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The * * * * * * VOLUME LI—NUMBER 42 Roanoke Beacon » and Washington County News ******* Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 17, 1940 Advertisers will And Beacon and News Columns a latchkey to 1,500 Washington County homes. ESTABLISHED 1889 I Town opics Tyler Snodgrass, of Elway, Va., owner of the largest herd of regis tered Hereford cattle east of the Mis sissippi River, was here last week-end visiting County Agent W. V, Hays. While here Mr. Snodgrass did some fishing and also visited the herds of cattle in this county. Nathan Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Allen, of Clarkton and Plymouth, was seriously hurt some time ago in an automobile wreck. He is reported slowly recovering from the injuries in a Lumberton hospital. The valuation of property for taxable purposes in the town of Plymouth is $1,141,352. according: to Clerk M. VV. Spruill, who says the Local Government Commis sion at Raleigh has finally ap proved the local tax rate of $1.10 for general purposes and 90 cents for specials, making a total of $2 per $100 valuation. Betty Lou Davenport, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davenport, took first honors in the baby contest spon- ! sored recently by the Junior Womans Club. She received a silver loving cup. The award was presented by Z. V. Norman at the Plymouth The atre Tuesday night. A bicycle club has been organ ized in the Plymouth schools. For a small fee bicycles will be reg istered and a license tag issued. Corporal T. B. Brown and Prin cipal R. B. Trotman also explain safety measures for bieycle riders. H. Gray Willis, manager of Pender's •store here, is on a vacation for sev eral days. C. R. Barbour, of New Bern, is managing the local store while Mr. Willis is away. Mr. Willis is expected to return to work next week. The Plymouth Junior Woman’s Club won the attendance prize at the district meeting in Greenville Thursday. Miss Elizabeth Camp bell, president of the club, is very proud of the record made by the local club. Miss Mary E. Bateman, formerly of Roper, has succeeded Miss Linda .Stephens as industrial nurse with the North Carolina Pulp Company. Grad uate of Park View Hospital, Rocky Mount, Miss Bateman has been con nected with Doctors’ Hospital in New York City for 10 years. She is liv ing in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J R. Manning. F. Hilton Modlin, manager of the M. H. Mitchell Furniture Company here, spent Monday and Tuesday in Baltimore, where he and Mr. Mitchell bought a larfce stock of Christmas levs be plneefi t":i the Inca! store after Thanksgiving. .1. L. Rea, jr„ assistant director in charge of the Blackland Test Farm at Wenona, returned last week-end from Raleigh, where he spent eight days in charge of the draft horses shown at the State Fair. Mr. Rea said there were about 50 beautiful horses shown. An egg plant grown by Mrs. R. W. Lewis at her home at Cross Roads, near Roper, is on display in the win dow at the Beacon office. The plant, which weighs 4 3-4 pounds, is said to be one of the largest grown in the county in many years. I 2,200 Cans of Food For Lunch Rooms -® A gardening and canning project, conducted last summer by the Works Project Administration and spon sored by the Plymouth Parent-Tea cher Association is making available 2,200 cans of food for use in lunch rooms at the schools this term, ac cording to Mrs. Kathleen Nobles, WPA supervisor for Washington and Martin counties. Included in the list or preserved foods are soup mixtures, tomatoes, snap beans, lima beans, bread-and butter pickles. Apples and pears from the surplus comodity list were also canned. Collards, carrots, let tuce, sweet potatoes and irish pota toes were also produced. One gardner was provided by the WPA for attending the gardens. Eighteen women in the country were employed at one time or another can ning or serving in the lunchrooms. The Plymouth and Creswell lunch l ooms in the white schools have been operating since the first of the school term. 1,551 Registered in County Yesterday E. S. Blount Elected Chairman of County Selective Service Board at Meet Tuesday Edward S. (Ted) Blount, local hardware merchant. World War veteran and former captain in the Nation Guard, was elected chairman of the Washington County draft or selective service j hoard at a meeting of the board held here Tuesday night. J. R. Manning, local automobile dealer, was named secretary, and Clyde Smithson, of Creswell. will serve with the other two in the clas sification of men between the ages of 21 and 35, inclusive, who are called for military training .un der the terms of the selective service act. Chairman Blount said today that the board would acquire the services of an active paid clerk, expected to be S. A. Ward, jr„ lo cal attorney, who will aid the board temporarily. Mr. Ward's office on Washington Street here will be used as headquarters for the draft board's activities. Members of the local board, w'ho serve without pay, will be re quired to attend a training school within the next few days, when their duties will be outlined and explained to them, and immedi ately afterwards enter upon the work. It is understood that the reg istration cards filled out yester day will be serially numbered and , OFFICIALS OF LOCAL DRAFT BOARD jsm