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The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* VOLUMELIV—NUMBER 33 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 19, 1943 ESTABLISHED 188V Town opics Frederick H. Humbert, assistant plant guard officer at Camp Bland ing, Fla., has been promoted from second to first lieutenant. Lieuten ant Humbert, whose home is in Ber wyn, 111., was personnel director for the North Carolina Pulp Company at the time of his entrance into the Army last January. Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Crowley and family moved into their new apart ment on south Washington Street here this week. Dr. Croley is head of the district health department and his new home is in the quarters for merly occupied by the department. Major Lawrence Bonner Clark was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps last week. Colonel Clark graduated from the Naval Academy at An napolis in 1934 and is now sta tioned at Quantico with a Ma rine Corps aviation unit. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark, of Plymouth. Mrs. Clark returned this week after spending two weeks with her son and his family. Firemen were called out late Mon day afternoon to a small fire on east Third Street. Some shingles on the roof of the house occupied by Edison Towe blazed up, but very little dam age was done. Flying sparks from a flue were said to be the cause. Lieutenant Sidney A. Ward, of Plymouth, was recently transferred from a military police detachment at Fort Custer, Mich., to the office of the Provost Marshal General in Washington, D. C. He entered up on his duties at his new post last week. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Burgess are ex pecting both of their soldier sons home this week-end. They will be here for several days. Lt. Walter C. Burgess is with the air-borne engi neers at Camp Mackall, near Southern Pines; while Pvt. Thomas C. Bur gess. jr., will be home from Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where he is on duty with a military police unit. Their daughter, Pvt. Camille L. Bur gess, is at Camp Wright, N. Y., with a WAC detachment. An honorable discharge from the Army during the present war will be signified by a lapel but ton, the War Department an nounced tills week. Both men and women, officers or enlisted personnel, will be eligible to wear the button if they hold an hon orable discharge, it was said. Staff Se.teant G. Tpven port, of Washington, D. C., and Ca det Midshipman Carol Lee Daven port, USNR, are visiting their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Davenport, near Creswell, this week. Mr. Dav enport is a member of the Washing ton County Selective Service Board. Ronald Nichols, of Farmville, ar rived here Tuesday and entered up on his duties as manager of the lo cal Pender store. He succeeds Leon Davis, who is planning to attend a business school at Raleigh this fall. Chief of Police and Mrs. P. W. Brown left this morning for Norfolk to be with Mrs. Brown’s father. A. R. Dupree, who is to undergo an ope ration in a hospital there today. Mrs. Dupree is also in Norfolk to be with her husband. —-i Funeral at Saints Delight This Morning for Infant -$ Funeral services for little Sybil Sue Moore, six-month-old daughter of Corporal and Mrs. Joseph H. Moore, of Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala., were held from the Saints Delight Christian church in this county this morning at 11 o’clock. The child died at 11:40 Monday morning, and the body arrived here yesterday afternoon. Surviving, besides the parents, are the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Woodley, of Plymouth. -® Program of Services at Grace Episcopal Church The regular order of services will be observed at Grace Episcopal Church Sunday, August 22, with celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 a.m., church school at 9:45 a.m., Morning Prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock, and Evening Prayer and ser mon at 8 p.m. The Collect, Epistle, Gospel, Psal ter, and lessons for the Ninth Sun day after Trinity will be used in the course of the various services sche duled for the day. Important Meeting oi Farm Bureau Here Friday Night; To Elect Officers excess acreage. This should be done before the farmer applies for his marketing card. Farmers who overplanted their allotments will be required to pay a penalty of 10 cents per pound on all tobacco raised on the ex cess acreage. In most cases it will be better for the farmer to pay the penalty in advance and secure a regular marketing card. If this is not done, an “excess card” will be issued, and the pen alty will be deducted when the farmer offers the tobacco for sale on the warehouse floor. Over 225 tobacco marketing cards have been mailed out this week to Washington County farmers. They should be in the hands of all tobacco growers, with few exceptions by the lat ter part of the week. Cards were not mailed to farm ers who overplanted their allot ted acreage, and they will have to apply at the county office for them. They are advised that it will be necessary to have the community AAA committeeman visit the farm and estimate the number of pounds raised on the Outlook for Crops in General Is Said Best In History of County Narines Get All August Draft Call Finally It has happened—100 per cent of a draft call from Washington County has been ac cepted for service in the armed forces, and in the Marine Corps, at