The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 2,N0. 3
10,000,000
_ Bales Allowed
. ,
Quota Represents An Increase Of
1,224,000 Bales Over 1934
Washington, Jan. 17. —Cotton
production for 1935 -was fixed to
day by th e Agriculture Secretary
Wallace 10,600,000 bales of 500
pounds each.
This was the figur e set under
provisions of the Bankhead cot
ton production control act
An additional 700,006 bples not
sold during 1934 wag added to the
1935 figure.
Th e 1935 quota represented an
increa8 e of about 1,224,000 bales
over 1934.
Th e 1934 quota was 10,676,000
bales of 478 pounds net weight.
The quotas in bales of 478
pounds net weight and last year's
carryingover would bring the to
tal to 11,700,000 bales.
Secretary Wallac e also announc
ed that under the voluntary cot
* ton adjustment program producers
would bg allowed to make an addi
tional cut in acreag e up to 35
percent of their base acres and
receive additional benefit pay
ments.
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J. L. Burgess
Succumbed Fri.
£
J. L. Burgess, Halifax county
~nativ e who succumbed early Friday
morning at th 6 hom e of his son,
J. E. Burgess, in Edgecomb e coun
ty, was interred Saturday after
y. noon in Littleton in the family
grounds. Services were conducted,
by Rev. W,. R. Hale, local Method
ise minister, from the son's resi
dence.
The deceased had made his home
" with hirf son for about fiv e ySUrs,
and had been a farmer all his life
until his health forced him to give
. it up.
- He was 80 years old.
Russell Viverette, Greenville;
Eugene Viverette, city; R. J. Mas
sengill, and Lin Almonds, Durham;
Merle Joyner, city, and Wilson
Jenkins, Durham, his grandsons
and grandsons-in-law served as
pallbearers.
He leaves his widow, formerly
Miss Gertrude Allston, and eleven
Y children.
Children by the first marriage
include Mrs. J. P. Jenkins, Dur
ham; Miss Claude Burgess, Balti
more, and Mrs. D. R. Shaw, Lum
berton. A fourth daughter, Mrs.
" Emma Crinckley, of Nashville,
Tenn., died about a year ago.
H. also leaves th e following
children of th e second union: T. A.
• 'Burgess, local lawyer; Mrs. Jose
phine Viverette, Willis Burgess,
both of Rocky Mount; J. E. Bur
gess, Edgecombe county; J. M.
Burgess, New York City; G. A.
Burgess, near Pinetops; Mrs. T.
R. Baker, near Nashville, and
'Mrs. R. E. Brake, near this city
Sam Burgess and Miss Laura
both of Scotland Neck,
his half brother and half sister,
and H. L. Burgess, Parkton, a sec
ond half brother, also survive.
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MISS GURGANUS UNDERGOES
APPENDECTOMY
Th e many friends of Miss Pau
line Gurganus will be glad to
know that she is convalescing
nicely following an appendectomy
which was performed Thursday of
last week. Miss Gurganug is a
patient at the Rocky Mount Sana
torium.
TOOK THE CHANCE; DYING
New York. —George S. Ward
iiee in a hospital dying of heart
trouble and anemia said to be the
result of drinking a glass of li
« • quid highly impregnated with ty
phus germs in 1904, when h e was
I a member of the Army Medical
I Corps. He volunteered to take
a chance to aid humanity, and a
' bill has been introduced in Con
gress to give him a pension of
" $125 a month.
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i Readers, when yon pur
chase foods advertised
fa these columns tell the
Merchants you saw it hi
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Rotary Debaters
Discuss Diversion
I. D. Thorp and T. J. Pearsall
took opposite sides in a spirited
friendly debate on th e advisability
of diversion of highway depart-,,
ment funds as a feature of the
weekly Rotary session staged at
the Ricks Hotel.
The program had been planned
by Dr. W. B. Kinlaw, program
committe e chairman, and was in
formal in nature. President A.
L. Brandon was in the chair.
Mr. Pearsall, in his talk, con
tended that diversion of highway
funds for other purposes was per
missablg while Mr. Thorp argued
that it was not. Th e debate was
called a no-decision affair.
The two speakers made their
choic e of affirmative or negative
by th e to ss of a coin, a club offi
cial disclosed.
