The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NO. 30
LOCAL MAN
WINS PRIZE
IN CONTEST
John E. Schley, of Aaheville, N.
C., has been selected by the julgee
as winner of first prize of $5OO in
« the June safety contest of the Pur
ol-Pep Drive Safely Crusade, accord
ing to an announcement made here
today by Mr. Daughtridge, Purol-
PJp agent in this territory,
Mr. Schley is one of 75 Carolin
>iang who will receive checks this
week ranging all the way from $5
to $5OO as awards in the June con
test.
James A. Andrews, of Durham, N.
C., was the winner of the second
prize of $lOO, and Carl V. Farris,
also of Durham, N. C., won their
t prize of $75.
The basis of the contest was a sa
fety limerick for which contestants
furnished the last line. Thousands
of entries were received, Mr. Daugh
tridge said, and indicated that
these contests are really making
people think about the subject of
safer driving.
The judging, done by a blind code
system so that the nameg of the
contestants were not known until
' the selections were finished, was
handled by the following board of
judges: Frank P. Graham, President
of the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, N. C.; J. C. B. Ehring
haus, a former governor of North
Carolina, Raleigh, N, C., and L. H.
Duncan, Secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce, Raleigh, N". C.
Other prizes were awarded as fol
lows:
Fourth to tenth prizes—$25 each:
t Dwight F. Andrews, Charlotte, N, C.;
D. C. Farbot, Florence, S. C.; Miss
Ruth Charles, Salisbury, N. C.; K.
H. Herren, Oteen, N. C.; Mike Mar
low, Rocky Mount, N. C.; Mrs. Mary
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New "Carolina Farmers" Are
, Awarded Highest Y.T.H.F. Degree
Horace Moore To Go To Raleigh To
Compete For State Championship
In Cooperative Essay Contest
Shown above are the newly elect
* ed Carolina Farmers, the highest
degree awarded to Young Tar Heel
Farmers in this State and there
lore coveted by more than 10,000
students studying agriculture in the
high schools. These young men re
ceived this merit on the basis of
both their scholastic records and
for outstanding achievement in their
farm practice •program. They were
chosen from the ranks of their fel
lows at the Tenth Anniversary State
Convention held at State College re
cently. According to Roy H. Thomas,
State Supervisor of Vocational Agri
, culture, this is the largest number
of boys awarded this degree in
any r.ne year.
Reading, left to right in the pic
ture are, front row: William Mc-
Cracken of the Smoky Mountains
National Park Chapter, Haywood
' county; Harold Francis, Smoky
Mountains National Park Chapter;
S. B. Lacy, Jr., of the Newland
chapter, Avery county; Roy Wil
liams, Burnsville chapter, Anson
county; Richard Railey, Woodland
chapter, Northampton county; Rob
ert D. Boyce, Woodland chapter;
Noel Auman, Seagrove chapter, Ran
dalph county; Macon Lee Caudle,
Mount Pleasant chapter, Cabarru3
county; J. D. Eagle, Mount Pleas
ant chapter and Furney Todd, Wen
dell Chapter, Wake county. Second
row: Lee Barnhardt, Mount Pleas
ant; Cletus M. Bost, Mount Pleas
Mrs. W. H. Snipes
Taken By Death
Funeral Rite* Were Held In Mari
on, 9. C.; Burial There
Mlrs. W. Hubert Snipes, aged 44,
and a resident of this city for 25
years died in a local hospital after
a lingering illness.
Mrs. Snipes was the daughter of
the late J. B. and Amanda Porter
of Marion, South Carolina.
She was a devout member of St.
Paul Methodist church and held ac
tive memberships in the Order of
Eastern SEar, the W. B. A. and the
Bethel Heroes chapter of U. D. C.
Mrs. Snipes lived at 1025 South
Pranklin street.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from
the home of Mr. Snipes' mother,
Mrs. Minnie C. Snipee in Marion, S.
C. The pastor of the Methodist
chureh there officiated. Burial
took place in Marion.