that. Forrest Ray Bland, of Plym outh, was the lone selectee avail able to answer the August draft call on this county. He left here for Fort Bragg Tuesday of last week, was accepted for service in the United States Marine Corps, and is now at home for a few days before returning to begin training. Br. Bland set several new rec ords In selective service annals here. He comprised the smallest number available to answer a call; marked the first time 100 per cent of a call was accepted; and it was also the first time that the Army did not get a man out of a call from this county. Schedule of Teacher Meetings August 30 Outlined by McLean -- Not To Hold County-Wide Session, Due to Transpor tation Difficulties Departing from the usual custom, there will be no county-wide teacher meetings preceding the opening of schools August 31, it was announced this week by County Superintendent H. H. McLean. Instead, he plans to hold six meetings in various locali ties on Monday, August 30, the day before the schools are scheduled to open. Mr. McLean made arrangements to carry the meetings to the teachers on account of gasoline rationing and transportation difficulties. He points out that it will be necessary for each of the scheduled meetings to begin on time, as the schedule is necessarily crowded in order to get all six of them into one day. Following is the schedule of meet ings, all of which are to be held on Monday, August 30: 8:30 a.m., at Creswell colored school: for teachers of Creswell, Cherry and Pritchard colored schools; 9:30 a.m., at Creswell white school: for teachers of Creswell and Cherry white schools; 10:45 a.m., at Roper colored school; for teachers of Roper, Sound Side, Backwoods, Mount Delane, and Macedonia colored schools; 11:45 a.m., at Roper white school, for teachers of Roper white school. 1:30 p.m„ at Plymouth colored school; for teachers of Plymouth, Morrattock, Brooks and Deep Bot tom colored schools; 2:45 p.m„ at Plymouth High School, for teachers of Plymouth high and Hampton white schools. Last Wednesday Half-Holiday Will Be Observed by Local Stores Next Week The last of the Wednesday half-holidays for the current year will be observed by Plym outh stores and business houses next week. .Beginning Septem ber 1. stores will observe regular week-day hours on Wednesdays, opening at 9 a.m. and closing at ti p.m. The mid-week half-day dosing has been in effect since the first of April. Local merchants held a special meeting Monday to consider ex tending the Wednesday half holidays throughout the fall and winter months. Most of them were in favor of it provided other towns in this section would do the same.. In view of the fact that most of them remain open all day Wednesday, however, it was decided that stores here would do the same. The merchants went on record unanimously as being vigorously opposed to a national sales tax, and a commitee was appointed to wire both United States Senators and Representative Herbert Bon ner, urging them to fight such a proposal when it comes before the Congress. It is regarded as fairly certain that such a tax will be proposed when Congress reconvenes after the present re cess, Estimated Peanuts And Tobacco "Will Be Worth Million -® Most All Crops Are in Good Condition and Yields Should Be High -® Despite a number of handicaps and adverse features, farm prospects for the current year are considered the best in the history of Washington County. Gross farm income, based on the value of the principal crops, should be 25 to 30 per cent higher than last year, it was indicated by a survey of the principal individual crops. Of course, this gain is part ially offset by greatly increased costs of production, but even so, farmers should finish up the year with more cash on hand than they have been accustomed in the past. The county has three crops that should be worth around a half mil lion dollars each this year. They are, in order named, peanuts, corn and tobacco. Next comes hogs, which will return an estima*:d $225,000: cattle will bring in an estimated $150,000. and a like sum should be realized from the sale of poultry and poultry products. Cotton, the former king of all crops, now ranks well down in this county with an esti mated value of $125,000 this year, but even that is considerably more than it has been worth annually for upwards of a dozen years. Soybeans are expected to be worth $120,000 or more: sweet potatoes, $65,000; and irish potatoes. $35,000. In addition to all these major crops, there are numerous ■ patches,” including many truck crops, and (See CROP OUTLOOK. Page 6> -® Begin Consideration Draft Status of Dads In Next Few Days Local Board Preparing To Begin Induction Fathers After October 1 - The first step toward drafting of Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers in this county will be taken within the next few days when requests for additional information will be mailed to those first on the list, it was stated at the office of the local selective service board this week. These requests will be for information concerning the nature of work, number of children, family status, and other particulars about the registrant. It is stated that this information must be secured as a necessary pre liminary before considering the pos sible reclassification of registrants be tween the ages of 18 and 38 whose children were born prior to Septem ber 15, 1942. There is still much talk in the daily press and on the radio about Con gress taking action to block induc tion of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. However, there has been no official notice sent to local boards other than that of a few weeks ago. which or aerea tnem to taxe steps to uegm inducting such men after October 1. if necessary to fill calls. In this county, it will be necessary to draft such fathers in order to fill calls after October 1. As a matter of fact, this county long since ex hausted its list of available single men, married men without children and men whose children were con ceived since December 7. 