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' ; I T'own opici Robert H. Gurganus, jr., will leave Friday for an Air Fore® base at Colorado Springs, Colo., after spending about a month here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Gurganus. Bobby went into the Air Force early this year and has been at Colorado Springs since finishing his basic training in Texas. He expects to get an overseas assignment in the Far East after returning to Colorado. Ross Knowles was official dele gate from the Plymouth MYF to the Youth Annual Conference held Monday through Friday of last week at Duke University, Durham. Mary Eleanor Sander son, reserve delegate, Betsy Barnhill, Dotty Thompson and Jacque House attended the Youth Rally on the final day of the con ference. There were about 1,000 in attendance, including some 400 official delegates. J. B, McNair, of Plymouth, is a patient at the Veterans Hospital tit Kecoughtan, Va., and is ex pected to undergo an operation for stomach ulcers sometime this week. He will remain at the hos pital for some time. Anyone wish ing to write him can address the mail in care of the hospital. Thomas J. Davenport and chil dren, Norma, Donald and Ronald, iff left Tuesday morning for their home in Detroit, Michigan, after having spent a week visiting Mr. Davenport’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Davenport, at Pettigrew Park. The elder Mr. Davenport served for many years as park ranger. Donald B. Freeman, son of Mr, and Mrs. W. T. Freeman, of Plym outh and Roper, made the dean's list for the summer quarter at East Carolina College, Green ville, it was announced this week. Young Freeman, who will be a senior at the next term, is a can didate for a B.S. degree in social science. -♦ ■ - "Red" Browning Is Home For Few Days From Army Wayne (“Red”) Browning is home for two weeks from Camp Gordon, near Augusta, Ga., where he recently completed basic training with the U. S. Army Sig npl Corps. He went out to foot ball practice here Tuesday night and helped Coach Joe Foster some with the Panther linemen. “Red” was an all-conference tackle in his high school days at Plymouth and later played guard for the Chowan College Braves and the University of Richmond Spiders. Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Browning, of Plymouth, he completed his work at the Uni versity of Richmond in June and reported to the Ajmy almost im mediately afterwards. -* - Fair Not To Be Held This Year A spokesman for the Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce stated this week that the Jaycees definitely would not sponsor the annual Washington County Fair here this year. The reason given for the decis ion was difficulty in securing an appropriate midway. The fair, originating as a pro ject of the Jaycees with profits earmarked for the Jaycee play ground fund, has been held here for the past three years. Purpose of the fair was listed as “to foster better living and create a keen interest in com munity and home improvement in the county.” It was hinted that some othei project might be undertaken by the club to take the place of the fair, but nothing definite was revealed this week. -»—.— Jimmy Knowles Winner In Slate Dairy Conlesl ■ ■— «■ — Jimmy Knowles, of near Plym outh, was presented a plaque and $l30 in cash as winner in the State Star Dairy Farmer contesl at -the state FFA convention held ^ at State College in Raleigh last «week. Jimmy is he son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Linwood Knowles, whe live over the line in Martin Coun ty but usually call Plymouth thei: home town. The young man is s member of the Jamcsville FFA class. The prizes were contribut ed by the National Dairy Pro ducts Corporation. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** K A home newspaper dedicated to tlie service of Washington County and it# 13,000 people. VOLUME LXV—NUMBER 34 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 26, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1>889 | SCHOOL BUSSES NEARING END OF VACATION, TGO] l-—--1 ■MU Parked back of the county garage here since last spring, this school bus presents a somewhat forlorn appearance, surrounded by wheel-high weeds. It has not been forgotten, however, as Chief Mechanic H. E. Newberry and his helpers have been giving all the busses a thorough going over, tuning them up and putting everything in tip-top shape for the opening of a new school term next Wednesday, September 1. The county school system ope rates 36 busses, 15 serving colored schools and 21 white. The number in use this year is the same as last, but three old busses are being replaced by new ones for the coming term.