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T'own , opics Scoutmaster Foster Perkins and Scouters Lyman Mayo, Charles Walker and Jimmy Kitchengs plan to take the 21 Boy Scouts of Troop 264 here to the Pre-Camporee to be held Friday, Saturday and Sun day at Windsor. The camp site will be Winston Woods and a camp fire and District Court of Honor are scheduled Friday night, it was announced. Jerry Ashwille, of Wil liamston, scout field executive for the combined Roanoke-Chowan and Wasmarty Districts, will be present. m Sheriff J. K. Reid returned home w from a Rocky Mount hospital last Thursday just in time to get back to work. Friday the sheriff was called to investigate a criminal as sault at Mackeys and this week has been at his usual post of duty for the superior court sessions. The sheriff reported Wednesday that he was “feeling fine.” The Washington County Board of Elections will hold its meeting to reorganize at 11 o’clock Saturday morning in the office of the clerk of court. Members of the board are W. T. Freeman, Moye W. Spruill and J. R. Carr, all of Plymouth. It is expected that Freeman will be renamed chairman. Carr is the Rpnnhlipan Partv rpnrpcpntntivp on the board and the other two are Democrats. Two postponed monthly board meetings are scheduled here Mon day of next week. The Town Coun cil will meet Monday night at 8, while the county board of educa tion will hold a morning session at i(the courthouse. The county com missioners held their meeting Tuesday. Word has been received here that Marine T/Sgt. Richard T. Rhodes, husband of the former Miss Betty E. Walker, 105 Winesett Circle, Plymouth, arrived in Korea March 20 for duty with a unit of the First Marine Aircraft Wing . near Pohang. The many friends of Lewis Price will be glad to know that he is now getting along fine following another bout with pneumonia and that he may be able to return home next week from a Rocky Mount hospital. Mr. Price, international labor union representative here, has had pneumonia 30 times ac cording to the record. And, inci dentally, that in itself must be some sort of record! -- Pre - School Clinic Schedule Released Dates for Pre-School Clinics were announced today by the county health department. Miss Elizabeth Wood, county health nurse, calls attention of parents to the require % ment that children six years of age on or before October 16, 1956,! mukt have smallpox vaccination and whooping cough and diptheria shots before entering school next fall. Parents are also urged to bring children's birth certificates. Regular clinic dates are listed as follows: , Creswell colored, Creswell Color ed School, April 9; 4J * Creswell white, Creswell High School, April 13; Roper colored, Washington Coun ty Union School, April 20; Plymouth colored, Plymouth Colored Elementary School, April 23; Plymouth white, Plymouth High School, April 27; Roper white, Roper High School, April 30. No Solution To Owens' Robbery Investigating officers were no nearer a solution yesterday of the Owens Bros, hreak-in last Thurs day night, Officer Paul Basnight reported. A. Lloyd Owens discovered last Friday morning that a cigar box containing $146.83 in cash and a $19.50 check was missing from a desk drawer in the office located on Washington Street here. Thinking that his brother, Ed ward L. Owens, might have moved the box, Lloyd did not notify police until 11 a. m. Friday, it was stated. Local police launched an inves tigation but could not determine how access was gained to the office. The rear door was barred and the front door locked and no windows had been broken into. i i } ( 1 c s I i C rI v u n n U V J. a ^ u m Joycees Sponsor Teen-Age Rondeo The Plymouth Junior Chamber of Commerce has adopted as a project sponsorship locally of the national safe-driving “Teen-Age Road-e-o,” Jaycee officials have announced. The road-e-o is designed to pro mote teen-age driver education and safe driving habits, it was stated. The local road-e-o will be conduct ed in conjunction with the national program which will offer a total of $3,000 in scholarships $1,500, $1,000 and $500) to the three na tional winners. The state contest is slated for June and the finalists in each ol the 48 states, the District of Co lumbia, and the State of Hawaii, will compete in Washington, D. C., for national honors. Chairman of the project is Wal ter Furlong. Other members of the project committee are: Bill Mc Combs, screening; James H. Ward, awards; James Boyce, obstacle course; William B. Blackburn, pub licity. A written test will be given en tries, it was said, and will count for 60 per cent, while a driving test will be scored for the other 40 per cent. e ti tl n b Cl b si To be eligible to enter one must w fiave valid North Carolina opera- d tor's license; no history of driving d infractions; and 20th birthday to | d fall on or after September 1, 1956. cl The Roanoke Beacon *★★★★★ AND WASHINGTON BOUNTY MEWS ****** i ;pm:H:iiHS:!nR:»:n:::HKn>n^n:=Ensn»!ni*aBi^ A home newspaper dedicated to the