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«K>n;nEmET:-n®ni!.|!ifni*H ui!!!!!!:,!.]"!!tn!! wjs*:i!!!L"a'*mjiiiu(a*i*» BP A TB *ES8snz&n*mrBriimmasa!9Bnrmt!micaNam3BaKmam ! THE HERALD j o^sjssl | I—J—J • OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY 1_„.'N THIS TOWNSHIP...i VOLUME 16. ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 1930. NUMBER 22. SCHOOL OPENS WITH 2,000 MARK PASSED 1907 ARE ENROLLED YESTERDAY _ Heavy Registration Con tinues Today To Pass Previous Records It is a far cry from the 336 enrollment of 1910 in the Roa noke Rapids city schools to the vast throng of 1,907 children who climbed the front steps of the three big school buildings here for the first day of school yesterday morning. This figure of 1,907 was up until last night. Heavy enrollment con tinued today with Supt. C. TV. Davis looking for the 2,00 Omark to be pass ed sometime this afternoon and an all time record set by the end of the week. There are as many children en rolled in the High School today as there was enrolled at the end of the year last year. In the tenth grade, there is an enrollment of 80 which will give an idea of what a graduating class there will be if H.hat class suf fers only average depletion. Comparative figures with the same time last year show 50 more register ed in the High School and thirty more first grade pupils than had been anticipated. Last night saw 534 High School pupils and 1,373 grade pupils registered in the city schools. It was thought the opening of the 8th and 9th grades at Gaston school wiuld relieve the HigTi School situa tion here. Some twenty pupils from Northampton County who have been attending here are now attending that school, but in spite of this the High School enrollment is ahead o$ last year . Study of registration shows th^t very few families have left the com munity since last ye«r. First year pupils broke all records of the past with 230 little tots being registered Tuesday. So crowded were the first year rooms at both the Cen tral School an dthe Rosemary building that it was necessary to open primary grades in the Rosemary Band Hall. Two rooms will move the last of this week. The School Board has been debat ing for some time the advisability of constructing a new building some where in Rosemary in order to relieve the congestion in other schools .Two rooms were enlarged this summer at the Rosemary graded School build ing but this was not sufficient for the added enrollment. in lace oi ousmess conuiuuns me School Board hesitated to provide more buildings until absolutely neces sary and if the Band Hkll will care for the surplus pupils, this added ex penditure may be delyaed untli next year. To teach this great array of young sters, the number of teachers has grown from seven in 19150 to six five this year. Monday and Tuesday, special meetings were held by the teachers and Wednesday was spent mostly with getting pupils assigned to rooms, giving out book lists and •other preliminary work. Today will see classes organized and actual work beginning with lessons given out for home study tonight. State School Leader Speaks To Kiwanians A. T. Allen, State Superintendent of public instruction, was the princi pal speaker at the local Kiwanis Club last Thursday evening. Mr. Al len defended in an able speech the modem methods of education in use in North Carolina and expressed con viction that the people of the State would continue to demand the best in educational benefits for their chil dren. Today, the local Kiwanians and fa milies are the guests of the Emporia Kiwanis Club with a ball game and picnic at Slagles Lake. Gum Chapel Meeting There will be a meeting at Gum Chaple Church of God, September 14, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.m Brother B. J. Beale, the pastor, from Norfolk will be present. There will be bap tizing at 4:30 p. m. INFANT DAUGHTER DIES Margaret West, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. West, died last Thursday. Funeral services were held Friday. Tommy Jenkins Is Interviewed B y News and Observer In yesterday's News «nd Ob server appeared the following interview with Tommy Jenkins, well known Twin City merchant, who was in Raleigh on Tuesday “I think the next Legislature will be asked to nrake necessary \egal enactment to incorporate Roanoke Rapids, "Rosemary and Roanoke Junction as one commu nity,” said T. M. Jenkins, of Rose mary, who was m "Raleigh yester day. ‘‘We have -about 10,000 peo ple and there has long been a feeling that the three communi ties should be converted into a unified whole. I am practially certain Hhat 'the effort will be made with the meeting of the Legislature. It w!il be a great improvement in many ways, in my opinion.” Mr. Jenkins said that the mills at tke Twin Cities are working only part time, but mill execu tives and other business men are disposed to be optimistic and to feel that the worst of the period of financial depression is over. FOOTBALL PRACTICE STARTED Local Football Squad Work* Hard For New Coach (By Bill