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The Roanoke Beacon * * * * » » » and Washington County News ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * VOLUME L—NUMBER 12 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, March 24, 1939 A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and Its 12,00# people. ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opics Home from a trip to Tarboro this week where he attended a meeting of camping chairmen of the East Caro lina Council of Boy Scouts, J. R. Man ning told of the arrangements being made by the Edgecombe city to take care of 800 scouts who will camp there April 14, 15, 16. J. A. Ferree, sanitary inspector for the district health office here, is at his home in Aberdeen recovering from an operation performed at Duke Hospital in Durham several weeks ago. Although reported much Im proved, Dr. S. V. Lewis said this week that it would likely be several more weeks before Mr. Ferree would be able to return to work. Postmaster George W. Hardison is reported improved today. Mon day the popular postaJ official collapsed while at work. A stom ach ailment was reported as the cause of his illness. Mr. Hardi son has been working long hours at the post office here and has missed but three days from his work since entering the service three years ago. John Bartram for 20 years aver aged being in jail every day. An Episcopal lay worker, he has visited jails in almost every county in North and South Carolina and Virginia. Monday he was in Plymouth with his party of three for religious services. Former Senator Carl L. Bailey ap peared before the senate in Raleigh Tuesday sponsoring the report of a commission of which he is chairman, appointed in 1935 by Governor Eh ringhaus to study the laws on wills, guardianship and administration of estates. The code as submitted by the commission contains 195 pages and was reported by the judiciary committee to the senate without prej udice. It had not been considered up to Thursday. There is twice as much pulp wood in Washington County as in any similar area in the state; more different kinds of botanical plants around Lake Phelps than in the whole of continental Eu rope; Scuppemong Farms con stitute one of the largest FSA projects in the country; and Washington County has these and many more things of which to be proud, according to John W'. Darden, secretary of the Washington County chamber of commerce. Industry is not the goal of the Hyde County Chamber of Commerce, according to P. G. Gallup, school sup erintendent and president of the i vanizatinn was here Monde'’ but rather‘Hy de County wants to be come known as the “Sportman’s Par adise.” Civil Service To Hold Exam for Rural Carrier The United States Civil Service Commission has anonunced an ex amination to fill the position of rural carrier at Columbia. The examina tion will be held at Plymouth and re ceipt of applications will close on March 21. Applications blanks may be se cured from the local post office. The salary for this position is $1,800 a year with an additional allotment for travel. District Health Officials Encourage Markets To Sell Home-Killed Meat A. J. Riddle To Be Candidate for City Councilman May 2 Silence surrounding the tnunici clection on May 2 was broken to day by the announcement of A. J. Riddle that he would be a can didate for councilman from the first ward. Mr. Riddle aspires to the post now held by T. C. Burgess, who says his health will not permit him to continue. It has been rumored that W. J. Mayo, the other councilman from the first ward, will not run again. Mayor B. G. Campbell definite ly decided Thursday that he would be a candidate for reelec tion to the office which he has hold for the last four years. J. W. Norman and Dr. W. H. Johnson, in the second ward, and E. H. Liverman and H. C. Spruill, in the third, are expected to run again, although they have made no announcements as yet. County Historical Commission Set Up Bv Legislative Act Provides for Publishing First Volume of County History During Next Year Publication in 1940 of the first vol ume of a history of Washington County is provided by a bill intro duced in the house this week by Rep resentative W. M. Darden. The meas ure would establish a historical com mission for the county and is ex pected to be enacted into law with outh opposition. The bill sets forth that it shall be the duty of the 12 commission mem bers to collect from the files of old newspapers, court records, church records and elsewhere valuable docu to the history of the county. Named in the bill are John W. Dar den, James W. Norsian, Mrs. Addie L. Brinkley, and Miss A. C. Carstarphen, who will elect the other eight to serve