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The * * * * * * VOLUME LI—NUMBER 46 Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News ******* Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 14, 1940 ESTABLISHED 1889 Advertisers will And Beacon and News Columns a latchkey to > 1.500 Washington County home*. ! Town opics Judge Q. K. Nimocks, jr., presid ing over the special term of Wash ington County Superior Court here this week, signed an aide’- for At torney E. A. Daniels to be paid a $50 fee for representing Treasurer J. S. Bonner, of the Albemarle Drainage District, in the case of Washington County vs. Norfolk Southern Land Company. Since Miss Sally Dickens, regular court stenographer, was busy in the Edgecombe County superior court at Tarboro this week. Mrs. Ollie Marie Whedbee. of Williamston. stenogra pher for Elbert S. Peel there, was appointed stenographer for the local court, and she earned $50 for the three days court was in session here. Miss Charlotte Phelps, of Creswell, has been employed as secretary by Representative W. M. Darden. Miss Phelps, who was a student of the Creswell school, has taken a special course in this work. The Young Woman's Mission ary Society of the Methodist Church will meet at the home of Miss Elizabeth Tetterton on Third Street Monday at 8 p. m., with Mrs. Lyman Mayo as joint hostess. Miss Emily K. Waters, president, urges a large attend ance. as officers are to be elect ed at this time. Rev. P. B. Nickens, E. E. Harrell, Bill Hays, jr., Grady Chesson, and J. R. Carr were among those who went to Raleigh last Saturday to at tend the State-Wake Forest football game. A report was received here this week to the effect that a cotton gin on the Weston Farm, of the Scup pernong FSA project, near Creswell, burned Friday night, destroying the building and a quantity of cotton and soybeans stored there. No de tails are available, but the loss was said to be very heavy. Spiatt Hardin, of Dardens, home this week on a visit, said that Ser geant Dick Norman, Dick Lucas and Grayson Everett were getting along fine at Camp Jackson, near Colum bia, S. C. These boys enlisted in an ambulance company which was call ed into service about eight weeks ago. C. J. Ainsley Riles Al Roper Friday Funeral services for Charles Joseph Ainsley, 53, were conducted at the home at Roper Friday afternoon by Ui. u. a.’Martin, pastor of tlie Cris well Baptist Church Burial took place in the family cemetery near Roper. Mr. Ainsley, lifelong resident of Washington County, died suddenly at his home in Roper Thursday. His wife, Mrs. Lula Lee Ainsley, sur vives, with two daughters, Mrs. Jas per Swain, of Plymouth, and Mrs. Ralph Swain, of New Bern; a son Earl Ainsley. of Plymouth; a brother, Tom Ainsley, of Mackeys; a sister, Mrs. Lonnie Wentz, of Roper; and a grandson, Charles Swain, of Roper. Arkansas A. & M. Football Team Rus Wrecked Near Here Driver Hurt Slightly; Team Charters Special Bus*To Fulfill Engagement -® The varsity football team of the Arkansas Agricultural and Mechan ical College, of Monticello, Ark., had its scheduled trip to New York ab ruptly interrupted near here Tues day night, when their bus crashed into the rear of a truck loaded with pine pulpwood. None of the 23 play ers or their coach, Stewart A. Fergu son, was injured in the crash, but the driver, Joe Coker, a student at the college, was painfully hurt about the head, although his injuries are not considered serious. The football team was headed for Hampistead, Long Island, where it is scheduled to play Hofstrau Col lege Saturday, when the bus in which they were riding ran into the truck on Temporary U. S. 17 a few miles south of here. The truck, fully load ed with pulp wood, was left stand ing on the highway by its driver, Jack Bunch, colored, of route one, Pantego, who said that he ran out of gas and was unable to move the heavy vehicle after it stopped. The driver of the bus, Coker, testified at a magistrate’s hearing that the truck was left parked in his lane on the higway, without a light, and that he was unable to run around it as he was meeting a car. The accident occurred just about dusk and a driz zling rain was falling. “The “Wandering Boll Weevils,” as the Arkansas team is called, left here by a special Norfolk Southern bus Wednesday morning for Norfolk, where they were to catch another bus for their Long Island destina tion and the football game Saturday. The wrecked bus was badly dam aged, estimates of repairs ranging from $500 to in excess of $1,000. Mr. Coker, the driver, will remain here for several days while the bus is be ing repaired and will rejoin the team later at Springfield, Ohio, it was said. Corporal T. B. Brown, of the State Highway Patrol, investigated the ac cident, and it is likely that a war rant will be issued for the truck driver. Begin Cl ossification of Draft Registrants ★ ★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★ 20 of First 50 Classified Tuesday Night Placed in Class 1 5,000 Bags of Peanuts Stored in Local Warehouses; Rains Slow Deliveries So far only about 5,000 bags of j peanuts have been delivered to the Plymouth warehouses of the Peanut Growers Stabilization Co operative, according to W. H. Clark, who, with J. E. Davenport, is operating the warehouses here for the organition which is as sisting in