1'own opies Workmen are now installing the new aluminum window-fram es in the Plymouth High School, according to announcements from school officials, who added that progress on the building has speeded up considerably. They stated that the electric wiring is about one-fourth complete and the heating system over 50 per cent installed, While plumbing .fixtures are also well on their nvay to being finished. Sufficient coal supplies for all schools in the county have now been secured with the exception of some 25 or 30 tons of stoker coal for the Plymouth High School, Superintendent W. F. Veasey has announced. He add ed that about 45 tons were re ceived last week and that an order for the remaining amount had been placed. The first cotton blossom found in the fields of Washing ton County this season was dis covered on Monday by L. L. Basnight of Plymouth. Mr. Bas night stated that he had seen another which was pink and thereby claimed priority over the white one which he brought into town. Miss Louella Gibson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gibson of Plymouth, has been promoted to the traffic control department of the Chesapeake and Potomac telephone company in Norfolk, Va.. it has been anounced. Miss . Gibson has been employed by the ^company for about two years. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Freeman have announced the birth of a son on June 30 at their home in Lees Mill township. This is the eleventh child and eighth son born to the Freemans. Mr. Freeman reports that his wife is “doing fine.” Two electric wires suspended across Washington Street in the block between Water and Main Streets were yanked down by the top of a large transport van which was traveling down Wash ington Street on Tuesday after noon, causing considerable in convenience to stores serviced by the wires. Local observers stated that a rerouting of the heavier and tallei motor vehicles through Plymouth might forestall any such occurrence in the future. Miss Mir: as can be dt bie iffetl journeying to Atlantic Beech Ittr a two-weeks visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Murphey, of Green ville, who have a beach cottage there. Miss Ausbon left Plym *outh at the crack of dawn- last Friday and will return sometime next week. County Negro Is Shot Thursday -4 Luther Svviain, 23-year-old Pleasant Grove negro, is a patient in a Washington hospital and Collie Simpson, also colored of Pleasant Grove is being held in the county jail as a result of an alleged prank with a .22 pistol in the Pleasant Grove neighbor hood last Thursday night. According to witnesses, Swain and Simpson were with a crowd in a parked pick-up truck on highway 64 and Simpson, think ing to play a joke on Swain left * uich r« on Ithe mill yard was damaged The Richard P. Baer Compan of Baltimore was owner of th mill which was constructed nea Creswell in 1940 and had been i operation since that time. -—♦ Legion Appoints 5-Man Committei -♦ A five-man committee, heade by P. B. Bateman, was appointe by the James Jethro Post of th American Legion at its meetin on Friday to represent that o: ganization at the conferences < the representative groups of a civic clubs in Plymouth on th joint-club sponsorship of tl planned community buildin Others serving on the Legio group are P. W. Brown, R. 1 Tetterton. Joseph Gurganus, an Jimmy Hays. Reports were given at the Fr day session on the State Legio convention held recently at Can lina Beach at which Jimmy Haj of the Plymouth post was electe commander of the newly create third district of which Washinj ton County is a part. Action of the naming of an e> ecutive committee for the po: was deferred until later th week. Commander Ronald Gaj lord presided over the meeting Announce Communion io Creswell Episcopalian •-4 Holy Communion will be cell brated and a sermon delivere at Christ Church in Creswell ; 11 a. m. next Sunday mornin according to an announcemei from the rector, the Rev. W. 1 Gaither. Evening prayer and se: mon will be held at Galilee Mil sion at Lake Phelps at 3:15 p. ir he added. Attorney General Says Special Act Necessary To Provide Representa tion for New Ward -» State Attorney General Harry McCulIan, investigating the ap pointment of new councilmen to the Plymouth town board at the request of city officials, has stat ed that according to the town’s charter of 1915, the membership of the council is limited to six members and since the present board is so composed, no vacancy exists and no new councilmen may be appointed to the board no matter how many new wards are created through expansion of the town. McMulIan pointed out that the only way now open to secure representation in the local gov ernment for the fourth ward would be to have the town char ter amended with provision for an increased board membership Ior a reallocation of