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< T'own opics Several county boys who are off at college will serve as crop reporters for the county ASC of fice during the month of June. They will assist other reporters in measuring acreage planted to cotton, tobacco, peanuts and wheat—crops under acreage con trol in the county. The college students who will work as re porters were listed by Miss Mir iam Ausbon, county ASC office manager, as Joseph Collins, Mac ► keys, Frank R. Spencer, Roper, , Fred Davenport and Harllee t<( Lyon, both of Plymouth. Another college student, R. L. Spruill, of Roper, will serve as a spot checker. Captain Elbert S. Peel, jr., commanding the National Guard unit at Williamston, said this week the unit was now accepting enlistments from this area at the armory on any Monday night. Further information can be ob tained from the administrative supply and maintenance techni cian at the armory which is lo cated on the Jamesville highway. Jesse Lloyd Horton, jr., son of Mrs. J. L. Horton, of Plymouth, is on the honor roll of Virginia Episcopal School at Lynchburg, Va., for the scholastic month just ended, according to announce ment this week by Dr. George L. Barton, jr., headmaster. A stu dent there must have a general average of 90 per cent or better in order to be eligible for the honor roll the announcement stated. Ted Rosenthal, sr., who is re cuperating after a cou.ple of weeks in a Rocky Mount hospital following a sudden attack at his home in Wenona on May 1st. visited friends here Tuesday for a short time. He suffered a rupt ured blood vessel which caused him to “blackout”; and in falling his wife's leg was broken when she attempted to catch him. Mrs. Rosenthal also is improving and was released from the hospital here last week, although a cast must remain on her leg for some time yet. W. A. Roebuck, president of the Washington County Shrine Club, said there were 35 persons in attendance at the fish fry held by the club at Albemarle Beach Monday night of this week. Lad ies night was celebrated and fol lowing the fish fry dancing was enjoyed. Several prominent mem bers of Sudan Temple, New Bern, who were expected to attend, could not be present. Col. Russell H. Broaddus, deputy state director of Selective Service, accompanied by another representative from state head quarters, will be in Plymouth Fri day of this week where they will make the annual visit to Selective Service Board No. 95, Mrs. Lor raine Hunter, board clerk, has announced. Temperature In Quick Dive Here The temperature took a sudden drop here Tuesday afternoon and folks in their shirtsleeves felt the need of a coat. Those wearing coats no longer felt silly to have them on. The sudden change was report ed to be the result of a cold air tmass moving in. A hail which fell at Winston-Salem could have had something to do with it, also. The night was quite chilly but it could) not be learned what the low temperature reading was of ficially. No contact could be -made with personnel at the weather station at Tide Water Test Farm near here late Wednesday. -® Rock, Bass Fingerlings Released in Creek, River J. O. Early, wildlife patrolman stationed here, recently released — several thousand rock and bass fingerlings in Mackeys Creek and Scuppemopng River. The fingerlings were supplied by the Rock fish hatchery at Wel don. OANOKE BEACON *★★★★* and Washington County News A home newspaper dedicated jji to the service of Washington ill !! County and its 13,000 people, jli VOLUME LXVI—NUMBER 20 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, May 19, 1955 ESTABLISHED 1889 MEMBERS OF PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS THIS YEAR « mmm \ Thirty-one of the Thirty-one oi me 36 members of the Plymouth High Sehool senior class were present when the above photo was made on the steps at the sehool here several weeks ago. These in «je photo above art* reft to right, front row: Pat WiMiams, Sarah Bowen, Carolyn st.yons, Lounell Vandi ford Adean Knopps, Jean Phelps, Mavis Boyd, Marilyn Sliugar; second row: HarriettKeyes, Betsy Brinkley, Jane Everton, Sue Riddle, Linda Floyd, Marie VVrightson, George p^ntert th"-d^row. Jewell O'Dell Shelby Peyton, Mary Louise Johnson, Jimmie Allen, Ray Lilley, DaryI Tetterton, BODDy Beasle’v back row: Hilton Reason, Ronald Noonev, Jimmy Jackson, Peter Leavitt, Leroy Simpson, Billy Browning, Eddie Ricks, Herman Newberry and Larry Lyle. Absent when the picture was made were Lynette Modlin, Jane Keel, Marvin Gurganus, Mary Lane and Raymond Styons.