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Leslie W. Manning and Ted R.
Pinner of Plymouth and M. W.
Pate of Williamston will leave Fri
day for Myrtle Beach, S. C., where
they will attend the 70th annual
reunion of the 439th Engineer Co.,
U. S. Army. The local men served
with the unit during World War II.
A business session Saturday will
be followed by a banquet at the
Seaside Hotel. The meeting will
close Sunday.
If you lost a pair of glasses Iasi
_ week it is just possible you maj
T find them at the local police sta
tion. A pair of glasses which ap
pears to be child’s glasses was
found on the street here last Fri
day and turned in at the station,
City Clerk W. A. Roebuck said.
The owner may identify and pick
up the glasses there, it was stated.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bruce
and daughter, Janet, accompanied
by Miss Marie Baynor, returned
Tuesday after a ten-day vacation
trip that covered most of the New
England States. They covered
most of the scenic and historiccal
most of the scenic and historical
Bruce also visiting relatives in var
ious parts of New England, while
Miss Baynor called on friends who
were vacationing in the Cape Cod
region.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gidden and
children, Ann and Eliza, returned
to their home in Washington, D. C.,
last week after spending some
time here with Mrs. Gidden’s mo
ther, Mrs. Eliza Hampton. Miss
Lucy Gidden, 14, is remaining here
Jf with her grandmother for a few
''weeks. Mrs. Gidden is the former
Miss Eliza Hampton, of Plymouth.
Can you top this? Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Dale Tetterton of Plymouth
and Mr. and Mrs. Ollie James
Owens, jr., of Roper, became proud
parents of baby daughters Sunday.
Both babies were born at Wash
ington County Hospital and were
given the same names, with abso
lutely no prior knowledge or col
lusion of the respective parents.
So it’s Debra Mae Tetterton and
Debra Mae Owens. Nice name in
A Plymouth woman, Mrs. Fred
Doscher, was one of 15 persons
who came very close to winning a
puzzle contest being conducted
weekly by a Washington newspa
per. A total or 1,206 entries was
reported. The prize totaled $125
and since there was no winner it
advances for the next contest to
$150.
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Local Man Among
Several Rescued
Off Sinking Boat
f?A. Lloyd Owens and Five
Williamsion Men Narrow
ly Escape as Cabin Cruis
er Goes Down
A. Lloyd Owens of Plymouth
and five Williamston men narrow
ly escaped with their lives when
their boat sank in 18 feet of water
near Northwest light in Pamlico
Sound early Saturday night, it is
reported.
Other than suffereing shock the
men came through the ordeal all
right, but most of them have sworn
off fishing at least for a while, it
was said.
The party, made up of Charles
James, Herbert Whitley, Bob New
ell, Wallace Tarkington, Mr. Owens
and George Lee Roberson, left
Swan Quarter in Roberson's cabin
cruiser and had planned to fish
fK that night near Bluff Shoals, but
* due to rough water changed course
and were moving toward Ocracoke
when trouble came.
fty
waves, sam 10 oe running as
high as five feet, tore the hull at
its seams or broke a board and the
boat started sinking when about 10
miles or so from Ocracoke. Mem
bers of the party held the water
back with pillows and blankets, it
was said, but the pumps could not
keep up and at about 6 o’clock Mr.
Roberson radioed for help. On a
different frequency, the radio call
could not get through to the Coast
Guard but a Windsor man, Roy
Thpmpson, who was fishing with
a party some 15 miles away hap
pened to turn on his radio in time
to hear the distress call. Thomp
son contacted the Coast Guard and
a boat was dispatched to the scene.
Meantime, the engine and radio
on Roberson’s boat went dead and
the men put on life preservers,
tied their belongings together and
lashed them to a raft. Before the
radio went dead a message that
help was on the way had been re
ceived.
A Coast Guard boat reached the
scene shortly before 9 o'clock. The
men aboard the cabin cruiser had
stood in water almost to their
knees before abandoning the boat.
