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The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * 4 and Washington County News ******* .KEEP PfiiTH \wtfhus—\ \by lwymg\ WAR BONDS VOLUME LV—NUMBER 40 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday. October 5, 1944 ESTABLISHED 1889 ,m\ Town opics Major Charles A. Jonas, of State Selective Service headquarters at Ra leigh. spent Wednesday in Plymouth going over records in the office of the local board. He also discussed the effect of recent directives issued by the Selective Service System with the clerk and chairman of the board. The Plymouth Woman's Club will meet in the Legion Hall Friday af ternon at 3:30 p.m.. it was announc ed yesterday by Mrs. W. V. Hays, president All members are urged to attend. Reports will be made on the meeting of the state federation meet ing held in Raleigh recently. Anybody want to trade some camera film for Jap ears? Writ ing to Edison Davenport this week from the South Pacific. Cpl. John W. Everett said that men in his outfit had plenty of cameras, but no film. He offered to ex change “some Jap ears or some thing" for camera film, size 127, 620 or 120. Anyone interested should get in touch with Mr. Dav enport. Lt. <j.g.) and Mrs. William J. High smith. are visiting relatives and friends here for several days. Lieu tenant Highsmith is being transfer red from his station at Columbus. Ohio, to Camp Bradford. Va.. and he and Mrs. Highsmith stopped off here for a few days en route to his new as signment. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Brown went to Raleigh yesterday to accompany their son. Charles Brown, who was recently accepted for service in the U. S. Army Air Corps and has been assigned to State College for pre flight training. He entered the school there Wednesday. The regular meeting of the Town Council, scheduled for Monday night, was postponed on account of the absence from town of several councilmen and illness of City Clerk M. W. Spruill, B. G. Campbell said yesterday. The meeting will probably be held sometime next week, accord ing to i resent plans. E. F. Still. John W. Darden. W. R. Hampton. W. M. Darden and E. G. Arps attended the dinner meeting of Democratic leaders from all parts of the state at the Sir Walter Hotel Tuesday. Plans were made for get ting out the Democratic vote in the General Election November 7, and several prominent Democrats address ed the gathering. The first meeting of the Plymouth Cubpack since last, spring will be held at the courthouse next Tuesday after noon at 4 o'clock, according to the Rev. William B. Daniels, Cubmaster. All members of the pack are urged to attend. Irving Respass Is Home Alter Two Years in Navy -® Irving Respass, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Respass, of Plymouth Route 1. returned home Sunday after receiv ing an honorable medical discharge from the U. S. Navy. He volunteered for service about two years ago and had more than a year’s service over seas in the Pacific war zone. Mr. Respass advanced in rating while in the service to the grade of ship fitter, second class. Most of his service was at a shore station. He was employed at the plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company be fore entering the Navy, but said yes terday that he planned to assist his father in affirming operations in the immediate future. County Falls Down On War Bond Sales Unless the post offices at Creswell and Roper had good bond sales last month. Washington County again fell down on its War Bond Quota. Sales at the local bank and post office totalled $14,493.75 during Sep tember, while the assigned quota for the month was $17,844, according to H. E. Beam, chairman of the County War Finance Committee. Sales at the Plymouth post office amounted to $3,431.25 and at the bank $11,062.50. An additional $1, 000 worth of bonds was sold at the bank on the 29th and 30th, but the report was*made to the Federal Re serve Bank too late to be credited to the county in September. Voters Who Will Be Out oi Precincts on Election Day Nay Get Absentee Ballots Qualified civilian voters who expect to be absent from the county on November 7, General Election Day. may secure absen tee ballots if application is made between October 7 and November 5, it was announced yesterday by Walter W. White, chairman of the Washington County Board of Elections. No applications will be received from civilians for absentee balots before October 7, and after November 5th no ap plication for absentee voting will eb received except from persons who are not able to attend the polling places on account of ill ness. Mr. White urges that applica tions be made early as possible by