BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
VOLUME 1. NO. 21.
Local Candidate Will Ask
Second Vote In County
Griffin Announces Intention
Of Requesting Second
Primary
Edgecombe county voters will go
to the polls again the latter part of
the month as the result of an an
nouncement by Roscoe Grif
fin, second candidate in the race
for the state legislature, revealing
that he will oppose the leading
candidate, W. W. Eagles, in a sec
ond primary June 30.
t"lt is my intention to-call for a
second primary, just as soon as the
official coijnt has-been announced
by the chairman of the board of
elections," he stated.
"From the best information I am
able to obtain, Mr. Eagles received
about 100 more votes than I re
ceived. Mr. Thurston, who lives in
the same township with me, receiv
ed a very good vote in the county,
between eight and nine hundred."
Makes Platform Plain
"I tried to make my platform
plain to the people, and they were
very generous in their support to
me, which I appreciate mor«> than
I can expiess in words.
"It is a matter of principle to
me, and I shall continue to work
for the things announced hereto
fore in my platform."
Final Rites For
Mr.J. H. Raynor
Cokey Road Merchant Laid
To Rest—Lived Here For
Forty Years
Funeral services were conducted
from the home on Cokey Road ex
tension this afternoon for James
Harvey Raynor, 61, who died early
yesterday afternoon following a
stroke of paralysis.
Rev. James A. Satterfield, pas
tor of the' Second Presbyterian
thurchVwas in charge of the final
rites. Interment was made in the
L family cemetery.
Mr. Raynor operated a general
merchandise store on Cokey road.
He had been in Rocky Mount for
the past forty years.
Born in Pender county where he
v spent his youth, Mr. Raynor was
married in 1893 to Miss Mattie
Proctor of this city. She survives
■htm.
Besides his widow the deceased
is survived by the following chil
dren: James Harvey, Jr., Rocky
Mount; R. R. Gaynor, Dunn; and
' Miss Ruth Raynor, Rocky Mount.
Three sisters, Mrs. Tom Harrel
son, Mrs. Mattie George, Rocky
Point; and Mrs. John Mclntyre,
Clinton, als 0 survive.
Active pallbearers, nephews of
the deceased, were as follows: J.
L. Joyner, G. E. Joyner, E. C.
Drake, W. C. Proctor, G. M. Proc
tor, and J. G. Proctor. Honorary
I pallbearers were Leslie Calhoun,
Fred Calhoun, F. F. Faulk, C. C.
Faulk, Paul R. Worsley, Dr. George
Wemberly, and E. M. Turner.
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T. H. Harmon Dies
After Operation
Final Rites For Insurance
«• Man Were Held Here At
8:00 A. M. Tuesday
Thomas Jefferson Harmon of
this city, assistant manager of the
Durham Insurance company, died
at a local hospital at 8:30 o'clock
Monday morning following an op
eration for appendicitis. He was 71
years old.
Mr. Harman's death was imme
diately attributable to pneumonia
which set in several days after the
operation.
Funeral services were held from
his home here at eight o'clock
Tuesday morning with Rev. J. W.
Kincheloe, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, in charge. The body
was taken to Lylesland, S. C., for
-burial Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Harmon, who enjoyed wide
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ROSCOE GRIFFIN
Nichols Is Made
Police Sergeant
J. I. Nichols Succeeds George
Wheeless On Night Desk
At Police Station
Officer J. I. (Red) Nichols of the
city police department wears the
badge 0 f sergeant following his ap
pointment Friday by City Manager
Leslie B. Aycock to fill the post
vacated by the voluntary demotion
to patrolman of Sergeant George
Whspless, for years night desk ser
geant here.
Officer Wheeless had previously
asked that he be relieved of the
night desk sregean.'s duties, that
he be made a patrolman and that
he be given day duty. His request
was complied with and he now is
working on the day shift.
Meanwhile, applications were be
ing received by the City Manager
for two new patrolmen who will go
on duty July 1. Mr. Aycock said
about 25 applications for the two.
jobs had been filed with him but
that no action had been taken to
ward weeding them out yet. Ex
amination of applicants wTfl take
place within a few days, he stated.
Sergeant Nichols came on the
force as patrolman in 1931 and has
been on both day and night duty
at alternating periods since that
time. He is regarded as an efficient
officer and well qualified to handle
the night desk job.
His salary automatically increas
ed from $144 to $155 a month with
the promotion from patrolman to
sergeants, and Wheeless's salary
correspondingly dropped to the
regular patrolman's pay.
