The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 32
SMITHFIELD UNDERPASS SOON
TO BE OPENED TO TRAFFIC
Project Slated For Completion Early
In September
* Y —Smithfield
The $ 125,000 railway underpass
being built at the Atlantic Coast
lone depot here will probably be
i ready for traffic between September
1 and 15, construction engineers
I stftte*. Work on the underpass will
I be completed about September 1 but
most likely it will take 15 days to
get it in shape for traffic, engin-
I eers said.
The underpass, built by E. A. Trip
lett Construction Company, is con
structed to eliminate two grade
-crossings. Federal funds were used
fa* its construction.
Yesterday workmen were pouring
Cement in the gutters which reach
East Market street to the outskirts
of Belmont, Negro section acro-i the
tracks. Six-foot sidewalks will be
poured next week and then the road
wti be paved. The construction
company has approximately 30 more
days in which to finish the project.
, The heavy rains in May and
Jpne' delayed construction but the
Underpass will be finished in the
time allotted by the government in
the contract, it was learned.
The Princeton road crossing and
the crossing at the Belmont school
wj£ be closed when the underpass
ts completed. A new road has been
built from the railroad tracks to the
Bid Princeton highway about one
mile from the city limite.
• Besides the underpass, a drain
fife was installed from the
project to Spring Branch in the
louthern part of town. Trouble has
>een encountered since the installa
;ion of the ditch, the pipe having
llled up several times from silt bo
ng washed in by heavy rains. Stops
taken to eliminate this.
■ORBORO MAN IS FINED
IN COMPENSATION CASE
Tarboro, Aug. 7.—Austin Everett
>f Tarboro received a sentence of 30
lays on the roads, suspended by
rudge Ed Foxhall on payment of a
CO line and costs, on charges of
eeking unemployment compensation
rhil« receiving a weekly check from
he (Sty of Tarboro.
According to evidence, Everett
Lied weekly reports in June that
,is income was "nothing or" 45
ents," while he was receiving $B.-
5 weekly from the city.
Nick Bodie, Unemployment Com
ensation Commission inspector who
avestigated and had Everett arrest-
the man received no com
lensation payments.
iTERILIZATION IN 1938
MAY REACH NEW HIGH
(fugenical sterilizations for the
■ six months of 1938 keep pace
Bith those reported up to June 30,
B.i« year bids fair to surpass 19-
H>, when feebleminded and mentai-
Hr diseased persons in North Caro-
HLI undergoing operation reached
high of 178.
reaching R. Eugene Brown,
Rcretary of tho North Carolina Eu
lenics Board, showed 102 operations
Icrformed for tho first half of 19-
ft, 26 under the total for the en-
Hre twelve-month period of 1937.
■AH but five of the 128 steriliza-
Hon operations undergone by the
Bebleminded and centally diseased
Bth State last year were consnt
Bvs in 'which the parents, guardian,
next of kin of the patient, gave
Hritten consent to the .procedure.
H Members of Eugenics Board
HMuntors of the State board, as
present constituted, the Mrs.
T. Bost, commissioner of pub-
M. welfare; Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
the State Board of
Eulth; Dr. J. W. Ashby, superin-
Ipient of the State Hospital in Ra-
K; Harry McMullan, attorney
and Dr. F. M. Register, su
perintendent of the Caswell Train
lg School at Kinston.
■From 1929 through 1937 a total
518 sterilizations have been per-
246 of the number having
H?en i ersons between the ages of
to 19, and 174 being 20 to 29
old. The total is divided 86
Hales and 432 females,
iTwo hundred and ninety-four of
nine-year total of 518 csses
inmates of a State institution,
private cases while 30
been inmates of county insti-
Hition at the time of the operation.
Plans Suggested For
Tarboro Hotel
Junior Order Endorses Move Started
| By Citizens For New Building
! Tarboro, Aug. 10.—The Junior
I Order of Tarboro voted unanimously
last night to support a move started
by citizens of Tarboro to build a
new colonial type hotel in Tarboro,
with money from the PWA, provid
ed the legislature allows municipali
ties to borrow money without penal
ty against bonded debt.
