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Thursday, July 29, 1937
LAW MAKES MALARIA
REPORTABLE DISEASE
By J. C. KNOX, M. I).
Slate Epidemiologist
Raleigh, July 29—“In order to
properly control malaria, now a
reportable disease, it is highly im
portant that the State Board ol
Health know where each case oc
curs", said Dr. J. C. Knox, State
Epidemiologist.
f "During the past few years
there has been an increase in the
incidence of malaria in North Ca
rolina, reflected in an increase,
number of deaths, and also showr
by every other method for detet
mining its prevalence. While the
disease was not declared reportabb
until May 25 of this year, and the
total number of cases for any pre
vious year or series of years can
not, therefore, be accurately deter
mined, yet mortality records show
there were 150 deaths from mala
ria in North Carolina in 19-10, as
compared with 94 in 1905. Provis
ional reports for the first half ot
1907 also show there is an increase
in the number of deaths so far this
year, as compared with the corres
ponding period of 1936.
“The procedure to be followed in
reporting malaria is the same as
that used in reporting other noti
fiable diseases. Each case should
be reported on the regular card
furnished by the local health de
partment or obtained from Ha
state Board of Health. Each of
these, bearing full information,
should be mailed to the county or
city health officer, or quarantine
offLci who, in torn, forwards the
cards to the State B..a d of Heal
th
“Considerable work has been
done for the control of malaria in
North Carolina, including the re
cent digging of 4,807,458 feet, or
922 miles, of ditches, draining 12,
416 acres of malaria breeding a
» rea. Prompt reporting of every
case will greatly aid in determin
ing the incidence of malaria and
show where there is greatest need
for extended work looking toward
crrnroi.
By virtue of the authority con
ferred on them under Article 9,
Section 7151, of the Consolidated
Statutes, the members of the Nor
th Carolina State Board of Health
in session at their regular meeting
held in Winston-Salem on May 5th,
19117, during the meeting of the
State Medical Society, declared ma
laria to be a reportable disease.
North Carolina now is in line with
all the other southern states in
which malaria is a problem.
The procedure to be followed in
reporting malaria is the same as
that used in reporting the other
notifiable diseases. Each ease
should be reported on the regular
card furnished by the local health
department or obtained from the
State Board of Health. These re
port cards, bearing full informa
tion on the case, should be mailed
to the county health officer, city
health officer or quarantine officer
who in turn forwards them to the
State Board of Health.
In recent years considerable
work on malaria control has been
done in this State by the various
governmental agencies. It is ielt
that this is a definite aid to the
control efforts of the State Board
of Health. The active cooperation
of the physicians of North Carolina
in reporting malaria cases coming
to their attention will be necessary
in promoting malaria control and
will be greatly appreciated.
New Truck Burns
Early Sunday A. M.
A new Chevrolet truck was de
stroyed by a fire of undetermined
origin during the early hours of
last Sunday morning.
The fire was discovered about
1:110 ocloek and although the local
firemen answered the call prompt
ly it was too late to save the tiuck
so they bent their efforts to keep
ing the fire from spreading. *
The truck belonged to Weldon
Furniture Co. and was stored at
the time in a garage at the rear of
the store. The loss was not covered
by insurance.
Commander of the American Le
gion of the State next year is Hec
tor C. Blockwell, 48-year-old Fay
etteville attorney who enlisted as a
private in 1917 for the war over
seas. He was unanimously acclaim
ed at the annual convention held in
Durham this week.
SS Conference In
Louisburg Soon
Miss Anna A. Cassatt, director
of Field Social Work for the Sta
te Board of Charities and Public
Welfare left Raleigh this week to
conduct a series o£ Social Security
Conferences through the State at
which County Superintendents will
be present.
One will be held in. Louisburg,
August 12 at which time Halifax
County will be among those repn
sented.
Hogging Down Corn
GUV A. CARDWELL
Agricultural iV Industrial Agent.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
Cash-crop farmers in Tidewater
Virginia and Coastal 1’lain and
Tidewater sections ol' tile Carolina*
have made remarkable progress
during recent years in breeding and
feeding hogs l'or shipment to pack
ing-house markets. Frequent men
tion has been made of the “Shay
Method”, in North Carolina, and the
"Sharkey-llawkins Method” in N.
