/PLUME XXXIV ~ ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER % 1946 3avey Joins deraid Staff *^s City Editor William L. Davey of Windsor will take over his new duties as rty editor of the HERALD here Monday morning, September S it was announced today by Guy M Leedy, publisher. £ Davey was formerly editor of the Bertie Ledger-Advance, a weekly newspaper published m Windsor by Parker Bros., Inc. He has Veen editing the Windsor paper since April, 1946. Before joining Parker Bros , the new HERALD city editor spent nearly four years in the IT S. Navy and served in the Mediterranean and European p aters for two years aboard an ".ST. A graduate of the school 'of Journalism at the University rf North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1942, Davey had previous ex perience as reporter for the Con cord (N. C.) Daily Herald-Ob server. He is married to the former Ann Seeley of Raleigh, and the Daveys have a two-year-old *iaughter, Amanda. Mrs. Davey Mnd Amanda will join the new editor in Roanoke Rapids as soon as housing details arc com pleted. Burton Brothers Honor Students At Louisiana 0“ Norlina—David Lee Burton of Norlina has received the high est possible marks in all sub jects in the horti-cultural divi sion of the department of agri culture of Louisiana State Uni versity. Burton is a senior at the uni versity and received straight A's in all of hi# studies dur ing the past semester. Richard M. Burton, a broth ■er of David’s, is also an ho "nor student at L.S.U. He is a junior in vocational education. Both of the Burton boys are at home on a short visit and expect to return to college to resume their studies at South eastern Louisiana State College at Hammond, Louisiana, next week. UUVC1UU1 •Boasts Green Thumb HARRISBURG, Pa. fU.P.)— Two of Pennsylvania’s most lux urious and well-tended gardens ere kept in top condition by the experienced hand of Goc Jam es H. Duff. The governor's seven-acre pri vate gardens at his home in Cai - regie, Pa., are one of the state’s show places. Tracts at his In . m. Mondays and Thursdays. Crippled children’s clinic: Two >’clock Wednesday of each wreek it Central School in Henderson. Lhose desiring to attend should make an appointment at the Warren County Health Depart ment. Dr. Gregg also said that vac :inations of all kinds are given it the health department office >n Saturday from 9 until #12. Lfiiueiun mgn »cnooi Opening Postponed Until September 15 Littleton—The opening of the Littleton High school has been postponed until September 15, school officials annouced here today. College Students To Give Pageant At First Methodist Sunday Night In Observance Of Student Day Sunday night will be observed if, College Student Day at the First Methodist Church here. A special program arranged :y Mrs. W. A. China and feat rring college students will be given beginning at 8 o’clock. Mrs. China, who is secretary if student work, has directed ihe students in a pageant “Fam ly Reunion." The cast in the pageant in dudes, James Brown, a student it State College, who will take he part of Mr. Allen; Miss Con ’.'e Herbert, a student at Con verse College in Spartanburg, S. F, will play Mrs. Allen; Alton Finch, a student at East Caro ;na Teachers College, will act is Bob Allen; Miss Grace Tay or, a student at Duke Univer nty, will portray Ruth Allen; -avid Herbert) a student at Wov bi d College, will play Jim Al en and Gwendolyn Hodges, a Roanoke Rapids High School student, will play Carol Allen. Miss Gladys Lee, a student at the Woman’s College of the Uni versity of North Carolina and Allen Brown, a student at N. C. State, are stage managers for the pageant. A string ensemble composed of musicians from Eastern North Carolina will also appear on the j program. The ensemble is composed of: Violinists- Mrs. J. A. Fleetwood, Conway; Mrs. China; Mrs. Alvm Fcckaday, Roanoke Rapids; Miss Lloise Taylor of Conway, wno is a student at Greensboro Col lege and Miss Lucy Riwling., Conway, a student at Wake For est; Cellist: Mrs. Mary Sasser Finch of Roanoke Rapids; Clar inetist: Vernel Vick, Conway and Wake Forest College and ac companist: Mrs. Kenneth Stokes, Severn, N. C. Three New Highway Patrolmen Are Assigned To Halifax County naieign — r orty-sevGn new state highway patrolmen were sworn In at ceremonies here yes teiday and included in the list were several area men and sev eral new patrolmen who have been assigned to the area around Roanoke Rapids. After they were sworn In the new mea were accompanied to their duty stations, where they will be trained for three months by older, experienced patrolmen. Tor the first si#c weeks, the new patrolman wild observe the old *r patrolman in his duties and for the last weeks the new patrolman wm take over and the older patrolmen will make suggestions and criticisms. Assigned to this area under command of Captain Lester Jon es, commanding officer of Com pany A with headquarters in Greenville were: C. J. Cole of Roanoke Rapids to Bailey; W. M Brown of Bridgeton to