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I k f TOWN! I OPICS 2 Miss Blrnestine Whitley, of Plym outh, was among 35 students hon ored as special guests recently at East Carolina Teachers College at a tea given by the Beta Kappa chap ter of Pi Omega Pi, national honor ary business education fraternity. The aim of the fraternity is to fos ter high professional standards and give recognition to students who do superior work. Miss Whitley was included among those honored be- j cause of her high scholarship rec ord. Pfc. Edward A. Westray, 19, re turned to duty with the Army last Sunday and is now stationed at Camp Pickett, Va. He returned to the United States in December from the European theatre, where he served for 16 months, and spent about two months here with his fa ther, J. E. Westray He has reen listed for a year and a half and hopes to be assigned to duty in the United States. The Plymouth High School basketball teams will meet the Edenton teams on the local court Thursday night of this week. Friday night, Windsor comes here for a double-header. The only games scheduled for next week are with Bear (Irass, there Tuesday night. Jack House, jr., and Zeno Lyon, jr., will arrive Sunday to spend about two weeks with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. House and Mr. and Mrs. Zeno G. Lvon, respec tively. They have just completed the ASTRP courses at North Geor gia College, Dahlonega. Ga. and will report to Fort Bragg for duty with the Army at the conclusion of their two-week furloughs. Miss Martha Manning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Manning, of Plymouth, was one of seven girls in her class of 125 at Greensboro Col lege to make grades that entitle them to unlimited ‘ class cuts” dur ing the second semester. A require ment of all A's and B's is necessary to receive this honor. Only 39 out of the entire student body of 480 girls met the requirements. The Plymouth Lions Club is observing charter and ladies’ night at its meeting tonight in the American Legion hall. .las. A. Glover, of Nashville, Lion district governor, is to make the principal address. W. Ronald Gaylord, veterans service officer for Washington Coun ty, went to Wilson yesterday tor a two-day conference with W. H Dunn, state senior service officer relative to veterans’ matters as they affect returning service men. He i: expected to return late this after noon or tonight. The Rev. and Mrs. B. E. Tayloi and little son, Howard, of Cave City, Ky., were visitors in Plym outh for a short while yesterday Mr. Taylor was pastor of the loca Christian church for about twc years before going to Kentucky from here in the fall of 1943. Announcement was made las week by George M. Fountain, o: Tarboro, that he would be a candi date to succeed himself as solicitoi of the second judicial district. Mr Fountain was appointed solicitoi last year, when former solicitor Don nel Gilliam was elevated to a Fed eral judgeship. > The Roanoke Beacon ***♦»♦* and Washington County News* ****** ESTABLISHED 1889 Plymouth, W'ashington County, North Carolina, T hursday, F ehruary 28, 1946 VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 9 ! Plymouth Business Houses Will Begin j | Wednesday Hall-Holidays Next Week j Plymouth stores and business houses will begin their mid week half-holidays a month early this year. Starting next week, March G, they will close at 12 noon for the remainder of the day on Wednesday of each week. This schedule will continue until the tobacco mar kets open next fall. Heretofore, local merchants have started their Wednesday half-holidays in April, but at a meeting held Tuesday afternoon it was decided to begin in March this year. A motion for aJl stores to close at 7 p.m. on Saturdays was defeated by a tie vote, 8-8 with one member present declining to vote. Patrons of local business houses are requested to coope rate by doing their shopping be fore noon on Wednesdays, in order to give store owners and their employees some time off during the spring and summer months. Nominate 12 County Officers in Primaries | Farm Bureau to | | Meet Tomorrow j The Washington County Farm Bureau will hold its regular j meeting Friday night of this week at 8 o'clock in the agri- ; culture building at Plymouth. L. e. Hassell, sr„ of Roper, the new president of the organiza tion, appeals to all members to attend and bring a neighbor. Mr. Hassell said that a pro gram and