the number of councilmen from each ward. I Such action, he said, would re quire a special act of the State General Assembly which will not reconvenes until 1949. The letter t from Mr. Mullan was received 5 here this morning. ’ Reasons given by Mayor A. J. f Riddle for the investigation by the attorney general was that original plans for the appoint ment had included the naming of ’ two men from the new forth ward but it was discovered that the municipal laws limit the 1 membership of town governing r boards to seven. As matters now stand, no ap nointment at all is likelv to be „ made from the new fourth ward. ' Cecil Carter had been unani ” mously recommended by the res a idents of the Country Club Vil ' lage portion of the fourth ward ” division of Plymouth for appoint “ ment by the town council to serve ~ as representative from that dis a trict to the council, the recom ^ mendation being made at a meet j ing of the people in that area in ♦he R. L. LaCoy home there last Thursday night. y An alternate plan for represen e tation to the town council, sug r gested to Mayor Riddle, has been rj the reallocation of the number of representatives to the board, al lowing the election of one council man from each of the four wards and one member from the town at large, giving the body a total ^ membership of five. The mini j mum number allowed is three. -4 5 Little Progress ; Noted on Sewers if ll e e n d -♦ Town officials report that while only about 700 feet of pipe re main to be laid in the Stillacres sewer line and that the building of some 12 manholes remains the current city improvement pro gram is showing little progress. n Five of the manholes are in Stillacres and the remainder in the Red Hill and Wilson Street - extension portions of Plymouth. s -♦ l Tenant House Is . Robbed in County s Thieves entered the home of Frank Webb, negro tenant on the Sherrod Farm near the Sound Bridge, last Tuesday evening, and r stole a box containing a pistol, a S watch, a government bond, and several lodge papers,. Sheriff J. K. Reid has reported. The Sheriff d added that the robbery was not t discovered until the family re r, turned home that night, it The robber gained entrance to !. the home through the back door, - the sheriff stated. He added that i- no arrests have been made as yei, ., although several suspects are be ing checked on. Town and County Boards Will Meet Here on Monday -4 Most Groups Concerned With Budgets; Town Council to Name Mem ber from Fourth Ward All town and county boards will hold their regularly schedul ed monthly meetings next Mon day with the majority of them having new budget business on their respective agendas. The county board of commis sioners, meeting in the court house at 10:30 a. m., will study the tentative budget drawn for the county’s 1947-48 fiscal year expenditures and, if necessary, make revisions before submitting it to State officials in Raleigh for final approval. Other business coming before the county body will probably be of a routine na ture. The board of education, also meeting in the courthouse at the same time, will consider financial problems, the school building program and the question of a successor to Superintendent W. F. Veasey, who has resigned. Plymouth town council mem bers will confer in the Municipal Building at 8 p. m. and, besides the usual business, will probably discuss the current city improve ment program as well as consider the appointment of a hew mem ber to the council from the re cently created fourth ward, which is made up of what was formerly Country Club and Little Rich wooa v mages. -4 Will Conclude Creswell Bible School on Sunday -♦ The Daily Vacation Bible School, which was opened in Creswell on June 23 under the direction of Miss Lona Belle Weatherly and the Rev. W. B. Gaither, will hold its final service next Sunday at Christ Episcopal Church there at 8 p. m. A pa geant will be presented. The public has been invited to at tend. Teachers at the school include Mrs. W. D. Peal, Mrs. Miltou H. Starr, and Miss Betty Swain. Bond Election at Creswell July 8 j Police Report ! Strange Quiet According1 to law enforce ment officers in Washington County, the past week-end has been “so quiet that it’s down right miraculous.” Only five ar rests were made during the Friday-to-Sunday period, all of which were persons who had spent a bit too much time with John Barleycorn. Four of the arrests were made by Plymouth police of ficers and one was made by State Highway Patrolman R. L. Young. Sheriff J. K. Reid re ported absolutely nothing at all. The officers stated that there must have been a bit more ex citement than there appeared to be but it certainly didn’t show on the surface. Funeral Held for Timothy D. Caton ♦ Funeral services were conduct ed from the Ayden Free Will Baptist Church on Saturday at 4 p. m. for Timothy Delmore Caton, 64, father of M. Odell Ca ton, of Plymouth. The elder Mr. Caton died suddenly at his home in Ayden on Friday at 1:30 p. m. of a heart attack. The Rev. J. T. Woodard, assisted by the Rev. J. V. Early, Methodist minister, officiated at the services. Inter ment was made in the Ayden Cemetery with Masonic rites be ing observed at the graveside. Mr. Caton, a native of Beaufort County, was connected with an Ayden wholesale company. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church of which he had been secretary-treasurer for 23 years. Mr. Caton was also a member of the local Masonic lodge. Lions Club and Junior Order. He is survived by hig wife, Mrs. T. D. Caton, the former Miss Laura Tuten of Beaufort Coun ty; and two sons, M. O. Caton of Plymouth and Osborne Caton of Elkin. Question on Proposed $18,000 City Improve ment Plan to Be Settled by Town’s Residents -4 All qualified voters in Creswell will go to the polls next Tues day to vote on the proposed is suance of a total of $18,000 in bonds of the town of Creswell for the construction of a munici pal building and the laying of curbs and gutters in the princi pal public streets. Polling place for the election will be at the store building on Main Street, formerly known as Christy's Shoe Shop. Polls will open at 6:30 a. m. on Tuesday and will clo^e at 6:30 p. m. Bal lots will contain two sections, one on the suggested issuance of $12, 000 for the laying of the curbs and gutters and the other on the $6,000 amount for the erection af the municipal building. Each section of the ticket will be mark ed with two squares, one labels “yes” and the other “no.” Voters ivill mark one square in each sec tion. Torn, defaced, or wrongly marked ballots should be return ed to the poll officials who will issue another ticket. Officials in the election are Mrs. A. C. Harris and W. H. Peal, judges of election, and Mrs. C. H. Willoughby, registrar. If the bond issuance i5 passed, work on the proposed civic im provement projects will begin as soon as possible. The municipal building would house offices and assembly rooms for the conduct of town affairs while the street uvork would supplement the pro jected paving of the principal streets in Creswell. The two bond ordinances were passed by the board of aldermen of Creswell earlier in the sum mer. Roper Baptists to Hold Services There Sunday Services will be conducted at the Roper Baptist Church next Sunday, July 6, at 11 a. m„ it has been announced. All members of the church have been requested to be present at the meeting. An invitation has also been extend ed the public to attend the ser vice. County Superintendent Applicants Are Being Interviewed Here Today Members of the Washington County Board of Education will conduct a special meeting in the county courthouse in Plymouth today for the purpose of inter viewing applicants for the posi tion of superintendent of the county’s school system. The board has had to date some 14 applications for the job, the majority of the men bidding for the position having had con siderable experience in the field of education. It is expected that the meeting will last all day and possibly will reconvene Friday morning since the interviewing is a rather lengthy process. The superintendency was made vacant by the resignation last week of W. F. Veasey, who has accepted a similar position with the Beaufort County schools. Mr. Veasey will report to his new lo cation sometime this month. He was superintendent of the Wash ington County system for a little over two years. Following the completion of in terviews with all 14 applicants, the board members will deliber ate upon the matter and make the final choice for the position. Two More Resign Insirucior Posts In County System Teaching Vacancies In creased to Eight; Cres well School Principal Job Is Still Empty Total resignations of teaching positions in Washington County were' increased to eight this week with’ the resignation of Mrs. T. R. Jenkins and Mrs. W. F. Veasey, both instructors in the Roper Ele mentary School, county school of ficials have revealed. Mrs. Jen kins was fifth grade teacher and Mrs. Veasey first grade. Other vacancies remaining to be filled in the county’s education system include the principalship of the Creswell white schools and the post of county superintend ent. Fourteen applications have been received for the superinten dency while four persons have applied for the Creswell job. The majority of the teaching vacancies have occurred in the Plymouth schools where six resignations have been recorded. Until this week only one or two applications for the instructor ships had been received by the board of education although the situation has now been relieved somewhat with the receipt of several more letters of applica tion. Superintendent W. F. Veasey has stated that no