—Polaroid I-Minute staff photo. Ask Bids on Several Local Highway Jobs s Seek Full Use | Of ACP Funds I ■■■■■■■■■■■■«■•• AH agencies anil organiza tions dealing with the Depart ment of Agriculture are put ting on a special drive during the remainder of August and September to see that Wash ington County farmers do not lose any of their 1954 federal cost-share for needed conserva tion practices approved by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation program. The county farm leaders, In a joint meeting recently, re quested an additional for such use under the 1954 program in this county. Highest Average Posted Monday on Markets of Bell Several Grades Reported To Be Selling Steady To $1 a Hundred Pounds Higher This Week Average prices remained firm on Eastern Belt markets Monday and Tuesday of this week as of ferings of tobacco continued light. Several grades were reported selling steady to $1 a hundred higher. It was said that offerings of nondescript and poor leaf was lowering general quality of to bacco on the warehouse floors. The highest daily average of the young season was posted Mon day when 3,756,494 pounds sold for an average of $53,70, an in crease of 86 cents over last Fri day's average. The Williamston market post ed an average of $56.15 for Mon day’s sales of 188,150 pounds. Tuesday, the market sold 91,802 pounds for an average of $54.74. Robersonville averaged $54.59 on Tuesday for 67,186 pounds. Leaf, primings and lugs made up the bulk of offerings, reports showed. The practical top was said to be 68 cents a pound. Bids were running about like this: Leaf—fair lemon, 62, low lemon 54; cutters—fair lemon, 68, low lemon, 67; lugs—fine lemon, 67, good lemon, 67, good orange, 64, lair lemon, 62, fair orange, 56; primings—good lemon, 60, fair lemon. 52, fair orange, 45, low orange, 34; nondescript—best thin 20. Only two of the seven major companies had buyers on the floor os Middle Belt markets opened sales at Durham, Oxford, Henderson, Warrenton and Louis burg, it was reported. Bridge Over Welch's Creek Is To Be Widened; Mill Pond Road Out ol Roper Will Be Surfaced -1 Several Washington County projects are included in those for which bids will be received by the State Highway Commission on September 7, it was learned this week. One of them is far widening the bridge over Welch's Creek on U. S. 64 about three miles west of Plymouth. This is considered a Martin-Washington County project, since the bridge mairks the boundary between the two counties. The bridge over Welch's Creek ; vas cons' u ..ed th< . High way 64 was surfaced, back in the 20’s. At that time the highway was but 16 feet wide and the bridge only slightly wider. The Highway was widened to 20 feet nearly two years ago, except for a few hundred feet on the Wash ington County side of the bridge. It is presumed this portion of the road will also be widened after the width of the bridge is in ci eased. Other projects for which bids are to be received include sand asphalt surfacing of the Mill Pond Road out of Roper; also surfac inb of a short stretch from U. S. 64 in Roper southwest to an in tersection with a county road; and surfacing of about 1 mile from the northern edge of Cherry southwest 'to the pavement at Spruill's store. Main project for which bids have been called is construction of a bridge over Croatan Sound, between Manns Harbor and Roa noke Island. Is is estimated this bridge will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,000,000. The bridge will be 2.7 miles long with a 24-foot roadway. All the bids will be reviewed by the Commis sion at a meeting on September 9. Corn Harvest Is Begun in County -♦ It is too early to begin .harvest ing corn, in the opinion of Coun ty Agent W. H. Pruden. Mr. Pruden said this week that one farmer in the Holly Neck sec tion has already begun the har vest, using a mechanical picker. However, the county, agent said he had heard nothing about the moisture content of the corn. "The moisture content is prob ably high, though,” Pruden said. Most farmers in the county plan to use mechanical pickers, it was learned. Last year, the pic kers came into pretty general use in this county and a success ful harvest was reported despite the fact that Hurricane Barbara left the corn nearly flat on the ground in many places. Bloodmobile Due Here September 8 _A__ _♦ With the quota cut to 110 pints, local blood bank leaders are an ticipating a successful operation when the Red Cross bloodmobile unit from Tidewater Regional Blood Center, Norfolk, Va., pays its regular quarterly visit to Plymouth Wednesday, September 8th. The set-up will again be made at the Veterans Club near the Washington County Hospital. The visit will be the third to the the county this year, 112 pints blood having been collected on the last previous visit on June 23 and 174 pints on March 12. The bloodmobile is again being sponsored by the local posts of the American Legion and Vete rans of Foreign Wars. The Plym outh Woman’s Club will furnish refreshments for blood donors and also will furnish the neces sary clerical help, it was said. Hours in effect for the corning visit will be from 10:30 a. m. to 5 p. m., blood bank leaders stated. No blood donor recruitment chairman has been named, but it is believed that several per sons will collaborate to get the work done aa in the case of the past