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|Roanoke fRamblings | By MILTON WICK i ^Sear Tragedy When Larry Willis, Herald em >loyee, was backing his auto oul >f the driveway at his home le stopped suddenly.! His three rear old daughter, Linda Carol, fry in the road where she had ►een passed over by the car. He lashed to the child but to his astonishment and joy, she arose. . . inhurt. The bumper of the car ad gently pushed her down rhere she was untouched by rheels and under-carriage. Needless to say, the Willis’ bore two-fold feeling for some min tes thereafter- thankfulness at lelr good fortune and shock t circumstances nearing tragedy. tosemary School IS May Day Festival I The colorful May Day Festival mat Rosemary School is schedulec ^for Wednesday, May seventh, an. If will be held on the front lav,a W of the school from five thirty I to six thirty o'clock. The May Day Festival is pre 5 sented every year at this tim< | a»s a closing event of Rosemar; |i School. The entire student bod.' of the school, two hundred an* sixty.five in all, take part. The performance centers around th< ^lovely Queen of May and he. Court of Honor, portraying thr colorful seasons as the f estiva progresses, Mrs. Helen Smith, Di School, is in charge of the pro gram,, which promises to be one of the outstanding musical events cf the season. The public is cordially ’invited to attend. In case of rain, the event will be postponed until a plater date. Here and There Frank Salters, who pitched the Jays first victory last Sunday winning over Greenville 17 to 11 was awarded 21 free meals at the Croatan Cafe, which award was set up for the purpose before the start of the season. • . Thanks ^ Renewing their subscriptions. Mrs. T. G. Kimbrough of Coral Gables, Florida* and Mrs. R. A. Rogers, sent along their best wishes from Mrs. Kimbrough ‘‘I wish you success in your new home. I am sure you will enjoy the contact with the fine people there." From Mrs. Rogers: "Wish to congratulate you on your first issue. It was nice,, indeed. Wish W ing you a great success.” Paul Matthews Establishes New Firm The youngest individual to pass the Certified Public Accountant’s board in Washington, D. C., Paul Matthews formerly of this city, has announced the formation of a partnership under the firm ^ .nome of Matthews and Sickles for * .the general practice of public ac counting, in the nation’s capital. He Is also engaged as a teach er of night classes at the Wash ington, D. C., school from which he graduated, Strayers college. He served approximately four years with the 321st Bombardment Ground Crew of the Army Air Forces. He saw service in Africa, Sicily and Italy. ^ Mr. Matthews 'is a brother of ~ Mrs. George Pappendick and a son , of the late Paul Matthews and Ida Johnson Matthews. He was born and reared in this city and is a graduate of Roanoke Rapids high school. His business address is 2460 16th ^ St.. N. W. „ Registration Fall Nursing Class Starts "Registration for fall classes is starting now," Mrs. F. L. Starke, director of nurses at Roanoke Rap ids Hospital School of Nursing, an ^ nounced today. "We feel that this is a particu larly promising time for high school girls to enter nursing. Pay Uaiipd art* ahnrtnp Anri many different, 'interesting fields are open to the Well-prepared 11 graduate. No matter what a nurse : chooses to do later on, her train ing is an invaluable help.” The three-year nurse’s course is m a higher education, comparable ( only to college, Mrs. Starke said. It leads to R. N., sometimes to a Bachelor of Science degree as well. Girls receive their room and board, laundry, uniforms and text books free, and have time off, oc casional weekends and a vacation while they train. In order to qualify as a student nurse, gftrls must have a high school diploma, or college train r mg. Mrs. Starke will be glad to talk to any Roanoke Rapids girls or others who are interested in en tering the profession. Former Resident Suffers Fire Loss Doyle Dobbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dobbins of this city. Pi formerly commercial manager of the radio station in Haskell, Tex., suffered the loss of Ms household contents In a recant fire, it was revealed here today by his par snts. Young Dobbins, a veteran of Wor.d War 11, was married and had been living In Texas for some time. To add to Dobbins’ bard luck, ba bad