objectives for this year would be discussed at the meeting. He hopes to have a representative attendance from all sections of the county for this reason. Reduction Soon in Electric Rate Here -♦ Utilities Rate Expert Edgar Womble. of Raleigh, has announced that thq new rate schedules of the Virginia Electric and Power Com pany will save Northeastern North I Carolina customers about $100,000 a year. The new schedules lowering the rates on power supplied, were ap proved recently by the State Utili ties Commission. The lowered rates, which affect home users, small shops and power for street lighting, will become effective April 1. Twelve thousand residential and three thousand commercial custo mers use V.E.P.Co. power in North eastern North Carolina. All cus tomers who use more than 50 kilo watt hours per month will be nfFect ed by the rate slash. Electric power in the section is supplied now entirely by V.E.P.Co., and through the REA lines in out ■ lying districts. At present, Womble said, the rate charged by the Virginia company for 100 KWH is $4.25, which will be reduced to $3.95 under the new schedule. The commercial rate of $5 for 100 KWH will be lowered to $4.75. y Urge Ships Be Used To Provide Housing Editor Raleigh Times Suggests Discarded Liberty Ships Be Sent to Eastern Towns Where Housing Short Use of discarded Liberty ships us emergency living quarters for the families of both veterans and civil ians in Plymouth—and similar towns were a housing shortage ex ists_was suggested recently by John A. Park, editor of the Raleigh Times. He has forwarded his suggestion to Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, with an earnest request that relief - measures be taken for persons need ing a place to sleep. Mr. Park came here a few weeks ago to address a meeting of the Rotary Club and learned of the serious housing shortage existing in Plymouth. He stated that similar conditions existed in a number of towns located on waterways in east ern Carolina and his suggestion to the Secretary of the Navy was made after his return to Raleigh. In an editorial published in the Times, last week. Mr. Parks ex plained his views and the action he has taken as follows: The housing shortage gets no bet ter At Raleigh and in numerous areas of North Carolina, as well as throughout the nation, it is getting worse decidedly worse. Not ng that the all-time peak on lumber prices has again gone sky ward the editor of the Raleigh Times has taken occasion to earnest iv"request relief measures for per sons needing place? to sleep, a dou blfap^a! going to Secretary of the Navy Forrestal _andt .aVS0„\?. ofa't&e* North Carolina Warehouse ^It'has been suggested to Mr. For restal that some of the surplus Navy and U, S. Marine Ships now being narked idle away in the James jfttver be made available at points in the eastern part of our State where they may be tied to docks or anchor ed conveniently within our inland waterways for the use of persons in those areas who urgently need places in which to live. It is pointed out also that many well-built, securely roofed tobacco warehouses all across the state might be converted during the on season for emergency use by eager tenants. With Spring just around the corner, heating problems would be nominal, probably gone by the time either ships or warehouses could be made ready. In every warehouse town there are electric, water and sewer facilities available, as well as at practically all ~7see~HOUSING, Page 4) No Candidates Have Announced To Date -4 April 13 Is Deadline; Pri maries Will Be Held on May 25th eDspite the fact that 12 county officers will be at stake in the pri maries on May 25th this year, not a single candidate has made formal announcement up to now. Most of the present officers are expected to be candidates to succeed themselves, and several others are known to be considering entering various con tests. In addition to the local of fices, county voters also will help select nominees for a number of state and district offices, for which several candidacies have been an nounced. The deadline for filing the candi dacies for the General Assembly and for county offices is April 13. Aspirants must file by that time with the county boards of election, but do not have to file with the state board, as do district and state can didates. County offices for which nomina tions are to be made in the May 25 primaries, and the length of