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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 still find Beacon and News columns a latch-key to 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 16 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, April 16, 1937 ESTABLISHED 1889 RAILROAD SEEKS TO QUIT LINE TO BISHOP’S CROSS -$ Hearing on Petition for Abandonment of Road To Be Held 26th The receivers of the Norfolk Sou thern Railroad have made a request to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion for permission to abandon the railroad from Mackeys to Bishops Cross, v/hich touches Roper, Wenona Pike Road in Washington and other points in Beaufort County. The commission has granted the Norfolk Southern Railroad and all interested citizens a hearing in re gard to this matter to be held April 26 in the Federal building at Eden ton at 10 in the morning. Interest ed citizens in this county are urged to attend. These points are understood to be only receiving a partial service over this road at the present, and the railroad now wishes to discontinue service entirely. This railroad serves a section that is sometimes at certan seaspns almost out of com munication with outside points on account of impassable public roads. This year the people in Wenona have a large irish potato crop, as well as a large corn crop. This road is used chiefly to serve these people in taking into them fertilizer and bringing out their potatoes, corn and other produce that is des tined for the northern markets. The first notice of an effort to abandon the service entirely on this road was given last November, and since that time the officials have re newed their efforts to get the line discontinued and thus eventually taking up the tracks that covers the roadbed to the Beaufort County community. Unless enough interest is mani fested by the residents of these com munities and others which are in terested in this kind of communica tion to induce them to object to the discontinuance of the service before the commission, then this will be another backward step. It may be that the permission will be granted anyway, but those who wish the service continued now have a fight ing chance. EROSION COSTS SOUTH BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR -- National Subisidies Seen As Only Remedy for Plight Of the Southland The South is losing money and human and physical resources at the rate of a billion dollars a year, writes David Cushman Coyle, con sulting engineer who has recently served as advisor to several Federal government projects, in the spring issue of the Virginia Quarter Re view at Charlottesville. Mr. Coyle charges that the South is paying out a billion dollars a year beyond its yearly income by selling its property to investors in other parts of the country, by bor rowing money and going bankrupt by destroying land and forest to make products to be sold. ' National subsidies are the only remedy for the plight of the South, Mr. Coyle points out. These must be “paid out of income taxes col lected in New York, California, and Florida—wherever the men live who are now receiving tribute from the poorer sections of the country. These subsidies are not charity, but return of excessive payments, like “divi dends” returned to a member of a cooperative store. Education and road building are the most generally accepted sub sidies, the writer continues. Rural electrification is another. Soil con servation by the Federal govern ment is one that can be expanded i'or ten years or so. »' “Human erosion can probably ab sorb a larger sum than soil erosion, with profit to the nation,” he writes. “The American people can spend $250,000,000, or two dollars per year per capita on public health service that will repay the cost in direct savings. Invites All Nurses, Doctors and Wives -« Shep Brinkley, manager of New Theatre, Plymouth, N. C., wishes to extend a public invitation to all doc tors, their wives, and all nurses in Washington County and other sur rounding counties to attend the showing of “The Doctor s Diary, on Saturday night, April 17, at 10 p. m. (one showing only), as his guests. County Will Vote on Liquor Stores June l Farm Notes By W. V. HAYS, County Agent Mr. Floyd, the tobacco specialist, says the best thing he has found is 1 per cent rotenone dust for the con trol of insects. If possible to get this dust, the method is to dust through the cloth good and heavy while the cloth is dry, then drop the cloth from the frame down over the bed or the plants. These insects travel by hopping, and the lowered cloth will prevent this. Those not killed by the dust will be handicapped in doing any damage to the young to bacco plants. We had hopes of making Wash ington County a one-variety cotton county and of establishing the strain of farm relief cotton. Certified seed of this variety and good seed of this variety of recommended germination tests are not available in the state. There are a few lots of good cotton seed available in the county of this variety, possibly enough to supply our needs and these