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T'ownf opics | The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington Hi County and its 13,000 people. jj: «. Representative Oscar Barker, V of Durham, prominent figure in securing legislation for increased salaries to State-paid teachers and a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for governor in the May primary, will be the fea tured speaker at tonight's meet ing of the Plymouth Lions Club. Subject of Mr. Barker’s address has not been announced. Zeb Vance Norman, promi nent Plymouth attorney, made the presentation address in Washington on Tuesday when a portrait of the late Colonel Willian Blount Rodman, former Washington Attorney, was giv en to Beaufort County Superior Court by Colonel Rodman’s children. Judge J. Walter Bone, presiding jurist of the court, ac cepted the portrait in its behalf. W. Roy Hampton, member of the State Board of Conservation and Development will leave Sun day for Raleigh where he will attend the quarterly meeting of the board which will be conduct ed there Monday through Wed nesday. Following the board's ^session. Mr. Hampton will attend a conference concerning More head Institute which will be held in Chapel Hill during the re mainder of the week. County Sanitarian Delbert D Allen and Dr. Claudius McGowan, acting district health officer, at tended a meeting in Elizabeth City Friday relating to the set up of a milk testing laboratory in the northeastern section of the State. Dr. W. P. Richardson oi the State Health Department and Robert Caviness, State milk sani tarian, were the principal speak ers. Mrs. Zeno G. Lyon left Friday for McCain where she has enter ed the State sanitorium for treat ment. Mrs. Lyon was accompani ed to McCain by her husband and son, Harllee Lyon, who returned ,.to Plymouth Sunday night. J. S. Fleming, principal of the Plymouth High School and pres dent of the county unit of the North Carolina Education Asso ciation, will attend a meeting o all NCEA unit presidents in Ra leigh Saturday. The meeting Mr. Flemito* Mid, is scheduled tc be an ^’-dey-e*®**. I Full-Paid Slock in B & L Again Sold The Plymouth Building anc Loan Association has announced resumption of sales of full-paid stock in the corporation, I. Miller Warren, secretary-treasurer oi the organization, has reported. This stock, Mr. Warren said, is issued in $100 denominations and is paying per cent interest al the present time. He pointed out that the association is a member of the Federal Savings and Loar Association which insures any and all deposits up to $5,000. The association, Warren added solicits inquiries from prospective Investors. The secretary-treasur er is located at the Western Autc store on Water Street during re gular business hours. -♦ Again Contract For Cucumbers -♦ The C. C. Lang pickle plan! at Plymouth will be operated ir 1948 and cucumbers will be grown under contract with farm ers in this section once more, C W. Dinkins, manager of the Plym outh plant, has announced. Fur ther details of the terms and pro visions of the contracts are being drawn up and will be announced next week, he said. Up until 1947 when the planl stopped operation for a year, cu cumbers were grown extensively by farmers in this section and provided a good income source for farm owners in the county. The resumption of contract pur chases of the vegetables is ex pected to help fill the gap left in farm incomes by the reduction of tobacco acreages in the State. VOLUME LIX—NUMBER 4 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 22, 1948 STILLS NABBED IN ABC RAIDS County ABC Officer L. L. Basnight, right, and assistant L. C. Snell pose with 13 illicit whiskey stills captured by the two men in raids on moonshine plants in Washington County during the last three months of 1947. Identity of the dog has not yet been made. Tax Listing Slow In County So Far Police Report County Serene Washington County and the town of Plymouth are having another “angelic” spree of good behavior, according to law en forcement officials, who report that no disturbances and no ar rests were necessary last week end, the usual time for illegal high-jinks. Sheriff J. K. Reid said that all was quiet in his department and while one automobile acci dent was reported to have oc curred near the prison camp, Highway Patrolman R. W. Young said that he had had no tafoMnvdb unarming it Po Safety Patrol To Be Organized at. School Here Soon - ♦ Beta Club Is Sponsor of Project To Be Formed With Cooperation of Law Officials