those who expect to be absent from their respective voting pre cincts on election day. Applications are still being re ceived from service men for ab sentee ballots, but it will hardly be possible to get ballots over seas and back between now and the election. Up to this week, about 300 ballots had been mailed to service men and women, and Mr. White said about 70 had been returned. An average of 2 to 3 ballots are being returned daily, it was stated. War Fund Campaign Will Get Underway in County October 16th Ferree To Speak j Here October 13 i .. ..j Announcement was made this week by J. C. Tarkenton. chair man of the Washington County Republican Executive Commit tee, that the Hon. A. I. Ferree, Republican candidate for United States Senator, would speak in the courthouse at Plymouth Fri day afternoon of next week, Oc tober 13, at 2 o’clock. Mr. Tarkenton states that the public is cordially invited to at tend, especially women and young boys and girls over 16 years of age. Mr. Feree is recognized as a very able speaker and he is making an intensive drive for votes in the November election. His Democratic opponent is for mer Governor Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby. October 14 Last Day For Mailing Parcels -<g> Upwards of 500 Christmas Packages for Men Over seas Mailed Here Post office workers here estimate that between 400 and 500 Christmas packages have been mailed to men in the service overseas since September 15th. An average of about 35 pack ages a day is being received, it was stated yesterday. There are three other post offices in the county, and the total number of Christmas par cels mailed at all of them must total well up toward 1,000. Saturday of next week is the last day for mailing the Christmas pack ages. The closing date for mailing officially is October 15. bujt since that falls on Sunday, when windows are not open, the 14th will really be the last day for mailing. Relatives and friends of service men are re minded not to wait until too late to get off their Christmas presents. Max Darden Was In Recent Invasion -$ On Destroyer Engaged in Supporting Landings in Southern France -« Max A. Darden, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Darden, of Plymouth, was on a destroyer that had an active part in the invasion of southern France a ilttle more than a month ago, it was learned from a recent letter to his parents. He is a ma chinist's mate, first class, and has been in the Navy for three years. He was last home on furlough last March. According to a mimeographed memorandum issued by the com manding officer, the ship on which Max is serving, in the 24-hour per iod ending September 4. fired 366 rounds against enemy strong points, batteries and troops in the area be tween Cape Martin and Monaco.1 ‘Results were good.-’ the memoran dum relates, and "there was some retaliation from the shore.” Wood and Coal Stoves Off Ration List October 15th Wood and coal burning cooking and heating stoves will go off the ra tioned list on October 15, it was learned at the office of the ration ing board here this week. Prior to that date, it will be necessary for those who buy stoves to have certi ficates. Stoves that use oil or gasoline, for heating or cooking, will continue to require certificates, it is announced, even after the October 15 date. Commiiiees Named; To Meet Wednesday Full Attendance of Workers Urged To Plan Quick Campaign The United War Fund Drive will get underway in Washington County Monday, October 16. with a goal of $5,000. County Chairman P. Bruce Bateman this week announced the appointment of canvassers and chair men for all sections of the county and stated that the organizational meet ing would be held Wednesday night of next week, October 11, at 8 o'clock, in the courthouse here. Every work er is earnestly requested to attend this meeting and assume his or her full responsibility so that the drive may be quickly and successfully ter minated. Full details of the campaign will be explained, and materials needed in the canvass, including receipt froms and report blanks, will be dis tributed at the meeting next Wednes day night. Group chairmen, in par ticular. are especially requested to attend, and the individual workers will gain much information about the fund and its purposes if they are present. It is the hope of the executive committee and workers to canvass every portion of the county and give each person the opportunity to con tribute to the fund, the major por tion of which goes directly to the benefit of men in the armed forces, prisoners of war, etc. The objective is to have every person working on a salary or for wages to contribute one half a day's pay. and those with in come from other sources to make an equivalent donation. If this is done, the success of the campaign is as sured. Of the $5,000 total quota. $3,800 will go directly to the National War Fund for use in the 17 agencies making up the organization. The other $1,200 goes to the community chest fund of Washington County for the Empty Stocking Fund. Boy Scouts and other charitable purposes in the county. The $5,000 quota has been divided and allocated to various sec tions as follows: Creswell - $ 600.00 Plymouth Township _ 300.00 Wenona _. 