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The Roanoke Beacon * * * jf jf * * and Washington County News^ ★★★★★★ VOLUME LI NUMBER 11 Plymouth. Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 14, 1940 j- ' i Advertisers will find Bcaoon 1 and News Columns * Istchkey to | 1,500 Washington County home*, j ESTABLISHED 1839 Town opics Principal D E Poole, of the Roper school, sang four numbers for the Lions Club at its meeting last Thurs day night which were enjoyed by the 20 members present. Miss Lucy Mc Donald. music teacher of the school, accompanied Mr. Poole on the piano. President Zeb Vance Norman. Dr. E W. Furgurson. James W. Norman. E F. Still, R. H. Lucas, and J. R Manning, of the Plymouth Lions Club attended a meeting of the Edenton Lions Club there Monday night. A meeting of the executive committee of the Southern Albe marle Association, of which this county is a member and Attor ney Zeb Vance Norman is a vice president, has been called to meet next Wednesday, March 20, in Manteo, it was said here today. P. H. Jamieson. ji\, assistant coun ty agent of Edgecombe County, said Tuesday while here that when he was growing up in a family with 17 sis ters and brothers he had ambitions to become either a preacher or a law yer. but that he eventually "drifted" into county agent work. H. H. McLean, superintendent of public instruction, left this morning for Raleigh, where he will attend the North Carolina Education Association meeting, to be held in Memorial Au ditorium. He has not missed one of these sessions in 32 years. F. V. Scott, jr„ a brother to George M. Scott here, passed through here Tuesday en route to San Diego, Calif., from New York, where he has been attending a flying school. A gradu ate of the Pensacola. Fla., Naval Avia tion School, Mr. Scott is now a fly ing officer in the U. S. Navy. A couple of local young dancers have been added as a special at traction at the style show Friday night, according to Shep Brink ley. who will provide the music for the event. Wilford Whitley, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Whitley here, with an av erage of 85. was on the second honor roll of cadets at the Fishburne Mili tary School at Waynesboro. Va., for the month of February, according to an announcement received from Cap tain Elliott Fishburne. headmaster. S L. Moore, of Apex, father of W. S. Moore, vocational agriculture teacher in the school here, said while visiting here this week that it ap peared to him farmers in this sec tion used smaller teams on their farms than were used in his part of the state. New Bus Will Begin Run Tomorrow for 6-WeekTrial Period Continued Operation De pends on Patronage, Ac cording To Officials The Norfolk Southern Bus Corpor ation will inaugurate tomorrow, for a trial period of six weeks, the oper ation of a bus to Pea Ridge, where it will make connections with other buses going to and from Norfolk. The new bus will leave Plymouth at 6:30 a. m. for Pea Ridge, where connections may be made with buses to Norfolk. The bus will then re turn here at 7:40 a. m. The same bus will then leave Plym outh at 10:15 a. m. for Washington, returning here from Washington at 5:45 p. m. It will leave here again at 5:50 p. m. for Pea Ridge to make connections with buses returning from Norfolk, returning to Plymouth at 7 p. m. Officials stated that unless reve nue derived from this service dur ing the trial period of six weeks was sufficient to pay the operating ex pose, the bus will be withdrawn aft er that time. Considering Plans To Buy Bus for Groups at School Plans for the purchase of an au tomobile chassis upon which a used school-bus body could be placed to transport the glee club, band, athletic teams and other organizations of the i Plymouth school were announced to day by P. W. Brown, recently elected! president of the Plymouth Band As- i sociation. Mr Brown said he apreciated the response of local people to his appeal for transportation of the band mem bers to Rocky Mount Monday, and he expressed the hope that sometime in j the future a plan could be developed for transporting students other than by privately owned automobiles. Appropriation for Cattle Studies To Be Made at Wenona Increased To $50,000 The Senate Committee on Ap propriations in the National Con gress this week increased the ap propriation of S30.000 passed bv the House to S50.000 for investi gation of beef cattle and related livestock problems in the South eastern States by the Bureau of Animal Industry and the U. S. Forest Service, it was learned to day from Representative Lindsay Warren. The major portion of the investigations will be carried on in North Carolina in collab oration with State College and the Blaekland Experiment Sta tion at Wenona. According to Mr. Warren, who proposed the appropriation in the House, this is one of the very few items which has been favor ably considered by Congress al though it did not have the ap proval of the Budget Commission. The possibilities of the work have made a strong impression on the appropriations committees of both houses, he said. If the appropriation is finally passed in both Houses and the i funds made available, studies will begin immediately at the YVe nona station looking to the de velopment of a grass suitable for cattle range, and a survey will al be made as to the possibilities for development of a