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R. F. Lowry, Washington Coun
ty school superintendent, re
turned to Plymouth last Thurs
day night from Atlantic City
where he attended the convention
of the American Association of
School Administrators. Mr. Lowry
left for Atlantic City the prev
j ious Saturday.
J. L. Kelton, of Edenton, ASC
field representative ,was in Plym
outh a few days this week, in
connection with his duties. While
here. Mit. Kelton conducted a
joint meeting of the county ASC
committee and coimmunity com
mitteemen in. the auditorium of
the Agriculture Building.
A2/c Clarence W. Alexander,
jr., of the U. S. Air Force, is en
route to Korea, his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Alexander, of
Plymouth, have been notified.
Airman Alexander has been in
the Air Force for three years and
spent time in training at Lack
land Air Force Base, San An
tonio, Texas, and Lowry Air
Force Base, Denver, Colo., among
others. He graduated from Plym
outh High School in the class of
1948.
Among 93 students on the cur
rent Dean’s list at Meredith Col
lege is Arm. Lee Mayo, of Plym
outh. Miss Mayo is the daughter
» of Mr. and Mirs. W. J. Mayo and
• is a (freshman at the Raleigh
School. The list of those attain
ing the high academic rating dur
ing the past semester was releas
ed by the college registrar, Mrs.
Vera T. Marsh.
Scoutmaster Carl Bailey, jr.,
and eight patrol leaders and as
sistants of the Plymouth scout
troop attended the Junior Leader
training course at Oaxnp Croatian,
near New Bern, last Friday and
Saturday. There was a two-day
conference program at the Boy
Scout camp. Scouts making the
trip were Bobby Ange, Harny
Turner, Marion Alien, George
Waters, Darnell Kelly, Lowell
Bowen, jr., Harvie Hill, and' John
Jackson. The party (returned to
Plymouth Saturday afternoon.
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World Prayer Day
To Be Observed
* Al Local Church
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Plymouth Council df Church
Women Sponsoring Pro
gram al Grace Church Fri
day of Next Week
Grace Episcopal Clhurch will
serve as host for the lccall ob
servance of World Pay of Prayer,
the program for which will be
held at 3:30 o’clock Friday after
noon of next week, At is announc
ed.
The special prayer day is be
ing sponsored locally by the
Plymouth Council of Church Wo
men which is made up of women
from Episcopal, Baptist, Metho
dist, Christian and Presbyterian
Churches. Women from all the
churches will participate in the
program to be announced next
week.
Jk i The purpose of the observance
is to unite in prayer Christians
around the world and to make an
offering to support interdenomi
national missions at home and
abroad.
The observance began in 1887
when Mrs. Darwin R. James call
ed on all Presbyterian women in
the United States to gather in
their own communities on a spec
ified date to pray for home mis
sions.
The response was so great that
a day was set apart annually.
Then, in the early nineties under
the leadership of two Baptist wo
men, a day was designated for
foreign missions.
For many years home and
foreign mission groups observed
days of prayer separately, but in
1919 they came together. In 1920
the women of Canada joined with
them.
The Plymouth Council of
Church Women is extending an
invitation to everyone to join in
the observance Friday of next
} * week.
Red Cross Campaign
Group Being Formed
A small group of interested
citizens met in the conference
room of Planters National Bank
& Trust Company here Wednes
day night of this week to formu
late a list of prospective local
chairmen in the coming annual
Red Cross fund drive in this
county. ,
It is expected that the cam
paign organization will be per
fected next week.
Bank Manager Marvin Weaver
will serve as fund chairman for
the drive this year, and Ralph
Hunter, county Red Cross chair
man, and W. j. Woolard, a form
er chairman, will assist Mr. .Wea
ver.
Washington County will strive
to obtain a goal of $2,750 during
the 1954 drive, Mr. Weaver said.
The goal last year was $2,800,
the previous goad of $2,655 in 1952
having being increased by $160
due to disastrous tornadoes which
struck in seven states.
It will be necessary to contact
persons listed at the Wednesday
night meeting to learn if they
will accept appointments to serve
as local chairmen before the
fund-raising organization can be
perfected, it was explained.
The Roanoke Beacon
****** and Washington County News ******
A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington
County and its 13,000 people.
