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< T'OWO apics Dr. Alban Papineau is in Char lotte today where he is attending a directors’ meeting of the Ameri can Academy of General Practi tioners. Dr. Papineau plans to remain in Charlotte overnight and return to Plymouth sometime Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Alex ander and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Davenport spent last week-end in Washington, D. C., with Miss Frances Alexander and Mrs. George Farmer, their daughters. While there they drove over to the northern end of the Skyline Drive, which was covered with about 3 inches of snow, and made a short trip along the scenic high way. Somebody around here is mighty forgetful, according to Police Chief P. W. Brown. They went off last Saturday and left a baby carriage on one of the main business streets. It is now at the police station, and the chief hopes the owner will come and get it. Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Trowbridge had a rough football week-end. They attended three games Fri day, .Saturday, and the teams they were “pulling for” lost all three by one-point margins. To start off with, Friday night, they were at the Plymouth-Tarboro game, lost by Plymouth 20-19. They went up to Durham Satur day afternoon and “rooted” for Georgia Tech, which lost to Duke, 21-20. Then they ended up over in Raleigh Saturday night, where State lost to Furman, 7-6. How ever, the week wasn’t a total loss, for they had previously been up to Raleigh Thursday night to see their son, Ken, play with the State Frosh against the Universi ty of South Carolina freshmen, and the State boys won, 32-20. According to a Miami, Fla., de tective, there was a political angle connected with the robbery of H. H. Allen and the Rev. C. N. Barnette, of Plymouth, while they were attending the inter national convention of the Dis ciples of Christ in Miami last week. After the two Plymouth men had finished telling the de tective about the hold-up in which they had lost $225, the in vestigator said such crimes were decidedly on the increase in the Miami area. ‘This here Republi can prosperity ain’t working out too good around here,” he told them. -♦ bpoiter Alert Is Scheduled Sunday An alert has been announced for Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 o’clock for ground observer corps posts at Plymouth and Ro per, along with 270 other posts in North Carolina. The alert will be the first for the Roper post and the second for the post here, both of which were organized recently by Lt. Gordon Jackie, of the Ground Observer Corps Filter Center, Durham. The Roper post was organized shortly after that at Plymouth. All observers of the Roper post are urged to report to .the fire station there by Jesse Rawls, post supervisor, and T. W. Norman, chief observer. It was said that plans call for using all post mem bers as spotters in order to pro vide each man with needed ex perience. The post had a brief meeting Wednesday night at the fire house for skull practice and drilling. The post plans to build an observation .tower behind the , fire house as soon as possible, it was stated. Dr. A. L. Whitehurst, director of the Plymouth post, urges all members to be at the Plymouth fire tower—local observation post —Sunday afternoon at 1:30 ' o’clock. Dr. Whitehurst said that Air Force, Marine, Civil Air Pa- [ trol and Naval aircraft would : take part in the exercises. There are now 44 members of . the Plymouth post but the direc- ( tor said it was still understaffed. ( About 60 more volunteers are , needed to round out post strength, . Whitehurst stated. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington il County and its 13,000 people. L VOLUME LXV—NUMBER 44 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 4, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1889 Local Young Man on Missing Plane +■ Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Willingham, of Truman Street, Plymouth, re ceived a telegram Sunday night from C. F. Garrison, commanding officer of Transport Squadron 1, Patuxent River, Md., informing them that their son S/A George Owen Willingham, was aboard the Navy Superconstellation plane reported missing in the At lantic on a flight from Patuxent Air Station to the Azores. “Extensive search and rescue operations are in progress. You will be informed immediately of results of search,” the telegram concluded. There were 21 passengers and 21 crewmen aboard the craft, re ports stated. The plane was last heard from at 11 p. m. Saturday, two hours after it had taken off for Port Lyautey, Africa, and the Azores. At that time it was about 300 miles off Cape