I’own f opic§ I The Plymouth Lions Club meet .. ing scheduled for tonight has been called off, Vice President L. N. Womble announced this morn ing. Quite a number of club mem bers are on vacation, and the lo cal baseball team has a double f3) header scheduled in the local park tonight, so club officials got to gether late yesterday and decided not to attempt the meeting to night. Walter F. Williams, Washing ton County Sesqui-Centennial Celebration spectacle director promotion manager, from the John B. Rodgers Producing Com pany, of Fostoria, O.. producers of the spectacle and originators of celebration idea, has taken up his duties in the celebration head quarters in the Leggett Building. F. R. Hartley, of New Bern, is managing the local A. and P. Tea Co. Store while Howard Carr is taking a three-weeks vacation. Mr. Hartley is known in his com pany as a “relief man,'” substi tuting for regular managers who are on vacation. He has four more stores to manage, before he re turns to New Bern. It was announced last Fri day that the September meet ing of the Washington County Board of Commissioners will be postponed for one weeit, from September 5 to Septem ber 12. on account of the Labor Day holiday on the first Mon day. All meetings of the county board are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a. m., in the commis sioners' room at the courthouse. Roy F. Lowry, superintendent of county sechools, left yesterday morning for Mars Hill College, Mars Hill to attend a three-day meeting of county school super intendents. He expects to return to Plymouth Friday evening. _ # - Nearly a dozen members of the Plymouth local unions attended sessions of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, which held it? annua! convention in Charlotte on August 8, 9 and 10. Among those attending were Lewis E. Price, representative of the In ternational Brotherhood of Pulp. Sulphite & Paper Mill Workers: Max Willette, Ludford McNair, G. W. Ange and Nathan W. Spru ill. cf Local No. 356, IBPS&PMW; ^ouglas Gurkin, Newman * Allen and George Waters, of Local No. 415. International Union of Oper ating Engineers; Alton Baker and Dan McCray, of Local No. 605, . IBPS&PMW. G. W. Hardison and G. A. Peele are the new agents in Plymouth for the Home Security Life Insurance Company, A. W. Liverman, district manager, an nounced last week. Phil G. Liver man, who formerly represented the company in Plymouth, was transferred to Beaufort several w/eks ago. Mrs. Sabrie W. Reid, assistant state supervisor of public school lunch room workers in area 7, expects to return to Plymouth Friday afternoon, after spending five days in Elizabeth City in structing classes in the colored school lunch room workshop held at Elizabeth City State Teachers College. Plymouth Fire Chief Miller Warren and Mrs. Warren, fire men Durant Keel and Mrs. Keel, Earl Bowen and Mrs. Bowen and Aarry Barnhill plan to return Plymouth this afternoon after attending the annual state fire men’s convention at Carolina Beach, which began last Monday. --- Celebration Headquarters To Be in Leggett Building Washington County Sesqui Centennial Celebration headquar ters is upstairs above O. R. Leg gett’s Sons Jewelry Store in the lobby between Weaver’s Studios and the Ward-Ashby Insurance Agency office on East Water Street in Plymouth. Plymouth Colerainin Double-Header Here ^Plymouth will have its first double-header of the current sea son tonight, when the Colerain Trappfcrs play two games with the-'Rams in the local park, the iirst game, a seven-inning affair, | to start at 6:30. The second game will be for the regulation nine innings, weather permitting. Fri day night, Hertford plays here, and Saturday night the Rams go to Hertford. Rain has just about wrecked the league schedule, which was carded to end Saturday night of this week. At a directors’ meet ing several weeks ago, it was de cided to add four days to the sea son to take care of July 13, 14, 15 and 16 games, all of which were rained out. This means that Plym outh will play in Colerain Sun day afternoon, and the Trappers will come here Monday night. Tuesday night the Rams go to Hertford, and the season will close with Hertford here Wed nesday night of next week. It is not known when the Rams will play off Monday’s rained-out game with Elizabeth City. How ard B. Gaylord, league president, said yesterday that a meeting of the league directors would be held the first of the week to de cide on any unplayed games. As things now stand, the post-sea son series is scheduled to begin Thursday of next week, with the team which finishes first in the league drawing from the No. 3 and 4 teams. The No. 2 team will meet the No. 3 or 4 team which doesn’t meet the league leader. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** ill A home newspaper dedicated Hi ip to the service of Washington jij Hi County and its 13,000 people, jij ::::::::::::: VOLUME LX—NUMBER 33 Plymouth, Washington County, North Caiolina, Thursday, August 18, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1889 | BACK-SLIDING BUSH-GROWER LITERALLY OVER A BARREL : I --------* if f That old expression “over a barrel” has literal meaning to L. Nyal Womble, local druggist, who shaved off his chin whiskers a week or s> ago and is shown here getting his just deserts. The avenging bush growers applying the shaving lotion are, left to right. Dick Mallory, Tom Gardner (who, incidentally, is due the same medicine for shaving since this photo was made), Nick Ange, Perry Turner and John Forbes Davenport. Other non-patriotic males in Washington County can expect the same medicine as soon as the kangaroo court gets into action within the next few days. It’s all part of the attendant publicity for the Washington County Sesqui-Centen nial Celebration to be held here September 18-52.—Photo by Weaver Studio. Highway Needs In County Topic At Meeting Here ; Electric Storm j ) Blows High Line i A severe wind and electrical storm hit parts of Northeastern North Carolina Monday after noon, doing considerable dam age to electric power lines. Lightning blew out everything at the 110,000-volt sub-station in Tarboro, causing power to be off in all towns in the section for nearly an hour. Service was restored, after the plant was re fused shortly after 6 p. m. W. H. Joyner received a slight shock from a lightning bolt shortly after noon, just as he was entering his office on Wa ter Street. The shock caused his arm to draw up for a few minutes, but he was not hurt nearly as badly as he was scared. Leder Bros. Open Williamslon Store -1 Leder Brothers are opening a new department store in William ston Thursday night of this week. William S. McCombs, formerly assistant manager of the Plym outh store, is manager of the new store in Williamston, which is lo cated on Main Street next to Darden’s Department Store. J. J. Segerman, manager of the local store, has been in charge of arrangements for opening the new unit in the Leder Brothers’ system, and a number of local people are planning to attend the formal opening of the store in Williamston tonight. Members of County Board Confer With District Commissioner and En gineers Last Friday Members of the Washington County Board of Commissioners and district and division high way officials met at the court house here last Friday afternoon for a preliminary discussion of the county's road needs and pro spects under the secondary road building program to be launched by the state as a result of ratifi cation of the $200,000,000 bond issue by state voters early in June. W. Guy Hargett, of Richlands, second district highway commis sioner; R. Markham, of Green ville, division engineer; and J. J. Gilbert, of Washington, district engineer, were the highway of ficials present. Frank L. Brinkley, chairman of the board of county commissioners, presided over the meeting, which was also attended by Commissioners Jesse L. Know les, of Roper, and A. R. Latham, of Plymouth. Commissioners Hu bert L. Davenport, of Skinners ville, and Harry W. Pritchett, of Creswell were unable to be pre sent. No definite decisions were made about allocation of the road funds or specific projects, but the high way officials indicated they would be governed largely by the desires expressed by the county board of commissioners. The whole road situation in the coun ty was discussed, including the status of projects presently un derway. Mr. Hargett asked for expres sions by the board members as to the secondary roads consider ed most necessary, and County School Superintendent R. F. Low ry was called in to give some in formation about school bus routes and the population served by sev eral roads. The commissioners made no specific requests, and said they wished to have the ad vice of the two absent members (See HIGHWAYS, Page 5) Workshop Here For Lunch Room Workers of Area -4 Three-Day Session To Be Held at High School, Starting Monday of Next Week Preparations are just about complete to hold a workshop for white school lunch room person nel, principals and other interest ed persons from the 21 counties in area 7 of eastern North Caro lina in the Plymouth High School building next Monday through Wednesday, according to an an nouncement made Tuesday by Mrs. Sabrie W. Reid, resident as sistant state supervisor of lunch room workers. The three-day schedule of the workshop is as follows: Monday, August 22—Registra tion is planned from 9 a. m. to 9:30 a. m. From 9:30 a. m. to 10 a. m. Roy F. Lowry, county school superintendent, and J. S. Fleming, Plymouth High School principal, plan to extend greet ings to those attending. Mrs. Reid plans to review last year’s lunch room program from 10 a. m. to 12 noon. Lunch is planned from noon to 1:15 p. m. At 1:15 p. m. to 3 p. m. Mrs. Elsie McCormick, of (See WORKSHO.P, Page 5) BLOODSHED ! BOX SCORE j From midnight Monday of last week through midnight Monday of this week, 10 per sons were killed in North Car olina highway accidents and 199 were injured, the State Highway Patrol has reported. Following is the box score for this year, as compared with the same period last year: Killed August 9 through August 15- 10 Injured August 9 through August 15_ 199 Killed through August 15, this year 470 Killed through August 15, 1948 . 