75.00 Roper_ 600.00 Pleasant Grove_ __ 150.00 Mackeys _ ___ 75.00 Skinnersville _ __ 200.00 Plymouth _ 3,000.00 Total ... :_$5,000.00 Canvassing committees for various sections of the county have been ap pointed as follows: Business and Industrial Commit tee: J. Roy Maning. chairman: W. F. Winslow, H. H. Allen. P. W. Brown, L. S. Thompson. Z. V. Norman, E. F. Still. H. A. Williford. W. A. Davidson, T. W. Earle. A. J. Riddle. J. H. New kirk. James Mizelle. S. J. Rasmusson, Clyde Wynn <colored), Richard P. Bear, II. Plymouth Block Committees Mrs. J. R. Manning, chairman. A. Llovd Owens, chairman, Durand Keel. Mrs. George Barden, chairman: Mrs. T. L. Bray, chairman; S. D. Davis. Mrs. Ernest Arps, chairman: Mrs. Kathleen Nobles; Mrs. Lawrence Jones, chairman: Mrs. J. H. Newkirk; Mrs. H. A. Williford, chairman; i See WAR FUND DRIVE. Page 4> Son of Willie Holion Is Killed in Accident -® Occurred in European The ter of War; No Details Available It was learned here this week that Mr. and Mrs. William Holton, of the Pea Ridge section, were notified by the War Department on September 24th that their son, Sgt. William Al ton Holton, had been killed in an au tomobile accident in the European theatre of war. No member of the immediate fam ily could be reached to learn any de tails as to the length of service of the young man or other particulars. How ever, it is understood that he was chauffeur to a high-ranking officer, and it is presumed that he lost his life in connection with his duties. He is the nienteenth Washington Coun ty man to be reported killed or miss ing since the war began. Holding Revival Meet at Baptist Church This Week --§>_ REV. LEE A. PHILLIPS, Pastor The revival at the Ludford Me morial Baptist Church is making fine progress and will continue through Sunday morning. Rev. w. C. Fran ces, the visiting minister, is bringing great spiritual messages and every one is invited to come and worship with us. Three Marines Die In Airplane Crash On Farm Fear Here Commanding Officer of Edenton Station Victim; Occurred Last Night Lt.-Col. J. C. Peters, commanding officer of the Marine Corps Air Sta tion at Edenton. and two Marine en listed men were instantly killed in a forced landing of their airplane on the farm of Sheriff J. .K. Reid. 4 miles east of Plymouth on the Mack eys road, about 8:30 o’clock last night. According to unofficial reports. Colonel Peters and the two enlisted men were en route from Jackson ville. Fla., to the Edenton base. They were flying a single-motored How ard ship and were said to have ra dioed the Edenton base at 8:08 that they were circling Plymouth and would be forced to land. The base was unable to contact them by ra dio after that. About 8:30 members of the fam ily of James Hardison, who live on Sheriff Reid's far ,1. saw the ship; circle a field abou 150 yards from their house and th*m ome in for a landing. It struck a ditch at the edge of a cornfield und-looped and skidded for f’ o nore yards. The motor was to-7 o and dug a hole several feet d( p, .id the plane was almostly comr ete ' demolished. The two enlisted »^n were thrown clear of the machine, ’ while Major Peters was found mprisoned in the wreckage. All three had been in stantly killed. The ship did not bum. and per sonnel from the air base were said to have expresed the belief that it had run out of gas. Members of the Hardison family sf'd the motor was cutting off and or as the ship cir cled to land. Nan es of the victims have not been relei ed by Marine of ficials, and no official account of the accident is avallat s. Bodies of the three men were hi tight ' the Hor ner Funeral Home h and the wreckage was cleared ly during the night by Marine Co jersonnel.; Joseph F. Long Dies Suddenly L^siWeek Life-Long Resident of Cher ry Section Stricken in Washington Friday -4 Joseph F. Long, 41, life-long resi dent of the Cherry section of Wash ington County, died suddenly last Friday night at 8:30 in Washington, where he had gone about four weeks ago to work as carpenter in the shipyard. Mr. Long was stricken while at a movie show with a fellow workman and died before reaching a hospital. He had not been ill. and news