May, N. J. -i Young Willingham, who had just completed boot training at Bainbridge, Md., spent a 14-day leave here with his parents, and been back about five days, was on his way to -his station in Italy. He attended Plymouth High School in 1953 and enlisted in the Navy in July of this year. Hope was still being held out late Wednesday for the young sailor and others aboard the plane. Get Bids of $93,300 For School Addition To Canvass Vote Cast in County The Washington County Board of Elections is slated to meet at 11 a. m. Thursday of this week in the offices of the clerk of Superior Court at the courthouse here to certify the vote cast in the county in Tues day’s election after official canvass of the ballots. W. T. Freeman, of Plymouth and Roper, is chairman of the elections board, Moye W. Spruill, of Plymouth, is Demo cratic member and J. Richard Carr, also of Plymouth, is Re publican member. Plymouih People Victimized Lasi Friday at Miami n. n. Allen, nev. Barnette Held Up at Gunpoint and Robbed of Considerable Cash, Papers -» Two Plymouth men in Miami, Florida, attending a Teligious con vention were robbed at gunpoint late last Friday night of a con siderable amount of cash and val uable papers. H. H. Allen, local grocer, re ported to Miami police the loss of his wallet containing $145 and important papers, and the Rev. C. N. Barnette, minister at the First Ohiratian Church here, said he was robbed of $80 cash. Mr. and Mrs. Barnette and Mr. Allen, along with Mrs. Frances Lucas and Mrs. Arthur Hardison, of Plymouth, were in Miami to attend sessions of the internation al convention of the Disciples of Christ. The Barnettes and Mr. Allen had taken Mrs. Lucas and Mrs. Hardison to the private home in which they were staying en route to their own rooms at a notel on Biscayne Boulevard. Upon arriving at the motel Mr. and Mrs. Sarnette went immedi ately to their room upstairs and Mr. Allen retired to 'his down itairs room. Soon thereafter Mr. Allen answered a knock at his ioor and was confronted with a nan who appeared to be in his niddle twenties and looked to weigh about 165 pounds. The man was in his shirtsleeves and bare leaded. He struck up a conver sion with Mr. Allen and ques ioned him sufficiently to learn ae was in party with the Bar aettes who were upstairs. The visitor then pulled an automatic, announcing it was a stickup. He aecame impatient when Allen be <an to give him an argument, dated that he meant business and ifted Allen’s wallet from his poc aet. He then forced Allen to call iarnette, who soon appeared Iressed in a bathrobe. Since he lidn’t have his money with him, he stranger marched the two of See ROBBERY, Page 10 Halloween Carnival Nets PTA Here $500 When the noise and fun-filled i confusion of the PTA-sponsored 1 Halloween Carnival had died | down Saturday night it was ' learned that $517.93 had been taken in from the various money raising efforts. j The event was reported to be , well-attended. , A sixth-grader, Bobby Ladd, won first prize for best Hallo- i ween costume. He came dressed ( as a ghost. Second prize went to ] Judy Lee, a first-grader, dressed j as a witch. Third prize went to j another first-grade student, Emi- 1 ly Foster. < Gate receipts netted approxi- < nately $66.30; pony park, $14.40; irst and second grades, $89.20; hird, two fourth grade sections ind sixth, $65.45; fifth grade, 153.49; fourth grade and two sixth ;rade sections, $55.45; seventh trade, $54.72; eighth grade, $57.46; wo ninth grade sections, $21; enth grade, $14.60; 11th grade, 125.25; and 12th grade, $7.70. The proceeds this year were vithin a few dollars of the imount taken in at the event ast year, it was said. PTA of iciails expressed their deep ap preciation to the merchants for heir donations, and thanks to all ithers who helped to make the larnival a success. Lunchroom and Four Class rooms To Be Added To Colored Plant Here After State Board Approves Bids totaling $93,338.30 for con struction of an addition at the Plymouth colored elementary school were accepted by the Washington County Board of Ed ucation Monday. Contracts for the work will be let after the bids are reviewed and approved by the state department, expected later this week. Plans for the addition call for construction of a wing to the pres ent building to contain four ele mentary classrooms and a lunch room. Overall size of the addition is approximately 82 by 117. The lunchroom will be about 82 by 36 feet overall, including several storerooms. Originally, the board of educa tion did not plan to spend more than $75,000 for the addition, but plans were enlarged at the sug gestion of the division of school house planning division, running the