definite solu tion to the problem of securing sufficient white teachers has been m ygt ajthough the va wi wvsm be filled teks. Rent Controls To Remain in Effect - Clerk Asks Landlords, Renters to Appea*- at Office Before Changing Present Rent Set-Ups -♦ With the signing of the new rent control bill by President Harry Truman on Monday of this week, federal controls in rental housing areas were given eight more months of life, extending the law until March 1, 1948. The old rent control bill was sche duled to die at midnight on Mon day. The prime provision of the new bill is a section which would per mit an increase of 15 per cent in rentals with a lease running through December 31 of next year, if both landlord and tenant “mutually agree." Local landlords have stated that they are not planning to approach their ten ants with such a proposition since they consider the extended-lease part a bit too binding. They have indicated a preference to wait until the bill dies next March before making any rise in rent rates. Mrs. Sabrie Reid, chief clerk at the local rent office has request ed that if landlords and tenants contemplate rental increases they should appear at the rent office in the county courthouse before the raise becomes effective so that necessary registrations may be made. Other provisions of the new bill are as follows: Landlords may secure evictions by going straight to the courts and seeking an eviction notice. Evictions are permitted if the tenant is not of good moral character, if the landlord wants the property for his own use, wants to remodel or demolish it, or wants to sell it to someone who will then move in. Local boards are to be named by the Federal Housing Expediter who may, through recommenda tion to the area director, wipe out all controls in areas they think best. Tenants may sue landlords for triple damages for over-charg es but the area director may not. Government controls over non residential buildings are ended except in the case of amusement J or recreation projects. -♦- 1 Merchants Name i New Set Officers' A complete new slate of of- j ficers was elected by the Plym outh Merchants Association at its ‘ July meeting held in the Munici pal Building here on Tuesday of 1 this week, with Bill Woolard be- f ing named to succeed Carlyle ' Hall as president. Benton Liverman was elected ' vice-president and Elmer Brown ing, secretary-treasurer. The of- ' ficers will take over at the Au- ‘ gust meeting of the organization. ‘ Other business transacted by the group on Tuesday included a s brief discussion of the Indepen- \ dence Day holidays. t Terms for the newly elected of- 1 ficials are for one year each. f Improved School Lunch Room Will Be Among Best in Section According to statements from I State education officials, the new lunchroom in the Plymouth High School upon its completion this fall will be one of the best in Eastern Carolina, Superintendent W. F. Veasey has announced. The lunchroom, Mr. Veasey said, will be located on the ground floor of the building and will run the entire length of the structure. It’s size, he said, will be about 100 feet long by ap proximately 26 feet wide and will be large enough to accomodate, if necessary, 275 persons at one time. Two serving counters will be installed and will bo equipped with slide-rails for trays. Steam heated food receptacles will be , provided in both counters to maintain the food at a proper temperature, while the kitchen will contain all the latest equip- : ment available, including refri- i geration and cooking facilities. A special sink for the washing and drying of vegetables has also been provided. The dining room will be pro vided with 240 chairs and 40 formica-topped tables. One hun dred and fifty plastic res taurant-type trays have been se cured as well as an adequate number of heavy-duty dishes. -♦ The room itself will contain wo entrances, one at each end, ind will be floored with asphalt iles. The walls and ceiling will 3e plastered. A pastel color ;cheme will be used and local ;chool authorities are planning to iecorate the walls with attrac ive paintings. Progress on the lunchroom, al hough at the initial stage, is go ng forward rapidly. The old sartitions formerly in what was :alled the “basement" have been ;orn out and three heavy steel ;upporting beams have been in italled. Contractors plan to have he lunchroom completed and ready for service by this fall. List Polls for | July 12 Voting ] Officials in the county Triple A office have stated that the following places will be used as polls in the tobacco referen dum to be held on Saturday, July 12: Harry Pritchett's store in Creswell for the Creswell, Cherry-Mount Pleasant section: W. N. Piercy’s store in Roper for the Roper-Pleasant Grove section; and the Agricultural Building in Plymouth for the Plymouth-Long Acre