North Carolina Newspapers

gBaa!BU!!!hiliii»=tiiiriite»;:feii»h;i"-!»in!Sn!^ !T own opic§ The Rev. James F. Miller, pas tor of the First Church of the Nazarene, returned last Friday after a week’s visit to his father, H. L. V. Miller, in Decatur, 111. It was his first trip home since 1945. The local church made up a special offering to pay for half of his trip, and the Nazarene Church in Decatur, where he preached while away, made up the other half. ‘Face-lifting’’ operations have been concluded in the front part of the municipal building, which houses the offices of the city clerk and the police department. A new ceiling and fluoresent lights were installed and the interior paint ed, presenting an attractive ap pearance. The old coal heater has been removed and a circulating oil stove installed. Betty Blount Davenport, 11 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Davenport, of Plymouth, underwent an operation to cor rect curvature of the spine in the Hospital for Special Surgery at New York City yesterday morn ning and was reported to be get ting along all right later in the day. She has been in the hos pital for about six weeks and probably will remain another six weeks. Her parents left Satur day to be witfi her, but expect to return home next Sunday. ~ Maurice Smith, of the Economy Cleaners, said yesterday that somebody had gone out back of his place and “borrowed” a pipe vise. If whoever got it doesn’t intend to return it, he asks that he return and get the bolts that go with it, which were passed up and which are no good to him without the vise. The bench also is still there, he says. Plymouth Sea Scouts Jimmy Barnhill, Jewel Hardison, Bruce Bateman and Linwood Brown had to return to Plymouth from Eden ton Saturday afternoon by hitch hiking on the highway after their surfboat developed engine trouble near Edenton. Scouts Barnhill and Hardison encountered trou bles on the highway too. They elected to “thumb” back by way of Williamston. It took them three hours to travel the distance. Scouts Bateman and Brown took the Sound Bridge route and re iturned to Plymouth in 45 minutes Vuth two rides. Mate William Hopkins and a crew of Sea Scouts towed the surfboat back Sunday afternoon with their ship, the “Albemarle.” The Moore-Johnson Construc tion Company, of Raleigh, which developed the Winesett Circle housing project in Plymouth, will have a completely furnished mod el home on display for the re mainder of 'this week, through Sunday. Each of the houses in the new development has two bedrooms, bath, living room and combination kitchen and dining room. Home-seekers interested are invited to visit the model home from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. -♦ Farm Bureau Will Meet Friday Night; All Invited All county farmers, whether or not they are members of the Washington County Farm Bureau, and all others interested in farm ing, are invited to attend the reg ular meeting Friday night at 8 o’clock in the agriculture build ing in Plymouth, Herbert R. ^^hesson, president of the county bureau, said this week. A report will be heard from each membership canvasser in the county and plans will be made to close the membership campaign now underway. The date for a barbecue, sponsored by the bu reau, will also be decided. -4 Revival Begins Monday A! Mount Tabor Church Creswell.—A revival meeting will begin Monday night, Novem ber 7, at the Mount Tabor Free Will Baptist Church near Cres well, with services scheduled each night. The Rev. Wade Calvert, of North Belmont, will be in charge, and the public is cordial ly invited to attend all services. P. T. A. Realizes Over $200 From Carnival The Plymouth school grounds improvement fund of the local Parent-Teacher Association will get over $200 from the “Farmers’ Market Day” and annual Hallo ween Carnival held on the school grounds and in the gymnasium Monday, according to Mrs. H. C. Carter, who was in charge of the event. Home grown foods that were donated by parents and friends of the school children brought a total of $48 at the market as ev erything was sold out. This was the first year that the market was tried and its success has prompted the PTA to make it an annual affair along with the carnival. Total admissions taken in at the door of the gymnasium for the carnival amounted to $53, the largest sum received their in the past several years, according to PTA officials. The Hampton School and Hampton Annex grades received aproximately $41 for selling con cessions, reported Ethel Perry, Hampton School principal. The total amount taken in by the I booths is not known. i