The Rocky Mo
VOLUME 4, NO. 43
NASHVILLE
WOMAN WINS
DIST. PRIZE
Fourth Week's Winners Announced
In Electrical Dealers' Missing
Word Contest
■* Twenty-nine prize winners in the
fourth week's Missing Word -Contest
were announced yesterday by the
judges at contest headquarters. Mrs.
G. W. Wlieeless, Nashville, • was
awarded the prize allocated for tins
district.
The first and second grand prizes
were awarded to Mrs. H. C. Tur
lington, Dunn, N. C., and to Mrs.
Douglas Parham, Latta, 8. C., respec
tively. Tho other twenty-six .prizes
were distributed in the community
served by the Carolina Power and
Light Company.
Tho Missing Word Contest is be
ing sponsored by Electrical Dealers
* in cooperaiton with the Carolina
Power and Light Company and the
prize winners announced today are
I, for the fourth week. It will contin
ue each week until Saturday night,
November 6 when the final week's
contest closes. Dealers are emphasiz
ing the fact that unlike most con
tests, their Missing Word event does
not require a purchase of any kind
in order to enter. Official entry
blanks are available without obli
i gation at participatng dealers' stores
and on the salesfloor of the Caroli-
V na Power and Light Company.
Travelers Enjoy
Williamston Visit
Travel Executives Much Impressed*
With This Section. A Bit Tired,
And Weary, But The Group En
joyed Its Brief Visit Here.
Williamston, N. C.,—Half-hundred
newspaper men and women, authors
and travel bureau heads enjoyed a
brief visit to Williamston last
Tuesday afternoon, the travelers
• stating that the tour planned by the
Governor's Hospitality committee in
cooperation with the North Carolina
Department of Conservation and De
velopment is meeting with great
success. It was quite apparent that
the 1,282 mile jaunt to the moun-
W tains, sea and by-ways was growing
tiresome, but the visitors offered
a brave front and apparently main
tained a keen interest in most every
thing they saw and heard.
Met in Washington by Mayor J.
L. Hassell, and Attorneys E. S. Peel,
H. G. Horton and B. L. Coburn, the
party, riding in two big anl
threo cars, was brought here on
time under the direction of Josh
Home, editor of Bocky Mount's Ev
ening Telegram, the man who prob
ably does less editing and more
gallavanting than any other ono I . n
the newspaper grind. Josh had his
* whistle, and proved ho could out-
blow a windstorm or a highway pa
trolman. /
On the trip here from Washing
ton, th 0 boys fr° m the Nortll e *"
pressed keen interest in the small
stacks of peanuts, and were im
pressed by the ideal farming con
ditions in Martin County, Mayor J.
L. Hassell said..
> Learning there was no formal pro
gram planned at this stop, the vis
itors offered a sigh of relief. Offer
ed refreshments in the dining room
of the Hotel Geo. Reynolds, the trav
elers partook freely of Sclilitz beer,
wine and soft drinks with emplia
■"» sis on the liter.
Small folders, carrying a few sal
ient facts about Williamston and
Martin County, were distributed, the
* visitors takng time out to mail them
to their offices back home. Mayor
Hassell'B hearty welcome, offered
n a few words, drew favorable com
ment, one young lady, addressing
another in her party, thusly, He s
the speakingest man we've heard on
s ' the trip."
"We are for North Carolina just,
so long as chicken isn't mentioned,
one of the young men who appar
ently had been staying up late nights
ag well as eating largo helpings of
chickens, said just as Josh llorne
rounded up the party with that
whistle of his for the scheduled run
to Windsor, Edonton and Elizabeth
The tourists spent most of Wed
nesday on tho coast. Yesterday they
were back through liere at eleven
o'clock, thirty minutes behind their
schedule. After a short stay in Ply
i. mouth they were back here that af
ternoon, contining to Goldsboro
and on to Charlotte this afternoon
where tho tour ends.
North Carolina has shown her hos
pitality, but the expenditure of
$250,000 for advertising does not
meet with the approval of all its
citizens. "It may bo all right," War
' .Aren Biggs said, "but North Carolina s
* all that money reminds mo
of a certain man who eats at a cafe
and leaves his children home hun
gry."