their terms, are as follows: Clerk of su perior court, four years: sheriff, four years; representative, two years; members of board of county com missioners (five), two years each; judge of recorder’s court, two years; solicitor of recorder's court, two years; and coroner, two years. In addition, one member of the board of education is to be nominated, for confirmation at the next session of the legislature. The term of this office is variable, with a maximum of six years. District officers to be nominated include two senators from the sec ond senatorial district, for two years each. W. Hoy Hampton, of Plymouth, and Hugh G. Horton, of williamston, have announced for these positions. A Representative to Congress from the First Congres sional District is likewise to be nomi (See PRIMARIES, Page 4) •--♦ Stale Tax Deputy Here Next Week -4 A State Department of Revenut deputy collector, E. Ross Froneber ger, will be at the office of the clerf of court in the courthouse here nex1 Monday and Tuesday, March 4 anc 5, to assist taxpayers in preparinf and filing their state income ta> , returns for 1945. Anyone who need; his help is asked to see him at tha I time. | State income tax returns must b< filed by unmarried persons who hat la gross income of $1,000 or mort and by married persons with in ! comes of $2,000 or more. They an required to be filled before Marci ■ 15th. I Those who own intangible per \ sonal property, including money oi . hand, accounts receiveable, notes -! bonds, mortgages, etc., are also re . | quired to file an intangible tax re ■ turn. Mr. Froneberger will be gla< !! to assist in filing either or both re ' turns while he is here. Large Steam-Boiler Distilling Outfit Is | Seized by Officers Near Here Tuesday One of the largest and most complete distilling outfits seized in the county in recent years was captured about three miles from Plymouth Monday by county and town officers. The equipment was a steam-boiler rig, and the set-up indicated that operations were being car ried on a huge scale. The of ficers estimated it had been in operation for about three months. No arrests were made. In addition to a 50-horsepower steam boiler, the raiders found five big vats of mash about i ready to run, several other vats used for various purposes, a cooling trough 16 feet in length rigged with l'^-inch pipe, and miscellaneous other equipment. The vats, containing about 2,500 gallons of mash, were destroyed and the other equipment is to be brought to Plymouth. The outfit was located not far off the White Oak Neck road on the Charles Henry Hor ton place. Olficers making the seizure were Deputy Sheriff L. L. Baanight and City Patrol men Paul Basnight and Foy Davenport. Record Session Held By Recorder's Court Here Last Tuesday -•» Fines Aggregating $575 As sessed; 29 Defendants In 20 Cases Judge W. RonafH Gaylord had a record day in recorder's court here Tuesday. A total of 20 cases were called, and there *wer< 29 defen dants, all except throe pleading guilty or being found guilty: with fines aggregating^jfSTS being im posed. in to the court costs. Nol prossex were entered in three cases and one was continued until next Tuesday. The session lasted well into the afternoon, and would have con tinued possibly into another day if most of the defendants had not sub mitted. obviating the necessity of presenting testimony. The pro ceedings attracted a large crowd of spectators, including a high school history class, which was present to learn something about court pro cedure. Solicitor W. Blount Rod man prosecuted the docket, assisted in one instance by Carl L Bailey as private prosecution. Following is a list of the cases called: A nol pros was taken in a case against Jesse Spruill, white, of Creswell, charged with bastardy. His case had been in court once be fore and when he entered a plea of I double jeapordy the state declined • to push the matter at this time. Willie Nison and Bernice Howell, ; colored, of Hcjer, pleaded guilty j and paid fines $25 and costs each ; for cohabiting r ’ man and wife. A fracas i* Juniper Lodge Wednesday night of last week re [ suited in six out of eight defendants i pleading guilty to participating in an affray, and they were fined $10 each and the costs pro-rated. The six fined were Susie Thomas, of Plym outh; Basil Harden and Rudolph Smithwick, of Windsor; Carlie Spru ill. Cyril Spruill and Bennie Jack son, of Roper A nol pros