oano Ramblings! \ 1Ni>' SO LONG AGO: It wasn't so very long ago that we wrote in this column about Ernest Eubank, who has his watch repair shop necessarily fixed so that he can work while in bed. Every once in a while it is nice, ? we think, to look back and follow 5 up on the doings of people once mentioned in these columns, i Well, Ernest has turned out * to be quite a baseball fan, long with a majority of other Roanoke Rapids citizens and the Jays’ management is help ing Ernest see the games more easily and more comfortably. Every home game night, after batting practice is over and as the groundkeepers are working on the | diamond just before the ump hol lers "play ball,” Ernest's father drives the family car into the bail 1 j jyk and stops just outside the I light field foul line in such a i position as to enable Ernest, while . sitting in the front seat, to see the playing field. Then, the boys roil , the big wire batting cage down there to the car and place it pro tectively around Ernest's “grand stand.” Thus Ernest can watch the game with no fear of being hit by a screaming line drive. Personally, we think it’s one of nicest things we ever heard of and from the remarks we've heard out at the park so does everyone eise. BEE'ING QUIET: While we’re musing over things of the recent past — some of you may remember that Mrs. Addie Medlin (who lives at 209 West Littleton Road in South Rosemary.' was having ‘‘chicken-thief” trouble ^ few weeks ago and the Herald Tarried a little story about the "vanishing poultry.” l This week, Mrs. Medlin called us up and gave us what to us—Jf we were bee keepers—would be one of the most sensational stories we could have heard. In addition to her other hobbie3. this fine lady keeps about seven colonies of bees, six of which are of a variety known to those in-the % now as Three-Band Italian bees : and one of which is a more vicious type known as the Golden Italian. From the six, said Mrs. Ad die, there has been little or no trouble while gathering honey— but just step inside the danger zone of the Golden tribe and there is trouble with a capi tal “B”. Now, the problem resolved it self into this: “how to get the honey without causing a lot of bad feeling between your self and the bees?” To Mrs. Addic, who, in her 20 years of administering anesthetics, anesthetized around 32t400 persons, the solution was simple. Just chlo roform them. Well, your columnist thought and asked: wouldn't that kill them? Not if you let a little air stay in the hive with them, sprightly • replied our anesthetic administra trix. So that’s just what she did. Us ing about half of an eight ounce Lottie of chloroform, she sprayed the hive and within about 10 sec onds all the little bees were asleep. 10 minutes later, just as Mrs. Med lin and her assistant, a Mr. Hooper and also a Dee Keeper, took the last of the honey from the hive and added it to what ft they had previously removed from a smoked-out hive of the not-so vicious type for an 125 pound total; her charges were beginning tc rouse themselves and resume work just as if nothing out of the ordinary had ever transpired. The next day, reports Mrs. Ad die, she went back out near the hive to check up and see if may be some of them did die. She was greeted by the cheerful sight of 9 some four to five thousand bees busily buzzing about their business and there wasn't a dead one m sight We wish we could say that Mrs. Addie was trying to get rid of all that hQney, folks, but sad to re late it’s all pledged. WAS AND WHERE: While looking back this week, we want, to stop and say thanks % to Mrs. F. H. Winter who lives at 789 St. Marks Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, whose husband is an ardent follower of the Jays and both of whom say “we do enjoy the paper immensely . . . and (we like the) change from a small size to the regular newspaper size" ^nd who wish us the “best of luck with the Herald.” ... THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ★ ★ ★ What Roanoke Rapids Makes ¥¥ , ¥ ... , . ¥ . Herald Classified Advertising —Makes Roanoke Rapids ^ r Gets Ouick Results + ^ ^ ★ * * VOLUME XXXIIROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1947 NUMBER 42 ——————— -— Weldon In Washington I NO.CAROUNA Miss Betty Lee Raynor of Weldon, elected Governor of the Tar lleel State at the recent “Girls State," holds aloft the proud banner of North Carolina at the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary's “Girls Nation’’ in Washington while M iss Marshale Moody of Siler City, Lieutenant ; Governor, smiles her approval. Youngsters Scamper Thru Streets Despite Much Playgroung Space; Parents, Adults Cautioned Anew (Editor's Note: This is the second and last in a series of articles on traffic safety, writ ten in cooperation with the Roanoke Rapids police depart ment In an effort to keep our traffic death rate and prop erty damage at a minimum.) Although the recent report on North Carol’ina traffic accidents pointed out several discoveries trom