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The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ******* Advertisers will find Beacon and News Columns a latchkey to 1.500 Washington County homes. VOLUME L—NUMBER 43 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 26, 1939 ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opics Ray Bowen, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Jo wen. Plymouth Route 1. re cently enlisted in the U. S. Coast Guard Service, and on Wednesday left for Norfolk, where he was or dered to report for duty. Ray at one time wrote sports new for the Beacon while a student in the Plym outh High School. Edward E. Craft, son of Cecil Craft here. Tuesday enlisted in the Navy, along with 31 others from Eastern Carolina, and took the oath as ap prentice seaman, with Lieut. A. S. Joyner, recruiting officer at Raleigh, administering the oath. A Halloween dance will be held at the Country Club Friday night, with music by Rudy Walters and his or chestra. Each club member is re quested to invite a non-member to attend. Saturday night, a Halloween party will be held for the children of club members. The young folks are asked to come in Halloween cos tume. indigent cripples are invited ny the Tarboro Rotary Club to at tend its regular orthopedic clinic in the Presbyterian Sunday school rooms on Monday, October 30. where competent physicians will examine those who appear and recommend treatment. J. R. Manning and W. M. Darden, directors, and M. W. Spruill, secre tary and treasurer, of the Plymouth Building and Loan Association, at tended a meeting of about 50 build ing and loan officials from several counties in this section held at the The Junior Woman's Auxiliary of last Friday. Hubert Cox, who has been in the U. S. Navy for about three years, was home this week to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cox for a few days. He is stationed in California and said that most of his 15-day fur lough was spent in traveling. Virginia Dare Hotel in Elizabeth City the Grace Episcopal Church will give a benefit bridge party at the com munity hall next Thursday night, No vember 2, at 8 p. m. A small admis sion fee will be charged. Miss Mar tha Booth can be seen by those who wish further information. Mrs. H. A. Liverman was making an effort this morning to get a group from Plymouth to attend the meet ing of Red Cross leaders of this reg ion being held in Eden ton today. Dr. Frank Porter Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, was the principal speaker. -s Welfare Department Has Puzzle in Case Of Colored Woman -♦ ■ — New York Officials Demand This County Assume Responsibility The case of Sarah Heckstall, col ored, is a puzzling problem now fac ing the Washington County Welfare Department. Sarah is now a patient in a New York institution for the treatment of tuberculosis; but, since she is not a citizen of that State, the local wel fare organization has been bombard ed with about 50 letters, telegrams, telephone messages and about every other known means of communica tion, asking that the woman be re turn to this county, from where she claims she went to the northern city, according to Miss Ursula Bateman, superintendent of public welfare here. The New York welfare officials are demanding that arrangements be made to care for her here, but local authorities have no place for her to go. Health officials do not want a person with even a retarded case of tuberculosis placed in the county home here, where she may spread the disease among inmates. The New York authorities say that about $40 a month is necessary to care for the colored woman and her three children, but local officials can not find this amount of money avail able. Anxious to get the patient off their hands, the New Yorkers suggest that a home be rented and a nurse em ployed, with the county, town, state and Federal governments, or some other agency, cooperating to provide the funds necessary for her care un til a cure is effected. The messages become more insistent daily, with the northern officials claiming they have already spent $2,500 on the woman although this county is legally re sponsible for her care. -» Halloween Carnival In Creswell Tuesday -• Creswell.—A Halloween party, sponsored by the Creswell school, with the faculty in charge, will be given at the school next Tuesday eve ning. At this time the high school band will fumsih music and, in ad dition to a play written by Bob Mer ritt and acted by H. R. Bateman and son, Bossie, there will be many other entertaining features for young and old. Miss Julia Stilley will have charge of the hall of horrors. There will be a booth for a cos tumed fortune teller, a fish pond, and ice cream, candy and peanuts will be sold. Patrons and friends of the school are urged to attend. The proceeds will be used to defray incidental ex penses of the school. 