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A witness in an assault case
involving a Negro man and wo
man was “caught in t'he middle,’
so to speak, when the case was
aired in recorder’s court here
Tuesday morning. The woman
claimed the man assaulted her
with a chair but the witness who
said he was kin to both parties
kept strict neutrality in the mat
ter, sticking tenaciously to a
story that although present at the
time, he was asleep and didn’t
see anything.
Airman 3/c Bud Davenport, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Foye Davenport,
of Plymouth, expects to leave
here Sunday or Monday for his
new assignment at Brookl'ey Air
Force Base, Mobile, Alabama.
Bud, who has been in the Air
Force for a;bout three months, re
cently completed basic training at
Lackland Air Force Base, San
Antonio, Texas, and arrived in
Plymouth Friday afternoon of
last week for a short visit with
his parents. Bud said at Brook
ley he will do personnel and or
derly room work and attend a
private school in Mobile to get his
high school diploma. “What is
most important, I will be playing
Base football,” Bud added.
Douglas Browning, son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. D. Browning, of
Plymouth, arrived home Tuesday
of this week from Camp Kilmer,
N. J., where he recently received
his discharge from the U. S.
Army. Cpl. Browning arrived in
New York April 8th from Ger
many where he spent 15 months
at Hanau. Cpl. Browning’s bro
ther, Pfc. Wayne Browning, who
is in the infantry, just recently
arrived in Germany, incidentally.
E. R. Froneberger, of William
slon, state deputy revenue col
lector, who was in the courtroom
at the county courthouse here last
Thursday and Friday to aid tax
payers in filing their state in
come tax returns, said he had a
busy time of it, especially Thurs
day morning. The filing deadline
is Friday of this week.
W. W. Byrum, of Edenton,
chairman of the Ohowan County
Library Board, and two board
members, Mrs. Mack and Mrs.
S. MeMullan, visited Mrs. J. Rob
ert Campbell, chairman of the
Washington County Li b r a r y
Board, Tuesday afternoon.
Last Rites Today
For Lewis Weede
Funeral services will be con
ducted at First Christian Church,
Plymouth, Thursday afternoon of
this week at 3:30 o’clock by the
Rev. C. N. Barnette, pastor, for
Lewis T. Weede, 78, of Plymouth.
Interment will follow in Wind'ley
Cemetery. The body will be car
ried to the Church one hour prior
to the service.
Mr. Weede, prominent retired
merchant and farmer, died Wed
nesday at 12:30 p. m. at his home
on Jefferson Street after an illness
of three months. He had been in
declining health for the past three
years.
The son of the late William
Weede, of Tennessee, and Mary
Jane Ayers Weede, of Beaufort
County, Mr. Weede was born in
Washington County November 1,
1877, and spent his entire life
here. He was active in church and
civic affairs of the community,
being a member and for many
years an elder of First Christian
Church. He also served for a time
as a member of the Town Coun
cil.
Mr. Weede was married Decem
ber 25, 1907, to Miss Roxie Res
pass, who survives. Other sur
vivors include three sons, Harry
Weede, of Cheraw, S. C., Lewis
Weede, jr., of Compton, Calif.,
and Conway S. Weede, of Rocky
Mount; one daughter, Addle B.
Phelps, of Tarboro, and a daugh
ter by a former marriage, Mrs.
Pauline Reynolds, of Columbia; a
sister, Mrs. Charlie Bowen, of
Plymouth; eight grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
Bake Sale To Be Held
Friday ai Local Store
The ladies auxiliary of Plym
outh Free Will Baptist Church
will hold a bake sale at Norman
Furniture Store Friday of this
week, it is announced.
The sale will consist of home
made cakes, pies, cookies, and
candy and will start at 9 a. m. and
continue until the goods are sold.
The Roanoke Beacon
****** and Washington County News ******
A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington
County and its 13,900 people.
VOLUME LXVI—NUMBER 15
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 14, 1955
ESTABLISHED 1889
j HEAD N. C. STATE ENGINEERING FRATERNITY j
Newly-elected officers of the North Carolina State College
Chapter of Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity,
are pictured above. Established at N. C. State in 1924, the chapter
is dedicated to the advancement of the engineering profession
and chooses its members on the bases of engineering integrity,
scholarship achievements, /leadership activities, and character.
Top row, left to right: Gilmer Proctor, of Hendersonville, regent;
and Charles Lundy, of Rocky Mount, vice regent. Bottom row,
left to right: John Lomax, of Guilford College, scribe; and Joe
Reid, of Plymouth, treasurer.
