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< T1 own III opicsjjj James L. Lee, of the Manning Motor Company, attended the .second annual truck-sales train ing council held in Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday of last week. The training council, one of 12 held in other parts of the country, was organized to better acquaint truck sales managers and sales men in Ford dealerships with the Ford Motor Company’s truck sales program. Dr. A. L. Whitehurst attended the regular quarterly meeting of the Eastern district, North Caro lina Chiropractic Association, at Edenton Wednesday. Dr. George H. Byba, of Edenton, was host. The business session was held at Dr. Byba’.s office and supper was served the group at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Byba. It isn't known whether Regis ter of Deeds J. Robert Campbell hoped to escape the terrific heat this seetion has been sweltering under or not when he planned his vacation, but at any rate he, Mrs. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Campbell, of Wilmington, left last Friday for a motor trip through Florida (that’s where cold-ridden northerners go in the winter, you know). The Camp bell’s expect to return to Plym outh Monday. Some child has lost his or her doggie, according to L. S. Skiles, who says a nice little dog, with a dark back, brown sides and white feet, “took up” at his home on Wilson Street about two weeks ago and has been there since. He doesn’t pay much attention to grown folks, but likes all chil dren according to Mr. Skiles, who hopes the owner will call for it soon before he and his children become too much attached to it. County School Superintendent Roy F. Lowry attended a Re source Youth Education meeting in Chapel Hill Wednesday and Thursday of last week. On his return he dropped in at a Dur ham hospital to see L. E. Hassell, of Roper, chairman of the county board of education, who was re cuperating from a nose opera tion. Mr. Hassell has since re turned to his home and is report ed to be getting along very well. Woodrow Collins, Robert E. Bowen, W. J. Woolard, Mack W. Marrow and J. Roy Manning, sr., are leaving today for Linville, where they will spend 10 days. They wrill be joined there by Gar land G. Woolard andi Jack Man k ning, of Williamston. and John ™ Rise, of Roanoke, Va. Between them, they are planning to take the golf course at the mountain resort to pieces. V-• Amvels May Try To Organize Here It is understood that an attempt will be made to organize a local chapter of American Veterans of World War II (Amvets) here next week. An official of the state or ganization called W. Ronald Gay lord, county veterans’ service of ficer, here Tuesday and asked him to make arrangements for the organization to obtain use of the courtroom next Thursday night, August 7, for a mass, meeting of World War II veterans, starting at 8 o’clock. Mr. Gaylord said he had no Afurther information about the meeting, and it could not be learned if the Amvets had gotten in touch with any local veterans * about the matter. There are sev eral chapters of Amvets in other towns of this section, but no at tempt has ever been made to or ganize a local unit. Plymouth veterans now have chapters of the American Legion and Vete rans of Foreign Wars. Announce Employment of Mechanic at Local Firm Moye W. Spruill, owner of the recently - opened Spruill Nash Motors here, announced this week the employment of D. M. Bal lance, of Belhaven, as mechanic. Mr. Ballance comes to the local firm with good recommendations, having a number of years of ex perience in automobive repair ^Pwork. He will begin work with the firm Monday of next week. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and its 13,000 people. VOLUME LXIII—NUMBER 31 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 31, 1952 ESTABLISHED 1889 Town, County Boards i Will Meet on Monday I __ ___»_! County and town governing bodies will hold their regular monthly meetings here next Monday. The county commis sioders and county board of education will meet in the courthouse Monday morning, while the Plymouth City Coun cil will meet in the municipal building here Monday night at 8 o’clock. Routine business was on the agenda for the sessions general ly. Nothing special is scheduled to come before the county com missioners, so far as could be learned yesterday. Members of the beard of education probably will have some new teacher contracts to review and also will consider the building pro jects now in progress, as well as plans for opening of all coun ty