feif AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
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VOLUME 1, NO. 2
CITY FINANCES ARE
IN GOOD SHAPE NOW
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liupme From General Sources
I ,rliekd of Budgetary Expec
tations, Report Shows
! Although several months remain
before the close of the city's fiscal
year next June 80, the city on Jan
uary 1 had $2,423.49 more on hand
from general sources of revenue
than was anticipated when the an
imal budget was prepared last
summer, according to a monthly
report of City Manager Leslie B.
Aycock, submitted to the board of
aldermen in session at the record
er's court room.
This fact was accounted for by
the iac'usion in the "general sourc
es" list of $75,289, designated as
''cash in banks," a large part of
which was already on hand when
the fiscal year started last July 1.
According to budget figures,
$122,903 was expected from gen
eral sources during the year. On
the first of this month the sum
. received was stated as $125,326.49.
Income from property taxes,
however, had some distance still to
go tQ reach bugetary expectations.
A levy of $45,000 was adopted for
this fiscal year and on January 1
the amount received totaled $19,-
145.75, leaving $25,854.25 yet to be
collected.
Utilities likewise, although
bringing in as much income as was
expected up to the present time,
lacked a large amount of equaling
the figure set out for the year.
With $443,500 expected and $249,-
251L53 received by January 1,
there remained $194,244.17 still to
be collected to balance the utilities'
i budget.
Meanwhile, expenditures for the
general administration had totaled
$118,96 on January 1, leaving a
balance of $195,628, from the ap
propriation of $314,524.
Expenditures for each item were
lifted as follows: general govern
ment $13,230.70; public safety,
$37,243.92; health and sanitation,
$18,055.76; highways, $27,904.21;
recreation, $6,584.69; city farm,
$890.{>5; general items and debts,
$14,986.17.
Expenditures for utilities Janu
arys had totaled $160,609.69, leav
ing an unexpended balance of
$136,269.31 from a $296,879 appro
priation.
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S3 H. S. Students
Make Honor Roll
40 Girls and 13 Boys on List
Revealed Today by Prin
cipal J. R. Simpson
Forty girls and 13 boys, students
at Central high school, today had
their names affixed to the school's
honor roll for the first term of
the current year.
J. R. Simpson, principal, said
that the list of students totaling
53, was comprised of boys and
girls who had averaged 90 or above
oiv all of their subjects, including
conduct, for the first half of the
yew.
The names of the students mak
ing the honor roll are as follows:
J. D. Christian, Wesley Coghill,
Francis Mehle, Ann Burnett, Eliza
beth Low, Eloise Robinson, Alice
1 Suiter, Mary Wood Winslow, Jose,
phine Long, Aliens Moore, Edson
Draper, Louise Ashley, Edith
Dixon, Polly Easley, Carolyn
Smith, Adelaide Winslow, Peggy
Zerbach, Anne Blount Jenkins,
Gertrude Powers, Connie Lee Thig
pen, Ballard Wilson, Elizabeth
Sykes, Ida Wood, Louise Bames,
Margaret Garvey, Hugh Price, An
nie Braswell, Esther Simmon 3,
Pauline Smith, Beatrice Temko,
Gordon Burns, Charles Arrington,
John Chambliss, Cortell Gay, Tom
Jennings, Edith Brown, and Fran
ces Daughtridge.
Carolyn Meadows, Dorothy
Draine, Lela Mae Hilton, Mickey
Bennett, Ruth Brower, Mary Lee
| Daughtridge, Ruth Harrell, Mary
[I Leonard, Doris Robbins, Martha
Ann Speight, Rose Wilson, Hazel
! Bulluck, Lottie Beard, Frank Bone,
'I Tommy Brafford, and Lem Korne-.
j gay.
The Rocky Mo
; 47 H. S. Seniors
Hoping To Finish
| Commencement Exercises to
Get Underway Sunday, Jan.
I 28, Wilson States
A total of 47 Central high school
' seniors are expecting to receive
their diplomas on February 2 at
; the mid-term commencement exer
cises, J. R. Simpson, principal,
made known today.
The list includes 30 girls and 17
boys and is one of the largest mid
term graduating classes, the prin
cipal revealed.
