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I Plymouth Merchants Bring You Greater Savings, Read Every Ad - /hen Shop And Save Advertisers will flr.;l I»oacor. and News columns a latchkey to 1200 Washington County homes. The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ★★★★*** l h' me newepap r dedicated to tne service of Washington County and its 12,000 people. VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 52 Plymouth, Washington County, t\orth Carolina, For Friday, December 24, 1937 ESTABLISHED 1889 Local Man Absolved Of Blame for Fatal Accident Saturday Negro Struek by Car of Geo. Joyner Near Oak City Be lieved Hit-Run Vietim After deliberating only 30 minutes a coroner’s jury in Martin County exonerated George Joyner, local A. C. L. express messenger, of any negli gence in the death of Wiliam Hyman, 60-year-old colored man, who tvas lying in the road when struck by Joyner's car Saturday night near Oak City. Hyman's death was thought to have been caused when an automo bile operated by Mr. Joyner ran into the body of the victim which was sprawled across the road. His head was crushed, one arm tom nearly off and both legs broken by the machine. Joyner, accompanied by Miss Eve lyn Anthony and Mrs. Roderick Watts, was driving toward Scotland Neck when he discovered the body in the road too late to avoid strik ing it. When he applied brakes, the ma chine struck the body and skidded into a ditch at the side of the road, slighty injuring the occupants of the car and damaging the auto. It was brought out at the hearing that Hyman had been drinking ear lier that night. He was believed to have fallen out of his cart and was walking the highway when hit by a car which left him in the road to be struck again by the car of Mr. Joyner. The negro’s mule and cart were found in Oak City later. -® Final Drawing for Cash Prizes Will Be Held Monday —®— Record-Breaking Crowd Ex pected; Total of $325 in • Cash To Be Given A record-breaking crowd is ex pected here next Monday afternoon, December 27, at 3 o'clock p. m., when the final and major cash awards of fered by the Plymouth Merchants’ Association wil be made. Last year well over 2,000 persons were on hand for the final drawing, and there is no reason to believe that this year’s crowd will be any smaller. Prizes to be given away total $325, and are divided as folows: First prize, $200; second prize, $50; third, $25; and five prizes of $10 each. The campaign was inaugurated about the first of October as a means of stimulating interest in trading in Plymouth. That it has been success ful is shown by the fact that pearly 200.000 tickets have been given out by the merchants. Last year only 100.000 tickets were used. Customers are urged to call for their tickets during the closing days of the campaign. A ticket is given for each $1 purchase or payment on account, and it is easily possible that the ticket which will call for $200 when drawn next Monday has not yet been given out. Trade in Ply mouth and ask for your tickets. -® Transfer Run of Local Conductor —<$>— Captain T. A. Brinkley, who has been passenger conductor on the At . lantic Coast Line Railroad from Plymouth to Tarboro for several years, has succeeded Captain George D. Hawks on the Kinston to Weldon run. Captain Hawks, 71, has retired aft er 54 years in the company’s service. Captain Sanderson, of Portsmouth, has succeeded Captain Brinkley on the rim to Tarboro. Captain Brinkley has not definitely decided whether he will move his family from here or not. If so, it will be some time next year. From Everyone of Us To Everyone of You— _*— g May this Christmas he the l merriest and happiest you | have ever known. THE ROANOKE BEACON Holiday Schedule Of Postal Service Here Is Announced No Rural or City Delivery Cliirstmas Day; Mail To Be Dispatched The local postoffice will continue to provide a large measure of service throughout the Christmas holidays, it was announced today by Postmas ter George W. Hardison, allthough it means that employees will have but little time off for themseves dur ing that time. There will be no rural free delivery or carrier service Christmas Day, he stated, but special delivery parcels and packages containing perishable products will be delivered. The mail will be dispatched as usual Christmas Day, and mail will be put up for patrons with lock boxes. Mr. Hardison also said that the parcel post window will be opened for 30 minutes after each incoming mail is received and distributed. Three Cases Tried In County Court Judge John W. Darden had three cases in Recorder’s court Tuesday. One defendant was found guilty, one not guilty and judgment was sus pended in the other case. Wilbur Davenport was acquitted in recorder's court Tuesday of a charge of assaulting Mrs. Eula Sitterson. It was charged that she was walking along the road when Davenport drove a mule across her path, causing her to stop and then he cursed her. Sam Hoover, colored, was given six months on the roads on a charge of assaulting another negro with an axe. Bosie Rhodes was charged with non support of his wife and child. The case was continued for judgment un til January 4, with the provision that Rhodes give $10 for the family. 