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own
opics
L. D. Hunnings, of Greenville
who is area engineer with the Soil
Conservation Service, spent Mon
day in Plymouth in conference with
Conservationist Henry Brag^^nd
Technician Ed Craft of the local
SCS office. Plans for “A” Canal
drainage at Wenona have been ap
proved, it was said, and work is
expected to begin shortly, follow
ing contract letting. While here,
Mr. Hunnings returned the ap
proved plans for the canal. The
federal government through the
ACP will supply part of the cost,
with some 25 cooperating landown
f ers to furnish the remainder. The
landowners’ committee consists of
Robbie Stotesbury, J. F. Carter and
Braxton Bell. A petition asking
SCS aid was signed by 100 per
cent of the landowners concerned.
David W. Paul, young Wenona
farmer, is in Raleigh attending
the Bankers Short Course at N. C.
State College. Paul was chosen
from this county to receive a scho
' larship good for the two-week
course at the West Raleigh school
which is sponsored by the N. C.
Bankers Association. Paul went
under auspices of Branch Banking
and Trust Company and Planters
National Bank and Trust Company
here. He will return home the last
of next week, according to present
plans.
Those from Plymouth who at
tended the funeral of Charles An
drew Dunning in Northampton
County Saturday afternoon were
R. F. Lowry, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Jones, Mrs. J. E. Swain, Mrs. Jack
Peele and the Rev. P. B. Nickens,
^who assisted in the services.
Ruritans Ted Martus and T. R.
Spruill, of the Roper club, return
ed late Wednesday from Atlan
ta, Ga., where they attended the
Ruritan National convention at the
Dinkier Plaza Hotel. Ted reported
a fine trip by car going and coming
and a pleasant stay in the Georgia
metropolis. Six clubs from the
Roanoke District weer represented,
Martus stated. Incidentally, the
programs January 28-31 presented
some outstanding speakers, he said,
including Herman Talmadge, form
er Georgia governor; E. Smythe
Gambrel], president of the Ameri
can Bar Association; Major Gen
eral Paul H. Jordan, commander
of the 30th Armored Division; Dr.
Kenneth McFarland, educational
consultant with General Motors
Corp.; and Maurice Langhorne,
psychologist, Emory University,
Atlanta.
Joe Thrower returned to Plym
outh this week from Chicago
where he attended the boat show at
the International Amphitheatre
during the past week-end. Joe was
in Chicago for the show four days.
Mrs. Annie Mae Pemberton, of
Raleigh, supervisor of state board
ing homes for the aged, spent Wed
^nesday afternoon here with Mrs.
Ursula Spruill, county welfare su- :
perintendent. Together, the two
visited the only such home in the
county, that operated in Plymouth
by Gladys Pcttiford Hassell. Mrs.
Hassell plans to build additional |
space to take care of persons not
now placed, it is understood. There ,
are four persons at present being
taken care of in the home.
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Roper Area To Gel 100
Wire Cable Line, Said
W. E. Turner, Plymouth man
ager of Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and T. W.
Rose, of the Rocky Mount district
office, were featured on the pro
gram of Roper Ruritans Thursday
night.
The Ruritans were told that a
100-wire cable line would be a
4^ reality in the Roper area in the
near future.
Two new members of the club,
Howard Davenport and Giles Stall
ings, were initiated, with T. C.
Martus, as the installing officer.
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Herman L. Owens
Rites Here Today
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Last rites for Herman L. Owens,
54, of Plymouth, will be held from
Ludford Memorial Baptist Church,
of which he was a member, Thurs
day of this week at 3:30 p. m.
Mr. Owens died at 12:30 a. m.
Wednesday at his home on Jeffer
son Street. He lived with a brother,
H. C. Owens, and had worked
Tuesday at Allen’s Store where he
"v was employed.
The deceased was born in Mar
tin County February 1, 1901, son
of the late Stuart L. and Georgia
Anna Hardison Owens, but had
spent most of his life in this
county.
Surviving arc two sisters, Mrs.
E. L. Ayers, Plymouth, and Mrs.
A. E. Collins, New Bern; and his
brother here.
Services will be conducted by
the minister of the church, the
Rev. Paul B. Nickens, and burial
will be made in the Plymouth
Methodist Church Cemetery.
