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WELDON-THE GATEWAY TO EASTERN CAROLINA THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES A SUPPORT THE PAPER THAT ADVERTISES YOUR TOWN Seventieth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina Thursday, June 17, 1937 Boiler Explodes; One Scalded; Dies Wed. NEGRO FIREMAN DIES AND $15,000 DAMAGE IN BLAST A boiler at the J. R. Wollett ♦ Lumber Plant in Littleton explod ed early Wednesday morning, fa tally scalding Mark Jenkins, Negro fireman. The explosion which occurred at 8:00 o’clock in the morning was of such force the entire boiler room ^ containing two other boilers and an V 'djoining machine shop were de jp molished. Macon Moore, white foreman of the plant was working in the machine shop, but he miraculously escaped injury. Hot water and steam from the boilers scalded the Negro so bad ly he died late in the day Wednes day at the Roanoke Rapids Hos pital where he had been rushed following the accident. The noise of the explosion was so great that people for some dis tance heard it. Damage was esti mated at $15,000. Services At The Baptist Church The pastor's subject for the morning hour will be: “ON THE WRONG ROAD.' His subject for the evening hour will be: ‘TNI THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK.'' A missionary writer tells us that in one of the great temples of Ja pan, the devotion of the worship per consists in running around the sacred building one hundred times and dropping a piece of wood into a box each round. The wearisome exertion being ended, the worship per then goes home tired but very happy at the thought id" having done such worthy service to his Pfod. We may think this unspeak ably silly; and yet. is there much difference between running around a temple a certain number of times and just going to church, sitting through the service and going home? Unless we go with the def inite purpose of worship; unless we listen reverently and obediently to the voice of God speaking through His Word and His minis ter; unless we truly approach God when we bow in prayer, we are just Hr unwise and unreasonable as was the Japanese runner. — (Sunday School Chronicle.) liy the Pastor. Mrs. Mary Bounds and Mrs. .1. 1. Wyche were called to Suffolk, Va , this week on account of the death of their sister, Mrs. J. E. Vincent. UNCHANGED Late reports as the NEWS goes to press show the condition of Mr. John Willey, well-known local hardware merchant is unchanged. He is in a Richmond hospital and is very ill. Also unchanged is the condition of Miss Katherine Coleman at 11 o'clock tonight. She was severely burned while trapped in a wreck ed burning car near Warrenton Tuesday night. Bar Meeting Held At Club Last Night Approximately twenty members of the Halifax County Bar asso ciation gathered at a supper meet ing Wednesday evening at the Chockoyatte Country Club here, with Ashby W. Dunn prominent Scotland Neck attorney as the principal speaker. Following the evenings festivi ties a business session was held during which new officers were e lected including George C. Green of Weldon, president; U. Mac John son of Enfield, Vice-president; Wade H. Dickens of Scotland Neck, Secretary and Treasurer. The association decided to hold quarterly sessions in the future. Highway Officials At Prison Farm Chairman Frank L. Dunlop and a sub-committee of the Highway and Public Works Commission went to Caledonia Prison Farm to day to continue a study of North Carolina penal institutions, accord ing to an announcement made by Mr. Dunlop yesterday following a meeting of the full commission. This study is being made in an effort to construct a Woman’s pri son and provide industry lor pri soners. According to Mr. Dunlop the question of locating and building a Womans prison is a matter of more imperative action even than prison industries. Route 258 Being Hard Surfaced Work is almost completed on U. S. Highway 258 from Scotland Neck to Rich Square and traffic is allowed on most of the new pav ed road. The road will be finished in three weeks. “A Natural” Planned Saturday As 9’s Clash One of the best baseball games ever seen in this section is in store v 'or fans Saturday when the Hart ’ iKffls team of Tarboro plays Wel don White Sox at 8:30 o'clock. Those who saw the Weldon team defeat Perrytown in a close and hard fought game Wednesday be lieve Saturdays tilt will be "A Natural” because last Saturday Hart Mills nosed out Perrytown in a 1 to 0 “thriller". The Hart Mills pitcher giving a no-hit, no-run per formance. Then on Sunday these two nines met and again Hart Mills was the winner by a 5 to 0 score. So thrill hungry baseball fans of this section are awaiting the call “play-ball“ Saturday, believ ing they will see a game remind ing them of by-gone days when Weldon was a red-hot baseball town - where everybody lived baseball and ready at all times to “root’ for the team. The V.E.P. Company boys who make up Weldon's team are really playing good games — the kind that Weldon’s teams have always played and they deserve the com plete support of the town. Wednesday the local team played a team that kept them fighting to the last