The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 39
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No Abalememt Sho
Week In Death From Accidents
Guilford Boy Loses Life While Rid
ing Bicycle, Clinging To School
Bob —Aged Randolph Woman Kill
ed In Automobile Collision —
Bmithfieid Boy Killed By Hit-And
Run Car Driver.
J. M. Smith, Jr., 16-year old
Jamestowr' high school boy, was fa
tally injured Friday while riding his
bicycle on the Greensboro-High
Point highway. He was hanging on
a school bus, lost his footing and
fell under it. He died later in a
High Point hospital.
Mrs. Beulah Gilliam, of Liberty,
Randolph county, died in a Greens
boro hospital Tuesday from irfjuries
received in an automobile collision
at Liberty Monday. Mrs. Gilliam at
tempted to make a right turn into
her driveway and was struck by a
car driven by Manly Vickery. She
was thrown from her machine un
der the other car receiving injuries
that resulted in her death later, in
a Gree - fcboro hospital.
Aldridge McGee, 17, of Rl, Ben
son, was killed instantly late Sat
urday night when struck by a hit
and-run driver as he was walking
along the highway between Sm'th
field and Angier.
Margaret Beatty, 36, of Gastor.i-i,
was struck and instantly killed aa
she walked along the highway near
Gastonia, Friday night. Loy Fri
day, Gaatonia truck driver, was ar
rested charged with striking tUe
woman. He told officers that light
from another car blinded him %nd
that he did not see the woman un
til he had struck her.
B. R. Rogers, Croata!' Indian, driv
er of an auto struck and fataViy
injured James Jones, Indian, rider
of a bicycle, Saturday night. Evi
dence -wag offered at a coroner's in
quest to show that Jones was riding
an unlighted bicycle on the right
side of the Red Bprings-Max f or'
highway just ahead of another bicy
cle with two riders, Allen Scott 3nd
Sam Locklear, one of whom carried
a flashlight. Other occupants of Rog
ers' automobile, Neill Dorsey Lock
lear, Duncan Locklear and Kaley
Bryant, testified they saw none of
the men on bicycles, but felt thJ
car hit something and stopping about
225 yards down the road found a bi
cycle hung under the automobile.
J. Martin Gainey, 64, of Dunn,
Harnett county, died Sunday as the
result of injuries which he receiv
ed in ar. accident Thursday after
noon. He is Harnett County's 10th
highway victwn of the year and the
third within a three-week peril. 1 ..
Gainey was injured on the Dunu
Newton Grove highway when the
pickup truck he was driving hit a
tree and overture ed. Apparently no*
seriously injured, Gainey received
first aid treatment for cuts and
bruises and returned to his home af
ter the accident. His condition be
came worse Friday, however, and he
developed pneumonia. An examina
tion also revealed that he had suf
fered a serious inter-til chest in
jury.
Louis Friday, 19, of High Shoals,
Gaston county, died in a Charlotte
hospital the past week of a fractur
ed skull suffered in an auto colli
sion at Mount Holly, late Sunday
night. The name of the driver which
collided with Friday's car was n"t
revealed.
Mrs. Sarah Collum, 60, was instant
ly killed and Mrs. N. B. Dickons,
58,, both of Halifax county was fa
tally ir'jured Friday when the car in
which they were riding collided with
a truck driven by Buster • Pittman,
negro. The accident occurred on a
county road near Weldon. Mrs.
Dickens died in a Roanoke Bapidß
hospital Sunday.
Curtis Absher, 43, of Roaring River
Wilkes county, died Friday nigh:
in a North Wilkesboro hospital
from injuries received while working
on a WtPA road project near Trap
Hill. Absher's leg was caught under
the wheels of a gravel truck, he wai
thrown down and the wheels passed
over his body. He leaves a wife and
six children.
Roscoe Hatch, 46, Rocky Mount
mail carrier for 18 years, was fa-
tally injured Saturday when hig ca
turned over near Cheyenne, Wyom
ing. Hatch accompanied by a siste:
a-«rl niece was on his way to Los
Angeles to attend the American Le
gion convention. He was a World
War veteran and unmarried. The
body was brought to his native town
of Mount Olive, Wayne county, for
funeral and interment.
