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T’ownll « opies ::::3 ^innninnniini! Engineers of the State High way and Public Works Commis sion finished a survey of Monroe Street from West Main to the in tersection with new highway 64 Tuesday. Presumably, the com mission is getting ready to widen and surface this street, which will then be used as a lane for pulp ** wood and log trucks, enabling them to by-pass the two school buildings on the route presently in use. The regular meeting of the Lions Club will not be held to night, on account of the Lions basketball tournament now in progress here. The club will make up the schedule meeting on the fifth Thursday of this month, when it is not supposed to meet. The Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its regu lar meeting Friday night at 7 o'clock in the Christian Church Annex. All members are urged to attend. Fourth Street, between Wash ington and Adams, has been im proved by a layer of rock in the past few days. The town crew did the work, with rock that was left over from some other work. Mayor Riddle said as soon as the town was able, the remainder of that street and others in the # southeastern part of Plymouth would be similarly treated. Mr. and Mrs. Walton Allen and family, of Plymouth, returned home Monday night from a five day stay in Philadelphia where Mr. Allen attended to business. He reported fine weather throughout their stay in the “City of Brotherly Love.” Visitors to the Washington County Hospital this week have noticed a wonderful improve ment to the lawn in front of the building. Many tons of good top soil have been hauled in, spread and prepared, and seeded. Soon a pretty green carpet will be in evidence in place of the former mud puddles. Plymouth Native Buried Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Bowen Berry, 44, of Shiloh, Cam den County, were conducted Sat urday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Toxey, Berry and Lynch Fun eral Home in Elizabeth City by the Rev. E. S. Higgenbotham, pas tor of Shiloh Baptist Church, as sisted by the Rev. Roland Wago ner, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Norfolk, Va. Burial fol lowed in Highland Park Ceme tery. Mrs. Berry, a native of Plym outh, died in an Elizabeth City hospital Friday morning. She was the daughter of G. W. and Matil da Bateman Bowen, of Plym outh, the wife of G. D. Berry and a member of Shiloh Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband: two sons, G. D., jr., and Gerald Rudolph Berry, both of Shiloh; four sisters, Mrs. Carl Bateman, of Rocky Mount, Mrs. M. H. Boyd and Miss Pearl Bowen, both of Plymouth, and Mrs. A. B. Gre gory, of Wilmington; four bro thers, Robert and Earl Bowen, of Plymouth, W. E. Bowen, of Wil liamsburg, Va., and M. J. Bowen, of the Philippine Islands. Slate Tax Deputy Here March 5-7 -4 E. Ross Froneberger, of Wil liamston, deputy collector of in ternal revenue for the State of North Carolina, will be in the of fice of the clerk of Superior Court here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to assist taxpayers in filing their state income tax statements. This service is free to the public. Single persons with incomes in excess of $1,000 and married per sons with income over $2,000 are required to file income tax re turns by the state. All corpora tions and partnerships are requir ed to file returns, regardless of income. Returns must be filed with the Department of Revenue or its deputies on or before March 15. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** HHHHW A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washinifton County and its 13,000 people. VOLUME LXII—NUMBER 9 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 1, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1889 No Interest Yet in May City Election The town political pot will get a chance to, start wanning up Monday night at the regular meeting of the city council, and it should be boiling aplenty be fore time for the municipal elec tion this year in May. So far, no member of the town’s official family has indicated whether or not he will be a candidate for reelection, although several are expected to enter. The council is operating now without two regular members, | although one vacancy is expected i to be filled Monday night. Percy R. Ashby has been appointed to succeed W. H. Joyner as one of the councilmen from the first ward and probably will be sworn in at the session Monday. Mr. Joyner resigned after moving out of the first ward. The other va cancy is in the third ward, J. M. Willette having moved to Virgin ia. Several names have been sug gested as his successor, and probably one of them will be se