seed, I believe, will be better than imported seed of other varieties. This is the season of the year to take precautions to prevent heavy pullet losses by giving the baby chicks the proper care. Do not brood in numbers larger than 300 in one brood. When chicks are crowd ed, it takes more feed for chicks growing out, requires a longer time to grow them and, in the end, you will have more culls and runts. Be sure that your chicks are not over heated, as it is very easy to get chicks too hot during warm days in the spring, especially where a brick furnace is used. — 9 Friday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. at the Central High School in Eliza beth City will be held a meeting for the purpose of setting forth the position of truck growers of Eastern North Carolina as related to the new farm program and to more nearly bring about increased benefit payments for truck growers. We should have a representation of po tato growers especially, and our to mato, May pea, and cucumber grow ers should also be represented. A good many farmers planted a row of cucumbers for the first time this year. It is well to remember that cucumbers do best on the type of soil necessary for good gardens. II may be necessary to use quite a Lit of lime. Cucumbers do best in a neutral soil or on ground too al kaline for tobacco. Compost pays handsomely under cucumbers. Side dressing with nitrate of soda might also pay. The idea is to so fertilize and cultivate as to keep the vines green or healthy for as long a period as possible. Wide rows are an ad vantage in picking and this rule is necessary to prevent mutilating the vines. Good cottonseed are scarce. So far as we know there is not a good lot of Farm Relief cottonseed one year from the breeder available for planting purposes in North Carolina of a germination high enough to be worth planting. It is hazardous to buy cottonseed with the germination below 80 per cent. The best indication of how things are going with our hog sales is the increased sales. Three cars were held over from the sale on the 13th for shipment on the 20th. 324 hogs were sold last Tuesday for approxi mately $7,000. The railroad has promised to improve the grading and loading facilities by our next ship ping date. We will greatly appre ciate it if any farmers who have hogs for sale will get in touch with the Plymouth office not later than Saturday before the date of sale. This is necessary to make accom modations in making room for ship ment and also necessary to secure good bids on the hogs sold. One truckload of hogs was carried away from the sale last Tuesday due to the fact that we did not have room enough to accommodate the ship ment of these hogs. Please contact your county agent or at least the Plymouth office before sending hogs for sale. -<g> Dare County Club Conducts Extensive Canning Project -• Three acres of vegetables will be grown for canning purposes by 4-H club members at the Kittl Hawk School in Dare County to be used for free lunches next winter, says the county farm agent. Special Election Is Ordered by County j J Board of Elections Books Open for Registra tion for Three Saturdays Beginning May 8 Now those who have been guess ing will have an opportunity to see whether Washington County will vote wet in a referendum, as an elec tion has been called for June 1, thus affording a chance for the people to vote as they deem wise on whether or not to allow legal whisky in this county. The books for registration will be open on Saturday, May 8, and will remain open until Saturday, May 22, with the following Saturday, May 29, being designated as the time for challenge. There will not be a complete re-registration. Many predict that despite the blows that legal whisky has receiv ed in years gone by that this will join with other counties in the state this year and will legalize the sale of controlled whisky through ABC stores with the government in charge of their operation. Usually about 2,000 votes are cast in this county, with about 2,200 be ing counted in the last election. Ob servers do not believe, however, that more than 1,500 will go to the polls to vote their opinions in the special election on June 1. On the other hand, it is known that the opposition to the measure is mustering their followers and the churches and ministers are expected to wage relentless war on the effort to bring legal whisky back into this county. The same pollholders and regis trars as were used in the last gen eral election will be used in the ref erendum, according to James E. Davenport, chairman of the board of elections. Associated with him are Frank C. Spruill and J. R. Man ning. -*> M. W. NORMAN, 58, DIES AT HOME OF SON IN RALEIGH ■« Funeral services were held at the home on Main Street here Tuesday for Macon Walker Norman, 58, who died at the home of his son, Cyril W. Norman, last Sunday while in Raleigh taking treatments for a dis ordered stomach. Rev. C. T. Thrift, pastor of the Methodist church, officiated, assist ed by Rev. R. H. Lucas, of the Bap tist church. Interment took place in the