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i.THE HERALD .... —J OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY 1....» TH!SI°'vNSHIIL. VOLUME 16. ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY. N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17th. 1930. NUMBER 14. LOCAL MAN TO TEACH AT ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY DR. JOB TAYLOR Accepts Chair of Philo sophy at Virginia Beach School Dr. Job Taylor, of Roanoke Rapids, prominent educator, lec turer and author, has accepted the post of professor of philoso phy and director of research at the Atlantic University, to be opened at Virginia Beach, Va„ next fall, of which Dr. William Moseley Brown, recent candidate for the Governorship of Vir ginia, will be president. Dr. Tay lor will begin his work at the new university some time in September. Dr. Taylor is a graduate of Lima College, Wooster University and Harvard. He holds degrees of bache lor of arts, bachelor of science, master cf arts and doctor of philosophy. His early endeavors as a professor of philosophy brought him into pro iiiiucm.c us uu tuui'diur aiiu uxiurtT. Demands for his lectures became so great that he was obliged to give up college work for the lecture platform and further study. This move carried him into nearly every important coun try in the world, where he studied philosophy at its original source. Dr Taylor is an author of note, hav ing published two books and many shrot stories. During the time he was writing, he also became interested in business enterprises and was success ful from the start. He is credited! with the development of chemical1 pulp paper from southern pine. In ac cepting the position at Atlantic Uni versity, Dr. Taylor is doing so a^ a considerable financial sacrifice, mak ing education of young men para mount in his scheme of life. Dr. Taylor has been a resident of Roanoke Rapids for the past 18 years. In 1912 he came from Norwich, Conn., to Roanoke Rapids, where he inspect ed the Roanoke Fibre Board Company, to see whether or not the business could be placed on a paying basis. At the end of his first y«nr of operating the local paper mill, it was leased by the Beaver Board Company, and Dr. Taylor became president and gener il manager oi the Halifax Paper Corpo ration, retiring about five years agi. In Norwich, Conn., Dr. Taylor was operating a paper manufacturing plant that handled between 15 and 2ft carloads of raw and finished pro ducts per day. WOMAN IS FOUND IN BED DEAD Rosemary Woman Died During Night-Discov ered Next Morning When Mrs. James Adams, 810 Hen ry Street, called Mrs. Bertie Finch for breakfast yesterday morning, tnere was no answer and the look on Mrs. Finchs' face was so peculiar it frightened Mrs. Adams. She called her husband who was working in the garden and owovert-J the wo man was dead. Mrs. Finch was a relative by mar riage and had been visting with the Adams family for several day;?. She was sleeping on a cot in the dining ft* m. Tuesday night she was appar *'i»fiy in perfect health and sewel until life on a new dress. Relativ e tuy she had complained for some time of a shortness of breath, which at times was more ag gravated than at others. Dr. Weath ers was called and he summoned Cor oner Williams. The verdict of doctor and coroner was the woman had probably died in i her sleep from heart failure. She was forty years old. There were no signs of foul play or suicide. She was the wife of Grover V. Finch and two chldren, ages 13 and 15, survive. The body is still being held at the funeral parlors awaiting funeral arrangements. -□ After the death of Mrs. Mary Tor rens, an aged recluse of Glasgow $10, 000 was found hidden in her teapot. . Paul Lesseur, a crippled porter saved thirty guests from death at a hote^ fire in Nancy, France. JR. LEGION TEAM BEATS G O LDSBORO Playoff for East State Pennant Will be Held At Rocky Mount The Junior baseball team of the American Legion pott won the hearts of baseball fans here and wiped out a part of the stig ma of recent defeat by winning from Goldsboro here Wednesday afternoon 3 to 1 in one of the 1 eatest games played this sea son. The game was close from start to finish. It was practically errorless and had all the thrills of exceptional pitching, double plays and timely hit ting of a big leaguer. Dick Lee, easy going pitcher of the local team, was the outstanding star of the game, holding Goldsboro to three scattered hits, one run, and then winning his own game With a sizzling double in the fourth inning when the bases were loaded, scoring three runs. Lee was given wonder ful backing by the balance of the team and only once did Goldsboro threaten the two run lead which the Juniors held for the last five in rings. Little Dickens, pint size second baseman of the locals, was the field ing star, handling several hot ones, figuring in a double play and ending the game with a nice catch to retire Goldsboro in the first half of the ninth. li. whs h mum uiueicui ivumh^ hiiu playing team from the one which played at Goldsboro on Monday, get ting only four hits, going.