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VULtMJ!; TWEiNl Y-lfVLK KULMVUH-Ei KATtUS, IV. t._1I1UKSUA1, AUG. 4, 1938 NUMBER 4 1938 LIONS CLUB FESTIVAL HERE NEXT WEEK AUDITORS REPORT DEPUTY SHERIFF SPEED WAS SHORT Amount Not Known As Audit Con tinues But Reported At Several Thousand Dollars; Bonding Com pany Notified; Speed At State Hospital A shortage, said to be several thousand dollars and increasing as auditors dig in, has been discov ered in the office of former deputy J. Pauli Speed of Scotland Neck, who resigned from that office Saturday a week ago. Starting with a shortage of about $3,000, the amount is said to have increased until yesterday it was somewhere between eight and ten thousand dollars. The auditors, from the firm of A. Lee Rawlings & Co., certified public acountants, who have been making the annual county audit for sev eral years, are keeping the County Board of Com missioners informed of the increasing shortage from time to time. The County Board met in reg ular session Monday of this week and again Tues day. It has not been ascertained officially the length of time over which the shortages spread but unofficial reports put it as extending over several years. Mr. Speed, who had charge of the Sheriffs of fice in the collection of county taxes, served under former Sheriff G. H. Johnson of Scotland Neck and continued to serve under Sheriff Joe Riddick of Scotland Neck. He has been office deputy for the past eight years and has been very popular with the citizens of the county who had tax deal ^ ings with him. Reports of the shortage came as a distinct shock to his many friends all over the county. Speed was bonded for $25,000 and the bonding company has been notified of the alleged short ages. Meanwhile, the auditors continue their check up and no official statement has been made by them. The exact extent of their investigation and their final report will not be available to the press and public until they have made a final report to the County Board of Commissioners. The reported method used by Speed was to use “extra” receipts in some cases and leave the original receipts in the tax books so as to avoid detection. If this be correct, there cannot be a complete check until all taxpayers are advertised and those who have paid, and who have the “ex tra” receipts, report! this fact to Halifax. It is un derstood the extra receipts were supposed to be used in cases of partial payments by taxpayers. Today, J. Pauli Speed is in the State Hospital at Raleigh. He was taken there after his wife and (Continued to Page 12) ALL-STATE HONORS Joe Talley, pitcher George Nethercutt, catcher Irvin Dickens, short stop Vic Bradford, center fielder Best Dressed Team ROANOKE RAPIDS OWLS Leading Pitcher JOE TALLEY Most Valuable Player TOM BURNETTE All-Star State Manager JESSE LEE The above were the choices made last night and announced at the end of the Tournament with tro phies being given to the above members and the manager of the Roanoke Rapids’ team. New Deilflst Will Open Office Here Dr. K. A. Daniel, dentist, will o pen an office in Roanoke Rapids about the middle of August and is! planning on placing new dental fix tures in two front office rooms of the Smith Apartments over Smith’s Barber Shop. Dr. Daniel is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia and has passed the State Board of Dentis try in both Virginia and North Carolina. He graduated second (Continued to Page 12) r ROANOKE RAPIDS TEAM 1938 SEMI-PRO CHAMPIONS OF N.C. Final Box Score Roanoke Rapids Ab R H E Dickens 3 4 10 Nethercutt 5 2 4 1 Aderholt 4 110 Bradford 3 110 Davis 5 0 10 Burnette 5 0 10 McCrary 5 10 0 Fuller 5 0 0 0 Talley 4 0 0 0 May Hosiery Mills Ab R H E Bradsher 5 12 0 Collins 4 0 14 Henderson 5 0 11 Glosson 4 110 Meachan 2010 Slaughter 2 10 0 Walker 4 0 0 0 Sorrell 10 0 0 Reiber 3 110 Jones 4 12 1 Johnson 0000 Clapp 2 0 10 Dixon 10 0 0 2-base h i t s—Bradsher, Nether cutt; 3-base hits—Bradford. Home runs—Aderholt, Dickens, Nether cutt. Double plays—Aderholt, Dick ens to Fuller. Wild pitches—Tal ley two, Johnson one. First on balls off—Talley four, Johnson, 3, Jobe 2, Clapp none. Struck out—by Johnson, 1, Jobe, 0, Clapp, 1 Tallev 7. LIONS READY TO STAGE WEEK OF