the surplus removal program. Mr. Clark said that the rain of the past few days had slowed down deliveries considerably, as farmers do not care to run the risk of damaging their crop by hauling it in the rain. It was also pointed out that although buyers for cleaners and manufacturers have permitted their purchases to lag somewhat, there is still a considerable amount of the current crop being sold and delivered by farmers to buyers through the regular mar ket channels. Mr. Clark said it was possible that peanut buyers would in crease their purchases consider ably as soon as the weather clears and that many farmers would either sell or store their crop within the next few days. DecisionlsReachedby Judge Nimocks in Suit Involving Owens Land Plymouth Parent-Teacher Group Will Meet Tonight -® The Plymouth Parent-Teacher As sociation will meet tonight (Thurs day) at 8 o’clock in the high school auditorium, and the teachers will hold "open house” in their class rooms at this time. Refreshments will be served by Miss Ruth McLemore and her home economics class. Mrs. J. K. Reid, president, urges parents to attend this meeting. County Trying To Save Interest by '^efondwg Bonds -® Will Refinance $138,500 in Outstanding Bonds If Bids Acceptable -® Refunding bonds of Washington County, aggregating $138,500, will be offered for sale in Raleigh by the Lo cal Government Commission on No vember 26, it was learned here to day from Auditor E. J. Spruill. Mr. Spruill said that the bonds to be sold included $47,500 school re funding bonds, maturing annually as follows: $10,500 in 1952, $5,000 in 1943, $7,000 1954 to 1957, inclusive, and $4,000 in 1958; $52,000 in gen eral refunding bonds, maturing an nually as follows: $10,000, 1954 to 1957, inclusive, and $12,000 in 1958; $39,000 road and bridge refunding bonds, maturing annually as follows: -8,000, 1954 to 1957, inclusive, and $7,000 in 1958. The auditor said the county was offering these bonds for sale in the hope that they can be sold at a low er rate of interest than they now provide, to effect a saving to the county. At the present, the bonds !are drawing 6, 5 1-4 and 4 3-4 per cent interest annually. Bidders on the bonds must name the interest rate or rates, not ex ceeding 6 per cent, in multiples of 1-4 of 1 per cent. The bids must be delivered, and no bid for less than all of the bonds will be considered. The county reserves the right to re ject any or all bids submitted. Mr. Spruill said that the county now has on hand $14,500 to pay on its bonded indebtedness and that this amount would be applied on its outstanding indebtedness. The bonds now being offered for sale do include those for which the money is on hand to retire. In the event the new bids do not offer a lower rate of interest than that called for by the bonds outstanding, the coun ty will simply reject the bids. -® HERE THIS WEEK Lloyd Griffin, of Raleigh and Eden ton, executive secretary, and C. C. Brown, of the transportation depart ment, of the State School Commis sion, were in Plymouth this week conferring with H. H. McLean, sup erintendent of public instruction of Washington County. ) Hearing Requires Little Time; Few Other Cases Tried -® Court Adjourned Wednes day Afternoon; Review Of Proceedings -® The special term of Washington County Superior Court adjourned Wednesuay afternoon, with Judge Q K. Nimocks, jr„ of Fayetteville, re serving his decision in the case of Effie Perry et al vs. Annie Basinger et al, in which about $100,000 worth of local property is involved. The court opened Tuesday morning and spent part of one day hearing the case, after which several other min or matters were disposed of before the adjournment Wednesday after noon. In the Perry-Basinger case about 25 petitioners have brought suit against some 20 defendants in an ef fort to establish title to a large block of local property devised by the will of Mrs. Annie L. Owens to her heirs The only witness heard in this case was Jack Read, one of the petition ers. No jury was called in the ac tion, since the questions involved are of law rather than facts, most of the basic facts in the case being admitted by counsel for both the plaintiffs and defendants. It was first thought that the case would require about three days of the court’s time, but the lawyers made their presentations very brief, and Judge Nimocks left Wednesday with the written pleadings-and citations for study before rendering his decis ion, possibly within the next two weeks. It is generally believed that whatever the judge’s decision is, an appeal will be noted and the case carried to the state supreme court. Divorces were granted to Dewey J. Spruill from his wife, Emma E. Spruill and to Delma W. Wallace from his wife, Mary A. Wallace. Both were granted on the grounds of stat utory separation. A tax foreclosure suit was brought by Washington County seeking to foreclose on property of the Norfolk Southern Land Company for about $4,000 in taxes assessed over a period of the last nine years. A judgment was entered requiring C. Edley Hutchins to contribute $25 per month for the support of his wife, Mrs. Frances Chesson Hutchins, and he was also required to pay $50 for Mrs. Hutchins' counsel fees. Other cases on the docket were continued until the next term of su perior court in January, when both crminal