lected Monday. Heretofore there has been no deadline for filing notices of can didacies in the municipal election here. A bill is now pending in the legislature to remedy this mat ter. It provides that all candi dates must file at least 10 days before the election and pay a filing fee of $2 each. 23 Men From County Leaving Monday for Pre-Induction Exams ' LOCATES HERE i__j Dr. Beverley W. Cutler, of Washington, optometrist, re cently moved to Plymouth and is making his home with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Blount on Main Street. Dr. Cutler has been practicing for about three years and for the past two years has maintained office hours here three days a week. He has) closed his Washington office. Dr. Cutler is a graduate of Washington High School, East Carolina Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, Philadelphia. County Has Even 100 Draft-Age Men In Armed Forces —*— For First Time, Inductees Outnumber Volunteers; 69 Men in Class 1-A Not Yet Examined Washington County had exact ly 100 men of draft age in the armed forces on Monday of this week, when the latest report of availability and summary of classification was made by the local selective service board. For the first time the number of men inducted topped those enlisted since reactivation of the board last July. Of the 100 in the ser vice, 55 were inducted and 45 volunteered. As of February 2(5, the local board had a total of 1,150 regis- i trants, 132 of them between the ages of 18 and 19. Forty men hud been examined and found ac ceptable for service, 11 born in 1930 and 29 born in 1931. There were no men available in the old er age groups, those born prior to 1930. There were 09 men in class 1-A who have not yet been examined and 4 in class 1-A whose exami nation had been postponed be cause they were in college. In addition to the 55 inducted and 45 enlisted, 6 men are carried on the list as discharged and 3 as being in reserve components. There were 4 in class 1-D, mem 1 (See 100 MEN Page 7) ■ Instruction in Golf Is Given School Pupils For the past six weeks, mem bers of the Plymouth High School senior class have been re ceiving golf instruction for two hours weekly during their physi cal education classes. Fred E. Sap penficld, golf pro at the Country Club of Plymouth, is the instruc tor, with the entire program un der the direction of Miss Betty George, physical education teach er at the school. Starting next week, the classes will be enlarged to include mem bers of the ninth grade. Instruc tion for the past six weeks, has dealt with the grip, stance, swing and other fundamentals. Plastic balls that do not go very far are being used, and the class is held at the high school building here. One-hour classes have been held each Tuesday and Friday. Mr. Sappenfield said yesterday that those who have been taking the course will be given an op portunity to put into practice what they have learned in about two weeks. They will be given an opportunity to play nine holes at the Plymouth course on a Sat urday morning. It is understood that the club is planning to of fer special rates for a “junior membership,” entitling members of the golf class to play on speci fied days when few club mem bers use the course. Original Call Was for 35 Men, But Changes Case Reduction In Number Presently Available —> Twenty - three Washington County young men are scheduled to leave here Monday morning to receive their pre-induction phy sical examinations at the Raleigh induction center. The original call was for 35 men from this county, but it was based on the January 31 availability report, and a number of changes have been made in classifications since that time, making it impossible te secure that number for the contingent next Monday. Several changes have been made recently in the list of those summoned to report next Mon day, and other changes arc possi ble, according to Mrs. Lorraine Hunter, clerk to the board. The group from here is scheduled to leave on a special bus Monday morning at 7:30 a. m. The county also has a call for 25 men to re port for induction on Monday, March 12. Registrants who report for their pre-induction examinations in an intoxicated condition are warned that they do so at their own risk. Those who do are sub ject to be held over at the place of examination and may be in ducted immediately, at the dis cretion of officers at the induc tion center. Of the 23 ordered to report next Monday, 12 are from Plym outh, 9 from Roper and 2 from Creswell. No distinction is made , as to race in calls now being re I ceived from selective service J headquarters, and registrants are j selected solely on the basis of their age group and availability. Following