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own
opics
The Plymouth Merchants Asso
ciation will hold its regular meet
ing for June next Tuesday, June
7, at 3 p. m., in the American
Legion Hall, according to W. S.
Davenport, president. He re
quests all members of the associa
g.j tion to be present. Plans for a
dollar-days promotion on a town
wide scale are to be considered.
J. S. Fleming, principal of
Plymouth High School, will be
in his office tomorrow from 9 a.
m. to 5 p. m. and every day next
week through Friday at the same
hours. His office then will be
closed until a few weeks before
school begins next fall.
Unsigned advertisments op
posing the road-bond issue are
appearing in this and other news
papers of the section this week,
They are being sponsored by the
Petroleum Industries Committee,
with headquarters in Raleigh,
which has taken the lead in fight
ing the bond proposals through
out the state.
The Plymouth High School
Band will practice right on
through the summer months, al
though school will not be in ses
sion, Mrs. Ethel G. Hopkins,
director of the band, said yes
terday. Practices are scheduled
on the school grounds every
Thursday night.
| All offices in the county court
house here will be closed this
Saturday, according to county of
ficials, They cite regulations for
bidding the transaction of busi
ness within a certain distance of
polling places during elections.
Saturday is the day the special
“Better Roads and Schools” bond
election will be held. The court
house is the polling place for
Plymouth Precinct No. 1.
Howard Carr, manager of the
local A. and P. Tea Company
Store, has gone to Greenville to
take charge of that store for three
weeks. Mrs. Carr is managing the
store here during his absence.
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Town and County
Boards. To Meet
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Regular meetings are scheduled
Monday by town and county gov
erning boards. The county com
missioners and board of educa
tion will meet in the courthouse^
Monday morning at 10 o’clock^
while the new Plymouth Ctty
Council will hold its session In
the clerk's office at the municipal
building Monday night at 8.
Routine matters are expected to
consume most of the time, al
though consideration of the an
nual budgets is due to be under
taken at the sessions. Members
of the county board of education
have been .called to meet Friday
morning of this week to begin
work on the school budget for the
fiscal year.
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Drive Now on for
Concert Members
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The Plymouth Municipal Con
cert Association’s membership
drive ends Saturday at 6 p. m.,
according to a planned schedule.
The campaign got underway
Monday morning, when Miss
Lynn Shelor, field representative
of Municipal Concerts, Inc. met
f>with local campaign captains and
’ helpers to outline the six-day
drive.
This afternoon at 3 o’clock the
campaign captains, helpers, and
Miss Shelor will again meet in
the Legion Hall, to find out how
. far the campaign has advanced
.and to plan the finish of the drive
by Saturday night.
Miss Shelor said yesterday that
she had no idea how many con
cert tickets had been sold, but
regardless of the sale, Plymouth
is sure of three concerts next fall
and winter. The first will be
sometime before Christmas and
the other two will be afterwards.
All concerts are scheduled to be in
the high school auditorium.
After the local concert ticket
sale ends Saturday the talent com
mittee of the local association will
choose the three concert artists
they prefer to appear here.
Veterans To Build on
Pay-as-Y ou-Go’ Plan
Members of the James E. Je
thro Post No. 164 of the American
Legion voted to adopt a “pay
as-you-go plan” on the Plymouth
veteran’s building at their regular
post meeting last Friday night.
Hubert Ange, head of the post's
ways and means committee, put
before his comrads the commit
tee’s plan to raise money for the
building as it is needed, rather
than borrow it from some out
side source. Members of the
post adopted this proposal,
with an amendment that the plan
be brought up for a vote again
in the next legion meeting, sche
duled for June 10 and 24th. Dal
las Waters, post commander, re
ported that the re-vote would
give all the members a chance to
vote on the issue.
P. B. Bateman, R. L. Tetterton,
T. S. Allen and Jesse McNair
were appointed as Plymouth dele
gates to the state legion conven
tion to be held in Raleigh late in
June. Alternate delegates will be
appointed at the next regular
meeting of the post.
The Roanoke Beacon
****** and Washington County News ******
A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington
County and its 13,000 people.
VOLUME LX—NUMBER 22
Plymouth, Washington County, North Caiolina, Thursday, June 2, 1949
ESTABLISHED 1880
j 2.024 Persons Given j
jtliesl X-Rays Here !