few visits here. Joint Meeting of Farm Leaders for County Last Week -♦ ... - Accomplishment and Whai Is Hoped for Conservation Program in Washington County Reviewed —♦— Several important matters' con cerning soil conservation practices were discussed at a joint meeting la. t Thursday of county and com munity ASC committeemen, SCS representative, county agent, vo cational teachers, FHA represen tative and others. Purpose of the meeting was to create enthusiasm among those present to talk conservation in their respective communities. Leon L. Davenport, vice chair man of the county committee, opened the meeting and gave a brief outline of what the 1954 ACP program has accomplished in the county and what is hoped to be accomplished before the program closes December 31. H. E. Newland, of the Soil Con servation Service, explained the practicability of the open ditch drainage practice. County Agent W. H. Pruden discoursed on the pasture prac tice. using blackboard figures to explain in detail how seed, fer tilizer and lime are approved un der the Federal cost-share pro gram, estimated cost per acre and the need of a soil sample. Willis Bowen, FHA supervisor, gave severel important facts on pastures—land preparation, types of soil, etc. The ASC office manager dis cussed money available for 1954 ACP, total and cross compliance in 1955 and county and communi ty elections for 1955. The county agent also spoke on the Nickels for Know-How pro gram. Mrs. Florence Oliver and Whit ford Swain, compliance clerks, outlined the performance work that was done in the county un der the 1954 program. It was eee^mgp ~ded by ; ' present that ground /measurement<i be used until new maps are available. It was pointed out that the eight year-old maps currently in use are not accurate since changes have resulted in highways and through open ditch drainage and clearing of new cropland. Forms for practices tentatively approved which require determi nation of need and practicability were signed by the county com mittee and presented to the SCS. The county committee request ed that the office manager call Mr. Kelton, fieldman, and ask that $25,000 more be allocated the county for use in pasture and drainage practices in 1954. The county committee agreed to approve a considerable pre centage of any additional alloca tion sent to the county to be used by the SCS in carrying out open ditch drainage. -f School's Schedule Of Fees Released A schedule of the various stu dent fees at Plymouth schools was released this week for the con venience of students and parents by Principal J. S. Fleming. The fees remain the same as those of last year and were listed by Mr. Fleming as follows: Supplementary reader fees— grades 1 and 2, $1; grades 3 . through 5, $1.20; grades 6 through . 8, $1.40. School instructional supply fee (for all students), $1; ' Insurance (optional), $1.25; High school fees: state book rental, $3.60; typing fee, $1.50 a [ month; home economics fee, $2.50; , science fees, $1, per science for general science, biology and chemistry; industrial arts fee, ' $2.50; band fee, $3. All fees are for the entire ’ school year except where other • wise noted. To Install Tape On Pupils Bikes J. W, House, jr., chairman of the Safety committee of the Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce, has announced that his committee will be on the cam pus of Plymouth High School and ■ Plymouth Colored School on opening day—Wednesday of next I week—to install safety tape on i students’ bicycles. Other members of the eommit t iee a: i Ralph Basnight and ( Charles Gardner. The Jaycees adopted the pro ■ ject at a recent meeting here. : All students who own bikes are : requested to bring them to school next Wednesday. New Term Will Start Wednesday For All Schools in County System Sessions Begin Daily ai 8:30 With Dismissal ai 2 P. M. For Firs! Three Days, Principal Slates Everything is in readiness for the opening of Plymouth schools next Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock for the 1954-55 session, Principal J. S. Fleming stated yesterday. No formal program has been arranged to mark the opening of school for the new year, Mr. Fleming stated, but the regular Wednesday morning chapel per iod will be held, starting at 10:35. Mr. Fleming emphasized that school patrons are welcome to visit the school opening day and every day. Registration was largely taken care of before the schools closed last Spring, the principal said, and students will receive their schedule of classes and lesson as signments Wednesday morning, enabling them to get right down to work without any loss of time. Any new students or those who failed to register last Spring should register at the principal's office in the high school before next Wednesday. The office will be open each day. it was said. The school lunchroom will be open the first day of school, again under the management of Miss Blanche Davis. The lunch periods will be staggered to take care of the large number to be served, as has been