Survivors include her husband, W.
Hubert Snipes, two daughters, Miss
es Alice Maude and Hilda Snipes, of
the home; two sisters, Mrs. H. W.
Amnions, Q{ Marion, and Mre. G.
L. Weber, of this city; and four
brothers, L. B. Porter, of Dillon, S.
C., Elbert Porter, of Marion, Ernest
Porter of Greensboro, and Robert
Porter, of Aynor, S. C.
Active pallbearers for the funer
al included C. W. Mason, M. L. Carr
J. W. Gray, Ira Johnson, C. A. Por
ester, and W. L. Hadlow.
Honorary pallbearers included the
following: Rev, C. P. Parker, Rev.
Francis Craighill, Rev. J. A. Satler
field, Dr. E. M. Perry, E. C. Smith,
I>r. L. W. Kornegay, C. F. Wisner,
C. S. Taylor, W. H. Harris, C. W.
Ivey, W. D. Rice, George Wood,
H. L. Smith, D. E. Bulluck, Norman
Blankenship, W. G. Home, C. W.
Wallace, Paul Harper, W. S. Holman
J. P. Childree, Clyde Gray, and W,
C. Newell.
Given Highest Honor
ant chapter; Norris Hales, Wakelon
chapter, Wake county; Ray Kiser,
Tryon cha,pter, Gaston county;
Archie Joyner, West Edgecombe
chapter, Edgecombe county; Leslie
Glenn Garner, .Newport chapter,
Carteret county; Phillip Murray,
Spring Hope chapter, Nash county;
Braxton Bunn, Spring Hope chap
ter; Lemuel M. Broome, Aurora
chapter, Beaufort county; Samuel
A. Tuten, Aurora chapter.
Back row: Curtis Fitts, Reidsville
chapter, Rockingham county; Allen
Ballard, Contentnea chapter, Lenoir
county; Hazel Warlick, Polkville
chapter, Cleveland county; Burton
Cathey, Bethel chapter, Haywood
county; William* Powell, Belvin
Maynard chapter, Sampson county;
Wilburn Merritt, Belvin Maynard
chapter; Howard Merritt, Belvin
Maynard chapter and Oscar Bizzell,
Newton Grove chapter, Sampson
county.
The following degree winners wore
not present for the picture. Cecil
Arrington, Smoky Mountains Nation
al Park Chapter; J. F. Hampton,
Newland chapter; Milbern D. Kelly,
Troy Chapter, Montgomery county;
Wilson Holland, Stoneville chapter,
Rockingham county; James Robert
Pate, Rowland chapter, Robeson co
unty; Robert Henry Gay, Seaboard
chapter, Northampton county; W,
B. Jr., Piedmont chapter,
Cleveland, county; W. B. Palls,
Piedmont chapter; Rudolph Ferrell,
Oak Grove chapter, Durham; Rowe
Ferguson, Fines Creek chapter, Hay
wood county and Boreham Johnson
of the Belvin Maynard chapter.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938
New Firm Opens
In Rocky Mount
Messrs. Montgomery and Aldrich
have recently opened a new store in
Rocky Mount at 312, North Church
Stret, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
This firm will deal in the sale of
automobile tires and accessories. It
is located on the west side of North
Church Street just opposite the inter
section of Palls Road with Church
Street. Mr. Aldrich, active manager,
of the firm, is well known in Rocky
Mount and this announcement will
be received with interest from many
friends in this section. This firm
hag ben given thee state contract
for tires for the insuing year.
STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS
To the Editor: I note in the|
News find Observer of July 21 thatj
Raymond C. Maxwell is reported to
have said: The board would not in
vestigate charges that workers for
candidates were assaulted while
gathering evidence of plleged ir
regularities." If a semi-lynch mob
can beat and wound men, take away
and destroy the evidence of irre
gularities which they have procured,
and the State Board of Elections
have nothing to do with it, where
is North Carolina democracy headed?
