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< 4» -SkH: T'own opics Col. James C. Tarkenton, jr., and family left Sunday for the New York port of embarkation, after spending several days with his mother, Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton, sr., of Pleasant Grove. Col. Tar kenton and family will sail from New York Thursday of this week aboard the USS Constitution and expect to arrive at Naples, Italy, about September 10. Upon arrival in Salzburg, Austria, Col. Tar kenton expects to be assigned as commanding officer of the 350th Infantry Regiment with head quarters in Salzburg. To hear Judge W. Ronald Gay lord talk there is definitely a super-abundance of cats at his home and he hints strongly that a wholesale free distribution of the felines is in the offing. The judge says there are various and sundry types to suit the fastidious feline fancier, including slick cats, furry cats, short-tail cats, long tail cats, straight tails, curly tails, etc., with a complete color range embracing all possible combina tions of mottled and variegated. The animals, the judge avers, all are descended on their mother’s side from good Persian stock and paternally the extraction is run of-the-mill Alley. Anybody want a cat? The Washington County Libra ry will be closed all next week, Monday through Friday, and will reopen at the regular hour Mon day, September 13, Mrs. C. E. Ayers, librarian, has announced. Mrs. Ayers will be on vacation next week. Incidentally, she would have got Labor Day off anyway, so by taking her vaca tion next week she will “lose” one day, in a sense. The cosmopolitan nature of Plymouth’s population is well il lustrated by an incident related yesterday by Principal J. S. Fleming of the Plymouth High School. Quite a number of new students were registered at his office Tuesday afternoon prepar atory to the opening of schools here yesterday, and among the questions asked was where each student last attended school. The last three students registered in cluded a ninth-grads girl from Peru, a fourth-grade boy from Lincoln, N. J., and a ninth-grade girl from Port Arthur, Texas. ¥ Tom Hopkins scored a hole-in one on the 135-vard No. 3 hole ait Greenville Country Club Sun day, using a No. 7 iron. It was the local golfer’s first and came while he was playing in a four some with Percy Ashby, former Plymouth man now living in Greenville, Tom's son, Steve Hop kins, iand Stuart Saunders, also of Plymouth. The hole-in-one helped Tom to a 41 round which, with an earlier 45, gave him an 86 good for low score. After three days of school Washington County students will get their first holiday. They will have Monday of next week off since it is Labor Day. -» Escapes Fury of Hurricane Carol ♦ ^ Except for the cornfields blown askew and a sweeping job to clear up debris of limbs, leaves and twigs, little appreciable damage was left in the wake of Hurricane Carol as Plymouth and Washing ton County escaped the real fury of the storm. According to reports, the hurri cane went on up the coast to lash with all its fury at the New Eng land states, leaving several dead and injured and much property damage in its wake. It was de scribed as the worst such blow to strike that section since the ter rible hurricane which lashed its coast in 1938 and killed hundreds. Rains which fell before, during and after the storm were welcome as were the lower temperatures Reports Wednesday were that Hurricane Dolly was expected next, within a few hours. No More Peppers Here Until Further Notice -» W. M. Darden, market manager at Plymouth Produce Auction Market here, announced that af ter today (Thursday) no more peppers will be hand,led on the local market until further notice. Volume of peppers slacked off somewhat at the market this week, Mr. Darden stated, and quality was also rather poor. Band Booster Meeting Tuesday of Next Week An important meeting of Band Boosters and other parents of school children and all interested persons is slated to be held Tues day night of next week .here, Jack Horner, president of the Plym outh Band Boosters, has announc ed. The meeting will be held in the high school auditorium and is scheduled to open at 8 o’clock, the announcement stated. The Roanoke Beacon *★★*** and Washington County News ★★*★★★ A home newspaper dediorted to the service of Washington County and its 13,000 people. VOLUME LXV—NUMBER 35 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 2, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1889 PLANNING COMMITTEE OF LOCAL FHA CHAPTER OUTLINES WORK 5 ---------———-— ill! . .. IMIW11T"" Members of the planning committee of the Future Homemakers of America chapter at Plym outh High School met in the home economics department here last Thursday to work out plans for their ciub during the coming school year. Miss Carolyn Brinkley, home economics instructor and club advisor, is at left, back to camera. Others around the table are Sue Carol Lassiter, president; Jolene Hollowell, vice president; Ruby Boyd, secretary; Betty Davenport, Mary Ach, Nancy Jackson and Betsy Barnhill. Absent at the time the photo was made were three members of the commit tee, Dottie Thompson, Jane Swaiu and Jackie Harrison.