A Safety Patrol for the Plym outh elementary and high schools will be formed in the near fu ture under the sponsorship of the school’s Beta Club, honorary scholastic society at the high school, officials in the school have announced. Volunteers for the duty will be called from among the boy stu dents in the sixth and seventh grades. Those chosen for duty will be assigned positions at all principal street intersections ap proaching the Hampton School and high school buildings, where they will be located prior to the commencement of classes in the morning, at the noon recess, and for a time after the dismissal of classes in the afternoons. Other ! patrol members will ride in the school buses and will supervise the e»r ranee and exit of students riding the vehicles. Patrol mem bers will be equipped with belts and badges which have already been ordered. The sponsorship of a Safety Pa trol on the part of the Beta Club j i is a part of a long-range safety j program being considered by the i group which will eventually in clude fires, traffic, and home safe ty measures. Acting as advisors in the forma tion of the patrol are State High way Patrolman R. W. Young, Plymouth Police Chief P. W. Brown and A. Finley Ferguson. "Bad Weather Slows Repairing of Sewer Hampered by adverse weather conditions and further weak nesses discovered in the pipes, progress on repair of the broken sewer line on Washington Street, between Water and Main, is go ing forward slowly. Repairs to the original break in the line have now been com pleted, but additional breaks fur their up the street necessitated enlargement and lengthening the excavation during the earlier part of the week. The added work also made it necessary to tem 'I porarily discontinue service to buildings along the Main Street end of the repair area. While exact cause of the break age is not known, it is understood that acid substances caused the tile to deteriorate, the resulting leakage undermining the pipes’ foundations and allowing sand to clog some sections. Police Chief P. W. Brown is supervising the repair work He says no date can be determined at present as to when the repairs will be completed or how much the cost will be. Merchants and Residents Of Towns Lax in Mak ing Returns; Farmers More Prompt According to reports from Hu bert L. Davenport, county tax supervisor, residents of this sec tion with one or two exceptions are somewhat slack in filing their taxes during the current listing period which will end on Janu ary 31. only eight days away. Merchants and urban residents are particularly lax in appear ing at the locations being main tained by the list takers, he said, while farmers have been fairly prompt in submitting their re ports. Listing of poll taxes by persons who became 21 years old in the past year are alMvreported to be below the mwfc "'which |*w«kHxr «conled. " Mrs. Hermine Ramsey, list tak er for Plymouth Township, is re ported to have recorded listings from only about 40 per cent of the residents in her territory who are subject to county taxes. W. W. White, list taker for Skinners ville Township, has reported a 50 per cent listing, the highest per centage recorded in the county so far, while P. B. Belanga, Scup pernong Township lister, has stated that around the same amount of taxpayers in his sec tion have appeared to make their listings. Roper List Taker R. W. Lewis reports only 30 per cent of the taxpayers in his territory as appearing, although he stated that on his visit to the Wenona section on January 13, he was swamped by the number of per sons appearing to list on that date and was forced to postpone some of the listings until his re turn visit on January 29, next Thursday. All persons, Mr. Davenport said, especially those w'ho have new houses, new cars, and who are now subject to poll taxes, are urged to list their taxes before the January 31 deadline, after which the one per cent interest on late listings will begin to ac cumulate. *■ Club Here Seeks Place To Meet Members of the Plymouth Ro tary Club, forced through some misunderstanding into meeting in the county courthouse Tuesday night, held much heated debate concerning the possibility of se curing a permanent meeting place for the organization. President Carl L. Bailey ap pointed three men to investigate the matter and secure a meeting place for the club. Members of the committee are C. E. Ayers, J. C. Kirkman and J. S. Flem ing. They are to report their findings to the club as soon as possible. The supper was served in the