409 Injured through August 15, this year 5,519 Injured through August 15, 1948 4,383 Second District Bar Will Meet in County The Bar Association of the Se cond Judicial District will hold its annual meeting at Albemarle Beach Saturday of this week, be ginning at 10:30 a. m. The district is composed of Washington, Mar tin, Edgecombe, Nash and Wil son Counties and comprises about 100 lawyers. Charles McLean, of Wilson, is president of the association and will preside at the meeting. An interesting program has been pre pared, including a guest speaker, according to Z. V. Norman, of Plymouth, in charge of local ar rangements. Officers will be elected for the coming year, and a dinner will be served at the beach. The seven justices of the Su preme Court of North Carolina and the Hon. Walter J. Bone, of N? shville, resident judge of the second district, have been invited to attend, and a large attendance is expected. Local Draft Board Office Will Close Friday, August 26 Youths Reaching Age of 18 Must Continue To Register; Regional Of fice To Be Set Up The office of the Washington County Selective Service Board No. 95. located in the courthouse, will close Friday, August 26, ac cording to word received from Col. Thomas H. Upton, deputy state director of selective service. The office records will be mov ed to a sub-depot for maintenance and servicing. The local board is to remain intact, with Robert L. Tetterton. of Plymouth, as chair man: Otis A. Chesson, of Roper, A. W. Davenport, of Cherry, as members: and Zeb V. Norman, of Plymouth, as appeal agent. A full-time clerk is to be on duty at the sub-depot to keep the records of all boards filed in that office up to date. The clerk will work under close direction of a clerical audit supervisor. When the supervisor feels that there are enough cases in the local board requiring consideration of the members of the board, she will notify the local board to ar range for a meeting at a time, date and place in the county agreed upon by the members. The j clerical audit supervisor will be : present at such meetings as the local board clerk and have with ! her the files of those cases that require the attention of the board. In case there is an induction call, the supervisor will give the list of names of the registrants available for call in sequence of selective service number, to ob tain the local board members’ au thority to issue the order to re port for induction. The clerical details will be handled from the sub-depot and the supervisor will be present on the day of depar ture to attend to all the details A selective service registrar, not yet named, will handle the continuing registration of new re gistrants in the county. The location of the sub-depot and the name of the supervisor will be made known soon, accord ing to selective service officials. County boys who reach the age of 18 on or before August 26th are reminded to continue regis tering in the office in the court house until that time. __ W. Rex Harrison Dies in Hospital Members of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post will hold a military burial in the Vail Ceme tery near Plymouth Friday after noon at 4:30 o’clock for W. Rex Harrison, a former resident, who died at 12:20 a. m. after an illness of three weeks. Services will be held in the Ludford Memorial Baptist Church. The Rev. W. B. Harrington, of Williamston will conduct the services. Mr. Harrison was the son of Mrs. Sadie Vail Harrison and the late Luther D. Harrison, of Wash ington County. He was born in the county on October 29. 1909. He lived in the county until nine years ago, when he moved to Nor folk, Va. Mr. Harrison was a fire man in the shipyard there. He married Clara Martin, of James ville, in South Mills on March 22, 1941. He served in the U. S. Navy during World War II for 3H years as a Machinist Mate First Class. For the most part he was in the Pacific Theatre of operations. Mr. Harrison is survived by his mother, wife, one son, W. Rex Harrison, jr., of Norfolk, Va.; three brothers, Tom Harrison, of Plymouth; Roddy Harrison, of Norfolk, Va.; and Earl Harrison, of Hampton, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Cockrel, of Norfolk, Va., and Mrs. Hazel Miers, of Ply mouth. Tobacco Markets in This Section Opening Friday Insurance Rebates Due Most Veterans Local Officer Says Arrangements Are Being Made by Service Offi cer of County To Aid in Filing Claims -» Arrangements are being made to aid the 1.500 veterans in Wash ington County by two methods about September 1st, according to information from W. Ronald Gaylord, county veteran’s service officer. First, National Service Life