T1* 'own 1 opicsi BamgmaKnjna The condition of James Hardi son, young Plymouth business man who is hospitalized here with what his doctor termed “the old-fashioned 1918 flue pneu monia,” tok an upward turn Tuesday and he is reportedly tak V't ing nourishment. The doctor stat ed that he is a very sick man, however. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jones, of Buzzards Bay, Mass., are spending the Thanksgiving holi days with their daughter, Mrs. E. W. Furgurson, and family. The Rev. P. B. Nickens is an accomplished speaker and fre quently fills engagements of var ious kinds other than his pastoral duties as minister at Ludford Memorial Baptist Church hert. Last Thursday Mr. Nickens deliv ered an address to the Plymouth Lions Club via tape recording. Mr. Nickens was unable to be present but he arranged to have his voice on hand anyway. The talk was well-received, it is re ported. John Picot, of Littleton, great great grandson of Julian Picot, a political exile from France who practiced medicine in Plymouth years and years ago, was plan ning to attend the meeting of the Washington County Historical Association here Monday night, John Darden reports, but an in jury sustained in a recent auto mobile accident prevented it. r*t - Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Darby have returned from Newark, N. J., after attending funeral services for Mr. Darby’s father, Green leaf Shotwell Darby, 89. Darby died Sunday morning, November 15, at his home in Newark. Over at the Massey Hill-Per quimans eastern championship game in Wilson last Friday night, no spectators were allowed along the sidelines. However, there were a few newsmen following the line sticks to cover the game, so “Snooks” Burnham found him self a scrap of paper and a pencil and got right in the middle of them, industriously writing some thing down after each play. Fol lowing the game someone asked to see his notes. They proved to be illegible scribbling for the most part, and the portion that was intelligible was unprintable. Anyway, no one had a better view of the game than "Snooks,” unless it was the officials. -» Pounding Given ‘ Here Last Week -♦ The Rev. E. M. Spruill, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Plymouth, and St. Luke’s Church of Roper, was agreeably surprised when the congregation of St. Luke’s Church last Wednesday night was present to greet the rector with a pounding as he re turned home from a visit at 8:30 p. m. The group was led by Miss Gussie Carstarphen, of Roper, the oldest member of the parish. The pounding included many useful gifts which were open in the living room in the presence of the donors. Mr. Spruill ex pressed his deep appreciation to the Roper congregation for their thoughtfulness. -♦ Darby's Father Is * Buried Last Week Funeral services for Greenleaf Shotwell Darby, 89, of Newark, N. J., were conducted from Colonial Funeral Home, East Orange, N. J., Wednesday after noon of last week by Dr. Weiler. vector of the Episcopal Church, Newark. Interment was in the family plot at Evergreen Ceme tery, Elizabeth, N. J. Mr. Darby was a native of Elizabeth. Mr. Darby died at his home in Newark early Sunday morning, November 15. He had not been ill but enjoyed unusually good health to the end. Mr. Darby was an artist and photographer until his retirement some 20 years ago. Since that time he had built and raced sail boats and was described by his son, L. J. Darby, here, as a racing enthusiast. i/ Other survivors, besides his son here, are three other sons, Al bert M., Millbrook, N. J., Francis G„ West Orange. N. J., and Mar tin F. Darby, of Newark; and a daughter, Mrs. Louis Habich, of Irvington, N. J. Roper Rurilan Officers To Be Installed January The new slate of officers elect ed recently to serve the Roper Ruritan Club for the coming year will be installed at the January meeting of the club, it is an nounced. Officers to be installed are Ralph Hughes, president; Bryan Harris, vice president; J, L. Rea, treasurer; Ted Martus, secretary; and Jesse Rawls, segeant-at-arms. The Roanoke Beacon *★★★★* and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and its 13,00ft people. J VOLUME LXIV—NUMBER 48 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 26, 1953 • ESTABLISHED 1889 STUDENT COUNCIL MAKING REAL CONTRIBUTION AT CRESWELL SCHOOL | The Creswell Student Council and sponsor, Miss Matilda Alexander— this organization is making a real contribution to the morale and welfare of the entire student body. Reading from left to right: Miss Matilda Alexander, Jerry Smith, Larry Woodley, Geraldine Davenport, Dural Collins, Faye Phelps, Floyd Phelps, Mildred Davenport, Reggie Davenport, Barbara Davenport, Norman Fur lough, Vance Clifton, Douglas Day, Larry Davenport and Lonnell Davenport. Business Closing To Mark Thanksgiving Observance Locally Holiday Lights Being Installed Chief of Police P. W. Brown has had his town crew at work several days this week string ing the holiday lights in the business section. He said yes terday that the work should be completed this week, and it is possible that the lights will be turned on for the first time Saturday night. As in the past, the lights are being installed on two blocks of Water Street between Jef ferson and Adams, and the one block of Washington Street be tween Main and Water. The