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The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News -» * ♦ ♦ * + * VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 13 Plymouth, Washington County. North Carolina. Thursday, March 26, 1942 FOR VICTORY Buy UNITED STATES DEFENSE BONOS • STAMPS ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opics The new roof for the Plymouth school has nearly been completed. Workmen are now caulking the cop ing and doing other technical and tedious work. It is believed that only a few days will be required to complete the work. The Work Projects Administration has arranged for the services of Miss Pauline Biggs to act as secretary and clerk of the Washington County Ci vilian Defense Council, and she is in the office of Clerk of Court W. M. Darden, who is also chairman of the council. She will assist committee chairmen and members in the civil ian defense work. The Washington County Tire Rationing Board issued permis sion at its weekly meeting yes terday to three persons for the purchase of tires, as follows: Dr. T. L. Bray, physician, one tire; W. T. Freeman and E. G. Harri son, two truck tires each, for use on trucks hauling produce to market. County Agent W. V. Hays urges farmers of the county to continue to collect all scrap metal, for which a truck will be sent, because the iron and steel are worth 45 cents per 100 pounds and because this “metal should be sent to Japan hot—and maybe some as cold steel.” The Plymouth School last Monday collected 3,500 pounds of scrap material which will be di verted to the war industry in connection with the Salvage-for Victory drive, according to Prin cipal R. B. Trotman, who urges anyone having more scrap metal to call the school so that some one may be sent for the material. L. T. Scott, representative of the Agricultural Marketing Administra tion, was in Plymouth Wednesday of this week conferring with County Agent W. V. Hays. The two men went over the matters relating to marketing of farm products in a lengthy discussion.. Marvin K. Blount, of Green ville, candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Congress from the first district, was in Plymouth for a few minutes yes terday. He was returning to Greenville after speaking before a district meeting of Lions from five counties, held in Edenton Tuesday night. Mr. Blount said he considered his prospects very good at this time in his campaign J C. E. Marriner, ^ It. C ,__ .E-.-, Winesett, Garland Hardison and sev eral others from this county attended a meeting of the North Carolina Beekeepers’ Association in Wash ington last Friday. R. N. (Dick) Hardison, prominent local figure, has returned to his home on Washington Street after under going treatment at a hospital. He expressed his appreciation for the many kindnesses rendered him while he was in the hospital. County Farmers To Hear Farm Bureau Official Thursday -<$> Flake Shaw and Others To Speak on Farm War Programs -« A mass meeting of Washington County farmers will be held at the agriculture building in Plymouth Thursday of next week, April 2, at 8:30 p. m., with R. Flake Shaw, of Raleigh, executive secretary of the State Farm Bureau, as the principal speaker, it was announced this week by County Agent W. V. Hays. This meeting will be of particular interest to tobacco and peanut grow ers, according to Mr. Hays, who is urging a large attendance of the farmers of the county. The Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration will have a representa tive present who will speak on the 1942 farm program as it relates to an increased production needed now be cause of war conditions. In commenting on the chief speak er, Mr. Hays said the Farm Bureau secretary was formerly AAA state committeeman and, in addition to being an interesting speaker, Mr. Shaw is one the state’s best dirt farmers. “Come to the meeting in Plymouth Thursday, April 2,” Mr. Hays said, “as I guarantee an interesting, en tertaining and helpful program. Ag riculture must contribute, and we as farmers will, to a very great ex tent by our combined efforts, win this war.” Roper Ruritans Sponsor Singing Friday Night The Young Men's Choral Club, of Washington, will present a program of singing at the J. J. Clemmons High school icolored) in Roper Fri day night at 8:1b p. m. The program will feature Negro spirituals and will includes, solos, duets, trios, quartets and chorus se lections by the entire club. The en tertainment will be sponsored by the Ruritan Club of Roper. Everyone is urged to attend. -® Visit Their Mother Samuel Bray Bateman, of the U. S. Navy, and Earle Bateman, of Nor folk, were recent guests of their mother, Mrs. Pauline Bateman. School Band in Contest at Greenville Saturday; Give Concert Here Sunday The Plymouth High School Band will participate in the dis trict music contest to be held in Greenville Saturday, presenting three numbers in the class C competition. The program as outlined for the local band by Director L. YV. Zeigler includes a warm-up march, entitled “National An them," by Bagley; an overture, “Student Prince,” by Romberg; and the tone