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo. Labor Day Program Is Planned by Unions I Urges Dusting j For Bollworms Bollworms arc playing havoc with the cotton crop in Wash ington County. Authority for that statement is County Agent W. II. Pruden who said Wed nesday he had been informed that the situation was particu larly bad in the Creswell sec tion. Pruden believes bollworm activity in cotton is widespread over the county. The county agent recom mends that farmers dust with 10 per cent DDT at the rate of 25 pounds an acre this week and repeat the treaenfc^ nes/wfcek if a cheek of fields shows con tinued bollworm activity. HomemakerGroup Plans Its Work at Meeting Last Week ' t Vote To Participate in Pro jects Sponsored by Na tional Association of Fut ure Homemakers An enthusiastic group of FHA members met last Thursday to make the year’s plans for their club. Several officers and other members made up the planning committee which met in the home economics department of Plym outh High School. The president of the Future Homemakers of America chapter, Sue Carol Lassiter, who presided, took time at the beginning of the meeting to tell the group about some of the interesting high lights of the Southern Regional FHA meeting at Daytona Beach, Fla., which she attended this sum mer. Time was given also to re ports from Mairy Ach and Nancy Jackson, who attended leadership training groups during a week of FHA camp at White Lake. Ideas and information gained from both these meetings were See HOMEMAKERS, Page 12 Arrangements Being Made To Secure Oui-of-Town Speaker for Occasion, Committee Says -1 In recognition of Labor Day and also the eve of the 14th an niversary of the Paper Makers Union charter, a free dinner will be given at the North Carolina Pulp Company pavilion Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock for the union members and their immedi ate families. Only members with adequate proof of th-eir members' ip and their families will be permitted to participate Unless by special invitation from the proper com mittee, i t wias said. „ : pkui£._d of-town speaker for the occasion, union spokesmen said, but defi nite arrangements were incom plete late Wednesday. All members and their famUies are urged to attend the affair. ‘Let’s make a big day of it,” a union spokesman urged. “Since the first Monday in September of each year, known as Labor Day, has been set aside by our govern ment as tribute to commemorate the efforts and contributions of Labor over a long period of time to the nation’s economy, we this committee, think it behooves each working man or woman to make a special effort to attend all ga therings, etc., if possible, that are sponsored by the workers.” Members of the committee of Cherry River Local No. 423 are Harvey Hobbs, James F. Humph reys, jr., and James M. Hamilton.' Liiile Damage as Auto Overturns, No Injuries -* A 1 <>54 Plymouth operated by Mrs. Iva Spruill, of Greswell, overturned on the Newland Road about a mile east of Roper Tues day morning at 9:30 o’clock, ac cording to the report of the in vestigating patrolman, Red Wal ters, of Columbia, Mrs. Spruill was not hurt and very little damage resulted to the car, the report stated. Mrs. Spruill is said to have been meet ing a car, pulled off on the soft shoulder, hit the ditch and over turned. No arrest was made. | ROPER COACH AT NAVY MOBILIZATION SEMINAR Lt. Theodore C. Martus, U. S. Naval Reserve, teacher and coach at Roper High School, pays a call on Captain J. B. Azer, USN, Fifth Naval District Director of Training, between classes at the two-week mobilization seminar held recently at the Norfolk Naval Base. Twenty educators, who are also Naval Reserve of ficers living in the Fifth Naval District, convened in Norfolk Aug ust 16 to map plans to set up and expand Navy training schools in event of all-out mobilization.