1941. Most of the registrants making up recent calls from this county were young men who had just become 18 years of age, men whose temporary deferments or postponements has ex pired, and men who had been pre viously been rejected but placed in classes subject to recall. It is evident that if so-called pre Pearl Harbor fathers are called into service anywhere, Washington Coun ty will be among the first to be af fected, Farm Workers Must Get Permit to Work At Any Other Jobs -<f> Will Lose “C” Classification Unless Definite Proced ure Is Followed — —«; Washington County farm regis trants who hold 2-C and 3-C classi fications in the draft may accept temporary employment in industry during periods when farm work slacks off. but only by complying with certain very definite conditions, it was decided Monday night at a meeting here of county members of the selective service board and the United States Department of Agri culture War Board. It is emphasized that the specihc conditions must be complied with to the letter before a farm worker can accept employment in industry. Those who do not comply, jeopardize their classification as essential farm workers and are subject to reclassi fication and immediate induction in to the Army, regardless of number of dependents or other conditions. Due to the labor shortage, a num ber of industrial concerns have been employing farm workers during per iods when they could be spared from the farms. This has presented a problem to both the county war board and selective service board, and it was to work out a solution that the joint meeting was held Monday. The procedure agreed upon at the meeting requires the farm worker to secure the notarized permission of his landlord or farm employer, agreeing to release 1 ..a for a certain definite period of time. This must be ap proved by l. :h the war board and the draft board and a statement of availability secured from the U. S. employment office. Unless all these steps are taken, the farm worker who goes to work in industry may find his “C” classification revoked and his induction into the armed forces will follow immediately, it was stat ed. The only exception is that farm registrants may be employed for brief periods up to 14 days without going through this procedure. A special form is being mimeo graphed and will be available at the office of the draft board for the con venience of farm workers who have some spare time a..d wish to apply for temporary work in essential in dustry or with another farmer. Fol lowing are the steps such workers should take in order to retain their “C" classification: (1 > Apply to draft board for special form; (2) Have landlord or regular farm employer fill out this form agreeing to release such farm worker for a definite length of time and have it notarized: '3) Get approval of county USDA war board: (41 Get approval of county draft board: and (5) Secure statement of availability from U. S. employment office. Those present at the meeting Mon day night, when the above procedure was worked out were: W. D. Phelps, of Creswell, John Allen, S. F. Darden, W. W. Bowen and W. V. Hays, of Plymouth, members of the war board; Chairman R. L. Tetterton, of Plym outh, and A. W. Davenport, of Cres well, members of the selective service board. Also in attendance were Mrs. Eliza Daniels and Miss Miriam Aus bon. secretaries to the draft board and war board, respectively. Ralph W. McDonald Will Be Speaker at Labor Day Program Tentative Plans for Observ ance Made by Local Union Officials -- Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, candi date for the Democratic nomination for governor in the primary to be held next year, will speak at the La bor Day celebration in Plymouth on Monday, September 6, it was learned this week from James Mizelle, secre tary of the local pulp workers’ union. Plans are being made for joint ob servance of the day by the several local unions, although the celebra tion will be on a much more modest scale than in the past, it was stated. Details of the program have not been compelted. Mr. Mizelle said, but it is planned to do away with usual picnic and barbecue, on account of the meat shortage. It is also planned to have the entire observance here in Plymouth, instead of holding an af ternoon session at Albemarle Beach, as in the past. Gasoline rationing and difficulty of securing transporta tion were cited as reasons for not go ing to the beach. In addition to Dr. McDonald, sev eral other speakers will be heard dur ing the day. Dr. D. G. Garland. American Federation of Labor repre sentative, of Winston-Salem, will have a place on the program, it was stated. According to the secretary, the next real big celebration to be planned by the local unions will take place after the war, when union members now in service return home. More than 300 former members of the several local unions are now in the armed forces, it was said. Tobacco