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The Roanoke Beacon * * * * j* * * and Washington County News^ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ f Victory,. Bmgr •KITCS STATES DEFENSE BONDS * STAMPS » VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 20 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 20, 1943 ESTABLISHED 1889 OWNl OPICS Mrs. Wamie Gurkin and baby have been in Montgomery, Ala., for about two weeks visiting Mr. Gur kin. who is an aviation cadet at an Army fling school there. Cadet Gur kin will complete the preliminary course of instruction there this week, and Mrs. Gurkin and the baby will return to Plymouth next week. Private D. Leroy Bateman spent Saturday and Sunday here with Mrs. Bateman and his parents. He recent ly completed his basic training and has been assigned to a mechanized cavalry unit stationed at Fort Jack son. S. C. Irish potatoes have been very scarce at local stores for the past week or so. It has reached the point when one store gets a supply, the word quickly spreads and a “run” develops that wipes out the stock completely within a few minutes. A total of 88 books were checked out of the county library Monday of this week, according to Mrs. Lulu Jackson, the librarian. This consti tutes a new record for a single day at the library. A number of local sportsmen have "gone fishing” today to celebrate the end of the closed season on hook and line, rod and reel fishing in inland waters. Beginning today, it is legal to take bass, speckled perch, bream and other species of game fish, on which the season has been closed in most streams of the section since early in April. L. N. Womble, owner of Womble’s Drug Store here, has been in Greens boro this week attending the state convention of pharmacists and drug gists. He is expected to return to day. Mrs. Howard Gunn was called to Staten Island, N. Y., by the sudden death of her brother, Harry Tooker. early Sunday morning. Mr. Tooker, only 49 years of age, was stricken and died shortly afterwards from a cere bral hemorrhage. The funeral was held Tuesday. County farmers who have not filed their farm statements with the local selective service board are warned to do so within the next few days if they desire to enter claims for a deferred clas sification. A majority of farm ers have already filed such state ments, it was said at the board here, but a few have not yet been received. Technical Sergeant Raymond B. Smith, of Gaii-D Gruber, Okla., is here to spend a fe'W days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Smith. He is serving with a Motor Transport outfit of the Ordnance Corps. Ernest Roy Sawyer has returned to duty with the Pacific fleet after spending a few days here with his mother, Mrs. Grace Sawyer. He left last week for the West Coast, where he will rejoin his ship, a destroyer. on which he has already taken part in four major battle actions with the Japanese. Norih Carolina Pulp Company Has Sent 330 Men Into Service • Represents Nearly Third of Normal Operating Per sonnel of Plant -9—— When it comes to “aU-out” war effort, few concerns anywhere can surpass the record being made by the North Carolina Pulp Company here. Operating under the slogan “Pulpwood Goes To War,” the mill is turning out a vast quantity of pulp and paper material which is di rectly contributing to prosecution of the war. At the same time, the pulp mill is well represented in every branch of the armed forces of the nation, a compilation made recently showing that 330 former employees have gone into the military service. This rep resents about one-third of the com pany’s normal operating force at the local plant, and gives some idea of the difficulties faced-by employeers in keeping industries functioning under war-time conditions. The management of the plant is naturally quite proud of the com pany’s war record. It is engaged in the manufacture of containers used in shipping ammunition, equipment and supplies to every quarter of the globe where American fighting men are stationed. Research laboratories maintained by the firm have de veloped several improved types of containers now used extensively by the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps to get needed supplies to their men. However, they are most proud of the men from The North Carolina Pulp Company who are now serving with the military services through out the world. Every department and every type of employee is rep resented in the Army, Navy and re lated services, from the laborer on the yard and in the wods to some of its highest-ranking executives. Those who are remaining behind to “carry on” are leaving nothing nothing undone that will contribute as much as possible to the welfare of their fellow-workmen now in the (See 330 IN SERVICE, Page 4> Friday Is Victory Bond Day in Plymouth W. L. Whitley Resigns as Chairman of Washington County Rationing Board w. L. Whitley announced this week that he had submitted his resignation as chairman of the Washington County War Price and Rationing Board, to become effective immediately. Mr. Whit ley said that he was not resign ing from