Orange County farmers ordered
two additional cars of limestone last
week and the county agent reports
a decided increase in the use of
lime, the seeding of winter cover
crops, and the planting of perma
nent pastures.
The Rotary Club of Durham do
nated $42,50 in prize money to club
members who exhibited their animals
at the 4-H dairy calf club show held
at the Oak Grove school. A barbe
cue supper was served.
IN WASHINGTON
BflH what
R* Jm is
I TAKING
| PLACE
1 BY
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Editor's note—Senator Reynold's
column for this week comes from
Portland, Oregon, where the Senator
visited the Northwest on a trip
combining a survey of national con
ditions wth a brief vacaton, prior
to returning to Washington.
From the Pacfic coast, after tra
versing a dozen states and talking
with countless hundreds of people,
an individual gets a better apprecia
tion of national problems and con
ditions confronting our people. There
is much advantage in looking at
America from an area devoted to
development of natural resources,
rather than viewing it from the in
dustrial East. This is all the more
true when the individual is concern
ed with the welfare of a particu
lar state in an industrial area.
A Tar Heel buying a package of
cigarettes iji Oregon sees it in new
terms. There comes the realization
that if the cigarettes ar© made in
North Carolina, the state is definite
ly linked with that package. It
creates a desire for great numbers
of people to see where cigarettes are
made. Equally as important, it is
ralized that the conditions under
which tho cigarettes are sold and
the taxes paid by purchasers vitally
affect tho wages of factory workers
in North Carolina an dtho price
the farmer secures for his tobacco.
Few get this perspective wlie nthey
casually purchase a package of cig
arettes at home.
Tho same holds true of other
things manufactured in North Car
olina, towels, furniture, blankets,
cotton and rayon products and it
also holds true of agricultural com
modities grown in the state.
It is necessary in this day of
great industrialization that those
concerned with legislative progfanis
have a better understanding of mar
keting conditions and tax systems.
It is gained through first-hand in
formation. No longer are states and
communities self-sufficient. "Buy at
home" campaigns are fine things,
but if the sale of North Carolina
products did not extend throughout
the world and those vitally concern
ed did not know the conditions un
der which they are sold and how
they can be met, our workers and
farmers would suffer greatly cur
tailed income.
The board program to advertise
and develop North Carolina, now
attracting attention even out here
on the West coast, is evidence that
we live in an era of interstate
commerce and prosper on Hew busi
ness and new industry.
In this connection, a Tar Heel far
away from home gets still another
perspective. It is that North Caroli
na, xierhaps more than any other
Southern state, has become all-
Aniorican. It 3 people have the vision
and energy of the West, the tradi
tions of the South, the progres
siveness of tho East and the in
dustrial interest of the North. It
explains why North Carolina has
forged rapidly ahead duo to its di
diversified fields of industry, ag
riculture and commerce.
Those concerned with legislation
recall that a proposal to use cotton
for manufacturing sacks largely used
for potatoes, through a higher tar
iff on cheap imports now used for
that purpose, was defeated because
it would raise th e cost of bags to
potato growers in the West. Tho ad
vantage that would accrue to tue
South was ignored by those primar
ily concerned with the welfare of
the West. It offers an example of
the complexity of national problems
and tho need for better corelation
of our national fields of endeavor.
Understanding of these conditions
is the suro road to correction,
through national and state coopera
tion, of many evils in our economic
system.
Duke Co. Rated
At $50,000,000
Raleigh, Oct. 21.—The State board
Of Assessment has set tax valuation
of the Duke Power Company at $50,-
000,000 for 1938—nearly a two and
a quarter million dollar increase
over 1937—it was learned today.
The 1937 valuation was set at $47,-
798.659.
Taxable valuations for other state
utilities were announced last month.
The board has raised the value
of the Piedmont and Northern rail
way from $1,293,352 lo $1,500,000, re
duced tax values on North Carolina
properties of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad from $249,000 to
$197,850 and fixed value of Southern
Appalachian Telephone Company at
$125,000.