—Polaroid 1-Minutc staff photo. To Resume Vaccine Program in County Ns June Calls j Pre-Induction j There will be no calls for registrants of the local draft board to be sent for prc-induc tion examination during the month of June, Mrs. Lorraine Junter, board clerk, said she had been informed this week by state Selective Service headquarters. One man, as yet undetermin ed, will be sent for induction from this board on Tuesday, June 28, Mrs. Hunter said. Announce Change In Wool Pool Day -♦ Date of the wool pool for this area to be held in Washington has been changed. County Agent W. H. Pruden announced today that the wool pool, previously scheduled for June 6-7, will be held instead on July 20-21 No reason for the change has been advanced. The wool pool will be held at Graveley’s Warehouse. Wool will be handled the same as last year, Mr. Pruden said. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture will handle the wool with tli* assistance of county agents in the various counties. The Wool will be weighed and graded by the department and sold to the highest bidder. Prices by grade will be announced im mediately following the sale, it was stated. The wool will be weighed and graded at Gravely’s Warehouse. Farmers may take their wool to Washington on these dates, watch weighing and grading of the wool, and get tiheir payment checks im mediately. A deduction of one cent per pound will be made this year to cover necessary expenses, it was said. Prices are supported this year by the government and it will be necessary for growers to have bills of sale for all Wool sold in order to collect payments from the ASC, it was emphasized. I Little Rain Last Week Big Help To Farming It would be -hard to estimate just what the precipitation of Wednesday night and Thursday of last week was worth to Wash-, ington Oouruty farmers but the badly-needed rain was most wel come. It was a soft, penetrating fall; just the right kind for parched soil and thirsty young plants. “Large areas of North Carolina have suffered a rainfall shortage in every month of 1955,” reports Charles B. Carney, meterologist at Raleigh. “With the warm sea son approaching,” Carney stated, “any further shortages could be come a serious matter before many weeks. May is normally a dry month, and even an average amount of rain might fall short of plant growth requirements in the face of the shortage which has already accumulated.” Weather conditions early this month were far from favorable for farmers. Dry weather with cutting winds and cool nights did much to retard progress of plant ing operations. Soil conditions in all parts of the state were report ed to toe decidedly on the dry side by the end of the first week in May. Such conditions have re sulted in spotty stands of some crops ia many sections. Second Shois of Salk Polio Vaccine To Be Given at Creswell Friday and al Roper Monday -1 Another delay in further re leases of Salk polio vaccine dis closed late Wednesday will not affect the clinics set for Friday of this week and Monday of next w'eek in this county, Dr. Claudius McGowan, county health officer, said Thursday morning (today). Vaccine al ready on hand will be used at Creswell Friday and Roper Monday. “There will be no fur ther reelases of vaccine from any manufacturer for several days,” a spokesman in Wash ington, D. C., was quoted as saying. The holdup again was described as simply “a precau tionary measure.” The Salk poli'o vaccination pro gram, halted recently in this county as elsewhere throughout the nation will be resumed Friday of this week when first and second grade students, white and colored, in the Creswell schools will be given their second shots. The nationwide program was temporarily halted over a week ago pending new safety checks. Since then vaccine from at least two companies has been freed for use, including supplies shipped by Eli Lilly & Company, of In dianapolis, which was used in North Carolina. Earlier, approval had been given to principal ship ments by Parke Davis Company, of Detoit. A Lilly spokesman said enough vaccine for several mil lion more shots is nearing com pletion, but will not be ready for shipment until about June 1 'be cause of necessary testing. Enough vaccine for 220 doses was left over from the first round of shots in this county and it has been decided to use it at Cres well and Roper now before school closes, since it would present a problem to round up all the chil dren for the shots after school is out for the school year. Shots will be administered at the Creswell schools Friday and at Roper schools on Monday of next week, it was said. Time is 9 a. m. both days. Dr. McGowan, county health of ficer, Miss Elizabeth Wood, coun ty health nurse, and Mrs. Walton Swain, office clerk, will be on hand at Creswell Friday and at Roper next Monday for the pro gram. First shots of the new vaccine were administered to 584 first and second-grade students in schools of the