the rationing board entirely, but only as chairman, a position he has held since the board was first set up more than a year ago. E. F. Still and A. J. Riddle are the other two origi nal members of the local board. Edward H. Hill and Rev. B. W. Gaither have been added since. Mr. Whitley said that he was resigning because of undue ad verse criticism he had received as chairman concerning matters over which he had no conrtol. He explained that certain speci fie instructions covered the issu ance of practically all certifi cates for the purchase of ration ed items. Despite the fact that all cases were covered in the regulations, and no exceptions were permitted, he said he had been unjustly criticized because he could not relax them to take care of some individual cases. It is not known exactly what steps will he taken. When the board was at first constituted, Mr. Whitley was elected chair man by the other two members. He said this week that he had submitted his resignation as chairman to state authorities; and it is presumed they will in struct the other members to meet and elect a successor to Mr. Whitley. Applications for New Ration Book in Mails Added Donations Made Red Cross Although the Red Cross War Fund Campaign was long since brought to a very successful close in this county, additional contri butions are still being received, it was learned from Mrs. T. W. Earle this week. Within the past few days, $15 in donations have been received, Mrs. Earle said, the following contributioms being hereby acknowledged: Beulah BickerstafT, $1, Alonzo Small $1, Ralph Armstrong $1, Jack Latham $5, J. H. Newkirk $5, and J. R. Williams $2. This brings the total raised by the county chapter in the recent borid djive to v £4,294.04. The couftty quota Waar&S,700. New Health Officer Arranges Schedule Of Clinics in County To Provide Immunization Against Typhoid, Small pox, Diphtheria Dr. J. J. Croley, district health of ficer, this week announced a sched ule of clinics to be held at various points in the county during the month of June, when vaccine will be administered for immunization against typhoid fever, smallpox and diphtheria. In announcing the schedule, Dr. Croley issued the following state ment: "We urge everyone to take ad vantage of these clinics and be im munized against typhoid, smallpox and diphtheria. For those who had three doses of typhoid vaccine last year, one dose will be given each year hereafter. This will protect the person against typhoid fever as well as to give three doses every three years.” The complete schedule announced by the health officer is as follows: Every Saturday morning at the district health department, Plymouth between the hours of 9 a. m. and 12 noon; Macedonia school: Mondays, June 7, 14 and 21, from 9:30 to 10:15 a. m.; Community Building, Roper: Mon days, June 7, 14 and 21, from 12 a.m. to 12 noon; Tommie Tarkington’s filling sta tion: Mondays, June 7, 14 and 21, from 1 to 2 p. m.; Skinnersville: Mondays, June 7, 14 and 21, from 2:30 to 3:30 p. m.; E. L. Cooper’s store, Lindsey Phelps farm, Skinnersville Township: Thurs days, June 10, 17 and 24, from 10 a. m. to 12 noon; Creswell library building: Thurs days, June 10, 17 and 24, from 1 to 2 p. m. -$ Patrolmen To Collect All Available Quinine -• Highway Patrolman M.. B. Stewart, who is stationed in Plymouth, re ceived a new assignment this week He was ordered to call on all drug stores and hospitals in his district and request them to turn over their stocks of quinine for forwarding to the government, which needs the drug for American fighting men sta tioned in malarial climates. The letter stated that most drug stores had already turned in their stocks of quinine, which are urgently needed, and all hospitals are now to be called on. The quinine is to be collected and turned over to High way Patrol headquarters by May 31. Start Distribution at Post Offices Today Throughout Nation -® Heads of Families Urged to Pay Close Attention to Instructions -9 Abandoning scholhouses and com munity centers as places for hold ng registrations, authorities have virtually completed plans for regis tering consumers by mail for the No. 3 War Ration Book, which is to be used as a replacement for War Ra tion Book No. 1, it is understood. Beginning today, all post offices in the county—as well as through out the nation—will start the distri bution of application forms. The re cipient should carefully read the in structions, All in the application, place a 3-cent stamp on it and mail to Charlotte. It was announced at noon today that the Civilian Defense Council here would be asked to provide vol unteers to assist heads of families in filling out the blanks. Any head of a family or individual who does not receive one of the ap plication forms is directed to report to his post office and call for one. r'he distribution of application cards will, in all probability, be completed within two or three days, and the person who does not get one should ■jjply to his post office on or before June 10. Only one application for ■ach family is needed. General instructions for handling he registration were