50 More Shares of Stock Sold by Building & Loan Fifty additional shares of stock in the Plymouth Building and Loan Association have been sold since last week's report, bringing to 250 the total number of shares sold in the eighth series during the campaign waged here this month to boost the outstanding stock in the organization. The total number of shares in force at the present time is 1.227, exceeding the goal set by the di rectors when the drive started on October 1. At that time there were less than 1,000 shares in force. The organization continues to make loans to individuals who wish to repair or enlarge their homes, and applications are un der consideration for new con struction which will greatly in crease the usefulness of the as sociation. So far, the organiza tions has loaned about $18,000 in the community, principally to small home owners who wished to enlarge their houses and provide apartments for newcomers who are seeking places to live here. Many local people are carrying their stock principally for the savings feature, shares being paid for weekly at the rate of 25 cents each maturing at $100 in about 6'4 years. County Peanut Crop Begins Moving Soon __A --A | MEET POSTPONED | v__* It was announced today that a change had been made in the date of the meeting of the Plym outh Parent-Teacher Association from Wednesday, November 1, to Wednesday, November 8, at 3:45 in the auditorium of the high school. At the meeting a debate will be heard on the lifting of the embargo on arms in the present neutrality act of the United States. Four high school students will take part in the debate, which should prove interesting and helpful, and a large attend ance is urged by the officers of the organization. Commissioner Will Favor Designating Turnpike Route 99 Says Highway Will Likely Be Made Part of State Secondary System 9 After a conference a few days ago with District Highway Commissioner E. V. Webb, at Kinston, John W. Darden, secretary of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, said that he was reasonably certain the Turnpike road would be designated as highway No. 99. With Mr. Darden was Fred La tham, of Belhaven, who joined in urging the commissioner to designate this as a state highway, thus making it possible that an all-weather road would be constructed through the Turnpike. The commissioner advised the men that if the road was accepted as a part of the state road system, it would be a secondary highway, that is, a numbered highway endorsed by the state but not approved by the Federal Government. It was believed that even if it was ranked as a secondary highway that within three years the State High way and Public Works Commission could be constrained to build the all weather road to connect the county seats of Washington and Hyde. Mr. Webb explained that he could only recommend that this route be included in the secondary system and that the entire commission would have to accept it before it would be placed on the state highway map and a number assigned. Mrs. Joe Chesson Funeral Monday —-• Roper.—Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the home in the Mill Pond section for Mrs. Joe Ches son, 73, who died Saturday night at 9:20, following an illness from which she had suffered almost a year. The Rev. T. F. Davenport, Free Will Baptist minister of Creswell, officiat ed. Interment took place in the fam ily burial ground near the home. Surviving are the following chil dren: C. B. Chesson, J. M. Chesson, Miss Lucy Chesson and Mrs. Mattie White, all of Washington County, and Mrs. G. L. Marriner, of Belhaven. -« Creswell Students Plan To Issue School Paper ♦ Creswell.—At a recent meeting of the senior class of Creswell High School, the members decided to spon sor a school paper, the name of which has not yet been decided. At the meeting, Miss Evelyn Swain was elected editor in chief; Virginia Davenport, associate editor; Dallas Spruill, circulation manager; Jack Jones, assistant circulation manager; Billy Wells Bateman, art editor; Irene Spruill, sports editor; Collia Daven port, society editor; Nancy Norman, activity. The above staff will appoint a rep resentative from each class to work with them. The paper will be issued monthly. Picking Operations Will Gel Started in Earnest Next Week -• Quality Generally Reported Very Good, But Yield Is Below Expectations An estimated six thousand acres of peanuts are drying on stacks in Washington County awaiting the vis iting of the picking crews, who will begin their rounds in earnest next week. Several of the pickers were being operated this week, but