* T'own opics Miss Marion J. Chesson, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Ches son, of the Pleasant Grove section, graduated at East Carolina Col lege Monday, receiving the de gree of bachelor of science. Miss Chesson, who graduated from Roper High School in 1950, plans to teach a first grade section in the New Bern school system next fall. She was the only Washing ton County graduate at East Car olina this year. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hohl and son, Donald, of Sylacauga, Ala., visited friends here for several days last week. Mr. Hohl was a tour foreman for the North Caro lina Pulp Company here for a number of years before accepting a similar position with the Coosa River Paper Company in Syla cauga in 1949. Donald had just returned home after three years in the Marine Corps, IV2 years of which he spent in Korea, reach ing the rank of sergenat. They were joined here Friday by ano ther son, Charles, former Plym outh High School football star, who is attending the University of Richmond, where he played on the freshman team last fall. Washington County ABC store will be closed all day Sat urday, since its is primary day, Manager W. C. Styons an nounced yesterday. He said, however, that the store would not be closed Monday in ob seravnce of National Memorial Day. C. A. Fink, of Salisbury, presi dent of the State Federation of Labor, was a visitor in Plymouth the first of the week. He spoke at meetings of several local unions Monday and Tuesday nights. Although he made no blanket endorsement of any can didates, he did say that the out look was very favorable for can didates favored generally by la bor in the primary Saturday. Game Protector Tom Terry and Clarence Ainsley went fishing on Deep Creek down in Tyrrell County Monday. They caught a grand total of two bass and three bream, but the singular part of the yarn is that Mr. Terry caught both bass at one time on his fly rod. He was fishing two small bream flies when the two bass struck at the same time. One of « them weighed a pound and eight T1 ounces and the other a pound and 13 ounces. Trouble X’itli Tom is he’s associating with other fish ermen too much. -1 New Records Set Ai Sale of Lambs Here on Tuesday -♦ Growers Receive Over $15, 777 for 1,019 Animals Of fered; Three Shipments Made to Buyers The most successful lamb pool ever held in Plymouth was that on Tuesday, according to County Agent W. H. Pruden, who was in charge of arrangements. A total of 1,019 sheep weighing 78,040 pounds, brought the producers a total of $15,777.52. Prices ranged from $26.75 per hundredweight for choice lambs down to $3 for common ewes, on ly one of the latter weighing 95 pounds being shipped. Bulk of the offerings graded choice and good, there being 263 in the former and 240 in the latter categories. Prices were somewhat lower than they were at the first sale last year, but this had been an ticipated by most producers. The number offered for sale was by far the greatest ever at a lamb sale here, totaling 1,019 against 653 last year, which was a record to that time. Total amount receiv ed was also much greater this year, being $15,777.53, against $10,285.50 a year ago. Livestock and marketing spec ialists from the State and Fed eral Departments of Agriculture and the State Extension Service helped to grade and inspect the animals at the sale Tuesday. Three shipments were made, two ,<■). of them to the United Dressed ’ ’ Beef Company in Brooklyn, N. Y., and one to New England Dressed Meat & Wool Company, Somer ville, Mass. All of the good and choice and many of the medium grade lambs were shipped to the Brooklyn concern. County agents from surround ing counties cooperated in mak ing plans for the sale. Poppy Sale Planned Here Saturday _a_ _*- - ■ 4 Plans have been completed for sale of poppies here Saturday, May 29 it was announced Tuesday by Mrs. Dallas Waters, president of the local American Legion Auxiliary. The little red artificial flowers, made by disabled veter ans of World Wars I and II, will be worn in honor of the nation’s war dead. The poppies will be distributed here by members of the auxiliary, who will work through the day as unpaid volunteers. They will re ceive contributions for the auxi; liary’s work for disabled veterans and needly children. No set price is charged for the poppies, and all contributions will be cheerful ly received. The poppies will be crepe paper replicas of the wild poppies which grow “between the crosses, row on row,” in the World War I bat tle cemeteries of France and Bel gium. Fully 25,000,000 of the auxi liary’s poppies are expected to be worn by Americans on Poppy Day this year, Mrs. Waters said. The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and its 13,004 people. NUMBER LXV—NUMBER 21 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 27, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1889 MEMBERS OF GRADUATING CLASS AT CRESWELL HIGH SCHOOL Above are the 20 members of the Creswell High School senior class and the two mascots. Grad uating exercises will be held in the school auditorium there Monday night at 8 o'clock, with Dr. F. Orion Mixon, president of Chowan College, as the speaker. The mascots are Don Phelps and Cynthia Halsey. Seniors who will receive their diplomas Monday night are, front row, left to right: Rita Riddick, Patsy Midgette, Lillie Oliver Comer, Annie Jane Harris, Gilma Woodley, Merina Davenport, Dorothy Halsey; second row: Louise Spruill, Juanita Patrick, Gloria Phelps, Gail Brick house, Vida Davenport, Dolores Woodley, Mildred Davenport; Back row: Jimmie Davenport, Nor man Furlugh, Reggie Davenport, Nyle Davenport, Larry Woodley, Jimmie Clifton.—Polaroid 1 Minute staff photo. School Here To Start Finals Friday Night Polls Will Open I At 6:30 Saturday j Voters in the primary Satur day of this week will have exactly 12 hours in which to cast their ballots. The polls open at 6:30 in the morning and close at 6:30 that evening. Voters are reminded that the old voting houis of su>:.^v; to sunset no longer apply, and the polls will close promptly at 6:30. Registrars and judges of elec tion are required to report to polling places at 6 a. m., in or der to prepare the booths and arrange the voting space. Polling places for the six county precincts are as follows: Plymouth No. 1, courthouse; Plymouth No. 2, high school building; Lees Mill, communi ty building in Roper; Skinners villc, J. A. Goodman’s store at the Scuppernong, tax col lector's office in Creswell; and Wenona, residence of H. J. Fur bee. Closing Programs Ai Roper School Now in Progress Class Night Program To night, Followed by Gradu ation Exercises Friday; Sermon Last Sunday -♦ The commencement sermon for the Roper High School graduat ing class was preached last Sun day morning by the Rev. James L. McAllister, Roper native and graduate of the Roper High School. Mr. McAllister is now a graduate student in the depart ment of religion at Duke Univer sity, Durham, «and his remarks were heard with interest by members of the class and an ap preciative congregation in the school auditorium. “Know the truth and the truth will make you free” was the theme of his discourse. Class night exercises will be held in the high school auditor ium Thursday night of this week at 8:15. It is in the form of a play, “A Southern Rosary,” to be pre sented in two acts, with all mem bers of the senior class taking part. Graduating exercises will be held Friday night at 8 o’clock, See ROPER, Page 5 Class Night Exercises First; Followed by Sermon Sun day and Graduation Pro gram Monday Night Commencement programs for Plymouth High School were an nounced complete this week by Prinicipal J. S. Fleming. The ex ercises got underway Friday night program, followed by the commencement sermon on Sun day night and the graduating ex ercises Monday night. All pro grams will be presented in the high school auditorium and begin at 8 o’clock. Class night exercises Friday night will be presented in the form of a playlet, “Between the Bookends.’’ Ail members of the senior class take part, with lead ing roles as follows: Bookends, Jane Crofton and Lynette Bar ber; historian, Harllee Lyon; class president, Dwight Kelly; statistician, Jo Hobbs; poet, Har old Hart; prophet, Gail Hardison; giftorian, Frances Alexander; testator, Wells Rodgers; and lyric composer, Sandra Estep. Miss Beulah Cratch will be pianist. Program for the commence ment sermon Sunday night at 8 o’clock is as follows: Processional, "God of Our Fathers,” glee club and congregation; Doxology, con gregation; invocation, the Rev. J. H. Hodges; hymn, “Come Thou Almighty King,” congregation; Scripture reading, the Rev. E. M. Spruill; anthem, glee club; pray er, the Rev. P. B. Nickens; intro duction of minister, the Rev. C. N. Barnette; sermon by the Rev. Ross J. Allen, secretary North Carolina Christian Missionary Society, of Wilson; hymn, “Holy, Holy, Holy,” congregation; bene diction, the Rev. D. L. Fouts; re cessional, “Largo.” Edward Tay lor is music director. Program for the graduation ex ercises Monday night follows: Processional, March from “Aida”; invocation, the Rev. C. N. Bar nett; choral selections, glee club; salutatory, “The Frontiers of To morrow,” Eugene Waters; ‘Cour age for Freedom,” Barbara Mc Nair; “Our Future Lies Ahead,” Harllee Lyon; presentation of di plomas, A. L. Owens, chairman school committee; school awards, R. F. Lowry, county school super intendent; American Legion awards, P. B. Bateman; valedic tory, “Our National Symbol,” Eleanor Ann Kinard; benediction, the Rev. E. M. Spruill; recession al, “Coronation March.” There are 41 members of the