released by the Washington County War Price and Rationing Board this week, as fol lows: Persons in the armed forces cannot register. Inmates of institutions of involuntary confinement canot reg ister. Boards who live with families to whom they are not related are to make out separate applications. Family heads in preparing the application do not list members of the family living away from home. Those members of a family who are away from home for more than 60 days will make separate applications. Applications must be mailed be tween June 1 and June 10. If mail ings are delayed until after June 10. (See RATION BOOK 3, Page 4) Total of 26 Men On List To Be Sent To Fort Bragg Monday Board Unable To Fill En tire White Quota for This Month -® Twenty-six Washington County white men have been ordered to re port to the local selective service board next Monday morning at 10 a.m., when they will be sent to Fort Bragg for their final mental and physical examinations to determine their fitness to serve in the armed forces of the United States. Twen ty-five of the number are registrants of the Washington County board, while the other one is a transfer from the Norflok. Va., board. The 26 men do not represent the entire number called for from Wash ington County this month, but it does represent all that the local board had available to answer the call. The exact numbers of the monthly quotas are no longer avail able to newspapers for publication. However, the regulations issued a little over a month ago forbidding publication of names of those order ed to report for induction and names of those accepted may be printed now. It is not permissible to give the names of the men rejected at in duction centers. Plymouth is again called upon to furnish the largest portion of those called up this month. 17 being from here. Creswell will furnish 4, Roper 3, and Wenona 1. The lone transfer is from Norfolk. Two of the number are volunteers, Douglas Allen Col lins, of Plymouth, and Charles Wil bert Davenport, of Roper. Following is the complete list of those who will report for possible in duction next Monday: From Plymouth: Henry Gray Mi zelle, William Campbell Cross, Jr„ Raymond Warren Ambrose, Joseph Ballard Duck. Ambrose Lloyd Owens, Fred J. Hartman, Henry Ellis New berry. Norwood Jack Nobles, Bennie Bruce Bowen, jr.. Thaddeus Theodore Harrison. Craig Wayburn Browning. Douglas Allen Collins, Arthur Denver Jett, Marshall Gray Ange, Charles Enoch Leary, Samuel Ward Carlisle, and Charles Thomas Robbins. From Creswell: David James Johnson, Bailey Caswell Phelps. Charles Rowe Gaither, and Harold Reid Phelps. From Roper: Ernest Leroy Ayers, and Charles Wilbert Davenport. From Wenona: Charles Fred Le fever. Transferred from Norfolk, Va.: Johnnie Clemmie Pridgen. Auxiliary Holding Bazaar Here Today -V The bazaar sponsored by the Wo man's Auxiliary of the Grace Epis copal church is being held in the Le gion Hall this afternoon and to night. from 3:30 until 10 p.m. There are a number of booths with home-made articles on sale. Aprons, baby clothing, laundry bags, etc., are on sale at the fancy articles booth; then there are a number of miscellaneous items on sale at an other booth. No ration coupons are required for purchases at the ‘ Pan try Shelf." where home-made cook ies. cakes, pies, pickles, jams, etc., are on sale. Prices are very reasonable. Re freshments are being served con sisting of assorted sandwiches, tea, home-made ice cream and cake. The public is invited to attend. Subscription Rates Will Be Increased Effective June 1, 1943, there will be a general increase in sub scription rates of the Roanoke Beacon to everyone except men in the armed forces. It is with regret and reluctance that the publishers make this announcement. For more than a year every effort has been made to maintain the present $1.50 base rate, which is the same as it was even during the depression years of the early thirties. It is no longer possible to do so, in the face of greatly increased costs of everything that goes into the printing of a newspaper—labor, paper, ink, cuts, type, and supplies for the maintenance of equipment. Therefore, effective June 1, 1943, the following schedule of rates will prevail: To persons living in Washington, Tyrrell, Beaufort and Martin Counties: One year, $2; six months, $1.25: and single copies, 5 cents. No subscriptions will be accepted for less than six months. To persons living outside of Washington, Tyrrell, Beaufort and Martin Counties: One year, $2.50: six months, $1.50. A special rate of $1.50 per year will be granted to men in the armed services of the United States. Subscriptions will continue to be accepted at the old rate until June 1, but for no longer than two years in advance. Pursuant to postal regulations, all subscriptions are strictly cash in advance. Notices are being mailed out to approximately 150 subscribers whose subscriptions expire this month; and they may renew at the $1.50 rate if they come in before the first of June; otherwise the new schedules will apply. Free Movies, Prizes, Other Featuies for All Who Attend PROGRAM The program for Washington County Victory Bond Day at Plym outh, Friday, May 21, has been arranged as follows: 10 a.m., bicycle and pet parade, led by Plymouth and Edenton High School Bands. The Parade will form at the High School build ing here and continue through the down-town streets. Junior Woman’s Club in charge. 