service *f Washington i| County and its 13,M« people. VOLUME LXVII—NUMBER 14 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 5, 1956 ESTABLISHED Ut9 BUSY PLACE: This photo was made at the site where the American Cyanamid Company’s new liquid alum plant is to be con „ , . . , . _ structcd, with a portion of the North Carolina Pulp Company plant in the background. Tidewater Construction Corporation workmen had just completed driving some test piling preparatory to beginning work on the foundation when this picture was taken last Friday morning The pile driving rig shown here has a boom extending 120 feet in the air. Left to right in the foreground are Bob Jones, representative of Tidewater Construction Cor poration; Bill Duncan, Tidewater superintendent; E. J. Walsh, who is to be manager of the liquid alum plant; and Carl Schmidt, chemical construction representative of American Cyanamid.—Staff photo. First Traffic Fatality Of Year Here Friday j Filing Deadline j Noon April 14lh W. T. Freeman, chairman of the Washington County Board of Flections, this week called at tention of prospective candidates to the change in hour of the filing deadline. This year the deadline is 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, April 14, for candidates to file for county and township offices. Heretofore, candidates have been allowed to file up to 6 p. m., on the final day, but the law has been changed, and notices of candidacy can be filed only until 12 noon on the 14th. Mr. Freeman said the law is specific on this point and those planning to file for office are warned to bear it in mind. Cancer Campaign Workers Listed by Overall Chairman -» Mrs. Ed Craft Heads Annual April Fund Drive in This County; Organization Not Complete Yesterday The county organization for the American Cancer Society’s annual Vpril fund campaign was still in ompletc Wednesday but names of nost of the officials and volunteer vorkers were released by Mrs. Ed h'aft, campaign chairman. Chairman of the executive com nittce is Miss Elizabeth Wood, zhile Dr. A. Papineau is serving s consulting physician. Command r of the county chapter of the ociety is Mrs. Harry Browning, of 'lymouth. Mrs. Borden Kornegay ; in charge of publicity, and Ed raft is Educational chairman, reasurer is Aubrey Liverman, ith Mrs. Oliver Lucas as treas rer. Garland Hardison has been amed chairman of outlying busi css solicitations. Other workers named to date: Ben Ganderson, Mrs. Durand eel, Mrs. Stewart Phelps, Mrs. yal Womble, Mrs. Gladys Ange, ladys Hassell, Mary Armistead, actor Simon, Allic Dixon, Emily dinner, Milton Armistead, Luea la Cooper, Letha Staton, Lonnie oung, Emma L. Jordan; Mrs. Mary Grady Barnhill, Mrs. F. Keyes, Mrs. L. J. Darby, Mrs. See CAMPAIGN, Page 5 Six - Year- Old Colored Girl Siruck and Killed by Truck Operated by Young Plymouth Carpenter Catherine Bell, 6 year-old daugh ter of Samuel Bell, Plymouth Negro, Friday became the first highway fatality in Plymouth for 1956 when struck by a pickup truck operated by Henry Gray Spencer, 25-year-old Plymouth carpenter. The accident happened at 9:45 a. m. north of the intersection of Wilson Street and Carolina Ave nue. Spencer was heading for up town Plymouth and the child was walking west on Wilson Street, along with Maurice Baker, 23-year old Negro. Spencer told Officer Paul Bas night he was driving about 35 miles per hour when he saw the child run out into the road. He said he applied his brakes which pulled the vehicle over on the shoulder of the street into the gravel and it skidded and struck the child’s head against a front fender. Basnight said his investigation at the scene showed that the truck skidded 57 feet, seven inches from where the brakes were applied to the place where the truck hit the child and that the girl was knock ed 50 feet by the impact. Basnight said Baker told him, “I was walking with the child headed west on Wilson Street, the child ran across the street and this truck was coming about 50 or 55 miles per hour and there was one more woman that saw the acci dent.” Basnight swore out a warrant be fore Magistrate C. M. Beasley, charging that Spencer “did operate a motor vehicle on the public streets of the Town of Plymouth at a greater rate of speed than al lowed by law and slay Catherine Bell . . . without malice and with out premeditation and delibera tion.” Bond, set at $1,000, was signed by 0. 0. Spencer and the defendant who will be given a preliminary hearing in Washington County Re corder’s Court before Judge W. Ronald Gaylord Tuesday of next 1 week. No recorder’s court session was held here this week since Superior Court was in session. Willis Bowen To Allend FHA Meel al New Bern ! Willis Bowen will attend an FHA ' irea meeting at New Bern Tues- i lay of next week. He will be ac companied by his assistant, Thomas ; Armstrong, of Columbia. State FHA £ >ffiee personnel will direct the i neeting, it was said. The local of- r icc will be kept open by Mrs. i Ernestine Basnight, clerk. C Constable's Wife Is Ravished Friday Al Mackeys Home Mrs. W. A. Everett, About 55, Criminally Attacked By Unidentified Young Negro Last Friday —«.