1'own opics Mr. and1 Mrs. James H. Ward and Carl Bailey, jr., really got their money’s worth of thrilling basketball at the Coliesum in Raleigh Saturday night of last week. All Wake Forest fans, the trio watched State’s Wolfpack eke out a 75-73 win in overtime, but the contest was easily one of the best ever reeled off at the_ ..Coliseum and what is more, the Deacons led with precious little time remaining. It remained for Carolina to knock off State Tues day night with Rosenbluth con tributing a fine performance for the winning quint. Wage earners in Washington County averaged $62.64 per week in 1954, according to a recent issue of “North Carolina Facts,” weekly publication of the North Carolina Research Institute. This county was fourth in the state, being top ped only by Haywood with $73.70; Transylvania with $64.44 and Mecklenburg with $63.52. There were only 13 counties with earnings above the state average of $53.94. Lowest was Pamlico County, with $25.54. Averages for other counties in this section were: Martin, $44.07; Beaufort, $39.92; Tyr rell, $31.51; Chowan, $40.05; Bertie, $39.94. The Plymouth High School basketball bam is improving with age. Under the direction of Coun ty Superintendent Roy F. Lowry, workmen recently installed ply wood panels over heavy insulat ing paper in the interior, helping to make it a lot more comfort able on cold nights for players and spectators alike. Steam heat was installed during the past year, but the porous walls made it impossible to retain heat in the structure until the recent ceiling job. Some big games -are coming up here in the next week or two, aindi local fans are assured the building is much more comfort able than heretofore. E. E. Harrell plans to leave Sunday for Winston-Salem where he will undergo a physical check up at Bowman Gray Hospital. Mr. Harrell expects, while away, to ■attend the Southern Furniture Market at High Point Wednesday and Thursday of next week. He plans to return to Plymouth the following Monday. VFW, American Legion and Auxiliaries To Meet Here A joint meeting of the local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and the auxiliaries of each is scheduled to be held at the Veterans Club here Friday of this week. Time of the meeting has been announced as 8 p. m. Ways and means to raise money . with which to pay off the indebt I edness of the building will come in for discussion ait the meeting, spokesmen said. A dance was sponsored here last week to raise money but the post barely broke even on the project, it was explained. Registrants of Board Urged To Observe Rules ® Local Draff Board Should Be Notified of Change of Address, Marital or Fam ily Status Mrs. Lorraine Hunter, clerk to Selective Service Boand No. 95 here, is still having her troubles. Mrs. Hunter says the registration certificate of one registrant has been sent back twice with the notation “unknown” on it, while a questionnaire addressed to ano ther registrant of the board was returned lately also marked “un known.” ^ A registration certificate was mailed to Roger Edward Clifton, Rt. 1, Box 110, Roper, Mrs. Hunt er said, but the mail failed to reach the registrant. A question naire was mailed to Gurtha Ra yon Barrow, Rt. 1, Box 297, Ro per, but/came back to the board undelivered'. Registrants generally are prone to neglect notifying the board of any change of address, it was noted by the clerk. Also, change in marital or family status too often is not reported promptly. Births not reported prior to August 24th of last year do not entitle the registrant to a 3-A classification, Mrs. Hunter point ed out. Many times in the past people have read in The Beacon a list of delinquents released by the board and subsequently the board has received important information concerning the whereabouts of those listed. The clerk hopes that such will 'be the case this time. Anyone knowing the address of either registrant listed above will do a service to both registrant and board by notifying the clerk. » ★ ■ I jg HI I he Roanoke Beacon ★ ★ * ★ and Washington County News ****** ui 55! but tju MARCH OF DIME5 buuujpii 3 .'3 VOLUME LXVI—NUMBER 3 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 20, 1955 ESTABLISHED 1889 COUNTY HOSPITAL HERE NOW HAS INCUBATOR | Melvin Boyd, commander of the Bosie Bateman Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Dr. Claudius McGowan are shown flanking the new incubator which has been installed at Washington County Hospital here, in fulfillment of a long-standing need. Raising money with which to make the purchase was adopted as a VFW project and at a benefit bread sale conducted here about six weeks ago more than enough money for the incubator was se cured. A total of $61.50 left in hand after purchase of the incuba tor was donated to the 1954 Washington County Empty Stocking Fund, so every penny went for a good cause.