The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** VOLUME LX—NUMBER 44 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 3, 1949 ESTABLISHED 1889 Armistice Day Program Announced A joint metting of the members of the Plymouth American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts is scheduled for next Wed nesday night at 8 o’clock in the Legion Hall to make final ar rangements for the observance of Armistice Day on Friday, No vember 11. The tentative program, an nounced yesterday, calls for par ticipants in the parade to assem ble at the high school building at 10 a.m. November 11 and be gin the parade at 10:30 o’clock. The parade will progress north on Washington to Main street, turn east on Main street to Adams, then Viorth on Adams to Water Street, and west on Water to the Washington street intersection, in front of the Legion Hall, where the regular Armistice Day cere monies will be held. One minute of silence will be observd at 11 a.m. After the service is finished on the street, all the veterans are to go to the Legion Hall for a bar becue lunch and a speech. The Rev. Paul B. Nickens, of the lo cal Baptist church, has agreed to be on the program, and an out of-town speaker also may be se cured, spokesmen for the veter ans said yesterday. The lunch will be “dutch,” and all ex-service men are urged to attend, whether members of the veterans’ organ izations or not. Organizations expected to be in the parade are: the Plymouth High School band, American Le gion and VFW members, other ex-service men, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Sea Scouts, Girl Scouts, Brownie Scouts and school chil dren. All former service men are requested to meet at the school and take part in the pa rade, even if they do not have uniforms or caps. Cotton Growers Vote Middle Next Month On Control Program Rain Interrupts Peanut Picking Peanut picking, after getting off to a slow start this season, was brought to a standstill by the heavy rains the first of the week in this county. However, the strong winds Tuesday night and cooler weather helped to dry out the stacks considerably, and with favorable weather continuing, pickers are expect ed to go forward on an inten sive schedule. Peanut shelling and cleaning mills were said to be operating the first of the week with very light deliveries from that por tion of the crop picked in the past week or so. New A & P Slore Here Will Open Tuesday Morning Is Modern and Complete in Every Respect; Continue To Use Old Store Through Monday -»— The new A & P self-service grocery store will open for busi ness next Tuesday morning, No vember 8, Manager Howard Carr anounced this week. Located be tween the Coca-Cola Bottling Works the the Belk-Tvler store, construction work on the build ing was completed about a week ago, and work has been proceed ing since on installation of the equipment and fixtures. The new store is one of the most modern and up to date of its kind in Eastern North Carolina. It affords 4,400 square feet or floor space, much of which is devoted to display cases and racks, with about 1,200 square feet of storage space in the back. Equipment in the store includes two modern checking stands, cases for refrigerated produce, dairy products, coffee department and a complete meat department with refrigerated display cases. There are 40 glider carriages for the use of customers, and various display cases and stands on the main part of the floor. The old store will continue to be used through Monday, person nel moving down the street to the new location Tuesday morn ing. The number of employees has been increased from 4 to 11, Mr. Carr stated, three being em ployed in the meat department at the new stand. The new building is owned by J. W. Norman, who had it built to A & P specifications by E. W. Faucette, contractor, of Boykins, Va. December 15 Is Date Set by Agriculture Department Many Growers in County Have Small Acreage Washington County cotton growers will vote on cotton-crop controls December 15, that date having been set for the referen dum by the Department of Agri culture recently. Quotas for 1950 must be approved by at least two thirds of the voters before going into effect. Clerks at the local AAA office are compiling past records of cot ton growing in the county for use in the event controls on the crop are put into effect. They esti mate that from 500 to 600 farm ers in the county will be eligible to take part in the election, al though the crop has not been of any considerable consequence in the county for a number of years. Quite a number of county farm ers planted cotton this year, but the acreage usually was