the case in the past few years. About 200 pupils can be served at a time and more than 600 lunches usually are served daily. Lunch periods will run the same as last year, start ing with the smaller children at 11:15 and continuing until 1:05. ^ec^CHOOLsT^Page^? -> Ordered Held in i; Shooting Affray ■ » - ■ Ben Hedgebeth, colored, was ordered held for the next crimi nal term of Superior Court under $1,000 bond when probable cause of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill was found in a preliminary hearing before Judge W. Ronald Gaylord here Tuesday. Hedgebeth is alleged to have fired a rifle at Andrew Chesson, also colored, at about 0 a. m. Sun day in front of Gus Moore’s home near Mackeys following an argu ment said to have been over a gallon of whiskey. The bullet scaled Chesson's jugular vein and lodged below his right ear. He was carried to the Washington County Hospital where he was treated and later released. He was in court Tues day for the hearing. Chesson lives on the Boyce farm at Albemarle Beach while Hedgebeth lives in the Millpond section near Roper. The scene of the shooting is where two colored women met death by shooting some months ago. Sheriff J. K. Reid arrested Hedgebeth at his home at about 8 o’clock Sunday morning. Meetings for Teachers Krlii'diilcd Xcxt Week A series of teachers' meetings has been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday of next week, Coun ty Superintendent of Schools has announced. A teachers' meeting will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in the Plymouth School, with Dr. D. B. Bryan, dean of Wake Forest College, delivering the principal address. The princi pals will meet with the teachers at the various schools at 2 o'clock that afternoon. A teachers’ meeting will be held at the Washington County Union School Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and will also be ad dressed by Dean Bryan. Principals will conduct meet ings at the various colored schools as follows: Washington County Union School, Monday at 8p. m.; Plym outh, following general meeting Tuesday; Creswell, about 4 p. m., following genera! meeting Tues day. Special Services At Si. David's Draws Big Crowd -? Commemorate 150th Anni versary of Church Near Creswell; "God Still the Hope of World," Said On Sunday, August 15, at the 11 o'clock worship service, the Kev. George C. Field, jr., rector in charge of St. David's Parish, delivered the sermon at the spec ial service held at St. David’s Episcopal Church commemorat ing the 150th anniversary of the church. The Rev. Mr. Field used as his subject, “God, the Hope of the World.” “God today is still the hope of the world, the same as He was 150 years ago when Parson Charles Pettigrew started Petti grew Chapel where today we are celebrating its 150th anniversary. History has repeated itself in showing us that God has in the past and in present been the hope of the world and that He will be our hope in the future,” he said. The Rev. John W. Hardy, rec tor of Saint Helenas Church of Beaufort, S. C., a former rector of St. David’s Parish, attended the service, conducted the morning prayer and read the scripture During the service Miss Mar garet Ann Brock, of Richlands, sang a solo, “Bless This House.” Miss Lona B. Weatherly was the accompanist. At the conclusion of the serv ice the members of the church and the large number of visitors from all parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mary land, Connecticut and Washing ton, D. C., enjoyed a picnic at Pettigrew Park on the shores of Lake Phelps. St. David’s Church was desig nated as parochial shrine at the convention of the Diocese of East Carolina in 1953. It is located on a dirt road about one mile from Creswell off U. S. 64 and point ed out by a North Carolina High way sign indicating it as a spec ial site. See SERVICES, Page 7 | Office al High j j School Is Open j Attention of school patrons is called to the fact that the prin cipal's office at the high school is now open each day and Mr. Fleming states that he will be glad to render every possible service. Parents of children entering elementary school for the first time are reminded to please send certificates of children’s birth the first day of school. Demonsiralions in Seeding Pastures Here Next Friday -1 Extension Pasture Special ist Sam Dobson To Show Proper Method ol Seeding At Test Farm ♦ A large crowd is expected to attend a pasture demonstration to be held at Tide Water Test Farm near here Friday afternoon of next week. Sam Dobson, extension pasture specialist from State College, Ra leigh. wiLl be on hand to demon j strate proper seeding of pastures. Time of the demonstration is 2 o’clock. Equipment will be furn ished by a local implement deal er. Also, a Greenville equipment dealer will have a representative at the meeting to demonstrate use of chemicals as a brush killer on ditch banks and new ground. Materials will be placed on the ditch banks by proper equipment in order that farmers can observe the proper