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The 4 4 4 4 ★ ★ VOLUME LIII—NUMBER 29. Roanoke Beacon ★and Washington County News* ****** Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 16, 1942. _ESTABLISHED 1889 ♦ * * * * * * * Imnj^lN.WAR ImneUlBONDS <►'******* Town opics Although reports from Raleigh st e that application blanks for bi t vies under the rationing program h e been mailed to local boards, W. /. Roebuck, clerk, said that the board hi e had not received them up to t day, and he has no information yet a to who is eligible to apply for the bikes. This county has a quota of 8 for the month of July. Major Thomas Ufc. assistant to the state direct*-. id chief of the manpower di i of the Selective Service fern, of Raleigh, was a visit./ * t the of ffice of the local s8|. ;ve service hoard Thursday a"' on. Fred W. Batemau " who volunteered in the^| »eu States Coast Guard last spi? . ,, is now sta tioned at New Londo Con., where he is attending the Coast Guard Academy. Washington County is a long way from reaching its quota of bond sales during July, accord ing to local reports. The bank here, up to today, has sold about $4,500 worth, while sales at the post office total about $2,500. This makes a total of $7,000, while the quota for the month is $37,800. Mr. and Mrs. George Barden spent last week in Williamsburg and Nor folk, Va., with relatives and friends. Mr. Barden, who is office manager for the House Chevrolet Company, was on his vacation. Chief of Police P. VV. Brown said today that dog taxes for the year beginning July 1 are now due, and he asks owners of all dogs to pay them immediately. Those who fail to pay the tax within a reasonable period of time are subject to fine Moye W. Spriill was recently ap pointed a specia. agent of the Shen andoah Life Insurance Company, of Roanoke, Va., fcr the Plymouth ter ritory, the appointment being made by Harvey C. Roberts, supervisor, of Rocky Mount. Although Vaslii..gt"n County is presumed to have a q- va for the USO furd, no information is available here as to the amount, the chairman, or any other particulars. Several men w e r e tentatively approached aboui the chairmanship, but they tecliiied to serve, and It Is not own whether the appointment i as > \ ey made. Dr? am, Mrs. Ivan W. Brown,' Durham, who visited Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Davis, here for the past week, have return ed to their home. Dr. Brown re ports to Fort Bragg this week to receive his commission as first lieu tenant in the Army Medical Corps. Sale of the Federal use-tax stamps for automobiles and trucks through the local post of fice totaled 850 up to Tuesday of this week. This is more than 100 greater than the number of stamps sold early in the year, when the law became effective. Since it was necessary to prove ownership- of the stamp before gasoline cards were issued at the registration last week, it is pre sumed that most car owners now have the stamps. In reporting the August draft calls last week, an error was made in the date of the colored call. It was re ported as August 25th, when as a matter of fact it should have been Thursday, August 27th. Fifty-five white men have been called to leave Thursday, August 13th, while the 65 colored men will leave August 27th. Shep Brinkley, owner of the Plymouth Theatre, this week started out on a one-man house to-house campaign to sell War Savings Bonds, and in the first two hours sold $1,000 worth of bonds. He plans to continue this work, and stated today that he believed a large amount of bonds could be sold in that manner if the entire county was organized and volunteers secured to really go to work at it. Sheriff Reid and Deputies Capture and Destroy Couple of Stills Last Sunday Sunday may be a day of rest, but Sheriff J. K. Reid can testi fy differently about last Sunday. To begin with, it was a hot day out in the sun; but when the sheriff wound up the day’s ac tivities. he had a record of two arrests made and two com plete illicit liquor stills discover ed and destroyed. The sheriff was called down to Creswell to get a man on a theft charge. On his way back, assisted by Deputy Sheriff VV. D. Peal and Justice of the Peace J. A Combs, he found and destroy ed two 50-gallon stills, one of which was still hot when the raiding officers arrived. Then he came on back out to the high way and picked up a negro for drunkness just to round out the day. Both of the stills were located in tlie Skinnersville section, about a mile apart. No whiskey was found, but about 500 gal lons of “meal tea," or