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VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939 NUMBER 43
WITHOUT A
STRUGGLE
F. C. Williams, candidate without
Opposition in the North Ward for
City Commissioner, received a com
plimentary vote of practically every
ballot cast in the North Ward.
John C. Smith, candidate for the
3 year term for Commissioner from
the South Ward without opposition,
and Byron Gurley, candidate for the
unexpired term of Mr. Allsbrook,
both received large complimentary
votes in the South Ward.
Late News
From Court
John Wooten, white man of Roa
noke Rapids, was sentenced to six
months on the roads for larceny of
a car from S. M. Thompson in Hali
fax Superior Court this week.
No true bill was found by the
grand jury in the case of Willie
Lynch, colored, whose wife died in
the Roanoke Rapids Hospital last
week from burns received when the
car her husband was driving knock
ed down a gas pump at Roanoke
^ Junction, igniting the car.
J. F. Strickland, guilty of in
voluntary manslaughter, had his
sentence changed from 6 months
on roads to six months in jail, to
be worked in and around the jail
under direction of the sheriff.
Paul Lightner, larceny, was giv
en from 2 to 3 years in State Pris
on. The judge ordered him given
a thoro mental and physical exam
to see if he were a fit patient for
care in the State Hospital.
Clifton Hawkins and Willie West,
charged with larceny of two local
cars, were placed on probation. Vi
olation of this will mean they must
serve their sentences.
(Other Court news on Pg. 1, Sec. B)
ABC PROFITS
The net income to Halifax Coun
ty from the ABC stores for the
quarter ending March 31st was $18,
702.43, according to a financial
statement issued by A. Lee Raw
lings & Co.
Since the start of the ABC system
until now, the stores have shown
a net profit of $260,089.29 of which
$185,000 in cash has been turned
over to the county to be placed in
a special fund to retire cdunty
bonds next year.
The State made one third as
much in sales tax during the quar
ter as the county made. Sales tax
paid for the period was $6,293.20.
Total sales for the three months
were $90,607.40. $984.34 was set a
side during the quarter for law
enforcement. ?
(RIGHT) TWO handsome, smiiujjjjp
Roanoke Rapids men, taken in Tajr
boro last week where they wqre
attending the Boy Scout Campo£M|
for East Carolina Council. BrI
Alligood and Howard Pruden, local
Scout leaders, in an exclusive HeS
aid photo . ™
New Mayor After June 5th
I contribute my victory to the support given
me by my friends and I wish to take this means of
conveying to each and every one of them my hearty
thanks and appreciation for their loyal support.
The people have honored me by their expres
sion of faith and confidence in me. I trust that I
may fully realize the high responsibility of my
office and I hereby pledge to give my best efforts
toward making Roanoke Rapids a cleaner, safer
and better place in which to live.
W. BERNARD ALLSBROOK
RECORD-BREAKER
VOTE CAST IN CITY
ELECTION TUESDAY
FRANK C. WILLIAMS
JOHN C. SJHTH
BYRON GURLEY
With a record-breaking
city vote cast on a
stormy day, 2,510 city
voters went to the polls
here Tuesday and swept
W. Bernard AUsbrook in
to the office of Mayor
and ousted Kelly Jen
kins, who has been May
or for the past eight
years.
Allsbrook’s m a j o r i -
ty over his opponent was
310 votes. The total
count was Allsbrook
1,410 and Jenkins 1,100.
Allsbrook’s home ward, the South,
cast 1,038 votes of which Allsbrook
received 825 and Jenkins 213, a ma
jority for Allsbrook of 612 votes.
In the big North Ward, made big
for city elections since Senator
Long changed the ward lines to in
clude Patterson Mills village in the
North Ward, there were 1,472 votes
cast. Here Allsbrook surprised his
most optimistic supporters by poll
ing 585 votes. Jenkins received 887
votes in his home ward, a majority
for Jenkins of 302 votes. This ma
jority was overcome by the huge
Allsbrook majority in the South
Ward.
Interest in the election for Mayor
was at low ebb until last Wednes
day night when the only public
speaking of the campaign was held
at the Union Hall. Here, Dr. T. W.
M. Long and J. Winfield Crew Jr,
made speeches for Mr. Jenkins. In
the course of his speech, Dr. Long
dug up the 1934 textile strike here
and told the audience that Mayor
Jenkins was the man who kept
troops from coming to Roanoke
Rapids, altho troops were sent to
every other city with a major
strike. He explained how the Ad
jutant General said he could not
send troops here until requested to
do so by the Mayor of the city. Dr.
Long, on this basis, asked that Mr.
Jenkins be rewarded for his action
by a return to office. Observers
say it was this series of speeches
that arc used the interest which
brought out the record vote and
swamped Mr. Jenkins. They say
Tuesday’s vote was a repudiation
of the Long-Crew-Jenkins machine
which had kept Mr. Jenkins in of
fice for eight years.
Mayor Jenkins called Mr. Alls
brook’s home soon after the vote
was counted to congratulate him on
his victory.
The 2,510 votes cast Tuesday was
an all-time record in city elections,
doubling the previous large vote
cast in a municipal race. It was all
the more remarkable because of
the weather. All day long it poured
rain and hail, with the weather
very cold and disagreeable.