very small, only one or two planting as much as 15 acres or more. Most of the farmers grow only an acre or two, it is said. This has not been a favorable year, as the wet season caused extensive damage by the boll weevil. Most of the cotton grown in the county is sold in the seed, and very little is ginned by the growers. The Agriculture Department proposes rigid marketing quotas designed to cut 1950 cotton pro duction at least 20 per cent below this year’s crop. Quotas were last used for cotton in 1942, when they were approved by 93.9 per cent of the growers voting: The accumulation of a new cot ton surplus from the 1948 and 1949 crops led the department to propose quotas now. It has more than 8500.000,000 invested in ex tra supplies turned over to it by growers under price-support pro grams. The 21,000,000-acre planting al lotment would be divided among cotton growing states and coun ties and then apportioned among individual growers on the basis of formulas in crop control laws. These formulas take into account past plantings by individual farm ers and recent trends in state acre ages. State and county allotments will be announced later. A grower would be free to sell all the cotton grown on his plant ing allotment. Cotton grown on excess acres, if sold, would be sub ject to a penalty tax equal to half of the June 15. 1950, parity price of cotton. At present parity prices the penalty would be al most 15 cents a pound, or slightly more than half the market value. -♦ Junior Class Will Sponsor Dance Here Friday Night -♦ The junior class of Plymouth High School will sponsor a dance in the Legion Hall immediately after the Plymouth-Tarboro High School football game Friday night. The program calls for both round and square dancing. A small admission fee will be charged and soft drinks and sand wiches will be sold. Proceeds will be used to finance the junior senior banquet and dance next spring. Rolarians Hear Program Of Music During Meeting Mrs. Ethel G. Hopkins and Helen Carr, of the Plymouth High School faculty, and Myrtle Jackson and Hardy Cobb, stu dents, gave a musical program of violin, piano, voice and drum, selections, respectively, before members of the local Rotary Club in their meeting Tuesday night. Roy F. Lowry was in charge of the meeting. Homemakers Club Formed Recently At Local School ■ » - Officers Elected at Meeting Monday; National FHA Week Display in Win dows of Local Store The recently organized Future Homemakers Club of America at the Plymouth High School met Tuesday to complete its organiza tion by the election of officers. The temporary chairman, Jackie Mizelle, presided; and the no minating committee, headed by Betty Riddle, presented the slate of officers, who were elected by the club. Officers for the year are as fol lows: Jackie Mizelle, president; Joy Harrison, vice president; Dol ly Faye Ange, secretary; Ann Rosenthal, treasurer; Betty Rid dle. historian; Mildred Smith, parliamentarian; Phyllis Bishop, reporter: and Carolyn Ayers, song leader. The chapter mother is Mrs. Peckham, and Miss Carolyn Brinkley is the chapter advisor. The Future Homemakers of America is a national organiza tion of pupils studying horrm eco nomics in high schools orqKj United States and its territBnes. A chapter has been organized in the local school for the first time this year, and considerable in terest is being shown in it by the students. The local unit expects to have a large representation at the district rally, which will be held in Farmville on Saturday, November 12. This week is national FHA week, which is being observed by the local chapter. An exhibit, showing the official emblem and outlining the objectives of the organization, is being displayed in the show window's of the Nor man Furniture Company. Soil Conservation Notes Over County By H. E. NEWLAND County Conservationist Herbert Chesson, of near Mack eys, seeded two acres of Caley peas, a new winter legume cover crop this fall. A recent inspec tion of this crop showed a good stand, making excellent growth. The seeding of winter cover crops is a part of the complete soil con servation plan worked out last year for county farms by the conservationist working with the Pamlico Soil Conservation Dis trict. Dick Lucas, of near Plymouth, seeded several more acres of Kv 31 Fescue grass and Ladino clover for pasture this fall. The district conservation plan worked out last month with Mr. Lucas calls for most of the Lucas- farm to be seeded to pasture sod to furnish adequate grazing for their dairy herd. Joe Nowurah, of Roper, has asked the district to stake ter races on a sloping tobacco field for