Juat loat Mi Job with m «* \ *★* 4^' * * * m What Roanoke Rapids Makes I Herald Classified Advertising —Makes Roanoke Rapids I W* ^ ^ 4 Gets Quick Results ★ ★ ★ I Growing With ★ ★ ★ JL Carolina’s Faslest Growing City VOLUME XXXII ~ ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 194T~ NUMBER 26 MILLS OFFER RETIREMENT PLAN Knotts Living In Yokohoma Mrs. A. W. Knott, the former Miss Miriam Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith of Madison Street, sends this picture from Japan. Mrs. Knott and her i.wo-year-old son, Billy, landed in Yokohoma February 7th of this year to join Capt. Knott. They are living about thirty miles from Yokohoma and this picture was taken by Capt. Knott in front of their home about the 27th of Feb ruary. It is customary for the head of the labor union, an inter perter, the mayor, chief of police and a high school student to call on each American family upon arrival. The Japanese girl in the picture is a 14.year-old high school girl. The Knotts expect to move in a new home next month. Homes for American families are under construction in a park-like area about thirty miles from Yokoho ma now, and are supposed to be teady for occupancy next month. Although they are so near Yoko homa, Mrs. Knott writes that the roads are terrible and it takes ail day to get there in a jeep, their chief means of travel. Little Billy seems to be taking up the language from his Japa nese nursemaid and is already speaking a language his mother doesn’t understand. Mrs. Knott tried to buy a love ly coffee table from the owners of the house In which she' lives. They refused to sell, but gave the table to her. The woman of the home came back the next day with a smaller table with this explana tion: "For your beautiful daugh ter in America." She has had several gifts presented to her for her daughter, Gail, who is here with her grandparents. Among the gifts is a beautiful doll in a glass case with several different costumes. Mrs. Knott writes that she and Capt. Knott are both teaching Sun day school. They meet in various homes for these services. Local Red Cros^ Campaign Fund Goes "Over the Top" Local Young People Go To Convention About twenty-five young people of the Rosemary Baptist Church attended a Regional Baptist Train ing Union Convention which was held in Tarboro last Friday and Saturday. The meeting was at tended by delegates from Baptist churches in Neuse, Atlantic end Roanoke Associations. The theme of the meeting was "The Bible— The Book of Books." Ruth Mahaffey and Faye Blowe from the Rosemary Church, two of the participants in the junior memory work contest held at the meeting, were declared eligible to attend the state-wide Baptist Training Union assembly at Ridge crest each year. Sibil Wood from the Rosemary church was declar ed winner for this region in the intermediate sword drill and will represent the region at the state wide Baptist Training Union as sembly at Ridgecrest. Two choirs »kia oaninn__ Stnnv C’rppk Youth Choir and Rosemary Church Choir — were given a rating of "B” in the hymn festival and both these choirs will represent this region at Ridgecrest in the hymn festival. Each year, all Baptist Training Unions in the Southern Baptist Convention are urged to enter par ticipants in junior memory work contests, intermediate sword drill contest, better speakers touma. ment, adult Bible reading contest and hymn festivals. These con tests are designed to more effec tively and directly train the mem bers of a Training Union to be come better church members. Each church, first of all, has a contest within the churoh to choose' the participant to repre sent that church in each of the above contests. Then, these rep resentatives compete with repre sentatives from churches in their association. These winners repre sent. their association in the reg ional meeting, the winners from which represent their region at Ridgecrest in the statewide Train ing Union assembly. The winners at the statewide meeting then par ticipate at the southwide assembly to determine winners for the whole Southern Baptist Convention. lit takes a great deal of hard work and time to prepare parti cipants to enter these Afferent contests and the Training Union of the Rosemary Churoh is very proud to have participants at Ridgecrest this ysar for the first Ua>< to to* butorjr of Uu btaureb. The Red Cross