12-Foot Channel at River Mouth Nears Completion Dredging activities underway at the mouth of the Roanoke River where it empties into Albermarle Sound are progressing rapidly and the inspec tor on the job stated this week that the project was expected to be com peted by the 23rd. When completed the channel will provide a minimum depth of 12 feet, the same as the Inland Waterway channel, and it will permit passage of much larger vessels than has been possible in the past. Before the work started some two weeks ago there was an average depth of only about 9 1/2 feet. Need for the increased depth was emphasized recently when the North Carolina Pulp Company put into operation some barges that would hardly clear the bar in the chan nel. Funds for the work were se cured from an emergency appropria tion provided for such projects and made available by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has charge of such work. River traffic has shown a decided increase during the past few months, and the new channel with its greater depth is expected to bring about a still larger increase. Second Warehouse Is Secured for Peanuts I OFFICE TO BE CLOSED I The office of The Roanoke Bea con will be closed from Thurs day through next Tuesday in or der to give members of the “force” a few days for Christ mas. This is about the only holi day observed by this newspaper during the year, hence the rea son for being closed several days. Everybody will be back on the job and ready for “business as usual” next Wednesday, and in the meantime every member of the crew hopes every reader of The Beacon has the best, happi est and merriest Christmas ever. Minister Stresses Helping Others in Christmas Sermon —<$>— Rev. Mr. Taylor Urges Sym pathy and Mercy for Poor and Needy "Instead of looking upon the needy as a curse we are made happier when we participate in the joy of giving to them, and we must be sympathetic and merciful to those that appeal to us at Christmas time,” said Rev. N. A, Taylor to his congregation at the Christian church Sunday morning. The minister explained that Christ’s life was a mission of mercy, recall ing to the minds of his hearers oc casions when Christ was active in deeds of this kind, and asserted that the church was happiest when ex pending mercy. "Christmas is not tied up in pack ages, lights, dinners and fireworks, but the ideal Christmas is realized when men love, have compassion for the needy and extend mercy to those who are unfortunate. "Real religion is found in the state ment of Jesus, ‘pure religion is vis iting the fatherless and widows in their afflictions.’ We will really en joy Christmas when we respond to pleas of mercy, as did Christ to the blind man on the road to Jericho.” The minister used as his text: "Christ being rich in mercy . . . aids us to sit in heavenly places.” During the service the church elect ed the following officials to serve for three years: E. H. Liverman and W. L. Whitley, elders: Gilmer Ayers, Rudolph Beasley, Herman Spencer, W. W. Browning, and S. D. Davis, deacons. These go to make a church board of 18. Merchants Pledge $400 If Necessary To Care for Loss —®— Will Make Possible Release Of About $50,000 To County Farmers -<3> — Washington County farmers, thru the cooperation of a group of Ply mouth merchants, began receiving money last Saturday on peanuts placed in storage at the second ware house here operated by the Peanut Stabilization Corporation. The first warehouse, opened about a month ago, had already received around 20,000 bags, and it began to look as if the necessary financial arrange ments could not be made for the second warehouse until a meeting of the merchants association and the county agent was held last Thurs day and the necessary guarantee was made. At this meeting it was explained that Mr. J. E. Davenport was willing to lease the old Clark Peanut Com pany warehouse here, for the Sta bilization Corporation, but that he did not wish to assume all the res ponsibility for any shrinkage in weight as the peanuts dried out. Af ter the matter was explained in de tail, and the great need for the ad ditional warehouse stressed by the county agent, the following group of men assumed individual responsibil ity for various amounts of losses, the total being $400: A. E. Davenport, Norman Furni ture Co., E. H. Liverman, Abe Adler, L. S. Thompson, W. F. Winslow, L. E. Hassell, E. G. Arps, J. R. Man ning, P. M. Arps, R. J. Sydenstricker, W. H. Johnson, R. W. Brown, H. A. Williford, S. D. Davis, Sam Adler, W. G. Bailey, E. S. Blount, Gray Willis, H. E. Harrison, C. E. Ayers, B. G. Campbell, W. V. Hays, W. H. Clark, J. E. Davenport. The house will take care of approx imately 15,000 to 17,000 bags of pea nuts and will make possible the re lease of about $50,000 to Washing ton County growers at this time. In dications are that the building will be filled before Christmas, and fur ther deliveries after the house is filled constitute an unsolved problem. The Peanut Stabilization Corpor ation, which is not a government agency, although the money for its operation is loaned by the govern ment, is making loans of 3 1/4 cents per pound on peanuts that grade A-3 or better. Allowance is made for 3 (Continue on page four) Negotiations Under Way To Purchase Land for State Park -- Would Be Located on Shores Of Lake Phelps in This and Tyrrell Counties -«■ Negoations are now in progress be tween State Forester J. S. Holmes of the forestry division and