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VOTE SATURDAY, JUNE 7th—ELECTION DAY RSpq THE HERALD -1 ' I OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY » watch us grow .j VOLUME It__ ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 5th, 1930. ~-NUMBER 8. 38 H. S. SENIORS TO GET DIPLOMAS UBS FRIDAY NIGHT HUGE CLASS GRADUATES THIS YEAR Class Play Tonight-Fin als at School Tomor row Night Commencement exoi cises for the High School Seniors began last Sun. day morning when 2,000 people at tended the Baccalaureate Sermon at the High School auditorium, hearing Rev. D. W. Richardson of the Theo logical Semindry, Richmond, deliver a masterful sermon to thirty eight members of the class of 1930. Fifteen years a missionary in Chi na, a participant in the siege of Nan king by Chinese revolutionists in 1927, Dr. Richardson is at present l.ead df the School of Missions at the Union Theological Seminary. His ad dress held both young arid old spell bound with its beauty arid eloquence. A community choir of more than fif ty voices under the direction of Miss Scales led the singing of the vast congregation and sang “The Lost Chord.” A vocal ensemble of High School girls sang "Lift Thine Eyes, Elijah;” The Rosemary Band played the pre lude ‘Sabbath Mom* with such feel ing and skill that it is our request they will repeat the nuaAer when they broadcast tww? "JfSjJdU mond at ten o’clock Saturday morn ing. Every minister of the Twin Cities was on the stage Sunday morning, all services having been dispensed with rn favor of the Baccalaureate service. Invocation was by Rev. A. P. Mus tian of the Roanoke Rapids Baptist Church. Responsive reading was led by Rev. L. M. Hdll df the Roanoke Rapids Methodist Church, the main speaker was introduced by Rev. S. H. Bradley of the Presbyterian Church, the benediction was pi’onounced by Rev. C. T. Thrift of the Rosemary Methodist Church. Rev. J. E. Kirk of the Rosemary Baptist Church and Rev. J. N. Bynum of the Episcopal Church were on the rostrum. Announcements of other programs for this week were made by Supt. C. W. Davis. On this Tuesday night, the Music pupils of Miss Falconer gave a de lightful musical recital which was much enjoyed by a large crowd. Tonight are the Class Day exercises of the Senior Class. The playlet rep resents the Seniors hoarding the ‘Ship of Fate* in Life’s Harbor. Edwin Akers is captain, Graham Lynch is first mate, Ralph Shell, poet, Prisc c:lla Mullen, historian, Emma Mat thews, prophet, Laura Thrift and Har vey Saunders, song writers. The skit was written by Miss Priscilla Mullen and Margaret Wood. The an nual class Bonfire will burn after the ceremonies inside the auditorium. Final exercises will be held this Fri day night at the High School at 8:00 o'clock. The commencement address will be delivered by Dr. Robert Wright, president of E. C. T. C., who is aspeaker of much renown in the State. Diplomas will be presented to the Seniors by T. W. Mullen, chair man of the School Board. Miss Clara Hearne will present the Seventh Grade certificates. Music will be fur nished by the Rosemary Band, a vo cal ensemble, Mrs. W. A. China and a male quartet. The entire public is invited and urged to attend all exercises. Katz Is Paroled By The Governor D. Katz, sentenced to four months on a charge in Warren Superior Court of implication in the alleged entrance of the Macon Bank several months ago, was paroled last week by Gov ernor Gardner without having to serve **»y of his sentence. Convicted on circumstantial evi dence, Katz carried to Raleigh a pe tition signed by many citizens here »nd appeared personally before the Governor. The parole was almost im mediately granted. VACATION SCHOOL IS IN -JULY Community Bible School Two Weeks Starting July 14th Plans for the Community Bible school have been almost completed, and the ministers feel that a very fine and efficient faculty has been' arranged for. In order to get this' faculty it was necessary to shift the dates of the school from June to July. The school will open on Monday morning July 14, at nine o’clock. The daily sessions will be held in the Ju nior High School building instead of the Central and Rosemary schools, as at first announced. This change was made necessary because a great deal of repair work is being done this summer in both buildings. The school will be open to all boys and grils who have been in school this past year from the first grade thru Junior High School. No boy or girl who has not attended school the previous session will be allowed to come to the Bible School. But any boy or girl who has attended any school during the past year from the the first grade thru Junior