type of cattle which can profitably be market ed in this section, it was indicat ed. Lang Stops Making Cucumber Contracts To Reopen School At Roper Monday The Roper school will reopen [ Monday, provided the weather breaks sufficiently so that chil dren who have been suffering from influenza, whooping cough and colds may return, it was said today by Principal D. E. Poole. It was decided to close the schools last Monday afternoon, when there were 128 absences on account of illness, but it is hoped that most of them have suffic iently recovered so that they may return to classes Monday. The unexpected closing will probably extend the time the school will remain in session un til about May 1. Local Farm Class Stages Successful Banquet Tuesday Attend by Vocational Agri culture Students, Their Fathers and Guests • Regardless of the vocation or pro fession you pursue after you leave this school, you have an opportunity to make a man of yourself, and this should be your goal," P. H. Jamieson, jr„ of Tarboro, assistant county agent of Edgecombe County, told about 60 vocational agriculture students and their fathers at a banquet in the Plymouth High School Tuesday night. Continuing, the speaker pointed out that the fathers owed their boys a chance to become educated, respect ful citizens and to inherit a good name from them. E. H. Liverman made the invoca tion, and President Lewis Styons de livered the address of welcome to tire guests, to which J. L. Rea, jr„ assist ant director in charge of the Black land Experiment Station at Wenona, responded. John Rea made a report on a project he has undertaken. Maurice Bateman, Fate Roebuck and William Styons gave a playlet en titled. ‘‘A Farmer’s Conversation With His Mule.” Newman Allen present ed “Two Enemies of a Pine Tree,” and Cyril Ange made a talk on agri culture as an occupation. Music was provided by the 12-year old Ange brothers and Joe Gray Browning. Officers of the local chap ter are Lewis Styons, president; Cyril Ange, vice president; Joe Gray Brown ing, secretary; Warren Roberson, treasurer; and Joe Snell, reporter. A pig donated by the Cool Spring Home Demonstration to the out standing student in the vocational agriculture department of the school went to Gerald Furbee, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Furbee, of Wenona. Special guests at the meeting in cluded V. G. Durrance, of Columbia: F. G. Lewis, of the Speed school; S. L. Moore, father of W. S. Moore, de partment head here; S. F. Darden, county fire warden; Dr. E. A. Har per, Frank Brinkley, and J. L. Rea, jr., school committeemen. Silt from River To Be Used in Filling Low Places on Railroad Property Here Permission has ucen granted for the silt which is to be taken from the Roanoke river during the channel-deepening project this summer to be placed on low places in the property of the At lantic Coast Line Railroad up stream from the freight station here. This information came to John VV. Darden, secretary of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, from H. H. Elliott, assistant freight agent of the A. C. L„ who sent a copy of the permit to Col. George W. Gillette, district engineer of the U. S. War Department at Wilmington. It was suggested by Mr. Wil loughby, chief engineer for the A. C. L„ that the silt be placed at a reasonable uniform rate so as not to ereat pools or standing wa ter by interception of the drain age. It is not known what effect dumping of the silt will have on the proposed mosquito-control drainage under consideration as the mosquito control project would call for the drainage of the two areas around the Norfolk Southern and Atlantic Coast Line freight stations. Insufficient Acreage Secured To Make Operations Possible Inability To Secure Seed Is Also Given as Reason for Change in Plans Due to the impossibility of securing the type of cucumber seed they wished at this late date and also be cause insufficient acreage had been pledged. C. C. Lang & Son, Inc., Bal timore pickle manufacturers, this week announced they would not con tract for cucumber acreage in Wash ington County at Plymouth this year. Five or six weeks ago it was an nounced this firm would not operate in the county this year, but later, about two weeks ago announcement was made that the firm had decided to contract for acreage, provided al least 200 acres could be secured. This amount was regarded as necessary to insure profitable operation of the re ceiving station here. It has been learned that not enough j (Continue on page four) _!_ Semi-Final Rounds Carded Tonight in Basketball Tourney Plymouth, Jamesville andl Robersonville Were Win- : ners Last Night Roper. Bath and Creswell were eliminated in the first round of play last night in the basketball tourna- I ment now' in progress at the Plym outh High School gymnasium, with Robersonville. Plymouth and James ville, winners, and Elizabeth City, which drew a bye. entering the semi final rounds here tonight. In the semi-finals tonight. Rober sonville will meet Plymouth and Jamesville will be matched against Elizabeth City. Candor was original ly booked in place of Elizabeth City, but Coach John Weaver, who is in charge of the tournament, said he learned yesterday that Candor would not be able to make the trip and he secured Elizabeth City to replace that team. Last night. Robersonville defeated Roper. 