All must weather the examina
tions that will get under way on
%Uesday, Mr. Simpson said. The
examination period extends from
January 23 through January 25.
Friday, January 26, will be ob
served by all local schools as a
holiday, Superintendent R. M. Wil
son has announced.
The baccalaureate sermon to be
delivered on January 28 this year
by Dr. J. W. Kincheloe, pastor of
the First Baptist church here, will
be the first of the commencement
functions. On Friday night, Feb
ruary 2, Dr. F. B. Bishop, pastor
of the local Universalist church,
will deliver the commencement ad
dress, while graduation exercises
will be conducted at the high school
on the morning of February 2.
The list of prospective gradu
ates is as follows:
Arthur Norman Armstrong, Jr.,
Emma Louise Ashley, Edgar Roy
Barnes, Norman Leonard Bradley,
Calena Newell Brothers, Margaret
Caroline Brothers, Henry Watson
Dozier, Charles Edward Daught
ridge, Edith Augusta Dixon, Oscar
Tiencken Elliott, Albert Russell
Elmore, Polly Irby Easley, Gladys
Mildred Farmer, Shirley Gwynn
Fountain, Rachel Voorhees Gor
ham, Marshall Webster Henry,
Lester Howell, Rachel Lillian Her
ring, Mary Louise Hodges, Samuel
S. Henry, Blanche Bridgers Ivey, '
Mary Adelene Jackson, E. Geral
dine Johnson, Kathleen Whitaker (
Johnson, Louis T. Joyner, Page
Clark Keel, Ralph Brook Livesay,
Edith Ray Lancaster, Emmie Mae
Price, Margaret Marie Price, Nan- '
cy Grace Powell, Felix Val Price,
Harriette Bryan, Kuhl Robertson, 1
Mitchell Russ, Edith Jordan Rose,
Joseph L. Suiter, Jr., Alice Maude
Snipes, Mary Elizabeth Steigel
man, Carolyn Elizabeth
Mae Taylor, Ruth Evelyn Tuttle, :
Dorothy Belle Tetterton, Adelaide
Paris Winslow, Virginia Clemen
tine Wenk, Elizabeth Jea n Walker,
Van Sharpe Watson, Jr., and Ruth 1
Margaret Zerbach. ]
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STUDENT MAKES MIS
TAKE OF PUTTING
ACID IN NOSE
Davidson.—W. H. Brown, a stu
dent at Davidson college, last week
used a very powerful liquid to
alleviate an irritation in the nose. ,
Having had an operation for nasal
trouble, he kept a specially pre- 1
pared fortn of nose drops -ready 1
for use. In the early morning i
hours of last Saturday he searched
for the solution, and dropped sev
eral drops of it into his nose. It j
turned out to be hydrochloric acid.
Brown, crazy with pain, rushed
out of the house and drove rapidly
to a physician's house, where he
was treated.
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JAP ADMIRAL ATTACKS
U. S.
Tokyo. The Commander-in-
Chief of the Japanese Navy, Vice
Admiral Shetsugu, is quoted in
the magazine, Gendai, as declar
ing that the. United States and
Russia were scheming to surround
Japan for military purposes.
The Admiral's attack on Ameri
ca declares that the United States
does not need its present navy,
which is "nothing but a menace to
other nations.**
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Morgenthau says managed cur
rency is aim of program.
ROCKY MOUNT, NO
Largest Payroll
. Distributed Here
The largest payroll yet paid local
CWA employes today was announ
ced by A. D. Dozier, disbursing
officer.
Totaling $6,476.25, the payroll
was distributed to 479 employes on
various projects within the city.
Mrs. R. D. Bulluck, civil works
administrator here, said that the
entire quota for Rocky Mount was
represented on the payroll.
Monday, however, the CWA
workers will start on their first
24-hour week, having previously
worked 30 hours per week.
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Expect To Collect
$25,000 In Back
Taxes In Edgecombe
I'arboro.—J. W. Martin, Edge
combe county tax collector, expects
to collect approximately $25,000
in back taxes, he has announced.