A total of 2,024 county residents
received a free X-ray chest photo
in Plymouth last week from the
mobile X-ray unit, which was
stationed here Tuesday through
Saturday.
Saturday was the busiest day
for the X-ray unit workers, when
467 were X-^rayed. On Tuesday
392 per«6hs were X-rayed, 358
Wednesday; 362 tjj(ursday and
445 Friday.
Persons 15
s V
years If age and
older, colored or white, were eli
gible. Those who were photo
graphed will receive a post card !
in about 10 to 12 days stating the J
result of the X-ray, according to i
mobile unit officials.
The mobile»unit is scheduled to i
return to Plymouth on June 18,
to re-take only the films that 1
were unsatisfactory. Persons who j
will have to be X-rayed again,
will be notified, officials of the !
Washington-Tyrrell District Heal
th Department said yesterday.
Lamb Sale Will Be
Held Here Tuesday
Roads Speaker
HereTomorrow
The Washington County Farm
Bureau meeting scheduled for
Friday night at 8 o'clock in the
agriculture building in Plym
outh will be open to the gen
eral public, W. M. Darden,
president of the organization,
said yesterday.
State Senator W. I. Halstead,
of Camden County, will speak
on the “Better Schools and
Roads,” bond issue, which will
be voted on in the election Sat
urday. Farm Bureau members
are urged to attend and the
public is invited.
Five Stills Raided
By ABC Officers in
County Last Month
Fines and Costs Levied
On Five Men Arrested
Total $433.75; Equip
" "ment Seized
Five stills weljn seized and out
fits broken up during the month
of May by ABC Enforcement Of
ficers, according to a report pre
pared yesterday by L. L. Bas
night, in charge of the enforce
ment work. In addition, county
and town officers arrested five
men charged with bootlegging or
possession of non-tax-paid whis
key, and they assessed with a
total of $433.75 in fines and costs
during the month, the report
shows.
The first outfit raided was on
the Backwoods Road, where three
barrels of mash, still and cap
were seized or destroyed. No. 2
was on the old Columbia Road
near Patrick’s store. The still,
cap, cooler, doubler, buckets, jugs
and funnel were captured, and
four barrels of mash were de
stroyed.
Raid No. 3 netted an outfit on
the Mackeys Road, back of Shad
rack Davenport’s farm, near the
railroad. Three barrels of mash
were poured out, and a complete
outfit, including a pump, was
seized. Officers went to site No.
4 just a bit too soon. This was
on the Morrattock road, back of
Doss Linder’s farm. A well had
been dug and part of the still was
at the site, but no mash was
found.
Raid No. 5 was in Skinnersville
Township, near the highway be
tween Jimmie Spruill's store and
Richard Patrick’s store. A cop
per still, worm, cap, doubling keg
and cooling barrel comprised most
of the equipment, and the officers
also got 10 gallons of whiskey
and destroyed seven barrels of
mash.
Officers taking part in the raids
and arresting the five men tried
included L. L. Basnight, L. C.
Snell, Sheriff J. K. Reid, Foy Dav
enport, and Paul Basnight.
Producers of Four Coun
ties To Cooperate in
Shipping Two Carloads
Again This Year
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Lamb producers of four coun
ties will get together to sponsor a
cooperative lamb sale in Plym
outh next Tuesday, June 7th,
County Farm Agent W. V. Hays
announced yesterday. Counties
cooperating in making the ship
ment are Beaufort, Tyrrell, Cho
wan and Washington, and farm
agents from all of them are ex
pected to be on hand.
Professor R. S. Curtiss, livestock
marketing specialist for the North
Carolina Division of Marketing,
will be here with a grader to aid
in making arrangements for the
sale.
Mr. Hays expects from 250 to
260 lambs to be offered at the
sale, and at least two carloads
will be shipped. This is about the
same as last year, he stated. The
sale last year was the most suc
cessful ever held here, and it is
expected the one next week will
be equally as good. The price of
spring lambs, top grade, at a
similar sale in Tarboro last week,
was 31 cents, according to the
farm agent.
Producers are requested to
have their lambs at the loading
pens at the Atlantic Coast Line
station here as early as possible
next Tuesday morning. The ship
ment will move out about noon,
according to present plans.