Carolina, under which hogs arc
quickly made ready for market.
The splendid results accruing
from the use of feeding methods
advocated by Swine Divisions of
Agricultural Colleges in Virginia
and the Carolina.* have been largely
responsible for the fact that hogs
have become a money-crop on nu
merous farms throughout this sec
tion.
In view of the interest that has
been developed in hogs and coin,
I feel that certain information de
veloped at Auburn, Alabama, from
work extending over a 15 year per
iod, showing the hogging off of
corn was substantially more profi
table than harvesting and market
ing corn, in all hut three years of
the fifteen years, should be a mat
ter of general interest to farmers.
Lack of space prevents use in
this article of the table of figures
making comparisons between hog
ging off of corn versus harvest
ing corn in Alabama. An average
of the figures for the 15 years
shows a profit of $4.0(1 per acre, or
28 cents per bushel, in favor of
hogging off corn compared with
harvesting and marketing corn. An
average price of $1.32 per bushel
for corn in the field would have
been realized during the 15 year
period if the corn crop had been
marketed through hogs.
Management Suggestions When
Hogging Off Corn
1. The corn should be sufficiently
mature to be in the glazed stage
when the pigs are turned into the
field. Soft torn has a tendency to
scour pigs.
2. Hogging off corn is a fatten
ing process and it is advisable to
use pigs for this purpose that will
he finished wlu n the corn is clean
ed up. Spring pigs with growthy
frames and weighing 100 to 125
pounds when turned in the field
give best results.
11. Corn when fed alone does not
constitutc'a satisfactory ration for
any kind of hog. Corn is deficient
in both protein and mineral. Soy
beans grown with the corn will
supply the protein deficiency. A
simple mineral mixture of equal
parts of charcoal, lime and salt
will supply the necessary mineral.
If no feed such as soybeans are
grown with the corn, il is advisa
ble to place a self-feeder contain
ing both tankage and mineral in
the field with the hogs.
4. Hogs that are nearly finished
should be removed from the field
when there are yet a few scattered
grains and part of ears on the
ground. Breeding animals and ear
ly Fall pigs make good use of ary
corn left by the fattening hogs.
6. A field of corn yielding 40
bushels per acre will carry twenty
125 pound pigs for about 15 days.
6. Plenty of clean water and
some shade will increase the rate
and cut down the cost of gains.
This is particularly true during the
early Fall when the weather is
hot.
7. It. is good farm management
to let your hogs harvest some of
your corn while you pick your cot
ton.
SOUTHERN PINE COES
TO NEW YORK FAIR
NEW YORK (Special).—Southern
yellow pine from the Eastern Shore,
Maryland, and from points in Dela
ware. Virginia and North Carolina is
already going into foundations in the
central exhibit area of the New York
World's Fair of 1939.
Grover Whalen, President of the
Fair Corporation, has just announced
the purchase of 430 sticks of pine
piling, in lengths up to 80 feet, from
Nichols Brothers, of 90 West Street.
Manhattan, and Norfolk, Virginia
Shipments of this lot are originating
at Frankfort. Delaware, Preston,
Maryland, and Melfa and Cheriton.
Virginia. An order for piling of sim
ilar size is being filled at points in
North Carolina.
The pine sticks are being driven
into the ash-meadow fill of the
l?16V2-acre exposition site where they
will ser*-e as part of the foundations
for bridge abutments near the Theme
Centre and amusement areas of the
"air.
Services At The
Baptist Church
The pastor’s subject for the
morning hour will lie: “PROVE
His subject for the evening
hour will he: “THE LORD'S VES
SELS AND THEIR CARRIERS.”
Our congregations last Sunday
morning and evening were unu
sually good. We hope that we will
have even larger congregations
next Sunday morning and night.
Little Jimmy Godfrey, aged 13
climbed a tree - out in Kansas
City - to gather walnuts. He came
in contact with an electric wire.
