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Town! OPICS Plans are being made by the en tertainment committee of the Plym outh Lions Club for its annual char ter night meeting during the month of February. The date has not been definitely fixed at this time, but it is to be held before March. Friday night of this week will be Past Commander's Night at the regu lar meeting of the James E. Jethro Post of the American Legion. M. W. Spruill, post commander, yesterday appealed to all members, and es pecially to all past commanders, to attend the meeting. It will be held in the Legion Hall, starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday of this week, Febru ary 10, is the final day of the 1944-45 hunting season. After that time it will be unlawful to hunt quail, rabbit and turkey, according to J. T. Terry, the county game protector. The sea sons on practically all other types of game found in this section closed some time ago. Tax listing ended in the county last week, and reports by J. C. Knowles, tax supervisor, and the four list tak ers indicate that there will be few delinquents to be cited for failure to list. Mr. Knowles is expecting a size able increase in the valuation of per sonal property throughout the coun ty. List takers were rushed during the last few days of the listing per iod, but managed to take care of all who appeared. Several news articles are being left out of this issue because they were received too late. Those who have news items or notices are requested to get their copy in the Beacon office by Monday, if possible. This applies to correspondents in the various com munities. County fanners are busy now with their tobacco beds, accord ing to general reports. More beds were planted early than usual this year, according to the coun ty agent, and a good many farm ers are preparing them at this time. Tax collections for both the town and county have been running at a higher rate than usual for the past month or so, according to J. E. Dav 'enport, county tax collector, and "Chief of Police P. W. Brown, collec tor for the Town of Plymouth. The state schedule of penalties became ef fective February 1, when 1 per cent is added to 1944 taxes, and this will in crease to 2 per cent on March 1st. Tlie Plymouth Merchants Associa tion met Tuesday afternoon to dis cuss the recent “brown-out” order issued by the WPB. Under its terms, use of electricity is prohibited for outdoor advertising and promotional lighting, as well as for decorative and ornamental lighting in show windows. The order being generally observed here. Anolher County Bill Now in Legislature -s Introduced by Representa tive Yesterday; Status of Other Bills ——<s Representative W. H. Peele yester day introduced a bill in the house to add Washington County to the sta tue concerning payment to the cleric of superior court of sums not exceed ing $300 due and owing to persons who die intestate. The measure, HB 276, was referred to the judiciary committee. All three of the bills introduced by Mr. Peele on January 26 have now passed the house and are pending in the senate. Amendments were add ed to two of them. The bills were passed by the house last Thursday and all of them went to the senate committee on counties, cities and towns. The bills are as follows: HB 148, relating to increased pay for Washintgon County jurors; amended in committee to apply only to superior court Jurors and passed February 1. HB 149, relating to increased pay for chairman and members of board of county commissioners: amended to allow clerk to board $10 for each meeting attended; passed by house February 1. HB 150, relating to increased pay for chairman and members of board of education: passed by house Feb ruary 1. The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* Back 'em up/ 0 bmg mm VOLUME LVI—NUMBER 6 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 8, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1889 f. County War Bond Quota for January j { Is Oversold, With Reports Incomplete j Although complete reports have not been received from the Federal Reserve Bank at Rich mond, Va., Washington County is assured of overselling its January quota of War Bonds, H. E. Beam, chairman of the county War Finance Committee, said this week. The county had a quota of 822,305 for the month of Jan uary, and the Branch Banking & Trust Company in Plymouth alone sold 822,556.25 worth of bonds during the month. In ad dition, the post office here sold over S6.200 worth of the secur ities, and this total will be swelled considerably when the reports of the Creswell and Roper post offices are received. Washington County has had a consistently good record in the sale of War Bonds and Stamps since the start of the war. It has fallen down very few times on its monthly or special drive quo tas, and the total amount of gov ernment securities outstanding in the county now runs well into seven figures. 