—Photo by Weaver Studio. Farm Social Security Discussed at Meeting Should Turn In Marketing Cards All Washington County farm ers who have marketing cards for crops under acreage con trol should turn them in to the county ASC office at once, it was announced this week. The information on the cards is needed at the county office and those who have tobacco, peanut, cotton or wheat cards that have not been turned in should do so right away. Small Number at Livestock School About 15 farmers attended the livestock school held in the .audi torium of the county agriculture building here Wednesday morn ing of this week. J. S. Buchanan, extension live stock specialist in charge of beef cattle and sheep, J. K. Butler, extension swine specialist, and Guy Cassel, livestock marketing specialist, all from State College, Raleigh, lectured and1 showed col ored slides to the gathering. The meeting opened at 10 o’clock and continued until noon. Mr. Gassel pointed out that the outlook for marketing livestock is fully as favorable as it was a year ago, with the outlook for sheep more favorable than for beef cattle or swine. He also stated that the better grades of beef cattle will have a more fav orable market than a year ago, while the poorer grades will face a less favorable market. It is predicted that the leaner, meat-type hogs will come more into the picture this year. It was pointed out that the packers have little market for lard and1 there fore do not want to buy it. The trend is definitely toward leaner hogs, it was stated. -$ Car Stolen Here Not Yet Recovered, Officer Says The 1951 Chevrolet owned by Phil Ayers, of Plymouth, and re ported stolen from its parking place on Jefferson Street here week before last has not been re covered1, Plymouth Policeman Paul Basnight stated Wednesday. The car is a green two-door sedan. Officers are still working on the case. Sixty Persons Attend Regu lar Meeting of Washing ton County Farm Bureau Here Friday Night Gerald Johnson, social securi ty representative from Rocky Mount, was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Washing ton County Farm Bureau here Friday night of last week. About 60 persons attended, County Agent W. H. Pruden re ported. The meeting was in charge of the president of the county unit, T. R. Spruill, of Roper. Mr. Johnson listed the three types of income as investment income, self-employment income and; wages. He stated that the social security law now rovers farmers and that they must file social security records this year. The question of whether or not a sharecropping tenant will be considered self-employed or not was taken up. It was pointed out that the question will likely be determined by the control ele ment—that is, if the landlord is an active operator and decides when and how the crops will be worked, the tenant would be con sidered an employee and not self employed. In such case, the land lord would be required to remit a 2 per cent tax for the tenant and require the tenant to match the amount, it was stated. Extension Farm Management Specialists W. L. Turner and Charlie Williams spoke briefly on social security and income tax. It was pointed out that in figur ing income tax tihe farmer may use the method of diminishing balance or the straight line method for figuring depreciation. It was also strongly emphasized See MEETING, Page 12 Over 100 County Workers Engaged 1954 Polio Drive Pari of National Effort To Raise $64 Million Said Badly Needed; Local Re sponse Good Thus Far More than 100 persons have volunteered their services in this county to prosecute the annual March of Dimes drive for funds to aid polio patients to build new and useful lives and to help the program of research and educa tion designed to lick the dread disease. The local campaign is part of the national effort to raise $64, 000,000 which is declared badly needed to continue the fight. The goal in Washington