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VOLUME NINETEEN_ ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY JULY 27fh iqqq
- -—- ' xnuKOUAi, JULY 2ith, 1933 NUMBER FIFTEEN
JUNIORS VOTE “YES”
UP AND DOWN
£?he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
The meeting to discuss the
coming school election, which
was scheduled to be held at the
R. R. Methodist Church Sunday
School room Thursday evening,
has been postponed until Tues
day, Aug. 1st, at 7:30 P. M. An
effort will be made at this time
to explain fully the proposed
school election.
With the school election two
weeks from next Tuesday, most
of this column will be devoted to
a few phases of that question
which is so important to the child
ren of this community.
The idea of this election is to
decide if the voters of this school
district want to have an 8 months
school or a 9 months school, and if
they want to keep the best teachers
they have by supplementing their
heavily cut salaries, and if they
want to give their children the
advantages wrhich other cities are
geing to have.
You notice we say voters and
not property owners. The voters
of the district who are now regis
tering are the ones to decide this
election. And the great majority
of the voters here do not pay other
taxes than a poll tax. If the elec
tion carries these folks will not
pay a penny more taxes.
As usual, the mills and other in
dustries w'ill pay the large per
centage of the extra cost. These
folks are taking no active part in
the election. They say if the vot
ers of Roanoke Rapids want the
extra month and supplement, then
they are willing to pay their
share.
The State has cut teachers sal
aries to starvation wages. The New
Deal cannot help them because
they are now State employees.
Some of them will actually be
earning less for the year than
the minimum wage paid by the
mills. Unless the voters of Roa
noke Rapids come to the rescue i
by voting for the extended term
and supplement.
!
School taxes will not be raised
over last year. Even with the
raised standard of schools, a per
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Local Order Will
Work For Extended
School Term Here
Resolutions adopted by Even
ing Star Council No. 58, Junior
Order United American Mechan
ics of Roanoke Rapids, N. C., in
regular meeting assembled Tues
day, July 25, 1933:
Whereas, the public schools of
the State are our greatest foe of
ignorance, crime, poverty and
depression, and render a service,
second to no agency, in building a
stable, progressive and enlighten
ed democracy.
Whereas, one of the most im
portant objects of our Order is
to uphold and liberally support the
free public school system of
America and to exert every effort
to prevent harmful interference
therewith.
Whereas, the funds for schools,
provided by the last General As
sembly, are inadequate to main
tain the schools for eight months
on an efficient basis.
Whereas, the Roanoke Rapids
Board of School Trustees desires to
give the people of Roanoke Rapids
an opportunity to express them
selves as to the type of school they
want for their children by calling
a special election to be held on
August 15, 1933.
And Whereas, upon investigation
we find the taxes on real estate
for schools is to be reduced 20
per cent through the revaluation
of property and that poll taxes
and taxes on personal property
are not to be increased.
Now, Therefore, Be it resolved,
that Evening Star Council No. 58,
Junior Order United American
Mechanics, of Roanoke Rapids, N.
C., go on record as endorsing the
action of the Roanoke Rapids
Board of School Trustees in call
ing an election to determine,
whether, or not, the inadequate
funds supplied by the State shall
be supplemented, in order that the
children of Roanoke Rapids may
have adequate schools for eight
months and an extended term of
one month.
Be it Further Resolved, that
each individual member of this
Council lend his support and ef
fort for the success of this elec
tion, which will, in a measure, re
store to the children of Roanoke
Rapids the school facilities they
deserve and should have.
C. L. Elting,
C. L. Massey,
O. R. Elmore,
W. G. Woodruff,
Committee on Resolutions
Mann Urges More
Time Be Devoted
_ To Co-operation
“There has never been a moment
in the history of American agri
culture when the time was quite
so ripe for co-operative market
ing as it is today,” M. G. Mann,
secretary-treasurer of the N. C.
Cotton Growers Co-operative Asso
ciation, told the American Insti
tute of Co-operation, in a recent
meeting in Raleigh.
TWO MEN
REFUSE
TO WORK
Draw 90 Days On Roads For
Non-Support And Refusing
To Accept Employment
In Recorder Court
Two Roanoke Rapids men, W.