High will be admitted. The school will be ab solutely free to every boy and girl, k^.o»oh church has mads arrange-; fySnts to shar^in tht T3of VVt' school. The faculty of the Bible school will be composed of Miss Georgia Keen, elementary superintendent of the Sunday School Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Rev. W. F. Shell who comes to us from the Duke Foundation and two workers from the Presbyterian Church. These two are Miss Beverly Neale and Miss Julia Bradley. They have been en gaged by the Home Mission office of Granville Presbytery to do Vacation Bible School work this summer and are to be here for the local school. In addition to these the local minis ters and the playground directors are expecting to help out the best they can. In addition to the Bibte school, Miss Keene and Mr. Shell are to con duct a Cokesbury training school ev-, ery other night for the two weeks they are here. Both of these are qua lified instructors, and their work should be a feature of the two week’s intensive program of religious edu cation. Every Sunday School teacher of the community should take one of the several courses that will be of fered in this school. The work will be interesting and profitable. This two week’s program promises to be the one thing that every church in the community has whole heartedly entered into. Every minis ter has pledged his church to enter in and help make it a success. We doubt if there is another community in Eastern Carolina or anywhere in North Carolina that has been able to make plans for so fine a union religious educational work and rtain ing. Sails for Europe Prof. Thoms L. Martin, local High School teacher will sail June 14 for Europe. He will visit the British Isles, France, Belgium, Holland, Swit zerland, Germany, and Italy. While in Germany he will attend the Pas sion play at Oberammageau. Prof Martin will return the middle of Au gust to this country preparatory to resuming his work here in the fall. -□- # . Girl Reserve Council Mrs. R. P. Beckwith, chairman of the Girls Reserve Council and the leaders who will carry on the sum mer work of the girl’s clubs of the Junior and Senior High Schools will meet the girls Tuesday, June 10 at 10:30 A. M. o’clock under the pines by .he High School tennis court. All Club members are urged to be on time. Grafting experiments have pro duced a tree growing six kinds of ap ples at Coalville, England. DR. LONG RESIGNS AS MAYOR Difference In Opinion With Board Concern ing: Police Dr. T. W. M. Long resigned as mayor of Roanoke Rapids at r special meeting last week and the resignation was accepted by the Town Commissioners at the regular monthly meeting this week. Difference of opinion concern ing the police force was the rea son for actions of both Mayor and Commissioners. The latter state that mer chants and citizens had com plained to them because the po lice, being deputy sheriffs, were out of town a lot and being ac tive officers they were compell ed to attend all sessions of Su perior Court as witnesses in many outside cases. The Com missioners therefore, went on record asking the officers to re sign as deputy sheriffs and con fine their work to policing in the city limits. xuayur juung uiaa^iecu wan this action and called a special meeting last week to which he sent a message asking the Com missioners to rescind the order or consider his resignation. No action was taken-on the resigna tion at that meeting. However, at the meeting Mon day afternoon, at which Dr. Long was not present, the CQjp mtssioners did not rescind their order and accepted the resigna tion elf Dr. Long with much re gret. Dr. Long said in his letter to the commissioners that he could not properly enforce the laws unless the police were deputy sheriffs with power to act out side of the city limits. The Commissioners said that in case of necessity, the Sheriff or a regular deputy could depu tize the police for special work Commissioner George Taylor acted as chairman of the meet ings, a job he has filled in the past when the mayor was ab sent. No action was taken con cerning the vacancy. LEAGUE TO MOVE TO NEW PARK By Bill Alfigood The new Simmons Field will be of ficially opened this Saturday when tie. Textile League leaves the old Rose-; mary Park for their new stamping grounds. Simmons Field is located back of Rosemary School and when finished will be one of the largest athletic fields in this part of the State. Then fences will not be up this Saturday, but when they are put up home runs will be a real feat. Part of the grandstand will be com pleted for the Sautrday games, the rest of the work awaiting completion until the following week. The dia