GRADUATES APRIL 29
The Rev. Paul B. Nickens,
pastor of Ludford Memorial
Baptist Church here, will re
ceive his B. D. degree at South
eastern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Wake Forest on
April 29.
Rev. P. B. Nickens
Will Receive B. D.
Degree April 29lh
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Pastor of Local Church Com
pleting Work at South
eastern Baptist Seminary,
Wake Forest
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The Rev. Paul B. Nickens, pas
ter of Ludford Memorial Baptist
Church in Plymouth, will com
plete (his work for the Bachelor
of Divinity degree this month at
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary ini Wake Forest, it was
announced Monday. He will re
ceive his diploma ait the regular
Southeastern Seminary com
mencement exercises scheduled
for Friday, April 29.
Mr. Nickens, who has been pas
tor of the local church for a total
of about 10 years, graduated from
Calypso High School in 1933 and
later attended Wake Forest Col
lege, where he received his A. B.
degree in 1937. He was ordained
by the Calypso Baptist Church in
1937.
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Excess Planting
Tobacco Penalty
Hiked This Year
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Penalty Rate Increased from
50 to 75 Per Cent in Effort
To Strengiken Quota Pro
gram
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Recent changes by Congress of
the laws affecting tobacco plant
ing will be of interest to county
growers. The changes were made
to strengthen the tobacco market
ing quota program and will apply
to the 1955 crop.
1. The penalty on excess to
bacco marketed is increased from
50 to 75 per cent of the average
market price for flue-cured to
bacco for the preceding market
ing year. Based on present esti
mates of the 1954 market price,
the penalty on excess flue-cured
tobacco for 1955 will be 39 cents
2. Any acreage of tobacco har
vested in excess of the farm acre
age allotment for 1955 or any sub
sequent year shall not be taken
into account in establishing state
and, farm acreage allotments. In
other words, future allotments
will not be increased; because of
excess acreage.
3. The farm acreage allotment
for tobacco shall be reduced if
any producer on the farm files, or
aids or acquiesces in the filing of,
any false report with respect to
the acreage of tobacco grown on
the farm.
The 1955 tobacco acreage will
in all cases be measured and com
puted in acres and hundreths of
acres. You will be notified of
the measured acreage in acres
and hundreths of acres. There
will be no hundreths tolerance
above the allotment. Any excess
acreage will be computed in hun
dreths and all of the acreage in
excess of the allotment must be
disposed of to avoid the market
ing quota penalty on such acre
age and to be eligible for price
support.
You may request remeasure
ment of your 1955t obaeco acreage
provided a request for remeas
urement is filed with the County
ASC Office within five days from
the date of the notice of measured
acreage and at the same time you
pay the estimated cost of re
measuring the acreage. The
charge for remeasurement will
See TOBACCO, Page 10
Valuations Adjusted in Two Cases
The Washington County board
of commissioners held night ses
sions Thursday of last week and
Monday of this week. No action
was taken at the Thursday night
session but the board spent the
time reviewing complaints from
property owners concerning the
valuations for tax purposes.
Monday night the board order
ed reductions in valuation on two
pieces of property, the reductions
amounting to $2,115.
The lot of Hiliary Jackson on
US 64 east of Plymouth in Plym
outh Township listed at $315 was
reduced1 to $200 valuation, with
valuation on the house to remain
the same.
A vacant lot with 150 foot front
age on West Waiter Street beside
the post office and 'listed to H. E.
Harrison at $8,000 was ordered
reduced ito $6,000.
The commissioners sat as a
board of equalization and review
for the last time this year on
April 11 and no more complaints
concerning valuation of property
will be received, it was pointed
out.
The board scheduled its next
meeting for Thursday night, April
21, at which time it will discuss
certain matters with R. M. Byrd,
Clerk J. Robert Campbell re
ported.
Youlh Seriously
Hurl in Tractor
Mishap Monday
Bobby Sallerthwaile Suffers
Badly Crushed Right Foot
In Tractor Accident on
Farm
Robert (Bobby) Satterthwaite,
teen-age son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Satterthwaite, of Plymouth,
was seriously injured in a tractor
accident on the Satterthwaite
farm at about eight o’clock Mon
day morning. After receiving
treatment at the Plymouth Clinic
the boy was sent to a Raleigh
hospital where 'he is now a pat
ient.
