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WELDON-THE GATEWAY TO EASTERN CAROLINA THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 18K6 — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES SUPPORT THE PAPER THAT ADVERTISES YOUR TOWN Seventieth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina Thursday, September 16, 1937 Farmers Of State Are Slowly Freeing Selves Of Mortgages On Farms -u Colego Station, Raleigh, Sept. 14 North Carolina farmers are slow ly hut gradually throwing off the shackling bonds of the farm mort gage, according to a report from the U. S. Department of Agricul ture received today by Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College. Comparing figures compiled from the farm census of 1935 with those of the 1930 census, the number of farms under mortgage decreased from 78,070 to 70,251 during the five-year period, the dean said. In 1930, mortgages covered 27.9 percent of the State’s farms, but only 25.3 percent in 1935. An even greater drop in the a mount of mortgaged indebtedness was noted: from $100,914,000 in 1930 to $86,075,000 in 1935, a de crease of 14.1 per cent. The average indebtedness per mortgaged farm in 1930 was $1,293 while in 1935 it had dropped to $1, 137 At the time of the last census, the dean continued, 44,394 of North Carolina’s mortgaged farms were operated by owners who owed a total of $54,208,000; while 31,857 mortgaged farms were operated by managers or tenants and on which $32,407,000 was owed. The figures in the preceding paragraph referring to owner-op erated farms include owners who operate their own land and also land rented from others. Another compilation of figures covering the farms of owners who operate only their own land show ed that in 1935 there were 92,832 of these farms free from mort gage as compared with 81,584 in 1930. - 0 Slight Gains For Cotton On Close Prices Three to Seven Points High er On Domestic and Foreign Active Buying New York, Sept. 14,—Cotton fu tures opened steady two points lower to two higher, with hedge selling absorbed by the domestic and foreign trade. After the first half hour, December sold at 8.815, and the list was about 3 to 7 points net higher. The market ral lied to net gains of about 11 to 18 points during the morning, helped by continued trade buying and Liverpool support, as well as cov ering. The volume of southern sell ing also tapered off somewhat and December advanced to 8.90 by mid day. Futures closed steady, 3 to 7 points higher. Spot steady, mid dling 9.06. Open Close October _ 8.81 8.90 December_ 8.77 8.81 January - 6.83 8.86 .March_8.91 8.98 May _ 8.99 9.04 July _ 905 9.12 - 0 Strawberry growers of Columbus County are being urged to set 12,000 to 15,000 plants per acre during September in order to as sure them of a profitable crop next spring. _ Farmers Sign For 1937 Conservation Majority Cooperating With (iov ernment—Cotton Crop in County Being Damaged -0 Eighty-five percent of the farm ers in Halifax County have signed compliance forms for the 1937 agricultural program, County A gent W. O. Davis said last week in his office at Halifax and 70 per cent of those who signed are com plying with the program, he added Six hundred and forty-eight farms in the county have already been measured and 40 men are in the field measuring the 2,500 farms that have been signed up under the 1937 program. The cotton crop in Halifax is short according to Agent Da vis. “With the boll weevil at the top and the wet weather at the bottom, there is not much left in the middle for the farmer,” Mr. Davis said. He stated further that the weevil damage is the worst ever in the county, more general and more se vere. The appearance of the peanut crop is good but close examina tion shows lots of vines and not so many nuts, farmers have reported at the County Agent’s office. Con tinued wet weather may have a bad effect on peanuts by causing shedding, Mr. Davis thinks. Tobacco has recovered a great deal from a bad start, he chinks, and appears to be a fair crop. The corn crop is good, he added and a heavy yield is expected, he feels. Now is the time for sowing all fall cover crops, Mr. Davis says, crops such as crimson clover, vet ch, oats and rye. Farmers are urged to get in as heavy seeding of crops as they can possibly plant. - 0 Services At The Methodist Church At the eleven o’clock hoar, the pastor will preach on the theme, “Fellow-Worker With God.” The subject for the evening ser vice will be “The Dependableness of Man '. This is a continuation of the idea of dependableness which was discussed at the evening ser vice last Sunday. At that service the application was made to God— the possibility of His dependable ness in meeting all our fundament al needs. Next Sunday the appli cation will be made to man —- bis reliability in relationship to God. The church school will convene at 9:45 A. M.. Young People’s meeting at (>:45 P. M. We extend a cordial invitation to visitors to worship with us at these services. J. 0. LONG, Pastor. -0— Send in your subscription to The Roanoke News Now. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF OXFORD ORPHANAGE MEET IN ENFIELD WED. -o Enfield was signally honored on Wednesday afternon of this week in having the Board of Directors of Oxford Orphanage meet in its regular quarterly session at the Masonic Temple here. The meeting was arranged to be held in En field, in order to give the members of the Board an opportunity to at tend the banquet to Grand Master Watson N. Sherrod, held on Wed nesday evening. The Board trans acted routine business and heard the reports of various committees of the Superintendent. The special visitation committee, composed of Honorable Thomas J. Harkins, a prominent attorney of Asheville, N. C., and Mr. Benjamin Cone of the Cone Family of Industrialists of Greensboro reported that the committee found all of the physical properties of Oxford Orphanage in excellent shape, and commended Superintendent Proctor on the good work done by him and his asso ciates. Many improvements have been made at the Orphanage since the last meeting of the Board of Directors. Present for the meeting of the Board were the following: Grand Muster Watson N. Sherrod, and Past Grand Master R. C. Dunn, Deputy Grand Master, Harry 1. Patterson of Wilmington, Grand Junior Warden, Thomas J. Harkins, Asheville, Grand Senior Warden, J. Edward Allen of Warrenton, Hon. Luther T. Hartsell of Con cord, Past Grand Master, A. B. Andrews of Raleigh, Mr. Benjamin Cone, of Greensboro, Dr. R. L. Flowers of Duke University, and the Secretary, Rev. Creasy K. Proctor, Superintendent of Oxford Orphanage. COURT NEWS RECORDERS The following cases were tried in Recorders Court nt Halifax on Septemlier 14: T. M. Edmondson. Liquor. Capias returned marked not to be found in Halifax County. Whit Newsom and Rufus Daniel driving while drunk. Liquor. New som, guilty of driving while drunk and lined $100.00 and cost. License revoked for LI months. Daniel guil ty of possession of non-tax paid liquor. Prayer for judgment con tinued on payment of costs. Clifton Tudor. Driving while drunk. Nol pros with leave. Thornton Powell. Driving while drunk. Fined $50.00 and costs. Li cense revoked for Id months. De fendant is released on bond in a mount of $75.00, guaranteeing pay ment of costs and fine, November llith., 1007. McKinley Ivey, Assault with deadly weapon. Continued. Ad test andum for witnesses James Law rence and Maramly Underdue. Julian Bunch. Assault on female. It appearing and the court? finds as a fact that this prosecution is Malicious and frivilous it is ad judged that the prosecuting wit ness, Mrs. Julian Bunch pay the costs. Biuce Mullis. Driving while dunk. Fined $50.00 and costs. Li cense revoked for 12 months. Alexander Jones. Reckless driv ing. Prayer for judgment continued on payment of costs. James Flipp. Larceny. 4 months on the roads. Thomas Mills. Reckless driving Prayer for judgment continued on payment of costs and on condition defendant does not violate any mo tor vehicle laws for 12 months. LeRoy Ellis. Reckless driving. Prayer for judgment. Continued on payment of costs and on condition the defendant does not violate any motor vehicle laws for 12 months. Willie Kearney. Reckless driving. Prayer for judgment. Continued on payment of costs and one condi tion defendant does not violate any vehicle laws for 12 months. June Thomas Mangum. Assault. Not guilty. Alex Harris. Larceny. 10 months in jail to be assigned to do work under direction of S. H. and P. W. C. Sentence suspended on condition the defendant is not found in Hali fax County with in two years. Willie James Tillery and J. George Fenner assault with deadly weapon. Prayer for judgment con tinued on condition that they re main of good behavior for 12 months and pay one half the costs each. George Fenner. Assault with deadly weapon. Consolidated with No. 4616. James Lawrence. Driving car without operating license. Judg ment suspended upon payment of costs. Bannor Ross.* Abandoment and non-support. Defendant released in custody of a Deputy Sheriff of Alamance County to be held until a bond is received in the amount of $300.00. - 0 Several Local Boys Attend Fishburne Yaynesboro, Va., Sept. 15—Fish burne remains popular with North Carolina boys. Next to Virginia and the District of Columbia, North Carolina will have the largest rep resentation in Fishburne Military School’s corp of cadets for the coming session. The enrollment is distributed ever twenty-one states and four foreign countries. The following Weldon boys will leave next week to enter Fishburne which will open its fifty-eighth session on Monday, September 20: Philip St. John Moore, son ot Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Moore; G Vincent Wycho, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. 