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cirrzrzri * ,>all for one and one for all” E=ri ROANOKE RAPIDS IALD VOLUME 17. ‘ ——: ---— - --------ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1931. NUMBER 17. __UP AND DOWN THE AVENUE _— WITH THE EDITOR Seems like we are haring lots at (ires lately. Two since Inst week. The Fire Department beys will be getting plenty of training. We stood on the front porch a la pajamas at three o’clock Tuesday morning waiting for the truck t o pass. Theres' always a feeling of dread until the actual place of the (ire is known. We hit the porch be fore the siren had quit blowing. Six ty seconds later we heard padding steps. A volunteer fireman was rac ing toward the Avenue to catch the truck. Not always pleasant to b e snatched out of sound sleep at 3 a. m. especially when you get nothing for it. But the boys do it with a will. it was quite an honor for our city as well as for the man himself, when the directors of the Virginia Electric and Power Co., made Mr. Chase a rice president last week. He richly deserves the promotion. If public utilities had more men like Mr. Chase in their employ, they would be held in higher esteem by the gen eral public. Mr. Chase is able to feel the average man’s ideas and reactions. nere is one qucsviuu we wouiu line answered. Why shouldn’t every cst owner be required to carry liability insurance? Suppose your car is in a wreck and both cars are damaged. You carry insurance which protects !\e other fellow. He does not carry any and you are compelled to pay your own damages. In addition to paying your insurance premium. Where is the justice in that? The All-Stars will have to go some lo best that gaaw the youngsters staged hepe last Saturday. That game had all the thrills of a World aeries game and the fans are still talking about it. If you missed it, you missed the best game of the sea son. Building Inspector Henry Fitts went down to Raleigh this week to talk to State authorities about some of his problems. They told him the best way to keep undesirables out of a residential section which was not in a fire zone was to get the assistance of owners of vacant property in the area in question. That is what Hen ry must do here in some cases. If owners of vacant property wan such tenants there is nothing he can do, unless the neighbors who must live nearby declare them a public nuisance If you don’t believe the City Fath ers have plenty of work to do, sit in on one of their busy sessions. And at that, most of the actual work is done by committees prior to the meeting. Three good men were chosen for the Sanitary Board. J. T. Chase, who is an engineer by training and experi ence; Hugh Camp, who knows more about mechanics than a cook knows about soup, and gets a bigger kick out of a technical and mechanical problem than most of us would out of s legacy; and Jim Taylor, who is just naturally good at anything he attempts. You can bank on these three men to put us in a sanitary aystem that will be second to none and will cost us not one penny more than we should pay. Speaking of sanitation reminds us tkat Doe Long came here many years •go as a young medic just beginning to know his pUls. The day he arrived k»e. the senior doctor left on a va cation and left also, 44 typhoid fever cases for young Doc Long. Nowadays, two eases is considered an epidemic •ad three is a catastrophe. Remember when the lights went off for a time during the electrical storm Tuesday night. Lightning played ha voc with motors, transformers, lines and poles. Then the lights came on. That was “juice” from Norfolk or Ra leigh or some other distant point connected by the new transmission lines to Roanoke Rapids. And all night long, while the rest of us slept, fvery Power Co. man was on the job ■n plant or on the road. A storm like that costs the Power Co. thousands of dollars and plenty of lost sleep. Local baseball fans an h o t a* Yesterday they paid good *«■ of the realm to aae Slagles and i • N»vy Yards play. It started rain »f tod the game was called off Mr. ™«le could not bo found. Irate ,*“• •■sag thorn Col lias pitta and J" Thomason, called at the bouse '•r their money hack ac raha checks, "are told tha mansy was neodod to J?*o vfoRing team, gat as rale LOCAL JUNIORS WIN STATE TITLE Road Delegation MakesProgress MAY GET FEDERAL STANDING State Backing Will A i d In Retaining The Federal Detig. nation IMPROVE AVENUE Partial success crowned the efforts of a small but determined committee from here which appeared before the State Highway Commission at itjs regular monthly meeting in Raleigh yesterday in regard to Federal High way 17-1. After hearing the story from spokesmen of the local committee and quizzing several members, the Com mission finally passed a resolution ad dressed to the National Association of State Highway Departments ask ing that the road thru Roanoke Ra pids be retained as part of the Fed eral system, with either it or the Garysburg road having alternate Fed eral numbers and to so be shown on all maps. mis was as iar as tne state de partment could go officially, the ac tual designation of Federal High ways being in the hands of the Fed eral government. This was as much as the committee from here asked them for. The local men were receiv ed cordially and shown every cour tesy by the new Highway Board. N. L. Stedman, Halifax citizen, who was appointed by the Governor as the board member from this section of the State, was especially