The body will be taken from
Horner’s Funeral Home to the
church one hour before the serv
ice. I
The Roanoke Beacon
**★★★★ and Washington County News ******
VOLUME LXVII—NUMBER 6 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 9, 1956
ESTABLISHED 1889
To Start Using Fire Horn Here Daily
Local residents are advised not
to be alarmed by three blasts on
the fire department’s air horn
twice daily, starting next Mon
day. It will be sounded at noon
and 6 p. m. each weekday ex
cept Saturday, when it will be
sounded at noon and 7 p. m. The
regular fire siren will be sound
ed at 9 o’clock each morning.
Fire departments officials ex
plain that the air horn is to be
used to sound fire alarms in the
future after being out of com
mission for a couple of years.
Repairs have been made, and the
firemen were advised that the
more it is used the better it will
perform. That is the reason for
the three blasts twice daily,
which serve to keep the air lines
in the equipment cleaned out.
Firemen prefer to use the air
horn for fire alarms, since it is
coded to give the general loca
tions of fires. The equipment was
installed some years ago and per
formed satisfactorily for a time,
after Which it began to give
trouble and for the past few
years alarms have been sounded
with the old siren. The siren has
also been sounded at 9 a. m.,
noon and 6 p. m., to mark the
opening and closing hours of
local stores. It will continue to
be used at 9 a. m. on weekdays,
but in the future the horn will
be used at noon and 6 p. m., each
day except Saturday, when the
closing blast will be at 7 p. m.
Bond Issue Favored
By Board Education
j Cancel Civil
j Court Term
The civil term of Washington
County Superior Court, which
had been scheduled to open here
Monday of next week, will nol
be held and jurors and others
interested should please note.
Because of illness of some ol
the lawyers with resultant con
tinuance of so many cases and on
recommendation of the Wash
ington County Bar the court
term has been cancelled, it was
learned Tuesday.
Student Group To
Leave Sunday for
Virginia Junke:
Two-Day Trip To Historic
Colonial Williamsburg i:
Slated for 35 Local Schoo
Pupils, Principal
A group of Plymouth schoo
students plans to leave here b;
chartered bus Sunday for a trip ti
historic Williamsburg, Va., Princi
pal J. S. Fleming has announced
Mr. Fleming will accompany thi
students, 35 having signified thei:
intention of making the trip.
The itinerary calls for supper a
5:30 p. m. Sunday at the Williams
burg Lodge, where all meals ant
lodging will be supplied courtesj
of the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr
Fleming stated. Sunday evening
will be free for the visitors to en
joy as they see fit, while following
breakfast Monday a tour of Colon
ial Williamsburg will be made.
The group is scheduled to leave
Plymouth Sunday at 1 p. m., arrive
in Williamsburg at 4:30 o’clock and
leave there Monday at 1 o’clock.
Those registered for the trip
were listed as follows:
Johnny Marrow, Billy Bowen,
Wayne West, Bobby Ladd, Bill
Cheshire, Morgan Williams, Tom
my Terry, George Waters, Leroy
Sitterson, Jimmy Fleming;
Billy Hall, Allan Ganderson, Rus
sell Bland, Reg Smith, Charles
Watson, Edward Stewart, Harvie
Hall, Golden Simpson, Buddy Har
•ison, A1 Cox;
Martha Blount Rodman, Linda
jee Papineau, Brenda Warren,
Mice Culbreth, Margaret Simpson,
Louise Sawyer, Betty Ladd, Phyl
is Hardison;
Gale Spencer, Carole Ray Dun
:an, Rosa Hopkins, Patricia Owens,
{athryn Keel, Patsy Holiday, and
\nn Armstrong.
County Education Board
Adopts Resolution Mon
day Asking Commission
ers To Call Bond Vote
The Washington County Educa
tion Board Monday adopted a reso
lution asking the county commis
sioners to call an election to vote
on the question of issuing $500,000
in school bonds to be used for
school purposes.
Following its adoption, the reso
lution was carried by the secretary
to the commissioners, who also
were in regular monthly session at
the courthouse. The latter deferred
action but set a special meeting
for Monday night, February 20, to
consider the matter.
The suggested program of school
plant improvement in the county,
it is believed by some observers,
would require all the monies now
available for the purpose plus the
, amount mentioned in the Monday
[ resolution, and possibly then some.
