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! offering a Thorough Coverage J “ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL » wvvwwvwwwwvvwwww| of (he Greater Roanoke Rapids | M | A s*^ ^ W | Eastern Carolina’s Class A | IC| I Iml I IIC |4 WJ il KJ I I 1L III I B | Weekly NEWSpaper. “The Pa- ! 1 W/lll ^ Jy|j l^#l^ ^ j ^^ .j -j--ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, July 2nd, 1931. NUMBER 12. __UP ANU uuwim -- THE AVENUE _WITH THE EDITOR There were between 500 and 600 voters at that city convention Monday night. There’s some real interest for you. Every voter who attended should be congratulated for taking that much interest in the affairs of his city. Last time at the convention there were not more than 50 present and that was considered a big crowd and was mostly recruited from those who just happened to be down town at the time. Mark up another victory for or ganization. After all, that was exact ly what got out the big crowd at the convention. If that group of men had not worked for two or three days be fore, the crowd would not have been half as large. And chalk up still an • other victory when they were able to nominate a group of men such as were non inated up there. This organization has been able to succeed because of the simple and wholesome reason that it is on the light side. As long as it backs pro per issues and good men, it will con tinue to succeed in anything it un dertakes ( because it will possess that which is necessary: the confidence if the people. When it ceases to he nil that which it should be, this news paper will be among the first to de nounce it. One man put it plainly: it is not a question of leading the people or pushing them or driving them. It is simply that they want to be shown. We agree heartily with his language Show the people the right way and they will continue to follow that way of their own accord. It is natural that the great majori ty of the people do not have the time in icani uu mere is to Know aDOUt public questions. Not having the tinte they do not have the interest. This organization has simply found out the right information for them and told them the truth. There would never be much trouble with the peo ple if they were not misinformed. One man who opposed city exten sion calls this organization Tam many. He was joking like he meant it Well, there is very little similari ty in this unnamed organization of curs and Tammany. We are proud of one similarity: Loyalty. We don't mean 100 per cent. There are in ev ery group a few don’t seem to ever get the idea. But we speak of most of them. You could not have any or ganization worthwhile, church, school, club, party, business or government, unless it had that requisite, Loyalty. Those units succeed in proportion to the degree of loyalty of its members. Roanoke Mills Co. No. 1 and No. 2 and Patterson Mills Co. have been k cldsed this week during inventory time. They will resume operation on Monday and everybody will be glad. ^°u miss those early morning whis t,es and the hum of machinery and that payroll which is so essential to the success of our city. That big vote on the 23rd attract ed plbnfy otf attention. Congress man John Carr happened in here the next day and again promised us a Federal building. He left a note for Alfred Martin who was away saying he was going to g«t us that building. We told Alfred t o file that note mvay with his other valuable papers, j _ And next day, Lt. Governor Dick fountain rolled into town for a few minutes visit. Tell you me, we are getting important. Of course, Dick !s a candidate for Governor. He was ln a hot spot most of the time as presiding officer of the Senate and |’e saw Qnce Qr twjce when we elieve he would rather have been anywhere else than in that chair. His vmit was very short but he got in (mte a few good political licks. Was P eased with the idea of the new city. Peaking of names, we have one | 'n the city who has a King for I * ather. He works in the design- j Z r°?m of the Rosemary Mfg Co., naer 'Commish” Ned Manning. The J"g of Bavaria was his Godfather, th »°Ung man was a*80 named for * .mperor of Austria and another °f royalty- His name is Luit-1 beSJlanZ Joseph Fer<*inand Mehler, known as Louie. His hobby is ens the feathered variety. —*—- * 8pent Sund»y ' " DEMOCRATS NOMINATE OFFICIALS GREATER ROANOKE RAPIDS JUBILEE IN HONOR OF THE NEW CITY OF 10,060 PEOPLE ALL ROADS TAKEN OVER BY STATE Care and Cost of Every Road in State Is Assumed Yesterday GOV’S. STATEMENT (Special To The Herald) The following statement was issued ' hy Governor O. Max Gardner the first | »*f this week. On July 1 will take place an un precedented event in North Carolina, that date the state for the first time in history and the first State in the United States, will take over from the counties the job of maintenance