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T’own opk§ :::::3 Mrs. Ethel Hopkins, director, and several members of the Plymouth High School band at tended the annual spring concert of the Tarboro High School Band Tuesday night. Bandmasters and pupils from several towns in this section were invited. In addition to Mrs. Hopkins, others attend ing from Plymouth were Barbara Johnson, Ray Hollowell, Hardy Cobb, Harold Hart, Rex Brown ing and Harlee Lyon. Five members of Perseverance Lodge No. 59, A. F. & A. M. were in Rocky Mount Wednesday night to witness the degree work put on at Corinthian Lodge there by a team of Masons from Wayne Lodge No. 112, Goldsboro. The men were Benton Tetterton, Hil iary Tetterton, Joe Snell, jr., W. A. Roebuck and B. G. Campbell. Sheriff J. K. Reid, Judge of Recorder’s Court Edward L. Owens and Lee Davenport had their car to give out of gas on the old Mackeys road recently, about a mile from the nearest filling station. According to Policeman Foy Davenport, “Little Pony” was elected by a two-to-one vote to walk after a gallon of gas, traffic being light and no one coming to give them a lift. He did, and they got out all right, but Lee is still wondering if he wasn’t the victim of a “rigged election,” since the high sheriff ' .nd big judge both have had a lot more political experience than he has had. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Luttrell this week took over their new duties as managers of the Dutch Grill here, succeeding Bill Gar rett. Mr. and Mrs. Luttrell are from Hertford. The greatest invasion of Plym outh “in force” since the Yankees were here in the early sixties occurred Tuesday night when the Jamesville community moved to Plymouth in a body to watch their two high school basketball teams win the finals of the Lions Invitation tourney here. I Aged Plymouth « Woman Succumbs To Heart Attack -♦ Mrs. Allie Hall Harrison, 82, Dies Wednesday Morning in Durham Hos pital; Funeral Friday — Plymouth lost one of its old est citizens in the death Wednes day of Mrs. Allie Hall Harrison, 82, widow of the late George Hen. ry Harrison. Mrs. Harrison suf fered a heart attack and died at a Durham convalescent home Wednesday morning at around 11 o’clock. She had been ill ever since suffering a fall at her home on Washington Street here about two months ago. Mrs. Harrison was born Janu ary 25, 1869, in Plymouth, the daughter of the late William H Henry Hall, of New York State, and Courtney Ann Todd Hall, of Washington County. She was a j firanddaughter of Captain Lewis J lenry Todd, well-known boat owner in this section years ago. Mrs. Harrison was educated in Plymouth under private tutors and taught in rural schools of the county briefly before her mar riage November 14, 1888, in the Plymouth Methodist Church. The couple had one son, George Hen ry Harrison, jr., who died in 1926. A member of the Plymouth Methodist Church since girlhood, ■ Mrs. Harrison was active in j church affairs until her husband’s death late in 1944. She served on occasion as organist at the church, taught a Sunday School class, was a member of the Lad ies’ Aid Society, and also the American Legion Auxiliary and the Woman’s Club. Funeral services were incom- | plete early today but it is expect ed that last rites will~ be con ducted Friday. -The body is ex j. pected to arrive from Durham at a local funeral home sometime today. Surviving are a granddaughter, Mrs. Helen Harrison Setzer, of Raleigh; one sister, Mrs. Arthur W. Swain, of Raleigh; two nep hews and one niece. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** s5:: •;r~ ssaz, ■ I V:--. A home newspaper dedicated t the service of Vf ishinrlon County and its 13,C0ii people. VOLUME LXII—NUMBER 10 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 8, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1839 Council Names Officials For City Election in May Polling Places, Registrars and Pollholders Designat ed; Election Set lor May . 8th -—♦ Arrangements for the munici pal election in May were complet ed at the town council meeting Monday night by the appoint ment of registrars and pollhold ers and designating polling places for the three wards. A mayor and six councilmen, two each of the latter from the three wards, are to be chosen at the election, which will be held on Tuesday, May 8. No new registration was order ed, and all those who voted in the municipal election two years ago will be entitled to vote this year without registering again. However, there was a new regis tration in 1949, and registration before that year does not quali fy anyone to vote this year. Neither does registration for county, state or national election count in the municipal election, since a different set of books is used. Registration books will be open ed on Saturday, April 14, and remain open through Saturday, April 28, with the registrars re quired to be at the polling places each