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INSIDE U.S.A.—Beatrice Lillie and Jack Haley, starsof the hit musical, "Inside U.S.A.," were the first theatrical contributors to the Save the Children Federation. 1 Madison Avenue, New York, for the new porgram to aid Navajo Indian orphan children. Receiving the check is Dr. H. Claude Hardy, vice president of the Federation. Mrs. Lillian Kennedy Awarded $3,500 In Suit Against ACL Railroad; Court Is Recessed to Thursday; Divorces Granted Parker Levies Fines, Sentences During Session Halifax—Superior Court Judge R. Hunt Parker recessed the Au gust term of Halifax Superior Court here yesterday until Thursday, after granting several divorces and passing sentence in several other cases which have been tried during the session which began last Monday. A civil suit brought by Mrs. Lillian Kennedy against the At lantic Coast Line Railroad was compromised in court during yesterday's session after some of the evidence had been presented. Mrs. Kennedy received $3,500 damages on her charges that she was injured when a porter 'dropped a heavy suitcase on her head. Divorces granted during the term of court included: Donald Rowe Weed from Marcia * Peck Weed, Ruth Delbridge Jones from Fletcher William Jones; Avis Edwards Moore from Mar tin Lewis Moore; Odell \usoy Whitaker from Lewis Whitaker; Harry Q. Hudgins from Elsie Hunt Hudgins, Missoria Gunter Whitaker from Jesse Whitaker: Irene Cartel- from Robert Earl Carter; Thelma Harris King from William Emmett King, Jr.; Katie Reese Waters from John William Waters; Viola Norwood Wymore from Joseph Wymore; and Sadie Evelyn Hobbs Pearson from Albert Washington Pear son. . , _ er levied the following sen tences: Roy Lee Barkley, who was found guilty of violating his probation, was given a 12 months roads sentence. I. P. Bryant, superintendent of the county home, was found guilty of driving while under the influence of intoxicating beverages and fined $100 and costs and had his license revok ed for 12 months. I. F. Rochelle of Roanoke Rap ids, was found guilty of driv ing while under the influence of intoxicating beverages, and was fined $100 and costs and had his drivers license revoked for 12 months. George “Pete” Winfield, was sentenced to eight months on the roads after being found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Robert Lee Brown of Weldon. William L. Trippe of Roanoke Rapids and Eddie Garner were found not guilty of driving while under the influence of in toxicating beverages. Woodland-Olney School To Open On Thursday WoodlandThe Woodland-Olney School will open Thursday, Au gust 26 at 9 a.m. The Rev. M. W. Grant, pas tor of the Rich Square and Woodland Methodist Churches will be the speaker at the open ing exercises, which will be held in the school auditorium at 9:30 The teachers at Woodland-Ol ney School for the 1948-49 ses sion are as follows’ First Grade Mrs. Elizabeth Grant Outland ; Second Grade, Mrs. L. C. Cope land; Third Grade: Mrs. Doris S. Taylor; Fourth Grade: Miss Olivia Bridges of Conway; Fif-, th Grade: Mrs. Helen McDaniel j Joyner; Sixth Grade: Mrs. Ruth 1 Belcher McDaniel; Seventh Grade: Mrs. Eunice Otwell Cor bitt of Menola and Eighth Grade: Miss Mary E. Outland. In the high school the teach ers will be: Miss Mary Ellen Lassiter; Mrs. Mildred C. Jen kins of Potecaii; W. «R. Rdbin son, James Parker and Princi pal B. L. White. Mrs. J. J. Carter will teach public school music and piano and Miss Mary Ella Parker will he the librarian. t. Roanoke Number One Employees Circulate Petition Requesting Mendes And CIO To Leave City Employees of the Roanoke Mills Company’s Number One Mill want their pay increased and are demanding that the C 10 Textile Workers Union and its leaders leave Roanoke Rap ids. A petition, originated by the employees themselves, is being circulated at the plant. The petition says in essence, “We the undersigned request To bey E. Mendes, national re presentative of the CIO Textile Workers Union and the CIO to leave Roanoke Rapids. We want our pay increased and are tir ed of a lot of talk.” There were reports that some of the union leaders had threa tened prosecution of any person in the mill who signed the pe tition. ui uii; cuifiu y tta yi^ni iv George L. Green, prominent Weldon attorney, and asked Green to give his opinion of the petition and whether or not the signers could be prosecuted.