North Carolina Newspapers

I'ownf opic§ 1 Several local people made a trip to Tar-boro Tuesday of last week to visit the $90,000 Tarboro libra ry. A new library for Plymouth is now in the -planning stage and it was reported that the visitors to the Tarboro library found many helpful ideas. Those going were Mrs. J. Robert Campbell, chairman of the Washington County Library Board, Mrs. C. E. Ayers, librarian, Mrs. Bryan Har ris, bookmobile librarian, and Mrs. J. K. Reid. Roddy Salyer, who underwent a serious operation Thursday of last week, is reported doing nice ly at his home at 4414 North Fifteenth Street, Arlington, Va. Roddy -has -many -friends in Plym outh. He is the son of Colonel and Mrs. G. R. Salyer, formerly of Plymouth. Several persons from this coun ty attended the annual spring Sinclair dealer meeting at Hotel Hertford, Hertford, Wednesday night of this week and enjoyed a delicious steak supper. Among those attending the meeting were P. B. Bateman, W. C. Hall, C. O. ’ Kelly, J. W. Allen, sr., W. O. Al len, S. H. Hopkins, Mayo Modlin, ^ Joe Gray Beasley, Albert Brat ten, Gilmer W. Ayers, James E. W Hardison and Jackie Baker. 2/Lt. David T. Read, jr., left Tuesday of last week for Lack land Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, to begin a three-year tour of active duty with the U. S. Air Force. Lieutenant Read complet ed his work for a B. S. degree in business administration last No vember at East Carolina College, Greenville, and received his Air Force reserve commission at the same time. He was a member of the AFROTC unit at East Caro lina. Dr. A. L. Whitehurst, of Plym outh, will attend the regular quarterly meeting of the Eastern District, North Carolina Chiro practors Association, at Dunn Wednesday of next week. The ses sion will be held that afternoon and Dr. Whitehurst plans to re turn home that night. Official delegates from the Plymouth High School chapter of the National Honor Society to the convention held at New Hanover .ligh DRiool, Wilmington, Friday and Saturday of last week were Misses Emily Waters, Beulah Cratch and Jolene Hollowell and Harvey Lucas. The sponsor, Mrs. Gale White Lucas, also attended. The society is a national organi zation giving recognition to stu dents with outstanding records in character, scholarship, leadership and service. Approximately 62 high schools in the state have chartered chapters. Theme of the convention was “National Honor Society in Today’s World.” The discussion topic was, “How can we as teen-agers develop a great er interest in and respect for higher principles and ideals—tol erance, courage, wisdom, vision and honesty?” -$ Red Cross Drive Now Over $2,000 Mark in County - Overall Response Termed Excellent by Chairman of Chapter; Residential Can vass Incomplete ♦ - The annual Red Cross fund drive in this county has realized $2,033.34 toward a goal of $2,486, Dr. A. L. Whitehurst, chapter chairman, reported this week. Dr. Whitehurst said solicita tions have not been completed in some residential sections of Plym outh but that a further canvass would be made as soon as the current cancer fund drive is com pleted. The chairman mentioned Winesett Circle and East Haven among sections not canvassed. He said second donations would not be asked but homes that have not previously been called on would be canvassed. Dr. Whitehurst expressed his thanks to all who have contribut ed to the success of the drive. He said the Ruritan Clubs at Roper and Creswell did bang-up jobs and also pointed to the fine effort by the Plymouth Rotary Club and others. “The overall response was excellent,” the chapter chairman declared. A break-down was given as follows: Plymouth business district by Rotary club, $574.60; Plymouth colored, $100.25; Plymouth resi dential, east side, by Jaycees, $153.70; Plymouth residential, west side, by VFW, $171.22; Ply mouth residential, south side, by American Legion, $154.50; Plym outh industrial and unions, by Lions Club, $215.70; Creswell white, $241.32; Creswell colored, $50.50; Roper White, $305.05; Roper colored, $31.50. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated lj! to the service of Washington IH County and its 13,000 people. iij VOLUME LXVI—NUMBER 16 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 21, 1955 ESTABLISHED 1889 Band Boosters Plan May Day Event --- Plans are complete for a May Day Festival to be held at the ball park here Thursday, May 5, it was announced this week. The event will be sponsored by the Band Boosters Club of Plymouth High School. The activities of the day will begin with a parade from the high school to the ball park be ginning at 3:30 ip. m. and led by the high school band. Each home room in high school -has selected a princess to repre sent the room and all are secur ing votes which will determine the May Queen. Runner-up will be Maid of Honor. There will be a queen selected from the elementary school with runners-up acting as flower girls and train-bearers in the May Court. Another feature oi ‘he festival is the ibaby contest for children of pre-school age. This contest will be judged, with prizes going to the baby boy and girl winning, Mothers who wish to enter a child are asked to contact a mem ber of the following committee: Mrs. Nyal Womble, Mrs. D. L. Vandiford, Mrs. A. L. Jackson and Mrs. Thomas Hopkins. This should be done as soon as pos sible. Entry fee is $1. There will be an art craft ex hibit with entries from all grades. The exhibits will be judged by qualified persons and prizes will be awarded the two best entries. Ribbons will be given for honor able mention. Plans Being Studied For Library Building Pulp Plant To Reopen Friday The North Carolina Pulp Company Plant will reopen Fri day morning of this week fol lowing a four-day shut-down for repairs, maintenance and construction tie-in. The over haul work is usually accom plished at Christmas time but was delayed last Christmas so that the construction tie-in could be made simultaneously, it was explained by a com pany spokesman. The office personnel was not affected by the shut-down at the plant. Chairman of Fund Drive Ciles Need For Great Effort Mrs. Ed Craft, County Can cer Drive Head, Says 700, 000 Americans Are Being Treated for Cancer An estimated 700,000 Ameri cans are now under treatment for cancer, Mrs. Ed Craft, county campaign chairman for cancer funds, stated this week. Mrs. Craft said the figures were supplied by the American Can cer Society to show the great need for continued support of can cer research and education. Doctors are saving lives from cancer, Mrs. Craft added, but not fast enough. Statistics compiled by the American Cancer Society show that with one alarming ex ception cancer in the major body areas where the disease develops is no longer increasing substant ially as a cause of death. The exception, Mrs. Craft said, is lung cancer which last year claimed about 24,000 lives, 20,000 among men. Cancer occurring in the five other major areas is leveling off in the death statistics, and there have been sizeable gains against the uterine type. As a result, the death rate from cancer among women between 25 and 75 has declined 10 per cent in the last decade. The American Cancer Society expects that the attack against cancer of the breast will soon be reflected in dropping death rates. The key to this effort to save lives is the technique of breast self-examination which teaches women to examine their breasts once a month for tiny lumps or irreguarities which might mean the start of early, curable can cer. While local cancer of the See DRIVE, Page 5 -# Entertainment at School on Friday A “Womanless Wedding” will be presented in the Plymouth High School auditorium Friday night of this week, sponsored toy the Plymouth Junior Woman’s Club. Curtain time has been set for 8 o’clock and admission will be 25 cents for children and 50 cents for adults. The parts have not been as signed to the individual persons but a tentative list of the wedding party is as follows: Pet Darden, Raymond Smith, Red Whitehurst, Howard Walker, Bosie Owens, E. C. Pollard, Jim my Allen, Dr. Cutler, Rud Lovic, Ralph Basnight, Snooks Burn ham, Thomas Gardner, H. H. Al len, H. N. Stephenson, Mack Mar row, Hugh Midyette, Bill Joyner, Walter Furlong, Jack Peele, Billy Blackburn, Harry Newland, B. G. Campbell, Paul Frymier and Frank Sawyer. There will also be other enter tainment. Library Committee Hopes To Have Plans Ready To Submit To County Com missioners in Six Weeks -* The library committee hopes to have plans for the new Washing ton County Public Library -build ing ready to submit to the coun ty commissioners within five or six weeks. Recently, the commissioners voted to allocate $10,000 to pro vide a library building on a -lot at the corner of Third and Adams Streets which was donated for the purpose of Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Norman, of Plymouth. The library is presently housed on the second floor of the county courthouse here and is quite crowded. It has also been pointed out that a library on the ground floor would be much more con venient to the public. Plans for the new building were