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I'lTY AGENT'S
dEWS NOTES
O. DAVIS, County Agent
jfL 'We would like to suggest that
■j£armers treat Sweet Potatoes be
■Bjjnc bedding according to the fol
^j^tying directions'. Potatoes proper
l/ly treated before bedding will pro
11 duce a healthier crop of potatoes
, that will keep much better next
fall and winter than when not
treated. Bichloride of Mercury,
(Corrosive Sublimate), is used,
which is a deadly poison if taken
internally, therefore, it must be
kept away from children and ani
mals, and must be used carefully.
This chemical can be bought from
any drug store, and should be pur
^ chased in 4 ounce lots. Dissolve 4
ounces of Bichloride of Mercury
in 30 gallons of water, using a
wooden barrel. Be sure to use a
wooden barrel, as this chemical
will corrode a metal containei.
Bichloride of Mercury should be
dissolved in a small quantity of
warm water, and then diluted to 30
gallons with cold water. Place, the
Sweet Potatoes in clean bags, or
) baskets, and alow them to soak in
• the Bichloride solution for 10 min
utes. Where a large quantity of
potatoes are to be treated several
barrels can be used in order to save
time. After the potatoes have
soaked for 10 minutes, spread them
out on a clean floor or on the
ground. Be sure that none of the
solution is allowed to drain back
to the well. Potatoes should be
bedded immediately after treating
After treating 10 bushels of Sweet
Potatoes add 1-2 ounce of Bichlo
ride of Mercury, and add enough
water to bring the solution back to
30 gallons. Potatoes should be rin
sed, or washed in order to remove
any dirt on them before they are
treated. Treated Sweet Potatoes
are fit for bedding only since the
poison is absorbed in the skin.
Barrels used for treating potatoes
can be thoroughly washed and then
used for other purposes.
1938 PROGRAM CONTINUED
FROM LAST WEEK
Regulations provide that any
farmer who is not satisfied with
his allotments for hs farm may ap
peal to the County Committee with
in 15 days after receiving his alot
ment, and request a hearing. This
appeal must be made in writing
and should he addressed to the
County Agent. If the person . is
still dissatisfied with the decision
of the County Committee, he may
appeal in writing to the State
Committee. If dissatisfied with the
decision of the State Committee,
he may within 15 days appeal to
the Regional Director in Washing
ton, D. C.
A farmer who complies with the
aroage allotments for his farm will
receive benefit payments as fol
lows: For cotton the payment is 2.4
cents per pound times the allotted
yield per acre for his farm times
the number of acres allotted to be
planted to cotton. If a farmer is
allotted a yield of 250 pounds per
acre, ana is allotted 10 acres of
cotton, his cotton payment for
1938 would be $6.00 per acre times
10 acres, or $00.00. In order to
collect this payment the farmer
must not plant more than his acre
age allotment. The allotted yield
per acre for cotton is for the pur
pose of se tting the rate of pay
ment under the. Soil Conserving
Frogram only. It will not be under
the Compulsory Marketing Quotas.
If a farmer plants more than his
allotted acres of cotton, he will lose
his 1S37 Price Adjustment Pay
ment, and will also receive a pen
alty of 5c per pound times the al
lotted yield per acre for his farm
times the number of acres of cot
ton oveiplanted. This penalty will
be deducted from any payment
earned for peanuts and tobacco and
soil building potatoes.
1'obacco Benefit Payments will
be' le per pound times the allotted
yield per acre times the acreage al
lotment. If a farmer is allotted 4
acres of tobacco to be planted, and
his allotted yield per are is 800
pounds, h's payment will be $8.00
per acre times 4 acres, or $3.00.
If a farmer overplants his tobac
co allotment he will receive a pen
alty of 10c per pound times the
allotted yield per acre times the
number of acres overplanted. If
a farmer plants tobacco in 1938
without any tobacco allotment, the
penalty will apply on the entire
acreage planted. The tobacco penal
ty will be deducted from the pay
ments earned on cotton and pea
nuts.
.. The Peanut Benefit Payment
is 2-10 of a cent per pound times
the allotted yield per acre times
the acreage allotted to be planted.
If a farm has a peanut allotment
to plant 6 acres of peanuts with an
allotted yield per acre of 1000
pounds, his payment would be $2.
per acre times 5 acres, or $10.00
per acre. If this farmer overplants
his peanut allotment, the penalty
will be le per pound times th
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THE ROANOKE NEWS
ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTH AMPTON COUNTIES
WELDON-THE GATEWAY
TO EASTERN
CAROLINA
Seventy-Second Year
Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina
Thursday, April 7, 1938
LEGION SPONSORS 1938
OPENING STRATES SHOWS
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Lovers of outdoor amusements
will soon be thrilled when the fa
mous Strates Shows will official
ly open their 1938 season in their
winter quarters, city, Weldon, for
nine big days and nights beginning
Thursday, April 14 under the aus
pices of Shaw Post No. 38 of the
American Legion.
The Strates Shows have been
wintering in Weldon and during
that time have completely rebuilt
their show, making it the third
largest show of its kind entour in
America this year. Thousands of
dollars have been spent with Wel
don merchants this winter by the
Strates Shows for supplies and
foodstuffs and more than 75 men
have been employed at the winter
quarters of the show on their huge
rebuilding program.