campaign fund recently held again has “gone over the top," according to the final reports received. The amount re ported to date as contributed by the people of Roanoke Rapids is 47,500.00. The quota was $6,120,00. “We wish to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation,” said James W. 3ears, campaign fund chairman, "to the industries of the district for their splendid sup port. We cannot give too much credit and praise to the workers and contributors for their splen did service and cooperation.” “The people of our chapter havj shown by their fine spirit of giv ing," continued Mr. Sears,, "that we shall do the most possible to render all services needed for out community’s servicemen and vet erans.” • Here are the figures: Special gifts, Frank C. Williams, major, totaled $2,232.50, a partial list of the contributors being: Roanoke Mills Company —$600.00 Rosemary Manufacturing Company - 600 00 Patterson Mills Company 300.00 Theatres -175.00 Halifax Paper Company — 75.00 Roanoke Rapids Lumber Company - 200.00 Other contributions: tion, H. S. Loy, major _ 771.55 i Rosemary Manufacturing Co., employees, J. H. « Mayfield, major .-1,195.00 Roanoke Mills. No, 1 em ployees, C.A. Irby, major 882.10 Roanoke Mills No. 2 em. ployees, S. H. Crumpler, major- 748.20 Patterson Mills Employ ees, H. E. Eller son, Jr., major __— 326,00 Manchester Board and Paper Oo., H. C. Brown, major- 178.00 Virginia Electric & Power Co., employees, R. W. Vaughan, major- 63.00 Municipal Building, Mrs. Dorothy Shearin, major 16.00 (Continued on page +—Sect. A) Large Crowd Hears Symphony A large appreciative and enthus iastic audience attended the after noon and evening concerts of the North Carolina Symphony Orches tra, under the direction of Dr. Benjamin Swahn, last Thursday. Following the evening concert the Music Club entertained in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A, China honoring Dr. and Mrs. Swalin. To the generous individuals* dubs and organizations of Roa noke Rapids and surrounding towns who contributed time, ef fort and money to help make this tsoond Symphony concert possible, the Symphony Committee and kttSc Club fgtsnd their sincere thinks* Gamblers Get Heavy Fines After Guilty Plea Entered Eight white men, indicted by the Grand Jury on charges o! gambling at a cabin near Enfieid owned by Willie Herbert, pleaded guilty this week in Halifax Super ior Court and after testimony con cerning the case had been heard Judge Henry Stevens, presiding jurist, really "cracked down.” The judge, after a severe lec ture, fined Herbert $100 “for just looking in on the game.” The others: Tom Ellen, J. B. Davis, county commissioner; Frank Newsom of Halifax, J. F. White, Owen Bellamy, Egbert' Barnhill and Waverly White were ordered to pay fines of $250 each and part of the costs. The charges are the outgrowth of a poker game at the cabin some weeks ago when, it is alleg ed, a "9-spot” got into the wrong hand and caused quite a bit of argument among the players. Testimony revealed that some of the players were drinking "and really didn’t know what we were doing.” Chest Shows '46 Deficit The Roanoke Rapids Commun. ity Chest showed a deficit of $601.07, last year, according to the operating statement for 1946 re leased today by L. G. Shell, Jr., treasurer. The statement follows: RECEIPTS 1946 Budget Collections __ 14,729.50 Interest -j- 16.97 Total receipt* ___-__$14,746.47 I\I8BUR. IBMF^NTS School htmdnm<f ^ Book Fund-$ 810.00 Associated Charities - 3,000.00 Boy Scouts - 2.400.00 Girl Scouts - 1,500.00 Recreation Committee 550.00 Roanoke: Rapids Public v Library- 450.00 United War Fund _ 5,492.00 EXPENSE ACCOUNT Telephone and Tele graph - 46.59 Office Stationery and Supplies- 58.36 Office Rent .