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1'own opics bU-i-in-i-n::::::: Sheriff J. K. Reid, who was taken ill Tuesday of last week, is reported improving in a Rocky Mount hospital. Mrs. Reid said the sheriff spent last Wednesday at the Washington County Hospital and was transferred to Rocky Mount Thursday morning. The sheriff is reported to be eating and resting well and his friends hope he will be able to return home soon. J05 Reid, jr., was officially deputized and is carrying on the work at the sheriff’s office here, it was report ed. Mrs. Reid noted that her hus band was sworn in as high sheriff of Washington County, succeeding his father, March 23, 1923, and that his son was sworn in as a deputy on March 22, 33 years later. Miss Miriam Ausbon, county ASC office manager, Mrs. Phyllis Gauthier, office clerk, and J. Whit ford Swain, county compliance sup ervisor, will leave Monday for Asheville where they will attend the state conference for ASC of fice managers and personnel and county committeemen. The confer ence, to be held at the George Vandrbilt Hotel, will consist of four major sessions, Administra tive, Agricultural Conservation pro gram, Price supports and storage, and Acreage allotments, marketing quotas and performance. The local j group will return to Plymouth i April 6. Easter holidays begin for Wash ington County school children Fri day at 1:30 p. m. and continue through Easter Monday. All schools in the county will observe the holi day, R. F. Lowry, county superin tendent, noted. All schools will resume classes at the usual hour Tuesday morning of next week. Janice Johnson, Gayle Skiles.and Eugene Brown, delegates, and J. R. Rawls, jr., sponsor, represented Plymouth High School at the 17th annual Eastern District meeting of the North Carolina Student Coun cil Congress at Williamston last Friday. Three general sessions were held during the day at First Christian Church, with a banquet session at noon at Roanoke Country Club. Theme of the meeting was “Up and Up—Unity and Participa tion — Understanding and Pro gress.” Dean Leo Jenkins, of East Carolina College, Greenville, ad dressed the opening session. There were 23 school represented. Friends here will be interested < to know that Mrs. D. L. Fouts, .* wife of a former minister of Plym outh Methodist Church, has been appointed to a five-member com mittee to visit cities in Eastern North Carolina in the interest of a four-year college to be establish ed in this part of the state. The < committee will visit Fayetteville, c Wilmington, Lumberton, Kinston, i See TOPICS, Page 10 — <$>. ’Elections Board To Meet April 7 The Washington County Board of Elections will hold its meeting to reorganize at 11 a. m. April 7 in the office of Clerk of Court W. T. Stillman. Members of the board, named recently by the State Board of Elections in Raleigh, are W. T. Freeman, Moye W. Spruill and J. R. Carr, all of Plymouth. Carr is a Republican, and the other two are Democrats. Freeman has served as chairman of the board. ] The board will be given the oath of office by the clerk, will select a chairman and will be given the books. Registration will start Satur day, April 28, and continue through Saturday, May 12. May 19 will be ! Challenge Day. Incidentally, Mr. Freeman said no further filing activity has been noted since the last report. “I reckon they’re waiting for warm weather,” the jovial board chair man opined. -- 1000 Seal Letters Mailed in County About 1,000 letters containing Easter Seals for 1956 were placed in the mails here and at Creswell this week, Mrs. Henry E. Harrison, chairman of the Washington Coun ty Easter Seal Society, announced. A generous response is hoped for, Mrs. Harrison said, pointing out that every three seconds some I one is injured and that in North Carolina more than 28,000 children are crippled from accidents, polio, bone disease, birth injuries and 100 other conditions like cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. Contributions, Mrs. Harrison stated, will provide treatment and education for crippled children and adults. Equipment like wheel chairs and braces are needed, and camping for those with broken health and bodies. Mrs. Harrison urges that those who receive the seals through the mail use them even if they do not feel able to contribute. Use of the seals will tell others of your inter est in the program, the chairman of the county society stated. The campaign closes April 10. The Roanoke Beacon ****** and Washington County News ****** A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and