schools on September 3. A comparatively light session is in prospect for the town council. Drilling of another well undoubtedly will be up for discussion, as it has been for the last half dozen meetings. It is understood that the driller has been unable to secure the pipe necessary before starting on the well. Voters Here Approve Choice of Stevenson NoHogsAllowed In Town Limits Chief of Police P. W. Brown said yesterday that he had re ceived a number of complaints about hogs being; kept inside the city limits, in violation of a town ordinance. Most of the complaints are from persons in outlying sections of the town. The chief said he was inves tigating the charges, and own ers are being notified to move their swine outside town limits. He is issuing a warning that the law must be complied with and, although he said he did not want to prosecute anyone on this account, summons will be issued unless all hogs are mov ed from inside the town within the next few days. Local Sea Scouts On Summer Cruise Due Back Friday Lefl Last Week for Trip To Charleston, S. C.; Seven From Greenville With Group From Here -« Plymouth and Greenville Sea Scouts are having a delightful trip on the Plymouth Sea Scout Ship "Albemarle,” according to messages received this week from the group. They left the dock here last Friday night about 7 o’clock for Charleston, S. C., via the inland waterway, and are ex pected to return the latter part of this week. The party is made up of six sea scouts from Plymouth and seven from Greenville, in addit ion to the two skippers and two mates. Dr. Alban Papineau, skip per of the Plymouth ship, is in charge of the group, assisted by J. B. Newman, Greenville skip per, and Jewel Hardison and Bradford Papineau, mates of the Plymouth ship. The six scouts from Plymouth are Eddie Ricks, Peter Leavitt, Mack Graham, Billie Browning, Bill Ange and George Painter. Greenville scouts are Dickie New ell, Preston Jarvis, Bobbie Lang ston. Jimmie Perkins, Jimmie Smith, Ronnie Morton and Cul len Newman. The ship reached Georgetown, S. C., Monday morning and re ported that they expected to dock in Charleston about 5 p. m. that day. They were scheduled to leave Charleston yesterday after noon and arrive in Plymouth late Friday night or early Saturday morning. The boys are enjoying sight seeing trips at points of interest along the way. They spent one night at Morehead City on the way south. According to Dr. Pa pineau. the weather was delight fully cool except when they stop ped in towns along the route. Intangible Tax Share For County, 3 Towns Washington County and the three towns in the county will receive a total of $5,36}.34 next week as their share of intangible taxes collected by the state dur ing the fiscal year which ended last June 30. Amounts received by the county and individual towns will be slightly larger than last year, according to the state board of assessment. Washington County will re ceive a check for $3,589.26. The town of Plymouth’s share is $1, 616.28. Roper will get $92.75 and Creswell $63.05, it was reported. J. C. Bethune, board secretary, said in Raleigh Monday that the checks would be mailed next week. The tax covers bank deposits, stocks, bonds, notes, charge ac counts, interest and similar items. The state keeps 20 per cent of the total tax take and returns the other 80 per cent to the coun ties, cities and towns. Last year’s collections were the largest in history, totalling $4, 227,873.83. Ten years ago the state total was only $1,570,760.31. Most of Those Questioned Believe Nominee Will Lead Democrats to Vic tory in November -1 Judging by opinions of a few Washington County Democrats so licited at random Wednesday morning by the writer of this arti cle, it would seem that the next president of these United States will be none other than Gover nor Adlai Stevenson, of Illinois. Opinion among those interview ed however, was unanimous that Stevenson would emerge the win ner in November only after a hard right—“nip and tuck.” one styled it. “What do you think of the Democratic presidential ticket?” all were asked. The answers rang ed from “OK” to “good” to “fine,” but one person interviewed ex pressed the candid opinion that the ticket of Stevenson and Sparkman was not quite so strong as might have come out of the recent Chicago convention. “Russell would have been stronger,” was heard. Some said that the selection of Sparkman as Stevenson's running mate on the Democratic ticket was a sort of “healing balm” for the South. Of all those questioned, only one person heard Governor Stev