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VOLUME 16. _ ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C., THURSDAY, May 22nd, 1930. _NUMBER 0.
TEMPORARY BRIDGE CLOSED
The bridge was closed again
this afternoon after four small
steel girders on two of the old
spans broke. Bridge engineer
Buck Taylor was notified, or
dered the bridge closed again
and is on his way here. It may
take several days if new steel
girders must be made. The fol
lowing story was written prior
to the trouble this afternoon.
Traffic over the bridge span
ning the Roanoke River was, re
sumed early this morning with
the completion of the temporary
span constructed by the State
Highway Department.
Relations with Gaston town
ship and other points north, sev
ered for several weeks except
lor ferry connection, have been
resumed and today many cars
bearing Virginia licenses, were
seen again in the Twin Cities as
news of the bridge opening
spread.
The new span is of wood but
is of such heavy construction
that it appears to be as secure
or more so than the steel spans.
I^arge wooden piles hold it up
while the cross beams and floor
ing are of the heaviest construc
tion possible. Nothing but high
water would endanger the new
span.
It is placed here to give tem
porary relief only, while plans
are being formulated for perma
nent work on the bridge, either
at the present site or for a new
bridge at a new site. This latter
is what has been demanded by
local citizens.
A meeting with the State
Highway Commission scheduled
for yesterday was postponed on
account of the death of Mr. Wil
kerson, member of the Commis
sion from a Western district.
The meeting will be held next
Wednesday, May 28, with the lo
cal delegation to be heard soon
after lunch time, according to
information received here from
Mr. Keugler, Commissioner for
this district.
At this time, the local delega
tion will ask for a new bridge.
The County has no funds but
Federal aid has been asked for
from Senator Simmons. No an
swer has been received from him
as yet. The new bridge would be
placed up the river and would
eliminate the three small
bridges.
The alternative suggested by
Mr. Keugler is for an entire new
superstructure on the present
bridge more than doubling the
old capacity, making it a regula
tion ten ton bridge.
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Two Announce For
County Commissioner
This paper this week carries the
announcement of two men who are
running for the office of County Com
missioner of Halifax County. The
County Board is composed of five
members, the five highest in the coun
ty being elected to the Board of Com
missioners.
W. F. Joyner, present Commission
er, has announced for reelection. Mr.
Joyner has served from this section
for several months being appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by the re
signation of L. G. Shell. During his
tenure, Mr. Joyner has done every
thing in his power to represent Roa
noke Rapids township, at the same
time, safeguarding the interests of all
ether sections of the county.
Another candidate to announce for
the Board of Commissioners is Ivey
A Crawley, well known farmer and
business man of the Hollister section.
ADVISE CUT
IN COUNTY
SALARIES
League Spoils Economy
Efforts By Messing
In Politics
Beginning as a means of planning
methods of reducing taxes in Halifax
County, the Taxpayers League, which
met at Halifax Monday, was changed
to a political meeting when an
amendment to tax reduction resolu
tions was passed and a slate of offi
cers picked for certain county offices.
Politics crept into the meeting after
a committee selected by Chairman W.
T. Shaw had turned in resolutoins
recommending a twenty per cent cut
in salaries of all county officials, with
further recommendations that a com
mittee be appointed to call on all of
fice holders and candidates asking
them to sign the pledge to accept the
cut.
Before the resolutions could be vot
ed on, an amendment was proposed
by Mr. Schuyler Moss to the effect
that the League go on record as fav
oring specific men for the offices of
State Senator and Representative. Mr.
Moss proposed for the League candi
dates Mr. Fletcher Gregory, present
State Senator, for that office, and
Messrs W. R. Neville and Waldo
Whittaker for Representatives. None
of these men have yet filed for any
office, but it was reported yesterday
that Mr. Whittaker had broken up the
arrangements by filing for the office
of County Commissioner, an office
he now holds.