the peak of the picking season is still a week or so away, as many farmers do not feel their crop is dry enough yet. Exactly what prices will prevail is still problematical, but it is generally considered fairly well assured the farmers will get 3 to 3>/2 cents and better, as the North Carolina Peanut Stabilization Cooperative is standing by to take peanuts at 3 1-4 cents for conversion into oil if the cleaners do not measure up to this price. It is understood that several farmers in the county have already sold their entire crops at 3 3-4 cents. Buyers are beginning to come on the market this week, with a num ber of them actively engaged in vis iting the farms of the section to look over the crop and make bids. B. T. Ferguson, state farm agent for the (northeastern district, said that No. 1 peanuts were bringing from 3*/2 to 3 3-4 cents per pound, delivered to shelling points in Vir ginia, but that relatively a few lots had been offered. The quality is reported to be very good throughout the county, although the yield will not be as large as was expected sometime ago, according to reports from various sections. The report released by the United States Department of Agriculture on October 17 indicated that millings of farmers’ stock Virginia-type pea nuts in September totaled over 25, 000,000 pounds, and that stocks of the Virginia nuts on hand Septem ber 30 were less than 4,000,000 pounds. J. E. Davenport has announced that the local Peanut Stabilization Coop erative warehouse will open Novem ber 1. Fishing Authorities of Two States in Meeting R. Bruce Etheridge, director of the Department of Conservation and De velopment, and Captain John Nelson, commissioner of fishing, went to Nor folk Tuesday, when they with similar officials from Virginia and Maryland were guests of the Rotary Club at the Fairfax Hotel. W. R. Hampton, a member of the board, joined them when they came through here. The fisheries committeemen from the three states further studied prob lems affecting the three states from the standpoint of fishing, including size limits of fish to be taken from the streams, closed seasons, and pol lution of streams. -® Visit Here From Windsor Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Pugh, of Wind sor, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Z. G. Lyon Sunday. On Tuesday Mrs. Pugh and Mrs. C. J. Rea, of Windsor, visited Miss Martha HorathaL Expect 250 Women To Attend Fall Meet Of Clubs Wednesday -«3> - ■ Norfolk Man To Be Main Speaker at Demonstra tion Clubs Meeting Upwards of 250 women from all over the county will gather in the Plymouth High School auditorium Wednesday afternoon for the fall meeting of the Washington County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, when Roscoe Thrasher, of the Greenbrier Farms at Norfolk, will be the principal speaker. The invocation will be made by the Rev. P. B. Nickens, pastor of the lo cal Baptist church. Mrs. Joe Snell, of the Cool Springs Club, is scheduled to welcome the visitors on behalf of the hostess club, with the response to be made by Mrs. F. D Wilson, of Roper. County Superintendent H. H. McLean will make a short talk. A feature of the business session will be a report of the year’s activi ties, to be made in her individual style by Mrs. A. Edison Davenport. Music will be provided by the Plym outh High School Bafrd and Miss Clara Louise Jones, public school mu sic teacher, will sing. Mrs. C. N. Davenport, sr.. of Cres well, president of the county federa tion, will preside. Miss Pauline Smith, of Raleigh, district home demonstra tion agent, is also on the program for a short talk, with the main address to be made by Mr. Thrasher. The Roanoke Beacon trophy will be presented to the club which is judged to have the best report, based on attendance at the meeting, most membership dues paid and most new members. The trophy was last award ed to the Roper club, and it becomes the permanent possession of the club winning it three times in succession. Winners of the different projects conducted during the past year will be announced at the meeting, accord ing to Mrs. Frances M. Darden, home agent, who urges all club members in the county to be present and in vites all others who may wish to at tend. Caille in County To Be Tested for Bang's- Disease ■ - ♦ However, It May Be Next Spring Before Examiners Can Reach Section -* Three thousand head of cattle in Washington County, including both pure-bred and grade stock, are on the waiting list to be tested for Bangs Disease, according to County Agent W. V. Hays, who said this week that it might be next spring before repre sentatives of the veterinary division of the State Department of Agricul ture could reach this county to make the