with them. Each member is ap pointed for life. The law provides that the regular annual meeting of the commission is to be held on the first Thursday in January of each year in the Wash ington County courthouse. Special meetings may be held when desired. The commission, according to the bill, shall write and put into book form all matters of historical inter est and shall preserve all matters which may in the future be of his torical itnerest District U. D. C. Meet To Be Held Here 31 st Over 100 Delegates And Number State Officers To Attend —®— Program Being Prepared for Sessions To Be Held in Methodist Church Upwards of 100 delegates from chapters in the fourteenth district of the United Daughters of the Con federacy, comprising clubs in Aulan der, Edenton, Hertford, Windsor, Elizabeth City and Plymouth are ex pected to attend the district meeting to be held in the Methodist church here next Friday, March 31, at 10:30 a. m., with Mrs. L. E. Fisher, of Ashe ville, state president, as the princi pal speaker. Mrs. F. M. Dunstan, of Windsor, district president, will preside over the meeting. Other state officials ex pected to attend are Mrs. J. E. Lam beth, Thomasville, second vice presi dent: Mrs. Garland Daniels, Greens boro, treasurer: Mrs. Quinton Greg ory, Halifax, historian; Miss Nannie Dodson, Winston-Salem, recorder of crosses; Mrs. John Rowe, Hickory, re cording secretary; Mrs. J. S. Hayden, High Point, chairman of the Jefferson Davis fund; Mrs. Claudius McGowan, Plymouth, chairman of Southern Lit erature for Home and Foreign Li braries. . . _ Music will be rendered by Shep Brinkley, C. J. Norman and Mrs. Laura S. Johnston. Misses Helen Harrison, Mary Thomas Robbins and Jane Reid will serve as pages. The senior woman’s club will serve a Dutch supper under the supervision of Mrs. W. A. Davidson at the com munity building. All who possibly can are urged to attend this meeting, according to the president of the local chapter, Mrs. John W. Darden, as this is the sec ond time that the district meeting has ever been held in Plymouth, and she wishes everyone to contribute in any way possible to the success of the event. MAY START MONDAY | v_ J The water continues high at the Kitty Hawk and Slade fish eries near here, but W. R. Hamp ton today expressed the belief that the water was falling fast enough now to permit operations to begin next Monday. Arrangements had been made to start last Monday, but the high water, over the batteries of the two fisheries, continued, and it is necessary to wait until the river recedes enough to permit the workmen to empty the seines on the batteries. Additional Building Sites Are Provided By New Subdivision -& New Development on Prop erty of T. C. Burgess; Streets Laid Out -• The property adjoining the resi dence and premises of T. C. Burgess on the east has been subdivided into 50 building lots for white people, the developmenj being next to Fairvale Terrace, it was learned today. Third and Fourth Streets have been extended eastward to connect with the new subdivision, which starts at the East Main Street home of Mrs. D. V. Clayton, whose residence is just outside the town limits. A street has been surveyed from Main Street southward to connect with Fourth Street. Dr. W. H. Johnson has purchased the bungalow and lot that fronts on Main Street. This is the residence that is now occupied by Policeman George Coburn. It is understood that since the lots are within the town limits that an effort will be made to have these streets opened by WPA funds under the sponsorship of the town. Misinformation To Contrary Corrected In Statement Today -tjb Markets Will Not Be Penal ized for Handling Meats Dressed by Farmers From Dr. S. V. Lewis, district health officer, it has just been learned that misinformation has recently spread abroad to the effect that local home killed and home-dressed meat would not be acceptable or would not be approved for sale at the local meat markets; and that meat markets found to be handling meat which has been slaughtered in Washington County might result in the de-grad ing or lowering of the grades of those meat markets. According to Doctor Lewis, and Mr. Warren H. Booker, director of the division of sanitary engineering of the State Board of Health, nothing could be further from the truth. The State Board of Health, and through it the local health units, are charged with the sanitation of meat markets, but this work has to do with mat ters of sanitation only; and a spe cific provision is included in the State law to the effect that ‘'This act (the meat market act) shall not apply to farmers and others who raise, butcher and market their own meat or meat products.’’ At the conference today between Dctor Lewis and Mr. Booker, it was pointed out that the State Board of Health insisted on inserting this pro vision in the original act passed some two years ago, and that none of the health authorities is in any wise in terested in the matter of home-killed meats, that this was not contemplat ed in he original State law, and that it is not contemplated in the Federal law. However, the local and State boards of health are interested in matters of cleanliness and decency in meat markets, including such items as clean washable floors, clean walls and ceilings, well-screened windows and self-closing screen doors, a safe wa ter supply, with means for those han dling tht meats and meat products to wash their hands, tools, and utensils with hot water and soap, with pro vision for clean towels, safe excreta disposal, clean meat blocks, with all employees handling meats provided with health certificates showing free dom from syphilis or other contagi ous and infectious diseases, with ade quate garbage cans, with tight covers, for storing the wastes and scraps of meat, and where chicken pens and coops are used to insure that these and the general premises are kept rasonably clean. It was pointed out by Doctor Lewis and Mr. Booker that the health au thorities are anxious to do everything in their power to promote the in creased use of local or native meat, and to prevent, as far as possible, the sending of North Carolina money to western packers. If any impression has gotten out that local dealers in meats would be penalized in any way for handling home-killed meat, it has been in er ror, and the health authroities stated that they are anxious that any mis apprehension should be corrected at the earliest possible moment. The law provides that no rule or regulation adopted by the State Board of Health shall provide any system which reduces or lowers the scoring and grading of any of the places mentioned in section 1, Chap ter 44, P. L. 1937, by reason of pur chase of meat from farmers and oth ers who raise, butcher and sell to such places their own meat and meat products. -& Preparations for Golfers' Banquet Nearly Complete Preparations have been made and many tickets sold for the banquet to be held at the Plymouth Country Club Monday night for the men golf ers, according to L. J. Meunier, jr., in charge of arrangements. An entertaining program has been arranged for the event by the pro gram committee, including Ellis Ma ples, pro, who will likely be one of the principal speakers. - Announce Birth of Son Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Walker, on Tuesday, March 21, a son, Burl Alexander. Pulp Company Not To Build Added Houses at Village Plant Manager Says Company Will Sell Lots but Is Not Interested in Biiildinu Investors who desire to put their money to work by building new homes for tile large number of persons who will come to Plymoutii in connection with the additions to the plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company here will not be troubled by competition by the plant. O. H. Cox, general manager of the company, said Wed nesday that it had been definitely de cided by the company that it would not build any more houses at the village here. Mr. Cox said the company would sell lots for residences in the village, but it would not undertake to finance the building. However, it was point ed out that all houses constructed in the village would be required to come up to certain standards, and although proposed homes in that section need not be necessarily expensive, the plans and specifications would be sub ject to approval by the village board before a lot could be secured. The company now owns 32 houses in the village, some of which are being sold to residents there on long terms of payment, it is understood. Upon the strength of the statement by the company official this week, it is believed that John L. Phelps, who has constructed a number of houses here recently, may be induced to add some new houses to his holdings here. Mrs. Allie Reddick Died Wednesday —$— Funeral services were held Thurs day afternoon for Mrs. Allie Reddick, 81, who died Wednesday morning fol lowing a lingering illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. S. Hardison, at Dardens. She was the widow of the late John E. Reddick, well known throughout this section. Rev. W. B. Harrington, of the Farm Life section of Martin County, con ducted the last rites. Interment was made in the cemetery adjoining the Dardens Methodist churchyard. Surviving are the following chil dren: John H. Reddick, Alton, 111.; J. H. Reddick, Plymouth RFD.; Ar thur Reddick, St. Louis, Mo.; Alton Reddick, Florence, S. C.; Herman Reddick and