If this mob violence and th® de
struction of evidence of irregulari
ties, "are outside the jurisdistion"
of the State board, and are matters
to Be "left to the law enforcement
officials," then are not ballot box
stuffing, voting dead men, putting
absentee ballots in the boxes with
out the consent or knowledge of
the voters— are not all these
things matters for the law-enforce
ment officials? What is the need for
a State board if it is not to see
that law, justice and right are ob
served in our elections?
JOHN R. MILLER
Fairmont.
WANT WORKERS
FOR TOBACCO
PLANTS HERE
Three Local Factories Call For 1,300
Workers To Report Above Aug
ust 1
Three of the largest tobocco com
pany plants hero have issued calls
for 1,500 workers, especially expe
rienced stemmers, to report for work
when the factories open, it wa 3 learn
ed Saturday from S. D. Bennett,
district" manager of the State Em
ployment Service.
The factories will open when to
bacco begin to arrive from the Geor
gia markets, probably Monday, Aug-j
ust 1, District Manager Bennett was |
informed. .j
"Tobacco companies are making
the requisitions in every tobacco
town I've been in," h© commented,
listing Kinston, Greenville, Wilson
and Goldsboro, which are included
in the Employment Service district
of which he is manager.
The district manager stated that
all Negro tobacco workers, whether
registered with the Employment Ser
vice or not, should report to the Ne
gro branch office at 133 N. Washing
ton street for assignment to the fac
tories.
Observing that he expects to sup
ply the whole demand for tobacco
workers this fall. District Manager
Bennett sair, "The tobacco industry
is becoming more and more Employ
ment Service-mindd season by sea
son."
Tricycle Trailering the Latest
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The grownup idea ot a rolling home gets a juvenile twist. Here, the
Ely sisters, Elaine, nine, who iu driving, and Shirley, five, are shown dur
ing a tour of the beach at Venice, Calif., in a miniature trailer which was
built by their grandfather, Arthur Stevens. Laddie Lou and Marie, their
pet dog and cat, accompany them everywhere on their sand yacht trips.
City Managers Agents of The
Board and Not Responsible
To The People
The aiternoon paper, on Saturday, July 23, in its edi
torial column, commenting on the acts of the Board of Al
dermen, spoke of the city manager, Mr. Aycock, as having
been handled in the past as a puppet. Now Websters dic
tionary defines a puppet to be, "a small doll or image [es
pecially one moved by wires in a mock drama; one whl is
under the influence and con trol of another." Now i the
Rocky Mount Herald has never spoken of the city rtian
ag#r as a puppet though there has been current rumor'and
criticism on the streets of Rocky Mount that outside in
iluence had reached the office and was usurping the func
tions of the office that were in the Board of Aldermen, in
* T»' *, re P° rted generally up and down the streets
of Rocky Mount that the editor of the afternoon paper the
Rocky Mount Evening Telegram, J. L. Home, went in the
city managers office and called up state and national au
thorities and had the $200,000 under pass gift held un and
stopped under the name of the city manager, Mn Aycock
and without any authority whatsoever of the governing
authority m Rocky Mount. So if anybody has tried to
make the city manager a puppet it must be such acts as
numerated above, which cost the city $lO,OOO besides
Rocky Mount government is an aldermanic form of gov
ernment. The people elect the Aldermen and the Aldermen
alone are responsible to the people, and if the government
is not run right the city Aldermen can not excuse them
selves by Placing the blame on th e manager for the mana
ger in Rocky Mount, undqi* our law, is purely a creature of
the Board of Aldermen and not the people. He is a hired
director by the Board of Aldermen to carry out their will
and can be hired and fired at will. Rocky Mount has nev
er adopted a managerial form of government even though
they call it in name. There have been several in Rocky
Mount who have tried to remove the government of Rocky
Mount from the people, and they failed in their efforts
I he object in the beginning of trying to make the city man
ager dictator, was so it could be controlled by outside in
fluences. This was never adopted and the people of Rocky
Mount are still looking to the Board of Aldermen for gov
ernment. They have no objection to Mr. Aycock but they
are looking to the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor.
