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VOLUME LIX—NUMBER 9
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 26, 1948
ESTABLISHED 1889
J Carl L. Bailey, jr., first year
' student at Wake Forest College
and son of Attorney and Mrs.
Carl L. Bailey, sr., of Plymouth,
has been placed on the school’s
scholastic honors list for excel
lence of academic work done
during the fall semester, Dr. Ro
bert E. Lee, law school dean, has
announced. Young Bailey was
one of the eight first-year stu
dents to be accorded this recogni
tion.
W. A. “Bill” Roebuck, Plym
outh town clerk who under
went, a bone operation in a Ra
leigh hospital last week, is re
ported to be coming along sat
isfactorily now. Bill was given
a 30-day sick leave for hospital
treatment and expects to return
to work some time during the
latter part of March.
Mrs. Frances M. Darden, coun
ty 4-H leader, and Mrs. W. V.
Hays, Girl Scout leader, accom
panied by five 4-H club girls at
tended a recreational school in
Williamston Tuesday and Wed
nesday nights of this week, and
, will attend the final session there
' tonight. The school is in charge
of Miss Virginia Godfrey, State
recreational leader, with repre
sentatives from six counties at
tending the classes.
Raeford Elks, 7-year-old
Plymouth boy, was painfully
injured last week-end while
playing “follow-the-leader” and
reported to the local clinic for
treatment. All sorts of tests
were made over a period of sev
eral days to discover the na
ture of his illness -and even a
test for spinal meningitis was
made, which turned out nega
tive. The boy was removed to
a Norfolk hospital where, after
more tests, an X-ray photo
showed that his neck was dis
located. He is still being studied
for further pathology.
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W. T. Freeman has been elect
ed to the board of directors o
the North Carolina Farm Bureai
organization, being chosen to tha
position at the annual meeting
of the Bureau in Asheville las
week, according to an announce
ment here this week. Mr. Free
man will attend a Bureau-spon
sored tobacco meeting in Raleigl
next Monday.
Representing the Washingtof
County board of commissioners
H. W. Pritchett, H. L. Davenport
and C. E. Ayers, members of th<
board, attended a meeting of al
county commissioners of the se
cond congressional district o:
North Carolina held in Washing
ton last Friday. Other member:
of the board, including Frank L
Brinkley, chairman, were unabl<
to attend because of pressing bu
siness matters.
Registrar J. T. McNair, keep
ing books for the Plymouth
precinct registration prior to
the hospital bond election slat
ed next month, is reported to
have found only one man out of
the 429 registered by him'so
far, who opposed the hospital
measure. It was added that
when he hhd finished register
0 ing the man he had converted
him to the hospital cause, mak
ing Plymouth 100 per cent in
favor of the measure at this
point. The picture appears pret
ty much the same throughout
the county. -
Odell Caton, former residen
of Plymouth, now connected witl
the State Medical Care Commis
sion, was a member of the state
federal committee that visitec
Plymouth last Thursday to ' in
spect possible sites for the hos
pital which the county plans tc
erect with governmental aid
Washington County was one o
several eastern counties visitec
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County and Town
Meetings Monday
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All local governing boards o
the town and county will mee
in regular session next Monday
March 1, with but little beyonc
routine business slated to be en
acted at the metings.
The board of county commis
sioners meeting in the courthous<
at 10 a. m., in addition to theii
routine business matters, wil
conduct a drawing of jurors foi
the April term of the Washing
ton County civil superior court.
The board of education, meet
ing in the county superintendent’:
office at 10 a. m., will probablj
review progress made in the con
struction of the new Negro higl
school building in Creswell.
The Plymouth town council
coitvening in the Municipa
Building at 8 p. m„ will probab
ly discuss the results of the sal<
of refunding bonds of the Towr
of Plymouth, offered for sale ear
lier this week in Raleigh. It i:
also expected that the counci
will review the progress mad(
on repairs now being effected t<
another breakdown in the Wash
ington Street sewer line.
Resume Work on Stores
Undergoing Renovation
Work on the renovation of the
Old Brinkley Hot&l Building on
Water Street, focal point of one
of Plymouth’s most extensive
business house site swaps, has
been resumed after being delay
ed for some time by bad weather.
