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own opici James B. Thomas of Plymouth, and David H. Johnston, of Roper, J both students at Duke University in Durham, have been placed on the Dean’s List, according to an announcement from the universi ty. In order to achieve this honor, the student selected must have an academic average of ‘B’ or better. r Robert Davenport, Robert Mar tin, and Linwood Brown were advanced from Tenderfoot to Second Class rank in the local Boy Scout Organization at the Board of Review held here last week, it has been announced. James Barnhill, it was added, met the requirements for Art, Read ing and Swimming Merit Badges. The polio campaign, which terminated officially on Janu ary 31, is still going on in Wash ington County, in a manner of speaking. Jack Horner, of Plymouth, chairman of the drive, reported this week that a pupil in the Plymouth schools who, due to illness, could not turn in the dimes she had col lected gave them to him the other day, thereby, bringing the collection total from S2, 083.41 to S2.085.41. Mr. Horner also pointed out that the young lady raised the school contri bution to S235.75 from its pre vious §233.75. Miss Helene Duval, local Red Cross worker, now en route to her station in Korea, Asia, after spending several weeks vacation in Plymouth with her mother, Mrs. R. A. Duval, has been de layed in reaching her destination by severe storms off the Aleuti ans, it has been reported. In a letter from Miss Duval to a Plym outh friend she states that she is torn between high seas and the activities of several small chil dren for whom she is caring since their mamas are far too seasick to look after them properly. Archie Modlin, of Plymouth, who has been a patient in a Rocky Mount hospital, receiving treatment for severe burns sus tained some time ago, returned to his home here last Thursday. Mr. Modlin’s condition is report ed improving rapidly. iv, T. rec tor of the Farm Bureau, #i Raleigh Mcmday attending ff lies sion of the organization’s execu tive committee. Mr. Freeman re ports that the committee voted to favor taxation of reserves held by the co-operatives, but not to actively support any legislation proposing a further taxation of the co-op organizations. Dam Resolution To Have Hearing -> A hearing on the Buggs Island Roanoke Resolution in the Gen eral Assembly will be held at Raleigh, Friday of this week, in the Utilities Commission Hearing Room at 9:30 a, m. it has been announced. The resolution would instruct the Department of Conservation and Development of the State of North Carolina to investigate the facilities which will be made available to the State by con struction of the dam at Buggs Island on the Roanoke River. '• It is anticipated that there will be spirited presentation of argu ments at the hearing. Large delegations from up and down the Roanoke River are urged to attend the hearing Fri day, to indicate the attitude of Eastern North Carolina. -— ♦ Local Veterans Groups To Have Prize Drawing -♦ The drawing for the 1946 au tomobile being given away by the local posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion will be held next Wednes day around ' p. m. it has been announced. Drawings will also be held for a refrigerator and a washing machine at the same time. Money realized from the project will be used for the con struction of the Veterans Me morial Building. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** VOLUME LVIII—NUMBER 9 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 27, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1889 Movement Underway To Set Up Drainage District A movement has begun among the farmers in the area between Plymouth and the Tidewater Ex periment Station for the estab lishment of a drainage district in that section, Donald B. Jones, county soil conservationist, has revealed. Jones added further that the local soil conservation office hopes to arrange a meeting of the farm operators of the area and State Engineer, George Renfro, jr., sometime in the near future so that further plans may be made in order to secure definite action on the establishment of the drain age district. He stated that such a movement had been started be fore in that section of the coun ty, but that, due to various set backs, the project had been drop ped before it had really begun. Red Cross Campaign To Get Underway in County Next Monday Film Made oi jj Ditch Project j . .I Color movies were made of drainage practices