One side of his face was burned,
leaving an ugly scar. A damage
suit against the power and light
company was instituted on Jimmy’s
behalf. The chief element of dam
age about which the claim centered
was that Jimmy had lost his
youthful smile. On the witness
stand, Jimmy was asked to try to
smile. The only result was a puek
erng of the lips and a melancholy
drawing of the face. A physician
testified that the smile muscle in
his cheek had been bound by the
scarred tissue above. The jury
promptly returned a verdict giving
Jimmy $20,000. That becomes the
officially value ol' a smile.
Moral If a smile is worth $20,000
when you lose it, is it worth $20,
000 when you use it. The world is
full of Jimmy Godfreys - some of
them little chaps like him, some
df them big, grownup folks. Some
ol' them are like Jimmy used to be
with a warming, cheering, helpful
smile that makes life happier for
everybody in it. Some of them are
like Jimmy is now - “smile muscle”
always gone - instead, a deep, dark,
foreboding frown that makes the
world a litile darker and a little
gloomier for all who come into
contact with them.” — Grand Rap
ids Herald.
By the pastor.
Increase Noted In
Number Of Births
Raleigh, July 29—With the re
turn of prosperity a definite in
erease in the number of babies be
ing burn in North Carolina is ro
ll' cted in figures compiled by the
Division of Vital Statistics of the
State Board of Health, of which
Dr. R. T. Stimpson is the director.
Reports for the first six months
of 1937, as compared with the first
half of 1930 show that 39,979 ba
bies already have been horn in N.
Carolina this year, as compared
with 38,875 the same period last
year, a difference of 1104 in favor
of 1937. The trend has been up
ward since 1933, prior to which
time there was a decrease in births,
following a decided increase just
after the war, when prosperity was
at its height.
North Carolina also continues to
show a declining death rate. The
number of deaths reported by the
Vital Statistics Division the first
half of 1937 was 17,598. This was
in contrast with 18,874 reported
the corresponding period in 193G,
a difference of l,27fl in favor of
1937.
Decided increases in births were
reported during April, May and
.Tune, this year, while slight de
creases were evident during Jan
uary, February and March, though
the net gain stands at 1104.
During only one month this year
—April have there been more
leaths than last year.
Locals Defeated By
Owls Saturday
Roanoke Rapids, July 21- In one
of the finest games witnessed this
year, the Roanoke Rapids Owls won
the second game from the Weldon
White Sox 5-0. It was a pitching
duel throughout, between two port
side flingers, with “Lefty” itavis
limiting the Sox to two hits and
a shut out. while two fast double
plays and a throw-out at the plate
staved off Owl scores for “Lelty"
Starke until the eighth, wli n six
singles in a row spelled defeat.
The Sox never got a man beyond
second base. In the first, Jimmie
Womble drew a walk, and was sa
crificed to second by Fletcher
Dickens’ perfect bunt, but Davis
bore in and fanned “Cat” Byrd,
while Booty Outland was out at
first for the final out. The Sox
went out in order, except for Flip
Edmondson’s single in the fifth,
ami his base on error in the eighth
Jimmie Womble led off in the
ninth with a single, but the next
three batters flied out.
The Owls threatened in the third
when Irvin Dickons singled and
reached second on “Cat” Byrd’s
error. George Nethercutt singled
sharply to “Cat” Byrd, but his per
fect. throw cut Dickens off at the
plate. Double plays in the fourth
and sixth cut off rallys, but the
hittng in th" eighth was too much
for the Sox.
The Box:
White Sox
Womble, ss.
F. Dickens, c.
I. Byrd, If.
Outland, lb.
W. Byrd, rf.
Acree, 3b.
Edmondson, 21).
Kimball, of.
Starke, p.
AB |{ II E
3 0 11
3 0 0 0
4 0 0 1
4 0 0 0
3 0 0 0
3 0 0 1
3 0 1 0
3 0 0 0
3 0 0 1
Totals
29 0 2 4
Owls
Fuller, lb.
1. Dickens, ss.
Nethercutt, 3b.
Birdsong, cl'.
Ashe. c.
Branch, If.
Boyd, 2b.
Smith, rf.
Davis, p.
AB R II i:
5 0 1 0
4 0 2 0
4 12 0
4 110
4 110
4 12 0
3 12 1
4 0 10
4 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 12 1
Score by Innings:
White Sox 000 000 000—0
Owls 000 000 05x—5
Summary:
Ashe 2, Branch, Smith 2. Two
base hits, I. Dickens. Sacrifice: F.
