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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 XLVIII—NUMBER 9 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, February 26, 1937 ESTABLISHED 1889 CLASSIFICATIONS OF 1937 PROGRAM OF CROPS GIVEN Gives Detailed List of Soil Conserving and Soil Depleting Crops Classifications of soil-conserving and soil-depleting crops for the 1937 soil conservation program in North Carolina as announced by J. F. Cris well during his recent tour of this section are set out in detail, as fol lows: Crops to be counted as depleting are: corn, cotton, tobacco, peanuts harvested for nuts, broom corn, sorghum when harvested, and truck and vegetable crops, including mel ons, strawberries, and Irish and sweet potatoes. Wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck wheat, and grain mixtures when cut for grain or hay. Sudan, millet, and Italion rye grass harvested for hay or seed. Bulbs and flowers. The following crops which help build up or improve the soil are to be counted as soil-conserving: Sweet, red, alsike, white, and mammoth clovers. Alfalfa, kudzu, and sericea. Soybeans, velve beans, field peas, and cowpeas. Vetch, Aus trian winter peas, bur and crimson clover, crotalaria, and annual varie ties of lespedeza. Peanuts when pastured. Sudan, millet, and Italian rye grass not harvested for hay or seed. Blue grass, Dallis, redtop, timothy, or chard grass, Bermuda, carpet grass, and mixtures of these. Rye, oats, barley, wheat, buck wheat, and grain mixtures not cut for grain or hay, provided a good growth is left on the land. Forest trees planted on crop land since January 1, 1934, and sweet sorghum that is not harvested. New Provisions When land is used to growth both depleting and conserving crops, the entire acreage will be counted once as soil-depleting, and a part or all of the same acreage will also be counted as soil-conserving. When summer legumes are grown in combination with depleting row crops, the entire acreage will be counted once as soil-depleting, and half of the same acreage will also be counted as soil-conserving, pro vided the legumes occupy at least one-half the land and a good growth has been attained. This means, Criswell explained, that in figuring the general soil-de pleting base for a farm, the entire acreage of these mixed crops will be counted in. And in determining the soil-conserving acreage, one-half of the same “mixed acres” will be counted. The entire acreage on which mix tures of legumes and depleting crops (winter legumes and small grains, or summer legumes and annual grasses) are harvested together shall be classified as soil-depleting. One-half of the same land will be counted in the soil-conserving acre age if at least 50 percent of the to tal growth harvested consist of le gumes. When a depleting crop is harvest ed and immediately followed by conserving legumes or perennial grasses the same year, the full acre age will be soil-depleting. One-half of the same acreage will also be counted as soil-conserving. If the legume is an annual winter variety, the entire acreage will be counted conserving as well as depleting. When specified crops are plowed under as green manure after at least two months’ normal growth on land from which a commercial vege table is harvested the same year, the entire acreage will be counted as soil-depleting and as soil-conserv ing. Land not used for producing either depleting or conserving crops and devoted to the following pur poses, is classified as neutral: Vineyards, tree fruits, small and bush fruits, nut trees, and nursery I stock not interplanted. Any por tion of such areas as are interplant ed will be counted as the actual acreage of such interplanted crop. Idle crop land, cultivated land lying fallow, waste land, roads, and lanes, yards and other similar non crop land, and woodland not plant ed to forest trees since January 1, 1934. Flood Relief Fund In Roper Totals $82 —•— Mrs. W. A. Blount writes from Roper that the total sent to the American Red Cross for flood relief from her section is $82. The white school gave $21.85, the colored $6.13, sent direct $10, community $44.02. “This goes to the credit of the Wash ington County fund, even though we handled our direct,” she writes. Kitty Hawk, Slade Fisheries O hen Season A round March 8 The famous Kitty Hawk and Slade fisheries will open about March 8, according to W. R. Hampton, who thinks that this season wil be nor mal following a disastrous season last year. “Usually a good season follows high water such as has been experi enced this winter, when the water ran out of the otrice windows and was 2 feet deep on the batteries,” said Mr. Hampton, who hopes that south winds will prevail to help in warming the water and increasing favorable conditions. Mr. Hampton is busy this week tarring and mending the large seines. Next week they will be strung on the large hawsers so that everything will be in readiness Mon day week. The high water, by rusting ma chinery and washing away parts, has done a damage estimated at about $500. About Town The Major Louis Charles Latham chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet on Fri-; day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the ■ home of Mrs. Don G. Davis. Rev. C. T. Thrift was among the number of people who sent a self addressed stamped envelope to Washington’s birthplace in Virginia, and when the envelope returned it had been cancelled with the post of fice stamped plainly on it, also with an imprint of a picture of Washing ton’s cradle on it. George Watson, who for years has been connected with engineering work in Plymouth, including service at the Plymouth Box and Panel Company plant, is now employed as an engineer at the naval base in Norfolk. Herman Jackson has purchased the remains of the old buildings that were burned on the west end of Wa ter Street from John L. Phelps, of Creswell, and is moving what can be used to a location near the Lucas railroad crossing on highway 64, where he will erect a filling station with a residence above it. Sponsors of the local library hope that a bill introduced into the North Carolina General Assembly will be passed so that Washington County may share in the $150,00 that would be appropriated for the benefit of library service in the counties of the state. -to Representative Harry Stell is co introducer of a bill in the North Carolina legislature requiring rail roads to operate their trains with a full crew. There has been a prac tice of the railroads operating trains without a brakeman. Railroads are public service organizations and are subject to regulation by law. Twenty years ago the family of E. H. Liverman lived across the street from Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Dar den, who became attached the Liv erman children. Every Valentine Day since that time, except one year, Mrs. Darden has given the chil dren a party. “It will not be very long now, we hope, before we will have our new room. A contract has been let for the lumber. We hope by the mid dle of the summer the building will be up,” says John W. Darden, sup erintendent of the Christian church Bible school, who is urging a large attendance for Sunday. Z. V. Norman and H. E. Beam know a party who is interested in building a 30-room hotel in Plym outh, provided he can locate a suit able spot. Vacant lots on Water and Washington Street have been sug gested with the ground floor for store buildings. He is expected here soon to survey the possible sites. There will be a call meeting of the Senior Woman’s Club Monday afternoon, March 1, at 3 o’clock at the community hall. Mrs. T. L. Bray president, urges all to be present. ■ - - “Why not start building some houses to take care of the people that will soon be coming to our town to work. Let us be the good Sa maritan and do our part,” says S. D. Davis. “Now is the time—if you wish to make a good investment—to buy real estate in Plymouth, which is a good town to live in. Let’s be boosters,” he continues. 3 Tried Tuesday In County Court —® S. B. Davenport, 59, white, and Grady Biggs, 21, white, were found not guilty in recorder’s court Tues day on a charge of trespassing on and damaging property of Tom Van Horn. Rossie Oliver, 29. white, was as signed to jail for 30 days, suspended upon the payment of costs and good behavior for two years on a charge of violating a town ordinance by being drunk. COUNTIES LIKELY TO HELP PAY FOR OLD AGE RELIEF Bill Now Before Assembly Allows $30 a Month To Needy Over 65 Years -* The new bill prdviding old age pensions and aid to dependen chil dren now ending in the State Leg islature gives the counties wide powers in administering its provis ions, but also requires them to share in paying the costs. From one-fourth to one-third of the cost must be contributed by the counties. On the other hand, it rests with the county boards of welfare and the boards of county commis sioners to approve all persons de clared eligible for pensions before any money is handed out. The maximum under the old age pensions portion of the bill is $30 a month to persons 65 years of age or older, but any person with a month ly income of $30 a month or more is automatically ineligible for the pen sion. Of this amount, the Federal government will pay one-half, the state one-fourth and the counties one fourth. The bill also provides that the county welfare boards and boards of county commissioners, in determining the amount of pension to be allowed any individual shall take into consideration his or her needs, expenditures and standards of livin, and that the pension may be scaled down accordingly. Thus, where it is found that a person may get along on $20 a month, instead of $30 a month, the smaller amount will be alloted. No inmates of state or county institutions will be eligible by leaving these institu tions to live with relatives or others who will care for them. The second portion of the bill, dealing with assistance to depend ent children, provides that the maximum paid to any one depedent child under 16 years of age shall be $18 a month, with $$12 a month for any additional, but that in no case shall the total exceed $65 a month except in extreme cases. The cost