being carried | out on the farm of Hoyt R. Davenport, near Creswell, on Monday of this week and will be given a showing to farmers over the entire state, illustrat- , ing the proper ways of ditch construction, the AAA office in Plymouth has revealed. Included in the motion pic- | ture are the methods used in the digging of ditches used in the open ditch drainage plan. A. P. Hassell, of Edenton,*Dis trict Triple-A Field Officer, was in charge of the filming. County Farmers Get Soil Checks ■-♦ Washington County farmers are now receiving their first soil checks under the* irogram, the office of ation’s secretary has almotMiced, declaring that 856 ap plications have been cleared and that about 450 checks, amount ing to $30,000 had already been delivered. The office added that approxi mately 740 farmers in the county are eligible for payments and that for the first time in quite a while, all applications have been prepared and approved before the February 15 deadline. The checks received so far range in amounts from one or two dollars to about $500, it was . reported. Meanwhile, plans for individual farms under the AAA's 1947 soil : conservation program have been ; almost completed, with about 700 i farmers in the county signing up for the program. The Triple-A office stated that about 150 farm operators remain to be contact ed by community committeemen i and signed up this year and that i this is expected to be completed 1 by March 6. < -4 n ti_ _ l De Wolfe Funeral Conducted Friday -•* Funeral services were conduct ed from the local funeral home last Friday at 1:30 p. m. for Earl De Wolfe, 56, of Plymouth, who died here about 2 a. m. on Thurs day of last week. Burial was made in Saints Delight Cemetery The Rev. E. B. Quick, pastor of the Plymouth Christian Church, officiated. Mr. De Wolfe, originally of Lake Village and Hammond, In diana, had been a resident of Plymouth for the past eight years. He is survived by one son, Claude De Wolfe of Chicago, Illinois; two brothers, Ernest De Wolfe, of Hammond, and Cecil De Wolfe, of Pasedena, California. Stores Begin Wednesday Closing in May This Year The Plymouth Merchants As sociation, meeting here last Fri day night, voted to begin the an nual Wednesday afternoon clos ings of stores in Plymouth on the first Wednesday in May and con tinue through the month of Au gust. The question of beginning the noontime closing in March, the coui'se followed in 1946, was advanced but voted down. A committee of Julius Seger man, A. J. Byrd, and Benton Liverman was appointed to meet with the town council next Mon day night in an effort to work out plans for the improvement of parking areas in Plymouth, since ! the problem of adequate parking space in the town has become acute. A committee was also appoint ed to investigate the advantages offered by the securing of a radio program advertising Plymouth stores from some nearby radio station. Those named to the com mittee are H. H. Allen, Julius Segerman, and W. J. Woolard. Carlyle Hall, president of the association, presided over the meeting. Quotas for Plymouth and Scuppernong Township Increased; Colored Goal Lowered in County -* Quota figures for the Wash ington County townships in the annual drive of the local Red Cross chapter were revised at a meeting of the campaign chair men. held in the countv court house on Mondnv, Henrv S Everett, county drive chairman, has revealed. The changes made were in the reduction of the colored quota for the county from S442 to $30f). J and the increase of the white quotas for Plymouth Township jfrom $500 to $650 and Scupoer nong Township from SI25 to $150. Other ountas remained same, with the goal for the entire countv be ing kept at the original amount of $1,442. The campaign organization for Plymouth township, as announc ed bv Township Chairman Bill Joyner, will be as follows: One canvasser will be appointed for the industrial plants and one for | the business houses in Plymouth: ! the residential sections will be ] zoned and canvassed bv towns- * women: two rural workers will i be appointed to solicit contribu- < tions in the remainder of the < township while the county school 1 superintendent. W. F. Vensev. < will canvass the local white ] schools. < The campaign organizations, i both white and colored, for other townships will follow a similar, 1 pattern. Officials in the county r Red Cross Chapter have stated 1 that although the drive officially i embraces the entire month of 1 March, the campaign in Wash- 