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The Rocky Mo ini VOLUME 4, NO. 51 ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 SI.OO PER YEA* WOMAN MAKES SOLO FLIGHT HERp THURS. Washington, N. C. Nurse Second ( Woman to Solo from Local Field Miss Ada Flynn, a nurse in Wash ington N. C. was the second woman student to make a solo flight at the Rocky Mount airport when she went aloft for her first time alone Thurs day. Miss Flynn and Walter Tharring toh, a Rocky Mount man, now em ployed in Washington, flew over from Washington this morning and flew back aftor Miss Flynn had made a few practicb flights and her first solo. She uped R. E. Lee's Taylor craft plane forithe solo. Tharrington has been flying for several years, and holds a transport pilot's license. What's What About Social Security As another service to its readers, the Rocky Mount Herald, each week will give authoritative answers to questions on the Social Security law. By special arrangement with George N. Adams, Manager of the Social Se curity Board office in the Munici pal Building, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the Social Security Board has consented to pass on the accu racy of answers to questions on So cial Security, which may be asked by employers, employees, and others, through the Rocky M6unt Herald. Address inquiries to The Editor, the Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Answers will be here in the order in which questions are re ceived. This is an informational service and is not legal advice or service. In keeping with Social Se curity Board policy, names will not be published. —Editor. (117) Question: How many work ers aro covered by the unemployment compensation laws of the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia? Answer: It is estimated there are 130,700 in the District of Columbia ; 295,400 in Maryland; 370,100 in North Carolina; 315,500 in Virginia; and 315,700 in West Virginia. (118) Q: How much doap the So cial Security Board contribute for an individual under the old-age as sistance law A: Public assistance is a State- Federal program, administered by the State, in accordance with the State law, and the amount given an individual is determined by the State. The Federal Government will match, dollar for dollar, the amount granted an individual by the State up to a maximum Federal con tribution of sls a month, to a needy aged person. (119) Q: How much does the Social Security Board charge for filing a claim f A: The Board makes no charge for receiving a claim nor for as sisting a claimant. (120) Q: Should a married woman get a new social security account number after she is married. A. No. Simply write to your So cial' Security Board Field Office, en closing your account number card, giving your maiden name as it is on your account card, your account number, and say you have been mar ried and your name now is Mrs. Ed na Jones, or whatever your married name is. Proper changes will be made in the Board records and a new card will be sent to you with your married name and the same number. (121) Q: Does every State have a public assistance law? A: Every State has a public as sistance law which has been approv ed by the Social Security Board as meeting the requirements of the So cial Security Act except Virginia, which has the subject under study. (122) Q: Will the Social Security Board make lump-sum payments to anybody who doesn't file a claim? A: No. While the lump-sum pay ments the Social Security Board is making now under the old-age insur ance system provided by the Social Security Act are made as a matter of right," regardless of the need of the individual, no lump-sum payment can be made if a formal claim is not filed with the Board. EveTy as sistance will be given a claimant by hig Social Security Board Field Of fice. BED OF ROSES? ALMOST IT'S AIR-CONDITIONED Washington (Ips)—lt won't be long, say the inventors, before we'll bo sleeping in air-conditioned_ beds. That the air-conditioning indus try, already giving employment to thousands in newly created jobs, may expand to the field of conditioning beds, was indicated here last week when a New Yprk inventor received a patent for a bed air-conditioner. His invention is a piper arrange ment that is fitted to a bed. Con dition air—caal and fresh—flows out over the sleeper from holes in the pipe. Bladen cotton growers report in creased yields amounting to an av erage of about one-half bale of lint cotton per acre as a result of treating the planting seed last spring. Quintuplet Fortune Exceeds $500,000 Dr. Dafoe Hopes Pile Will Grow Big Enough To Maintain Them UntU Maturity The Dionne quintuplets will soon be millionaires, but they don't know ( it and, for that matter, don't care. Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe, the children's • physician, says that the three-year- j old girls are now worth well over j a half million dollars, most or; which is invested in' Province of Ontario bonds with a .sprinkling of Dominion of Canada securities. Their fortune is steadily growing. "Their income pays for their j maintenance," Dr. Dafoe explains. | "Their expenses run from $1,600 to SI,BOO a mnnth and include the pay of two nurses, a teacher, three guards, a housekeeper, and two maid's in the winter. During the summer a janitor for the rest-house, a night watchman, an extra guard, and two helpers who handle tourist traffic are added to the staff. "My own salary as doctor-in charge is S2OO a month, and Olivia Dionne, the children's father, re ceives $100." The doctor maintains that the health of the children "was, never better." He wants to keep them all well, for "if anything should happen to one of them, the income of the oth ers would automatically cease." He hopeß to earn enough money for them to maintain all five until they reach maturity. The Canadian government has not contributed to the support of the children since the time they were "a year old. Their care is now en -1 trusted to four guardians —Dr. Da fee, Mr. Dionne, Judge J. A. Valin, ' and Percy Wilson, official guardian ' of children for the Province of On tario. Dr. Dafoe says that before long the enforced seclusion of the girls will be ended. "In another two or three years we hope to let them associate with other children," he says. "Natural ly they cannot go to a public school, but we may solve the problem by building their own school and bring ing in additional scholars from out side. The only privacy the quintu plets will ever liav e they must pur chase." Rites Held For A. C. L. Policeman Sergeant J. I. Walker Dies At Home On Saturday Night After Leng thy Illness Funeral services for J. L. Walker, 48, veteran Atlantic Coast Line po lice sergeant who died in a local hospital Saturday night, were con ducted Monday afternoon from his home in Swelton Heights. Mr. Walker died of a complica tion of illnesses at 8.23 o'clock Sat urday night. He had been in bad health for about three months and had been confined to the hospital for the past week. Survivors are his wife, who was Miss Guasie Ramsey of Rocky Mount, and seven sons, Jamea Sam mie, Lee, Herbert, Willis, Clarence and Charles Walker. Other relatives include one broth er, E. C. Walker of Charleston, S. C., and two sisterß, Mrs. L. L. Williams of Rocky Mount and Mrs. J. H. Register jot Tarboro. Rev. J. F. Gaddy, pastor of the North Rocky Mount Baptist church, conducted the fur.eral service with the assistance of Rev. W. T. Towe, retired Methodist minister. After the ceremonies from the home, he was buried in Pineview cemetery. The Coleman-Pitt post of the American Legion planned to present a flag to relatives of Mr. Walker, who was a World War Veteran, it was announced today. Mr. Walker had been a sergeant in the A. C. L. police for 19 years, as sociates said. Members of the A. C. L. police force served as active pallbearers, with members of the city police de partment as honorary pallbearers. Mr. Walker was a native of Nash county, born October 12, 1889, and : had been a lige-long resident of Nash county and Rocky Mount. Funeral Services For Castalia Resident Funeral services.for W. M. Mor gan, 71, of Castalia, were conducted Monday afternoon from the Castalia Baptist church with Dr. J. W. Kin cheloe, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, officiating. Mr. Morgan died at a local hospi tal Sunday after having been in de clining health for some time. He was critically ill for three weeks. He was a life resident of Nash county. He is survived b yhis wid ow, Mrs. Effie Drake Morgan; six sons, W. W. Morgan, J. A. Morgan of Spring Hope, L. A. Morgan of Castalia, R. R. Morgan of Rocky Mount, C. C. Morgan of Louisburg, and R. E. Morgan of Castalia; and four daughters, Miss Inez Morgan, of Rocky Mount, Mrs. I. T. Inscoe and Mrs. L. G. Murphy of Castalia, and Mrs. P. C. C ppedge. Pallbearers for the services includ ' ed Everett Bennett of this city, J. 1 H. Dickens, Leon Nelms, Ester, Lan ; caster, and Lewis Griffin of Castalia, and Graham Frazii r of Spring Hope. COOPERATIVES OPEN FACTORY Fertilizer Factory At Norfolk To Be Operated By Cooperatives Norfolk, Dec. B.