Try Six Cases in
Recorder's Court
Here on Tuesday
Fines Imposed at Session by
Judge W. Ronald Gaylord
Amount to $300; Five
Found Guilty
Only half a dozen cases were
disposed of at the regular weekly
session of Washington County Re
corder's Court here Tuesday.
Judge W. Ronald Gaylord impos
ed fines totaling $300 at the term.
Five of the six cases ended in con
victions.
Mrs. Emma Snell was found not
guilty of a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon.
U. D. Davis was fined $100 and
taxed with the costs in separate
cases, one charging drunk driving
and the other case careless and
reckless driving and drunk driving.
Prayer for judgment was continued
to August 30.
Archie West, Creswell, was
found guilty of being drunk and
disorderly and of driving a motor
vehicle without operator’s license,
and was fined $50 and taxed with
the costs of court.
George McClcamon Cox, Bel
haven, was fined S25 and taxed
with the court costs upon convic
tion on a charge of driving a motor
vehicle without operator's license.
Edward Hines, colored, was
found guilty of assault with a dead
ly weapon, fined S25 and taxed
with the costs.
Remember—A polio shot now
may prevent polio later.
Former Creswell
Teacher Is Killed
Martin A. Byrd, jr., 30, of Tabor
City, a former teacher in the Cres
well schools, was killed in an auto
mobile accident near Morehead
! City early Sunday morning. Four
I others were injured when the car,
driven by Byrd, careened off the
road near the entrance of Fort
Macon State Park, where all five
were summer employees.
Byrd was a teacher in the Cres
well school during the 1954-55
term. Historian at the Fort Macon
State Park this summer, he taught
school at Newport last year. He
i was to have married a Raleigh
; girl in September and was to have
| taught at Norfolk, Va., in the fall.
Injured were David Walker
! Windley, 18, of Havelock; Harold
I Haines Willis, 19, of Fort Macon,
formerly of Beaufort; Kenneth L.
Midgett, 19, of Oriental: and An
, drew Polk Denmark, 18, of Raleigh
i Officers said Windley suffered a
broken leg and the others bruises
I None was believed injured serious
ly. The injured boys were life
guards at the park.
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Benefit Wiener Roast Set
By Church Men's Group
The Men’s Fellowship of First
| Christian Church will sponsor a
weiner roast to be held Wednes
day of next week, it is announced
The event will be held in the
church annx between the hours ol
6 and 8 p. m. A nominal charge
will be made and proceeds will be
used toward landscaping the
church grounds, it was said.
Those desiring to obtain tickets
should contact W. Benton Liver
man, president of the Fellowship
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Carolyn Brinkley
Elecled To Post
At First Meeting
Miss Carolyn Brinkley, of Plym
outh, was elected Monday as FHA
advisor for the Albemarle District
Vocational Home Economics Teach
ers Association, The election of of
ficers took place at the first month
ly meeting for the 1956-1957 school
year which was held in the Eden
I ton High School Homemaking De
| partment.
The purposes of the meeting
| were to plan and organize voca
tional activities for the coming
year, to elect officers, and to be
I gin work on a portion of the forth
j coming revised edition of the
Guide to the Teaching of Home
! making in North Carolina Schools.
Topics to be discussed by the group
,j during future meetings will in
clude Curriculum Planning, Adult
Education, Future Homemakers of
America, Home Experiences, Hous
. ing, Food Preparation, and Evalu
. ation. An all-day meeting is sche
duled for Wednesday, August 22,
at Elizabeth City High School for
the purpose of revising units on
the teaching of clothing.
Other newly elected officers are
Mist! Frances Newby, president;
Mrs. Marguerite Foster, vice presi
i dent; Miss Doris Mitchell, secre
tary; Mrs. Helen Larrabee, pro
. gram chairman; and Mrs. Kathryn
- Miller, reporter.
llornemaking teachers present at
the meeting included Miss Pauline
Moore of Creswcll High School,
Miss Frances Newby of Hertford
High, Mrs. Margaret Bray of Moy
ock High, Miss Jean Mobley of
• Edcnton High, Miss Doris May Mit
chell of Gatesville High, Mrs. Ka
thryn Kent Miller of Elizabeth City
High, Mrs. Marguerite Foster of
VVeeksville High, Mrs. Helen Lar
rabee of Central High, Mrs. Lor
raine H. Ilogerson of Chowan High,
Mrs. Mary Ann Combs of Colum
bia High, Miss Carolyn Brinkley of
Plymouth and Mrs. Mabel Lacy
Hall, district supervisor from East
Carolina College in Greenville.
Lodge Committee
Named by Moose
Roy Manning, A. Lloyd Owens i
and Harry Barnhill have been
named to the Building committee i
of the Plymouth Woose Lodge.
The committee will seek to se
cure a suitable tract of land on
which to build or a suitable build
ing to purchase for use as a Moose
Temple, it was said.
The comimttee was named at the
meeting of the Moose Monday
night at the Veterans Building
here. Governor J. L. Horner pre
sided. Organizer W. R. Kerr of
Spartanburg, S. C., addressed the
group.
Eight new applicants were initi
ated, bringing the total to 147, it
was stated.
Several members of the Wash
ington Lodge attended the meet
ing.
Crop Prospects j
Said Excellent j
A U. S. Department of Agri
culture crop report this week
termed peanut prospects in the
Virginia - North Carolina area
“excellent."