i Attorney Zeb Vance Norman (left) is appeal agent and Dr. C. Mc Gowan (right) is medical examiner for the local selective service board, appointed recently by recommendation of Governor Clyde R. Hoey. Mr. Norman will be at the service of any man who wishes to appeal from decisions of the local board and Dr. McGowan will make the pre liminary medical examinations. The work of these men, as well as that of the board members, is performed as a patriotic public service and none of them receive any compensation whatever for their services. Six Specialists Visit Test Farm To Begin Cattle Investigation Work Made Available by $50,000 Appropriation By Congress A party of six specialists visited the Blackland Experiment Station at Wenona Monday afternoon gathering data for conferences to plan an in vestigation of beef cattle and related livestock problems as the result of an appropriation of $50,000 made by Congress for this work in the South, with $30,000 to be spent at the Wash ington County test farm near here. Mr. J. L. Rea, jr„ assistant director in charge of the test farm, did not know the names of all members of the party, but he said that two of the men were from the office of the beef cattle investigation division of the Federal Bureau of Animal Indus try, two others were from the United States Forestry Service, and two, Earl H. Hostetler and Dr. John Foster, from the animal husbandry division of State College. The men remained only a few hours securing information from Mr. Rea and making a survey of the farm and its equipment for this work. They checked on the reed pasture avail able, the land available and the build ings which can be used for the in vestigation. The work is expected to continue over a period from seven to ten years if Congress continues to make the ap propriations for it. The specialists hope to develop a grass along the coastal section of the South Atlantic States that will feed and nourish cat tle during most of the year. C. C. Lang & Son Planning To Operate Pickle Plant Here Again Next Season C. C. Lang & Son, Inc., Balti more, Md„ pickle manufacturers, have brought P. H. Roberts, sr„ out of retirement to take over their cucumber receiving station iiere and his duties include mak ing preliminary arrangements for contracting for production of 500 acres of cucumbers in Washing ton County in 1941. For about 10 years, Mr. Rob erts was in charge of the Wash ington, N. C„ plant of the Lang Company, but retired several months agj when liis son, Ly man Roberts, took over manage ment of the Washington unit. Mr. Lang prevailed on Mr. Rob erts sr., to return to work. In addition his duties here, Mr. Roberts will be in charge of a re ceiving station at Claxton, Ga.. where the company will also con tract for 500 acres to be shipped green either to Plymouth or some other preliminary processing sta tion. It was pointed out that Mr. Roberts would be in charge of re ceiving the cucumbers in Geor gia, which are picked in May, and then return here by June 5, when harvesting of the local crop is usually started. Mr. Roberts is the father of P. H. Roberts, jr., who was here for several years with the Lang Company and who is now station ed In Milford, Va., where the Lang Company has a plant. If Mr. Roberts, sr., can find living quarters here he will live in Plymouth, but if if is impos sible to find an apartment here he may make bis home in Clax ton. County Committee For AAA Program Elected This Week Personnel Same as for Cur rent Year; W. D. Phelps Named Chairman -s— Election of the same committeemen as last year, with only a slight change in their relative positions was con cluded here Monday night, with the naming of the county committee to administer the 1941 soil conservation program in Washington County, op erating under the Agricultural Ad justment Administration. The committee for 1941 follows: W. D. Phelps, Creswell, chairman: R. L. Stillman, Roper, vice chairman; and C. W. Bowen, Plymouth, member. R. C. Chesson, of Roper, is first alter nate; R. C. Jackson, Plymouth, sec ond alternate; W. V. Hays, Plymouth, secretary; and Mrs. Frances Beasley Brown, Plymouth, treasurer. For the year 1940, the status of the committeemen was as follows: Roy L. Stillman, Roper, chairman (now vice chairman); C. W. Bowen was vice chairman and is now a member of the committee; W. D. Phelps was the regular member last year, now he is chairman. Since there was no change in the personnel of the committee, observers ] said this was an indication of sat isfaction with the work in 1940, and little difficulty is expected by the group in the work next year, as they apparently have the confidence of county farmers. A definite schedule has not been arranged as yet, but the committee men elected for 1941 will take office November 1, and it is expected that immediately afterward they will be gin reviewing contracts for 1941. Farmers who wish to know more about the program, or who have some matters to discuss with the commit teemen, either community or county, are advised by County Agent W. V. Hays to see them at once. A large proportion of the 830 farm ers in the county who were eligible to vote in the election of committee men were on hand to cast their bal lots at the meetings recently held. Several Local People at Elizabeth City Big Day --b — J. E. Davenport, John W. and