The
ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
HALIFAX COUNTY'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER
CARROLL L. WILSON, Publisher and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 3914, at the post office
at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
PRINTERS - LITHOGRAPHERS - ENGRAVERS
WE INDICT
Senate Bill No. 242 to Amend Our Charter
Because:
1. It breaks a solemn agreement made and
signed by more than 2,500 citizens and voters
with our mills when we agreed to leave their
plants untaxed for city government, when they
agreed to have them taxed for water and sew
erage.
2. Because this issue of leaving the plants
out of the city limits was fought out by the peo
ple in the 1931 election when they voted 2,203
to 1 1 8 to leave them out.
3. Because the mills are not able to pay
more taxes, having lost almost a half million
dollars in the past three years, and losing mon
ey today with no signs of improvement.
4. Because the mills have lived up to every
part of their agreement, put plants and all in
the Sanitary District, pay more than 7 5 per cent
of the costs of our city schools, will pay more
than 75 per cent of the cost of water and sew
erage now being installed.
5. Because the mills are now paying 20
per cent of the city taxes on their mill houses
and other property which they permitted to be
brought into the city limits.
Because there is no service the city can
give the mill plants to induce them to subject
themselves to further taxation.
6. Because this un-Democratic bill does
not give the people their natural and inalienable
right to vote on a question which is of supreme
importance to every one of them.
7. Because it wipes out our present city
government and officials without recourse on
their part. They did not even know the bill
was introduced although they are the officially
elected representatives of the people of Roa
noke Rapids.
o. Because these same city orricials have
well and faithfully done their duties in the past
two years and we consider this an insult to the
dignity of their office and to the people who
voted them into that office.
9. Because wiping out the two wards
would be an injustice to either end of town
which now or in the future might have the les
ser population, concentrating the power in the
most populous end of town. No city of this
size in the world has only one ward. (What is
the purpose of all this?)
10. Because anything like this which vi
tally affects our local industries, vitally affects
every man, woman and child, our payrolls, our
property values, our business in stores, our
churches, our schools, our sanitary district.
And because this bill has within it the pow
er to close our mills, bankrupt our merchants,
close our schools and churches, end our sani
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Into Harness Again -
By Albert T. Reid
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tary work and all future improvements, to
wreck our city financially, socially and politi
cally.
It is a Destructive and Not a Constructive
measure. And it is all so unnecessary. It must
be killed by the Legislature.
RUDY GETS “RUFFLED”
Rudy Vallee, singing idol, had a hard day in Raleigh
Monday when he appeared in person at a theatre and Dance
there. According to police, he evidently had had a hard night
on the Sunday previous to his personal appearance. Two of
the boys in his band were taken into custody for a “wild
party” at a local hotel, and it was said Rudy was “well in his
cups” and complained of a “splitting headache” the follow
ing day.
It all started when someone in the audience at the Audi
torium had the audacity to pull a plug from the microphone
over which Rudy was crooning. Now this was an unpardon
able sin, and Rudy did not fail to let the offender know, but
he indiscreetly spoke too close to one of the sensitive “mikes”
that picked up his volley of profanity and broadcasted it to
all of his listeners. What a shock this must have been to
the ladies! Their Rudy! My—My!
Later, when someone gave the crooner the “Razz-Ber
ries,” Rudy, perhaps remembering the time he was a target
for over-ripe grape fruit, jumped from the platform to fight,
the policemen quickly quieted the disturbance. Vallee per
haps first gained disfavor in Raleigh when it was rumored
he had said he would “mingle with the crowd” at a dance
in Greensboro for $200 extra. Although, he stoutly denied
this and said he had his friends and occasionally handed
out autographs but they were not for “filfhy lucre.”
“The folks who have the most gray
matter don’t always perch on top the
ladder.”
“Just brains alone are not so hot.
1 It’s how you use the ones you’ve got.
I’ve seen some fellows walking
poodles who had more real sense in
their noodles than some big bozos
short on brains who reached the top
by constant strains. Small heads
with wheels well lubricated ^ill soon
reach noints ouite elevated.”
An example of using brains to advantage is joining the Roa
noke Rapids Building and Loan Ass’n. Nobody ever lost a dollar
with us, and no dollar ever failed to earn good interest upon ma
turity. '
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Assoc.
12 W. Second StreetDIAL R-444-1
DR W. M. WARD
Dentist
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
\V. Lunsford Long
J Winfield Crew, Jr.
LONG & CREW
Attorney-At-Law
ROANOKE RAPIDS,
North Carolina
ZOLLICOFFER
—And—
ALLSBROOK
Attorneys at Law
IMPERIAL THEATRE BLDG.
Dial R-324 Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
W, C. WILLIAMS
Funeral Director
FUNERAL PARLOR
UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT
AMBULANCE SERVICE
TACTFUL ATTENTION
DAY—Dial R-340
NIGHT—Dial R-389
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
I have moved back to Roanoke
Rapids. Office over Shell Fur
niture Store, near Postoffice.
Honrs 9 to 12-1 to S and by ap
pointment. 7 to 8.
Dr. E. D. Harbour
Reg. Optometrist
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
Dr. E. P. Brenner
CHIROPRACTOR
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.