poem, “Phantom Trumpeters,” by Gillette. Mr. Zeigler also announced that the band would present Its first spring outdoor concert Sun day afternoon at 5:15, in front of the community hall on Wa ter Street. This will be a free concert, and the program will be of a patriotic nature. Mr. Zeigler said that the band realized the sum of S21 from the concert held recently in the courthouse, and he expresses his appreciation to all those who co operated with the band by at tending or buying tickets. It is announced that another street parade and drill will be presented by the band in the near future. Plans Not Completed For Sugar Rationing Order Numbers Not Yet Assigned The Washington County Se lective Service Board is awaiting the master list for assigning or der numbers to those who regis tered at the third registration in February. The list is expected in a few days, and as soon as it can be worked out, the list of or der numbers will be published in this newspaper. Clerk S. A. Ward says that no effort will be made to asisgn the order numbers until the master list is received. Some newspapers have carried order numbers, but they were not official, and Mr. Ward said that nothing would be issued here regarding the num ber numbers until the official list is received. Tun and Fashions Of 1942' Expected Draw Large Crowd --<$, Firemen’s Benefit Show To Be Presented Here To morrow Night -® According to those who have had a “peek” at rehearsals, “Fun and Fashions of 1942,” to be pre sented at the Plymouth Theatre to morrow night at 8 o’clock, under the sponsorship of the Plymouth Fire Department, promises to be one of the best entertainments of its kind ever presented here. It is a show of surprises, some of them taking place on the stage, in the aisles and in the seats of the au dience, and firemen urge everyone who plans to attend to get his tick et now. One of the hits of the revue is to be the Hawaiian number, sung by Eddie H. Blatz and danced by eieht hula girls in native costumes. Also featured will be “The Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” danced by dozen boys and girls, with a specialty dance by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hardison. Twelve majorettes in striking cos tumes will execute a drill that will please any audience. There are many things that Law rence Jones, L. E. Beck, C. W. Burn ham, F. J. McKinley, Tom Gardner and others will do to provide merri ment. The second part will consist of a fashion show, with living models, presented by three local firms. Mrs. R. E. Dunning will be mistress of ceremonies. L. D. Jones and I. Miller Warren are in charge of the show R. B. Trotman is director, and Mrs Wilmer D. Walker is piano accompanist. -«>———— Local Masons To Have Degree Work Tuesday -- There will be a regular communi cation of Perseverance Lodge, No. 59, A. F. & A. M., at the lodge hall next Tuesday night, with work in the third degree. There will be at least two candidates, an official of the lodge said today. All Master Masons are cordially invited to attend. •-w Legion Meeting Called Off Friday on Account of Show There will not be a meeting of the James E. Jethro Post of the Ameri can Legion Friday night, it was an nounced today by Adjutant J. E. Westray, who said that the meeting had been called off on account of the firemen’s benefit show at the Plym outh Theatre tomorrow night at 8 o’clock. Maples Disqualified in Tourney^ at Pinehurst Ellis Maples, pro at the Plymouth Country Club, was disqualified from further play in the North and South open championship tournament at Pinehurst yesterday, when he found he had inadvertently miscounted his score on one hole. He had a 70 for the opening round the day before, which placed in a tie for fourth place. Special Committees Will Be Named To Handle Registration ——9 Made Necessary Due To Early Closing of Schools Throughout County Indications today were that it would be necessary for county and community committees to be set up in Washington County to handle the registration for sugar rationing on May 4, 5, 6 and 7, since all the schools in the county will be closed for the term on April 25, according to the present schedule. There will be a registration for commercial users on nprii 28 and 29. There is some confusion here about the method of handling the registra tion at the present time. It is not yet known whether it will be handled by the tire rationing board or the Civilian Defense Council. It is be lieved that either the tire rationing board or W. M. Darden, chief of the county Civilian Defense Council, will appoint men and women in the vari ous communities to handle the reg ! istration. In the meantime. B. H. McKean, superintendent oi scnools, has already received 15,000 sugar ra tioning cards and 15,000 leaflets con taining instructions for the consum ers. As soon as final details of the ra tioning and registration plans are worked out. a series of meetings will be heid in various parts of the state to acquaint the public with the nec essary' information. Up to the present, the rationing authorities in the Office of Price Ad ministration have not decided defi