AlKgood) The athletic field at Roanoke Ra is a mans >>£ hard workifig'rootijall material, busi ly engaged in preparation for a hard campaign on the gridiron. Coach Hoyle, the new mentor, lias one of the most likely looking teams up at the High School that has been seen around these parts since the days of the old Yellow Jackets of no-defeated teams and the Conference champ ions. We like to sec a coach work hjn.il and this fellow Hoyle is a ball of fire. He is being assisted by Poyner, n new addition to th efacuity who has has had football experience at Caro lina. Hoyle is a former Guilford star. The boys are snapping into the game with a vigor that bodes iTI news for Yellow Jackets’ enemies this season. Among the letter irten back are Fred Mills, hard hitting fullback from last years team, Jimmy Womble,; quarterback, Captain Francis Starkest halfback, Sullivan, halfback, Clyde' Mills, all-conference tackle last year, Wilton Brown, tackle, Elmer Starkes, halfback, Mack Lynch, center, Snooks Matthews, guard, James McNeil, end, Colon Womble, halfback, Norman Speight, quarterback, Jimmy Beck with, enil, Johnny Bounds, end, Rog er Cullom, tackle and from this bunch of footbdll material Coach Hoyle should get a championship outfit. Among the new men who will prob ably give the regulars a hard fight for their positions are the following: B. Bro^vn, P. Matthew;;, Shell, G. Shell, Fanny ,Kennemur, Langster, Nethercutt, Brown, W. Dickens, Kitchen, Elmore, Cannon, Moore, Ed mondson, Murray. Among the new boys who are showing up especially good are Flossie €hell at tackle and Fanny at guard, utlso Yates at half and Butler Brows at halfback. -Q-— mansiaugmer is Charge Against Death Car Driver It may be that William Wood is not the right name. Coroner Billy Wil liams notified officers in Pennsyl vania he was holding a man by that name and gave a description. The answer was that they knew no man of that name but a picture was re quested. Wood is the name given by the driv er of the death car which overturned at the bad curve entering Halifax on Sunday before last, when Samuel Re talic, escaped convict from Mt. Cara mel, Pa., was crushed to death. The car had been stolen from a Hopewell, Va., man who came after his car this week. Wood is in jail at Halifax charged with manslaughter. He admits being an ex-convict and claims to be a Chi cago gangster. NEW H.S. COACH I Guilford College. Sept. 11.—Cran ford Hoyle, former Quaker Captain, who will be 'head coach at Roanoke Rapids High School chis season is one of €he best football players ever turn ed <out here at Guilford. Last year he helped Coach Ander-' scai, former Roanoke Rapids mentor, with his squad which won the Little Six championship of the State. Hoyle’s specialty was with the line but at one time he took one whole team in charge and did some good work with the backs as well. This summer the new Roanoke Ra pids coach attended the coaching school at South Bend, Ind., under Knute Rockne and Pop Warner. He with two other Guilford men, and three members of the Carolina coach ing staff were the only North Caro linians present. With an even break from Lady Luck and given fair material, Hoyle will keep the Roanoke Rapids athletic teams in the limelight of the North eastern Conference for the season. Three former Roanoke Rapids High School players are among the candi dates for the Guilford College eleven this fall. Two of the men are from the freshman class. Dennis Johnson, last year a star at fullback for the Quakers is back and set fo ra great season. He is in good shape and Coach Anderson is placing much dependence on his hav ing another great season. Glenn Gurley and Ikey Johnson are the new members of the squad. Gur ley is one of the best prospects for a guard position. He is fast and seems to be in good condition and will doubtless see plenty of playing before the close of the season. Johnson is an understudy for the center position and is looking better than his other freshman rivals for this honor. He will be ready to re | place Cannon .regular pivot man, in several games this year. COUNTY TEACHERS MEETING i Rural Teachers Meet At Halifax Three Days Last Week The Halifax Cunty Rural Teacher’s conference was held at Halifax Sep tember 3, 4 and 5. The program for the conference was aranged by A. E. Akers, county superintendent and Miss Annie Cherry, county supervisor.; The topics for Wednesday were i as follows: Setting Up Worthy Ob-: jectives for Year’s Work. Classroom | Instruction in Relation to All Round Development of the Child and Orga nization of Halifax County N. C. E A. Meeting of Principals. The topics for Thursday were Child Development in Relation to Health Behavior of Pupils and Creative Power Through the New Edlucation. Dr. A. T. Allen, State Superintend ent of Public Instruction made an ad dress Thursday afternoon iFriday Dr. Ernest A. Branch made a talk on the Important Health Factor of the Rural Child, and Mr. L. C Brogden wad a speech on Citizenship! Trail ing Friday night the P. T. A *f Hali fax entertained