strikeout. They were forc ed to come from behind in the sev enth inning and then beat off a rally that scored two runs and threatened to beat them in the eighth inning. Loud Speaker The game was helped mater ially by a public address system over which Ted Speight gave the names of the players as they came to bat, the plays and other inter esting information. The locals plan to use the loudspeaker at all fu ture games here. Ladies" Day Saturday has been declared “La dies" Day’’ at the local park when all the members of the fairer sex will be admitted absolutely free, and think of it their escorts only pay a quarter! Kim City Wednesday Another good game is in pros pect Wednesday when the Elm City team comes here. This team is a member of the Central Carolina League and has a first-class nine. This game will start at 4 o'clock. -0 Local Store Has Sale “Times Are Better” was evidenc ed by the crowd of shoppers at tending the big “unloading Sale" at L. Kittner's Store here Friday and Saturday. This concern is offering "real bargains" and is experiencing a successful sales event. -0-— Local Boy Hurt In Kinston Wreck Alex Lassiter, son of Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Lassiter, suffered a badly cut leg in an automobile wreck in Kinston last Sunday. Alex was hurt when a car drivtj by Mr. Howard, a relative over turned after a tire blew out. It was necessary to take 16 stitches in his leg. Mr. Howard and his son Lee, was also hurt. However all three are up and about now. Liquor Stores To Absorb Sales Tax SAVINGS BY STATE WHOLE SALE PURCHASES OFFSET NEW SEVEN PERCENT Raleigh, June 14 — The county liquor stores will be required to absorb the State sales tax of seven per cent on gross sales, out of 50 per cent mark-up, or profit, they will make on all sales, it was an nounced today by Chairman Cutlar Moore, of the State Alcoholic Bev erages Control Board. He also an nounced that the new uniform price list with uniform code num bers had at last been completed and sent to the printer, and that the new list would be distributed to the county boards and stores in time for the new prices to go into effect July 1. The new price list will have the effect of reducing the price on most of the numbers in the stores in interior counties from 10 to 15 per cent, but will not materially change prices in the counties which have been using the Virginia price list or prices in line with those charged in the Virginia stores. "While all the counties will now be required to pay the State seven per cent of their gross sales, this does not mean that their profit will be cut to 43 per cent, as com pared with the 50 per cent profit most of them have been making in addition to the tax,” Chairman Moore said. "For we have helped the stores get better whole sale prices on their cheaper numbers, especially those selling for 50 cents and 55 cents per pint, in that they will now get a 50 per cent mark up profit on these items. The other way we have helped them is by making out the price list so that all prices and either with a five or a naught. "That is, items which formerly sold for $1.33 we have priced at $1.35, while those which formerly were priced at $1.42 we huve now priced at $1.40, while in addition we have secured a lower base or wholesale price from the disti'l',rs or wholesalers. So even though the county stores must include the state tax in the prices charged and cannot add the tax to the 50 per cent mark-up, as many of them wanted to do, the counties will still be able to make about 45 per cent net profit on all sales as a result of the better base prices we have obtained from the distillers and to other adjustments in the price lists.’ New Auditing system The board will also put into ef fect its new uniform auditing sys tem for all liquor stores July 1st, coincident with the installation of the new price list, Moore said. In fact, it has been impossible to in stall the uniform auditing system until the new uniform price list with uniform code numbers could be gotten out, Moore explained. But with every item selling at the same price and bearing the same code number, it will be a relatively simple matter to keep a daily check on sales and stocks in all stores. No effort will be made to require stores to use the same types of cash registers, since that would be too expensive, Moore said. But the auditing system is so simple, that it can be used successfully with what ever type of cash register the stores now happen to have. Effective July 1 All the new rules and regulations for both stores and county boards will also become effective July 1, including the requirement that all stores must buy their liquor, if in less than carload lots, through one of the two approved and licensed warehouses, Moore said. One of these warehouses will be located in Wilson, the other in Tarboro. Un less county stores or boards are able to purchase in carload lots, they will be required to have their purchases routed through these warehouses. The purpose of this is to require distillers to ship to these warehouses by rail and hence to prevent the diversion of truck shipments to bootleggers. It will al so make it possible for