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T'ownf opics| Delbert D. Allen, Washington County sanitarian, will resume active duty with the district health department here on Mon day. Mr. Allen was enrolled in the summer session of the Uni versity of North Carolina's School of Public Health in Chapel Hill for the past several months. Donald B. Jones left Plymouth last week-end for several week's vacation in Missouri, his native State. Mr. Jones, incidentally, was recently commended by of ficials in this district of the Soil Conservation Service for having made the most progress in as sisting soil conservation practices in his county during the past year. Miller Warren. Plymouth fire chief, returned home Friday after attending the convention of the International Association of Fire Chiefs held last week in New York. Principal speakers at the convention were Fire Chiefs Cipriano Cruz of Manila, P. I. and M. G. Pradhan of Bombay, India, who addressed the as sembly on hotel fire disasters. According to J. E. Hull of Raleigh, district supervisor for the Farmers Home Administra tion, the corn crop being rais ed this year by Wendell Spruill, who lives near Roper, is the best-looking and healthiest he has seen in the county. Mr. . Spruill's corn crop was produc y ed with the NC27 hybrid seed recommended by agricultural experts. Hull visited this sec tion last Thursday and Friday. Jack Frank, local merchant, has had a very difficult week. Last Friday night while sitting on his front porch, he was attacked and bitten on the arm by an unknown and bloodthirsty insect, the re sults of which were so appalling that Mr. Frank was forced to seek medical attention and has since been swathed in numerous band ages. The difficulty, he says comes not from the bites, bul from getting local residents to be lieve that it was a bug that bi1 him. The great rough spot left by repairmen On the site of the mended sewer in the down-towr section of Washington Street ha: at last been paved, workmen put ting the finishing touches on the job Monday noon. The hole ii the pavement on Jefferson Street near Manning garage, has alsi been fixed up and will cause les wear and tear on auto tires, fo a while anyway. Repairs have now been com pleted on the Creswell Whiti High School building, count; school officials have stated. Paint ing of the exterior walls has beei completed while re-roofing on thi auditorium and repairs to thi rest of the building’s roof haw been finished. Leaf Prices Lower at Opening This Week -» Price Loss of $10 Per Hundred Pounds Noted in Nearby Marts; Few Local Farmers Selling ^ Average prices by grades for tobacco sold on the Bright Leaf Belt markets in North Carolina at the opening on Monday of this week were considerably lower than those of the first sales last season, federal and State depart ments of Agriculture reporting losses ranging from $1 to $15 per hundred for the entire belt, while an average loss of about $10 per hundred was recorded in the markets located in neighboring towns. Most Washington County farm ers, however, are still at work curing their leaf crops only about a dozen or so producers from this section marketing their tobacco during opening week. Tobacco growers from this section would ordinarily be pleased with the official $45.90 average paid last Monday, but point to an overall increase in cost of producing this gear’s tobacco crop which lowers (considerably the amount of profit realized from sales. A great many of the farmers from this section who have mar keted to date have joined the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation and have sold their leaf to the govern ment at somewhat higher proces than those being paid by other buyers. Those growers from this county who began selling during opening week for the most part are patronizing the Williamston market although one or two have been reported as journeying to Washington. The peak of selling for farmers from Washington County, according to estimates from agricultural administration officers, will take place around the latter part of September. Roper Boy Breaks Ankle In Accident Last Week Marvin Edwards Hassell, six year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hassell of Roper, sustain ed a broken ankle in an accident which occurred St his home last Wednesday. Reports from the attending physician, Dr. T. L. Bray, of Plymouth, indicate that the young man is recovering nicely and will be only slightly delayed in entering his first year at the Roper School this fall. ■-4 Bus Drivers and Routes Chosen --- According to reports from J. S. Fleming and R. B. Forbes, principals of the Plymouth and Roper Schools, school-bus driv ers have been selected and as signed