discussed at length at a meeting of the Washington Coun ty Library Board at the court house Tuesday night of this week. Just as soon as the plans are ready to submit for the approval of the county commissioners a special meeting of the library board will be called, Mrs. J. Rob ert Campbell, chairman of the library board, stated. The -board holds regular meetings quarterly. It was also announced1 that a joint meeting of the Chowan and Washington County Library Boards will be held at the court house here Tuesday night, May 3, to discuss some mutual library services. New Hardware Firm Will Open Here Next Monday -« A new hardware store will make its debut on the local busi ness scene Monday of next week. Gurkin Hardware Supply Com pany, the new firm, will open in the store recently vacated 'by Southern Hardware Company on West Water Street, next to Leder Brothers. The interior of the building has been renovated and new equipment, fixtures and stock put in place for the opening. Colon Gurkin, owner, stated that the firm will feature a complete hardware and paint line. A special merchandise offer is being advertised for opening day Board Gels Hay; Call ior 27 Hen; A previous announcement that Selective Service Board No. 95 here would have no May calls has been corrected by State Selective Service head quarters. The local board has a call for 27 men for pre-in duction to be sent May 12, Mrs. Lorraine Hunter, board clerk, said yesterday. A delinquent transfer from another board., will be included. Mrs. Hunter emphasized that ail registrants who fail to re port for pre-induction will au tomatically be ordered for in duction. No Candidates Yet For Town Offices In Roper May 3rd -♦ Mayor and Three Cogncil men To Be Elected; Dead line for Filing Is 6 P. M. Saturday, April 23 About a half dozen new voters registered last Saturday for the Roper town election on May 3rd; buit to the first of this week they had nobody to vote for, accord ing to Aubrey R. Phelps, the Roper city clerk. Not -a single candidate had filed for any of the four offices up to Monday, Phelps said, although there was some talk that several candidates expected to enter be fore the filing time ends at 6 p. m. this coming Saturday, April 23. That is also the deadline for reg istration. The four offices to be filled in the May 3rd election are mayor and three members of the city council. T. Reynold Spruill is the present mayor, and the council is composed of Aubrey Dixon, R. C. Peacock, and Wade Hardison. None of them has indicated whe ther or not he would be a candi date again. Registration books opened at the town office last Saturday and will remain open unCl 3 o’ciock Saturday, April 23. 'IhatHtf : *0 the deadline for candidates id frre. The following Saturday, April 30, will be Challenge day. Polling place is at the community build ing in Roper. Local Pickle Plant Sold To McCotter The local pickle plant formerly owned by C. C. Lang & Son was sold this week to J. D. McCotter, of Washington. The sale was an nounced by Ben A. Sumner, Plymouth real estate dealer, who handled the transaction. Mr. McCotter will put up a building supply and ready-mixed concrete business here, it was said. It will be one of the most complete and up-to-date facili ties in Eastern Carolina, the an nouncement stated, and will serve Washington and Tyrrell Counties and surrounding communities. Construction is expected to start within the next 60 days. -»— - Local Young Man In First Jet Solo -♦ Webb A.FB, Tex.—Aviation Ca det Lawrence D. Jones, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jones, of Plymouth, North Carolina, recent ly made his first solo flight in a jet aircraft at Webb Air Force Base, Big Spring, Texas. He began his five-month train ing at Webb in a North American T-28, a propeller-type trainer which is flown by all students prior to soloing. Cadet Jones is presently undergoing further jet training, concentrating on acro batics, formation, and basic in strument flying. A 1951 graduate of Plymouth High School, Cadet Jones later attended the North Carolina State College, Raleigh, before entering the Air Force in March, 1954. Action Small as Court Term Ends Here on Tuesday Alter Brief Session Monday Superior Court Civil Term Ends at About Noon Fol lowing Day -* Superior Court opened here Monday at 10 a. m., recessed at 11:30 a. m., reconvened Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock and ad journed for the term by 1 p. m. Judge Q. K. Nimocks, of Fay etteville, resident judge of the Ninth Judicial District, presided. First case called was that of