—Official tJ. S. Navy photograph. County Schools Off To Smooth Start for Year -♦ Openings Mostly Informal As Schools Get Down to Business for 1954-55 Ses sion -1 According to County Superin tendent of Schools Roy F. Lowry, Washington County schools got off to a good start Wednesday of this week on the 1954-55 term. No figures were available Wed nesday afternoon on opening day attendance but it was expected to be around 3,210. Figures for the first three days’ attendance and a comparison with the like period a year ago will be avail able next week, it was stated. Mr. Lowry said he needy-, nd”i jp&l uT of any untidlfi dir-' faculties up to yesterday after noon from any of the principals Arrangements for the opening were completed well in advance, buildings, buses and equipment were put in good condition, and final instructions were given teachers and principals at meet ings held the first of this week. So far as could be learned here, there was little formality attach ed to the opening yesterday, al though chapel programs were held in most of the schools and some are understood to have had outside speakers for the occasion. Board Office Will Be Closed 3 Days ♦ — The office of Selective Service Board No. 95 in the county court house here will be closed Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, Mrs. Lorraine Hunt er, clerk to the board, has an nounced. The board will observe the La bor Day holiday Monday, Mrs. Hunter said, and a directive from State headquarters orders that the offices of all local boards be closed next Tuesday and Wednes day. The board office will reopen Thursday morning of next week at the usual hour, it was stated. Mrs. Hunter also released the names of registrants from the board who were inducted into the armed services Thursday of last week. They are: Robert Ward Davenport, Wil liam Lorenza Downing, Enoch Spencer Reid, Wade Henry John son (volunteer) and Ulysses Arn old Wills, transferred to a Balti more board. There will be no preinduction and induction calls made upon the local board during this month, Mrs. Hunter stated. -* Creswell Church To Have Revival -* The Rev. L. J. Rainey, pastor announced this week that the Creswell Baptist Church would begin its fall revival meeting nex1 Monday night, September 6, at f p. m. The Rev. R. T. Greene, ol Oo-ncord, will be the guest speak er. Mr. Greene is a former pastor of the Riverside Baptist Churcl in the West Chowan Associatior and is now associations! mission ary of the Cabarrus Association Services will be held each eve ning at 8 o’clock during the week and the meeting will come to : close at 11 a. m., on Sunday, Sep tember 12. The public is cordial ly invited and urged to attend Farm Bureau Lays Flans for Annual Membership Drive County Unit To Strive tor Quota of 300 Members , Under Chairmanship of V/hitford Swain -1 J. A. Morris, of Creswell, presi dent r.i the Washington County Farm Bureau, announced today that Whitfci'd Swain, of Roper Rou‘ 1. has been elected chair man of this year’s county mem bi. .:> campaign by the organi zation's board of directors. President Morris said the board has accepted the county quota of 300 members this year which will go to make up the state Farm Bureau quota of 70,000 members. Morris said the board is mak ing pi'ns to conduct a one-week membership drive this year in the county, which has proven highly successful in the past in other counties. “We plan to leave no stone unturned in carrying our Farm Bureau program to the people and going over our county quota," he declared. The Farm Bureau leader urged the women of the organization to accept a greater responsibility in this year's membership drive. “In the past, the Farm Bureau women of our county have been of untold value in the member ship work and we will have to rely heavily on them again this year." Morris stated. lie pointed out that the North Carolina Farm Bureau has a good chance of leading the South in membership this year if all coun ty quotas are reached. -♦ Kick - Off Meet For 'Challenge' Program Slaied -« All Committeemen and Over 100 Farm and Business ibLcrders To Meet Friday Of Next Week —*— An important kick-off meeting for the Washington County Chal lenge program has been schedul ed for Friday night of next week, County Agent W. H. Pruden re ports. The meeting will be held at the county courthouse here, begin ning at 7:30 o'clock, Pruden said, and all committeemen who have worked on the Challenge pro gram will be invited. Additional ly, some 115 farm and business leaders of the County will be personally invited to attend the meeting, the county agent stated. A series of color slides will be used to show how the overall program for agriculture in Wash ington County can be practically applied to the individual farms in the county. A handbook, ‘Steps To Pro gress in Washington County,” has been compiled and published con taining a complete program for agriculture with increasing the income of every farmer in the county as the primary objective. At the meeting, suggestions will i be received from county farm ■ and business leaders for carrying : this program to virtually every ■ farmer in the county through a series of 13 community meetings ‘ to be held in almost every neigh hood of the county. This program was developed by the people of Washington County for their own good and if carried out is estimated to in crease county income from agri culture by from 20 to 25 per cent, ■ or approximately one half-million 1 dollars a year. The