examinations. There have been no urgent requests for the need of this testing work, ac cording to the farm agent, but it has been found in other counties that the rate of affected cattle has sometimes been as high as 10 per cent. This has been reduced in such counties by tests and elimination of the diseased cattle to a fraction over 1 per cent. It was explained that Bang’s Dis ease in cattle affects reproduction and lowers milk production. Since no cure is known for the disease, and it is highly contagious, the most economical procedure for controlling the malady is to destroy the animals Indemnity funds used to pay own ers for diseased cattle killed are matched dollar for dollar by the Fed eral and State Departments, with the usual scale of prices being $50 for pure-bred and $25 for grade ani mals. It was said that Washington is the eighteenth county on the waiting list and that approximately 55,000 herds, representing 145,000 cattle are now on the waiting list to be tested. -—9 Pageant at Roper School Auditorium Sunday Night -» The Willing Workers of Zions Chapel Church of Christ will give a pageant entitled "The Crossroads of Life" at the Roper High School Au ditorium Sunday night at 8 o'clock, and the sponsors urge everyone who can to attend. Farmers of County In Series Meetings To Elect Committees First Is Being Held Tonight At Cherry School; Here Tomorrow Night -$ Township committeemen to admin ister the 1940 Agricultural Adjust ment Administration program in Washington County will be elected in the next few days in a series of farm ers' meeting, with the first scheduled to be held in the Cherry school build ing for Scuppernong Township to night. The second meeting, for the grow ers of Plymouth Township, will be held at the agriculture building in Plymouth Friday night: and the third and last meeting will be held Mon day night at the Roper High School Building for Lees Mill Township growers. There will be no meeting for Skin nersville Township, since, as was the case last year, the farmers of this township will vote with those in Lees Mill and Scuppernong, a line drawn at Pritchard's store marking the di viding line. The meetings will all be held promptly at 7:30 p. m. on the dates designated, and Stuart Blow, assist ant to County Agent W. V. Hays, urges all eligible voters to attend their respective township gatherings and avail themselves of the privilege of voting so that the committeemen desired by a majority of all the grow ers may be chosen. Immediately after the township committeemen are elected, the dele gates from the three townships will be elected in the same manner as the local committeemen, and the dele gates will later meet to elect the members of the county committee. Mr. Blow said that any farmer who signs a statement signifying his in tention of complying with the 1940 program will be eligible to vote and serve as a committeeman. The duties of the township com mittee are to (1) determine farm acreage allotments, normal yields and soil-building goals; (2) to determine farm marketing quotas when appli cable, and to handle local adminstra tion of commodity loans; and (3) to assist in explaining to farmers the purpose and provisions of the pro gram. Halloween Carnival Here Friday Night Plymouth’s 1939 Halloween Carni val, sponsored by the local Parent Teacher Association, will be held to morrow, Friday, evening, beginning at 7:30 in the high school gym. The good old stand-bys, bingo, fortune-telling, side-show, raffling off of cakes and turkeys, popularity contests, and a house of horrors, will all be found in more streamlined ver sions than ever before. The High School Band will play during the evening and will furnish music for the coronation of the Queen of the Carnival. A new and interesting feature of the carnival will be the home eco nomics booth, directed by Miss Mar tin. Here the patrons may sit at tables and enjoy delicious sandwiches and chocolate as they watch the car nival. Dancing will be in order for all the guests from 10:30 until 12 o’clock. A small admission charge will be made. Musical Play Will Be Given in Roper Friday -♦ A musical comedy, entitled “Miss Blue Bonnet” will be presented at the Roper High School Friday night, with a cast including such well-known per sonages as Mrs. A. Edison Davenport, Jim Chesson and Edward Poole, prin cipal of the school. -« Special Program Held at Creswell Church Sunday Creswell.