SBiiiiiiiiiiiiglBSSBsiSiSinniEigiiiSiBiiaiaaiBga T the iXocm. #Sa*t C. rtf tins will read the Wiface to, twe Ordinal. Mr. Owens will be pre sented to the bishop for ordina tion by his rector, the Rev. Ed ward M. Spruill. P. B. Bateman, Senior Warden of Grace Church, will read The Litany for Ordi nations. The Rev. William L. Hicks, newly ordained deacon-in charge of St. Philip's Church, Southport, will' read the Epistle. Mr. Owens will read the Gospel, and will assist the bishop with the Holy Communion service which is to follow. Mr. Owens is the son of Mrs. Mary Crisp Owens and the late See SERVICE, Page 10 -4 Lamb Sale Slated Friday This Week —•— Grading and weighing of lambs will begin Friday of this week ' at 7 a. m. for the.last cooperative lamb pool to be held this season at the Atlantic Coast Line pens on East Water Street, it is announ ced. Offerings will be graded and ; weighed under supervision ol specialists from the State depart ment of agriculture. Growers have been requested to have all offerings in place by not later than 9 o’clock on the morning ol the sale. The offerings will be sold to a northern packing firm. A previous sale held here on Tuesday, May 25, was the mosl successful ever held in Plymouth according to reports. At that time i 1,019 sheep weighing 78.04C 1 pounds, brought producers a sum ■ amounting to $15,777.52. Prices at the first sale this sea 1 son ranged from $26.75 per hun , dred'weight for choice lambs ■, down to $3 for common ewes i Bulk of the offerings gradec > choice and good. County agents from surround - ing counties are cooperating ir carrying out the sale. Machinery Here Will Grade, Wash And Wax Produce Expected To Be Completely Installed by Friday of This Week, Market Man ager States Work was begun Wednesday morning on installation of ma chinery to wash, wax and gra peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes on the Plymouth Produce Mar ket. The machinery is being install ed and will be operated by work men under the direction of Buck Welch, of Florida. About 20 per sons will be employed in the ope ration, half of them local, accord ing to W. M. Darden, market manager. The machinery will be operated by an experienced crew from Florida. Darden explained, with some local men and women employed. Use of the machinery, expect ed to be ready by Friday of this week, will mean a better market for the produce, Darden said, since most of the produce which goes into the retail trade is hand led by chain stores which cannot use produce not properly wash ed, waxed and graded. Darden also stated that proper harvesting of the crops is vital to a better market. Growers, new at the game, who do not know pro per methods of harvesting and handling the produce would do well to consult someone who does, the manager stressed. Im proper harvesting can mean that such produce will find no ready market. The local market handled cu cumbers in rather good volume this week with prices ranging from $1.75 to $2.50. Quality was described as poor, largely the ef fect of dry weather which is also curtailing yield. Green tomatoes came in this week in light volume and 85 bus hels of good quality .peppers were brought in from Swansboro, in Onslow County, making 10 coun ties now from which produce on the been receive.* . feel the pepper seaso.j i, two week# said. Bible School at Philippi Church The annual vacation Bible school at Philippi Church of Christ near Creswell will begin Monday, June 28, and continue through Friday, July 2. Phillip M. Spruill will be the director, it was announced this week. Classes and assembly will be gin at 9 a. m. each day and con tinue through 11:30 a. m. During this time there will bg class and recreation periods. Teachers for the week will be M. L. Ambrose, D. S. Spruill, Mrs. C. L. Barnes, George Saw yer, Mrs. Marvin Spruill and Mrs. Hoyt Davenport. Devotional ser vices will be under the direction of Wilton Spear and Hardic Craddock. Mrs. Woodley Ambrose will be music director during the week, and the refreshment com mittee is to be composed of Henry Phelps, Alton Spear and Jim Davis. The recreation committee is headed by Mrs. William T. Woodley and Mrs. Theodore Am brose. Children are especially urged to attend. -4 Prize Winner Had Just Made Substantial Buy Manager Thos. F. Hopkins seat ed Monday that the winner of first prize in the weekly drawing at Norman Furniture Company, Nicey Nixon, colored, of Mackeys, had made a substantial purchase just a few minutes before the drawing. A