- wrltf" v/un errors in a couple of innings, losing the game 6 to 0. Each team now having won one game, the tie will be played off on neutral territory at Rocky Mount this Friday. A big crowd of local root ers who enjoyed the Wednesday game plans to be on hand at Rocky Mount to help the home town boys across the top. This game will decide the cham pionship of Eastern North Carolina in the American Legion baseball tour nament now raging over the entire country. The winner of this game will meet the Western North Carolina champs for the State banner and the State champs will then start the hard grind against other State teams in this section of the country. By a pro cess of elimination in sections, the champions of the United States will be determined in the Junior World Series this fall with the winners go ing to the regular World Series as the guests of the major leagues. _■ Cooper, Fay Wray Lovers In Second Outdoor Thriller Five hundred dollars is what the Llano Kid is worth to the people of Texas back in 1885, dead or alive. He’s alive at the People Theatre and he’s worth a whole lot more than that in entertainment. There ai*e more thrills with Gary Cooper, as The Lelano Kid, in “The Texan,” than there was even in the great Western outdoor spectacle romance “The Vir ginian.” And that’s saying a lot. “The Texan” which shows at the Peoples Theatre Friday and Saturday, July 25-26, is Paramount’s compani on picture to “The Virginian.” Again Cooper brings to life the spirit of the plainsmen pioneers, this time in a tremendous action drama which takes him from the rolling plains of Texas to the impressive pampas of South A merica. Fay Wray is the girl who captures Cooper’s heart in this strange love story. Cooper, a Texas badman, en ters into a pact to pose as the long lost son of a wealthy South American woman. At the sumptous hacienda, he wins the heart of the woman’s love ly niece, and is accepted as the son of the house. His new interests awaken his better instincts, and he fighst to escape hte hfefarious bargain. J-— T. Norman Jones, vice president of the Virginia Electric and Power Co., Richmond, was a business visitor here today. A ring lost by his wife in 1918 was found when Conrad Schwarts of Hess villa, Ind., plowed his orchard. COLONEL PATRICK FERGUSON’S “<1ra]'E, KINGS MOUNTAIN " ON October 7, 1780, American forces, about 1000 in number, under the leadership of Colonel Campbell, surrounded Kings Mountain where Colonel Ferguson had posted A thousand men. Ferguson had boasted he was king of the mountain and not even the Almighty could drive him from it. Before sundown Ferguson and 119 of bis men were •lain, 123 wounded and 664 taken as prisoners. All British arms and supplies were captured. The American loss was 28 killed and 62 wounded. The victory was the turning point of the American Revolution. The 150th anniversary of the Battle will be celebrated on ti;c bAltlcgrcund in York County, South Carolina, on October 7, 1930, with President Hoover os the guest of honor and the principal speaker. (Actual fighting took place on South Carolina soil.) The cut above shows the grave of Colonel Fcrgu«on, brave leader cf the British forces in the Battle. This cairn, perhaps a uniqu«* one in Amcricn, has been built by t thousands of people. Each visitor to the battleground, following an old custom, casts a ' **one <u* the pile until it has grown to the proportions showe. in the above picture. __ POLICE TO STAY HERE SAYS BOARD Final Action Taken In Regard To Deputy Work by Police A call meeting of the Town Board was held Tuesday after noon of this week and a motion was passed by unanimous vote deciding not to reinstate Chief Gray as a deputy sheriff in Northampton County but sug gesting that L. E. Keeter be ap pointed as deputy sheriff with the privilege of deputizing Chief Gray for work across the river in cases of emergency. It will be recalled that a petition v as placed before the Board at the last meeting by citizens of Gaston township asking the Board to recon sider its previous action in