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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 4, NO. 15 METHODS OF PROCEDURE OF $7,500 EXPERT HERE At Rocky Mount, N. C. | . t 173 North Main St. | April sth, 1937 >To The Businessmen of Downtown Rocky Mount: You perhaps know that the undor-; signed have been engaged by your , city authorities to study the local situation created by the existence of the railroad tracks in Main Street, and to make a report with recom mendations thereupon. In that connection we need certain information which can be obtained only from you, and we are respect fully requesting your co-operation. The information needed is of such a nature that it would be embarrass ing to ask you for it in person. Because, if it were furnished, it could then be identified with the firm or individual supplying it, and thus be revealing. We do not want to be the recipients of confidential information which might possibly be used embarrassingly, but we do need certain facts, which, through a blind questionnaire, can be supplied by unknown respondents with the tainty that identities will not be La no dosed, from which we can compile eh un js which will serve our purpose ectiv 1 rebound to the advantage of all rse./ith harm to none. This letter, accompanied by a form of questionnaire and a stamp ed addressed envelope will be hand ed to the head of each business es i tablishment in the downtown district with a brief explanation. If you will be good enough to fill out the questionnaire form- and return it to us through the mails, we will be grateful for your assistance. You will note that neither the form nor the envelopo contains any mark of identification which might connect it with the respondent. We suggest that if it is convenient a typewrit- j er be used in filling out the form so that handwriting may not possi bly be revealing. Please do not hand ' the reply to our representative, butj drop it in the mail. & The information will be totalized our purposes and the individual ' returns will be destroyed. The data asked for is of such character that j i' it can be supplied without difficulty, and probably without research upon i your part. We thank you. Respectfully, J. W- Roberts & Associates Questions 1. What is the genera llocation of your business establishment ? | (Please check the two items which apply) , , , 2. What is the general classifica tion of your business? (Please check class which applies) 3. How many months engaged in such business at present location during 1936f 4. Total number of persons (in cluding employers) regularly engag ed in the establishment during year 1936? 5. Man-months of extra help en ! gaged in the establishment during year 1936? t 6. Gross sales (not net proceeds) during 1936? 7. Do the tracks in their present location adversely affect the ingress tc and tho egress from your estab . lishment? * 8. Is the noise, (lirt, and distrac tion caused by passing trains detri mental to your business? 9. Are your goods damaged by the dirt and vibration caused by passing trains pnd if so, will you please approximate conservatively the annual loss suffered? 10. Do your customers complain of inadequate parking space? If so, » n what week days, or in what sea son? Please do not sign this return or in any way indicate the identity of the respondent or the establishment. As soon as convenient, kindly mail s in the enclosed self-addressed en '' , velope to J. W. Roberts and Associates, lU 173 North Main Street, 1 j Rocky Mount, North Carolina P, ° T Edgecombe Farmer Succombs At Home j Robert Edward Jones, 65, a promi nent farmer of Edgecombe county, died at his home near House Sta ,*io'L after being in declining health tTirec years. Funeral services were held from the home with Rev. W. L. Clegg, , Methodist minister of Bethel offici ing. Interment followed in the fthel cemetery. He is survived by his widow, who lefore her marriage was Miss Mar garet Gertrude Manning, seven chil dren, Lyman Jones, of this city. Mrs. Travis Davenport, Robert and Howard Jones of Richmond, Johnnie Jones of Hawaii, Mrs. J. A. Kil by of Bay view, Mrs. W. L. Vain wright of Littleton; two brothers, J. J. Jones of Bethel and S. L. Jones of Snow Hill; and four sis ters, Mrs. W. J. Manning, Mrs. J. T. Turner, and Mrs. J. R. Wliit hurst of Bethel, and Mrs. V. C. Car „ son of Greenville. Pallbearers for the services were , Billy Brown, Harvey Manning, Roy . Manning, and Burleck Manning, of ; Bethel, Cecil Turner, Mack Turner, and Jimmy Rouse of Greenville, and Major Jones of Raleigh. BUILDING AND LOAN MEET HELD IN CITY One Hundred Fifty Building And j Loan Officerg Have Annual Ses sion In City- Fred Wilietg of Wilmington, pres ident of the North Carolina Build ing and Loan League, addressed about 150 building and loan men of northeastern Carolina in the Ricks hotel last night at a dinner session, the annual meeting of the second district of the league. Officers and directors of building and loan association from here to Elizabeth City, the area covered by one of the 10 districts of the state league, attended the meeting Declaring that building and loan operations in North Carolina are now a $60,000,000 a year business not including $10,000,000 a year op erations of Federal Willets propos ed that it is time for