stub was deposited in the box and although it was well shaken that stub was drawn first. The winner got $25 in trade Other winners were: second, $15 in trade, Alice Clagon, colored. Roper, and third, $10 in trade, Lloyd Mizelle, Plymouth Rt. 2. Get 112 Pints Blood Here Yesterday According to figures received at just about closing time, 128 persons responded to the call for blood here Wednesday with the Red Cross toloodmobile unit se curing 112 pints. There were 16 rejects. Of the donors, 13 gave blood for the first time. There were 13 Negroes reporting, with seven giving a pint of blood each. Employees of N. C. Pulp Com pany, as usual, supported the pro gram well, with the plant man agement cooperating. Blood bank workers included Mrs. Harold Nelson and Mrs. P. B. Niekens, clerical: Mrs. Lillian Shugar, Mrs. Durand Keel, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. J. S. Flem ing and Mrs. W. R. Collins, other; and Mrs. J. A. Murray and Miss Elizabeth Wood, nurses. Refreshments for blood donors were given this time by indivi duals and served by the volun teer workers, according to Mrs. W. R. Collins, who listed donors of food and refreshments as fol lows: Mesdames Charles Corpening, James Boyce, Roscoe Frymier, James H. Ward, W. R. McCombs, W. S. Davenport, M. G. Chesson, L. W. Gurkin, jr., W. Blount Rod man, P. B. Bateman, E. G. Arps, Carl; Bailey, D. J. Brinkley, R. F. Lowry, Robert W. Johnson, J. Folkerts, Louis L. Owens, Ben Roberson, Joe Foster, Clifford E. Frymier, Tom Gardner, W. F. Ruffin, Ediward Aoh, E. F. Ba gans, Claude Jones and A. L Jackson. Polls Will Open Al 6:30 Saturday Voters in the primary Satur day of this week will have from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. in which to cast their ballots. The old voting: hours, sunrise to sunset, no longer apply and the polls will close promptly at 6:30 p. m. Registrars and judges of election are required to re port to polling places at 6 a. m. in order to prepare booths and arrange voting space. Oounty ABC Stores will be closed for the day, according to regulation, and will again be closed Monday, July 5, since the July 4 holiday falls this year on Sunday. Polling places for the six county precincts are: Plymouth No. 1, courthouse; Plymouth No. 2, high school building; Lees Mill, Roper Community Building Skinnersville, J. A. Goodman’s Store at the Scuppernong, tax collector's of fice in Creswell; and Wenona, II. J. Furbee residence. Announce Change, In Rules of ASC Program Recently Would Limit Consecutive Terms of County and Community Committee men To Three -»— Miss Miriam Ausbon, county ASC secretary, stated Wednesday that the important changes in regulations governing election, qualifications and duties of coun ty and community ASC commit teemen recently announced by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson would appear to work well with the possible ex ception of one point. Among changes announced is a regulation to limit to three the number of consecutive terms a farmer may serve as county or zr-'jnunity committeeman, except w-\TT t*lree ihemhers of the 1 committee have already served three consecutive terms one member shall be eligible for election to one additional term. Miss Ausbon pointed out that it takes about three years on the committee for a new member to master the intricacies of the set up to where he is quite valuable to the committee and the county he serves. Also, she said, farmers generally take little interest in the affairs of the ASC and it would be difficult oftentimes to replace good men on the commit tee. Other changes in regulations would (1) create county and com munity election boards which would conduct annual elections of committeemen) (2) prohibit officials of general farm organi zations from serving as members of county ASC committees; (3) prohibit a committeeman from acting (a) as sales agent or em ployee of Federal Crop Insur ance Corp., (b) market quota re view' committeeman, or (c) as employee of own county office. -1 Special Services At Pleasant Grove Evangelistic services will begin at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church Sunday evening at 8 o’clock and continue through the week, it is announced. The clos ing service will be held at 11 a. m. Sunday, July 4. Guest preacher for the special series of meetings will be the Rev. L. A. Lewis, pastor of the Atlantic charge in the New Bern district. Mr. Lewis is now in the tenth year of his Carteret County pastorate. One of the