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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME TWENTY_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935 NUMBER FORTY-ONE UP AND DOWN WITH THE £>he Avenue tfr/ifoi 11 EARLY, but not too early is to announce that the week starting Monday, May 6, is National Cot ton Week. The slogan is “Every body Uses Cotton.” The pur pose is to make every American citizen conscious of ths fact and to advertise the varied uses of cot ton articles to the consuming public.^ Roanoke Rapids, textile center, and Halifax County, banner cotton growing county, are vitally interested. WON, by Troop 2, Boy Scouts of America, Roanoke Rapids, for the second consecutive year, the spe cial award shown here for the B. S. A. 10 year program. To win, Scoutmaster Alligood’s boy had 85 per cent attendance fo year, a detailed program, four new 12 year old Scouts, 90 per cent re register of old Scouts. -o LATEST information on the Avenue from the contractor: It will be ten days, at least, before final surfacing will start. It will take six days to pave when that time arrives. Reason for hold-up; State High way Dept, orders, due to weti weather, that block between 1st and 2nd Streets be given ample time to settle after ditch-dig. Part of this is “made-land” and- this week shows much settling with more to come. The four business blocks have been graveled and this has made proper parking possible until the final surfacing which may start about April 15. Date for completion now set at May 1. -o SUR-REBUTTAL is heading of letter in yesterday News and Obser ver signed by one C. Herman Trueblood. We have held our patience as long as humanly possible. This same C. Herman Trueblood has been appearing in the Forum of the N & O since the letter-writing on the Hill Bill began. So persistent has he been that unwary ones have sought to answer him, only to provoke more letters. It has become tiresome. It has also come to the\ point where some one must warn the N & O and those innocent ones who have been drawn into these messy encounters. Despite the signature on these letters, sim ply €. Herman Trueblood, it is our sad duty to inform them that this prolific writer is a preacher. * CUSTOM is that all preachers sign their names with the prefix Rev erend of the suffix-letters D. D. (if any). This identifies them at times, protects them. Signatures to be proud of, one wonders why the Reverend C. Herman Trueblood saw fit to flood the Forum with ultra-dry, caustic and preachery letters, signed only C. Herman True blood. One also wonders how many other preachers have been guilty (Continued on Page Four) WILL FEED NEEDIEST CHILDREN •-O Profits From Kiwanis Show Will Be Used To Pro vide Lunches -o—— Money fi'om the Minstrel fund will be used by the local Kiwanis Club to furnish school lunches for underpriviledged and under-nou rished children, it was announced at the meeting tonight when final reports on the most successful minstrel to date w-jre given. The agriculture Sbmmiltee re ported on work done in helping far mers with Federal loans and in aiding local folks who want gar den plots. An inter-club meeting with the Scotland Neck Club here was announced for May, while the bar bercue for the Minstrel folks was set for May 9th. George Nether cutt was introduced as the Sen ior Class member for this month. ANNOUNCES FOR MAYOR MAYOR KELLY JENKINS who today filed notice that he would be a candidate for re-elec tion to the office of Mayor of Roanoke Rapids in the election to be held on Tuesday, May 7th. CAN BUILD WITHOUT RAISING TAX RATE President’s Aide Near Death LOUIS McHENRY HOWE I senior secretary and life-ion^ friend of President Roosevelt, whr has been near death from bron chial .disorders, .complicated .by heart ailment. Not until his con dition was slightly improved did the President leave on his fish ing trip. ' No decision was made by the County Board of Commissioners in monthly meeting Monday in re gard to the proposed addition for more space at or near the Court House. Final decision was put off until the meeting next month. However, plans of the proposed addition to cost $16,000 were studi ed by the Board and Chairman Waldo Whittaker made the state ment that the money could be l’ais ed from regular county funds with out touching sinking funds or rais ing the county tax rate. Besides route work, the Board approved a petition of citizens re questing a paved road from Hali fax to Hollister. A delegation of citizens were in Raleigh yester day to see Messrs Waynick and Woodard about this road. No de finite promise was given. The county Board also approved and signed a petition of proper ty owners asking for improve ments on the road from Roanoke Rapids thru Thelma. -o A typhoid fever clinic will be held at the Jackson Street clinic beginning April 15 th and last ing six weeks. Treatment will be given by Drs. Jarman and Covington. All who have not had the treatment are urged to take it. SENATE FINANCE COMM’TEE --O Allsbrook Appears Be fore Committee Yes terday Against Tax •-0 The Senate Finance Com mittee, now considering the revenue bill for the next two years, voted this morning to cut the general sales tax t* ree per cent to two per ceiti.' -ai the same time it voted to report the Hill Li ouor Control Bill out on the floor of the Senate with a “no prejudice” report. In session all day yesterday and most of today, the commit tee will meet agan or what it says will be „ue tinal meeting before sending the en tire revenue bill to the floor of the Senate, which will probably be Monday. Senator Julian Allsbrook ap peared before the finance com mittee late yesterday afternoon to argue against the sales tax provision and to offer revenue plans to help displace the general sales tax. He told the committee that the sales tax -'was a business menace, particularly to border counties like Halifax, and that it was a tax on those least able to pay. His protests went partially un heeded altho this morning the com mittee did lower the rate of the sales tax. Whether the 2 per cent will stand in the committee is un known. A. J. Maxwell told the committee today that with the 2 per cent tax, the State faced a 4 million dollar deficit the first year and 5 million the second, a total of nine million for the biennium, while with the present 3 per cent, no exemptions, the deficit for the biennium stands and one and a half million. Proponents of the Hill Bill claims possible revenue of from six to eight million dollars for the two-year period, but the revenue forthcoming from this depends on 1. Its passage in the legislature. 2. Its approval by a vote of the people . 3. Its diversion to the gen eral fund. However, prospects for its pass age seem brighter today than since its introduction. Fireworks on the Senate floor will begin next week when this and the revenue bill are brought to the floor front the committee.
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