* A letter which is addressed to Sidney Sadler, Roanoke Mills Company Number One follows: ‘‘I have been requested to give an opinion in relation to the pe tition signed by a good number of employees of Roanoke Mills Company’s Number One mill re garding Tobey E. Mendes, CIO organizer in Roanoke Rapids. “It is my understanding that you and other employees of Roa noke Mill Number One, have upon your own intiative and without prior knowledge or con sent of the company, circulated a petition amony the other em ployees requesting certain CIO representatives, to leave the city of Roanoke Rapids. “You have advised me that some of the employees have come to you and stated that a union representative warned them against signing the peti tion and threatened criminal pro secution if they did so, or if they failed to withdraw their fiames in cases where the peti tion had been signed. “You have shown a copy of the petition and since it con tains no profane or threatening statements it would not, in my opinion, be unlawful for any em ployee to sign the petition or leave his name thereon if h e wishes to do so of his own ac cord. the Roanoke Mills Compan y had no part whatever in originat ing or circulating the petition, and that is as it should be.” The letter dated August 19, is signed by George C. Green. Frank Williams, president of Roanoke Mills Company, who was out of town most of last week, said today that he had not seen the petition nor the let ter and that “all I know about the affair is hearsay and I have no comment to make about the situation.” It was reported that a large majority bf the employees of the mill had signed the petition, which was started around the mill the early part of last week. Pupils Move Classes To Chartered Planes POMONAL Cal. (U.P.)—Seven th graders at Emerson Junior High School got some extra schooling in an airplane. Mrs. Arline Steiner’s 50-pupil geography class chaptered two commercial planes for a round trip flight to San Diego to see “what Southern Californa really looks like.” The youngsters washed dish es, mowed la,wns, sat babies and held a rummage sale to finance the trip. They will use the in formation they learned on the flight in classroom work. Warren County Schools Open September 1 Warrenton — Warren County Schools will open for the 1948 49 session on September 1, provided the board of health does not order otherwise, school officials announced to day. Pupils are requested to bring their fees covering the year's work on the first day of school. Buses will operate on the opening day of school. Dr. A. D. Gregg, Warren County health officer, has said that at present, he sees no reason whv the school* should not open as scheduled. DDT Spraying In Warrenton Is Completed Warrenton — Insects and flies have virtually ceased to exist in Warrenton. The town has been complete ly sprayed with DDT, which in sects and bugs do not like. Mrs. W. L. Long, chairman of the committee which supervised the work, reported today that the program had been carried out by W. T. Ellington, Howard Wynne Jr. and John Garrett III. These men received instruct ion in spraying DDT at a school operated by the State Health De partment at Henderson. The Town of Warrenton gave $100 to help defray the cost of spraying the DDT and the re mainder of the money necessary for the program was collected from individual residents of War renttfn. The town provided a truck and a helper for the program and Mrs. Long reports that there is some DDT left over, perhaps e nough to spray next year and that some funds still remain in the Polio Prevention account. The committee which super vised the campaign included: Dr. A. D. Gregg, county health officer, H. M. Hardy, chariman of the Warren Polio Chapter; W. and Mrs. W. Lunsford Long. One Family Invasion Of Eire Impending CHICAGO (U.P.) — Mr. and Frank Roycroft and their 13 chil dren are ready for a mass pil grimage to the little town in Ireland where the elder Roy er of ts were born. Travel experts estimated that the family would require a draw ing room, two compartments, and two double bedrooms to get to New York. Three cabs should get them to the pier where they will occupy two cabins. None of this includes the handbaggage, five trunks, and two bicycles that the Roycrofts are taking with them. Roycroft, a utilty company .foreman, has saved $5,000 for the