a study of the figures, there are two or three local conditions, which, if corrected* could do much to reduce local fatalities, injuries and monetary loss. One of these — the playing by children in the streets — should take care of itself automatically to a certain extent with the ad vent of school days. However, there are still a couple of weeks remaining yet for the kids to be at leisure. Despite the multitude of vacant lots, parks and back yards, no few children are still using the city streets (including the much trav eled ones) for playgrounds. At the beginning of the summer, the police department warned parents of this hazard and requested their cooperation in combating it. This request has been followed far be yond expectations and the Herald has been informed on no fe\V times how gratified the police are at the cooperation manifested. But, there are those few unguid ed youngsters who evade parental supervision and give drivers, po lice and bystanders nervous hys terics. A little advice to the child ren by some adult who happens by might not be out of order. Per haps a life might be saved there by. Another juvenile activity is the riding of bicycles. In itself, it is healthful recreation, but when bi cycles are ridden carelessly or un thinkingly some very unfortunate mishaps can, and often do, result. In this connection too, it might be pointed out that the sidewalks (Continued on pat/e 1—Sect. B.) 65 Candidates Will Start Football Grind Next Wednesday; Coach Hunts Players To Replace Losses In Line Approximately 65 candidates, in cluding 13 lettermen, are expected to be on hand for the opening session of football practice at the high school field next Wednesday, Rockefellow Venters, head coach of the Yellow Jackets, disclosed to day In elaborating on a previously released announcement of the drill. The disclosure came in conjunc tion with an announcement that there would be a change in assist ant coaches this year. Danny Ca gle, who handled the Junior Jack ets the last season has moved up to assist Venters, replacing Cran ford Hoyle* who will take over the Junior squad. This announcement, emanating from the office of Ath letic Director Joe Talley, also re vealed that Hoyle will retain his l-ost as head baseball mentor. Lettermen returning from last year's squad are Mackfield men Sam Wood, Walter Myrick, O. B. Crumpler, Vance Stewart, David Cox, Runt Acree, Bobby Mac Adams, Reuben Slade, Curtis Hig gins and William George; and linemen Wordest Felts, Hubert Lowder, and Jabo Hale. The Jackets lost the entire first string line by graduation. Three backs, one of whom entered the Navy, will also be missed from last year’s squad Ten players, six of which are hnemen, have been promoted from the 1946 Junior team. M. C. Crane, Buster Britt, Harold Messer, and Russell Johnson are the only ball carriers that have moved up to the varsity. Linemen coming up to the No. 1 team are Kenny Mizell, Vixon Harris* Vance Collins, Har ry Talley, Billy Nixon, and Noah Sadler. The present schedule calls for eight games and there is a pos sibility that one more may be add ed to the list. Thus far, Oxford is the only non-conference team that the Jax will play, but athletic of ficials are trying to work the Hen derson Bulldogs Into the schedule. The schedule: Sept. 26—Wash ington, there; Oct. 3 — Tarboro, here; Oct. 10—Edenton, there; Oct. 17—New Bern, here; Oct. 24 —Elizabeth City, there; Oct. 31— Oxford, there; Nov. 7—Greenville, here; Nov. 14—Kinston, there; Nov. 21—open. NO BAIL, BOSS? Milton I. Wick, publisher of the Herald, was ‘imprisoned’* for about a half an hour yes terday. He entered a safety deposit vault at the uptown branch of the Roanoke Bank and Trust Company and when he got ready to leave he couldn’t — the door mm stuck. They finally got him out. ft Halifax, Northampton Deer Hunters Go Into Action October 6th Under 1947-48 Wildlife Commission Rules Halifax and Northampton coun ty hunters may go after deer on October sixth and hunt (from Mondays through Saturdays) until New Year’s Day, according to an . announcement released today by * the North Carolina Wildlife Re sources Commission concerning seasons and bag limits for 1947-48 ’ set after a public hearing in Ral eigh August 11th and 12th. Although the rules and regula tions are substantially the same as last year, there were a few minor changes, not the least of which was the added regulation that ‘deer must have antlers plainly . visible to the hunter.” « Open seasons applying to the two counties include: for squirrel —October 8 through Jan. 1; tur key—Nov. 24 through Jan. 15; opossum and raccoon (with dogs and guns)—Oct. 15 through Feb. 15; quail—Nov. 27 through Jan. 31, rabbit—Nov. 27 through Jan. 31; ruffed grouse—Nov. 27 through Jan. 1, end Russian boar—Oct It through Jan. 1. Fox may be taken with guns during any time at which the sea son Is open in the counties for the taking of other game birds and animals; except in counties having local fox laws, the local laws regu late