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 25, 1954
ESTABLISHED 1889
VOLUME LXV—NUMBER 8
LOCAL PERSONS SEE WORLD'S SMALLEST PAPER-MAKING MACHINE
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Leavitt and Robert E. Bowen, of Plymouth, were among the thousands
who witnessed the first public showing of the 10 - foot - long Midget Fourdrinier, world’s smallest
paper-making machine. The public showing was in New York City at the meeting of the Technical
Association of Pulp & Paper Industry during the week of February 15. Giant paper - making
machines, such as at the plant of North Carolina Pulp Company in Plymouth, reach the length of a
city block or more. In the photo, Dr. Alfred L. Peiker, head of the Laboratories Development Divis
ion of American Cyanamid Company, demonstrates use of the small machine to three sons of C. S.
Maxwell, paper research scientist at Cyanamid’s Stamford, Conn., laboratories.
To Open Hog Market
By Middle of March
Local Board To
Send Five Men
Five registrants of Selective
Service Board No. 95 here are
scheduled to be sent for pre
induction Wednesday of next
week, Mrs. Lorraine Hunter,
clerk to the board, reports.
An induction call must also
be filled during the month of
March by the local board, it
was said. A call has been re
ceived by the board for five
men to be sent for induction on
Tuesday, March 30. Registrants
to be sent for pre-induction
next Wednesday are asked to
report to the local ,board office
in the courthouse basement
here well before 9 a. m.
County NCEA Unit
Hears Skretting
Dr. J. W. Skretting, instructor
of sociall situdies teachers at the
University of North Carolina,
Clhapel Hilt, wais tihe featured
speaker at the banquet meeting
oif the Washington County Unit,
North Carolina Educational As
sociation, at Roper Monday night.
The banquet was held in the
school lunchroom and the pro
gram followed in the auditorium.
Dr. Sketting sf>ok'e on ways
teachers may inject home indus
try into the curriculum, especial
ly for the benefit of students who
will not get college training.
The meeting was well attend
ed by members of the county
unit and by about 25 special
guests including members of the
local school committees, the coun
ty board of education, the county
board of commissioners, mayors
of Roper and Plymouth, and
others.
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Bridge and Canasta Parly
Attended by Nearly 100
The bridge and canasta party
sponsored by the local VFW
auxiliary Tuesday night at the
Veterans Club was a grand suc
cess, Mrs. Lorraine Hunter, auxi
liary president, reports.
Nearly 100 persons attended.
Williams Brothers, of Smith
field and Washington, To
Begin Construction Next
Week: .
Plymouth, already set far a
produce auction market slated to
open in May, will' get a hog mar
ket by the middle of next month,
it was learned this week.
J. Noah Williams, of Smith
field, mad© the announcement
Wednesday that he and His bro
ther, Jacob Williams, of Washing-*
ton, would operate the business,
to be known as the Plymouth
Hog Market.
The market will be located on
the by-pass stretch of U. S. High
way 64 on land purchased from
Owens Brothers, of Plymouth, it
was said. The land lies on the
north side of the highway just
east of the new Amoco station.
Mr. Williams told a Beacon re
porter in a telephone conversa
tion Wednesday that work will
begin next week on constructing
cemented loading pens and! an
office and installing scales.
He stated that present plans
call for opening of the market far
business Monday, March 15. The
market will be for Slaughter hogs
only—no feeder pigs—and Mr.
Williams said hogs bought on the
market would be sold to Kin
gan’s, one of the large packers.
He expects capacity of the mar
ket to be about 1,000 hogs a day
and estimated that the new mar
ket might handle half a million
dollars’ worth of hogs annually.
“It will mean a lot of money to
the community,” Williams de
clared.
It is understood that J. Noah
Williams operates 12 hog-buying
stations at present, including one
at Smithfield at which business
is said to run between four and
five million dollars a year.
Jacob Williams has markets at
Washington and Jacksonville.
The county agent’s office has
been working for same time to
secure a top hog-buying station
here. W .H. Pruden, county agent,
was enthusiastic concerning the
new venture.
See HOG MARKET, Fag(P 1 (T
Heynen Named
District Officer
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A Washington County man—
C. F. Heynen, of Wenona—was
elected secretary-treasurer of the
Pamlico Soil Conservation Dis
trict at the district meeting held
here last Thursday.
The meeting was held in the
auditorium of the county Agri
culture Building and opened at
10 a. m. A luncheon was held in
the banquet room of the May
flower Restaurant.
Allen Swindell, of Beaufort
County, was reelected to head the
group as chairman for another
year, while Leon Ballance, of
Hyde County, was named vice
chairman.