—More than 1,000 farmers and farm leaders from North Carolina and Virginia, gathered here today for the formal opening of one of the largest farmer-owned fer tilizer plants' in the world, and heard outstanding leaders in the coopera tive movement tell of the progress that has been made during the .past few years in this direction. Over 500 farmers from North Carolina at tended the dedication. M. G. Mann, general manager of the Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Raleigh, N. C., told the assembled farmers that the opening of the new plant signifies the "bringing to gether of the farm cooperatives as well as the farmers." "This new plant is farmer-owned and farmer controlled," said Mann, "and it is dedicated to the task of supplying quality plant food on a cost basis to its farmer-owners. And the saving that will accrue to farm ers through the cooperative manufac turing of their fertilizer is too great even to attempt to estimate in dollars and cents, and the biggest saving of all will come at harvest time in the form of added yields because of quality." W. G. Wysor, general manager of Southern Cooperative which, with the Farmers Cooperative Exchange will operate the new plant for its patron-owners, stated that "farmers havo made great strides in the co operative fertilizer program, and our patrons have purchased this year three tons of fertilizer cooperatively for each ton so purchased last year. Other speakers on tho program in cluded T. K. Wolfe, director of dis tribution for Southern States Coope rative, Senator W. W. Eagles, presi dent if the Farmers Cooperatixe Ex change, who spoke on "Cooperation Between Cooperatives"; and J. W. Halstead and B. M. Williams, both of Southern States Cooperative. O. L. Stubbs, who will manage the new plant, explained its operation, C. M. Williams, Norfolk, Va., a di rector of Southern States Coopera tive, presided at the meeting. The new plant, one of the two largest farmer-owned fertilizer plants ever constructed, is located at Portlock, Va., and is one of tho most modern in the country. It has an annual capacity of 75,000 tons. Dortches Man Is Interred Sunday W. H. Tharrington, 77, Dies At Home After Extended Illness; Buried In Fed Oak Funeral services for W.. H. Thar rington, 77 year old Dortches resi dent who died at his home Saturday after an extended illness, were con ducted Sunday afternoon from the Stoney Creek Baptist church in Dortches. Dr. J. W. Kincheloe of Rockv Mount assisted the pastor of the Stoney Creek church, where Mr. Tharrington has his membership, in the service. Interment was made in the family burial lot in Red Oak. Mr. Tharrington had been in poor health for three years, and his con dition had been serious for the past two weeks. Surviving members of the family are his wife, who was Mrs. Annie Westray before marriage, eleven chil dren, three sisters and one brother. There are eight sons: John, Otis, Zollie, George and Walter Tharring ton of Dortches, Fenner Tharring ton of Tarboro, Edward H. Tharring ton of Rocky Mount and Erlie Lee Tharrington of Red Oak. The three daughters are Mrs. J. W. Bowling of Zebulon, Mrs. C. P. Ellen and Mrs. L. Y. Shaw of Rocky Mount. Tom Tharrington of Henderson is a brother and surviving sisters are Mrs. Billie Rowe of Henderson, Mrs. Kemp Saunders of Wilson and Mrs. Jack Pamell of Alert. Grandsons of Mr. Tharrington were the pallbearers and his granddaugh ters were flower girls. Mr. Tharrington was born Decem ber 20, 1859, in Franklin County. He married Miss Rowan Conn January 14, 1885, and December 28, 1922, mar ried Mrs. Annie Westray, who sur vives him. I BACK IN 1890— A president of the United States was running a printing press. One of America's big steel com pany heads was stoking a blast furnace. An international banker was fir ing a locomotive. A railroad president was pound ing a telegraph key. There's always room at the top. Where will you be in 1957? A card or letter to the Agricul tural Editor at State College will bring, free of charge, Extension Cir cular No. 217, "Feeding Cattle For Market," by L. I. Case. One of tho finest rural homes in Union County is tho on e belonging to Talmadge Austin, a young farmer who cultivates 80 acres of land two mile s east of Marshville. New Navy Cruiser Is Latched ..... s , The 10,000-ton cruiser