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Bean Beetles Do
Damage to Crops
Many counties in the state have
been invaded by the army worm,
however Washington County is
lucky in some respects and not
so in other respects, according to
W. V. Hays, county farm agent.
The army worm got up to the
Beaufort-Washington County line,
but didn’t cross over, Mr. Hays
said after inspecting that area.
Bean beetles are the present
villains in this county. They are
said to be spreading generally all
over the county, and the damage
is mounting. Dick Norman, local
flier, was planning to spray for
this pest several weeks ago, when
he crashed in his plane.
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Bishop Wright to Visit
County Churches Sunday
The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright,
D. D., bishop of the Episcopal Dio
cese of East Carolina, will visit
the churches of Pettigrew Parish
on Sunday, June 5, according to
the following schedule:
Old St. David’s Church, near
Creswell, 11 a. m.
Galilee Mission, Lake Phelps,
3 p. m.
St. Andrews, Columbia, 8 p. m.
The Rev. B. Wood Gaither,
rector of the parish, extends a
cordial welcome for all to attend.
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Polls Open at j
6:30 Saturday !
Washington County voters
are reminded that the polls for
the special bond election Sat
urday will be open from 6:30
a. m. until 6:30 p. m. Up to
four or five years ago, the open
ing and closing of the polling
places were controlled by the
rising and setting of the sun,
but the 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m.
rule was made to provide a
more definite time for opening
and closing.
Foiling places and officials at
the six county precincts were
announced several weeks ago.
All registrars and judges of
election are required to be on
hand when the polls open at
6:30 a. m.
Dr. J.. D. Messick
Speaker at Finals
Here Last Week
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Special Awards Present
ed and Diplomas Given
Graduates at Exercises
Thursday Night
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"Work hai d. budget your time,
be a good citizen and you will
succeed in a world, inwhich the
competition is very stiff,” Dr.
John D. Messick, president of
East Carolina Teachers College,
told seniors of Plymouth High
School, parents and guests in the
commencement address at the
local school last Thursday night.
The Rev. P. B. Nickens deliver
ed the invocation and benediction.
R. F. Lowry, superintendent of
county schools, introduced Dr.
Messick. Ann Tetterton gave the
saluatory and Helen Alexander
spoke the valedictory. The school
glee club rendered several songs.
Ralph Hunter, representing
local posts of the American Le
gion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars, presented the veteran's
first annual scholarship cup to
Helen Alexander, who was tied
with Nina Stillman, of Roper,
and Alice Davenport, of Creswell,
for the highest scholastic average
in the county. Each scholastic
winner will get to keep the cup
three months.
Mrs. W. J. Woola-d. past-presi
dent of the Plymouth Woman’s
Club, gave the first annual club
medal to Louis Singleton, for be
ing voted the best all-around stu
dent.
J. S. Fleming, principal of the
high school .presented the good
citizenship medal to Melvin
St.vons: the salutatorian medal to
Ann Tetterton and the valdietori
an medal to Helen Alexander.
A. L. Owens, chairman of the
school committee, handed each of
the 27 graduating seniors his di
ploma. They were: Helen Al
exander, Frances Ange, Ross
Ayers, Betty Jo Bowen. Gladys
Rose Carr. Elizabeth Lane (Peg
gy) Cox, Evelyn Gurganus, Jean-:
ne Harrison, Ramona Herrington,'
Barbara Matheny, Martha ParkarJ
Gloria Peyton, Gracelyn Reid,
Carolyn Spruill, Lorena Snell,
Helen Styons, Ann Tetterton,
Clarence Alexander, Foster Ange,
Alton Beddard, Jack Booker,
Rogers Byrd, Bob Hamilton, Wil
lian McKeel, Louis Singleton,
Ronnie Slaughter and Melvin
Styons.
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Two Get Degrees
At Wake Forest
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Two Washington County young
men were among the 375 graduat
es who received diplomas at the
115th annual commencement ex
ercises at Wake Forest Tuesday
night. They are Joseph A1 La
tham, son o* County Commission,
er and Mrs. A. R. Latham, of
Plymouth; and Charles T. White,
jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
White, sr., of the Skinnersville
section. Both received the de
gree of Bachelor of Science.