the U. S. Farm Security Administration for the acquisition of a new park on the shores of Lake Phelps, the remark able lake in Washington and Tyrell counties which is 16 feet above the level of the river into which it emp ties. Geologists say the lake bed was formed by a huge metor which fell in that section of the state thousands of years ago. The land around Lake Phelps is very fertile and before the Civil War some of the state’s largest and most prosperous plantations were located there with huge drainage canals dug by slaves. After the war most of these plantations wer abandoned. Recently the Farm Security Ad ministration (formerly the Resettle ment Administration) has bought thousands of acres of these lands and old plantations, has been cleaning out the old canals and clearing land in order to establish a group of new farms. But the state owns Lake Phelps and the Department of Con servation, which has jurisdiction over all state lakes, wants some of this land for a state park and has almost convinced the Federal government that it should have it. The tract it hopes to get for the park is that which includes portions of the old Pettigrew and Collins plantations, on which the old mansions are still standing—also the old Collins barn, one of the most unique buildings of its kind found anywhere, according to Mr. Holmes. One of the most beautiful avenues of old cypress trees to be found in the state is on one of these plantations. County Farmers To Start Applying Soon For Soil Payments Each Grower Will Be Notified When To Fill Out Appli cation Blanks Within the next few weeks, Wash ington County fanners will begin ap plying for their benefit payments un der the terms of the 1937 soil con servation program, it was learned this week from the office of Coun ty Agent W. V. Hays. Mr. Hays stated that application^ for the 1937 payments are being pre pared in his office for signature by farmers and their tenants. The work has just about been completed for Plymouth Township; and as the sownships are completed a notice will be sent to each producer from the agents office felling him where and when to go to sign the application for his 1937 payments, and notify ing him to take his tenants along at the same time so that the blank can be properly filled out in detail. Complete figures are not available right now and will not be known until all applications for benefits are received, but it is certain that many Washington County farmers will par ticipate in the payments. Under the terms of the program last year, grow ers of this county received many thousands of dollars in benefit pay ments. The application forms for the far mers to fill in are not very compli cated and can be easily executed if the growers will record their acre ages, both soil-building and soil-de pieting, and have the information ready when they enter their appli cations for payments. The information will be checked in the office of the county agent. Far mers are urged to apply for payments at the time and place to be speci fied directly to them. Among the farms in the county that are covered by work sheets there is a percentage who have not qualified for maximum payments un der the program. A number of farmers in this coun ty, just as everywhere alse, desert ed the soil conservation program to some extent this year; some planted their base allotments, and many of those who kept their plantings be i low the base figures did not effect any great reductions and bumper I yields followed for most crops. H atch l\ight Service at Cresuell Church Friday -® The regular Christmas Eve mid i night service will be held at the Cres I well Christ Episcopal church Friday night at 11:30. A special Christmas program will be given Sunday after | noon at 5 o’clock. Final Appeal Issued For Christmas Fund _ ■ I ONLY 3 DAYS TO GO I -; Christmas shoppers have only Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day to complete their gift selec tions, but they will find Pym outh merchants just as eager and ready to serve them as they were when the shopping season began. While the stocks are not as com plete as they were a couple of weeks ago, there are still plenty of gift suggestions to be found in the stores here, and new mer chandise is being received daily. For your last-minute gifts, give Plymouth merchants first chance. Not only will you get as much for your money as anywhere else, but you will find them truly grate ful for the chance to serve you. Superior Court for Criminal and Civil Cases Begins lOtli Two Weeks’ Term Will Be Presided Over by Judge R. Hunt Parker A mixed term of Washington Coun ty Superior Court opens here Mon day, January 10 for two weeks with Judge R. Hunt Parker, of Roanoke Rapids, presiding with a total of 19 civil cases listed on the calendar. The first two days will be devoted to criminal cases with only a small time alloted for the few that are on the docket. It is expected that it will take only a short time to start on the civil cases which it is sure will not consume the entire two weeks. The members of the Washington County Bar Association in session here Tuesday decided that 10 civil cases would be listed for the first week and 9 for the second week. Wednesday. January 12: W. W. Ange, Jr. vs. C. A. Cratch; O. H. Lyon vs. J. J. Johnson: Annie and Mae Spruill vs. W. J. Beil; Elwood