Methodist cemetery adjoin ing the church yard. A large crowd attended, and a large floral offering was contributed. Mr. Norman was well known in this section, where he had worked for years as an expert and foreman in the lumber plant of the Plym outh Box & Panel Company and he had also served some time as councilman, member of the school board and member of the old wa ter and light commission. Surviving Mr. Norman is a widow and two sons. C. W. Norman, of Ra leigh; and M. G. Norman, of Rich mond; also tiie following brothers, who were active pall-bearers: Zeb Vance, James W., Joe S., Cicero J. Norman, and a brother-in-law, L. W. Gurkin, all of Plymouth; and Ed Norman, of Fayetteville. Mr. Norman had been in Raleigh five weeks undergoing treatment and had not entered a hospital, as he could get the treatments just as well at the home of his son. “Love Is News*" at New Theatre Here The romance of a thrilling three some whose kisses crash the head lines and whose escapades sell ex tras, with handsome Tyrone Power out-romancing his “Lloyds of Lon don” role, lovely Loretta Young bringing her fresh charm to a por trayal that is enehantingly different, and Don Ameche creating a dashing new screen characterization, pro vides hilarious excitement in the streamline hit, “Love Is News,” play ing Thursday, April 15th, at the New Theatre, Plymouth, for one day only. Slim Summerville, Dudley Diggs, Walter Catlett, George Sanders, Jane Darwell and Stepin Fetchit are fea tured in the cast, while Tay Garnett directed. EPISCOPALIANS TO HOLD MEET HERE TUESDAY -• Bishop Darst and Rev. Wal ter Noe Among Leaders Expected -» — Plans are being made here to wel come scores of Episcopalians from with Holy Communion with the con will gather here in Grace Episcopal church on Tuesday. April 20, for a meeting of the laymen and clergy of district six, with Bishop Thomas C. Darst and Rev. Walter Noe, of Wilmington, expected to attend. The sessions will open at 9 a. m. Rev. C. T. Thrift will speak on ferences beginning at 10, divided into three-quarter hour periods, sus pending for an hour or more at 1 o’clock for lunch, after which there will be other periods in the after noon. Mrs, J. B. Edmundson, rep resenting the Woman’s Guild, and H. A. Williford and S. A. Ward, jr., will represent the men’s club in preparing for the visitors. Rev. Arthur B. Papineau, of Vine yard Haven, Mass., father of Dr. Alban Papineau, here on a visit to his son, addressed the meeting of the Men’s Club held at C. E. Ayers’ home Wednesday night. He will al so teach the Bible class Sunday morning and wil participate at the evening service. Claude Wheatley, superintendent of the Episcopal Sun day school in Beaufort, will speak here ht the next meeting of the Men’s Club at the home of Zeno Lyon on May 12. A committee composed of H. A. Williford, S. A.’Ward, jr„ J. H. Leg gett, Lloyd Gilbert, and W. F. Win slow and others will welcome the men from the other churches who will attend the meeting here next Tuesday. Walter H. Paramore and Zeno Lyon were appointed on a pub licity committee. -» HoiflC and Club News By Mary Frances Misenbeimer Schedule for Next Week Monday, County Bridge. Tuesday, Pleasant Grove. Wednesday, Swain. Thursday, Creswell. Friday, Alba. Saturday, curb market, 8:30. Mrs. Roy Stillman, yard leader in Roper club, has done quite a bit of work in her yard for the past month. Over 100 pieces of shrubbery have been planted and a variety of bulbs have been set out. Mrs. Odell Mizelle, poultry lead er in Hoke Home Demonstration Club, asked the member of the club at the March meeting to keep a rec ord of the eggs and chickens sold until the April club meeting. Mrs. Mizelle reported eight members keeping records. A good report was given by the leader, as follows: 72 biddies hatched. $106.95 worth of eggs sold. $20 worth of chickens sold. Mrs. George Bowen gave an in teresting talk on spring styles at the Chapel Hill club meeting. She also displayed a collar and cuff set that she learned to make at the clothing leaders’ school. Mrs. Bowen believes in working out new ideas that are learned at the leaders’ schools and at club meetings. Beech Grove Club can boast of the good attendance at their club meetings. More interest exists in the clubs when the attendance is good. A good clothing report was given by the clothing leader, Mrs. T. R. Chesson. The fall and winter garden re ports must be sent to Raleigh. Those planning to send their records in should do so immediately. Club women, start making plans to attend the district meeting May 28 at Plymouth High School. We are to be hostess to the following counties: Martin, Beaufort, Pitt and Bertie. Dr. Robert House, dean of admin istration at the University of North Carolina, is to be the main speaker. Women and men are invited to this meeting. -• Railroads Use Quite a Bit Of Water In Year’s Time -* The great quantity of water used by American railroads each year would fill a channel 300 yards wide and nine feet deep, extending from New York to SanFrancisco and re turn. Campbell Announces Candidacy for Mayor Seeks