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W. Blount Rodman, of Plym
outh, filed with the county board
of elections Tuesday as a candi
date to succeed himself as solici
tor of county recorder’s court,
subject to the May 29 Democratic
primary.
Miriam Dempsey, the Aulander
High School senior who defeated
Betty Davenport, of Plymouth,
and three other student speakers
in the “Big Change” contest at
Greenville some time ago, went
on to capture the Eastern region
al contest last Wednesday at Wil
son. Besides a $500 scholarship
Miss Dempsey also earned the
right to compete in the state
finals at Raleigh (held yesterday)
with two other regionals winners.
Frith Winslow is doing for ex
hibition purposes an oil painting
of the Plymouth High School
band in action. Mr. Winslow is
working from a smaller color
sketch made during four recent
band practice sessions at the
school. With all the color and the
various musical instruments the
band makes an excellent subject
and the completed painting
should be quite interesting. The
artist expects to complete the
painting soon.
A. J. Byrd, former Plymouth
business man now making his
home at Indian Rock Beach, Fla.,
was in town briefly this week
visiting relatives and friends. Mr.
Byrd accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Ramsey and Mrs. Clarence
Ainsley here as they returned
from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Byrd.
Mr. Byrd left Tuesday to return
to Florida.
Mrs. J. W. Allen, jr., returned
home Sunday from Wilkes Bar
re, Pa., where she visited her mo
ther, Mrs. Luther Hummel. Mrs.
Hummel recently lost both hands j
by amputation following a serious
machinery accident in the plant
where she was employed. Mrs.
Allen said her mother appeared
to be in good spirits at the time
she left for home. Mrs. Hummel
has visited here in the past and
is known by many local persons.
Those who would like to send a
“get well” message to Mrs. Hum
mel should address it to Mercy
Hospital, Third floor, Wilkes Bar
re, Pa.
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| '■ Cancer Crusade
| Chairman Named
j For 1954 Drive
Campaign for Funds Opens
i Today With Parade and
| Speaking, Solicitation by
| Plymouth Cub Scout Pack
By MRS. B. O. BISHOP,
Publicity Chairman
The American Cancer Society’s
- nationwide 1954 crusade for $20,
000,000 will get off to a flying
start in Washington County
’ Thursday of this week. The drive
■ will swing into action here with
l the following program:
Dr. Thomas P. Nasih, director
I of Regipnal Cancer Detection
<’ Center, Elizabeth City, will speak
f on the cancer program in the Ag
ricultural Building Thursday (to
night) at 8 o’clock. Dr. Nash has a
■ message of vital importance to
every man, woman and child in
Washington County, it was said.
The public is urged to attend this
meeting.
There will be a parade in Plym
outh Friday at 2:30 p. m. The
> Cuib Scouts, carrying posters and
banners will participate. The
Plymouth High School Band will
lead the parade.
The Club Scouts will solicit
( funds and contributions on Water
Street Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday afternoons of this week,
j Appropriate cans will be placed
in all public buildings for con
See CRUSADE, Page 12
| Plymouth To Host
| Albemarle Group
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y The first executive committee
meeting of the year for the South
ern Albemarle Association will
be held at Plymouth Thursday,
April 15, Dr. W. T. Ralph, of Bel
haven, the association president,
has announced.
Dr. Ralph was recently notified
of the date by Washington County
Vice President Harry W. Prit
chett, of Creswell, who with
Frank L. Brinkley, of Plymouth,
is working up plans for the meet
ing.
Some 50 members of the com
i mittee,, representing the six
member counties of Beaufort,
Dare, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell and
Washington, are expected to at
tend the meeting. They will be
guests of Washington County at
a dinner to be served at the
Washington County Agriculture
Building.
The morning session will open
at 10:30 o’clock and the public
is invited.
The Roanoke Beacon
***★*★ and Washington County News ******
A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington
County and its 13,000 people.
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VOLUME LXV—NUMBER 13
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 1, 1954
ESTABLISHED 1889
"CANCER CONTROL MONTH" PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY MAYOR RIDDLE |
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With officials of the Washington County unit of the American Cancer Society as interested
spectators. Mayor A. J. Riddle last Friday signed a proclamation designating April as “Cancer
Control Month” in Plymouth. Surrounding the mayor as he affixes his signature are (left to right)
Mrs. Harry Browning, campaign chairman; Mrs. Frances M. Darden, educational chairman; I. Miller
Warren; and Mrs. Georgia Frost Barnes, commander of the county unit. Mrs. B. O. Bishop, pub
licity chairman for the month-long campaign for funds, which begins today, was unable to be
present when this picture was made.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo.