enson’s speech accepting the nom ination. Mrs. Bernice Hammons, who, along with her sister, is proprietor of Town & Country Shop here, stated that she heard the speech and that she conclud ed from it that the Democratic presidential nominee is a “down to-earth fellow.” “He seemed plain and humble and sounded as though he realized just what must be done and that he would earn estly try to carry it out.” E. H. Browning, a Plymouth clothing merchant, declared he thought the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket was a good one with a fine chance of victory in November in a “nip and tuck” fight. The Re publican slate will be no push over, in Mr. Browning’s opinion. He realizes Mr. Eisenhower is generally very popular but does n’t think the Republican ticket will disrupt the South. Nyal Womble, a local pharma cist, foresees a Democratic vic tory in November in a hard fight, but thinks a Democratic ticket headed by Senator Russell, of Georgia, would have been strong er than the Stevenson-Sparkman combine. A former county representative, E, O. Arnold of Skinnersville, ~~ See" STEVEN'SON~Page"l2 -1 Packhouse Burns With Heavy Loss ♦ Heavy damage was suffered by Linwood Knowles on the Dr. White farm about a mile east of Plymouth early Wednesday night when lightning is reported to have struck a tobacco packhouse, setting it afire. The fire completely destroyed the packhouse, a large two-story frame structure, and an adjoining shed, and with it three barns of cured tobacco, all of the first three pullings from the crop on that farm. A truckload of volun teer firemen from Plymouth sped to the scene of the blaze and find ing the wind blowing toward a dwelling house about fifty feet away, sent for the other truck. It is reported that the wind shifted several times but firemen were successful in keeping the fire from spreading. The first truck arrived at about 7:15 p. m. Mr. Knowles farms the proper ty under lease and also is engaged in farming in Martin County near Dardens. He estimated his loss at around $3,000. There were 1,800 sticks of tobacco, eight tons of hay, 4.000 tobacco sticks, 10 bar rels of corn, about $100 worth of farm tools and a new duster valued at $32 destroyed. It could not be learned if any insurance was carried on the property. Tobacco Prices Up Monday as Border Maris Begin Sales -4 Official Average $56.29, as Compared With $52.05 at Start of Selling Season Last Year -♦ Local tobacco growers, some of them planning to sell on the Bor der Belt markets when they open next Monday, were encouraged this week by reports from the South Carolina markets which opened Monday of this week. Reports were that the average price paid growers on the mar kets in South Carolina for open ing day sales Monday was $56.29 per hundred pounds. This was $4.24 cents per hundredweight above the opening average on the markets there a year ago, ad* cording to U. S. and N. C. De partment of Agriculture reports. The total poundage auctioned on the South Carolina markets Monday was 3.521.359 pounds. The agriculture department re ports stated that the increase in the average price paid growers for the leaf was due chiefly to the fact that better quality tobacco was offered Monday than was sold on opening day a year ago. Price averages by grades were also up somewhat, it was said. Averages by individual mar kets in the state on opening day sales ranged from a low of $51.75 a hundred to a high of $59.54. Prices by grades remained fair ly steady on Tuesday’s sales also, according to the agriculture de partment reports. Some priming grades were said to be up by as much as from $2 to $4 per hun dred on Tuesday’s sales. Offer ings for that day were light, how ever, and quality was below that of opening day. Averages on a limited number of U. S. grades were listed for Tuesday’s sales as follows: Cutters: Fair lemon, $70, low lemon, $68. Lugs: Choice lemon, $70, fine lemon, $69. fair lemon, $61, fair orange. $57, low orange, $44. Primings: Good lemon, $63, fair lemon, $53, fair orange, $47, low orange, $37. Nondescript: Best thin, $24. Meanwhile, the Georgia-Florida Belt, which opened earlier, re ported mildly-fluctuating prices, with decreases in average prices on some grades from $2 to $4 per hundred pounds. Most of the mar kets, however, reported full sales. A general average on the 22 mar kets in the two states of $54.54 Monday was the highest of the season. This was a near-record average, according to reports. FoundalionsBeing Poured for School Projecl This Week -♦ Work Started on Additions Here; Hope To