1945 Farm Plans To Be Signed Next Week Sale of Town Car J Tags Is Still Slowj Plymouth residents are still a little on the slow side in buying their town automobile license tabs for 1945. Up to yesterday, the city clerk and chief of police had sold 221 licenses, while it is estimated that about 400 own ers are supposed to have them displayed on their cars by now. The tabs cost SI each and may be obtained from M. VV. Spruill at the office of the city clerk, or from Chief of Police P. W. Brown at police headquarters. Residents are again urged to buy the little metal tags and have them put on their cars at once. New Fire Truck Is Received and Given Tests Here Friday -<§> Fire-Fighting Facilities Are Practically Doubled by Latest Acquisition The town's new fire truck finally arrived here last Friday. Ordered about the middle of last year, the truck was designed, built and equip ped by the Mack Company and de livered by a representative of that firm who drove it here from Rocky Mount. Addition of the new truck almost doubles the fire-fighting capabilities of the local volunteer fire department. The new truck is described as a two stage centrifugal triple-combination piece of apparatus, designed to serve as a hose, ladder and pumper truck. It cost $4,995, less a $500 allowance for the obsolete International truck, which has not been used for the past several years. The new truck has a 200-gallon “booster" tank and a 500-gallon per minute pump. It will carry 1,200 feet of hose. The old American-LaFrance truck used by the town is a ilttle larger than the new one, having a 750-gal See FIRE TRUCK, Page Six -<$, Purple Heart for RoscoeBrowning Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Browning have recently received the Purple Heart medal and certificate posthumously awarded their son, Sgt. Roscoe J. Browning, who was killed in action on the Italian battlefront September 3rd last year. Sergeant Browning, graduate of the local high school in 1935, was mem ber of a tank-destroyer battalion with Oeneral Mark Clark’s Fifth Army in Italy. He entered the serv ice in April, 1942, and was about 26 years old at the time of his death in Italy last year. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Elmer Browning, and two sisters. Mrs. Bennie L. Hardi son and Miss Thelma Browning, all of Plymouth. ( Local Boy Seoul Troop Has Number j I Plans for Observing Boy Seoul Week j The Plymouth Boy Scouts, as part of the observance of Boy Scout Week, will attend a special service at the Methodist church here Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, it was announced yester day by Scoutmaster H. G. Harris. The Scouts are asked to assemble at Scout headquarters at 10:55 and march to the church in a body. The Bev. T. R. Jenkins, pastor, will deliver a special sermon in their honor. The Scoots are also making plans for Boy Scout Week, ob served throughout the nation from February S to 15. A dinner I meeting probably will be held one night next week for the boys and their parents. Harold Whit ley, chairman of the troop com mittee, is making arrangements for the dinner. Members of the local troop met Roper Scouts in Mackeys last Sunday to visit a proposed camp site near there. The Scoutmaster said an ideal spot for overnight camps had been located there, and the two troops plan to dear off and otherwise fix up the site. It will provide a safe place for the boys to ewlm. among other things, according to Hr. Kerris. Committeemen Will Visit Each Locality -<$ - Schedule Is Announced for Sign-Up in Various Com munities Next Week -% AAA community committeemen will be at various places in all sections of the county next week to assist farm operators in preparing and signing their farm plans for the current year, it was announced yesterday by Miss Miriam Ausbon, secretary of the county Agricultural Conservation As sociation. Two committeemen will be at each place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day and they will be glad to answer any Questions or furnish general information about the 1945 farm program. All farmers in the county are urg ed to meet their respective commit teemen according to the following schedule: For Plymouth and Long Acre com munities: At the agriculture build ing in Plymouth Monday and Tues day, February 12 and 13; For Roper and Pleasant Grove communities: W. N. Piercy’s store, Monday, February 12; at T. W. Tar kenton's store, Tuesday, February 13; at T. R. Chessou’s store. Wednesday, February 14: For Creswell. Mount Pleasant and Cherry Communities: At A. R. Pat rick's store. Monday. February 12; at Hubert Davenport’s store, Tuesday, February 13; at J. T. Spruill’s store, Wednesday, February 14: and at Loomis Furlough’s store. Thursday, February 15. Filing out the farm-plan forms is a very necessary part of the program, and the committeemen will be able to help farmers determine how they can earn maximum benefit payments by approved soil-building and conserva tion practices. It is important that the sign-up be completed as early as possible, and every farmer is urged to visit his nearest committeemen next week. Doctors From Three Counties Meet Here ——■$——— Eleven of the 13 physicians in Mar tin, Washington and Tyrrell Coun ties met at the country club here last night for their annual dinner meet ing. Dr. C. McGowan, president of the Tri-County Society, presided and the chief speakers were Dr. John Cot ton Tayloe, second district councillor, of Washington, and E. B. Crawford, of the Blue Cross Hospital Savings Association, of Chapel Hill. At the business session. Dr. Mc Gowan was reelected president for the coming year and Dr. Vernon Ward, of Robersonville, secretary and treasurer. It was also decided to hold quarterly meetings of the so ciety at the country club here in the future. -$ Section Master Hurt In Accident Friday W. W. Browning, of Plymouth, sec tion master for