own
opici
State Highway Patrolman W.
Murphy, who has been assigned
Roper, is one of 70 recruits wl
began a 12-week training cour
at Chapel Hill Monday. A new su
ject is being introduced at tl
course, it was said—a course
driving. “It seems as though a p
trol candidate would know how
drive,” a patrol official was quote
as saying, "but they will make ce
tain that he’s an expert driver
The school is conducted by the I
stitute of Government at the Ur
versity of North Carolina.
The Rev. R. L. Combs, populi
young minister of Plymouth Pre
byterian Church, and his family at
away on vacation. They arc spem
ing the first week of a two-wee
vacation at Atlantic Beach and wi
spend the second week visitin
their parents in Moresville an
China Grove. Mr. Combs will h
guest speaker at First Prcsbyte
ian Church, Huntersville, Sunda;
S/Sgt. and Mrs. D. R. Jackso
and their two children are now i
the Azores, where Sergeant Jacl
son is stationed at a U. S. Ai
Force Base. Mrs. Jackson is th
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. I
Rosenthal of Wenona. They hav
been living at Greenville, S. C
where Sergeant Jackson was sta
ioned until about a month age
when he wa.<! assigned to ne\
duties with a MATS supply squat
ron in the Azores.
Dick Norman of Miami, Fla., wa
on the streets Monday and Tue;
^day of this week renewing old at
quaintances. Dick arrived in Plynn
outh Sunday for a brief stay, ha\
ing flown from Miami to Florenet
S. C\, where he took a train. Dick’
family has been visiting in tb
county for sometime and they re
turned with him Wednesday. Did
is now a pilot for a Southeasteri
airline.
Friends of Due Read were glat
to see him about on the street:
this week, walking with the aid o
a cane. Lue is making good pro
gress and has discarded his walk
ing aid now. He stated this weel
that he hope soon to be back “or
the job.”
Mr. and Mrs. W. Frith Winslow
arrived home Tuesday of thi:
week after having spent the month
of July in Canada, Nova Scotia
Maine and Massachusetts. Theii
daughter, Miss Ellen Winslow, wht
is traveling in Europe expects tc
arrive home about September 10th
Mr. and Mrs. Winslow left Novs
Scotia Wednesday of last week and
visited friends at Cape Ann, Mass,
after touring through the state ol
Maine. While away Mr. Winslow
spent much of his time painting,
particularly at Peggy’s Cove, near
Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is
quite an art colony and favorite
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Iniliale 40 New Members
Into Plymouth Moose Lodge
Forty new members were initi
ated into the Plymouth Moose
Lodge at ceremonies Monday night
at the Veterans Building conduct
ed by the degree team from the
Greenville Lodge.
This brings membership in the
newly-organized lodge here to well
over 100, it is understood. Jack
Horner is governor of the lodge.
Principal Opens
Office at School
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Principal J. S. Fleming, back
from a vacation trip this week, an
'W nounced yesterday that he would
be in his office at the high school
building here daily until the open
ing of school in order to render
any service possible to patrons of
the school.
Mr. Fleming is quite concerned
about the six teaching vacancies
in the local school. The school
earned three additional teachers
during the past term and there
have been three resignations, leav
ing a total of six vacancies, rile
vacancies are sections of the third,
fourth, seventh and eighth grades;
while the high school needs a
science and an English-malh teach
er.
Mr. Fleming said total enroll
ment at the school here was 1,098
last term, and he expects about
the same number at the start of
school this year. High school en
y*. rollment is expected to be around
250 to 275, with 825 to 850 expect
ed in the elementary grades.
The Roanoke Beacon
****** and Washington County News ******
A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington jjj
j|] County and its 13,000 people. Ijj
to
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VOLUME LXVII—NUMBER 31
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 2, 1956
ESTABLISHED 1889
PEPPI
Last Friday was the biggest day
of the season thus far for green
peppers brought to the Plymouth
produce market. W. T. Freeman, one of the market operators, said
over 2,000 baskets were received and brought the growers about SI
per basket. Quality of the crop being sold here was said to he good,
some of the neppers grading “fancy.” Photo at top left shows the
peppers going into the cleaning and graing machine, while the above
photo shows how the peppers are taken from the moving belt and
parked into baskets. Below right shows part of the 2,000 baskets
received Friday stacked in the warehouse here. Deliveries were
said to have been light during the first part of this week but are
expected to pick up Friday.—Staff photos.