the season. There is no closed season on wildcat, weasel and skunk. Migratory Waterfowl The seasons for taking migra tory waterfowl are set by the Fed eral government and are not in cluded in the Commission announ cement All other protected wild birds and animals for which nc open season is provided cannot hd taken. Bag Limits Bag limits on all types of gam* were listed as: two bear per daj with possession and season limil of two; one deer per day, posses slon and season limit of two; eigh: quail per day, possession limit 16 (Continued on pope 8—Sect* A) * School Conferences Begun In County * Administrative activities in con nection with the re-opening of the county’s schools got under way Tuesday afternoon when the Dis trict Principals of the colored schools (which open September first) met in a conference with County Superintendent VV. Henry Overman in the auditorium of the County Office building in Halifax. In a similar meeting being held this afternoon in Halifax, District Principals of the white schools were discussing: the principals’ use of time of employment prior to opening of school, policies of operation of Halifax County schools and planning programs ot work for the school year. The white schools, as previously an nounced, are slated to open on September fourth. Next Thursday afternoon at two thirty, a conference with school bus drivers, principals and bus mechanics of the colored schools will be held while the correspond ing personnel of the white schools will meet on September third. These two conferences will be at tended by a representative of the Division of Highway Safety and topics to be dealt with include: school bus routes, safety and eco nomy in operations of busses, and laws, rules and regulations gov erning operation of school busses. Principals and teachers meetings will Degin wiiu-a negro school principals' conference next Fri day morning (August 29; at ten thirty. The next morning at ten o'clock, colored school teachers will join tne principals for a thresh ing out of their common problems. White instructors and principals will hold their meeting at ten o'clock on the morning of Septem ber third. All the above meetings are scheduled to be held in the Coun ty Office building auditorium in Halifax. In an administrative conference called for two-thirty the afternoon of Friday September fifth, the superintendents and principals (Continued on page 2—Sect. Bj North Carolina ranked as num ber 18 in incorfie payments during the years 1934-45 with a payment Oi $17,647,000. The total peach crop grown in the State is estimated at 3,104,000 bushel or 2 percent less than 1946 and 57 percent greater than the 10-year average production. S^Ssssa^ch,*/ Housing Continues Blistering Pace; Registers $26,550 With permits for the construc tion of 76 new homes issued so ar this year, monetary value of luthorized new building in Roa ioke Rapids for 1947 soared well mst the half-million dollar mara :his week and with almost $25,000 .0 spare. With the addition of $35,550 worth of building authorized since August tirst, the city's grand total now rests at $524,400 with over i week remaining for a further monthly comparison climb. Despite a lagging behind strong 1946 figures in commercial, indus trial and other miscellaneous building classifications, 1947 new housing continued to far outstrip that of the preceding year. Totals for the month so far were: New Home Construction $26k55o. Commercial and other _.$ 9,000. August 1947 Permits Permits issued this month were listed as follows; to J. W. Raines, xor a cne-stcry Mock garage at i226 Washington ut an estimated cost of $1,000. The Christian Church, for a one story church building with seven rooms on Washington Street be tween Ninth and lutn Streets, esti mated cost of $8,000. Grace B. Gates, a one-story frame residence with four rooms at 605 Jefferson Street, $2500; .J. R. Welch, one-story frame resi dences witli four rooms and bath i t 135-137-139 William Street, at an estimated cost of $5750 each; and to J. B. Dickens, a one-story name residence on Chaloner Drive with seven rooms, $6800. Cali The Wagon Kounoke Rapids citizens were treated to the sight of highway patrolman John VV. Wilson's driving a mule cart along the streets. Saturday night between eight and nine o’clock after Wilson had ar rested his predecessor at the job for driving while drunk. Wilson, who arrested Walter Enscoe, of South Rosemary, near the Roanoke River Bridge between Gaston and Roanoke Rapids, said the case will be heard in Recorder’s Court, September fourth. At least one local policeman was overheard to declare that "Wilson held out his hand while turning corners and, in every way, observed the traf fic regulations’’ while bring ing the cart in to local police headquarters. Fire Line Safety Forest fire line plowing is now available (although for only a limited time) to all in terested landowners of Halifax County, according to an an nouncement by County Forest Warden C. T. Lawrence, of the North Carolina