Complete One Building in Time for School Opening ♦ Construction work got under way this week on the county school-building projects. Founda tions were beingd ug and con crete poured for the two additions to the school here, and a consid erable portion of the materials needed have already been placed on the lot. The small building to house the band room and industrial arts de partment at the high school here is to be the first project under taken. according to officials of the Hunt Construction Company, of Durham, which has the general construction contract for all three projects. It is hoped this build ing will be ready for occupancy about the time for opening of schools on September 3. The recent steel strike may slow up work on the other school projects in the county, although officials of the construction firm plan to go ahead as rapidly as the materials can be obtained. It is hoped to have the Creswell gymnasium completed around the first of the year so that it may be used during the basketball season. In the meantime, a force of workmen are about half through the job of dividing up the audi torium at J. J. Clemmons school in Roper to provide three addit ional classrooms. This work is being done by the county main tenance force, under the supervis ion of Clyde Davis. Two full-size classrooms are to be provided and one smaller classroom. J. P. West, president of the Whiteville Plumbing & Heating Company, was here Tuesday mak ing arrangements for delivery of pipe to be used for the plumbing work. His firm was successful bidder for the plumbing contract on all three of the county pro jects. | WHERE NEW EDUCATIONAL BUILDING IS TO BE DEDICATED AUGUST 10 !■ The new educational building of Hebron Methodist Church at Roper will be dedicated on Sunday, August 10, with Bishop Paul N. Garber, of Richmond, Va., in charge of the service, assisted by District Superintendent F. S. Love, of Elizabeth City, and the Rev. B. E. Bingham, pastor. All former members and former pastors of the church have been invited, and it is expected a record-breaking congregation will be on hand for the services.—Photo by Charles E. Mizelle. Hornworms Now Found in County; Threat To Crops -• Airplane Services Called in To Spray Golden Weed Fields in County; Some Fields Stripped Several prominent farmers of the county, along with County Agent W. H. Pruden, have re portedjhat the heaviest infesta tion hornworms ever to threaten the crops of Washing ton Couhty is how being combat ed from the air. Dick Norman and Lewis Gur ganus, who farm on neighboring places near Plymouth, reported to Pruden last Wednesday morn ing that their tobacco was heavi ly infested with the hornworms and asked that he call in an air service firm to spray the crops with an insecticide. An Elizabeth City outfit was summoned and this week others were called in as the infestation became general throughout fields of the county. It was reported Wednesday morning of this week that at least three planes were at work spraying tobacco fields in the county. Pruden reported late Wednes day that he had seen some fields where priming and tip leaves had been stripped by the worms. The pests are especially bad this time of year and strip the un pulled leaves from the stalk if left unchecked. Many farm ers have lost the “tips” or final pulling at one time or anoth er because of heavy worm infes tation which was not checked with some potent insecticide. It would seem that the tobacco farmers generally have been un usually hard hit this season, after experiencing little trouble with plant beds in the spring. Plants were generally more plentiful this spring than for several sea sons past and most farmers did not experience any trouble in “setting out.” However, since that time, just about everything—including pro longed dry spells and record breaking heat waves—has hap pened which is calculated to cut short the golden weed harvest. Reports were published this week of tobacco in some sections which hud been severely punished by drought and heat, only to suffer yet more from hail. Farmers in some parts of the Eastern belt are hoping for just “half a crop.” Pruden stated this week that he considered the crops in Washing ton County to be the best he has seen this- year, and that would include by way of comparison the crops of several counties in this section of the state. Tobacco Barn on Gurkin Farm Destroyed by Fire A tobacco barn, together with oil curers and around 750 sticks of tobacco, was destroyed by fire on the Will Gurkin farm near here Saturday night. Trucks from the Plymouth