Saturday during* that per iod for registration of new voters or those who may have moved from one ward to another. Orf other days during the registra tion period the books are usually kept at the home of the registrar and citizens may register there. Polling places were designated as follows: first ward, at the courthouse; second ward, at the office of the City Service Co., corner of Water and Jefferson Streets; third ward, Hardison's Service Station, at the intersec tion of the road leading to the country club village and Wilson Street. Registrars, pollholders and al ternates were appointed as fol lows: first ward: Clarence L. Blount, registrar; James H. Ward and Harry W. Latham, pollhold ers; W. R. Hampton, alternate, Second ward: Mrs. C. A. Cratch, registrar; A. R. Latham and T. Harold Whitley, pollholders; L. T. Weede, alternate. Third ward: Mrs. Ray Brown, registrar; A. W. Cox and H. B. Campbell, pollholders; W. T. Ar rants," alternate. According to the terms of a bill now pending in the General As sembly, which is regarded as cer tain to pass, all candidates for municipal office must file with the city clerk on or before the 28th day of April and pay a filing fee of $2 each. So far, none of the present city officials have made any statement as to whe ther or not they will be candi dates again, and no other person has filed for any of the offices. Receiving Paper At Storage Shed -4 The Plymouth Sea Scouts' skipper, Dr. Alban Papineau, this week announced that a change in policy regarding collection of waste paper in Plymouth has been found necessary. Many of the Sea Scouts have Saturday jobs, it was pointed out, end so much time is required to flatten cartons preparatory to shipment that it has been decided to fore go regular collection rounds. In the future, all persons hav ing waste paper—old newspapers, magazines, and such—which they would like to contribute to the scouts, may leave the paper in the shed which has been built for paper storage behind the fire department on Water Street. If anyone has a great deal of waste paper on hand with no means of transportation, however, the Sea Scouts will make a special trip to pick it up, Papineau said. The cooperation of the public will be ; appreciated. Jury List Drawn for April Superior Court Tho names of 30 Washington County citizens were drawn by the county commissioners at their regular monthly meeting here Monday to serve on the jury for the April term of Superior Court. The term will begin Monday, April 16, with Judge W. C. Harris, of Raleigh, presiding. The list includes 13 from Plym outh Township, 8 from Lees Mill, 7 from Scuppernong and 2 from Skinnersville. It is as follows: Plymouth: Mrs. D. R. Satterth waite, Leroy Ange, Jack P. Ragland, C. O. Kelly, James S. Boyce, T. L. Vandiford, George T. Sexton, Harden Britt, William J. Styons, Wilbur J. Ange, W. B. Hall, Jessie E. Bowen and E. J. Broughton. Lees Mill: Dallas S. Giles, L. C. Snell, H. T. LeFever, W. E. Knowles, W. D. Marriner, Nor wood Allen, Walter Grimes and W. E. Marriner. Scuppernong: Phillip E. Am brose, David M. Phelps, Harold S. Woodley, Lonnie W. Daven port, D. H. Ambrose, H. R. Still man and Robert D. Spruill. Skinnersville: Ira J. Alligood and S. J. Comstock. llriglii Future IsSck€*u Fur Tliin Type ol* Forn Anyone looking for seed corn ought to see Raymond Daven port, of the Pleasant Grove sec tion. He has developed a product that will make Burbank, Coker, Tait and Woods “forgotten men” as soon as the words gets around, according to Dennis Chesson, one of his neighbors. Mr. Davenport secured a nor mal good yield from his corn crop last year, one or more big healthy ears to the stalk. Then just recently, while disking the field for this year's crop, he start ed turning up pint bottles of whiskey at the root of the old stalks. One bottle looks as if about one drink had been taken out of it, while the seal wasn't even broken on another. Only two bottles were found, to be sure, but think of the possibili ties. If this strain can be develop ed a little further, so that the yield can be depended on—bro ther, that's all. Washington Coun ty bootleggers will go in for farming on a big scale, and their orders alone should keep Mr. Davenport booked up from now on. This must be the first time in history that corn yield could be figured in pints—already bot tled, too—instead of bushels, or even gallons, to the acre. Order 30 County Men to Report for Induction on 12th | To Review Tax I Values March 19 Property owners of Washing ton County are reminded that the county commissioners and the county tax supervisor will meet in the commissioners' room at the courthouse here Monday, March 19, as a board of equalization and review. The meeting will begin at 10 o'clock. Persons who desire to regis ter complaints or ask for ad justments in their nroperty valuation arc urged to be pres ent at the meeting, as it will be difficult to secure