nice to the delegation and made the motion which was passed. At various points in the meeting, he pointed out salient points of local importance to the oth er members of the Board. It was also Mr. Stedman who won another point for Roanoke Rapids when he told the Commission he was deeply interested in our desire to have the heavily traveled Avenue from the railroad to the canal re paired. He had been asked to recom mend a concrete strip, two feet wide on each side of the present road, and the reworking of the macadam. This would make the road four feet wider and provide protection to the shoul ders, as well as make maintenance on the mid part of the road much easier. Other memers of the board express, ed their approval of this plan and it was placed on his records by Chair man Jeffress. After the session, Mr. Stedman assured individual members of the local committee that he would see that the Avenue was taken care of in this manner at the earliest pos sible date. There was much doubt on the part of many here as to chances at all of getting back 17-1 or any Federal des ignation. A large group had set themselves to be content with 481, the new State markings of the road from the railroad to Pleasant Hill with no future chance of a concrete or high type surface. That chance is enhanced if a road be a Federal High way. A member of the Commission 'raised the question that if the Com mission went on record as favoring this road as a Federal Highway af ter ihat designator, had keen taken from it by Federal autho •Kirs, the Commission would be sitting a pre cedent which might lead them into much future trouble. This was seized upon by o i r spokesmen as one of the best talking points for reinstating the Roanoko Rapids road as a Federal Highway. For in changing that route, there was being set up a precedent which would cause untold confusion in every State. The point was agreed on by the Com mission. TTiis was just one step in the fight, which must be carried to Washington, •gnd the outcome is still uncertain, but certainly prospects are a little brighter than they were 24 hours ago. Those in the delegation were W. F. Joyner, County Commissioner from this township; Geo. N. Taylor, chair chairman of the Roanoke Rapids Boar dof Commissioners from this tovnahlp, <kom N. Taylor, chair Summary of Uniform Annual County Budget for the Fiscal Year 1931-32 _ COUNTY 6f HALIFAX. NORTH CAROLINA Total Budget „ 7. ~ . _ ~ " Requirements Eatlmate of Re" Estimated Amt- Estimated Valu- Proposed Rate County Wide b Year Ending venue 0ther Than Tax Levy ation year Year Ending 1990.11 ___ 6-30-32 Taxes 1931-1932 1931-1932 June 30, 1932 6 County General Fund- —$ 86,704.28 _$31,204.28 _$ 66,600.00 $37,000,000.00_$ 0.15_$ 0.12 County Home and Outside Poor- — 25,694.00 _ 7,194.00 _ 18,500.00 _ 0.05_ 0. 3i/2 Bond Interest Redemption and Sinking Fund-1|4<7,617.60_ 6,000.00 _ 142,617.60 _ 0.38_ 0.23 General County Schools (Budget Estimated- — 98,358.68 _ 1,530.47 _ 96,828.21 _ 0.27_ 0.53 General County Roads__ 0 33^ TOTAL COUNTY PURPOSES- __ $358,374,56 _$44,928.75 —$313,445.81 $37,000,000.00 _$ 0.85_$ 1.25 , ^*e a*uVe0eutln?a^e3j un<* sta.tements represent the “Budget Estimate” as submitted to the Board of County Commissioners, . aS the bchool Budget, which is estimated on such information as is available at this time. The above Budget is subject to revision by the Board. Published in compliance with County Fiscal Control Act, Public Laws 1927. This 4th day of August, 1931._C, S. VINSON, County Accountant._ POLICE FORCE IS CHOSEN Extra Meeting Is Called Next Week to Continue Work MAKING UP BUDGET The new Mayor and City Commis sioners took the oath of office and held their first official meeting this] Tuesday afternoon in a session which lasted the entire afternoon and was continued until an extended meeting set for next week. The entire board was present and took the oath to well and truly per form the duties of their office after which they plunged into a session of work which aeemed to grow by leaps and bounds as the meeting progress ed. Mayor Kelly Jenkins presided at his first meeting and Commissioners F. C. Williams, George N. Taylor, M. D. Collier, Alfred N. Martin, Ned Manning and T. M. Jenkins were kept busy for more than three hours try ing to map out a definite program for the city administration. The longest discussion which came < near the end of the meeting, con cerned the much mooted police ques tion. The desk was piled high with applications for the police offices, with the office of Chief as the fa vorite. This question of a chief was decided first and the decision made was that no chief would be appointed for the present, the Mayor acting as head of the police force with full au thority to reprimand, to designate duties and fire, if necessary. The question of four or five police was discussed at length. There were those who felt, in the interest of eco nomy, and looking to a difficult task on budgeting and keeping expenses and tax rate low, that four police could handle the work. The majori ty finally decided that temporarily five men were needed, until the situ ation was better in hand. Two of the police would be on day duty and three on duty at night. While defi nite territory was undesignated, it was the Understanding that a day and a night officer would have a beat in each end of the city, with the third night officer covering the residential section of the city at large. Coopera tion between the police at