1 ington County will be conducted for one week only, March in ( through 16. \ Miss Jeannette Cox of Rocky c Mount, Red Cross Field Worker s for East Carolina, guest speaker c at the Monday meeting, pointed I out the great need for funds in r the Red Cross organization at this j time. In voicing a request that c ■'ll citizens of Washington Coun- £ ty contribute generously to the t campaign, Miss Cox declared ( that the need for Red Cross re- j lief is almost as great today as j during the recent war years. j Mill Supervisors . Meet Last FridayJ The supervisors of the North Carolina Pulp Company, meet ng with the members of the nill’s Power Department Safety Committee in Plymouth last Fri day night, were addressed by W. G. Marks, chief of the Health and Safety Division of the U. S. De- ! nartment of Labor, who spoke [ on the important part played by supervisors in any safety pro gram in an industrial plant. Marks stressed the value of the creation of group interest in safe ty and the ultimate elimination of the causes of accidents through cooperation among all employees During the meeting, it was oointed out that in the past four vear period, C15.000 man-hours have been worked by the men in the Power Department since the last lost-time accident. Members of the department's safety committee are E. M. Ricks Dave Chism, W. T. Clifton, C. C. Clifton, R. L. Stotesbury, and G. W. Waters. J. A. Auchter, plant manager, presided over the meet ing. I a t o ii f tl a o a C n ii ri h si --♦ Plymouth Baptist to Hold Revival in March -* The Ludford Memorial Bapdist Church in Plymouth is sponsor ing a spring revival here begin ning Sunday, March 9 and ending Sunday, March 16, the Rev, P. B. Nickens, church pastor has an nounced. The Rev. H. B. Ander son of Durham will be the visit ing minister. Services begin each night at 8 o’clock. Boards Assessors To Complete Job By End of Week -♦ Revaluations Work Novi Finished in Rural Areas Plymouth, Lees Mill Townships •—■—-♦ The quadrennial tax revalua tions, originally scheduled to con clude on January 31, will finally be completed around the end ol this week, E. H. Liverman, coun ty tax supervisor, has announced Mr. Liverman stated that the boards of assessors have complet ed their work in the rural areas of Plymouth and Lees Mill Town ships and in the Creswell area. Reports from other parts of the county have not been turned in as yet, he added. Listings in the office of the Plymouth Township list-taker have just about tapered off, it is understood, although, accord ing to reports, the personal and poll tax listings are still lagging somewhat, a course they have followed since the opening of the listing period on January 1. No appreciable rise has been noted in the valuations of person al property since the initial jump at the beginning of the season, it has been reported. -♦ Goodmon Elected Vice President of Power Company -♦ Mew VEP Official Prom inent in Business and Civic Affairs of Section Since 1926 Raymond H. Goodmon of Wil iamston has been elected vice Jiesident of the Virginia Elec ric Power Company and will be )laced in charge of the VJJP’a outhern division which emfcri. '* •s all company property in HortW Carolina, it has been learned. Mr. Joodmon will take office on darch 1, succeeding J. T. Chase, if Roanoke Rapids, retiring vice >resident. The division's head luarters will be moved from loanoke Rapids to Williamston. Mr. Goodmon has been with the rEP for the past 21 years, begin ing with the company’s en ineering department in 1926, be ig promoted to manager of the Williamston office when that iranch was set up in 1932. Goodmon is a member of the 'ountry Club of Plymouth where e has won the golf tournament hampionship for four years in ucccssion. He is also chairman f the Martin County Draft ioard, veteran of World War I, nember of the Williamston imerican Legion, past-president f the Williamston Kiwanis Club, ast-master of the Masonic Lodge here, member of the Martin bounty Board of Education, resident of the Coastal Plain iaseball League, and former layer in the old Southern and ’irginia Leagues. -> Millie Criminal Activity Noted -4 Plymouth Police Chief P. W. irovvn has reported that Febru ry has been a slack season for re local police department, with nly an estimated 30 arrests be lg made by Plymouth law of cers. Most of the persons arrested, le Chief declared, were drunks id disorderlies. The proportion f white to colored arrests, he tded, were about fifty-fifty, hief