Filling Farm Agent’s
Vacancy Is Delayed
I Tomatoes What !
i [ Am. Eh Wot? I
i J. Robert Campbell, Washing
ton County register of deeds, is
a gardener with a green thumb.
[ This week Mr. Campbell was
showing pictures of himself and
Mrs. Campbell standing near his
tomato vines which have been
measured at 7 feet, two inches.
Mr. Campbell also has some rank
cucumber vines which grow up
on a trellis. He believes in or
ganic gardening and always saves
leaves and grass for composting.
County Growers
Report Rather
Poor Leaf Sale
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Few Tobacco Growers Gel
Average of About 40
Cents at Statesboro. Ga.,
Monday
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County tobacco growers who sold
considerable tobacco at Statesboro,
Ga., Monday of this week are said
to have received rather poor sales.
A load of about 40,000 pounds of
Washington County and East Mar
tin County leaf was carried down
to the Georgia marget Saturday by
W. T. Freeman and J. L. Knowles.
Messrs. Freeman and Knowles
returned to Plymouth late Tues
day. They stated that the market
was off from opening day sales last
Thursday which averaged better
than opening day in 1955.
Government grades seemed to
be lower than a year ago, it was
said. Also, some of the lugs had
been pulled too early with the re
sult that the quality was poor.
A few growers averaged as high
as 40 cents a pound, it was said.
County growers who sent tobac
co to the Georgia market includ
ed W. H. Marslcnder and Elbert
Tarkington, Paul Hardison, Lewis
Slyons, John West, George Phelps,
L. L. Mizel), W. T. Freeman, J. L.
Knowles, Bob Harden, Emery Mod
lin,, Bill Harden, Bennett Ambrose,
C. M. Barber, Roy Simpson, C. C.
Chesson, Goldie Simpson, David;
Craddock, J. W. Allen, J. II. Rid
dick and John Davenport.
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Mrs. Laura S. Johnston
Leaves on European Trip
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Mrs. Laura S. Johnston of Plym
outh sailed from New York Wed
nesday morning of this week ort
the British steamship “Queen Eliz
abeth" for a six-week trip to
Europe. She is going first to Salz
burg and Vienna, in Austria, to at
tend the Mozart bi centennial fes
tival. Later she plans to go over1
to Edinburgh, Scotland, for the j
music festival in that city. I
1 Eastern Dislrict Agenl At
tends Special Meeting oi
Commissioners Here on
1 Monday
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This week there appeared little
likelihood that the vacancy ere
ated hy the resignation of County
Agent W. H. I’rnden will be filled
before September.
A man for the job has not yet
been agreed upon by the Exten
sion Service and the Washington
County Board of Commissioners
and Eastern District Extension
Agent John E. Piland of Smith
field said it would probably be 30
days after such agreement before
the new agent assumed the office
here.
A special meeting of the com
missioners was held Monday in an
effort to clarify the situation. Mr.
Piland and County Representative
Dr. J. M. Phelps were present.
Mr. Piland stated that he was
sorry that the Agriculture Depart
ment was not in a position to go
along with the recommendation of
the commissioners June 22, en
dorsing former county agent W. H.
Hays for the post.
Mr. Piland said it is a policy in
employing county agents to get
men with college agriculture train
ing and that according to Mr. Hays’
own admission he has none. The
district agent said he knew posi
tively that for at least the past 13
years no county agent has been em
ployed who has not had such train
ing.
Mr. Piland further stated that
under Mr. Hays there was no rec
ord of boys’ 4-H Club work in this
county, while during the past four
years under Mr. Pruden who suc
ceeded him in the office, the boys
4-H Club work has been establish
ed and built up to the point where
there are now 182 members. Also,
a county team recently won a dis
trict contest in forage crop demon
strations. This, he said, shows that
a great deal of progress has been
made in 4-H Club work in the coun
ty in the short space of four years.
“We believe very much in the
training and the future develop
ment of our youth," Mr. Piland de
clared. “Consequently, we place
very much emphasis on 4-H Club
work.”
Some of the board members ex
pressed their regret that Hays
would not be accepted and said
that a large number of farmers
had expressed their desire to see
Hays come back on the job.