—A service marked by its simplicity was held at Christ Church Sunday evening at 7:30. with three youths of the church, J. C. Gatlin, jr., Ammon Smithson, and Bobby Woodley in charge. Young Woodley conducted the opening service; Smithson read the lesson and psalter for the day; and Gatlin gave the sermonette for the evening. Over 400 Attend Prize Drawing Here Wednesday; Concert Given by Band Entertained by the strutting Plymouth High School Band, over 400 persons, most of them holding tickets given with pur chases by local merchants, gath ered at the intersection of Wash ington and Water Streets here Wednesday afternoon to partici pate in the drawing for $30 in cash prizes. The drawing and band concert combined to last for about 30 minutes. Seven numbers were called dur ing the exercises. Mrs. LJoyd Horton, with a ticket from C. E. Ayer’s Esso Service Station, won the first $10 award, and Heber Respass, of the Lone Acre sec tion, picked out one of a hand full of tickets from the Plymouth Motor Company to ret the sec ond $10 prize. Raymond Peal brourht up a ticket which belonred to Arlo Rath, secured at Pender’s Store, for the first of the $5 prizes, and W. D. Walker, an employee of the North Carolina Pulp Com pany, with another ticket from Penders, claimed the second $5. Incidentally, in the three mid week drawinfs which have been held so far, the first price, which is to be accumulative if not called for when drawn, has always had an instant taker, so it continues to be $10 weekly. Eight mid-week drawings re main in the campaign being con ducted by the merchants, and on Wednesday, December 27, prizes totaling $200 will be awarded at the final drawing. Customers in local stores are urged to call for their tickets with each $1 cash purchase or payment on account. There is no obligation or strings to the offer, and every week $30 in cash is awarded to the four holders of lucky tickets. Work Gets Underway At Pulp Mill Monday; Bleaching Room First Good Prospects in Drive ior Members The drive for 25 new members at the Plymouth Country is pro gressing very satisfactorily, with every indication that the quota will be surpassed, it was learned today from O. H. Cox, president. Over 20 new members have al ready been secured in the cam paign. which will end next Tues day. A substantial reduction in membership fees is predicated upon securing the 25 or more ad ditional members, and as a fur ther inducement, the S10 initia tion fee is being waived for all applications received before No vember 1. J. Roy Manning is chairman of the membership committee and in active charge of the campaign. Superior Court Will Likely End October Term Here Friday But Two Cases Left on Cal endar Today; Review of Proceedings Only two more cases were on the docket for trial at the October term of Washington County Superior Court today, and Judge Leo Carr, of Bur lington, was prepared to adjourn the term Friday afternoon if the calen dar could be cleared. Proceedings this week were as fol lows: The case of H. D. Stokes, trading as the Big Four Sales Agency, vs. I. E. Barber and Leroy Ange, regarding the ownership of an automobile and balance due on the car, was dis missed. Mary Jane Elliott and L. L. Elliott sued John Halsey in regard to a boundary line dividing their property. Clay Litchfield, of Columbia, and W W. Ange, jr„ of Plymouth, were hi structed by the court to survey the land and report at the next term of court. In the suit brought by Zion Jen nette, Ernest Johnson and W. H. Moore against Henry Ellis, William Johnson and the Atlantic Fire Insur ance Co., the plaintiffs were paid $1, 000 by the insurance company. Other matters have come up, but Judge Carr had not passed judgment at this time. Mrs. Winona Bowen White was granted a divorce from Earl Duncan White, as was Willie Spruill Jones from Ernest L. Jones. -® Hertford, Edenton And Local Lions in Joint Meeting Here -• Hilarious Program Present ed at Community Build ing Last Thursday Fifty Lions of Hertford, Edenton and Plymouth dispensed with then roars for gales of hilarity and laugh ter at the antics, capers and stunts provided under the direction of J. A. Mitchener, of Edenton, chairman of the program, last Thursday night at an inter-city meeting here in the community building. Miss Louise Smith, blackface and all, gave a clever impersonation of a colored washerwoman which really ■brought down the house.” Between the humorous features of the program, C. B. Mooney, of Eden ton, sang two solos, with his wife ac companying him on the piano. The height of the hilarity was reached when bottles of soft drinks, equipped with nipples, were present ed to a Hertford contestant. W. L. Whitley, of Plymouth, and W. J. Tay lor. of Edenton, for a race to see who could drink the entire contents first, with a really ‘-valuable” prize to be awarded the winner. Mr. Taylor, who is superintendent of public In struction for Chowan County, won and was given an all-day sucker as a reward. President Zeb Vance Norman, of the local club, presided over the meeting except when Mr. Mitchener