graduating class, 25 girls and 16 boys, who will receive their di plomas at the graduation exer cises Monday night. County Has First Highway Fatality Of Year Saturday Johnny Stewart Myers, 30, Roper Colored Laborer, Victim; Driver Charged With Manslaughter Johnny Stewart Myers, 30-year old colored laborer of Roper, be came Washington County’s first traffic fatality of 1954 about 12:30 last Saturday morning, when he was almost instantly killed in an automobile accident in the Skin nersville section. Myers, passen ger in an automobile driven by Jesse Moore, 32, also of Roper, had his throat cut when he plung ed into the windshield as the car hit another parked on the old Plymouth-Columbia highway in the Skinnersville section. According to Highway Patrol man Earl Morton, of Roper, who investigated, the car in which Myers was riding ran into a park ed car, occupied by James Moore, jr., and a colored girl who was not identified. The car of James Moore, jr., was knocked ahead into another car, also parked on the highway in front of the resi dence of James Moore, sr. Myers died within a few minutes from loss of blood. Jesse Moore, driver of the death car, was arrested and charged with drunken driving and man slaughter. He entered pleas of guilty to both charges in record er's court here Tuesday. He was fined $100 for drunken driving and ordered held for superior court on probable cause of man slaughter, with bond fixed at $1, 000. Jesse Moore told the patrolman the car occupied by James Moore, jr., and the girl stopped suddenly without warning, but the officer said other witnesses testified the latter car was not moving. The accident was the first this year on a Washington County highway and the first since 1052 to occur outside of town limits. There was one fatality last year, but it occurred inside the cor porate limits of Roper. In 1952 there were four fatalities on county highways. -« Lions Will Sell Brooms and Mals The Plymouth Lions Club will sponsor a broom sale Thursday and Friday of this week to raise money for their blind fund. A house-to-house and store-to-store canvass is planned by the Lions, with teams of three being assign ed to all part of the town, accord ing to J. W. Allen, chairman of the broom sale committee. Three types of brooms will be offered by the Lion canvassers: House brooms, which sell for $1.50; a larger broom at $1.75; and a mill broom at $2.10. They will also have door mats that sell for $2.10. All brooms and mats were made by blind workers at Guil ford Industries in Greensboro. After paying for the brooms and mats, all profit made by the Lions Club will go to the fund used by the club in blind work. Plymouth people are urged to buy a broom and mat from the Lions, that all profits will go to a worthy cause. Voters -Will Name Representative Saturday in Only County Contest Number of Dislrict and Slate Races To Be Decided; Scoff Apparently Ahead In Senate Contest Contests for district and state offices are creating proportion ately more interest this year than usual, due to the fact that there is only one strictly county race in the primary Saturday. How ever, all the interest put together is much less than usually display ed in this county, and it is believ ed that not more than 1,500 to 1,800 votes will be cast. There are three candidates for two places as state senators from the second senatorial district, which is comprised of seven coun ties. Edward L. Owens, Plymouth attorney and landowner, is one of the candidates, lending some ad ditional interest to the contest in this county. The other two are L. H. Ross, of Washington, and Martin Kellogg, jr., of Manteo, both lawyers. Mr. Ross, being from the larg est county in the district, is re garded as having the inside track, with Mr. Owens and Mr. Kellogg battling it out for the other posit ion. Owens probably will lead in this county, as will Kellogg in Dare, but just how they stack up in the other counties of the district are not known. The other counties are Martin, Hyde, Tyr rell and Pamlico. There are two candidates for solicitor of the second judicial district, Elbert S. Peel, of Wil liamston, and Hubert E. May, of Nashville. There are but five counties in the district, Washing ton, Martin. Edgecombe, Wilson and Nash. Peel, being from the neighboring county of Martin, is expected to pull a large vote here but he has a real battle ahead in ^S^TdFstricT, Page 8 -4 Fire Here Saturday Does ■*i Littie Damage BulH’rr -4 Local firemen were called out about 4 o’clock last Saturday af ternoon, when a warehouse build ing at the old Bassinger Machine Shop caught fire. One corner of the building was ablaze when the firemen arrived but was quickly extinguished with relatively lit tle damage being done. Fire Chief Miller Warren said he was unable to determine ori gin of the fire. -4 