Dr. Robert Lee Humber, prom
inent Greenville attorney and
founder of the movement for
World Federation, was the com
mencement speaker. Diplomas
and honorary degrees were pre
sented by Dr. Thurman D. Kit
chin, president of the college, be
fore a capacity crowd of 2,000 in
the new chapel.
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Three Plymouth Boys
Fork Union Graduates
James Polk Spruill, Tommy
West and Clarence Kelly, jr., all
of Plymouth, received high-school
diplomas at Fork Union. Military
Academy commencement exer
cises last Monday at Fork Union, |
Va. James Polk was cadet lieu-1
tenant of the honor company of ;
the battalion; Clarence Kelly re
ceived an award as the best cadet
private for the school year, and
Tommy West received a good con
duct award.
Spruill was a four-year student
at the academy, while the other
two boys were there only during
their senior year. All three of
them are planning to enter the
University of North Carolina next
fall.
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Lake Phelps Legion Post
Will Meet Monday Night
The Lake Phelps Post, No. 391,
American Legion, will hold its
next regular meeting Monday
night, June 6, at the Starlite Club
in Creswell, according to an
nouncement this week by H. S.
Woodley, adjutant. The meeting
will begin at 8 p. m., and a sup
per will be served after the ses
sion, at $1.50 per plate, to those
who wish to remain.
Voters Go To Polls Saturday To
Pass on Road and School Bonds
Trucks Collide in
First Accident at
New Intersection
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Nobody Hurt but Consid
erable Damage Report
ed; Warning Signs Put
Up Since
intersection of U. S.
64 and 32, just south
tinion station on Washing
had its first accident
afternoon shortly after
when a big Thurston
trailer and a North
Pulp Company truck col
one was injured, but
property damage
tractor and trail
by Sidney Briggs
of Wilson, was headed
US 64, while the pulp
truck, operated by Bry
of Jamesville, was
on US 32 when they
the intersection. The
and about half of the
the intersection
pulp company truck
in the side, knocking the
out from under the
Neither vehicle over
Basnight investigat
and issued a war
Snipes, charging speeding
testimony. Basnight
Thurston driver admitted
going about 45 miles an
Reason said he was
not over 25. The impact
the cylinder head off the
the pulp company truck
and badly damaged its front. The
Thurston trailer was damaged.
Loaded with 25,000 pounds of
freight the truck and trailer
over 150 feet after the
was
traffic only a
few days ago, no traffic signs had
been erected by the highway de
partment. That deficiency was
taken care of shortly after the
accident yesterday.
Over 300 at Lions
Minstrel Tuesday,
Last Time Tonight
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About $200 Realized for
Recreation Fund Thus
Far; Program Is Well
Received
Yes suh, ye old minstrel has
come to town. It didn’t really
come to town. It’s been here all
the time. It just took a local civic
club like the Lions Club to get
the local talent together and
sing, tell jokes and perform some
unique and funny skits in an
hour and a half.
Don’t you fret if you weren’t
one of the 50 people who didn’t
quite fill the high school audi
torium to capacity Tfciesday night,
(300 people attended the show
according to Lions Club officials)
because “Plymouth Minstrels”
will be given again tonight at 8
o’clock in the high school audi
IU1 1UIII.
Lions club members urge you
to come out and see the show.
Relax and have a good time. Your
money will go for a good cause
too. The Lions Club is turning
the iroceeds of the show over to
its recreational fund, which en
courages athletics and recreation
for the local children.
E. M. Leavitt, chairman of the
Lions minstrel committee, says
that about $200 was taken in at
Tuesday night’s performance and
he would like to see more than
that put in the recreational fund
after tonight’s performance.
Tonight you’ll see and hear
seven endmen perform, solos of i
comic songs, new songs, old songs:
a tap dance; a quartet; a trom
bone solo, a duet with bells and
musical glasses, a comedy skit,
and songs by the entire company.
Tonight is the night, at 8 o’clock
in the high school auditorium.
"Plymouth Minstrels" with home
town talent.
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Colored Unit of Farm
Bureau Meets Saturday
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Members of the colored unit
of the Washington County Farm
Bureau are scheduled to meet in
the Creswell High School audi
torium Saturday morning at 10
o’clock, according to T. L. Wilkins,
president of the unit. He urges
every member to be present.