The board will meet Nov. 16-17
to hear appeals from local tax val
uations.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1937
EXTEND TIME
FOR FILING
OF RECEIPTS
An extension of time has been
granted farmers for filing cotton
sale receipts to qualify for govern
ment price adjustment payments, E.
Y. Floyd, of State College, announc
ed this week.
Sale receipts on cotton from the
1937 crop sold on or before Octo
ber 15 may be filed with the county
agent any time up to October 30.
Receipts for cotton sold after Oc
tober 15 must be filed within 15
days of the date of sale.
This one month extensions of time
will enable growers who were not
able to file their receipts within the
lime limit previously set to get
their receipts on file as one of the
qualifications for payment, Floyd
pointed out.
The sal e receipts must be filed in
the order that the sales were made.
The price adjustment payment plan
provides for payments on cotton
grown in 1937 and sold before Ju
ly 1, 1938, up to 65 per cent of a
grower's 1937 base production, pro
vided that the grower complies with
the 1938 agricultural conservation
program.
The payment per pound on each
bale will be the amount by which
the average price of 7-8 inch mid
dling cotton on tho ten spot mar
kets falls short of 12 cents a pound
on the date the grower sells that
bale. Tho payment, however, can
not exceed three cents a pound.
Bonham Awarded
Service Emblem
M. C. Bonham, lumber yard fore
man, for the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad here, yesterday was award
ed a 25-year emblem in a brief
ceremony at South Bocky Mount.
At the presentation it was pointed
out that Mr. Bonham had been in
continuous service with the com
pany since October 29, 1912. Mr.
Bonham is employed by the Stores
Department at Emerson shops un
der J. Q. Bobinson, division store
keeper.
This was the second pin of sim
ilar nature to be presented in the
having presented a 25-year service
past two months, Mr. Bobinson
emblem to E. B. Jenkins, chief
clerk to the division storekeeper on
September 26,
Bogus Collectors
Face Prosecution
Criminal prosecution by the Depart
ment of Justice of bogus collectors
of funds in connection with the So
cial Security Act's old-age insurance
program has been requested by the
Social Security Board, George N.
Adams, Manager of the Rocky
Mount, N. C., Field Office of the So
cial Security Board, announced io
day.
The Board, Mr. Adams said, has
advised the Department of Justice
that it has received information of
several instances wher e money has
been collected through such misrep
resentation, and requested the De
partment to investigate them and
institute criminal proceedings.
In a statement sent Mr. Adam
announcing its action, tho Board
said:
"Tho Social Security Board has
no 'old-age benefits collectors,' 'old
age insurance collectors,' or any
other kind of collectors or financial
agents. It has authorized 110 one to
collect any fees from participants in
the old-age insurance program. We
wish to caution everyono against
making any payments whatever to
persons representing themselves as
agentj of the Board and who guaran
tee the payment of old-age insur
ance."
Dailey To Play
At Wendell Monday
Wendell— October 28— Frank
Dailey and his MeadowbrooK.
fourteen years standing, and for the
past two years the feaiurc attraction
of the Columbia network, will be
heard in a program of scintillating
dance music next Monday night, No
vember 1, at the local high school
gymnasium.
A specialist in smooth form dance
rhythms of romantic spirit, Frank
Dailey has played for practically
every fraternity and sorority in his
native state of Now Jersey as well
as many of the leading colleges and
universities throughout the East,
South and Middle West. Leading
theatres, hotels and night clubs
around the country ha"e also featur
ed Dailey and hig Meadowbrook or
chestra at various times.
The Wendell Cotillion Club is
sponsoring the dance. The event is
expected to be one of the most out
standing of the winter social season
and a iatge attendance from all over
Eastern and Central North Carolina
is expected to be present.
Dailey comes here immediately fol
lowing his appearance the coming
week-end at Chapel Hill where He
will play for he German Club dances
there.
Wing Spread of African Vulture
Keepers Pat and Mike Donahue lend a hand to illustrate the wing
spread of an African eared vulture. They are shown during the annual
cleaning operations at the Philadelphia zoo.
Deserved Recognition
There was unveiled in the new Curb Market Building
this week a tablet in honor of Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon,
erected by the County Home Demonstration Club and the
sellers on the Curb Market.