It was decided on motion of ,
Commissioner J. C. Knowles of
Roper, seconded by Commissioner
A. It. Latham, that Mr. Piland meet i
igain with the board on August 13
it 8 p. m. During the meantime
Jie farmers in the county are
irged to contact their respective
'ommissioners and let them know
heir reaction regarding a new
•minty agent. The board made it
dear that they did not suggest a
ielegation but that they desire
hat the farmers let their commis
sioners know prior to the next
See VACANCY, Page 7 '
Mississippian Buys Roper Holdings
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Throe deeds were recently re
corded here transferring owner
ship of considerable property ir
this county.
Grantee in each instance was
Sam Broadhead of Meridian, Miss,
who, it is understood, operates i
lumber mill in Mississippi.
One deed from John L. Hopei
Lumber Company conveyed th(
old Roper House, all fixtures anc
personal property, and the j \
yard.
Another from Roper
Company conveyed the mill site,
logging equipment and machinery
used in operating the mill.
A third deed conveyed "all of
the oil, gas, mines and minerals of
whatsoever name or nature” to be
found on the property.
The revenue stamps had not been
attached this week and there was
no indication as to the amount of
the transaction. Attorneys who re
corded the transfer were not ac
quainted with Broadhead's plans
"or the property, it was said.
Holdings of the John L. Roper
Lumber Company date back almost >
70 years in this county. The firm
brought a boom to Roper and vi
cinity years ago. In recent years
the Dwight Corporation was form
ed and engaged in building woods
roads, surveying and laying off
tracts of tree farms, etc. The .
Dwight Corporation joined in the .
transfers with John L. Roper Lum- |
her Company and Roper Milling (
Company. <
1
Board Acts Upon
School Matters
Here on Monday
Amended Resolulion Con
cerning Funds for School
Consfruclion Unanimous
ly Passed
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The Washington County Board of
Education, in session here Monday,
unanimously passed an amended
resolution requesting the Washing
ton County commissioners to pro
vide funds in the amount of $500,
000 for the purpose of constructing
schools and to issue bonds of the
county, pursuant to the County
Finance Act, to raise the required
funds.
A bonding company had request
ed that this amended motion be
passed so that no legal objections
might be raised in the future.
The payment of the salaries of
teachers and principals on the 25th
of each month was approved.
The following list of bus drivers
and custodians was approved:
School bus drivers (Plymouth)—
Bobby Nooney, Paul Jethro, Henry
Turner, Garland Bowen, Harley
Furbee and Billy Harden; (Roper)
Thomas Sawyer, Billy Spruill, Mar
vin Sawyer, Willie Furlough, Hob
by Tarkenton and Luther Freeman;
(Creswell) Lonncll Davenport,
Frank Furlough, Carl B. Tarken
ton, Dean Hufton, Madeline Pat- (
rick, Ina Gray Spruill, Frankie
Twiddy, Alton Jewel and Harvey (
Brickhouse; (Plymouth Elemen- (
tary) Thornton Smith; (Washing- ,
Ion County Union) Robert Louis ‘
Hedgebeth, Tyrone Woodley, Jas- j
per Fuller, Thomas Norman, Wally {
Simpson, Robert Bennett, John '
Dance, James McCray, Teddy John- (
son, Roland White, Roscoe Hudson
jnd Harold Barkley; (Creswell Ele- ‘
Tien tary) Robert Halsey and Mary
F. Norman. I
Custodians and maids — (Plym f
)uth High School) Lee Cola Spruill,
Lawrence McNair and Helen Jean j
ette; (Roper High School) Milton f
Downing and Ella Jane Downing;
(Creswell High School) Charlie
Purnell and Agnes Cahoon; (Plym
luth Elementary School) Sheldon s
Jowser and Lillian Bowser; (Wash
ngton County Union School) Rich
ird B. Nixon, Ella M. Watson and ‘
ifarion D. Mitchell; (Creswell Ele- (
mentary School) Granville Rhinos (
ind Alice Wrighton.