their regular routes for the 1947-48 term. No informa tion was immediately available on the drivers for the Creswell School, although reports indicate that they have been chosen. Drivers and routes for Plym outh and Roper are as follows: Plymouth: Wendell Ange, Long Ridge route: Marvin Ange, Wash ington Highway No. II: Paul Fry mier, mill village-Westover; and Rudolph Bateman, Wenona. Roper. Sidney Spruill, West over route; Lloyd Jones, Mill Pond; Eddie Bunch, Mackeys: Douglas Chesson, Cross Roads; James Edwards. Backwoods; and Van Everett. Holly Neck. The school buses are in good condition, it has been reported, and the majority of them are completely new, having been de livered to the county last winter and spring. Three more are slated for delivery after school starts next week. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News SIGN UP FOR SECURITY TODAY WHERE YOU WORK THROUGH THE PAYROLL SAVINGS PLAN VOLUME LVIII—NUMBER 35 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday. August 28, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1889 ■•radically All Itusiik «*s iln c To { IC<‘ rios«‘<l (or Labor llay Holiday] With the exception of the drug stores and theatres in Plymouth, all businesses in Plymouth will be closed on Monday which is Labor Day. Included in the holi day given employees in the town at that time are the personnel of all State and county offices, the post office, which will make no mail delivery on Monday, the local bank, the ABC store and the three major industrial plants, the North Carolina Pulp Com pany. Atlas Plywood Corporation, and American Fork and Hoe Company. The drug stores will observe regular hours, except one which will run a Sunday schedule of 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. The two theatres will operate on the usual week-day schedule. The local and county governing boards, slated to conduct their September meetings on that date, have post poned their sessions until the fol lowing Monday. September 8. Lowry Says School Here Will Be Open Tuesday If Possible I Market Cards j I Partly Issued j Approximately one-half of the alloted tobacco marketing cards in Washington County have been issued to the more than 240 eligible tobacco grow ers in the county, Miss Florence Parisher, official in the county AAA office, has stated. Most of the flue-cured pro ducers in this section, she pointed out, are still putting to bacco in which accounts for the relatively small amount of marketing cards called for. The peak of selling for the local farmers, Miss Parrish estimat ed, will probably take place during the latter part of Sep tember. County AddsTwo New Instructors ( * * 4 The tWo new teachers recently | added’'to county school faculties ! are Miss Ruth Harrell of Mur . freesboro and Ferald Alston Raw les of Jamesville. Miss Harrell is an alumus of . East Carolina Teachers College . in Greenville and will be the vo r cational home economics teacher . in Creswell High School. Mr. i Rawles is a graduate of Elon Col , lege and William and Mary Col , lege in Williamsburg, Va. He will ; teach science in the Plymouth High School. Lack of Water, Plumb ing Facilities Threatens Postponement of Local Unit’s Opening In spite of what appears to be extremely difficult every effort will be made by workmen on the Plymouth High School to have a sufficient water supply available so that the school can open its 1947-48 year next Tuesday in spite of a threatened postpone ment, Roy F. Lowry, superinten dent of the Washington County Schools, has declared. Mr. Lowry said that he had been assured by men in charge of the remodelling work that the plumbing in the old section of the building will be ready for use by next Tuesday, although water will not be available in the new section for something like several days to' perhaps a week or more. Mr. Lowry said that the threat of postponment ol the opening date was due to ex treme difficulty in locating the proper facilities and enough oi them to insure sufficient water He pointed out, however, that the lunchroom will not go into operation on the first day and may not for the next several days. In the lunchroom, he said, its the lack of sinks. Meanwhile, local officials are going ahead with plans for the Tuesday opening. Principal J. S Fleming has announced that there will be no formal exercises in the auditorium since it has no seats yet, but that the individual class es will assemble in their respec tive homerooms. School will let out early on the first day, the students being al lowed to go home around noon Mr. Fleming said, but after thai the regular 8:45 a. m. to 3:15 p. m schedule will be observed. The lunch period will take up 41 minutes the principal stated, anc