features of the meeting series will be hymns by guest soloist from several neigh boring churches, it is stated. Sev eral denominations are cooperat ing in this phase of the program The public is cordially invited to attend and worship at all serv ices. -♦ County Superintendent At Chapel Hill Meel County Superintendent Roy F Lowry is attending a meeting o the state committee on elemen tary education being held ir Chapel Hill Thursday of thi. week. This is a committee of thi Southern Association of College and Secondary Schools which wa set up to promote a program fo improvement of elementar; schools. Superintendents am principals of county school unit which are taking part in the pro gram are attending the Chape Hill sessions. Interest at Very Low Ebb In 2nd Primary Saturday CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE E. O. Arnold (left), Skinnersville merchant and farmer, and Dr. J. M. Phelps (right), Creswell physician, are candidates in the only county-wide contest to be decided in the second primary Saturday of this week. They are candidates for county repre sentative at the next session of the North Carolina General As sembly. The other contest in the second primary Saturday is between Phillip M. Spruill and Harry W. Pritchett for county commissioner from Scuppernong Township and is limited to that township only. ___ _ County To Have 109 Teachers Next Year County White Schools Will Have 59 Teachers, With 50 on Colored School Faculties -« Washington County schools have been allotted 10D teachers for the 1954-55 term, according to information from the office of County Superintendent of Schools Roy F. Lowry here. The alloca tions were received recently from the office of the state superin tendent of public instruction, Raleigh. In addition to the allotted teachers, there will also be a spec ial education teacher in the white schools, but this letter is not based on the average daily at tendance as are those allotted through the state superintendent office. The white schools will have 42 elementary teachers and 17 high school teachers (not including the special education teacher) while the colored schools will have 41 elementary teachers and nine high school teachers. Plymouth was allotted 22 ele mentary teachers, same as last year. In the high school the al lotted number is eight, one less than a year ago. At Roper the number of ele mentary "teachers remains the same, 8; in the high school there is an increase from three to four. At Creswell the number re mains the same as last year, 12 elementary and five high school teachers. In the colored schools, Plym outh and Washington County Union School, Roper, each gain ed an elementary teacher. Plym outh was allotted 17 and Roper school 17, with nine in the high school. Creswell Elementary re mains the same at seven. Several teacher resignations were listed by Mr. Lowry. At Plymouth, J. E. Carr has resigned to teach at Clinton, Norman L. Clark to teach at Morehead City, See TEACHERS, Page 10 Sidewalks Here j Being Repaired | Town workmen, under the supervision of Chief of Police P. W. Brown, are engaged in repairing and replacing side walks on several streets here. Most of the repairs were made necessary by tree roots causing hrrahfl tn the sidewalks. Up to Tuesday repairs had been made to one block each on Third, Washington, Jeffer son Streets and Brinkley Ave nue. Additional work is plan* ned on Washington Street be tween Third and Fourth, and on Main Street between Wash ington and Jefferson. Crop Measurmenl Nears Completion -» The huge county crop measure ment task is expected to be com pleted Friday of this week, sev eral days ahead of the June 30 deadline, it was learned late yes terday. County ASC Secretary Miriam Ausbon stqted that she was con fident the work would be finish ed Friday. ‘There are only two or three maps out now,” Miss Ausbon said late Wednesday. She stated that Field Man J. L. Kel ton, of Edenton, had commented that the work appeared further advanced in this county than in any of his district, embracing 15 northeastern counties. Washington County makes a habit of being one of the first to complete such tasks and the local office has been cited several times in the past for accomplishments in this regard. A corps of 15 reporters and six office workers has been busy for several weeks in determining the acreage planted to all allotment control crops in the county | JUNIOR MAJORETTES WINNERS OF TOP HONORS > —-“ ' '' ' T '.?