Scout Troop No. 383 Spends *
Week-End in Hyde County <
Boy Scouts of Plymouth Troop
Mo. 385 reported a whale of a time f
ast week-end as they accompanied i
Scout leaders Harold Whitley and *
Mphonzo Cox on a camping trip s
o Scranton in Hyde County. The ;
roup spent Friday and Saturday
amping out and took two events s
>f second-class scouting, a five mile (
tike and cooking, which were pass- 1
xl by all. Fishing was also enjoyed s
during the trip. Scouts in the party <
included Eddie Oilvcr, Tommie s
Gurganus, Logan Womble, Stan
Brewer, Connie Cox, Jim Williams, i
and Ed Womble. The troop is spoil- <
ored by First Christian Church. I
Janitor Instructed To Mow J
Grass on Library Lawn «
The Washington County Board i
of Commissioners, in special ses
ion here Monday of this week, in
truded the janitor to mow the
(rnss on the lawn at the Washing
on County Library, beginning this
veek, and to continue as long as
j No Inquest in
i Bridge Death
Washington County Coroner
Jack Horner ruled accidental
drowning in the deaht of Hattie
Mne Williams, 24-year-old Merry
lli>l colored woman whose body
was recovered from Albemarle
Sound at 10:45 a. m. Monday.
Horner deemed an inquest into
the death unnecessary.
The Williams woman was one
of seven passengers in a car
which halted on the bridge late
Saturday night to change a tire.
The car was struck by another
vr' !cle driven by a Marine from
*on. The Williams woi.ian’^
shoes were found on the bridge,
Horner said.
Furgurson Named
To Head Vaccine
Committee Here
President of Tri - County
Medical Society Makes
Announcement of Emer
gency Polio Program
Plans were anonunced here to
lay for the emergency polio vac
ine program in Washington Coun
y.
Dr. Alban Papineau, president
if the Martin-Washington-Tyrrell
'ounty Medical Society, announced
ppointment of Dr. F,. W. Furgur
on of Plymouth as chairman of
he society’s polio vaccine commit
oc in Washington County to supcr
ise the program designed to bring
he polio vaccine to all children
nd young people through 19 years
nd to expectant mothers.
The immunization program will
c twofold, the committee chair
lan said:
1. Physicians will continue to
loculate patients in their own of
ices;
A. rrce public clinics, using vac
ine provided by the State Board
f Health, will be established at
Irategic locations in the county.
“Many children, young people
nd expectant mothers in Wash
igton County are as yet unpro
mpted against paralytic polio," Dr.
iirgurson stated.
“We are now approaching the
mason of greatest polio incidence
nd it is imperative that as many
ounty residents as possible re
vive the vaccine immediately.”
The vaccinations are necessary
or protection in the polio season,
was pointed out. In the emer
ency program this summer the
hots will be given two weeks
part.
Tlie program was launched on a
talewide basis by the Medical So
iety of the State of North Caro
ina, aftqr figures were released
howing that only about one-third
f the eligible individuals in the
late had received the vaccine.
Dr. Papineau declared, “There
s an apparent apathy on the part
f parents who do not realize the
mtential seriousness of the situ
tion. It is now a fact that the vac
ine is safe and effective. Thirty
nillion individuals have been vac
illated and it has proven to be
ine of the safest vaccines now in
ise.”
All the doctors in the area arc
eady to vaccinate those through
ige 19 and prenatal patients in
heir offices, or the health depart
nent clinics are available as one
chooses, Dr. Papineau said.
Get Instructions for Extra
General Election Sept. 8th
j Cooler Temperature**
I Prevail for Few I la vs
... •
A welcome respite from plus-OO
degree temperatures was enjoyed
here this week
Following days of humid wea
ther with high readings in the
90s the air was cooled and clear
ed hy a rain and electrical storm
Sunday night.
Monday’s highreading was 82 de
grees, according to weather rec
ords kept at Tidewater Research
Station near here. Tuesday high
was one degree hotter at 82. Sun
day’s high reading was 87 degrees
and the low reading 70 degrees.
Monday and Tuesday low readings
wore 65 anti 53 degrees, respect
ively. Many persons got out blank
ets at night for the first time in a
long while.
Complete high and low readings
and precipitation from Thursday
of last week through Tuesday;
Thursday—90 degrees, high; 66
degrees, low; .07 of an inch precipi
tation;
Friday—(same order) 91, 68;
Saturday—94, 66;
Sunday—87, 70;
Monday—82, 65; 1.23 inches pre
cipitation;
Tuesday—83, 53.
Meetings to Consider
New Labor Contract
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Set for N. C. Pulp Co. Em
ployees Last Night anc
Tonight; Negotiations ir
Progress for Past Week
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Contract negotiations are nov
underway between representative:
of organized labor and the man
agement of the North Carolin.