the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company, was painfully in jured last Friday afternoon, when he jumped from the railroad motor car he was riding just before it collided with an extra train. The accident occurred between 4:30 and 6 o’clock Friday afternoon about two miles this side of Hinson station. Mr. Browning and his section crew, composed of four colored workmen, were coming toward Plymouth when they met the extra train, composed of two engines and a caboose, on a sharp curve. All of the men jumped from the car, which was totally de molished when it struck the train head-on. None of the workmen suf fered more than a few scratches, but Mr. Browning broke two bones in his left arm just above the wrist, besides sustaining bruises and lacerations about Ur* fae*. Th* train stopped and brought th* In jured man and his cr*w to Mg’WMrth. Extension of Town Water-Sewer Lines Is Near Completion -4 6,000 Feet of Water Mains, 7,000 Feet Sewer Lines Being Added The Town of Plymouth is nearing the end of a program to extend water and sewer lines in the eastern part of the town. Originally planned to take care of the housing development also nearing completion in that sec tion. it was expanded to serve a good sized area brought into the corporate limits a few years ago. Chief of Police P. W. Brown, who has assisted in supervising the work, said yesterday that about 6,000 feet i of 6-inch water mains had been laid j and approximately 5,500 feet of se wer lines. About 10 days will be re-; quired to complete the work of lay ing 1,500 more feet of sewer line to bring the total to 7.000 feet. Eight new fire hydrants have been installed in the area embraced by the new wa-1 ter lines. H. H. Westley. an engineer from Washington, has been in direct charge of the work, assisted by Mr. Brown. Approximately 60 new water customers will be added, the chief stated. The lines have been extended out East Main Street as far as the home of E. F. Still. In addition, they were extended from East Main to embrace the area where 25 houses are nearing completion on East Third Street Ex tended. These houses will be ready for occupancy in another two weeks, according to present plans. Besides service to the individual homes in the eastern part of town, addition of the fire hydrants lessens the danger of a serious fire in that section. "White City,” colored resi dental section owned by the Plym outh Box & Panel Company, is es pecially benefited by the additional fire protection available. -® Town Council Also Talks About ABC Profils_al Meeting Report of Fire Chief Shows 17 Alarms Answered in Past Year -s Profits from operation of legal whiskey stores in the county consti tute a popular topic for discussions at meetings of official boards here. The boards of education and county com missioners talked about them pretty much all day Monday, and then when the town councilmen met Monday night, they took over where the county boards left off and it went on far into the night. The town board’s discussion cen tered around the predicament it finds itself in as a result of a law passed at the last session of the leg islature. This called for 15 per cent of the net profits of ABC stores to be paid for police protection to towns in which such stores are located. Un der the terms of this act, the city council here last year estimated it would receive approximately $4,000 from that source, and based its 1944-45 budget on this premise. Since the budget was set up. the county ABC board has declined to pay anything to towns in which its stores are located, thus throwing the Plym outh budget $4,000 out of balance. The council Monday night discussed the advisability of taking legal steps to collect what it claims is due for the current year, and the matter was refferred to Mayor B. G. Campbell for action. The council also received the an nual report of Fire Chief I. Miller Warren, showing that the depart ment answered 17 calls during the past year. He presented a statement for the firemen’s pay. totaling $223.50 for the year. Firemen here are paid on a basis of calls answered and hours served. Each firemen gets $1 for answering a call or remaining on duty for the first hour, with 50c for each additional hour. The report showed 219 firemen present at the 17 fires tone of which required 9 of the men to remain on duty two hours, making the total cost $223.50. Mayor B G. Campbell and the fol lowing councilmen were present: H. E. Harrison and J. R. Manning, first ward: W. A. Roebuck, second ward; 3. R. Leggett and C. O. Kelly, third ward. ->:■ Filling Station at Roper Robbed Sunday Night Sheriff J. K. Reid reported Mon day that the Wigg Gaylord filling station at Roper was entered some time Sunday night or early Monday morning before day. The intruders centered their attention on automo bile supplies, getting away with five Armstrong tires. 