corrections, even if they are deemed justi fiable, by the board after that date. County Would Be Affected by Bill Made in Senate i Under Proposal, Second District Would Have Less Counties, Only One State Senator A bill to reapportion state sen atorial districts on the basis of the 1950 census was introduced this week in the General Assem bly which, if passed, will directly affect Washington County. Washington County is now in the second state senatorial dis trict along with six other coun ties—Dare, Martin, Tyrrell, Beau fort, Hyde and Pamlico. The sec ond district at present is entitled to two of the state’s fifty sena tors. Under the new bill, how ever, four of the seven countiatf would remain in the second dis trict, with the addition of Bertie, while the other three would be transferred to the third district. The proposed second district reorganization would include Bertie, Dare, Martin. Tyrrell and Washington counties and would be entitled to one senator. Beau fort, Hyde and Pamlico would be shunted to the third district, which would also include Craven and Pitt counties, and would be entitled to tw’o senators. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Harvey Mor ris, of Mecklenburg, and Joe Car ruthers, of Guilford, and in the House by Rep. David Henderson, of Mecklenburg, and a number of others. Mecklenburg and Guil ford, along with Forsyth, would benefit from the bill to the tune of one new senator each. Each county now has one senator. The Senatorial proposal would expand the number of Senatorial districts from 33 to 38 and parcel out the 50 senators according to recommendations of a study com mittee composed of political science experts from the Univer sity of North Carolina, Wake Forest College and Duke Uni versity. Every district in the State would feel the effects of the proposal. Plans to reapportion the House members would make less drastic changes and would not affect Washington County. Authorization for reapportion ment following the Federal de (SeTsENATOPagel) Largest Call Made Thus Far On County; 13 from Plym outh, 9 from Creswell, 8 from Roper. -♦ Notices have been sent out by the local selective service board to 30 men, directing them to re port next Monday to fill Wash ington County's largest single induction call since the local board was reactivated last sum mer. The call actually is for only 25 men next Monday, but it is anticipated there will be several postponements and transfers, hence the order to report was sent out to 30 men. The men will be sent to the induction center at Raleigh for induction into the armed forces. The largest previous single call for induction was for 25 men on January 15, but only 21 actually left. Included in that group were several men who were assigned to the 40th Infantry Division at Camp Cooke, Calif., and that di vision was recently ordered to Japan for occupation duty. With the departure of the group next Monday, the cAunty board will be just about down to the bottom of the barrel again, so far as men available for immedi ate service is concerned. How ever, 19 young men left here last Monday for their pre-induction | physical examinations, and some of them undoubtedly will be add ed to the pool of available men as soon as a report on them is re ceived from the Raleigh induc tion center. In the group called for induc tion next Monday are 13 men from Plymouth, 9 from Creswell and 8 from Roper. Following is the list of those to whom induc tion notices were sent: From Plymouth: Albert Louis Singleton. William Rudolph Bate man, Richard Roosevelt Cooper, Julius Caesar Baker, Knerious Sutton, Henry G. Spencer, Her bert Julius Purkett, Gerald Ru dolph Beasley, Ernest Hardison, jr., Thomas Cray Jordan, Clar ence W. Alexander, jr„ Carrol Jackson Smith, jr., Fred J. Downing. From Creswell: Ira L. Patrick, Paul Jewel Spear. Kenneth C. ^ Sawyer (now living in Balti more, Md.), Alexander Franklin Snell, Joseph Ulysses Lewis, Louis Mitchell Rodgers, Robert C. Phelps, Chester Lee Davis, James Harold Phelps. From Roper: David Mahlon Cradock, Joseph W. Cammon. Sheppard Ray Powell, Daniel Lee Freeman, Louis Warren Skiles, jr., Eugene Speight Gray, ! Ananias Buck Spruill, Jennings Cicero Spruill. PTA Board Will Meet Wednesday The executive board of the Plymouth Parent-Teacher Associ ation will hold its March meeting next Wednesday afternoon, PTA officials have announced. Lunch will be served in the high school cafeteria at 1 p. m. and the busi ness session wall follow at 2 p. m. Plans for terminating the year’s work will be made and other im portant matters will be discussed. Members who cannot attend the luncheon are requested t o be present at the business session. Those planning to attend the luncheon are requested to call Mrs. E. M. Leavitt, phone 586-6, for reservations not later than Monday. Peele and Ashby Sworn in as New Council Members Succeed Willelle and Joy ner; 25-Mile Speed Limit Set for