section. Poll-holders will be named later and will probably be se lected from the community AAA committeemen. Voting hours are yet to be decided. Minor Accident Occurs Sunday James Claude Ambrose, young white man of Williamston, route one, suffered scalp lacerations and minor bruises when the 1936 Ford tudor sedan which he was driving collided with a 1942 Chevrolet coupe driven by John E. Chappell, white, of Tyner, about one mile south of Scupper nnn0 nn tVl« Qnimnarnnnrr f’ Is/ii'f,, road around 4 p. m. on Sunday. According to reports from State Highway Patrolman R. L. Young, damage to the Ambrose car amounted to about $100 while around $50 damage was done to the Chappell auto. Both, he said, were traveling at a moderate rate af speed and sideswiped each >ther because of the narrowness af the road. No charges have seen preferred, Young said. Place Order for Gym Repair Needs -4 Orders for all materials needed or the repair of the Plymouth figh School gymnasium have >een placed and are expected to irrive sometime within the next wo weeks, according to Harold Vhitley, chairman in charge of he gymnasium repair project. Approximately 800 cinder docks for the shower rooms have icen ordered, Whitley said, and round 7,000 feet of lumber for nterior repairs. A cement mixer, iow being used on the school rounds, will be available next yeek for the repair work, he tated. Plumbing and heating quipment now being removed rom the high school will be sal aged and used for the gym, the hairman pointed out, thereby aving extra expenditures. Mr. Whitley added that con traction will probably get under lay next week when the ground lan for the dressing-rooms will e laid out and the concrete loors poured. Two-Day Session Set for Superior Court Next Week Term May Be Longer; Clawson L. Williams of Sanford Is Presiding Judge; 27 Cases -♦ The July session of Washington County superior court will begin its two-dav mixed civil and crim inal term next Monday with nine cases involving criminal actions set for trial on Monday, and 18 civil actions mostly divorces, slated to be heard on Tuesday. Although only a two-day schedule has been set up. local attorneys take the view that the criminal cases will probably consume more time than the single day allotted them and that the court will con tinue through the entire week. Clawson L. Williams of Sanford will be the presiding judge. Most prominent among the criminal cases is Robert Cox, 15 year-old negro of Roper, who is charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of his 16-year-old play mate, on the school grounds of J. J. Clemmons School in Roper in April. Other cases included George Skinner, 17, Creswell negro who is charged with criminal assault on a 11-year-old colored girl in Creswell several weeks ago: Pro soney Kea. colored, of Plymouth, violation of prohibition laws; John Wrighton. colored of Cres well, larceny: Willie Howell, col ored, of Creswell. larceny: Thomas Norman, colored, of Cres well, larceny; Montie H. Daven port, white, of Plymouth, break ing and entering, and larceny; Adell Boston, colored, of Plym outh. assault with a deadly weap on (knife); and Ivory Keyes, col ored, of Plymouth, embezzlement. Several of the cases are con tinuations from past terms and several are appeals from lower courts. Civil actions, set for Tuesday, are as follows: John M. Cotton vs. Queenie V. Cotton; Mary Jones, vs. Willie Jones: Claude Perry vs. Mary Perry: James W. Roberson vs. Ernestine Roberson; Gracie Riddick vs. Samuel Rid dick: Jethro McKinley Moore vs. Mary L. Moore: Doris Dudley Pederson vs. Lester H. Pederson; Bertha Mae Simmons vs. Ernest Simmons; George Frederick vs. Louise Frederick; Webster Hud son vs. Millie Hudson: John N. Gantt vs. Carrie B. Gantt: Mar gery F. Pickett vs. Dale LaVerne Pickett: Bertha Becker vs. Wil liam Becker; L. W. Skiles vs. Edna Skiles: Melvin West vs. Ruth West; Jesse Bowen vs. Mary Bowen; Thomas M. Riddick vs. Regina Scanlon Riddick: and Isolind L. Mizelle vs. Ray Kim brough. — ■ ♦ Mackey s Methodists to Have Revival Next Week -■» Beginning Monday, July 7. a revival will be conducted at the Mackeys Methodist Church and will continue, with services each evening at 8 o’clock, through the following Friday. July 11, accord ing to an announcement from the church pastor, the Rev. C. H. Lewis. The Rev. W. L. Freeman, former U. S. Navy chaplain, will deliver the sermons. The public is invited to attend all services. -♦ Plymouth Pastor Will . Preach at Chapel Hill -♦ The Rev. Paul B. Nickens of Plymouth, pastor of the local Baptist church, will preach next Sunday at 3 p. m. in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Sitterson in the Chapel Hill community, it has been announced. All resi dents of the section have been nvited to attend the service. The minister will speak on the subject 'The Good Samaritan.”