Local business men have come
forward expressing themselves heart
ily in favor of the move and have
suggested that the City Commission
ers consider the' possibilities of a
municipially owned hotel, make ap
plication for $lOO,OOO ($55,000 loan
and $45,000 grant), yid then put the
matter to a vote of the people.
Several people have» advanced the
word that the hotel could be leased
for sufficient to pay bond and in
terest payments, keep up the proper
ty and retire the loan in twenty
years.
Many spots have been suggested
for the hotel if built, the most fav
orably by most people being the lots
facing on the eommon, which would
give the traveling public plenty of
free parking space, with the hotel
away from the noise of down town,
yet within one block of the main
street stores.
Many people favor the colonial
type hotel architecture in keeping
with historic Tarboro.
Edgecombe Women
Graduate Ac r arm
And Home Week
Two ibdgeeombe County Home
Demonstration club members were
among those who received certificates
of graduation on Friday at th con
clusion of the Farm and Home
Week held in Raleigh last week.
Mrs. John D. Lancaster, of the
Tarboro club, and Mrs. Nettie Mae
Worsley, (president of the West Ed
gecombe club, received their certi
ficates for having attended the con
ference for four years and for hav
ing actively participated in Home
Demonstration club work during that
time.
Delegates attending the meeting
from Edgecombe, besids Mrs. Lan
caster and Mrs. Worsley, were: Mrs.
R. B. Denson, Mrs. Walter Cherry,
Mrs. Frank Edmondson and Mrs. L.
J. Mewborn.
While attending the conference the
delegates acquired a great deal of
valuable information and many new
ideas which will help them in their
local club work.
Nash Co. Resident
Buried at Sandy Cross
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock for Mrs. Su
san Bone Winstead, 79, from Sandy
Cross Methodist church. Rev. B. T.
Dixon officiated, assisted by Rev.
A. R. Flowers and Rev. C. B. Pea
cock, regular Sandy Cross pastor.
Interment was by the side of her
husband in the Sandy Cross church
yard. Hunt Funeral Home direct
ed the funeral arrangements.
Active pallbearers were: J. C.
Taylor, C. J. Barnes, G. D. Win
stead, J. I. Bone, Raymond Lancas
ter, H. M. Edwards.
Mrs. Winstead, who had been a
'resident of Nash County all her
life, died at 5:50 Wednesday morn
ing from heart trouble that had
confined her to bed for some time.
She was the wife of the late Wil
liam Lindsey Winstead and is sur
vived by six daughters: Mrs. F. H.
Vick, Mrs. S. M. Vick and Mrs. R.
K. Cooper, all of Spring Hope,
Route 1; Mrs. Roy Vick of Bailey,
Route 3; Mrs. J. H. Abernathy of
Vass; and Mrs Bud Bryant of Nash
ville. She also leaves two sons, John
WSJnsteed of Elm City, Route 1,
and Sam Winstead of Spring Hope,
Route 1. Other close survivors in
clude two sisters, Mrs. Sallie Win
stead of Nashville, Mrs. Hattie Bat
chelor of Jonesboro; and one half
brother, Daniel Bissette of Taylor's
Cross Roads.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938
Radio Station
Licensed In Raleigh
The Federal Communications Com
mission this week licensed a new
radio station for Raleigh to handle
local programs only. The station
will be built and operated by tho
Capitol Broadcasting Company, or
ganized more than a year ago, and
will operate on 1210 kilocycles, with
250 watt power in day time and
100 watts at night.
The promoters have had a long,
hard fight to obtain the licence,
which was contested by WPTF and
by other communities in North Caro
lina desiring stations, FOC found
as a fact that there is room here
for such a station, and that the en
gineering and capital backing pro
vided by the new company is ade
quate.
10. Johnson Ncal of Raleigh is
president of the corporation, Chas.