A brief outline of such a pro
gram lists as present needs a
, lunchroom and agriculture shop at
, [Creswell High School; Physical
'! education building and agriculture
[I shop at Roper High School; 10
classrooms at Washington County
Union School; two classrooms at
Plymouth Elementary School; and
| 10 classrooms, auditorium an3
gymnasium (or gymtorium if funds
1 not available for both), two shops,
band room, homemaking depart
■ ment, science department, offices
; and health room, library, lunch
room, and storage rooms.
R. F. Lowry, who as county
superintendent of schools, also
serves as secretary to the county!
educational board, said the board
tentatively hopes to construct, sub
ject to any changes which the sur
vey committee might make, the fa
cilities listed above. Of course, it
is understood that what would be
built is subject to receiving bids
within the amount of money avail
able. The board may find it desir
able to alter the program to more
nearly meet the needs at the time
immediately preceding the draw
ing of plans if the money is pro
vided, it was explained.
Other matters reported included ,
the election of J. W. Norman as
chairman pro tern of the education !
board due to illness of Board '
Chairman L. E. Hassell, sr., of
Roper. |'
Extending the leave of absence J
of Mrs. P. W. Littlejohn to the end 1
of the sixth school month;
Acceptance of the bid of A. M. 1
! Kochelis for the old classroom
building on the Plymouth Elemen- a
tary School campus provided it is
not raised within the next 10 days; v
A resolution was passed express- a
ing the hope that L. E. Hassell and ?
P. B. Belanga would soon be fully; jj
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Say Tax Listing
Job 90 Percent
Done in County
Roebuck Praised by County
Tax Supervisor for Job
Turned in; No Relaxing
Of Penalty Rule
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It is estimated that about 90 per
cent of the real and personal prop
erty listings in this county were
completed during the prescribed
listing period which ended Friday
of last week.
Hubert L. Davenport, county tax
supervisor, told a Beacon reporter
yesterday that preparations were
being made to index the tax books
which were closed last Friday. He
said no relaxing of the 10-per-cent
penalty rule for late listing would
be made.
In Lees Mill, Skinnersville and
Scuppernong Townships the per
cent listing was about the same,
Davenport estimated, but in Plym
outh Township the job was more
nearly completed, he said. W. A.
Roebuck listed property at the
courthouse for both town and town
ship and the county tax supervisor
estimated as few as 15 or so prop
erty owners in each the town and
township failed to list during the
listing period, January 2 through
February 3.
About 90 per cent have listed
overall, he estimated. No figures
were available at the time, he ex
plained.
Considerable new construction
was done in Plymouth during 1955,
Mr. Davenport noted, but he said
no difficulty is anticipated in get
ting the valuation on the books. He
explained that most of the needed
information is available on forms
filled out on each construction job
and that actual measurements only
are needed to complete the valua
tion picture on new construction.
Polio Ball Here
On Friday Nighi
Friday night of this week the ;
itrong-limbed will have a grand |
ipportunity to help the weak.
Those who enjoy dancing can ;
Dance That Others May Walk”— ]
it the annual March of Dimes t
Jueen’s Ball to be held at the
Veterans Building from 9 o’clock
il? Music will be by Stewart (
imithson and his orchestra of Suf- ,
oik, Va. c
A popular-make mattress is be
ng offered as a door prize. j
Admission is $1 per person and v
large crowd is anticipated t
An exciting feature of the event ^
'ill be the crowning of the queen
t intermission by last year’s p
ueen, Miss Sandra Leggett. The
lentity of the queen will not be 0
ivulged until just prior to the (j
aremony, it is understood.
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GET AWARDS:
Captain Frank W. Byrnes, USAF, is shown above con
gratulating Jesse E. Rawls, post supervisor, following
presentation of certificates and wings of the Ground
Observer Corps to members of the Roper post at a ceremony held in the school building there Monday
night of last week. Others in the photo include Ralph Rawls, observer; A X/c Glenn H. Campbell,
of the Durham Filter Center; Worth Chesson, assistant chief; Charlie Spruill, observer; Cecil Craft,
jr., assistant chief; J. R. Swain, assistant chief; N. C. Phelps, assistant chief; T. W. Norman, chief ob
server; Jack Leary, assistant chief; W. Aubrey Dixon; assistant chief; Mitchiner Banks, assistant chief;
and Tony Chesson, observer. Several others not present when the photo were made also received cer
tificates and wings, it was explained.—Staff photo.
