North Carolina Newspapers

AID FLOOD VICTIMS DV GIVING TO RED CROSS AID FLOOD VICTIMS BY GIVING TO RED CROSS Seventieth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina Thursday, January 28, 1937 Farmers Association Has Successful Year The Weldon Production Credit Association, which serve Halitax and Northampton counties, had a very successI'ul year in 1 ac cording to reports hy officers of this farmers’ cooperative credit or ganization submitted at the annual meeting of tin- stockholders laid here last Saturday, January 2d. At the meeting, which was well attended, complete and detailed re pints, i 11 ns rated hv chart , were j given to the stockholders, show- | ing how much business was done, how much it cost to run the as sociation. the distribution of cx /‘-'■jjyisrs, the net profits and oth i ^(forest ing dale bi,!eports wire made to tin inecl f»hy W. K. Smith, president of v-" association; L. J. Judkins, secretary-treasure!, and a talk on the advantage of the coopet ntive credit system was made by J. M. Person, a member of the board ■■>. directors. J. P. Parker of Rich Square and W. K. Smith of Scotland Neck were elected to serv - on the board of directors of the association Other members of the board whose terms did not expire are J. M. Person of Enfield. W. Thorne of Roanoke Rapids and W. J. Long of Garysburg. The reports of the officers showed that the association mad( f.l 1 loans for $283,000.00 Iasi year. II. L. Gardner, of the Produc tion Credit Corporation of Colum l.ia, addressed the meeting, lie re viewed the remarkable progress which bus been made by the pro duel ion credit associations in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The increasing number of farmers a vailing themselves of the credit service which the associations of for, he said, is the best proof o' their appreciation of the service. Tn 1931, the first year of their operations, the associations made loans totaling $0,000,000; in 1035 they made loans totaling 1 1,000, 000 and in 1030 they i ■ loan totaling nearly SlO.OOO.t >. ■ Through the production credit associations, Mr. Gardner said, farmers are able to get money with which tn produce and harvesl their crops at costs ns low as those available to any other industry “The associations,” ho said, “do not lend government money hut j discount their paper through the Federal Intermediate Credit Ranh which, in turn, secures money from private investors through tho sale of farm paper.” / An overflow crowd was present at the business meeting of the Association held at the school aud itorium. And immediately after wards the farmers were enter tained at a Barbecue at the Coca Cola pjant. This phase of the days program was made possible thru the combined efforts of the assoc i.11ion, members of the Community Club and Merchants Association, and other business .m n of the town. A crowd estimated at 1200 by D. >,V. Seifert, manager of the Coca Cola plant were fed. This part of the program has become an an nual ljeature of the farmers meet The following statistics give jpue idea of the size of the gath Aing. 800 pounds of Barbecue, 1500 pieces of corn bread, 100 leaves of bread and 1500 Coen 1 olas were consumed as well as a irge amount of slaw. Committee Named By Shaw Post Head Dr. R. S. McGeacbey, Comman der ot Shaw Post No. ”8, has ap , ointed the following Community ervice Committee, which will Iso act as an Emergent y Belief Committee in case of need. D. W. Seifert, General Chair man and in charge of business Mobilization; Dr. W. G. Suiter . nd Miss Clara Ruth for medicine and nursing service; A. N. Mar lin, Drugs and drug supplies; Will Joyner and C. J. Tilghmon, Furniture and Building; George N. Taylor and O. P. Mohorn. gro ceries and foods; Carroll Wilson, Publicity. Elliott B. Clark has been ap pointed chairman of what might he called Memorial Committee, and will have entire charge of Legion < xorcises on Memorial days and funerals of ex-service men J. O. Carter has been appointed Color Beaver and will organize a Color Guard. Blending of seeds produces a perennial wheat in Canada. Davirl A. Iosco Dies Suddeidv At Littleton Littleton.