Gertrude Bouldin, 17-year old n"5-|
gro girl was almost instantly killed
at 3:30 o'clock Sunday morning
when the car in which she was rid
ing driven by .James Lumford, ne
gro, overturned on the highway near
Reidsville.
Isaiah Hardisorl, 30-year old ne
gro, was run down and fatallly in
jured Friday night by a hit-and-duu
car driver as he walked along the
highway near Dardens, Martin coun
ty. He died without regaining con
sciousness.
James Pemberton, Mou'lt Gile\i
negro, was killed Monday night when
the car driven by Harold Bruton, ne
gro, also of Monnt Gilead, failed to
take a curve and left the highway
13 miles from Albemarle. Others in
the car were uninjured.
A coroners jury at iGreenville*
Pitt county, Monday, exonerated
Mrs. Judie Squires, of Greenville, in
the death of Heber McLawhorn, iun
over by the Squires automobile Sun
day night. The jury said the acji.
dent was unavoidable.
California Corn
LONG BEACH, Cal. . . . When vet
eran delegations from lowa paraded
here during the American Legion
National Convention, they sang
their famous corn song, but waved
California corn. The corn was
raised from lowa seed. The Golden
Gate's agricultural laws prevented
the Midwesterners from bringing
their own stalks.
Junior Order Will
Honor Sam F. Vance
Memorial Class Initiation Day To Be
Held November 30
Tarlioro, Sept. 24.—Edgar V. Har
ris, state secretary of the Junio"
Order of American Mechanics, who
moved the state offices, here this
week from Raleigh, announced today
that State Councilor Roland A.
Grady, of Wilso-f, has set aside Nov.-
ember 30 1938, for a Sam F. Vance
Memorial Class initiation in each
district in North Carolina.
Sam F. Vance, of Kernersville, waa
State Secretary of the Junior Order
for 37 years (1899 to 1936.)
Councilor Grady announced that
as a memorial to Mr. Vance, each
of the 28 districts in the State wi'l
have as their minimum goal for this
event 37 r.'ew members, one for each
year that Mr. Vance served as the
State Secretary.
The Class initiations will be un
der the direction of the field sec
retaries, George W. Warren of Ashe
ville and Forrest G. Shearin, of
Scotland Neck, Places of the initia
tions will be announced shortly,
from state secretary Edgar V. Har
ris' office here.
The deadline for securing triple
superphosphate under the 1938 agri
cultural conservation program caught
many Mitchell County farmers, WHO
expressed regret that the limited
supply would hi- ider them from ap
plying the phosphate to their lands
this year.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1938
Tarboro To Ask
Building Funds
City Commissioners Approve Plan
To Make Over Cld Opera Hons-
Into Office*
Tarboro, Sept. 28.—City Commis
sioners voted last night in special
meetings to ask for a PWA gra.' t o£
$9,000, ■or 45 per cent of a $20,000
building program, with which "he
city fathers hope to renovate the oM
City Hall, and make it income-pro
ducing.
There is a lack of office space in
Tarboro for city, county and gov
ernment agencies, and the city
hopes to convert its City Optsra
House, second floor of the City Hall,
into two floors of 26 offices, 13 v.!
each floor. The first floor would bo
unchanged.
Plans submitted were drawn by
RoMrt of the architect of
fice of Frank Benton, Wilson.
The- commissioners were thorough
ly in accord with the move and
passed a resolution that the city
should apply for the grant, and ask
the Local Government Oommiss'C - '
for permission to sell SII,OOO of
city bonds with which to finance the
building plan.
At one time the City Opera House
was the finest type of opera houae
in the State and South, and has
housed some of the best and largest
road shows of its day. In those days
it was income-producing. Now, " o
one will go upstairs to see a show
and the opera house, with its tre
mendous stage has been used loss
and less. No picture shows are over
shown in it any more. Only homn
talent shows are used. Recently box
ing and wrestling was put on buc
people do i.tot like to walk upstairs.
They refuse to do so.
Elections Board
Ousts Officals
Davidson's lJeane-Buretfn Returns
Rejected; 'Dictatorship' Charged
By Sink
The State Board of Elections yes
terday ousted two Davidson Cour.ty
election board members, rejected *
new certification of Davidson re
turns in the Deane-Burgin race and
heard a Watauga County delegation
declare that continued election rot
tenness would "come to gu - Is" un
less remedied.