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Mayor and Council
To Support Clean
Up Drive in March
Town Dump To Be Relo
cated and Rat-Poisoning
Campaign To Be Staged;
Other Matters at Meeting
Mayor A. J. Riddle and members
of the Plymouth town council as
sured a sizeable delegation from Io
. cal women’s and civic clubs that
the town would cooperate whole
heartedly in the clean-up cam
paign to be staged here in March.
Then to prove they really meant it,
the council members later in the
session authorized Delbert Allen,
county sanitarian, to secure ma
' terials for a rat-poisoning drive,
while the town's street crew later
in the week got busy and set out
r 100 dogwood seedlings purchased
I by the garden club on several
streets here.
f The clean-up movement origi
nated with the Plymouth Garden
Club but a number of other wo
. men's clubs, as well as the Jaycees,
Lions and Rotary Clubs here have
, since joined in to help with the
j project. Mrs. R. Vernon Jeter, gen
, eral chairman of the clean-up
movement, was principal spokes
man for the delegation at the coun
; cil meeting Monday night, although
several others joined in while the
discussion was underway. The main
campaign here will begin on
March 19.
Several other matters were con
sidered by the council at its regu
lar monthly meeting, with Mayor
Riddle presiding and all six mem
bers of the council in attendance,
as follows: E. D. Keel and W. C.
Hall, first ward; J. B. Latham and
Ralph Hunter, second ward; J. B.
Holliday and J. D. Mallory, third
ward.
One of the things suggested by
the delegation was finding a new
place for dumping refuse and gar
bage by the town trucks. At pres
ent property owned by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad on the north
side of East Water Street is being
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, Rouline Mailers
' Handled Monday
By Commissioners
Take Steps To Get County
Drainage Project Under
way; $39,500 in Taxes
Collected
The Washington County Board
of Commissioners, in regular
monthly session here Monday,
handled several routine matters of
business and deferred action on
two problems relating, respective
ly, to county school facilities and
additional rooms for the Washing
ton County Hospital. The latter is
reported separately in this paper.
Routine matters included:
Authorizing that a check be issue
to the treasurer of the South
ern Albemarle Association for 1956
county dues;
Authorizing Henry Bragg and L.
D. Hunnings, of the Soil Conser
vation Service, to fill out applica
tion blanks covering the count
drainage projects;
Approval of extension for the
Roxie Reese Road;
E. J. Spruill reported the sum
of $39,566.59 collected in his office
during the month of January;
The clerk to the board, J. Rob
ert Campbell, was instructed to
write to the highway department ]
to request that the road leading :
off the Mill Pond in Lees Mill 1
Township and up through the W. .
H. Thompson Road to the Dismal .
Road be improved. 1
All members of the board were {
present for the meeting as follows:
Frank L. Brinkley, chairman, c
and Commissioner A. R. Latham,
both of Plymouth; J. C. Knowles,
af Roper; Hubert L. Davenport, of
Skinnersville; and Phillip M.
Spruill, of Creswell.
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Free Farm Show
Planned Tuesday
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Everybody is invited, especially t
farmers and their families, to at- 1
tend the Sinclair Farm Show, \
which will be given at the Agri- i
culture Building in Plymouth next <
Tuesday night, February 14, start- <
ting at 7:30 p. m. Sponsored by a
C. O. Kelly and W. C. Hall, local 1
Sinclair distributors, there will be
entertainment for all, free door i
prizes, a cartoon and movies among \
other things. ]
Everything is free, according to 1
W. C. Hall, and everyone is invited. I
The movie deals with power farm- i
ing, and there are some helpful i
suggestions which should be of in- '
terest to farmers of the section. <
School, Hospital Problems
Deferred by County Board
AT CLINIC:
Three members of the Plym
outh High School Band par
„„„. . . ,, . , ticipated in the All-State
Band Clime, eastern division, held at East Carolina College in Green
ville Friday and Saturday of last week. The three members, pictured
above, left to right, are Barbara Johnson, trumpet; Ben Windley,
baritone; and Linda Lipscomb, clarinet_Staff photo.