the visiting teach ers with games and stunts at the Graded School Refreshments were served by the members of the P.T.A. Aureli&n Springs Man Dies at Local Hospital Thomas W. Stansbury, 54, well known citizen of the Aurellan Springs section, died at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital last Saturday. He was brought here two days before and died suddenly. Funeral service was conducted by the Reverend Watson »f Halifax with burial Monday at the family cemetery. A wife and two children survive, MATERIAL PRICE FOR DAMASKED Local Company Gets Query But No Idea of Starting Date Dam talk was resumed here this veek with the report that the Stone tnd Webster Construction Company vas asking for prices on material. One local concern, which handles certain materials that may be bought through a company they represent, is in receipt of a letter from that com pany asking for quotations, freight rates, etc. as of January^, 1931. From this ,it is assumed that Stone and Webster Co. will not start ope ration before that date, but assuredly in the year 1931. It was pointed out here that two things must be completed before any work can start. 1. The permit must bo granted by the Federal Power Commission. 2. A spur track must be built from the main line of the Sea board to the dam sites to haul ma terial and machinery. To date, th epermit has not been granted nor do local Seaboard offici al.-, have any instructions concerning the building of the spur tracks. The query concerning the cost of material is the first concrete move since the preliminary work was com pleted here at the dam sites several months ago. Since that time rumors have flown thick and fast but at no time have officials of the Power Com pany or of the construction company given out any official stai'ting date. President Holtzclaw of the Virgin ia Electric and Power Co., in an in terview with Richmond papers a few months ago, did state that the build ing of the dams here were in the pro gram of expansion, gave cost figures, etc. but did not name t!he time of beginning *he work. BLDG. AND LOAN ELECT OFFICERS W. L. Manning Succeeds J. A. Moore as Presi dent Association The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Roanoke Rapids Build ing and Loan Association was held Tuesday night at the rjfcw offices of the Association on Second Street and W. L. Manning was elected Pres ident to succeed J. A. Moore. J. W. Taylor, and R. L. Towe were chosen as vice presidents; J. R. Man ning, secretary; F. J. Hawley assist ant secretary. Directors elected for the next year were Messrs J .R. Allsbrook, L. S. Cannon, W. F. Joyner, W. L. Man ning, A. N. Martin, C. E. Matthews, R. Hun tParlrer, C. T. Johnson, S. T. Peace, J. C. Smith, A. L. Taylor, H. W. Taylor, J. “W. Taylor, R. L. Towe, F. C Williams, G. N. Taylor and T. M. Jenkrns. Secretary J R. Maiming read the annual report of the Association •which was received very favorably and accepted. The report showed that the Association had grown during the past year m spite of -so-called hard times. The Association has tottft assets of $259,000 and is earning six and one quarter per cent, -vtb'ich .earnings are realized by all stockholders on ma turity of their stock. Many homes and -several business houses were Financed by the Associa tion during the year. Sale of the 33rd series Of stock opened last Saturday and officials re port a splendid respoanm. Big Contract Awarded Fayetteville.—The Highland Lum ber Company of Fayetteville has been awarded the contract to furnish some ?5 carloads of lumber for the erec tion of 54 officers’ quarters at Fort Bragg, work on which will begin in about a week. -□ Five Libraries at Duke Durham. — Duke University will lave five libraries this fall, four in : addition to the central library, to serve special departments, the law school, school of religion, school of nedicine and woman’s college library. -□ Mrs. T. R. Manning and her house ruest .Mrs. Eley of Suffolk, Va., spent fuesday in Chapel Hill and Durham. WELCOME TO TEACHERS On behalf of the citizens, the children, the mills, and the business and professional men af Roanoke Rapids and Rose mary, this newspaper takes pleasure in welcoming back the teachers of the Roanoke Rapids City Schools. What we may lack in many things, this community makes lip in one of the most modem ind efficient school systems in :he State of North Carolina .We are proud of our schools and their records. With more than 60 teachers and more than 2,000 pupils, the Roanoke Rapids city schools boast the largest enrollment, the Iinest teaching staff and the largest High School in this sec tion of the State. We feel that a community which does so much for its chil dren is a worthwhile communi ty. We know the day will come when these children will pay us big dividends in the form of bet ter prepared, happier, well in formed and ambitious citizens. The great responsibility is upon the shoulders of you teach ers and to you will be the credit. As this school year opens, the citizens of this community