of this aid shall be apportioned on a basis of one-third by the county, one-third by the state and one-third by the federal government. Minister Deplores Liquor Legislation Preliminary to his sermon in the Methodist church last Sunday, the pastor, Rev. C. T. Thrift, made the following statement: “I deplore the fact that the pres ent legislature has opened the gates to flood the state with liquor stores without letting the people vote on it. I hope Washington County re jects the liquor stores, so that I will be spared residing in a town that is in partnership with the iniquitous liquor traffic. “No member of the Methodist church can hold a position in an ABC store and dispense intoxicat ing liquors. A man and woman can not be a good Methodist and do that.” -s Roper Teams Enter Albemarle Tourney The Roper High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams have entered the Albemarle tournament, which is to be held in Ahoskie on March 12, 13 and 14. The boys have won 8 and lost 6, while the girls have won 5 and lost 7 during the season. The boys de feated Windsor Wednesday, 39 to 11. Charlie Norman is manager and Tom Norman assistant. Listed on th eboys’ team are Carl Bray, Eugene Watson, Johnny Ev erett, Asa Johnston, Williford Ain sley, Bill Reddick, Kenneth Ches son, Edison Watson, and Leroy Spruill. Girls: Sarah Leary, Caro lyn Spruill, Lula Ange, Elsie Knowles, Hazel White, Eva Chesson, and Ida Ruth Knowles. HoWlgand ciubNews By Mary Frances Mlsenheimer Schedule for Next Week Monday a. m., Plymouth 4-H club. Monday, p. m., Albemarle club. Tuesday, Cross Roads. Wednesday, Cool Spring. Thursday, Piney Grove. Friday, Lake Farm. Saturday, curb market, 8:30. Mrs. Joe Browning, of Hoke Club, is still leading the curb market sales. The Scuppernong club met with Mrs. Hathaway last Monday. A large crowd attended, considering the bad roads. Most of the members had miles to walk. A spirit of club work certainly exists in that club. Another club that deserves praise is the Cherry club. Every member is loyal and true blue to the club. Some came over roads so rough that they expected the mule to get stuck. Others walked several miles to the meeting. Mrs. Roy Davenport, of Cherry club, says she is going to have plen ty of chickens to eat this year. She is having a brooder house built. For the first time in several months the home agent attended the Wenona club meeting. The women are still carrying on their work and have their meetings regardless of the weather. Mrs. A. P. LeFever was elected yard leader. Sunday Services at Christian Church Much personal work is going on among the members of the Christian church this week. This special effort is being put forth to increase attend ance as well as to make preparation for the Pre-Easter meeting, which will begin March 14th. Services will be as follows, Sun day, February 28: 9:45 a. m., Bible school. 11 a. m., Morning worship with sermon by pastor, “He That Wip neth Souls Is Wise.” 7:30 p. m., evening worship; ser mon subject: “John, the Apostle.” 6:45, Christian Endeavor. Strangers are most welcome. About 1,000 Register For Jobs In County There were 951 people in Wash ington County who registered with the vocational rehabilitation division of the North Carolina Department of Labor during the last 12 months, with 298 securing private employ ment and 210 placed on the relief jobs. A total of 320 registered for em ployment in agriculture, forestry and fishing, with 70 being placed. Eigh teen were placed with the public building and construction forces and 210 at miscellaneous jobs. Register ing were 300 white and 257 colored men; 202 white and 192 colored women. Birth Rate in 1936 Lowest on Record - ■ » - The birth rate in the United State last year was the lowest on record, according to provisional re ports made public by statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The death rate was slightly high er than any year within the last five, with the result that the natural rate of increase, the excess of the birth rate over the death rate, de scended to an all-time minimum of about 5 per 1,000. The statisticians based their find ings on the basis of returns cover ing thirty-four of the forty-eight stales and relating to the first nine months of 1936. They ascribed the slight increase in the death rate “to the intensely cold weather last winter and to a summer character ized by widespread drought and protracted heat.” . « Gaston Farmers Purchase 4,200 Pounds of Lespedeza Nine Gaston County farmers pur chased 4,300 pounds of lespedeza seed from three other Gaston far mers last week thus keeping both the seed and the money within the county. BOTTLING WORKS SUED FOR $25,000 BY W. A. JACKSON Is Outgrowth of Automo bile Accident Near Here Last December W. A. Jackson has filed suit for ?25,000, or some other large sum’' against the Beaufort Bottling Works, Inc., a corporation of Wash ington, N. C., charging negligence on the part of Bill Davenport, driver of the bottling truck, as the result of a collision. The collision occurred on Decem ber 2, 1936, in front of the Knowles farm on the