Farmers of County Prepare for Opening Sales Getting Everything Ready for Opening Of Schools August 31 Practically All Teaching Postions Filled, Accord ing to Superintendent Everything will be in readiness for opening of all county schools on Tuesday. August 31, according to a statement made this week by H. H. McLean, county superintendent of public instruction. Practically all teaching positions have been fdled and other arrangements made for the opening. Authorized recently by the board of education and the county com missioners, extensive repairs are be ing made to a number of school buildings. While not all of this pro gram will be completed before the opening date, inside work is being done first, and the remainder can be carried on after the schools opening without interfering with classroom activities. The repair work is pro gressing satisfactorily at this time. Mr. McLean said. The superintendent said that so far as he knew, practically all teach ing positions have been filled. He said there was not a single vacancy in the staffs of the white schools in Plymouth, nor in any of the colored schools. There were a few vacancies in the white schools at Roper and Creswell some time ago, but he said he thought they'had been fiilled in the past week or so, although he was not sure about this. The complete roster of teachers will be available for publication next week, he indi cated. The county has been allotted 105 teachers to start the school term this year. This is one less than the 106 employed in the county during the 1942-43 term. Tire loss was in the colored teaching staff, 54 being al lotted this year against 55 a year ago. The number of white teachers remains the same, 51. | County schools are beginning their first nine-month term this year. By opening August 31st, it is expected that the term will end somewhere about the midle of next May. Approximately 3,550 children are expected to be enrolled during the coming term, or about the same num ber as last year. Of the total en rollment for the 1942-43 term, 2,800 were in the elementary and gram mar grades and 750 in the high schools. It is considered possible that at tendance may be below' normal for sometime after the term begins, since the shortage of farm labor may result in many children being kept at home to help with farm work, es pecially during the harvest seasons. -—® Pulpwood Shortage Is Reaching Critical Stage, Earle States -» Drive To Increase Output Begun in Three Major Producing Areas -$ "The shortage of pulpwood in the United States is rapidly reaching a critical state which will hamper the national war effort," T. W. Earle, head of the wood department of the North Carolina Pulp Company de clared this week. In an effort to overcome this short age the War Production Board, with the assistance of four other Federal departments and agencies, has un dertaken an intensive campaign to increase pulpwood cutting in the htree major producing areas of the South, Northeast and Lake States. The pulpwood industry is cooperating through a committee representing the mills, while independent commit tees have been set up bv the Ameri can Newspapers Publishers Associa tion, to publicize and advertise the program in daily, weekly and farm papers in the pulpwood regions. "The pulpwood problem is solely one of production." said Mr. Earle "Its solution depends entirely upon more manpower and more cutting in the woods. WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson has asked the 3.800.000 farmers in the pulpwood states to help overcome a threatened shortage of 2.500.000 cords and to provide suf ficient quantities of this raw mater ial to meet both the military and do mestic war requirements "There is no way of determining what the demand of our fighting forces for pulp wood products will be as invasion operations are intensi fied in Europe and the South Pacific. But it would be a sad commentary on the American home front if our war program should be impeded be cause pulpwood for military uses should be too little' and ‘too late.' "Alarming shortages in supplies ol pulpwood were recently reported by ■ See PULPWOOD, Page 6' KILLED IN ACTION | Ersel T. Patrick, of the U. S. Marine Corps, son of George W Patrick and the late Pearl Pat rick. of Skinnersvtlle, is the fourth Washington County man to lose his life in World War II. His father received a telegram July 29 announcing that the young man had been killed in action in the Pacific area. County Bond Sales Far Behind Quota So Far This Month - About $8,500 Worth Sold Against Goal of $22,304 For August It now looks as if Washington County will fall down on its bond quota again this month. Only $8. 456.25 worth of bonds have been sold so far in August, against a quo ta of $22,304. Sales will have to pick up rapidly during the last 10 days of the month in order to reach the goal. Of the total so far. the post office here is leading the bank in sales. Sales at the post office amount to $4,818.75. while only $3,637.50 worth of bonds have been, sold at the bank up to today. It is understood that sales have picked up some in Roper this month, but no report has been received from Creswell as to the progress being made there. Stamp sales at the post office here are holding fairly steady around $1, 200 each week, and Mr. Darden said that very few of the stamps were be ing "cashed in" at this time, which is considered an encouraging factor. At one time, stamp sales ran much higher per week than now. but a con siderable quantity of them were turned in for cash redemption. It is noted that comparatively few farmers have bought bonds so far this year. Now that the tobacco markets are opening and other farm products will soon be harvested, it is expected that purchases of bonds by farmers will show a considerable in crease. 