re new their pledge of support that this may be the most successful year in our school history. SON OF JAILER IS HURT Claims Blame When Lo cal Car Hits His Motorcycle George Austin Hux, 15 years of age of Halifax ,son of G. A. Hux, jailer of Halifax County, had a narrow es cape from death Monday, when his motorcycle collided with an automo bile driven by Sam Young,, of Roa noke Rapids. The accident occurred about 8:10 o'clock Monday morning a short distance from Halifax. Young Hux received a serious in jury to his left leg. He was brought to the Roanoke Rapids hospital by Mr. Young and his leg was placed in a cast. His injury was described at the hospital as a compound fracture. According to the details of the ac cident, both the automobile and the motorcycle A#ere traveling in the same direction, the latter machine being several feet down the road in front of the automobile. Young Hux stopped his motorcycle at the side of the road to discharge a passenger, Jonas Battle, colored, who was rid ing on the rear of the machine. The motorcycle driver then cut across the road in his attempt to turn around and was struck by Mr. Young’s car. Mr. Young jumped from his auto mobile and ran t-> the injured boy, who made the statement that he though the was killed but that Mr. Young was not responsible for the ac cident. The boy was then placed in the automobile and brought to the hospital. Other statements made by the boy later have also absolved Mi-. Young of all blame for the accident. _m_ TEXTILE INDUSTRY STRONGER ______ ■. Experts Claim Up-Swing Phase of Cycle Has Begun Charlotte, Sept. 9.—Several Char lotte bankers have joined with the cotton manufacturers^ of this city in. declaring that ‘the textile industry has entered an the mp-swing phase of the current -economic cycle after a slump in prices and production continuing over a period of almost eighteen months. While none of the bankers discuss ing this situation would speak for di rect quotation, one of them said “the bottom had been reached and the foundation now is bare and steaidy. If there is *ny further change it ap parently mast he for the better.” Aside frtrr. expressions of opinion, the cotton tnanufacturers are pleased by recent fairly strong currents to ward advanoes in prices of textile products and an increase in the prices of print clot'h>, it wav reported. Numerous cotton manufacturers, including Stuart W. Oramer, of this :ity, nationally known authority on ;his industry, predicted as early as August 1 that September would wing a definite improvement in the utton goods market. David Clark, mother of the city’s students of tex tile conditions, was quoted yesterday is declaring an early winter is in wospect and the cold weather will wing a tremendous increase in retail ‘ales and wholesale purchases of cot on textile products. During the nontH of August sales of cotton cloth by mills were of sufficient volume, combined with a continua ion of the severe curtailment of pro luction to make a further substan ;ial reduction in stocks in the mill’s warehouses. 1000 HOURS FOR ANDY G Local Tree Sitter Reaches the One Thousand Hour Mark Tomorrow Morning At 10:30 o’clock this Friday morn ing, Andy Gump, local tree sitter, will have been sitting in his big tree ixactly one thousand hours. He ascended to his lofty perch at 5:30 p. m. on the first day of Au gust and will end his sixth week in :he air at that hour tomorrow after noon with a total of 1,008 hours. Andy seems to have gotten his sec ond wind and his color is much bet ter than it was two weeks ago. So far as is known he has shown no signs of weakening and intends to sit on until he has set a mark that will be most difficult to pass There is some debate about what th erecord is and this argument will probably not be cleared up for sev eral months as there is no official checking bureau nor have all claims been given widespread publicity Richmond’s champion sitter came down the first of this week with a total of 85'J hours and was claiming a world’s record. This young man had not heard of the Norfolk boy who is near the thousand mark nor John ny Fry of Houston, Texas, who lias an official record of of Andy Gump who now has 1,000 hours. We are safe in predicting that less than a half dozen have reached the thousand hour goal and from now on it’s anybody’s race with the best sitter winning. CIVIL TERM OF COURT Superior Court To Start Sept. 29th For Two Weeks Civil Term Halifax Superior Court will con vene on Monday, September 29, for two weeks of civil court . Jurors for the first week cf court are J. W. Brown, R. T. Mountford, L. R. Hux, W. B. Lawson, C. G. Mat thews, J. C. Odell, Baldy Green, Er nest Roberson, Willie Keel, P. T. Tay lor, Ralph Whitehead, F. B .Cook, J. A. Pittard, Frank Hardy, T. C. Wil liams, J. W. Bullock, G. S. Alston, lulian Acree. Jurors for the second week begin ning October 6 are H. F. Bryant, C. E. Baird, S. L .Green, Paul Cherry, W. W. Hawkins, Jr., J. T. Mizzeil, J. R- Burton, C. N. Andrews, W. D. Bhearin, J B. Edwards, Jr.f