end construction of every mile of public road and every bridge in North Carolina and will assume the respon sibility of paying the cost of this tremendous job. The state will also take over around four thousand county convicts and relieve the counties of the burden of their support and maintenance. On July 1 all of the chaingangs and prisoners in jail servine more than sixty day sentences will cease to be fed and clothed and supported by the counties. The state will serve over twelve thousand additional meals, of a uniform balanced food content, on july 1. From that date the county commis sioners are prohibited from levying a cent of tax to support the mainte nance and construction of roads in North Carolina. The State appropri ates a minimum of $6,000,000 to coun ty roads, to be derived from the pro ceeds of two rents of the present six rent gasoline tax. This automatically lifts from the land and property of the State an ad valorem tax of $6, 000,000, now levied for roads. Three million of this will be new money, and three millions comes from the State aid created by the 1929 General As sembly and largely used by the coun ties for debt service. On July 1 the county commission ers of the one hundred counties, or a total of more than five hundred men, will turn over to a commission of seven men composing the State High way Commission the combined re sponsibilities of their duties. The State Highway Department is (Continued on back page) Coach Welch’s Outfit To Meet Slagles 4th The Roanoke Rapids All-Stars will play Slagles Lake in Simmons Park on the morning of the 4th of July r.nd will meet the same outfit over at Slagles Lake in the afternoon. The morning game will start at 10:30 and the afternoon affair at 3:30 p. m. Roth games will be close and hard fought as there is an intense rivalry between the two teams. Hospital Ruling At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Roanoke Rapids Hospital, it was decided that no chil dren under 16 years of age will be permitted to visit the hospital unless accompanied by some older person re sponsible for their conduct, except by special permission of the superin tendent. Sentence Loyd Williams Loyd Williams was sentenced to six months on the roade o n a Uqnor selling charge in Recordens Court Tuesday. The arrest was made by deputy sheriff House and officers Dobbins and Green. Williams was operating Lakeside Inn and was ope rator of the Fairway until that place burned down. Robert Daughtry spent the week end in Burgaw. Will Rogers Picks A Story For This Spot Bj WILL ROGERS 'I'HERE was a kind and an inno cent guy arrested not Ion* ago for getting into a fight with a street car conductor. Be had Ut the conductor when the conductor sassed him, and it seems like that was against the law. although there wasn’t any law against the gassing of the passenger. So they had him dragged up m police court. The judge kinda sympathized with this poor fellow, and he says, “Well, yon look like a decent citizen. Have you ever been in trouble before?" “Yes," says the citizen. “Well, that's different What kinda trouble, if I may nmfa* bo bold?” “Oh, all kinds, judge. You aee I have a mother-in-law and I been in plenty trouble since I got her, but that ain't nothin' to what there will be when she hears about this." (American Nwi Wmtmm. Zncj j TO CHANOF. DEPOTNAME Work has been started on getting the name of the depot changed from Roanoke Junction to Roanoke Rapids. The Kiwanis Club at its meeting last Thursday passed resolutions request ing the Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. to make the change. The resolutions were sent to Agent E. W. Eubank who forwarded them to Chief Agent F. H. Smith at Nor folk with the following letter: Subject: Changing Roanoke Junction Station to Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Roanoke Junction, N. C. June 30, 1931 Mr. F. H. Smith, C. A. Norfolk, Va. Pear Sir: Please note attached resolutions from the Kiwanis Club, Roanoke Ra pids, N. C., requesting that Roanoke Junction N. C. be changed to Roa noke Rapids, N. C. You already have a file on this and / sincerely hope that this will be done as soon as possible. Please let me hear from you so I may keep the folks advised. Yours truly, E. W. EUBANK, Agent. CCY: Mr. C. L. Wilson, Pres. Kiwanis Club, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. This acknowledges your letter June 27th. I feel sure that our people will do this without delay. CCY: Mr. L. T. Foster, Sup’t. Raleigh, N. C. Petition Mailed Petitions bearing more than 2,000 names of users of the two postoffices went forward this week to the First Assistant Postmaster General ask ing for a consolidation of postoffices and the service which would b e forthcoming from such a move. Also with the petitions went a re solution from the Kiwanis Club ask ing for consolidation. Betty Stephenson Dies Miss Betty Florence Stephenson, age 26, died Saturday at the Halifax Sanitorium. Funeral services were held Sunday at Pleasant Grove Church, near Jackson. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Stephenson. Three sisters and two brothers survive: Mrs. John King, Mary and Fanny Stephenson and Mil ton and Loyd Stephenson. Mrs. C. M. Pitt and daughter, Miss Iva Pitt, returned Wednesday from Greensboro, where Miss Iva Pitt has accepted a position on the faculty of the City Schools for the coming year. Albert Ritchie, World’s Foremost Superman, Managing Big Event For Last of July Albert Ritchie, better known as Tex because of the State of his birth, un til twelve years ago a resident of Concord, said yesterday he expects I over twenty thousand people here | during the three night Jubilee he is promoting with the cooperation of the local business men, the latter part of July, Every store and firm participating in this event will be known by the ; official velcome placed in their win dows; the streets will be decorated from the river to the railroad and strings of lights will be on the entire route; fireworks of the aerial type will be each night; there will be two orchestras down town and up town that will furnish the music; two street dances to be given; bathing beauty contest; style revue; aside from the feat> that Mr. Ritc.ie will do. It is planned to erect a large re-, viewing stand that will accomodate | some ;i,000 people with notables from far and near. There will be two street parades, one a novelty when Albert Ritchie will pull s i x railway express trucks loaded with some 200 girls, by his neck from low er. town to uptown, -me otner pa lade will be a representation of busi ness concerns of a paegant style. Here is Strong Man Ritchie’s Daily Dozen: Swings twenty men on his neck, dances with an even dozen girls on his shoulders, tug-o-war against any fifty men, makes macaroni out of gas pipes, toothpicks out of planks, does the man-that-grows stunt, and pulls two hundred pretty girls thru the streets by his neck, and many oth er feats in store for all who come to the new city of Roanoke Rapids for the big three night Jubilee the last of this month. Look for the Booster Edition with full information of events and re member its all free on the streets as a rare treat to the many thousands of visitors and their friends from the merchants and manufacturing in terests of the city. DEDICATE CHURCH The Right Reverend William J. Hafey, Bishop of Raleigh, will of ficiate at the dedication ceremonies attending the opening of the beauti ful new St. John’s Catholic Chapel, corner o f Hamilton and Ninth Streets next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. After the dedication service proper, the Litany of the Saints will be re cited, followed by High Mass, sung by Father John Manley, who former ly labored in this territory. The ser mon will be preached by Father Stephen Sweeney, of the Passionist Order, who at one time was in this vicinity in connection with the Chapel Car of the Catholic Church Exten sion Society. Father McCourt, the Rector of the new church, further announced that everybody is cordially invited to be present at the exercises next Sunday Car Theft on Avenue The 1928 Chevrolet coach of 0. L. Smith, driven by Basil Glover, was stolen from in front of the Candy Kitchen Monday night. Mr. Glover had been to the Democratic conven tion and parked his car to go to the theatre. When he came out the car was gone and no trace of it has been found. Legion To Elect Damask Post of the American Le gion will meet Tuesday night at the hand hall on Eleventh St. Strong Man Ritchie, Legion member, veteran of several wars and campaigns, will be on the program. Election of officers will be held and all members are urged to be present. Hera’s What They Are Saying About THE NEW ROANOKE RAPIDS News Is Flashed Over Country “What d‘ya mean, Rosemary, Mis ter, theres’ no such town as that on my route.” And that is what M .J. Bishop, driver of the Norfolk to Dur ham bus tellg many patrons daily, though of course, he is always care ful to explain that the reason “there ain't no Rosemary” is because it is all Roanoke Rapids now. Bus travel from Norfolk has in creased daily since the new buses were put on over the L. E. Gresham bus lines a few months ago, con necting the Virginia metropolis with Durham, via. Roanoke Rapids and W eldon. Bishop, who is a Virginian, but vho takes a great interest in Roa noke Rapids, because he says it is one of the liveliest towns on his route and because he always does a good business out of here, says that his company a t least officially recog nizes the new “City of Roanoke Ra pids.” The Seaboard may still call it “the junction;” Western Union may recognize it by the name of Rosemary but the Gresham