WILSON ROTARIANS
HAVE SPELLING BEE
Wilson, Jan. 26.—An old fash
ioned "spelling bee' with John D.
Gild, editor of the Wilson Times
as the prompter, was th e feature
of the meeting of the Kiwanis
Club held here Thursday night.
Such words as "lunatic" and
"diphtheria" floored many of the
contestants who were sorted out in
two groups, but everyone had a
great deal of fun trying to spell
somg of the hard words propound
ed by the editor. The attendance
prize of the meeting was won by
G. B. Woodard, and was presented
by W. D. P. Sharpe, Jr. The or
ganization also agreed to sell
100 tickets for the President's
Ball to be held at the Cherry Ho
tel next Wednesday night, and
Dr. M. A. Pittman, the ball's local
chairman made a speech of thanks
to the gathering. It was also an
nounced at the meeting that on
March 28, Paul O. Sampson, noted
dietition from Philadelphia, would
address the club on "Th e Value
of Foods." President M. C. Sum
ner presided at the meeting.
Oration-Essay Contest
Has Been Announced
Senior High School, Durham has
been selected as th e place for the
preliminiary run-off, for high
schools of Caswell, Alamance, Or
ange, Durham, Chatham, and
Wak® Counties,, in the state-wide
oratioii-essay contest to be stag
ed by High Point College in
March.
This run-off will take Plac e at
3:00 p. m., Wednesday, March 27,
1935 in the auditorium of the
Senior High School. On e contest
ant will be selected to compete
with the representatives of the
other seventeen districts of the
stat e in the finals which will be
held at High Point College, March
29.
The successful contestants in
each of the districts will b e given
a SSO scholarship to th e High
Point institution. Th e one win
ning first place in the finals will
be awarded an additional $350 to
be added to th e SSO district win to
make a total scholarship of S4OO.
The second prize will b e an ad
ditional $l5O, which, with the
district award, makes a S2OO
scholarship for this place. The
third best contestant will receive
a total scholarship of SIOO. Those
not winning a place in th e finals
will be given the SSO district schol
arship.
Only two contestants from a
high school may participate, and
they must b e seniors, and must
register for the contest on or be
fore February 20. All contestants
must be recommended by th e prin
cipal or a member of the school
faculty.
The subject for the oration or
essay is: "Do I Expect My Col
lege Training to M>ak e Me More
Useful to My Community, or to
Increase My Earning Capacity?"
It is to bg confined within eight
hundred words, and must be in
the hands of th e contest directors
on or befor e March 11.l 1 .
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EXPERT OPENS CITY SAFB
Biloxi, Miss. —A safe expert
was called in to open the ci y
vault following a change in offi
cial personel when the incoming
mayor found all city records im
pounded behind «af e doors.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935
Farmers Mass
Meeting Feb. 15
Chamber of Commerc e Sponsors
Meeting In Interest of Soil Erosion
All farmers and business men
of this section have been asked to
attend a mass meeting here on
February 15 for the purpose of
discussing soil erosion, E. H. Aus
tin, secretary of th e Chamber of
Commerce, announced today.
The Chamber of Commerc e as
th e sponsoring institution has in
vited J. H. Stallings of High
Point, regional director, and W. E.
Bowers, extension agent, to ad
dress th e meeting. Both ar e rep
resentatives of the United States
department of th e Interior, and are
experts on th e matter of soil ero
sion prevention.
Federal aid for local projects
will b e discussed at length in the
meeting, Mr. Austin, who has just
returned from a conference with
congressmen in Washington, stat
ed today.
The agricultur e committee of
th e Chamber of Commerce will b e
in charge of th e program. The
committee is headed by F. P.
Spruill and has the following
membership: Rosco e Qtfiffin,. M.
D. Munn, R. D. Gorham, W. E.
Spruill, Dr. C. E. Minges, M. R.
Robbins, and W. L. Cockrell.
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Mrs. Owen Is
Taken By Death
Fountain.—Mrs. Susi e Johnson
Owens, wife of Herman F. Owens,
well-known and highly esteemed
young woman of this community,
collapsed suddenly as sh e was
shaking the ashes in th e living
room stove of her home her e early
Tuesday morning, and failed to re
spond to medical aid, which reach
ed her at once.