This is indeed a most fitting tribute to Mrs. Gordon who
has been the foremost leader in this work in this part of
the state.
The establishment and success of the local market has
been in a great way due to her untiring efforts and con
stant leadership and we join with these clubs in giving
expression to our appreciation to her for her efforts in be
half of the masses of the people.
LAWYERS GO FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE
RIDICULOUS
At the annual meeting of the N. C. Bar Association, held
last Friday in Raleigh the president, Julius C. Smith, of
Greensboro, general Counsel for Vicks Chemical Co., called
upon and ordered the assemblage to stand in honor of
Senator J. W. Bailey, whom he said made "such a master
ful fight against President Roosevelt's court plan." Ac
cording to press reports it was stated that several other
lawyers spoke against the presidents court reorganization
plan but in the same breath recommended big changes in
N. C. courts. After several members had congratulated
the bar and stated how fortunate the country was that the
Supreme Court would still remain at nine in number they
then proceeded from the ridiculous to the siblime or from
the sublime to the ridiculous, by taking as the bar major
objective this year the "discipline and reform of the poor
man's court and proceeded with a severe castigation of all
Justices of Peace.
But for the Justice of Peace court being a constitution
al court they in all probability would have done away with
the time honored squires.
Just think of jumping from the santified Supreme Court
to the Justice of Peace court.
It would appear that the speakers must have sailed off
in oratory and fallen flat of their backs in the wood pile.
Our own opinion is "with the President o fthe U. S."
that more reform is needed with the Federal Judiciary
rather than fool with a few Justices of Peace.
The commitment of the bar to reform the Justice of
Peace is like the mountains going in labor and giving birth
to a mouse. These lawyers could have found a more con
structive objective.
With all the great questions of today that concern N. C.
and its people, leaving all of these but the J. P. Courts!
Rites Sunday
For A. B. High
Middlesex, Oct. 26.—-Funeral ser
.vices for A. B. High, 42, who died
Friday night of a heart attack were
held Sunday at the High home at
3:00 o'clock. Ilev. W. G. Farrar,
Methodist minister of Bailey, con
ducted the funeral service. The bu
rial was held in I'leasant Grove
cemetery,
Mr. High lived part of his life in
Wilson county. He came to Middle
sex from Bailey, where he had liv
ed previously.
Besides his widow, surviving Mr.
High of the home place are two
children, Brooks and Marjorie High;
three sisters, Mrs. J. S. Fulghura of
Baleigh Mrs. Einma Stott of Bailey,
Mrs. Nannie Finch of Statesville;
four brothers, A. T. High of Wen
dell; W. S. High of Bailey; V. H.
High of Wilson; and J. 11. High of
Delhi, Canada.
Funeral Rites
For J. P. Baker
Funeral services for James Purvis
Baker, 12, were held from the home
at Eocky Mount route two at three
o'clock with Eev. 0. B. Peacock,
Methodist minister of Nashville, and
Reverend Yearby of Elm City offi
ciating. Interment followed in tho
family burying grounds near tho
home.
James, who is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Baker, died at a local
hospital following complications
from an operation.
Besides his parents he is survived
by three brothers, Billy, Buck, and
Walter I^iker; a sister Ruth Joyce
Baker; and his grandmother, Mrs. J.
111. Baker.
Thirty-five Hereford breeders from
six counties attended a meeting on
tho R. (J. Shipley farm near Vi
las in Watauga County, last week.
A. M. Lewis Dies
At Middlesex
Middlesex, Oct. 26.—A. M. Lewis,
68, of Middlesex, died Friday even
ing, at his home, following an ill
ness of four years.
Mr. Lewis l,ad lived all his life
in and around Middlesex, tie was
known throughout Nash County, and
had been a prominent citizen of
Middlesex. lie was a member of
the Masonic Order and the Jr. O. (J.
A. M.
The funeral services wero held
Saturday at 2 o'clock, at the Lewis
home. Ilev. W. G. Farrar, Methodist
minister, and Bev. Ford A. Burns,
Baptist minister, officiated. Since he
was a member of two organizations,
they had an important part in the
ceremony. Burial was held in the
Middlesex cemetery.