is the list of those schedule to leave next Monday: from Plymouth: Clinton Edward I Patterson, William Joseph Cher ry. Shadrick Moore, John Aron ious Downing, Roland Junior Spruill, Berlin Leon Smith, Alvin Harrington Owens, William Ste ward Moore, William Earl Blackwell, Roy L. Barnes, John Thomas Terry, jr., William Henry McCoy. From Roper: Alfred M. Dav enport, Raymond Norman, Jim mie Bat Jones, William Norman Liverman, Charles Nathaniel Bowen (now living in Philadel phia, Pa.), William Eugene Dav enport, Leslie Julian Price, James Edward Owens, Delano Daven port (now living in Kellogg, Idaho). From Creswell: Elvin Leigh, Joe Willie Jones. -> County Will Buy Two New Busses -4 The purchase by the county of three new school busses for use in the county school system was authorized at a called joint meet ing of the Washington County board of commissioners and the county board of education held in the office of the latter board in the courthouse here Tuesday af- [ ternoon. Two 36 passenger busses and j one 60 passenger bus will be pur- ; chased, it was said. The meeting j was called to take action on get- j ting new busses following receipt by the county superintendent of schools of a letter from the state department of public instruction advising that any busses to be needed for the next school year should be ordered at once. The busses will be used in the county where most needed. The board of education agreed to forego the regular monthly meeting next Monday. The board will meet again in regular session April 2. -♦ Colored Unit of Farm Bureau Meets Saturday -♦ The colored unit of the Wash ington County Farm Bureau will meet Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock in the Roper Agriculture Building, T. L. Wilkins, president has announced. A full attendance is urged. First County Law Enacted Friday in General Assembly -4 Deals With Proceeds of De linquent Taxes; Several Other Local Measures Are Pending —♦— Washington County’s first local law of the 1951 legislative session was enacted last Friday, when House Bill No. 253 was passed by the senate and ratified. This act authorizes the county commis sioners to turn into the general county fund the proceeds of all delinquent taxes. Before this act was passed, delinquent tax col lections had to be apportioned to the various funds in the propor tion set forth on tax receipts. The bill was introduced February 8 by Representative W. J. Wool ard at the request of the board of county commissioners. Another bill backed by the county commissioners barely missed enactment last week. House Bill No. 283, providing for a new schedule of fees for the office of register of deeds, pass ed the senate Friday but ratifi cation was delayed until this week. This measure was introduc ed by Representative Woolard on February 12. Mr. Woolard introduced anoth er bill last week, at the request of the Plymouth city council. It provides that candidates for councilmen or mayor must file with the town clerk at least 10 days prior to the municipal elec tion and pay a filing fee of $2. The bill was referred to the house committee on counties, cities and towns. A bill introduced by Represen tative Clifton Blue, of Moore County, was amended last week by Mr. Woolard to include Wash ington County. It provides for amendment of the General Sta tutes to permit processing into wine of grapes purchased from farmers, where such wine is ship ped out of the state for further processing. The bill was passed by the house last Wednesday and was sent to the senate committee on propositions and grievances. One other bill introduced by the county representative is still in the house committee on courts and judicial districts. It is H. B. 314, providing for the automatic transfer of criminal cases from the recorder’s court to the super ior court when jury trial is de manded. This bill is being held up for the present until members of the county bar association have a chance to register their ob jections to the bill at the meeting of the county commissioners next Monday. Baptist Layman To Speak Here -4 Horace Easom, state director of the Baptist Men’s Brotherhood,' will address the Men’s Brother hood of Ludford Memorial Bap tist Church Monday evening, March 5, church officials have an nounced. Mr. Easom is one of the out standing Baptist laymen of North Carolina and A L. Cobb, presi dent of the local organization, is urging a full attendance at this special meeting. The Brotherhood will meet at 7 p. m. in the May flower Restaurant. ACCEPTS CALL The Rev. Cavin Neill Barn ette, of Corbin, Ky., who has accepted a call to the First Christian Church, Plymouth, which has been without a regu lar pastor since the