Dr. E. W. Furgurson, who treat
ed young Satterthwaite here soon
after the accident, stated that the
boy suffered a badly crushed
right foot, dislocation of foot
bones and two fractures. Dr. Fur
gurson said an operation to get
the bones back in place would be
necessary and that the youth
would have to stay in the hospital
for some time.
According to reports, as young
Satterthwaite was preparing to
remove the planters from the
tractor, one of them jammed. As
he pressed the starter button, the
tractor was in gear and the ma
chine ran over his right foot and
jammed him against the planters.
His father rushed to the machine
and cut off the ignition and with
the help of others freed the youth
and then rudhed him to the clinic.
Robert’s condition was reported
yesterday to be as well as could
be expected. The operation will
have to wait until the swelling in
the foot subsides, it was said1, and
it will probably be the last of the
week before the operation can be
undertaken.
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Special Meeting
Set at Creswell
A special meeting for farmers
of the Creswell section has hr yi
scheduled for Monday night'*of
next week at Creswell' High
School, it was announced this
week.
A representative of the Social
Security Administration will be
present to give information con
cerning social security as it ap
plies to farmers. Farmers are able
to be covered by social security
from January 1, 1955, and there
are many questions relating to
the subject that will be answered
at the meeting, it was said.
Time of the meeting was an
nounced as 7:30 o’clock. It is
hoped that a large number of
farmers will take advantage of
the opportunity to have the social
security program explained to
them.
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Two Owens' Bills
Passed in House
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Two bills introduced by Senator
Edward L. Owens, of Plymouth,
the middle of March passed the
House April 8. They were Sen
ate Bills 277 and 287.
The former has to do with jus
tice of the peace fees. The bill
makes JP fees prescribed in the
second paragraph of General Sta
tute 7-134 applicable to Wash
ington County and adds 50 cents
JP fee for each defendant for
issuance of warrants in criminal
cases.
Senate Bill 287 relates to Plym
outh property valuations.
The bill would authorize the
town to reassess all taxable prop
erty within the town for ad va
lorem taxes. The governing board
is to be governed by General Sta
tute, chapter 105, subchapter II.
The town clerk or seme other
persons designated by the town
board is to perform the duties of
tax supervisor, and the town
board is to act as a board of
equalization and review.
Reassessment is authorized as
of January 1, 1955 or in any quad
rennial reassessment year fixed
by Section 300 of the Machinery
Act. The town board may con
tinue taking the town tax lists
and valuations from the county
records, and may determine whe
ther realty is to be revalued hor
izontally (using county values),
by appraisal or both. If reassess
ed, valuations would apply to the
town tax only.
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Library Board To Meet
Here Hext Tuesday Night
The Washington County Libra
ry board will meet in the offices
of R. F. Lowry at the courthouse
Tuesday night of next week, Mrs.
J. Robert Campbell, board chair
man, announces. The meeting is
set for 8 o’clock.
Nine Candidates To Date
For Six Places on Council
Four File From Third Ward;
Three From Second and
Two From First; No Oppo
sition for Mayor
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Local politics started thawing
out during the past week, with
seven new entries for cauncilmen
announcing in various wards of
the town, making a total of nine
for the six places to be filled in
the municipal election on May
3rd. Mayor A. J. Riddle, who an
nounced for reelection last week,
continues to be the only candi
date thus far for that office.
Contests are already assured
for the second and third wards,
with three candidates for two
places in the second and four for
the two places in the third ward.
Included in the list of those an
nouncing during the past week
are four of the present six mem
bers of the council.
Candidates in the third ward
now include Harvey Hobbs and
C. B. Holliday, both of Little
Richwood, who announced week
before last; J. D. Cruickshank
and J. W. “Mack” Brown, who
announced during the past week.
Mr. Cruickshank is a member of
the present council and is seek
ing reelection. Mr. Brown is mak
ing his first try for public office
here after a residence of about 30
years.
Candidates in the second ward
include both incumbents, Jack B.
Latham and Ralph Hunter, and
W. Ronald Tetterton. Mr. Latham
was first elected to the council
two years ago and is seeking re
election. Mr. Hunter has served
on the council before, although
he was not elected two years ago
but was apointed last year to
serve out the unexpired term of
George W. Harrison when the lat
ter moved to Kinston. Mr. Tet
terton, owner of Tetterton’s Gro
cery Store, is making his first
try for public office.