recalling the city police from deputy sheriff service. Acting Mayor, George N. Taylor presided at the meeting and the elec ting of a new mayor to fill the vacan cy left by the resignation of Mayor Long was passed over until the next regular meeting. Commissioners P. C. Williams, C. E. Matthews, M. H. Collier and T. J. St. Sing, with Clerk A. L. Clark were present. The motion relating to the police situation was made by P. C. Williams and seconded by C. E. Matthews. It read as follows: “After due consid eration of the matter of continuing the service of the Chief of Police of Roanoke Rapids as Deputy Sheriff of Gaston Township, the Board of Com missioners has decided that said ser vices will not be reinstated and that a letter be written by the Secretary t othe Board of Commissioners of Northampton County suggesting that they employ and have L. E. Keeter pppointed as deputy sheriff in Gaston township, Northampton County and that this Board is willing, in case of an emergency, for its Chief of Police to be deputized by L. E. Keeter to as sist in making an arrest and let him use the jail; provided however that said Chief of Police is not deputized too frequently and that the Commis sioners of Northampton County pay the salary of the Chief of Police for the months of April and May, which they agreed to pay and which is now in arrears.” Basil Glover appeared before the Board representing the Fire Depart ment and asked for a pumper for the fire truck. He read a letter from the Mayor of Scotland Neck telling of the efficient work done by a similar pump in the recent fire which de stroyed part of the 5 story building of the Columbian Peanut Co. The cost of the pump is approximately $800. As the addition of the pumper would not decrease the fire inaur SUPERIOR COURT 11TH Jury List For Two Weeks Court At Halifax Starting August Util -, Aa- - Superior Court will convene at Ha lifax on Monday, August 11, for two weelcs. Jurors for the first week are: Paul Hale, J. L. Lane, W. W. Wayne, W. T. Shaw, L. T. Ham ill, I. F. Harrison, J. H. Best, J. C. Manning, E. L. De Berry, J. H. Cuthrell, H. M. Neville, John Barnes, E. S. Ward, A. W. Oakes Jr., Ralph Bradley, W. T. Pridgen, «T. T. Garner, J. R. Rives, Howard I’ruden, J. W. Smoot, Richard E. Brickell, N. S. Barnes, H. T. Smith, E. H. Smith, P. W. Ray, J. A. Warren, Charlie Ellington, R. E. Merritt, Hugh Bloomer, Otto Meyer, W. J. Collins, J. A. Lipscomb, J. H. Saunders, B. C. Cook, S. B. Jones, A. C. Nichols, J. W. Ross, D. W. Wheeler, E. B. Col lier, W. E. Andleton, V. I. Hockaday, M. E. Cousins, Jr., B. S. Webb( J. W. Britton, Henry Lee, E. E. Lehman, P. F. Harris, N. W. Browning, W. C. Dickens. Jurors for the second week, starting August 18, are M. H. Mitchell, W. J. Ausborn, Edwin Partin, C. L. Kelly, T. S. Pettitt, W. C. Goodrich, T. D. Lawrence, R .H. Goodman, L. T. King, D. E. White, M. N. Newsome, J. B. ZoTlkoffer, Ellis Farber,, Claude N. Powell, J. R. King, W. A. House, T. M. Bullock, A. J. Sasser, W. B. Bak er, C. M. Dickens, N. W. Cousins, W. G. Maes, W. .Seifert, W. C* Wood, B. G. Rodwell, R. H. Neville, W. H. Wilcox, J. E. Parks, E. B. Pair, W. O. Iddins. Remodeling Building On Second Street Here A building owned by the National Loan and Insurance Cou, on Second Street is being remodeled by contrac tor J. R. Myrick. The building will be used as temporary offices for the Insurance Co., and the Roanoke Ra pids Buliding and I^oan Association. A new front, new floor, new plumb ing and heating fixtures are being installed. The work will be completed about the first of August. The office now used by the company is to be used by the Power Company for ad ditional spaee. ance rates, the Board decided to wait until later and put the money in on a standard 750 gallon pumper and La France truck, which with a full time man, would change the Gity rating to second class and bring a decrease in the fire insurance rates sufficient to make the truck1 almost self support ing over a period of years. It was pointed out that a consolida tion with Rosemary was only a mat ter of months off and the fire in surance rates of the whole communi ty could be decreased at the same time with the proper equipment in stalled. EPILEPTIC DROWNED AT THELMA Negro Boy Has Fit While Fugling and Falls Into River Evidently attacked with an epilep tic fit, Jim Austin, Jr., 20 year old Negro, fishing alone on the banks of the Roanoke River near Thelma, fell into the river and was drowned last Thursday. The body was not found until Fri day morning. The boy left home on Thursday saying he was going