nitely whether each individual will be allowed one-half or three-quarters of a pound of sugar per week after rationing is instituted. All sugar sales in the United States will be suspended on April 27 for ap proximately one week, or until the rationing system is placed in opera tion in accordance with the an nounced registration schedule. Say Tests Made of Ilmenile Ore From Sound Encouraging DuPont Company Spending Large Sum in Taking Core Samples -- Reports reaching here are to the effect that early experiments in de veloping machinery to extract ilme nit.e ore from Albemarle Sound sand by the E. I. duPont de Nemours Company are proving more success ful than anticipated, giving rise to tire hope that this may become an important industry for this section. The State of North Carolina and the duPont company recently reach ed an agreement whereby the com pany will pay 15 cents a ton as roy alty to the state, which has title to the sand at the bottom of the sound. The agreement has been approved by the company, by a committee of the Department of Conservation and Development, and by the attorney general. It is stated that the titanium oxide, produced from ilmenite ore, which comes from the Albemarle Sound— and it is the titanium pigment which the company wants—is more nearly a match for the titanium from India, where the duPont supply has come from in the past, than anything else found in this country. Dr. J. L. Gillson, duPont's chief geologist, has been in this section for some time in connection with the experiments underway. The com pany is spending thousands of dol lars taking core samples. The process of obtaining the bril liant white pigment from the black bottom of Albemarle Sound includes dredging the sound bottom by a floating plant. Out of every 100 tons of sand taken, the first processing step will take about 10 tons. The rest goes back to the bottom of the sound. The 10 tons of concentrate wdll be sent to shore plants, where it will be refined again and approximately 5 tons of ilmenite recovered. This ore will then be sent to one of the du Pont pigment plants and the titanium oxide extracted from it. Titanium oxide is a brilliant white, : refractory pigment. It is used in ! paint and also in cloth. If you have 1 seen rayon which you believed to be | silk, the chances are that the ap pearance was due to titanium. Begin Revival at Christian Church -® A series of revival services will be conducted at the Plymouth Chris tian church, beginning Sunday night and continuing one week, closing on Easter Sunday. The pastor, Rev. B. E. Taylor, will do the preaching. A candlelight Communion service will be held Thursday night. Easter services, beginning with a Sunrise Service Easter Sunday morning, will bring to a close the “Toward Calvary” program which has been underway during the Lent en season. The public is cordially invited to attend. Special Bus Service For Employees ol j Pulp Company Here ! Inaugurated Last Tuesday On 30-Day Trial Basis Following Survey The Norfolk Southern Bus Corpor ation this week inaugurated special bus service for the benefit of em ployees of tire North Carolina Pulp Company, as the result of a survey conducted recently among the work men, who indicated a desire for such service in order to conserve their private passenger car tires, as well as gasoline. The company now employs an estimated 1,065 people, most of whom work on a shift basis and a large number of whom live consid erable distances from the plant. Chester Hawkins, bus master of the Norfolk Southern company, was here Saturday to make arrangements for inaugurating the service on a trial basis, and Tuesday two buses of the intercity type began to haul the em ployees to and from work on a tem porary schedule, which is subject to such changes as local conditions and needs may indicate desirable The buses will travel from Creswell to the plant: from Williamston to the plant: Little Richwood to the plant; and from a point on highway 32 near the county home to the plant. The schedules are based on the shift changes, so as to take workmen to and from their work three times daily. It wras stated that the present serv ice has been established on a 30-day trial basis, following a survey con ducted among the workmen. Prac tically everyone of the employees sig nified his desire to have the service. A very reasonable charge is to be made for the service. Pulp company officials got In touch with bus company officials about the matter when they found that the scarcity of tires and gasoline would prevent many employees from using their private cars in commuting be tween the plant and their homes as far away as Creswell and William ston. -® Two-Day Union for Primitive Baptists -<s> The eastern union meeting of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Associa tion will convene with the White Plains church, near Pinetown, Satur ■ day and Sunday, with Elder W. M. Stubbs, of Pinetown. in charge. Elder S. Gray, pastor of Concord I and two other churches in this union, I said that he would not be able to be present, due to attending another j union meeting in Harnett County, ! but