Womble's Drug Store, occupy
ing the site formerly used by the
Adler clothing store, now out of
business, expects to have its front
glassed-in and permanent doors
installed shortly, while the Eure
ka Cafe has now completed mov
ing from its previous location to
the site vacated by Womble’s and
Refunding Bonds of
Plymouth Are Sold
Stale Tax Man
Here March 9
Residents of Plymouth and
Washington County are being
notified that E. Ross Frone
berger, deputy collector of the
State of North Carolina De
partment of Revenue, will ,be
located at the clerk of superior
court’s office in the county
courthouse in Plymouth on
Tuesday, March 9, for the pur
pose of giving assistance to tax
payers in filing their State in
come tax returns and intang
ible personal property taxes.
Those who must file include
any single person or married
woman who earned $1,000 or
more in 1947 or any married
man who earned $2,000 or more
during the same period. Re
turns must be filed by March
15.
Vet Talent Show
To Be Presented
On Friday Night
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i Three Prizes Offered To
; Winners Chosen by Au
dience; 12 Acts Booked
Thus Far
A home talent show with con
testants vying for honors in ev
ery field from vocal solos to
string band music will be present ■
ed in the auditorium of the Plym
outh High School building tomor
row night beginning at 8 o’clock.
The show is being given under
the sponsorship of the local post
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and proceeds will be placed in a
building fund to be used for the
construction of a VFW-American
Legion clubhouse.
Tickets are now being sold by
members of the Plymouth VFW
organization and entries to the
show are still being accepted.
Those who wish to become con
testants for the three prizes be
ing offered should contact W.
S. Davenport, O. A. Marrow, or
William Booth in Plymouth, or
Asa Johnson in Roper. Prizes be
. ing offered are $25, first prize;
$15, second prize; and $10, third
prize. The amount of applause
won by the contestants will de
termine the dinners. Don Pierce,
, announcer at a Washington radio
station, will act as master of cere
I monies. VFW honor and color
guards will be posted at all en
trances for the occasion.
Final dress rehearsal for the
show will be held at the school
building tonight at 8 o’clock. A
, previous rehearsal was held last
Thursday night at which a total
of 12 contestants appeared, rang
t ing from male and female vocal
soloists to various instrumental
soloists, a tapdancer, and a string
band.
j Delegate Named
j To Raleigh Meet
W. T. Freeman of Plymouth,
president of the Washington
County F: rm Bureau, has been
elected delegate member to To
bacco Associates, Incorporated,
to represent the North Carolina
Farm Bureau organization at
its annual meeting to be held
in Raleigh next Monday, it has
been announced.
Mr. Freeman has also been
selected one of the 375 mem
bers of the Tobacco Associates
corporation, representing the
county Farm Bureau organiza
tion. The appointments were
made by R. Flake Shaw, execu
tive vice-president of the Ndrth
Carolina Farm Bureau.
is engaged in having a glass brick
and plate front put up.
Most extensive construction
work is being done on the sites
vacated by the Eureka and Davis
Jewelry where Roses dime store
will be located. The front has
been torn off and a one-story ad
dition will extend the rear of the
building 34 feet to provide 5,000
square feet of sales space. When
Roses moves, Liverman's Men’s
and Boy’s Shop will take its pre
sent place, and Roses will reno
vate the old Liverman site and
later occupy that too.
Sale Made on Bid Aver
aging 3.78 Per Cent In
terest; Town To Save
About $37,000
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Town of Plymouth General Re
funding Bonds of 1948 in the full
amount of $250,000, offered for
sale under sealed bid at Raleigh
on Tuesday have been sold to four
North Carolina finance compan
ies, low bidders in the sale, there
by effecting a $37,000 to $38,000
saving to the town over a period
of 10 years, cutting down the rate
of interest paid on bonds out
standing which would have gone
to 4 per cent on April 1, to 3.78
per cent.
The first $50,000 lot of bonds
were sold at a 3 1-4 per cent rate
of interest; the second $150,000
lot was sold at a 3 3-4 per cent
rate of interest and the remain
ing $50,000 lot was sold at 4 per
cent, making the final interest
percentage rate stand at 3.78. The
bonds were sold bn a pooled bid
made by R. E. Dickson and Com
pany of Raleigh, Vance Securities
Incorporated of Greensboro, J.
N. Peeler and Company of Dur
ham, and the Branch Banking
and Trust Company of Wilson.