W. M. Darden were among those from Washington County who attended the dedication of the new Coast Guard air station at Elizabeth City today, when Herbert E. Gaston, as sistant secretary of the U. S. Treas ury, made the dedication address. Congressman Lindsay C. Warren who will become Comptroller General of the United States in November was the guest speaker. Thousands ol people in this section attended the event. sometime between October 26 and November 2 the national lottery will begin in Washington, with men ordered to report to the lo eal boards for classification in the order in which their serial num bers are drawn. So far as Mr. Blount and the committee know, there will be a "most liberal” interpretation of the term “dependents' in classi fying men for service, in order to avoid dislocation of the nation's social and economic structure. It has been estimated that not more than 42 men will be called from this county in the first draft, ex pected to be ordered to training camps before December 1. Added Water-Sewer Mains and Paving Projects Considered Committee Named by City Council To Study Cost And Necessity With the Works Projects Admin istration's approval caring for about half of the cost of the $100,000 water, sewer and street-paving program pro posed for the Town of Plymouth, P. W. Brown, A. J, Riddle and W. F. Winslow were named on a committee by the city council last Thursday night to determine what the town would do regarding the projects. It is the duty of these men to de termine areas in the town where it will be practical to spend the money. A survey has been made of the streets which do not have paving, water or sewer lines, and the committee will decide whether all, any one or none of the three types of improvements will be made. If the town does decide to under take the entire program, arrange ments will have to be made for fi nancing about $45,000 of the total amount: and, since the town already has a high tax rate, it has not been determined what will be done about the matter. In regard to street paving, the first work of this kind done here was with the understanding that the town itself would pay half the cost, the other half being pro-rated among the property owners along the streets and divided into 10 equal annual install ments. It is proposed that the water and fewer extensions will be paid for by increased revenue for water, but it is doubted that the additional in come on some of the streets will be sufficient to justify the large ex pense necessary. The committee will investigate the various areas under consideration and doubtless will recommend extension of water and sewer lines and paving where it is determined the property owners can and will pay for the pav ing and where the added water reve nue will repay the expense of con structing extensions. It will also be the duty of the com mittee to determine where the town can secure the funds for the projects. Local sentiment is felt to be against raising the tax rate to pay for a bond issue, even if this plan for raising the money is necessary. Baby in Creswell Diphtheria Victim Creswell.- Funeral services were held Tuesday for little Gloria Patricia Allen, 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Credle Allen, who died in a Co lumbia hospital Monday as the re sult of diphtheria. She had been ill for one week. Dr. G. A. Martin, pastor of the Bap tist church, conducted the services at the home, and the Rev. Roy Respass, Christian minister, concluded the services at the grave in the Pungo [section. The little girl was bom in Creswell. Surviving, besides her parents, are five sisters. Elva Myrle, Shirley, Nel lie and Carol Allen; and two brothers Jay and Paul Allen. She also leaves her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J Allen and Mrs. Jennie Chesson, all of the Creswell section. Baptist Women To Meet In Edenton October 25th Women from Baptist churches ir Washington County will attend i meeting of the Elizabeth City divisior of the Women’s Missionary Union ai the Edenton Baptist church Friday October 25. The division is composed of socie ties from all the Baptist churches ii the West Chowan. Chowan and Pam lico associations. Mrs. H G. Sawyer, of Elizabetl City, an official of the organization said it was hoped a large delegatioi would attend from each of th churches in the division. School at Creswell Is Closed To Prevent Diphtheria Spread Total of 8 Cases Reported. 7 in Creswell; One Death This Week -i Health authorities today hoped the spread of diphtheria in Washington County, especially in the Creswell sec tion, where one death has occurred, had been checked with the closing of the Creswell schools and shows and discouraging public gatherings of any nature. Ministers have been request ed to advise children of school age and younger not to attend church or public gatherings and not to con gregate tinder any other conditions. Seven cases of diphtheria have been reported in the Creswell neigh borhood and one case was reported in the town of Plymouth early this week. Tire only death reported was that of little Miss Gloria Patricia Al len. 