Reelection in Election May 4th; Others Hold Back All Old Councilmen and J. W. Norman Expected To Announce Shortly Breaking the ice and being the first to come out definitely for the job as mayor of the Town of Plym outh is Mayor B. G. Campbell, who announced this W'eek that he will enter the contest to succeed him self in this position, which he has filled creditably for the last sev eral months. For about 10 years Mr. Campbell has been connected with the affairs of the town serving as councilman all these years, while R. P. Walker, A. L. Owens, and then Gilbert Da vis served as mayor. He succeeded Mr. Davis last December, when Mr. Davis resigned to move away. Since 1921 Mr. Campbell has been a wholesale grocer in Plymouth and through these years has manifested an interest in public affairs of the municipality. He is a property hold er and is well known in the town •where he has conducted his business for many years. No definite word has come from S. A. Ward, who may enter the race for the position as mayor. Mr. Ward is still considering the matter while it is understood that Eugene F. Still, who at one time announced his can didacy for this office, has decided not to become a contestant. The present councilmen, includ ing E. H. Liverman. H. C. Spruill, Dr. W. H. Johnson, W. J. Mayo, T. C. Burgess, are expected to run, with James W. Norman making a sixth candidate. So far as the reporter could determine, there has been no rumors of opposition to them. The election will be held on May 4. Registration books will open on Saturday, April 17, and will close on April 24, with Saturday. May 1 as challenge day. There will not be a new registration, and those who have their names already on the books will be eligible to vote. Poll holders and places of ballot ing: First ward, Mrs. H. M'. Ram sey, registrar, Frank Brinkley and W. F. Stubbs, judges, at courthouse. Second ward: L. C. Hassell, regis trar; E. S. Mizelle and W. R. Am frose, judges; at S. O. S. Shoe Shop on Water Street. Third ward: Harry Stell, registrar: Jim Smith and Ray mond Peal, judges; at Peal’s radio shop. --® Local Winners in District Contest —•— Baritone horn, first place, was was by Wilford Whitley, Saturday, April 10, at Greenville in the dis trict music contest. Next to the high est rating was made, and the judge recommended that he go to the state contest, to be held in Greensboro, April 21, 22, and 23. He was ac companied on the piano by L. W. Zeigler. Helen Harrison won third place in piano solo for high school students, and Mary Charlotte Jones won sec ond place in soprano solo for the high schools. -•--— Crotalaria Is Good Soil-Building Crop Crotalaria is gaining recognition as a soil-building crop in the sandy areas of the State, said R. L. Eov vorn, agronomist at State College. This crop, he said, makes a much heavier growth than most of the commonly grown summer legumes on poor, sandy soils, and it is an ex cellent soil-builder. At the coastal plain branch ex periment station at Willard, he con tinued, a corn crop grown in a two year rotation with crotalaria pro duced 39.9 bushels to the acre. On a nearby field where corn had been grown every year, the yield was 22.1 bushels to the acre. Move Four Million Pounds Live Fish to Distant Points An unique service maintained by the Railway Express Agency is that of moving approximately four mil lion pounds of live fish annually from middle western points to New York and Philadelphia where they are used as food. ANNOUNCES B. G. Campbell this week an nounced his candidacy for re election as Mayor of Plymouth, subject to the municipal election on Tuesday, May 4. About Town All of the children of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hathaway, of Creswell, have their diplomas from high school as follows: Willie, Robert, Kate, Mary, Phillip, Norman and now Dorothy. Rev. C. T.\ Thrift wil speak on “Evangelizing the World" at the Methodist church next Sunday morning, while a pageant, “The Bishops’ Crusade,” will be present ed in the evening under the direc tion of Mrs. Kathleen Spruill. L. W. Zeigler’s high school bard and the junior and senior choirs will al so have spots on the program. E. H. Liverman, who has been sick for several weeks, was down town in his car Wednesday. He is convalescing rapidly after a setback upon his return from the hosptital. A. L. Owens has moved his offiec into the Owens Building on Wash ington Street between Dr. T. L. Bray’s place and the Band Box Beauty Shop. James W. Norman desired more room for his office in the furniture store. E. G. Harrison moved across the street into the Toodle Building. For 30 years Mr. Owens remained in the building from which he recenlty moved. Herring are beginning to run in the Roanoke River, and after a late start fishermen at the famous Slade and Kitty Hawk fisheries are begin ning to bring in large catches. Prior to last week W. R. Hampton failed to catch enough in the regular hauls to pay expenses. Banquet Held at Creswell Friday Exotic in its quaintness was the junior-senior banquet in the Cres well high school last