Efforts to save the cruiser were
fruitless and she went out of sight
a few minutes after arrival of help.
Mr. Thompson reached the scene
soon after the Coast Guard had
taken the men off the sinking boat.
The Coast Guard boat took them to
Ocracoke, Mr. Thompson continued
on to Ocracoke, picked up the party
and carried them to Swan Quarter
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A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington
County and its 13,000 people.
VOLUME LXVII—NUMBER 34
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. Thursday, August 23, 1956
ESTABLISHED 1889
|| Budget for Libraries
I Of $21,000 Approved
A budget of $21,271.50 has been
approved for Pettigrew Regional
Library for the fiscal year July 1,
1 1956 to June 30, 1957. Action
came at a recent meeting of the
Library Board.
’ Participating counties are Cho
' wan, Tyrrell and Washington. This
includes Tyrrell and Washington
’ County Libraries, their colored
; branches, and Shepard Pruden and
■ Brown Carver Libraries in Eden
' ton.
The budget is broken down as
| follows:
; Salaries, $13,110; books, periodi
cals and binding, $5,199.50; library
supplies, S300; insurance, $340; so
cial security, $260; rent, $612:
bookmobile operation, $750; travel.
$600; miscellaneous, $100.
Sources of income are listed as:
State aid, $10,800 city appro
priations. $2,708; county appropri
ations, $6,999.90: balance, $517.49
Various sources of income from
the three counties have been lump
ed together. Tyrrell County is the
only one of the three that has a
tax levy for its libraries; Chowan
and Washington have appropria
tions.
Production Is Started
At Liquid Alum Plant
Bookmobiles To
Resume Sept. 4
White and colored bookmobiles
will resume operation Septem
bem 4, Mrs. Eugenia R. Baby
lon, I’ettigrew Regional Library
director, has announced.
Both bookmobiles will go on
winter schedule at that time and
will be in this county the first
week in September, the an
nouncement stated. Mrs. Alex
ander and Mrs. Harris, the book
mobile librarians, are on vaca
tion the last two weeks of August
and September 3—Labor Day—
is a legal holiday.
Young Girl Hit
By Car Saturday
Night Near Here
Mary Ann Mobley, 10, Dis
charged From Hospital
Tuesday Night,- Damages
Over $1,000 in Wrecks
A 10-year-old Plymouth tirl was
hospitalized with injuries sustain
ed in a car-bicycle accident near
the intersection of U. S. *54 and
West Avenue at 7:30 p. m. Satur
day.
Mary Ann Mobley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Mobley of Lu
vera Street, was on her way home
from a store with a carton of soft
drinks when struck by a 1956
Chevrolet operated by F. C. Stall
ings of Raleigh.
It was reported that Strllings
was traveling east on US 64 it the
time and that he was meeting two
cars when the child on the bicycle
darted into the part of the ( ncom
ing vehicle. The hood and lender
of the car were damaged ai d the 1
bicycle was demolished, d image i
running an estimated $100.
The child was rushed to tl e hos- 1
pital in a police car. She was treat- 1
ed by Dr. E. W. Furgurson and
was released Tuesday night of this i
week. Dr. Furgurson said she suf- '
fered a cerebral concussion, lace- i
rations and abrasions. Her condi- 1
tion is now much improved, it was <
stated. 1
Officer Paul Basnight of the ]
Plymouth Police Department in- <
See ACCIDENTS, Page 7
American Cyanamid Com
! pany Officials Here on
Inspection Trip for Two
Days Last Week
The alum plant recently con
structed in Plymouth by American
Cyanamid Company was visited by
a number of company officials last
week, when announcement was
made that the new unit is now in
production. Earl J. Walsh is super
intendent of the alum plant here,
located just across the highway
from the filter plant of the North
Carolina Pulp Company.
Construction of the new unit was
started in late March and com
pleted several weeks ago. Test runs
of the liquid alum product have
been made since that time, but of
ficial announcement that the plant
was in production was not made
until after inspection by a group
of company officials here last week.