14 Colored Men Off To Ft. Bragg Today There have been four additions in (he past few days to the list of , olor ed men leaving today for Fort Bragg i for possible induction into the armed forces. One man in the list last week was transferred from the board here to New York, leaving 14 to board the bus here this morning. Two of those added to the list were volunteers. Calup Alphonzo Lit tlejohn. of Creswell. and Lloyd Dewitt Moore, a transfer from another sec tion. Samuel Isaac Rhodes and Hen ry Everett Norman, both of Creswell. were the other two men added to the list. James R. Spruill, formerly of Plymouth, was removed from the list and transferred to a New York board The remainder of the list is the same as that published last week. Expect Good Prices For Crop; Markets Open Next Tuesday More County Tobacco Than Usual To Be on Sale Opening Day -<•> Tobacco will hold the center of the stage next week, when sales get un derway on the Eastern Carolina auc tion markets. A casual review this week indicated that more Washing ton County tobacco than usual will be placed on the opening sales Tues day when the markets have their first sales, and local farmers general ly are very optimistic over prospects, both for the yield and the prices ex pected. The season opened in Georgia near ly a month ago and in the border belt about two weeks ago. Price averages in both sections have hovered around the 41-cent ceiling set by the OPA before the markets opened. While most farmers in this section think they should get more for their tobac co than is paid in the Georgia belt, most of them believe they will make a nice profit even at a 41-cent aver age. Georgia tobacco is sold loose and ungraded, while tobacco in this sec tion is both tied and graded, opera tions that this year add from 4 to 6 cents per pound to the cost. Tire OPA ceiling of 41 cents was set for all flue cured tobacco: and, although it was contemplated that the buying com panies would take grading and tying into consideration, they evidently did not, but pitched in and paid just about 41 cents for the loose ungraded Georgia tobacco, which means that farmers in this section can expect but little, if any more, for tobacco in much better shape. Last week OPA set a 38-cent fig ure for loose ungraded tobacco and 44 cents for the type marketed in this belt. The catch is that most of the Georgia crop has already been sold and. since the season’s buyings cannot average more than 41 cents, the average will be about the same in this belt. The Washington County crop is said to be one of the best yet raised here. The yield will be high and 1 See TOBACCO MARTS, Page 6t -«. Four Cases Tried In County Court -® Three of the four cases tried in re corder's court this week dealt with violations of traffic laws, while the other was a simple assault case. Judge Edward L. Owens had an easy time of it. as all four defendants en tered pieas of guilty, and fines total ing $90 were imposed. Tire following cases were tried and disposed of: James Davenport, colored, of Cres well, entered a plea of guilty to ope rating a motor vehicle without pro per equipment and without a driver's license. He was fined $35 and costs. Vance Satterthwaite. white, of Plymouth, paid a fine of $25 and costs after pleading guilty to simple assault. Thomas Erie Haste, white was fined $20 and costs after pleading guilty to speeding. Alton Milton Spear, tvhite, of Portsmouth, Va., entered a plea of guilty to a charge of speeding and was fined $10 and costs. Eastern Union To Be Held With White Plains Church The Eastern Union will be held with the Primitive Baptist Church at White Plains, near Acre Station, on the fifth Saturday and Sunday, Au gust 28 and 29, it was announced this week by officials of the church. El der W. M. Stubbs will be in charge of the services assisted by Elder S. Gray, of Kinston, and several other well-known ministers of the Primi tive Baptist faith also are expected to be present and take part. Dinner will be served on the grounds Sunday at noon. The public is invited to attend. Marketing Cards Sent to All Growers Except Those With Excess Acreage There will be an important meeting of the Washington County Farm Bureau at the ag rieulture building here Friday. August 20. at 8 p in., it was an nounced Monday by J. R. Mann ing, president. Officers for the coming year will be elected, and a well-known speaker is to be present to discuss farm prob lems and needs. In urging all members to be present for the first meeting of the new year, Mr. Manning said that the Farm Bureau has been very active in recent months in looking alter the interests of farmers. He points out that the organization has been on the job in Washington all during the re cent session of Congress, help ing to seeure passage of favorable legislation, and for that reason alone he feels the organization merits the support of county farmers. The name of the speaker was not available yesterday, as Mr. Manning was out of town, but he said before he left that a good one would be secured and that It would be well worth while for all farmers to attend.
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