Bus Lines sell tick ets only to Roanoke Rapids, and he is quick to tell patrons on his bus about the town getting together on “incor poration”—and what a livelly place it is. R. B. Purdy, manager of the East ern Carolina Service Corporation has Ueceived the following letter from the Greensboro office of his company. The letter was signed by C. L. StaS ford and follows: My dear Purdy:— It looks like you have been keeping some good news from me. .x uni uengntea to note from a re cent newspaper article that the voters of the towns Rosemary-Roanoke Ra pids, Roanoke Junction and Patter son recently decided by a majority of around 2,000 votes to merge into a promising and flourishing city. This is certainly a sensible move and a central government will function and build a community that you will be proud of. I want to offer my con g^tulations. The following is clipped from the Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie, and The Jackson News: Following several years’ agitation during which time the rest of the East has looked on with some degree of amazement at the delay in accom plishment of what seemed to out siders should have been done long ago Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids, the twin industrial towns of this section, have voted to consolidate and become one town. The following news story in Wednesday’s News and Observer tells of the successful vote Tuesday and of plans in the making for the future government and growth of the i.ew Roanoke Rapids. I The following editorial appeared in today’s Raleigh News and Observ er. A NEW CITY BORN North Carolina now has no twin city since the progressive burgs of Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary were united in the holy bonds of wedlock. The new city of Roanoke Rapids, with magnificent and prosperous mills and more than ten thousand inhabitants, begins its life with every prospect of continued p-rnwth Congratulations to Mayor Jenkins and his ten thousand constituents. BOXING SHOW SUCCESS LOCAL BOYS WIN BOUTS JUNE BRIDES KING-McDONALD Mies Marguerite MacDonald and Mr. Malvern King were quietly mar ried Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Baptist Parsonage at Weldon, Rev. R. M Fountain, pastor of the church officiating The bride was becomingly attired j in a navy blue ensemble with beige accessories. The only attendant of' the bride was her sister, Miss Louise! MacDonald. The groom had as his I best man, Mr. David Moody of Wei-! don, N. C. Immediately after the ceremony the i bride and groom left for a trip thru the Valley of Virginia and to Wash-( ington, D. C. They will make their home in Roanoke Rapids. Mrs. King is a graduate of the Roa noke Rapids Hospital Training School class of ’30, and made her home with her parents at Enfield, N. C., before comihg to Roanoke Rapids. The groom is a young business man of Weldon. SUITER-MAY The announcement of the marriage of Miss Kathleen May and Mr. Joe Suiter at Richmond, Va., Thursday, June 25th, came as a great surprise to the many friends of Miss May here Mrs. Suiter is the popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. May of Roa noke Rapids, is a graduate of the Roanoke Rapids High School and of St. Luke’s Hospital Ratichmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Suiter will continue tc make their home in Richmond. 1 J0YNER-J0NE8 Miss Eva Starke Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Jones and Ed ward Joyner of this city were quietly married in Emporia Sunday morning with only a few intimate friends and lelatives present. The young couple will make their home in this city, where their many friends wish them much happiness. Mr. and Mrs. D. L .Balmer and daughter, Mildred and Miss Blanche Norwood are spending some time with Mrs. Balmer’s parents in Fitz hugh, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ingram and Mrs. .Toe Williams spent Sunday at Vir ginia Beach. The first indoor boxing show put on by the Boy Scouts of America, Troop One and Two was a big success. A large crowd thronged to Simmons Gymnasium to witness the local boys Put up good scraps. It was a typical fight crowd and they showed their approval of the fights by keeping up a continued uproar. Marion Saunders who had charge of the stable of box ers from the city of Suffolk, had several neat fighters on his part of the card and had one wrestler who was a big favorite with the crowd and should be a good drawing card on future bouts staged here. Saun ders is a local boy and was only too willing to bring his fighters down for the Scout benefit. “Beef" Hoggard, local grunt and growl artist proved his mettle in the opening wrestling match when h e downed “Turk” Nelms from Suffolk in twenty minutes of hard struggling. Hoggard threw his man with a half Nelson and arm lock. Turk put up a good scrap but did not