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Emergency Auto Inspection Lane Is Here Monday An emergency auto inspection lane will be set up in Roanoke Rapids and will begin operation here on Monday George I. Dail, field supervisor of the mechanical inspec tion division, announced today. The emergency lane, which will be here for only a few days, is being brought to Roanoke Rapids because of the great congestion of autos which have not been inspected and to help motorists get their cars inspected. . -,nv mntnrnttc united in I __ I Many motoresis waited in line last week for several hours before getting their cars inspect ed and the operators of the in spection lane were hard put to service as many as they did. Long lines of autos formed on Jackson street during the period that the lane was here and in some instances there were cars which came back the second day before being inspected. There was a report that the inspection lane operators were putting the cars through the land at the rate of two every five minutes. Dail said that the lane which was here could not be left here because it had a schedule to meet in Northampton County. State Senator Julian Allsbrook contacted officials of the me chanical inspection division in \xn effort to get the emergency lane brought here and received telephonic word from Dail that the lane would be here Monday. The lane will begin operation at 8 a.m. ucauuut near Officials of the motor vehicle department in Raleigh today warned North Carolina motor ists that the first deadline for having vehicles inspected is fast ^drawing near. The Inspection regulations state that all motor vehicles of the year models up to and in cluding 1936, and models 1947 and 1048 must be inspected on or be re August 31. The department reported that most lanes have been doing a “rushing business” during the past few weeks taking care of vehicles in this group. I Beginning with September 1, the lanes will start checking vehicles of year models 1937 and 1946. Models of these years must bear their approval stick ers by September 30. The department has announc ed that the operation of any motor vehicle after its speci fied date of inspection will be a violation of the Motor Vehicle Laws, and state highway patrol fmen have been instructed t o give citations to any vehicle owner whose car or truck does not bear the* picker of ap proval by its specified deadline. The regulations state that any vehicle may be presented for inspection at any time prior to the expiration of the time limit for the vehicle. Deadlines for other model ve hicles follow: All models of the year 1939, 1943, 1944, and 1945 shall be in spected by October 31. All models 1940 and 1942 shall be inspected by November 30. All models of the years 1941 and 1949 shall be inspected by December 31. Hunting Laws To Be Discussed In Jacksbn Meet Jackson—Clyde Patton, the ex ecutive director of the North Carolina Wildlife Commission, will meet here next Wednesday night at 8 o’clock at the court house for the purpose of dis cussing possible changes in the h inting laws for next year. All hunters, fishermen and BDortsmen from Halifax and Northampton counties and the surrounding area are urged to attend the meeting. P. O. Tries To Deliver 66-Year-Old Letter DETROIT (U.P.)—The post of fice is trying to deliver a let ter written in 1882 to a Detroit woman. The brittle, faded letter was found behind an old mantel in a Cleveland house being remodel ed. It was addressed to Mrs. H. R. Leonard, 65 Stimpson Place, Detroit The letter said, “John has had b fever for two days now and I Bme afraid he is going to be sick” and was signed “Hattie.” Post office officials admitted it would be difficult to deliver the 66-year-old letter because there no longer is a "65Stimson Place” in Detroit and the city engineer’s office doubts if there ever was. Educated Chicken Able To Walk Tight Rope GOSHEN, Ind. (U. P.) — Brownie, an eduated chicken who has traveled some 10,000 miles, can be taught many things. At least that’s the boast of the fowl’s owner, Mrs. Ada Ar mey. The bird has made two cross-country trips to California during her lifetime. Among her tricks are walking a tight rope and knowing when her mistress is going to leave in the f airily automobile. Mrs. Ar mey says she only has to walk toward her car and Brownie jpakee a beeline for it Peanut, Tobacco County Acreage Is Measured Halifax—C. L. Kelly, chair man of the Halifax County AAA committee, reported today that the measurement of the tobacco and peanut acreage in Hali fax County for this year had been completed. Kelly said the work was carri ed out by 34 commity chair men and assistants during the months of May and June. He commended the workers for ‘‘the fine job they did in carry ing out this huge task.” Kelly said that it was neces sary for the work to be com pleted on June 30 because of the reduction in funds for the coming fiscal year and that due to this fact it was only possible to measure peanuts on 64 per cent of the farms in the county. He reported, however, that all of the tobacco acerage in the county was measured. At a recent meeting of re presentatives f from state com mittees in the 14 peanut pro ducing states, Kelly said, it was agreed