recess periods will be observed at the Hampton School, as usual The amount of time for the re cesses, he said, will be determin ed at the general teachers’ meet ing which will be held in the High School next Monday morn ing. Other features yet to be com pleted at the local school, as listed by the county superinten dent, are tile floors and walls ir the new section, acoustic tiling ir the auditorium and lunchroom some kitchen equipment, and e good part of the light fixtures The painting of the walls is now being finished, he said. -4 I Roper Residents Attend Lost Colony Production -4 Roper—Mrs. Joe Nowarah, sr. Mitchell Nowarah, George Lewis Mrs. Jim Roberson, and Jimmy Roberson spent Sunday at Man teo and attended a performance of the "Lost Colony” symphonic drama which concludes the 1941 season next Monday. They alsc visited the Wright Memorial. Half-Holidays End This Week All stores in Plymouth will be open for business next Wed nesday afternoon after observ ing a summer-long mid-week holiday each Wednesday after noon since May. Earlier this year, the local Merchants’ Association voted to observe the Wednesday half holidays during the summer months, concluding the closings with the arrival of September. The regular 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. schedule used by the majority of the local business houses will be resumed from now through the fall and winter months. Labor Day for the majority of the employees and businessmen in this section marks the end of the summer vacation season and is one of the three holidays ob served by the principal industries of this section, the other two be ing Christmas and the Fourth of July. Most of the local residents are planning one last good time at the beaches or some other resort before settling down to the wintertime work schedule. Lions, in Sarcastic Vein, Recommend Closing Up Town -4 Would Have Roads into Town Blocked. All City Employees Fired to Prevent Damage Suits | Members of the Plymouth Lions Club passed without a dissenting vote a motion by Lion Bob Bowen at the club meeting last Thursday that all highways leading into Plymouth be barricaded and blocked off so that no one could enter the town and suffer possible injury within the city limits for which the town would be liable to a suit for damages incurred. The motiin made further pro vision that all city employees, in , eluding members of the police ! force and sanitation department, be fired because of the chance that they might be injured while in pursuit of their duties and sue the town for damages. The mo tion pointed out that if the rec ommended action were taken by the town council at its next meeting, the town couldn't pos sible be liable for suit for dam ages from anyone at any time. The motion, according to re ports from other members of the organization, was a slightly sar castic rap at the town’s recent action in abandoning the proposed Plymouth Recreation Commission because the State Attorney Gen eral, Harry McMullan. had stat ed that the town would be liable to damage suits from persons in jured at recreation projects held under civic auspices. The Lions Club was sponsor of the com mission idea and had been in strumental in getting its appoint ment by the town council. Lion E. L. Smithwick, local in surance man, announced to the club members at the Thursday meeting that within the next few days, he would have special rates whereby the town might insure itself against possible liability suits and that the premium for such insurance would be com paratively inexpensive, being somewhere between $60 and $100 per year. The secretary of the Lions Club, W. A. Roebuck, was instructed to write the resolution out in ap propriate form so that it might be read at the next meeting of the Plymouth town council which takes place Monday night Septem ber 8. The Thursday night session was presided over by Lion Harold Whitley in the absence of Presi dent C. W. Dinkins. Mr. Whitley is a member of the town council. --- More County Vet Names Turned In -4 Around 25 names have been turned in to the Plymouth city clerk for inscription on the Wash ington County honor roll of ser vicemen from this section in World War II, Ronald Gaylord, commander of the Plymouth post of the American Legion, has an nounced. He added that all names of county veterans who do not now appear on the roll must be turn ed in by September 30 since on that date the new names will be inscribed on the wooden roll which will then be photographed for a permanent record which will be hung in the Legion Hall here. The wooden roll. Commander Gaylord stated, will be dismantl ed during the local observance of Armistice Day on November 11. -4 Barbara Davis Sustains Wrist Fracture