mash, nearly ready for “running,” was poured out and the containers destroyed. The sheriff also pick- 1 ed up a lot of miscellaneous equipment, including axes, buck ets, pumps, and the like. No trace of the operators was found. Get 51,289 Pounds of Old Rubber in County During Salvage Drive Work Underway At Peanut Plant J. E. Davenport announced this week that priority require ments for new machinery to be used in the peanut plant here had been met and that shipment of tlie needed equipment had been promised in the near future. In the meantime, work is going ahead on cleaning up such equipment in the plant as will be used, and it is hoped to have the entire mill ready for opera tion by the time the current peanut crop reaches the market. Mr. Davenport says it is plan ned to enlarge and increase the capacity of the plant if possible; but that there is some doubt about this being aeomplished, due to the difficulty in securing priorities and the additional ma chinery which would be required. Sugar Allotments in County Larger Than Favored by O.P. A. Maximum of 8 Pounds Per Person Recommended By State Office Although no supplementary sugar allotments for home canning are now being issued by the Washington County rationing board, a letter from the state OPA office this week indi cates that local officials already have granted larger allotments than rec ommended by the state board. A maximum of 8 pounds per person !s suggested by the state officials in the text of the following letter, received here this week: Due to the fact that there has been considerable diversity of opinion as to how much sugar should be allow ed consumers for home canning pur poses under Amendment No. 1 to Section 1407.71, the State Office of Price Administration has deemed it wise to issue this letter with the hope that it might bring about a more uniform ruling among the various County War Price and Pood Rationing Boards. The new ruling specifically au thorizes Boards to issue one pound of sugar for every four quarts of fruit to be canned, plus one pound per person per annum to be used in making jams, jellies, preserves, or sweet pickles. The purpose in re vising the original home canning rules was to assure adequate sugar (Continued on Page Six) Headquarters of State Selective Service Orders All Registrants Divided into Four Categories Before Calls Filled in Future Single Men in First Two Categories, Subject To Call Before Married Men; Men With Children Last State headquarters of Selective Service has announced that all North Carolina local boards have been ad vised of the adoption by Congress of a policy which , provides that regis trants be separated into categories and that all registrants in each cate gory be selected for induction before any registrant in the succeeding category is selected. The four broad categories are as follows: Category one: Single men with no dependents. Category two: Single men with dependents. Category three: Married men who do not have children but who main tain a bona fide relationship in their homes with their wives, provided marriage took place prior to Decem ber 8, 1941, and at a time when se lection was not imminent. Category four: Registrants who with their wives and children, or with their children alone, maintain a bona fide family relationship in their homes, provided marriage took place prior to December 8. 1941, and at a time when selection was not imminent. Local boards in North Carolina have all been advised that they should fill their July and subsequent calls in accordance with this policy, if possible. But the boards have also been advised that the national inter est requires that all calls to meet the manpower requirements of the arm ed forces must be filled on schedule. If any local board does not have a sufficient number of single 1-A men available to fill its call, it has been authorized to depart from the gen eral rule of priority and use married men who ordinarily might be expect ed to be in category, 3, if such de parture is necessary to meet said call. Approximately 4.25 Pounds Per Capita, According to Ayers -<$> County Average Consider ably Above State Aver age at Last Reports -® While Washington County may not be at the top of the list in per capita collection of scrap rubber in the sal vage campaign which ended last Sat iurday night, it certainly will not be 1 at the bottom, according to figures reported by C. E. Ayers, chairman of the petroleum industries committee for this county, who was in active charge of the drive. According to Mr. Ayers’ report, the total