fish ing. Whne he failed to return Thurs day night a search was made. He was tracked to the river and signs show ed where he had f'shed in several spots for a mile or so. Then a place was found whc.e he appeared to scuffle and slip. Altho the bank was not steep, this marked the spot where he fell into the water. There were no signs of any other per son. The searchers could see an object which looked like a body about 50 feet from shore. They reported to Mr. House, who called for Coroner Williams. L. H. Taylor and a Negro man waded out to the object and dis covered it was the missing boy. Tie mg a rope around the body it was towed up the river to a waiting wag on. Examination showed no marks or bruises which might have meant foul play. The body was resting on a small sand bar which kept it from drifting down the river. The boy had been subject to epilep tic fits, according to the family. His t ight hand was paralyzed and he was unable to do heavy work, spending most of his time fishing. His father is a tenant on the farm of Harvey My rick near Thelma. -□ Sam Taylor Victim Of Railroad Crash On Friday afternoon word was re ceived here of the untimely death of Mr. Sam Taylor in the Seaboard wreck which occurred near Peters burg, Va. Following the wreck Mr. raylor was removed to a hospital in Petersburg but died several hours later. The body was sent to Littleton : «:d interment was made in the Lit tleton cemetery, following the ser vices which were conducted by Rev. /. H. Grantham from the Mehtodist Church, on Sunday afternoon. About twelve years ago Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Dona Belvridge *nd he leaves his wife, three child ren, Macy, Marie, and S^m, Jr., also bis mother, Mrs. Sallie Taylor a brother, Mr. Tom Roger Taylor of Rosemary and the following sisters, N'rs. Josie Smith, Mrs. Raleigh Top ping, Mrs. Ruby Williams also of Rosemary, and one sister, Mrs. Susie Baird of near Gasburg, Va. MAY CUT COUNTY TAX RATE TO $1.25 SCHOOL HASj 267 PUPILS Daily Vacation Bible School Starts Monday With Good Attendance With all the Twin City churches represented in enrollment and on the leaching staff, the Daily Vacation tible School began active work Mon day with an attendance of 193. On Tuesday the attendance was 221 and on Wednesday it had jumped to 246. The total registration is 267. The school is in session from 9 to 12 each morning this week and next. The morning is divided into the fol lowing periods: worship, Bible drill, Bible story, missionary story, recre ation, handwork and music. The playground directors of the two city playgrounds have taken charge of the recreation period and have been very helpful in assisting with other work also. R. G. Knight has charge of the handwork for the boys and this work has proven most interesting to the boys. The Primary Department is under i he supervision of Miss Georgia Keene of the Methodist Board. Misses Bev erly Neale and Julia Bradley have charge of the Junior Department, while Mrs. L. M. Hall and Mr. Shell supervise the work of the Intermedi ate Department. Visitors will be welcomed any morn ing but are asked to come after 10:30 if possible. There is a wonderful spir it of cooperation between the churches with all of them represented in the enrollment and with the ministers teaching. A full list of teachers and helpers will be published next week with announcements of the Com mencement exercises. \GENTSAYS DUST NOW Weevil Increasing Fast and Ar senate Dusting: Is Compulsory By W. O. Davis, County Agent Weevil infestation has increased so rapidly in the past week that farmers are advised to make preparations at cnce to dust their cotton with dry calcium arsenate. Last week we ad vised mopping with molasses and picking up squares through July, but on account of the extremely heavy in festation we are now advising our farmers to leave off other control methods and depend only on calcium arsenate dust. Many farmers have the idea that the cost of dusting is so great that they cannot dust. Calcium arsenate is selling for 7 to 8 cents per pound and it requires five pounds each or 25 pounds per acre per year. This will cost $1.75 per acre. Actual field records show that with mule drawn machinery one man can dust an aver age of 4 acres per hour with a labor cost of 25c per acre per year. If an $80 machine which will dust 40 acres lasts four years we have a cost per acre of 50c per acre per year including dust, labor and machinery of $2.50. Another thing to be figured when calculating the cost of dusting the plantation is to figure what it will cost