1. Wyche and Quentin Greg ory, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Quen tin Gregory of Halifax; Sam T. Gregory, son of Mr. and Mrs. Flet cher H. Gregory, also of Halifax. Fishburne will open with a capa city enrollment. Several changes have been made in the faculty and an additional instructor secured in order that the school may adhere to its policy of small classes and close personal supervision - there will be one instructor to every ten cadets. Now is the time for Western North Carolina farmers to apply lime to their soil. Jonas Gatling Commits Suicide Jonas Gatling, colored, who worked on* the farm of Mr. Spurgeon Bowers, near Rich Square, died Sunday afternoon from gunshot wounds self in flicted. Earlier in the after noon he had an argument of some kind with Jack Gatling, also colored, and cut Jack with a knife. Later he appeared ov ercome with remorse, and stat ed that he never would do any more harm. According to our information, Jonas then pro cured a shot gun, and despite the protests of Jack Gatling and Mrs. Bowers, shot him self. Coroner Grant investigated . the shooting. -0 Special Meeting Junior Order To Be Called Soon A special meeting of the local Junior Order Council has been set for Friday night, Sept. 24 at 7:45 o’clock. At that time a statewide radio broadcast will be heard with the Stale Councilor, Victor I!. Johnson, of Pittsboro, tlie princi pal speaker. Several matters of vital interest and importance to every Junior will then be considered. It is plan ned to make this meeting a Father and Son night as each member is supposed to bring his son or some other young man to the gathering. -0 Merchants Ass’n. Holds Meeting On Tuesday night the Merchants Association held its regular meet ing. A number of the merchants and business men attended. Many subjects were brought up and dis cussed. Some matters discussed were: the new post office; the Wednesday evening closing for the entire year and most interesting was the “Trade Promotion Cam paign”, that is being worked out, to go into effect soon. All merchants and business men that are interested at all in the “Trade Promotion Campaign” should attend the special meeting that is called for Friday in the of fice of the Weldon Production Cred it Association. New Car, Motor cycles Assigned To Two Patrolmen Here Delivery was made recently of one of the new Highway Radio Patrol Cars to the Patrolmen sta tioned here. Two new motorcycles were also delivered to them. The car, which is a special built, Ford V-8, is equipped with a high speed motor and heavy bullet proof glass windshield. It is painted sil ver with black trimming. And the two motorcycles are Indian make and are similar to the machines formerly used here. - 0 - Fight Looms Over Peanut Test Farm Peanut Growers Want Seperate Project and Kerr Scott May Add It Elsewhere Raleigh, Sept. 14.—R. C. Hol land, of Edenton, .president of the peanut stabilization cooperative, urged in a letter to Kerr Scott, ag riculture commissioner, today that the proposed peanut test farm be made a seperate project devoted to peanut and peanut disease re search. Scott will hold a hearing here tomorrow on the proposal and the State Farm Bureau Federation plans to have peanut representa tives here to argue that there should be a seperate peanut test farm, or that the appropriation made by the 1937 legislature for that purpose should be left intact. E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of the bureau, said members were afraid Scott planned to put the work at one of the present test farms. -0 Primitive peoples in nearly every poi tion of the world have had leg ends of a great flood. Patrolman Hines Takes Gunter’s Place Here The Slate Highway Patrol office in Raleigh ordered the transfer of Patrolman Fred Hines from Scot land Neck to Weldon. He teplaces Patrolman Gunter, who resigned recent ly. 1 itidlman Hines is a veteran pa trolman, and has been located at Scotland Neck for some time. Whil the two patrolmen will make the*ii headquarters in Weldon they will spend most of their time patroling the other towns in their territory, which comprises most of Halifax and Northampton counties. -0 Services At The Baptist Church The pastor’s subject for the morning hour will lie: "IIIS PLAN FOR MY LIFE.” His subject for the evening hour will be: “THE LEANING SIDE." "My little four year old boy was sick and restless, fever-flushed at night, while 1 lay beside him in the dark. Every now and then the child half waking, would speak out, “Fadder.” “Yes dear”, the answer came, “Hello, Fadder,” the little one would say and drop a gain to sleep. Thus it is that we, children all, fever-flushed and troubled, as if in dreams, call out “Father” in the dark. He answers, “Yes, dear, 1 am here”,, and ill llim we find peace and rest.