The crop in this area continues
to progress satisfactorily, the re
port observed, “and prospects at
this time are excellent. Moisture
conditions throughout the belt
were satisfactory. The growth of
peanut tops in Washington Coun
ty this year is believed to be the
best in many years.
CYANAM1D
i Continued From Page 1)
also a direct pipe line into the
plant of the North Carolina Pulp
Company for delivery of its liquid
alum demands, formerly secured
from another American Cyanamul
plant at Georgtown, S. C.
Announcement that a liquid
alum plant was to be built in Plym
outh was made from company
headquarters in New York City
last December 12. At that time it
was stated .the decision to locate
here was ' prompted by rapid
growth of the paper industry in
North Carolina and Virginia and
the new plant would be of suffic
ient size to care for current and
expanding needs of that industry.
Mr. Walsh, superintendent of the
unit here, has been with American
Cyanamid Company for more than
two years, serving at plants in
Linden, N. J., and Salt Lake City,
Utah, before coming to Plymouth.
He and Mrs. Walsh are now living
in a new home recently completed
for them in the Country Club Vil
lage.
Other employees of the plant
here now include Herman “Jack”
Gurkin, of Roper, working super
visor; William M. Booth, digester
operator; Miss Melba Peed, of
Plymouth, secretary; Edward Beck,
of Jamesville, Phillip Liverman
and Garland Gardner, of Plymouth,
helpers; and Leroy Puckett.
County Native Will Hold
Special Series Meetings
A series of special meetings will
begin at Everetts Bible School
Church of Christ Sunday night, and
will continue until Sunday night,
September 2. There will be serv
ices each night at 8 o’clock. Young
people will meet at 7:30 o’clock.
The church is located on U. S. 264
at Everetts Cross Roads which is
about 15 miles east of Washington.
Graham Barnes, minister of the
congregation, will be the speaker
each night. Barnes, a graduate of
Creswell High School in 1955, is
now a student at Roanoke Bible
College in Elizabeth City.
Kenneth Bowen of Pantego will
be the pianist. Special music will
be rendered by talented choirs and
individuals.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
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Returns Home Friday
From Mars Hill Meet
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R. F. Lowry returned late Fri
day from Mars Hill where he at
tended the Superintendents’ con
ference at Mars Hill College Tues
day through Friday. William B.
Rodman, jr., newly appointed State
Supreme Court associate justice,
explained to the superintendents
the state’s Pearsall plan for main
taining segregated public schools.
The former state attorney general
said he thought the legislation re
cently enacted by the general As
sembly in special session is con
stitutional and could not be de
clared invalid.. Another speaker
was Judge John J. Parker of the
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Ap
peals, who discussed the funda
mentals of the U. S. constitutional
system and said that educators
must be sure that Americans un
derstand the principles which un
derlie their freedoms. Judge Par
ker urged that American history
i be taught adequately in schools and
[ colleges.
1
I.
BATEMAN
(Continued from Page 11)
Carolina’s public schools. He taught
and studied simultaneously until
he entered the University of North
Carolina in September, 1897. He
taught at Bath Academy in 1900
and 1901 and was principal of the
Windsor Academy from 1901 to
1903.
Leaving the teaching profession
he joined the private banking firm
of Gillam and Lyon in Windsor
as bookkeeper, remaining in that
capacity for a year. He then or
ganized the Citizens Bank of Wind
sor and became its first cashier.
Remaining there until 1907, he re
signed to become a paying teller
in the Southern National Bank in
W’ilmington. After six months there
he joined the Bank of Greenville
in 1908 as assistant cashier, where
he remained until 1911, when he
became a state bank examiner. He
held that post until 1916, when he
went to Wilson as cashier of the
Branch Banking & Trust Company,
then an institution with only one
office. He was elevated to the
presidency in 1924, an office he
held until 1952.
At the time of his retirement
in 1952, when he became senior
consultant, Mr. Bateman had built
the Branch Bank into one of the
largest financial concerns in the
country. He had established branch
'iffices in 15 eastern Carolin;
cities. The first branch he estab
lished was in his home town of
Plymouth.
At the time of his death, he was
a member of the Board of Trus
tees of the Greater University of
North Carolina. He also had serv
ed on the North Carolina Banking
Commission, the Board of Re
construction Finance Corporation
in Charlotte, the 50 Year Club of
the North Carolina Banking Asso
ciation, the Finance and Trust
( Committee of the Branch Banking
j and Trust Company, and also a
director of that institution.
He also was a member of the
New York Southern Society and
was a director of the North Car
olina Home Insurance Company of
Raleigh. He was an ardent student
of government, both on a local and
national level.
On February 5, 1902, he was
married to the former Miss Ida
Tucker, of Plymouth. From this
union there were three children,
Richard H., a son who died April
16, 1948, Mrs. Louise Bateman Mc
Queen and Mrs. Margaret Bateman
Williams, both of Fayetteville. Mrs.
Bateman died November 3, 1921.
In 1927, he was married to Mrs.
Lottie Skinner Cooper, and this
union had two children, Harry
Skinner Bateman, now assistant
cashier of Branch Banking and
Trust Company in Wilson and Mrs.
Nell Bateman Newman of Norfolk,
Va.
lie is survived by his wife; three
daughters, Mrs. McQueen, Mrs.
Williams and Mrs. Newman, and
one son, Harry S. Bateman of Wil
son.
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