11 a.m., free moving picture show at Plymouth Theatre; two feature films, one showing operation of North Carolina Pulp Company, with commentary by Lowell Thomas; other. Wallace Beery- in “Barnacle Bill.” 12:30 to 2 p.m., free time for lunch. 2 p.m., second free movie show, with first bond auction sale to be held on stage of Plymouth Theatre at 2:30 p.m. Numerous free prizes for high bidders. Auction will be conducted by “Jakie" Taylor, well-known tobacco auctioneer. 4 p.m., another free show if size of crowd warrants. 7 p.m., regular show at Plymouth Theatre, with second bond auction to begin at 7:45, following showing of short subjects. Many free prizes. Drawing for S50 War Bond will follow auction, which will be conducted by “Jakie" Taylor. (Clip This Program for Future Feference) List ot Prizes To Be Given Free at Bond Auctions Tomorrow Two $50 and Three $25 War Bonds Among Premiums For Bond Buyers -w Plymouth merchants and business men responded very liberally in con tributing prizes to be given free at the two bond auctions here Friday. It was impossible to get a correct to tal of the value of all the prizes, as the list is constantly growing, but it is believed that around $500 worth had already been assured the prize committee up to yesterday. Included in the lot of prizes are at least five War Bonds with a total value of $175. Three $25 bonds are offered by individual merchants and business men. the North Carolina Pulp Company is giving a $50 bond, and the merchants association is put ting up a $50 bond, which will be awarded at a drawing following the second bond auction at 7:45 p. m. Some of the local merchants gave more than one prize and specified at which sale each was to be awarded. About half of the prizes will be given away at the afternoon sale, and the other half at the night auction. Both auction sales will be conducted by •■jakie” Taylor, well known tobacco auctioneer. Below is a list of the prizes to be given away at the two sales. This list is not complete, as several have stated that they would give prizes but had not reported to the committee yesterday. Tire donors and prizes are as follows: E. G. Arps Drug Store, fountain pen set; Davenport Hardware Co., one gal lon of paint; E. Durand Keel, case of oil or equivalent, value $8.40; Central Garage, case of oil or equivalent, $8.40 value; North Carolina Pulp Co., $50 bond; Plymouth Furniture Company, $25 War Bond and other items; Womble’s Drug Store. $25 bond; C. O. Kelly, $25 War Bond; Norman Furniture Co., $29.95 top grade Kingsdown felt mattress and $5.95 set of dishes: Rose’s store, set of glassware; Winslow’s store, framed original oil painting by W. Frith Winslow, •Still Life With Magnolia,” value $30. and $2.50 card table: Allen’s store. 6 dozen fruit jars and other items; Western Auto Associate Store, set of dishes. $5.95; i See LIST OF PRIZES. Page 4' Soldier From Here Wounded in Africa -* Mrs. Lucy Biggs, of Plymouth, was notified recently that her son. Priv ate Ronald Biggs, was wounded in action in North Africa. On April 29 Private Biggs was transferred from the North African battle zone to the Halloran General Hospital at Staten Island. N. Y . and on May 7th he was admitted to the Ashford General hos pital in White Sulphur Springs. W. Va. His condition was reported by the Army not to be serious, but the ex tent of his injuries could not be learned by his mother. Mrs. Biggs said this week that she expected hei son home in the very near future He entered the service as a volun teer in January, 1941. Plans for Military Display Here Are Canceled Abrupily -® Soldiers Ordered Back To Camp After Completing All Arrangements Plymouth and Washington County were all set for a big military show here today and tomorrow', when sud den orders received Tuesday after noon caused cancellation of that I phase of the Victory Bond Day pro gram. A reconnoissance detail, con sisting of a first lieutenant and two enlisted men, which had been here two days, mapping a temporary camp site and making other arrangements, was ordered back to Port Bragg im mediately by the battalion command er. Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts. of Raleigh, who had secured permis sion foi; a battery of field artillery and an Army band to come here from Fort Bragg for the bond day cele bration, was immediately notified; and he is still trying to secure anoth er unit to fill in, although at a late hour this morning, he had not been successful. Everything seemed assured for the military part of the program Mon day, when First Lieutenant Schleier, Corporal Haskins and Private Ger gich arrived here to make advance preparations for a battery of 155-mm. howitzers and a 44-piece Army band to arrive Thursday. The recon noissance detail measured and mapped the old baseball park, where the soldiers were to pitch an over night camp, when the sudden orders were received Tuesday from the bat talion commander, ordering the men back to camp and all arrangements cancelled. (See MILITARY DISPLAY, Page 4i 14 Machinery Items! On List Available to Farmers of County -* Applications May Be Made To Clerk of County War Board -e Fourteen itms of farm machinery and equipment are now available for distribution among Washington County farmers who need them, it was learned this week from Miss Miriam Ausbon, secretary to the county war board. Farmers who are in need of any of the machinery or equipment ar ticles listed are urged to call at the agriculture Building in Plymouth and make application. Miss Ausbon said. The applications will be considered by the Farm Board, and if sufficient need can be shown, cer tificates for purchase of the articles will be issued. Following is the list of equipment now available for farmers of Wash ington county: One power sprayer. Two No. 42 4-foot combines. One farm wagon. One No. 45 rotary hoe. One 6 26-in. Athens tiller plow. One • So-Rite" lime spreader. One horse-drawn enclosed No. 4 mower with 5-foot blade. One Farmall H tractor. One LX2292 "B one-row bedder. Three tooth weeders. One Ontario grain drill. Two Bond Auctions To Be Conducted by Tobacco Auctioneer Plymouth and Edenton High Schools Bands To Lead Parade Everything is in readiness for cel ebration of Washington County Vic- , tory Bond Day here tomorrow, de spite last-minute changes in the pro gram, necessitated by sudden orders cancelling military features originally pianned. There will be some $500 worth of free prizes for high bid ders at the two bond auction sales, iround which the remainder of the day's program is to be centered. In addition there will be a street parade with two high school bands, at least two and possibly three free moving picture shows for all who attend, and a drawing for a $50 War Bond at the conclusion of the second bond auction. Tire Plymouth and Edenton High School Bands will lead the pet and bicycle parade at 10 a. m. Friday, opening the day’s program. Prizes totaling $10 worth of theatre tickets, given by the Plymouth Theatre, will be given for the most attractive pets and best-decorated bicycles in the parade. This feature of the day’s program will be under the supervis ion of the Junior Woman's Club. The parade will start from the high school building and continue down Washington Street throughout the business section of the town, con cluding with band concerts in front of the theatre. Tire first free moving picture show will begin at 11 a. m. at the theatre. Two films are to be shown. One was made in this section and shows the complete process of pulp and paper making at the plan'., of the North Carolina Pulp CoAipany here, with the commentary by Lowell Thomas, noted radio news commentator. The other picture is ‘ Barnacle Bill,” fea turing Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. The latter picture is a con tribution to the day’s program by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Corpor ation. Bond Auction Sales Following the lunch hour, an able speaker has been promised by the War Bond sales committee of the Internal Revenue Department at Greensboro, although the name of the speaker has not been furnished to the local committee. The address is set for 1:30 p. m., and will be fol lowed by the start of the second free show at 2 p. m. The show will be interrupted at 2:30 for the first War Bond auction sale. Jakie" Taylor, well-known to bacco auctioneer on the Greenville. Robersonville and Williamston mar 'See BOND DAY. Page 4> -$ Many Seek Extra Sugar for Canning in County This Week -- Registration Underway at Six Places; Will End Tomorrow -<*> Washington County housewives have been flocking to the six desig nated places this week to secure ad ditional sugar for canning and pre serving fruits. The registration be gan Tuesday and continues through tomorrow 'Friday) afternoon, the hours being from 1:30 to 6 p.m. each day. Detailed reports as to the number applying in each locality are not available today, but the registration started off with a rush Tuesday af ternoon at all points in the county except at Mackeys, only one person applying at the latter place the first day. Mrs. Sabrie W. Reid, secretary to the Washington County War Price and Rationing Board, is in charge of the registration throughout the county: with volunteers serving at Cresweli, Roper, Mackeys, Skinners ville Bus Station and Wenona. Mrs. Reid said that 66 persons were reg istered in Cresweli Tuesday after noon. and 61 were registered here. About half of the families in the Wenona section were also signed up the first day. Reports were not avail able from other points. No applications for sugar for can ning will be received by the ration ing board after tomorrow for some time. Mrs. Reid said. Those w ho plan i to can or preserve fruits or fruit juices in the immediate future should register and give the required infor mation before the several registration 'See CANNING SUGAR,. Page 4)
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