dining room of the Mayflower Restaurant and the business ses sion held in the courtroom. The Rev. E. M. Spruill had charge of the program. -4 Legion Auxiliary Will Meet Monday Night The Plymouth chapter of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet next Monday night at 8 o’clock in the Legion Hall, Mrs. Dallas G. Waters, president, has announced. Mrs. J. F. Jordan will be in charge of the program. The president has requested that all members of the organization be present. $3,500 Needed for Furnishing Home Economics Room Men’s Group in Local Parent-Teacher Organ ization Will Sponsor Drive Next Week -4 The,men's group of the Plym outh unit of the parent-teacher association will institute a drive to furnish the home economics department and laboratory in the Plymouth schools, beginning on January 26, next Monday, and continuing through the following Saturday, with a goal of $3,500, E. M. Leavitt, campaign chair man, announced Monday. At present, Mr. Leavitt point ed out. the room at the school is equipped with only a stove and refrigerator, and the county has no further funds available for completion of the equipment nec essary for the proper operation of the department. Next Monday night represen tatives of all Plymouth business houses w-ill be guests of the par ent-teacher association at a din ner given with the cooperation of Miss Carolyn Brinkley, home economics instructor, at which time full explanation of the needs of the department will be made. If the full amount can be raised, Mr. Leavitt said, one lo cal industrial plant has agreed to donate approximately half of the amount of money needed. Other Plymouth business firms and in dividuals will be asked to donate the remaining amount, he said, with contributions from each be ing relatively small. Members of the men's parent teacher group probably will act as solicitors for donations in the campaign. -*-♦ Long Civil Case Is Closed in Superior Court Last Week Si&t Against Local Firm Settled Out of Court After Jury Verdict Set Aside by Judge -♦ The case of Mrs. Frances Har rison against Horner’s Funeral Home, of Plymouth, last case final action on the calendar of the superior court last week, was set tle out of court Friday on terms which were not made public. Trial of the suit began Wednes day. Presiding Judge R. Hunt Park er, on being informed of the set tlement, ordered the defendant to pay the costs of the action, the plaintiff to pay her own witness fees, and the case removed from the court calendar. The case, which was before the court for three days, consuming half the time the court was in session, came close to being called a mistrial because of a confused verdict returned by the jury. The jury had answered no when asked if the general allegations made by the plaintiff were true, failed to answer her request for $5,000 for mental anguish, and awarded her $500 as the price of the vault when she asked only $175. The judge cited their er rors to the jurymen and set the verdict aside, ordering a new trial. Settlement out of court followed. -■* Minor Accident Occurs Here on Monday Night -♦ Although both persons involv-1 ed escaped injury, some amount; of damage was inflicted on both I cars when, an automobile driven ! by Willie Ernest Marriner, Roper | white man, collided with the car . driven by Walton Cary Edge, white resident of Plymouth, at the intersection of Adams and Main Streets around 11 p. m. on Monday. Investigating Officer Alvin Al len stated that no charges will be preferred against either driver and that damage payments will be arranged out of court. -♦ Creswell Woman’s Club Donates to March Dimes -♦ The Creswell Woman’s Club, meeting there last week, voted to contribute $5 to the March of Dimes campaign now being con ducted throughout Washington County. Other business transact- ' sd at the session was of a routine 1 nature. Mrs. Josephine Holmes was principal speaker of the ev ening. Guests at the meeting were Mrs. B. T. Brock and Mrs. W. M. Meacham. Mrs. H. W. Norman, president, presided. No C-D Driver | Failures Noted j Auto License Examiner James Boyce has reported that so far in the C D driver examination period, approximately 45 ap plications, 20 of them from old drivers, have been made to him which, he pointed out, was con siderably more than for the same period of the A-B exam time. No failures at all have been recorded among the old-driver group, he said, remarking that the majority of the C-D drivers had apparently had some I coaching from drivers in the A-B group who