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Norman Heads Body
On Industrial Survey
j Four Hen Sent
! For Induction
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Four registrants of the local
draft board left Plymouth by
bus Tuesday morning for In
duction into the Armed Forces
and another registrant was
transferred to a local board in
Philadelphia for induction, Mrs.
Lorraine Hunter, board clerk,
reports.
Those who left Tuesday were
listed as Terry Oscar Cooper,
Joseph Multaz, Harry Gaylord
and Dick Gaylord, all of Plym
outh. Izel Freeman was trans
ferred to a Philadelphia board.
Zone Meeting of
Lions Clubs Here
The Lions Club zone embrac
ing clubs at Edenton, Colerain,
Hertford, Williamston and Plym
outh will hold a supper meeting
at the Episcopal Parish House
here Thursday of this week at
7 p. m., Zone Chairman J. W.
Marrow, of Plymouth, announces.
Two delegates from each club
will attend besides the member
ship of the local club, it was said.
Following the supper, the
Plymouth club will hold its regu
lar meeting with President Hu
bert M. Ange in charge. Prelimi
nary developments in the efforts
to establish a permanent indus
trial organization for Washington
County will be discussed, it wa§
stated.
After the local club completes
its program for the evening, the
zone meeting will begin.
Temporary Working Com
mittee To Meet Here Fri
day Nighi To Lay Ground
work for Organization
Attorney Z. V. Norman, of
Plymouth, has been named to
head a temporary working com
mittee to perpetuate some type
of industrial organization for
Washington County. The commit
tee was appointed at an fniftlStrthl'
workshop held at the county’
courthouse Wednesday night of
last week.
Other members of the commit
tee are A. J. Riddle, T. R. Spruill
and C. N. Davenport, mayors, re
spectively of Plymouth, Roper
and Cresrwell.
The workshop was arranged as
the result of a letter from E. E.
Huffman, industrial analyst with
the North Carolina Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment, to John W. Darden, of
Plymouth, asking that such a
meeting be called to sound out
interest in a local industrial sur
vey.
Mr. Norman has called a meet
ing of the committee for Friday
night of this week. The committee
will meet in the law offices of
Normian and Rodman here for the
purpose of laying the ground
work to establish a permanent
industrial organization in the
county.
Some 25 or more persons at
tended the meeting here last
Wednesday, including the mayors
of the three towns in the county,
representatives of the power
company serving the county, the
two railroads that serve the
county, each of the local indus
tries and other interested citizens
from the various communities.
The meeting was informally
See VORMANf page 7 ~~
| LOCAL YOUNGSTER IS NOW AN AVIATION CADET
Pictured is Lawrence D. Jones, jr., of Plymouth, being con
gratulated by T/Sgt. William P. Hall, of Pope Air Force Base,
Fort Bragg, upon the former’s enlistment in the V. S. Air Force
as an aviation cadet earlier this month. Young Jones attended
North Carolina State College, Raleigh, for two years after gradu
ating from Plymouth High School in 1951. He was enlisted for pilot
training. Young Jones, realizing that he had a military obliga
**5®. P“t it this way: “My country has given me freedom and,
with the U. S. Air Force, I can protect that freedom.’’ He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jones, of Plymouth.
Name Freeman as
County Director
On Peanut fioard
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Plymouth Man Is Reelected
And Given Three-Year
Term at Annual Meeting
Last Week Scotland Neck
W. T. Freeman, of Plymouth,
was reelected as director for
Washington County, of the North
Carolina Peanut Growers Associ
ation, Inc., at the first annuli
meeting held Friday of last week
at Scotlank Neck. Mr. Freeman
and Edward L. Owens, also of
Plymouth, attended from this
county.
The association voted to amend
the by-laws to provide staggered
terms of office for directors, in
order to forestall any possibility
of an all-new group of directors
in any one year.
Accordingly, directors were re
elected for either one, two or
three-year terms. Mr. Freeman
was named to a three-year term,
the staggered terms being hand
ed out in alphabetical order, and
his term will run until September
1£>57. Terms expire at the annual
meeting date and this date was
moved up from March to Sep
tember. The association agreed
with the contention of J.