RENEWALS, SUBSCRIPTIONS APPRECIATED
The Herald has received this week several new subscrip
tions and also several renewal subscriptions and with these
renewals have come complimentaxy expressions relative to
the Herald which we appreciate very much.
Getting out a newspaper is rather an expensive under
taking especially when the subscription price is as low as
$l.OO per year, yet these suscriptions are a great help in
carrying on the expense of this paper and we would ap
preciate it very much if our subscribers would mail in re
newal subscriptions. We carry on the front page a blank
that may be clipped out and mailed in to us, and we will
send you a receipt.
WHY CONTINUE PAY RENT TO ROCKY MOUNT MILLS
FORCE PARK NOT USED
The city of Rocky Mount since the city was enlarged
by taking in the Rocky Mount mills, which according to
the opinion of many was a most expensive undertaking,
has been paying annually $5OO a year rent for the patch of
woods on the opposite side of the mills for park purposes,
and has also been paying the Rocky Mount mills $5OO a
year to keep up certain streets. This obligation under the
terms of the contract with the mills ran out last January.
We see no reason why the city should undertake to contin
ue the payment of this $lOOO a year out of the pocket of
the town. The highway has been keeping up some of the
very streets that were in this contract. Rocky Mount
needs parks within its border for the children to play in.
When the city was enlarged many of our people thought
that the Rocky Mount mills had taken over Rocky Mount
instead of Rocky Mount taking over the Rocky Mount Mills.
The mills were paid $50,000.00 in cash, and the city sur
rendered its water right whfcTi it already owned to the
Rocky Mount mills and the city in order to make secure its
water right again according to the Heralds information
paid the Rocky Mount mills an additional $lO,OOO which
has made a most expensive enlargement to the city. The
block of property opposite the new Lutheran church, we
are reliably informed can be purchased without condemna
tion for around $20,000.00 and it appears to us that it
would be a much wiser proposition for the Board of Alder
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NEW INTANGIBLE TAX LEVY
COSTS COUNTY TOWNS MORE
THAN $6,000 IN REVENUE
Assessment, the valuation on which i
the classified tax was levied this
year are approximately five times
the combined valuations previously
on the tax records of counties and
municipalities.
Mrs. John Sherrod
Dies In Richmond
Former Resident And Well Known
Woman Succumba To lUnesa
Mrs. John M. Sherrod, former resi
dent of this city and well known
throughout this section died at her
home in Forest Hills in Richmond,
Virginia after a long illness,
Mrs. Sherrod was the former Miq»
Lillie B. Beard and married Mr.
Sherrod when he was a resident of
the city. He got his license to prac
tice law here in 1897 and was a
well known lawyer here for many
years. He was also vice-president of
Planters National Bank.
In 1912 Mr. and Mrs. Sherrod mov
ed to Richmond where he practiced
law and looked after his large es
tate until his death in 1927.
Mrs, Sherrod was, through mar
riage, related to many people in this
section and in Halifax county.
Funeral rites were conducted from
the home in Richmond Sunday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment took
place there.
Services Held
For Mrs. Abrams
Final Rites Held For Macclesfield
Resident Monday
Tarboro, July 26. —Funeral servic-j
es for Mrs. Addie Mae Abrams, 56,
who died at her home near Maccles
field late Sunday night after an ill
ness of several months, were held
from the home at 3 o'clock. Rev.
Mr, Alexander, pastor of the Free
Will Baptist church, officiated. In
terment followed in Edwards ceme
tery.
Mrs. Abrams had lived in Edge
combe county all her life. She was
a member of the Free Will Baptist
church.
Survivors include her husband J,
F. Abrams,; three daughters, Mrs.
Mattie Lee Harrell and Miss Ruby
Abrams, of Macclesfield and Mrs.