the state Building and Loan League to en gage an all-time secretary. He urged that an all-time secre tary be secured to promote build ing and loan progress and to ad vance the work of the league. Mr. Wlilletts also mentioned plans for a convention of the league at Blowing Rock this year. George Croan of Raleigh, direc tor of the building and loan divi sion of the North Carolina insur ance department, stated that taxes proposed in the recent state legisla ture which would have amounted to $438,000 a year for North Carolina home owners were defeated by the activitie of the Building and Loan League. He reviewed other legislation af fecting building and loan activity and changes in organization forms. J. F. Stevens of Winston-Salem, secretary of the league, addressed the group on direct production loans. Miss Eula Felton of Wilson was declared winner in a Keesler Memo rial speaking contest on building loans as home builders, and will 1 represent the second district in a' state Keesler contest at Blowing Rock. The speaking contests are conducted among high school stu dents by the Building and Loan Lea gue and awards are presented from the Keesler Memorial foundation. Of the other two contestants last night Miss Mary Perry of Edenton received second place award and Ed Gurganus of Williamston received third place. Judges of the talks were T. A. Avera and J. M. King of this city and Sam Nash of Tarboro. A Building and Loan League par ty, led by President Willetts, came here last night after attending the annual meeting of the first district at New Born Monday night and planned to attend a meeting of the third district tonight at Raleigh. Singing led by Tom Avera and an invocation by John King opened the meeting, I. J. Dowdy, Jr., presided. o Quins Are Nearly Millionaires Now The world famous Dionne quintu plets will be in the millionaire class. The little sisters, three years old on May 28, already have received payments topping the half-million mark and those receivable will boost the total to $861,148. The Ontario government announc ed Thursday the babies have receiv ed $573,765 from 24 motion picture, advertising and industrial contracts, $543,174 of it since they were made wards of the king in June 1935. To be added to this are accounts receivable totaling $287,383. In the next few years, percentages for the sale of various products also will add an uuestimated sum. The largest single item in the> quint's revenue was $300,000 from a film company for four motion pic tures starring the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Olivia Dionue. The returns tabulated by the gov ernment detailed each contract en tered into by the babies' guardians —Welfare Minister David Croll, Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe. Olivia Dionne and Judge J. A. Valin, of North Bay. Expenditures up to January 31) of this "ear totaled $95,996, the re turn showed. Of this Dr. Dafoe was paid $4,597 for his services from June, 1935. CrviL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS ANNOUNCED The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open com petitive examinations as follows: Junior engineer (Naval Architec ture, $2,000 a year, Navy Department. Associate technical analyst $3,200 a year, and assistant technical an alyst, $2,600 a year, Bureau of Un employment Compensation, Social Socurity Board. Curriculum Specialist and text book writer (mathematics), $3,800 a year, textbook writer and curricu lum research worker, $2,600 a year, Office of Indian Affairs. Full information may be obtained from the Secretary of th t . United Sta , tes Civil Service Board Of Exami ners at the Post offico or custom | house in any city which has a post of fice of the first or second class.or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937 EXPECT CALL FOR BERRY PICKERS SOON First Trip May Be Made April 15, Bennett Says The first of 1,000 or 2,000 straw berry pickers who will be sent from here to the eastern berry fields this spring will probably be called by the State Employment Service of fice April 15, depending on the weather, District Manager 8. D. Bennett has announced. Only pickers who have registered at the State Employment Service office will be chosen for the trips he said. The office reported that it is re ceiving large numbers of applica tions daily from pickers. Those who want jobs as pickers when the ber ries are ripe should register at the State Employment Service office be tween 9 and 12 o'clock any morning, but as soon as possible, Mr. Bennett said. Berry growers have reported to the office here that they expect a large cron. Jerry Boddie, the Negro represen tative of the employment office, has enlisted many pickers already, Mr. Bennett commented. Postal Receipts Increase Here One of the most cheerful signs of Spring to business men is a rise in post office receipts for March and j for the first quarter of 1937, report ed here by Postmaster E. C. Speight. March, with receipts totalling $6,- 555.20 showed a 4.72 per cent in crease ($295.92) over March of last year. The Rocky Mount post office end ed the first three months of 1937 with receipts $462.09 ahead of the first quarter last year, according to Postmaster Speight's report. Receipts for the past three months totalled $18,951.18, as compared to $18,489.09 last year. January this year recorded re ceipts of $304.05 more than the pre ceding January. February fell off $137.88 from last year, but the in crease reappeared in March. o Claims Bankers Began Sit-Down Washington, Mar. 31.