— A middle-aged white woman was criminally assaulted by an uniden tified Negro at her home at Mac keys Friday afternoon, Sheriff J. K. Reid reports. The woman—Mrs. W. A. Everett, about 55, wife of the constable of Lees Mill Township—was taken by her husband to the Plymouth Clinic for treatment following the ordeal and she is now at home, the report stated. Sheriff Reid said the assault took place at about 5:30 o’clock and that the assailant left the house shortly before the arrival of Mrs. Everett’s married daughter. The victim’s husband came home sometime after the daughter arrived and carried Mrs. Everett to Plymouth for treat ment. The Negro was described by Mrs. Everett as small — about 140 pounds—and in his early thirties, the sheriff said. She said she had never seen the man before, Reid related. Below, briefly, is Mrs. Everett’s story as told by the sheriff: The man appeared at the back door of the home and asked Mrs. Everett if her husband was home. She replied that he had gone to the store and was expected back shortly. Thereupoti the man opened the screen door, walked into the kitchen, jabbed something into the woman's back and ordered her up stairs. He assaulted her in an up stairs bedroom and left. The sheriff was notified and im mediately launched an investiga tion which is continuing. However, it was said there is little to go upon. Sheriff Reid reported that several Negroes and a white man were working in a nearby field Friday afternoon but that all had Deen questioned and denied having seen or heard anything at the rouse. Registrants Fail To Gel Draft Mail Mrs. Lorraine Hunter, clerk to ielective Service Board No. 95 lere, released yesterday a list ol egistrants who failed to return orrcspondence addressed to them. The names of th«? men with theii ist known addresses: Robert Mansfield Stevenson, 13 ielmar St., Buffalo, N. Y.; Daniel winded Wawson, 1077 Lincoln lace, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Carol Law cnee Hunt, Roper; Morris McCoy lufton, Box 143, Roper; Alton tis Gurganus, Roper; Connie ’Neal Cooper, 309 E. 4th St., lymouth. If anyone knows the whereabouts [ these men, please notify the seal board or the men, Mrs. Hunt r appeals. It is imperative that ic men be located, she said. At ic present the registrants have ot been reported as delinquents it will be if they do not answer irrespondence forwarded to them Y the local board, Mrs. Hunter ated. Maryland Skittlethorpe, of Cres ell, failed to report for pre-in lction March 26 and will be or :red to report for induction if he >es not remove delinquent arges, it was said. Sidney J. Hassell Named To Succeed Father On Board Appointed by Unanimous Vote of Democratic Exe cutive Committee at Meet ing Here Last Thursday Sidney J. Hassell, young farmer dairyman of Roper, will be the new member of the Washington County Board of Education. He was apointed by the county Democratic executive committee last Thursday night to fill the vacancy created by resignation of his father, L. E. Has sell, sr., also of Roper, for reason of health. It is expected that young Mr. Hassell wili qualify and enter upon his new duties at the April meeting of the board of education, which is scheduled to be held next Mon day. The elder Mr. Hassell’s resig nation becomes effective at that time. At the called meeting of the Democratic executive committee, held at the courthouse here last Thursday night, Mr. Hassell’s name was the only one to be formally presented to the committee and his apointment was by unanimous vote. Members of the committee present were Carl L. Bailey, chairman; J. R. Campbell of Plymouth Precinct No. 1; S. F. Darden of Plymouth No. 2; L. E. Hassell, sr., of Lees Mill; and T. F. Davenport of Scup rtfil'nAnrf P mr Dofriolr of ville was absent and the Wenona precinct was not represented since it did not complete its organization two years ago. The new member of the board of education is 32 years old. After receiving his basic education at Roper High School, he attended North Carolina State College for two years before going into the service, returning after the war and graduating in December, 1947. He was with a seed firm in Laurin burg for about four years after his graduation, returning to the fam ily farm about four years ago and has been associated with his father and brother, L. E. Hassell, senior and junior, in the opera' on of the farm and dairy near Roper r that time. See HASSELL, Page 5 THERMOMETER I - 1 I c This big thermometer, located on the side of one of the build ings at the North Carolina Pulp Company here, shows the “mer cury” nearly three-fourths of the way to the goal of two mil lion manhours of labor without a lost-time accident before an ac cident on March 23 broke the string. A new campaign is now underway with the mercury aearly at the 100,000 mark. That’s Mrs. Barbara Sexton and Mrs. Lillian Gurganus, personnel de partment employees, standing •inder the big marker. — Staff photo. 