trip. Has To Learn German To Talk To Dog Nicholas Bowman is learning German so she can talk to a dog. Max vom Karfenhof, a Ger man dog that understands no English, was thrust upon Mrs. Bowman, as a star boarder when her soldier son stationed in Eur ope, bought the animal for eight cartons of cigarettes. Mrs. Bowman says the dog is “very obedient and very friend ly.” As long as she talks to him in German, that i^. THE ROANOKE RAPIDS VOLUME XXXIII ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1948 NUMBER 50 Officials Probing Alleged Misuse Of State School Funds In Warren Weldon Schools Will Open On September 1 Weldon—C. B. Thomas, su perintendent of the Weldon schools, announced today that the schools would open on September 1. Thomas said that an open ing day program was being nrranaed for 9 a. m., at the high school gymnasium and auditorium. Jackson School Will Reconvene On Thursday Jackson—Principal G. D. Da vis of Jackson High School an nounced today that the school would open Thursday. The opening program^ which will feature an address by the Rev J. B. Dailey, pastor of the Jackson Baptist Church will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in the school auditorium. Members of the faculty this year will be: Principal Davis, Mrs. Pattie P. Ehrhart, first grade; Mrs. G. W. Davis, second grade; Miss Francis Bradley, third grade; Mrs. Bessie C. Han cock, fourth grade; Miss Mary Jordan Gay, fifth grade; Mrs. Joseph Elia, sixth grade; Mrs. E. N. Riddle, seventh grade ; Miss Francis Freeman, eighth grade; Miss Julia Calvert, misic Mrs. Ruby F. Flythe, English and French; Mrs. Lucille C. Clark, home economics and his tory; Mrs. J. Murphy Duncan, physical education and science; Mrs. Blanche S. Gay, science arid mathematice; J. W. Parxer, vocational Agriculture; and Kell Martin, boys physical education and director of athletics. Local Woman’s Kin Killed When Train Crashes Into Car Hampton Rice, and his three year-old nephew, William Tip pett, of Henderson, RFD, were killed last Thursday night when the car in which they were rid ing was struck by a southbound Seaboard freight train about 5:30 o’clock. Rice, who is well known in Roanoke Rapids, was the brother of Mrs. E. B. Glover, who lives on Carolina Avenue in Homer town The automobile was dragged more than a block along the tracks, Rice being killed in stantly and the child dying en route to the hospital. Elting Heads First Methodist Youth Fellowship Dwight Elting was elected president of the senior depart ment of the Youth Fellowship of the First Methodist Church at a recent election. Other officers of the organiza tion are: Gwendlyn Hodges, vice president: Anita Woodruff, sec retary-treasurer and Mary Jo Suiter, publicity director. Gay Is Named Lions District Officer Jackson—Attorney Ballard S . Gay of Jackson has been ap-, pointed deputy district governor of Region One of Lions Interna tional. Gay is a member of the Jack son Lions Club, tast year he vtfas zone chairman of the Lions Club in this district. Button, Button, Who’s Got Buttons? WASHINGTON (U.P.)— Zip pers may be here to stay but the government is taking no chances. Its national resources conser vation program includes a provi sion for the preservation of fresh-water mussels, raw mater ial for buttons. In the past 10 years sewage and erosion have killed off a lot of mussels in the Mississippi Ri ver basin. It has had a bad ef fect on the button industry. So now the fish and wildlife service has started out to raise mussels in various clean rivers of Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkan sas, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. Whether the project actually will mean more buttons won’t be known until at least 1951, the service said. It takes from three to five years for a mussel toma-i ture. ! Lions Club Seeks Entries For Talent Night Contest During Festival Sept. 23 The Roanoke Rapids Lions Club is looking for local talent from the area around Roanoke Rapids. During the Lions Club’s Fes tival, in fact on Thursday night, September 23, all those who have some special talent, will have an opportunity to display their wares. In Roanoke Rapids, Weldon, Littleton and other communities in the area, officials of the Lions Club, believe that there are many people who have special abilities. Some can sing well, some can play musical instru ments such as