that at least 40 percent of the peanut acerage in the states should be measured this year for the purpose of obtain ing as much data as possible for the establishing of future acreage allotments. The county AAA chairman said that if sufficient help had been available all of the pea would have been measured so as to get complete data. He added, that peanut quotas will be in effect in 1949 and 1950 unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the quotas should be suspended either or both years. The total cost of measuring the tobacco and peanut crops in the county was $11,348. The rate of pay was 25 cents an acre on the 44,569 acres mea sured. Kelly said that of the 96,000 peanuts producers who voted in the referendum last December, 87.7 percent voted for the quota and acreage allotments for 1948 49 and 50. However, the Sec retary of Agriculture of Jan uary 2, terminated the market ing quotas on the 1948 crop be cause of the world shortage of foods; fats and oils. Girl Scouts To Begin Year September 13 The Roanoke Rapids Girl Jleout Council and the Girl Scout leaders will meet Thurs day, September 9 to plan for the year’s activity of the local Girl Scout Troops. The Girl Scout Troops and the Brownie Troops will begin their regular meetings during the week of September 13. For the time being the troops will meet at the same hour and the same day as last year, ‘un til a new schedule can be work ed out, Girl Scout leaders said today. The place and time of the council and leader meeting have not been set yet. Frolicsom Bears Problem Children SALT LAKE CITY ( U. P. ) Boyd Cat ver, state game warden, has his fingers crossed these days, wondering how long the “strong cage” of a man i? going to last. Carver just deposited two frisky bear cubs in the man’s back yard cage. The two cubs have been the scourge of the Hogle Gardens zoo for the last few months. Carver caught the bears up in Wyoming, but he almost wish es he hadn’t. During their stay at Snow Basin, they learned to be bold; refused forest service bear-fare in favor of picnic ol ives and pickles, consequently breaking up three picnic part ies by eating the refreshments, baskets and all. The bears were taken to the Hogle Gardens zoo in Salt Lake Ciiy. They were too tough for the Salt Lakers, too, so now Car ver has turned them over to what he hopes will prove to be a cage strong enough to hold I them. -- War Hero Carries On GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (U. P.)—Caring for the injured is old stuff to Franklin Pierce, a rookie policeman assigned to the traffic accident division. Pierce is a Congressional Medal of Ho nor winner. He was cited for repeatedly bringing wounde d comrades to safety under heavy fire in the Pacific. Estimated 4,500 Halifax Men Begin Selective Service Registration Monday At Seven Centers Throughout County Some 4,500 Halifax men be tween the ages of 18 and. 26 are expected to begin registering Monday at seven different points in the county for the nation’s second peacetime Selective Ser vice, George N. Taylor, chair man of the Halifax County Draft Board Number 34 reported to day. Taylor said that the seven dif ferent registration centers would be open from 8 a m. to 5 p.m. daily in seven different com munities in the county. The locations of the register tion centers were announced by Taylor ae follows: Enfield at the Enfield Pro gress office, T. O. Hickman, registrar. Aurellan Springs School, George E. Crawley, registrar. Scotland Neck Town Hall, Mr*. Sam Gregory, registrar. Halifax Courthouse, George Hux, registrar. Roanoke Rapids Municipal Building, W. B. Allsbrook, reg. istrar and Miss Julia Cook, as sistant. Weldon Fire Station, T. J. Maddrey, registrar. Littleton Mayor's 0 f f ic e, Mrs. Garland S. May, Jr., reg istrar. The .dates set for the registra tion for various age groups are listed below: 1. Persons born in the year 1922 after August 30, 1922 shall be registered on Monday, August 30. ?. Persons born In the year 1923 shall be registered on Tues day, August 31 or Wednesday, September 1. 3. Persons bom in the year 1924 shall be registered on Thursday, September 2, or Fri day, September 3. 4. Persons born in the year 1925 shall be registered on Sat urday, September 4 or Tuesday. September 7. 5. Persons born in the year 1926 shall be registered on Wed nesday, September 8 or Thurs day, September 9. 6. Persons born in the year 1927 shall be registered on Fri day, September 10 or Saturday. September 11. 7. Persons bom in the year 1928 shall be registered on Monday, September 13, or Tues day, September 14. 8. Persons born in the year 1929 shall be registered on Wed nesday, September 15 or Thurs day, September 16. 9 Persons born in the year 1930 before September 19, 1930 shall be registered on Friday, September 17, or Saturday, Sep tember 18. 