Willie Keys versus Mary Etta Keys. It was stated that the plain tiff did not desire to further prosecute the action and on mo tion of Attorney P. H. Bell it was ordered that a judgment of volun tary non-suit be entered. In the case of Flossie Chesson versus Pauline Hassell, P. H. Bell, plaintiff’s counsel, stated that plaintiff was dead and upon the attorney's motion it was ordered that the action now abate and be stricken from the docket. A jury was selected, sworn and empaneled to try the case of Sco field White versus Irene B. White but during progress of the trial a juror was withdrawn and a mistrial ordered. Tuesday morning arguments by counsel for plaintiff and de fendant on demurrer were heard by the court in the action of P. D. Pruden versus J. W. Rasor. It was agreed by all parties that the court would hear and decide the case out of term and out of the district and make its decision accordingly. The case of, D. M. Roberson versus P. D. Pruden was called but medical certificates from Dr. T. L. Bray, of Plymouth, and Dr. V. E. Brown, of Williamston, were presented to the court to the ef fect that Roberson was physically unable to appear in court. -» Changes in Bean Grades Bepiored By All Growers Farmers Advised To Plant Enough of New Lee Var iety Soybeans To Make Seed Patch At a small grains meeting at Elizabeth City Tuesday of last week J. E. Barr, chief, Grain Inspection Branch, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, reported that soybean standards had been changed by reducing foreign ma terial allowed in each grade by one per cent. Of damaged kernels, a new fac tor has been added to take care of heat-damaged soybeans. Grade 1 allows .2 per cent heat-damaged beans; Grade 2 allows 3 per cent; Grade 3 allows .5 per cent; and Grade 4 allows 1 per cent. The striking blow to some 200 farmers present was the an nouncement that mottled soy beans will be classed No. 3. The mottled beans are those with pur ple stain, a disease to Which the Ogden variety is quite suscepti ble. In wet years it is impossi ble to grow Ogden beans in East ern Carolina without consider able mottling, it is said. Purple stain is a fungus prevalent in the area. It was pointed out that farm ers are disappointed at the change in standards and that the changes are being made at a time when an insufficient supply of the new Lee variety is available for seed. The Lee, a yellow bean, has con siderable resistance to purple stain. Advice by specialists was for farmers to do a thorough job of combining with screens and fans to take out all foreign matter possible, and to plant enough Lee variety beans for a seed patch. Some Lee seed is available . County Children Getting Polio Vaccine This Week j District Club Women j | Gathering Here Tmlay I Home Demonstration Club wo men from four counties are hold ing their district meeting at the Plymouth High School Thursday of this week. The 24th District Federation is comprised of clubs in Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington Counties. Mrs. H. L. Harris, of Creswell, who is district president, will be in charge. Morning and afternoon sessions will be held, beginning at 10:30 and 1:30 o’clock, respect ively. Lunch will be served at 12:30 o’clock. The Plymouth High School band, under direction of Edward Taylor, will give a 30-minute con cert on the front lawn of the school, beginning at 1 p. m., for the benefit of the visiting club women. Contests in All Three Wards Here May 3rd -1- ♦ Now Toial of 10 Candidates For 6 Places on Council; Hall Files for Reelection In First Ward -♦ Developments during the past week assure a contest for all city council offices in the municipal election May 3. W. C. Hall, in cumbent, announced this week that he would be a candidate for reelection from the first ward, making three candidates for two places from that ward. There were already three candidates in the second ward and four in the third, with two to be elected from each ward. Mayor A. J. Riddle continues unopposed in his bid for reelec tion to that post. Deadline for filing for all offices is 5 p. m., this coming Saturday, April 23. It is expected that several other candidates will enter by that time, including at least one more aspirant from the third ward. A total »f 10 persons has reg istered f<v" the election, it was learned from the three registrars yesterday. Four registered in the first ward, one in the second and five in the third. In addition there was one transfer eac*h in the first and second wards. Saturday of this week is also the last day for persons not previously