you if you don’t dust. If you decide to dust and want any information as to the size machinery suitable for your careage, its cost and where to get it and how to use • t call your county agent. -n Hold Funeral Rites For James Clifton On Saturday afternoon, at three o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Mary Clifton, South Rosemary, funeral ser vices were conducted by Rev. V. IT. Grantham for her son, Mr. James Clifton. Mr. Clifton was formerly em ployed in Detroit, Mich. About a year ago he returned here and had been a patient at tile County sanatorium since then. He was 26 years old. He leaves besides his mother, two sisters and two brothers, Miss Carrie Clifton, Mrs. Sara Barnett, Thomas Clifton all of South Rosemary, and Lee Clifton of - Portsmouth, Va. In terment teas made in Cedarwood ce metery following the services at the home. Miss Ethel Stone, nurse in a large hospital in London has been dis charged for getting her hair bobbed. BUDGET FIGURES CHANGED Many Departments Will Be Crippled To Get Tax Cut Making drastic cuts in the •ounty budget as presented by •ounty departments, the County [iorad of Commissioners met at Halifax in special session Mon lay and a new low tax rate will :ie worked out for the coming rear which will be at least $1.25 vith a chance of dropping one or two cents below that figure. According to the 1930-1931 budget, :he new tav rate would have been ?1.41 which is one cent higher than ast year. If the revised budget fig ures are worked out and accepted, it will mean a drop in the levy of at least sixteen cents, giving Halifax County one of the lowest tax rates in the state. At the time the Commissioners were slashing money from the vari ous departments, the Taxpayers Lea gue, formed in the interest of ob taining lower rates, was meeting at the Courthouse. Resolutions were passed pleading with the county offi cials to lower the taxes by any legal ond reasonable means. The Board ap peared at the meeting and heard the pleas of the League. It was pointed out by members of the Board that should the new low tax levy be adopted, it would be at the expense of any expansion work in any county department. i ne county itoaa j? una win De one rf the hardest hit. In the first bud get figures, this fund was cut so that the levy was five cents less than last year. This will be cut still more with the result that there will be absolute ly no new road work and even main tenance will have to suffer. The same will be true of the County School fund. With the enrollment and attendance increasing every year, v ith the amount of Stat efunds re ceived depending on these, more funds are actually needed to care for the education of the children of the county. Instead, there will possibly be a decrease in the amount to be had, which means curtailment of growth and poorer facilities for those who attend. The decrease in taxes will also call for some salary cuts up and down the line which will bring about a saving in the General County Fund as well as the other funds. But roads and schools will suffer most and the ci tizens of the county are urged by members of the Board of Commis sioners to withold any criticism in the next two years of these two de partments which will be operating un der greater restrictions than for the past ten years. under existing plans for cutting the tax levy, these two departments will be given money enough to keep skele ton organizations working and they will not be able to accomplish the work which has been possible in re cent years. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” said Commissioner W. F. Joy ner. “If the people of Halifax Coun ty sincerely want tax reduction they must be ready to sacrifice in order to get it. Criticism must be met with the argument that it was done to low er taxes. If the people can’t stand the economy and pinching which must be forthcoming during the next year by the county in order to lower the levy, then the Board of Commissioners has no alternative but to raise the taxes the following year to give the people what they demand.” Under Wrong Impress ion As To Fishing Law Some people are under tiie impress ion that women can fish without a license hot t>:» is wrong. The Anglers Act, passed by the 1929 Legislature says that ALL per sons under 16 years of age must have a State License to fish in the waters of North Carolina with hook ar.d line or rod and reel, except in their resident counties. This is -cer tainly plain and you will govern your selves accordingly, says J. H.. Barn say, Game Warden for Northampton County.