Both the resolutions of a cut and
the amendment was adopted by a ma
jority of those present, many not vot
ing. Messrs Liverman, Smith and
Dunn of Scotland Neck made speech
es against the resolution but made lit
tle headway.
They, With W. F. Joyner of Roa
noke Rapids, contended that a twenty
per cent cut in salaries would make
but little difference in the tax rate
and that something more drastic was
needed to make material difference in
the amount of taxes.
A later check-up showed that a cut
of every person on the payroll of the
county of twenty per cent would on
ly result in a four cent savings on
the general tax levy which was $1.45
last, year. Nevertheless, a motion was
passed near the end of the meeting
that the tax rate for the next year
be set at $1.20. This motion was made
by Mr. Neville, mentioned above. Be
sides the four cent saving, the only
additional cut of any size was in the
road building where it was recom
mended that no new roads be built
in Halifax County for a period of
two years.
Mr. Joyner was hissed when he
spoke against the resolutions and
made the statement that it was un
business like and net necessary to cut
the salaries of county officers. Ho,
however, gained the attention of the
crowd when he explained that there
were many county offices that could
Le abolished and others which could
be consolidated, thus creating real
saving and efficiency. He advocated
the County Manager form of govern
ment with all the offices under the
daily direction of one man capable
of running the business of the county.
Many in the crowd agreed with him,
but no action was taken on any of the
suggestions offered by Mr. Joyner or
others who opposed the resolutions
offered by the special committee.
A County Manager or abolition of
offices requires legislative enactment
and the major part of the League was
set on doing something right away.
It was pointed out here after the
meeting that Representative W. J.
Norwood sought to start the ball roll
ing wth real saving to the county
when he introduced a bill and had it
passed by the House abolishing the
office of County Treasurer which
pays $2,000 per year. The bill, how
ever, was killed in a Senate commit
tee. Senator Gregory, mentioned
above as a League candidate, was a
member of the Senate and. asked to
help put the bill through the Senate.
He, however, was a kinsman of the
County Treasurer, and no fight was
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CAROLINIANS—Kirow Your State!
VCOPYRICHM<>30 BY BOYCE & RANKIN
PEACH ORCHARDS
THE commercial peach belt of the State is in the “Sand Hills’*, primarily embrac
ing Richmond, Montgomery and Moore Counties. The greatest peach orchard
in the world, near Hamlet, is forty ratios squire. The trees begin bearing at the age
of four to five years and under normal conditions continue bearing for tweny years.
In the peach growing industry the {armor has to combat such insects and diseases
as the peV:h worm, the peach borer and the San Jose scale.
In 1929 there were 1,244 ear lot shipments of peaches, 2,350,000 bushels, this
being a decrease of 1,996 car lot shipments from 1926. Commercial and agricul
tural peaches of the State were valued at $2,967,000 in 1929. Peaches are usually
sold by commission houses in rcfriget&sed car load lots and are shipped to all eastern
and some European markets^
ATLANTIC
COASTAL
HIGHWAY
Annual Convention A t
Brunswick, Gn., .June
9ih and 10 th
—
On June Oth and 10th officers and
! members of the Atlantic Coaistal
| Highway Association will meet in
Brunswick, Ga., for a discussion of
plans for the coming year.
Brunswick, one of the five coastal
cities that formed the organization
in 1020, has long made a bid for a
convention date and the convention
this year will find Brunswick as host
prepared to entertain in a lavish way.
Situated about half way from Sa
vannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla.,
Eiunswiok is an important city on
the coastal highway. Its close proxi
mity to rhe bathing beaches makes i*
an attractive spot in the summer
months.
During the convention the mem
bers and their friends wi’l be enter
tained at the Oglethorpe hotel which
is the convention headquarters.
Side trips to beautiful Sea Island
Eeach for surf bathing, golf, fishing,
etc., has been arranged by the en
tertainment Committee.
The Hotel Cloister at Sea Island
Eeach and the Oglethorpe in Bruns
wick have made special rates for this
occasion.