—Lust riles for David A Insci1. who died suddenly (d a heart attack at hi - home near to-''i last week were held at the h"ine Ijy his pastor, the Rev. Mr. I ol linger, pastor ol Corinth M . a > tiie lie was a --a and Be1 tic known fa whe re he was 7b year Corinth Survivi Mrs. Tia ! inn Sp ings i is of C. n.. Pirot. Roanok - Rapids, and wo sister , M - s Lizzie Corner and Mrs. Nich olson of Roanoke Rapids. Judge Walter I.. Small of Eliza beth City is seriously ill in Park view hospital in Rocky Mount fol lowing a stroke of paralysis which he suffered Monday aft rnoon as ho held court in Halifax. Attend ing physicians say the condition of the 52-year old jurist is critical but that he is seriously ill. Judge Small suffered comple paralysis of ihe right side and physicians expressed a fear that he may lie partia'ly invalided : -r life. Relatives and friends wore called from Elizabeth City to be at his bedside. Court attendants in Halifax y the jurist, during the trial of a ease, suddenly asked (hal court he recessed. While Sheriff Toe Rid dick was complying with the re i|Ucst, Judge Small slumped in hi. seat unconscious. He was rushed to Roanoke [tap ids hospital, but had bp bp ■■put to Parkview from thorp, because of crowded conditions. Due to thp fact‘that arm her I Judge is not available the January term of court can not ite compel pd, according to information from . the Clerk’s office. All wilnc cs and jurymen summoned need not j appeal. Only ;i lew eases had been dir-I posed of when the Judge was tab- ! (n ill. They ate as foil ovs: Braxton S. Watson, charged i with ahandonment and non support | Continued until Aug. 1p:!7 term. Sanford Cook, by his next 'riend : Charlie Cook, plaintiff versus An- ; drew Wallace and Th Weldon i Furniture Co., Inc., defendants. It was ordered and adjudged the. the plaintiff recover of the defendant the sum of Five bundled dollars I in full compensation for any and all claims against the d fendanfs. Adolphus Vann, Ezckin) Jordan and Bill Young, larceny. Case Ned Pros with leave. G. L. Hyman, non-support. Case ! continued on former or,! m. Clyde Pulley, seduction. Car j was continued for the State. Harnest Shearin, Di--1; I.ym-h, ' Perry Gregory and Duke Shearin charged with secret a -aid \.i!h intent to kill and conspiracy. Car ■ continued. Alias capias ’or defend ant Duke Shearin. Capias to Fed eral Pi nitentiary at A !.» ■ ■ defendant Dick I.ynch. Bruzell Lynch, assail'! with deadly weapon. Case continued and defendant’s hand was increased to $1000.00. HONORED Among the !_’(> hi>'!> ' >ol si ; dents from all parts o Hi UniieJ States, guests of llearsl new pa pers, during the thr . days e" i. inauguration of 1 ■-i pmt i’< vellt was Miss Hul.iar Ktninhnck, of Portsmouth, Va t-h i t ic dm' ghter of Mr. and l”... ■ ,.t Stain hack, former W; 1 Ion edden's. These girls ami lu,,.i won thi •• trip by writing e. says on the con stitution of the I ai J I; t.,s. MISS INGRAM ' :V\ ' '! I ’ 1 -”11 II EALTH OF, :; i . 1 'I’AFF Miss Edna Ing ata. a graduate | of the Roanoke i apidr T m; School for Nursi who at , r s is Public Health Nurse in North ampton County will m’n t’-’' staff | of the Halifax County Healt h He- : partment, Monday, February 1. Nation's $1,000,000 Birthday Cake and Its Beneficiaries IT ’f 1 TV-" ~Z~W r.! '.i'S >V • more than 6,000 celebrations in prospect for January 30, President Roosevelt’s birthday, a fund r>: mateiy $1,000,000 is forecast for the war against infantile paralysis by Colonel Henry L. o . ... h airman of the National Committee for the fou.'i* year. Seventy percent of the fund thus rased Will remain in the communities where collected, the other thir..y percent going to the Warm Springs (Georgia) Foundation. iS Cae s Tried In Recorder’s Court A ft i lyin ;• dormant for tho litine weeks of the new year i lime \v nl o i a rampage in Hali fax County last week and sixteen eases came up for trial Tuesday in Recorder’s Court. V lie (I. Carroll, charged with non 'pporl. Case noi pros with loav . John She! had, George Young w. e i.ri> d on charged of reckless driving, Judgment was suspended as to each on payment of 1-2 cost each. Ti 1 Del.rule, Tr., assault with deadly weapon, nol pros with leave i i: payni; nt of cost. Frank Now -II. Russell Nowell, and Hiram Davis, assault with deadly weapon .and affray. Prayer for judgmen! continued as to Frank No-.ved upon payment of l-.'l cost. Prayer for judgment contin ued as. i i lUt <1-1: Nowell on pay meat of ' J coal and a fine of $15. Russell and Frank Nowell to pay $15.00 ior Cth i if*"- expenses to Sanford t.o In ing Frank Nowell to Halifax for trial. 