Dickens. Double plays: Acree, Ed
mondson and, Outland; Womble,
Edmondson and Outland. Left on
liases: White Sox 4, Owls 7. Bases
on balls; Starke 1; Davis 1. Strke
outs: Starke 1; Davis 5. Umpires:
Butler and Finch. Time 1:40.
Unemployment Trust
Fund Grows Rapidly
Raleigh, July 2t>—The Unem
ployment Trust Fund for North
Carolina has been credited with
$27,.'180.."..‘1 in interest on this sta
te's deposits with the U. S. Treas
ury for the second quarter of
10:17. The amount on deposit at the
end of the quarter was about $5,
500,000, largely accumulator dur
ing the quarter. Interests on de
posits for the first quarter was
$5,475,110. The total for the first
half of this year is thus $112,855.
72. The North Carolina fund on
deposit increased to $5,075,000 last
week.
Raleigh, July 20—A softball
team has been organized by tin1
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission employees and officials.
Two games have been played with
the Revenue Departmnt. Chairman
Charles G. Powell and Auditor W.
Harvey Ptrnan play with the boys.
The girls of the commission are
organizing a team. Mis. J. B.
Spilman, member of the commis
sion, has indicated she may join
the team.
WHITE SOX SCHEDULES
MORE GAMES HERE
Zollie Powell, Manager of the
Weldon White Sox, announced to
day the following games have been
scheduled to be played here: Frank
lin, Saturday, August 7; Oxford,
An -ust 14; Franklin, August 18;
ai the following games away
from home: Franklin, August 11;
Oxford, August 22.
Estimate Increase In
Cost Administering
Social Security
Raleigh, July 27—Revised esti
mates indicate that the cost of
administering the Old Age Assist
ance and Aid to Dependent Children
sections of North Carolina’s Social
Security program during the en
suing year will he approximately
$ 121JI50.22, according to a report
issued hy Nathan II. Yelton, direc
tor of the Division of Public As
sistance of the State Board of
Charities and Public Welfare.
Mr. Yelton said that about
■’>17,177 will be distributed during
the year to indigent aged, and ap
proximately $1,185,999 to dependent
children, a total of $5,003,170. With
the addition of the administrative
expenses, that figure is increased
to $5,121,932.22.
Other phases of administrative
costs for the State Board and
County Welfare Departments, Mr.
Yelton estimated, will amount to
$-180,859.18, making a total of
$902,515.40 for administrative
costs for all welfare work through
out the state. The counties will pay
$011,089.99 of that amount, with
the state anil federal governments
contributing $290,825.41.
Mr. Yelton's estimates indicate
that only a trifle more than eight
per cent of the total cost will he
required for administrative expen
ses of the Social Security program.
The administrative expenses, the
report shows, will he divided as
follows:
Old Age Assi dance. $251,192.5".
of which the federal government
will pay $90,000. with the state
and counties dividing half the ba
lance.
Aid to Dependent Children, $170,
0(53.i>9, divided equally among the
federal, state and county govern
ments.
Well-Known Colored
Couple Marry
Olio of tho largest occasions of
its kind over to lie hold here was
the wedding on Wednesday even
ing. July 28 of Aunt Jenny May
Morris, well-known and well-loved
colored woman of this place to
Rev. Stephen Miller, which was
■olemni/.ed at the First Baptist
Church with Rev. Wyley, officiat
ing.
The church was beautifully dec
orated for the occasion by Mes
damos T. C. Harrison, D. W. Sei
fert and several other ladies.
The chancel was banked with
ferns and other greenery inter
spersed with tall floor baskets of
white hydrangeas. Cathedral ta
pers in floor candelabra cast a soft
glow over the entire scene. Pews
for white guests and the family
were marked with white ribbons.
Prior to the ceremony Ben Rich
ards presented a lovely program of
nuptal music. The bridal chorus
from Lohengrin was used a pro
cessional and the bridal party left
.he church to the strains of Men
d. Issohn’s wedding march.
The bride entered the church on
the arm of Kd Walker, by whom
she was given in marriage. She
wore a tailored dress of white
crepe with matching coat. Her hat
and accessories were of white. She
was met at the altar by the bride
groom attended by his daughter,
Leslie Sledge.