Roanoke Rapids-Roscmary are
members of the Association and ex
pect to send a delegate to the con
vention.
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R. Leslie Towe For
Education Board
R. Leslie Towe, assistant secretary
and treasurer of the Roanoke Mills
Company, has filed for the office of
member of the County Board of Edu
cation. Roanoke Rapids Township is
[represented on this Board by T. M.
Jenkins, local merchant, who states he
will not be a candidate again. When
he ascertained that Mr. Jenkins
would not run again, Mr. Towe was
prevailed on to run for that office.
There are three members of the
County Board of Education to be
elected from the county at large. The
other two members are usually chosen,
from other sections of the county,
while one member is usually chosen to j
represent this township, due to its
population and tax paying ability. j
CONFERENCE
CHAMPIONS
WiH Be Decided Here Next
Tuesday—Kinston Decides
To Play Off Tie
After Hertford and Kinston had re- j
fused to play of? a tie with the Roa- ;
noke Rapids High School Yellowjack- i
cts in the baseball race of the North
eastern Conference, thus forfeiting
thotitle to the local team. Kinston re
tracted and decided to make a fight
for it. according to reports received
here today.
Their team will arrive here Tucs- j
day for the deciding play-off of the i
season which will give the winner un-;
disputed championship of the Confer- j
once. The game will be played at |
Rosemary Park Tuesday afternoon. I
Until yesterday, the Conference
crown rested on the heads of the Yel
lowjackets who were willing to play
cif the tie while the other two teams
seemed willing to lot the champion
ship go by the forfeit route. The
Kinston decision was received with
much joy by local fans who sense a
real game witn moon up.
The championship carries with it a
handsome trophy. Players who should
come in for praise that is deserved
are Captain Womble, pitcher, Sulli
van, catcher, Harrison and Starkes,
first base, Matthews, second base,,
| Womble, shortstop, Grant, third base,
and Johnson, Dickens, Burnette, out
fielders, and last but not least of all
the subs who are worthy of the high
est praise for sticking through the
whole season.
Only one man will be lost through
graduation, Johnson, outfileder. A
plan is now on foot to keep the team
intact throughout the season, to let
them form the fourth team in the
newly formed Textile league.
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Community Choir
To Sing for Bac
calaureate Service
The Community Choir will rehearse
next Monday night at eight o’clock
in the high school auditorium. This
organization is to sing for the Ba
calaureate service June 1st.
Two weeks ago a rehearsal was
called by Miss Mary Scales but all
the churches did not get the notice.
Each church is to send five or six
representatives from its choir for the
rehearsal Monday night. Assisting the
choir will be the high school mixed
chorus. It is hoped that each church
will participate in order that we may
have a seventy-voice choir.
TEXTILE
LEAGUE
OPENING
Bascos and Deeus Jeeps
Win Openers Last
Saturday
By Sports Editor
With a beautiful day and a large
crowd as an added initiative the
Twin City Textile League got off to
a flying start last Satuvday at Rose
mary Park. The Rosemary band was
there with their usual brand of pep
py musie, the four teams wore backed
hv inspired rooters who hotly pro
claimed to all the world at large that
their respective teams could lick an;
thing in creation, including the Ath
letics. j
The Rosemary Bascos and the Pat
terson Mill Silver Kings lined up for
the first game at 2 o’clock and from
then on it was an afternoon of good
baseball. Crowder and Langley were
the starting battery for the Silver
Kings, while Finch the ace of the I
Bascos’ hurling corps started for
them with Outland receiving. Crowd
er pitched wonderful hall for Patter
son Mill, but poor support in the lat
ter part of the game caused his down
fall, but while losing the game he
sent thirteen of the hard hitting fias
cos back to the bench via the strike
out route. Ferrell and Langley also
stood out for Pattreson. Finch start
ed in great style hut rapidly weak
ened and was relieved by Birdsong in
the sixth, from then on not a Patter
son Mill player reached first. It was
great hurling on Birdsong's part with
Outland catching a good game. Ryals
and Whitby led in Rosemary’s attack.