mond is as smooth as an ocean beach pnd fast as lightning. Most of the outfield is skinned free of grass and excuses for errors will be of small avail. In the fall, the field will be used for football. The Rosemary Bascoes continued their winning ways Saturday when they took a 7 to 4 count over the Roa noke Mills Deep Sleeps. It was a hard fought game, however, from ev ery angle, with Outland Bacoe pitcher, shading Carroll, Deep Sleep star for the first five innings. He struck hot water in the fifth and Birdsong went in to relieve him. Only one Roanoker scored after Birdsong went in. In the last inning he struck out the first three men to face him on nine pitch ed balls. Carroll pitched a splendid game for Roanoke Mills but erratic support proved his downfall. The Deep Sleeps got seven hits off of Out Continued on back page) Highway Engineer* Surviving For New Bridge Location* A crew of six engineers from the State Highway De partment arrived here last Saturday and began Monday preliminary surveys for pos sible new bridge sites. The crew is under the di rection of Engineer’ Young. Their first survey is heing completed this week. It runs from a point above the Pow er Company property on the river across the new canal to an island and strikes' the high land on the other side at the John Martin farm. The road survey follows the high ground on this side com ing into the Avenue near the old canal bridge. On the oth er side the survey will carry near the old road from Camp’s Store direct to the river by the old pavillion. The engineers will also make surveys at other points including the present bridge site, with a view to estimating costs of a new bridge at the old site and raising the small er bridges and the road be tween each. They expect to complete their preliminary work some time next week, it is said, when they will return to Ra leigh to compile figures and draw plans. Ballot For June 7th — Printed below are samples of the ballots which will be placed before the voters of Halifax County on June seventh. SAMPLE BALLOT Democratic Primary Ballot for United States Senator and State Office Instructions 1. To vote for a candidate on the ballot make a cross (X) mark in the square at the left of his name. 2. Mark only with pencil or pen and ink. 3. If you tear or deface or wrong ly mark this ballot, return it to the registrar and get another. FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR Vote for One JOSIAH W. BAILEY THOMAS L. ESTEP FURNIFOLD M. SIMMONS FOR MEMBER OF CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR TERM EX PIRING DECEMBER 31, 1936. Vote for One JAMES H. HOLLOWAY GEORGE P. PELL SAMPLE BALLOT Republican Primary Ballot For United States Senator FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR Vote for One IRVIN B. TUCKER GEORGE M. PRITCHARD H. GRADY DORSETT GEORGE E. BUTLER SAMPLE BALLOT Democratic Primary Ballot For Solicitor FOR SOLICITOR Vote for One R. HUNT PARKER ERNEST TYLER Democratic Primary Ballot for House Of Representatives FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTA. TIVES Vole for Two D. MAC JOHNSON W. J. NORWOOD CLEMENT S. KITCHIN CLARENCE O. BYRD FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Vote for Five N. J. SHEPHERD J. W. WHITAKER W. F. JOYNER JNO. P. FUTRELL N. W. WARREN IVEY A. CRAWLEY FOR HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS Vote for Five J. W. HARVEY F. M. TAYLOR J. T. CHASE P. V. RANDOLPH W. L. BAILEY J. W. KING -□ Misa Patience Moore, whose en gagement was announced for the ear ly part of the summer, was guest at a shower given in her honor at Boy. kins, Va. Saturday afternoon. READY TO VOTE NEW BALLOTS Absentees Must Reauest —Voting Booths To Be Used The lists are closed, the counties know, the districts know and the State knows whose names are to ap pear on the ballots to be deposited at the polling places in the 100 counties on Saturday, June 7th. The filing period for local candidates expired on Friday the 2ftrd and the registration books closed the following day. So it is all over but the fighting with days left for that part of the "drama.” Ballots for the convenience of ab sentee ballot, but there seems to be {■mended law, be distributed in bulk indiscriminately and those who ex pect to do long distance voting this year will have to make requests in person, qr through another for bal lots and certificates. Requests for bal lots must be accompanied by a list of voters for which they are intended be fore an election official may legally comply. This makes difficult the hand ling of groups of North Carolinians temporarily stationed outside of the State, who are entitled to vote an ab sentee