had already taken the new license tests. Veterans To Meet For Joint Study Clubhouse Plans -♦ May Set Date To Begin Construction of Build ing To Be Used by Le gionnaires and VFW -« Members of Plymouth’s two veterans’ organizations. American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold a joint meeting Friday night at 8 p.m., in the Legion Hall to consider reports from the groups' building com mittee on plans for the proposed clubhouse to be erected by the two organizations. The committee, composed of representatives from both veter ans’ groups, has already made in dividual reports to the Legion and V. F. W., which have ten tatively approved the plans. Fin al approval is expected to be giv en at the Friday session, with the possibility that a date for begin ning construction may be decided also. Plans drawn up by the com mittee call for a one-story brick veneer building in Southern Co lonial style. The structure would be 60 feet wide and 40 feet deep. A general assembly room would be located at the front of the building, equipped with a fire place at both ends of the room. The plans also include space for a kitchen, rest rooms, and storage space in the attic. Provision also has been made for enlargement of the building if the necessity arises. The building is to be lo cated on a lot owned by the two organizations near the county home. An entertainment program for the meeting tomorrow night, con sisting of magic and sleight-of hand tricks, will be presented by Legionnaire P. B. Nickens fol lowing the business session. All members of both organizations are requested to be present. -1 January Z9 Date For Child Photos -• On Thursday, January 29, The Roanoke Beacon is having pic tures taken at the Legion Hall in Plymouth of all children in this trading area who are brought here by their parents or a guar-! dian. between the hours of 1 p.m. and 8 p. m. with no charge being made for the photographs, which are to be published in the paper. The children's pictures will be published in this newspaper as a feature entitled "Citizens of To morrow." The Woltz Studios, of Des Moines, Iowa, nationally known children's photographers, will be in charge. Those parents who wish to do so may purchase additional prints of their children’s pictures through arrangements made di rectly with the studios, but no charges will be made for the photographs to be published in The Roanoke Beacon. All par ?nts and children are urged to take advantage of this oppor tunity. Will Hold Dance To Benefit Drive -♦ A round and square dance will je held at the Cherry School on Friday. January 30, beginning at ) p. m. for the purpose of raising unds for the March of Dimes campaign in the Creswell section, ■ampaign officials have announc ed. In addition to the dance, they idded, sandwiches and soft drinks will be sold. The dance will not end until the last couple has left he floor. Everyone has been re juested to attend the event. Ask Farmers To File Performance Reports at Once ■-♦ Deadline Is January 31, With No Credit for Payments Allowed Aft er That Date -« All Washington Couhty farm =rs who filed 1947 farm plans un der the Triple-A program and who have not turned in their per formance reports for the year are requested to do so at once, Miss Miriam Ausbon. county AAA secretary, has announced. The deadline for filing the report, she said, is January 31 with no credit for payment being allowed on re ports filed after that date. Although only 10 per cent of the farm operators in the county have failed to turn in their per formance reports, she said, there are quite a few who have report ed, but who have not informed their tenants of the necessity of signing the reports which must be done before the forms can be forwarded to the State headquar ters for approval. Until all re ports are made and signed in full by all tenants, Miss Ausbon add ed. no payments can be made for 1947 performances under the AAA program. Tenants whose landlords have not filed performance reports are requested to appear at the AAA office in Plymouth before Janu ary 31 and make out their own report so that they will not miss out on 1947 payments, she said. -I* Begin Overseas Relief Campaign Here on Monday No Goal or Limit Set on Amount of Clothing To Be Sought; Town Can vassers Listed -♦ Final organization for the Ov erseas Clothing Relief drive in Plymouth has been completed with the town being divided into several sections and a canvasser assigned to each, Mrs. Woodrow Collins, chairman of the cam paign, has announced. The