—Justice Fer dinand Pecora of the Supreme Court of New York, in his testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on President Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the Federal judiciary, charged that the real originators of the "sit-down" strike were the bankers of the United States in their conspiracy to violate the laws passed by Congress to regu late utility holding companies. Sensing the alarm of senators ov er the prevalence of "sit-down" strikes by the workers in various 1 parts of the country, Mr. Pecora told the committee that it should ''never forget the sit-down strikes in defiance of law originated in the lofty seats of high finance be fore the technique was merely cop ied by working men and women." From his experience as counsel for tho Senate Banking and Currency Committee in 1933 in the investiga tion of banking and stock promo tion rackets which led Congress to pass the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Mr. Pecora was able to support his claim with indisputable facts. In strong language he charged the investment bankers with staging a sit-down strike until they won from Congress the modification of the Securities Act, and described as an other example of the sit-down strike against statute law the nation-wide refusal of the officials of utility holding companies to register their companies under the terms of the Utility Holding Act. Turning to the workers and the prevailing industrial unrest through out the United States, Mr. Pecora said that the present wave of labor disputes was the result of "a sit down strike by employers against the Wagner Labor Relations Act," which was passed by Congress for the express purpose of prohibiting employers from interfering with the right of their employes to organize in labor unions and carry on usual trade union activities without dis crimination in employment. o- Edward Vlll Will Go To France It was learned this week that the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of England, has de finitely decided to go to France the latter part of this month to be with Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, Am erican-born heiress, for love of I whom he gave up the British throne last fall. Mrs. Simpson, who has been twice divorced, will not bo granted her second divorce decree until April 27, and it is expected that the wedding will take place soon after that date. The Duke will remain at Saint Wolfgang, Austria, until he goes to France. The coro- I nation of his brother, George VI, and Queen Elizabeth will take place in London on May 12. Rocking Rookies for British Army tiipss«! i Before the novice is entrusted with a valuable cavalry charger in the British army, he must prove his efficiency in horsemanship aboard a wooden rocking horse. Here you see a class of recruits for the Six teenth lancers undergoing the necessary—if undignified—early training. The galloping motion of a horse is duplicated by other soldiers pushing the horses from behind. "Expert" Methods From the questionaire sent out by the so-called rail road expert, it would appear that the expert is proceeding with his work. The first part of his survey seems to have been taken up with monitors to sit at our principal street crossings and calculate how much time the citizens of Rocky Mount have lost by reason of being compelled to wait for the passing trains. The survey has advanced beyond this stage and has now reached the point that the questionaire has been sent out to the leading business men of the town to inquire of them the pecuniary amount they have been damaged and inconvenienced and how much complaint they have received from their customers by reason of smoke and cinders drifting into their stores trom the trains. They further want to know the extent of business done during the past year. Now, what good the information as to the amount of sales from a merchant's store can have on the proposed railroad survey and its removal, is beyond us, but in line, with our editorial of last week, we warned the people that they may be on the look-ont for just such a promiscuous report. It looks lik« we could better have gotton this in formation from the Revenue Office in Raleigh rather than pay $7500 to an expert and $3,000 expenses in order to enable the expert to make a report. It has been suggested that the boy scouts could have gotten this data at a much cheaper price if the Board de sired it, rather than sending our local money out of this territory. SHOULD RUSH MATTER We are informed that the School Board is taking steps to condemn additional land in the high school block on which to locate the new gymnasium. We know this information as to the action of the Board will receive the entire approval of the patrons of the city schools of Rocky Mount. We hope that the own ers of the property and the School Board may be able to arrive at an agreeable price without the necessity of condemnation, but if they cannot agree, the law is plain and well established. We certainly trust that the land can be acquired as early as possible so that the work on the gymnasium can proceed. The action of condemna tion should be passed as rapidly as it can be done under the low. MRS. DAVIS IS D. A. R. HEAD Mrs. Eugene Davis of Wilson was chosen head of the North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolu tion at the 7th annual convention of the organization held in Charlotte this week. She will succeed Mrs. Wil liam Henry Belk, of Charlotte. The attendance at this convention was well over 300, the largest in the history of the organization. In ses sion since Tuesday, the meeting closed yesterday afternoon after a final business period during which annual committee reports were made. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST "Unreality" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all churches and Societies of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, April 4, 1937. The Golden Text was from Job 35: 13. "Surely God will not hear, vanity, neither will the Almighty \ regard it." Among the citations which com prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteous ness." (Isaiah 41: 10) The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures" by Mary Baker Eddy. "The physical effects of fear illustrate its illusion. Gazing at a chained lion, crouched for a spring, should not terrify a man. The body is af fected only with the belief of dis ease produced by a so-called mind ignorant of the truth which chains disease. Northing but the power of Truth can provent the fear of er ror, and provo man's dominion over error." (Page 380) AERIAL CLUB TO MEET 10,11 The North Carolina Aerial Club which is composed of all North Carolina and South Carolina pilots will hold their convention and air show in Goldsboro Saturday night and Sunday, April 10 and 11th. Dr. F. M. Bouldridge of Char lotte, is President. Our esteemed townman, J. D. Winstead, is a mem ber of Board of Directors and Chairman of the Program Commit tee of the oncoming convention. It is expected that 75 airplanes and 200 airpilots will be in Goldsboro for this convention. Also the Ju nior Birdinen of Rocky Mount and Goldsboro and Raleigh are meeting there in a contest with model air plane and will demonstrate their ships on the field Sunduy afternoon right after the Carolina Air Show. Prizes have been gotten up and will be given to the winners of the Bird men in the contest and also the Carolina show. The city of Goldsboro and the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association are sponsor ing the Carolina Aerial Club meet ing. The Marines of Quantico have ac cepted an invitation to be present and it is expected that many thous ands _ of spectators from eastern Carolina will be on hand for this show that will probably prove to b e the largest air show ever held in Carolina. SINGING MOUSE Hundreds of Linton, Indiana, cit izens having nothing better to do one afternoon recently, foregathered at the home of William Wilson to hear a singing mouse and a canary, warbling from different cages. Ac cording to Wilson the canary was so fascinated at first with his partner he wouldn't sing, but now the pair "tra-la-la" with great gusto. GALLOPADE KING AND QUEEN TO BE CHOSEN HERE APRIL 17 UNIVERSITY OF N.C. WILL HEAR SON OF MOODY Dr. Paul Moody Will Deliver Bac calnureate Sermon At Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, April 3.—Dr. Paul Dwight Moody, president of Middle bury College, Vermont, will preach the baccalaureate sermon at the 142 commencement of tho University of North Carolina, Administrative Dean R. B. House announced today. Tho services will be Sunday morning, June 6, at 11 o'clock in the Memor ial Hall. Dr. Moody is the son of Dwight L. Moody, th e famous evangelist. He has been president of Middlebury College since 1921. He was ordain ed as a minister of the Congregation al church in 1912 and served pas torates in Vermont and New York before accepting the presidency of Middlebury in 1921. He was graduated from Yale Uni versity in 1901, and Yale conferred an honorary D. D. on him in 1924. During the World War Dr. Moody served successively as chaplain of the Ist Vermont Infantry, 103 rd U. S. Infantry, and G. H. Chaplain A. E. F. Dr. Moody was Dean House's regimental chaplain during the World \\?»r when the two developed a strong friendship that has continued. NEW BUSSES TOBEBOUGHT School Commission To Open Bids For New Conveyances During This Week Haleigh, April s.—The State School Commission will open bids on some 050 new school busses Thursday, April &, it was announced today by Lloyd Griffin, executive secretary of the commission. The! number actually purchased will de pend upon the prices bid, but it I is expected that the busses will av erage from $9OO to $930, including the bodies. This will be the first largo letting since the new appro priation of $OOO,OOO was made by the 1937 general assembly. Only about 50 busses have been purchased so far from this appropriation. The bodies of these new busses j will be larger and stronger than i ever before as a result of changes made in the specification, Griltin said. As a result, the new bus bo dies that can be obtained and ful ly as safe as all-steel bodies, the commission maintains,. Because of this fact, most of the south eastern states have now adopted the North Carolina school bus specifications for their school bus equipment. South Carolina. Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi are now in sisting that the school bus bodies they buy must be built according to the North Carolina specifications. Although the 700 new busses which will be purchased with the new appropriation of $600,000 and other funds that were avilable, these new busses by no means take care of the need, Griffin said. He point ed out that ther e are between 1,000 and 1,200 busses from five to seven years old 'and older which should be replaced this year and that the commission recommended not less than $BOO,OOO for school bus re placement purposes this year. He said that after a school bus gets more than five years old the cost of maintaining it increases stead ily each year, while the dependa bility of these busses steadily de creases. The strikes in the automobile in dustry have made is impossible to hold a letting before this time. Ain't Foolin' A colored lady was strolling thru a cemetery (in the day time of course) reading the inscriptions on the tombstones. He came to one which read: ing his head, he remarked, ''He sure ain't foolin' nobody but his self." "Not dead, but sleeping. Scratch- A very self-satisfied man arrived at the gate of heaven and asked for admission, "Where are you fromt" he was asked. "California." "Well, you can come in, but you won't like it." NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending $l.OO with name and address to The Rockv Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. " Town State , Route No.— $l.OO I'ER \ LAfk Coronation Of King And Queen Will Climax Three Day Festival April 23 Like announcements of candidacy for municipal offices, voting for the King and Queen of tho Gallopade will close April 17, Head Showman Avery Wynne of the Gallopade an nounced today. Coronation of a Rocky Mount youth and maiden as King and Queen ot the Gallopade, the annual com munity festival which Rocky Mount and eastern Carolina will celebrate here April 21-23, will climax the three day carnival. With appropri ate ceremony the coronation will be performed at the Gallopade Ball, for which Rita Bio and her "Sweethearts of Swing" will play Friday night, April 23. Without nominations, the King; and Queen will be elected by ballot, according to plans of the Gallopade Association, Business men who contribute for the festival and resi dents of the city who buy $2 mem bership tickets will bo given vote* at the Chamber of Commerce, 100 per dollar. The votes may be cast in a bal lot box already prepared at the Gal lopade headquarters, the Chamber of Commerce office on N. E. Main street,, for any unmarried young man and young woman between the ages of 16 and 2a who has lived in Rocky Mount for a year. The young man and young woman getting the highest number of votes will be pro claimed King and Queen. The three day Gallopade program, which is not yet complete, was an nounced today by President Wynne. Wednesday, April 21—8 P. M,—■ Barn Dance. Thursday—ll A. M.—Gallopade Parade; 3:30 P. M.—Season's first baseball game; 10 P. M. —Popular free dance. Friday—lo A. M. —Army air show; 3:30 P. M.—Baseball game; 10 P. M. —Gallopade Ball. Two kinds of memberships in the Gallopade Association are available, Mr. Wynne explained. Those who contribute s•"> or more to the Gallo !>ade wjji hiye Sustaining* "Member- I ships. Members who pay from $2 or more will have Associate Memberships, he said, entitling tlieui to attend the three dances and to invite five out of-town visitors. The amounts above $2 contributed by sustaining members will bear the expenses of the Gallopade and will mak e it and its benefits possible to the community. Rocky Mount residents who have Gallopade membership curds and out of-town visitors who have invita tions may attend the Gallopade Ball, he stated. The huge barn dance Wednesday night and the pop ular dance Thursday night will be free to all. WATERS OF TAR ARE STILL HIGH 1 Brief Kain Last Night Stops Slight Fall Of River Tar river fell half a foot from slightly above flood stage yesterday. Assistant Chief Kngineer James A. Moore at the city power plant re ported today, but a brief rainfall last night seemed to hold the Tar at a 8.5 foot level about noon. As floods were reported imminent i again in other sections of the south, , Rocky Mount saw high water in numerous places yesterday. A swol len torrent roared over "the falls" north of the city, almost reached the top of the island in Battle Park and did rise over tho Battle Park drive at one point. Waters of the Tar rose out of their banks at several points in and near the city, and at one place northwest of the city flooded sever al acres of woodland. Though the river was receding to day, little change was evident at noon. The 8.5 foot level at noon today was about three and a half feet above the present normal stage. Child Is Drowned In Spencer Cesspool Falling jnto an open toilet in the rear of the home of his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Nesbitt, in East Spencer, Monday afternoon, Donald, their 17-months old son, was drowned in a cess pool. He was found half an hour later but efforts at resuscitation proved futile.
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