in Fall Barbara Jane Davis, teen age daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Davis of Plymouth, suf fered a broken right wrist when she fell from a rocking chair at her home last Thursday. She was given treatment by Dr. T. L. Bray and is reported improving. Bureau President Asks Farmers to Take Co-op Loans Tarkenton Says Some Selling Leaf Below 40 Cent Per Pound Gov-| ernment Support Price An urgent appeal to tobacco farmers of Washington County to take full advantage of govern ment loans through the Flue-cur ed Tobacco Cooperative Stabili zation Corporation was made to day by J. C. Tarkenton. of Roper, president of the Washington Countv Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Tarkenton said that many farmers are now selling their to bacco below the 40-cent per pound average guaranteed sup port prices which is made on a pro) ' d grade basis. This is in keeping with the government's commitment to support tobacco prices at 90 per cent of parity as of June 15 each year preceding market openings. The tobacco farmer—the actual owner of the tobacco—is the only person who can authorize tobacco to be turned over to the Stabili zation Corporation for loan pur poses. Mr. Tarkenton quoted from a statement by Carl T. Hicks, presi dent of the Stabilization Corpora tion, in appealing to Tar Heel farmers to get a fair and stable price for this year’s crop. "Many farmers do not remain with their tobacco until sale is completed. Warehousemen will co-operate by setting the time of sale to enable the farmer to be present. He can arrange for his tobacco to be placed under loan if the price falls below the support level.” To eliminate confusion on the warehouse floor, farmers may join the Stabilization Corporation prior to taking tobacco to market. Memberships may be obtained at the local tobacco warehouses or the Stabilization Corporation of fice in Raleigh. Reports from agricultural ad ministration officials and private individuals indicate that county farmers, especially those selling on the Williamston market are taking full advantage of the Stabilization Corporation, a great many county leaf producers being reported as having joined the corporation since the market opened on Monday. -♦ Note Progress on Local Structures Progress continues rapid on the three main construction and re construction projects in Plymouth with the new “soda shop" located on Water Street on the site of the former “hole-in-the-wall hot-dog stand being nearly complete and ready for its formal opening. Workers on the new furniture store building at the west end of Water Street have finished pour ing the concrete basement walls of the structure and haVe laid the base for the first floor of the building. Work on the above ground walls will begin shortly. The almost complete recon struction of the Ludford Memori al Baptist Church on Third and Washington Streets is shaping up visibly with framework on the interior partitions having been installed and crewmen finishing up on the installation of support ing steel beams this week. A large portion of the exterior of what will be the rear of the sanc tuary remains to be closed in, but will be within the next few weeks. The new soda shop is current ly being painted and fountain and kitchen equipment and booth es will be installed within the next few days. The formal open ing of the new establishment, which the management hoped to effect this week-end was delay ed somewhat, but will be held in the very near future. -» Zions Chapel to Begin Revival Service Series ■-♦ Revival services will begin at Zions Chape] Church of Christ, near Roper, next Monday at 8 p. m. with the Rev. M. L. Am brose as principal speaker, of ficials of the church have an nounced. The meetings will be held each night at eight o’clock and will continue for about 10 days. The public has been in vited to attend all services. -4 Roper Couple Announce Birth of Son Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Oliver of near Roper have anounced the birth of a son. Ernest Rudolph, born Thursday, August 14, at 'their home. This is the couple’s second child and first son. County School System Is Still Two Teachers Short Plans for School Opening at Roper AreNowFinished -4 Principal R. B. Forbes Ur-j ges Registration of All Students at Opening I Day Next Tuesday Roper High School will begin i its 1947-48 session at 8:30 a. m. i next Tuesday with the time j usually spent in formal exercises being given to students registra tions. collection of school fees, and distribution of textbooks. R B. Forbes, principal of the school j has announced. He added that although no formal exercises are Scheduled to mark the opening of the new school year, the pub lic is invited