The district is composed of
Tyrrell, Beaufort, Hyde and
Washington Counties. Supervisors
for Washington County are Mr.
Heynen, J. A. Morris, of Cres
well, and Joe Snell, of Plymouth.
The annual! report for 1953 was
submitted at the meeting.
Testing Division
Taxed With Soil
Samples, Delayed
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During First Half of Month
25,000 Samples Received;
Farmers Asked To Be
Patient
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County Agent W. H. Prudem
►this week made public a letter
which he received) from Director
.T W. Fitts of tlbe Soil Testing
Division cf the North Carotai*
Department of Agriculture, rela
tive to soiU samples sent in bjt
farmers.
The, Soil Testing Division is
swamped with samples at pres
ent, and this will mean that it
will require from 8 to 10 weeks
to test the samples now on hand.
So farmers Should not become
axnious if they do not hear from
samples soon after they are sent,
it was explained.
The letter, explaining the sit
uation in detail, follows:
“During the past few weeks,
all records have been broken for
the number of soil samples sub
mitted to our laboratory for test
ing. During the first half of Feb
ruary, over 25,000 samples were
received.. At the maximum speed
of testing, it will require from 8
to 10 weeks to test the samples
we now have (February 15).
Farmers sending samples now
will not receive a report until al
most May 1. Of course, mailing
cartons .marked ‘lime only’ on the
outside will be processed soon
after they are received.
“The taking of soil samples is
closely related to climatic condit
ions. The rains and snow the lat
ter part of January curtailed soil
sampling so we were able to
catch up with samples submitted
earlier in the month. Reports be
ing mailed at present are for
samples received about February
1, which is not far off the regular
schedule of 10 to 15 days requir
ed for testing. From now on, how
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| STATE TAX DEPUTY POINTS TO FILING DEADLIHE |
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; Pointing grimly to March 15, the deadline for filing income
tax returns, is State Tax Deputy E. Ross Froneberger, of William
ston. Also circled on the calendar are the three days on which
Mr. Froneberger will be in Plymouth to offer assistance to tax
payers in filing their returns. He will be at the courtroom of the
> county courthouse here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next
week.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo.
Two Announce for Representative
And One for County Commissioner
D. W. Davenport Is
First to Announce
For County Board
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Well-Known Lake Phelps
Farmer Seeks Nomina
tion for Post Now Held bv
Harry W. Pritchett
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Douglas W. Davenport, widely
known farmer of the Lake Phelps
section, Tuesday aftemoor an
nounced that he was a candidate
for the office of county commis
sioners from Scuppernong Town
ship, subject to tine Democratic
primary on May 29. Mr. Daven
port is the first to announce for
any of the three positions on the
county board of commissioners to
be filled in the general election
this year.
Harry W. Pritchett, Creswell
hardware merchant, who has been
commissioner from Scuppermong
Township for about 12 years, has
made no public announcement of
his intentions, but it is generally
understood that he plans to be
a candidate for reelect ion. Only
three of the five commissioners
are to be Chosen tlhis year, the
other two, Ail Latham of Plym
outh and Hubert L. Davenport, of
SfcimnelrsviHe, having been re
elected in 1952 for a four-year
term. In addition to Scuppernong,
Plymouth and Lees Mill Town
ships are to naan© commissioners
this year. I
Mr. Davempant, 34 years of age,
is a native of Cherry, son of Mr.
and Mns. A. W. Davenport. He is
a graduate of Creswell High
School and attended George
Washington University in 1936
37, transferring to Columbia
University, which he attended
from 1938 until 1941, when he
entered the U. S. Air Force as a
pilot.,He weft MMMi for ewe
than a year' : the CMm-Burmt
India .theater; making 34 combat
missions over Burma as pilot of
B-25 bombeTS.
Honorably discharged as a cap
tain in 1946, Mr, Davenport re
turned to the Lake Phelps area
to engage in farming. Since that
time he has been active in com
munity and veterans’ activities
and at the present time is a mem
ber of the Washington County
Selective Service Board.
Member of the Philippi Christ
ian Church, he is also a member
and former commander of the
Lake Phelps American Legion
post and former president of the
Creswell Riuiritan club. This is the
first time he has sought elective
office.
Joint ASC Committee Meet
Held Here on Wednesday
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Members of the Washington
County ASC committee and local
committeemen from the seven
communities of the county met
in the auditorium of the Agri
culture Building here Wednesday
of this week to adjust corn acre
age.