M. D. Overstreet, I. D. Wood, J .P. Chiches ter, R. W. Lucas, G .C. Grizzard, G. 8 Alston, Jr., G. L. Hyman, J. E. Buck. _n_ Local Womans Club ’ Sponsors Carolina Made Products Week The local Womans Club, with their program for the year devoted to five at-home subjects, are sponsoring a movement here to stress made-in Carolina products during the week of September 22nd. Home loyalty, traSing with home town merchants, using Carolina-made merchandise wherever possible will be the themes of window displays and other forms of spreading propoganda by the Womans Club. The club plans to call on the mer chants and ask their cooperation in the matter of special window dress ing for the week of September 22nd I and it is also planned by the women to have a couple of windows in each end of town which they will fill with Carolina-made products. They also plan several prize contests in con nection with the movement, details of which will be announced in The Her ald next week . -° Miss Cecilia Curran was a week end visitor at Washington, N. CJ-, re turning here Monday. WORK ON BRIDGE DELAYED Few Days Late iVi Start ing Awaiting High way Release No definite date has been set for work to begin on the proposed new bridge to span the Roanoke river here, connecting Halifax and North ampton Counties, it was learned this afternoon from D. V. Ross, field sup erintendent for Austin Brothers Bridge Co., of Atlanta, Ga., the firm awarded the contract for building the new bridge. It is thought, however, that the construction work will begin within the next few days. The contractors are now waiting permission from the North Carolina Highway Commission to start. The main hold-up seems to be that two rights-of-way were not propesiy advertised when the contract was let, and this oversight on the part of the authorities who had charge of awarding the contract for the new bridge has caused the work to be de layed. The rights-of-way should have been advertised thirty days prior to the date the work on the bridge be gins, it is understood. Members of the Board of Commissioners of both Halifax and Northampton Counties have written letters to the State Highway Commission, at Raleigh, with regard to the matter. Mr. Ross is in Roanoke Rapids this week and will be here the greater part of next week attneding to prelimi nary arrangements before actual work begins on the new structure. L. H. Brown will be superintendent of the job here. Mr. koss sxaxea xms aiternoon xnax the construction work will give em ployment to approximately 50 per sons, 90 per cent to be local labor. About 30 persons will be required to start the work off, employment to be given to others as the work progress es. Machinery and supplies to be used on the new bridge are expected to be n arriving within the next few days. The construction company has secur ed permission to use the railroad sid ing at the Roanoke Mill No. 1. The new bridge here will be 1250 feet long. One hundred and seventy one working days will be required to complete the project. The bridge at Madison, N. C., now under construction, is being built by the Austin Brothers Bridge Co. The bridge, it is understood, will be com pleted in about six months. -n New Garbo Talkie Gets Big Hand The combination of Greta Garbo a? star and Clarence Brown as di rector seems to be one of the few on the screen endowed with the ability to satisfy box office requirements without sacrificing artistic stand ards. In providing the Swedish actress with the Edward Shelton play for her second dialog appearance, Metro Goldwyn-Mayer did so advisedly since it serves as an abrupt about-face from the drabness of “Anna Christie*'* and restores Miss Garbo to the gja... morous type of role for which js so famous. Now that it is «6 longer a novelty to hear the star’s volfce, her pro ficiency as an actress becomes all the more marked, particularly in the intensely dramatic scenes in which &he sends her clergyman lover back to his church in the knowledge that she would be an obstacle in the path of his career. , Garbo as an opera priniadonna in the charming period costumes of the New York of 1865 looks more fasci na'tmg than ever while the back ground presents picturesque scenes of aristocratic Washington Square ’and the homes of the “four hundred.” A spectacular setting is that of the reproduction of the city’s old aca demy of music where the second act of the opera Martha is presented. A splendid cast supports the star including Lewis Stone who gives a compelling portrait as the man who has always been in love with the opera star; Gavin Gordon, as the im petous clergyman whose frustrated romance forms til ecentral theme; El liott Nugent, Florence Lake, Clara Blandick, Henry Armetta, Mathilde Comont and Countess Nin ade Liguo ro. “Romance” is one of those pic tures which people will go to see two or three times. It shows at the Peo pies Theatre Monday and Tuesday September 15 and 16. Gladys Stetabur* has return Bd from a visit to Washington, D. C.
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