Brown attributed the crimi al inactivity to the sudden drop i temperatures in this section, miarking that the cold weather ad kept most offenders off the reets. Mass Meeting Called To Discuss Proposed Extension of City Limits Roper Makes Bid On Fire Engines At Auction Sale -4 Fire Department Official Says $1,650 Collected So Far in Drive for Truck Purchase -- Bids have been placed by the Roper Fire Department on two fire trucks offered for sale at a sealed-bid auction in Charleston, S. C., and a certified check for 10 percent of the bid amount has been forwarded to the present owners of the trucks, Wade Har dison, secretary-treasurer of the department, has declared. An ad ditional bid of $400 was also placed on fire hose, he said. The trucks, recently inspected and approved by two members of the fire truck committee, are both equipped with 750-gallon pumps and 250-gallon water tanks, lad ders. axes, and other firefighting equipment. Hardison stated. He added that if the Roper bids on both trucks are accepted, one truck will be kept by the depart ment and the other sold. Notice of acceptance or rejection of the offers is expected sometime this week. Mr. Hardison stated further that to date about $1,650 have been donated to the fund for the purchase of a tire truck by the Roper citizens who, he said, “have contributed most generously,” adding that several large dona tions have also been made by Plymouth people. He pointed out, however, that the purchasing funds drive is still being con ducted. A. building site, adjoining the H. L. Lewis store, has been do by a Roper lumber com pany, Hardison said. He also de clared that the same company had previously donated building materials to the community for the construction of a fire house. -- First Real Snow Falls on Sunday -4 Plymouth’s first real snow of the current winter season fell for a few hours last Sunday evening and for a while made a light cover for the ground, but soon melting, much to the dismay of the younger generation and the great relief of their elders. Cold temperatures continue to prevail locally and through out the county, however, with fairly heavy snowfalls reported in the counties to the north of Wash ington County. So far, no more frozen boilers or brass monkeys have been reported, but the air is still too chilly for comfort. -♦ Local Basketball Teams Score Tournament Wins -4 Both Plymouth High School basketball teams won victories from the Chowan school cagers in the Edenton Tournament which began there last night (Wednes day) it has been reported. Ac cording to Plymouth Coach George Ingle’s predictions, the locals now stand a good chance of winning the trophies in the finals which will be played on Friday night of this week. -4 LeRoy’s Taxi Continues ( Under Same Trade Name , -4 LeRoy’s Taxi service will con- ( tinue to operate in Plymouth and ; vicinity under its original name, . Mrs. LeRoy Spruill present own- • jr has announced. Mrs. Spruill assumed management of the busi- | ness after her husband’s death ( nere last week. : Horner Cited for County \ Record in Recent Drive j Jack Horner, of Plymouth, ■hairman of the recently con ducted Washington County March of Dimes, has received i telegram of congratulations rom Governor R. Gregg Cherry tnd two letters of commenda ion from the state officers in he Foundation for the Victims >f Infantile Paralysis on work well done in the raising of unds far in excess of the quota issigned to this county during :he annual drive. One letter, from Ralph Mac I Donald, of Chapel Hill, officer in the state organization, de clared that the foundation was j ] fortunate in having Mr. Horner as director of the drive in Wash ington County, while another letter, from Mrs. Phillips Rus- ' sell, of Chapel Hill, state or- j ganization director, stated, “This is a marvelous record, and is the county’s best March of Dimes ever held.” , The quota assigned to the county was $813, while the amount raised during the cam paign was $2,085.41. Town and County Boards Meetings Set for Monday County and town governing boards will hold their regular monthly meetings next Mon day, the first Monday in March. The county commissioners will hold their session in the courthouse Monday morning with the biggest item on the agenda being the drawing of jurors for the April term of Civil Superior Court. A re view of the tax listings will probably be taken up also. The county board of education will meet in the courthouse at the same time and will take up