The meeting was conducted by
J. L. Kelton, of Edenton, ASC
field man.
The case history of each com
operator in the county was re
viewed for the years 1951-2-3.
The county figures were adjusted
in relation to soybean acreage to
correspond with Bureau of Agri
culture Economics figures.
TO PERFORM IN CONCERT HERE NEXT TUESDAY |
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These sharp little junior majorettes of the Plymouth High School
band will be among those participating in the band concert to be
given here next Tuesday night. The photo was made shortly after
they appeared in concert at Jamesville last week and shows, left
to right, Jean Tetterton, Robin Horner and Janraet Bruce. It
looks as though ample material for future senior majorettes is
coming along here.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo.
Bloodmobile Return
Visit Set March 10th
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Goal of 150 Pints Announc
ed for Quarterly Visit;
Blood Bank Leaders To
Meet Friday
A Red Cross bioodnvobile unit
from the Tidewater Regional
Blood Center, Norfolk, Va., will
make a regular quarterly visit to
Plymouth Wednesday, March 10,
local blood bank leaders have an
nounced.
The lAwrib-ibibe locat
ed at the Yeienen* Building, Hear
the Washington County Hospital,
and efforts will be made to fill
an announced quota' of 150 pants
during the day.
The unit visit is again being
sponsored] jointly by the James
E. Jethro Post of the American
Legion and the Bosde Bateman
Past, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
and Auxiliaries of the two posts.
Donors will be received1 be
tween the hours of 11 a. m. and
5 p. m., it was stated, Again, an
effort will be made to secure
donors from new sources—people
who have not heretofore giver
blood regularly—in order to re
lieve those who have supported
the program time after time since
its inauguration, in this county.
In this regard, blood bank lead
ers pointed out that credit is due
the management of North Caro
lina Pulp Company here for the
fine cooperation with the pro
gram in the past. Mentioned were
L. J. Darby, E. M. Leavitt anc
H. B. Gaylord. The management
of the mill has advised local lead
ers that the company will con
tinue full support to the blood
bank program.
To stimulate securing of new
donors, a $10 prize is being of
fered to the student in any of the
12 grades in the local schools wh<
secures the greatest number o!
donors. Students will begin se
curing donor pledges next week
Dr. E. W .Furgurson this weel
called attention to the fact tha>
a marked shortage of blood has
been noted at all blood center#
during the past month; so mud
ao that a request was made tha
See BLOODMOBILE, Page 10
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Funeral Monday
For Peter Simon
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Peter C. Simon, of near Plym
outh, died Saturday at 10 p. m
at the Washington County Hos
pital following an illness of abou
a month. He had been in declin
mg health for about six week
and had been confined to his bei
for four weeks.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the chapel of Homer’s Fun
enal Home here Monday after
noon at 2 o’clock by the Rev. I
L. Fouts, Plymouth Method is
minister. Interment was in Weed
Cemetery, near here.
Mr. Simon was the son of th
late Albert A. and Mary Get
Simon, of Reading, Pa., where h
was bom April 7, 1875. He ha
lived in this county for the pas
33 years, coming here from Read
ing. He was a member of Acr
Chapel Church, near Plymoutl
He leaves a son, Albert Ayer
Simon, of Norfolk, Va.; a siste
Mary Simon, of Reading; an
three grandchildren.
| Interest Gees Upj
[On Unpaid Taxes]
Taxpayers In the town are
reminded that the rate ot in
terest on unpaid 1953 taxes ad
vance 1 to 2 per cent after
March 1, next Monday. The
interest rate is fixed by State
law, and lecftl wnits. do not have
the rlrtt iPV/- the extra
cheritt iea.B{'t» the col
lectors.
Interest on delinquent taxes
is fixed at 1 per cent during
the month of February; 2 per
cent during the month of
March; and 'A of 1 per rent for
each month thereafter until the
tax sale is held. Property is
supposed to be advertised in
May and sold on the first Mon
day in June,
Baseball Meeting
Here on Saturday
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Gilbert Vaughan and Ted Pin
ner have called a baseball meet
ing for Saturday night of this
week to determine whether or not
a club can be organized here.
Efforts -are being made to re
organize the A Ibemarle League
and Plymouth has been repre
sented at recent meetings held in
Edenton to line up enough in
terested communities to insure
a semi-pro loop for the coming
season.
If the league is revived, Eden
ton, Hertford, Elizabeth City,
Co-lerain, Plymouth and possibly
Windsor are expected to have
franchises.