its 13,OM people. ftniiin-i-EH VOLUME LXVI1—NUMBER 13 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 29, 1956 ESTABLISHED 1889 I 1 £***** Mi / ••■*—... aas-»»;%*« •••••••, «*»•** / Office personnel at North Carolina Pulp Company will be given Friday afternoon off but will work Easter Monday, it was said. Two other local industrial plants, True Temper Corp., and Atlas Plywood Corp., will ob serve Easter Monday, it was learned today. The holiday next Monday will ! be general in Plymouth. The post office and restraurants will be open, but stores, county, town and federal offices, both banks, garages and most other business houses will close for the day. Drug stores and service stations are expected to observe Sunday hours. School students throughout the county will also have the day off, resuming classes at the regu lar hour Tuesday morning. Most stores here remained open all day yesterday, but will resume their regular weekly half-holiday closing next Wed nesday. Tax Values Reduced Where Errors Found Architect ior Local Project Frank L. Brinkley, chairman of the Washington County Board of Commissioners, stated yester day that an architect is expected to be secured within the next few days to prepare plans for the 10-bed addition at Washing ton County Hospital. Maximum cost of the project, funds for which will be furnish ed by federal, state and county governments, will be $60,000, Mr. Brinkley stated. He said the cost to the county will be slightly more than $14,000. Details of the project will be available when plans are drawn, Mr. Brinkley stated. Expresses Belief That State Will Issue Road Bonds Slate Senator Edward L. Owens, of Plymouth, Sees $150,000 Eos* Isfv . for Improvement of System State Senator Edward L. Owens, of Plymouth, has expressed the opinion that the state will bond itself for another $150 million to be spent mostly on widening and im proving the secondary highway system. The second district senator made the statement in a letter addressed to President A. Kelly of the B. F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio. The letter, dated March 22, was in reply to a letter Owens received from Kelly recently The company’s letter to Owens explained their interest in a series of advertisements appearing in Life and Time magazines in which the slogan, "Highway Safety Is Everybody’s Business,” is used. Senator Owens’ letter commends the B. F. Goodrich Company for its interest in highway safety and expresses the hope that more com panies will advertise and take an interest in the problem of roads. “It seems to be hard for many of us to realize how fast our popula tion is increasing, how many more automobiles are using the highways from year to year,” Owens wrote, “and, above all, how many more fatalities are occurring on account of this crowded condition when so many lives could be saved by prop er road construction and improve- ] mcnt to meet this growing and pro-' gressive situation.” He continued, “I do not think our' next General Assembly will wait | any longer on the Federal Govern-j ment. It is my idea that our State! 1 will bond itself for another 150 i million dollar bond issue to be: spent mostly on widening and im | proving our secondary road.i system.” ’ I 1 County Commissioners, Sit ting in Adjourned Meet ing as Review Board, Make Adjustments Several errors in classification and valuation of property were rectified by the county commis sioners during an adjourned meet ing of the body, sitting as a board of equalization and review, Mon day night at the courthouse. The complaints of the taxpayers who filed them at the meeting of the review board March 19 were reviewed and the following changes ordered: Mrs. W. H. Turner of Lees Mill was given credit for a lot sold to Carl Gilchrist in 1955. Value oi the lot was said to be $140 and Mrs. Turner was automatically given credit in that amount; C. A. Armstrong and James A. Armstrong of Scuppernong Town ship were given a reduction each on 59 acres of cultivated high land from $115 to $80 per acre, error being found in thg valuation; Sidney M. Brickhouse of Scup pernong Township was given a re duction on 27 acres of cultivated high land from $110 to $80 per acre because an error in valuation placed on the land was discovered; Due to error in depreciation valuation placed on a corner lot on Jcffersc'1, Street, Ply -L ed to Lillian C. Campbell, was rt duced from $3,080 to $2,555; An error in addition of improve ment was found concerning proper ty listed to J. S. Collins, Lees