6 00-16, one 7.00-15 tire, one 4.75-19 tire, one tube and one new battery. The robber or robbers gained en trance by forcing a window in the lavatory. The sheriff is continuing his investlagtlon. but said he had no clue6 to the guilty persons, who he be lieves. are members of a gang of blaek-marlcet operators. County-Wide Improvement Of Schools Is Endorsed by Boards in Meeting Monday Summation of Main Points Embraced in Proposal tor Schools Calls for Earmarking ABC Profits If Election Fails On Bond Issue -$ Following is a brief summation of the essential provisions of the resolu tion passed by the Washington Coun ty Board of Education and endorsed by the Board of County Commission ers at their regular meetings last Monday: 1. Acknowledges pressing need of new buildings, additions, major re pairs and equipment for following: White and colored schools in Plym outh district; colored schools in Roper and Creswell districts; 2. Requests county representative and district senators to secure en abling act during present session of legislation for holding bond election at time selected by county commis sioners. Requested legilsation would provide: < a) Maximum amount of bonds authorized. $250,000; denominations, maturities and interest rate to be de termined by county commissioners; money could be used only for pur poses outlined in paragraph 1 above; 'b) If bond election fails to carry, entire profits of ABC stores would be set aside to accumulate for use by Board of Education in carrying out program outlined in paragraph 1; if bond election is carried, only such portion of ABC funds as needed to care for interest and retiring prin- 1 cipal would be used each year; <c) Begin setting aside ABC funds for school-improvement program July 1, 1945, and continuing until bond election is held and results de termined. Under tilts plan, proponents claim the tax rate will be effected but lit tle if the bond issue is authorized in the special election; since they esti mate not more than $15,000 per year will be required to pay interest and principal retirements on a 30-year basis if the entire amount is used. On the other hand, failure of the elec tion to carry calls for setting aside the entire ABC profits—estimated at $30,000 per year—which would ne cessitate a materially higher tax rate for the approximately eight years re quired to raise the same amount of money. In other words, it is claimed that the tax rate can be maintained at or near its present level if the bonds are authorized, while if the election fails, a considerably higher rate is in prospect. @> Chas. W. Davenport Wounded in Action Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Davenport, of the Pleasant Grove section, received a telegram from the War Department Thursday afternoon of last week ' stating that their son, Technician Fifth Grade Charles W. Davenport, 20, had been wounded in action on January 16 in Germany. The tele gram stated that the young man's mail address and details of his in jury would follow shortly directly ' from the hospital to which he had : been taken. ] Corporal Davenport, 20 years of < age, had been in the service since ' June. 1943, with a combat engineers i outfit. He graduated from Roper . High school that same spring and worked at the North Carolina Pulp 1 Company here for about a month be- i fore entering the service. He trained at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., Camp f Breckinridge. Ky., and then went to \ a New York trade school before go ing overseas in June of last year. \ He spent a brief furluogh at his £ home near Roper in May of last c year, just before leaving for a port of c embarkation. The last letter re- c ceived by his parents before they were 1 advised he had been wounded was s dated January 8th in France. -®- i Wounded Creswell Soldier Is Home on 21-Day Leave Creswell.—Pfc. Joseph L. Spencer ! is home on leave after 712 months in « Italy, where he was wounded in ac tion in October of last year. Wound ed in both legs and under the right arm, he was in a hosiptal in Italy from October until December, when he returned to the United States. Private Spencer has been in the service for about 26 months, training at Camp Claiborne. Ala . and Camp Howze, Texas, before going overseas. After a 21-day leave here with his wife, the former Miss Mildred Clifton, and parents, Mr. and Mrs Herebrt Spencer, he will return to Woodrow Wilson General Hospital ai Staunton, Va., to resume medical treatment for his wounds. -1 82ND BIRTHDAY C'. V. VV. Ausbon. long a public figure in Washlntgon County, celebrated his 82nd birthday at his home here Monday, Mr. Aus bon is a former editor of the Roanoke Beacon and was clerk of the Washington County Superior Court for 35 years until he re signed on account of his health March 1, 1942. Coincidentally, 82 friends called to felicitate him on his 82nd birthday Monday. | Complete Text oi [ School Resolution The complete text of the resolu tion concerning school conditions in Washington County, passed by the board of education and endorsed by the county commissioners Monday, is as follows: Be it resolved by the County Board of Education of Washington Coun ty: That it is necessary, in order to provide for the construction of ur gently needed school buildings in the county, including buildings of new construction, additions to existing buildings and repairs to and recon ditioning of same, and to provide the necessary furniture, fixtures, and ad ditional equipment for all of the schools of Washington County, and to purchase such additional lands for school purposes as are necessary, that a large sum of money be made avail able for expenditure. That this board go upon record as being of the opinion that same cannot be done for less than a sum approximating $250,000. That it is realized that no such sum can be made available for said purposes oth er than by the issuance of bonds of Washington County. That this board regards the issuing of said bonds