estimated cost up to approxi mately the figures contained in the bids received this week. If approved by the state board of education, contracts will be let to low bidders, as follows: general contract, J. N. Bryan & Sons, Raleigh, $66,693; wiring, Robbins Electrical Co., Rocky Mount, $3,886; plumbing, W. M. Wiggins Co., Wilson, $5,385; heat ing, W. M. Wiggins, Wilson, $12, 091. These items, together with the architect’s fee of $5',283.30, total $93,338.30. This amount will come out of the county’s share of the state bond issues approved two years ago. At the board of education meet ing Monday morning, members stated they had no plans for any other buildings in the county in the immediate future. Chairman L. E. Hassell said it would hardly be possible to consider further expansion of plant facilities until See AUDITION, Page 10 -» . — ■ ■■ roreip biudenis To Address Local Club Meets Today — ♦ ■ " Graduate Student From Par aguay and Doctor From Travancore To Be Guest Speakers ♦ The Thursday Afternoon Liter ary Club and the Plymouth Lions Club will feature natives of Para guay and India as guest speakers Thursday of this week. Dr. Aleyama Genge, of Travan core, India, and Miss Maria Elina Olmedo Jiminez, of Asuncion, Paraguay, will address both meetings. The Literary Club will meet at 1 p. m. at the home of Mrs. S. A. Ward, while the Lions will meet at 7 p. m. at the Epis copal Parish House. Miss Genge was recently awarded her PHD degree from the University of North Carolina and expects to leave soon for India where she will resume her duties as professor in the depart ment of stastistics at the Univer sity of Trivandum. Miss Jiminez is a graduate stu dent in sociology at the univer sity and was recently awarded the annual Altrusa International Club grant to be used in com pleting her studies at the Chapel Hill school. When she returns to Paraguay she plans to return to teaching, either on the university level or as principal of a girls’ school. Before coming to Chapel Hill Miss Jiminez was professor of Paraguayan history at the Na tional College for Girls, and ear lier had been professor of sociolo gy at the Normal School. She served three consecutive terms as president of the National Council of the Young Women’s Catholic Association, and three years as president of the National As sembly of the YWCA. All members are urged to at tend the meetings. Hunter Sworn In As Member Town Council Monday + Will Serve Unexpired Term Of George W. Harrison; Variely Mailers Consider ed al Session ♦ At the monthly meeting of the Plymouth City Council Monday night, Ralph Hunter was sworn in as a member of the council from the second ward to fill out the unexpired term of George W. Harrison, who has moved away from Plymouth. Hunter is a form er member of the council and was appointed by the council to fill out Harrison’s term, which has until June of next year to run. The oath of office was adminis tered by C. M. Beasley, justice of the peace. Several other matters were dis posed of at the session Monday night, including purchase of a traffic light for installation at the intersection of Main and Adams Street, the “courthouse corner.” Several minor accidents have oc curred there, and the councilmen decided they had better do some thing to lessen the hazard. Mayor Riddle reported that highway commission officials had requested him to let the Dickson Construction Co., of Monroe, sur face the street projects approved here sometime ago. The commis sion had contracted to do the work but, due to the distance; from other projects, decided it could be done cheaper to them by the Dickson firm, which is at work on the Mill Pond road at Roper. Cost to the town will be the same, and highway engineers will supervise the work. The re quest was agreed to by the coun cil. It was decided to call for bids on a new police car for the town again, and a meeting is to be held SeeCOUNCnTPagTlO ■ « W—■ V > * 1 tamer oi Local Woman Succumbs -* Russell L. Callis, father of Mrs. Phillip Trueblood, of Plymouth and father-in-law of Mrs. Russell S. Callis, formerly of Plymouth, died from a heart attack at his home in Ahoskie Friday morning of last week. He was 72. Funeral services were conduct ed from Ahoskie Baptist Church Sunday at 3 p. m. by the Rev. Oscar Creech, a former pastor. Burial was in Ahoskie Cemetery. Mr. Callis was a native of Vance County, a son of the late Charles M. and Alice Wagstaff Callis. He had lived at Ahoskie most of his life. Surviving are his widow, Eliza beth Knott Callis, of Hertford County; four sons, D. L. Callis, of Beaufort, S. C., Major Russell 5. Callis, United States Air Force, Panama, Bruce R. Callis and Charles L. Callis, both