there will be several other min isters at the gathering. The public is cordially invited to attend, Elder Gray said. Elder Gray, of Pinetown, who as pastor of the Concord church, near Cherry, and other Primitive Baptist churches in the section, is well known In this county. The Chuichls theHope of the World We Must Cling to It Now for Strength and Guidance V For 2,000 years the Christian faith has been a light burning in the darkness of a troubled world, a guide and a bea con to all men everywhere. It has survived because, through all the ages, the Church has been its shel ter and its shield. To the Church the people have turned for strength when they were sorely pressed, and for guid ance when the way was dark. We, who walk a dark and dangerous road today, must turn to the Church for strength. We, who loved peace, are now at war. We are building the machines of war —the tanks and guns and planes and shells and ships, without which we cannot conquer. Yet all these things that we are build ing cannot insure our victory. For victory demands of us a greater strength than mass of men, and weight of guns. It demands of us a strength of the spirit that only the Church can be stow. A strength that stems from the unfaltering faith that right will tri umph: that hats and cruelty cannot endure: that mercy and compassion and brotherhood some day will rule the world. If we go into battle without that faith we go as a nalion strong only in the externalities and the trappings of war. We go as spiritual skeletons in armor, a robot host without a soul. Our sons and brothers who walk daily with death in the steaming jungles, and ride with death in the air and on the seas, have learned already how great is the strength that comes from within. "Send us bombers/' they called, at first. And then: "Send us bombers— and Bibles." For in time of trial, they had to come to know what fighting men have understood from Bohemund the Crusader to Stonewall Jackson, from Galahad to Father Duffy: The man who fights in the name of Christ fights best of all. They know it now. We, too, must learn it. As a nation we must learn it if we are to bear the hard trials, win the grim battles, and, when victory has come, write the just peace that will endure. The doors of the Church are open. The light of the Faith still burns. The altars await a nation that bows its head to God—and in that act of hum bleness finds strength to hold its head up proudly against whatever foe may come. GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY! This Advertisement Is Published and Paid for in the Interest of the Churches of Plymouth by Shep Brinkley—Plymouth Theatre To Hold Examination In April for Office of Plymouth Postmaster Board oi Election Named by State Meeting- in Raleigh last Satur day, the State Board of Elec tions approved the recommenda tions of party executive commit tees calling for the appointment of W. W. White and W. J. Mar row, sr„ as Democratic mem bers and J. R. Carr as Republi can member of the Washington County Board of Elections. The election officials are to meet within the next few days to set up machinery for handling details of the registration and primary in the county on Sat urday, May 30. Registration books will open shortly for addition of new vot ers’ names. County candidates have until April 13 to file for the offices at stake in the general election in November. So far, not a single candidate has an nounced. Bonner Pledges Aid In Securing Priority For FireEquipment Calls Official of WPB To Press Local Claim for Additional Truck Probability that the town of Plym outh might get a preference rating certificate from the War Production Board for immediate purchase of an additional fire truck and equipment, A-as considered brighter this week, after Representative Herbert C. Bon ner stated that he would do every thing he could to assist. While he was here last week. Rep resentative Bonner, telephoned Mautf Maverick hec', at Governmental Requirements Of the War Production Board, which han dles the problems of state and local governments concerning priorities and related matters affecting wartime purchasing needs of counties, cities, and towns, asking that the applica cation of the Town of Plymouth for the additional fire equipment be re examined. Mr. Maverick promised the congressman to consider the ap plication himself when it is reintro duced. The application for priority had been previously denied by Wayne Al ien, chief of the Defense Purchase and Supply section of the WPA, for the I ascribed reason that communities should make an effort to “get by” until vital defense areas now unpro tected receive the necessary protec tion to assure continued production of war materials. Mr. Bonner said the fact that in dustry in this area was operating about 65 per cent on war orders, coupled with the recent increase in population and nearness to the At lantic coast, should receive special consideration in view of the fact that present fire-fighting facilties are con sidered inadequate. The towTn has applied for priority to purchase a 500-gallon triple com bination pump, with hose