2 ( C v ( (I c t' tl V C a SI a P a A V si a V V b F R. Board Orders Bond Vote At Election in November | lied Cros§ Drive Falla l j SI. 100 Short of Quota j ine annual Ked Cross member ship and fund drive in Washing ton County was about $1,400 short of the quota Wednesday of this week, with several reports yet to be submitted, Dr. A. L. Whitehurst, county chapter chairman, stated. The drive for some $2,300 quota will be extended through April 15, Dr. Whitehurst said. “We arc financially responsible for support of the blood program here,” Dr. Whitehurst said, declar ing that the program is being jeo pardized through lack of financial support as well as lack of support from blood donors. He said the local blood bank's existence is definitely threatened. It costs §85,000 yearly to operate the Red Cross Tidewater Regional Blood program, Dr. Whitehurst added. Several Candidacies Announced Recently r P. B. Belanga, W. Ronald s Gaylord, A. R. Laiham t And H. L. Davenporl t Filed During Past Week i * s Several candidates for county political offices filed during the past week, with one new contest 3 developing for the Democratic pri 3 mary on May 26. So far, a total of 3 10 candidates have filed with W. T. Freeman, chairman of the coun j ty board of elections, for district r and county offices that are at stake t in the primary and general election 1 this year. r Those who filed during the past ; week include the following: P. B. r Belanga, last Thursday, for renomi . nation to the county board of edu - cation from Scuppernong Town > ship; W. Ronald Gaylord, last Sat - urday, for reelection as judge of 1 the county recorder’s court; A. R. r Latham, Tuesday morning, for re r election as a member of the coun f ty hoard of commissioners from r! Plymouth Township; Hubert L. 1 >cnp ’-t. Tv -day afternoon, for • re«'lecti t. r -la member of the county board of commissioners from Skinnersville Township. The only two contests assured thus far are for representative, with Dr. J. M. Phelps, incumbent, of Scuppernong, and W. J. Wool ard, Plymouth furniture merchant, as candidates; and for member of the board of education from Scup pernong Township, where T. F. Davenport and P. B. Belanga, in cumbent, are candidates. There are rumors of one or two more candi dates for the board of commission ers from Plymouth Township, but they had not developed up to this morning. Only two places on the board of commissioners are to be at stake this year. Hubert L. Davenport of Skinnersville and A. R. Latham of Plymouth are the present commis sioners whose terms expire in De cember. The other three places were filled two years ago for four year terms. In the primary, com missioners are voted on only in the townships which they represent. See CANDIDATEsTTPagc lO Ayers Funeral al 3:30 P. M. Today Funeral services for Clarence E. (Skinner) Ayers, 58, of Plymouth, will be conducted by the Rev. E. M. Spruill, rector, from Grace Episcopal Church Thursday of this week at 3:30 p. m. Interment will follows in the church cemetery. Mr. Ayers, a retired merchant and prominent civic leader, died at his home here at 1:30 a. m. Wed nesday after a long illness. He was a county native, born February 3, 1898, son of the late Edgar W. and Narcissus Harrison Ayers of this county. Mr. Ayers was married January 21, 1923, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Roper, to Miss Eleanor P. Chesson, of Plymouth, who sur vives. He was a member of Grace Church, had served as junior war den and as a vestryman of the church. At one time Mr. Ayers was town alderman here, had served on the board of county commissioners, was a member of the Washington , County Hospital Board of Trustees, a member at one time of the local school board, member of Persever ance Lodge No. 59, A. F. & A. M., f Plymouth Rotary Club, Lions Club c and James E. Jethro Post of the American Legion. He was a World War I veteran, having served over- ' seas about one year. J Surviving, other than his widow, are one daughter, Mrs. Ross Ayers f Wood, of Plymouth; a sister, Miss I Vera E. Ayers, New York, N. Y.; a 1 brother, Jewell C. Ayers, Miami,it Fla., and stepmother, Mrs. Sarah * 1 t. Ayers, Norfolk, Va. tl LONG TENURE » r Dr. Claudius McGowan is a busy man. He serves as county health officer in addition to his miva*' >raclice and various oth • ■ !... V *IIe, r.ienty busy, all ». ;ht, l«. he *ms found time to serve in an uncompensated ca pacity with the Selective Service system during all three opera tions—World Wars 1 and II and the Korean War. And, he's still serving. The only interruption was in August of 1919 when he went into the Armed Forces and served overseas. Dr. McGowan’s period of service with Selective Service dates back to April 1918. Allowing time out for overseas duty that makes about 37 years of voluntary service with the local board already. Pulp Mill Workers Will Gel Dinners For Safely Record -.