County is over $3,500. “The possibility of a polio vac cine serves to intensify our con cern for the thousands still suf fering from the effects of the disease. We are determined to see that there are no 'forgotten' polio victims in our community,” Tom Hopkins, county campaign di rector, declared. At present several polio pat ients in Washington County, in cluding two who contracted the disease in 1954, are receiving help from the Washington County chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis. “The mending of lives continues to be our active dedication,” Mr. Hopkins stated. Approximately 74,000 persons throughout the nation received direct financial aid from the March of Dimes during the past year alone, he disclosed. “An evaluation of last sum mer’s polio vaccine field trials will be completed this spring,” Hopkins continued. “Then we will know whether future gener ations are to be spared the scourge of polio. But even if the report is encouraging, we must continue to help patients for ~See DRIVE, Page 12 Vegetable School Slated Wednesday -» All interested persons are in vited to attend the vegetable school to be held at the Agricul ture Building here Wednesday night of next week, County Agent W. H. Pruden said. H. Eldon Scott, extension en tomologist, A1 Banadyga and H. M. Covington, extension horticul ture specialist, from State Col lege, Raleigh, will be present to answer any questions concerning fruit trees, home gardens, etc., the county agent stated. All county farmers who plan to grow produce for the local auc tion market this year are parti cularly urged to attend the meet ing. Pruden said the three princi pal .crops to be handled on the produce market will be snap beans, cucumbers and peppers and that all of those would be thoroughly discussed during the meeting. Bid Is Hiked on School Property The bid on one of the two obso lete school properties sold at pub lic auction in this county January 8th of this year has been raised, County School Superintendent R. F. Lowry reports. The bid of $500 for the Mt. Delane building by Owens Bro thers, of Plymouth, has been raised to $550 by A. M. Kochelis, also of Plymouth, Mr. Lowry stated. W. H. Mizzell, of Plymouth, was high bidder at $105 for the lot which is the former site of the old Kelly School, 10 miles south west of Plymouth on the Pine town Road, This bid has not been raised. The 10-day limit during which the bid remained open ex pired Tuesday of this week. Juycees’ Service Award Set Friday W. B. “Billy” Harrison, promi nent Rocky Mount businessman, will make the feature address at the Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce’s Distinguished Serv ice Award Banquet at the May flower Restaurant Friday night of this week, it is announced. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 o’clock. For several years Mr. Harrison has been prominent in civic af fairs in Rocky Mount. He is a past president, of the Rocky Mount Junior Chamber of Commerce, North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce and a past state president of the Young Demo cratic Club. He has also served as an alderman on the Rocky Mount board and is a former win ner of the Distinguished Service AwaTd given by the Rocky Mount Jaycees. The banquet Friday night will honor Plymouth's “Young Man of the Year” for 1954. The recip ient of this honor has been se lected by a committee of promi nent businessmen for his out standing work and leadership in civic affairs during the past year. His identity will not be revealed until the night of the banquet, however. The award presentation will be made by Henry C. Stokes, jr., of Hertford. Mr. Stokes is 10th district vice president, N. C. Jun ior Chamber of Commerce. Invited guests include all the past presidents of the local club and Plymouth Mayor A. J. Rid dle. R. M. Byrd To Be Business Manager At Hospital Here Announced Following Board Meeting Last Thursday; Expected To Begin Duties February 15 H. M. Byrd, of Plymouth, is expected to assume his new duties as business manager of the Wash ington County Hospital here “probably” February 15, it was learned yesterday. Announcement of the hiring of Mr. Byrd for the position was made following a meeting of the hospital board here last Thurs day. Mrs. Tex Lindsey, nurse who has served as business manager at the hospital, will continue there, it was stated. Mr. Byrd wiU also