Immediately after the ceremony
the bridal party was honored at
two large receptions.
Aunt Jenny May was born and
reared here and is one of the town
most popular residents and Uncle
Stephen has been a resident ol
Weldon since a small hoy.
The couple were the recipients
of a large number of lovely wed
ding gifts and many other cour
tesies from both the colored and
white people of I he town and just
as many white citizens ns colored
attended the ceremony.
Raleigh, July 29—Quarterly re
ports for filing records of names,
numbers and wages payable to in
dividual employees for the second
quarter of this year, ending June
111), will not he required before
August 15. due to delay in get
ting the new slip forms printed
and mailed to the employers, the
N. ('. Unemployment Compensation
Commission announces. The slip
form will be used for the second
quarter and hereafter, instead of
the list form used the first quart
er, to make tho reporting method
conform more nearly to the slip
form used in reporting Old Age
Benefits records.
LOCAL PEOPLE IN NEW
LOUISBURG PROGRAM
Whitakers In
China Danger Zone
Among the* North Carolinians
reported l>\ the State Depart
ment to he in the danger zone
in China were Mr. and Mrs.
Paul .lernigan of Ahoskie who
are at Peiping and .Mr. and Mrs
Marvin \V. Whitaker of Kinston
who reside at Tientsin.
Mrs. Whitaker is a neice of
Mrs. W. A. Pierce, Sr., of Wel
don and has visited here a num
ber of times.
RECORDERS
COURT NEWS
The following cases were tried
in Halifax this week.
Sam Jones (colored) charged
with larceny. Probable cause found
and bond fixed at $(100.00.
Floyd Stokes, Jabbo Newsome
(colored). Injury to personal prop
erty. Continued.
Robert Clay. Injury to personal
property, Defendant called and
failed. Judgment nisi sci fa capias
and continued.
Johnnie Long (white) of Roa
noke Rapids was charged with pos
sessing whiskey. Rond fixed at
$300.00.
Edward Alston (colored) liquor
Judgment suspended on payment
of costs and on condition he re
mains of good behavior for one
year.
Mattie Hill (colored) was found
guilty of a liquor charge and given
t months in jail.
Dewey Lowe (colored) was not
guilty of a liquor charge and run
ning a disorderly house.
Adley Lowe (colored) plead guil
ty to a liquor charge and was giv
en 5 months in jail.
Charlie Cain. Frank Cain (co
lored) plead guilty to assault with
deadly weapon. Each was given a
5 months suspended sentence on
condition that, they remain of good
behavior for 2 years, pay a fine
of $20.00 each, and each pay 1-2
costs and $15.00 to Dr. Smith and
l)r. McDowell.
McDowell.
Elmo Pridgen (white) plead
guilty to being drunk in public.
Prayer for judgment continued on
payment of costs and on condition
he remains sober for 12 months.
Thomas Coley (colored) driving
while drunk was found guilty of
reckless driving and fined $25.00
and costs.
Silvester Cooper (colored) plead
guilty to carrying concealed weapon
Prayer for judgment continued on
payment of costs.
Haywood Shearin was found
guilty of a liquor charge. Prayer
for judgment continued on pay
ment of costs and good behavior for
1 year.
Illinois Fence for
New York Fair
NEW YOKK (Special).—Illinois
made fencing is being shipped to the
New York World's Fair for enclosure
of the 389.8 acres comprising the
central exhibit area. This was learned
when Grover Whalen, President of
the Fair Corporation, announced the
award of a first fencing contract *o
(he Cyclone Fence Company, who^e
New York offices are at 370 Lexi ton
Avenue.
Officials of the manufacturing firm
announced that its Waukegan plant
was shipping the fencing and that in
stallation would start as soon as the
first steel reached the 121fiV4-acre
exposition site on Flushing Meadow.
The contract price of the nine-foot
steel fence installed, complete with
gates and concrete footings at ten
foot centres, as derived from figures
submitted by pre-qualified bidders,
is $32,812. About three miles of fence
are required to enclose the central
exhibit area along three sides and
down to the Flushing river.