Wichita, last of 18 vessels of its class to be built under the terms of the London treaty, sliding down the ways at the navy yard at Philadelphia. The cruiser was christened by Miss Margaret Ayres of Wichita, Kan., daughter of W. A. Ayres, chairman of the federal trade commission. The Wichita will carry a main battery of nine eight inch guns. President's Leadership The President, through his great leadership, is trying to give to the farmer an agricultural bill that will protect him in the time of great surpluses and also to protect the farmer against the coordinating buying of the money powers and manufacturers in the raw market. It is difficult to write a 1 bill to please everybody and give equality to all. But there is y absolutely no doubt that it is the desire of the President to , bring relief to the great agricultural interests of the nation ■ for it is absolutely impossible to bring relief to the masses ' of people until agriculture is placed on sound bases. But let the farmer understand that the President's efforts . and his sympathetic leadership in Congress are having to t work against great forces who have lined themselves to t gether for the purpose of defeating this necessary farm re -1 lief and we should not fail to give praise to those leaders who are striving so valiently for this relief. ROCKY MOUNT TRADING CENTER—GRACIOUS MERCHANTS AND CLERKS \ —————— The city of Rocky Mount is beginning to look like Christ mas. The streets have been decorated in keeping with the 1 Christmas holidays which gives it a gay appearance even in the day time and really it is very beautiful at night. The merchants have given unusual attention to their dec oration this fall and have had a very large stock of Christ mas merchandise as well as their general stocks and the trade has apparently been good. Rocky Mount is the trade center of Eastern Carolina and the retail and department stores carry just as large and varied stocks as are carried in cities nearly three times the size of Rocky Mount and one need only walk on the streets to see that our town has a wide trade area. There is a rea son for this: We have the stores and the merchants have large stocks, prices as reasonable as can be found any where, but most of all our merchants and their clerks and assistants are extremely courteous, helpful, and obliging which gives to the stranger a welcome that induces him to 1 return to Rocky Mount for his shopping. This last splendid r attribute has added to the greatness of Rocky Mount as the > trading center more than the goods, and prices. : Two Aged Brothers Die : e Two brothers, both jjast 90 years '• of age, died just three days apart at their home in the Paddy creek g section of Burko county last week, e The death of Cornelius Denny, !• 92, early last Friday morning was '• followed by the death of his only B surviving brother, Eben Denny, age . 94, on Tuesday afternoon. Both sue- : cumbed to infirmities of age. ■For some time the brothers had 3 made their home with Eben Denny's ( T son, William Denny. Until the death . " of his wife several years ago, the ' ' younger brother lived in Higgins ( township in McDowell county, mov ing then to Paddy's creek to stay ( with his brother and nephew. Both monagenarians were members of Oak Grove Baptist church in thin , county and funeral services were ] held there. Bites for Cornelius Denny were " conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services for Eben Denny j were held at the church at 2 o'clock , Wednesday. Both were buried in j the church cemetery. The elder brother, Eben, is surviv ed by one son, William, with whom , the two made their home, and by j two daughters, Mrs. Mary Williams, j and Mrs. Maggie Wilson, of Marion. r MODERN SCRIBBLING DECRIED ! Lancaster, Pa., Dec. s.—Charles E. i Lausch, 65, deplored the handwriting ; of the present day on his retirement r after three decades service in the lo- i > eal postoffice. He said moderns sacri ficed good handwriting for speed. December Trees Make Best Wood Trees Cut Down This Month Produce Best Fuel Wood Says Service Ex pert Raleigh, Dec. 13. —Trees cut down in December make the bost fuel wood according to R. W. Graeber, extension forester at State College. There is less sap in the trees at this season than at any other time, lie pointed out. The wood will dry out quicker and make better fuel. On many farms, he continued, De cember is also a good wood-cutting month because farmers have the time available. At