and civil cases are to be heard at a two-weeks session of the court. COUNTY RANKS 55TH Washington ranks 55th among the 100 counties of North Carolina in per capita valuation of taxable property. Based on 1939 figures, the county had a total 'property valuation of $5,997, 453, a per capita average of $486, and the tax rate was $1.80. Absences in Local Schools Threaten Loss of Teacher Principal Appeals for Coop eration of Parents in Cor recting Conditions With 531 absences the first month and 804 absences during the second month, tiie Plymouth schools will probably lose a teacher next term, ac cording to Principal Robert B. Trot man. who urges patrons to the schools to cooperate with the school officials in improving attendance There were a dozen absences Mon day afternoon caused by children go ing to a football game or to the shows, subordinating the school work to their opportunities for pleasure, said Mr. Trotman in pointing out that '’unless there is a radical change Plymouth will lose at least one teacher next year, thus creating more crowded conditions in class rooms." "The reason we cannot accept ex cuses for attendance at ball games and show's is obvious,” said Mr. Trot man. "as it is against the welfare of the child and his satisfactory pro gress in school and it is against the future welfare of the school as a whole. "The number of teachers given to a school by the State depends on the attendance of its pupils; this is a fact I have constantly brought before the Parent-Teacher Association and which I am constantly bringing be fore the pupils. "After discussing the matter with the teachers, we feel that punishment by suspension will defeat the efforts of better attendance, so instead we are denying these pupils the right to represent the school in extra-class room activity, and they will be given zero on all classes missed Monday.” the principal concluded. Principal Trotman said that the football game scheduled for Friday afternoon would nut be played and that the band will not bo in a posi tion to give a concert until after Christmas, if and when the punished absentees, become eligible to parti cipate in these activities. Red Cross Campaign Now Underv/ay in 3 Towns of County No Reports Yet Made by Canvassers; Hope To Top Last Year’s Record Workers are continuing their can cass in the county for the annual Red Cross Roll Call membership drive although James W. Norman, chair man of the Washington County chap ter, had no reports on the progress made so far. Mrs. Walter P. Lloyd, the roll call chairman, was also un able to make any estimate of the amount raised in the campaign so far, as only a few reports had been made up to now. The campaign in the county is be ing directed by the following com munity chairman: Mrs. Lloyd in Plymouth; Mrs. Frank Wilson. Rop er; Mrs. E. S. Woodley, Creswell; and Mrs. J. L. Rea. jr„ at Wenona. Mrs. Lloyd said today that she hoped the drive this year, wdien funds are so badly needed, would top the $200 contributed in the county last year, and that she and the other community workers had appointed a number of assistant canvassers to make an organized effort to see that no prospective contributors were overlooked. The campaign will continue until Thanksgiving Day, and the canvass ers urge all who can to make some contribution to this worthy cause. Workers are asking the citizens to take an annual membership at $1 or more. Smaller amounts are accept ed. but they do not entitle the donor to the membership certificate. Half of all the money raised will remain in the county io help needy persons when deemed advisable by the chap ter officials The other half goes to the national organization and is used to relieve suffering wherever calam ity or disaster strikes, not only in this nation but in all other countries. County Has Quota of 70 Men for Military Service First Year First Call Expected About November 28: Total of 15 Volunteers on List Seventy Washington County young men will be called to the colors be tween November 28 and July 1, for a year's military training under the selective service act. it was announced this week by E. S. Blount, chairman of the local board, who received the quota for the county. Whether this number is exclusive of credits gained by volunteer en listments, the board chairman could not say. as he has received no offic ial instructions so far for handling credits. It is believed, however, that this county quota of 70 is in addition to those who have already volunteered for service, which means that about 80 men from Washington County will be in service ere next July 1 rolls around. The first call for men is expected rn or about November 28. although the number to be selected then is not known. "Possibly four or five men may be called, or possibly credits for volunteers will be allowed and no men ' will be called from the county at that time: we do not know," Mr. Blount said. The second call is expected in January and another in March. By the first of next July all of the 70 men included in the first year’s draft quota will be in training. There have been 15 young men to volunteer for service with the draft board, five of them applying since the first report of 10 was made in the paper last week. The new volunteers follow: Henry Lewis, white, Roper: Charlie Frank Swain, white, Roper 'became 21 on November 11 and vol unteered same day); Bob Thomas Furlough, white. Roper (not a regis trant) : William Atlas Nixon, colored. Roper 'not a registrant): Henry Law rence Moore, colored. Plymouth. In the meantime the work of send ing out questionnaires to registrants and classifying them is being rapidly advanced. The first batch of ques tionnaires. number 70, were placed in the mails last Wednesday and Thurs day, and daily mailings since them have increased the total to 150 up to today. 