strings of lights, arched across the streets are spaced about 50 feet apart. They will remain up until New Year's. Creswell Hosl To Roanoke Dislrict Ruritans Meeting -♦ Principal Address by Hert ford Legislator; James ville Club Gets Attend ance Award -4 The Creswell Ruritan Club was host Thursday of last week to the Roanoke District convention ol Ruritan National. Eleven of the 17 clubs in' the district were rep resented with an attendance oi about 100 members and guests. Carroll R. Holmes, of Hertford, Scc RI RITANS, Page 7 Offices, Stores and Shops Closing for Day with Few Exceptions; Schools To Be Closed Until Monday -♦ A general cessation of business for the day will mark observance of Thanksgiving holiday in Plym outh according to a check made here yesterday. The one-day closing will in clude bank, all offices—county and federal—in the courthouse, professional offices and the post offices of the county. Exceptions to the closing for Thursday will be eating places, drug stores and service stations. Restaurants will open for the day, and drug stores will probably ob serve the usual Sunday hours for the holiday. Most service stations are expected to remain open for regular hours, but a few may close for a short while around noon hour or in the early after noon. Local industrial plants will ob serve the holiday, at least in part. Atlas Plywood Corporation and True Temper Corporatit n plants here plan to close at the end of the day Wednesday and remain closed until the regular opening hour next Monday, according to the respective plant managers, R. M. Bruce and C. E. Peckham. The office force will have the day off at N. C. Pulp Company but the plant will operate. Hour ly workers who desire to get off may do so by contacting their foreman, it was said. All county schools, white and colored, will observe the holiday. They will close Wednesday at the usual hour and resume classes Monday morning of next week. This holiday must last students until Christmas when the big hol iday of the school year will come. BUYING TAGS MAY NOT BE SO BAD AT THAT Posing prettily with a new 1954 State license plate in front of the Carolina Motor Club office on Washington Street here are Miss Betty Ann Burnham, Plymouth’s reigning beauty of the Albe marle, and Mrs. L. M. Edwards, office clerk. The agency has been located during past seasons at The Etheridge Company but was moved up town this year to the Ward InsuranceCompany office. Licenses for autos, private and farm trucks, commercial and private trailers and motorcycles go on sale at the office Decem ber 1.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo. Farm Bureau Unit Here Scolded by Slate Bureau Head -4 Maddrey Scores Laxity of County Group; Creswell Man Named To Head Bu reau Here -< C. Gordon Maddrey, president of the North Carolina Farm Bu reau Federation, scored the Wash ington County unit of the Farm Bureau for its laxity in an ad dress that highlighted the annual meeting of the unit here last Fri day night. Maddrey said that during his days as a school principal his fav orite room to visit was that of the first grade because there was a sincerity and frankness to be found there that is hard to find anywhere else. He said he could recall such a visit when some little first grader had made a crude drawing on the blackboard and under the picture the teacher had written the word “horse.” That was so a stranger would know what animal the drawing was supposed to repre sent. He applied the illustration to the Washington County Farm Bu reau and noted that it had failed to send any resolutions to the State Farm Bureau convention recently. “Your Farm Bureau unit here didn’t help to shape Farm Bureau policy,” Maddrey scolded, “and I don’t think one of you should complain if the policy adopted by the convention fails to meet with your approval.” Using as his subject, “Who Shall Speak for the Farmer?” the state president pointed out that the manufacturers, the labor un ions and the polticians all would like to speak for the farmer. S^e^FARM~BUREAlfi~Page^i2 -♦ Barbecue Supper For Bus Project -« The Roper Ruritan Club will sponsor a barbecue supper to be served Friday, December 4, at the school lunchroom, beginning at 6 p. m., it is announced. A charge of $1.25 per plate will be made with the proceeds to go to the fund for an activity bus for Roper High School. A basketball double-header will follow the supper, with the Ruri tan club members opposing the high school boys in one game and the wives of Ruritan members versus the high school girls in the other tilt. The Roper Parent-Teacher As sociation is taking an active part, also, in the movement to secure a bus to transport Roper school teams and already has about $2, 000 on hand, it is said. Very little more is needed to assure the bus and it is hoped that a good re sponse wlil be had for the coming projects. -♦ Young Girl Suffers Third Degree Burns at School Martha Satterthwaite, 10-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vance Satterthwaite, of Plym outh, suffered third-degree burns on both forearms and hands when she lost her balance and fell into a trash fire on the Plymouth High School grounds last Thursday af ternoon. The young girl was treated at the Plymouth Clinic and is re ported as well as could be ex pected at her home. Nearby