P. Greene of Louisburg is vice-presi
dent; E. O. Marshburn, secretary;
L. H. Spruill, treasurer, and A. J.
Fletcher, attorney. This group was
active in the campaign of Dr. Balph
McDonald for governor in 1036, but
they disavowed any political con
nection for the broadcasting outfit.
Call letters for the station have
not been assigned, but WJBAL have
been requested and will likely be
given.
Social Security
Birthday Planned
Roosevelt To Make Radio Talk;
Rocky Mount Holds Open House
For This District
President Roosevelt will speak ov
er a nation-wide radio network Aug
ust 15, commemorating the third
birthday of the social security act,
George N. Adams, Rocky Mount dis
trict manager of the Social Security
Board, was informed Friday by a
communication from the President's
crusier Houston.
The (place from which the address
will be broadcast and the time will
bo announced later.
The Rocky Mount social security
district office, from which the social
security administration of northeast
ern North Carolina is directed, will
observe the anniversary by holding
open house the night of August 15
on the third floor of the municipal
building.
ASSEMBLY
PASSES BILLS
AT RAPID RATE
Moving along at a speed that
amazes them as well a« spectators
frequenting the lobbies, the mem
bers of the special session of the
North Carolina General Assembly,
which convened Monday, Tuesday
gave overwhelming endorsement to
legislation Governor Hoey has ask
ed them to pass so the State can
share in the spending-lending pro
gram as advocated by President
Roosevelt as a means to restore pros
perity.
By a vote of 98 to 0 the House
passed the bill to permit the State
to issue $4,620,000 in bonds to get
money to finance the building pro
gram to be aided in most instances
by 45 per cent grants if they can
be secured from the PWA.
And then with Beaufort's Sam
Blount casting the only negative
vote, the House passed by a vote
of 90 to 1 on second reading the
measure to permit counties and
municipalities to issue revenue—
producing bonds to match PWA
funds.
FIRST BILL
Th first bill measure enacted into
laws was the Fenner of Nash and
Caffey of Guilford House bill to
appropriate $75,000 in State funds
so North Carolina may take part
in the New York World's Fair in
1939. The money was made avail
able after private concerns failed
to respond to apipeals for funds so
the State could be represented at
the event.
Both House and Senate suspend
ed their rules to pass the fair
measure, which had the full appro
val of Governor Hoey. Mr. Fenner
is chairman of the North Carolina
World's Fair committee authorized
Crowning President of Bald Head Club
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Edward T. Page (left), the retiring president of the Bald Head Club
of America, crcwns with a cup Frank W. Seymour of Winsted, Com.,
who was e'ectcd to the presidency for the coming year at the annual
meeting and barbecue of the club at Bristol, Conn.
City Needs Rest Pla
In C
Today, Wednesday, in Rocky Mount is almost as hot as
that election box which was said to have gotten so hot that
it hatched out votes up in the eighth district. The buldings
are hot, the paved streets are hot, the side-walks are so hot
the children's feet burn, and they cry out to be taken up.We
have provided no place for one to rest down town. The City
Aldermen promised to provide a place for mothers with chil
dren in the old Municipal Buildng—a place for them to stop
and rest. The Aldermen gave this need as a i*eason for buil
ding the expensive new City Hall. The building was vacated
by the City, and instgad of the mothers and children going
in,- the Highway-Patrol-took the back side, and Mr. Austin
took the front for the Chamber of Commerce.
Why do these gentlemen need all this space? It seems to
us that a little business is being done on too big a scalo.
Could not the Chamber occupy space upstairs, which is being
used but very little of the time?
The City rents park space outside of the City, but fails to
provide it in the City, where it will be used and where it is
needed. This looks like inconsistency. One would have to
have an automobile to use the park out of the City, but the
people who must walk need some consideration.
SHOULD DO DUTY WITHOUT GAG RULE
The General Assembly, which has been called into extra
session, should have given consideration to the urgent need
of reforming our election laws, rather than passing a res
lution to do nothing about it. This is much more important
to the citizenship of North Carolina than the large bond bill
which is being passed.. The Legislature has time to do both.