of Ahos cie; six daughters, Mrs. Clayton Godwin and Mrs. Dan Miller, joth of Ahoskie, Mrs. Trueblood, Mrs. Robert Roane, of South Nor folk, Va., Mrs. W. B. Averill, of Elizabeth City, and Mrs. John Elliott, of Hertford; and two sis ers, Mrs. Andrew Champion, of Haleigh and Mrs. Billie Griffin, >f Cary. Change Methodist Ministers at Two County Churches Conference Sends Fouls to Mount Olive, Lewis to Orange Circuit; J. H. Lan ning Coming Here -— Several Washington County ministers and churches were af fected by changes made at the an nual North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, which concluded its sessions in Raleigh Sunday. In addition the conference changed its church year to end on June 30 in the future, instead of October 31 as formerly; and the coming church year will be of nine months duration only in order to put the new schedule in to effect. Another highlight of the conference last week was adopt ion of a resolution approving the segregation decision of the United States Supreme Court. The Plymouth church was di rectly affected by the changes in appointments which were read Sunday morning. The Rev. Dwight L. Fouts, who has been minister here for five years, was assigned to the Mount Olive Church. The Rev. J. H. Lanning, who has been pastor at Graham, was assigned to the local church, with the change to become effect ive November 10, traditional moving day for Methodist min isters. The Rev. Vance Lewis, who has been pastor of the Roper charge, was assigned to Orange Circuit, with headquarters in Efland. The Rev. W. T. Phippsi, who is on the retired list, was assigned to the Roper charge. No change was made in the Creswell charge, with the Rev. E. R. Meekins being returned for another year. A change was made in the Jamesville charge, with two churches being added. They are Siloam and Holly Springs, both near Williamston, which together with Jamesville and Ware’s Chapel at Dardens, now make up the cfaprce. JtafeRev. w. S. Day c^pot t, at erymouth, is pastor ft>*: this charge. Russell S. Harrison, a Plym outh native, who has been pastor of the church at Mount Olive, was assigned to Oxford. J. L. McAllis ter, of Roper, was continued as a student at the Duke Divinity School. The Rev. T. R. Jenkins, who was pastor of the local church for a number of years immediately preceding Mr. Fouts, was assigned to the Davis Street Church at Burlington. He previously served the church at Beaufort. Quite a number of Washington County people attended sessions of the conference, including Mr. and Mrs. Fouts and Mrs. Louise McGowan of Plymouth. -t Ires well Juniors Set Play Tonight — -♦ ■ The junior class of Creswell High School will present ‘Terror at Black Oaks” Thursday night of this week in the school audi torium.; Setting of the play is an old, dreary country house which is part of the estate of Algernon Blakely who was murdered three years before. During these three years the house has been occu pied solely by Elvira, the house keeper, and her mentally-defic ient 17-year-old son. The cast is as follows: Willie, Pete Simpson; Rusty Gates, Ted Davenport; Hank West, Roy Tarkington; Elvira, Lois Patrick; Bonnie Blakely, Barbara Davenport; Flo Turner, Gloria Davenport; Scott Radford, Pinner Smithson; Clarissa Blake ly, Areta Phelps; Dave Edwards, Bud Davenport; Mildred Blakely, Phyllis Davenport; Kate Blakely, Ann Halsey; Julie Blakely, Mable Phelps; and Ted Blakely, Ronald Sawyer. Torboro Forfeits Shuffle Conference Standings ♦ ♦ 4 The already confused Albe marle Conference football champ ionship race was thrown into fur ther confusion yesterday, when it was learned that Tarboro had forfeited all five games played lue to use of an ineligible player, rhe local school was notified of the new development by L. J. 'Hap" Perry, executive secretary nf the North Carolina State High School Athletic Association. J. S. Fleming, principal of Plymouth High School, said last night it was likely a conference meeting would be held tonight (Thursday) to straighten out the situation. Mr. Fleming said it probably would be necessary for Plymouth to cancel the Rober sonvule game scheduled here Friday night and to make ar rangements to play Edenton there instead, since the conference title now hinges on the outcome of the Ply mouth-Eden ton game. The Albemarle conference win ner must meet Scotland Neck, winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Conference on November 12, mak ing it necessary for Plymouth to play Edenton before that date. A Plymouth win over Edenton will give the Panthers the con ference title, while an Edenton win would make it a three-way tie between Plymouth, Ahoskie and Edenton. In a telephone