continue his duties in the tax office, Frank L. Brinkley, chairman of the board of county commissioners, started Wednesday. Details of the new arrangement at the hospital are expected to be worked out at subsequent joint meeting of the commissioners and th> hospital board with Mrs, Li disey and Mr. Bynl pWeent, it w: s said. nyra, wnu iutc> iiraitra* wbc ic va. nation project in this county v»r -‘M its expected to be e^*Uii ci about the last of Mil V will be retained by the county tc keep the new tax system installed here up to date, working pari time in this capacity and devoting the remainder of his time to the business administration of the 'hospital. E. H. Livermnn, of Plymouth, is chairman of the hospital board Benefit Barbecue Friday Al Jamesville Nets $114 A net profit of $114 was re ported realized at the benefit barbecue supper given Friday of last week at the Jamesville High School lunchroom . The event was sponsored by the Youth Fellowship of Jamesville Methodist Church and proceeds will be used to complete the Sun day School rooms at the church, it was said. | Get Wintry Look | Here Wednesday Plymouth and Washington County got that “wintry look” Wdnesday of this week. It be gan to snow at about midnight and by 4 a. m. the fall was probably more than 2 inches. The ground was well covered early but snow changed to rain and sleet and partly melted the white, fluffy carpet. Precipitation of one kind or another fell off and on most of the morning and an icy, biting north wind helped to make the outdoors uncomfortable during the day. No wrecks had been reported on county roads late Wednesday but a Plymouth Negro who teaches school at Oak City reportedly wrecked his late-model car, doing over $500 damage. The wreck hap pened at Hamilton. The driver was not hurt, a meagre report said. The vehicle was towed by wrecker to a Plymouth garage. Judgment of $10,000 Issued in Court Here Awarded lo Miss Gladys Bateman, of Plymouth, In Suit Arising Out of Wreck Last May A consent judgment awarding $10,000 to Miss Gladys Bateman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bateman, of Plymouth, was ap proved by the court here Tues day. W. L. Whitley, of Plymouth, was counsel for the plaintiff, Miss Bateman, who by her next friend, H. D. Bateman, and Bate man and his wife in their own right, sued Richard L. Hoffman, Guy Brown and Benjamin Lewis Jenkins, to recover damages as the result of a two-car collision in this county May 20th of last year. The Plymouth law firm of Nor man and' Redman represented the defendant Jenkins. By the judg ment, Hoffman and Brown are to pay $3,000 of the amount and Jankins the other $7,000. The owner of each car involved in the wreck carried liability insurance to cover, it was said. the collision, head-on m a driv ing rain, happened Thursday night, May 20th, on the Folly Road about five miles from Plym "".rh " ;th r"rs driven >— J".ikir.s '■‘ami Yicti.V in inv,ived. u..th are Marines from the ftdenton Base. Eight persons were injured, Miss Bateman critically. She received a compound fracture of the jaw and other injuries about the head and face and was treated at the Washington County Hospital here and later removed to a Norfolk. Va., hospital for treatment. Other injured persons included Misses Grace Trueblood, Pat Trueblood, and Romona Barnes, Jenkins, Hoffman, Richard C. Curtiss and Alex Tomilo, all Marnes. Hoffman and Miss Barnes were in one car and the other six persons in the Jenkins car. State Highway Patrolman Earl Morton, of Roper, cited to Wash ington County Recorder’s Court Jenkins for reckless driving and Hoffman because his windshield wiper was not in operating con dition. The cases were continued pending recovery from injuries of drivers and other witnesses, then later tried and both found guilty. The money awarded in the case is to be applied to hospital and doctor bills, attorney’s fee, ambu lance fee and repayment to Miss Bateman’s parents for expenses incurred as a direct result of the wreck. Miss Bateman allegedly suffer ed much pain and inconvenience as a result of injuries sustained in the wreck, suffered a slight nasal disfigurement and will have to have further treatment to her lower jaw. -* Sale of City Tags Here Reaches 417 Wednesday City Clerk W. A. “Bill” Roe buck doe® not know the state of business in Plymouth generally but if it is similar to the sale of town license plates for motor ve hicles then it’s definitely slow, he declared late yesterday. Roebuck said 417 town tags were sold through business of Wednesday. This is only about half the number of plates expect ed to be sold here. Superior Court Muy Continue Through Friduy -.