- 109.50 Salaries - 605.00 Dues _ 40.00 Insurance (Bond) - 25.00 Campaign Expenses - 174.39 Audit- 86.70 Total Disbursements -$15,347.00 Deficit 1946 Budget -$ 601.07 Glee Club To Give Concert The Roanoke Rapids High School Glee Club will present its first major concert of the year in the High School auditorium May 8, at 8 o’clock, p. m., under the direction of Ray Finley. This or ganization has a membership of over fifty boys and g’lrls and all have been working hard lately to make this concert a success. Among the numbers that will be sung by the Glee Club are: ThJ Lost Chord, By the Waters of Minnetonka, The Donkey Sere nade, and Malotte's Lord’s Pray, ed. Silas Baggett will sing a ten or solo, and a trio of girls Louise Burke, Ruby Blowe and Syretha Inscoe, wMl add a group of songs. Still Captured In Gaston Township A "moonshine” still, steam out fit, with a torch burner, was cap tured in Gaston township this week by Sheriff Clyde Stephen son of Northampton county, aid ed by Chief of Police Kilpatriok of Jackson, and Constable J. H. Dixon. Four barrels of mash were confiscated and a negro man, named Lashley, was arrested. Lashley was triad yesterday sad got a sentence ot eight months mi Ihs nidi. ' How Truck Program Works __ • To many of the citizens of Roa noke Rapids and surrounding area, the scene of a mule-drawn wagon load of pulpwood rolling slowly to the yard of HaJifax Paper Com pany, Inc., will bring back many memories. Pulpwood, however,, and the production thereof, has become big business, and to meet the chal lenge of changing conditions, Hal. ifax Paper Company has advanced into many new activities. One of these new activities W the lease-sale truck program start ed under the planning and guid ance of K. F. Adams, resident manager. Under this program tljie Paper Company buys pulpwood trucks and in turn sells them to pulpwood producers. The producer makes a down pawment, agrees Co haul pulpwood to Halifax Paper Company, and further agrees for the company to make a small de duction for each cord of 128 cubic feet. A stipulated payment '4s guaranteed each month. These ac cumulated deductions are credited to the truck owner’s account untjil the truck has been completely paid for. As security the company is given a note secured by a chajt t«! mortgage, ffi^.^rchaser owijis the truck, and continues to do so as long as there is no default in the agreed repayment rate or other contract specifications. In the accompanying picture, R. L. Dickens is shown receiving the title for truck number 203, which 1 was sold him under the terms of < the lease-sale program. Calvin j Kennemur handles the truck pro- i gram for Halifax Paper Company, 1 and is shown handing over the i t.’tle. K. F. Adams, resident man- j ager, J. E. Mausteller and George < Hayes of the wood department are £ observing the event, which repre. t sents the first of several trucks t under the new lease-sale program which will soon be completely paid in full. c All trucks under this program c are numbered consecutively begin- 1 ing with number 201. Truck num- J ber 203 in the picture was sold on v May 1, 1946, and in the period of f less than one year,. Mr. Dickens J has completely fulfilled all obli- ' gations for the truck and has re- c ce'ived a clear title to same. Through this program he has not j only acquired complete ownership { of the truck, but he has earned j a profitable living in the process, j Three Plates Are Entered At Halifax Three business places at Ha!i. fax, P. T. Nethery’s service sta tion, the Oasis Service Station, operated by Buck Millikin* amd Halifax Mercantile Company, own ed by L. P. Millikin, were broken into last Tuesday night before 9 O'clock. At each place windows were broken and the thieves or thief gained entrance through them. Evidence tended to show that only money was sought by the robbers as nothing was missed except small sums of cash. Earlier in the week the filling station operated by Johnny White head, colored, was broken into and a quantity of flour, cigarettes and candy taken. Investigation of tjhe breakins is being made by the sheriff’s office. Citizens Kicking On Auto Parking At Ball Games Many complaints have been re ceived by the police department about people parking their auto mobiles in driveways and yatfds of people who live near the base ball park. “There is plenty of parking space at the park,’’ s$id Chief Davis, "and those who psu*k in the driveways and yards of resi dents in the area are urged to stop the practice.” "In the future,’’ said the -chief,. ' we wtll appreciate those attend, ing the games to observe the traf fic signals and find a parking place other than driveways and yards. P.-T. A. Meeting of Vance St. School The P.