ballot, butthcre seems to be ro other way. Ballots for the United States Senate, Congress, judge and solicitor have been sent to all of the 100 counties by the State Board of Elections and absentee voters may provide themselves with these by ap plication to the election board chair man in the county in which they ex pect to vote. Separate boxes are to be provided for Democratic and Republican voters in all contests and the Senatorial “scrap” is the only contest in which two boxes will be required, since there is only one Republican candidate for. Corporation Commissioner with two places to b^t filled. Names of the Democratic candidates for that office are Judge George P. Bell, incumbent, and James H. Holloway and these will be placed on the ballot with Senator Simmons and Josiah William Bailev who are contending for the United States Sena tor ship. The new election law prohibits the distribution of official ballots except to electors when they start to vote, but Secretary Raymond Maxwell, of the State Board of Elections has pro vided a sufficiency of ‘sample ballots’ for the convenience of poll holders, markers and voters who prefer to do their own marking. Democratic bal lots are white; Republican tickets light blue, while the sample ballots for the Democrats are yellow and for the Republicans pink. The Democratic ballots for United States Senator have the names of Josiah William Bailey, Furnifold M. Simmons and Thomas L. Estep, while on the Re publican Senatorial ballot appears the names of Irvin B. Tucker, George M. Pritchard, H. Grady Dorsctt and George E. Butler, AURELIAN GIRL LEADS DISTRICT Miss Hannah Heptistall was declar ed winner in the Eastern district es say contest which was held in Rocky Mount Monday, June 1st, and is spon sored by the N. C. Cotton Grower’s Cooperative Association. She will rep resent this district in the State con test which will be held in Raleigh June 17. Miss Heptinstall is a Junior in the Aurelian Springs High School. To most of this children in this school district, the school is closed for a few months during the summer but it is not closed to this young lady. She is a frequent visitor to the school au ditorium to rceive training and prac tice in delivering her essay. Th school elimination contest was held Friday, April 25, the closing day for Aurelian Springs. Four contest ants, two boys and two girls, out of seventeen participants, were asked to memorize and recite their essays be fore a meeting of the student body. Miss Heptinstall was declared the winner and, being the only contest ant in the county, represented Hali fax County in the district contest. Miss Heptinstall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ;J. W. Heptinstall. Mr. Heptinstall is a successful farmer located about eight miles- from Little (Continued on back page) GRAND JURY AGAINST SALARY CUT PROPOSED BY TAXPAYERS LEAGUE PROGRAM OF' HALIFAX CO.I S. S. MEET All Day Session of Sun day Schools at Enfield Beginning at 10:30 o’clock Sunday morning. June 8, and continuing throughout the day, the Halifax Coun ty Sunday School Convention will be I held at the Methodist Episcopal j Church, Enfield, N. C. Pastors, sup erintendents, teachers and officers of all Sunday Schools of all denomina tions in the county have been invit ed to the convention. The officers in charge of arrange ments for the convention are expect ing a large attendance of workers from all parts of the county. The convention is open to the public, and all who are interested in the Sunday School whether they are actively en gaged in the work or not, are invited to attend. The convention is being held under the auspices of the Halifax County and the North Carolina Sunday School Associations, and is one of a series of such conventions that will be held in each of the 10 Ocounties of the State this year. All of the counties in the State are organized ino County Sun day School Associations and holding County and Township Conventions. The following is the program of the Halifax Convention: Marning Seaaioa 10:30—Devotional, Rev. A. M. Au man. 10:45—How to Give Missionary and Stewardship Instruction by Mr. V. C. Matthews, Littleton, N. C. 11:15—Period of Business: Report of County and Township officers; ap pointemnt of committees; record of attendance. 12:10—Offering for support of County and State Sunday School As sociations. 3 2.25—Announcements. 12:30—Adjourn. Dinner at the church. Everybody come and bring a basket. Afternoon Session 2:00—Devotional, Rev. E. Mc Whorter. 2:15—A program for Sunday School Evangelism, by Rev. L. M. Hall, Roa noke Rapids, N. C. • 2:45—Song. 2:50—Organizing and Training \ oung People for Kingdom Service, Miss Flora Davis. 