Funeral services will b e held
from the Fountain Presbyterian
Church, Wednesday afternoon, at
2 o'clock, by her pastor, Rev. H.
M. Wilson.
In addition to her husband, Mrs.
Owens, who was formerly Miss
Susie Johnson, of Monroe, is sur
vived by four children, Frank,
Jean, Merritt and Edward, whose
ages range between 8 and 14
years; a sister, Mrs. J. C. Hunter,
of Raleigh, and two brothers, P.
H., of Monroe, and Nathan John
son, St. Augustine, Fla. ,
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DENOUNCES EFFORTS TO
TAX BREAD AND MILK
Winston-Salem, Jan. 26.—The
proposal to remove th e sales tax
exemption on milk and bread was
denounced by Dr. R. L. Carlton,
city health officer, as a step tend
ing to "increase th e State's pella
gra and tuberculosis problem."
Dr. Carlton said h e viewed the
proposal purely in its relation to
public health "Gross undernour
ishment" of North Carolina child
ren, h e declared, largely is due to
th e "simpl e reason they cannot buy
enough bread and milk." The in
fant mortality rate, "already
shamefully high," declared the
doctor, "will go to still greater
heights."
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LOST GOLF BALL
INSIDE FISH
Middletown, N. Y.—Here's the
latest fish story: Eight years ago,
Col. Elmer E. Johnston knocked
a golf ball into the Delaware Ri
ver. Th e °ther day he was fish
ing through the ic e and hooked a
thirty pound carp. Inside the fish
h e found' th e golf ball with his
nam e on it.
LOOK FOR CAR, IT HITS THEM
Milwaugee.—Two police officers
looking . for a hit-and-run driver,
in accordance with instructions re
ceived over the radio in their car,
wer e amazed when an automobile
struck their machin e a terrible
jolt. They got out and found the
car they wer e hunting.
LIVED 123 YEARS
Moscow.—lvan Mashuphin is
dead at th e age of 123 with his
age authenticated by documents.
Until three years ago he was a
farmer. His eyesight, hearing and
memory remained good until his
death.
Lois Picks Cotton From a Tree
Picking cotton from a tree might be something new to cotton groweva
In this country. But It's nothing new to pretty Lois Smith, who Is shown
picking real cotton from a tree In Miami, Fla. This cotton tree is one of
the few left in south Florida. It Is a native of tropical America and was
Introduced into the state by the Calusa Indians In the days before Colum
bus. The tree grows to a height of 30 feet
Budget Must Serve People Not
The People The Budget
The Pharisees on one occasion asked Christ why his dis
ciples did on the Sabbath day that which was not lawful—
because they were hungry and had plucked grain from the
fields on the Sabbath day.
Christ rebuked them and said that thai Sabbath was
made for man, and not man for Sabbath. We should ob
serve the day as'fneTLords Day and a day of rest, and keep
it holy, but how can .we keep the Sabbath holy if we neglect
works of mercy, charity and necessity.
Now, a budget is a good thing, and every family and
business should have a budget, but the budget should
serve the family or business, and not the family of business
the budget. Much has been said about a balanced budget,
and it has been said that the depression will not be over
until the governments budget is balanced. A balanced bud
get is a fine thing, and something for which everyone should
strive, but, there are things much worse than an unbalanced
budget, and sometimes the methods used in balancing a
budget are so strained- and cruel that human needs and vi
tal nesessities are neglected to serve the budget. That an
enlightened generation should not permit. Will Rogers
speaking recently of the criticism by the bankers and Wall
street of President Roosevelt's relief work, and their fear
of an unbalanced budget, stated, "What father would let
the budget stand in the way of saving human life when one
member of the family was dying for the want of an opera
tion." He said further that Mr. Roosevelt found a sick na
tion and he began to budget the needs for the sick nation,
not worrying about how the budget copld be balanced until
the patient passed the crisis.
If the president had done what his critics appear to de
sire, the temple would have been wrecked and have dropped
down on their own heads. If he had placed a balanced bud
get above human needs as his chief objective, then all wfluld
have been lost, and property would not now mean anything.
And what has been said above as to our national govern
ment, applies with equal force to our state.
Salvation Army
Needs Clothing
The Salavation Army today ask
ed people in Rocky Mount to con
tribute clothing and shoes for a
number of families, especially for
women, who are in need of ap
parel.