The m eeting here Saturday
night will be held at the Munici
pal Building on East Water Street
and will open at 7:30 o’clock.
Players, fans and all persons in
terested in baseball are urged to
. attend.
Variety Show Will Be
Presented Here Tonight
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A variety show made up of
skits, dancing andi musical num
bers will be presented in the high
' schol auditorium here Thursday
night of this week at 8 o’clock.
The entertainment is sponsored
• by the Plymouth Woman’s Club,
■ with proceeds to go to the club’s
: building fund.
Dr. J. M. Phelps and E. 0
Arnold in House Coniesi;
Douglas Davenport for
County Board
Interest in the local political
scene took a decided upturn this
week by announcements of three
candidates for county offices,
subject to action of the Demo
cratic primary on May 29. As a
result of the announcements a
contest was assured for the of
fice of county representative in
the next Generali Assembly, and
there is a strong probability of a
contest for county commissioner
in Scuppermang Township.
Dr. J. M. Phelps, Creswell
physician and surgeon, announc
ed Tuesday afternoon he was a
candidate for representative.
Shortly afterwards, Douglas W.
Darvenport, farmer of the Lake
Phelps section, announced he
would be a candidate for county
commissioner; and, on Wednes
day (morning, former representa
tive E. O. Arnold, merchant and
farmer of the Pea Ridge section,
came to Plymouth to formally
announce he was a candidate for
representative.
W. J. Woodard, Plymouth furni
ture man, who has represented
the county at the last two ses
sions of the legislature, has made
no statement thus far as to whe
ther or not he will be a candidate.
Harry W. Pritchett, Creswell
hardware merchant, who has
been the Scuppemong Township
mmeber of the county board of
commissioner .') for a num ber of
yean, likewise (has made no state
ment SB to 'his intentions this
year, but it is generally under
stood he will be a candidate for
reeleCtian.
In his statement yesterday, Mr.
Arnold declared he was un
equivocally opposed to the so
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Band Concert Is
Set for Tuesday
Evening. March 2
Guesi Baton Twirler From
Roanoke Rapids To Be
Featured; Two Perform
ances Scheduled
Mrs. Shiirley Crutchfield, of
Roanoke Rapids, win be featured
at the band concert to be given
in t)he ihigih school auditorium
here Tuesday night of next week,
Band Director Edward1 Taylor an
noumcea.
Mrs. Cruifccihfielid! will twirl a
regular baton, flash baton and
fire baton (fire on each end of
baton) during two performances
next Tuesday night.
She is a former chief majorette
of Rocky Mount and Roanoke
Rapids High School bands, has
taught classes in baton twirling
in Rocky Mount, Roanoke Rapids,
New Bern, Scotland Neck, Plym
outh and Richmond, Va.
She is a member of the Nation
al Baton Twirling Association
and the National Baton. Twirling
Judges Association. Mrs. Crtueh
field 'has been a baton twirler
for more than 10 years and is
now employed by the Roanoke
Rapids Recreation Department as
Woman’s and Teen Age supervi
sor. .She graduated from Roan
oke Rapids High School and at
tended Richmond Professional
Institute, Richmond, Va. She is
married to John E. Crutchfield,
of Roanoke Rapids, a commercial
illustrator.
Two performances will be
given since a large crowd is ex
pected. The first performance
will begin at 7:30 o’clock and the
second at >9 o’clock. Beginners,
junior and senior bands and the
boys’ chorus will take part. This
will mark the first tame that the
boys’ chorus has participated in
the annual concent.
Added Playground
; Equipment Ordered
b James BJoyce, president of the
Plymouth Junior Chamber of
5 Commerce announced this week
s that two i.^re sets of playground
i equipment nave been ordered in
t connection .with the Jaycees’ rec
„ reation prefect.
e Jlquipmeivt ordered includes
l. eight swings, eight see-saws, two
s merry-go-rx^nds and two stain
•, lei* steel pgmboo slides. The
1 equipment fe expected sometime
next month.
t
One set of equipment will be
set up in Country Chib Village,
Boyce said, while another set will
be donated for use of colored
children and set up on a lot se
cured by a group headed by Pro
fessor Lord, and located on Madi
son Street next to the colored
Baptist Church.
As soon as a site is obtained,
equipment will also be available
Ear the Red Hill section, it was
stated. A lot on Bast Main Street
ias been equipped for sometime.