27 to 13. with Keel, for the winners, leading the scorers with 12 points and Cullipher next with 7. Curies and Ambrose, with 6 points each, paced the fighting Roper group. Plymouth defeated Bath 33 to 15. Armstrong's 13 points and Getsinger's 10 were best for the locals: while Latham had 6 and Woolard 5 for Bath. Plymouth rang up 9 points in the first quarter to gain a lead and was never headed. The strong Jamesville quint won a decisive victory over Creswell by a margin of 32 to 8. Martin had 14 and Holliday 9 to pace the winners, while Hopkin's 3 and Gatlin and Barber, with 2 each, were best'for Creswell. Finals in the tournament will be run off tomorrow night, with two games on the card. The winners of tonight’s battles will fight it out for top honors, while the losers will play a consolation affair. Trophies will be awarded the teams and medals pre sented individual players following the close of the tournament tomor row night. Barbecue Supper To Be Served Here Saturday It was announced today that a barbecue supper would be served at the Christian Church Annex Satur day evening, from 5 to 8 p. m. Local High School Band and Glee Club Entered in District Contest March 29th The Plymouth High School will be well represented at the district elimination music con test to be held at Greenville on March 29, with both the band and glee club entered in the events scheduled. Director L. VV. Zeigler will have his band to play two numbers of contest music and hopes to gain at least second rank in this par ticular event, since the two top bands will be eligible for entry in the state contest at Greensboro in April. Miss Clara Louise Jones, teach er of puhlic-sehool music and di rector of the glee club, hopes to | equal or better her record of last year, when she won second place with her glee club from the VVil liamston High School. She has entered the club arid the follow ing students in solo events: Mary Charlotte Jones, Pegram Bain and Lorraine Jackson. Both the local organizations are practicing nightly for the con test events. There are 46 hand members and 40 members of the glee club. Both Miss Jones and Mr. Zeigler are optimistic over the chances of the local repre sentatives winning recognition, and their pupils are working hard to make a good showing. Survey of Turnpike Is Promised During Year Regarded as First Step in Securing All-Weather Road Promise Is Made To Deli gation by Commission er Webb This Week Engineers will make a preliminary survey of the Turnpike road near here, probably this summer, regard ed as the first step toward securing a dependable all-weather surfacing of Highway No. 99 from Highway 97 by way ol Wenona to Pungo, accord ing to John W, Darden, secretary of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce. The promise was made to E. H. Liverman. Mr. Darden and acrage was secured by the end of last week to insure operation here, and the company decided not to go any further with arrangements here, although it is understood that cu cumbers already contracted for will be received at the Washington plant or a representative placed at the lo cal receiving station only during the harvesting season. (Continue on page four) Southern Albemarle Association President Says Program of That Group Is Now Fully Recognized County Home Seeks Donations of Shrubs A plea was made this week by Mrs. L. L. Owens. W. P. A. worker, for the contribution of shrubbery to beauti fy the premises of the Washington County Home. Mrs. Owens said those who had shrubbery they would donate to the home could call L. L. Basnight, keep [ er of the home, and he would be glad to call for it. Help in placing the shrubbery and planting it has been offered, Mrs. Owens said, and the services of sev eral WPA workers are also available for this purpose. Revival in Progress At Christian Church Rev. N .A. TAYLOR. Pastor Our revival began with a good con gregation on the first night, despite service wil lbe sponsored by a Sun the bad weather. Next week each day school class with Mrs. George Bowen's class starting on Monday night. These services are held every night except Saturday, and the hour is 7:30 p. m. Sunday morning. Palm Sunday, the choir will sing as a special se lection. "Hosanna to the Son of Da vid,” by Nolte. The sermon will be “Christ’s Entry.” Sunday night the sermon subject will be: "What Christ Does With Sin.” The public is most welcome. Study Class Last Week For Roper Methodists Roper Methodists participated in a study class last week. The pastor. Rev. M. R. Gardner, taught the book, "Methodist United for Action,” by Dr. John R. Mott, an internationally known missionary leader There was a good attendance at the sessions and those present entered into the dis cussion with much interest. The classes were held in the eve nings at the homes of the follow ing: Mesdames F. D Wilson. Roger Chesson. A. R. Hooker, and B. B. Spencer. The closing session was held in the Roper Methodist church Wednesday night at the prayer meeting sendee. . Says Credit Claimed By Interests Which Had No Part in Work Asks Voters of Region To Forget Differences and Act in Concert M. R. Daniels, of Manteo, presi dent of the Southern Albemarle As siciation, which Washington County people were instrumental in helping to organize about five years ago, last week issued a statement to the Dare County Times, his home newspaper, reciting