Fire Department sped to the farm but the barn was beyond saving when they arrived. Mr. Gurkin express ed the opinion that the barn could not have been saved, had the trucks been there when the fire was first discovered. The firemen this week received a check for $20 from Mr. Gurkin :n appreciation of their efforts in his behalf. Plan Special Service At Roper Church 10th Bishop Paul N. Garber To Dedicate New Education al Building at Hebron Methodist Church —♦ Dedication of the new educa tional building of the Hebron Methodist Church in Roper is be ing planned for Sunday, August 10, with several distinguished m V,itei:nf t^ttiodist deno rrviietion .'i/'ing’parv'in tht serv ice. Bishop Paul Neff Garber, of the Richmond, Va., area, will conduct the dedication service and deliver the main address. Assisting him will be Dr. F. S. Love, superin tendent of the Elizabeth City dis trict, and the Rev. B. E. Bingham, pastor. Mr. Bingham has been pastor of the church for the past five years, during which the building project was completed. It was started back in the thir ties. Reynold Spruill, chairman of the board of Christian education, will present the education build ing for education. Other members of the board are Mrs. Robert Arm strong, Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Ches son, Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Ches son, W. A. Dixon, Mrs. L. E. Has sell, sr., Mrs. L. E. Hassell, jr., Mrs. A. R. Hooker, Miss Pat Mar row, Mrs. J. L. McAllister, Mr. and Mrs. Jack McAllister. All former pastors and former members of the church have been invited to return for this occasion, which will also serve as a home coming service. Others who have shown special interest in the building program have been in vited, with about 300 invitations being sent to out-of-town guests. A general invitation is likewise extended to the public. Besides the address by Bishop Garber, the program also includes a solo, “Bless This House,” by Mrs. Jack Leary; an anthem, “Hark, Hark, My Soul,” by the choir; and dinner on the grounds served by members of the church to members and guests. Admissions and Discharges At Hospital in Past Week —• * Records at the Washington County Hospital here show that the following persons were ad mitted and/or discharged from Thursday of last week through Wednesday noon: Admitted, white: Percy Ashby, Melvin Tetterton, Mrs. Audrey Everett, Mrs. C. A. Browning, Mrs. Irma Tetterton, David Moore, and Howard McClure, all of Plymouth; Robert Dail, of Jamesville; William Brown, of Raleigh; and Barbara Woodley, of Creswell. Admitted, colored: Martha Rhodes, Addie McNair, Erma Lee Frazier, Malathia Armstrong, William Cherry, Richard Good man, Esau Armstrong, jr., and Agnes Moore, all of Plymouth; Delphia Young, of Roper. Discharged, white: Mr. Ashby, Mr. Tetterton, Mrs. Everett, Mrs. Browning, Mrs. Tetterton, Mr. Dail, Mr. Moore, Mr. Brown; Warren Allen, Mrs. Georgia Mae Wells, both of Plymouth; Mrs. Inez Downs, of Roper. Discharged, colored: Martha Rhodes, Addie McNair, William Cherry, Richard Goodman; Mil ton Armistead, Vaster Moore, Ai leen Heath, all of Plymouth; Bon nie Ellison, of Jamesville; and Essie Nixon, of Roper. Enough Cuke To] Heal' a Family ] ■•■■■•■■■■■■■a Several weeks ago Hugh B. Allen displayed uptown a "grand daddy cucumber” which measured 12 3/S inches in las&'Nfrnss; weight of Um overthe cuke was not determined. Now, Jimmy Carpenter, 13 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Carpenter, has come up with a cuke which is larger around its girth if not quite so long as the Allen mastodon. Young Carpenter’s cuke meas ured 10 1/8 inches in circum ference and weighed exactly 28 ounces. It measured 11% inches in length. Soil Conservation District Meeting Will Be Held Here -« Business Session To Opei Thursday, August 7, a 10 A. M. at Agriculluri Building; Farm Tours Se -» The Soil Conservation supervis or.s of the Pamlico Soil Conser vation District will meet at Plym outh, Thursday of next week, i has been announced. The meeting will open at 1( o’clock Thursday morning at th< Agriculture Building here. Th< regular business session will b< held in the morning and a toui of the Test Farm near here wil be held in the afternoon. Other farms will also be visitec by the group, among them th( Dismal farms of E. H. Liverman Edward L. Owens and Tom Harri. son. The Pamlico District embrace! the counties of Washington, Tyr rell. Hyde, Beaufort and Dare Supervisors from the latter foui counties will be guests of th< Washington County supervisors— E. If. Liverman, Carl