Only one other bid was submit
ted but that was for a higher
rate of interest and so was re
jected.
Plymouth town officials had
hoped that a less than 3 per cent
interest rate would be bid and
had planned on a $75,000 saving
to the town. The money saved,
they said, will be used for im
mediate improvements to the
town. Decision to have the re
funding bonds issued was made
by the Plymouth toWn council
several months ago when it was
pointed out to them that interest
rate on the current town bonds
would increase from 3 to 4 per
cent beginning April 1, 1948.
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To Give Delayed
Jamboree Friday
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A Hillbilly Jamboree, schedul
ed to be held at the Creswell
High School last Friday night
but postponed because of adverse
weather conditions, will be held
this Friday night, February 27,
in the school auditorium, it has
been announced.
The program, being presented
under the sponsorship of the Cres
well school's home economics de
partment, will be made up from
local talent who will give imper
sonations of cowboy screen and
radio stars.
Contracl 400 to GOO
Acres Cucumbers
Contracts have been signed by
the C. C. Lang and Son’s Plym
outh pickle plant with farmers
in this section f6r the planting of
between 400 and 600 acres of cu
cumbers to be grown by the farm
ers and purchased by the plant
here for pickling when the crop
comes due, C. W. Dinkins, plant
manager, has announced.
The majority of the acres to be
seeded under the terms of the
contract, Mr. Dinkins said, are
located in the Plymouth section
of Washington County, although
there will be some plantings in
Tyrrell, Bertie, and Perquimans
Counties. Plantings will be made
in the latter part of March, he
said, with the crop coming due in
June. In past years, the cucumber
crop was one of importance to
local farm operators but con
tracts were not made extensive
ly by the local plant for the past
several years. The new contract
effected for this year’s crop, the
plant manager pointed out, is
considered more advantageous to
farmers than the one used in pre
vious seasons, although the two
are similar.
|_LIONS SPEAKER
North Carolina Secretary of
State, Thad Eure, will be the
principal speaker at the meet
ing of the Plymouth Lions
Club scheduled to be held in
the school lunchroom here to
night at 7 o’clock.
Funeral Is Held
Last Saturday
For E. F. Swain
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Former County Commis
sioner Died in Edenton
Hospital Friday After
Lengthy Illness
Funeral services for E. F.
Swain, 78, of Creswell. one of
the most prominent citizens of
the lower end of Washington
County and leading figure in
county government for many
years, were conducted from
Christ Episcopal Church in Cres
well last Saturday at 3 p. m. by
the Rev. B. Wood Gaither, rector
of the church, assisted by the Rev.
John W. Hardy, rector of the
Church of the Advent in Wil
liamston. Burial was made in the
Swain family cemetery.
Mr. Swain died last Friday at
6 a. m. in an Edenton hospital,
following a lingering illness. Mr.
Swain, who was a retired Cres
well business man, was a native
of Creswell and son of the late
Thomas J. and Mary Jane Wood
ley Swain. He was a member of
the Washington County board of
commissioners for eight years and
served for quite some time as
county tax supervisor. He was a
communicant of Christ Episcopal
Church and was married to the
late Jane Phelps Swain, who pre
ceded him in death in November
of 1947.
Mr. Swain is survived by three
sons, Paul Swain of Plymouth,
Ernest A. Swain of Edenton, and
Jamie Sv^ain of Norfolk, Va.;
and two daughters, Mrs. Walter
Bowen of Plymouth, and Mrs.
Ruth Vickers of Durham.
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Funeral Held for
S. E. Davenporl
Last rites were conducted from
Davenport Funeral Home chapel
in Creswell Sunday at 3 p. m. for
Schooler E. Davenport, 77, New
lands section farmer, who died at
his home there on Saturday at
5:30 a. m. following a lingering
illness. The Rev. Garland C.
Bland, pastor of Phillippi Church,
officiated at the last rites. Inter
ment was made in the family
cemetery.
Mr. Davenport was a native of
Washington County and a mem
ber of the Phillippi Church of
Christ near Cherry. He is surviv
ed by one brother. A. H. Daven
port of Manteo: and two sisters,
Mrs. Julie Ambrose of Creswell
land Mrs. J. A. Combs, also of
I Creswell.
At the time of his death, Mr.
Davenport was unmarried. Pall
I bearers at the funeral were
| Woody, Leamon, and Irving Am
brose, John J. Combs, Hilly Da
venport, and Dennis H. Phelps.