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Credle Allen, of the Creswell sec tion. who died Monday as the result of diphtheria complicated by measles. No new cases were reported in Creswell or Plymouth today. Chil dren suffering from the disease in the Creswell section are scattered over rural areas. Dr. S. V. Lewis, district health of ficer, said this morning that "the health department knows that many contacts have been made with cases of diphtheria in the various neigh borhoods during the past week. A period of 10 days after contact may elapse before the disease develops and it is, therefore, uncertain as to the exact date when the schools in Cres well will be reopened.” Dr. Lewis said that all children un der school age who have not been vac cinated against diphtheria should be vaccinated at once, the autumn and winter months constituting the great est danger period for the disease. Mrs. J. T. Griffin, 68, Died Lasf Friday at Home in Mackeys Had Been 111 for Only Two Days; Funeral Held Sat urday Afternoon -s> Funeral services were held in the Methodist church at Mackeys Satur day afternoon for Mrs. Joshua Thom as Griffin, 68, who died at her home in Mackeys last Friday morning fol lowing an illness of only two days. The final rites were conducted by the Rev. M. R. Gardner, pastor of the Roper Methodist church, and inter ment was made in the Saints Delight church cemetery near Mackeys. Daughter of the late J. T. and Mrs. Mary Louisa Gibson, Mrs. Gibson was born in Tyrrell County in 1872. She was married to Joshua Thomas Grif fin, who preceded her to the grave by about six years. Mrs. Griffin lived in Washington County for 25 years, coming here from Martin County. She was a faithful member of the' Mackeys Methodist church and was j very active in the ladies’ aid society1 | and home demonstration club in her section. Mrs. Griffin is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W. L. Mayo, of Plymouth, and Miss Lora Mae Grif fin, of Mackeys; four sons, J. T. Grif fin. J. W. Griffin, and A. W. Griffin, I of Maceys; and J. E. Griffin, of Nor folk. She also leaves four grand children tnd one great-grandchild. Active pall-bearers were: W. B. Davenport, A. E. Davenport, R. I. Collins, G. S. Whitfield. W. W. Phelps and Edison Knowles. The honorary pall-bearers included John Asby, N. H. Davenport. Floyd Asby, Herbert Chesson. Harold Swain, C. B. Twiford Glenwood Spruill, Hallet Everett, Ir ving Watson, William Long, Francis Everett, J. J. Bunch. Albert Watson, and John Forbes Davenport. Parent-Teacher Meeting At Creswell Wednesday Creswell.—The parent-teacher as sociation held its October meeting Wednesday. Mrs E. S. Woodley pre sided. It was announced that the shades for the school had arrived and had been installed. Miss Julia Stilley and the seventh grade presented a playlet with the characters in Indian costume. Mrs. A. T. Brooks was in charge of the program Dr. J. M. Phelps Building New Offices at Creswell Creswell.—Dr. J. M Phelps has a new office building .mJ clinic under construction near his home on Sixth Street. Included in t structure will be a reception room >!h f' X-ray and operating room, and a bedroom, all i modernly equipped 1 1 building will have a brick facing i INFANT DIES . Creswell.—Mr. and Mrs. Clyde llspruill announce tin birth and death ? lof an infant daughter in a Columbia |hospital Tuesday, October 15 Volunteer Workers Aid in Huge Task Picnic Is Feature Warren Day 25th W. K. Hampton. Washington County chairman of the Lindsay C. Warren Day in Washington, N. C„ Friday of next week, Oc tober 25, urges the people of this section who plan to attend the celebration to prepare picnic lunches with baskets of good things to be spread for the large crowd expected to attend the event. The occasion is to honor Mr. Warren upon the completion of his 16 years’ service as Repre sentative from this congressional district, prior to his assuming the post of Comptroller General of the United States on November 1. Mr. Hampton said that thous ands of people present and that the basket picnic lunch was to be a feature of the event. Program Outlined For All-Star High School Band Meet Parade and Concert Will Be Features of Occasion Here October 30 A program of the activities of the 90-piece Eastern Carolina All-Star High School Band, which will give a parade and concert here Wednesday, October 30, was announced this week by L. W. Zeigler, director of the lo cal high school band, which is to be host for the occasion. Band members will be here from the Edenton, Greenville, Rocky Mt„ Washington, Plymouth, Roanoke Rapids, Tarboro, Henderson, Creswell, Roper and Oxford schools. The musical program is outlined as follows: ‘American Patrol,” by Meacham; “In the Hall of the Moun tain King,” by Grieg; "Selections Tannhauser,” by Wagner; “Mantilla Overture,” by Paul Yoder; ‘‘Metropo lis Overture,” by G. E. Holmes; "Sem per Pidelis March,” by Sousa; "Pop Goes the Weasel,” by Paul Yoder; "Zacatecas—Mexican March,” by Go dina; "Star-Spangled Banner,” by Key. Band directors who will be here in clude C. L. McCullers, of Edenton. and Columbia; H. A. McDougle, of Green ville; H. Vernon Hooker, Rocky Mt.; Floyd H. Steib, Washington; Lewis W. Zeigler, Plymouth; R. A. Martin, Roanoke Rapids; B. F. Burrage, Tar boro; H. T. Hearne, Henderson; J. Robert Merritt, Creswell; Thomas A. Furness, Roper; Willard P. Burrage, Oxford. The order of the day’s events fol lows; 1 p. m., practice session at the high school gymnasium; 2 p. m., pa rade down town and back to the school building; 2:30 