Company officials here on the
inspection trip last Wednesday and
Thursday included J. M. Walsh,
manager of the Paper Chemicals
Department; J. D. Lowery, manager
oi tne Heavy Chemicals Depart
ment; F. W. Zipf, manager of man
ufacturing, Industrial Chemicals
Division, all of New York City;
K. E. Youngehild, southern reg
ional manager, of Mobile, Ala.; and
W. P. Beauchem, technical sales
representative, of Charlotte.
American Cyanamid Company is
one of the largest producers of
sulphate alumina in the United
States having manufacturing plants
located at the principal consum
ing centers. The new plant in
Plymouth was described as of the
most modern design, employing
methods that produce the highest
quality of alum which has been
found to be very desirable for the
paper industry.
While no figures were given as
to the capacity of the new plant
here, it was said to be capable of
producing sufficient liquid alum to
supply the demands of the numer
ous paper mills in the North Caro
lina and Virginia area. The pro
duct is also used by many munici
palities of the area in their water
purification systems, and the plant
here is designed to supply this de
mand, it was stated.
One of the principal raw mater
ials used in the production of alu
minum sulphate is bauxite, which
is mined at American Cyanamid
holdings in Georgia and Arkansas
and transported to the plant here
by rail and truck. The finished
product is shipped by tank cars
and trucks to consumers. There is
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! Most All Tobacco
I Crop In Couniy Is
1 Housed, Thought
: Assislanl Couniy Agent Es
timates 90 Per Cent of
County Crop Out of Field
End of Week
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'.V ‘h the tobacco markets of the
Eastern Belt opening Thursday of
, this week for the 1356 auction sea
son it is roughly estimated that al
most 90 per cent of the county
crop will have been cured by the
end of the week.
J. L. Outlaw, assistant county
agent, stated Wednesday that just
about all the county crop should
be out of the field by the end of
next week. The crop is late this
year.
Outlaw said that it appears that
growers south of Plymouth along
NC 32 had the earliest crops of to
bacco in the county, that some of
them finished barning as early as
two weeks or more ago. Stalks
have been cut in many of these
fields.
It is pure speculation, he said,
how much tobacco from the county
will be on the warehouse floors for
opening sales Thursday (today).
However, it is thought that the
bulk of tobacco from this county
to be sold opening day on the belt
will be sold at Williamston, Rober
sonville and Washington.
Quality of early deliveries wa
said by some warehousemen to bi
hardly better than medium. Mar
ket observers were reluctant t<
guess an opening-day average prici
but general opinion seems to b<
that it will range around $48 pel
hundred pounds for the first sale
Tobacco was said to be moving t(
market in fair volume yesterday
Farm folks are busy with a late
crop this time but sizeable crowd;
were expected at the various mar
kets for the “first day”
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Creswell Cannery
Closes Next Week
Creswell.—Thursday, August 30,
will be the last day the Creswell
Community Cannery will operate
this season, it was announced this
week. A. K. Spencer, vocational
agriculture teacher at Creswell
High School, has been in charge
of the cannery and made the an
nouncement Tuesday.
According to Mr. Spencer, the
cannery has had a very busy and
successful season. It has been
operating one day each week, and
next Thursday will be the last day.
Mr. Spencer expresses his ap
preciation for the excellent co
operation he has had from people
using the cannery this year. He
said it was hoped everyone will
be able to finish what canning they
have planned to do this season by
next Thursday.
Youth for Christ Rally
Slated Here on Sunday
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The monthly Youth for Christ
rally will be held Sunday at Plym
outh Church of Christ, it is an
nounced. Time of the meeting will
be 3 o’clock.
All churches in this rally are
asked to bring special music, it
was stated. Music will be led by
Hobert Johnson, student at Roan
oke Bible College, Elizabeth City.
The speaker of the afternoon
will be Matthew Knight, minister
of Albemarle Church of Christ.
Everyone is urged to attend.