Speaking Contest Date Is
Moved to Week of April 2
Due to unforseen difficulties,;
dates of the Soil Conservation
speaking contest, being sponsor
ed by the North Carolina Bank
ers Association have been chang
ed, Donald B. Jones, county soil
conservationist, has announced.
The Washington County con
test, he said, will be held during
the week of April 2 instead of
in March as had been previously
announced. Winners from Wash
ington County will compete in the
Junior Chamber of
Commerce Will Be
Set Up Next Week
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Tentative Plans for Or
ganization Formulated
At Meeting Held Here
Tuesday Night
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Plans were formulated by a
group of 15 young men of Plym
outh to organize a Junior Cham
ber of Cemmerce here, with the
co-operation of the Williamston
Jaycees, at a meeting conducted
at Juniper Lodge on Tuesday
night. Joseph W. Foster wtis
elected acting chairman and E
E. Harrell temporary secretary o£
the group.
A meeting with the William
ston Jaycees invited to be pre
sent also, has been slated for next
Wednesday night at 7 o’clock at
the Lodge. At this time the club
will Ke given permanent form
and a constitution and by-laws
will be adopted as well as per
manent officers elected.
Members of the Junior organi
zation will be made up of civic
minded men of Plymouth be
tween the ages of 21 and 35 and
the overall aim of,the club will
be to sponsor civic activities of a
beneficial nature to the majority
of the residents of the town
Lewis Price, official in labor un
ions pledged labor support to the
project at the meeting this week.
Acting Chairman Foster ap
pointed a committee to draw up
a constitution and by-laws, using
the Williamston organizational
machinery as a model, and sub
mit it for consideration at next
week’s session. Members of the
committee are W. H. Woolard,
Felton Magee and Mr. Price.
The Williamston Jaycees were
headed by Chairman Wheeler
Manning. Ernest^ Mears, State di
rector of the junior chamber of
commerce, and Robert Cowan,
mayor of Williamston, were also
present at the meeting this week
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} Inspect Local Lot
l As Possible Site
For Medical Unit
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Official Approval Is Not
Given Any Location;
Hospital Board Will
Meet Next Week
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A seven-man inspection com
mittee, composed of representa
tives of the State Medical Care
Commission and the Federal Med
ical Care Commission, accompan
ied by Frank L. Brinkley, chair
man of the county board of com
missioners, conducted an investi
gation last Thursday of a county
owned lot immediately south of
the County Home on Highway 32
as a possible site for the hospital
Washington County hopes to erect
with state-federal aid.
After completing their investi
gation the federal and state of
ficials said that while tRfey look
ed upon the site favorably, of
ficial approval can be given no
location until official application
is made by the county for a hos
pital built with federal-state aid
funds. They pointed out that pri
mary requisites for the hospital
site are access to electric power,
a sewer system, and an adequate
water supply.
Since official application can
not be made until the passage of
the pending $50,000 hospital bond
issue election to be held on
March 26, full approval to a site
in the county will not be made
before April or May, or possibly
later. Sc far as can be determined
at present, though, the entire
county is almost 100 per cent in
favor of the bond issue.
The Washington County hospi
tal board of' managers plans a
meeting during the early part of
next week at which time they
will discuss the Thursday invest
igation, size and plan of the medi
cal unit, operational costs, and
personnel requirements of such
a center.
regional contest in Greenville on
April 19, while the State-wide
contest will be conducted in Ra
leigh on April 16.
E. H. Liverman, chairman of
the Washington County Soil Con
servation Committee, and Roy F.
Lowry, county superintendent of
schools, are in charge of making
final plans for the county contest,
he said. Final dates, location of
the contest and names of entries
will be announced as soon as ar
rangements can be made.
Red Cross Campaign To
Get Underway Monday
Water From Lake
Phelps Hindering
Farm Operations
Depth of Overflow Is Re
ceding Very Slowly;
Crops Are Likely To Be
Delayed
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Although the overflow of Lake
Phelps in the lower section of
Washington County is not now as
deep as several days ago, the fact
that the waters are receeding to
their proper confines extremely
slowly presents a very serious
threat to crop possibilities in the
section for the coming year un
less immediate remedial steps are
taken, county agriculture and soil
conservation officials have re
ported. Planting of spring crops,
they said, may be delayed from
two to three weeks.