children pulled the girl from the fire to prevent more serious injury. Special Services ai Local Churches for Thanksgiving Day Several Town and County Churches Announce Spec ial Services for Thursday Of This Week -♦ Special services have been an nounced for Thursday of this week in observance of Thanks giving Day at several churches of this county. Ludford Memorial Baptist Church and Grace Episcopal Church, Plymouth, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Roper, have annunoced special services to mark the day. Services at Ludford Memorial Church will begin at 10 a. m. An offering will be taken at that time for orphanage work. The pastor, the Rev. P. B. Nickens, will bring a brief message apro pos the occasion and the choir will render a special Thanksgiv ing anthem. Morning prayer and sermon will be featured at services set for 9 a. m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Roper, the rector, the Rev. Edward M. Spruill, of Plym outh, has announced. A special service with morning prayer and sermon is scheduled for Grace Episcopal Church at Plymouth, to begin at 11 a. m. At both services the churches will be decorated with fruits of the earth. Afterwards, these will be distributed to the needy of the community. The special offering to be taken at the services will go to the Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte. A special week-end revival series will begin on Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock at the Church of the Nazarene here. The pastor, the Rev. J. H. Hodges, has announced that a 19-year-old stu dent from Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville, Tenn., will do the preaching. The young stu dent aign in the county this Christ nas season. At the same time, the campaign banning committee, meeting at he courthouse, named 52 county >ersons to the Executive commit ee for the drive. Included on the ■xecutive committee were 33 per 10ns at large from Plymouth, ■ight from the various labor un ons here, five from Creswell, hree from Roper, two from Mac ceys and one from Columbia. A committee meeting has been :et for Monday night of next ,veek at the courthouse here, be ginning at 8 o’clock. Mr. Boyce is jrging that all members be pres rnt for this important meeting. It was agreed at the meeting rhursday night that the Agricul ure Building be designed as the rollection point for all usable ;oods collected in the drive. Any ;hing usable in the way of clothes, ’ood or toys will be accepted, it was stated. It was emphasized, lowever, that only usable toys will be accepted since there is no facility available for mending toys. It is also urged that donors of Nothing get the articles in as soon rs possible in order to allow time for the clothes to be properly leaned before distribution to the needy families of the county. December 15 was established js the deadline for donations of Food, clothing and toys. Efforts will also be made to get all con tributions of money in by that late. The names of people in the county who need assistance Should be sent to Mrs. Ursula Spruill, superintendent of the Washington County Welfare De partment. It is hoped that all persons who plan to lend assistance to the needy will contribute through the Empty Stocking Fund, a project which has proven successful in the past. The fund has been an annual project here for many years and has brought a great measure of relief and holiday cheer to countless families. The Plymouth Rotary Club an nually sponsors the fund with the able support of various other civic, social and religious organi zations. The county welfare de partment acts in an advisory ca pacity and furnishes a list of the indigent families needing assist ance. Below are listed by communi ties the members of the Execu tive committee: Creswell: Tom Hampton, Cres well Ruritan Club; Mrs. M. J. Davenport, Creswell PTA; Mrs. Harry Pritchard, Creswell Mer chants Association; Mrs. Tom Hampton, Creswell Woman's Hub; George Wilson, Creswell FFA. Roper: Mrs. Cordula Hassell, Roper PTA; Ralph Hughes. Roper Ruritan Club; Henry Everett, Roper Fire Department. Columbia: Father Williams; Labor: Leroy Ange, labor unions; SetT FUNDDRIVeT Page~7~~ -t State Tags Go On Sale December 1 -♦ The 1954 State license plates will go on sale Tuesday of next week at 9 a. m. at the Carolina Motor Club office, 116 Washing ton Street, here, James H. Ward, office manager, announced today. Motorists are urged by Mr. Ward to buy their licenses well in advance of the January 31 dealine and avoid the perennial last-minute rush which always finds hundreds of persons in long queues at license bureaus throughout the state. This year the license plates are black on orange, reversing the 1953 color scheme. Certain changes were made by the 1953 legislature with regard to licensing of trucks, Mr. Ward pointed out. In general, licenses will be issued on the basis of the driver's declaration as to the empty weight and maximum load of his vehicle. Mr. Ward recently attended a Carolina Motor Club license school held at Greenville. During the all-day meeting, club man agers were instructed by State officials in the application of new licensing regulations. During the license season the hours at the office here will be from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., the man ager stated.