all times will be demanded in the interest of the entire city. The police force appointed consists of Clifton Massey and H. E. Dob bins, day police, Jeff Welch, Calrl Green and Paul Lewter, night police. The salaries of all police jobs were cat and the two day police will re ceive the same salary while the three night police will receive, the same (Continued on back page) man of the Roanoke Rapids Board of Commissioners, Alfred N. Martin, president of the Merchants Associa tion, and Oarrol) Wilson, Kiwanis president Relative Visits Kin Here in Aeroplane Mr. and Mrs. W. A. China had quite an interesting experience Wed nesday around noon when their brother-in-law, Lieut Floyd B. Wood, from Middletown, Pa., flew over in an aeroplane, circled around their home near Camp’s Store and dropped a note, flying low enough to be easily recognized. He was on his way to Fort Bragg. Lieat. Wood was a re cent visitor in the home of Mr. and Mrs. China. ESCAPED CONVICT DROWNED Body Discovered in Riv er Friday Believed That of Pen dergraph ANOTHER MISSING Following escape from State Pris on Farm in Halifax County Monday, July 27th of Edward House and Le Roy Pendergraph, 27-year old white inmates, a search was started that ended in grim tragedy when the body of an unidentified white man, be lieved to be Pendegraph, clad in a striped uniform was found on the banks of the Roanoke River about 7 miles from Scotland Neck. After the prisoners had taken /‘French Leave" they were trailed some distance down the river. Clues suddenly ended however, and the chase had been abandoned on this basis. Last Friday afternoon, a Negro in vestigating a stolen rowboat belong ing to his employer, found the body of a white man who had been drown ed and washed upon the banks by the stream, and reported same to t h e sheriff. Coroner W. C. Williams immedi ately visited the scene. Identifica tion of the body was impossible be cause of the mutilated condition, how ever, the fact that the man was clad in “stripes" and that the two fugi tives were known to be in the section pointed to the fact that it must be one of them. As it was known that House lived only 15 miles from the place where the body was found, it was first thought that it was he whose body was found. His relatives were visit ed but claimed that they had not seen him. When told it was thought he had been drowned, although exceedingly remorseful, the parents told Coronei Williams to dispose of the body the best way he saw fit as they had nc funds to care for his burial Before burial, however, a close check-up of the physique of the bod] and the record of the two men on file at the prison farm was made, end ing in establishing that body foum was that of Pendergraph instead o: House. Further belilef in this wi (Continued on back page) CHASE, CAMP, TAYLOR These Men Will Have Charge of Installation of Water and Sewerage CHOSEN MONDAY J. T. Chase, Hugh D. Camp and T. W. Taylor were appointed mem bers of the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District Board by the County Board of Commissioners Monday. The names of these three men were presented to the County Board by W. F. Joyner, commissioner from this township, and they were elected with out opposition. The Sanitary District, which is a plan that was adopted at the same time the incorporation plan was be gun, is for the installation of water and sewerage in this community. The district as formed includes the new incorporated area and also includes all the mill plants on the river and in the community. The new Board will have charge of the building, maintenance and opera tion of a suitable system, designed by sanitary engineers and approved by the State Board of Health, to give this community from the river to the railroad ample and satisfactory water supply and sewerage disposal. The city of almost ten thousand de pends at present on deep water wells for its water supply and on septic tanks and outdoor privies for the sewage disposal. It has long been called the biggest black spot on the sanitary map of the State. Doctors and health officers live in dread of an epidemic breaking out here at any time, altho the people have been spared that for some miraculous rea son. This plan calls for a large outlay of money, unless a large portion of that investment can be done away with by leasing the mill filter plant. If such a step can be arranged, the citizens will be saved the cost, in terest and long taxation to t h e amount of some $125,000. This plan has been recommended by Spooner & Lewis, saintary engineers, who made the survey for the proposed dis trict. If such an arrangement is made, that will still leave the enormous job of laying watermains and outlets and the installation of sewer lines in the entire area. The actual cost of this work will be known after the meeting of the new board which will probably be held some time this month. Whoever gets the contract for the work will do so with the understand ing that the labor will be local so far as possible, and it is hoped to thus put many men at work who are, at present, out of work in the city. There is much red tape to be un ' tied before the actual letting and i starting of operations. There must (Continued on beak page) E. G. Butler Dies Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Roanoke Rapids cemetery by Rev. V. H. Grantham for E. G. Butler, 51, who died of an acute heart attack at the home of his brother, Ben But ler at three o’clock Monday afternoon. He