resignation of the Rev. J. D. Waters some months ago. Mr. Barnette and wife are expected to move into the church parsonage here to day. Kentucky Minister Accepts Call For Christian Church -+ The Rev. C. N. Barnette and Wife Moving to Plym outh Today; Services An nounced for Sunday —< Offocials of First Christian Church of Plymouth today an nounced that the Rev. C. N. Bur nett 3, of Corbin, Ky., has accept ed . call to serve as pastor of the local church and that he and Mrs. Bai nette arrived Wednesday mo' ning. He assumed his duties imr ediately. Mr. Barnette was trained at Tra-.syl vania, Lexington, Ky., re cei»-,pv his A. B. degree there inaSHSi. Sevik yeats u,ice he • 3 turned to Lexington, where he received his B. D. degree from The College Of the Bible in 1932. His ministerial service has been wholly in the state of Kentucky, 1923-1951, at Crestwood, Bar bourville, Berea, Stanford, Cyn thiana and Corbin. The minister is a trustee and member of the executive com mittee of The College of the Bible, being secretary to both board and committee; a member of the Kentucky State Missions j board, and a member of Home and State Missions Planning Council. In addition, Mr. Bar nette has served on the U. C. M. S. Board of Managers, and for two terms on the Recommen dations commitee, International convention, Disciples of Christ. He is also a Rotarian. Mr. Barnette’s wife, Mrs. Beu lah Virginia Barnette, is a gradu (See MINISTER Page 7) -♦ PTA Will Present Musicale March 9 -f The Plymouth Parent-Teacher Association will present some of the pupils of Mesdames Laura Johnson, Robert Mohn and M. ] Hopkins in a musical Friday, i March 9, in the Plymouth High School auditorium, Mrs. K. S. J Trowbridge, PTA president, has announced. The performance, will begin at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Trowbridge said it is plan ned to present a matinee for the benefit of school children Thurs day and Friday afternoon, March 8 and 9. Also included on the pro gram will be a Mother Goose skit by Mrs. Trowbridge. This will be in costume. Proceeds of the entertainment. will be used to pay for the new piano recently purchased for the school auditorium by the PTA. The complete program will be i announced next week. Local Baptists Join In Evangelistic Plan Ludford Memorial Baptist. Church here is joining the 18,000 , Baptist churches east of the Mis sissippi in a simultaneous evange listic crusade which Will cul minate in revival service March 28 - April 8, according to an an nouncement from the pastor, the Rev. Paul B. Nickens. The simultaneous crusade is a program of the Southern Baptist Convention which includes 17 southern states and the recently added territory—California, Ore gon, Washington, Kansas and Alaska. The revival program, the pat tern of which is being iollowed by the local church, is part of a five-year crusade among South ern Baptists which began in the churches west of the Mississippi River last year and resulted in 76,410 additions, 49,370 by bap tism, to the 5,700 churches in that territory—a membership increase of 299 per cent over the previous year. Further announcements con cerning details of the local pro gram will be made later, it was said. Increase Of Five Per Cent In Weed Quotas Announced -4 Action Taken Tuesday by Secreiary Brannan to Meet Expected Increased Demands for Products A five per cent increase in 1951 quotas for flue-curcd tobacco was ordered Tuesday by the United States Department of Agriculture, bringing the total allotment in crease in acreage over that of 1950 to 14 per cent, as a 9 per cent increase had previously been authorized. The increase is calculated to mean an additional 6G acres of tobacco for growers in Washing ton County, which added to the present county allotment of 1,320 acres Would bring the total coun ty allotment of the weed crop to 1,386 acres. This figure is not of ficial, however. The new national marketing quotas for flue-cured tobacco are now 1,297,000.000 pounds. The 1951 quota which was set earlier was 1,235,000,000 pounds. The flue-cured allotments will total about 1,120,009 acres, compared with 1,069,000 previously an nounced and 968,500 acres last year. The increases were made, ac cording to Secretary of Agri culture Brannan, to assure ample supplies under the defense emer gency. He said a higher level of industrial activity is expected to increase the demand for tobacco products. “As a consequence,” the secretary said, the department wishes to be on the “safe” side. Under the quota program, farmers who sell an excess of tobacco grown on their allot ments are subject to stiff penalty taxes on excess sales. Flue-cured tobacco is grown principally