Hali fax; W. G. O’Neal of Whitakers to Woodland and D. H. Perry of Zebulon to Littleton. Area men assigned to other stations included: T. L. Rookcr of Warrenton to Louisburg. New Playground Has Been Opened In Warrenton Warrenton—A playground for children has been opened on the Davis lot in South Warrenton. A project of the Woman’s Club, the equipment for the playground was donated by var ious firms in around Warren ton. Leggett’s J. E. Cheves. War renton Plumbing and Heat ing, and the Warrenton Box and Lumber Company have do nated equipment to the play ground. Each Saturday morning an adult supervision will be at the playground to direct the child ren’s activities from 10 a.m. to 12. Inspection Lane Here Is Jammed. With Many Cars The emergency auto inspec tion lone which has been in operation here since Monday has been literacy swamped wi*h oars to be inspected during its four day stay. Long lines of cars have queued up each day before the 8 o’ clock opening time for the lane and many of the motorists have teen disappointed and have had to return the second time to get their autos inspected. There has been little or no letup in the stream of cars which have lined Jackson street throughout the past four days. Officials at the inspection lane have been so busy that they haven’t had time to figure up how many cars have been in spected in the past four days, but there certainly have been plenty of them. Rosemary Methodist Church women and children have been selling cold drinks and sand wiches to the waiting motorists in an effort to raise money for the new church building. woodland vets Farm Class Completes Tour Woodland—The Woodland Ve teran Farmers Class, under the supervision of W R. Robinson agriculture teacher in the Wood land-Olney School and James T. Boyer, assistant teacher, re cently completed a farm tour to observe practices being used on the various farms in the area. The use of hybrid seed corn by the veterans has shown them that the yields are much great er, Robinson said. Other veterans have found that good lespedeza pastures used for hogs on a rotational basis provide excellent grazing. The veterans observed that on several of the farms they tour ed that farm machinery was carefully cared for and stored. The veterans were of the op inion that there is a great need fer more poultry, dairy cattle and fruit trees on the farms which they toured. Scotland Neck Man Takes Post At E. C. T. C. Scotland Neck—James White, son of Sidney R. White and the late Mrs. White of Scotland Neck, who has been teaching on the staff of the Georgia State Teachers College at Collegeboro Georgia, has resigned this posi tion to join the staff of the Business Education Department at East Carolina Teachers Col lege in Greenville. White is an alumnus of E. C. T. C. college and will assume his new duties with the opening of the 1948-49 term at E. C. T.C. County School Board Asks Slate to Establish Negro High School For Enfield Area Farm Bureau Officials Map Plans For Annual Drive In Meeting At Scotland Neck Scotland Neck, —Leaders from six county Farm Bureaus met in Scotland Neck last Friday in preparation for the annual state wide membership campaign of the organization which begins Inis week with a quota of 80,000 B. B. Everett, Palmyra, and C. S. Alexander, Scotland Neck, president and secretary respect ively, of the Halifax Countj' Farm Bureau presided as some bO persons met to hear addresses by North Carolina Farm Bureau leaders. W. W. Eagles, Maccles field, State President; R. Flake Snaw, Greensboro, Executive j Vice-President; A. C. Edwards, Hookertcn, Vice-President and Membership Chairman, and Mrs. B. B. Everett, Palmyra, State Chairman of Farm Bureau Asso ciated Women, were among those present. The counties represented were: Halifax, Northampton, Martin, Washington, Bertie and Hertford. Each group accepted its membership quota for the drive and promised full coopera tion in an effort to make the statewide campaign a success. It was pointed out by the speakers that although the North Carolina Farm Bureau leads all southern states in membership, with more than 70,000 farm families, the need for increased membership this year is greater than ever. The speakers empha sized that recent claims that farmers and farm price supports are to blame for high prices in dicate the necessity for farm ers to organize as never before if they are to offset such charges successfully. Warren Tobacco Market Begins Sales Today Warrenton—Today is the day that tobacco market opens in Warrenton. The farmers, warehousemen gathered in large numbers this morning at 9 a. m. at Cen tre Number One for the first sale. Other sa' ?s were schedul ed at Centre Number Two and Tarwaters and Boyds. The four warehouses are oper ating in Warrenton this year as suring taimers of ample space and adequate facilities to handle their crops. The selling is confined to five hours a day. The regulations weight up to 300 pounds. Sales are expected to start each morning at 9 a.m. and run until 12:30 when they will be suspended for an hour for lunch and then resume at 1:30 until 3 o’clock. Oregon Going All Out On Reforestation SALEM, Ore. CU.P.)