him. Erosion is washing away the top soil. He will construct the terraces on this field ahead of next year’s crop. All School Buses Checked Recently by Road Patrol Only one minor defect was found in a Highway Patrol checltf of all county school buses last week, according to R. W. Young, highway patrolman stationed in Plymouth, who made the inspec tion. The patrol ordered all school buses in the state inspected as a safety measure, following the dis aster in Nash County, where sev en pupils were killed in an acci dent. Patrolman Young said that El lis Newberry, the c'unty school’s auto mechanic, accompanied him on the inspection and corrected the only deficiency found, a loose sun visor on one of the buses. J '=»n Applications f ~ t arm Housing Being Taken Here -♦ Available Under New Act To Owners Unable to Ob tain Credit Elsewhere for Improvements The Washington County office of the Farmers Home Administra tion located in the courthouse building in Plymouth, began tak ing applications for farm housing loans Monday, according to Wil lis Bowen, district administrator. The loans were authorized by the housing act of 1949. Farmers desiring assistance un der this program may make their applications at the local FHA of fice from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The office is closed on Saturdays. The housing act allocates funds for construction and repair of farm dwellings during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950. , Under the program, loans will be made for construction and re pair of farm dwellings and also for construction and repair for other farm buildings essential to the operation of the farm. Only farm owners who cannot get ade quate credit from private sources, such as banks and insurance com panies. and who do not have suf ficient resources to make needed impro" unents, are eligible for loan <der the program. The ans carry an interest rate of pc cent, and repayments may be am -tized over a period not to exceed 33 years. Loan= for housing improve ments are pot restricted to owner operated farms, but will be ex tended to landlords who desire to construct or repair dwellings and other buildings on tenant operated farms, provided the landlords cannot get adequate credit for this purpose from other sources and ary financially unable ents from their Collect $116 from Carnival at Roper Roper Parent-Teacher Associa tion collected approximately $116 in proceeds from the annual Hal loween carnival sponsored by that group in the Roper High School auditorium Monday night. The proceeds will go toward financing’ meals in the school lunch room for children who cannot afford to pay for the meals. Money was obtained during the carnival through the admission price at the door, sale of sand wiches, pies and cakes and the various game booths. As prizes, Ted Blount won a 70 pound pig and Carl Bray re ceived a blanket. Veterans of Foreign Wars Will Hold Meeting Tonight A barbecue dinner and meeting is scheduled for members of the Bosie Bateman Post, No 4023, Veterans of Foreign Wars, tonight in the high school lunch room at 7:30 o’clock. All those who plan to attend are requested to notify William Ruffin or Ralph Hunter before the meeting. The Armis tice Day program and bingo games will be topics of discussion at the business session. PTA Executive Board To Meet Next Wednesday —« Members of the executive com mittee of the Plymouth Parent Teacher Association will meet next Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the high school library, Mrs. K. S. Trowbridge, president of the association, announced yes terday. Colored Farm Bureau Unit To Meet Saturday Morning The colored unit of the Wash ington County Farm Bureau is to meet Saturday morning at 10 o' clock in the auditorium of J. J. Clemmons High School in Roper, according to T. L. Wilkins, presi dent of the group. Every mem ber is urged to attend. Local Jaycees To Hold Meeting Friday Night — ♦ All members of the Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce are urged to attend thfb dinner meeting Friday night at 7 o’clock in the Chrsitian Church Annex. Each member is to bring a pros pective new member. County to Get 25 Miles Of New Surfaced Roads Firs! Phase of Bond Pro gram for Counlies in Sec ond Division Announced By Commissioner Hargett Washington County will get 25.28 miles of hard-surfacing se condary roads and $30,000 worth of stabilized roads under the first phase of the bond program an nounced last week by W. Guy Hargett, of Richlands. highway commissioner for the second di vision. This is in addition to the Mackeys Road project, which is being graded and