Mill Township, and the valuation was reduced from $2,530 to $2,375; It was said that the E. M. Leavitt residence in Plymouth was incor rectly classified and the valuation was reduced from $9.50 per square to $8.34 and the valuation now reads $9,730 instead of $10,725; Error in classifying the W. E. Manning bungalow, Plymouth Township, was found and rectified, resulting in a reduction in valua tion from $8,150 to $7,360; M. E. Tarkenton Heirs property in Lees Mill Township was correct ed to read 172 acres of cutover woodsland at $10 an acre, rather than $15 as previously listed; Due to error in depreciation of the A. L. Owens Heirs store build ing in Lees Mill Township a 75 per cent depreciation in value was al lowed, making the listing $1,113 in lieu of the previous $1,903; T. E. Ainsley, Plymouth Town ship, was allowed 10 per cent de preciation on three houses listed to him on Fourth Street in Plym outh. One was reduced from $2,195 ;o $2,000, another from $2,160 to 51,965 and a third from $2,415 to 52,125. An error was found in this nstance, it was said. Sunday School Convention At Christian Hope April 8 ♦— The Washington-Tyrrell Sunday school Convention will meet Sun lay, April 8, with the Christian lope~Uhurch of Christ, it was an lounccd this week by J. E. Nooney, if Plymouth, who is president ol he convention. Officers of the sophomore class of Plym outh High School are pictured above on the steps of the local school building, left to right, as follows: David Culbreth, president; Glenda Stokesberry, vice president; Lois Mobley, secretary; and Bonnie Willingham, treasurer.—Staff photo. Fireman's School Set for April 2-6 Here, Announced Fire Chief I. Miller Warren Makes Announcement of Second Annual Training School To Be Held Here The second annual Fireman’s Training School is scheduled to be held here April 2-6, Plymouth Fire Chief I. Milier Warren announced this week. Instructors for the school will be Captain Otis Dowdy, Drill and Personnel director, Charlotte Fire Department, and Sherman Pickard, of Raleigh, deputy fire marshal. Possibly others will assist, it was said. The event will be sponsored by the Plymouth Fire Department for the purpose of bringing to fire men of this general area the op portunity to study and lean more efficient methods of combatting and preventing fires, Warren said. Classes are to be held each even ing from 7:30 to 10 o’clock at the local Fire House, and will be held regardless of weather conditions, it was said. Equipment will be furnished by the local department and will consist of commqn tools found on standard apparatus. Spec ial equipment will be used for demonstration purposes only, with emphasis on standard gear. Indi vidual students are requested to provide work clothing for all class sessions. Attendance will be checked at each session and a report made at the close of the school. Each stu dent attendang the full five nights and completing requirements of the course will be given a certifi cate. Appreciative Audience Sunday Hears Cantata A large and appreciative audi ence nearly filled Plymouth Metho dist Church sanctuary Sunday af ternoon to hear the chorus of over 40 voices sing the cantata by Maun der, “Olivet to Calvary.” The chorus was composed of memhers of choirs from the Bap • hristian, Episcopal, Mctho-: dist anu»pfSj,byterian churches. J. Shepherd Brinkley was at the or gan. The program was dedicated to the memory of Lloyd Gilbert, active in music circles here until tiis recent death. The program opened promptly at 4 o'clock and lasted for one sour. XI7 I 1/_ Construction of the new Masonic Temple for Perseverance Lodge, No. 59, * iJlTMi MjMldm ".F. & A-®*., has been started at the intersection of Andrew Jackson . .. Avenue and Third Street, as pictured above. It will be a two-storv assembly room k“I h'Dg Wit? thC lodg!i J13'1 0n ‘JT second fIoor’ whi,e thc first floor will have an krh,’ re,st ro°ms and lounge. O.erall dimensions of the building are 40 by 70 feet, w"ll C»°mrny ,S t0, “C.,0Se Ln”.the building, after which the Masons themselves ™ h" £ l ah .r?!".a,nf* wo/k on a volunteer basis. The building is being put up on a “pay-as strueture—Staffnphoatodltl°na* C0ntnbutl0ns are being sought by local Masons to complete work on the Civil Court Term To Open Tuesday, April 3; 16 Cases Judge Susie Sharp, of Reids ville, To Preside in Lieu Of Judge Chester Morris, Of Coinjock Sixteen cases are on the calen dar for the April civil term of Washington County Superior Court which is scheduled to open here ruesday of next