Certain Resident ial Sections Swearing in two new members, making arrangements for holding the municipal election on May 8, and setting reduced speed limits for three residential sections of the town were the principal items of business transacted at the monthly meeting of the Plymouth City Council Monday night. Mayor A. J. Riddle presid ed over the session with the fol lowing members present: E. D. Keel, of the first ward; H. H. Al len and Robert W. Bowen, of the second ward; J. A. Holbrook, of the third ward. Joseph II. Peele, from the third ward, and Percy Ashby, of the first ward, took the oath of office as councilmen to fill the unex pired terms of J. M. Willette and W. H. Joyner, respectively. Mr. Willette has moved out of the city, and Mr. Joyner moved from the first to the second ward re cently, vacating their two posts. Justice of the Peace Cecil M. Beasley gave the oath of office to the new councilmen, whose terms have only about three months to run since all councilmen are to be elected in May. Conditions of the roadway along the riverfront back of Wat er Street .was discussed. Water from the buildings drains across the road, causing gulleys and mudholes, and it was decided to ask owners or occupants of the buildings to put in underground dra npipe. This will enable the town to place rock along the roadway and keep it in good con dition. Chief of Police P. W. Brown was directed to request cooperation of the merchants in this- project. Due to increased living costs, it was unanimously voted to give nim laborers on the street force a r; ise of $2 per week, effective imri ediately. jJthout B; dissenting vc n speed limit bf 29 miles per Hour for motor vehicles was set for residential areas of Little Rich wood Village, the country club village and East Main Street. Signs to this effect are to be ordered and installed. The speed limit in other residential areas of the town will remain at 35 miles per hour, as fixed in the state law. The councilmen appointed of ficials and made arrangements for holding the municipal elec tion on May 8. Several other matters were discussed at some length, including the bill pend ing in the legislature abolishing jury trials in the county record er's court, but no action was taken. Large Number at Funeral for Mrs. Loulie Hampton Member of Prominent Local Family Died Sunday) Morning at Hospital in Asheville —♦ A large crowd, including many from out of town, attended funer al services at Grace Episcopal Church Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock, for Mrs. Loulie Blount Hampton, widow of the late Wil liam Henry Hampton, of Plym outh, and mother of W. Roy Hampton who died suddenly here some weeks ago. Mrs. Hampton, 82 years of age, died in an Asheville hospital Sunday morning at 6:30 o’clock, following a long period of de clining health. She had made her j home in western North Caro lina for a number of years, prc- I ferring the climate there for rea- I sons of health. Born in Washington County 1 December 25, 1865, Mrs. Hamp ton spent the major portion of 1 her life here. She was the daugh ter of the late Levi and Sarah A. Newberry Blount, of this coun ty. She was married at the age of 17 to Mr. Hampton, who died February 11, 1911. He was a prominent citizen and owned considerable property in Plym outh, and for many years was in the merchantile business here, j He also operated the old Hamp- 1 ton fisheries nearby. I Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. L. W. White, of Suffolk. Va.; four grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Services were conducted by the rector of the church, the Rev. Edward M. Spruill and burial followed in the church cemetery. The body was brought to Horn er’s Funeral Home here where it remained until a short time prior to the funeral hour. Bill To Eliminate Jury in Recorder's Court Is Opposed County Lawyers Say It Will Mean Congested Dockets and Increased Cost to County —-♦ Appearing before the regular meeting of the county commis sioners here Monday, members of the county bar association pre ] sented arguments against enact I ment of HB 314, now pending in the legislature, which would au tomatically transfer criminal cases in the Washington County recorder’s court to the superior court when jury trials are de manded. The bill was introduced in the house on February 14 by County Representative W. J. Woolard at the request of the county commissioners. Referred to the committee on courts and judicial districts, it was held up there until members of the county bar could be heard at the meet ing of the commissioners this week. At the conclusion of the pre sentation by the lawyers, the county board considered the mat ter in executive session, after which it voted unanimously not to ask withdrawal of the bill, but to request the representative to press for its enactment. Mr. Woolard was present at the meeting Monday and remained with the board