structures built at the present time and which is to be surfaced with regular high way funds outside the bond pro gram, according to Mr. Hargett. Three specific projects were outlined for Washington County in the program announced last week. It was not announced in what order they would be taken up. but they were listed as fol lows: Beginning on U. S. Highway 64 at Roper and running north wardly 4.58 miles to Albemarle Beach. This stretch is known as the "Cross Roads." Beginning at a point on U. S. 64 in Creswell. running north wardly and westerly 10.8 miles via Davenport Forks and the Pea Ridge Road to N. C. 32 ; t a point 1.2 miles north of the junction of N. C. 32 and U. S. 64 at the “Y.” Beginning at a point on U. S. 64, 2.55 miles south of Plymouth, and running southwardly 9.9 m' ’'mg what is known as . i^onj Ridge Road via Hinson and Hoke to the Beaufort Coun ty line. There was no mention of where the $30,000 allocated for road sta bilization would be spent, but Commissioner Hargett stated that ["Building stabilized roads is an j integral part ol the over-all pro igram, Tha‘ work will proceed hand-in-nand with the hard-sur sion It was stated that work is un derway on many of the bond pro jects outlined for the second divi sion, and that others will be be gun and work continued, if wea ther permits, through the winter months. "This is the first phase of our bond money program,” Mr. Hargett said, and while work is progressing on the construction of these roads, new surveys are being made to determine which roads will be considered for hard surfacing in the second part of our program.” In connection with the selection of the first bond money roads. Commissioner Hargett and Divi sion Engineer Romilus Mark ham made detailed surveys of each county’s roads, met with boards of county commissioners and reviewed the program, in ad dition to hearing petitions from numerous citizens' delegations. (See ROADS, Page 8) County Teachers To Meet Monday The Washington County unit of the North Carolina Education As sociation will meet in the Plym outh High School auditoriujpi next Monday night at 8 o'clock* Howard J. McGinnis, director of the Bureau of Field Service of East Carolina Teachers College, Greenville, will be present to find out whether teachers want to organize an undergraduate or a graduate extension course here for teachers. Nathan H. Yelton, executive secretary of the State Teachers’ and State Employees' Retirement System, Raleigh, will give a talk on the subject of his work. T. R. Spruill, of Roper, president of the county NCEA unit, will be in charge of the program. II. & L. Stockholders j Meeting Set Tonight j The annual meeting of mem bers and stockholders of the Plymouth Building & Loan As sociation will be held Thursday night of this week in the muni cipal building, starting at 8 o'clock, according to announce ment last week by I. Miller Warren, secretary of the or ganization. Directors will be elected by the stockholders, and, if the usual custom is followed, the directors will meet immediately afterwords to elect officers for the coining year. A11 stock holders are invited and urged to attend. The local association is clos ing one of the most successful years in its history, and a re view of its operations will be presented to the stockholders ganized in 1937, the associa tion now has total resources in excess of $325,000. Raids Cause Rise in Legal Whiskey Sale Two Large Outfits Wrecked Last Week and ABC Store Reports Revenue Up $100 Over Normal Saturday The sale of legal liquor at the local ABC store showed a sub stantial increase last week-end, following a series of setbacks for the illegal liquor business in Washington County in the past week or so. P. M. Arps, chair man of the county ABC board, said sales at the Plymouth store last Saturday totaled more than $100 above those of the preced ing 10 Saturdays, largely attribu table, he thinks, to the work of law enforcement officers during the week before. One of the setbacks was the seizure of a large distilling out fit on the old James Walker home place above Beaver Dam Swamp on the Long Ridge Road last Fri day. The raid was made by Sher iff J. K Reid, Deputy L. L. Bas night, and Policeman Foy Daven port. In addition to a 200-gallon copper still and complete outfit, the officers brought in 26 gallons of "stumphole” whiskey and poured out 18 barrels of mash. Five barrels had already been lun, it was stated. W’arrants were | issued later for Ray and James I M. Walker, both colored, and they paid fines totaling $250 in record er's court Tuesday for possession of the liquor. Alcohol Tax Unit operatives