-T. A. of the Vance Street School will hold its last meetilng for the year next Wednesday at 3:45. Every anember is urged to be present. The new officers For next year will be elected at t nus meeting and the results of "Fun Night" will be announced. The program deals with "Liay ing the Right Foundations : Tor Recreation.” At this time J. C.' Hoyle, director of athletics in the High School, will speak on recrew t'on for children. A short musical program will be given by the children in ob servance of National Music W^ek, Arrangements have been made whereby mothers who have no pne bo keep their babies may came •Ad bring them. Older girls will take oar« of them during fthe meeting. There will be a "dbor prlte* given to tbt person present bht Attmbtf, I Negro Man Is Shot By Wife After Quarrel Ethel Branch, negro woman, ; fired live times at her husband, Edison Branch, at their home near Garysburg last Monday night. Luckily for Edison, his wife miss- ; ed four times, but the fifth shot , hit him in the pit df the stomach, ; passed through his bladder and in flicted a serious wound for which he is being treated in Roanoke Rapids Hospital, with a fair chance of recovery. The shooting, said Sheriff Steph enson of Northampton, was the outgrowth of a quarrel between the woman and man over his coming home in the “wee hours of the morning." Branch got mad with his spouse and proceeded “to hand o chair over her head,” whereup. on she seized a .22-calibre rifle and shot him. She is being held in jail pending the outcome of her husband’s injuries. Effort Made Enter Cobb's And Theatre An attempt was made to enter Cobb’s grocery store on Tenth street last Tuesday night, accord ing to a report received by police. Efforts were made to pry open the back door and the alleged thief or thieves were frustrated in the attempt by passersby or gave up the job. It was also discovered that the glass in the front door of the Im perial Theatre was broken some time Tuesday night. Officers say that it was either done accident-1 ally or some one tried to enter! the place or it may have been done by some one locked up in side the building after the last right show and broke the glass to get out. However, investigation of the in cidents are still continuing. High School Bond Concert The annual spring concert of the Roanoke Rapids High School Band will be presented -in the High School auditorium next Monday night at 8 o'clock. The music to be heard in this program will be varied and attractive. There will be overtures, chorales by Bach and Beethoven, selections, military marches and novelties. Mary Speight and Neal Allsbrook will sing well-known songs from the popular musical comedy, "Naugh ty Marlettv" accompanied by the band. Hie program will be under thi tirwtta Qt tt«| FUU** s ■ All Workers are Immediately Eligible; Plan Adopted After Much Study; Effective Today More than 2,800 local textile workers will be im mediately eligible to participate in a voluntary contributory retirement plan which is offered to employees by the Roanoke, Patterson and Rose mary mills companies. The retirement plan goes into effect today. Complete details of the retirement plan were made public here today in a joint statement issu ed by the managements of the companies involved. “This retirement plan has been worked out only Roads Term Given Todd On 2 Counts George Colon Todd, white man, vho was arrested some time ago in charges of breaking and enter ng and larceny in connection with he loss of building materials, en ered a plea of guilty and was entenced to 12 months on the oads. Todd was tried on another harge of larceny and found guilty nd Judge Stevens gave him an dditional 12 months, both sen dees to run concurrently. Larry Cox, white, involved in the ase with Todd, was found guilty f larceny and breaking and enter lg. Cox was sentenced to two ears on the roads. His sentence ras suspended and he was placed n probation for five years, the ldge warning him that he was to iolate in no manner either a state r federal law. Another case of building mater ils theft which was disposed }f nd involved Leo Burton, Zack McDonald and Ernest W. Calla an, resulted in Burton being given six months’ road sentence, sus iended for two years upon pay nent of $100 fine and the costs, jid stipulated he shall not violate ny law whatsoever for the two ear period. McDonald also was ined $100 and the costs. Ernest Callahan, who wasn’t ailed to the stand, the evidence igainst him being insufficient, was reed by the court of all charges. Other cases disposed of were: Archie Hurshey, Roanoke Rap leadly weapon, 18 months on the oads. Roger Allen, colored, Weldon, orcible