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Local Dairyman
Dies In Hospital
T. D. Williams Succumbs Af
ter Long Illness—Funeral
Rites Held Sunday
T. D. Williams, 49, who operat
ed Meadowbrook dairy, Rocky
Mount route 4, died at a local hos
pital Friday followihg a 12-weeks
illness.
Final rites were held from his
home at five o'clock Sunday after
noon with Elder J. D. Fly of the
Primitive Baptist church in charge.
Burial followed at Pineview ceme
tery.
Surviving l are his widow, the
former Miss Willie Braswell; one
son, J. M. Williams, of this city;
a brother, A. R. Williams, of this
city, and two sisters, Mrs. Selma
Proctor of this city and Mrs. J. D.
Harris of Tarboro.
Palbearers were Leslie Johnson,
John Ellen, J. W. Davenport, W.
G. Weeks, H. D. Privette and W.
D. Gay.
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Blue mold has appeared in the
tobacco beds of Halifax County
but is not spreading rapidly at
this time. In Wilson County, the
disease is spreading.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8. 1934.
Brick School
Makes Record
| We asked Professor Inborden of
1 Brick school to give some informa
. ticn as to the work at Brick school.
Below is his statement.
Professor Inborden is one of the
outstanding educators of the color
ed race.
Bricks, N. C., June 4, 1934.
The Brick School has been run
this year as the Tri-County Ele
mentary and High School unde r the
auspices of Halifax, Nash and
Edgecombe counties. Edgecombe
has had the immediate oversight
and directibn as the school is locat
ed in this county.
The vicissitudes of the year were
not unusual to schools of similar
grades passing through transition
periods. We have sought to build
up morale and scholarship. The one
is dependent upon the other. The
times in which we live are not ca
pricious to either the best morale
or the highest scholarship. Extra
curricular activities to same extent
have been sacrificed to scholarship.
The school has been operated as
a certificated high school. We mean
by this that students finishing cre
ditibly can enter any of our col
leges. This is more remarkable be
cause this was the first year the
school has been operated under
state auspices.
The enrollment for the year was
333 students. There were 162 boys
and 171 girls. In the high school
there were 44 boys and 73 girls,
making in all in the high school
117. The total averages have been
very good. The school came into the
state system after the budget had
been made out for the state and
hence no appropriation could be
mjide for busses. In spit# of this a
number of patrons sent their chil
dren and their neighbors' children
in personally owned cars. They
came from far and near, through
snow, rain and sunshine and were
practically on time all the time.
Edgecombe and Halifax counties
were' about equally divided as to
the number of students. A good
quo a came from Nash county.
About forty students and teach
ers lived on the campus and board
ed themselves. The students' cook
ing and dining room were super
vised by several teachers. A small
per week was charged for
overhead to take care of expenses
incurred.
Friends of the school will be in
terested to know that the first col
ored children in the county to re
ceive Red Cross certificates for
efficiency in class work were
Brick school girls. I mean the first
to receive such certificates from a
county high school in the county.
I might say also the first colored
students to receive a high school
diploma from a county high school
in the county conducted under
county auspices received it at
Bricks.
The school closed Wednesday,
May 23, with a thousand or more
people on the campus for the day.
They heard a very fine address
from Ex-Lieutenant-Governor R.
T. Fountain of Rocky Mount. They
had an excelelnt operetta in the
afternoon, a ball game later and
between the acts the people milled
about the beautiful grounds and
feasted as they felt like it.
Order on the ball diamond and
school campus was every thing»that
could be expected. If any one wants
to know about the school write,
T. S. Inborden,
Bricks, N. C.
Drowns Trying To
Find Purse For Girl
Tarboro, June 4.—Hubert Hop
kins, 18, was drwoned in Tar River
here Sunday. While a party com
posed of himself and other young
people were walking on the A. C.
L. bridge a young woman dropped
her pocketbook into the river. Hop
kins volunteered to swim in the
river atid recover it. He went to
the bank and Jjumped into the
water. Having been gone some
time, others in the party looked for
him, but he could not be found. A
search continued all night without
finding the body. This morning his
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Who Is Paying For The Advertising?
The results of the recent primary show very clearly that
the people of North Carolina do not desire a gross sales tax.
Now, will the Governor in the next Legislature undertake to
over ride the will of the people of North Carolina in demand
ing the re-enactment of the gross sales tax? It appears cer
tain at this time that there will be a surplus of around $lO,-
000,000 in State Treasury by the time the next Legislature
meets over and above the running expenses of the State and
the needed money for the setting up of the sinking funds for
bond issues.