Clean-Up Campaign
Planned Next Month
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Giant Parade Slated for Sat
urday, March 17, With
Clean-Up Week To Follow
The Next Week
The most all-out drive for clean
liness and beauty of surroundings
in the history of Plymouth »is in
the offing, it was indicated this
week.
A plan instigated by the Plym
outh Garden Club and entered into
with some enthusiasm by several
other clubs of the community, bus
iness and professional peopie and
city officials, came to public at
tention Tuesday when a meeting
was called by the project chair
man, Mrs. R. Vc non Jeter,
The. m. Hint/was held in -he
banquet room of The Mayflower
with Mrs. M. L. Nobles presiding.
About 25 persons attended, repre
senting the town government, both
banks, the county health depart
ment, several civic clubs, about
14 business houses and the local
newspaper.
Mrs. Nobles briefly outlined the
project plan, enlarged upon var
ious phases and answered ques
tions. Comment was also called for
and some responded, among them
Mayor A. J. Riddle, County Sani
tarian Delbert Allen, and James
If. Ward, insurance man, farmer
and a co-owner in the produce
market here.
It was explained that the over
all campaign, known as “Litter
bug," will be augmented by a pro
gram of beautification, that the
program will be advertised and
aromoted by various means, in
cluding a giant parade Saturday
ifternoon, March 17, with mer
chants and organizations invited
0 have appropriate floats.
The week following the Satur
lay parade will be designated
Clean-Up Week” in Plymouth and
1 concerted effort is planned to
id the community of all unsightly
lumps, refuse, and other objcct
onable matter, to clean up the
ack lots in the business district
nd prevent littering on the streets
nd on business and residential
its. It is hoped that the common
ight of loose wind-blown paper
nd other trash or debris on the '
reet will become a thing of the :
ist.
A campaign to rid the neighbor- 1
lod of rats will also be conducted *
conjunction with the clean-up 1
•oject, it was said. This will be c
indled under supervision of the *
mnty health department, with the
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Safely Record
Still On Here
The great safety record at
^ N. C. Pulp Co. here was still in
tact as of Wednesday morning
s and through Tuesday of this
week stood at 1,259,574 man
*' hours worked without a lost-time
0 accident.
Howard Gaylord, personal di
rector at the big plant who di
^ ertes the safety program, stated
( Wednesday nfbrning that morale
g was at a high peak among the
'■ some 1.200 employees and super
visory J>»r innel.„~hc last lost
c time act-..ent hapened August
r 1, 1955, so the six-month mark
'■ was passed February 1.
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Hail Insurance
On Tobacco May
: Be Raised Here
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* Proposal of Insurance Ral
s ing Bureau Would In
' crease Rate in Counly by
50 Cents
Among counties which would be
effected by proposed changes in
hail insurance rates on growing to
bacco is Washington.
The North Carolina Fire Insur
ance Rating Bureau proposed the
changes which would lower the
rate in some counties while raising
it in others, this county included
in the latter.
Insurance Commissioner Charles
F. Gold said Monday that the pro
posal overall would raise premiums
paid by tobacco growers of the
state by approximately $450,000 a
year.
Gold scheduled a public hearing i
on the filing for 10 a. m. February <
28 in his office, Room 300, Labor
Building, Raleigh. j
The Rating Bureau proposed in- 1
creases ranging from 25 cents to
$2 for 25 counties, 1
The filing is based on loss ex- J
perience in each county since 1924
Gold said the overall effect of the 1
proposal would be an average in- J
crease of 6.22 per cent in tobacco
hail rates. *
The proposal would up Wash- S
ington County’s rate 50 cents to (
$5 per $100 of coverage. j
Republican Precinct i
Meetings Scheduledi
Republican precinct convention;
will be held throughout Washing
ton County during the month ol
February, it was announced this
week by T. D. Somerville, chair
man of the county Republican exe
cutive committee. These will pre
cede the county convention, which
will be held on Friday, Februarj
24, at the courthouse in Plymouth
First of the precinct sessions is
set for Friday night of this week
when Republicans of Plymouth
Precincts Nos. 1 and 2 and Younj
Republicans will gather at the May
flower Restaurant here for a din
ner meeting at 7 o’clock. Follow
ing the dinner, precinct official;
will be elected to serve for the
coming two years.