E. D. Keel, incumbent, and W.
J. Weaver have announced from
the third ward, and so far .re
without opposition. Mr. Keel is
oldest member of the present
council in point of service, having
served continuously since 1945.
Mr. Weaver is a former member
S^TcANDIDATES, Page 10
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Pre-School Clinic
Closes Tomorrow
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The last in the series of pre
school clinics in this county will
be held here Friday of this week,
Miss Elizabeth Wood, county
health nurse, announces. Chil
dren who expect to enter Plym
outh White School next Fall
should attend the clinic which
will be held at the County Health
Department Friday, beginning at
9 a. m.
Children are required to be
vaccinated for smallpox, whoop
ing cough and dipt'heria before
they enter (school, Miss Wood
pointed out. All children who are
six years of age or who will at
tain that age by October 16, 1955,,
are eligible to enter school next
Fall and should attend the clinic.
They should also bring their
birth certificate with them, it was
emphasized.
I Observance of Easter
j Hcportccl Quiet Herr
Perfect weather prevailed here
over the Easter holidays and
throngs wfcre reporter at the
various churc-h services during
the period, the crowds filling the
auditoriums in most instances.
Local law enforcement officers
report the week-end was observ
ed quietly. There were very few
exceptions, only one wreck being
rported. Robert Satterthwaite,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Satter
thwaite, of Plymouth, was ser
iously injured in. a tractor mis
hap on the Satterthwaite farm,
as reported elsewhere in this
newspaper. Local firemen answ
ered an alarm at Dardens and
assisted by people of the com
munity extinguished a fire which
had destroyed an outbuilding on
the Swinson farm adjoining C. A.
Hough’s and swept to the nearby
woods.
As to business, Plymouth mer
chants generally reported brisk
trading in the shopping days im
mediately preceding the holiday.
No reports have been received
from the younger set who pre
sumably engaged in such custo
mary antics as Easter Egg hunts
and the like, but,the weather was
certainly fine enough for milady
to strut in her finest finery and
no complaints were being heard
here from any (source as the “long
week-end” went down into his
tory.
District Club Women
To Meet Here April 21
Home Demonstration Club
Women From Hyde, Tyr
rell, Beaufort and Wash
ington Here Next Week
Washington County Home Dem
onstration Club members will en
tertain t'he 24th District Federa
tion meeting at Plymouth High
School Thursday of next week.
The district is composed of
clubs from Beaufort, Hyde, Tyr
rell and Washington Counties.
Mrs. H. L. Harris, of Creswell,
is district president and will be
in charge of the meeting. Mrs.
M. C. Gauthier, of Beaufort Coun
ty, will serve as secretary. Other
District officers are Mrs. W. W.
Watson, of Hyde County, vice
pres- dent, aril Mrs. James Daven
port, of TyrreLl County, treasurer.
The meeting is scheduled to
open at 10:30 a. m. Mrs. J. P.
Morgan, recording secretary of
the North Carolina Federation of
Home Demonstration Clubs, and
Frank L. Brinkley, chairman of
the Washington County Board of
Commissioners, will bring greet
ings to the group. Special music
will be furnished by Mrs. Frances
Lucas.
The speaker, Dr. L. S. Bennett,
of the Department of Visual Aids,
N. C. State College, Raleigh, will
give an illustrated lecture on
“World Neighbors.” Dr. Bennett
is a native of Jackson Springs
in Montgomery County, was grad
uated with a B. S. Degree in agri
culture in 1930 from State Col
lege. He earned' his Doctorate in
plant breeding at West Virginia
University in 1934 and later join
ed the Agronomy staff at State.
For a time he served as execu
tive secretary of the North Caro
lina Crop Improvement Associ
ation and was a member of the
International Crop Improvement
Association. He has been active
in parent-teacher work and in the
program of training for spastic
and young children otherwise
handicapped. He spent a year in
See MEETING, Page 10
GETS PROMOTION
J. W. Allen, jr., received
notice this week from J. E. Pas
chall, president of Branch
Banking & Trust Company, of
his promotion from assistant
cashier to cashier at the bank
here. II. E. Beam, former cash
ier, is vice president of the
bank. Mr. Allen has been asso
ciated with the bank for about
seven years.
Sgi. Kennedy Talks On
Civilian Defense Here
Sgt. Maurice Kennedy, of the
Edenton Marine Base, who is
helping to instruct the Plymouth
Sea Scouts, talked' to the boys
Thursday night of last week on
defense against chemical, biolo
gical and radiological warfare on
the civilian level.