— (George Perin.( “Like as a father”,—Oh, sometimes My heart is very sore, Longing for one now gone—it seems I want him more and more! But only in my dreams he lives, And oft I wake to hear A voice - my own - cry out in vain!” “Then come those blessed, healing words, And many, many times, They've been to me music sweet From heaven’s echoing chimes: “Like as a father”, —Oh, its just The love I want anil need, And well 1 know His list’ning ear My faintest call will heed. “A Father to the fatherless,' That’s what He says He’ll be; A Father tender, strong and true, That's what He is to me.’ A Father who knows all my heart, Yet loves me just the same; Oh, do you wonder that I love To call Him this dear name?" —Edith Lillian Young. I5y the Pastor. -'() Football Schedule For Local Team Aspirants for positions on the l!).‘!7-’38 edition of Weldon High School football team are getting down to steady training this week for the opening game October 1st. Coach Deaton has arranged the following schedule for the coming season: October 1st, Weldon vs. Enfield, at Enfield. October 22nd., Weldon vs. Rich Square, at Weldon. October 29th., Weldon vs. Ahos kie, at Ahoskie. November 5th., Weldon vs. Lit tleton, at Weldon. November 11th, Weldon vs. Au iandi r at Aulander. November 19th, Weldon vs. Scot land Neck at Weldon. Weldon is this year entered in the Eastern Central Football Con ference, which is made up of sev eral teams throughout this sec tion. -0 Advertisements Of State Will Bring In Many Inquiries Winston-Salem, Sept. 10.—The Conservation and Development de partment's advertising committee announced today three advertise ments in northeastern and western newspapers had brought 2,500 in quiries for descriptive material of North Carolina since July 26. Fifty thousand copies of the committee’s illustrated state ma gazine—“North Carolina Today”— are now being distributed. A 10 day tour of the state by 75 news paper roto-gravure editors and travel bureau counsellors has been arranged for the fall. Treasury Officials Will Ask For Sealed Bids For New Post Office Sites School Roads In Best Of Condition —o More* Money Spent On Them Than In Any Previous Year Except 1936 Raleigh, Sept. 10—The roads ov er which North Carolina’s School buses will operate more than twen ty million miles between now and the end of the current school term are in the best condition of their history, in the opinion of Frank Dunlap, chairman of the State Highway Commission. “Of course, 1 do not mean to say that there will be no roads closed to buses at any time this winter,’ said Mr. Dunlap. "That would be too much to say, but I do believe that the roads, partic ularly the country and secondary roads over which the buses will operate are in better shape than they have ever been before.” There has been spent on the sec ondary roads this year more mon ey than in any previous year, with the exception perhaps of last, Mr. Dunlap said, and every effort has been made to repair the ravages made by last winter’s unusually cold and slushy weather. Commenting on the expenditure of money on roads, the highway commission chairman said that he has often heard much misdirected criticism of the fact that the Sta te spends more upon its highways than it does upon its schools. “As a matter of fact, if we stop ped spending money on North Ca rolina roads and let our State get back into the mud we would soon be unable to have more than a three-months school term,” he said. Roads are really a paying in vestment for the State, he pointed out, and if it were not for the roads North Carolina would soon be absolutely unable to compete with other states, or even to trans act any large amount of business within its own borders. - 0 - License Inspector To Aid Patrolmen A new Driver’s License Inspector has taken over the duties formerly handled I>y the patrolmen in con nection with issuing driver’s li censes. In the future no Patrolman will lie allowed to issue these li censes. And the Inspector will be in Weldon each Tuesday night and Wednesday morning for the pur pose of taking applications and giving examinations. Copy for an ad to be run in the NEWS for the next two weeks railing for sealed bids on sites for the new Post Office was received this week by the management of the NEWS. These bids will be op ined publicly in the