week. Judge Susie Sharp, North Caro lina’s famed woman jurist from Reidsville, will preside over the :ourt in lieu of Judge Chester Mor ris, of Coinjock, who continues ill. The court will delay its opening une day in observance of Easter Monday. Twelve cases are sched uled for Tuesday and the other four are listed for Wednesday. Several divorce actions are includ 5d. The calendar: Tuesday, April 3—William A. Blount vs. Jessie Blount; Lettice Lee McCormick vs. John H. Mc Cormick; Lena Brown vs. Cary Brown; Beulah W. Harris vs. Charles T. Harris; Lillian Shugar /s. J. S. Shugar; George Wynn vs. Dctavia Wynn; Clyde Spruill vs. Beatrice Spruill; Rebecca Bishop r. Walter Robert Bishop; E. L.' -ens et al vs. W. O. Winslow; ’hillip Vail vs. J. T. Bateman; Ceorge W. Sitterson vs. J. T. Bate nan; Talley Implement Co. vs. Charlie Norfleet; Wednesday, April 4—N. F. Paul 's. C. H. Neece; C. R. Dennis vs. iaisy Lee Williams; R. H. Lucas, r., vs. Herman Jackson; Offie Mae HeDanidis vs. Planters National Bank & Trust Co., administrator. Accident Last Friday Closes Safety Record String of 1,608,029 Man hours Without Accident Ended When Pulp Mill Employee Breaks Arm After over 1,600,000 manhours of labor without a lost-time accident, the safety record at the North Carolina Pulp Company here ap parently was broken last Friday afternoon about 2:30, when a work man employed on the hydro-pulper of the new No. 1 machine slipped and fell, suffering a broken arm. A company official said yester day that the record "apparently” was broken, because there remain ed a possibility that the injured man might report for work with the midnight shift last night. If it was determined then that he could continue his regular duties, then no “lost-time" accident would be involved, since his fall was suffer ed about the end of his regular tour of work last Friday, and he was not scheduled to return to work until midnight Wednesday. However, an official announce ment was issued Tuesday, stating that the accident had occurred and that it marked the end of the pres ent program, which had as its tar get two million manhours without a lost-time accident. The record started August 1st of last year and was the longest string of contin uous manhours without an accident in the history of the industry. The injured man was not named, but the announcement said he was employed in the paper mill divis ion and was working on the hydro pulper when the accident occurred. He slipped on a slick spot of the rubber belting used to convey the “broke" up to the hydro-pulper and suffered a broken left arm. “The entire personnel of the mill were sincerely disappointed in not being able to continue on to two million manhours,” the announce ment stated. “As stated by one of the management members last week, ‘Our record is one that all See ACCIDENT, Page 5 I. [safety! *—BOXSCORE-— Starting last August 1st, and continuing through last Friday, when an accident broke the | string, employees of the North Carolina Pulp Company here worked the following number of manhours without a lost-time ac cident: 1,608,029 Good Attendance At Church Meets -1 Good attendance is reported for the Holy Week meetings being conducted nightly at 8 o’clock at First Christian Church here this week. The church minister, the Rev. C. N. Barnette, will be the speaker Thursday night, while the Rev. Ross J. Allen, secretary of the North Carolina Christian Mission ary Society, will preach Friday night. A Community Sunrise Prayer Service will be held in the court of the Christian Church lawn East er Sunday morning, it is announ ced. The Plymouth United Youth Council will have charge of the program. Easter services will be conducted by the miuister with a Baptismal service in the evening. The public is cordially invited. Youth of Roper Church To Give Pageant Sunday ♦— The Youth Society of the Pente costal Holiness Church at Roper will present an Easter pageant next Sunday at 7:30 p. m. The program will largely consist of singing, and the public is cordially invited i ( l < i < s h r c t r t ( \ 1 I f: Construction Started On Alum Plant Here 1 Norfolk Firm Gets Contract And Starts Work Monday; Expected To Be Complet ed Before July 1 Machinery was moved onto the lot Monday to be used in construct ing the liquid alum plant of the American Cyanamid Company here. Tidewater Construction Corpora tion, of Norfolk, Va., has the gen eral contract for construction of the new plant and work is now underway at the site, located across the highway and rail siding back of the filter plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company. Earl J. Walsh, who is to be man ager of the new plant, returned to Plymouth last week and will be here during the construction per iod. He said it is expected about 90 days will be required to com plete the building and installation, and it is hoped to have the plant in operation by the first of July. Details of the plans have not been revealed, but it is understood only one building will be required, about 60 by 40 feet. A number of tanks arc to be built, one large one and possibly a half dozen smaller. Bauxite and sulphuric acid are the basic raw materials used in the manufacture of liquid alum, and it is understood the process is large ly one of mixing, refining and settling. The North Carolina Pulp Com pany uses a large amount of liquid alum, and it is to supply the in creasing demands of the pulp and paper industry in North Carolina and Virginia that the plant is being located here. It is understood that much of the alum to be made here will be delivered by pipeline right into the pulp plant, one of the rea sons for choosing a site adjacent to the North Carolina Pulp Com pany. The pulp company here has been using large amounts of liquid alum produced by the American Cyana mid Company at its Georgtown, S. C., plant. While the plant under construction here is relatively small, it will be large enough to supply the local demand and othej pulp mills in North Carolina and Virginia, according to the company statement last December 12th, when decision to locate in Plym outh was announced. -« Stale Tax Man Here This Week E. R. Froneberger, of William son, a deputy collector with the 'lorth Carolina Department of tevenue, will be in Plymouth Thursday and Friday of this week o give free assis&mce to taxpayers n filing their state tax returns. Mr. Froneberger will be in the ourtroom on the second floor of he courthouse both days. Any single person or married roman having an income of $1,000 ir more during the year 1955 and ny married man living with wife n December 31, 1955, having an ncome of $2,000 or more must file state return, it is pointed out. Also, any person owning on De ember 31, 19554 intangible per onal property such as money on and, accounts receivable, notes, lortgages or other evidences of ebt, or shares of stock of corpora ons (not wholly in this state) lust file an intangible tax return. Deadline for filing" and paying le tax is April 15. -® jodge Supper, Play Set For Tuesday Next Week Perseverance Lodge No. 59, A. F. nd A. M., will hold a supper Tues day night of next week at 7 o’clock, nth visitation from Acacia Club, Jorfolk, Va., to dramatize a play t 8 o'clock. Alljnasons are cordially invited o attend by order of the worship il master, W. C. Chesson. i j Easier Monday; I Closing Slated | Plymouth business houses will close next Monday in observance of Easter Monday, Thos. F. Hop kins, president of the Plymouth Merchants Association, said to day. The stores will also observe the usual half-holiday closing Wednesday of next week, it was noted. Service Set for Good Friday at Plymouth Church Ministers of County To Take Part in Special Three Hour Program at Grace Church Following a custom of many yearfe, the Plymouth Ministerial Association will have a three hour service in commemoration of Good Friday in Grace Episcopal Church, Plymouth. The service will begin promptly at 12 o’clock noon Friday of this week and extend until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, observing the three hours that our Lord hung on the cross just prior to His death. Seven local ministers will give ser monettes on the seven last words of Christ. There will be many pray ers and hymns. Persons not able to attend the entire program may enter and leave the church during the singing of the hymns. A choir for the service will be composed of several local church choirs. Parents of young children are re minded that the Plymouth Minis terial Association will provide a baby sitter in the Eipscopal Parish House across the street from the church. This should make it possi ble for many mothers of young children to attend the service, it is believed. The host minister, The Rev. Ed ward M. Spruill, will give a brief introductory talk. Meditation on the First Word, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do,” will be by the Rev. Robert L. Combs, pastor of the Plymouth Presbyterian Church. Meditation on the Second Word, “Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise” will be by the Rev. Jesse H. Lanning, pastor of