mat ters connected with the school construction progTam. Monday night, the town coun cil will discuss, in addition to other matters, candidacies for the town election in May, and the proposed extension of the Plymouth city limits. Will Begin Spraying Program Next Month Trucks, Spraying Equip ment Have Been De livered; Operators Now Being Interviewed -4 Trucks, spraying equipment and DDT chemicals for the house spraying program being sponsor ed by the Washington-Tyrrell Health Department have been de livered in Plymouth by the Fed eral government donors and men needed for the job are being in terviewed at the local employ ment office. Dr. Claudius McGow an. acting district health officer, has stated. Dr. McGowan declared that the sprayers will call at all homes in both urban and rural areas in the district, but that if any house holder does not wish to have his home sprayed he is not required to do so. The health officer pointed out, however, that only one call will be made at any in dividual home and that requests for the spray service after #, pp*. fusal must be disregarded. Salaries for the worker* in 1he program, he added, will be paid jointly by the towns and county board. The program will begin during the third week in March. -4 Teachers lo Hear Slate Supervisor -4 The teachers in the white high schools in Washington County will conduct a meeting in the Plymouth High School next Wed nesday afternoon at 2:30, with Miss Ruth Moore, State supervi sor of physical education in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, W. F. Veasey, county superintendent of schools, , has stated. Mr. Veasey added that all Washington County White High Schools would dismiss class es at 1:30 p. m. that day in order :hat the teachers may attend the neeting. Miss Moore, he said, will pre sent a discussion of the physical . education program set up by the • state for adoption by the schools, ( ind will conduct demonstrations , rf the program with assistants ■vho will be chosen from among , :he local school faculty members present. -4 Funeral Held for Davenport Child, -4- i Funeral services were conduct- c ?d from the First Christian 1 -hurch of Plymouth at 3:30 p. 1 n. on Wednesday of this week ' or little Richard Linton Daven- * >ort, jr., of Plymouth who died ^ it the home of his parents, Mr, s ind Mrs. R. L. Davenport, sr., on ^ Tuesday after a three months ill- 4 less. The Rev. E. Bl Quick, * >astor of the church, assisted by he Rev. Paul B. Nickens, local f iaptist minister, officiated at the t uneral. Interment was made in > Vindley Cemetery. i The little fellow, who would r lave been five years old on ' Thursday of this week, is sur rived by his parents, one sister, r Vilma Ann Davenport, of the ionic; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ohn J. Davenport, of Roper and dr. and Mrs. Eli Phelps of Plymouth. -4 rJDC Conduct Meeting 4t Norman Home Friday The Major Lewis Latham Chap- C er of the United Daughters of f he Confederacy will meet this r Friday at 3:30 p. m. in the home ti >f Mrs. C. J: Norman, Mrs. Abe v \dler, president of the chapter las announced. Mrs. Adler has n ■equested all members of the c 'roup to be present. tl Penally Pul on Excess Tobacco The marketing of flu-cured tobacco in excess of the mark eting quota for the farm on which the tobacco is produced will be subject to a penalty of 40 percent of the average mar ket price for the 1946 market ing year. Miss Miriam Ausbon, county AAA secretary, has re vealed, adding that the order came from the State AAA head quarters. The secretary pointed out that under the new ruling ex cessive production of tobacco this year would prove highly unprofitable to any operator planting in excess of his quota. The Washington County AAA Committee, meeting in the Agri :ultural Building in Plymouth last Friday, witnessed a motion picture on practices carried out in North Carolina in raising Aus trian winter peas, which are wide ly grown in this area. A. P. Has sell, of Edenton, Triple-A district :ield officer, presented the films md made a short talk on the ad vances made in this field. A motion was made and passed it the Friday meeting to have he secretary make a report on he AAA 1946 program to the board of county commissioners. Reports made to the group in clude statements on current work n the county, pointing out that 59 farm operators in this dis ;rict have requested lime through he Triple-A program, with 1,300 ons of lime being requested and !05 tons