office of the Postmaster here at 9:00 o’clock A. M. on October 4th.. 1937. The approximate dimensions ask ed to be bid on will be: corner lots, 120 foot frontage by 170 foot depth; interior lots: 145 foot front age by 170 foot depth. Sites hav ing different street frontage di mensions will be considered provid ed the area is approximately the same. After the advertising is run and upon application, the Postmaster will supply prospective bidders with proposal blanks and a circu lar giving particulars as to re quirements and instructions for preparation of bids and data to ac company same. All the above information and other instructions concerning the selection of the site was contained in instructions received by Post master Sterling B. Pierce and the NEWS. Mr. Pierce has been advised the bids are to be opened at the time specified in the presence of a gov ernment employee acting as a wit ness and a representative of this newspaper. The bids will he clas sified on a special form and a copy sent to the Postmaster Gen eral, one to Treasury Department officials and one filed in the rec ords here, and the other turned over with the bids to a Site Agent, an official sent here from Wash., who will look over the proposed sites and submit all information to the Treasury Department Procure ment Division officials who will make a final decision in the mat ter. It was also pointed out in the advice that whenever the Treasury Department is unable to secure from the owner of a suitable site chosen a proposal to sell a resort may be had to condemnation pro ceedings to ascertain the valuation of the property. If the price so Judiciously determined, is satis factory then payment is made. If the damages are deemed excessive, however, the proceedings are dis missed and some other location is taken under consideration. Much interest is being shown in the project and many sites are being proposed. Some are suitable while others are not. While most of the people in town seem to be interested in the Park for the site there is some question whether or not the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, who own it, can dispose of the property. The quicker and easier a suitable site can be chos en, the sooner w-ork will get under way toward erecting the building. JUNIOR ORDER U. A. M. SPONSORS STATE - WIDE ORATION CONTEST Victor R. Johnson of Pittsboro, State Councilor, announces that the State Council Junior Order United American Mechanics of N. Carolina will sponsor an original oratorical and original essay con test on the subject of Americanism; the oratorical contest open to ev ery Senior High School boy and the essay contest open to every Senior High School girl in the State. He says that the State Council will give a medal to the hoy delivering the best oration and a medal to the girl delivering the best essay in each of the twerty eight districts in the State. There will then be given a tuition scho larship to the boy who delivers the best oration and the girl who delivers the best essay in the fi nal or statewide contest. Said seho larships are for the 1938-39 scho lastic year and have been donated by the University of North Caro lina and Meredith College respect ively. The preliminaries to select the representatives for each of the High Schools will be a public con test open to every High School Senior and will be held on Novem ber 11th in the different High Schools. These winners will com pete in a public contest to be held at some central point in each of the twenty eight districts of the state on Tuesday before Thanksgiving, November 23rd. Each winner in the oratorical contest and essay contest in the twenty eight dis tricts will be given a medal. On February 22nd the winners of the 14 Districts in the Eastern part of the state will have a public con test in an Eastern city nearest the center of this territory and on the same day the 14 Districts in the Western part of the state will in a city nearest the center of that ter ritory have a public contest. The winner in the oratorical and essay contest in the 14 Western Districts will compete for the final award which will be a tuition scholarship at the next State Council of the Junior Order United American Me chanics to be held in Charlotte on the 23rd day of August, 1938. The contests will be judged on composition, memory and delivery and by three disinterested judges. Mr. Johnson says that the Junior Order which has always fought for public education and the principles upon which our great government was budded, realizing the need of greater training in public speaking and the perils which face our gov ernment, think this a good oppor tunity to acquaint the public with these dangers and to develop self expression.