Better Schools and Roads
An Editorial
Washington County people have an opportunity Saturday
to vote in favor of a fair and equitable method of distributing
state funds for the construction of public roads. We take it for
granted that everyone realizes the need for school buildings
and that the bond issue for this purpose will be carried over
whelmingly. It is the bond issue for secondary roads that is
causing concern and is the subject of this article.
In the past, road allocations have largely been made on
the basis of political influence wielded by each coJjnty on the
state level. The county which could rally the heaviest political
pressure received the most roads. This is shown conclusively by
figures on the paved mileage of school-bus routes in the 100
counties of the state.
Washington is a small county, in population and in political
prestige. It has 54.8 miles of paved school bus routes out of
a total of 181.5 miles, or 30.2 per cent. It has fared little better
than the counties which normally vote Republican and are there
fore, with few exceptions, at the bottom of the list. The state
average is 33.4 per cent. Mecklenburg, potent both in population
and politics, has 56.6 per cent of its 62 7.5 miles of school-bus
routes paved. Pasquotank, relatively small in population but
strong politically, has 49.6 per cent of its 166.8 miles of school
bus routes paved. Mitchell, a western Republican county, has
only 18.3 per cent of its 191.1 miles paved. New' Hanover, in
w'hich the city of Wilmington is located, has 131.2 out of its
141.9 miles paved, or 92.5 per cent. This list can be continued
indefinitely.
Under any so-called “pay-as-you-go” plan for building
secondary roads, contract lettings will continue to be decided on
a political basis, because the limited funds are susceptible to
influence. Under the long-range program outlined in the bond
proposal on which we vote Saturday, the law specifically provides
for allocations on a basis of population, area and road mileage.
Washington County will get $926,000 on this basis, and there
is nothing Pasquotank, Mecklenburg, New Hanover or any other
county can do about it. We may be longer getting our roads
than the larger, politically stronger counties, but the funds are
assured under the program.
It also may be significant that newspaper opposition to the
road-bond issue centers in those counties which have more than
their share of paved school-bus routes, using the 33.4 per cent
state average as a fair figure. Again coming to mind in this
connection are Elizabeth City, in Pasquotank, with 49.6 per cent;
Mecklenburg, with 56.6 per cent; High Point, in Guilford, with
43.75 per cent; Durham, with 38.73 per cent: Hertford, in Per
quimans, with 52.7 per cent; and so on. It is all right for them
to advocate “pay-as-you-go,” because they do the going and we
do the paying.
If the bond issue is approved, one cent per gallon will be
added to the gasoline tax. This will raise an estimated $7,000,000
each year, which with the amount now being paid on bonds
issued in the 1920s should take care of all interest and bond
retirements after 1952-53, when payments on the old issue ceases.
No other tax increases are contemplated, and the total amount
of interest on the new issue at 2 per cent will amount to less than
$37,250,000, based on serial retirements by 1971-72. It is not
proposed to issue all the bonds at one time, but over a period of
six years; and they are to be paid off within 22 years.
One other thing. The road-bond issue is not a continuation
of the Johnson-Scott primary battle of a year ago, as some are
trying to make it. The bond proposal should be decided on its
merits and not because a Johnson supporter wishes to cast another
vote against Governor Scott for advocating the issue. This is the
motive underlying much of the opposition, and it is unworthy
of any fair-minded person.
We urge every Washington County citizen to go to the polls
and vote on the bond issues Saturday. It is our hope that both
issues are carried, but we urge you to vote anyway. Your vote
may be important.
Music Recital Sunday
At Roper High Schoc
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A musical recital will be hel
in the Roper High School auditoi
ium Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clocl
Talent from Mackeys, Plymoutl
Edenton, Pleasant Grove an
Roper will take part. A silve
offering will be taken at the doo
for the benefit of the Rope
Methodist Church building func
The public is cordially invitei
and urged to attend.
[ Mud Cut Weeds
{On Vacant Lots
Chief of Police P. W. Brown
this week issued an appeal to
owners of vacant lots to have
weeds cut down and the lots
cleaned up. The town ordi
nace requiring this also con
tains authority for police to
have the weeds cut down and
require payment by the owner,
but Mr. Brown said he didn’t
want to take such action until
everyone had been given notice.
Weeds and trash harbor mos
quitoes, as well as provide them
breeding places, and property
owners are notified to have the
vacant lots cleaned off or the
penalties provided by law will
be invoked.