while it was in executive session. A similar bill was introduced in the General Assembly two years ago by Representative E. O. Arnold, also at the request of the county board. It was passed by the house but permitted to die in a senate committee after local attorneys opposed its pas sage there. Z. V. Norman, president of the bar association, led off the dis cussion at the board meeting Monday. Stating that this county had but two one-week terms of criminal court a year, in January and July, he expressed the fear that eliminating jury trials in the recorder’s court would serve to runt she-; wrlrtr court docket la ih«.Vou*t tbit the civil calendar would be excluded entirely, especially at the one-week mixed term in July. He said it also would increase court costs con siderably; since only 6 jurors at $1.50 per day each are required in recorder’s court, against 24 jurors in superior court at $4 per day. He cited other factors con tributing to court expense that are higher in superior court than in the lower tribunal. Carl L. Bailey took up where Mr. Norman left off and asked the board just what its purpose was in asking passage of the bill. Chairman Frank L. Brinkley re I plied that it w*as asked for rea sons of economy, the board feel ing that most of the cases could be tried in superior court without any additional expense. He also cited the small percentage of con victions obtained in cases tried (Sec JURY BILL Page~7)~~ Auto Overturns, Driver Arrested -4 James Marvin Hardison, of Rt. 1, Plymouth, was treated at a local hospital for minor cuts and bruises which he sustained Satur day night at about 10:45 o’clock when the 1949 Plymouth he was driving east on U. S. Highway 64 went out of control and turned over six miles east of Plymouth, State Highway Patrolman Carl Gilchrist, of Plymouth, who in vestigated the accident, reported. The accident occurred near the Edward Furlough residence when the vehicle ran off the pavement on the left side, travelled about 90 yards down the left shoulder of the road, veered to the right and turned over, Gilchrist re ported, The car, belonging to Au brey Garctt, of Plymouth, was damaged about $300, the officer estimated. Hardison was arrested for drunken and reckless driving. Red Cross Fund Drive Off to Fair Start in County Draft Secretary Goes to Hospital Miss Virginia Bock, of Dur ham, is substituting for Mrs. Lorraine Hunter as secretary to the Washington County Se lective Service Board for two weeks, while the latter is un dergoing treatment at the Washington County Hospital here. Mrs. Bock entered upon her work here Tuesday, when Mrs. Hunter entered the hos pital. Mrs. Hunter is expected to return to her work in the draft board office on Monday, March 19. In the meantime, Miss Bock, who has had some exper ience in selective service work, will take care of the office dut ies for the local draft board. Those required to register, as well as registrants who have questions about their status, should see Miss Bock in the local board’s office at the court house. Three County Men Failed To Report For Exam Monday -♦ Nineteen in Group Which Went to Raleigh; Names of Those Acceptable Will Be Certified Later -* Nineteen Washington County young men went to the Raleigh induction center Monday to re ceive their ,>gre-induction physi cal eVNintt^rb'P The group in cluded one ytrang fellow who had not entirely recovered from a case of the mumps, but he went on to the center with the re mainder of the contingent. Originally the call on the coun ! ty was for 35 men, but classifica tion changes made during the j past weeks reduced the number I until only 22 men were availa ' ble. Three of them failed to re ; port Monday, but in two cases it was expected that requests for transfer would clear up their status, leaving one man actually on the delinquent list. Last week, the local board re ported that for the first time since it was reactivated, there were no names on the “delinquent list.” This status lasted only a brief period, however, as the three who failed to report for pre-induction examination Mon day now constitute a new list. The three are: Delano Daven port, foimerly of Roper, but now living in Kellogg, Idaho; Charles Nathaniel Rowen, formerly of Roper but now living in Phil adelphia, Pa.; and William Earl Blackwell, of Plymouth. It is an ticipated that transfer requests will clear up the first two cases listed above, but notices mailed to Blackwell at Plymouth were returned “adressed unknown,” and his name goes on the delin quent list. The number of men who pass ed their physical and mental tests at Raleigh Monday are ex pected to be certified to the lo cal board later this week. -+-— Entertainment Saturday Night at Creswell School •—♦ An entertainment will be pre sented in the Creswell School auditorium Saturday night, March 10, at 7:30, by the Bailey Brothers. A small admission charge will be made, with pro ceeds going