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. 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 -♦ 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 — ■ +•. Set for N. C. Pulp Co. Em ployees Last Night anc Tonight; Negotiations ir Progress for Past Week --4 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 ♦— 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 -* 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.” -$_ )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.