After rejecting the "final" David
son returns, the board removed tho
two members who certified them
yesterday morning, J. David Sink
and Ford M. Meyers. The Repub
lican board member who had been
appointed sinco the July 2 run-off,
S. A. DeLapp," refused to sign tie
returns a' 'd was not involved.
The rejected returns gave W. O.
Burgin of Lexington 6,917 votes and
C. B. Deans of Rockitngham 961.
The board insisted that such returns
included 146 fraudulent absentee bal
lots previously invalidated and caus
ing amended results of 6,776 for
Burgi-' and 956 for Deane to switch
the eighth district Democratic ina
jority for Congress from Burgin
to Deane.
Papa Leads Way
Plymouth, Sept. 26. —Irvin Res
pass and Joe Askew, two youngsters
living on the Lo- ig Acre Road near
here, decided that bears were eating
too much of their corn, so they
purchased enough lumber to make a
trap. Then they took the trap to the
edge of the corn patch and baited
it with honey.
Early the next morning they went
to look and they had a big, black,
400-pound daddy bear.
The next night they agair.. bait
ed the trap and the following morn
ing there waa a mother bear in it.
The third night they caught a
little cub, and the fourth night the
same.
As the law will not allow the kill
ing or selling of them until Octo
ber 1, the boys had to build cage*
to keep their catch in. They have
the cubs in the barn, tryi £ to tame
them.
Give your compost heap a flat top
with a depression in the center sc
it will catch rain and help in de
composition.
Why Should Ouo People Be Re
quired To Have The Same
Kind Of Tombstone
We read with interest a statement in the afternoon paper
last week that the city manager was recommending that the
cemetery be enlarged, and that the old colored cemetery be
turned into a park, which would be near the cemetery gate.
With the changing r family cemetery to the pub
lic cemetery, there is naturally a need for more cemetery
space, however, we cannot follow., the idea., advanced that
everybody should be required to have the same kind of mon
ument, and that none of these monuments should appear
above the ground, which is how we understood the recom
mendation. It is a fine thing to have equality, tHrfwe do not
see why a cemetery would be more beautiful bynNfing the
same kind of monument. Of course the graves of many of
our soldiers who died in battle have been marked with the
same kind of monument, and in the Moravian cemetery
at Winston-Salem these church people have adopted the
same kind of monument, but why should Rocky Mount re
quire all its citizens to adopt the same kind of monument
when all of the people do not have the same taste.
We are glad to know that., the city manager is., giving
thought to the need of parks even though the first recom
mendation is at the cemetery gate. We doubt vry seriously
if there will be many small children who will seek to play
in the vicinity of the gloom of the cemetery.
There was one recommendation that an old rock quarry
the location of which is unknown to many of the people, it
being in the bend of the river, be turned into a park. But
certainly if a rock-garden should be built, it would be so far
that the children being carried by nurses could not reach it,
even if they could find it.
There is land in Rocky Mount suitable for park purposes
not in thte cemetery gate or in the bend of the river. We
already have a park which he city is renting It s located by
the rivor and is used by a certain element of the population.
It does look like the time has arrived when the city should
give thought to the improvement of parks for the benefit
of those who need to enjoy the parks. The question of real
estate exploitation should be relegated, and the real interest
of the citizenship of Rocky Mount considered.
NASH AND EDGECOMBE SWING TO STOCK
RAISING
It is a fine thing that Nash and Edgecombe counties are
beginning to give more attention to stock raising. All this
talk about Eastern North Carolina not having the grass
to raise stock is simply ridiculous. Eastern Carolina would
have been better off if it' had paid less attention to cotton
years ago. The time has arrived now that we are being
compelled to cflange our methods of farming whether we de •
sire to do so or not.
The cotton crop in Edgecombe County for the last threo
years has not paid for the fertilizer that has gone under
it.. We heard a gentleman say a few days ago that if some
one would reimburse him for the fertilizer he put under
his cotton, he would turn the cotton crop over to that per
son.