Immediate enclosure of the tract
was made necessary, Mr. Whalen
said, by the great and varied con
struction work that is already taking
place on the site two years in advance
of the Fair’s opening date. The Il
linois-made fence will inclose all of
the Transportation Zone of the ex
position and the area that will be
dominated by the two Theme Centre
wonders, the Perisphere and Trylon.
Louisburg, July 27—Organiza
tion in the Louisburg College For
ward Movement Program has notv
proceeded to the point where in
most instances county committees
and local church groups have been
set up. Within a few days prac
tically all local churches in the en
tire North Carolina Methodist
Conference will have selected their
respective groups.
The Forward Movement Program
is a concerted eftort on the part of
Louisburg College with the aid and
backing of the North Carolina Con
ference to raise $100,000 for the
purpose of wiping out its present
indebtedness and making certain
necessary improvements.
The plan of organization includ
es not only general and district
groupings but local county and lo
cal church groups as well. Minis
ters and laymen of all types are
included in these units. With all of
these set up, the big day comes on
Sunday, July 25th when through
out the Conference in all the
churches Louisburg College Day
will he observed.
Several persons in Halifax Coun
ty and surrounding territory are
taking part in the Forward Move
ment Program of the College.
Ministers are Rev. E. B. Fisher
of Roanoke Rapids; Rev. J. J.
Boone of Rosemary; Rev. D. L.
Foute of Scotland Neck; Rev. J.
O. Long of Weldon; Rev. R. L.
Jerome of Enfield; Rev. L. B. Pet
tishall of Caryshurg; Rev. Wade
Johnson; Rev. W. T. Phipps of Lit
tleton.
Sponsors for the local churches
are J. W’. Grant, Shilo Church,
Caryshurg; Mrs. Mollie King, Oak
Grove Church, Roanoke Rapids;
Tommie Stephenson, Garysburg
Church. Garysburg; W. D. Dick
ens, Halifax Church, Halifax; G.
C. Smith, Tabor Church, Halifax;
J. W. Dickens, Ebeneser Church,
Halifax; W. H. Thorne, Bethel
Church, Airlie; M. A. Gillary, Cal
vary Church, Littleton; W. T.
Person, Littleton Church, Little
ton; C. W. Davis, Rosemary Chur
ch, Roanoke Rapids; J. W. Rose
man, Smith Church, Roanoke Rap~N
ids; Blanch Hoekaday, New Hope
Church, Roanoke Rapids; J. L.
Shearin, Scotland Neck Church,
Scotland Neck; C. L. Lewis, Hob
good Church, Scotland Neck; J. A.
Everette, Palmyra Church, Scotland
Neck; Dr. W. G. Suiter, Weldon
Church, Weldon.
Many Children In
State Jails This Year
Raleigh, July 29—A report re
leased recently by the Division of
Institutions and Correction of the
State Board of Charities and Pub
lic Welfare shows that during the
first six months of 1927 a total
of 724 children less than 16 years
of age were confined in North Ca
rolina jails on various charges.
Of the offenders, 235 were white
hoys; 38 were white girls; 410
were negro boys and 41 were negro
girls. One negro hoy of 7 years of
age was jailed twice during a sin
gle month on misconduct charges.
The greatest number, 252, were
arrested for larceny; 124 for high
way robbery; breaking and enter
ing and larceny and receiving; 25
for liquor law violations; 10 for
fighting, carrying concealed wea
pons and assault; 97 were held for
other agencies, and 190 were charg
ed with various other offenses*.
Eighteen of the children — 3
white boys, 14 negro boys, and one .
negro girl—were less than 10 years \
of age; 29 were ten years old; 25,
were 11; 83 were 12; 113 were 13;
180 were 14, and 270, the greatest
number, were 15. *
TEN THOUSAND TREES
New York—In the embellishment
of the grounds of the New York
World's Fair of 1939, 10,000 trees
of many species, brought from
several eastern States over hun
dreds of miles of railroad, highway
or water for transplanting, will be
part of the exxposition’s $1,500,000
landscaping design. Some of those
already transported to the site for
Spring planting are 40 years old,
55 feet tall with trunks 18 inches
in diameter. They are under the
constant care of skilled arbori
turists.