E. Tanner and Eli Bowen, were
charged with non-support of wife
and children, and drew road sen
tences of ninety-days each in Re
corder’s Court Tuesday after it
was shown they had been given
innumerable opportunities of em
ployment. Bowen drew also a ten
months sentence on a similar sec
ond charge, tho judgment was sus
pended on condition he properly
provides for his family after his
first sentence has been served.
County welfare officer J. B. Hall
was instrumental in the prosecu
tion of the men, after it had been
called to his attention they had
positively been given chances for
gainful employment that would
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FARMERS
PLOW UP
COTTON
Davis Says Total Of 10,000
Acres Will Be Plowed
Up In County
QUOTA IN BALES
At least 900 Halifax county
farmers are plowing up cotton
acreage, under an agreement with
the government at this time, and
a few days will see that number
well over the 1,000 mark, with ap
proximately 1,084 farmers living
North and West of the Atlantic
Coastal Line Railroad already
signed up, according to word com
ing from W. O. Davis, County
agent.
These farmers will receive in
money from the government ap
proximately $73,773.00 for their
rented lands, according to Mr.
Davis, and in addition an option
on 2,762 bales of cotton, and will
have until May 1st, 1935 to dis
pose of their options.
Permits were mailed to farmers
residing in the Halifax end of the
county Monday morning, and a
hundred more are being held ur. for
various errors in which correc
tions must be made.
So far as is known, W. A. Pierce,
Jr., farmer living between Weldon
and Halifax is destroying the
largest acreage in the county. Out
of his 650-acres planted he is
plowing under exactly one-half
Mr. Pierce is the third man in the
county to sign the agreement.
Mr. Davis in further comment
said he was exceptionally well
pleased with the co-operation the
farmers have shown this move
ment. He was also enthusiastic
over the fact that most of the
land owners are planting soil im
provement crops on the lands
where cotton has been plowed
under, and pointed out that prac
tically every seed dealer in the
county had run out of soy beans
and field pea seed.
The acreage quota for the coun
ty was 15,000, and while this
quota will not be reached in acre
age, it is thought that their quo
ta in bales will be reached, owing
to the high productivity of Halifax
county soil. Had the farmers actu
ally reached the acreage quota,
their quota in bales would have
been far outreached.
ON FULL
OPERATION
WAGES UP
Second Week In August Will
See Employment Of 125
More Men In City
TO BUY WOOD
Announcement was made today
by F- M. Brown, who will be presi
dent and genera] manager of the
new corporation, that Halifax
Paper Company, Inc., will start
full operation of the kraft paper
mill on Roanoke river, just outside
the city limit on August 7th.
Coupled with this good news is the
fact that a flat wage increase of
10 per cent will be instituted over
that paid when the mill stopped
operation here last December.
A repair crew of some 25 or 30
men are working in full operation
putting the mill in shape for its
start in little more than a week,
and the number of men employed
at the plant will be at least 125.
Coupled with recent wage in
creases at the city’s large textile
mills, this news is regarded as one
of the biggest developments on the
local business horizon for months,
and many Roanoke Rapids mechan
ics and bread winners who have
been without employment for
months will go back to work—and
at an increase in wages!
The mill will be a member of
the Kraft Paper Association, it
was announced, and will follow the
code laid down for the whole paper
industry and approved by Wash
ington, with a view to higher rates
of wages, shorter working hours,
and employment of a large number
of people.
As soon as is practicable, and in
accordance with the code to be ap
proved by the whole industry, the
mill will be operated on three
shifts instead of two, thus increas
ing the number of men employed.
The company will purchase wood
during the month of August, it
was announced, paying for same
every Friday night as usual.
Officers of Halifax Paper Com
pany, Inc., will be composed of F.
M. Brown, president and general
manager; J. J. Williams, general
superintendent, and E. A. Telliga,
treasurer. The mill management
is thoroughly in accordance with
the program of the N. R. A. and
will so advise Washington, it was
stated.
Mr. D. J. Luther, who for the
past several months has been lo
cated here with the Fitz-Carter
Construction Co., ieft Thursday
for Rome, Ga., via. Fountain, N.C.