It is strange that the state Board of Elections traveled hither
and thither, here and yonder, counting and recounting, stay
ing out of Raleigh, lodging in one city one night and another
city another night, weighing and considering, and then re
considering, and did not show up in Raleigh until what has
been designated by members of the legislature a gag rule
was passed so as to kill any reform in this stealing in elec
tions- Was this just an accident?
OLD PEOPLE ENTITLED TO PENSION
The Old Age Pension will probably keep many old people
away from the County Home, but the law was not passed for
this purpose.
The law was passed to help old people who are in need.
Old people without property or income are entitled to this
pension even if some children or grandchildren may give
them a place at their table. They need medicine, a piece of
candy now and then, a little snuff or tobacco, a pair of shoes
or a cheap dress. Many of our old people are sad because
they have been overlooked, and denied what the government
wants them to have. Some may be on who do not need it,
but more are not on who should be.
Final Rites Are Held
For Mrs. Minnießaker
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie
Baker, 70, who died at her home
near Langley's Crossroads late Sun
day, were held Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock from the homo. Rev. B.
T. Dixon officiated and burial took
place in the family burying ground.
Mrs. Baker had been sick for sev
eral months with the infirmities of
old age.
Survivors include four sons, H. M.
W. H., A. L., and Edward Baker, of
the home; one daughter, Miss Lena
Baker, also of the home; and one
sister, Mrs. Annie Holly, of Clay
Mountain.
by the 1937 legislature. He rushed
back herw from the Georgia Tobacco
markets to expediate passage of the
bill.
Advice To Writers For The Daily
Press
When you've got a thing to say,
Say it! Don't take half a day.
When your tale's got little in it,
Crewd the whole thing in a minute.
Life is short—a fleeting vajpor.
Don't you fill the whole blamed pa
per
With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch.
Boil her down until she simmers.
Polish her until she glimmers.
When you've got a thing to say,
Say it I Don't take half a day!
Wonder if this advice should ap
ply to colmuns such as this, too. It's
not a bad idea, so here is a good
place to end this one.
Th quality of tobacco cured in
Edgecombe County this season seems
to be'-above the average. Farmers
are greatly encouraged over the out
look.
Stork Leads Vital
Statistics Derby
Outclasses Reaper Two-To-One in
City During July
Births ran up higher than usual
lead and more than doubled
deaths in Rocky Mount during
July, according to the vital statia-j
tics record released at the city
health department.
Fifty-four births were reported in
the city during July, against 26
deaths. Half of the deaths were
non-residents of the city.
An automobile accfdent accounted
for one death. Cornelia Crudup,'
Negro woman of Spring Hope route
one, died in a local hospital July 2
after being hit by a car in Stanhope.
Two of the deaths were homicides,
Joe McFadden, local Negro, was
stabbed to death July 17 and Tim
"Buck" Williams, Negro of Inez in
Warren county, died of injuries said
to have been received when hit on
the head with a stick.
Of the births, 25 were white with
girls predominating, 19 weTe Negro
with boys more numerous. Seven
were illegitimate births—one white
non-resident, four Negro residents
and two Negro non-residents.
Farm and Home Week
Attiacts Big Crowd
With the return of opproximately
1,500 delegates to their homes,
books were closed last Saturday on
the 35th chapter of Farm and Home
Week, one of the most successful
ever held.
Most of the delegates remained at
State College, scene of the annual
event, the entire week, while others
attended only a part of th program.
Separate and joint sessions of the
men and women were arranged, as
well as classroom work and recrea
tion.
George Sockwelt, prominent Guil
ford County farmer, will head the
men's division of Farm and Home
Week in 1939. President of the
women's division for next year is
Mrs. W. E. Neal, Mecklenburg Co
unty farm woman. Both were elect
ed unanimously.
Entertainment was mixed with
education so as to produce a well
balanced program. Group singing,
contests, and other forms of recrea
tion were features of the evning ses
sions.
Joint sessions and classroom work
occupied the delegates during the
morning, and demonstrations, exhib
its, and tours were featured during
the afternoon.