to attend the assem bly program which will be held in the school auditorium on Fri day morning. On Wednesday, the principal stated, regular classwork will be gin. He further stated that in order to complete the school organization, all students are be ing requested to enroll for class es on opening day Tuesday. Mr. Forbes also said that the school lunchroom will commence its full-time operation on Wednes day and that special rates will be given students purchasing week ly meal tickets. Individual lunch es will be served at a cost of 20 cents to the students. The school fees payable on the first day. according to the list released by the Roper principal, are as follows: Supplementary readers for grades one and two, $1: for grades three, four, and five, $1.20; for grades six, seven, and eighth, $1.40; Instructional supply fee; 75 cent* per child; h mb-school rental book-fees, $3 per student; IIIMPII JMBfclfa111111 and laboratory fee, i0 cents each. Fees for home economics and agriculture will be determined by the respective instructors. --t Veterans Appoint Officers Thursday Three new officers were ap pointed at the meeting last Thurs day night of the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. They were W. Blount Rodman, who was named active chairman of the organization’s steering commit tee; Jake Gussler, Americanism officer; and George Z. Ingle, athletic officer. The business session centered around discussion of uniforms for the group and several different aspects of war dead burials. Final decision on the type uniform to be adopted by the local post was not settled and will be decided at the organization’s next meet ing, scheduled to be held i" the courthouse on Thursday of next week. Commander Bill Davenport presided at last week's session. Eastern Union to Meet At Concord P. B. Church * - — The Eastern Union will convene at the Concord Primitive Baptist Church, located between Cres well and Cherry, on Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31 with Elder S. Gray, pastor of the church, in charge of the meeting, union officials have announced. Elder W. E. Grimes, of Green ville will be the main speaker. The public has been invited to attend the services. j Local Clubs lo I Resume Meets The Plymouth Lions Club and the Plymouth Woman’s Cluh, both groups observing a light summer schedule of meet ings, will revert to their old schedule next week, leaders in ' both organizations li.tve an nounced. Thursday will mark the first of the regular week ly meetings held by the Lions Club. The Woman’s Club September meeting will be held Tuesday at 8 p. m. with the regular monthly meetings being held held the first Tuesday in each month thereafter. Both groups are expected to have a lairly heavy business session, particul arly the ladies who will choose a new project for the coming year next Tuesday. Beard Sessions Are Postponed The Plymouth town council, the board of county commis sioners and the county board ol education will conduct their September meetings on the second Monday, September 8, instead of first Monday which is Labor Day, the heads of the three boards have announced. The custom is for the three groups to postpone their meet- i ing for one week if First Mon day happens to fall on a na tional holiday such as. in this case. Labor Day, unless mat ters of pressing importance must be decided. This month, the three boards have com paratively light agendas and will meet one week from next Monday, the meeting date or riginally set. Funeral Held lor Marvin G. Haire -♦ Funeral services were conduct ed at the graveside Wednesday afternoon, of last week, for Mar vin Gordon Haire, 20. of Cres well, who died Monday night in a Raleigh hospital. The Rev. David Furlough officiated at the last rites. Interment was made in the family cemetery near Cres well. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Haire of the home; and three sisters. Miss Loretta Haire of Creswell; Mrs. Gertrude Williamson of Norfolk, Va.. and Mrs. Thelma Bradshaw of Paint Rock, Va. -=-♦-'-.J Work Progresses, In County Garage Foundations of the new county school-bus garage on Adam: Street have been put in and work is now being started on the brick outer walls, Roy F. Lowry, coun ty superintendent, has stated. Mr. Lowry added that the out er walls should be finished by the end of this week at which time crewmen will commence work on other portions of the new build ing. Delivery, he said, has not yet been made on the steel sup porting beams for the roof of the structure. Vacancies at Present in Creswell Unit: Difficul ty Posed by Acute Teacher Shortage With two exce tv positions in County School S' filled. Roy F. tendent of the to stated. The tv added, arc in th mentary