was taken as to Jasp< r Hardison, of Mackeys, and a continuance until next Tues day granted Jack Swain, of Plym outh, in the same case In a companion caac to the one (See COUtmieclT, Page 41 -4 |Two Draft Calls Here Next Week -♦ Notices have gone out from the office of the Washington County Selective Service Board for twr groups of colored men to report foi draft calls next week, according ti Mrs, Mildred Collins, clerk to the board. There are three men in the induction call, set ■ for Monday March 4, and five who will go tc Fort Bragg for pre-induction exami nation on Tuesday, March 5 Those ordered to report for in duction next Monday are as follows Edison Louis Towe, jr., and Herbert Lee Alexander, both of Plymouth and Joseph Warren Hedgbeth. ol Roper. In the group of registrants whe will report for preinduction exami nations on Tuesday, March 5, are the following: John Lee Hyman George Washington Howard. Eu gene Downing. James Edward Per ry, and John Wrighton, all of Roper -4 125 Cited by Local Police Within Past Two Months -♦ Members of the Plymouth Police | i Department have made a total of 12f | arrests or citations since January i 8th, a review of the police blottei , | this week shows. Of this number 45 defendants have been called t< , trial in the county recorder's court and 80 were given hearings befon , justices of the peace. Convictions were obtained in ; vast majority of the cases. Fine: and costs amounting to $1,561.41 ! have been paid into the count; treasury as a result of the 45 case; | sent to the recorder’s court N< record is available as to the amoun I of fines and costs imposed by th several justices of the peace. -4 ■ State College Alumni To I Meet With Rotary Her< -♦ [ Washington County alumni c | State College, Raleigh, will b • guests of the Rotary Club at it I i regular meeting next Tuesday nigt I at 7 o’clock. Col. J. W Harrelsor chancellor of the State College un of the University of North Carolin; Raleigh, will be the principal speal er. Alumni of State College in th county are cordially invited an urged to be present. -4 To Serve Chicken Salad Supper at Roper Tonigl Roper.—The ladies of the Episc pal church will sponsor a chickei ; salad supper Thursday evening this week at the Roper Communi House. The public is urged to a Plan to Raise $2,000 Quota For Red Cross in Single Week . A. -4 Progress of Town Reviewed in Talks At Lions Meeting -+ J. R. Manning, E. F. Still And W. J. Veasey Are Speakers -+ The Plymouth Lions Club had an exceptionally interesting and in structive meeting last Thursday, when the members were brought up to date on the progress and de velopment of a number of commun ity undertakings. Speakers were leaders in various fields of local en deavor. J. R. Manning reviewed industrial and business prospects of the town, citing upwards of 25 or 30 new un dertakings that have been, are being or soon will be launched here. His report encompassed a number of im provements planned for the town, j and he wound up with an urgent i appeal for support of the new hotel 1 project. E. F. Still, as mayor of Plymouth, \ reviewed some of the accomplish ments of the city administration which took office last year He stated that improvements had not kept pace with some other phases of community development, due pri marily to the state of the city treas ury He explained the town’s fis cal condition in detail, contrasting it with the urgent necessity of rais ing funds for extension of water and sewer lines, repair and improve ment of local streets. Mr. Still said there was no ques tion in his mind but that the local population would reach 7,500 within the next three years, if homes and proper facilities are made avail able. There is an obligation on the part of the town to provide the fa cilities that will enable people to construct the homes, he stated. The mayor said he was making this cx ■ planation so that if it became neces sary for the city counci' to recom mend issuance of bonds to provide additional water and sewer lines and improyed streets, members of the club could appreciate the urgency j of the situation and be ready to back up the council action. County School Superintendent W F Veasey, a guest of the club, made a brief talk in which he cited some of the needs and plans for improv ing the school situation, both locally '"Ts^MONS CLUB, Page 4) Mrs. P. B. Serena Dies at Home Here -« Mrs. Mary Etta Serena, 58, died at 7 