Mayor Parker, of Ahoskie, and
Paul F. Edmond, of Gatesville,
that it would be unwise to wait
until September of 1955 to hold
the second annual meeting. Hence
the second annual meeting will
be held in September of this year.
The directors reelected C.
Shields Alexander, of Scotland
Neck, as president of the associ
ation, J. O. Jenkins, of Aul'ander,
vice president, and Joseph S.
Sugg, of Rocky Mount, execu
tive secretary. Paul F. Edmond
was named treasurer in place of
Mrs. Irby Walker, of Greensboro,
who had served in that capacity
on a temporary basis.
See PEANUT, Page 7
Dew Child Passes
Here on Saturday
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Funeral - services were held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from Ludford Memorial Baptist
Church here for John R. Dew,
seven-year-old son of Frank B.
and Louise Doughtie Dew, of
Plymouth.
The child died at home Satur
day morning at 8:15 o’clock, after
an illness of two years. He was
born in Washington County June
1, 1946, and had lived with his
parents here all his life. His fath
er is originally from Cumberland
County and his mother a native
of Virginia.
Surviving, besides his parents,
are three brothers, Loma E. Peal,
of New Bern, Raymond A. Peal,
jr., of Charlotte, and Frank G.
Dew, of the home; and his mater
nal grandmother, Mrs. Annie
Doughtie.
Last rites were conducted by
the Rev. P. B. Nickens, pastor
of Ludford Memorial Church, as
sisted by the Rev. C. N. Barnette,
the Rev. D. L. Fouts and the Rev.
E. M. Spruill, of the local Christ
ian, Methodist and Episcopal
churches, respectively.
Burial was in Windley Ceme
tery.
Red Cross Drive
Stands Far Short
Of County Quota
Three Local Chairmen Sub
mit Complete Reports in
Past Week; $1,010.59 Is
Raised To Date
The annual Red Cross fund
drive in Washington County was
still far short of its goal Wed
nesday.
County Fund Chairman D. Mar
vin Weaver, of Plymouth, an
nounced that the amount raised
to that date was $1,010.59, with
somd reports incomplete and oth
ers not yet heard from.
The county quota for 1954 is
$2,750.
Three community chairmen
turned in complete reports since
those reported in the last issue of
The Beacon. These reports are is
follows:
Stillacres, Mrs. C. McGowan,
chairman, quota $50, $40.40 col
lected;
Rad Hill, Mrs. Arthur Hardi
son, chairman, quota $25, $40.65
collected;
Pleasant Grove, Mrs. W. W.
Phelps, chairman, quota $25,
$12.50 collected.
Mr. Weaver stated that he
hoped solicitations of funds would
be completed by the end of this
week. He again pointed to the
urgent need of money with which
to carry on the work of the Red
Cross which, in addition to its
regular programs, is always on
the job when emergency relief
is needed. Whenever and where
ever calamity strikes, he said, the
Red Cross can be found render
ing every possible assistance.
“In all probability Washington
County wiU fall short of its as
signed quota in this campaign,”
the county fundi chairman warn
ed, "unless all workers redouble
their efforts to make the individ
ual quotas.”
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Tentative Schedule for
rindMlsifc Announced
Monday of next week the
county commissioners and' mem
bers of the county board of edu
cation will visit all county
schools.
A tentative schedule has been
suggested by R. F. Lowry, super
intendent erf schools, as follows:
Hampton School, Plymouth,
10:45 to 10:55 a. m.; Plymouth
High School, 11 to 11:45 a. m.;
Plymouth Colored School, 11:50
a. m. to 12:15 p. m.; Roper High
School, 12:25 to 12:45 p. m.; lunch
at Roper High School, 12:45 to
1:10 p. m.; Washington County
Union School, Roper, 1:15 to 1:55
p. m.; Creaweil High School, 2:15
to 3:45 p. m.; Creswell Colored
School, 2:50 to 3:10 p. m.
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Offering Four Surplus
Busses For Sale Here
Four surplus Washington Coun
ty school busses are being adver
tised for sale, according to R. F.
Lowry, superintendent, Washing
ton County schools.