Friday, when students and their guests imbibed tea and punch and enjoyed a tur key dinner in a setting appointed for a Japanese garden. Waitresses were attired as Nip ponese maidens and above the three tables, around which sat about 60 people, were Japanese lanterns in which candles burned. Clinging to the walls was green vegetation from the forests. Jack Spencer served as toastmas ter, with Lula Mae Davenport mak ing the welcome address. Toasts were made as follow’s: To the sen iors, by Ada Craddock, with Dor othy Hathaway responding; to the faculty, by Mary Phelps, with W. S. Riddick replying; to Neta Grace Davenport, mascot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. N Davenport, jr. Charlie Phelps told a joke with the junior class giving a stunt. Chris tine Snell toasted the ladies pres ent^with Mrs. Sidney Smithson re sponding. Short talks were madu by H. H. McLean, superintendent of schools; Walter H. Paramore, Plym outh; Paul Liverman, Columbia; and C. H. Aderholdt, principal of Cres well school. ’fhe menu consisted of roast tur key, jellied cranberry sauce, cream ed potatoes, green peas, celery, rolls, pickles, chocolate pie, whipped cream, iced tea and mints. CITY BOARD MAY FORBID SALE OF LOW GRADE MILK Springwood Dairy To Co operate in Giving Town A-Grade Milk An ordinance is expected to be passed in Plymouth at the next meet ing of the city council on the first Monday in May prohibiting the sale of milk below the A grade within the corporate limits. Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Lucas are ready and willing to cooperate with the Town of Plymouth and at their Springwood Dairy will begin at : nee to install equipment and make arrangements to distribute only A grade milk. Health inspectors from the state are anxious that the milk grade be raised to A so that hotels may add this condition to their requirements and thus get 8 points more on their rating than they can now possibly get. Grade A milk must be secured from healthy cattle and must be handled according to certain speci i fications to reach this level. There is no complaint now of the char acter of milk nor the service ren dered by the local dairy but this is only an effort to raise the general health rating. Mayor B. G. Campbell has been approached about this ordinance by both the state health inspectors and Mr. Lucas, who are to cooperate in giving to the town of Plymouth A grade milk. And he, with the coun cilmen, will be glad to hear of the reaction from the public. This in no way will stop the sell ing of milk of other grade levels that is used for various purposes. Stress Importance of Farmers Using Debt Adjustment Service Offered by Division of Re settlement Administra tion in County In a statement made here this week, W. V. Hays, extension agent for Washington County, stressed the importance of the farm debt adjust ment service being carried on thru the rehabilitation division of the Re settlement Administration and pledg ed to farmers of this county his whole-hearted cooperation in assist ing those who need it to take ad vantage of the services offered by that agency of the government which has recently become a part of the U. S. Department of Agricul ture. “There is no cost connected with the service," Mr. Hays said, ‘‘and no farmer in danger of losing his prop erty through foreclosure, or who has reached the point where he is not sure of the best course to pur sue, should be without the advice and assistance of those persons whose experience and every-day duties give them more than aver age knowledge in untangling knot ty debt problems.” “As I understand it, farm debt ad justment workers, through the as sistance of voluntary debt adjust ment committees, are now doing for the farmer with a difficult debt prob lem just what many industrious bus iness men in distress have been able to do for themselves, namely, laying the cards on the table and working out an adjustment on the basis of ability to pay and on the basis of what is best in the long run for debtor and creditor. Sometime an extension of time for payment is secured. Sometimes a more satis factory schedule of payment may be had. In other cases, assistance can be given in refinancing with anoth er creditor.” Mr. Hays calls attention to the fact that farmers deserving this service should apply directly to Mr. C. C. Hutcheson, county rural re habilitatoin supervisor for Wash ington and Tyrrell Counties, whose office is located in Leggett Building, Water Street, Plymouth. Until further notice, Mr. Hutche son wil lbe in Plymouth on Tues days, Fridays and Saturdays of each week and he or his representative will be glad to confer with those desiring debt assistance. While in Plymouth, he will be located at the Leggett Building. Full information as to time and place can always be secured from the county agent’s of fice. -<r Treat 10,000 Bushels Seed For Planting This Spring Between eight and ten thousand bushels of cotton seed are being treated before plantings in North ampton County this spring.
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