Crowder bit a homer for Patterson in
the third with one on.
In the second game, Roanoke, aid
ed by airtight hurling downed Camp
Store 6 to 4. This was a red hot game
from start to finish with Hugh Camp’s
P’oteges finally emerging victorious
aver the settlement which bears the
family name. Roanoke started Car
roll pitching and Fowler catching,
while Camp Store started Burnette
and Thompson. The Deepsleeps
steadily pecked away at Burnette un
lil they won the game. Hux stood out
:r. the attack on the Deepsleeps while
Crant led in the hitting for Camp
Store. The Deepsleeps presented a
fast well balanced team, with “Bull”
Durham at shortstop, standing out in
the infield, while Hux in left field is
the class of the outfield. Carroll will
probably rank as the star hurler of
the league. He is a southpaw and in
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MEMORY
CONTEST
IN MUSIC
Local School'? Finish
New Musical Contest;
29 Perfect
The first music memory contest to
be held in this city took place Thurs
day, May, 15 in the H. S. Auditorium.
At that time all who had won in the
preliminary contests in the indivi
dual rooms came together for the fin
al contest.
The contest list consisted of fifty
of the world’s most famous and best
known musical compositions. Of
those fifty, tv/enty were played in
the preliminary and thirty in the fin
al contest. The pupils were asked to
recognize and name each of the com
positions played. Some of the high
er grades were asked to name each
composition, tell its composer and his
nationality.
This contest came as a culmination
of nearly a whole year’s work. The
music memory contest has proved it
self to he an effective device for fa
milarizing children with good music
and for instilling in them a love for
tne oest Kina oi music.
Plans are already being made for
the contest in this city next year and
it is hoped that more publicity can be
given it then in order that there may
be ny>rc townspeople present.
Three types of prizes were offer
ed this year. A bronze tablet for the
building making the highest average
is to be given by the National Bureau
for Che Advancement of muafc. This
year the tablet is won by the Junior
High School building.
The room making the highest aver
age is to be allowed a one-hour holi
day at the end of this week. This
distinction goes to Miss Sarah Gur
ley’s room (7-1. Miss Ruth White,
Miss Kate Brinson and Miss Aman
da Tillman.
Everyone who made a perfect score
of 150 in the final contest is to be
given a silver perfect scode pin.
Twenty-nine " on this honor. They are
Elizabeth Lyerly, 3rd grade, Miss
White; Ethel Reaves, Juanita Un
derwood, Helen Wilkinson, 5th grade,
Miss Moore; Mabel Bvidgers, Lucille
Blanton, 5th' grade, Miss Caldwell;
Irene Dover, Evelyn Jones. Mabel
Brown, 5th grade. Miss Daniel; Edith
Morris, Annie Delfenthal, Daniel Ca
gle, Lottie Allen, 6th grade, Mis?
Brinson; Nellie Nethevcutt, Elizabeth
Allen, 6th grade. Miss Price; Ercelle
Harris, Willie Rivers Moore, Elma
Etheridge, 7-II; Irvin Dickens,, Geo.
Nehtercutt, Dorothy Rice, 7-1; Luc-ill
Ferrell, 8-III; Vernie Lyerly, Olive
4mm, Annie Marie Fisher, 8-1; An
ne McDonald, Lena Johnson, 8-II.
6000 VOTES
Roanoke Rapids Township Can
Control County—If They Will
There are 3.212 voters registered in
Roanoke Rapids precinct to date, ac
cording to J. P. Welch, local registrar.
Of this number 2,800 are old voters
rmd 412 have been registered in the
last few weeks are new voters who
have come of age or who have moved
here since the last registration.
Rosemary precinct will run about
the same which will mean that this
Township will have approximately
(>,000 qualified voters in the coming
election.