out of Elizabeth City located and destroyed another sizeable dis tilling outfit inside the,Plymouth city limits last Wednesday. It was a 7-barrel outfit, and the ATU men simply blew it to pieces with dynamite. No arrests were made. The still was located at the edge of a swamp not far from the Norfolk Southern tracks leading to the freight station here. Plymouth city policemen also arrested a couple of persons in the past week for possessing il legal liquor, and the offenders were fined at the Tuesday ses sion of county court. Begin Rehearsals For Minsirel Show Chorus rehearsals began last night in the Plymouth High School auditorium for a high school minstrel show entitled, “Merrie Minstrels of 1949,” to be presented there Thursday after noon and night, December 1, and Friday night, December 2. The proceeds will go toward financ ing the local high school band. The show will be about two hours of fun and frolic with all the characters in black-face. Mrs. Ethel G. Hopkins, high school band director, wrote the show and will direct it. Helen Carr, Plymouth school music teacher, is in charge of the music and will accompany the perform ers at the piano. 8 S IPTA at Greswell I To Meet on 10th The Creswell Parent-Teach er Association wil hold its re gular meeting on Thursday ev ening of next week. November Hi. in the high school auditor ium there. L. O. Armstrong, head of the vocational film li brary at State College. Raleigh, will speak on the use of visual aids in classrooms and will sh a film to illustrate his t The community choir will sing several numbers at the meeting. All patrons and friends of the school are urged to at tend. Important Factors On Christmas Mail Outlined by Swfrfn Relate To Mailing of Christ mas Parcels and Cards To Points Overseas and In United States Plymouth Postmaster J. C. Swain announced yesterday seve ral important factors regarding mailing parcels and greeting cards for Christmas both overseas and w'ithin the United States. The Post Office Department is cooperating with the several de partments of the National Milita ry Establishment in arranging the acceptance of Christmas parcels for members of the armed forces serving outside the continental United States. Many persons in Plymouth and throughout Washington County are planning to send special Christmas parcels overseas, and these instructions, Postmaster Swain said, are issued to assure delivery on time and in good con dition. Patrons of the Plymouth post office may, if they desire, en dorse each such gift parcel “Christmas Parcel” and special efforts will be made to efect de livery of all Christmas parcels mailed from today to November 15, in time for Christmas. According to Postmaster Swain, the term “armed forces Overseas” includes personnel of the armed forces, members of their families and authorized United States ci vilians employed overseas who re ceive their mail through an APO or Fleet Post Office, care of Post master, New York, N. Y., San Francisco, Calif., Miami, Fla., New Orleans, La., or Seattle, Wash. In calling -'ttention to the Christmas overseas mailing dates, Mr. Swain stressed the importan (See CHRISTMAS, Pngc¥)~ Boards Set First Monday Meetings The Washington County Board of Education. Board of Commis sioners and the Plymouth City Council all will hold their regu lar first Monday meetings next Monday, November 7. The two county boards will meet in their respective headquarters at the courthouse at 10:30 Monday morning^ while the councTTmeet jp*-will be held in the municipal building at 8 p.m. So far as could be learned yes terday, only routine business mat ters are scheduled for considera tion. However, something usuall; developes that keeps the govern ing groups into session for quite a while. The board of education would like to take some action on the school building program, but it is marking time right now until some definite plans are submit ted by the firm of architects, Les Tie i\. tioiiey & Sons, of Wilming ton. Members of the board hope to get the program launched at the earliest possible moment, both to get ahead of similar programs by other counties and also to fhave some of the additional need ed facilities ready by the next school term. However, they can make no move until the plans can be submitted by the archi tects. Representatives of the board of education went before a review ing panel of the state board of education in Raleigh last week and received approval of the gen eral program proposed for this county. The program is based on recommendations made by the survey committee early last month, following a visit to the county in late September.