conversation with a Beacon reporter yesterday, Principal B. j_i. Price, of Tarboro, said it had just been learned that Earl Sasser, regular Tarboro quarterback, was in his ninth semester of high school, making him ineligible. He expressed his regret about the occurrence and said his school was accepting the consequences “in the true prin ciples of sportsmanship” by for feiting all games played. He fur ther expressed the hope that the conference winner would “go all the way” in the state play-offs. During the season’s play, Tar boro defeated Williamston, Hert ford and Plymouth and tied Ahoskie and Edenton, giving that team a dear title to the confer ence championship after the Ahosme torieit to Plymouth. Tar boro is the third conference team to be penalized for using an in eligible player. In addition to the Tarboro and Ahoskie forfeits, Hertford used an ineligible play er in two games, losing both, and was fined $25. The sports section of this news paper was printed before yester day’s developments and contains several references to the confer ence standings that are now in accurate. The won-and-lost rec ords of the six teams now are as follows: Plymouth, 4-0; Eden ton, 3-1; Ahoskie, 3-1; Hertford, 2-3; Williamston, 1-3; Tarboro, 0-5. The schedule may also be changed by later developments. Slightly Over 1,000 Votes Total in County Tuesday |TWO FROM HERE ELECTED TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY| IW Washington County will send two men to the next session of the North Carolina General Assembly, convening in anuary, as a result of the voting last Tuesday. Edward L. Owens (left), Plymouth attorney ,is one of two state senators from the second senatorial district, composed of seven counties; while Dr. J. M. Phelps (right), Creswell physician, will represent the county In the House of Representatives. Both were elected without Repub lican opposition Tuesday. Armistice Exercises Planned Next Week Parade To Be Led by Plym outh High School Band; Ask That Stores Close at 10:30 Plans were announced this week for a big celebration of Armistice Day here Thurtsday of next week, featuring a parade, brief speaking and ceremonies downtown and a dinner at the Veterans Club. The parade will be led by the Plymouth High School band and will torn, made un'"I unto jepre jion, 'atucftiariS of Meb post Bby Scouts, Sea Scouts, Cub Scouts, and sona and daughters of local veterans. >It is urged that aU veterans be present to participate in the ceremonies and units in the pa rade will assemble at Plymouth High School at 10:30 a. m. For this reason, the local merchants are requested to close their stores at 10:30 The fire whistle will be blown for one minute at the stroke of 11 o’clock and taps with echo will then be sounded, it was stated. The platform will be erected in front of the city market build ing on, Water Street and equip ped with a public address system so that the large crowd anticipat ed for the program will be en abled to hear dearly. Immediately following the pro gram, a barbecue dinner will be served at the Veterans Club for all veterans and their ladies. Armistice Day, a legal holiday, will be observed by federal, state and county offices, the banks and all county post offices. There will be no rural or city mail deliveries during the day but mail will be dispatched and put into lock boxes at the post offices as usual. — ■ ♦ Revival Services To Open Sunday at Roper Rapiisl Revival services are scheduled to open Sunday at Roper Baptist Church, an announcement from the pastor, the Rev. L. J. Rainey, states. The Rev. A. C. McCall, pastor of Sawyer’s Creek Baptist Church will be the visiting minister. The pastor of the church will preach Sunday at 11 a. m. and Mr. Mc Call will begin on Monday even ing and preach each evening dur ing the week at 7:30 o’clock. The public is invited to attend. j Same Name Bnl j j Different Man; W. C. (Bill) Styons, manager of the Plymouth ABC store, stands a good chance of being the butt of many a joke this week as a result of a certain case tried in recorder’s court here Monday. William Styons, young white man who lives on the Long Acre Bend near bars, <w found ruiitr sjfjmiii* * of ■eo-tax pald wttSoy Judge Gay lord fined hfm 1*5 plus costs of court. This should Serve to clear up the identity. Commissioners in Routine Session Here on Monday H. L. Davenpori Reappoint ed County Tax Super visor; Set Special Meeting November 22 — ♦ - The cournty commissioners transacted several routine mat ters in regular monthly session here Monday and adjourned ito meet Monday, November 22 at 7:30 p. m., at which time they will meet with representatives of sev eral corporations which own property in the county and dis cuss problems incident to the re valuation work which has been underway more than a year in the county. Mrs. Mary Harris, of Raleigh, Eastern District home demonstra tion agent, met with the board and discussed with members the prospects of obtaining assistant home demonstration and county agents for Washington County. Members of the board express ed interest in the matter but did not commit themselves further, stating that they did not know how the revaluation program would work out. A letter from J. A. Morris, of Greswell, presi dent of the Washington County Farm Bureau, citing the need for the assistant agents in this coun ty was read. 