3:20—Discussion of Sunday School Problems. 3:45—Business Period: Reports of Committees and election of officers; place for next meeting. 4:00—Adjourn. Night Sessoin 8:00—Devotional, Rev. H. B. Ander son. 8:15—What the adults of the Sun lay School Should Know and Do, By Mr. W. V. Woodruff, Roanoke Rapids, \\ C. 8:45—Record of attendance. An icuncements. 8:55—The Beatitudes of Leadership, Miss Flora Davis. 9:30—Adjourn. Miss Give Organ Recital Here Sunday Night On Sunday night, June 8, Miss Evangeline Pendleton, will give a special program of organ music in he Presbyterian Church. Miss Pen dleton is one of our local girls who las been off to college and made good n an outstanding manner. Altho on y a Junior next year, she will be he ranking musician at Flora Mc Donald College, Red Springs, N. C, rhis means that on all public occa sions she will be the official musici :n at either the organ or piano. The community is always interested in )ne of its local girls and the Pres byterian Church is proud of its privi ege in having her for this special service of music. Our friends are .'ordially invited to share the service vith us. -□ Dr. Haldane of Great Britain pre sets that improved sterna engines will soon be used in airplanes. WOULD DO AWAY WITH BOARDS S»vt Affair* Conducted Cheanly Under Pres ent County System The grand jury of Halifax County completed a six month’s tenure of office with a final re port handed to Judge DeVin yes terday, in which the grand jury opposed the twenty per cent re duction in all county salaries as proposed by the Tax Payer’s League and recommended doing away with various offices and boards as a means of economy. Concentration and centraliza tion of power, authority and de tail work was recommeded as the surest way to permanent economy in county government by the grand jury. The entire report on conditions in the vari ous county offices is printed be low. Superior Coart—June Term, 1930 North Carolina, Halifax County. To Hon. W. A. DeVin, Judge pre siding: we, the Grcnd Jury, respectfully report that we have acted on all bills presented to our body and returned same to the Court. We,' or a comjnitt*, have visited the jail and the fqpr road camps aiwf found same in satisfactory condition; also the County Home and Sanatorium, ard they were found to be in good condition, and we consider these in stitutions to be a credit to the Coun ty. We recommend that Supt. of the County Home keep a record of the re ceipts and expenses of the farm and that the profit and loss be shown in the annual report of the County. We have visited Register of Deeds office and the Clerk’s office and all county records appear to be nicely kept. We recommend that the Audit or check the Clerks’ office receipts monthly as he does the Register of Deeds. We do not find that the Clerk has ever kept any complete permanent record in his office of the various Trust Funds coming into his hands, and we recommend that a permanent record of all such receipts and dis bursments be kept in his office. We inspected the of ice of the Au ditor and he appears to have a very g-ood system for handling his records, but his quarters are entirely inade quate for his work. We recommend that suitable office rpace be provided by having work ing and filing lobby cut off by a counter and railing thereby making the Auditor’s working space private. This, in ail probability, concludes the six month’s period for the Grand Jury—having served three times. Each time, as with all former Grand Juries, we have made our regular re port with our recommendations. We feel sure that the foreman of none of the prior Grand Juries has ever been officially notified that any re commendations ever made were car ried out or why they were not. We recommend that a copy of the preceeding Grand Jury’s report be placed in the hand of each incoming foreman and if the previous recom mendations have not been carried out the proper authority should explain why—then, too, he would know that has been recommended. vve nave investigated as far as we ere able to do so the recent shooting Df a deaf and dumb negro on the high way. We are unable to secure any in formation leading to the guilty party. In conclusion, let us add, though it may be out of order, that we want and hope for a lower tax rate. How ever, we do not believe this will ever come about by indiscriminately cut ting every department in the County 20 per cent, but rather by taking the Budget and making a careful and thoughtful study of it to see where the tax money is spent. If this study reveals where any reduction can be made then have proper laws passed so (Continued on back iiage),