Half of the now voters registering
were women, says Mr. Welch. Any
one who has never registered and
who wishes to vote in the primary
Tune 6 must register by this Satur
day. Mr. Welch will be at the old
Methodist church on Jackson Street
all day Saturday, and Mr. Monroe
Jenkins registrar for Rosemary pre
cinct will spend the day at the Rose
mary Band Hall.
The huge registration here in this
township proved that this township
holds the balance of voting power in
the county if the voters can be pre
vailed on to join hands and support
the same candidates. Efforts are be
ing made by political enemies of the
township to split the vote here by run
ning more than one local man for
the same office.
KATZ FOUND
GUILTY BY
COURT JURY
Four Months Is Sentence
In Macon Bank En
trance Case
A Warren County jury returned a
sentence of guilty against a Halifax
man in Warren Superior Court yes
terday afternoon when D. Katz, own
r of the Done Right Shoe Shop in
Rosemary was found guilty of aiding
end abetting in the illegal entrance
of the bank at Macon in January.
A sentence of four months, the low
est. that could be given was placed
on Katz by Judge Devin. The de
fendant was recognized on his own
bond and given ten days to put his
business affairs in shape before serv
ing the sentence.
It could not be learned last night
whether motion for a new trial or an
appeal in the case would be made. In
view of the light sentence and also
due to the venue of the case, it was
the opinion that no further action
would be taken in behalf of the de
fendant.
Many from the Twin Cities attend
ed the trial which lasted all day yes
terday. Some went as character wit
nesses, while others went merely as
spectators. It seemed to be the gener
al opinion that the jury had found
Katz guilty on purely circumstantial
evidence.
While the defendant maintained his
nnocence throughout and stated he
was not in Macon on the night of the
robbery, the mai* evidef^e agaiiuflt
him was that of two men of Macon
vho saw’ the Katz car parked in. front
)i the bank with a man under thev
wheel whom they later said was Katz.
No one testified they saw the de
fendant enter the bank nor was it
brought out that anyone with him en
tered the bank. However, it was
shown that the bank had been enter
ed by somebody about the time the
Katz car was seen in front of the
bank.
Defense lawyers were A. C. Zolii
coffer of this city and Harry Smith,
famous Richmond attorney. Judge
John Carr assisted in selection of the
jury.
The two men testified they saw a
man resembling Katz, sitting in a car
which belongs to Katz, in front of the
bank at Macon on the night ii; is
charged the bank was entered.
One of the men is a salesman fcr
the Oakland-Pontiac cars at War
renton. The other works in Macon.
They were returning from an engage
ment and say they saw’ the car parked
in front of the bank. They drove up
thinking it was some of their friends
and the other car pulled away. They
followed it up the road and turned
around. They testified they were sus
picious of the actions and flashed
their lights on the car, disclosing’ the
driver alone, whom they say resem
bled Katz. One of them took down
the license number of the car.
Following the car back into Macon,
they decided to call the president of
the bank, after following the car down
the road and back. When they re
turned with the president and an of
ficer the car was gone. Investigation
showed the bank had been entered by
a rear window, flower pots on the
window’ sill being knocked off on the
floor. It is said feeble attempts had
been made to open desk drawers and
a small safe, but nothing was missing.
A call to Raleigh revealed the li
cense number belonging to Katz On
the Saturday morning following the
attempted robbery on Friday night,
Katz reported to Rosemary police that
his car had been stolen the night be
fore and returned later.
Saturday afternoon Chief Dobbins
with the two witnesses and Warren.
County officers, arrested Katz. At
the time of the arrest the two men
from Macon claimed that Katz was
the man they saw in the car.
The latter, however, insisted his in
nocence and maintained that he was
home in bed at the time the attempt
ed robbery is said to have been stag
ed. He says that it is possible that
whoever stole his car was implicated
but that he was not driving the car
between midnight and 12:30 Saturday
morning.