the county stores to carry smaller stocks and make a quicker turnover. "At present when one county or ders 50 cases of Brand A, another 75 cases of the same brand and a third county 100 cases of the same, the distillers have to make broken shipments either by truck or freight,” Moore pointed out. “Under this new plan, the ship ments will be shipped direct in sealed carload lots to the ware houses, and there broken up into smaller lots and delivered by truck under the supervision of State ABC Board inspectors,” Moore said. "Invoices of all orders will be sent to the state board and care fully checked to' see that there is no diversion to bootleggers.” CAR WRECKED THEN BURNS, TWO ARE HURT Miss Katherine Coleman, HI year old white waitress at Westons Service Station near here was sev erely burned about three o'clock Wednesday morning when the Ford Coach in which she was riding with Herbert Merritt, 21 year old em ployee in the State Highway shops here, failed to make a turn in the highway in the outskirts of Warrenton. The car, which belonged to Wil liam Shearn of this plaee had been borrowed by Merritt to take Miss Coleman to her home in Paschall, N. C. After leaving the road, the car turned over into a creek and Merritt was thrown out, but when a filling station attendant, who saw the wreck reached him. he was walking on the highway in a dazed condition and when questioned said there was no one else in the car. However, the attendant went closer 1 to the car and when he struck a match to investigate, the car and Miss Coleman, who was lying un conscious in the seat and soaked with gas caught fire. Help was called and she was finally remov ed from the wreckage with her clothing and skin burned from her body. Both Miss Coleman and Mer ritt were rushed to Roanoke Rapids hospital. Little hope is held for her but Merritt is only suffering from shock and Minor injuries and is expected to be released in a few days. The car was completely destroy ed by the fire. SHORTROUTE MEETING FRIDAY ,_ The Annual Meeting of the Washington - Florida Short Route Association, Inc., will he held in Rocky Mount, N. C., Friday, June 18, 1937, starting at 11:00 A. M., with Ricks Hotel as headquarters and place for all meetings. Business to be transacted at the morning and afternoon sessions will include reports of the President and Secretary, election of officers for the ensuing year, and the a doption of certain plans and regu lations, by which the Association will operate for another year. The largest attendance in the history of the Association at this meeting because:” 1. The people in the towns on U. S. 301 are now convinced that the tourist business is worth work ing for. 2. So long as other NorthSouth routes continue to advertise ex tensively to attract tourist busi ness, our route must do likewise. 3. The widening and improving of the 301 Highway by the High way Commission of each State will depend upon the amount of traffic it carries, 4. The bringing of tourists to our towns and cities is one of the best and most productive types of ad vertising. Following the first business ses sion, a dutch luncheon at sixty cents per plate will be served in the Ricks Hotel at 1:00 P. M. Ev eryone attending the meeting is urged to participate in the dutch luncheon, and a card for your res ervation is enclosed, which must be returned and in the hands of the Secretary by June 10th. The afternoon business session will start at 2:00 P. M. The new Board of Directors will meet immediately following the afternoon business session. The City and County officials of all towns on U. S. 301 are now interested in the success of our Association and should attend this important meeting. We can and are doing u type of work they want to see continued. All classes of bu siness indirectly benefit from tour ist promotion, and we hope to have all classes represented at this meeting. The "gravy group” who reap the largest harvest from our work includes hotels, wholesale oil distributors, restaurants, tour ist homes, service stations, tourist camps, drug stores, barber shops, garages and hospitals. They like wise should be at this meeting 100 per cent strong, and offer their as sistance in every way to further the success of an Association that is dumping money into their laps eight out of twelve months each year. -0 Vincent Wyche and Howard Bounds, Jr., are spending this week at Nags Head. Many Deaths In This Section This Week HENRY MASIE NEVILLE Henry Masie Neville, 46, well known hardware merchan' died at Roanoke Rapids hospital Tuesday morning after an illness of only a few days. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 from the residence and were con ducted by Rev. N. G. Bethea of Greensboro, assisted by Rev. John O. Long, pastor of the Methodist Church, Rev. R. S. Fountain of the Baptist church and Rev. D. P. Moore, rector of Grace Episcopal church. Pallbearers were: P. M. Willey, Newport News, Va.; S. G. Willey, Norfolk, Va.; C. M. Willey, Nor folk, Va.; Tom Hardy, Durham; J. P. Neville, Enfield and B. F. Willey of Weldon. Interment fol lowed in Cedarwood Cemetery. Mr. Neville was born and reared in Halifax County and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Neville of this place. He had been con nected with the Willey Hardware Company for a number of years. He was a member of the Metho d: ,t Church and held offices in the Junior Order and Woodmen of The World Lodges. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Fiances Willey Neville, one daugh ter, Miss Hazel Neville, his parents Mr. and Mrs, H. B. Neville, all of Weldon, five sisters, Mrs. Eupha McDaniel, Enfield; Mrs. Lela Wil liy, Halifax; Mrs. Joe Stallings, Ringwood; Mrs. Exum Rives, Halifax and Mrs. J. T. 1). Rawlings of Weldon, also one brother, Frank Neville of Halifax. JOSEPH P. MASSEY Joseph P. Massey, 93 died at the home of his daughter here late Tuesday after an illness of several weeks duration. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 from the Pleasant Hill Meth odist church and were conducted by Rev. Mr. Currie, assisted by Rev. R. S. Fountain. Pallbearers were Homie Coker, Clinton Crew, Ellis Crew, W. N, McGee, Eugene Vassal', Dallas Massey and hon arary pallbearers were Tom Bragg Vassal-, Norman Jordan, both-of Pleasant Hill; Ed Junes and E. Clark of Weldon. Mr. Massey was born and rear ed in the Pleusant Hill community but had made his home with his daughters here for several years. At the out-brake of the Civil War he volunteered though he was too young, and served three and a half years in Company C, 32nd regi ment under Captain Coker. He was a member of Spring Church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Ed Webb, Pleasant Hill; Mrs, W. L. Brown, Ruanoke Rapids; Mrs, A. G. Sledge, Weldon; Mrs, J. E. McGee, Weldon; two sons.l Algie Massey, Richmund, Va. and Charlie Massey, Ruanoke Rapids, also one brother, Tom Massey of Seaboard. MRS. N. MASSEY KEE Mrs. Nannie Massey Kee, 48 wife ol Leary M. Kee, died suddenly at her home near here Tuesday. Fu neral services were held this af ternoon at 3:30 o’clock from Elam Church and were conducted by Rev. Lawrence Watts of Seaboard, as sisted by Rev. R. S. Fountain, pastor of the Weldon Baptist Chur ch. Interment took place in the family burial plot. Surviving are her husband, her father, Tom Massey of Pleasant Hill, one brother, James, J, Mas sey of Pleasant Hill and one step daughter, Mrs. Robert Barnes ol Gumberry, ALLEN THOMAS TAYLOR Allen Thomas Taylor, 12, died Monday at his home in Roanoke Rapids. * Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon from the Baptist Church with Rev. Gordon Price, pastor of the church officiating. Surviving are his mother and one brother, Francis Taylor. MRS. MYRTLE F. TUDOR Funeral services were held from Smith's Church Friday afternoon for Mrs. Myrtle F. Tudor who died at Roanoke Rapids Hospital Thurs day following an illness of only a few days from blood poison. The rites were conducted by Rev. J. J. Boone and interment followed in the church yard. Mrs. Tudor was born and reared a few miles from here and was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Fulghum. Surviving are three sisters Mrs. Sallie Riggan, Mrs. Garner, Miss Mamie Fulgham all of near here and two brothers, Wesley Ful ghum of Weldon and Clarence Ful ghum of Washington, D. C. \ Kerr Wants Roanoke _ River In TVA Plan Privilege License Expired June 1st. State Tax Schedule B or what is commonly known as Privilege License on all business houses ex pired June 1 and must be renewed at once by all merchants, accord ing to J. (J. Shannonhou.se, Deputy Commissioner. He says a penalty of 5 per cent per month will be effective on July 1st. Mr. Shannonhouse says he will be at the Terminal Hotel all day Wednesday, June 23rd for the con venience of anyone wanting his assistance in filling out the nec essary application forms. Those desiring to do so may write directly to Raleigh for li cense. Name Local Rep. Of Hospital Assn. Miss Mary Pierce has been named local representative of the Hospital Saving Association of Chapel Hill by Miss Tosea Tolar, Field Supervisor. This is a non-profit organization with four members of Buard of Di rectors elected by Medical Society, four by the Association. These eight elect four business men and twelve Directors serve without pay. A $25,000 gift from the Duke Endowment started the work and it was organized in 1936. More than 30,000 people are now mem bers. Fireman Meet And Endorse Howard A regular meeting of the local Volunteer Fire Department was held Tuesday night. Twelve of the fifteen regular members were present and an en thusiatic session was enjoyed. Plans for raising money to at tend the State Convention and School were discussed and dele gates chosen. All those present went on rec ord endorsing F. L. Howard as Chief and expressed their satis faction of his leadership. Weldon has one of the most ef ficient volunteer departments in the state and it has developed ra pidly under Mr. Howards leader ship, Their work on the fire in the Daniel building here has evoked much praise. Chief Howard is planning to take several of the firemen to the school this summer. INTRODUCES KILL TO PLACE ROANOKE IN PROPOSED SYSTEM Washington, June 1G —Repre sentative John H. Kerr today mov ed to include the Roanoke and Neuse rivers in