'See COUNTY QUOTA. Page 4> A. L. Alexander Opening New Insurance Agency Announcement is made this week of the opening of the A. L. Alexan der Insurance Agency on the sec ond hoor of the Harney Building here on Water Street by A. L. Alexander, former local postmaster, who said that he would work Washington and Tyrrell Counties from this office. Mr. Alexander announces that he represents companies which provide for any insurance need, including life, automobile and fire insurance. •-® Car and Truck Sideswipe Near Roper Early Monday -t«, A truck operated by William Thomas Cullipher, white, and a black sedan driven by Sam Smith, white, were damaged when the two ma chines sideswiped each other on the curve at Gaylord’s service station west of Roper about 3:30 a. m. Mon day morning. No one was badly hurt. The truck was loaded with 243 bags of peanuts. It was reported that both the truck and the peanuts were owned by John A. Manning, of Wil liamston. Damage to the truck was slight, but Smith’s car was said to have been damaged about $200 worth. Entertainment at Cherry School on November 28th The Norfolk String Quartet will play at the Cherry School Building on Thursday night. November 28, at 8 o'clock, with Wiiliam Davenport as guest star, it was announced this week. This entertainment is being sponsored by the Cherry Parent Teacher Association. A small ad mission will be charged, and the public is urged to attend. SPEAKER HERE |' V/ State Senator Archie C. Gay, of Jackson, Northampton County, was the principal speaker at the Armtistice Day celebration spon sored by the James E. Jethro Post of the American Legion here last Monday. Senator A. C. Gay Is Speaker Here on Armstice Program 800 Persons Attend Exer cises Held in Plymouth Theatre Monday "Let us wage such a fight for Democracy that Nazi, Fascists and Communists will not want to live in Washington County or the state of North Carolina,” State Senator A. C. Gay, of Jackson, told about 800 per sons who crowded into the Plymouth Theatre here Monday for the annual Armistice Day address. The speaker pointed out that the citizenship should work toward the end that “isms” should be stamped out in this country or those who owe their allegiance to these foreign po litical faiths are sent back to the country or nation to which their po litical faith leads them. Senator Gay also said that “if this nation had joined the great Wood row Wilson in his plan for a League of Nations in all probability this present war would have been avert ed.” The war of 22 years ago is prob ably responsible in a measure for the present European conflict and it can be said to the credit of this country that if war comes again, this nation will be prepared with the greatest ar my, navy and air force that it has ever had, as the defense program moves forward, according to the speaker. "We don't want war. We want peace. But we are going to keep this country democratic even if it is ne cessary to defend it with weapons the privileges of free men,” he said, concluding his remarks with a fer vent “God Bless America.” The speech by Mr. Gay Followed a parade of school children, sons of le gionnaires, former service men, and Boy Scouts led by the Plymouth High School Band down Washington street circling down Main and Adams to Water street where the parade ended in front of the Legion Hall. Commander J. B. Willoughby pre See ARMISTICE DAY. Page 4) Maryland Couple Injured in Wreck -® Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hallowell, of Federalsburg, Md.. were slightly in jured. a few miles this side of Roper Wednesday night, when the car in which they were riding skidded and turned over on a muddy, slippery place on the pavement. Mrs. Hallowell suffered an inujred shoulder and Mr Hallowell was only slightly hurt. The two spent Thurs day here awaiting the arrival of an other automobile from the showrooms of Mr. Hallo well’s agency and a wrecker to take the damage automo bile to his home Tire car was bad ly damaged. Confer Here Today About Paik Improvements Thomas Morse, of Raleigh, sup erintendent of parks in the State Department of Conservation and Development, was expected to ar rive here this afternoon for a con ference with W. R. Hampton, a member of the Board of Conser vation and Development, and of ficials of the Scuppemong Farms project relative to the restoration and improvement of Pettigrew State Park, near Creswell. Approximately $30,000 is avail able. for the improvements. The Federal WPA has made available $23,000; the State will add about $7,500 and the county of Wash ington $500. under present plans. The plans for renovation call for use of the old “Somerset” mansion as an inn to provide ac commodations for fishermen and others visiting Lake Phelps. The Pettigrew house, not as old as the Somerset house, which was