the piano an d other instruments better than a verage and others can imitate well-known personalities to a T. The Lions Club Festival’s Ta lent Night is opep. to any and all of these people. The musical instrument, con - test will be limited to those en rolled in any elementary or high school system. Singing, imper sonation, and dancing, or other talents, will be open to anyone. A stage will be erected in side the high school athletic field, which will be the festival grounds and bleacher seats will be installed to make it an am phitheatre. A public address sys tem will be installed. There will be a piano on the stage, but all other musical instrument contestants will have to bring their own instruments. Mack Outland will introduce and interview each of the con testants and three judges, all wo men, will acclaim the winners or the basis of applause. Suit able prizes will be awarded to each winner. The talent night committee is holding auditions for the contes tants. If you have a talent and want to enter the Lions Club Festival Talent Night write to the Lions Club Talent Night, P. O. Box 146, Roanoke Rapids. Use the entry blank printed on page three of today’s issue of the Herald. The deadline for entries is September 11. Ashford Pleased With Guard Response At Scotland Neck Scotland Neck—Robert Ash ford, commanding officer of the National Guard here, expressed gratitude for the favorable re sponse which the young men of Scotland Neck have given the newly formed unit here. Ashford, who still hopes to have many more volunteers be fore making formal application for federal recognition, states that he will be at the Commun ity House every Monday between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 to discuss questions with interest ed people. A meeting was held last Fri day evening for this purpose and at that time 15 men had made application for admission to the unit. Applications are being received at all times both by Ashford and W. O. McDowell who is second in command in the unit. Local Woman Heads District Teacher Group Rich Square — Martha Rob Cherry of Roanoke Rapids was elected president of the Home making Teachers of Halifax, Hertford, Bertie and Northamp ton Counties at a meeting held here last Thursday. Other officers elected were: Lucille Tharrington, Conway, vice-president; Josephine Grant, Rich Square, secretary-treasur er; Margaret Revelle, Murfrees boro, program chairman; Helen Bullick, Seaboard, student club adviser; Bernice Winborne, Cole rain, and Dorothy Shields, Scot land Neck, reporters. The teachers planned their monthly group meetings for the coming year and mapped plans for the year’s work. Meetings will be held at the Rich Square school each third Monday at 3:30 p. m. The program for the year in cludes activities with the Future Homemakers of America, work simplification and adult educa tion. The First District One rally for the year was set for October 30 in Scotland Neck. Teachers present at the meet ing were: Lucille Tharrington, Helen Bullick, Margaret Re velle, Josephine Grant, Jessalyn Lumsden, Aulander; Martha Rob Cherry, Margie Rhea Minton, Ahoskie; Dorothy Howard, Wel don; Emma Smith, Aurelian Springs; Dorothy Shields and Bernice Winborne. Man Dies While Waiting To Get Auto Inspected W. E. King, 62, died of a sud den heart attack Saturday in the auto inspection lane here. King was sitting in his automo bile waiting to go through the inspection lane when he was stricken. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the New Hope Church by the Rev. John T. Maides. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are two sons: W. E. King Jr. of Chicago; and Carlton King of Emporia, Va; three brothers: J. M. and A. R. King of Roanoke Rapids and H. P. King of Roduco and two sis ters, Mrs. E. H. Shell of Roa noke Rapids and Mrs. R. S. Stratton of Ahoskie. Miss Casey Jones Shows Railroaders CHAMBLEE, Ga. (U.P.)