CELEBRATION HERE STARTING MONDAY Mildred Burton, popular contest ant for honors of Queen of the Lions Club Festival, which will be held here all of next week, start ing Monday, August 8th, is leading the field of 17 young ladies who are participating in the contest, by a narrow margin of less than 5,000 votes tonight’s check-up revealed. Not only is Miss Burton ahead in the race, but she is the winner of the $5.00 bonus offered the con testant selling the largest number of tickets last week. Mrs. Edwin Akers, in charge of the ticket sale, reports the status pf votes as follows: Mildred Burton, 68,400; Helen Stewart, 63,700; Ber tha Batton, 55,600; Carrie Byrd, 22, 200; Minnie Lee Medlin, 17,000: Fannie Stephenson, 13,000; Frances Ricks, 12,400; Lucille King, 11,000; Elizabeth Massey, 10,200; Agnes Wood, 10,200; Mary Woodruff, 8, 200; Evelyn Eldridge, 5,990; Alice Myrick, 4,800; Lillie Mae Hale, 4, 400; Mary Cannon, 4,200; Florine Clary, 2,000; Elsie White, 1,700. Another $5.00 bonus is being of fered the young lady selling the c__ ___ largest number of tickets again this week, and spurred on by the fact that this is the last week be fore the show, contestants should report substantial sales of advance gate admission tickets by Saturday night. Everything is in readiness for the opening of the second annual Lions Club Festival next week, and it bids fair to be one of the most suc cessful undertakings of the local Lions Club. Every cent of the profits derived from the Festival goes for the Club’s blind work, and will be spent 100% locally. Sherman Husted, advance man ager for the Crescent Amusement Company, which organization will occupy the midway on the large Roanoke Avenue showgrounds all of next week, has been in the city all week completing arrangements for the outdoor shows. Crescent will exhibit here with positively six, and possibly seven or eight high-class riding devices, 25 con cessions and a minimum of eight (Continued to Page 12) The Roanoke Rapids Owls are the new State Champions of North Carolina semi-professional baseball for 1938, defeating May Hosiery Mills in the finals at the Greens boro State Tournament last night by 9 to 5 in a wild, wild game. It was the 5th straight win in tourney play for the Owls with no defeats. Greensboro will never forget that crazy 6th inning when Roanoke Rapids made three home runs in a row by Dickens, Nethercutt and Aderholt, to be followed by a triple by Bradford, who scored a moment later on. Davis’ sacrifice. ■'{ George Nethercutt led the Owl assault at the bat, getting on base his five times at bat, being credited by some score kepers with four hits and being responsible for bringing in four runs. Little Dickens walked twice, on with an error once and hitting for the circuit once, personally scored four runs. Joe Talley, who won another one for the home town champions, had one bad inning, the 8th, when he walked two men, threw wild and allowed three runs to come across. Otherwise he had the situation well in hand and fanned seven May men. While a big delegation of fans went to Grensboro to cheer th© Owls on to the championship, those who could not go were given a real treat and "ringside seats”, thru the courtesy of Rosemary Drug Co„ with a broadcast of a play-by-play description of the game. Radio an nouncer Ted Speight was on the microphone and the plays were re layed from Greensboro Stadium via Western Union to local operat or Beaman Helms. As he took the Plays off the wire, Lyle Wilson transferred them to broadcaster Speight. Only mixup in the interesting broadcast, no fault of the local force, was when the field operator got so excited about three home runs in a row that he relayed the wrong name first . . who wouldn’t ■ . Correct three in a row: Dickens Nethercutt, Aderholt. Out-of-Town Patients At The Hospital Patients in the Roanoke Rapids Hospital from out of town include W. B. Browning, Littleton; Miss Mattie Bridges, Conway; H F Hawley, Littleton; Miss Retha Dal vis, Seaboard; Miss Ola Gray, Lit tleton; Miss Mildred Long, Pleas ant Hill; Mrs. Gilbert Pope, Sea board; Mrs. Tommy Tillery, Pen dleton; Brice Warwick, Murfrees boro; Gilbert Leigh, Weldon. ^
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