Heynen anc Hoyt Davenport. A special guest for the occas ion will be Herbert D. Bateman of Wilson, president of the See District, Page 7 " Mercury Is Lower But Heat Still On In Entire Section -1 Two Treated for Heat Ex hauston at Hospital here Tuesday; High for Past Week 99 Degrees According to the official tem perature records at the Tidewat er Test Farm, it was not as hot this week as it was during the previous two hot spells. Never theless, there were plenty of people who thought Monday and Tuesday of this week were as hot as any days the section has had this year, and at least two cases of heat exhaustion were treated at the hospital here Tuesday. Seven workmen at the pulp mill here reported to the first-aid de partment and went home Tues day on, account of the heat, ac cording to reports. William Brown, a senior at State College has been doing some research work at Tidewater Test Farm on a soybean project, “fell out” while in a field there Tues day afternoon and required emer gency treatment at the Washing ton County Hospital. Brown, whose home is at Rich Square, was in a serious condition when he reached the hospital and a lo cal physician said he could not have lived 10 minutes longer if he had not been gotten into an oxygen tent in time. J. L. Rea, manager of the test farm, said that the temperature of the soil where Brown was working was taken after the young man “fell out,” and the thermometer registered 130 de grees. Given a saline solution and placed in an oxygen tent, it is reported that the young man is now getting along all right. Richard Goodman, colored to bacco farmer on the farm of Will Gurkin near here, also was treat ed for heat prostration at the local hosiptal Tuesday afternoon. According to official records at the Tidewater Farm, the latest heat wave started building up last Saturday, when a high of 90 degrees was reached. Sunday’s high was 94, and the minimum 68; Monday the maximum was 98, with a minimum of 75; and Tuesday the thermometer went up to 99, with a low of 76 for the day. Tuesday night's thunder shower cooled things off some what, and at 1 p. m. yesterday the reading was only 91 degrees. Tuesday of last week, the all time high of 102 was equalled for the third time this year, the other two days at that figure being June 26 and 27. Any way you slice it, this has been about the hottest summer ever recorded in this section, and there is still more than a month and a half to go. Whew! -► ! Colton Support ' Price Increased t * , The United States Department ’ of Agriculture announced Tues t day that it \yould support the price of middling 7/8 inch cotton from this year’s crop at an aver age price of 30.91 cents a pound. This figure is higher than last year’s loan rate of 30.46 cents. The .support level is based on i 90 per cent of parity as of Aug ust 1. The parity price is $34.35 , cents per pound. (Parity is a fig ure for farm products in propor , tion to that of other commodi ties). The department said that the average support rate for middling | 15/16 inch cotton will be 1.05 cents a pound higher than that announced for middling 7/8 inch cotton, or 31.96 cents a pound. Premiums and discounts for various grades and staple length combinations under the 1951 price support program will be calcu lated in relation to the price sup port rate announced for middling 15/16 inch cotton, the report said. Support rates will vary accord ing to the location, it was point ed out. Also, loans and purchase agreements on the crop will be available to producers through April 30, 1953. Order Surplus Foods For County Schools County school authorities have started placing orders for surplus foods to be used in the six school lunch rooms during the coming term. The foods are available without cost through the surplus commodities buying program of the federal government. Orders were placed this week for the maximum quantity ol shell eggs allowed under the pro gram and also for 450 boxes of pears. Eight eggs per participat ing child will be allowed over a two-months period, according to idvice received by R. F. Lowry, superintendent of county schools. The initial shipment of six eggs per child will be made in Octo ber, with the remainder to fol low about a month later. School lunch rooms which will share in the commodities being ordered include those at the Plymouth, Roper and Creswell white schools and colored schools in Roper, Creswell and Macedon ia. Last year county schools re ceived surplus commodities val ued at $6,429, while the year be fore that they recived $9,295 worth.