The cold snap, said Adjutant W.
H. Stanley, in charge of th e Sal
vation Army post here, has found
a number of women and children
in dire circumstances and they will
suffer acutely from the cold with
badly needed clothing.
Army workers will call at any
hom e in the city for clothing if
people will call the hall on Ches
ter street and leave an address.
If people prefer they may bring
clothing to the Army hall assur
ing an immediate distribution to
needy persons will be made.
Adjutant Stanley requested that
peopl e look into their closets and
attics and attempt to meet the
demand for clothing and shoes,
especially for women and child
ren.
ACCEPTS CHALLENGE
Paris. —France, accepting the
"challenge" of Italy, will include
a 35,000 ton bat ltship in its na
val buolding program for 1938.
Is There A
Larger Family
Is ther e a larger family in the
Goldsboro section than that of
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Sullivan of near
Kenly.
The Sullivans hav e 15 children,
ranging in a K es from 3 months to
24 yearsi and all resid e under the
same roof—all seventeen of them
counting th e parents.
The children and their age«:
Crita Mae, 24, Leland 22, Rosa
Leigh, 21, Woodrow, 18, Wilmer,
16, Joseph, 15, Dorothy, 13, Vir
C. D., 7, Geraldine, 6, Marverine,
4, Billie Melvine, 2, Wiley Thomp
son, 3 months.
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SON STRIKES; SHE YIELDS
Kenosha, Wisconsin. When
Mrs. Angelin e Bonadio refused t*
hav e her teeth extracted upon a
physician's advice, her son, Ben
jamin, went on a hunger strike.
After several days h e became ser
iously ill and the mother relented
and had the teeth pulled.
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Forsyth farmers ar e finding that
tobacco barns make good sweet
potato curing houses. L. D. Smith
has cured 700 bushels in this way
and the sweets are keeping well.
Tom Ave a
Will Speak
Tom A. Avera, well known local
speaker, will deliver the main ad
dress of th e morning at the Mer
edith college founders day pro
gram Friday morning at the col
lege in Raleigh. His topic has
been announced as "Meredith Col
lege and Christian Education."
Mr. Avera's address will be giv
en before the entire student body.
An afternoon program will also
be given Friday as part of the
founders day program.
Local Boys Get
On Honor Roll
Rocky Mount Has Thre e on List
—Other Eastern N. C. Towns
Represented
Chapel Hill, Jan. 28.—Three
Rocky Mount boys, two boys fro
Rocky Mount boys, two boys from
Tarboro, Scotland Neck, and Wil
liamston, and one" from Battleboro
ar e listed on the honor roll of 352
students at th e University f North
Carolina for the fall term, Assist
ant Registrar G.«K. Henry disclos
ed today.
A Scotland Neck student, F. S
Harrell, made all A's for a per
fect average, and the others made
the necessary average to gain this
list.
To make the honor roll a stu
dent must average a B on all
courses. A "B" means that the
work is considered from 90 to 95
per cent perfect.
Rocky Mount scholastic stars in
clude J. B. Craighill, C. A. Grif
fin, Jr., and J. W. Watson, while
the pair from Tarboro on the list
are H. C. Bridgers and E. W. Mar
tin. j f
C. W[. Griffin and I. C. Griffin ar e
listed as Williamston's honor pu
pils, and H. T. Clark, Jr., Scotland
Neck, and R. S. Bunn, Battleboro,
complete the list.
While 352 made th e roll this
time, last year only 331 were suc
cessful. Forty of those making
th e honor list mad e a perfect re
cord, receiving all A's on their
subject.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations as fol
lows:
Engineering draftsman (high
way), SI,BOO a year, Bureau of
Public Roads.
Junior medical officer (interne),
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washing
ton, D. C.
Associate supervisor of elemen
tary education, $3,200 a year, In
dian Field Service.
Th e closing date for receipt of
applications for these examina
tions is February 18, 1935.
Th e salaries named ar e subject
to a deduction of not to exceed 5
percent during th e fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1935, as a measure
of economy, and also to a deduc
tion of 3 1-2 percent toward a re
tirement annuity.