Mr. Martin said collections on
property and dog taxes were being
made for 1929 through 1932, and
that a sizeable amount had al
ready been collected.
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CATTLE SALE TO
BE HELD IN CITY
Sale to Be Conducted at Man
gum's Warehouse at Noon
Saturday
A sale of purebred Guernsey
heifers and bulls, sponsored by the
local Kiwanis and Rotary clubs
and the dairy extension office of
the State college, will take place
at Mangum's warehouse Saturday,
starting at noon, it is announced.
SURGEONS OF THE
SOUTH TO MEET
IN NASHVILLE
What promises to be one 0 f the
greatest gatherings of surgeons
ever to take place in the South will
be the occasion of the Fifth An
nual Assembly of the Southeastern
Surgical Congress, March#s, 6 and
7, in Nashville, Tennessee.
According to information releas
ed by Dr. B. T. Beasley, Atlanta,
Director General of the Congress,
new methods in surgery with dem
onstrations and a three days in
tensive post graduate study of
surgical conditions will be given
by the nation's most celebrated
surgeons.
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Doesn't It?
Boy—Mother, I wish you would
n't call me your "little lamb" when
people are around.
Mother—Why not?
Boy—lt makes me feel sheepish.
WILL ALLOT COTTON
FOR PARITY PA YMENTS
Cotton growers should thorough
ly acquaint themselves with the in
dividual farm allotment for farms
brought under the 1934-35 cotton
contract, for it will play an im
portant part in determining ad
justment payments from the gov
ernment, according to County
Agent John C. Anderson.
The allotment for each farm is
40 per cent of the average annual
production during the 1928-32 base
( period. , The exact poundage is
figured by multiplying the average
annual acreage of the period by
the average yield per acre and
then taking 50 per cent of the
result.
For an example, a grower with
a five-year average of 40 acres in
cotton with an average yield of
200 pounds to the acre would have
an average production of 8,000
pounds. Forty per cent of this
would be 3,200 pounds, which
would be his individual domestic
allotment.
The domestic allotment'has been
set at 40 per cent of the average
annual yield because in past years
40 per cent of the national crop
was consumed in the United States.
TH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934
Celebrate Golden Anniversary
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MR. AND MRS. CHARLES W. HARRIS
■ Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Harris
Celebrate Golden Anniversaryl
I Estate Is Held In
f Trust By Woman
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Well Known Here
N,.mes of persons well known
, in this city were included in the
will of the late Mrs. Mary Bell
» Heyer, of Wilmington, filed for
3 probate yesterday, according to in
' formation received here today.
The bulk of a $300,000 estate
j will be held in trust by Mrs. Bell
Heye r Bulluck, of Wilmington, and
her daughter, Mary Bell Bulluck,
granddaughter of the late Mrs.
Heyer, was bequeathed $30,000 to
be received when she is 30 years
of age.
Two brothers, one sister, and a
( niece are to receive $2,000 apiece
I and two Negro household servants
will receive SI,OOO apiece.
Mrs. Mary Bell Bulluck is the
wife of Dr. Earnest Bulluck who
. is a nephew of Mr. Reading Bul
i luck of Rocky Mount.
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Congress defends RFC, author-j
. izing $850,000,000 fund.
■ The other 60 per cent was export
. Ed or held over. This 40 per cent
. represents the amount of cotton
from which the government can
count on collecting the processing
" tax to furnish funds for rental and
- parity payments.
Dean I. O. Schaub, of State Col
' lege, has pointed out that to allow
one grower a larger allotment than
3 his past production warrants would
1 result in the allotments of other
: growers being cut below their just
3 figure, since the total individual
; domestic allotments cannot amount
i to more than the domestic allot
-1 men for the State. The Sate's
J domestic allotment has been figur
ed on its average past production
i just as are the allotments for in
l dividual farms.
f The cotton contracts guarantee
3 a parity amount of not less than
) one cent a pound on the farmers'
j domestic allotment. This means a
l payment of at least $5 a bale on
: 40 per cent of the average pro
duction of cotton during the base
l period. This payment is in addi
-5 tion to the rental payments and
3 the increased prices the farmers
> will get when they market their
. crop, it was pointed out.