some of the accomplish ments of this pioneer organization in its efforts to develop and publicize the resurces of the Southern Albe marle region Mr. Daniels cites the fact that gu bernatorial candidates, as well as the public generally, have considered the organization's road program fair and just and wonders how the newly formed Greater Albemarle Associa tion of Elizabeth City figures in as the sponsor, builder, and helper of the program, as it has recently been made to appear in print. The article, as it appeared in the Dare County Times of March 8. fol lows: By MELVIN R. DANIELS In reading the daily papers I see] where the Greater Albemarle Associa tion has gone on record as sponsor ing a road program for the Southern Albemarle, and allows the State Highway five years to complete said program, but nowhere do I see any mention made of the Southern Al bemarle Association. So for the be nefit of the people of Eastern North Carolina, in particular and the State as a whole let me say that the South ern Albemarle Association, was form ed by Dare. Tyrrell, Hyde and Wash ington Counties in 1935, at Colum bia, N. C., with Wallace Tatum as president, at which time it went on record as sponsoring a road program for the Southern Albemarle and ask ing that said program be completed in 10 years. Now let's see what has happened in the past five years—to wit: The load from Manns Harbor to Stumpy Point lias been built: five miles of surfacing has been author ized from Stumpy Point toward En glehard in Mr Barnes’ district and five miles from Englehard towards Stumps Point in Mr. Webb’s district, 'Continued on Page Three' Fashion Show Will Be Staged Friday Everything was in readiness today for tlie feshion levue which is to be presented Friday night in the Plym outh Theatre by E. H. Liverman's De partment Store, with Miss Virginia Cahoon directing the production, it was announced today by Mr. Liver man and Shop Brinkley, manager of the theatre. Twenty young men and women will parade the styles that are to be worn in this section for spring and Easter, with Mr. Brinkley to provide organ music for the occasion and Miss Clara Louise Jones rendering a vocal solo. Two young dancers will also appear on the program. Fifty garments for men and wom en will be shown, and displays have already been arranged in the lobby of the theatre portraying some of the styles that are in vogue this season. The regular moving picture pro-1 gram will be presented Mr Brinkley said, followed by the fashion show at 3 o'clock, with the film program be ing run again afterwards. Regular admission prices will prevail and ear ly attendance is advised as a large crowd is expected. Local Merchants In Meet Monday Since few people availed Ur mselves of the extra time local st< ■ es remain ed open on Fridays, ii v...» voted to return to the usual closing '’me of 6 o'clock, effective immecuaui. at a meeting of the Plymouth M ants Association Monday nig: * rule was adopted about, a mom ■•■-o to keep the stores open uni. lock on Fridays for the convi ol those who were enable to si ;l ear lier in the day. but tl • ■ im little response and it was decried ’ oan don the plan. The association alsi sor a community dr'i. here April 18, 19 and 20 . nnttee was named t > work tails of the plan. An illustration of neon come signs for erection over the ■ *ays leading into Plymouth was suoinitted but the association decided to defer action until further information could be secured -.pon i val com High School Band Concert March 21 Because Friday. March 22 falls on Good Friday, the Plym outh High School Band will give its concert on Thursday night.. March 21, at the high school au ditorium. it was stated today by ; L. W. Zeigler, director. Presented at that time will be | two numbers that the band is to | play in the district elimination I contest in Greenville, Saturday, ] March 30. If the local musicians I get as good as a No. 2 rating they will be eligible to enter the state contest in Greensboro, April 16. 17, 18 and 19. Director Ziegler urges a large attendance of band friends to observe the progress the band is making and see at “first hand what their investment in this organization is yielding in train I ed talents anu improved person I altes.’’ Form Organization j To Promote interest Of High'School Band P. W. Brown Elected Presi dent at Meeting Held Last Friday Night Failure to attend the meting did not preclude the election of P. W. Brown as pesident of the Plymouth Band Association at a meeting held in the local high school auditorium Friday night, with 18 of the 49 band families represented. Associated with Mr. Brown in leadership of the organization will be W. A. Davidson, who was named vice president; and Mrs. B. G. Campbell, who was selected as secretary and treasurer although she w’as not pre sent at the meeting. Her husband. Mayor B. G. Campbell, acted as chairman of the meeting. Membership in the organization is not restricted to parents of band members,as all who are interested may become members. B G. Campbell. C. E. Ayers. L. W Ziegler, and H. H. McLean were nam ed on a committee to arrange a pro gram of 12-month band instruction each year, to recommend methods of financing this plan, and to call an other meeting at a later date with the time to be agreeable to the offi cers. The organization was formed to promote the