registered to get their names on the books to qualify them for the election May 3rd. At present the line-up for the election is as follows: For mayor, A. J. Riddle; councilmen, first ward: W. C. Hall and E. D. Keel, incumbents, and W. J. Weaver; councilmen, second ward: Jack B. Latham and Ralph Hunter, in cumbents, and W. Ronald Tetter ton; councilmen, third ward: J. B. Cruickshank, incumbent, Har See ELECTION, Page 10 MamuMHiNuimann.n.mH.M , Band Having | _A Busy Week j The Plymouth High School band Is having a really busy week! It all began Tuesday af ternoon when the glee club and band performed at the meeting of the Plymouth Parent-Teach er Association at the school. Then Wednesday the band jour neyed to Farmville where it took part in the annual Farmers Day parade. Today (Thursday) at 1 p. m. the band will give a concert on the front campus at the school in courtesy to the 24th District Home Demonstration Club meeting at the school. To com plete the full schedule, Friday the band will go to Washing ton to participate in the Jaycee Beauty Pageant and that even ing will play for the Woman less Wedding at the high school here. Whew! 28 Scouts Here Going to Camporee Scoutmaster Jimmy Kitehengs of the Plymouth Boy Scout Troop said yesterday that 28 members of the troop will attend the East Carolina Council Camporee at Washington this week-end. The huge camporee will be held at the Beaufort County Fair grounds and will attract some 3, 000 scouts and scouting leaders from all over Eastern North Car olina. In addition to the scouts, Scoutmaster Kitehengs and Fos ter Perkins and Lyman Mayo, as sistant scoutmasters, will also at tend from here. Registration will be Friday af ternoon. The Plymouth group will leave here in a motorcade at 1 p. m. and it is requested that all scouts who will attend the cam poree assembly at the Plymouth Scout Hut before 1 p. m. Friday. Parents of some of the scouts here will furnish transportation, Mr. Kitchengs stated. Events listed for the camporee include the obstacle course, first aid, pioneering, signalling and measuring. Ribbons will be given for first, second and third place winners. General campfires will be held Friday and Saturday nights. Re ligious services are planned for Sunday morning prior to break ing camp. The scouts will pitch their tents and camp out, with cooking on the patrol level, Mr. Kitchengs stated. Sherman M. Parks, of Green ville, 1955 Camporee chief, met with the central camporee staff in Greenville Tuesday of last week to complete final plans and arrangements for the event. The central staff will again meet Thursday of this week, this time in Washington, for dress rehearsal and an infformal supper session. Erskine Duff, of Greenville, chief judge for the camporee, has a reservoir of adult personnel who will assist in judging aspects of the encampment. Mr. Duff wishes to invited other adult Scouters to serve in some capacity during the week-end. There will be serv ice oportunities on both Friday and Saturday for those adults who can give of their time for the Scouts participating in the cam poree. Scoutmaster Kitehengs express ed his thanks to all parents of local Scouts for their splendid co operation. SEEKS REELECTION J. D. Cruickshank, of Little Rlchwood Village, announced trat week that he would be a etnUhte for reelection as a *Jkr at dty council tvOMUtttlh ward in the mtmlcipaT election May 3. He was first elected In 1953 and is completing his first term as a member of the council. Workshop Will Be Held al Plymouth School on Monday -* Sponsored by North Caro lina Elementary Educa tion Committee, Meeting Will Convene at School -♦ The North Carolina Elementary Education Workshop for the Im provement of Elementary Educa tion in Northeastern North Caro lina will be held at the Plymouth School on Monday of next week, beginning at 3:30 p. m. The meeting is sponsored by the North Carolina Elementary Education Committee The program has been arrang ed by Dare, Hyde, Washington Counties and Elizabeth City Units which are members of the South ern Association's Cooperative Program in Elementary Educa tion. A large number of school personnel from Northeastern N. C. is expected to attend the meet ing. A. B. Combs, director, Division of Elementary and Secondary Ed ucation, State Department of Pub lic Instruction, will open the meeting by presenting an intro duction to the workshop and ex planation of the state guide. How schools identify and become in volved in planning a program of self-improvement and how to evaluate the elementary school program in terms of