President Roose velt's plans for regional TVA throughout the country by intro ducing in the House bills for com prehensive surveys of these rivers so as to tie them in with the pro posed development of the eastern seaboard. Judge Kerr issued the following statement on his bills: "I have today introduced two bills which provide for a compara tive study of the Roanoke and Neuse rivers and their tributaries as they affect navigation, reclama tion of farm lands, development of power and a study of the economi cal and social aspect of the areas surrounding these rivers. “There have been previous sur* veys dealing largely with dredging for. improving navigation, but this is a broader approach and contem plates a comparative inventory of all the resources in these areas. I hope that because the nation has become more reclamation conscious and with advanced thinking along these lines, that much more can be accomplished. I especially hope to enlist the support of members of Congress and interested parties well up in Virginia of the Roanoke River improvement. This improve ment has been the cherished hope of this section for many years. My idea is to have this great water way, it being the most important waterway on the South Atlantic Appalachian slope, incorporated in the national planning for water ways program. “There are thousands and thou sands of acres of the richest bot tom lands in Halifax, Northampton, Bertie and Martin counties that were prior to the Civil War diked at private expense, and much of these lands still are in cultivation, but under precarious circumstances. If these bills are enacted, this ele ment of danger will be removed and cultivation can continue with out the hazard of destruction of crops by floods. “On account of the tremendous increase in barging commerce, if navigation is resumed as far as Weldon on the Roanoke it will see a new life given to this water borne traffic which will not only result in providing navigation im provement, but will add several dollars per acre to the stumpage price on timber in this valley and adjacent areas.” Former Merchant Here Won Acquittal Tuesday “No willful violation of regula tions” was the substance of the judgment in a case against J. A. Hornaday, popular 10c store man ager and former resident of Wel don, after evidence in the case was studied by Recorder Judge Chas. Daniel. The case in which Mr. Hornaday was charged with labor law viola tions was heard in County Court Tuesday and the judgment was filed today. An article released Wednesday in a daily paper caused much dis cussion here and it was declared “erronnous and misleading” and will probably be corrected follow ing release of the following, which is an exact copy of the judgment. "This cause coming on to be heard on this Tuesday, the 15th day of June, 1937, before tlje un dersigned Judge of the Recorders Court of Halifax County, the de fendant having pleaded not guilty upon warrants charging him with violation of the State Labor Laws, to-wit: employing or permitting female persons to work more than ten hours per day; more than fif ty-five hours per week; more than six hours continuously without half hour interval of rest; employ ing children under sixteen years of age; and employing and permit ting children under sixteen years of age to work after six o'clock P. M.; the Court finds as a fact that the defendant is employed as Manager of Rose’s 5c and 10c Store in En field, having been transferred to said store from a similar store in Weldon in February, 1937; that upon taking over the management of the store at Enfield the defen dant substantially followed the same policies which were in vo gue and used by his predecessor; that there was posted in the said store in a conspicuous place a schedule of hours and labor for the several employees, the total number of hours for each not in excess of fifty-five hours, the Sta tutory limit; that in two instances the defendant employed two fe males under the age of sixteen years as an emergency and upon the recommendation of the other employees, both of whom were un known to the defendant but former ly in the employ of the store be fore the defendant took over the management thereof; that there were several occasions when an employee was permitted to work more than ten hours per day anil more than six hours continuously without an interval or rest; that one employee worked on a number of occasions more than fifty-five hours per week; that in each of the last three instances the defen dant while technically guilty, did not order the employees to work in violation of the Statute, but oc cupying the position of Manager had constructive knowledge that the hours regulations were being violated. "The Court finds further that there was no willful violation of the regulations pertaining to hours of labor and of the age of em ployees; that the defendant is a man of excellent character and bears an enviable reputation. It is, therefore, ordered that judgment in these cases be and the same is hereby suspended.’ CHAS. R. DANIEL Judge of Recorder’s Cou** This case grew out of cl I (Continued on back par
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