Besides his widow survivors in
clude, one daughter, Mrs. J. P. Da
vis of Wilson; two sons, Dr. S. V.
Lewis of Plymouth; and Cecil Lew
is of Bocky Mount; two sisters, Mrs.
J. O. Dudley of Bocky Mount; and
Mrs. C. G. Lewis of Zebulon and
three brothers, L. Q. Lewis of Bai
ley, J. D. Lewis of Wilson; and Al
fred Lewis of Middlesex.
Liberty Mutual
Opens In City
The Liberty Mutual Insurance
Company has recently opened offices
in tho Daniel Building for tho pur
pose of conducting a general life In
surance business in Rocky Mount.
The local office will be under the
management of H. L. Idol. There are
connected with this agency several
gentlemen experienced in insurance,
and it is expected that it will be one
of the outstanding insurance offices
in town.
HIGHER FARES
ON RAILROADS
IN SOU. STATES
ICC Authorizes Carriers To Boost
Passenger Rate To Two Cents
A Mile
Washington, Oct. 23.—Railroads
operating in the Southeastern part
of the country were authorized to
day by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to increase their passen
ger fares for coach travel from 1
1-2 to 2 cents a mile. Railway of
ficials were unable to estimate im
mediately how much the increase
would amount to in total revenues
yearly.
The commission's action resulted
from a petition by the Southeastern
railroads. It affects lines south of
the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and
east of the Mississippi River. Since
1933, most of the lines have been
operating on a 1 1-2 cent a mile
basis as an experiment.
The increased rates can go into ef
fect only after ten days' notice.
Tho petition for the increase was
drawn up several days ago at a
meeting here of tho Southeastern
Passenger Association. While the
commission permits a maximum of
2 cents per coach mile, the roads in
this territory have been operating
since 1933 on a 1 1-2 cent maximum
on an experimental basis.
C. B. Rhodes, chairman of the
passenger association, said he could
not estimate the increased revenues
expected.
Commission officials said the prin
cipal railroads affected by the in
creases are the Southern, tho Atlan
tic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air
Line, the Louisville and Nashville
and the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis.
I. C. C. officials explained that
the increase in coach fares would
b 0 applicable also to all bus lines
having joint fare arrangements with
rail earriers in Southeastern terri
tory.
Peanut Growers
Urge Control
Edenton, Oct. 23.—Two hundred
Chowan County peanut growers vot
ed unanimously in favor of a Fed
eral compulsory crop control pro
gram at a meeting here tonight,
sponsored by the Stat© Farm Bureau
Federation.
E. F. Arnold, secretary of the
Federation, said between 200 and
300 farmers from 40 counties would
meet with Congressman Harold D.
Cooley in Nashville Monday night
to request control by acres and
pounds.
K. C. Holland of Edenton, presi
dent and general manager of the
Peanut Stabilization Cooperative,
said $1,000,000 was available to pur
chase peanuts in North Carolina, and
that ''We are prepared to start buy
ing almost any day now."
N. K. Howell, Chowan County
Agent, also spoke.
Rocky Mt. School
Will Broadcast
Central High School this week ded
icated a radio broadcast from the
school building as 'he first of a dai
ly radio program in which is be
lieved to be the only high school
radio studio in the southeastern
states.
Cyrus M. Edson, head of the dra
matics and speech departments of
he high school, oftk-iato dat the
broadcast and his department will
have chargo- of the radio programs
in connection with the broadcast
ing project.
The daily programs ar e being re
layed from the high school to local
radio station WEED, where they are
being broadcast through an agree
ment with Manager Avert Wynne.
A special line connecting the high
school studio with the radio station
was erected through the city for a
distance of around two miles to
make the broadcast possible.
Edson stated that more .than COO
students would take part in tho
broadcasts during the year, some as
announcers, somo as script-writers,
and some as student control opera
tors.
The daily broadcasts will be con
ducted by different high school de
partments, including, tho depart
ments of journalism, music, and
dramatics and public speaking. Ono
day his been set aside each week
for special broadcasts, such as foot
ball games, which will bo broadcast
from the football field, and chapel
exercises, which will be broadcast
from th e high school auditorium.