—Old Casey Jones had his troubles, , but he never pushed his ca b down the pike to the telegraphic orders of ‘‘a doll with painted toes.” The doll with painted toes is attractive, brunette Robbie Mau ldin, a 23-year-old woman tele Scotland Neck Street Work Is Well Under Way Scotland Neck — Repairing of Main Street and Sunset Avenue by the State Highway and Pub has been underway for the past ten days, is preliminary to a new surfacing for both streets. As soon as the work of filling in all the holes is completed, then the job of recoating the two streets with asphalt will begin. The state highway commis sion also is contemplating the widening of Sunset Avenue west ward from Church Street almost to the city limits .to a width of thirty-six feet and the surfacing of same and putting in curbs and gutters. Aurelian Springs Man Escapes Injury In Auto Accident Aurelian Springs—Roger Liles narrowly escaped serious injui ies Thursday when the car which he was driving overturn ed as he attempted to pass an other automobile. The accident occurred on the Littleton Highway near the Au relian Springs school. Lile’s car was badly damaged in the accident And the engineer on the South ern Rocket at first couldn’t be lieve what he saw when he pulled into the little way-station, j “I’ll be a wall-eyed pike,” he exclaimed. ‘Never thought I’d live to see the day I’d be get ting orders from someone with painted toes.” That was three years ago. The little lady has come along since then. A couple of days ago the Southern Peach Queen was roai ing toward Chamblee. The tram twiched to a jerky halt and out stepped gigham-dressed Robbis. “Nobody but Robbie Mauldin could stop the peach queen at Chamblee,” said an old railroad er. The job is a masculine one. What does Robbie say? “I’m just a railroad man, and I love it. It’s something that gets in your blood. I haven’t learned to cuss, chew, smoke or drink, but I love railroadin’.” The engineers, even after three years, are finding it hard to greet the painted-toe telegraph men telegraph operators. Rob They shook their heads at wo men telegraph operatore. Rob bie just bats the keys of her in strument, giving them the times etc., with a little smile that nev er admits railroading was made for men only. Stores Here To Remain Open On Wednesdays The vacation is over for most Roanoke Rapids mer- i chants. Mrs. Elva Martin, secretary ' of the Merchants Association, j announced today that effective ! next Wednesday, September 1, ( all of the merchants in Roa noke Rapids, with the excep- ; tion of the grocery stores, would remain open on Wed- I nesday afternoons. Mrs. Martin added that the j stores would not observe La- j bor Day, but would remain open on that day. Sept. 6. Auto Inspection Lane Will Stop At Littleton Raleigh,—The Mechanical In spection Division of the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles today announced a change in the sche dule for Inspection Lane No. 34, to cover Halifax, Bertie, and Northampton Counties. The schedule has been chang ed to include Littleton on the list of towns to be visited. Ar thur T. Moore, Director of the Inspection Program, said he had had numerous requests from cities in the Littleton area for a lane, and he added that the request had been granted to give better service to motorists in that section. The lane is currently operat ing in Roanoke Rapids, where it will remain through August 24. It will then move with this schedule: Conway—Aug. 26-29 Jackson—Aug. 31-Sept. 2 Weldon—Sept. 4-9 Littleton—Sept. 11-12 Halifax—Sept. 14-16 Enfield—Sept. 18-20 Scotland Neck—Sept. 22-26 Rich Square—Sept. 28-30 Aulander—Oct. 2-5 Windsor—Oct. 7-10 Roanoke Rapids—Oct. 12— rsarmoiomew s Day Communion To Be Held Tonight The Feast of Saint Bartholo mew’s Day will be celebrated at the All Saints Episcopal Church tonight at 8 o’clock with a half hour Communion service. All members of the church are urged to attend. The church bell was rung at hourly intervals at All Saints Episcopal Sunday to celebrate the opening of the World Coun cil of Churches at Amsterdam in the Netherands. The first general council of churches will continue through September 4. This is the first general coun cil of churches since the early days of the Christian Church. The Roman Catholics and the Southern Baptist Churches, who are not members of the Council, have accredited observers at the meeting in Amsterdam. Gate Crashers Use Same Old Tricks DENVER (U..P)—C. V. Ragan, a gateman for the Pinkerton de tective agency, finds that wheth er at the opera or at a rodeo held in a dusty corral, gate crashers try Ihe same tricks over and over. Usually, he added, they fail. Ragan feels that in six years of taking tickets, he has spotted all the dodges and has them neatly classified. There’s the youngster who says his mother is inside; that he went to