'seTcOliSnSSIONiBBSrPageT Clerk of Couri W. T. Still man Leads Entire Ticket With 920 Votes; Amend ments Heavily Favored Washington County cast less than 1,100 votes in the general election Tuesday, with the largest number of votes on either county or state tickets going to W. T. Stillman, of Plymouth. Stillman was reelected clerk of Superior Court, garnering 920 votes. William Y. Bickett, Democratic candidate for judge of Superior Court in the 7th District, led the state ticket in this county, polling 868 votes, unofficially. Right be hind him was W. Kerr Scott, former governor and Democratic candidate for United States Sen ator. The squire from Haw River polled 867 votes for the long term, and 853 for the short term. On the Republican side of the ballot, W. T. Love polled the largest vote with 200, closely fol lowed by Paul C. West, running against Scott for the long term Senate seat, with 198, and Buford T. Henderson, who opposed M. V. Barnhill for chief justice of the Supreme Court. Henderson got 1.97 votes in the county. There was no Republican opposition on the county ticket. The county vote heavily favor ed all five of the constitutional amendments being voted upon. The heaviest vote was cast on No. 4—732 votes, 480 for and 252 against. There were 730 votes cast on No. 2, 726 on No. 1, 719 on No. 3 and 709 on No. 5. The other votes were No. 1: 492 for, 234 against; No. 2 : 508 for, 222 against; No. 3: 465 for, 254 against; No. 5: 483 for, 226 against. Amendment No. 1 would vest the General Assembly with au thority to provide for the retire ment of members of the Supreme Court and for the recall of such retired members to serve on the court in lieu of any active mem ber who for any cause is tempo rarily incapacitated; No. 2 would authorize the Gen eral Assembly to establish a Board of Paroles with complete authority to grant, revoke and terminate paroles; No. 3 would provide that where one county constitutes a senatorial district it shall be limited to one senator in the State General Assembly; No. 4 would reduce the length of residence for voting in a pre cinct from four months to thirty See ELECTION, Page 10 Superior Court ; Completes Term The October civil term of Washington County Superior Court which opened here Mon day of last week wih Judge Leo Carr, of Burlington, on the bench wound up its business early Thursday and adjourned. Judments not previously re ported were handed down at the term as follows: Jule West, who by his next friend, Maxine West, brought suit against Mary Roebuck Woolard, alleging negligence of the de fendant in a wreck September 17, 1953, in which plaintiff received a slight concussion, a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula of the left leg and minor bruises, was awarded a consent judgment against defendant in the amount of $1,575. The law firm of Bailey and Bailey, of Plymouth, repre sented the plaintiff in the action, and Norman and Rodman, of Plymouth, served as defense counsel. Elinor Burgess, plaintiff; WM awarded nothing in her suit against Kathleen White and hus band, Johnnie W. White, and the plaintiff was taxed with costs of court. The defendant’s demurrer was sustained and cause was retained for such motions and orders as the court may find to be just and proper in the case of D. O. Pat rick vs. J. S. Hill, trading as J. S. Hill Construction Company, David M. Roberson and Sallie Roberson. George W. Patrick, administra tor of the estate of Johnnie W. Patrick, brought suit to recover on an insurance policy on the life of Johnnie Patrick, Skinnersville Negro who was shot to death March 4, 1953, by his wife, Doro thy L. Patrick. It was adjudged that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover and plaintiff was taxed with the costs of the action. Plain tiff excepted and noted appeal to the Supreme Court, bond being fixed at $75. Plaintiff was given 30 days in which to serve a statement of the case on appeal, and defendant is allowed 20 days therafter to serve counter-case or exceptions.