Among the resolutions adarpted by |
the delegates were those calling for 1
sufficient State appropriations to
match Fderal funds for agricultural
research, Federal aid to the public
schools, the early establishment of i
a 12th grade in the public schools:
of the State, a better farm market
ing program for North Carolina, and
the transfer of the State prison farm
near Meredith College to State Col
lege for the "development of real
livestock work."
Governor and Mrs. Clyde Hoey ad
dressed the men and women in the
State College stadium Thursday
night. These two talks were the only
ones scheduled for th evening pro
gram.
"Never mind where your work is.
Never mind whether it be visible or
not. Never mind whether your name
is associated with it. You may nev
er see the issues of your toil. YOU
ARE WORKING FOR ETERNITY.
If you cannot see results here, re
member that God does see, and if,
you are faithful now, your works
will follow you. And so, do your
duty and trust in God."
KILLS RED SPIDERS
Chemists have | a new
dusting powder for destroying red
spiders in citrus groves.
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HENRY FORD
OBSERVES 75
BIRTHDAY
Detroit Fliwer Kinfr Is Given 4
Great Ovation When Fellow Cltt*
zens Celebrate Hl* Diamond A»
niversary.
Henry Ford, the world's flivve*
king took a day off from his wort
I .Saturday to join with his fellon
j citizens of Detroit in celebrating hia *
diamond (*7sth) birthday anniver
sary, but he made it clear that it
was, after all, juet another birthday,
and that he had no intention of
slowing down.
In the morning he participated in
a "party" staged by some 8,000
children who sang "Happy Birthdaj
to You" at the Michigan stata. fait
grounds. Saturday afternoon in a
private office of his engineering lab
oratory, he was presented with thfc
grand cross of the German eagle,
by a representative of Adolf Hitler's
government. At night he was guest
of honor at a banquet attended by
1,500 persons in Detroit's Masonic,
temple.
The decoration was .presented ta
I*\>rd on behalf of the German
government by Karl Kapp, German
consul at Cleveland, aided by Frit*
Heiler, German consular representa
tive in Detroit, in commemoration
of Ford's 75th birthday and in ro*
cognition of his industrial accom
plishments.
The decoration is designed for
distinguished foreigners. Ford's U
the first such award presented in tin
United States.
"There is much work yet to bt
done," Ford said in making it deaf
he had no intention of relinquish
ing any of the responsibility he car
ries for tho great Ford industrial
empire that had it« beginning ia
the little red brick barn that stootf
back of his home in Hagley avenuq
Detroit, in 1893.
Chiefly, Ford pointed out, muck
of the prosperity he envisions ahead
will come 'Svhen industry provides n
greater market for the farmer." Al
ready, he said, he had taken import
ant steps iu that direction in his
development of multitudinous uses
for agricultural p;\>" ;;>*■ •-.>>- «.„ n
industrial endeavors.
At 75 the icuaotrlaJU u
liaalth. He .preaches a gospei of
back to the soil as the solution
' f the nation's economic vvuoa.
believes a great era i>f prosperity
■ ies ahead. His idea o» the key to
uccess is 'hard work.
Ford was born on a f~.'ui near
where his vast liiver plant
now stands. He grew to love the
soil and that love has iuci\ii.sed
through tho years. Machinery ia
his next love. He always haj taken
things apart to see what makes
them run. Watch repairing is ona
1 of his chief avocations.
DR.W.TTAYLOR
DIES IN COMA
Baylor University Department Head
Suffers Heart Attack; Funeral
Today
Como, AUK. 7. —Dr. Walter P. Tay
lor, former resident of Como, and
head of the department of bio
chemistry and chemical >pathology in.
Baylor University, Dallas, Tex.,
died suddenly this morning of a
heart attack at the home of his pa
rente, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Taylor,
in Como.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the
homo of his parents by the Rev.
D. J. Robinson. Burial will be in
Buckhorn cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Maude McCullock Taylor j two
daughters, Jane and Rosalie; and a
sister, Mrs. Jack Boyd of Greenville.