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VOLUME TWENTY-THREE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._ THURSDAY, FEB. 17,1938 NUMBER 32~
UP AND DOWN WITH THE
Ghe Avenue
GETTING SOMEWHERE
• • There seems every reason to believe that next
week should see a majority of the property owners
on Jackson, Hamilton and Roanok Avenue signed
up for the street paving project. A glance at the
list of those who have signed shows that most of
those have signed who were expected to. A few, a
very few, have refused to sign, for reasons best
known to themselves. Several have not yet been
seen but all will be given an opportunity.
Those who fear for the program when it comes
to a vote of the people have no cause for fear. The
only thing we have heard in opposition is that
some people on other streets say they want paved
streets too. Of course they do. But a street pav
ing program must start somewhere and the logical
starting place is the Avenue, already paved, and
the business section of the city. And folks on those
other streets will realize that the best way to get
paving on their streets is to help get the program
started and then to gradually enlarge it during the
coming years. We have no fear of the outcome
and it looks like that Roanoke Rapids is at last get
ting somewhere on this important project.
• • NAMES MAKE NEWS . . . The Roanoke
Rapids Herald prides itself on one thing: it tries to
print all the news it can find, thus giving its read
ers and advertisers their money’s worth ... It is a
well known theory that names make news and it
costs money to get news and set it in type ... What
interests some people may not interest others,
therefore it behooves a good newspaper to try to
get all kinds so that something will appeal to ev
ery reader . . . Speaking of names . . . how many
names appear in tms issue oi xne neraui. now
many people are mentioned in these columns? To
the one who guesses the nearest to the correct
number, we will send The Herald free for one year.
• • Garland Midyette, young attorney formerly
associated with the firm of Allsbrook & Benton,
left Roanoke Rapids last week to accept a position
with the State Parole Board at Raleigh . . . Mr.
Midyette, a native of Jackson, was a son of the late
Judge Midyette, and is a brother of Buck Midyette,
Jackson attorney.
• • The passing of O. O. McIntyre, author of the
daily column, New York Day by Day, brings to
mind the heavy work, sometimes drudgery, og
keeping a column going. That is to keep it going
and to keep it lively and interesting all the time.
We welcome columnists to use the Herald with on
ly one proviso: if you start, keep on going. One
started last week and we have a new contributor
next week, altho the latter admits that his will be
irregular . . . Now, if we could get Old Timer to
start his column again... and keep it up ... every
thing would be hunkydory . . . There was a lot of
guessing as to who Old Timer was, when we onee
carried the column, but nobody ever really knew.
When you get right down to it, there are only a
bout a dozen who could really rate as Old Timers
but we would never tell just which one of the dozen
she was.
EUBANKS
SLIGHTLY
BETTER
Ernest Eubanks, local boy, who
was seriously injured in an auto
mobile wreck in Richmond last
week, was slightly improved this
morning, according to his brother
in law, the Rev. Gordon L. Price,
who returned to Roanoke Rapids
today and will stay to conduct his
Sunday services here before return
ing to Richmond.
E. W. Eubanks, father of the in
jured boy, also returned to the city
today and will go back to Rich
mond tomorrow.. The rest of the
family remains there.
Ernest underwent a second op
eration this week and the reaction
was favorab.i altht, attending phy
sicians will make no comment on
his condition— He has been para
lyzed from the waist down, due to
an injury to the spinal column.
There was some hope last night
when he complained of one leg and
asked that it be moved to a more
comfortable position.- This is the
first indication that the paralysis
may be subsiding.
Charles Hallowell Jr., another
sophomore _at _the_ University _of
Richmond, who was in the car
with Eubanks and two other stu
dents when it crashed into a tree,
died from injuries sustained in the
wreck.
120 OWNERS SIGN
PAVING PETITION
ON THREE STREETS
One hundred and twenty property owners on
Hamilton Street, Jackson Street and Roanoke Av
enue have already signed the petitions calling for
the paving of the streets adjacent to their property
and agreeing to pay for the extra street assess
ments which the project will cost them.
While this is not quite half the property own
ers on these streets, it is expected the halfway
mark will be reached the early part of next week
as several property owners have not yet been seen,
others affected live out of town and must be reach
ed by mail and in other cases it is necessary to a
wait board meetings where official action must be
taken.
Signatures expected next week
will pass the halfway mark in both
number of property owners and in
amount of footage on the streets in
question.
The project calls for the curbing
and extension of Roanoke Avenue
from 3rd to 9th Streets; for the
curbing, storm sewers and paving
of Hamilton and Jackson Streets
and for the same type of work on
all side streets from those two into
Roanoke Avenue.