Mrs. H. S. Hardison, Dardens; Mrs. C. S. Teachey, Flor ence, S. C.; and Mrs. Evelyn Red dick, Portsmouth, Va. -^ Mrs. Kizzie Sexton Godwin, 92, Passes —*— Funeral services were held Thurs day afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Willie Oliver, in Scup pernong Township, for Mrs. Kizzie Sexton Godwin, 92, who died Thurs day morning at 2:30 after a lingering illness. The Rev. W. L. Jemigan, of Creswell, officiated. Interment took place in the Ambrose cemetery. For years Mrs. Godwin had been a member of the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist church in Tyrrell County and was well known in Washington Coun ty, where she had been a life-long resident. She was very active, con sidering her age, until last August. Mrs. Godwin was considered one of the oldest persons in this county. Surviving are the following chil dren, all of whom live in Creswell or near there: Mrs. Ella Oliver, Mrs. M. E. Ambrose, Mrs. W. C. Godwin, Mrs. L. S. Phelps, C. E. Godwin; and L. 8. Sexton, a brother. Pall-bearers were Otis Godwin, Ed ison Godwin, Winton Oliver, Roxie Oliver. Phillip Ambrose, and Cheslee Ambrose. Firemen Called To Columbia Sunday ——8 The Plymouth and Edenton fire de-, partments joined the Co umbia ne-1 partment Sunday in helping to faci&C under control the blaze ai the latter place Sunday afternoon which did damage estimated at $75,000 to the Tyrrell County Lumber Company's plant. Jerry Davenport and J. W. Collins, Columbia firemen, were injured by falling timbers during the blaze. The plant and two box cars were destroy ed and much of the lumber on the yard was also burned. Firemen stood guard over the embers until well in the night. Dick Hardison, jr and several oth er firemen here answered Columbia's call for aid about 2 o clock in the afternoon. Plants Unusually Small In County 7 obacco Beds Damage to tobacco plant beds all over the tobacco belt has reached the stage where it is crit ical, according to County Agent W. V. Hays, who points out tliat even though ne blue mold has been found in this county the beds have been seriously dam aged by wet weather and flea beetle infestation. “The plants are unusually small, and it is recommended that a small amount of nitrate of soda be used at intervals,” Mr. Hays said, “and it is much bet ter to make a small application than to make a large one.” “We recommend,” the county agent said, ‘'from 1 to 3 pounds per hundred square yards and suggest that at least 100 gallons of water be used on this yardage to wash down the fertilizer after making the application. It is foolisli to put soda in plant beds and expect the rain to wash the leaves.” “The application should be made when the bed is dry, then apply water with a sprinkler type can or bucket. Naphthalene or moth flakes scattered lightly over the bed helps to reduce worm and flea beetle damage,” the agent concluded. Say Plant To Be Set Up Here by End Year Removal of Industr Is Severe Setbaek To West Virginia Town Plant at Richwood Which Is To Be Moved Here Had 400 Employees In connection with the official an nouncement on March 9 that the lo cal plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company would be considerably ex panded and improved, copies of sev eral West Virginia papers were re ceived here this week containing dis patches about the removal of the Cherry River Paper Company from Richwood, W. Va., to Plymouth. Carl L. Groves, of Elkins, W. Va., former manager of the local unit of the American Fork & Hoe Company here, sent copies of the West Virginia papers to The Beacon with the pen ciled notation that “In case you are not sure, it looks like you are get ting about half of West Virginia.” One of the papers, the Clarksburg Exponent, has a special dispatch from Richwood reading as follows: “With the supply of pulp wood almost ex hausted, the local plant of the Cherry River Paper Company will move late this year to Plymouth, N. C. The plant has been active here for nearly 30 years and employs about 400 per sons. "The Cherry River Paper Company of Delaware (closely affiliated with the North Carolina Pulp Company in Plymouth) has purchased the stock business and Assets of the old com pany and will move the machinery to North Carolina to begin operation there before the beginning of the new year. “The company has an estimated payroll of between $500,000 and $600, 000 annually and is said to have spent some $600,000 annually with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.” An Associated Press disptach from Richwood to the Elkins (W. Va.) Inter-Mountain, says in part: “The Cherry River Paper Company will move its plant to Plymouth within the next eight months. It has been necessary to import pulp to keep the paper plant