a reporter, proof-reader and gen eral office assistant for the Ahoskie Herald, one the weekly papers op erated by Roy and Mayon Parker. James said that his father, Bill Bateman, a deputy clerk of the Fed eral court in Raleigh, was in good health when he saw him about a month ago. Bill Dixon, coach and manager of the young ball club in Plymouth, which features high school boys, is taking the “difficulties” of a team with a grin. This is a baseball-lov ing town, but many of the fans claim they are too poor to contrib ute more than their admission fee to the support of a club. He was endeavoring Saturday to collect enough money to get his club to Washington for a game with the CCC boys. He was successful in getting the money. Jack W. Read here has been a warded a wrist watch in a contest conducted by an oil company. There were 260 winners in the $10,000 compettion. The watch is said to be a duplicate of the one worn by Jim rie Mattern on his round-the-world solo flight in 1933. Statistics issued by William S. DEMOCRATS WILL MEET TO SETTLE ROW SATURDAY -® C. L. Everett Declared Pre cinct Chairman by State Officials of Party -9 What action will be taken in the meeting of the Washington County Democratic Executive Committee here Saturday is problematical, but the occasion is interesting to the nth degree. Walter W. White was admitted as chairman of the Skinnersville pre cinct in the county convention here in May. This action was contested by J. C. Swain, who alleges that Mr. White was not properly elected and that C. L. Everett, a hold-over from the 1934 campaign, is the rightful chairman. This was taken to the state con vention and turned over to the com mittee on credentials and appeals. In a certified copy of instructions received by Carl L. Bailey from J. Wallace Winborne, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, a meeting is called of the county executive committee on Sat urday, May 20, at 3 p. m., in the courthouse. The instructions ignores flatly the claims of Walter W. White and sets forth that Mr. Everett and the fol lowing precinct chairman are to meet to elect a county chairman: W. M. Darden, Plymouth; E. R. Lew is, Lees Mills; J. L. Rea, jr., Wenona; Clyde Smithson, Scuppernong. W. M. Darden was named chairman of the county executive committee. This precinct chairman of Skin nersville holds the balance of pow er between the two factions fighting for control of the local Democratic organization. W. M. Darden is the present leader of one faction and was favored as county chairman by Smithson and White, while Lewis and Rea are on the other side. These instructions are signed also by A. D. Ward, chairman of the committee on credentials and ap peal, and by J. H. Folger, secretary of the committee. -® Bonus Bonds Being Received This Week By County Veterans —»— 130 White and 110 Colored Ex-Soldiers in County Will Benefit -® Veterans of the World War have been receiving their bonus bonds this week. There are about 130 white former soldiers and 110 or more colored who fought in 1917-18 from Washington County. The bonds range in amounts to individuals of from $80 to $1,500. The great majority, however, range around the $600 mark. J. B. Mc Nair received his for less than $100 for the first to be delivered, while P. W. Brown was second. Close to $127,00 was due to be deliver to the vets in Washington County. Some had never borrowed on their certificates. Postmaster George W. Hardison thinks they will all be delivered in a short time, ex cept those for which applications have been made improperly. Official Vote Gives Coburn 2nd Place —®— The official vote, just released, for the second district senatorial con :est did not alter the standings re cently reported, but late figures certainly grouped three of the five candidates and left Carl L. Bailey railing Attmore by only 118 votes. Rodman held his high position, with Coburn second and Dees running a poor fifth. The official vote: Rodman 6,839 Coburn 5,624 Attmore 5,353 Bailey 5,235 Dees 1,684 Nurney, local undertakerf, reveals that only 16 persons died in Plym outh Township in the last year. Four of these were in the town of Plym outh. There were 20 in Lees Mills Township. His shop for ambulance service and for other purposes han dled about 60 calls. Mosquitoes are now getting bad. People in the down-town area are pestered to the extreme and not many can stay on unscreened porches in the residential sections. Tom Brinkley heard a noise like frightened chickens from his poul try yard. He found that mosquitoes were annoying the chickens. His son Alfred smoked out the nocturn al insects and the poultry quieted down for the night. Again Urge Planting Soil - Building Crops Hotneand ciubNews By Mary Frances Misenheimer Monday, County Bridge. Tuesday, Pleasant Grove. Wednesday, Swain. Thursday, Creswell. Friday, Alba. Saturday, curb market, 8:15. Mrs. Joe Snell led the sales this past Saturday. Mrs. Snell is a faith ful seller at curb market and be longs to the Cool Spring Club. Mrs. C. W. Bowen, of Alba Club, was sec ond highest seller. The gardens of the Scuppernong Club women are looking good now. All of them reported having a vari ety of vegetables. A lot of work has been done with chickens this year. Some of the club women are interested in raising tur. keys also. Mrs. Paul Belanga re ported having 40 good-sized ones. Mrs. Kitty Norman proved to the home agent that she had a good garden by serving different vege tables from her garden for dinner. Mrs. Mag Swain, of Chapel Hill club, believes in having an attract ive garden as well as a beneficial one. She carefully planned the planting of flowers along the side and back of the garden. Her gar den and flowers are pretty. The food leaders of Chapel Hill club, Mrs. Robert Swain and Mrs. Liverman, had charge of the club meeting