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Fire Damages Chair
In Jack Williams Home
i Fire damaged the head rest oi
- an upholstered chair in the home
• of Jack Williams on Ft. Williams
j Street about 1 o’clock Wednes
r day afternoon, according to of
r ficials of the Plymouth Fire De
r partment.
The chair was backed up
1 against a flue outlet in the liv
ing room. Soot in the chimney
• caught fire from an oil stove in
an adjoining room. The burning
soot dropped through the living
room outlet, lower than the stove
outlet, and set fire to the chair.
1 Auxiliary Gets $126
Through Poppy Sale
The local American Liegion
Auxiliary obtained $12fi through
the sale of veteran’s poppies last
Saturday, Mrs, W. H. Thomas,
chairman of the poppy commit
tee reported.
The poppies were sold by a
number of Girl Scouts and several
boys who volunteered their ser
vices. Paul Blackburn sold $22.50
worth of poppies, for the highest
individual sales of the day. Mar
garet Harris collected $21.25 to
place second. Both poppy sales
men received a prize for their ef
forts. Mrs. W. V. Hays enter
tained all the children who sold
poppies at her home Saturday
afternoon.
The poppies were made by
patients in the Oteen Veteran’s
Hospital, near Asheville and
Swannanoa Veteran’s Hospital
near Fayetteville All the money
collected in the sale will be kept
in the county for the welfare of
disabled veterans and the needy
children of veterans.
Small Vote Is Considered
, Only Threat to Favor
able Vote on Proposals
In This County
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With the date for voting on the
S225.000.000 school and road bond
issues only two days away, the
Washington County committee for
Better Schools and Roads is mak
ing every effort to get out the
vote on Saturday, June 4. accord
ing to J. E. Davenport, chairman
of the committee.
Mr. Davenport said yesterday
that it is the opinion of the com
mitte that if all the people in
Washington County who favor the
issues go to the polls and vote,
both propositions will receive
huge majorities in the county.
All citizens who are registered
for the regular county elections
will be eligible to vote.
Members of the committee have
been busy this week lining up
workers in each of the six county
precincts. They are explaining
the benefits that will be derived
locally if the program is success
ful. The committee, in canvass
ing the county, is stressing the
fact that this may well be the op
portunity of a lifetime for those
who live on dirt roads to secure,
at small cost to themselves, some
of the advantages of paved roads
now enjoyed by those living in
cities and towns. It is the op
portunity for business and pro
fessional men to vote for better
roads to repay in some measure
their obligations to their custom
ers who live on dirt roads and
who have many years been help
ing to pay for the paved roads
enjoyed by others.
The committee again points out
that Washington County would
receive $92,272 from the school
bond issue, in addition to the
$250,000 allocated by the recent
legislature, for construction and
improvement of school buildings
and equipment. The county also
would receive $926,000 from the
road bond issue to be used on
secondary roads to make them
hard - surfaced or all - weather
roads. There will be on addition
al tax levied on real estate or
personal property to pay either
of the bond issues. There will be
an additional tax of one cent per
gallon of gasoline to be used in
payment of the road bond issue.
According to figures released
this week. Washington County has
181.5 miles of roads which are
used as school bus routes. Of
this, 54.8 miles are paved, or 30.2
per cent, against a state average
of 33.4 per cent. It is the pur
pose of the road-bond issue to
first make all-weather or surfac
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Chevrolet Force
At Big Jamboree
J. W. House and all members
of the shop personnel of House
Chevrolet Company will be in
Charlotte Saturday for a mam
moth “June Jamboree,“ sponsor
ed by the Charlotte zone Chevro
let dealers organization. The ser
vice department of the local firm
will be closed all day Saturday,
but the sales and parts depart
ment will be kept open by George
Barden, only member of the
firm who is not attending the
event in Charlotte.
The jamboree was planned to
celebrate a new service and sales
record made in March and April
by dealerships in the Charlotte
zone. The dealers of this zone
have put up about $50,000 for the
event, which is being held at the
Charlotte Fair Grounds. Four
automobiles, pianos, television sets
and other valuable prizes will be
given away free during the jam
boree, which starts at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning and continues
until late that night, when a big
ball is planned with music fur
nished by a nationally famous
name band.