The boll weevil has eaten up the in Edgecombe
County for the last few years, and this year we are told
Nash County has been eaten up by the boll weevil also. Cot
ton is a crop that takes practically twelve months to pro
duce, and when there is a failure there is a total failure.
ALL HEARTS HOPE FOR PEACE
At this time the attention of the world is riveted on the
conference taking place in Europe between the great pow
ers there. Its purpose is to bring peace and avert another
World War. Many of those who would have to fight in
such a war were born during the World War or soon there
after, but the great World War is still fresh in the minds
of the mature people throughout the world. It is unthink
able that the world should be precipitated into another great
war amoung enlighened nations, and we believe and earn
estly pray that this conference will work out a basis for
lasting peace. All our hearts hope for a peaceful settle
ment. /
Arrangements Being Made
For Peanut Festival
Plans are rapidly maturing for the
annual Scotland Neck Peanut FeW
val which will be held here under
the auspices of the Scotland Necu
Fire Department. The Festval will
be a gala occasion for the week of
October 3-8.
Chief Dillard Bunch is in charge
of arrangements and is being abiy
assisted by committees composed
of members of the Fire department
The Roland shows and concession*
have been engaged for the midway,
a-Id this will bring a ferris wheel,
numerous riding devices and severil
types of concessions.
Agricultural exhibits and exhibits
by local business concerns and or
ganizations will be an important fea
ture. Prizes will be awarded in sev
eral different classifications, a" d the
premium book will be issued next
week. Those desiring to put exhibits
under the teU are asked to get in
touch with Mr. Bunch.
Use a teaspoonful of good com
plete plant food with every square
foot of soil you use to put indoor
plants. Mix thoroughly, a - id after a
month use the same amount spread
on top and wet down.
Service Held For
Mrs. Taylor
Funeral Conducted From Mill Branch
Church
Funeral rites for Mrs. Louise Tay
lor, 27, who died at her home nen
Sharpsburg, were conducted from
Millbranch church at 2.30 o'clock.
Elder A. B. Denson officiated and
interment was made ir.l Millbranch
church cemqtery.
Survivors include her husband, Z.
D. Taylor; five children, Robert, Ma
rion, Sanford, and Jane Taylor and
a young infant; her father, J. R.
Batts, and her step-mother, Mrs.
Flossie Batts; three brothers, Cecil
and James Batts of near Sharpsburg,
and Ernest Batts, of Linwood; twj
sisters, Mrs, Patty Ruth Taylor and
Miss Hetty Mae Batts, also of
Sharpsburg.
Pallbearers for the service were
Gordon Robbins, Edwin Weaver, Jas
per Davis, Willard Robbins, Harvoy
Winstead, and George Davis.
.Factory jobs increased 0.7 per cent
and payrolls 0.4 per cent in July,
Secretary Perkins reports.
Program To Divert Peanuts
Announced For The 1938 Crop
"Fightin' Man" Relaxes
LYNCHBURG. S. C. . . . Senator
E. D. Smith, dean of Senate Demo
crats. who scored a victory over the
"New Deal Purge" in the recent
South Carolina primary, finds relax
ation from the vexations of the
campaign which he said was the
"dirtiest I've ever been called to
endure," by hauling up a cool drink
from the well of his old plantation.
A. & P. Co.
Opens Now St ore
Handsome New "Food Department
Store" Opened On Wednesday
At Main And Marigold
The "A and P"—or H more tech
nical terms the Great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company opened Rocky
Mount's newest store here Wednes
day.
Located at the new extension of
Southeast Main and Marigold streeU,
the brand new building has spru'j?
up on the site occupied for yeari
by the old Hales and Edwards luy
house. But far more than hay wili
be served to customers in this II.JW
"super-market" which boasts merch
andise totaling over 1,500 items sta
tioned row on row. . - _
Closing two other stores which
have been operated here for some
time, the A and P is planni:|g to
concentrate all its efforts in the one
big store—it is 41 feet wide and 126
feet long.
A new type f service knwn as
"self-service" also is included in the
new store. It consists simply in pro
vidi- g for the shopper an opportun
ity to canvass the store at will,
pushing a small "cart" upon which
are placed the items purchased. Of
ficials hooted at the idea that fewer
persons would be employed under
j the new system. As a matter of fact,
several more men will be employed
than at both the old stores.