drive, she said, will begin on January 26 with a house-to-house canvass of the entire town. Closing date for the campaign is January 31. No goal limit has been set on the amount of clothing to be collect ed. Donations may be taken to the Municipal Building on Water Street where a box is being main tained to receive them, Mrs. Col lins said, or they may be taken to her home in Country Club Village. All items given should be at one or the other of the two collection points by Saturday, she added, since they will be packed for shipment and sent to the European shipment center, New Windsor, Md., as soon as possible in order to expedite the relief of the overseas war vic tims. Funds for paying the cost of shipping the contributions re ceived here will be collected by Mrs. Frances Darden. Plymouth residents who prefer to make cash donations instead of clothing may contact her. Canvassers who will solicit con tributions and the territories they will individually cover are as fol lows: East Main Street. Mrs. Al- ' ma Mayo: Stillacres, Mrs. Lula Garrett: Main Street to Thomp son’s store and Main to Third \ Street, Mrs. Mary Smith: Third Street extension and Long Street. 1 Mrs. Nellie Leary and Mrs. Vir- 1 ginia Willis: Madison Street and Main to Adams Street, Mrs. Min- 1 nie Sawyer; Main and Madison 1 Street to Holloman's store. Mrs. 1 Myra Nell Davenport: Adams, rhird, and Adams to Washington Street, Miss Carolyn Brinkley. ‘ Main and Adams to Jefferson Street, Mrs. Thelma Barden Washington Street, Mrs. Martha Mueller, Mrs. Katie Gray Warren, Mrs. Madeline Arps: Brinkley Avenue. Mrs. Elva Reddick; Jef 'erson. Third to Brinkley and Jef ’erson to Monroe, Mrs. Carrie rane Marrow; Jefferson and Main Street, Miss Bessie Spruill; Mon- j •oe Street, Country Club Village. ( Mrs. Marion Everett, Mrs. Lucy Mien, Mrs. Helen Marrow, Mrs. 1 •'ranees Johnston, Mrs. Mary G. 1 3arnhill; Little Richwood Village, ( Mrs. Ruby Bowen, Mrs. Jean Fer- 1 turson; West and South Plym- * iuth. Mrs. Thelma Waters, Mrs. hauline Smith. 1 All kinds, all sizes clothing are < jeing asked for as well as bed- i ling, shoes, toys, seeds, and i school supplies. The drive is spon- i lored by the Wesleyan Guild of < he Plymouth Methodist Church. ( ESTABLISHED 1889 Polio Drive Total To Date Is $325 TB Sale Total Reaches S822 Total contributions to the an nual Tuberculosis Seal Sale campaign in Washington Coun ty have risen to $822.81. or 8122.81 above the county’s $700 goal, according to a report from Mrs. H. W. Everett, county chairman. Mrs. Everett said that al though the drive ended offi cially on Christmas Day, do nations are still coming in from the 1,000 persons contacted. At present, the chairman esti mated around 75 per cent had replied to the appeal. Contributions are still ac ceptable for addition to the county total donation, she pointed out. County Baseball Group Directors Selected Monday Riddle Reelected Presi dent of County Organi zation; Two New Men Named to Board Stockholders in the Washing ton County Athletic Association, meeting in the county courthouse Monday night, elected two new members to its five-man board of directors and relected the re maining thiee who had been members of the old board. Fol lowing their election, the direc tors chose officials to serve the group in 1948. re-electing the same men who had served the organization in 1947. New members of the directory board are A. L. Owens, replacing John Phelps, and Raymond B. Smith, replacing Carl L. Bailey. Other directors are W. H. Joyner. L. L. Mizell, and W. Blount Rod man. President Archie J. Riddle was re-elected president of the group despite his protests that he should be succeeded by another man, the electors apparently consid ering Mr. Riddle’s service worthy af another term in office. Joseph Foster was again chosen vice president and W. A. Roebuck elected to serve another term as secretary-treasurer. Mr. Joyner and Mr. Foster, who represented the local group at a meeting of the directors of the Albemarle Baseball League in Edenton last Thursday, were appointed delegates to attend the League’s meeting on February 12. At this time, a permanent set of by-laws will be discussed and if necessary, changes made n those considered by the League at last week’s meeting. The meet ng will be held in Colerain. rovner and Foster presented the entative by-laws considered at ast week’s League session which were reviewed by those attend ng the county association mect ng on Monday. Mr. Riddle pre sided. Hundred Payment Forms Sent Off by