car and water tank, fire-fighting truck. Boy Scouts Meet Tomorrow Night Local Boys Scouts will meet Fri day night at 8 o’clock in the court house basement to make plans for the annual camporee. which will be held in Roanoke Rapids April 17, 18, and 19, according to Scoumaster B. E. Taylor, who urges a large attend ance. Mr. Taylor said the Scouts were continuing their collection of waste paper Monday afternoons and the Sea Scouts Thursday afternoons in connection with the salvage-for-vie tory campaign. Those having waste paper are asked to notify Norman Furniture Company, who will have the Scouts call for it. Concert at Roper Last Friday Pleases Crowd The Norman Concert Singers, of Elizabeth City, gave a concert at the Roper High School auditorium last Friday night, and the program was so well received by the audience that arrangements were made for a re urn engagement on Friday night, 'Vpril 10, at 8:15 p. m. James E Norman, director. Is a professional pianist and rendered several piano solos that were excep tionally good. This group also offers a varied program, consisting of solos, duets, trios, and quartets, as well as troup singing. The entertainment last week was sponsored by the Ruritan Club of Roper, and everyone Is urged to at end the return program for an In teresting and enjoyable evening. John W. Darden To Retire on Account Physical Condition Examination Next Month Will Be on Open Com petitive Basis An open competitive examination to fill the vacancy in the position of postmaster in Plymouth hats been an nounced by the United States Civil Service Commission at the request of the Postmaster General, as John W. Darden prepares to retire from the position to which he was ap pointed five months ago. Mr. Darden said that he did not have any other plans at present. He made a mark of 97 on his mental ex amination for the office when he took the examination several months ago, but his physical condition prevent ed him from holding the office long, er. Tire examination is expected to be held in April. In order to be eligible for the ex ' amination. an applicant must be a citizen of the United States, must have resided within the delivery of I this post office, or within the city or I town limits in which the office is lo 'cated, for at least one year immedi ately preceding the date fixed for close of receipt of applications, must be in good physical condition, and between 23 and 63 years of age. Under the terms of the act of Con gress approved June 25, 1938, the Civil Service Commission will certi fy the names of the highest three qualified eligibles to the Postmaster General, who shall thereupon sub mit the name of the one selected to th President for nomination. Con firmation by the Senate is the final action. Applicants will be required to as semble in an examination room for written tests, and will also be rated on their education, business or pro sarffar” The offRe pays $2,500 a year. Ap plicants have until April 7 to file. First-Aid Class To Be Started Monday Night in Courthouse County Red Cross Sponsors Course; Public Invited To Attend Classes in first aid, given under the sponsorship of the Washington County chapter of the Red Cross, will begin Monday night at 8 o’clock when the public is invited to attend the first meeting at the courthouse, according to John W. Darden, chair man of the county chapter. The classes will be held Monday and Wednesday nights of each week until the course is completed, with Miss Ella Harper, teacher in the lo cal school, who has completed an instructor's course, in charge of the class. Persons from all parts of the county are invited to attend the classes. First-aid certificates will be issued by the national organization to all who complete the course. Two hours each week will be devoted to the study course, consisting of lectures and demonstrations. Mr. uarden urges all those who [wish to avail themselves of the op portunity to take the course. Among those who have already signified their intention of attending the classse are V. J. Mueller, Cornelia H. Mueller, Addie Mae Paul, Clara C. Johnston. Martha C. Biggs. Kath leen S. Nobles, Blanche Davis, Ber nice Rodgers, Naomi W. Peele, John L. Loell, and Lula C. Jackson. Impose $70 in Fines At Recorders Court Five cases were disposed of Wash ington County recorder’s court Tues day morning by Recorder W. Ron ald Gaylord and Prosecuting At torney W. Blount Rodman, resulting in fines of $70 being levied on the five defendants. The defendant in another case on the docket was giv en 18 months on the roads and one case was continued. The proceed ings follow: Richard Craddock, breaking and entering; 18 months on the toads. Ernest Lee More, reckless driving, 30 days or $25 fine and costs. John Wallace Sykes, improper brakes. 30 days on roads or fine of $5 and costs. Earl Wilton Hill, reckless driving; 30 days on roads, suspended upon payment of $25 fine and costs. Garland Oliver Boggs, improper brakes and steering gear; 30 days or $5 fine and costs. Roland Spruill, publicly drunk; 30 I days or $10 fine and costs. Chester A. Davenport, improper equipment on car; continued.