Prices have been put on the
busses as follows:
Bus No. 2, $200; Bus No. 3, $200;
Bus No. 4, $350; Bus No. 17, $200.
The busses may be inspected
at the county school bus garage,
it was stated.
Town, ( oiinty Boards
Set Meetings Monday
Regular “first Monday’’ meet
ings for the county commission
ers, the county board of educa
tion and the Plymouth Town
Council are slated for Monday of
next week here.
The commissioners and the edu
cation board are scheduled to
meet in their respective quarters
Monday morning at 10 o’clock,
while the council meeting is set
for 8 p. m.
Four persons are expected to
be appointed by the board of
commissioners as compilers of the
1954 county tax books, Board
Clerk J. Robert Campbell stated.
A few other routine matters will
be taken up and regular monthly
reports heard.
The members of the board of
commissioners will accompany
members of the county board of
education on a tour of the various
county school plants. The group
will have lunch at the Roper
school lunchroom at 12:45 p. m.
A strictly routine session is ex
pected when the Plymouth city
fathers get together Monday night
at the Municipal Building, it was
stated.
Scouts of District
Hold Camp Here
Twenty or More Patrols ri
From Eight Communities I;
In Wasmarty District Ex
pected for Camporee
Plymouth will be host to the
Wasmarty District Camporee,
East Carolina Council, Boy Scouts
of America, this week-end.
The camporee, purpose of which
is to prepare the scouts of the
'Wasmarty District for the coming
East Carolina Council Camporee,
will be held near the Plymouth
Scout Hut Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. The council camporee is
scheduled for Rocky Mount April
30, May 1-2.
Carl Bailey, jr., scoutmaster of
the host Plymouth troop, stated
earlier this week that 20 or r«ore
patrols from eight communities
were expected for the event. The
Wasmarty District is made up of
Washington, Martin and Tyrrell
Counties.
Bailey said attendance should
reach about 120. It is expected
that two troops from Williamston
will fed represented, along with
Jamesville,
Ui llln^wm Bear Grass,
two each fromOeswell and Co
lumbia, one each from Hamilton
and Robersonville, an<l four pa
trols from Plymouth.
As scoutmaster of the host
troop andi also chairman of fRe
district camping and activities
committee, Bailey is busy with
preparations for the camporee.
Jerry Ashwill, of Williamston,
district field representative, is in
charge of events.
Phil Liverman, of Plymouth, is
neighborhood commissioner, and
Bob Howell is chairman of the
local troop committee. Ralph
Hunter is secretary, James H.
Ward is treasurer, and other com
mittee members are Douglas
Gurkin, Paul Hardison, Walter
Furlough and Roy Manning Joe
Latham is institutional represen
tative for the Plymouth Junior
Chamber of Commerce which
sponsors the Plymouth troop.
B. W. Cutler is assistant scout
master; Bobby Ange is senior pa
trol leaders; and Bruce Wright is
troop scribe. Individual patrol
leaders are Marion Allen, of the
Flying Eagle patrol,; Henry Tur
ner, Rattlesnake patrol; John
Jackson, Flaming Arrow patrol;
and Darrell Kelly, Beaver patrol.
Patrols are expected to arrive
at the campsite at about 4:30 p. m.
See~SCOUTS, Page 12~~
Mistakes About
Soil Fumigants
County Agent W. II. Pruden
wishes to call attention to a
misinterpretation that large
numbers of tobacco growers,
especially in Eastern North
Carolina, have made concerning
information on relative merits
of row application versus
broadcast application of soil
fumigants for control of nema
todes.
Many growers have the idea
that row treatment has been
recommended over broadcast
treatment without reservation
as being “better, generally
more satisfactory and cheaper,”
Pruden says. The agent quotes
from a letter he received from
Howard R. Garriss and C. J.
Nusbaum, of the State College
extension service, "So far as
we know, such a recommenda
tion has not been
the ri
tber details
den.
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VFW Ladies Night
Installation Meet
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The annual Ladies’ Night and
Installation meeting of Bosie
Bateman Post No. 4023, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, will be held at
the Veterans Clu'bs here Thurs
day night of this week.
The ladies of the Ameriipn
Legion Auxiliary of James E.
Jethro Post will serve a turkey
dinner, beginning at 7:30 o’clock.
All members of the VFW post
are urged to attend and bring
their ladies. Also, VFW Auxiliary
members whose husbands are not
members of the post are invited
to attend and bring their hus
bands.