other seasons they are often too busy. "And while you are cutting wood," Graeber continued, "kill two birds with one stone. "Cutting fire wood and thinning out overcrowded timber stands can be done at the same time. This helps your timber stands while providing wood for household use or for sale." Only small, crooked, or otherwise inferior trees should be cut for fire wood, better quality trees to grow into pulp wood, saw logs, poles, pil ings, or fence posts. A well managed crop of timber can yield periodic harvests over an inde finite period, he pointed out. The most uptodate poultry house in Jones County is one recently con structed by G. B. Eubanks of Com fort for the 200 layers in his flock. Duplin County farmers are coop erating to buy a carload of 20,000 pounds of ifynamite to be used in blasting stumps on farm land. Accident Victim Seriously Hurt Raleigh Negro la Held After Crash Injures Wife and Nash County Man Near Here Arthur Coffield, Negro business man of Raleigh, was held in jail here today on a reckless driving charge, and his wife was in a critical condi tion in a local hospital as result of an accident Wednesday night on the Rocky Mount-Nashville highway. C. E. Bell, well-known farmer of near Rocky Mount, was also brought to a hospital hero after the accident, but was not believed to bo seriously injured. Bond for Cofffield had been set by Magistrate W. S. Swain at SI,OOO, but had not been produced at noon today. He was charged with reckles - driv ing resulting in serious injury to per son and property. The date of the hearing to be held for Coffffield had not been set today pending developments in the condi tion of the injured persons. Coffield's car (Lincoln Zephyr) turned over on a curvo near Nash ville as he was coming toward Rocky Mount and apparently landed in the | path of Bell's car, which was going toward Nashville, according to offi cers. Tho two cars collided. It appeared that Coffield's car was unable to negotiate the curve, the of ficers said. Sheriff C. V. Faulkner, Highway Patrolman R.. L. Mashburn and Dep uty Sheriff Harold E. Rice investi gated the accident. Alaska Has Paid For Itself Many Times L The annual report of [ Governor, John W. Troy, to Secre tary of tho Interior Harold L. Ickes, | shows- that Territory, purchased from ' Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000 in gold, 1 has produced in the past eighty [ years minerals totaling a value of ; $722,222,000. Beginning with the Klondiko dis covered forty years ago, mining ac ' tivities hav c developed rapidly, the 1 principal products of which are gold, • silver, copper and coal. According to Governor Troy's re port, minerals account for only a part of the wealth produced in Alas ka. During tho fiscal year 1937, can ned salmon valued at $45,386,512 i was shipped to the United States. This was a gain of 62 per cent in quantity and 70 per cent in value over 1936. Trade between the Unite dStates i and Alaska last year totaled $114,- 923,169. Exports to the states amounted to $76,448,062, including fish and fish products, copper ore, fur skins, gold, silver and other products, the report discloses. : Travel interest greatly increased during the past year. Wiater trans [ portation facilities alone carried an , approximate total of 72,734 passen gers to Alaska, an increase of some ! 9,000 over the preceding year. Many I miles of n£w roads were built and . othe*. road mileage improved. Air , service began some sixteen years ago. Uncompleted figures show that J 89,068 passengers and 10,113,932 ' pounds of frieght and mail "have r , been transported to our great north , western territorial commonwealth by | airplane during the past ten years. ( Governor Troy recommended a ' and establishment of 166 land and complete program for improvement , water airports, at an estimated cost of $30,000,000, stating that funds for the construction and maintenance of landing fields and seaplane floats I have been limited and inadequate to care for this mode of passenger and freight traffic. Established under the Grand i Lodge of the State of Washington, Freomasonry was an early pioneer in Alaska. Lodges are located in all the principal centers, and in some mining camps and other out-of-the- I way places of the Territory. There are two Bodies of the Supreme ' Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Ju • risdiction, in Alaska—one at Juneau and the other at Ketchikan. • It was at Fairbanks, Alaska, that Will Rogers attended his