Sgt. Kennedy is an instructor
on this subject at the Base and
he recently completed four weeks
of instruction ait Fort McClellan,
Alabama. He will address the
Plymouth Lions Club Thursday
night, April 28, on the same sub
ject. Sgt. Kennedy will also dem
onstrate a Geiger counter.
| CONSTRUCTION WORK GOING FORWARD ON NEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH HERE
Work is progressing fairly rapidly on the new building for the First Christian Church of
Plymouth. Practically all of the reinforced concrete foundations had been poured and masons
were starting to place the concrete blocks last Friday, when the above photo was made. Located
in the 300 block of East Main Street, the new church structure will extend practically all the
way through the block to Third Street. Robert L. Tetterton is contractor for the building, which
is to be completed and ready for occupancy by the end of February next year.—Polaroid 1-Minute
staff photo.
April Court Term
Opens on Monday
For Civil Actions
Tv/elve Cases on Calendar,
Including Three Divorce
Proceedings; Judge Nim
ocks To Sit
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The court calendar for the April
civil term of Washington County
Superior Court lists an even
dozen actions. The term wiU open
Monday of next week with Judge
Q. K. Nimocks, jr., of Fayetteville,
presiding.
The calendar, set by the Wash
ington County Bar Association at
a recent meeting here, Osts eight
cases for trial Monday, three of
them divorce actions. Four cases
are scheduled for Tuesday.
The schedule is as follows:
Monday, April 18—D. M. Rob
erson versus P. D. Pruden; P. D.
Pruden versus J. W. Rasor; State
of N. C. versus Frank Moore;
State of N. C. versus Lorenza
Norman; Willie Mae Blount ver
sus Jesse Blount; WUUs Keys
versus Mary Etta Keys; Lettice
Lee McCormick versus John H.
McCormick;
Tuesday, April 19 — Flossie
Chesson versus Pauline Hassell;
Talley Implement Company ver
sus Charlie Norfleet; D. O. Pat
rick versus J. S. Hill; Joseph H.
Peele versus James N. Etheridge.
Plan To Conduct
Firemen's School
Here Every Year
Commitment for Instructor
Next Year Already Made,
Chief Warren Says; Total
Of 84 Receive Certificates
The first Fireman's Training
School ever to be held in Plym
outh proved so successful that it
has been decided to make the
school an annual event, Fire Chief
I. Miller Warren reports.
The school was held at the local
fire department last week with
Capt. Walter Black, drill and
personnel director of the Char
lotte Fire Department, conduct
ing.
Classes were held at 7:30 o’clock
each evening, Monday through
Thursday and on Friday the
school was concluded with a bar
becue dinner and program Which
featured an address by C. L. Bur
kett, chief of the Salisbury Fire
Department. A brief talk was also
made by Chief Donald F. Charles
of the Charlotte Fire Department.
Attendance totaled 89, including
special guests, among them De
puty Chief Brown and Caipt. Dow
dy of the Charlotte Department.
There were 85 persons who reg
istered for classes, Chief Warren
reported, and of those 84 attend
ed all classes and received certifi
cates. Departments represented
included Windsor, Williamston,
Edenton, Hertford, Columbia, Ro
per, Hamilton, Ji(mesville and
Plymouth.
Chief Burkett’s address Fdiday
night was on the subject, ‘ Fire
men’s Training.” Besides being
head of the Salisbury Depart
ment Burkett is instructor-con
ductor of the North Carolina Fire
College and Pump School.
Chief Warren said commitments
have already been made for next
year’s school and that the in
structor would be either Capt.
Black or Capt. Dowdy of the
Charlotte Fire Department.
Chief Warren wishes to thank
all persons w'ho contributed to
the success of the school.
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Red Cross Fund
Short of Quota
The annual Red Cross mem
bership and fund drive in Wash
ington County was still incom
plete Wednesday of this week and
money in hand was nearly $700
short of the county quota, Dr. A.
L. Whitehurst, county chapter di
rector, revealed.
Dr. Whitehurst said Plymouth
Industrial and Roper Colored
committees have not yet com
pleted their work. Roper white
committee has completed its drive
and reported its goal reached but
the money has not yet been turn
ed in, Dr. Whitehurst stated yes
terday. Receipts of this money
would bring the fund to within
less than $400 of the $2,486 over
all county quota, it is believed.
The chapter director expreseed
hopefulness that a complete
breakdown of the campaign and
final report would be available
for publication by next week.