Daven port vs. Pauline Davenport. Thursday, January 13: Branch Banking and Trust Co. vs. E. H. Har ris; Jerry M. Harris vs. Wade Waters; Clara Hedgebeth vs. Life Insurance. Company; Nancy Coffee vs. Stewart Monroe. Friday. January 14: J. L. Swain, et al. vs. Clyde McCallum, et al; M. H. Atamanchuck vs. H. D. Daven port. Christmas Brings Week-End of Rest For Local Workers Veneer Plant To Close Thurs day; Pulp and Handle Plants Friday A week-end of rest and recreation is promised to those engaged in em ployment in and around Plymouth. The North Carolina Pulp Company will close down Friday; the Plym outh Box & Panel Company will close down Thursday night; and the local unit of the American Fork & Hoe Company will close Friday. All of these plants will reopen Monday after Christmas with a full force at work, as prospects appear to be brighter for business in the new year. Stores will be closed Saturday and Sunday, giving two holidays in a row. There will be little activity at the Plymouth Country Club except for routine parties and golf, as the em pasis there will be placed on New Year’s Eve, when a dance is sched uled. Need Is Still Great; Some Appeals May Have To Be Ignored Hope To Secure Enough To Provide for 550 Baskets In County Unless those in Washington Coun ty who are more fortunate than oth ers contribute liberally to the Christ mas Joy Fund, some of the needy men. women and children will not have a happy Christmas. The generosity of those who have made contributions is appreciated by .hose who are in charge of raising this money, but there are many oth ers who can and should contribute to this fund at once. Unless this is done, the agencies cooperating to bring cheer to needy homes will not be able to make a complete distri bution. To date, 550 urgent calls for help have been made to the committee handling the work. Sponsored by the American Legion, it is a com munity undertaking, with a number of other local agencies cooperating in the work. Commander Bruce Bateman and District Commander C. McGowan this week issued a general call for all those who will to help raise the $300 that is needed. Only $230 of this amount had been raised today. It requires about 50 cents to fill a basket. This includes a pound of candy, pound of raisins, apple, orange and a 25-cent toy. The amount of money on hand now will fill only 460 baskets, against the needed 550, with a possibility that others may be added later. Arrangements have been made to prepare the baskets at the Legion Hall Friday, and the distribution will be made by a group who have volun teered to help. The Boy Scouts and the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department have their toys ready to distribute and will cooperate with each other, al though the distribution will be made independently of the other groups. The firemen and the Scouts have spent every leisure moment in mend ing the old toys, painting them and preparing them for use by chidren whose parents will not have the money to buy toys at Christmas. Contributions have been made to the Legion Joy Fund as follows: Mer chants' Association, $30, Masonic Lodge $22, Lions Club $50. Legion $60, boxes placed on counters in lo cal stores $20, pageant at school Sun day night $28.40. and Junior Womans Club 20 packages. Carol Service at Creswell Church -® An impressive Christmas service was given at the Creswell Methodist Protestant Church Sunday night, with members of other congregations joining in the singing of Christmas carols. Small children sang “Silent Night." Mrs. Alice Starr sang a solo entitled, “Wise Men.” Rev. Mr. Wagoner lectured on "The Christmas Story." The com munion service was held by candle light. -- Makes Money by Careful Regrading of Tobacco -« After an experienced “pin hooker” told him that he often made as high as 16 cents a pound buying tobacco and regrading it. Max Higgins of Yancy County decided to do some grading himself. Record Crowd at Union Service Held at School More than 500 people crowded into the Plymouth High School auditor ium and 200 were turned away for lack of room Sunday night, when a cast of 100 presented a dramatic pageant entitled “The Magi’s Gift,” regarded by many as being one of the finest productions ever presented here. Chirstmas carols were sung by the glee club and members of the audi ence. The pageant was given in the nature of a union service, with all the local churches omitting their usual Sunday evening service. Prior to the opening curtain, Rev. R. H. Lucas, of the Baptist church, offered prayer and Rev. C. T. Thrift, of the Methodist church, read the Scripture lesson. The scenes were beautiful in their portrayal of Christmas in medieval England. The 100 characters were well chosen and gave a splendid per formance in every respect. Rev. N. A. Taylor, of the Christian church, pronounced the benediction with the cast singing “Silent Night” afterwards. Principal R. B. Trot man directed the play with Miss Ruth Modlin asssting with the glee club and Mrs. Laura S. Johnston accom panying on the piano. The crowd was said to be largest ever to attend a like presentation in Plymouth. A free-will offering was taken for the Empty Stocking Fund, and a total of $28.40 was realized. This was turned over to the commit tee in charge of the fund.
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