interests of the Plym outh High School Band in every way. John W. Darden Again Candidate for Recorder John W. Darden said today that he was a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for judge of the recorder s court of Washington Coun ty, to succeed himself. In announcing Mr. Darden made no formal statement other than he say that he was a candidate and that he would continue to fulfill the duties of the office to the best of his ability, as he has done in the past. Officials of County And Towns To Hold Meeting in Edenfon Object Is Formulation of Local Government Legi slative Program Representative Wilbur M Darden, who is a candidate to succeed him self to that office, and members of the board of Washington County commissioners and Town of Plym outh. Roper and Cresweli officials are planning to attend a meeting of county, city and town officials to be held in Edenton Monday for the pur pose of formulating a state-wide lo cal government legislative program. Officials from Bertie. Camden. Cur rituck. Chowan, Dare Martin, Gates. Hertford. Pasquotank. Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington Counties are expected to attend, according to Mr. Darden. The meeting is being sponsored by the North Carolina League of Mu nicipalities and the State Association of County Commissioners. Matters discussed will be as fol lows: use of State-collected highway funds, roadside beautification and control, county zoning; local govern ment finance, including restrictions on sources of revenue; retirement system for local government em ployees; and home rule. Those invited and expected to at tend from this county include J. R. Campbell, chairman. J. C. Knowles and E. F Swain, county commission ers; Mayor B. G. Campbell, of Plym outh; Mayor J. J Hassell, of Roper: and Mayor C N Davenport, sr.. of Cresweli. Many Professional Ariisis Have Work At Person Exhibit Injustice Is Done Local Artist by Use of Word “Amateur” -« Aii unintentional injustice was done W. P. Winslow in The Beacon last, week by reference to the art exhibi tion at Person Art Gallery in Chapel HVU—where his landscape in oils, "The Minyisa in Bloom” w, it ,f cord ed high Honors- ns belli open to work by amateurs. The last word was superfluous and ill-chosen, as it has been brought to our attention since that Mr, Winslov painting was not only entered in competition with the work of leading non-profesi ional ar tists in the state, but also with that of note I professional artists, critics and ait instructors at various colleges and schools. There were 131 paintings submitted, including work of a number of pro fessional artists who studied at noted art galleries both in this country and abroad, and it is an outstanding tri bute to Mr, Winslow that his paint ing was not only one of the 59 select ed for the display which will remain on exhibition there from March 3rd through the 25th, but it was one of the final five paintings from which two were selected for sale to the In ternational Business Machine Com pany. to be displayed at the New York World Fair this summer. One of the judges in the final se lection was Dean Francis Speight, of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, who was loath to pass up Mr. Winslow’s work and was very lavish in his praise of the painting. Mr. Winslow has been painting for about 16 years, without instruction, and he was naturally very much gratified with the reception given his work at the Chapel Hill exhibition. The Beacon sincerely regrets the false impression given by use of the word "amateur” in connection with the exhibition and wishes to make clear the only limitation on the en try of paintings at the exhibition was that they should be the work of ar tists who had maintained residence in the state for at least two years and 'hat they should be representative of the work of North Carolina artists. Further recognition was given Mr. Winslow’s work this week, when he ■eceived a letter from Russell T. Smith, head of the Department of \rt. University of North Carolina, stating that his painting was "want 'd for exhibition’ at the Greenville \rt Center April 18 to April 25 and n the Raleigh State Art Gallery from \pril 25 to May 16. Local Plant Will Make Several Grades Fine Paper When Additions Completed Unusually strong and durable papers will be manufactured in Plymouth for the paper trade sometime this summer or fall, when full equipment from the Cherry River Paper Company, at Riehwood. W. Va., is moved here as part of the additions to the North Carolina Pulp Company. Specialities for converters in full-bleached, semi- bleached, bleached-lined and unbleached grades will be manufactured as well as index bristol, sulphite bond, single bleached boards and double bleached lined boards, it was said. The tag grades include Green brier tag. very strong and dur able: No. 1 manila tag, strictly No. 1 quality; C-grade tag: Fourdrinier made: and solid bleached tag. Also strong and durable enve lope papers of bleached brier kral't. tul'brier. Greenbrier and a white envelope stock of No. 1 quality will be produced. Strong wrapping papers to be made include Laurel Brier and Greenbrier fibre, which resist blood and moisture: and some paper Fourdrinier -made in weights ranging from 35 to 206 pounds and upward, basis 24 by 36 (500); as well as cylinder made. grades 0.12 to .040 thick.