p. m., band mem bers guests at Plymouth-Windsor football game; 4:30, practice session in gym: 6:15 p. m., banquet in com munity hall for all-stars; 8 p. m., con cert. Local Band Will Not Go To Raleigh Next Week -% For several reasons, it has been de cided that the Plymouth High School band will not go to Raleigh next Wednesday to participate in a parade of other high school bands and to hear the concert by the United States Marine Band, it was announced to day by Z. V. Norman. jr„ director of publicity for the local band. It was decided, however, that the band would go to Washington next Friday for Lindsay C. Warren day. Other bands from the first congres sional district will be present at this event. It was found that a bus to Raleigh would cost $90 for the band, and Di rector L. W. Zeigler said that the band was not prepared to engage in the Raleigh program. 'Flying Squadrons' Register Workmen At Industrial Plants Total of 99 Registrars Help In Work at Five Voting Places in County -t Ninety-nine registrars, working as smoothly as well-oiled machinery, handled the registration of 1,551 men between the ages of 21 and 35, inclu sive. in Washington County yester day. It is estimated that about 40 of those who registered yesterday will be called in the first draft and will eventually enter the nation’s armed forces as part of the first peace-time conscripts in the history of the na tion. Chairman Frank L. Brinkley, of the Board of Elections, who directed the registration activities, said that the registrars and registrants coperatea in every way possible to the success of the undertaking to secure an ac curate and comprehensive record of all men within the age limits speci fied. The number registering, by voting precincts, follows: Plymouth, 897; Wenona, 13: Lees Mills, 258; Skin nersville, 101; Scuppemong, 273; and 9 were registered at the prison camp, bringing the total to 1,551. Chair man Brinkley said the large regis tration in Plymouth included a num ber of people passing through here on trips, and there were some from precincts down the county who reg istered here. Most of the registrants accepted the registration as a matter of course for the defense of the nation. A few wanted to be sent to camp immedi ately. Others signed knowing that their dependents, jobs, or possibly their physical condition would pre vent them from ever entering upon the training program. As soon as the registrars opened their books at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, the potential soldiers began to register. In addition to the reg istrars at the precinct polling places, “flying squadrons” were sent to in dustrial plants and to the prison camp to register those there. Only employees were registered at the pris on camp, as the prisoners will be reg istered when they terminate their stay in confinement. Mr. Brinkley today turned over to the local draft board the registration cards. Those for registrants from other sections will be mailed to their home precincts. The local board will likely receive some cards from iSee REGISTRATION, Page 4) -- Needy Families To Get Free Mattresses Forty of the 500 mattresses to be made for low-income families and clients of the Farm Security Admin istration have been completed, ac cording to Miss Annie L. Spoon, home economist for the FSA here, who with County Agent W. V. Hays and Mrs. Frances M. Darden, home agent, are in charge of the activities. There are four tables, with three persons assigned to each table, mak ing a total of 12 daily workers who gather in the rear of the municipal building here daily, by families, to make their own mattresses. The pro gram has been expanded to permit a mattress being made for each two persons rather than holding the pro gram to one mattress per family. The Surplus Commodity Corpora tion provides the cotton and ticking and the needy families make their own mattress under the supervision of skilled workmen, with regular in spections made to see that each mat tress is made according to certain standards. All FSA clients are eligible and any families w'hose total income is less than $600 a year may apply, and then they are assigned a date to ap pear at the building to make their own mattress. Fifty Cotton Price Adjustment Checks Are Received for Farmers This Week The first batch of 50 cotton price adjustment checks, totaling S725.85, was received at the of fice of the county agent this week for distribution to farmers oper ated during 1940 under the cot ton allotment program of the Ag ricultural Adjustment Adminis tration. Approximately 250 more checks are expected within th next three or four weeks, as about 300 of the 500 eligible farmers in Wash ington County have made appli cations for the payments. The farmers who have a cotton allot ment this year are entitled to the checks, regardless of whether or not they produced cotton, accord ing to Jerome Frazelle, chief clerk in County Agent W. V. Hays’ of- 1 flee, and farmers w'ho have not signed aplications for the cheeks are urged to do so at once, so that they may receive their pay ments within a month or so. It is pointed out that the aver age cotton parity payment this year will be about $4 per acre for those who have a cotton allot ment and who have not violated provisions of the program.
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