Officials of other local organi
zations and their ladies are to be
honored guests, it was said. The
dinner will be served dutch and
corsages will be provided for the
ladies who attend.
Serving as installing officer
will be Past Commander W. S.
Davenport. A new slate of offic
ers recently elected to serve the
post for the coming year will be
officially installed.
j PROMINENT CITIZENS GATHER FOR CLUB DINNER MEETING
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This group of leading: citizens had just gathered for a regular dinner meeting of one of their
clubs when a Beacon photographer happened on the scene. Few people will recognize them
selves in the group but practically ail will identify some friend or business associate. Before calling
ing any names, it may be well to look at the date line of this issue of The Beacon: It’s April 1st,
you know. Actually this is one of the pens full of porkers received at the opening of the new hog
market here last week. The photo was held over to coincide with the April 1 issue of The Beacon.
—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo.
Several Changes
Made by Review
Board Last Week
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Commissioners Meet as
Board of Equalization and
Review and Order Valu
ation Reductions
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Meeting as a board of equaliza
tion and review in an adjourned
session here Thursday night of
last week, the county commis
sioners approved certain changes
and corrections on the 1954 tax
books of the county.
It was agreed to make the fol
lowing changes:
Take off the books one acre of
cleared land listed to Mrs. Joe
Nowarah, sr., and reduce the val
uation by $65, also to reduce val
uation on eight acres of woods
land by $48;
Take off one acre cleared land
known as “Knowles Land” listed
to Joe Nowarah, sr., estate, Lees
Mill Township, and reduce valu
ation by $72;
Take off books two acres of
woodsland valued at $36; also al
low reduction in valuation of
woodsland tract by $162;
Relieve Mrs. C. E. Mizell, Lees
Mill, of $300 valuation on woods
land;
Take off books % acre woods
landl and one acre cleared land
listed to Mrs. B. F. Bailey, Lees
Mill, and figure new valuation
accordingly;
Take off books V2 acre of land
listed to W. V. Gaylord estate,
Lees Mill, and allowed reduction
of $60 in valuation;
Take off books three acres of
cleared land listed to Mrs. Milley
Boney, Lees Mill, and reduce
valuation by $160;
Tax compilers of 1954 books
will be asked to check to see if
all of Nowarah's property, both
real and personal, has been trans
ferred from 1953 to 1954 books. If
it is found that the above pro
perty has not been transferred,
compilers are to notify J. Robert
Campbell, clerk to the board.
Local School J5and
Performs Well' ai
Wilmington Event
Among 58 College and High
School Bands Viewed by
200,000 at Azalea Festi
val Parade
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The Plymouth High School
band drid itself proud before a
crowd estimated at 200,000 at Wil
mington last Saturday.
Add to that the number which
cannot be_ estimated that viewed
the band and1 57 other college and
high school musjcal aggregations
via television. It has even been
learned here that the Azalea pa
rade in which the local band took
part was viewed over a national
television network as far away
as Boston..
Plymouth Band Director Ed
Taylor reports that his charges
gave a very creditable perform
ance. The parade itself was ap
proximately three miles long. A
picture of. the local band appear
ed in a Wilmington daily news
paper.
The band members, accompan
ied by band parents and friends,
left Plymouth Saturday morning
at 5:30 o’clock on two chartered
busses and arrived in the port
city at 10 o’clock. The parade be
gan at 11 o’clock. Rest stops were
made going and returning at New
Bern.
After the parade, the band
members enjoyed free time until
3:30 p. m. during which they saw
See SCHOOL BAND, Page 7
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Plymouth Student
Voted E C C Post
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A Plymouth boy was elected
first vice president of the Student
Government Association at East
Carolina College, Greenville, in
campus elections last week.
He is Louis Singleton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Singleton, of
Washington Street. Young Single
ton is a junior at the Greenville
school.
Singleton emerged as winner in
a run-off election held Tuesday
at the school and at which James
W. Alexander, of Columbia, was
the successful candidate for the
office of second vice president.
Richard E. Ivey, of Roanoke
Rapids, was elected first assist
ant treasurer.
In the general elections prev
iously held, Wade Cooper, of Ra
leigh, was chosen as SGA presi
dent. Other student leaders for
the coming year were also se
lected.