trespass: prayer for judg nent continued for two years upon >ayment of costs and good behav or. Casey Turner, Scotland Neck, :olored, burglary; not less than 13 lor more than 20 years in State’s Prison. John Thomas, Jr., negro, Scot and Neck, breaking and entering ind larceny; two years on roads, mspended and placed on probation or five years. James T. Adams and Jajnes Ar hur Wilkins, negroes, charged vith forgery, resulted in Adams jetting a two-year suspended sen ence and Wilkins 18 months on ;he roads. City Election Next Tuesday The city election to be held next Tuesday will name a mayor and three city commissioners from each ward — six in all. The polls will open at 6:30 a. m. and close at 6:30 p. m. There are two candidates in the field for mayor of the city for the next two years and 11 men are running for the six posts of city commissioner. The election will be the first held under the new law recently enacted by the General Assembly for the election of a mayor and three commissioners from each of the two wards in the city every two years. Local aoys eihist In Navy Reserve Tn a ceremony, held in the local High School building last Friday the following named men from this community were enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve for inactive duty: Kenneth M. Knight, Lewis M. Smith, William L. Trippe, Julian E. Glover, Donald J. Bridgman, Nixon L. Unwood, William L. James, Grady W. Keeter, James W. Gan non, of Roanoke Rapids, and Dan iel E. Harrington, Jr„ of Gaston. Of thus man, Knight, Smith, Glover, Bridgman, Unwood and Barrington ware enlisted In their countries sendee ter the first time, while the ethers an navy veterans who served their earn* try in the pest war* aner carerui ana tnorougn study of many existing retirement plans, and was adopted because it meets the specific needs of our employ ees,” the managements of the mills stated. "After intensive study by outside actuaries, the companies were ad vised,” the statement of the man agements continued, "that the average present employee would have slightly more than 25 years of service at age 65, and that the greatest number of employees would receive the greatest benefit I if the plan was based on a nor mal service requirement of 25 years. The company will pay the greater part of the very large cost involved. A statement issued in New York said that Simmons Co., and its subsidiaries were assum ing an obligation for past service alone of more than $13,000,000 to provide retirement benefits for the thousands of present employees, who have already rendered years of faithful service to their com panies. Employees will be asked to contribute 3 percent on earnings up to $3,000 and 5 percent on earn ings above that. The plan has been designed to provide a substantial retirement income by integrating its beneffits with those of the Social Security Act. “The plan provides for normal retirement at age sixty-five, al though the present older grojjp wid retire at ages 66 to 70, de pending on their present age. Ike payments to De maae to retired employees will be for the balance of their lives. In the event of the death of employees before retire, ment their beneficiaries will re ceive a sum equal to their contri butions plus interest. Employees who terminate their employment will also receive the sum of their contributions and in some cases will have earned a vested right to che company contributions, deT pending upon length of service.” The new retirement plan has been worked out with extreme care by some of the nation’s out standing experts in this field, in cooperation with company offi cials, and is considered by author ities in this field to be among the most liberal and unusual plans of this kind, the company’s offi cials explained. The general administration of the plan will be placed in a Retire ment Committee of at least five members who will be appointed from time to time by the board of directors. “We are distributing to all our employees a booklet which is a Condensed Outline of the Retire ment Plan," officials stated. "In addition, we have informed all our supervisory employees of the out standing features of the plan so that they can answer any ques tions of the employees regarding the plan. Furthermore, we have visiting our plants now several ex perts on this subject who will be ar me service ot the employees