of his sudden passing came as a shock to his family and friends in the county. Son of the late H. L. and Victoria Ambrose Long, he was born in Wash ington County on April 29, 1904. He was a carpenter by trade and had a host of friends in the lower part of the county. On September 13, 1922, he was married to Miss Lettie Barnes, also of the Cherry section, who sur vives. Funeral services were held from his late home Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock by the Rev. N. M. McDonald, pastor of the Creswell Methodist church. Interment was made in the Ambrose cemetery near Cherry. Besides his widow, Mrs. Lettie Barnes Long, he is survived by four sons, Harold, Floyd, Eugene and Le roy Long, of the home; and five daughters, Mrs. Gyrlyn Bright. Miss es Vickie Long, Joyce Long, Mare dia Long, of the home; and Mrs. Euora Buckley, of Baltimore, Md. He also leaves one brother, Willie Long, of the U. S. Army, now stationed in England. Three Cases Tried In County Court -e> After the lengthy sesion last week. Judge W. Ronald Gaylord had an easy day in recorder's court Tuesday of this week, when only three cases were booked for trial, and the defen dant in one of them had a mighty good reasons for not showing up. The proceedings were as follows: Buck Sykes and Lee Gaskins, both colored, of Plymouth, plead guilty to simple assault and were fined $5 and the costs each. D. W. Ange. white, of Plymouth, en tered a plea of guilty to drunken driv ing of an auto after his license had been revoked and was fined $125 and the costs. Nolle pros with leave was taken in the case against Herman Webb, col ored ,of Pea Ridge, charged with va grancy, after it was learned that he had been sentenced at Elizabeth City Monday to a year and a day in Fed eral prison after conviction on a li quor charge. It was decided that he could hardly be convicted of va grancy in view of the fact that he had at least a year’s steady work ahead of him. School May Be Resumed in Hampton Building Monday ABC Board Refuses Town's Request for Part Liquor Profits Action Taken at Special Meet Saturday; Rea sons Are Cited The Washington County ABC Board held a special meeting last Saturday and voted unanimously not to pay 15 pei' cent of the net pro fits of the Plymouth ABC store to the Town of Plymouth, it was learned Monday. Previously, the town had called on ABC officials for a settle ment under the terms of a special act passed at the last session of the legislature. In refusing to pay the town a por tion of the net profits from the ope ration of the local store, the ABC board cited that the store received no more police proection than any other store or business in Plymouth; that town police officers had been paid a cash reward for every arrest and conviction of' liquor law violation^; and that 15 per cent of the local store's profit would be more than the entire budget of the police depart ment. It is also claimed that the tax reduction effected by the pres ent method of turning profits into the county's general fund is shared equally by all the people of the coun ty. The special act passed by the leg islature in 1943 provided that 15 per cent ol the net profits of liquor stores in Plymouth and Creswell should be paid to the respective towns for po lice protection only. It also provides that no payment shall be made if the county ABC board rules that such po lice protection is not ‘ adequate." The town of Creswell has made no claim for payment of 15 per cent of the profits from the Creswell store. However, in preparing its new bud get, the Town of Plymouth included an item of $4,000 as expected re venue from this source and called on the ABC officials for settlement. Pro fits of the local store for the quarter ending June 30th were $6,506.75; and for the last fiscal year were $33,853.30. This would yield $5,078.09 per annum at last year's rate of profit. Tlie town's claim for a portion of the profits is based on the fact that the ABC board pays no municipal tax on its store or stock, that most ar rests and court actions for drunk enness are instituted by towm police, and that the very nature of the busi ness of the ABC store calls for ad ditional policing at various times. Following is the text of the special act, introduced by Representative Ben A. Sumner and passed at the last session of the legislature: Section 1. From and after January 1. 1944. 