—The O regon forestry department and private timber companies have joined forces in a vast refores tation experiment. The program includes many projects One is the plant ing of 40,000 tow-year-old Pon derosa pine seedlings in eastern Oregon to see if they will sur vive. September Is Crowded With State Events Raleigh—A long Labor Day Weekend is in order for pro per enjoyment of North Caro lor.a’s planned events, accord ing to the State News Bureau. In the Western mountains, with all restrictions lifted, Hend ersonville opens its all-out Ap ple Harvest Festival, Sept. 3 thru 6, with five days of square street dancing, parades, tours of Henderson county apple or chards, an air show, and fox hound show, all graced by a Festival Queen and Mutual Net work’s Queen-for-a-day. At Morganton, a Labor Day cal vacade will open the section’s new scenic highway ( NC 181 ) to the Blue Ridge Parkway with On the coast, in the midst of two sportfishing contests at Wil Suthport and More-mingteoon head City-Beaufort with sailfish and 20 other species already recorded, 50 private yachts line up Sunday morning ( Sept. 5 ) in Morehead City’s yacht ba sin for an overnight cruise and shore-entertamment to New Bern and return, the first an nual TAR HEELS AFLOAT e vent. In the Northeast, The Lost Colony, also in the midst of spectacular runs of sportfish at Oregon Inlet, reaches the cli max of its eleventh year, and Elizabeth City starts its annual 5-day six county Fair on La bor Day. ah me uuuuic oi me monm the middle of the state is very markets to the tune of the to vacco auctioneer chanting the highest prices of this genera tion Reidsville (10 11 ), Dur ham ( 4 thru 9 ), Lexington ( 13 thru 18 ), Morganton ( 15 16 ), Whiteville ( 17 ), and Durham again on the 20th fol low through with celebrations ranging from tobacco jubilees to county fairs. Cleveland County, on the 17th. and 18th., gathers in Shelby to celebrate its nationally pre-em iment crop in its --nr.ua Cotton Festival followed, the week of the 21st., by the Cleveland Coun first Fall flower show on the 25th. October’s traditional fall fair and festival season, following tobacco’s golden jingle from the coast to the mountains, has bor rowed a week from September this year: among others wait ing to be announced. Rocky Mount, Wanenton, and Fayet teville have agricultural and in dustrial fairs slated Sept. 27 through Oct. 2. Cpl. Whitby Arrives In Western Germany Warrenton—Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Whitby of Warren Plains have received word from their son, Cpl. Elam J. Whiby, that he has landed in Western Ger many with the Ninth Ait Trans pot Squadron. Cpl. Whitby, who attended the John Graham High School and worked in several stores here before entering the service 18 months ago, left Kelly Field, Texas on August 8. Merchants Association Secretary Gives Information On New Rule Regarding Installment Buying Mrs. Elva Martin, secretary of the Roanoke Rapids Merchant? association has released a copy of Regulation W issued by the board of governors of the Fed eral Reserve System and apply ing to installment buying The regulation covers instal ment sales of and loans for 12 kinds of consumers’ durable goeds, providing the cost is more than $50. It also covers install ment loans for most other con sumer purposes and installment ci edits up to $50 are subject to regulations. The goods for which the down payments are prescribed are as follows: Automobiles 33 and one third per cen* down payment; cook ing stoves, dishwashers, ironers refrigerators, washing machines, combinav-on units, air condition ers, radio, television sets and phonographs, sewing machines, suction cleaners, and furniture snd soft-surface floor coveru gs all require a down payment of 20 per c'*nt. Maturities on all installment c“edits subject to the regulation, whether to finance the purchase :f these articles or not, mus’ :ome witi.'in the following re quirements: not exceeding $1,000 maximum maturity 15 months; :bove $1,000 except that month ly payment on amounts over $], 300 must not be less than $70 maximum maturity is 18 montus. Since November 1, 194/ when the old regulation ended, terms offered by merchants and lend ers extending credit nave Deen relaxed considerably. The re cuirements of the new regula tion are somewhat less restrict-, ive than those of last November 1 ut considerably tighter than terms now generally in effect. The down payment requirements on appliances are lowered from cne-third to one-fifth. /\lso, to take care of late-model automo biles and certain other items where *he expenditure must necessarily be large, the maxi mum maturity for credits abovf. $1,000 is set at more chan 15 months, running up to 18 months. At the same time, the scope of the regulation :a> broad ened to include all credits up to $5,000 whereas $2,000 had