a rest room and1 got lost and needs to get in to find her. There’s the bold fellow with the dime-store deputy's badge or the phoney press credentials. Someone always races up to the gate breathlessly and de mands entrance with the ex planation, “I’m on in the next act and I’m late,’’ Ragan said. It doesn’t work. Performers sel dom use public gates, he ex plained. The oldest dodge, the veteran gate-keeper said. is the man with the small black case who claims he’s a doctor on an emer gency call. Least effective, Ragan said, is the t0;y°ung girl with too much lipstick who wheedles: “How about letting :ne in? I’ll see you after the show.” “They don’t get^ in and they don’t see me after the show.” Ragan said. Official's Handling Of Funds Probed Warrenton—An investigation of the alleged misuse of over $10,000 in state school funds by J. Edward Allen, superintendent of the Warren County Sohools for the past 29 years, was be ing continued today by the State Bureau of Investigation and Dis trict Solicitor E. R. Tyler of Ro xobel. Solicitor Tyler refused to comment on the probe and the Sheriff’s office at Warrenton re ported today that no warrants had been issued against Allen, who is ill at his home here. Though Tyler refused to com ment, it was learned that the solicitor had come to Warrenton yesterday prepared to draw war rants against Allen. Allen’s ill ness was given, by courthouse sources as the reason for Tyler’s change in plans. me mvesiigauon wnicn was launched six weeks ago has been carried on by county officials, the State Board of Education and the SBI. The probe, it was understood, has revealed that monthly checks have been issued to a number of Negro teachers, who actually did not teach. ' Informed sources here and in Raleigh said that the investiga tion has shown that the more than $10,000 allegedly misused apparently was not used for any school activity or payment of teachers. Solicitor Tyler visited Dr. C. H. Peete, the Allen family phy sician here yesterday, but re fused to comment after the visit. Dr. Peete would not comment on the conference he had with the solicitor. However, Dr. Peete ad mitted that Allen is ill at his home here. The investigation now under way has brought to light the fact that funds were made avail able for the employment of a teacher in a one-teacher Negro school in Warren County. The checks were issued from Raleigh and books were furnished by the state, but it was shown that the school was not actually in op eration during the year. a Negro teacher has been car ried on the Warren County teacher rolls for four or five years and checks have been is sued to her monthly. The inves tigation, reportedly has shown that the woman has lived in the north for the past several years and did not actually teach in Warren County. The SBI and state school offi cials entered the Allen inves tigation several weeks ago, fol lowing a conference in Raleigh among Tyler, Attorney-General Harry McMullan, Board of Edu cation Controller Paul Reid and Lt. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine, chair man of the state board of educa tion. Allen, a native of Warrenton is 61 years old. He is a past grand master of the Masonic Lodge of North Carolina and a lay leader in the Baptist Church Warren scouts Enjoy Outing At Beaufort Warretnon — Eleven Warren County Boy Scouts returned to Warrenton Friday after spend ing several days at Beaufort. The boys, nine of whom were members of Troop 217 and two of whom were members o f Troop 71, were accompanied by Major W. A. Graham, committee chairman of Troop 217. The group left Warrenton last Wednesday for Beaufort where they were met by Redding A. Thompson, a friend of Major Graham’s took the group aboard a boat for a trip to Cape Look out to fish. They slept aboard the boat that night at Cape Lookout and on Thursday went' into the Gulf Stream for some more fishing. Thursday night they camped at Fort Macon and went fishing and swimming Fri day before they returned to their homes here. Members of Troop 217 making the trip were: Herbert Charles Davis, Joe Dameron Davis, Bud dy Davis, Edward Kent Davis, Frank Hunter, Jr., Alpheus Jones, Jr., John Kerr III, Owen Robertson Jr., Branch Bobbitt Jr. and Frank Gibbs Jr. The two members of Troop 71 who made the trip were: Frank Gibbs Jr. and Finley Stead.
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