collec tion in Washington County was 51, 289 pounds, or approximately 4.25 pounds per capita. According to recent published re ports, the state average was roughly 2.75 pounds per person, which would indicate that Washington County is 1V2 pounds per person above the state average. Mr. Ayers was well pleased with the results of the campaign and expressed his appreciation to all who helped in any way to make it a suc cess. Mr. Ayers was working in coopera tion with the salvage committee of the county Civilian Defense Council, of which H. H. McLean and W. V. Hays are co-chairmen. Another or ganization taking a leading part in the rubber collection campaign was the U. S. Department of Agriculture War Board for the county. The amount of rubber collected through the three oil distributors in Plymouth was as follows: C. E. Ayers, 23,296 pounds; John Swinson, 15,245 pounds; and Leigh Winslow, 12,748 pounds. Winners of the three war stamps prizes offered to boys and girls who turned in the most rubber have not yet been announced. Billy Davidson Sets Record In Aerial Machine Gunnery -$ Billy Davidson, son of Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Davidson here, recently made the highest score in aerial gunnery ever recorded at the Naval Air Sta tion at Miami, Fla., where he is in j training to become a Naval aviator. Young Davidson is receiving his ad vanced training and was flying a fast Navy pursuit ship at the time he hung up the record. -«■ Judge Dixon Says County Exceptionally Law-Abiding -® Judge Richard Dillard Dixon, of Edenton, who held court here this week for the first time since he was apointed special judge, called at The Beacon office Tuesday to express his congratulations to Washington County for being such a law-abiding j community. Not a single criminal! case was tried in superior court, 1 which Judge Dixon said was re- j markable, especially since this was the first criminal term of court in six months. -® Negro Drowned in I River NearCreswell Creswell.—John Henry Blount, col- ! ored, 28 years of age, was drowned ; in Scuppernong River, near Creswell,' last Sunday while in bathing. Blount left his home near the river i about 9 o'clock, telling friends of the family that he was going for a bath, j He did not return during the day, 1 but nothing was thought of his ab- j sence until his sister, enroute borne 1 by way of the bridge, from Creswell about 7 p. m.. noticed his hat on the water. She reported this at their home, and a searching party, includ ing his brother, went to look for him. His body was recovered about 10 p. m. The young negro was subject to fits, and it is thought that he suf fered one while in the water or. un conscious from one while on the, div ing board, fell overboard. IN PACIFIC AREA [ The above snapshot of David A Hurley, jr„ of Plymouth, was taken in Hawaii on Saturday, De cember 6, 1941. In a recent letter to The Beacon, enclosing the photo, young Hurley says it has a bit of historic interest for him, since it was taken just be fore the Japanese attack on Sun day. “And,” he goes on, “I assure you that December 7th will always be one of the great est thrills of my life, and I'll never forget it if I should live to be a million.” Funeral Wednesday At Creswell for Miss Loula M. Davenport -$ Daughter of Hoyt R. Daven port Died Monday at Sanitorium -<$> Creswell.—Funeral services for Miss Loula Mae Davenport, 21, who died Monday afternoon at the State Sanitorium, SariXorium, N. C„ were conducted at Scuppernong Christian church Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Rev. L. B. Bennett, as sisted by the Rev. S. B. Wilson, of ficiated, and interment was made in the church cemetery. Music for the service was furnished by Philippi Christian church. Miss Davenport, daughter of H. R. Davenport, and the late Mrs. Daven port. graduated from Creswell High School in 1938 Following her grad uation, she started a business course, which was interrupted by the state of her health. Before her last re lapse a few months ago, she was a student at Kings Business College, in Raleigh, and also held an office po sition in that city. A very attractive young lady, ambitious, radiating a pleasing personality and sunny dis position, she had a host of friends wherever she went who were sad dened by her passing. Until a week before she died, she entertained rela tives and friends with mirth and cheer despite the seriousness of her condition. Besides her father and her step mother, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Daven port, she is survived by two