VISITORS:
A group of officials of the American Cyanamid Company arc
pictured above at the new liquid alum plant recently put into
production by the company here. They were here last Wednesday
and Thursday on an inspection trip. Left to right, those in the group above are: J. D. Lowery, manager
of the Heavy Chemicals Department, of New York City; W. P. Beauchef, technical sales representative, of
Charlotte; J. M. Walsh, manager of the Paper Chemicals Department, New York City; F. W. Zipf, man
ager of manufacturing, Industrial Chemicals Division, New York City; Earl Walsh, plant superintend
ent,'Plymouth; and K. E. Youngchild, southern regional manager, Mobile, Ala_Staff photo.
Ill Truitt Johnston, 6-yearoid son of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Johnston, of Roper,
™ doesnt seem to mind too much as he gets the first of his three Salk
rv.-j, nn. .. t. anti-polio shots at the clinic held in Roper Community Building last
«-hHe‘\rft' pr°nh (JwtSanr- CIautlJus McGowan, district heaith officer, administering the vaccine.
th VY°,0t ' c"unty health nurse, prepares another hypodermic and Mrs. Walton Swain,
< m ' registers the next youngster in line. Forty one persons received the shots at Roper
St ff h t ThC VaCC'ne ,S be,ng offered frec to youngsters from 3 months through 19 years of age
To Continue Polio Clinics
In County; Response Good
Ball Clover To j
Be Tried Here i
Henry J. Bragg, soil conser
vationist here, stated Wednes
day he has been informed that
tiie county will be allotted five
pounds of Ball Clover seed to be
planted for field observation in
the county.
The clover has been used far
t! ~r south with good results and
iv^c.d to be a prolific seen . ard
volunteers well. It will stand
wetter soils than will crimson
clover, Bragg said. “We hope
to save some seed from it,” the
conservationist declared.
Get Soil Samples
In Early, Agent
Advises Farmers
Only Sure Way of Getting
Good Results From Lime
And Fertilizer Expendi
tures, States
Farmers are urged by Assistant
County Agent J. L. Outlaw to take
soil samples from their fields and
have the soils tested.
The most important task of soil
testing is to determine accurately
the available plant nutrients in the
soil and what steps must be taken
to realize maximum profit by cor
rect application of lime and fer
tilizer, Outlaw said.
“Farmers in Washington County
know the importance of fertilizing
for high yields,” the assistant agent
added. “They are interested in get
ting the highest return per dollar
spent on lime and fertilizer. High
returns can be obtained only by
selecting the right grade and
amount of fertilizer to apply to a
crop on a certain soil.
"The first step in selecting the
proper grade and amount of ferti
lizer is to determine the lime and
fertilizer needs of the soil. Onlv
through soil testing is it possible
for the farmer to obtain informa
tion about the status of certain
plant nutrients in the soil. And soil
testing may also determine vvhc
ther a certain soil is adapted to a
certain crop,” Outlaw continued.
Soil testing is a free service pro
vided farmers in this state. Soil
samples should be sent to the Soil
Testing Division, State Department
of Agriculture, Raleigh. There are
usually two or more kinds of soil
in each field, and they may differ
widely in their NPK needs. They
should, therefore, be sampled sepa
rately and carefully, it was ex
plained.
Outlaw urges all farmers to have
their soil tested now in order that
they may realize the greatest possi
ble return from the money they
invest in lime and fertilizer. Sam
ples mailed now can be analyzed
and recommendations made to the
farmer in plenty of time to make
needed purchases of lime and fer
tilizer.
“But remember,” cautioned the
assistant agent, “the Soil Testing
Division is swamped with late com
ers. So be an early bird—get your
samples in now and results will
come back when you need them.”