Forest Service,, made this week. Fire line plowing is usually accomplished by circling the wooded property, then divid ing it into smaller compart ments through use of a six foot line or construction of a fire break by a diesel oper ated, crawler-type tractor pull ing a plow especially designed for this work. The service is made avail able through the Division of Forestry and Parks of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and the equipment may be viewed in operation on the former Frieze Estate near Scotland Neck. For more detailed informa tion or application forms, in terested Halifax County land owners should contact Warden Lawrence at Scotland Neck or the District Forester, David J. Marts, at the postoffice build ing in Rocky Mount. Georgia Police Chief Says Martin Slugged Cashier In Bank Robbery Attempt Capt. James T. Martin was in Hall County jail at Gainsville, Ga., . this week after he had made an unsuccessful attempt to stage a one-man daylight bank robbery in Duluth, Ga., last Friday, Duluth Chief of Police A. H. Gravis told a Herald reporter in a telephone conversation last night. According to Gravis, the man entered the Bank oi Duluth about two o’clock in the afternoon and requested change for a small bill. About a half nour later the man came back and, informing cashier Everett Bagwell he was a Federal officer, lured him into a bac.'t office where he knocked him in the head with an Army .45 calibre automatic. Alarmed by Bagwell s groans, his wife and a woman bank employee ran out the front door screaming. Gravis said he apprehended Martin about 45 minutes later in Duluth and he was immediately removed to the county jail at Gainsville. The FBI then took over the in vestigation of the case, according to Gravis, who said Martin told him his home was "somewhere up that way" (North Carolina). A James T. Martin recently wrote The Herald from Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, that, after seven years service with the. armed orces, he was being discharged on luly 23rd. He gave his rank as hat of major and said he left lere with the National Guard in 940. (The Roanoke Rapids guard mil--Co. 'B", 105th Medical Regi nent - was mobilized Sept. 16, .940, and entrained for Ft. Jack :on, S. C., on Sunday„ Sept. 29th. > Martin said he had served In ilmost every state in the unio\ .•nd overseas in the Pacific Thea ;er of Operations. He requested i’he Herald to tell his friends his ^lans which he gave in part as I'm taking a job in the Far East. I expect to spend the rest of my live over there in some part of Asia helping them to rebuild what las been destroyed." Martin was a line sergeant igrade four; when he left here .vith Company B. After attaining the rank of first sergeant, he left the company in Lhe early part of 1943 to attenu Officer Candidate School of the Army Medical Administrative Jorps at Camp Barkley near Abi ene, Texas. Army records at Brooks Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Hous on showed a Capt. James T. Mar in as having gone on 28 days xrminal leave July 22, which leave vould have expired on August L9th. Typhoid Breaks Out Anew; Brings Year Total To 4 Cases By DR. ROBERT F. YOUNG Typhoid fever has tightened its disgraceful grip upon Halifax County with the reporting of three l ew cases, bringing the total to four cases in this County for 1947. All of these cases are in negroes located near Mullins Crosroads, none of whom had been adequate ly immunized for typhoid fever, although, the immunization clinics were held within a short distance of this locality. These tenants are to blame for this neglect. One of these families had neither a sani tary privy nor a safe water sup ply, while the other family had an approved sanitary privy but was not using it, and did not have a safe water supply. This is, at Itast in part, a neglected responsi bility of the land owner. The ten ant and. the land owner have a joint responsibility in whipping typhoid fever, and when this re sponsibility is fully disposed of, the tenant and land owner will realize material benefits in im proved health and production. A sick tenant is a liability, and the health of the land lord and his family is in jeopardy with sick tenants and poor sanitation sur rounding them. During the past five and one half years, Halifax County has had 3b cases of typhoid fever, 30 of v'hich have been located in the Lvver end of the County near Scotland Neck, and Hobgood. This disgraceful record gives Halifax County one of the highest typhoid fever morbidity rates in the state of North Carolina as well as in the Nation. As the Halifax County Health Department has pointed cut many times in the past* typa iod fever is a filth disease the presence of which is positive proof that the sanitary conditions are very poor in the area in which it exists. Almost without exception when investigating these cases, it is found that either sanitary sew age facilities or an approved water supply or both are lacking on the premises where