Local AAA -♦ One hundred applications for jayment of practices completed >y county farm operators under he 1947 AAA program were sent o the Raleigh headquarters this reek by the Washington County iffice. Miss Miriam Ausbon, sec etary, has reported. The appli ations, she said, were made by hose farmers who received less han the minimum assistance mount. Large Portion Raised in Plymouth Section; Re ports Next Week From Other Parts of County By Wednesday of this week a total of $325 had been collected for the March of Dimes campaign in Washington County, Mrs. Ath alia Gardner Tyree, county chair man, has reported, pointing out that the majority of the amount was turned in from the Plymouth section. Local chairmen in other parts of the county will report their collections later in the week, she added, Saturday, January 24, through Saturday, January 31, Mrs. Tyree said, will be “theatre week” at which time collections for the drive will be made in all theatres in the county. She added that the theatres will also run a trailer requesting generous contributions to the cause. Next Saturday will also be Tag Day, the chairman said. Members of Plymouth’s Girl Scout Troop will sell March of Dimes tags at various locations in town for whatever contribution the donor cares to make. The Creswell section, Mrs. Ty ree said, is planning to give a square and round dance with pro ceeds to go to the infantile para lysis drive. To date, she added, no dance is planned for the Plym outh area. Goal alloted to Washington County for the March of Dimes is $1,220. Of this amount, the chairman pointed out, half will remain in Washington County to be used to aid in the treatment of victims of poliomyelitis, while the remainder of the money will be sent to the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis Vic tims to be used in research to discover the causes and possible cure of victims of the disease and to maintain such treatment cen ters as Warm Springs, Ga„ lor the treatment and rehabilitation of polio sufferers. All residents of Washington County are urgently requested to contribute as generously as possible to the campaign, she said, adding, however, that no gift can be too small to be of benefit. + X-Ray Unit Will Be at Pulp Plant « A mobile unit for making chest X-rays will be located at the North Carolina Pulp Company's plant near Plymouth on Febru ary 11, 12 and 13, according to Dr. John M. Williams, Martin County Health Officer, who stat ed last Saturday that arrange ments had bee completed to allow mill employees time off from their work to take the tests. Dr. Williams stated that the mobile unit will be at the pulp plant as part of the county-wide chest examination program be ing sponsored by the Martin County Tuberculosis Association in cooperation with the county health department, the State Board of Health and the U. S. Public Health Service. A similar project is now underway in Guil ford County and the mobile unit will move from there to Martin and later to other counties in the state for the mass surveys. Dr. Williams particularly em phasized that all results of the X-ray surveys will be confiden tial and will be given to no one except those taking the tests. He added that a report that the sur vey will be used to weed out tubercular workers and cause them to lose their jobs is not true. The report on each indi vidual survey is strictly confiden tial and will be made only to the individual taking the test, he pointed out. Several Stores Begin Swapping Locations With the exception of complet es the front portion and exterior ace of its new location. Womble’s hug Store has now moved from is old location to its new place n the corner of Washington and ! Vater Streets, formerly occupied j •y Adler’s clothing store. The space just vacated by Vomble’s, next door, will be oc upied by the Eureka Cafe which s now in the process of making noving preparations and who is Iso planning to do some remod lling, while Don G. Davis, Jew ler has now been installed on the opposite side of Water Street from its old location, occupying the space where the Modern Bar ber Shop was. The changes in store locations are the initial operations in what is perhaps one of the most exten sive business-site removals ever seen in Plymouth. Remaining move to be made is an exchange of locations between Liverman’s Men’s and Boys’ Shop and Roses five and ten. Liverman’s will oc cupy the present site of Rose’s and the dime store will be locat ed where were formerly Liver man’s. Davis’s, and the Eureka.