All States except Vermont, Vir
ginia, Maryland, and th e District
of Columbia have received less
than their quota of appointments
in th e apportioned departmental
servic e in Washington, D. C. Of
the positions named, only engineer
ing draftsman is affected by the
State apportionment law.
Full information may be obtain
ed from the Secretary of th e Unit
ed States Civil Service Board of
Examiners at the post offic e or
customhouse in any city which has
a post office of th e first or second
class, or from th e United States
Civil Service Commission, Wash
ington, D. C.
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TALK COST
Pittsburgh.—Two men who met
at a cocktail bar and talked about
the personal property they owned
without paying taxes did not know
that Ralph Barr, tax assessor, was
standing nearby listening. H e in
vestigated and forced the men to
pay $216,000.
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Indications aV e that most of the
Wilson county tobacco growers will
plant 85 percent of their base
acreag e instead of 90 percent.
SI.OO PER YE All
Mansion Expense
And The Schools
Cost of Upkeep of Governor^
Home And City Educational
Unit Contrasted
Wilson, Jan. 28.—Comparison of
expenditures for the upkeep of
Governor's Mansion in Raleigh and
the Charles L. Coon high school
here were discussed with some vig
or before the Winstead school Par
ent-Teacher Association by S. G.
Chappell, local high school princi
pal. Mr. Chappell said he liked
Governor Ehringhaus and was not
voicing a personal criticism of
him, but he did feel the resident®
of this town, anyhow, would be
interested to know that it cost
$9,700 last year to maintain
the executive domicile, that he un
derstood $17,000 would b e asked
for the same purpose for 1936, and
that all that could be secured for
the Wilson institution for th«
same period was S6OO.
"We hav e some 40 rooms not
counting the larg e auditorium to
keep up during the school year
with that 600," said Mr. Chappell.
"There are 1,000 seats that are
used every day in the school
rooms and 1,500 in the auditorium
and they have to be cleaned seven
days in th e week. And there ar«
the light and heat. There have
been many times when if we
not had outside help we would not'
have been able to light or heat
the school. This graph I show
tells you, also, that the house
keeper of the governor's mansion
gets $1,036 a year while th e high
est paid teacher her e receives only
half as much."
The graph in question was
drawn by the high school scholars
from figures compiled by Ml*
Chappell and illustrated state ex
penditures for the high school and
for the Ehringhaus home. Mr.
Chappell made an e amest plea for
more school funds.
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JOHN LEWIS INTERRED
IN RALEIGH CEMETERY
Former Local Editor Leaves Owe
Sister—Was 76 Years Old
John B. Lewis, veteran news
paperman and former editor of
"Th e Phoenix" local paper of past
years, was laid to rest in a Ra
leigh cemetery on Sunday after
noon after services were conducted
by Dr. Milton a Barber, Christ
church rector, from a Raleigh fun
eral home.
Mr. Lewis, who came from one
of th e b es t known families of this
city, was widely known in this
section, although in recent years
ht had made his home elsewhere.
He died at a sanatorium near Ra
leigh, Saturday night a fter an ex
tended illness. He was 76 years
old.
Mr. Lewis made this city his
home for many years, and was
editor of "The Phoenix," when its
offices were located near what is
now th e Belk-Tyler building. He
moved to Raleigh in 1916 as a
proofreader for the News and
Observer.
He attended the old Bingham
school and also the University of
Nor:h Carolina. When he was in
Rocky Mount his hom e was the
family place, th e Lewis plac e off
the country club highway near this
city. It is one of the landmarks
of eastern North Carolina, and
contains bricks which were
brought to this country from Eng
land many years ago.
H e leaves his sister, Miss Annie
Lewis with whom he lived in Ra
leigh.
Frank Smethurst, Russell Ferrell,
Sam R. Covington, and A. F. Per
kins of the News and Observer
staff, and T. W. Brewer and Zack
Bacon served as pallbearers.
COP REMEMBERS BOY
New York.—Charles Seemiller,
9, took a smack from a policeman's
night stick, but next day saw the
cop, grinned and spoke to him
cheerfully. That was fourteen
years ago. When the policeman,
Conrad Landman, died, it was dis
covered that he had established *
$5,000 trust fund for th e boy wh«
took it and smiled.
SCALDS IN TUB
Mamaroneck, N. Y.—William
Kirchner, 53, was scalded to death,
when fell into a bathtub.