At present, they said, water is
still flowing out of the lake on its
northern and western sides and
several lakeside farms have been
flooded to a depth of several
feet. Large areas of the Newlands
section are covered and some
roads in the section are under
water.
One farmer in the section said
that the water was knee-deep in
some of his fields - -hile another
man reported that is house was
completely surrounded by the ov
erflow. A third farm operator
said that the water moving across
his land was washing away all
the top soil and was ruining
fields which had just been limed.
No estimate of the water’s depth
is immediately available.*
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Parent-Teacher
MeelWWBIffl
The Creswell unit of the Pa
rent-Teacher Association has
been placed on the Washington
County PTA honor roll for hav
ing a 10 per cent increase in at
tendance during the last period
and for having all members dues
paid in full at the proper time,
according to an announcement
made at a meeting of the PTA
unit held in the Creswell school
last Thursday.
Featured event of the program
was a State Art Exhibit in which
pictures and paintings done by
school children throughout North
Carolina were shown the associa
tion members. Purpose and sig
nificance of the exhibit was ex
plained by Mrs. Hal L. Furr. Fol
lowing the program, an offering
was taken for Founders Day
which the PTA was at that time
observing.
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Salaries, Player
Limit Agreed on
At Baseball Meet
Albemarle League To Al
low $3,000 for 15 Men,
Manager; Next Session
To Be Held Here
Albemarle Baseball League di
rectors, meeting in Colerain Inst
night adopted player salary lim
its and determined the type of
balls to be used in league games
in the 1948 playing season as well
as allowing a limit of 15 active
players to each team.
The salary limit was set at $3.
000, which includes the 15 active
players and a team manager. Six
local and nine non-resident play
ers were allowed each team. An
official baseball was adopted for
use in this years games and it
was agreed to allow individual
teams to secure the balls from
any source they wish. Herbert
Nixon, of Hertford, was elected
statistician for the League.
Although no definite commit
ments have yet been made, it is
understood that officials in the
Washington County Athletic As
sociation are now arranging for
interviews with player and man
ager prospects, results of which
will be announced later.
The next meeting of the Albe
marle League directors will be
held in Plymouth in March, final
date to be set later. Represent
ing Plymouth at last night’s
meeting were J. W. Foster, W. H.
Joyner, and A. J. Riddle. All
member teams of the league had
delegates at the session. President
Walter Holden presided.
j HERE NEXT WEEK
Sherwood L. Roberson of
Robersonville, candidate for
district governor of the One
Hundred Eighty-Ninth District
of Rotary International, will be
the speaker of the evening at
the regular meeting of the
Plymouth Rotarians on Tues
day night of next week.
Local Registrar
Lists 429 Voters
On Books So Far
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No Reports Yet From
Other Precincts; Regis
tration Period Ends on
March 13
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A total of 429 persons have
been registered to date by Plvm
outh Precinct Registrar J. T. Me
Nair for the coming $50,000 coun
ty county hospital bond election
which will be conducted through
B Washington County on Fri
PHyMarch 26. Books were open
MNkt Saturday and will remain
open week days until Saturday,
March 13.
Reports from registrars in oth
er voting precincts in the county
are not immediately available,
but it is assumed that the regis
tration books in other parts of.
the county are also rapidly being
filled.
All persons in the county who
have become 21 years of age
since the last -election are being
reminded that they must be en
tered on the registration books
each in his own voting precinct
before he can legally exercise his
privilege of casting a ballot in the
election. Those who have regis
tered before are being remind
ed that the present registration
is a special one and that they
must re-register before they can
legitimately vote in the balloting.
Registrars and their locations
(See 429 REGISTER, Page 12)
Local Legion Post To
Meet Here Tomorrow
The Plymouth post of the Am
erican Legion will conduct a re
gular meeting at the Legion Hall
here Friday at 8 p. m., Command
er W. Ronald Gaylord has an
nounced. Commander Gaylord
added that all legionnaires are
requested to attend the meeting.
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Mackeys Couple Attend
Last Rites for Father
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Mackeys—Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Davenport were called to Fort
Mitchell, Ala. last week because
of the illness and death of Mrs.
Davenport's father. M. B. Vann.