brothers, Dennis Davenport, of San Diego, Calif and Lieut. J. H. Davenport, of Macon, Ga.; twro half-sisters, Norma and Nita Grace Davenport; her ma ternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G.; L. Patrick; and her paternal grand father, S. R. Davenport. Pall-bearers were uncles of the de ceased, Earl Davenport, Leon Dav enport, McCoy Davenport, Ernest Davenport, and Tom White, of Cres well; and Dewittt Davenport, of Nor folk. Newberry Building, One Of Oldest Here, Is Razed -® Another Plymouth landmark bit the dust this week, when the old Newberry store building on Water Street here was torn down. In a dilapiated condition for the past few years, the old one-story frame build ing was removed because it consti tuted a fire hazard. Tire property on which it is located belonged to Mrs. W. H. Hampton. The old building was said by some to be upwards of 100 years old, while others say it was one of the first struc tures erected on Water Street around 1970 or 1871. sometime after the dis astrous fire which wiped out the business section. Use Stamp No. 7 For Sugar Bonus Sugar ration stamp No. 7 can now be used to buy the extra two-pound "bonus” allotment of sugar authorized recently by the Office of Price Administration. The stamp became valid July 10 and may be used until midnight of August 22nd. The sugar purchasable with stamp No. 7 is in addition to the regular rations provided bv stamps Nos. 5 and 6. _No. 5, also good for a 2-pound sugar pur chase, may be used until mid night of July 25, after which stamp No. 6 may be used until midnight or August 22. 25 Out of 53 Colored Selectees from Here Rejected by Army 28 Who Were Accepted Are Now Back Home for Brief Furlough Twenty-eight of the 53 colored se lectees who left here for induction into the Army at Fort Bragg last week were accepted, while the other 25 were rejected, it was learned today from S. A. Ward, clerk to the county selective service board. Practically all of the men have returned, those who were accepted being directed to return in about two weeks, while those who were rejected are presum ably back home to stay. Rejections were based on physical or literacy disqualifications. Following is the list of the 28 men who were accepted by the Army and who will return to begin training within two weeks: From Plymouth: James Lewis Nichols, Noah Stallings Blount, Ros ter Pittman Lucas, Mack White. Goliath Blount, jr., Berthel Woolard, Calvin James, George Monroe Smith, Robert Louis Hunter, Johnny Mack Skinner, John August James, George Henry Heckstall, Ernest Johnson, jr., William Harrison Miller. Floyd Armistead. Cary Brown, jr., Peter Hallet Bell, jr., Richard Lee Becton, Huey Lee Brown. James Alfred Alex ander, and Joe Hassell Boyd. From Roper: David Lee Davenport, Walter Mann. Douglas Walker, Wil liam Bardback King, Miles Huley Norman, James Henry Simpson. From Creswell: Irving Bennett Honablew The 25 men rejected are as follows: From Plymouth: Rudolph Ransom. Robert Chesson. Elmo Camp, Hermon Spruill, Clarence Barnes, James Gar field Blount. Clarence Johnson, Phil lip Alexander, Benjamin Franklin Cobb, Ernest James, Samuel Wynn. Joe Mack Pettiford. From Roper: Leroy Trafton, Joe Willie Norman. John Henry Norman, Ernest Lee Johnson. Willie Lee Dix on, Dennis Cox. Andrew Lee Patric. From Creswell: Clyde Smith, John Littlejohn, jr., William Frere Jones, Willie Anton Baum, Willie Roosevelt Treadwell. Colored SelecteesTo Be Honored Friday Night of Next Week -<8> Prominent Speakers of Both Races To Take Part; at New Chapel Church -® The Washington County Colored Publicity and Morale Committee, a branch of the Civilian Defense Coun cil, is planning an entertainment in honor of the colored selectees from the county. It will consist of a pro gram at New Chapel Baptist church in Plymouth, followed by a supper at the Masonic Hall Friday night of next week. July 25, beginning at 8:30 o’clock. This will be the first in a series of such entertainments planned for the selectees, and the next one will be given at Roper at the Clem mons High School, followed by an other one later to be given at Cres well. It is planned to have promi nent speakers of both races on all the programs. Following is a list of nan s of per sons who have contributed $1 each toward defraying the expenses of the entertainments. Another such list will be published as the contributions continue to be received: Lawyer W. M. Darden, members of 356-A. colored local union, Clyde Wynn, Roscoe Hudson, John Henry Moore, Charlie Stovall, W. R. Down ing, Walter Scottt, R. W, Woodley, Abraham