- ] New Program Underway To : Surpass Old Record oi i 1,608,029 Manhours ol ] Work Without Accident i Employees of the North Carolina i Pulp Company will be given a bar- • becue dinner in recognition of the fine safety record made at the mill ' recently before it was broken on . March 23 by an accident in the beater room of the paper mill di vision, it was announced by the management this week. While the b'oal of two million manhours of labor without a lost-time accident i vas not quite reached during the a campaign, a new record was set a vith 1,608,029 manhours worked s rver a period of seven months and !2 days without an accident. t At least three dinners will have * o be given in order that all em- 1 iloyees may have an opportunity s o attend, it was explained, and a he scheduled for the dinners, by 0 hifts, will be posted on the bui See SAFETY, Page li ' a Prospects Said Good For Produce Market W. P. Hearne, produce buyer rom Salisbury, Md., was in Piym uth iecently and told operators f Plymouth Produce Auction Mar et that the outlook is good for this ear’s market. “The outlook is especially good ar cucumbers and pepper,” Mr. learne was quoted as saying. The uyer went on to explain that uyers got virtually no red peppers ist year and that consequently le storage tanks are now about empty, indicating good prospects for strong demand and good prices this summer. Hearne said that as a result of severe losses taken a year ago Eastern Shore farmers are plant ing less acreage to green peppers this year and that therefore pros pects appear good for growers in this section to capitalize on green pepper. The local market will again be operated by W. M. Darden, W. T. Freeman and James H. Ward. Aciion on $500,000 School Bond Proposal Follows Discussion by Furgurson And Jaycee Letter -♦ The county commissioners voted Tuesday to call for a bond issue of $500,000 for county schools as previously requested by the county board of education, subject to the will of the people in a bond elect ion Tuesday, November 6, date of the general election. A letter from the Plymouth Jun ior Chamber of Commerce recom mending the calling of a bond election by the commissioners was previously read. Also, Dr. E. W. Furgurson ap peared before the board and dis cussed the entire school situation in this county at some length. Commissioner Philip M. Spruill, of Creswell, made the motion that the board call for a bond issue of $500,000, and the motion was sec onded by Commissioner A. R. La tham, of Plymouth. The motion carried, with Commissioners J. C. Knowles, of Roper, and Hubert L. Davenport, of Skinnersville, ab staining from voting on the matter. The meeting was the regular monthly session, it having been postponed one day due to the East er Monday holiday. The board also voted to hold fut ure meetings in the afternoon, be ginning at 1 o’clock, rather than having a morning session as in the past. The board has been conven ing at 10:30 o’clock. The motion was by Commission er Spruill, seconded by Davenport. in iai\c cucvi eft the May meeting. A petition to blacktop a road leading off the Holly Neck Road in Skinnersville Township was ap proved to be sent to the highway commission. Mrs. Frances M. Darden, home agent, and W. H. Pruden, county agent, gave reports on work done in March. E. J. Spruill, county tax collector and auditor, reported $8,726.12 col lected during the past month The clerk was instructed to write to High Commissio-rer J. Emmett * Winslow at Hertford and call to his attention the fact that the Mor rattock Road needs improvement. It was said that Winslow and some of the board members visited the road about two years ago and found it in fair condition, though bumpy. Mrs. Frances M. Darden extend ed the board members an invita tion to have dinner with the exe cutive committee of the Home Demonstration Clubs at the Agri culture Building the first Monday I in May. The invitation was accept ed. The meeting was adjourned and the board then sat briefly as an equalization and review body, mak ing the following corrections in property valuations: Valuation on property of Ervin Hassell, Lees Mill Township, was reduced to read $2,415 as an error had been found in figuring the square feet of the property; Error was discovered in price of the house of Leslie J. Darby, Plym outh, and valuation was reduced from $7,990 to $7,460. The error, it was stated, was in the base price. The board of equalization and review then adjourned for 1956, there being no further business. -$ Increasing Hail Insurance Rates Experiencing heavy losses dur ing the past several years insur ance companies last week were allowed to increase their hail in surance rates, it is reported. The rate increase is applicable to Washington County and most of the other tobacco-producing coun ties of eastern North Carolina. Small reductions were allowed in a few counties in the western part of the state. The increase in rates will boost the overall cost to tobacco farmers about half a million dollars.
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