S; : th-fifth grade grade lack Inst:; Considerable encountered in - quate number of white schools in year, Mr. Lovi ■ colored teachers hand, were pi;: :r county schools h tions for posts C all facul Washington i have been . superin schools, has rnneies, he swell Ele the four ;xth-seventh Eiculties were iring the ade •achers in the , county this d. adding that on the other ’ and that the more applica i the negro ’acuities than posts existed. He dated further th -t every effort s being exerted to s cure the two teachers fo: the Creswell white school before th opening date ■ji the school there next Tuesday. Instructors in Washington Coun ty's three white schools for the 1947-48 term will be as follows: Plymouth High School: J. S. Fleming. Plymouth. principal; George Z Tnele. Plymouth, ath letic coach: Mrs. Irma Hoiwh, Jamesville. commerce: Miss Carolyn Brinkley. Plymouth, home economics: Ferald Alston Rawles, Jamesville. sciencej Mrs. Ethel T. Gurkin. Plymouth. Plymouth Elementary School: Miss Ethel Perry. Kinston, and Mrs. Etta B. Hardison. Plymouth, first grades: Mrs. Kathryne Owens, Plymouth, and Mrs. Geor ge Harrison. Plymouth, second grades; Mrs. Mildied Norman, Plymouth, and Mrs. Selma B. Crofton. Plymouth, third grades; Miss Isabel Davenport. Plymouth, and Mrs. Janie C. Dunning, tth, four til grades; .Doris 1 fifth l bar. Plymouth*! and Mrs.. j Read, Plymouth, sixth grades; Mrs. Helen W. Peele. Plymouth, and Mrs. Ormah W. Jenkins, Plymouth, seventh grades: Mrs. Vernelle Belle Beasley, Plym outh, and C. A. Hough, James ville, eighth grades; Miss Mere dith Johnston. Plymouth, music. ; Roper High School: Mrs. War i nie Gurkin. home economics; i Mitchincr Banks, Roper, voca j tional agriculture: T. R. Spruill, Roper, mathematics and history; Mis. Gladys Ingle. Plymouth, English-French: R. B. Forbes, Roper, science and principal. ^See^^EACHERsT^Page Seven) Baseball Meeting Is Set for Friday Night Farmers Home Supervisor Visits Plymouth Office J. E. Hull of Raleigh, newly ap pointed district supervisor for the Farmers Home Administra tion, visited the Plymouth head quarters of the FHA in Washing ton County last Thursday and Friday on an inspection tour. He stated that the county crops are looking the most prosperous since his last visit to the section in 1944 and that he expects re-pay ment on Administration loans in this section to be even better than last year. There are 72 such loans in Washington County. -♦ Bateman Elected Legion's Delegate P. B. Bnleman was appointed member of the Washington Coun ty Hospital Committee, represent ing the James Jethro Post of the American Legion, at a meet ing of that organization held in the Legion Hall here* last Fri day night. The local Legion post also went on record as strongly endorsing the Hospital Committee’s effjrts to secure a medical center for the county through the federal state hospitilizat ion program, the resolution stating that the coun ty cannot afford not to take ad vantage of the opportunity being offered to make more adequate good-health facilities available for the residents of Washington County. Other business considered at the Friday session was of a rou tine nature. Commander Ronald Gaylord presided Permanent Officers, Di rectors to Be Elected; Group to Be Named for Selling Stock -« All persons interested in secur ing a baseball team for Plymouth, with possible participation in league games in 1948. have been requested to attend a meeting being sponsored by the Washing ton County Athletic Association, Inc. in the county courthouse in Plymouth this Friday at 8 p. m. for the purpose of forming a base ball club, electing a permanent slate of officers, and a board of directors for the organization, of ficials in the Association have an nounced. The Association, which was re cently granted its charter of in corporation, is currently being operated by a temporary set of officers and must elect perman ent officials before stock in the baseball set-up can be sold. The 200 stock certificates re cently ordered from Richmond engravers have arrived and. fol lowing the election of officers next Friday, a committee will be appointed to begin the sale of stock. Cost per share will be $25. So far as could be learned this week, legal arrangements are still being made whereby a tract of land, donated by E. F. Still, former mayor of Plymouth, to the county board of education, will be turned over to the school officials for use as an athletic field, provided the County Ath letic Association is allowed to use it for baseball games during the summer season. As soon as the deed is turned over to the educa tion board, work will begin on the processing of the land for a playing field, according to pres ent plans.