typhoid fever exists. Repeated appeals have teen made to the citizens in this county and particularly to the cit izens in the community of Scot land Neck and Hobgood to take u positive stand in providing bet ter sanitation so that this dis graceful disease can be controlled. Moreover, appeals have been made to the citizens to be adequately (Continued on page 6'—Sect. A) The Local Week... Two Fire Calls Friday Firemen answered a call about noon Friday to the corner of Sixth Street and Roanoke Avenue when a laundry truck was suspected of being on fire. Smothered out with dirt, prior to arrival of firemen, the sparks caused no damage. Friday night, a vehicle parked outside Simmons Park, began smoking and the smoke-eaters were summoned at about 8:20. Again there were no damages. Officer Resigns C. A. Ball, with the Roanoke Rapids police department for the past year and a half, resigned August 15th. He was succeeded by T. L*. Glosson, of Burlington, a former policeman here who had re signed several weeks ago to re turn to his home in Burlington. Stolen Car, Found An automobile, stolen from the vicinity of Rosemary Mill on Mon day night, August 4th, was report ed recovered Wednesday by the State Highway Patrol. According tc a radio message received by the Roanoke Rapids police department Wednesday morning, the black Ford coupe was found in Little ton by a highway patrolman. There have been no arrests in the case. Negro Child Hurt Richard Parker, colored, aged four, of 132 Vine Street, was struck though not seriously in jured by a 1935 Ford car* owned by Willie B. Wililams of 763 Wil liams Street and driven by his wife. The child was admitted to Roanoke Rapids Hospital after what police said was a part of his skull had been found embed ded in the fender of the oar. Whites, Negroes Mix Near Church; Leaving Today Negroes and while persons mixed together, 3J in number and members of a church founded by a native Halifax Coun ty negro, were scheduled to leave ttie county this morning only two days alter arrixal in response to a hoard of health order issued them W ednesday morning. £U A puiill ttUUUl LlilCC miles east of Halifax Tuesday morning after a trip from Phila delphia, Pennsylvania, members o! Lhe bus-car caravan, belonging to a church described in two inch high script letters on the side of the bus as “The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith,” had held services at a colored church in the vicinity of Tillery. They had been ordered out under the recenLly passed county law prohibiting the parking of, or camping in, trailers in areas other Lhan authorized and licensed trail er camps. Acting under this law,, enacted in January, the county board of nealth and the county health of iicer, Dr. Robert F. Young, yes terday dispatched County Rural ■Sanitarian E. A. Hastings and Deputy Sheriff Jack Winstead to mpromptu camp grounds of the 'roup at the farm home of Lizzie -lark, colored, to inform members :hey were breaking the sanitation aws and would have to leave the county by ten o'clock this morn ng. (In an interview Wednesday afternoon in Halifax, Dr. Young anted the board was only con cerned with the sanitation aspects Jl the case and was not interest ed officially in, nor did they issue xii ui uci ijawiums iu, me oreaK iiig of segregation customs.; A white man, identifying him self as the Rev. Alfred N. Dur ham, a minister of the church he said was founded by ‘Bishop S. C. Johnson” (a negro born and reared on a farm near Tillery and sometimes known as Shay John son), readily answered reporters' questions, stating the church was tor "everyone regardless of race, creed or color ' and that he was the national secretary of the church. He gave his home address as Merchantsvillp. New Jersey, and said wt *•?. members of the group included his wife, a d .lighter, Pld* ith, a .lieit.*, Kay ljuuiam. pud a "Sister Anna Pierce.” When asked if a percentage jf about half white and half colored of the group would be a ‘‘fair estimate/’ one of the white women replied, "Yes." Meanwhile occupants of the bus leaned out the windows to aul Durham in response to question* or to elaborate on his answers. Durham said he had been a minister in the church for about three years and that prior to that time he had been a larmer. lie *uid they spent Tuesday night ai “the home of Mrs. Citzie Clark' and presumed that, since the coun ty board's order had given them until the next day to leave, they would spend Wednesday night ai the same place. Johnson, referred to by members of both races as “the Bishop", preached at a nearby prison camp Tuesday night and was supposed to have preached there again Iasi night, they said. Johnson's followers said the church, which has its headquarters # in Philadelphia, has member churches from Providence, Rhode Island, to Florence, South Caro lina, and, although there are none in North Carolina at present, they wanted to establish one in the vicinity of Tillery or Scotland Neck. ---uj the negro’s perspiring adherents