15 per cent of all the net profit derived from the operation of Alcoholic Beverage Control Store in the town of Plymouth, Washington County, shall be paid quarterly to the town of Plymouth and 15 per cent of the net profit derived from the op eration of the Alcholic Beverage Control store in the town of Cres well. Washington County, shall be paid quarterly to the town of Cres well. The Washington County Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control shall make quarterly settlements with the above-mentioned towns and the prof its so allocated shall be paid into the general fund of the respective towns to be used for the exclusive purpose of defraying the expense of police protection In the ‘two towns: Provid ed, no profits shall be paid to a town as set out above, unless such town 1 See ABC BOARD, Page 4) Number Oil Leases Secured in County Representative of Oil Firm Has Leases for 6,432 Acres Recorded A representative of the Shell Oil Company, of Houston Texas, was in town this week to register leases for the oil, gas and mineral rights to 6.432 acres of Washington County land, it was learned from Register of Deeds J. Robert Campbell, The leas es were delivered at the courthouse for registration Tuesday. Some time ago, a number of other leases were made in the county by representa tives of other firms. The leases embraced 25 tracts, ranging downward from 900 acres. No prediction would Ire made as to when or where drilling of test w'ells would be started Each landowner received 10 cents per acre per year until drilling is started or the lease abandoned. In the event oil or other valuable product is located the land owner receives a percentage as royal ty. Tire representative declined to speculate on the probability that oil would be located in this section, but said that he didn't think his com pany W’ould spend a lot of money on leases, labor, equipment and the like unless there wras a distinct possibility of some return. *1 Bonner To Speak i Al Lions Meeting j The Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, of Washington, Representative in Congress from the First Congres sional District, will be the main speaker at the weekly meeting of the Lions Club tonight at 7 o'clock. It is expected there will be a large turn out of club mem bers for the meeting, for the Congressman is very popular lo cally. It could not be learned what his topic would be. At the meeting last week, club members raised S78 in a few minutes to cover the cost of pub lishing the October issue of the Boy Scout council newspaper. Each of the 12 districts con tributes the cost of printing the monthly paper once a year. District Democrats To Meet Here 16th Leading Democratic Candi dates Will Attend Rally And Barbecue The Democratic rally for the First Congressional District will be held in Plymouth on Monday, October 16, it was announced in Raleigh Tuesday by William B. Umstead. chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee. The rally will begin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and a big barbecue dinner will be served at 6 o'clock according to present plans. The district rally here will be the first to be held in the eastern part of the state, and follows a week's tour of the western districts by party lead ers and candidates for various state and national offices. Tentative plans were made for the rally here a couple of weeks ago. after it was learned the rally would be held here although the date was not set by the state chair man until Tuesday. Among prominent Democrats ex pected to be here and make brief speeches wil be Clyde R. Hoey, nomi nee for United States Senator; R. Gregg Cherry, nominee for Governor: Thad Eure, nominee for secretary of state: Charles Johnson, nominee for treasurer; Herbert Bonner, candi date for reelection as First District Representative: as well as other nominees for county and district of fices and members of the state head quarters staff, including Chairman Umstead. Several hundred visitors from other counties in the first district are ex pected to attend the rally, which is the first one to be held here in a doz en or more years. Details of the meeting will be announced next week. -<s> Pulp Mill Employee Is Killed in Shooting John Dave Davenport Shot By Bryant Cherry in Mar tin County Monday John Dave Davenport. 