the Plymouth Methodist Church. The Rev. John R. Soloky, pastor of The Plymouth Church of the Nazarene will speak on the Third Word, “Woman, behold thy Son . . . Son behold thy mother.” The minister of the Hebron Metho dist Church of Roper, the Rev. P. W. Aitken, will speak on the Fourth Word, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Mr. Spruill will give the sermonette on the Fifth Word, “I thrist.” Medi ScTsERVICErPageT ] 1 t * 1 1 1 ] ( t i v F s I c s< n A h J rr Meel Set Tonight To Name Member Of County Board Democralic Execuiive Com millee Will Choose Suc cessor to L. E. Hassell on Board of Education A meeting of the Washington County Democratic Executive Com mittee will be held Thursday night af this week to choose a successor to L. E. Hassell, sr.„ Roper, whose resignation as a member of the county board of education becomes effective at the April meeting of the board. Carl L. Bailey, sr., chair nan of the party executive com nittee, called the meeting the first >f this week to be held in the office >f the register of deeds at the :ourthouse at 7:30 tonight. Mr. Hassell, who has served as nember and chairman of the coun y board of education for many 'ears, submitted his resignation or reasons of health. J. W. Nor nan, of Plymouth, has been acting is chairman at recent sessions of he board. Mr. Bailey said he had heard of everal names being proposed for he vacancy but declined to specu ate on the probable nominee of he executive committee. State law jrovides that vacancies on the >oard of education shall be filled >y appointment made by the exe cutive committee of the party to vhich the retiring member be onged. Members of the county Demo ■ratic executive committee are as ollows: Carl L. Bailey, of Plym >uth, chairman; J. R. Campbell of Plymouth Precinct No. 1; S. F. Darden, Plymouth Precinct No. 2; L. E. Hassell, sra Lees Mill pre cinct; Roy Patrick, Skinnersville precinct; and T. F. Davenport, scuppernong precinct. Wcnona precinct failed to complete its or ganization two years ago, and there is some doubt about its representa ;ion on the executive committee. -$ Public Relations Dinner at Creswell About 100 or more persons at tended the public relations dinner >f the Washington County unit, Vorth Carolina Education Associ ttion, Wednesday night at Cres vell. A short color film, “Mike Wakes His Mark,” was shown fol owing the brief business session. The affair was held in the audi torium of the high school with T. Hood, of Roper, president of the ounty unit, serving as toastmaster, t. delicious turkey dinner was en oyed. Several county notables were ecognized by Mr. Hood during the >usiness session. The group was ater entertained with two vocal elections by Mrs. Mark Woolard, ccompanied at the piano by Pin icr Smithson. Others on the program included L K. Spencer, jr., invocation; It. *■ Cobo, principal of the host chool, welcome; Mrs. Helen Peele, esponse; R. F. Lowry, county chool superintendent, introduction f film. -9 Ireswell Stores Announce Wednesday Half-Holidays Beginning Wednesday of next reck the stores at Creswell will egin to observe their midweek oliday, it is announced. Until further notice the stores 'ill close each Wednesday at 1 • m., and everyone is urged to top early on these days. loper PTA Meeting Set For Tuesday, April 10th The Roper Parent-Teacher Asso ation has postponed its meeting •heduled for next week and will eet instead on Tuesday night, pril 10, it is announced. The meeting will be held in the gh school auditorium and Mrs. >hn Dawson, president, urges all embers to attend. Change Board Meets On Account Holiday The usual “first Monday” board meetings here have been postponed because of the Easter Monday holi day. Two of the boards—the county board of education and the Plym outh Town Council—have moved their monthly meetings up to the following Monday, April 9. The board of education must elect a chairman to replace L. E. Hassell, sr., of Roper, resigned, and it was pointed out that all members should be present. It was learned that J. Whitford Swain would be out of town early next week and so the April 9 date was decided upon. The city fathers here will hold their meeting Monday, April 9, at 8 p. m. at the Municipal Building, with a routine session in prospect according to W. A. Roebuck, board clerk. The county commissioners, on the other hand, have decided to hold their meeting Tuesday morn ing of next week at 10:30 o'clock. J. Robert Campbell, who serves as clerk to the board, stated yester day that a routine session is ex pected.