to the “Three-I” cir cle of Mount Tabor Church. Residential Solicitations Be gun Monday; First Re ports from Business and Professional Given -♦ House-to-house solicitation for funds in the 1951 Red Cross Fund campaign in Washington County began Monday, Roy Manning, jr., of Plymouth, county chairman, reported. The annual drive got underway Thursday, March 1, Manning explained, but initial ef forts were concentrated on non residential sources. The chairman stated that it was too early in the campaign yet to have a definite line on the progress made, since few reports have been turned in. However, it was announced that the business and professional group quota of $500 has nearly been reached, with a total of $468 in hand from this source. Other reports available yester day included $32 turned in by Mrs. Glen Furbee, chairman of the drive in the Wenona section. The quota there is $60. Manning said that the $400 quota for the industrial group in Plymouth has been more than half reached to date. Other groups not yet reporting, their chairmen and quotas, are as follows: Plymouth residential, Mrs. Frances Jones, chairman, quota $375; Country Club Village, Joe Peele, chairman, quota $115; Wil. son Street Extended, Miss Ida Davis, chairman, quota $75; Rop er, Mrs. Myrla Marrow, chair man, quota $200; Pleasant Grove, Mrs. T. W. Tarkenton, chairman, quota $35; Skinnersville, Mrs. Walter White, chairman, quota $50; Creswell, Mrs. Gladys Davenport, chairman, quota $150; Cherry, Mrs. Harry Barnes, chairman, quota $60; Mackeys, Mrs. Otis Chesson, chairman, quota $65; and colored chairman for coun ty, the Rev. A. R. Winborne, quota $400. The quota for the county this year has been raised to $2,470, which is the highest in the his tory of the drives. The reason for the increase has been explained by the county chairman and oth ers, it being pointed out that both local and national needs are greater than ever. For one thing, the Red Cross Blood Bank pro gram which was recently institut ed in this county will cost the county about $130 for each visit of the bloodmobile, providing sandwiches and other refresh ments for donors of blood, as well as other expenses incident al to the program. (See RED CROSS Page 7) -♦ Roper Rurilans in Regular Meeting -4 Plans for a Boy Scout hut at Roper were discussed last week at the regular meeting of the Roper Ruritan Club. The meet ing was held Thursday night at the community building, presided over by President T. W. Nor man, and members of the Wo man's Society of Christian Ser vice of the Methodist Church ser ved a delightful dinner. The entire program was taken up with a business session, which was concerned principally with the Boy Scout building program. Worth Chesson, assistant scout master and chairman of the hut building committee, reported the promise of enough logs to carry out building plans. Club members volunteered to go after the logs next week and haul them to the mill. Aubrey Dixon, scoutmaster, re ported the progress made by scouts in earning promotions. The club voted to attend services m a group Sunday, March 4, at Zions Chapel Christian Church. County Board Meet Is Held Monday Members of the Washington County Bar appeared before the county commissioners in their regular monthly session here Monday regarding a bill entitled “Jury Trial” which has been in troduced in the General Assem bly. The men, CaTl L. Bailey, sr., Z. V. Norman, W. L. Whitley, W. M. Darden and Carl L. Bailey, jr., asked that the bill be recalled, claiming its passage would neces sitate special terms of Superior Court and be an added expense to the county. The commissioners agreed unanimously, however, to proceedi with passage of the bill. Jack Homer, of Plymouth, Washington County coroner, ap poured before the commissioners and asked that they recommend to the State Board of Health that the vital statistics registrar dis tricts in the county be consoli dated. There are now four regis trars in the county at scattered points. Horner recommended that Gilbert Asby, of Plymouth, be placed in charge of receiving births and deaths and that a cen tral place of registry .be located in Plymouth. The matter was left open until the April meeting Other routine matters coming before the board included reports from County Tax Collector E. J. Spruill and Mrs. Frances M. Darden, home agent, and the drawing of the jury list for the April term of Washington Coun ty Superior Court. Mr. Spruill re ported $6,653.80 collected in his office in February. Mrs Darden submitted her report of work done during the month of Feb ruary. A list of 30 jurors were drawn to serve during the term of court opening April 16. The clerk was instructed to call attention of the highway of ficials to a bad railroad crossing 1% miles east of Plymouth, near Juniper Lodge, and to request that the crossing be improved. The board agreed and ordered that certain taxes be adjusted aad paid.