- -«- —-- --— Indications yesterday were that the January term of superior court would not be completed' be fore late Thursday or possibly Friday. Court convened at 10 a. m. Monday for the second week, with Judge Q. K. Nimocks, jr., of Fay etteville, presiding. After reces sing late Monday of last week, the criminal term reconvened Thursday at 9:30 a. m. with Judge Malcolm C. Paul, of Washington, on the bench. The judgment of Ni Sci against the bondsman previously entered was rescinded and stricken from the record in the case of George Alfred Hardison, charged' with careless and reckless driving. Two motions by 'Solicitor El bert Peel, of Williamston, were continued, to be heard at the January term of Nash County Su perior Court. Cases disposed of Monday and Tuesday of this week (civil act ions only) included the following: Waldo Ransome was granted an absolute divorce from Mabel Ran some; Harry Halsey, defendant, paid the sum of $250 to Atlas Plywood Corporation and was taxed with oosts of court and the case was ordered off the docket, plaintiff adjudged not entitled to recover further; Gladys Bateman, a minor ap pearing by her next friend, H. D. Bateman and H. D. Bateman and wife, Pauline Bateman, in their own right, vs. Richard L. Hoff man, Guy Brown and Benjamin Lewis Jenkins, consent judgment of $10,000 to Gladys Bateman, $3, 000 to be paid by Hoffman and Brown and $7,000 by Jenkins. Jesse W. Rodgers vs. Burke Sta ton and wife, Mrs. Burke Staton, Nathan Staitom and wife, Mrs. Nathan Staton, and Rosie Staton Sheppard and husband, — Shep pard, defendants agTeed to pay plaintiff $1,000 in full com promise and settlement of a prev ious court judgment of October 28, 1953, and settlement was ap proved by the court. Defendants were taxed with court costs and execution of judgment is not to issue before 10 days from the signing of judgment. 11955 License Tag! jSales Still Slow! With little over a week to go before the deadline for display ing old license plates, sales of state motor vehicle licenses continues slow at the branch license bureau on Washington Street here, Manager James II. Ward reported Wednesday. Sales through the day totaled 1,476 in all categories which is just slightly below the pace of a year ago. Through January 18 last year 1,483 had been sold. This year’s sales have been as follows: autos, 1,085; private trucks, 308; farm trucks, 48; motorcycles, 4; utility trailers, 118; and commercial trailers, 13. It appears that a grand rush is building up, for Manager Ward points out that with most of the time for securing the new plates gone only about half of those expected to purchase the tags here have bought them. It is urged that those who have yet to secure licenses act at once. La&i d-ues Held For Mrs. Sexion Funeral services for Mrs. Viola Sexton, of Roper, were held from Scuppernong Church of Christ Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock Officiating was the minister ol the church, the Rev. Mark Wool ard, assisted by the Rev. J. D Jayroe, minister of Roper Pente costal Holiness Church. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Sexton, wife of J. E. Sex ton, died Monday at the Wash ington County Hospital after an illness of six weeks. She had been in declining health for three years. Mrs. Sexton was 79. She was a native of this county born August 13, 1875, the daugh ter of the late Eli and Agnes Pad gett Snell. She was a lifelong resident of the county and was a member and regular attendant ol Scuppernong Church. Mrs. Sex ton was known and loved in the neighborhood for her many kind nesses, especially to the sick. She leaves, besides her hus band, three daughters: Mrs. Hat tie Wynn, of near Roper, Mrs. Goldie O'Neal, Roper, and Mrs. Stella M. Williams, Norfolk, Va.; three sons, Wilbert Sexton, Ro per, Paul Sexton, Norfolk ,and Roy L. Sexton, Franklin, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Jerry Stillman, Greswell, and Mrs. H. T. Sexton, Roper; 21 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, and one great great-grandchild. The remains were left at Hor ner’s Funeral Home until one hour prior to the service and then taken to the church. -« Hospitalize One In Free-for-All -* Lewis D. Whitney, Marine stat ionel at the Eden ton base, was “beat up pretty badly” about the face in a fracas at Juniper Lodge on the eastern outskirts of Plym outh, between 2 and 3 o’clock Sunday morning, according tc Sheriff J. K. Reid. Sheriff Reid described the af fair as practically a free-for-all fight and said his investigatior showed that three Marines from Fdenton and a Williamston man Marshall Beach, were involved. 