been the limit under the previ ous regulation. Installment credit for home improvements was eliminated f;om Regulation W after the close of the war, and it is at present not covered in the reg ulation. Because of the current inflationary situation, however, the Board is considering the ad visability of an amendment to bring such credit under the reg ulation. Before deciding whether to do this, the Board wishes to give all who are interested an opportunity to express their views. . Mrs. Martin said that she has tlit complete text of regulation W and that an> merchants o" business men of Roanoke Rapids or the area may see it by call ing at the association office. Authorizes Bids For More Work On Enfield School Halifax—At a special meeting of the Halifax County Board 1 of Education, the board passed a resolution asking the State De paitment of Public Instruction to establish a high school for Negroes at Enfield. The action was taken after a delegation of Negro parent# from the Enfield Community appeared and requested that a high school for Negroes be es tablished in Enfield at the In bcrden School by moving out a sufficient number of grammar grades into the churches in En field. The request came as a result of the closing of Bricks High School in Edgecombe County. Tnat building, which is owned by the American Missionary As sociation, has been converted to other uses. The patrons expressed disap proval of the previous arrange ments to transport pupils to a new high school in Edgecombe County, because of the distance from Enfield and because of the necessity for using churches in Edgecombe until the new build ing is completed in Octbore. A letter received from G. H. Ferguson, assistant director of Negro education in the state, was read and explained that the Negro high school students of Enfield could best be served by the Edgecombe school. The letter said: “Pursuant to our conference, it seems wise to consider that the Negro high scnool students of the Enfield School district be taken care of in the cooperative scheme wiih Edgecombe County, certainly for the current year. *1, Oi-tuicu WO KUUU arrange for the division of tiie pupil* and the teaching staff without too much trouble, but when we took this matter up with Mr. Hunter, who allots teachers for the various schools, vie discovered that there were a number of details which would have to be worked out, and would require a little time. 'It appears now that the State Board will not meet again until September 10, and if they con sidered the matter at this meet ing, they would require a sprr .y of 'the diiirict and an orgAnza tion of the feeder schools be fore they would likely approve the proposition. Then too, it would have to be satisfactory to tne teacters who are under con tiact to teach in the coopera tive school in Edgecombe Coun ty as to the transfer to the En field situation. Certainly such a division of pupils and teaching staff would materially weaken the effectiveness of both situa tions. We are very sympathetic with the point of view of ths patrons in desiring that then children be taught at the Enfield School, and we feel that this ij probably a logical point for ths development of a high school. On the other hand, since it would be the second Negro high school established in this district, tne State Board of Education would want to be assured that this is the logical place and that the proper meets and bounds foi this particular district are es tablished with such clarity that there would be no confusion about the supporting schools. “If all of these details are tc be ironed out before the school should be open, it occurs to mu that it might delay the opening of the high school department at this school for five or six weeks. Probaby by this time the perma nent plant in Edgecombe Coun ty would be avalable, and ths inconvenience of using the tem porary quarters would havi passed.” j.iie uuumy uoava tusu aumor ized Frank B. Simpson, archi tect, to advertise for bids for ad ditional construction on the new Enfield School building. A motion was passed asking the state board of education tc establish the routes for school buses for the Hobgood Schools as they were at the beginning of last year provided that the pupils from the Palmyra section, who had already been assigned by the state board to Scotland Neck may continue to attend the Scotland Neck School. Town Makes Capital Of Train Smashup LAS VEGAS, N. M. (U.P.) Las Vegas civic leaders saw tc it that a train-load of marooned railroad passengers left with a joed impression. A locomotive derailment tied jp traffic through Las Vegas and the California Limited oi the Santa Pe Railway had to wait. The chamber of commerce sensed the possibility that Las Vegas might become a sore spot n the memory of the passeng ers. So 10 automobiles were round id up, with drivers. The delay in passengers passed the after soon touring Las Vegas and the nenic countryside, with a run png commentary from the driv er on the charms of the city.