county between April 2C and 25. At that time it was gen erally thought that the second shots in the series would be giver in a period of from two to foul weeks, or as soon as more vaccim was made available. It was origi nally planned to give boostei shots next fall. No reactions have 'been report ed from the first Shots in thi: i county, or in the state, for tha ■ matter, Dr. McGowan said. ' Second shots will be given t< : white and colored first and seconc ■ graders in the Plymouth school : just as soon as more vaccine i; available, it was said. Penalty Rate of 40 Cents a Pound For Excess Leaf Announcement Made by United States Department Of Agriculture Concerning Non-Allotment Planting Washington County tobacco growers will be interested in an announcement made this week by the Department of Agriculture concerning the penalty rate for tobacco planted in excess of acre age allotment. Producers will have to pay 40 cents a pound on all leaf grown on non-allotted acres this year. The penalty rate previously had been announced as 39 cents a pound. Last year, it was 21 cents. The penalty rate is based on the average price of 52.7 cents per pound brought by flue-cured to bacco in the 1954-95 marketing year. The Agricultural Adjustment Act oif 1938, as amended last March 31, makes the marketing of any kind of tobacco in excess of the marketing quota subject to a penalty of 75 per cent of the average of such kind of tobacco fur the preceding marketing year (The farm marketing quota is the actual production of the farm acreage allotment.) The penalty rate in effect for the 1954 crops of tobacco subject to marketing quotas was 40 per cent of the average market price for the preceding marketing year for flue-cured tobacco and 50 per cent for all other kinds. The act as amended also prohibits consid ] eration of excess tobacco acreage . in determining future farm allot ments. The department announced that under regulations in effect this year, the following rule of frac . tions will be observed in record ing acreage measurements: The acreage of tobacco harvesf ’ ed on a farm in 1955 will be re ! corded in acres and hundreths of ' an acre. Fractions of less than one-hundredth of an acre will be I dropped. For example, 1.559 acres would be 1.55 acres. The new penalty rate on ex [ cess planting makes the practice [ prohibitive, which is desirable in | view of the current supply-and demarnd picture. -* Cub Scouts Will Sell Poppies Here -«—_ American Legion Auxiliary me morial poppies will be offered for sale in Plymouth Saturday, May 28, by the Plymouth Cub Scouts, it was announced this week. The poppies were made by dis abled veterans at Swannanoa, Oteen and Fayeeteville and pro ceeds will be used for rehabilita tion work among disabled veter ans and their families. The local American Legion Au xiliary will also sponsor window display for Poppy Day at the local Coca Cola Bottling plant, it was i said. The cub scouts will 'be given i territories in the town and the i sale will continue throughout the day. To Begin Check oi Crop Acreages in County on June 1st Training School Held Here Yesterday lor Reporters, Computers; Remeasure ment Fees Listed -1 The big job of checking crop acreages under the control pro gram will begin in this county Wednesday, June 1, it was an nounced this week by County ASC Office Manager Miriam Aus bon. The work must be completed by June 30. A training school was conduct ed in the auditorium of the Agri culture building here Wednes day of this week for reporters and computers. Fourteen reporters who are to make the measurements are al ready making plans to start work and Miss Ausbon stated Wednes day that six college boys are to report at a later date. There will be four computers, a performance clerk and a notice clerk to com plete the staff. J. Whitford Swain, of Roper, is cimpliance supervisor and performance spot checker. He will have two spot checkers to assist him. Eugene Waters will spot check and anotheV checker will be selected at Roper. Computers were listed by Miss Ausbon as Betty Ann Burnham, Jane Keel, Lynette Modlin and Marilyn Shugar. Reporters were, listed by com munities as follows: Plymouth — Jimmy Jackson, Peter Leavitt, Mike Estep, Paul Swain and Eddie Ricks; Roper — Mickey Barrington, Thomas Hood, T, R. Spruill, Neil Stout and R. L. Spruill; Creswell—Archie Spear, Jimmy Davenport, Wesley Spruill and Douglas Day. Farmers who are not convinced of the accuracy of the measure ments may appeal to the county office, but quick action must be taken in destroying excess -acre age. Penalties on excess are he farjSjSf'^Ta^ to get within their assigned quotas. The farmer who has excess acreage in one or more of the crops under acreage control will be notified. If