10. H. \lh n, driving while drunk thud .aiO.OO an.I cost Incense re volved lei 12 months. Joseph Taylnlr wa- found guilty of larc. ny and given JO days. •Sd:. W. .....n, guilty of liquor -I.: ge \. as . i\en fiv.- months. John ikm- war. found guiity o' liquor t-na'-g, - and given GO da.. . II ■ ga r ooti. e i f appeal, i i Superi >. ('tur I an.I his bond was fix id al $200.1)0. Jc.f Tiilwell, glii ty of assault, was given a GO day suspended sen tence. Jim Hewi'ii, found uilly of as sauk. was fin d !.n() and cost. Ji. i I r Ik.ii', gui.ty of liquor charge.-, given 90 da,',., suspended on payment of 15.00 in ■ and cost Willie Sutton, guilty of driving while drunk, l i led $50.00 and cost and license was revoked for 12 moi.. is. Johnni ■ Mills, ass nit with dead ly v opon; guilty, judgment sus pended. John Mills was found guilty of liquor charges and given $ months James Taylor with given 4 mon ths in jail for assault with dead ly weapon. C. T. Kidd, reckless driving, case continued. Forrest Gillum, assault. Defend ant given 30 days because he lias failed to pay costs in this case as directed on Dec. 7, 193G. 25, )00 work projects aided by PWA allotments. Halifax News Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Farmer of Littleton were visitms here Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Read spent the week-end in Dunn, the guests of Dr. and Mrs. ,1. F. Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vineent of Tarboro were visitors here Tues day. Mr. M. W. Ferry was a visitor in Raleigh last Friday. Miss Sarah Dickens of K. C. T. C. spent the week-end at home. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Owens were visitors in Battleboro Sunday. Mr. Poland Staton was a visitor in Rocky Mount Tuesday. Miss Emily Perry was a visitor in Rocky Mount Monday. Mr. and Mrs. L. If. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Owens, Miss' s Laura Read, Edith Avent, and Messrs. Aubrey Perry and Louie Millikin attended the dance in En field Tuesday evening. Services At The Baptist Church i The pastor’s subject for the I morning hour will be: “SELAH". I It is subject for the evening hour will be: “SUCII AS I HAVE". The service at the- evening bom will be a service of nppreeiati. n. You the urged to attend the own ing hour of worship and to bring j with you a small flower or a piece of evergreen. The flower or the piece of evergreen will be used in the service. Lot us all be there and do not forget to bring your flown or bit of evergreen. I)r. Arnot tells of a poor wom an in great distress because she could not pay her rent. She was expecting the officer to seize her goods. Her pastor heard of her trouble and went to her house with the money for her rent. He knock ed but could not get an answer. He went to different doors and windows, so eager was he to help her, but he received no response. At last he was compelled to go away, carrying the money hack with him.The good woman thought it was the officer seeking entrant ; to carry away her goo Is, and she j had tightly barred every door and window, and gave no heed to the knocking. Many people imagine that Christ comes as an enemy to put a yoke upon their necks to add to their burdens, anil they shut Him out. If they knew what ; blessings He brings in His hands, ■ they would open gladly.—H. F. Sayles. By the Pastor. Hutson Will Make Address Conference •I. B. Hutson, director of the AAA east central region, has ac cepted an invitation to address the seed exposition and third an nua! conference of the N. C. Crop Hnpi-ovi mont. Association, to be held in Goldsboro, February 9 and 101 h. He has been asked to discuss details of the 1937 soil-conserva tion program, said A. D. Stuart, extension seed specialist at State College, who is helping arrange for the exposition. I). S. Weaver, extension agricul tural engineer at the college, is rieduled to speak on rural elec trification, Stuart added. Both talks will he delivered Wednesday morning, February 10. Radio station WPTF, Raleigh, wil broadcast part of Wednes day’s program from 12:30 to 1:30 p. m. This will include a short ad dress by W. Kerr Scott, State Commissioner of Agriculture, and the announcement of 4-H and vo