built in 1803. has already been restored and is being used as an office by the FSA. Several thousand dollars will be spent on improvements to the old barn on the place, according to the tentative plans, a boat house will be built at an estimat ed iost of 87,500, and $1,500 will be spent to house boats to be rented t" fishermen. A camp ing, picnic and parking area will | also be cleaned oil and equipped. "Somerset,” sometimes called ] Scuppernong Plantation, was es tablished in 1805 l>\ Josiah Col lins. He was born in t'omerset shire, England, in 1725. and came to Edenton in one of his own sailboats in 1777. He established the large plantation on w hat was then known as Scuppernong Lake. The Pettigrew house is on “Bo narva,” a plantation founded b> James Pettigrew, who came to this country from Ireland in 1740. stopping first in Pennsylvania, then moving to Virginia and fin ally settling in North Carolina in 1774. Some of the finest fresh-water fishing in the state is to be found on Lake Phelps, and it is believed that development of this park area will bring, thousands of ad ditional visitors yearly to this region. Five Days Allowed To Appeal Decisions Of Local Drafl Board 20 Placed in Class 1, None in Class 2, 28 in Class 3, 2 In Class 4 This Week -® The Washington County Se:ective Service Board, composed of E. S. Blount, chairman. J. Roy M; nning and Clyde Smithson. Tuesday night began its work on the huge task of classifying the 1.569 registrants of this county for possibility military training under the terms of the se lective service act. A total of 50 men were classified at the meeting Tuesday night, and the ooard will continue its meetings to examine the questionnaires and clas sify all of the 1.569 registrants ac cording to the instructions received from the national director of the se lective service act. Out of the 50 re turned questionnaires checked 'rues day night, containing the informa tion on which classification is based, 20 registrants were placed in Class 1. none in Class 2. 28 in Class 3, and 2 in Class 4. The percentage of those placed in Class 1—available for im mediate service—is considerably high er than was originally estimated by national officials of the draft. As soon as registrants are classified they are notified by mail of the class to which they were assigned, and they have five days from the date of the notice in which to appeal from de sions of the local board. Z. V. Nor man, local attorney, is appeal agent for the local board, and registrants who wish a review of their cases are asked to communicate with him. At the present time, it is consid ered hardly possible that any regis trants other than those placed in Class 1 will be called for service, and it is not likely that all of them will be called. The first county quotas will undoubtedly be filled by volun teers. of which there are now 15 here As the county quotas are received for (See FIRST FIFTY~Poge”4< --- Conference Returns 2 Melhodist 'Paslors To Posts in County -$ Several Changes Made in Charges by Transfers Of Churches Two ministers were returned and one new minister was assigned to charges in Washington County for the coming church year by the an nual North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, which was in session the latter part of the week at Wilmington. The Rev. O. L. Hardwick was re turned to the Plymouth charge for his second year, but a change was effected, transferring the Jamesville and Siloam churches in Martin County to the Roper charge, reliev ing Mr. Hardwick of his work at these two points. The local minister will thus become practically a full time minister for the Plymouth church, which will have both morn ing and evening services every Sun day. Mr. Hardwick will, however, continue as pastor of the Ware's Chapel Church at Dardens, preach ing there every third Sunday aft ernoon at 3 o’clock. The Rev. Matt R. Gardner was re turned to the Roper charge, where he will be pastor of five churches during the coming conference year. They include Jamesville and Siloam, which were transferred from the Plymouth charge, and Roper, Mack eys and Pleasant Grove. The Reho both church, was was included in the Roper charge last year, has been transferred to the Creswell charge. The Rev. R. N. Fitts, of Dover, is the new pastor to come to the coun ty. he having been assigned to the Creswell charge for his first year, succeeding the Rev. Sulon G. Fer ree. The Creswell charge includes Creswell, Mount Elmo, Mount Her mon and Rehoboth churches, the lat ter having been added by transfer from the Roper charge. The new minister will preach his first sermon M the county at the Creswell Meth odist church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Sulon G. Ferree, who was pastor of the Creswell charge last year, was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference and assigned to a group of churches near Winston-Salem. Rev. B. B. Slaughter was again named superintendent of the Eliza beth City district, in which the lo cal church is included, with head quarters at Elizabeth City. The Rev. C T. Thrift, who was formerly pastor in Plymouth, was transferred from Halifax to Wax saw: and the Rev. J. T. Stanford, formerly at Roper, was asigned to the Chowan charge, near Edenton.
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