McNair, Isaac Grimes, George Cephas, Utah Gaylord, Dave Bryant, E. V. Wilkins, Luke Mann, Thomas Wilkins, Freeman Clark, W. H. Bullock, Charlie L, Davenport, W. M. Johnson, Samson Heath, Mrs. J. J. Clemmon, Whittie C. Witherspoon, Preston Bell, Johnnie Davenport, D. L. Freeman, H. C. Boyd. William Ga bel, J. H. Satterthwaite, Milton Cox, T. L. Wilkins, P. A. Toodle, Henry Simmons, J J. Johnson. L. S. Mit chell, Lancelot Fagan, W. W. Walk er, James Watkins, Jimmy Clark, Rev. Winborne, Lawyer P. H. Bell. George Smith, Willie Spruill. Minnie Freeman, Milton Gaylord. —————« School Opening Dates Not Fixed -® Despite rumors of early school opening this year, H. H. McLean, county superintendent of schools, said today that opening dates for Washington county schools had not yett been discussed by the board of education. It is presumed that the date will be decided at the next meet ing of the board. It is understood that Beaufort County school will open the term this year on August 4th. and rumors have also been heard that Nash County schools will open early in August. Considerable opposition is said to have developed to the early starting in Beaufort County, with pe titions being circulated in some sec tions protesting the action Ration Board Issuing Gas Cards for Trucks In County This Week Quality Is Low in Gas Ration Books While recognized to be very valuable, the A-t,vpe gasoline rationing books are apparently of inferior quality. Some of the little eoupon or stamp books have already started to coming to pieces; and. since they are suposed to last for a whole year, the owners are urged to pin them together or call at almost any business office and have the sheets stapled together. Motorists are warned that if the books are mutilated, destroy ed or lost they cannot be replac ed. The loss of a rationing book is little different from los ing money. And it is pretty gen erally known that the govern ment does not. make a practice of i replacing paper money when it Is lost or destroyed. Postponed Meeting Town Council Held Last Tuesday'Night -♦ Annual Audit, Back Taxes And Other Matters Up For Discussion The town council finally held its postponed July meeting Tuesday night, and while the council mem bers had a great number of matters for discussion, there was little in the way of concrete accomplishments re ported following the session. J. M. Williams and Company was employed to make the annual audit, a preliminary to working up the bud get for the coming year, and the au ditors will also be requested to check the accounting system now in use by the town and to make recommenda tions for any revision of methods they may consider advisable. ohlk. taxes wnicn nave not Deen paid also came in for a measure of discussion, and it is planned to insti tute foreclosure proceedings some time in the not-far-distant future. In this connection Z. V. Norman, lo [ cal attorney who has handled these ! matters for the town, informed the countil that he would not be able to ! continue instituting such foreclosure proceedings, due to the fact that he | had lost one of the attorneys from his office, W. B. Rodman, who has I gone into the Army. Some special committees appoint ed at previous meetings were called on, but had no reports at this time. J. W. Norman and Raymond Leggett are writing the State Utilities Com mission requesting that body to re quire tne bus company operating through here to provide some added bus station facilities for the benefit of local passengers. A. J. Riddle and C. E. Ayers some time ago were appointed to a com mittee to estimate the size of the in dividual tracts and parcels of land brought inside the corporate limits by the extension election last year. They have not yet completed their report, and it is necessary that this work be done before the new tax books can be made up. Although the acreage of complete farms can be readily ascertained, it is up to this committee to decide the size of tracts when only a part of a whole parcel was brought inside the city limits by the extension. This is a difficult task, since not even the property owners themselves know exactly where the line is in some places. They simply listed the property in January and left it up to the town to work out the amount that is now inside the corporate limits. Follows Issuance of A Books Last Week For Passenger Cars Truck Owners Who Have Filed Applications Can Now Get Cards -<i Registration for the permanent gasoline rationing program went off very smoothly in the county last week, but up to this morning the rationing