is survived by three children, Johnny, Shirley and Mary, all of Patterson Mill section, in addition to his father and a number of brothers and sisters, all of whom are well known locally. His wife passed away last October. ARSON IS CHARGED A TM7 IRE C. C. Jones I s Charged With Setting The Whitley Garage Afire TAXI DESTROYED follow in ft ti»e fire Sunday morning at 1 a. m., which completely destroy ed the 1-ear storage garage i.nd a small two-door sedan belonging to Moses Whitley, vr+eran Roanoke Ra pids taxi driver, C. C. Jones is being held for the August Superior Court on a charge of arson. The Warrant for Jones* a steal worker, who moved to this city some six or eight months ago while the construction on the bridge was in progress, was sworn out by Grover Whitley, sone of the elder taxi opera tor. The fire broke out slightly before 1 o’clock Saturday night, and was un der control by 1:20. Thirty minutes la ter Jones was arrested by officer Mas sey after the complaint had been proferred by young Whitley. He was hailed before the Mayor at the time of his arrest in order that his bond could be set, though he was un able to make bond when it was set at $300 by Mayor Taylor. Preliminary hearing was held Mon day morning before Magistrate R. L. Martin, at which time Jones was bound over for Superior Court, and remanded to the county jail at Ha lifax when he was again unable to make bond which was set the second time at only $100. Both the small car and the garage, which was used for storagie only, were completely destroyed by the early morning flames. The garage was located just back of the dwelling of Mr. Whitley on Hamilton Street. The second fire of the week hap pened at 3 a. m., Tuesday morning when the six room home of Sam Sad ler, filling station proprietor of South Rosemary, burned to the ground. The fire was of unknown origin, and al though local firemen battled desper ately to gain control over a stubborn blaze the best they were able to do was protect surrounding property as the fire had gained much headway before reached. The house was lo cated only a block from the filling station operated by Sadler. LOCAL TEAM WINS OVER GREENSBORO Goes Into National Race For The Junior World Cham* pionship LEGION ELATED By defeating Greensboro 7-4 m the opponent’s home diimnad yester ley afternoon, the Roanoke Rspids Funior American Legion team toek the series and won the State cham pionship. The team which is sponsored by Damaak Post 147, Roanoke Rapids, and coached by Bill Alligood and Post Commander Ned Manning, went thru a hard-fought series with Greensboro, Western champions. Ron loke Rapids had won the Eastern State championship by defeating Dur ham. The local Legion Post and the en ire city was elated at the success of the local boys, most of them High School players. There was mudi celebration when the news readied here late yesterday that our boys were the State champions. In preparation for the Junior World Series, which will be ployed off by State winners all over the country, the Roanoke Rapids team, represent ing North Carolina, must now play the State champions of South Caro lina, Virginia and Tennessee. This winners of this series will then eater the semi-finals of winners of other Federal Districts. The deciding game yesterday at Greensboro was two out of three for the local boys. Lefty Starke, who has borne the brunt of the pitching for the entire series, won his place jn the local hall of fame by holding Greensboro to 7 scattered hits while his team mates pounded out 8 hits at proper times to score 7 rune. Greensboro used three pitchers in an attempt to halt the locals who scored one run in the third, hsd e big in ning with four scores in the 4th, and scored one run in each the 7th epd 8th. Greensboro scored one in the third to tie the score, two in the sixth and made a final effort in the last in ning which netted only one run. Lee and Dickens had several sensational catches to their credit, while Womble led the batting attack with three bite out of four times at bat. AUsbrook got a timely two-bagger. The locals stole everything but the grandstand. Starke stole two bases, Garris 8, Sul livan and W. Dickens 1 each. Starke and Womble were credited with a double play. The State champion lino-up: Womble, lb W. Dickens, If Gsrris, 3rd Starke, p Allsbrook, 2nd Lee, rf I. Dickens, as Sullivan, cf Carver, c Pridgen, c Everette, p Acree, p The first game of the series with Greensboro was played here last Sat urday with the local boys winning 6 to 5 in a 14 inning game which was the best game of the season on local lots. Starke went the entire distance. The second game was playsd at Greensboro this Tuesday afternoon and Greensboro won by a score of 10 to 4. Everette and Acree were yank ed in the midst of a first inning rally and Starke went in. Five runs move in the 7th and 8th cinched the game. Irving Dickens starred in this gams, Acree got two hits in as many times at bat. REVIVAL SERVICES Revival services will be held a t Bear Swamp Church at Littleton be ginning Sunday, Auguat 23rd, 1M1. All day services with dinner Sunday, and continuing at 3 p. a, and at • p. m., for the balance of the week. Rev. D. A. Bowers of Gastonia, who is well known locally will aaalst the regular pastor, Rev. E. R. Nelson ed Hudson, N. C. Mrs. J. W. Collins and daughter, Virginia, have been visiting her brothers, R. W. and J. E. Jackson at Newsome, Va.
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