Toial Number of Children
Vaccinaled ai Plymouth,
Roper and Creswell is
230 _^_
Washington County doctors vac
cinated 230 children against polio
in the first round of free public
vaccine clinics, Dr. E. W. Furgur
son, chairman of the county’s polio
clinic vaccine committee, reported
today. Of the total 159 were report
ed at Plymouth Tuesday, 30 at
Creswe.l Tuesday and 41 at Roper
last f '-v
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me cnnics were conducted at
Plymouth, Roper and Creswell in
order to bring the polio vaccine to
as many children, young people
and expectant mothers as possible
in the shortest possible time, it
was explained.
Vaccinations also continued at a
good rate in doctors’ offices over
the county, it was stated.
Even as first round results were
being tabulated, plans were already
underway to conduct another series
in two weeks. Two injections of
vaccine, two weeks apart, give pro
tection against paralytic polio, it
was explained.
Response of Washington Coun
ty parents to the vaccination pro
gram has been good,” Dr. Furgur
son said.
“The physicians of the county
organized to offer the vaccinations,
but except for the cooperation of
mothers and fathers in bringing
their youngsters in to be vaccinat
ed, the program would not have
been successful,” Dr. Furgurson
pointed out. Of about 6,000 eligible
persons in the county approximate
ly 50 per cent have been vaccinted,
it was said. Since 75 per cent must
be vaccinated to insure preventing
an outbreak of paralytic polio,
about 1,500 are needed to reach
that stage.
Next round clinics are set for
Roper at the Community Building
Friday, August 31; Plymouth at
Hie Health Department and Cres
well at the High School Tuesday
September 4. Hours will be from
1 to 3 p. m. at each place.
Legion Meeting Slated
Here Friday Night at 8
The regular meeting of James
fv Jethro Post No. 164, American
Legion, will be held Friday night
of this week at Veterans Building
Commander P. W. Brown an
nounces.
The meeting is scheduded for 8
o clock and Commander Brown
urges a full attendance
Registration for
Beginner Pupils
It is announced that first grade
students at Plymouth School
will be registered at the school
Thursday and Friday of next
week. Teachers will be on hand
to register the children, Princi
pal J. S. Fleming of Plymouth
High School stated.
It is poir*»d out that register
ing beg -ft..- pupils before the
opening ot school will result in
improved service. Inconvenience
should be saved by the arrange
ment, it is believed. School
opens Wednesday, September 5.
Prominent Banker
Native of County,
Last Rites Monday
♦
H. D. Bateman Built Branch
Banking Firm Into One of
Largest Financial Institu
tions in Country
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Herbert Dalton Bateman, 79,
Washington County native who as
president of the Branch Banking
& Trust Company built the institu
tion from one with less than a mil
lion dollars in assests to more than
'.$120,000,000 died last Saturday.
Death came to the state-wide
banking figure shortly after noon
at a Wilson hospital, where he had
been recovering from a paralytic
stroke suffered July 13.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at 11 a. m., at his
Wilson home, conducted by the
Rev. Robert W. Bradshaw, pastor
of the First Methodist Church, of
which he was a member. Burial
followed in Maplewood Cemetery
there.
Born on a Washington County
farm on October 1, 1877, he was
the son of Richard Martin Bateman
and Sarah E. Everett Bateman. He
received his early education in
schools of the community and at
two terms of the academy in Plym
outh. Bateman, when 17 years of
age, took the examination that al
lowed him to begin teaching.
Ho passed and became a 17
year-old schoolmaster in North
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County Farm Bureau
Directors Plan Drive
Plans for the forthcoming mem
bership drive will be made Thurs
day night of this week by the board
of directors of the Washington
County Farm Bureau.
The meeting, beginning at 8
o’clock, will be held in the Agri
culture Building at Plymouth.
Bill Little, North Carolina Farm
Bureau field representative, will
meet with the group to assist in
making plans for the annual drive.
Also on the agenda are plans for
attending^ the Farm Bureau area
meeting to be held at Greenville
Tuesday of next week. The area
meeting will convene at 2 p. m. in
the Agriculture Building there and
will include Farm Bureau repre
sentatives from Beaufort, Hyde
Martin, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washing
ton Counties.