Plan School on Combines Here Next Tuesday Night -» The Miller Warren Implement Company is sponsoring a school on the care and maintenance of combines and tractors here next Tuesday night, June 1, at 8 o'clock. A representative of the Allis-Chalmers Company will be here to conduct the school, and all farmers are invited to attend. Mr. Warren first announced the ichool would start at 7 p. _m. Tuesday, and his ads so state in this paper. However, it was later decided not to start until 8 o'clock. The session will last for about an hour and a half, he said. PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL TO HAVE 41 GRADUATES THIS YEAR There are 41 members of the Plymouth High School Senior Class who will graduate this year and only one, Yvonne Smithwick, was absent when the photograph above was made last week. They will receive their diplomas at the final exercises to be held in the school auditorium next Monday night at 8 o’clock. Those in the picture above are, left to right, front row: Gail Har dison, Peggy Warwick, Phyllis Stotesberry, Sandra Estep, Jane Crofton, Lena Bennett; second row: Shirley Daniels, Joyce Jefferson, Frances Alexander, Louise Satterthwaite, Joyce Roberson, Polly Hamilton; third row: Lynette Barber, Jo Hobbs, Eleanor Ann Kinard, Gail Harrison, Alice Humph reys, Barbara Ann Oliver; fourth row: Gladys Adams, Lois Allen, Barbara McNair, Pat Ange, Ina Faye Wells, Ruby Lee; boys, fifth row: Richard Allen, William Earl Phelps, Dwight Kelly; sixth row: Billy Ray West, Tom Sawyer, Harllee Lyon, Eugene Waters, Joseph Hardison, Paul Ange; seventh row: Billy Sexton, Wayne Simpson, Weis Rodgers, Harlan Folkerts; eighth row: Harold Hart, Ken Trowbridge, Shelton Jethro.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo. Final Parade of Year For Hio|. School Kami The Plymouth High School Band made its final appearance of the 1953-54 school year at the Shrine Ceremonial parade in Greenville yesterday morning. Band members left in a chartered bus yesterday morning and re turned late that afternoon after parading at noon. Band members last week en joyed their trip to Washington, where they took part in the Jay cee Festival parade at 4 p. m. Fri day afternoon. No other concerts or parades are planned before the end of the school term Monday. Director Edward Taylor said yesterday that the band had made a lot of progress and he ex pects it to do even better, next fall. Only four or five members of the group will be lost by grad uation, he stated. Mr. Taylor said the band still needed a lot of equipment, which he said they should be able to get in another year. Last fall the band had to have uniforms, which cost well up toward $4,000. The director said he was well pleased with the cooperation he had re ceived during his first year here. Good Sales Expected For Market Opening Crop Prospect Improve With Warmer Weather; De mand for Snap Beans Said Steady at Present —— James H. Ward and W. T. Free man, two of the operators of the Plymouth Auction Market, said yesterday they were looking for a sizeable amount of produce to be here next Monday for first sales on the local market. The auction is scheduled to begin at 10 a. m„ with Joe Moye, of Rob ersonville, veteran tobacco auc tioneer, crying the sales. Crop prospects in this section have improved materially in this section in the past few days with the advent of warmer weather, they said, and they expect a good volume of beans, with possibly some potatoes and cabbag , to be offered. T1 ’ b. n marjcct in par alar. >'• ,aid ’.•> be strong at this time, with producers getting about $2.50 per bushel hamper and the demand steady. Messrs. Ward and Freeman and W. M. Darden, thifd member of the firm, estimated yesterday that there are about 1,500 acres of beans in the 18-county territory to be served by the market. They also estimated cucumber acreage at 1,500, tomatoes at another 1, 500, squash about 500, and pep pers around 3,000 acres. They al so expected to handle irish pota toes, corn, lima beans, okra, some eggplant, and watermelons and canteloupes during the season, Mr. Freeman said they were receiving many inquiries from buyers and canners. The operat ors emphasize the importance of farmers using new containers and packing them fully. They stated that bean hampers and other con tainers would be available at the market. Everything was declared in readiness for the opening sales Monday at 10 a. m. Government inspectors and graders will be on hand, and it is expected a large number of buyers will be here for the first day’s operation. Few To Observe j Holiday Monday) Both local banks, all federal state and county offices will be closed next Monday, May 31, in honor of National Memorial Day, which falls on Sunday, May 30, this year. Other busi ness establishments will be open as usual, however, so