>;•k | The three junior majorettes of Plymouth’s High School Band finished one-two-three for top honors in the juvenile division at , the Dixie National Baton Twirling Institute held la$t week at the , University of Missii sippi, Robin Horner (center above) daughter 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Horner, received a trophy for first prize; 3 while Jannett Bruce (right), daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. R. M Bruce, and Jean Tetterton (left), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald 1 Tetterton, were second and third, respectively, in a field, of 40 contestants and received medals.—Polaroid 1-Minute staft photo. Voters To Choose Between Four Candidates for Two County Offices; A Light Vote Is Expected Democratic nominations for two county offices will be decided in the second primary Saturday, when Washington County voters will go to the polls to choose a representative and member of the county board of commissioners from Scuppernong Township. The nominations are tantamount to election, since there is no Re publican opposition for either of fice in the November general election. Only one of the two contests Saturday will be decided on a county-wide basis. That is for representative to the next Gen eral Assembly, with E. O. Arnold, of Skiraersville, and Dr. J. M. Phelps, of Creswell, as the con tenders. The other contest is limited to Scuppernong Town ship, where Phillip M. Spruill and Harry W. Pritchett are can didates for county commissioner from that township. The two run-offs were called as the result of close votes in the first primary on June 29. Arnold, Skinnersville merchant and farm er, was high man in a three-way race for representative in the first primary. He received 827 votes to 645 by Phelps, with Ben X. Sumner, of Plymouth, trailing with 340 votes. Dr. Phelps, Cres well physician and property own er, immediately called for a sec ond primary. Arnold represented the county in the legislature in 1948, while Phelps is making his first campaign for elective office. In the race for county.commis sioner from Scuppernong Town ship, Phillip M. Spruill led in the first primary with 167 votes. Pritchett was a close second with 151 votes, while Douglas W. Dav enport, third man in the race, polled 129. Pritchett, Creswell hardware merchant who has been a member of the county board of commissioners for a number of years, called for the run-off. Spruill is a prominent Scupper nortg Township farmer who is making his first run for public office. So far there is little evidence of much interest in the second primary, andi a light vote is fore cast. As a rule, Washington Coun ty casts more votes in second pri* maries than in first ones, but this year there are no state races which will serve to hold the vote down. There wias a relatively light vote in the first primary last month, only a little more than 1,800 votes being cast. All the candidates have been working hard during the past few weeks, and the size of Saturday’s vote will largely depend on the amount of “hauling,” according to observers. A record vote was cast in Scuppernong Township on May 29, due to the large number of candidates from that section, and voters there probably will re spond in large numbers again Saturday, but interest in other sections of the county is at a very low ebb. -1 Rules Stated for Crop Disposition The producer must' pay the en tire estimated cost of visiting the farm for the purpose of checking disposition of excess acreage on ail crops under acreage allot ment control, a statement issued at the local ASC office says. The information on rates for disposing of excess tobacco, cot ton and peanuts, given out, by the local office, will be of inter est to all growers of these crops in the county. The rate for tobacco is $1 for each one-tenth of an acre of ex cess, with a minimum of $3 per farm. However, no minimum charge per acre will be made if the excess is disposed of at tfce time the farm is visited for the purpose of remeasuring the to bacco acreage at the request of the producer. The rate foe cotton and peanuts is 50 cents per acre of excess planting, with a minimum of $3 per farm. In the case of peanuts the max imum charge will be limited to $12 per farm, it was said. -1 County FHA Supervisor And Clerk at Meeting W. Willis Bowen, county FHA supervisor, and Mrs. Ernestine Basnight, county office clerk, are in Rocky Mount attending a dis trict FHA training program meet ing at Ricks Hotel. The meeting will last through Friday.