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OCT. DEADLINE
CONSERVATION
COMPLIANCE
Minimum Requirements Of Soil
Conserving Crops Mast Be
Planted October 31
By H. E. Alphin, Edgecombe Asst.
County Agent
October 31 has been set as the fi
nal date on which winter legumes,
such as clover, Austrian winter peas,
and vetch can be sown for credit
under the soil conservation pro
gram. Any farmer who does not
have enough soil conserving crops
meet the minimum requirements
should get busy and sow winter le
gumes before October 31, or take
the penalty.
The winter legumes can b© sown
behind cotton, peanuts, tobacco or
corn without extensive seed bed pre
paration, and so planted can be fol
lowed next spring with any crop ex
cept tobacco.
Any growers who fail to meet the
soul conserving minimum will be
penalized $3 for each acre under the
requirements.
Austrian winter peas should be
seeded at the rate of 30 pounds per
acre, crimson clover 20 pounds per
acre, and hairy vetch 25 pounds.
Such seeding is entitled to a soil
building payment of $1.50 per acre.
Any of these legumes are excellent
soil improvers.
Any of the above legumes will
make more growth and add more
improvement to the soil if they are
inoculated. Inoculation can be ob
tained by spreading soil from a field
where the crop has previously been
grown or by pruchasing a commer
cial inoculant from any B eed or
drug store.
P.W.A. Funds Lost
By State Delay
Possible Commitments Of $5,000,-
000 For Projects Involved
Washington, Oct. 23.—More than
$•>,000,000 in Public Works Admin
istration commitments for North
Carolina projects remained undis
bursed as of September 30.
This was disclosed in an exhibit
made public in connection with the
annual budget estimate.
The largest North Carolina PWA
commitment so far undisbursed is
the $2,595,000 for a proposed muni
cipal power plant at High Point.
Further activity on PWA power
projects is awaiting Supreme Court
action on a number of power case*
brought before that tribunal.
Some of the undisbursed money
represents surpluses left after proj
ects were completed, som 0 is com
mitted to projects in process of
building and some to projects on
which work has not been started.
A recent White House statement
said commitments which the PWA
is not called upon to meet must bo
written off the books. The money
under this ruling, could not be di
verted to other projects.
A list of major Nor h Carolina
projects for which commitments have
been made and with funds not yet
disbursed follows:
Cleveland County chool, $95,727;
Durham buildings, $50,000; iligh
l'oint street, $143,"53; High Point
I'ower plan , $2,505,000; Chapel Hill
building $125,818; Buncombe County
buildings, $54,545.10; Greensborj
municipal storage shed, $299,550.25;
Beaufort County school, $56,250;
Kcnansville school, 74,454; Caswell
school, $54,000; Chowan . County
school, $31,225; Cabarrus County
school $71,318.
Greensboro college building, $55,-
630; Klizabeth City college building,
$-:USl; Fayetteville college building,
$70,110; Winston-Salem college
building, $105,165; Chapel Hill cli
nic building, $184,905; Greensboro
dormitory, $61,363; Black Mountain
ho.-pital, $128,700; Gastonia hospital,
$32,625; Croswell school, $22,185;
Wilmington hospital, $34,525; Jack
son waterworks, $11,384.50; Maya
dan water sewer, $18,219.45; Boone
power house, $14,850; Bex Hospital
$3,785; Salisbury disposal plant, $31,-
018.28; Oxford disposal plant, $16,-
503; Stanley waterworks-sewer, s2o,*
132.06; Statesville school buildings,
$14,000; Oxford hospital, SII,BOO,
Washington power plant, $14,333.-
33; Whitakers sewer, $18,999.75;
Wayno County schools, $15,272.55;
Fuquay Springs waterworks, $11,454.-
25; Albemarle building, $28,000; Wil
mington hospital, $10,000; Wako
County building, $17,300; Tarboro
building, $W,000; Thomasvillo build
jing, $45,818; Fayetteville school,
$11,200; and Hemp waterworks, $lO,-
905.31.