meeting will be open to the ■ public and anyone interested is ■ urged to attend. A complete schedule of subse i quent community meetings will i be released after September 10, -1 I 1 t 5 f r i i t. a l. Republicans Set Kick-Off Dinner -1 A kick-off dinner in support of the candidacy of W. T. Love III, of Elizabeth City, for Con gress from the First District on the Republican ticket will be held at the Mayflower Restaur ant in Plymouth Wednesday eve ning of next week, Washington County Republican leaders have announced. The dinner will be attended by Mr. Love and will open at 7:30 o’clock, it was said. Barbecued chicken with all the trimmings will be served. County Republican leaders have notified members of the party throughout the county and a good-sized gathering is antici pated for the event, according to T. D. Somerville, of Plymouth. Report Record Enrollment At School Here Yesterday FIREMEN FINISHING INTERIOR OF BUILDING jr, „ ' 7 a r ”” \ Plymouth firemen are presently engaged in finishing the in terior of the new fire department building completed here some time ago. Several of them were installing the cypress paneling in the main clubroom when this photo was made last Thursday. That's Bud Lovic at the left doing some wiring, while Tom San derson, Harry Gurkin and Lawrence Jones (back of the ladder) are working on the walls.—Polaroid 1-Minute staff photo. Next Wednesday Is Date for Bloodmobile Quota Cut From 150 to 110 Pinis Bui Local Leaders Urge Full Response Next Wednesday With blood needs said to be in creasing, an all-out effort will be made here next Wednesday to secure and if possible surpass the quota set for the regular quarter ly bloodmobile unit visit to Ply mouth and Washington County. The quota has been cut from : 166 to llajMtts for the forthcom ing visit (ffThe Re C' uss blood mobile, but leaders point to the great need for blood in urging a full response. i The bloodmobile will be located at the Veterans Club, near the Washington County 'hospital. The unit visit is again being sponsor ed jointly by the James E. Jethro Post of the American Legion and the Bosie Bateman Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Auxiliaries of the two posts. Donors will be received be tween the hours of 10:30 a. m. and 5 p. m., blood bank leaders here have stated. Also, on this visit the operation will be super vised by local doctors, it was stat ed. In the past a doctor has been sent with the bloodmobile unit. The Plymouth Woman’s Club will furnish refreshments for blood donors and also »the nec cessary clerical help. Again, an effort will be made to secure donors who have not heretofore given blood regularly, in order to bolster the support of those who have given blood time after time since inaugura tion of the program in this coun ty. To stimulate securing of new donors the local schools are co operating and a prize will be of fered the student in any of the 12 grades who secures the greatest number of donors. Parents are reminded that the same rules will be in -effect as on previous oc casions when there was compe tition among the students. A par ent having children in several grades may be counted by each if he donates blood, it was ex plained. The visit will be the third to the county this year and the 15th since inauguration of the pro gram back in December of 1950. In 14 visits, a total of 1,835 pints has been donated in the county, or an average of 131 pints per visit. This is egardcd as a splen did record. During the two prev ious visits this year 286 pints were donated, 174 in March and 112 in June. Careful Driving i Urged by Police j ■ ■■•■••••••Mill Plymouth Police Chief P. W. Brown this week called attent ion of the motoring- public to the fact that schools are again in session and he requests that all motorists drive carefully. “I am asking that drivers watch closely for children on bicycles, especially -n .'•&» school zones, in order to avald possible acci dents,” the chief stated. Signs calling attention to the 15-mile-per-hour speed limit in the school zones should not be ignored, the police chief point ed out. Good Crowd Seen For Meeting a t Test Farm Here -» Pasture and Weed Control Specialists From State College To Demonstrate Friday . -♦—■ Indications are that a large crowd will attend pasture and weed-killing demonstrations to be held Friday afternoon of this week at Tide Water Test Farm near here, County Agent W. H. Pruden reported Wednesday. The time of the meeting is 2 o’clock. Sam Dobson, extension pasture specialist, and W. T. Westmore, extension weed control specialist, of State College, Raleigh, will be present to demonstrate proper methods of seeding pastures and use of chemicals in weed control, respectively, Pruden stated. The latest pasture seed devices and weed control applicators will be on display at the farm, Pru den said. A local