Above is the photograph of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles H. Harris, Mr.
Harris being familiarly known a?
Bud Harris, who recently celebrat
ed their golden wedding anniver
sary and were given an elaborate .
dinner by their children, honoring
the eventful occasion, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Harris' eldest
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Thurman.
Present for this occasion were
the children and grandchildren and
brothers and sisters of Mr. and
Mrs. Harris. There were nineteen
grandchildren present. The child
ren are as follows:
Mrs. Effie Thurman, Rocky
Mount; Harvell A. Harris, Green
ville; Mrs. Robert Brown, Rocky
Mount; Sam Harris, Denver, Colo
rado; Robert Harris, Rocky Mount;
Charlie Harris, Rocky Mount; Ry
land Harris, Johnstown, Tenn.
There were also present the sis
ters of Mr. Harris: Mrs. George
S. Edwards and Mrs. John Scott
Thomas, and three brothers: Dr.
Ryland Sadler, Dr. Dove Sadler,
and Mr. Walter Sadler of Balti
more, Md.
I Mrs. Harris is the daughter of
the late Mr. O. R. Sadler and Mary
Alice Sadler, and was born near
Richmond, Va., on Walnut Hill
plantation at the home of her
mother's father, Mr. Otey. She
moved to Rocky Mount when she
was four years old. She married
Mr. Harris in Rocky Mount, Janu
ary 16th, 1884, Mrs. Harris being
eighteen years of age and Mr. Har
ris, twenty-one. They have con
tinuously resided in Rocky Mount
ever since.
Mr. Harris was born in Franklin
county and moved to Rocky Mount
when he was nineteen years of age.
He was an editor of a newspaper
for sometime, but was later elected
as City Clerk and served in that
capacity for twenty-seven years
continuously; but owing to the
growth of the City and the heavi
ness of the work, he retired from
his duties as City Clerk, and was
immediately elected as Clerk of
the Municipal Court of the City of
Rocky Mount, which position he is
now filling.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris are both
young and active, notwithstanding
J the fiftieth anniversary of their
wedding, and have seen Rocky
Mount grow from a hamlet to the
formidable City it now is, and not
only have witnessed this growth,
but had their part in same, and
were important factors in its de
velopment.
No couple living in Rocky Mount
has enjoyed more wide and general
popularity which has not waned
until this day, and the citizenship
PLANS FOR COMMUNITY CENTER
IN EDGECOMBE ARE CONSIDERED
Plans Made for
Roosevelt Ball
Committees met in the Chamber
of Commerce room Wednesday
morning and formulated plans for
the holding of a Roosevelt Ball
on Jan. 30, in honor of President
Roosevelt. The funds derived from
this social event will be presented
to him for the purpose of estab
lishing an endowment for the
Warm Springs Foundation.
Politics should be adjourned in
this tribute to a President who is
credited by friend and foe, domes
tic and foreign critics, with mak
ing a heroic effort to meet a dan
gerous situation.
With the same fortitude that he
exhibited in his long battle with
infantile paralysis the President
is facing the complex problems of
his nation today. He is deeply in
terested in the work at Warm
Springs and would be greatly
touched if the people of this na
tion, through an expression of re
gard for him, would contribute its
endowment.
Those who prefer to attend balls
can do so but others, too, can
share in the national expression by
contributing a dollar.
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CURB MARKET
One of the most progressive in
stitutions of Rocky Mount is the
curb market, which has been and
is so ably directed by Mrs. Effio
Vines Gordon, the home demonstra
tion agent of Nash County. This
institution has grown from a small
beginning until it has become one
of the most important agencies in
the city. It is not only an ex
change for the farm men and wo
men for Nash and Edgecombe
counties of products raised on their
farms and gardens but in addition,
it has become a social center for
the ladies of both Nash and Edge
combe Counties and the City of
Rocky Mount.
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EXPLODING OIL KILLS
SIX
Hartford, N. C.—When a boiler
exploded in a cotton oil mill, six
men were trapped beneath fallen
bricks and timber. Those not
killed outright were scalded to
death as the steam and boiling
water poured over them. The ex
plosion shook the town as if it
was an earthquake.