and making available of said funds as be ing immediately urgent and highly imperative. That the system of public educa tion required by the constitution and by the statutes cannot be maintained properly in Washington County with out said program of construction. See RESOLUTIONS, Page Six -$ Vagrant Gets Road Sentence in Court -♦ Only three defendants were called Tuesday morning at the weekly ses sion of recorder's court, and the doc ket was cleared in short order by Judge W. Ronald Gaylord. All three defendants were convicted, one of them on two charges, and fines or jail sentences imposed Joe Shugar, white, of Plymouth, paid a fine of $10 and cost for speed ing. Joseph Edward Howell, colored, of : Skinnersville. found guilty of assault,' was given 30 days or $15 and costs. Joe Lassiter, colored, of Plymouth, was found guilty of assault on female j ind vagrancy. He was given 30 days in the roads for vagrancy and 90 j lays for assault, to be suspended up in payment of $25 fine and costs. [Jnable to pay the fine, he has been sent to a prison camp. Will Ask Legislators For Enabling Act to Have Bond Election To Provide New Buildings. Additions, Major Repairs And Equipment ... ■■■ (i The Washington County Boards of Education and County Commission ers took definite action at their regu lar meetings Monday to improve school facilities throughout the en tire county system. The board of education passed and the county ! commissioners endorsed—both by j unanimous action with all members j present—a resolution asking for legis ! lation to authorize the calling of a special election in the county to pass on issuance of bonds to a maximum of $250,000 for new school buildings ! and for additions and major repairs !to existing buildings. The resolution asks the county representative and the district sena | tors to secure passage of the enabl ' mg legislation at the present session : of the General Assembly. Since the J Assembly is expected to adjourn I about March 1st, the resolution will I be presented to the representative i and senators without delay in the '■ hope that the necessary bills may be drawn and introduced within the next few days. Only one feature of the resolution was the cause of any debate between members of the board of education and county commissioners. That was the provision that in event of failure of the bond election to carry, all the profits derived by the county from operation of ABC stores should be set aside as an accumulating fund to carry out the program of new buildings, additions and major re pairs. The commissioners, after consider able debate that lasted until after 7 o’clock Monday, finally agreed unani mously to this proposal and endorsed the entire resolution as passed by the board of education. Tire next day. however, a special meeting of the commissioners was called to recon sider some phases of its action. Only two of the three members of the board of commissioners were present for this special meeting, called for 7:30 Tuesday night; and a motion to res ! cind the action taken the day before j failed to received a second, leaving See BOARD MEETS, Page Six Quota Is Tripled in | County Polio Drive jMrs. Curry Reports $1,695 I In Donations. Against $530 Quota { The drive for infantiie paralysis | funds in Washington County, under the direction of Mrs. G B. Curry, of Plymouth, has more than tripled the quota assigned. Mrs. Curry said yes terday that total contributions in the 'county stood at $1,695, while the quota assigned was $530. Acknowledgment of contributions I by individuals and organizations will j be published next week The total was substantially increased during the past week by report of Mrs. C. N. Davenport, jr„ chairman of the drive in the Creswell section, where $312.22 was raised. This list also will be pub lished later. Outstanding collections were re ported in county schools and the lo cal theatre. The theatre took up col lections totaling $349.40 in a one-week period. Hlgh-school pupils here turned in $131.91; Hampton school pupils, $164.30; Roper white school, $104 80; Creswell white school, $40.77; Cherry white school, $12.15; Plym outh colored school, $43.58; Roper, $39.70; Creswell, $16.85; Pritchette, $8 45; Macedonia, $8.37; Cherry, $2; and there are possibly others. r Two New School Busses Received Last Week bv County Are Now in Operation mwmmwwmmwwmmwuwuwmmummmmMmw .......... .4.................J The county educational system last week received two brand new school busses from the state de partment. Both are 21-foot Ford busses, with a capacity of 40 to 45 pupils, according to H. H. McLean, county superintendent. They are the latest models ob tainable at this time. One of the new busses was as signed to the Long Acre route served by the Plymouth school, while the other went into service on the Pea Ridge route of the Creswell High School. Placing the new bus in operation here will save one extra trip that was being made by the aged bus it re places. The old bus did not have the rapacity of the new one: and by slightly rearranging two routes, it is possible to save an extra trip which has been neces sary in the past. That the busses were not re ceived before they were needed is attested by the fact that they are taking the places of two ve hicles that have been in service for about 11 years, according to the connty superintendent.
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