Mr. Davenport returned to Mack
eys last Friday. Mrs. Davenport
and daughter, will remain with
Mrs. Vann for several days more.
i 4-H Planning |
j Member Drive 1
The six 4-H clubs in Wash
ington county will sponsor a
membership drive as their part
in observing Natiopal 4-H
Week, Mrs. Frances M. Darden,
county 4-H leader has announc
ed, adding that the clubs hope
to increase their individual
memberships by at least 10 per
cent during the period.
Purpose of the 4-H organiza
tion, she said, is to provide ade
quate group life and farm liv
ing educational opportunities
for young people residing in
rural areas. Those interested in
joining the groups are asked to
contact Mrs. Darden.
Organization Is Complet
ed This Week; Quota
For County Is Fixed at
$1,650
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The Washington County chap
ter of the American Red Cross
organization will begin its part in
the Red Cross’s annual fund
raising drive next Monday, March
1, the campaign in this county
continuing through Wednesday,
March 10, and the county goal set
at $1,650, according to an an
nouncement from J. Shepherd
Brinkley, Washington County
campaign chairman.
The county has been divided
into canvass communities, urban
centers into neighborhoods, and
chairmen have been named to
supervise collections made in
each, he said. The district chair
men will be assisted by a num
ber of canvassers who will make
solicitations for the drive.
Henry Everett, who is also co
chairman for the county, is chair
man of the Roper white district;
Mrs. T. W. Tarkenton is chair
man for Pleasant Grove; John R.
Stillman is chairman for the
Skinnersville district; Mr. and
Mrs. Joe B. Davenport are co
chairmen for the Creswell sec
tion; Mrs. Oliver Stotesbury is
chairman for the Wenona section;
and W. Frith Winslow is Plym
outh white chairman. Plymouth
neighborhood chairmen are Mrs.
R. J. Sydenstricker for the busi
ness section. Mrs. K. S. Trow
bridge, Mrs. E. F. Bagans, and
Miss Ida Davis will cover the
two mill villages, while E. M.
Leavitt, Mrs. Sydenstricker, and
Robert M. Bruce will be chair
men of the industrial sections.
Organization, of colored Red
Cross workers for Washington
County has also been completed
and is now ready to function, ac
cording to E. V. Wilkins and the
Rev. A. R. Winborne, co-chair
‘ :red campaign,
Wilkins is Roper chairman and
M. W. Bryant chairman for the
Skinnersville district. P. W.
Littlejohn will head the drive in
the Creswell section, they said,
(See RED CROSS, Page 12)
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Mill Worker Is
Severely Burned
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Howard Comstock, young white
employee of the North Carolina
Pulp Company, suffered severe
burns of the face and eyes Mon
day when an electric fan blew a
sheet of flame from a recovery
furnace into the young man’s face
at the company’s Plymouth plant.
He was given first aid by Dr. T.
L. Bray of Plymouth and taken to
a Rocky Mount hospital for fur
ther treatment.
Reports indicate that Comstock
is now resting comfortably and
that his eyesight will not be ser
iously impaired. The accident oc
curred when the fan was sud
denly cut on while one of the
furnace doors was opened. Com
stock was employed as spoutman
on the recovery furnace.
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Funeral Held for
Charlie E. Barnes
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Funeral services were conduct
ed from Saints Delight Christian
Church, near MacKeys, on Sun
day at 3 p. m. for Charlie E.
Barnes, 78. retired farmer of
Plymouth, route one, who died
at the home of his son, Ben
Barnes, near here last Friday at
8 p. m. after an illness of six
weeks. The Rev. Preston Clayton
of Edenton officiated at the last
rites. Burial was made in the
family plot in the church ceme
tery.
Mr. Barnes was born in Tyrrell
County in 1869, the son of the
late Ebenezcr and Ann Chaplin
Barnes, moving to Washington
County while still a boy. He was
a member of the Saints Delight
Church and a regular attendant
at services for the past 55 years.
Until declining health limited his
activities, he was an elder in the
church. He was married to the
late Macie A. Barnes, who pre
ceded him in death several years:
ago.
Mr. Barnes is survived by two
sons, C. W. Barnes of Plymouth,
and Ben Barnes of Plymouth,
route one; two daughters, Mrs.
Joseph M. Cox, sr., of Elizabeth
City and Mrs. Paul H. Garvey
of Norfolk, Va.; 15 grandchildren
and 19 great-grandchildren.