he desires to elimi nate the excess, he must report to the county ASC office within five days on tobacco and seven days on other crops which are under control after date of notice. He will be required to make a mini mum deposit of $3 per farm to acreage. In the case of excess cost to vary according to size of aereagee. In the case of excess tobacco, the farmer will pay a minimum of $3 or $1 per tenth of an acre on all excess destroyed. If the fanner has overplanted two-tenths of an acre he will still have to pay the $3 minimum, while if he is overplanted by four-tenths, the cost, of course, would amount to $4. If he does not choose to destroy rhe excess acreage he will face a penalty ol 40 cents a pound for the excess poundage. In the case of peanuts and cot ton, the farmer who has excess plantings and who wishes to de stroy the excess, will be charged a minimum of $3 per farm, or 7C cents per acre, whichever arnounl is greater. See^BEGIN CHECK, Page 10 137 Students To Graduate In Four Schools of County Ila ii k* To 11 lose Fr iflas For iMeekleiiliinM4 Has Although tomorrow, May 20, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and is a state holiday, it will pass without local observance except bv the local banks. Both the Branch Banking & Trust Company and the Planters Na tional Bank & Trust Company will be closed, however, and merchants are reminded to get sufficient change today to tide them over until Saturday. Recording to local history, a meeting was held in Char Iotte on May 20, 1775, and a J declaration of independence was drawn up, antedating the similar American declaration on July 4, 1775, by nearly two months. Some historians sav there is no conclusive proof of the Charlotte meeting, and the matter has been debated at some length during the present session of legislature. However the date commemorating the event is on the state seal and the state flag, and it has been observed as a banking holiday for many years. Lamb Pool Monday To Be Largest Ever Notification From Growers In Eight Counties Receiv ed at County Agent's Of fice Shows 1,191 Animals Indications this week point to the largest lamb pool ever held in Plymouth when growers from several counties in this general area bring their sheep and lambs here for weighing, grading and sale, Monday of next week. Notification received from growers in eight counties at the local county agent’s office shows that 1,191 animals are expected to be brought. Probably many more will be offered about which no notification has been received, it is thought. Counties in wnich growers have been heard from include Beau fort. Bertie, D-re, Pamlico, Pas t tan Pero m .ns, Tyrrell and Washington. The lamb pool here next Mon ' day will be the only one held here this year, it has been an nounced. In past seasons two pools have been held but in a re [ cent meeting of county agents, ' specialists and others interested, I See LAMB POOL, Page 5 Installation Set By Local V F W Post i —♦— Thursday of tihis week Installs ■ tion and Ladies Nigiht will be] 1 observed by the Bosie Bateman I Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, ’ at the veterans building. The pro gram is Scheduled for 7:30 p. m. • Past Commander W. J. Weaver ; will serve as installing officer. 1 Officers to 'be installed at the service include Walter Swain, 5 commander; Clifford Frymier, senior vice commander; Bill ' Booth, junior vice commander; ’ Phil Liverman, quartermaster; ' Chester Askew, post advocate; ; Ralph Hunter, chaplain; Dr. C. ' McGowan, surgeon; Bill Mc Combs and Norman White, trus tees. W. J. Weaver is a holdover trustee. To Publish Town j Tax List in June] Chief of Police P. W. Brown this week issued his final warn ing to Plymouth property own ers who have not paid their town taxes for 1954 and prior years. Ife explains that he has been ordered by the town coun cil to advertise and sell real property on which 1954 taxes have not been paid and to start garnishee proceedings against delinquent personal property owners. First advertisement of real property for delinquent taxes will be published the first week in June with the sale set for the first Monday in J> V P operty owners r«i»*^1Kfcl4{^R»»elves ad ditional cos^l embarass ment by making payment be fore the'List is tnmed over to the printers, Chief Brown pointed out. Porter Named To Head Legion Post James F. Porter was recently elected to head the Jaimes E. Jethro post of the American Legion for the 1955-50 year. Other officers named ait the re cent election include Hubert M. Ange, first vice-commander; E. B. Tetterton, second vice-com mander; Jesse B. McNair, adju tant; Dallas G. Waters, chaplain; Joseph IT. Swindell, sergeant-at arms; P. B. Bateman, historian; and Ronald Gaylord, service of ficer. It is expected that the new of ficers will be installed early next month. Legion spokesmen said they hope to have a joint installa tion of post and auxiliary offi cers and efforts will be made to have the state commander and the state auxiliary president here for the ceremony. 