By this afternoon, the following
property owners had signed the
paving petition:
Hamilton St.: E. M. Daughtry, A.
CONTRACTOR HAS
LABOR TROUBLE
Guest & Sons
Have Trouble
On Job Here
A group of Negro laborers, work
ing for the C. M. Guest & Sons
Construction Co., struck here yes
terday for higher wages and short
er hours.
Guest & Sons, contractors of
Anderson, S. C. and Greensboro,
N. C., were successful bidders for
the contract to erect a new mill
building for Rosemary Mfg. Co.
The contractor was engaged in
tearing down a warehouse to make
room for the new building and had
employed about 25 Negroes to do
the wrecking job. The pay was 17%
cents per hour. When the job was
about completed, the Negroes
struck and about 20 of them refus
ed to work any longer.
This morning, the strikers re
turned but refused to go to work.
Others had been employed to finish
the job of tearing down the struc
ture which will only take a few
days longer.
There was no disturbance and a
small group of about ten, including
some white men, continued to work
all during the “strike”.
It is said the contractor states
, :'r
they are paying the same wage
rate for this type of work on at
least two other jobs which they
now have in the State.
TO RALEIGH
GAKLAND MIDYETTE
of the law firm of Allsbrook and
Benton who has accepted a position
with the N. C. State Parole Board.
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A. Duncan, George Lampley, J. M.
Vincent, C. D. Williams, W. G.
Lynch, W. P. Vaughan, Dr. J.
Frank West, F. D. Wilson, F. J.
Hawley, Mrs. B. L. Brown, Dr. F.
G. Jarman, W. P. Taylor, Lyle M.
Wilson, Halifax Paper Corporation,
Mrs. S. J. Bounds, Mrs. J. V. Worn
ble, E. F. Cagle, Virginia Belle
Vincent, Mrs. G. A. Northington,
Mrs. Lettie Moody, A. P. Dickens,
C. W. Davis, Faustine J. Bunn, J.
W. Harrell, Moody Hedgepeth, R. J.
Jeffers, H. H. Bugg, Calvin Ken
nemur, J. D. Lee, Mrs. R. A. War
ren, A. N. Martin, R. B. Purdy, C.
C. Shell, Mrs. W. B. Holt, Dr. W. E.
I Murphrey, Mrs. Mary Purdy & Mrs!
Susan Garner, Dr. E. S. Harbour,
Mrs. E. W. Smith, J. A. Wood, H.
M. Johnson, J. D. Womble, W. C.
Ricks, Tucker Fayed, Mose Brick
ell, W. J. Bartlett, J. C. O’Dell, J.
C. Wells, W. V. White, M. F. White,
Rosemary Drug Company, R. e!
Cleaton, Jr., W. M. Mullen, Estate,
Kelly Jenkins, Roanoke Bank and
Trust Co., Mrs. W. E. Moody, J. W.
Crew Jr.
Roanoke Avenue: Roanoke Bank
& Trust Co., Methodist Church, E.
F. Bounds, J. T. Chase, Mary Wil
son, Carroll Wilson, Mrs. B. Marks,
National Loan & Ins. Co., J. P,
Grizzard, Dr. R. P. Beckwith, w!
A. Thorne, Mrs. Ivey P. Akers, R.
L. Towe, F. M. Coburn. Mrs. K.
Jenkins, H. V. & E. F. Bounds,
Mrs. W. H. Babcock, T. O. Wilson,
F. C. Williams, Mrs. B. J. Dun
ning, Harold Bloom, J. D. Shearin,
Estate, Christian Church, J. W.
Crew Jr.
Jackson St.: Va. Electric & Pow
er Co., Mrs. Annie P. Matthews, A.
O. Pendleton, Fred Forrest, J. R.
Allsbrook, First Methodist Church,
Mrs. M. D. Collier, E. B. Manning,
J. W. Taylor, J. D. Cassada, Miss
Fannie Marks, D. I. Kidd, L. W.
Clements, W. L. Medlin, F. C. Wil
liams, J. F. May, Luther Shaw, P.
A. Reid, Mrs. Lillian Jenkins, G. M.
Smith, H. E. Jackson, Clyde D.
Liske, O. Griffin, Gilbert Brown',
R. I. Starke, C. L. Shell, E. w’
Wright, Mrs. D. W. Etheridge,
Miss Annie Williams, J. A. Pridgen,
J. C. Wells, R. L. Topping, Mrs. p.
M. Coburn, A. S. & D. H. Mason, Ii
S. Cannon, Tri City Motor Com
pany, Roanoke Pharmacy.