far as could be learned yesterday. The post office will be closed, and there: will be no city or rural deliveries. Mail will be dispatched and those who have lock boxes will be served, but none of the windows will be open. All offices at the court house here will be closed, ac Cf ' ding1 to E. J. Spruill. Cresweil School's Closing Programs Will Begin Friday May Day Program and Class Night To Be Followed b.y Sermon Sunday and Grad uation Monday Night Commencement exercises at Creswell High School get under way Friday of this week, with an all-day May Day program fol lowed.by the senior class night exercises in the school auditor ium at 8 p. m. The commence ment sermon follows at 8 p. m. on Sunday, May 30; with graduation exercises scheduled for Monday night, May 31, also at 8 o’clock. All programs will be held in the school auditorium except for part of the May Day exercises tomor row. The class night exercises Fri See CRESWELL, Page 5 Scuppernong To Choose County Comissioner in Only Other Local Race; Light Vote Is Expected A very light vote is expected to be cast in Washington. County Saturday, when Democrats go to the polls to choose nominees for county, district and state offices. There is only one county-wide contest for a local office, three candidates being in the running for representative to the General Assembly, and consequently there has been very little interest dis played in the coming primary thus far. In addition to the race for county representative, voters in Scuppernong Township will choose a county commissioner from among three aspirants; and there are a host of district and state offices for which nominees are to be selected. Candidates for six county offices who had no opposition have already been cer tified as Democratic nominees. There are no Republican can didates for any of the county of fices, and no contests among Re publicans for state and district offices, so Republicans will have no part in the primary this year. Main interest on a county-wide basis is centered in the race for representative. E. O. Arnold, of Skinnersville, and Ben A. Sum ner, of Plymouth, are former representatives who are seeking to return to that office; with Dr. J. M. Phelps, of Creswell, who has never run for elective office before, the third candidate. W. J. Woolard, who served as repre sentative in the 1953 General As sembly is not a candidate this year. Mr. Sumner served in the 1943 legislature, while Mr. Arnold was representative in 1949. All three of the candidates have been working hard, especially during the past two or three weeks, and it is possible that they will get out more votes than was thought possible a few weeks ago. In Scuppernong Township, See COUNTY, Page 8 -♦ Eight Injured, One Critically, in Car Wreck Last Week -1 Miss Gladys Bateman of Plymouth Most Seriously Hurt in Accident Near Here Last Week Miss Gladys Bateman, 18, of Plymouth, was critically injured and seven other persons were ser iously hurt in a head-on collision between two cars on the Folly Road about five miles from Plym outh during a driving rain last Thursday night. Miss Bateman, who received a compound frac ture of the jaw and other injur ies about the head, was removed from the Washington County Hos pital to a Norfolk hospital Fri day morning, and reports yes terday were that her condition was still considered critical. Four of those injured, including the drivers of both cars, were Marines from the Edenton base, and they were taken to the base hospital Friday morning. Others injured were from Roper an.d in cluded Miss Grace Trueblood, sprains and abrasions; her sister, Miss Pat Trueblood, broken arm, sprains and contusions; and Miss Ramona Barnes, sprains and bruises. The injured Marines were Ben jamin Louis Jenkins, driver of one car, lacerations and bruises; Ricnard Len Hoffman, driver of the other car, also lacerations and bruises; Richard C. Curfiss, frac tured skull; and Alex Tomilo, who suffered minor injuries. They were brought to the county hospital here after the accident and removed to the base hospital at Edenton Friday morning. According to Highway Patrol man Earl Morton, of Roper, who investigated the accident, the cars met head-on on a curve on the Folly Road about a mile off U. S. 64 at 11 o’clock Thursday night. Hoffman and Miss Barnes were in one car, with Hoffman driving, and the other six were in the other car, with Jenkins driving. It was said to have been raining hard at the time, and neither car was being operated at an exces sive rate of speed. Both drivers were cited to re corder’s court, Jenkins for reck less driving and Hoffman because his windshield wiper was not in operating condition. Their cases were continued Tuesday, pending recovery from injuries of the drivers and witnesses.

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