was in charge. -® Halloween Carnival at Roper School Tuesday -® The Junior Class of the Roper High School will present a carnival Tues day night in the school auditorium, with husbands, wives, friends and children promised an enjoyable eve ning visiting the fish pond, shooting gallery, bingo tables, and fun house. Refreshments will be sold. The sponsors reported an "effic ient” fortune-teller had been secured and chances will be sold on a delic ious cake. Gradual Increase in Number Workmen; 50 Al Work Today -@ Excavating for Foundations And Other Preliminary Work Being Done Tool sheds were being constructed today and excavation had been start ed for one building, as the expan sion program at the Nortii Carolina Pulp Company got underway. To day there were about 50 men em ployed on the construction work, ac cording to R. D. Lambert, construc tion superintendent for the William Muirhead Construction Company, of Durham, which has the contract for the work. Others are being added almost daily, and several hundred will be employed at the peak of the work. Over 300 men reported at the plant Monday morning, when only a few were hired, but the force is be ing increased daily from applications on hand. Mr. Lambert said there would be four new buildings erected, including bleaching, liquor, beater, and machine rooms, with an extension to be add ed to the present wet room, and al though he did not have the exact di mensions of the additions, it was re ported they would be ' large'' build ings. The new structures will be con structed on the south side of the present huge brick building facing the Roanoke River, while the wet room extension will be made to the west end of the same building, ex tending over and beyond the present road to the Hampton fisheries. It was learned from Mr. Lambert that the Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion had the contract to provide the st*el construction material needed in the buildings and that firm would construct the steelwork itself or pos sibly sub-let it, as his company did not have charge of this work. Tire first building to claim atten tion is that of the bleacher, excava tion for the foundation of .which is mw tindt-way, with the probability that the concrete would be poured next week. It was explained by Mr. Lambert that when the work its peak, his or ganization would employ about 150 or more men; in addition there will be the steel-working crew and the brick masons, who will enclose the building, with helpers for both the steel and bricklaying crews, making work available for a large number of men when all of the crew are at work together. Officials of the Muirhead Com pany who are here or will be here during the construction period in clude Mr. Lambert, construction fore man; E. S. Scott, bookkeeper: Mr. Wooten, timekeeper and assistant bookkeeper; H. S. Crane, executive vice president, who will be here oc casionally: and probably William Muirhead. president, who will likely visit the project several times while the work is underway. Mr. Lambert said the wet-room ex tension would make it necessary to change the course of the road lead ing to the fisheries which now rims around the fence enclosing the plant, but that the change would be made by the State Highway and Public Works engineers and he did not know what route would be followed. One group of workmen was en gaged today in building an extension to the railroad track running through the plant property, and it was indi cated the track would be extended as far as the wet-room extension made it necessary. Special Service ai Methodist Church Rev. H ADE JOHNSON, Pastor Tlie Rev. Wade Johnson will All his regular appointments Sunday morn ing in Plymouth at 11 o’clock, Siloam at 3 p. m., and Jamesville at 7:30. A special program has been ar ranged for the vesper service. The Young People’s Division will have its installation of officers and council members service. This service is planned to be one of extraordinary beauty and solemni ty. Candelabra and cathedral can dles will be used for lighting, and there will be soft music during the entire service by Mr. Shepherd Brinkley. The young people great ly appreciate Mr. Brinkley's help in working out their program. We feel very fortunate in having Mr. George Peel with us Sunday eve ning. Mr. Peel’s exceptional musical talent is widely known The Young People's Division is very anxious to have all the parents of its members present at the instal lation, as well as all those who are interested in young people and their work. Officials of the League are as fol lows: Loamie Gilbert, president; Helen Coburn, vice president; Cor inne Gurkin. secretary; and Ben Owens, treasurer.
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