last meet ing among Masons, at festivities ; held during the pilgrimage of Nile ■ Temple of the Shrine. H e and Wiley ! Post were killed on August 15, 1935, ! while flying from Fairbanks to Si f beria. i Two tons of ground limestone and r 200 pounds of triple superphosphate i per acre applied in the fall of 19- i 36, made a decided difference in the ; yield of red clover and lespedeza ' on the farm of J. G. Johnston of i Arden, Buncombe County, this year. i \ NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rock/ Mount , Herald may do BO by semliny SI.OO with name and address to The Rocky Moui> Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. I '»' > I Name i I Town , State Route No. NEW EVIDENCE NOT FOUND IN AUTO CRASH Coroner Gulley Will Make No Dto-j closures Pending Inquest Thurs day Nashville, Dec. 13.—Coroner M. C., Gulley said today no information ha® been produced to clear the mystery surrounding the death of Mrs. J. B. Olive, 39, of Raleigh, who wan i instantly killed when two cars j crashed in the Main street of Bailey 1 late Wednesday night. The inquest will be held in Bailey ' at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Co*- • oner Gulley has announced. The Raleigh woman was instant-j ly killed when the car she was rid- I Wig in collided with another and turned over, pinning her to tho ? ground as sho was thrown out. Ver- 1 non High of Sims drove the other car. Bumors that have been persistent . in this section since the wreck that : a prominent Wilson man and two other women were in the car with j Mrs. Olive were neither denied nor . confirmed by Coroner Gulley. He said here that there was no one in jail or no one under bond in the wreck, despite his statement that a hearing would be held Thursday. He admitted, however, that he did not know who was driving the death car when it collided with the High vehicle. It was first reported that Mrs. Olive was driving the car. Gulley said that the reason that the hearing had not been held be fore was because several Baleigh per sons who ha dbeen ordered to ap pear in the case had not been able to attend until next Thursday. Mrs. Olive was buried Friday in Baleigh. Nevada The Only "Sane** State Left Has No "Sales" Tax, Tobacco Tax, Chain Store Tax Or Inheritance Tax, And "Owes No Man Anything" Nevada, long publicized as tfcQ. state of easy divorce courts and busy roulette wheels, will soon be known also as the haven for tax oppressed millionaires, if the efforts of civic leaders suceeed in their purpose. Already a campaign has been pnt Jnto effect, picturing the state as a place where millionaires can buy an expensive car without sales tax, be queath a fortune withput inheritance tax, and organize a corporation without Slaving to answer embarras sing questions. The new publicity seems to be getting results, for the First Nation al Bank of Reno recently listed 44 names that read lik e a cross-sec tion of American finance as adopt ed citizens of the "one sound state. "It also pointed to the many mag nificant homes, ranging up to $250, 000 in value, that have risen in Be no and at Lake Tahoe. "Navada is the only sane state left in the union," said Wilbur New ton, Denver broker, expressing the view of some of the newcomers. "Colorado has not gone tax crazy. I have made some money in this state and I do not propose to turn it over to a revenue-mad bunch of office holders to throw around. I am mov ing to Nevada." Nevada owes nobody a dollar and is sitting back with a bagful of se i curitics issued by less favored com . munities. Hence it can dispense with a state income tax, sales tax, tobacco tax, chain store tax, and in heritance tax. A neat bit of revenue, however comes from sources not open to all , commonwealths. It costs you SI,OOO a year to operate a bar; $»i00 to run a faro bank, roulette wheel, or blackjack table, and $1,200 to have a keno game with 100 seats. The omnipresent slot machines pay $l2O a year. Mostly desert and range, Nevada's 110,000 square .piiles contain only 91,000 persons. It's the least popu lous state in the Union and the on ly .gtate without a street car line to its name. Thirteen poultrymen of Cabarrus County who kept flock records on. their poultry this year made a net profit of $3,779.33. Records were kept on 2,258 hens that made an average profit of $1.68 each above feed i ' sts. Lack of green feed caused a se vere drop in egg production in tho poultry flock belonging to G> W. Isely of Alamance County, he re ported.