10. Persons who were born on or after September 19, 1930 shall be registered on the day they become 18 or within five days thereafter. Only those youths in the 18 through-25 age group who are at present in the armed forces, or who are members of a re serve component on extended active duty, are exempt from registration. Taylor announced that the draft board would establish a temporary office in the grand jury room at the courthouse in Halifax. Miss Vera B. Draper, clerk to the board, will be in charge of the office. THE ROANOKE RAPIDS VOLUME XXXin ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. t., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948 NUMBER 51 HOT SPOT—Gen. Douglas MacArthur mops his brow under the shade of an umbrella held by a Korean boy during the Independence celebration held in Seoul, Korea. The event marked the third anniversary of the country’s liberation by MacArthur’s troops and the birth of Korea as a republic. President Syngman Rhee sits at the general’s left ------ Exchange Club's Harvest Festival Will Oben Monday Night On Weldon Road Northampton Will Ballot On Beer-Wine Jackson — Residents of North ampton County will go to the Polls Wednesday, September 1 to cast ballots in a beer and wine referendum. The usual polling places in the county will be open for the election and registered voters of the county will be eligible to vote. The beer and wine referen dum was set several weeks ago by the Northampton County Commissioners and the board of Elections at the request of a number of Northampton Coun tians. Beer-dealers of Northampton County sought a temporary in junction in superior court to halt the proposed referendum, b u t Judge R. Hunt Parker denied the petition. Leaders of the dry forces in the county, as well as the beer dealers have been marshaling their forces in preparation for ♦ne referendum on Wednesday. Warren Resident Gets University Teaching Post Warrenton — Hinton Wesson, Jr., has accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Chattanooga, at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Wesson have left Warrenton to make their borne in Chattanooga. For the past two years, Wesson has been an instructor in eco nomics at Duke University. He is a native of Lawrencevilie, Va. He has served with the state government of North Carolina m various capacities for the past several years. From 1942 to 1946 he was on active duty with the Navy in the Pacific and was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Proceeds To Be Used For Club’s Work Next Year The Roanoke Rapids E x change club’s annual Harvest festival will begin Monday night, September 30 on the Wel don Highway. Feature of the festival this year wiil be the Jack J. Perry Shows. George Davis, festival chair man, said today that the Perry Show is one of the cleanest o perating in the south and has a good reputation for fine en tertainment This will mark the first year that the Jack J. Perry Show has displayed at Roanoke Rap ids or in this vicinty, Davis said. In the past the Shows have exhibited in the eastern part of the nation and have thrilled many thousands of spectators with good entertainment. The Perry Show will offer twelve riding devices, eight tent theatres and many other attrac tions. The rides include, the merry go-round, ferris wheel, chair-o plane, roll-o-plane, octopus,- and several others. Their will be minature rides for children at the shows. In the tented theatres there will be a minsterial sho with lfl performers and a six piece band. The circus side show will feature freaks gathered from throughout the world. Other tent shows include the animal show, the giant repitle show and many others. The shows will be here for the entire week and proceeds from the exhibit will be used for next year’s Exchange Club work. Lloyd Ennis On Trial As Court Is Reconvened Halifax—Judge R. Hunt Park er reconvened the August term of Halifax County Superior Court here today. The first case called was that of Lloyd Ennis, formerly of Roa noke Rapids, but now a resident of Rocky Mount, who is charged with driving under the influ ence of intoxicating beverages. All of the evidence had been heard and shortly before noon the jury was getting its instruc tions and was expected to begin deliberations after a lunch re cess. Other cases slated for hearing today included that of S. E. Warren, who is charged with operating a motor vehicle whit's under the influence of intoxicat ing beverages, and an assault case. Court attaches said there was a possibility that this session ol court would be adjourned to day. Any Mother Would Get the Jitters BICKNELL, Ind. (U.P.) —The E. R. Kirk home is filled with foxes, skunks and screen owls There is a young taxidermist ir the house. Twelve-year-old Ronnie Kirk began his hobby several years ago. He says he had to misre present his age to be able to take a mail-order course in taxider my. But he got his diploma anc points to it with pride. Mrs. Kirk says she still isn’l quite used to sharing the living room with two foxes and a ban tam hen. But she has gotten ovei her worst case of jitters. Ron nie says it took quite a while tc deodorize the house after stuff ing the skunk. Parcel Service By Air Starts On September 1 The advent of speedier na - tionwide-worldwide air p arcel brings back to mind of old - timers the introduction of simi lar surface operations 35 years ago. It was in 1913, according to Postmaster E. G. Shell of Roanoke Rapids, that parcel post first made its appearance in the United States. The service at that time was off the beaten paths, in expedit ing mail to rural residents and, in turn, receiving