in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. -4 Last Rites For W. M. Peacock sii'.ui,» 'mvrerc conduc - ed, for Walter McDonald Peacock, sr., 75, of Roper, Tuesday after noon at 2:30 o’clock from the home by the Rev. A. B. Ayers, of Williamston, assisted by the Rev. Walter Hudley and the Rev. B. E. Bingham, of Roper. Burial was in Wentz Cemetery, near Roper. Mr. Peacock died at his home at 9:15 o’clock Sunday evening, fol lowing an illness of five days during which he had been con fined to his bed. He had been in declining health for the past three years. Son of the late Romas and Mary Newberry Peacock, of Roper, Mr. Peacock was born in Washington County, June 8, 187fi. He was a lifelong resident of the county, a retired farmer, and a member and until his illness a regular attendant of Concord Primitive Baptist Church of Cherry. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jenny Peacock; two sons, Leo Peacock, of Maryland, and Wal 1 ter McDonald Peacock, jr., of Pennsylvania; three daughters, Mrs. Nancy Nesbit, of Louisiana, and Mrs. Shirley Weaver, of Ohio; 13 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. County Boards To MeetHereMonday —*— Regular first Monday meetings will be held here next Monday by the Washington County board of commissioners and the Plym outh Town Council, but the Washington County board of edu cation will dispense with its reg ular monthly meeting, since a called joint meeting of the board of education and the county com missioners was held here Tues day afternoon. The only business other than routine that is expected to come before the commissioners Mon day is relative to possible local legislation in the General As sembly at Raleigh concerning do ing away with jurie.; in recorders court. W. J. Woolard, county representative in the legislature, and possibly some local attorneys are expected to meet with the board. The city fathers are expected to have a routine business session. Time of the council meeting is 8 p. m. in the city clerk’s office. The commissioners meet at 10 a. m. in the courthouse. Mount Tabor Baptist Church To Have Service Sunday Services will be held at Mount Tabor Free Will Baptist Church near Creswell at 11 a. m. on the first Sunday in March, the 5th by the Rev. T. F. Davenport, of Creswell. The public is cordially invited to attend. Red Cross Fund Drive Is Opening In County Today ; Creswell P.T.A. | Meets March 8 The Creswell Parent-Teacher Association will hold its month ly meeting in the Creswell High School auditorium oil Thursday night of next week, March 8, at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced yesterday by Mrs. T. D. Woodley, publicity chair man. Mrs. O. Q. Lassiter, of the committee on mental hygiene, will have charge of the pro gram, which will consists of a movie, “The Problem Child.” All parents and friends of the school are urged to attend. Prominent Local Man Buried Here Friday Afternoon R. A. Williford, 78, Suc cumbs Thursday after Long Period of Declining Health -* Rufus Allison Williford, 78, for more than fifty years a resident and respected citizen of Plym outh, died at his home here at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon, following a long period of de clining health. Mr. Williford was born in Rocky Mount October 16, 1872, the son of the late M. B. and Jerutha Ann Williford. He came to Plymouth in early manhood and for a period of 20 years or more was in the mercantile busi ness here. After retiring from bus *. he .’utey .operated the old Wdtoi'd^fliVSfb, on the site of the present Plymouth Hotel. He sold this property about five or six years ago, and since that time had not been active in pub lic life. He was married on April 27, 1898 in Plymouth to Miss Clara Jackson, of Plymouth, who sur vives. Mr. Williford was a mem ber of Grace Episcopal Church here and was an honorary ves tryman of the church. Funeral services were conduct ed at Grace Church Friday af ternoon at 2 o’clock by the rec tor, the Rev. Edward M. Spruill, and burial followed in the church | cemetery. The remains were at i Horner's Funeral Home here un til the time of service. Surviving besides the widow ’ are one daughter, Mrs. Jacquelyn W. Norman, of Richmond, Va.; one son, H. A. Williford, of Plym outh; four grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Little and Mrs. Estelle Mc Gee, of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. Mattie Hobbs, of Newport News, Va., and one brother, L. B. Willi ford, of Washington, D. C. Veterans Dance Set Here Friday Night, March 16 —+ A definite date for the recently postponed Veterans’ Ball here was announced this week by W. J. Weaver, of the Bosie Bateman Post No. 4023, Veterans of For eign Wars. The