cational student winners in the | seed judging contests. Tuesday’s program will center on the work of the Chop Improve ment Association in encouraging the production and use of better seed in North Carolina, Stuart pointted out. Addresses will be delivered Tuesday by O. S. Fisher, exten sion agronomist from Washington, 1). C.; Dr. I!. Y. Winters, director of the N. C. Agricultural experi ment Station; and E. Y. Floyd to bacco specialist at State College, j Farmers of the State are invit ed to enter exhibits of certified and uncertified seed, Stuart con tinued, and one of the largest and best collections if crop seed ever assembled in the State is expect i ed to be on display. Growers who wish to enter seed in the exhibits may forward it to C. S. Mintz, county agent at Golds boro. Leggett’s Now Has Much Larger Store Leggett’s Dept. Store, of Roan oke Rapids will have the official .'polling tomorrow of the id new, larger store. This concern has added 4500 sq. feet more floor space to their al ready large building, giving them the largest store in this section with a total floor space of 14,000 ! square feet. Leggett's manager, 11. S. Loy, invite, everyone to visit them. Red Cross Calls For Money; Flood Rag! ng Final Rites In Enfield For John Gur^aneous Funeral services for John Gur ganeous, 51, of Enfield, were held at his home on Monday afternoon and burial followed in Elmwood Cemetery. The Rev. R. L. Jerome and the Rev. Sam T. liable con ducted the services, and the En field-Scotland Neck Roanoke A mcrican Legion Rost, Number 34, of which he was a member, assist ed. Mr. Gurganeous died “arly Sun day morning at the Government Hospital at Hampton, Va., where he had been receiving treatment for two weeks. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Q. M. Gurganeous. Surviving relatives, besides his parents, include his wife, who was formerly Miss Annie Mae Cooke; three children, Johnnie, Patria and six sisters, Mrs. D. E. Millikin, Mrs. Mat Hux, Mrs. William Sparks, Mrs. Louis Cooke, and Miss Mittie Gurganeous, all of En field, and Mis. J. H. Howington, of Hollister. NEGRESS SLAYS HUSBAND WED. John D. Thread, 55 year old Negro, was slain at his home near here early Wednesday morning as the climax of a fight with his wife and son. The melee grew out of an argument, which arose when Thread ran his 18 year old daugh ter away from home Tuesday night The son, Lorenza Thread, age 19, brought his sister to Weldon and after his return home the whole family become involved in a hitter quarrel which ended with the elder Thread being killed. Wednesday morning the woman Sally Thread, came to Weldon and requested the local undertaker to take her husband to the hospital She said he had fallen and hit his head on a bed. When Mr. Jim Stainback went to comply with her request, he found the man in the floor dead, with his head com pletely split open. Northampton county officials were called to the scene of the crime which is about half way be tween Garysburg and Gumberry. Robert Grant, Northampton cor oner, ordered an inquest held and a jury composed of .1. J. Buffaloe, C. II. Jordan, J. C. Cooke, Lewis Birdsong, Sam Birdsong and Glen Fleetwood was impaneled. The jury, after hearing the story told by the woman and boy return ed a verdict that Thread came to his death from the blow of an ax in the hands of his wife Sally Thread. The story pieced together by of ficials was that when the fight be gan between the boy and his father Sally Thread slipped up behind her husband and hit him in the back of the head, killing him in stantly. The wound showed that the ax had split the man’s head and neck open, going thru to his shoulder. The Negress and her son were placed in jail at Jackson to await trial. Well-Known Farmer Dies In Northampton William Henry Stephenson, 88 died Wednesday night at 7:30 at his home near here following an illness of only three weeks. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the residence and were con ducted by Rev. C. H. Trueblood, assisted by Rev. L. A. Watts, of , Seaboard. Interment followed in the family cemetery. Mr. Stephenson was born and reared in Northampton County, the son of the late Bennett Ed ward Stephenson and Cassandra Hill Stephenson. He spent his entire life in the community in which he died, where he was a prominent farmer. Surviving the deceased are one daughter, Mrs. D. T. Taylor of Gumberry, two sons, Herbert and Butler Stephenson of Garysburg, nineteen grandchildren and eigh teen great-grandchildren. HOME FROM HOSPITAL Friends of C. E. Carter will be glad to know that he has returned from Parkview hospital in Rocky Mount, where he has been a pa tient. The Weldon Chapter American j R> <1 Cross, through th. personal supervision of Mrs. W. I Knight, Chairman, has receiver nd for warded to Washington !■ ef funds J amounting to $450 00. Contributions were t:. n at all churches last Sunday ,.l since i then the schools and all organiza tions of the town have ;ent in ; contributions. The scho. children | of Weldon have contribu 1 $3d,62. The Halifax Chapter h.. sent in $145.00. There will be no pels lal can vass at this time, aceo .ing to Mrs. Knight. For the c .i r nience of th ■ public the Bank. Building and Loan and the West i Union are taking contributions .or Relief. Luei'e Edwards Cook h ; charge of receiving contribution; from the Colored people and t c colored school. The American Red Class has called for all funds ava lable. and the people here have ben most generous always in helpi i j in Dis aster relief work. According to press repoits Wed nesday, tens of thousan Is of l'ear stricken people cower- d behind weakening levees or fled to high er levels as the monstrous yellow tide of the Ohio river swelled to record-breaking flood h. ights on its sweep to the Mississippi. Eddying in muddy, s.ow rising torrents, the waters spread over an area of more than a million acres, taking a toll of a: least 200 known dead, and driving close to a million away from their homes and leaving many thousands more marooned in precarious - traits. Property damage was estimated far in excess of $10,01)0,000 and on every side came th. warning that “the worst is yet to come!’’ Wholesale evacuations of flood sieged towns in Tennessee, west ern Kentucky, southern Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi, signal led the greatest mass flu ,d exodus m history. From Pittsburgh, in the north, where anxious crowds watched th» flood relentlessly spread over the billion dollar business district to the crest of the deluge sweeping into the Mississippi beyond Cairo, 111., a panorama of water devasta tion extended. In the lower Mississippi valley, where (500,000 were made home less in 1927, authorities awaited the big test of the great system of dykes and levees built along a 300-mile stretch of the Missis sippi after the 1927 disaster. President Roosevelt, anxiously watching the progress of the tidal sweep through eleven states, sent out the crisp command to legisla tors debating on a $790,000,000 re lief request: “Step on it!” The President sent out word that the fund, originally intended to care for work relief, should be appropriated for flood sufferers in the emergency. In Louisville, Ky„ United States army troops moved into the virtu ally solated city of 330,000 citi zens to clamp down the military rule arbitrarily declared by Gov ernor A. B. Chandler. Lieutenant A. Burton, of the U nited States Air Corps, a.ter boat inspection of Louisville’s west end, reported 2,000 persons were ma rooned on rooftops. Many refused to move. As the turbulent waters plung ed south, guardsmen near Cairo, 111., dynamited the $21,000,000 Bird’s Point-New Madrid flood way levee, sending millions of gal lons of pent-up fury into the 131, 000-acre lower area bounded by a new setlaick levee. Workers toiled feverishly to strengthen the weak link in the main line levee below llickman, Ky. Sand bags by the thousands were flung up against the weak ening barrier. At Cincinatti the debris-choked river swirled angrily to the 80 foot level, 21 feet above the flood stage and nearly nine feet higher than ever recorded there. Aurora, Ind., however, ‘boasted’ the highest water mark along the Ohio river. The guage read 80.7 feet. The town showed only roof tops. In Portsmouth, Ohio, the water cascaded over the river wall, which has resisted every flood in the past quarter century. More than 35,000 were homeless awaiting e vacuation. Fire added to the terror. At Louisville, Ky., flames swept through a district about a mile from the city hall. Fire apparatus still functioning on the higher levels made a hopeless sortie.