sorely needed goods from larger cities. Transportation facilities i n those days were still slow and tedious. Motor-driven vehicles were few and the roads which they traversed were frequently impassable. Too, trains were giv ing off more sparks and smoke than speed. There were no com mercial planes in those days, eitner, and only the foolhardy visioned the rapid approach ol this Air■ Age. Then it took days* to trans port parcel post packages across the country. Some par cels were forced to go by vir tually every movable convey ance before they reached their destination—particularly to the most remote areas. From the modest beginning, parcel post has grown to be come an integral cog in the far flung American postal opera - tions. Its annual poundage, keeping step with the progress of transportation, has soared from a few million to billions of pounds of assorted commo dities. Still determined to employ the fastest means of transportation to move the mails, the P o s 1 Office Department will add the link necessary to give t h e United States the world’s mosi highly specialized doorstep de livery service with launching oi the new nationwide—worldwide air parcel post, said the post master. Escaped Convict Still At Large Police Chief T. J. Davis an nounced today that Dock Hines Jr., Negro prisoner, who escap ed from the Warren Prisor Camp road gang last week is still at large. Chief Davis urged all persons to be on the lookout for Hines and communicate with the lo cal police department as soor as possible. Hines, whose home is on thf Littleton road, was serv ing time for assault with a dead ly weapon at the time of his es cape. Bad Egg Can’t Be Missed Here The magic of “black light” cai detect an old egg more quicklj than you can crack one, West inghouse tests show. Trapped ii the invisible ultraviolet rays o black light, the guilty suspen shows up purple while a real] fresh egg gows scarlet. The outer shell of a hen’s egg: and its protein covering are fluo rescept, which makes the eg] glow more brightly under ultra violet than a colored Easter egg Presumably the color switch oc curs when oxidation causes j chemical change in the shell, ex plained Willet R. Wilson, lam] engineer. Ordinariy, Wilson added, un refrigerated eggs kept under av erage temperature and humidit; turn gradually from scarlet fluo rescence to purple in eight to tei days. Properly refrigerated egg; retain their freshness and sacr let fluoresence longer. Roanoke Number One Employees Get Pay Raise The employees of Roanoke Mill Number One will get the 8 percent wage increase recently grantd to the other . employes of Patterson, Rosemary and Roanoke Number Two Mills. The granting of the wage increase to the Number One employes, came today and is effective as of August 9, as the bargaining talks on a contract for the Number One employees between the CIO Textile Workers Union of America and the Roanoke Mills Company were resumed. Warren Rotary Hears Graham On Education Warrenton—W. A. Graham former school superintendent, spoke to the Warrenton Rotary Club at its meeting recently on the problems of education, in the second of a recent series of talks on education which the club has heard. Graham prefaced his remarks with the statement that since his retirement as a school su perintendent and his return to Warren County, he had made no effort to go into the school situation here. He said that the present su perintendent of schools and he attended school together under his father the late John Graham Major Graham stated that he was keenly interested in the! talk to the Rotary Club by G.! B. Blum, for 25 years voca tional teacher at the Middle - burg high School. He stated that apparently Mr. Blum was i an exceptional teacher, on. his toes, and through the years j has been able to build up a, strong vocational education pro-. gram. However, he continued, it takes considerable funds and a large enrollment to support and justify an adequate vocational department. He stated that the John Graham High School had a vo cational training- program at one time but that this had been abandoned for the past year or so. He stated that he was in formed that when efforts were made to reinstate this program last year that it was found that the cost would be $3600 even if it were possible to get a teacher. Uranam said xnax xne £>xaxe School Commission, which is composed of outstanding educa tional leaders, sent out ques tionnaires some time ago ask ing for information and recom mendations as they apply to the schools of this *3tate. He said the commission is making a thorough study of the replies to the questionnaires and of the entire school system and that all this data would be compiled and recommendations made be fore the next meeting of the gen eral assembly, which authoriz ed the survey. Graham stated that among things which have already be come obvious to members of the various committees and the entire commission is that most schools are entirely too small to support a well-rounded program program of education. The an sv/er, he said, is in further con solidation of high schools. Major Graham stated that a centrally located high school lo cated between Warrenton and Norlina had been suggested on several