There seems to be a concerted drive and effort to v make the
sales tax permanent there having appeared advertisements
of a political and propaganda nature in a large number of the
newspapers of the State, these advertisements being sent
out by \arious organization? costing several thousands of
dollars and the question is being asked where is all this
money coming from to pay for these advertisements, is it
from the great body of the people who have clearly shown
by their votes that they do not want the sales tax continued
or is it from the untaxed wealth who desire to keep this
burden on the backs of the poor disguising it under the
name of schools and protection to the farmer.
WE MUST HAVE MORE PARKS AND PLAY GROUNDS
Some weeks back, our attention was called to the serious
need of parks in Rocky Mount, there being some suggestion
that our children were not receiving the proper development,
for the lack of play grounds. Small towns and small cities
may not be able to have sky scrapers and great public build
ings like Washington and New York but these small towns
can have something that the larger cities do not have, plenty
of parks and play grounds, if those in authority will give
some thought and attention to this important matter.
The residents of Edgecombe side of Rocky Mount have
not been provided with parks and play grounds, which they
are naturally and justly entitled to. There is a block of pro
perty lying between Hill, Cokey Road and George Streets
with only one house on it and that falling into decay, which
could be secured at a reasonable price, then, the land could
be condemned. This is another opportunity in the interest of
the children of Rocky Mount that the Board of Aldermen i
should avail themselves. This piece of ground lies between i
two of the largest schools in Rocky Mount and is easily ac- 1
cessible to all the children. In the great expenditures that i
are now taking place in Rocky Mount let us hope that the.
children will not be overlooked.
PARKING
While business has been much better this spring than
last year yet there is a natural dullness in business which
the hot weather and summer months brings and but for the
people of Rocky Mount being able to park their cars down
street and enjoy a brief stay it would look exceedingly dull,
yet during the dullness the policemen of Rocky Mount have
forsaken their regular patrols and are down the street mea
suring and sighting up and down marked lines to see wheth
er the cars are parked on th e right angle and degree and
using stop watches to see whether a citizen and tax payer of
Rocky Mount has stayed a few minutes over the parking
time. «
Would not the time of these policemen be better spent
patroling and watching the highways and streets, where
automobiles are driven at a high rate of speed and operated
in a reckless and careless way, yet there are those who con
tend that we should have seven or eight more traffic men?
What would we do with them? If all the citizens of Rocky
Mount would leave their cars at home the streets would look
like they were deserted and it would be a bad advertisement
for strangers passing through Rocky Mount to see such a
dead looking town. Now, we know that these policemen have
received orders from somebody or else they would be spend
ing their time in a more profitable manner and more for the
benefit of Rocky Mount.
Fight About Sa
Is Becoming More Intense
Dr. Brooks and
Dr. Foust Resign
As Head of College
Dr. Eugene Clyde Brooks active
head of Narth Carolina State Col
lege since 1923, steps down fr*>m
his position on July 1.
Dr. Brooks and Dr. Julius I.
Foust, head of Woman's College
at Greensboro for many . years,
Tuesday asked the board of trus
tees of the Greater University of
North Carolina, of which State
College and Woman's College are
integral parts, to relieve them of
their duties.
This the board did after adopting
a resolution praising "the great
services rendered by each of these
distinguished gentlemen."
The board abolished the office of
vice president, an office erected
more than a year ago and to which
Drs. Brooks and Foust were named
after Dr. Frank Porter Graham,
president of the University of
North Carolina, had been named
president in charge of all three
units of the Greater University a
product of the administration of
former Governor O. Max Gardner
(luring the 1931 General Assembly.
Governor Intimates He Will
Ask Reenactment; Brum
mitt Proposes Plan
North Carolina's sales tax, focal
point of a bitter fight in the 1933
General Assembly which gave it
birth, promise.- to be the center of'
an even more intenfee fight until
the 1935 General Assembly meets.
Governor Ehringhaus intimated
in an address before the Greens
boro Real Estate Board that he
would ask the 1935 Legislature to
retain the sales tax for the 1935-
1937 biennium. The way has been
I aved for the step by several state
ments showing how the sales tax
and State support of schools has
aided local property taxpayers. The
statements were issued by the Rev
enue Department.
Willard Dowell, secretary.of the
North Carolina Merchants' Associ
ation and leader of the anti-sales
tax group, has predicted that a ma
jortiy of the next General Assem
bly will be pledged against the
sales tax.
Atty.-Gen. Dennis G. Brummitt,
in a letter to George P. Goehegan,
Jr., chairman of the North Caro
lina Association of Real Estate
Boards, advocated changes in the
State system of taxation as a pos
sible successor to the sales tax.