delivered up to that time. All other business was of a rou ine nature. Roy Stillman, of loper, chairman of the county :ommittee, presided over the ses ion. -♦ Mail-Carrier Job Open at Creswell -4 The United States Civil Service Commission has ann ranced an xamination to fill the position f rural mail-carrier at Creswell. vith the examination hems’ given t Columbia, E. S. Woodley, Cres t'ell postmaster, has declared, fr. Woodley added that the dead ine for application for the po rtion has been set at March 20 ’he examination, he said, will ake place about 15 days after aat date. Only men and women who ave resided in the territory of ae Creswell Post Office for one ear will be eligible for the job, was stated. Application forms lay be obtained from the Cres-; .•ell Post Office or from the rnited States Civil Service Com lission in Washington, D. C. Sel for Courthouse Friday Night at 8 Darden Requests Citizens Of All Areas in Ques tion to Attend Meet and Present Views A public meeting for the pur pose of explaining the proposals of a suggested bill for the exten sion of the Plymouth city limits and for obtaining opinions of local citizens on the matter has been called by County Represen tative John W. Darden for Fri day night of this week at 8 o’clock in the county courthouse. Those areas, now outside the Plymouth limits, which would be vitally concerned in the project ed measure are Little Richwood and the New Mill Villages and Club View Estates. Representative Darden has urged all local citi zens, particularly those in the areas named to attend the meet ing and voice their opinions on the subjects. The planned limits extension bill, as it now stands, would have the new boundary of Plymouth be placed as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Welch Creek, running east along the Roanoke River to the northeast corner of the old Hampton farm, turning south and continuing in a straight lint to the present boundary and following it to the Norfolk-South ern Railroad tracks, following the tracks to where the present boun dary crosses them and then turn ing south to the old Roper load, then turning west, crossing Cona by Creek at the Peacock Swamp Bridge, across highway 32, across the old Long Acre Road and to the eastern corner of Tetterton Heights, crossing Tetterton to the Atlantic Coast Line tracks, turning north, running 1.000 feet, then turning west and continuing until the line reaches Welch Creek, following the creek down to the Roanoke River. The territory which would be taken into the town by such a change would include the Club View Estates, Little Richwood, (See MASS MEETING, page 4) -> Ditching Machines Will Change Sites -4 The three drag-lines now being used for ditching projects on Hoyt R. Davenport’s farm near Cres well will be moved to other pro ject sites sometime next week, the Washington County Soil Con servation office has announced. One of the machines will be taken to the Mount Pleasant sec tion. another to the “Newlands” section for the cleaning and en largement of the "Big Ditch,” and the third will be used in the Roper area. Farmers in those districts who wish ditching projects begun on their properties have been re quested to contact the county soil conservation office in Plym outh. ■-♦ Drainage Aid Is Asked by Farmers -4 A petition for assistance in se curing adequate drainage in the Crossroads Community in Lees Mill Township has been drawn up and forwarded to the State of fice of the Soil Conservation Service, Donald B. Jones, county soil conservationist, has report ed. The petition, Jones added, was signed by 16 farm operators in that section. He remarked that as yet no word has been received from the state office as to wheth ?r or not the petition has been approved or rejected. New Schedule of Clinics Effective First of March The new clinic schedule ar anged by the Washington-Tyrell ounty Health Department, ef ;ctive March 1, according to an ouncement from the depart lent’s Plymouth headquarters, •ill be as follows: Veneral disease clinic, each lonth; maternity and infants linic for Plymouth, 1 p. m. every lird Wednesday in each month; maternity and infants clinic for Roper, 1 p. m. every fourth Wed nesday in each month at the Roper Community Building: im munization clinic, each Saturday at 9:30 a. m. With the exception of the Roper maternity and infants ■linic, all clinics will be conduct ad in the health department of fices in Plymouth.
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