o'clock this morning at her home | in "Little Richwood." She had been | in declining health tor about a year. I F uneral arrangements had not been ; completed at noon today, but it was stated that the final rites would be J held in Plymouth. A native of West Virginia, Mrs Serena had lived in Plymouth for about five years. She was the daughter of Mrs. Carrie Davis and the late Silas Davis, of Spencer, W Va.. and was born there on March ill, 1888. On May 2, 1911, she was married in Richwood, W. Va., to P B. Serena, who survives. Mrs. Sc i rena was a member of the Metho dist church at Clay. W. Va.. for ; j good many years. Besides her husband, P. B. Se rena, she is survived by five daugh ters, Miss Pearl Serena, Mrs. El mora Brockhard. of Plymuoth; Mrs Elsie Finlinson, of Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Loretta Williams, of Richwood W. Va.; and Mrs. Evelyn Adams, o St. Alban, W. Va.; two sons, Bol ; Serena, of Plymouth; and Edwarc 1 L. Serena, of Long Beach, Calif She also leaves her mother, Mrs * Carrie Davis, of LaFrank, W Va. 1 a sister, Mrs. Pearl Collins, of La 1; Frank., and four brothers, Dewe; ' Davis, of LaFrank; Ernest Davis, o Akron, Ohio; Bill Davis, of Widen W Va.; and Emerson Davis, of A1 | loy, W. V. i Board Meetings i Set Next Monday i County and town governing boards will hold their regular first Monday meetings next Monday. The county board of commissioners and the county board of education will hold their meetings in the courthouse, starting at 10:30 a.m., while the city council will meet Monday night. Routine business matters are scheduled for the county com missioners and city council. The board of education will meet with an architect and state sehoolhouse planning ex perts to go over plans for the school building program in the county. Court of Honor Held For Scouts at Meet Of Parent-Teachers -4. Awards Are Presented To Number Boys Last Thursday Night -4 The recent Boy Scout anniversary j celebration was highlighted here by j a Court of Honor for the Plymouth | troop held at the meeting of the Pa rent-Teacher Association in the high school last Thursday night. Vari ous awards for merit and advance ment were presented to members of the local troop R. E. King, of Washington. Beau fort Scout district commissioner, presented the awards and spoke briefly on the importance of Scout ing and the recent success of the pro gram in Plymouth He was accom panied by Reid Mitchell, a scout master of Washington Also pres ent were local scout officials, includ ing Scoutmaster H. G. Harris and Harold Whitley, chairman of the Albem- "le district Tenderfoot badges were present ed to Milton Rose, Sammy Rose. George Curry and Bradford Papi neau. First-class badges were awarded to Hugh Pierce, jr Hugh Modlin. Donald Hohl and Wayne Browning. Charles Hohl was promoted from first-class to Star Scout, and Jack Booker was awarded the coveted Life Scout rank, he being the only Scout in the Albemarle district at this time to hold this award, f Several merit badges were pre sented for proficiency in various | phases of Scout work as follows: jJack Booker, 5; Hugh Pierce, 4. |Charles Hohl, 4: Hugh Modlin, 1: ! Donald Hohl, 1; Wayne Browning. 1; and Charles Smith. 1. Service stars for one-year serv ice were awarded to Macauley Har ris, Jewel Hardison, Charles Hohl I and Donald Hohl. Stars for two I years’ service were presented to I (See COI’RT OF HONOR, P^Tj) Goals Assigned To Various Localities -+ Community Chairmen Also Named by J. W. Darden, County Chairman The executive committee of the Washington County chapter of the American Red Cross has decided to make this year's campaign for funds short and intensive, starting on Monday, March 1!. and closing Sunday March 17 The county quo ta is only $2,000. considerably less than the quota of $3,500 last year, and far below the more than $5,000 raised in the 1945 campaign. John W. Darden, chairman of the chapter, also will serve as cam paign chairman. He announced the community quotas and chairmen yes terday. and is appealing for a brief successful drive that will give ev eryone in the county an opportun itv to Usake a donation Community quotas and chairmen are as follow's: Plymouth and Plvm outh Township. Robert E. Bowen. SI.000: Scuppernong Township, O. D Hatfield, S175; Skinnersville Township, Walter W. White, $75: Roper section, L. E. Hassell, sr., $150: Pleasant Grove section, J C. Tar kenton. $50: Mackevs section, Mrs. Edison Davenport, $50. Wenona , section Mrs. Carl Ileynen, $50: and county colored people. Prof. W, H Lord, of Plymouth. $450 Mr Darden urgently requests that these public-spirited citizens accept this assignment and name the working force for tin campaign. He suggests that each worker he listed bv the respective chairmen and sent to the Beacon by next Tuesday in J time for publication in the March 7th issue. Supplies needed in the drive will be mailed to the chairmen next week, M> Darden said Reports of collections may be made at the (See RED CROSS, Page'll -♦ 1946 Plymoulhs on Display Saturday ■-♦ The new line of Plymouth cars will be placed on public display in dealer showmooms throughout the United States on Saturday, March 2. it was announced at Detroit this veek by Joseph E Bayne, general sales manager of the Plymouth di vision, Chrysler Corporation The local Plymouth dealer, Sat terthwaite Motor Company, has one of the new cars, and it will be put ion display Saturday morning. Dan IR. Satterthw-aite, the owner, ex tends a cordial invitation to the pub lic. to call and see it. The new Plymouth cars embody’ more improvements than found in most pre-war yearly model changes. I The new improvements are mani fest in both appearance and engin eering advancements. Particular at tention has been given to safety features, which have been engin eered into the basic design of the I car,’' it is stated. 1,213 Men Sent Into Service From County Number Does Not Include Those Who Volunteered; Up To Now. 750 Discharges Reported to Draft Board -♦ Washington County's contribution i of men and women to the military ! forces of the nation in the past five 11 years has amounted to considerably . more than 10 per cent of its total I population, according to figures sup plied by the Washington County So li leetive Service Board. 1 With a total population of 12, ■ 323 in 1940, the county has furn f ished a total of 1.213 men to the , service through Selective Service. ■ This does not include a great num , ber of volunteers of whom there is ; Fair Warning To Speeders: "The Blue ' Scarp’n." Driven by Cop, Is After Yon i, The city police department finally pot its new car last week and has been making pood use o of it. The car, a blue four-door rt sedan, was the first of the new 194G Chevrolets to be received by House Chevrolet Company, local dealers, and it has been on display here for the past two f months. It was released for delivery by the Chevrolet Mo i tor Company last week. Patrolling in the new car, lo y < cal police have already picked t_ up about a half dozen speeders, as well as various other viola tors of the law, including a reckless driver and a drunken driver. Chief of Police P. W. Brown said today that speed ers had better take warning, as orders have been issued to cite them all to the courts. Incidentally, the new car has already been named. The chief said he had been informed that it was known among the colored brethren as the “Blue Scarp’n." So the “Blue Scor pion—or Scarp’n”—it is, and law violators had better watch out. no record at the office of the draft board. It is conservatively esti mated that at least 200 additional would be added if these records were complete. Of the 1.213 men who entered the service through Selective Service since October 16, 1940, there were 403 still in some branch of the mili tarv forces as of Tuesday of this ' week, when the check was made. Discharges reported to the board at that time were 750. and an average ;, of 35 men pel- week have been re ! leased for the past month or so, it was stated. i The number being released from j the service has been steadily grow ! ing since the war ended last year. It is believed the peak has been reached at about 35 a week, and a decline in the number reporting dis charges can now be expected, ac cording to the clerk to the board. At the present time, the selective service board is registered about 10 youths per month as they reach the age of 18. A great many of these are going right on into the service, it was stated, thus releasing some of those who served overseas while the war was in progress. Practically all recent inductions have been from the 18-year-old group, although a few limited service men a little old er may expect calls beginning in April, according to recent directive from the state system. ,.r \
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