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Nash County Nan Is Nominated
In First Primary By 742 Majority
RECEIVES MORE VOTES THAN THE OTHER FOUR
CANDIDATES COMBINED. WILL BE ELECTED FOR
UNEXPIRED TERM IN SPECIAL ELECTION. POU
CONGRATULATES COOLEY
Congressman
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HAROLD D. COOLEY
Jonesboro Grange
Opposes Sales Tax
Calls On Next Legislature To
Repeal 'Unjust And In
equitable' Levy
Jonesboro, May 31.—The Jones
boro Grange has unanimously vot
ed its opposition to the sales tax
"in its present form." The report
adopted by the grange says of the
sales tax:
"It is unjust and unfair. It not
only taxes the necessities of life
but it taxes the "misery and mis
fortunes" of the people. We call
upon the next Legislature to repeal
this unjust and unequitable tax.
"At the same time," says the re
port, "this tax must not be return
ed to land. In many instances, per
haps in most, the tax on real estate
is too high. We desire t 0 encour
oge home owners rather than to
drive them from their homes by
excessive taxes. The tax on real
estate must not be increased but
gradually reduced.
"It is our firm belief that the
government can raise all the money
needed to properly support all the
state institutions and departments
without resorting to the present
iniquitous tax or by increasing the
tax on land.
We recommend placing a just
tax on stocks in foreign corpora
tions. Inheritance.-taxes above cer
tain brackets can be increased with
out doing injustice to anyone.
"A tax on luxuries or a selected
commodity tax is one of the most
just and fair forms of taxation to
be found in times of extra need.
"Since we now have good roads
all over the state we favor the re
duction of license taxes on auto
mobiles of the passenger type."
WORLD'S BEST SELLER
London.—Despite economic dis
turbances and uncertainty in ev
ery part of the world, the Bible
is still the world's best seller. A
total of 10,933,203 Bibles were dis
tributed during the past twelve
months by the Bible Society. Dur
ing the year the Holy Scriptures
were into eleven new
languages and dialects.
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' Harold D. Cooley, of Nashville,
won a complete victory in Satur
day's primary over all of hia
opponents, Mr. George Ross Pou,
and Mr. Jere P. Zollicoffer, to suc
ceed the late Congressman Edward
W. Pou as representative from the
Fourth District.
Complete unofficial returns from
the seven counties in the district
gave him a clear majority of 742
over the field of five candidates.
The final vote stood: Cooley, 27,-
110; Pcu, 19,303; Zollicoffer, 6,302;
Evans, 420; Bailey, 343.
In the seven counties, Wfke,
Chatham, Johnston, Randolph,
Franklin, Nash and Vance, the vote
was the largest on record. Some
thing pver 53,000 votes were cast
while heretofore the largest vote
was a little over 41,000.
Very much interest was taken
in the election here. A good crowd
was at the polls all day long and
many were doing all they could
for their candidates. Cooley led the
ticket in the congressional race by
a large majority. In the election
here everything worked as smooth
as could be and everybody seemed
confident that his man would win.
Pou's home town paper, The
Smithfield Herald states that:
"Political observers who had pre
dicted a close race between Pou
and Cooley, and the whole district
were surprised at the overwhelm
ing Cooley v;te which gave him
nomination in the first primary.
Before Saturday, a second primary
was thought tfl be a certainty.
"In his victory Saturday, Cooley
carried every county in the dis
trict except two, these being John
ston and Vance, home counties of
the other two major candidates.
George Ross Pou .carried Johnston
with a majority of 1750 over all
candidates. Cooley polled 3,083
votes in Johnston, Jere Perry Zol
licoffer was the leader in Vance
with '3,355 votes. Cooley came sec
end, closely followed by Pou."
Pou Congratulates Victor '
' I congratulate you upon the
splendid vote you received in yes
terday's election," George Ross
Pou at his h me in Raleigh told
Harold D. Cooley at his home in
Nashville over the telephone early
Sunday.
Thus ended the most hotly con
tested Congressional primary race
in the history of the fourth district,
which for a third of a century was
represented in Washington by the
late E. W. Pou, father of the run
ner-up wh 0 Sunday congratulated
the Nashville attorney upon his
nomination in the first primary.
Special Election
Through agreement by the five
contestants, the nomination was for
both the unexpired term of Con
gressman Pou and the regular two
year term beginning next January.
Mr. Cooley will be elected to the
short term in a special election to
be held the latter part of this
month, Governor Ehrirtghaus stat
ing that he would call it "immedi
ately.'' Called today, 20 days would
have to intervene before the elec
tion. That would put it on Satur«
day, June 23.
Election A Formality
The election will be cnly a for
mality, however, as the district is
I redominantly Democratic. Mr.
Cooley will be opposed by a fel
low citizen of Nash County, Ho-*
bart Brantley, who was nominateu
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