Elizabeth Pool, of thi s city; six sons,
J. Roy, C. F., Paul, Jodie, and J. F.
Abrams, Jr., all of Macclesfield, and
W. M. Abrams, of Wilmington; two
sisters, Mrs. Mattie Webb and Mrs.
Pattie Bridgers, of Macclesfield;
and threo brothers, Vernanda Briley,
of Rocky Mount, Lonnie Briley, of
Faulkland, and Thad Briley, of
Criijp.
HEARING IS WAIVED
IN HOUSEBREAKING
Janios May f Young Negro, Is Bound
To Nash Superior Court With
out Bond
James May, young Negro charged
with breaking into the Porai Inn
a week ago with felonious intent,
waived preliminary hearing in city
recorder's court and was bound over
to Nash county superior court. No
bond was allowed.
May was accused of entering a
bedroom where a young girl was
sleoping and choking the girl, flee
ing when she screamed and her
mother came from th© next room.
Judge 'Ben H. Thomas sentenced
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>l.OO PER YEA*
Municipalities And County To R»>
ceiv« $1326.45 From State. Com
bined Tax Last Year On Intangi
bles About $B4OO
—Nash County News
The now method of handling tax
es on intangible properties will coal
Martin County and its several town*
approximately $6,680.85 i.his year,
according to unofficial figures re
leased this week by the State De
partment of Avenue, Raleigh. In 19-
37, the county and the several
towns collected or are to collect
approximately $8,507.30 in taxes lev
ied against such proporties as notes,
mortgages, bonds and other int&n*
gibles. Taking over the intangiblo
list, lock, stock and barrel, under I
law passed by the general aaeem
bly last year, the State has alloted
$1,826.45 for distribution to the coun
ty and the several towns in. tfl The
exact amounts the county and towM
■will receive individually have not
been released by the departmnt.
In 1937, the assessed valuation ot
intangible properties in this county
totaled $373,390. At a rate of $1.41
the county received $5,264.80. In ad
dition to that amount, the special
road districts of Cross Roads, Ham
ilton, Goose Nest and Williamston
levied small amounts. In Williame
fon, fourteen citizens listed solvent
credits at $44,337, and at the cur
rent rate of $2.60 the town receiv
ed $1,152.76. Exact figures for the
town of Robersonville are not avail
able, but it is estimated that that
town collected in excess of $1,500
from intangible property in 1937.
Other towns collected small amounts,
running the actual tax total to ap
proximately $8,500. This year, the
group has a scant $l,BOO to divide.
The loss of this revenue is almost
eertaiu to lie reflected in town tax
rates for the year 1938, the coun
i ty having squeezed by with the aid
j of increased liquor profits.
Realizing that only a small per
centage of the owni rs listed Intan
gibles for taxation. State taxing au
thorities advanced an amendment tp
tiTe State cofcstituti n empowering
t*ie State to tax such prop'rty. It
was opposed to reduetj the ra r e on
such property, the taxing authori
ties maintaining that the owners
' would then list their intangibles.
Records show that the listings havje
been materially in--;- i. a, ou* :ho
low rate ::nd with tr'e
' lected there is now littie left to
the counties and towns after ex
penses for collection were deducted.
I In the first year that the State
has attempted to collect a tax on
intangibles, a total of $904,633.33
was taken in at an expense of $36,-
185.33, leaving $868,449 to be divid
ed equally between the State cof
fers and those of counties and mun
icipalities.
The total collections were a little
' over a million dollars short of the
j legislative estimate of $2,000,000.
However, according to the Board of
B. D. Williams, charged with as
saulting G. A. Melton with a knife,
to pay $16.50 cost. The B. D. Wil
liams involved in the case and in
the case of driving intoxicated tried
is not the local painter of the same
name.
Howard Quick, charged with issu
ing a bad chsck, was directed to
pay $4.30 cost and the ch&k.
Russell Jackson received 30 days
to be suspended on payment of $ll,
for public drunkenness. Harrell
Jenkins charged, with driving with
out a drivers license, exhibited his
licens in court and a nol pros waa
taken in his case.