Other precinct conventions are t
scheduled as follows: Lees Mill 1
Precinct, Wednesday, February 15, '
at Swain’s store in Roper; Skin- 1
nersville Precinct, on Wednesday, f
February 15, at Bateman’s store ‘
and garage; Scuppernong Precinct,
Wednesday, February 15, at Over
ton’s store in Creswell. The Weno- \
na Precinct meeting will be held "r
at the home of Carl Heynen at We- ,
nona. 1
It was also announced that the
Republican First Congressional 1
District convention would be held j
on March 9, place to be announced <
later. The Republican state con- <
vention will be held in Durham on ,
Saturday, March 10. i
Matter of School Facilities
Comes Up in Form of
Resolution; Seek Hospi
tal Addition
No decision was reached here
Monday by the county commission
ers concerning two important mat
ters brought to their attention,
action being deferred in both in
stances.
One important item of business
was in regard to the school facili
ties problem, while the other relat
ed to the county hospital here.
The commissioners set Monday,
February 20th, as the date for a
special meeting to consider a reso
lution handed them Monday by the
county education board. It was said
that a decision would be reached
at a later date on the matter of
adding rooms to the Washington
County Hospital.
The resolution, passed earlier in
the day by the board of education
in regular monthly session here,
reads as follows:
“'Whereas, in the judgment of
the Washington County Board of
Education, it is necessary to con
struct additional school buildings,
purchase land on which to locate
such buildings, buy needed equip
ment and busses, and to remodel,
renovate, recondition and add to
the existing buildings which are
used in the operation of the public
schools of said County is required
by the Constitution of North Caro
lina, and it is necessary to expand
not less than $500,000 for such pur
poses, and no provision has been
made either by the levy of local
tax or otherwise to raise said sum,
“Now Therefore, Be it resolved
by the Washington County Board
of Education that the Board of
Commissioners of said County is
requested to call an election in
Washington County as soon as may
be practicable as authorized by law
to ascertain the will of the voters
as to whether bonds of said Coun
ty for school purposes may be is
sued in the amount of $500,000 for
the purposes stated above.
“Further it is resolved that the
Secretary of the County Board of
Education be and is hereby di
rected to present a certified copy
of this resolution to the said Board
of Commissioners.”
The matter will be on the agen
da when the commissioners meet
at the courthouse February 20 at
7 p. m., it was said.
E. H. Liverman, W. Blount Rod
man and Leroy Ange, trustees of
the Washington County Hospital;
Doctors A. Parineau, C. McGowan,
E. W. Furgurson and Vernon Jeter;
and Frank L. Brinkley, chairman
of the county board of commission
ers who is also on the executive
committee of the hospital’s board
of trustees, joined in calling at
tention of the county governing
See BOARD, Page 10
Report Shows 115 Planes
Sighted During 238 Hours
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Jesse Rawls, supervisor of Roper
Ground Observer Corps post, an
nounced today that 83 observers
served at the post during “Opera
tion Skywatch” with 238 man-hours
pulled during the five-day period.
A total of 115 planes was sight
ed and reported, with 90 telephone
calls being placed.
Thirty new observers have been
added to the post roster, Mr.
Rawls commented.
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Mrs. Vinie Rhodes
Buried on Sunday
Funeral services were held from
Sound Side Free Will Baptist
Church Sunday at 3:30 p. m. for
Mrs. Vinie Rhodes, 55, of Plym
outh.
Officiating was the Rev. Donald
Wagner, of Columbia. Interment
was in the church cemetery. The
remains were left at Horner’s Fun
I'ral Home until one hour prior to
the service and then taken to the
rhurch.
The deceased was a daughter of
the late John Swain and Ellen
Thomas Swain, of Tyrrell County.
She passed away at 1:20 p. m. Sat
urday at Washington County Hos
pital, following an illness of four
months, two months of which time
she was confined to her bed.
Mrs. Rhodes was a native of Tyr
rell County, born July 12, 1901.
She had made her home at Plym
outh for six months, coming here
from Columbia. She was a member
of Sound Side Church.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs. V.
M. Bateman, of Hickory, Va.; a son,
Joseph E. Rhodes, of Plymouth;
one sister, Mrs. Charles Cooper, of
Columbia; a half-sister, Mrs. Min
pie Spruill, of Kitty Hawk; and
five grandchildren.
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