The store itself is fashioned af*.cr
a food department store. There's a
department for everything and every
thing is brought handily to the fore
where every shopper may see it —
or where the "customer does as he
pleases," to quote a compa'ly official.
C. R, Churn is general store man
ager, but he has department head
in charge of meats —there will bo a
wide variety of meats of all sor's
and seafoods produce, W. D. Leo
handles this; dairy products, which
are supervised by Charles Wilhalf.
There is even a wine department
where every variety of wine is
stacked on the shelves in all types
and sizes of bottles.
The store is well lighted, clean
and comfortable and the employs
—well, they're just as cordial as you
could wish.
The :ew store has been located
with an eye to the convenience of
the shopper. There is ample park
ing space near at hand, and no pains
have been spared to make shopping
convenient and pleasant.
N. C. IN LEAD
North Carolina, with a 5 per jant
increase in farm i-Icome during the
first seven months of 1938, was the
only South Atlantic state to show
a gain over the same period iii 1937.
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Price Of S7O Per Ton Will Be Pah
For Top Grade When Conrert
ed Into Oil
KERR IS BIG HELP
A program for diverting a portio»
of the 1938 peanut crop as a means
of sustaining the price was announc
ed this week at Washington by A
M. Dickson, official of the peanut
division of the AAA administration
of the department of agrciolttire
The top price to be paid will be #7O
j per ton for Virginia U. S. No.
Class A peanuts.
The plan is similar to a diveriioa
program put Hto effect laat y-jar.
This season a great deal of work was
done in fie matti r by Congressman
John H. Kerr or' this districtt, who
was associated and aided in his ef
forts by Congressmen Lindsay War
ren and Harold Cooley.
Immediately following a meeting
of pea- lut growers a few weeks agq
Congressman Kerr went to Washing
ton and conferred with AAA official*
concerning a program for diverting
the peanuts to the oil mills. Ho
stayed on the ground to present the
views of the growers that peanuts
should be included ir« any progranc
devised by the agriculture depart
ment. The growers had met in Nortk
Carolina to protest a plan devised ai
Washington which it was said woull
have left peanuts out of the fart*
regulations.
Judge Kerr returned to North Car
olina after being assured that fuß
protection would be given the pea
nut growers, and this week's iu
rfcuncement from the agriculture de
partment outlines the plan to be nut
into effect. It is as follows:
"The Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration announced today a scha.
dule of prices for use in connee'iog
with a program to divert surplus far
mers stock peanuts to the manufac
ture of oil. The program to be under
take;' will be similar to that for the
1937 crop.
''Although the details have not yet
been completed, the program will au
thorize regional associations of pro
ducers to pay the following pricos
for the various types of farmer stock
peanuts grown in 1938:
"Virginia U. S. No. 1 Class A, S7O
per ton; Class B, per ton; Clam
C. $Ol per ton; No. 2, Class A, $0"
per ton; Class B, SO3 per ton; Clasi
C. S."B per ton; No. 3, Class A SO3
per ton; Class B, $Ol per ton ; Olasa
C. s.'>o per to"
"Southeastern Spanish U. S. No. I
SOS per ton. N'o. 2, $Ol per ton; No.
3, $56 per ton. Runners U. S. No. 1,
$57 per ton; No. 2, $53 per ton; No.
3, S4B per ton.
"Southeastern Spanish U. S. No.
1, SO3 per ton; No. 2, $59 per ton;
No. 3, $54 per ton.
"This program will be develope.l
under the provisions of seetior; 33
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
and will provide for payments to As
sociations of Producers for the dif
ferences between the purchase pric«
and the sale price for diversion,
plus an allowance for the cost of
handling the peanuts diverted. Full
details of the program will be an
nounced as soon as they are com
plete."
Funeral Rites Held
For Francis Daniel
Francis Eugene Daniel, four-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Dan
iel, was buried in Pineview cemetery
after Rev. J. A. Satterfield had con
ducted services from the home i»
Nash County.
Francis died on Saturday at his
home.
Surviving are the parents; sevei
brothers, W. D., M. D„ J. R., E. W.
L. F. f C. A., and S. T. Daniel, Jt
and one sister, Mrs. Katherine Nor
cille.