1 e disturbance was the fiftl at tne place since its opening shortly before Christmas of lasl year, the sheriff stated. Whitney was treated at th« Washington County Hospital anc later taken by Marine Corps am bulance to the Bdentan base. Sheriff Redd intimated that places where such trouble con tinues may be padlocked. He is continuing his investigation. Listing Over Third Done in Plymouth; Better in County About 700 Have Listed in Plymouth Township, 575 In Town; Progress in Skinnersville Good With three-fifths of the listing time gone the job of listing prop erty for taxes in this county is between a third and a half com pleted, according to information available this week. Plymouth Township Lister Paul Swain reported, at noon Wednes day that about 700 persons had listed out of an expected 1,800 or so. Mrs. Wade Adams, Plym outh Town List Taker, said about 575 had listed through the same period. Progress was reported good in Skinnersville Township by Coun ty Tax Supervisor Hubert L. Davenport, although no definite figures were available from Township List Taker W. W. White. Other townships report pro gress in listing as average or bet ter, it was said. The best day to date here was Monday of this week when about 100 persons came in to list. The list takers stated that they had all they could do and those list ing were considerably inconven ienced by having ito wait their turn. Less than 20 persons listed here Wednesday morning and those 1 iw who did had to brave rain, si set and sno w to get to the of fice in the Agriculture Building where Mr. Swain and Mrs. Adams are working. Houns are being maintained hero from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mon day through Saturday. The dead line for listing is Monday, Janu ary 31, at 5 p. m. A 10 per cent penalty will be invoked in the case of late listers and positive ly no extension of time will be given, it has been emphasized. Remaining schedules of list takers in. the other townships of the county are as follows: Lees Mill Township, R. W. Lewis, lister: January 25, Daven port Store, Mackeys; all other listing days at Knowles Grocery, Roper. Skinnersville Township, W. W. White, lister: January 26, W. E. Phelps Store; January 27, W. H. Goodman's Store; all other listing days at W. W. White’s Store. Scuppemong Township, P. B. Belanga, lister: January 28, Spruill’s Store, Newland; Janu ary 27, Harry Barnes Store, Cher ry; all other listing days at Cres I well. Six Committee Assignments to Owens and Ross --♦ Second District Senators, Both Freshmen, Get Vice Chairmanship of One Com mittee Each Second District Senators Ed ward L. Owens, of Plymouth, and L. H. Ross, of Washington, re ceived the vice chairmanship of one Senate committee each when Senate President Luther Bam hardt made assignments last week. Of the 27 com mmittees named, Owens is on six and Ross is a member of six, also. Owens was named vice chairman of the Com mittee on Salaries and Pees, while Ross was named to the vice chair manship of the Committee on Education. Senator Owens was also named to the important Appropriation* Committee, Committee on Coun ties, Cities, and Towns, Commit tee on Journal, Engrossing, En rolling and Printing, Judiciary No. 1, and Committee on Mental Institutions. Other committees to which Senator Ross was named are Ap propriations; Counties, Cities and Towns; Courts and Judicial Dis tricts; Judiciary II; Manufactur ing, Labor and Commerce. Both Senators are serving their first term. -$ Attendance Increase Is Holed ai Ware s Chapel Attendance at the newly-or ganized Sunday School at Ware’s Chapel, Dardens, reached 27 Sun day, it is reported. This is an increase of seven persons over the attendance of the previous Sunday. Walter Furlough, of Plymouth, is acting superintendent, pending election of officers, and Mrs. Ralph Hunter, also of Plymouth, heads the children’s division.