make a hit with the crowd on account of his con tinual growling about Hoggard’s weight. “Beef” had him outweighed about six pounds and Nelms tried to make as if it was a thousand. Young Freddie Mills, who holds the claim of being Eastern High School champion in the 135 pound class, fought a fast three round draw with Battling Shaw of Suffolk. It was a hard clean fight, with neither fighter having an- advantage and ended with the last round being a series of heavy mix-ups in the ropes. Henry Love of Roanoke Rapids and Kid Bryant of Suffolk put up a won-| derful scrap until the third when' Bryant crossed over with a right and! bounced Love off the canvas for the count. Love put up a nice scrap, how ever and if he had been in condition would have given the Kid all he was looking for. This bout put Suffolk ahead in the boxing with one draw and one win. The third fight of the evening was the semi-final between Juddy John son of Suffolk and Scrapper Outland <f Roanoke Rapids. Taking this all the way around it was the best bout of the evening with Outland fighting one of the best scraps of his career. He continually jabbed Johnson’s head back with a left that was as quick as lightning, and before the first round ended had the Suffolk boy’s face looking like a cut of steak. (Continued on back page) CHOOSE JENKINS AS MAYOR Largest Convention I n History Meets at High School Monday Night ELECTION TUESDAY Between 500 and 600 voters of the~ Democratic party met at the Roanoke Rapids High School Monday night in the largest city convention in his tory and nominated officers to be placed on the ballot for the city elec tion July 7th. Kelly Jenkins, young attorney, waa nominated for the office of Mayor and elected by acclamation when no other candidates were placed before the convention. He was nominated by George N. Taylor, present Mayor. For the three year term for Com missioner from the North Ward, J. T. Chase placed before the conven tion the name of the present Mayor, Mr. Taylor, telling of Mr. Taylor's experience and particularly of his in terest in the Fire Department. Mr. Taylor was placed on the ticket with out opposition. F. C. Williams, superintendent of Roanoke Mills Co. and Patterson Mills Co., was nominated by unani mous vote for the two year term from the North Ward, J. M. Taylor placing his name before the convention. M. D. Collier, grocer, was nominat ed without opposition for the one year term, his nomination being made bv Julian R. Allsbrook. Alfred N. Martin was chosen to head the Democratic ticket in the South Ward for the three year term, being nominated by T. W. Mullen. Mr. Martin is president of the Rosemary Merchants Association and has been identified with all civic movements for the past ten years. He is resign ing from his post on the City School Board in order to accept the new of fice. Ned Manning was selected as the two year Commissioner from the South Ward, being nominated by W. C. Allsbrook. Mr. Manning, chief designer of the Rosemary Mfg. Co., is a popular young leader who was drafted for the office against his will but who expects now to give it the same interest he has shown in every other civic enterprise. T. M. Jenkins, merchant, was nomi nated for the one year term from the South Ward by L. G. Shell and Mr. Jenkins was elected b y unanimous vote. R. I. Starke and L. G. Shell were placed before the convention as can didates but both men were present and asked that their names be with drawn. This was done and perfect harmony prevailed thruout the meet ing. Dr. Tom Long was elected perma nent chairman of the convention and acted with his usual executive abililty. A. L. Clark was elected secretary of the convention. The new Democratic City Execu tive committee for the next two years will be T. W. Mullen, A. C. Zollicof fer, A. L Clark, Dr John Martin and Kelly Jenkins. City Election The final election will be held Tues day, July 7th, for city officials. The entire Democratic ticket appears on the ballots which are being printed today. There were no Republican candi dates nor independent candidates to be placed on the ballots. There are instructions for writing in the names of any candidates by the individual voter and space for so doing on the ballots. The polls will be open from sunrise to sunset on Tuesday and the same election officers will hold as in the extension election. Very little opposition to the Demo cratic ticket is expected although all voters are urged to cast their votes. Mrs. Caroline Hedgepeth is spend ing some time in Hopewell with her daughter, Mrs. Ed. Gray. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McAllister, Mrs. C. L. Massey, and little son, Clifton, Jr., are spending several days in the Western part of the State. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hodges and children spent Sunday at Ebony, Va.