operating. “The announcement of the decis ion to move in November or Decem ber followed shortly after disclosure that the company had been purchased by the Cherry River Paper Company of Delaware, which is operating a sul phite plant at Plymouth.” Both publications announced that this was the second largest industry in Richwood, a town of 7.000 people, and that its loss was a severe blow George M. Snyder, of Richwood, general superintendent of the Cherry River plant there, Mrs. Snyder and R. S. Brown, a department foreman, with his wife, were in Plymouth this week looking for a place of residence but would not make any statements to the press, referring all inquirers to O. H. Cox, general manager of the North Carolina Pulp Company. Mr. Cox said this week that defi nite plans and specification for the additions to the local plant had not yet been finished and that no con tract for the buildings could be awarded until then. It was stated two weeks ago that actual construc tion work would get underway in a bout 60 days. Leave for West Point Mr. and Mrs. J. Prank Jordan, of Dardens, left Thursday night for West Point, N. Y., where their son, Hugh Fagan Jordan, a cadet in the United States Military Academy, has been ill since January with a con junctive illness. Everyone Is Urged lo Attend Meeting At City Council Chamber Friday Night Matters of importance to every | business and professional man and woman in Plymouth will be discussed at a meeting to be held in the council chambers in the municipal building Friday night at 8 o’clock, it was announced to day by J. K. Manning, recently elected president of the Plym outh Merchants’ Association. It was a first thought that an out-of-town speaker would be se cured for the meeting this week, but President Manning said to day he thought it would be bet ter for local folks to meet and have an open discussion on any ideas that may be suggested for improvement of Plymouth in gen eral. Mr. Manning is urging business and professional men to attend the meeting and take part in the discussions. One of the matters to come up will deal with the in scription to be placed on road signs, the number of signs, and the investment to be made in erecting these signs on the high ways of the section. There are a number of other items to be discussed, and Mr. Manning urges a large attend ance so that something can be done and arrangements made improve Plymouth both as trading center and as a place live. S' Building and Loan Stock Sale Begins Saturday, April 1 Handicapped by lack of funds to lend worthy applicants lor building new homes, the Plym outh Building & Loan Association will offer its sixth series of stock for sale to the public on April 1, hoping a heavy subscription will enable the organization to make additional loans. The organization is operating on a small scale and making some money on a sound financial basis, according to President E. F. Still. There are six applicants now for loans totaling about $6,000, and the organization hopes to sell sufficient paid-up or install ment stock fo take care of these applications. Poultry Specialist Plans Meet Here Helpful information regarding poj.il try will be given to interested men and women of Washington County who attend the meeting in the agri culture Building here next Thursday morning, March 30, at 9:30, accord ing to Mrs. Mary Frances Misenheim er, home demonstration agent. C. F. Parish, extension poultryman from State College at Raleigh, will have charge of the meeting that is being sponsored by Mrs. Darden and County Agent W. V. Hays. Seek Federal Aid in Draining Land in Lower Part County Over 100 Attend Meeting at Courthouse Wednesday To Discuss Matter Thousands of acres of farm and timber land will be reclaimed along the Scuppernong River from the Bull Pond to Cherry, in Washington County, as the result of an agreement reached in a mass meeting at the courthouse here Wednesday to seek Federal aid in draining and clearing this submarginal land. Landowners residing in the area will form an organization to sponsor the drainage and cleaning of the land as a malaria control project of the Works Progress Administration, with Federal agencies supplying about 70 per cent of the needed money. H B. Hines, district supervisor in the division of malaria control with the State Board of Health; Dennis Combs, WPA supervisor for this reg ion; and T. W. Armstrong, manager of the FSA Scuppernong Farms proj ect. talked to about 100 farmers living in the affected area Wednesday. Recorder John W, Darden, who has been a leading figure in promoting this program, presided over the meet ing. Several citizens talked on the need of reclaiming this land, which at certain seasons of the year re mains under water. Encouragement was given to the group by announcement that the WPA had labor available for the project, and Mr. Darden believes the project will be approved by WPA of ficials. A survey has been made, but estimates of the cost are not avail able. -<*, Final Rites for Mrs. Mabel M. Hassell —®— Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hassell, near Roper, for Mrs. Mabel McLawhom Hassell, 21, who died Friday in a Washington hospital following an illness of two weeks. Interment took place in the family cemetery. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLawhom, of Pitt County, Mrs. Hassell had made her home near the V<irents oi her nusbuj^a -.car Rcjli for the last few years. Surviving are her husband, Wilbur Hassell; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLawhom; four brothers, Robert, Marvin, Charles and Junior; four sisters, Lila, Essie, Hazel and Genevieve. Pall bearers were John McCloud, Irvin Hassell, Lester Hassell, Gordon Sexton, Eli Smith, and Marvin Has sell. County Chamber of Commerce Organized AMONG LEADERS '| v/ Ellis Maples, pro at the local country club, Is among the top two dozen leaders in the North and South open at Pinehurst this week after 36 holes of play. Maples had a 3-over-par 75 for his first round and turned in an even par 72 on the second day for a 147 total, just 8 strokes behind Byron Nelson, the leader. There are 60 pros in the finals, 36 holes, played Thursday, and Maples is in an excellent position to “finish in the money” if he has a good third or fourth round. Following the wind-up of the Pinehurst tournament Thursday, Maples will go on to play in the Greensboro Open, which will be run off Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Scdgefield, with $5,000 in cash being divided by the win ners. Native of Albemarle Section To Have Part In “Gone With Wind” Dr. Nash Tatum, of Holly wood, Is Visitor Here This Week Small of stature, energetic, a lit tle gray at 50, and bubbling with de light at being back in the section of his boyhood days again, Dr. Nash Tatum, of Hollywood, Calif., was here last Friday visiting Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Arps en route to Tyrrell County. A native of Tyrrell County, Dr. Tatum is a double first cousin of C. W. Tatem, of Columbia, former rep resentative in the legislature from that county. His knowledge of the stars of screen land make him a very interesting conversationalist, and his selection to play the role of Governor Zebulon Vance in “Gone With the Wind’’ gives him authority to speak of persons and events in movie-land. Dr. Tatum said he had not been assigned his lines as yet, but he had been definitely chosen to portray the t (Continued on page six) Blount Rodman Is Elected President at Meet Monday Night -■ Next Meeting To Be Held on April 12 To Adopt Rules For Organization A committee is expected to meet in the municipal building Friday night to draft by-laws for the oper ation of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, which was or ganized at a meeting in the court house here Monday night, with Blount Rodman, young local attorney, as president. Associated with Zeb Vance Nor man. who for years served as head of similar commercial organizations here, Mr. Rodman will have ample opportunity to call on Mr. Norman, who has acted in numerous instances as a “one-man” chamber of com merce locally. The election of Mr. Rodman, com paratively a newcomer to Washing ton Counyt, is expected to inject new interest in such an organization. He will be assisted by a group of officers identified as leading civic workers for a number of years, including John W. Darden, of Plymouth, secretary; Hoyt R. Davenport, of Creswell, vice president; and J. R. Campbell, of Plymouth, treasurer. The group charged with the duty of drafting the rules that will govern the county-wide organization are Z. V. Norman, J. W. Darden, W. H. Paramore, J. R. Manning, A. J. Rid dle, of Plymouth; A. R. Phelps and L. E. Hassell, of Roper; E. F. Swain and C. N. Davenport, sr., of Creswell. Aonther meeting will be held in the courthouse here April 12 to adopt the constitution and by-law's and to start the work of the organization in the various communities, each of which constitutes an integral part of the county organization. Directors will be appointed for each community to be members of the governing board. Present at the meeting Monday were Secretary Meades, Mr. Hassey, Herbert Peele and Mr. Larsen, of Eliz abeth City; and P. G. Gallup, pres ident, and Robert E. Tunnell, secre tary of the Hyde County Chamber of Commerce. There were only about 14 county people present.
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