NATION'S LARGEST
BANKS
New York.—There are 38 banks
in the country With deposits ox
more than $100,000,000 each, ac
cording to The Financial Age,
which reports four institutions of
this size disappeared during last
year. Thirteen of these banks are
situated in New York City.
U. S. NAVAL PLANES
SET NEW RECORD
The recent massed flight of six
United States Navy patrol sea
planes from San Francisco to
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 2,408 sta
tute miles, set a new record for
overwater formation flying. Pre
viously, the same squadron flew
2,059 miles from Norfolk to Coco
Solo, Canal Zone.
The longest flight of the Italian
squadron, under General Balboa,
was from West Africa to Brazil,
a distance of 1.864 miles.
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CAR HIT BY TWO TRAINS
Merritt, L. I.—Henry Cawker
was killed when the automobile in
which he attempted to cross two
railroad tracks was sandwiched be
tween two trains«approaching fr 0 m
opposite directions.
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Speed of 544 miles is claimed
for new plane design.
0 f Rocky Mount join with the child
ren of this delightful couple in ex
tending felicitations to them on
this notable occasion.
SI.OO PER YEAR..
Tarboro, Jan. 18.—Plans for
building: an Edgecombe county
community center are under coa-
I sider&tion by Mrs. Thomas O'Berry,
I state CWA director.
The plans were submitted yes
terday by J. A. Abernathy, county
r superintendent of schools, and Miss
' Catherine Millsap, county demon
" stration agent.
| The community center calls for
- erection of several buildings—tem
-1 porary home with quarters for the
' sick, school children's week-end
camp, central activity building, and
! 4-H club camp.
A site for the project has been
1 offered but not selected.
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' TOBACCO FIGURES
RELEASED TODA
( Sale of tobacco on the local
market, it was learned today from
; official statistics of the Tobacco
' Board of Trade, has reached the
( total of 48,249,828 pounds. The
r goal of the local market at Rocky
Mount has been striving for this
season for 50 million pounds and
, it is apparent now that more than
50 million pounds will be sold be
, fore the close of the season.
The average price this year will
be near 17 cents, probably a little
above. The average last year
with only 26 million pounds "was
only 13 cents, which shows the
farmers have received this year
more than twice what they receiv
ed last. year.
' Rocky Mount i s splendidly equip
ped for handling the sale of to
bacco and the plans are going for
ward now to take care of the
; greater sales next year which are
anticipated for the season.
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J. A. HARPER WAS
RE-ELECTED SEC. "Y.*
Mr. J. A. Harper was re-elected
General Secretary 0 f the Y. M. C.
A., here at its regular January
meeting. Other officers elected
, were, Mr. Owen Page, president;
J- L. Home, vice-president; W. A.
Bulluck, treasurer and W. B. Mid
dleton recording secretary. The
old Board of Directors was re
elected with the addition of Mr.
O. N. Monroe. \
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Cotton Meeting Held
Wednesday Night
A meeting of Nash and Edge
combe county farmers at which the
purpose of the federal cotton re
duction campaign and reduction
contracts was explained was held
at the recorder's court room here
at 7:30 Wednesday night.
The meeting was in charge of
Herman W. Taylor and H. G.
Wharton, farm agents of Edge
combe and Nash counties respec
tively, and was conducted along
similar lines to a recent gathering
at which tobacco reduction con
tracts were discussed and ex-
plained.
All cotton growers present were
urged to familiarize themselves
with the plans so that work could
be speeded up in the campaign
when the township committeemen
called on them later.
STEALS 23-DAY OLD BABY
New York—A young woman
went to a home where there wan
a 23-day old baby and, with a
bogus note regarding a baby show
which promised attractive prizes,
made away with the infant. There
i was no idea of ransom because
the parents are virtually penniless.
. The child was later discovered
! the home of a white woman t '
, he r negro husband. The woi \
. claimed to have "bought" the
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CASTOR OIL FOR DRU
I Denver.—Magistrate A. H
ens is giving fines of $lO c
. of castor oil to men fount
■ of drunkenness. A public 01
■ citizen has contributed
t four bottles of the oil
maintain the treatment.