34 years old, employee of the North Carolina Pulp Company here, was shot and fatally injured near his home a few miles from Williamston Monday night about 8 o'clock by Bryant Cherry, young white man of the same gen eral neighborhood. Cherry, claim ing to have acted in self-defense, sur rendered to officers in Williamston three hours later and was placed in jail there. Preliminary hearing was scheduled sometime this week. It was reported to officers that the two men had been drinking and that the shooting followed an argument earlier in the evening. Davenport was shot in the stomach with a load of No. 8 shot from a shotgun at close range and died a few minutes after reaching the Williamston hospital. He is survived by his wife and six small children. Reopening Depends On State Authorities Proposed To Use Building Temporarily After Re pairs Are Made County school officials said yester | day it was hoped that arrangements i r’ould be completed for reopening the I Hampton Academy school building here for the three primary grades next Monday morning. However, such action depends on receiving ap proval from state school and insur ance department officials, following a conference to be held this after noon or tomorrow morning. It is stated that if permission to use the building is granted, it will be on a temporary basis and after certain conditions there have been remedied. W. P. Credle. director of school house planning for the state depart ment of education, came to Plym outh Tuesday and discussed the situ ation with the county superinten dent of schools and members of the board of education. He also went to the building and examined the floor joists, the bad condition of which was listed as one of the five reasons for condemning the building. A part of the flooring was removed to make the inspection, and it is reported the joists were in as good condition as they were when the building was ; erected. Mr. Credle promised local officials to confer with Sherwood Brockwell, state fire marshal, on his return to Raleigh either this afternoon or Fri day morning and notify them im mediately if the building could be used temporarily If approval is se cured. it is planned to correct certain wiring defects and repair the wooden stairways on the outside of the build ing in time to reopen the building to the 212 children in six primary classes Monday morning. A member of the board of educa tion said yesterday that if the build ing can be used temporarily, an ar chitect will be secured in the imme diate future to assist, in planning and determining costs of new buildings here and in other sections of the county. Arrangements will then have to be made to finance the program, possibly through a special election on a bond issue. In the event state officials refuse permission to use the building, a^pn temporarily, it is not known -tffiat can be done about securing class rooms for the primary children. At, present time the board of education has no other plan, so far as could be learned yesterday. The Hampton building was closed by the chief of the Plymouth Fire Department, I. M. Warren. Saturday before last, after he had been pre sented a petition, signed by 136 per sons. requesting him to take such ac tion if necessary. Tire fire chief act ed on the basts of an inspection made March 21. 1941, by Mr. Brockwell and Mr. Credle. Following that inspection, Mr. Brockwell made a report to the In surance Department, which irame i See LOCAL SCHOOL, PageTT^ | County Board in Meeting Monday -® A resolution releasing the county j tax collector from responsibility for i taxes on personal property that could ! not be collected was adopted at the meeting of the county commissioners here Monday. All the members. E. j G. Arps, chairman; J. C. Knowles, and J H. W. Pritchett, were present. Thus j was the only action taken by the board, besides the paying of soma i bills. The board resolved that “Smee J, ' E. Davenport was unable to collect. I certain taxes on personal property. 1 he should not be held accountable for these taxes." However, the resolu tion provided that this did not ap ply to taxes already collected or that may be collected. Bills against the county general fund were checked and ordered paid. Peanut Harvest Underway in Section; Both Quality and Yield Reported Good Peanut harvesting is now in lull sway throughout the county, reports indicating that both yield and quality of the crop is higher than usual this year. The labor shortage is affecting the work, but most fanners are making some kind of arrangements to get their peanuts dug and stacked. Some farmers report that pea nuts arc shedding badly and many arc being left on the ground when they are dug. County Agent VV. V. Hays said yesterday that he had been re ceiving a good many aplicattbns for German prisoner-of-war la bor tor harvesting work. When it was first announced that such labor would be available, not a single a plication was filed, but in the past few days the office has been swamped. Only two crews of 10 men each were allotted for peanut harvest ing in the county, and they are being kept busy. However. Mr. Hays said it was possible that some additional crew’s would be obtained from near-by counties which are not using all the pris oners allotted them. The digging season will continue for about two more weeks.
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