1 OFFICERS OF RECENTLY ORGANIZED WASHINGTON COUNTY SHRINE CLUB ^Five oHhcle^i^fiwrHmHiirectors of the recently organized Washington County Shrine rive oiinc seven U » ri*ht. standing: T. D. Somerville, director; VV. A. Roebuck.6 tt«ttn'AK’ dirlcSr;'fnd G. A. Leggett, first vice p^sident; seated is H H Ailen^efretkry treasurer. Absent when the picture was made were J. B Parvtn, second viceoreside'nf6 and J L. Horner, director. There are 24 charter members of the club, fanned ™ promote felloJrehip among Shriners in Washington and surrounding counties. - Polaroid 1 Minute staff photo. Closing Programs Will Gel Underway Nexl Week, With Finals Sel for May 30th and 31st Next week will be the last full week of high school for 137 coun ty students, 79 in the three white schools and 58 at the only color ed high school in the county— Washington County Union School, at Roper. Seniors number 37 at Plymouth High School. 25 at Creswell High School and 17 at Roper High School, according to figures re leased by principals of the var ious schools. Commencement programs begin in the schools Friday night of next week with the final exercises slated for Monday night in some schools and Tuesday in others. Briefly outlined, commence ment programs as announced by principals at the various schools are as follows: Plymouth High School — Class Night, "Seniorella,” Friday, May 27, high school auditorium, 8 p. m.; Sunday, May 29, commence ment sermon, high school audi torium, 8 p. m., by the Rev. Rob ert W. Bradshaw, minister of the First Methodist Church, Wilson; commencement exercises Tuesday night, May 31, high school audi torium. 8 p. m., commencement address by Dr. J. Glenn Black burn, pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Church and chaplain of Wake Forest College. Roper High School — Class Night exercises, Friday May 27, 8:15 p. m., high school auditor ium; commencement sermon Sun day morning, May 29, at 11 o'clock, by tihe Rev. William F. Ambrose, minister, Pleasant Hill Christian Church, Gasburg, Va.; commencement address Monday night, May 30, at 8 o’clock by the Rev. Robert W. Bradshaw, minister, First Methodist Church, Wilson; presentation of diplomas by L. E. Hassell, sr., chairman, Washington County Board of Ed iication. _ _____ _ Creswell High School L-Vaas Night exercises, “The Senior Merry-Go-Round,” Friday night, May 27, 8 o’clock in the higTi school auditorium; commence ment sermon Sunday night, May 29, at 8 o'clock by the Rev. Kelly Ingram, pastor of the First Meth odist Church, Elizabeth City; commencement address Tuesday night, May 31, at 8 o’clock by Dr. J. K. Long, head of the depart ment of education at East Caro lina College, Greenville; presen tation of diplomas by R. F. Lowry, county superintendent of schools. Washington County Union School, Roper — PTA banquet held May 17 at which time the year’s activities were reviewed; Class Night exercises, Friday, May 27 at 8 p. m.; commencement sermon Sunday, May 29, at 5 p. m. at school by the Rev. Charles M. Johnson, vicar of St. John’s Evan gelist Church, Edenton, St. Ann’s Church, Roper, St. Phillips Church, Elizabeth City and St. Mary’s Church, Belhaven; com mencement address Monday, Maiy 30 at 8 p. m. at school by Dr. C Finney, head of the department of advanced education at North Car olina College, Durham. Members of the senior class at the various schools were listed as follows: Plymouth High School: Robert Wayne Beasley, William Ralph Browning, Haywood Garland Davenport, Marvin Spruill Gur ganus, James Sherman Jackson, Peter David Leavitt, Bonnie Ray See~GRADlJATESr~Pag<rTo~' -$ Special Term of Court on June 13 -♦ A one-week civil term of Su perior Court will be held here, beginning Monday, June 13 Judge Q. K. Nimocks, of Fay etteville, was commissioned this week by the chief justice of the state Supreme Court to hold a special session in Washington County at that tirm. Washington County Superior Court Clerk W. T. Stillman was so notified this week. Chief purpose of the special court term was said to be to try two cases which were on the cal endar at the regular April court term but which were continued because of the illness of one of the parties, D. M. Roberson, of Williams ton. The cases are D. M. Roberson versus P. D. Pruden and P. D. Pruden versus J. W. Rasor. It was believed that the advanced age ot Rasor and his need for a set lenient in the case was a de termining factor in the calling of the special court term.