dance will be held in the Plymouth High School gymnasium Friday evening, j March 16, beginning at 9 o’clock. Music will be furnished by Bob Jones and his Bobcats of Wash ington. During intermission a drawing will be held and a television set will be presented to the lucky ticket-holder, Weaver said. The j proceeds of the dance will go to the building fund of the local I veterans’ organization. Organization Under County Chairman Roy Manning, Jr., of Plymouth, Begins Solicitations -T The Washington County or ganization, announced last week, under the chairmanship of Roy Manning, jr„ of Plymouth, today was poised to begin active solici tation for funds in the 1951 Red Cross campaign. The canvass of the Plymouth business section and industrial area is expected to be completed first of all. The quota for the business section is $500, and that of the industrial section is $400. For the past several years, the Washington County chapter of the Red Cross has been among the first in the county to reach its quota and Manning expresses the hope that this record will be upheld this year. Along with Washington Coun ty, some 1,500,000 Red Cross vol unteers in communities through out the nation will swing into action today in the month-long campaign to raise $85,000,000 for next year’s operations. “The $18,000,000 boost in this year’s goal is due entirely to the enormous load placed on the Red Cross, by the expanding military forces and by the civil defense program,” the Red Cross presi dent, E. Roland Harriman, stated recently. The principal points in the ex panded Red Cross program have been listed by the national fund campaign chairman, Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, as follows: 1. Acting as official agency for collection of blood and its deriva tives for the military and coordi nating the collection of blood de rivatives for civilian defense. To fully meet these and regular civilian needs, the Red Cross must collect 1,500,000 pints of blood this year. 2. Training 20,000,000 persons in first aid, including treatment of injuries from atom-bomb at tack. 3. Training 100,000 and reacti vating 150,000 nurse's aides and training 1,000,000 housewives in home nursing for civil defense. 4. Assisting civil defense in pro viding food, clothing and shelter during an emergency period. 5. Expansion of Red Cross ser vices to the armed forces to meet the needs of the proposed 3,000, 000-man fighting force. A county quota of $2,470 has been set by the County Chapter to meet needs anticipated during the coming year, Manning said. Of this amount, 55.3 per cent will remain in the county for local use and the remaining 44.7 per cent will go for national use. The campaign in the county last year went over the quota just seven days after it was launched, with W. J. Woolard, of Plymouth, serving as county chairman. Ten County Men Go Into Service -♦ Ten young men of Washington County were accepted for enlist ment in the Army or Air Force during the month of February, according to Sgt. Paul R. Fisher, of the recruiting service in Eliza beth City, through whom the en listments were made. Four of the youngsters went into the Air Force, three into the Regular Army, airborne, and three into the Regular Army, unassigned. Those accepted were as fol lows: Hugh G. Modlin, Luther A. Hobbs, James H. Allen and Her bert C. Hooker, Air Force; Wil liam C. White, Ray N. Piercy and Marvin H. Campbell. Regu lar Army (airborne); Woodrow W. Phelps, James D. Artis and Isaac Rowson, jr. (unassigned). Some 4-F’s and 4-A’s To Be Called Again Since some Washington County draft registrants with previous military service are being re classified from a deferred status to I-A (available for immediate service), the regulations govern ing the 4-A (veterans) classifi cation were reviewed for the Bea con this week by an official of the local board. According to the Selective Ser vice Manual, a registrant is en titled to the 4-A classification if the period of his previous mili tary service is in any one of the three following cases: If he had in excess of 90 days' service be tween December 7, 1941, and Sep tember 2, 1945; or if he had 12 months’ service between Septem ber 26, 1940, and June 24, 1948; or if he had a minimum of three years’ service and was honorably discharged after June 24, 1948. A few men whose previous ser vice records do not fall into one of the three categories above have been reclassified, and it is likely that they are in line for some ad ditional service. Quite a number of men who failed their first physical tests also have been re classified, from 4-F into 1-A, and they will be included in future pre-induction calls for another examination, it is stated.