Plymouth-Jamesville highway. Mr. Jackson, through his attorney, W. L. Whitley, called at tention to his injuries, “fractured skull, broken ribs, left arm torn off, flesh and body lacerated, bruised and disfigured.” Mr. Jackson spent three weeks in a Rocky Mount hospital desperately ill. In the wreck one of the vehicles i was traveling toward Plymouth and , the other was approaching from the j opposite direction when they collid Improved Lespedeza Types Are A Fairly New Subject in State Crop Was Not Considered Important Enough For Census Study in 1929 -v While Japan clover has been fa miliar to many farmers in North Carolina for many years and par ticular in a pasture, the improved types of lespedeza are a fairly new subject in this state. The United States Census for 1929 did not con sider this crop sufficiently import ant to make a survey of it. The 1934 , United States Census showed 22,373 1 farmers in the state growing 137, 000 acres for hay. The State’s Farm Census secured by the Department of Agriculture j through tax listings for 1935 show-; ed over 400,000 acres of lespedeza, while the 1936 survey showed over 500,000 acres for all purposes. This is a greater acreage than the total wheat crop of the state and almost as much as its tobacco acreage. It i is more than half the acreage of the : cotton crop. There is another important angle to this crop, however, which over shadows some of the other values. North Carolina is now producing a larger acreage of lespedeza for seed than any other state. The price of these seed is already very high and since so many of the voluntary seed on the land have already started to grow, due to the mild winter, there is a very strong possibility that if severe freezes follow, most of this voluntary seed crop will be killed. In this case there would likely be an unusually heavy demand foi seed with a shortage already in sight. Under these conditions, it is quite probably that the 1937 acre age to be harvested may be sub stantially less than usual. This is perhaps the most popular soil-build ing crop now being produced in North Carolina. It is also probably one of the cheapest produced, since it may be planted in small grains during late February or March without further expense excepting for that of keeping weeds down by mowing and harvesting the crop later. -.« “Use” Tax for This State Proposed In the Senate Following the passage of the county liquor option plan by the Senate last Tuesday, the Senate has accomplished little in handling the revenue bill, social security and one or two other measures falling into the class of major legislation. A few snags have been encountered in getting the liquor bill ready for ratification, but the enactment of the liquor bill is expected shortly. In the meantime dry counties are lin ing up for liquor elections. The sales tax came up for a bit of discussion yesterday when pro posals were made to place a “use” tax on building materials brought into the State. While this measure was being explained, Senator R. L. Coburn asked if it wouldn’t be pos sible to tax Montgomery Ward and other mail order houses doing busi ness in North Carolina. He was assured that it is possible to tax the goods shipped into the State. It is certain that such a tax, call it “use” tax or nuisance tax, the peo ple of the State would welcome it. Columbus County strawberry growers are hauling pine straw from 10 tp 15 miles to mulch their fields. Pulp Plant Is Likely To Build Own Houses lv EMPLOYMENT ) A representative from ihc State Employment Service at Edenton, which serves '.V ish>/ . - ton County, will be at the court house in Plymouth each Thurs day from 10 to 3 o’clock for the purpose of registering and re interviewing any person seeking work. Floyd I. White, from the dis trict office has been making these contacts each Wednesday and Thursday, however, until further notice this representative will be here only on Thursday, according to Mrs. Randolph Hol oman, manager of the Edenton district office. Member oi 4-H Club Awarded Four-Year College Scholarship Marvin Foyles, of Lenoir County Is Best All-round Club Boy In State Given recognition as the best all round 4-H club member in North Carolina, Marvin Foyles, of Lenoir County, has been awarded a four year scholarship to State College. Foyles was selected on a basis of his record in club projects, his lead ership activities, and his record as a high school student, said L. R. Harrill, 4-H club leader at State College. The scholarship was awarded by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda educa tional bureau to the North Carolina 4-H club member making the best record over a period of three or more years. Joinin ga 4-H club at the age of 12, Foyles has been an active mem ber for eight years. In that time he has completed six corn projects, three tobacco projects, and one forestry project. His average corn yield for the six year; was 44.5 bushels per acre. Last year he made a profit of $322.41 from his tobacco project. Foyles has represented his club at county camps and 4-H short courses at State College. Three years he was a