Pulp Company, with no definite
decisions reached up to noon yes
terday, according to unofficial re
ports. It is understood that pro
gress reports were to be submitter
to the membership of local union:
involved at meetings scheduled foi
last night and tonight.
Anniversary date of the old con
tract was July 31, but it remains ir
effect until negotiations for a nev
contract arc completed or unti:
an impasse is reached. In the past
i' -ms of any new contract negoti
atori after the anniversary date art
made retroactive to the expiratior
date.
Negotiations now in progress af
fect practically the entire working
force at the pulp plant, or approxi
mately 1,000 employees. Five locals
affiliated with four international
unions are engaged in the negoti
ations. Electricians employed at
the mill, affiliated with the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, are conducting separate
negotiations, while four other lo
cals affiliated with three interna
tional unions are negotiating joint
ly.
r,. m. i,ea v i n, general superin
tendent, and L. J. Darby, director
of industrial relations, represented
the North Carolina Pulp Company
in the conferences held during the
past week. Employees were repre
sented by committees from the fol
lowing locals conducting joint ne
gotiations: Locals 356 and 605, In
ternational Brotherhood of Pulp,
Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers;
Cherry River Local No. 423, Inter
national Brotherhood of Paper
Makers; and Local 415, Interna
tional Union of Operating Engin
eers.
Lewis E. Price of Plymouth is
international representative of the
pulp and sulphite workers; John
II. O’Brien, jr., of Richmond, Va.,
is international representative of
the paper makers; and Paul Askew,
of Norfolk, Va., is international
representative of the operating en
gineers. International representa
tivc of the electrical workers, con
ducting separate negotiations, is
Henry Adair, of Charlotte.
According to reports, the com
pany says it is offering a contract
containing the same general terms
prevailing in other southern kraft
paper mills. Some differences
have developed in the preliminary
conferences, and union representa
tives were to submit their reports
to employee meetings set for Wed
nesday and Thursday nights of this
week.
Back From Trip
To Mexico City
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Principal and Mrs. J. S. Fleming
and son, Jimmy, returned to Plym
outh Monday after a two-week vaca
tion trip that carried them through
a number of southern States into
Texas and from there to Mexico
City.
They made the trip by car as
far as Laredo, Texas, anil at that
point they took one of the Mexican
National Railway’s deluxe trains,
'Aztec Eagle,” to the Mexican cap
ital city. The train trip required 26
hours going to Mexico City, which
has an 8,000-foot elevation, but the
downhill return trip required only
24 hours. It was Jimmy’s first train
ride, incidentally, and he thor
oughly enjoyed it.
I Wettest July
| In Six Years
The month just ended was the
wettest July in Washington
County since J950.
Total precipitation for July
1956 in the county was 8.74 in
ches according to information
obtained from the weather sta
tion at Tidewater Research Sta
tion between Plymouth and
Roper. In July of 1950 the total
rainfall for the month in the
county was 12.65 inches, it was
stated.
One Dead, Three
Hurt in -Bridge
Wreck on Sunday
Body of Young Colored Wo
man Recovered From Al
bemarle Sound Monday
Morning
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One person is dead and three
others hospitalized with injuries
following a two-car wreck on the
Albemarle Sound Bridge at 12:15
a. tn. Sunday.
The body of Hattie Mae Williams,
24-year-old colored woman of Mer
ry Hill, was recovered from the
sound at 10:45 a. m. Monday, ac
cording to State Highway Patrol
man Carl Gilchrist who investigat
ed the accident. ,
Gilchrist said it has been sur- i
mised that the Williams woman '
jumped off the bridge shortly be
fore a 1950 Ford plowed into the ;
parked car in which she and sev- '
eral other Negroes from Merry
Hill were passengers. ,
The patrolman said his investi
gation had disclosed that no one i
saw the woman jump. He said her ;
father made the statement that he .
tried to get the woman not to go i
on the trip but that she told him ,
' she was going but was not coming i
back.
A 1940 Ford operated by Odell |
Riddick of Merry Hill had stopped
on the bridge to fix a flat, it wasi
said. The other car, driven by
Roger Fredrickson of the Edcnton!