Thursday. They are splen did leaders and deserve lots of cred it for their work. The leaders who were present at the last leaders’ school are urged to take charge of the demonstration this month. Reports go into Raleigh of the work done by them. Our aim is to develop better leaders in the clubs and communities. -<*> Democratic Leaders At State Convention —»— Democratic leaders of Washington County participated in the state convention held in Raleigh Friday. In the first dsitrict convention, held prior to the general convention, W. L. Whitley was made a member of the senatorial committee; W. R. Hampton a member of the congres sional committee; E. L. Owens a member of the judicial committee. Carl L. Bailey was named a mem ber of the state Democratic execu tive committee from the first dis trict. Among those attending the state meeting besides those men tioned on committees were L. E. Hassell and W. T. Freeman. Mrs. Elsie Elizabeth Ange Passes Friday —•— Funeral services were held Sat urday for Mrs. Elsie Elizabeth Ange 32, wife of Julius Ange, of the Long Acre section, who died in a Wash ington hospital Friday as the result rf typhus fever. Rev. Gilbert Davis rfficiated. Mrs. Ange was a mem aer of Acre Chapel Christian church Surviving are her husband, four children, Curtis, Earl, Elizabeth and Elsie Ange; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ange; two brothers, Thomas andCharles Baynor; sisters, Mrs. Ange Swanner, Mrs. Lottie Everett, and Mrs. Mittie Boyd. Poisoned Corn Meal Bait For Bud Worms —®— An application of poisoned corn meal bait is the best medium for controlling tobacco bud-worm dam age which is caused by the corn ear worm. One pound of arsenate of lead thoroughly mixed with 50 pounds of corn meal and applied at the rate of one peck, or 12 pounds, to the acre will give satisfactory re sults. The applications should be made early in the mornings when the tobacco bud is open. A small pinch of the poison should be dropped in the center of the bud. Begin applications about 10 days after the plants are set and repeat every week or ten days until the plants are topped, Must Have Certain Acreage To Qualify \\ itli Farm Program -$ Making Arrangements To Determine Compliance In This County -* With a large majority planning to participate in the soil conservation program, county farmers are urged to make their plans coincide with the requirements and earn the right to stipulated benefits. Farmers are warned that in order to participate in the benefits they must have the soil-building crops as well as effect a reduction in cash crop acreages. Plans for handling applications for benefits and acreage measure ments are fast taking shape, and it is likely that checking activities will get underway the early part of next month. In the meantime. I. O. Schaub calls attention of the farm ers in the following to be prepared to participate in the program: “Due to the unfavorable seasons caused by the dry weather, many of the farmers of the state have lost some of their legume crops, such as lespedeza, especially where it was sown late in the spring, and a good many of the other legume crops have not been planted due to the unusual weather conditions. These crops are necessary in order to qual ify for the soil-conserving payment under the Soil Conservation Pro gram. “We would like to stress to every grower the importance of seeding, before it is too late, a sufficient acre age of conserving crops in order to qualify for the soil-conserving pay ment and as large a soil-building payment as possible. “In this state we are allowed, for the year 1936, to use soy beans and cowpeas as conserving crops, even though the hay is cut. This is a very liberal interpretation of con serving crops. “Realizing that legume seed is scarce, if peas or beans are planted in 2 1-2 to 3 feet rows and cultivat ed once or twice, you will generally make as much hay as if the peas or beans are sown broadcast. This will certainly make the seed go further and will enable the grower to re ceive his payments under the Soil Conservation Program. “The question frequently arises as to whether sorghum or Sudan grass sown with peas or beans for hay is soil conserving. If beans or peas predominate the acreage will count as conserving, but if the sorghum or Sudan grass predominates and is cut for hay the acreage will count as depleting. “Provision is being made in the classification of crops to provide that sorghum and rye left on the land and not harvested will be clas sified as soil conserving for 1936.” -$ Township Sunday ^School Convention —•— The Scuppernong Township Sun day school convention will be held with Philippi Christian church Sun day afternoon, June 21, at 3 p. m. Delegates are expected from all the Sunday schools in the townships. Everyone is invited. -<j> Treated Cotton Seed Will Keep Till Planting Time ——■» Cotton seed treated now with Ceresan will keep until planting time. Ceresan is harmless to cot ton seed and they may be treated now and stored until planting time. This treatment will also prevent any further trouble from contami nated sacks, bins, or from the planters. Be sure and use three aunces of the fungicide to each Pushel of seed and mix thoroughly in the container before storing. Seed not needed for planting should be disposed of in some way as treated seed are unfit for feeding purposes. ■ % Farmers Gladly Sign Work Sheets In County of Union m As farmers become familiar with the new conservation program they are glad to sign work sheets and to cooperate fully, says T. J. W. Broom, Union County farm agent. -« There is no tobacco stand, gard ens have failed, lespedeza is dying and small grain has ripened pre maturely in Caswell County and other sections of the State due to continued drouth.
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