methods of applica tion and later revisit the farm to note results. Also, Pruden says now is the time to seed pasture. He points out that the early sowed past ures invariably prove the best. Seeding dates were listed by the county agent as from September 1 to October 15. It is also pointed out that pas I SerT^ASTUREsTPage 12 | PLYMOUTH PANTHERS ARE HAVING THEIR CLAWS SHARPENED UP NOW i- --- '■ ■ - - - -r Although school doesn't open until next Wednesday and the first football game is not sche duled until September 17th, about 10 members of the Plymouth High School football squad have been hard at work for a week and a half getting ready for the 1951 season. Coach Joe Foster is shown here with three of his backfield prospects practicing hand-offs, a very important part of-the Pan thers’ single-wing offensive. Thai's Blocking Back Jimmy Jackson standing at left, while “Skeeter” Lilley and Peter Leavitt are set to receive the ball from Coach Foster, who is showing “Skeeter” how to handle the spinback post. The squad has been through a stiff conditioning program, with 1 some dummy scrimmaging, and they will be ready to go “full blast” in a few more days.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo. All Teacher Vacancies in White Schools, Three at Creswell, One at Roper; Over 3,200 Pupils School bells will ring r*ain for some 3,200 school child, n in this county Wednesday of next week. That is the date which has been set for the opening for the 1954 55 school year of the county’s three white and three colored schools. Extensive preparations have been made by the county board of education during the summer months to have the various plants in good shape for the opening of a new school year. AH asphalt tile floors are be ing given a good scrubbing and waxing this week, County Super intendent Roy F. Lowry stated Wednesday. In addition, most school lunchrooms and toilets have been painted and at the Creswell school where termites had badly damaged underpin nings, these have been replaced. Some plaster repair work has al so been made, it was stated. Late Wednesday four faculty positions were still unfilled, ac cording to Mr. Lowry, Three of these were at Creswell, two ele mentary and one high school, and the other at Roper, The faculties of all colored schools were com pleted as was the faculty at Ply mouth High School. Newest teacher addition is Neil Taylor Stout who has been secur ed to teach the seventh grade at Roper. Mr. Stout, whose wife is a member of the Roper faculty, was recreational director at New Bern last school year. Vacancies to be filled were list ed as a sixth grade teacher at Ro per and first and third grade teachers and French and mathe matics teacher in the high school at Creswell. Mr. Lowry said that in the event the positions at Creswell are unfilled when s ;hoal opens next week it may be that the i.eachers who resigned can be pre vailed upon to teach until the positions can be permanently filled. Mrs. Jean S. Woolard taught first grade at Creswell last ses sion, while Mirs. Mina Mayton Hampton was third grade teacher and Mrs. Janie Mcl. Woodley taught French and mathematics in the high school. When all the vacancies are fill ed there will be 118 teachers on the several school faculties of the county, 66 white teachers and 52 colored teachers. Number of teachers at the various schools was listed by the superintendent of schools as follows: Plymouth, 33; Creswell, 19; Ro pes-, 14—.total, 66; Colored Schools — Washington County Union School, Roper, 28; Plymouth, 17; Creswell, 7—total, 52. All books and supplies have been sent to the schools, Mr. Lowry said. The calendar as set by the county board of education will include a one-day holiday for La bor Day, two days for Thanks giving, two weeks for Christmas and one day for Easter, besides days off for teachers’ meetings. The lunchrooms will operate on the same basis as last year and the price of lunches served will remain the same. -—« Registrants Leave for Raleigh Center Today -«— Registrants of Selective Serv ice Board No. 95 here were sche duled to leave Thursday morning of this week by special bus for Raleigh to fill calls for five men for induction and 10 for pre-in duction examinations. No calls for either induction or preinduction are being made on the local board for the month of September, Mrs. Lorraine Hunt er, board clerk, reports. —-+-. Receipts About 1,000 Bushels Pepper a Day \V. T. Freeman, one of the own ers and operators of the Plym outh Produce Auction Market, stated Wednesday that receipts of red peppers were running about 1,000 bushels a day this week. Quality was said to bo mostly good, with prices ranging around 70 cents a bushel. Offerings were being shipped out to a Florida firm. Producers seemed to be pleased with market prices, Mr. Freeman reported, adding that he under stood some markets were paying only 50 cents a bushel for the peppers. The peak volume is expected next week, it was said.
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