occasions and that this would greatly improve the edu cational setup in this county in his opinion. He suggested that the Rotary Club in conjunction with other organizations make a through study of the situation and then work toward securing one high school for the county rather than continue to spend money on the high schools at Warrenton, Macon, Littleton, end Norlina, none of which are large enough in themselves to justify full training programs, have not been set yet. frank L.. williams, president of the company, suggested at the beginning of the bargain ing session today that he would like to see the employees o f Roanoke Number One get the wage increade now. The union agreed to the com pany proposal and Williams re leased the announcement short ly before noon. At the outset of the new bar gaining conference today, Will iams said, “I feel that the em ployees of the company’s mill Number One should have the same wage increase as that giv en on August 9 to the employees • of Roanoke Number Two, Pat terson and Rosemary.” He then asked the union of ficial to agree that the wages of the employees of Roanoke Number One be raised and paid at once to date back to August 9, the date all wages of em ployees in other textile mills here were raised. In taking the action, Williams declared, “I think that it would be unfair to the employees of Roanoke Number One for the wages of all other textile work ers in Roanoke Rapids to be raised without giving the same wage increase to the employees of number one. The company would like to see this, pay in crease made at Roanoke Num ber One and put in effect with out further delay.” The representatives of the C IO TWUA agreed to the com pany’s proposal and Williams immediately authorized the post ing of notices at Number One announcing the wage increase, effective as of August 9. There was no other indication as to what was being discussed at the bargaining talks, which originally began several weeks ago and the first efforts were discontinued at the request of the union. ine union recently asked that the talks be reopened and to* day’s meeting was the result. Representing the union at the talks were Mariano S. Bishop, director of the rayon division of the CIO Textile Workers, To* bey E. Mendes, national, repre sentative here. Williams explained why the company could not grant the raise increase to Roanoke Num ber One employees at the time of the granting of the eight per cent increase to all production, maintenance employees at Pat terson, Roanoke Two and Rose mary. He quoted from a letter writ ten by Mendes on April 10 which stated that /‘as a result of a National LaW Relations Board election conducted at Roanoke Mill Number One on Friday, March 12, 1948, the Tex tile Workers Union of America, CIO,, has been certified as the bargaining agents for all pro duction and maintenance em ployees in the matter of wages, wage rates, hours of work and condition of. employment.” The letter further stated that the TWUA would enter into ne gotiations with the company on the matter of a contract and j ‘‘that until such negotiations are ! undertaken any changes in the i wages, wage rates, hours ©f work and conditions of employ ment made without the approv al of the TWUA will be con strued as an unfair labor prac tice within the meaning of the 1947.” The president had told the em ployees that if the company had given Number One workers the wage increase earlier, the union probably would have charged ‘‘us with an unfair labor prac tice.” Rules Por Entering Lions Club Festival Queen Contest Are Set; Entries Must Be In September 7 James F. Curran, chairman of the Lions Club’s Festival queen committee today an nounced the rules for entering the contest to select the queen of the festival. The queen will be crowned at the Coronation Ball in the Armory the night of September 24 during a gala dance. “The Lions Club wants all girls in Roanoke Rapids who would like to have a chance at becoming Queen of the Fes tival to mail entry blanks and pictures for the contest,” he said test,” he said. The queen committee chair man listed these rules for the • conduct of the contest and for the entries to follow: 1. Each entrant must be at ■ least 17 years old, but not over ' 22. 2. She must be single. i 3. She must live in Roanoke i Rapids. 4. She must submit her pic-; ture by September 7. The committee chairman said that all pictures which are re cieved will be turned over to a committee of fifteen judges from throughout Roanoke Rap ids and those judges will select the ten finalists. On the night of the Corona tion Ball, five of the best jud ges obtainable will pick the queen from the ten finalists. Curran urged all girls in Roa noke Rapids to use the entry blank on Page Three of today's Herald and to submit a photo graph, preferably an 8 by 10 inch picture along with the en try blank. He added, “If you don’t think you can be the queen and have a girl friend, who you think can be the queen, then submit her picture and name.’’ The committee chairman said that the queen would be award ed a grand prize, in addition to being honored by being se lected queen and that a second place winner would receive a prize.
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