In surance is planning to give a divi dend to veterans who held any amount of insurance with them at any time. Practically every veteran is entitled to a rebate, Mr. Gaylord said. Secondly, the Veteran’s Survey Service is in terested in learning whether any claim filed by a veteran hasn’t been received, and if not, fulfill the veterans desire by making the claim good. Both of these methods of aid ing the veteran are to be operat ed concurrently. Plans are being formulated to have the local wo men’s service organizations in terview the veteran for insurance rebates and claims in a mass ope ration at the Plymouth High School buildings. County white veterans will be taken care of at Plymouth White High School and colored veterans will be assisted at the Plymouth Colored School. The schedule for reporting to the schools will be set up when the questionnaires arrive from the two aid services, Mr. Gaylord said. To apply for the insurance re bate and claims, veterans will I need to give their full name, per manent address, service serial number, branch of service, date of birth, insurance policy number and discharge papers. No Home Club Meetings Scheduled This Month Mrs. Frances M. Darden’s "Home Club News” does not ap pear in the Beacon this week as their will be no home demonstra tion club meetings until Septem ber. ♦ Local Rotarians See Movie About Louisiana P. Bruce Bateman presented a movie in color of the state of Louisiana to members of the Plymouth Rotary Club at their regular meeting Tuesday night. William E. Waters, vice president of the local club, presided over the meeting. PRESIDENT E. O. Arnold, of Washington County, was elected president of the Southern Albemarle As sociation at its annual session in Manns Harbor Wednesday of last week. He will take office in October. Arnold President South Albemarle Group Next Year —♦— Elected at Business Ses sion in Manns Harbor Last Week; Jack W. House Vice President E. O. Arnold, Washington County Representative to the General Assembly, was elected president of the Southern Albe marle Association for the «,egrlim year at the annual busiieii meet ing of the association, held in Manns Harbor Wednesday after-' noon of last week. J. W. House, of Plymouth, was named Wash ington County vice president of the organization; and Wade Hard ison, of Roper, was chosen record ing secretary. Mr. Arnold succeeds D. Victor Meekins. of Manteo; while Mr. House's predecessor as Washing ton County vice president was Harry W. Pritchett, of Creswell. Other officers elected last week were: Paul Liverman, of Colum bia, Tyrrell County vice presi dent; E. A. Williams, of Swan Quarter, Hyde County vice presi dent. M. A. Matthews, of Engel hard, was reelected treasurer. All the new officers will take office at a meeting of the executive committee of the association at Columbia on October 2. Members of the executive com (See ARNOLD, Page 5) County Has Poor Crop, Due to Heavy Rains; First Sales Delayed for One Day Eastern North Carolina tobac co markets will begin their 1949 sales Friday morning of this week, instead of Thursday, as a result of a decision by the Bright Leaf Warehouse Association to invoke a one-day delay in the opening, in order to give the Georgia-Florida markets an extra day. The association's board of gov ernors met in Florence, S. C., last Friday night and extended the Georgia-Florida auction sea son one day, automatically defer ring the beginning of sales in Eastern North Carolina. Washington County does not have an auction market, but coun ty growers will be fairly well re presented at the near-by mark ets, according to reports here this week. Although much of the county crop has been harvested, few growers appear to be in a big rush to get their tobacco on the first sales, and weather con ditions have not been too favor able for the last day or two to get the leaf ready for selling. It is certain that a great many farmers will take the day off and visit the opening sales to see for themselves just how the prices are stacking up. Reports from the border markets have led most of the county growers to expect an opening average of slightly better than 50 cents, or slightly less than the first day figures of a year ago. The Washington County crop has been hit hard by adverse weather this year, and the yield will be the lowest in several sea sons, according to reports from over the county. Some farmers lost a big majority of their leaf in the mid-June rainy spell, and others suffered losses in both quantity arfd quality Cnun'y Agent *▼. V. HH*«tf§fc»>fited abou. v.eflfc* Mfc best producers in this : wtion would harvest about two-thirds of a normal crop. Most of this county’s tobacco crop is marketed on the markets near by, Williamston, Roberson ville and Washington getting the bulk of it, with smaller quantities being carried as far away as Greenville, Rocky Mount and Wilson. The loan rate of the Commodi ty Credit Corporation for the 1949 (See TOBACCO, Pagfi