member of the Lenoir County seed-judging team that won third, second and then first place at the annual seed-judging contests at the State Fair. He has been vice president and president of the Wheat Swamp 4-H :lub, and has held official positions with the Grange in his community. A one-year scholarship to State College was awarded Foyles in 1935 :or his record in growing corn, and n 1936 he was awarded the State leader’s medal for the best individ ual record submitted at the 4-H short course. Harrill also state that in addition o Foyles’ four-year college scholar ship, scholarships had been award- > -d to the 4-H short course next sum mer to the club members who had he best records in their respective :ounties last year. Special Service at Methodist Church The services at Plymouth Meth odist church next Sunday morning will be in one respect the most unique in the annals of the town. All the hymns to be used were writ ten by the present pastor, Rev. C. T. Thrift. They are “The Greatness of Christ,” “The Morning Star,” and “I Thirst for Thee, O God.” The pastor will conclude the series of sermons on “The Bible, Standard of Christian Living.” The subject of th :> sermon will be “Testing Our Daily Lives by God’s Standard.” W ill Handle Fruit, Vegetable Baskets George H. Campbell of Murfrees boro, assistant sales manager of the Riverside Manufacturing Company, Inc., whose firm is the largest man ufacturer of fruit and vegetable packages in North Carolina, was in Plymouth Wednesday. A1 Latham has been appointed as local representative of the firm and will handle tomato baskets, Jugs, hampers, cucumbers, and potato tubs with a complete line on hand at ali times. Mr. Latham is widely known and it is expected that his friends will see him for any kind of baskets that they need. Negotiations for 100 Veres Land Said To Be Nearly Complete Surveys Being Made of Old Bateman Farm Near Handle Plant It is pr--ih: now that Plymouth will not got iho full benefits from the increased 1 a iness here as the result of the ’. wness in preparing for the influx of new people into this town as the Kieckhefer Con tainer Company continues their pro gram toward erection of a $3,000,000 pulp plant near here. It is understood that on account of the failure of the people to build housing facilities here for the new people that are coming in for this purpose that the Kieckhefer Com pany is purchasing 100 acres of land on the old Bateman farm in front of the Plymouth works of the Amer ican Fork & Hoe Company near here. Already surveys are being made of this land, probably to determine the number of houses that are to be erected by the company. Wed nesday night the deal had not been completed, but it is understood the price asked is agreeable to both S. A. Ward, the seller, and the com pany as the buyer. D. G. Matthews, of Hamilton, has purchased five houses, with two of them on Brinkley Avenue and three on Monroe Street.s A new restau rant will open in the Brinkley Building on Washington Street be side the post office. George Register, of Scotland Neck, house mover, has been em ployd to move several colored houses on West. Main Street Extend ed, leading to the Kieckhefer plant and American Fork and Hoe Com pany plant so that the 16-foot pave ment can be increased to about 20 and the road right of way to about 35 feet. Harrison Wholesale Company, of Williamston, is said to be negotiat ing with W. R. Hampton here for his place on Water Street formerly occupied by the H. E. Harrison Wholesale Company, who have moved to their new home at the rear of the old winery near the Union Station. Fifth Month Honor Roll, Local Schools The honor roll for the fifth month in the Plymouth schools follows: Grade 1: Roger Carr, Raymond Peal. Joe Reid, Anne Cahoon, Ber,;e Outten. Grade 2: Joyce Bailey, Richard Carr, Phillis Davidson, Donnie Still man, Walter Paramore, Raymond Leggett, Estelle Alexander, Geral dine Harrison, A. J. Ange. T.iomas Sitterson, Floyd Te.th .'ton. Grade 3: Fi ances Spruill, Faye Snell, Jean Modlin, Martha Man ning, Patsy Dixon, Helen Carr, Bob bie Rhea, Rex Paramore, Zeno Lyon. Grade 4: Loren Tetterton, Mary Bratten. Grade 5: Harry McLean. Grade 6: Mary Lillian Campbell, Frances Jones, Miriam Joyner, Roy Manning, Oliver Lucas, Zeb Vance Norman, jr. Grade 7: None. Grade 8: Brinson Cox, Jimmy Hays, Edward Stokely, Meredith Johnson, Mary Charlotte Jones, Katherine Midgett, Becky Ward. Grade 9: Frances Joyner, Helen K. Harison, Lillian Robbins. Grade 10: Dons Bateman, Helen Bratten, Cornelia Alexander, Cath erine Terry, Bill Hays. Grade 11: Henry Mizelle, Frances Bateman, Norma Bratten, Alberta Clagon, Frances Edmondson, Myrtle Hopkins, Barbara Norman, Pauline West, Craven Farmers Sell 78,000 Pounds of Hogs for $7,200 Farmers from the counties sur rounding New Bern sold 78,000 pounds of fat hogs for $7,200 cash at the New Bern hog market a few days ago. Sells Acre of Tobacco for Fraction Under $1,000.00 -® J. A. Hannum, a demonstration farmer of Ramseytown, Yancey County, sold 1,462 pounds of Burley tobacco from eigh^-tenths of an acre for $960.50 or 65.7 cents a pound.