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