Members of the board of direc
tors of the county unit are J. L
Rea, president, W. M. Darden, sec
retary, J. R. Respass, sr., Douglas)
Davenport, Leon Davenport, J. A.
Morris, Vance Respass, David I
Craddock and T. Reynold Spruill.
Conlracis Signed
By 7 To Teach
In County System
Five Vacancies Still Exist at
Plymouth High School,
Lowry Reports, With Sep
tember 5 Opening Date
Several new teachers have sign
ned contracts to teach in the coun
ty school system during the 1956
57 year which begins September 5,
R. F. Lowry, county superintend
ent, reported this week.
All contracts must be approved
by the county board of education.
Three teachers have signed con
tracts to serve on the faculty at
Creswell High School, it was said.
They are Miss Pauline Moore,
home economics, and Mrs. Lillian
B. Fisher and Mrs. Doris M.
Nichols, elementary teachers.
Miss Moore is from Bath and is
a graduate of Bath High School
and East Carolina College, Green
ville. She taught at Swan Quarter
from 1953 through last school year.
Mrs. Fisher comes from Colum
bia where she finished high school
and where she taught from 1946
to 1954. She is a graduate of Mere
dith College, Raleigh.
Mrs. Nichols is from Harrclls
ville. She is a graduate of Harrells
ville High School and received her
college training at East Carolina
and at Wake Forest. She taught
last year at Gum Neck in Tyrrell
County and had previous teaching
experience at Windsor and at Cho
wan High School.
Mrs. Lucy Roberson Liverman
will teach science at Plymouth
High School. Mrs. Liverman re
placed Bobby L. Crisp here as
seventh grade teacher at the last
school session. A science teacher
was needed and Mrs. Liverman
holds a science certificate.
Two vacancies at Washington
County Union School. Roper, have
been filled.
Margaret Lee Thomas of Grants
boro has been secured as librarian
and Robert Choreas Williams of
Roxboro will teach science at the
school, it was said.
Mrs. Edith Holley Battle will re
place Mrs. P. W. Littlejohn as first
grade teacher at Creswell Colored
School. Mrs. Littlejohn will retire
from teaching, it was stated.
It is understood that third,
fourth and seventh grade and
science and English-match vacan
cies remain unfilled at Plymouth
High School.
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Says September 1
Deadline Entering
Feeder Calf Sale
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Interested Persons in Wash
ington County Should Get
In Contact With County
Agent's Office Here
All persons in this county inter
ested in entering animals in the
feeder calf sale to be held at Rocky
Mount next month should contact
the county agent’s office here at
once.
J. L. Outlaw, assistant county
agent, said this week that closing
date for consignments will be Sep
tember 1. Consignments are made
by signing a sales agreement and
must be made through the county
agent’s office in order to be eligi
ble for entering the sale.
The event, sponsored by the
Rocky Mount Chamber of Com
merce and Junior Chamber of Com
merce in cooperation with the
North Carolina Agricultural Exten
sion Service, will be held Thurs
day, September 20, at Lancaster’s
Stock Yards.
Both steer and heifer calves will
be sold, but only calves of strictly
beef breeding sired by purebred
bulls will be accepted for sale.
Calves sold through the feeder
calf sale at Rocky Mount will have
to be inspected by the selection
committee prior to day of sale and
no calves below medium grade will
be accepted.
All calves entered in the sale
must be vaccinated for Blackleg
and Hemorrhagic Septicemia or
Shipping Fever and a certificate
giving date of vaccination must be
filed with the county agent by Sep
tember 10.
All bull calves will be castrated
and completely healed and all ani
mals must be dehorned and com
pletely healed.
No calf under 300 pounds or
more than 12 months old will be
accepted, and calves must be drop
ped on the farm from which they
are consigned.
All animals entering the sale
ring must be sold. Total charge for
sale and advertising expense will
not exceed $3 per head. No live
stock other than feeder calves will
be sold at the yards that day. Cer
tain other rules and regulations
will also apply. For complete de
tails, interested farmers are refer
red to the county agent’s office.