board office here did not have a complete tabulation of the number of A and D cards issued at the three registration places. A total of 701 cards were issued in Plym outh. 697 A books and 4 D books. Re ports had not been received from the registration sites at Roper and Cres well. The basic A books were issued to owners of passenger cars, while the basic D books went to motorcycle owners. They were the only types issued at the registration places last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. W. A. Roebuck, clerk to the local rationing board, said this morning that the board had already consider, ed all the applications filed so far by truck owners, and he advises those who have filed such applications to call at the offices and receive their S-books. Each truck owner is re quired to bring his registration card so that the serial number of the rationing book can be entered on the back of it. Positively no books will be issued unless the registration card is presented. The local board started consider ing applications for trucks and pick ups Tuesday night and continued its work Wednesday night, completing all those on hand. The ration books issued were based on information contained in the applications and the allotments issued were for 8 and 12 months. No books were issued for gas rations for less than eight months. The board will next take up the applications for gasoline for non highway use, including boats, trac tors, and amounts used for any other purpose such as miscellaneous cleaning, and the like. No applica tions for supplementary allotments of gasoline for passenger cars will be considered until after Wednesday of next week, July 22, when the ration ing program goes into effect. A num ber of aplications for B and C books are pending, but they will not be con sidered until after all other types have been passed on by the board, it was said by the clerk today. -® Moore Gels Ensign Commission in Navy -® W. S. Moore, agriculture teacher at the Plymouth High School for the past four years, recently received a commission as ensign in the United States Navy and will leave Wednes day or Thursday of next week for Northwestern University at Chicago, where he will enter upon a two month indoctrination course before being assigned to active duty. He is to report at the university on July 27. Mrs. Moore, a registered nurse em ployed at the Plymouth Clinic, plans to remain in Plymouth and continue her work here. In addition to his duties as agriculture teacher in the local schools, Mr. Moore was instruc tor in shop work. He successor has not been named. Mr. Moore has made many friends during his four years here, and they regret to see him leave Plymouth. Mrs. Moore has four brothers already in the service and her husband makes the fifth member of her immediate family to enter the armed forces of the nation. Superior Court Session This Week One of Shortest on Record; Convened Monday And Adjourned Before Noon Next Day Judge Richard D. Dixon, of Edenton, Presides, for First Time Here; Not Single Criminal Case for Trial ■ Washington County had one of its I shortest sessions of superior court in ! years this week. Scheduled as a one week term for the trial of both crim- j inal and civil cases, the court con vened Monday morning, disposed of j the few cases which came before it and adjourned for the term before noon Tuesday. Judge Richard D. Dixon, of Edenton, presided over his first term in this county, exchang ing with Judge Clawson Williams, of Sanford, who was originally sched uled to be here. There were no presentments and hence no grand jury was selected. Judge Dixon was thereby deprived of making the traditional grand jury charge. A number of those called for jury service were excused, while others made up the juries used in diciding several divorce actions. On the criminal docket, caSM tm continued against Jetliro Bonhat, C. Edley Hutchins, S. B. Davenport; and Dennis Cahoon. Most of the civil cases on the calendar were likewise 3 continued, except the following: Mrs. Carrie Holloman was granted a restraining order directed against R. L. Holloman, forbidding him from interfering with or molesting her or l' her property in any manner. Mrs. Katherine Ambrose was granted a divorce from Raymond W. Ambrose, on grounds of adultery. Mrs. Alice B. Sexton was granted a divorce from J. C. Cexton on grounds of statutory period of separation. Mrs. Ruth Graxiola was granted a divorce from Robert Graxiola on grounds of separation. Mrs. Graxi ola was also given permanent cus tody of their child