the Southern Association’s Bulletin on Evalu ating the Elementary School will be explained by Miss Ruth Hoyle, Elementary supervisor, Elizabeth City School. Miss Annie Lee Jones, Elementary supervisor, of Pitt County Schools, will discuss available resources at the state and local levels for carrying for ward a program of self-improve ment. Dinner will ,be served from 5:30 to 7:00 p. m. at the Plymouth School Cafeteria. Homer Lassiter, supervisor of Elementary 7ducation, State De partment of Public Instruction, will present to the group promis ing practices which have been carried out in schools of this area. The session will conclude with Dr. Eva Williamson of the De partment of Education, East Car olina College, speaking on the subject of child growth and' de velopment. Salk Vaccine Adminisfered To 52 Roper First and Second Graders Wednes day Morning The Salk polio vaccine program was launched in this county Wed nesday morning of this week when 52 first and second grade students at Roper White School received their first shots. Miss Elizabeth Wood, county health nurse, who with Mrs. Wal ton Swain, health department clerk, and Miss Rebecca Swindell, from the State Board of Health, assisted Dr. Alban Papineau, said only one of the 52 children cried, and that on the whole the chil dren were quite calm about it all. Parents of 584 first and second grade children in the county have made written request for the vac cine invented by Dr. Jonas Salk, of the University of Pittsburgh, and recently approved by the United States Public Health of ficials. Sufficient vaccine was deliver ed to Williamston during the past week-end for 18,810 shots and it was distributed over the section Monday. An additional supply is to be made available within a short time for the second shots in the immunization program, it was said. Vaccine for booster shots next fall will be delivered in ample time several months hence, but Miss Wood said par ents would be responsible for see ing that their children get the third shots. In the schools the vaccine is be ing administered free to the first and second graders whose parents have requested it. The doctors are donating their services and the vaccine is being supplied through the State Board of Health. The vaccine will be adminis tered to first and second grade students at Plymouth White School Thursday morning of this week by Dr. E. W. Furgurson. The inoculations will begin at 8:30 o’clock in a designated room at the school. Thursday afternoon, 118 Plymouth Colored School stu dents will get the shots. Dr. T. L. Bray will be in charge. The remainder of the schedule follows: Friday morning, Hampton School, Dr. Papineau; Friday af ternoon, Washington County Un ion School, Roper, Dr. Claudius McGowan; Monday morning, at Creswell White School and Cres well Colored School, Dr. Mc Gowan. In about two weeks the sche dule will be set up for the second shots, Miss Wood said. Private inoculations will be limited, more or less, to children between the ages of 4 and 14. However, pregnant women will be given shots if they so desire, doctors say. None of the vaccine has been made available for private use but is on order and is expected momentarily, it was said. Parents who desire shots for their chil dren should telephone the f:|tnily doctor and have the children’s names put on the list, it was said. The shots will be given in the order listed when the vaccine ar rives. Doctors in Plymouth met re cently and decided on a flat charge of $4 per shot on a cash basis. Inasmuch as the vaccine must be bought from private pharmaceutical houses at a cost of about $2 per shot, doctors here think the fee is reasonable. The remainder covers use of syringes, nurses’ time, sterilizing, etc. In most places the fee has been established at a higher rate, it was said. The same charge will be made by all local doctors, it has been agreed. -«, Tobacco Planting Gels Underway * The big job of transplanting tobacco from the plantbeds to the fields got underway on a limited scale in the county this week, ac cording to information from the county agent’s office. It is understood that plants are plentiful this season with beds in good condition for the most part. However, blue mold has been reported in the county. The peak in transplanting is expected early next month. Frank Jordan transplanted six acres on his farm near Darden’s and was reported to be the first grower in Martin County to be gin the task. Mr. Jordan started Monday of this week. Mr. Jordan said some of his plants were eight to ten inches tall and in food supply.