Marine Base, was reportedly travel
ing north on NC 32 at a rapid rate |
of speed when it struck the park- .
ed vehicle.
Fredrickson and two passengers
with him, Robert E. Jordan and
Gary II. Duchesne, all of the Eden
ton Marine Base, were admitted to
an Edcnton hospital. All three re
ceived abrasions and it was also
WREClC~Page~lir~
Registration Books Open
On Saturday, August 11;
Registrars and Polling
Places Same as Last May
Instructions were received yes
terday by W. T. Freeman, chair
man of the Washington County
Board of Flections, for holding the
extra general election on Saturday,
September 8, as ordered by the
special session of the General As
sembly last week. The election is
to be held for voting on the special
session's school amendment to the
state constitution, as well as the
regular 1955 session's constitution
al amendments.
Mr. Freeman immediately gave
notice that the registration period
for the general election will begin
Saturday of next week August 11,
and continue through Saturday,
August 25. Saturday, September 1,
will be challenge day, with the
election falling one week later, on
Saturday, September 8
It is emphasized that no special
registration is required for voting
in the extra general election Sep
tember 8. Those who have prev
iously registered and voted in coun
ty elections will not have to reg
ister again, unless they have moved
from one precinct to another since.
The registration period is primari
ly for those who have come of age
or otherwise become eligible to
vote since the last election, for
those who have moved into a new
precinct.
The county chairman said regis
trars and polling places will be
the same as they were in the pri
mary last May. Registrars are re
quired to be at polling places each
Saturday during the registration
period, and qualified voters may
register on other days during that
time at the residence or place of
business of the registrars.
Registrars and polling places in
Washington County are as follows:
Plymouth Precinct No. 1, Mrs.
James H. Ward, polling place in
the courthouse; Plymouth No. 2,
Mrs. Tom Darden, Plymouth High
School Building; Lees Mill, Mrs. T.
W. Norman, Roper Community
Building; Wenona, H. J Furbee,
H. J. Furbec’s residence; Skinners
ville, Delbert Patrick, Goodman's
store; Scuppernong, John Combs,
lax collector's office in Creswell.
Since the September 8 election
is a general election, absentee vot
ing will be permitted, the state
board of elections has advised Mr.
Freeman. Rules for obtaining and
casting absentee ballots will be the
same as in former years.
Four proposed constitutional
imendments will be submitted to
he voters at the September 8
■lection. First is the special session
ichool amendment, which reads as
ollows: For or against “Constitut
onal amendment authorizing edu
■ation expense grants for private
ulucation and authorizing local
rote to suspend local schools.”
Regular session amedments
ead as follows: (1) For or against
'allowing limited necessary com
icnsation of members of the Cen
tal Assembly”; (2) for or against
‘changing the time for convening
he General Assembly from Janu
iry to February”; and (3) for or
igainst "authorizing married wo
nan to exercise powers of attorney
inferred upon her by her hus
>and.”
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)r. Jeter To Speak Here at
Presbyterian ChurchSunday
Dr. R. Vernon Jeter will deliver
he lay message at Plymouth Pres
tyterian Church Sunday in the ab
ienee of the church minister, the
Rev. Robert L. Combs, who is away
>n vacation.
Dr. Jeter will speak on the topic,
'Christian Motherhood.”
D. Marvin Weaver will be in
■harge of the order of service for
he worship, it is announced.
The public is cordially invited.
I Council Will Discuss
j Water Tank Monday
Discussion on the proposed new
city water lank is expected when
the Plymouth City Council holds
its regular monthly meeting at the
Municipal Building Monday night
Time of the meeting is 8 o’clock.
Tentative estimates indicate that
total cost of the 250,000-gallon tank
will he about $60,000, or $60,000
plus the cost of the foundation and
the water softener system.
It is not known whether the
council plans to enter into a con
tract Monday night, but it is ex
pected that means of raising the
necessary funds for securing the
new tank will be discussed and the
estimates reviewed.
At the March 1958 meeting of
the council it was brought out that
the town needs a tank of 250,000
gallon capacity, as compared with
the present 73,000-gallon tank
which is not in very good condi
tion. It was estimated then that
the tank would cost about $48,000
and a water softener possibly an
additional $8,000.
At present, the town is using
about $180,000 gallons of water per
day, it has been stated.
Other business to come before
the town body Monday night is ex
pected to be of a routine nature, it
was said.