implement dealer will furnish equipment to be used in the pasture demonstration, while a Greenville concern will have proper equipment on hand for the demonstration in use of chem icals to control weeds, brush on new ground and ditch banks. Farmers who attend the meeting can observe the proper methods of application and later revisit the farm to note results. Local Business To Halt For Labor Day Holiday Following the custom of re cent years, practically all stores and places of business in Plym ( outh will be closed all day next Monday, September 6, in obser vance of Labor Day, a national legal holiday. ; In addition to the stores, the > banks, post office, county and l other offices will be closed. There will be no rural and city > mail deliveries, but dispatches will be made as usual and mail will be placed in lock boxes at the local post office. Industrial plants here will ob serve the holiday, including: The North Carolina Pulp Com pany, the Atlas Plywood Cor poration and the True Temper Corporation. If they follow the usual cus tom, drug stores, restaurants and filling stations will observe the usual Sunday hours for the day, but other uptown stores and shops will be closed all day. Overall Gain of 19 Sfudenls Over Last Year First Day; Record Lunchroom Patro nage -» Enrollment figures for the first day of school at Plymouth, re leased by Principal J. S. Fleming, show a gain of 19 students in elementary grades and high school over the number on the first day of school for the 1953 54 term. Wednesday’s attend nee totaled 931—700 elementary and 231 high school, as compared with 912 opening day a year ago. Last year's elementary attendance on opening day was given, at 678 while the high school attendance was listed as 234. The opening of school for the new year was smoothly effected, with everything proceeding pret ty much as planned. Only formal note in opening day schedules was a fine inspirational talk on “Life’s Extra Values”’ by the Rev. E. M. Spruill. Plymouth rector. Mr. Fleming reported that a record 840 students patronized the school lunchroom opening day 840 out of a total attendance at school of 931 students, and lunch - I room patronage, of course, is op ! tional. 1 Opening attendance of other schools reporting was Roper, 327; Plymouth Colored, 500; and Washington County Union School, Roper, 666, according to County Superintendent R. F. Lowry. Teaching assignments were list ed by Priucipal Fleming as fol lows; Hampton School—Miss Ethel Perry building principal, first grade; Mrs. Etta B. Hardison, treasurer, first grade; Mrs. Selma B. Chesson, first grade. High School Building — Mrs. Selma B. Crofton, Mrs. Mary Lowry and Mr*. Kathryne H. Owens, second grade; Mrs. Ka therine Harrison and Mrs. Essie J. Lassiter, third grade; Miss Isa bel Davenport, thtad ,«nd fourth grades; Mrs. Janie ^ Dunning and Mrs. Eve N. Wbfcdrtt, fourv. grade; Mrs. Mary S. Dinkins, Mrs. Helen W. Peele and Kiss Nellie Tarkenton, fifth grade; Mrs. Bruce M. Davenport, Mrs. Au ~SeertSCHOOLi£ Page 12 -« Only One Board Meeting Monday Two of three board meetings normally held here the first Mon day of each month will not be held next Monday, it was learned this week. Because of Labor Day falling on that date, the county commis sioners had, earlier set the Sep tember meeting for Monday, the 13th, The board of education is ex pected to have a called meeting sometime during the month in lieu of the regular monthly ses sions, R. F. Lowry, who as county superintendent of schools serves a ssecretary to the county edu cation board, reported late Tues day after conferring with Board Chairman L. E. Hassell, sr., of Roper. Wednesday it was report ed Monday, September 13, had been chosen as a tentative date on which to meet. Budding next Monday night at 8 o’clock as usual, according to City Clerk W. A. Roebuck. A routine meeting is expected. The commissioners will draw names for jury duty at the Octo ber term of Superior Court at their meeting September 13, J. Robert Campbell, board clerk, re ports. The board will also conduct some unfinished business in re lation to the county property re valuation project at that time, it was stated. Eighl Firms Vote No Half Holidays Some dissatisfaction existing over the continuation of Wednes day half-holidays through Sep tember here, a petition was circu lated among downtown places of business this week with the result that eight firms voted to discon tinue the afternoon closing, ef fective Wednesday, September 8. These were B & W Super Mar ket, Belk-Tvler’s, Ganderson’s, Quality Shop, Leder Bros., Allen’s Market, Norman Furniture Co., Inc., Evelyn D. Woolard Furni ture Company and Town & Coun try Shop. A total of 21 other firms voted to continue the closings through the month of September, purs uant to such action taken at a meeting of the merchants associ ation earlier this year.