The personel of the shows will
begin the trek into Weldon this
week and before the show opens
the populations of Weldon will
have been'increased to close to 600
people all of whom will spend quite
a considerable sum in our city dur
ing their stay here for hotel, food,
clothing, etc. So that old hue and
cry about “the shows take all and
leave nothing” is proven to be
a fallacy as we certainly do know
of quite a sum that the Strates
Shows have spent in Weldon this
winter.
The showgrounds on which this
huge attraction will erect its tent
ed city are located in South Wel
don adjacent to the shows winter
quarters and a large force of men
have been busily engaged the past
week in readying the showgrounds
for occupancy — the various crews
have been moving equipment to the
showgrounds, getting reqdy for the
grand opening on Thursday even
ing at 6 o’clock when the gates
will be officially opened to the
general public, with members of
the American Legion in charge of
each attraction.
Each afternoon during the Strat
es Shows engagement the shows
famous band, Frank Meekers All
American Concert Band will give
one hours free concert on the
square in Weldon and each evening
in front of the shows entrance.
“The Five American Eagles”
will be the free attraction each
night on the midway and will pre
sent their thrilling and death de
fying act each evening at 10:30 P.
M.
Special childrens matinees will
be given on Saturday, April 16
and again on Saturday, April 23
from 1 to 6 P. M. at which time
special prices and attractions will
prevail for the children.
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TO GIVE DANCE
There will be a dance at the
New Woman’s Club Building at
Darlington, Friday night, April 8.
The proceeds to be used for the
benefit of the club.
allotted yield per acre times the
number of acres overplanted. This
penalty will be deducted from the
payment earned on Cotton and To
bacco.
If a farmer plants sufficient
conserving crops, or carries out
sufficient soil building practices
to meet the soil building goal esta
blished for his farm, he will re
ceive a payment of 70c times the
soil building goal. If a farmer
fails to plant sufficient conserving
crops to meet his soil building goal
he will receive a penalty of $1.50
for each acre by which he fails to
reach this soil building goal.
Every farm will receive an allot
ment for eneral Soil Depleting
Crops, such as Corn, Oats, Sorg
hum, Vegetables and Truck. If the
total acreage of all soil depleting
crops is greater than the allot
ment for cotton, tobaco, peanuts
and general depleting crops, there
will be a penalty of $6.00 per acre
for each overplanted. This means
that any part of the cotton, tobac
co, or v.?anut allotment that is not
planted in that crop may be used
for corn, or other general soil de
pleting crops. Under the 1936 and
1937 programs there was no penal
ty for exceeding the general deplet
ing crops provided these crops
were used for home consumption,
and not marketed. This is not true
e in the 1938 program.
Services At The
Baptist Church
The pastors subject for the
morning hour will be: “Not A
shamed of The Gospel.” Kis sub
ject for the evening hour will be:
“Jonah Displeased.” This is the
sixth sermon in a series of seven
s<irmons at the evening hour, upon
the life and the experience of the
prophet Jonah.
Beginning next Sunday morning
in the Sunday School and just af
ter the classes, each Sunday morn
ing for four or five Sunday morn
ings the pastor will bring brief
evangelistic messages. These mes
sages will be given with the hope
and the prayer in the pastor’s
heart that all, in the Sunday School
who are not saved will surrender
their hearts to Christ. We would
like to see" every boy and girl, ev
ery man and woman attending
Sunday School who have not taken
this step do so during these four
or five Sundays. We ask the Sun
day School officers, teachers and
the parents, and friends of the un
saved keep this important matter
uppermost. We want you to pray
much, and we want you to let the
unsaved) know of our love and
concern for them.
“A country; merchant visited
New York. The thing that im
pressed him most was the magnifi
cent and spotless show windows.
On his return home he mmediately
cleaned up his unused show win
dow and made it so attractive that
he was soon doing nearly all the
business in his town. Instead of
failing in business as he one time
feared, he became the richest mer
chant of his county. Let us not for
get to show tha graces God gives
us at all times in an attractive
manner and draw men by making
our lives and faces show windows
for God and His works.”
By the Pastor.
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Bee Authority In
County April 12
There will be a bee management
Demonstration on the farm of Mr.
R. M. Etheridge, Springhill, Tues
day morning, April 12 at 9:00 A.
M. The meeting will be conducted
by Mr. C. L. Sams, Extension A
piarist Specialist from State Col
lege. Actual methods of re-hiving
and re-queening will be demon
strated.
F. W. Reams, Assistant County
Agent states.
Persons interested in bee man
agement are invited to attend this
demonstration.
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Doris Jean Elias
Wins Childrens
Popularity Contest
The Children’s Popularity Con
test sponsored by the Weldon El
emntary Scool closed Wednesday
afternoon.
Each child in the contest was
presented a lovely Easter basket
by Miss Ida Mae Cheatham.
Mrs. S. W. Neal presented a
silver loving cup to Littl Doris
Jean Elias, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, Assid Elias, for receiving
the highest number of votes in
the contest. Littleton Carlton Ne
thercutt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carlton Nethercutt was given a
silver spoon for receiving highest.
Miss Catherina Elias, sponsor for
Doris Jean was gien a lovely neck
lace for turning in the most vo
tes. She also received the prize of
fered for turning in the most vo
tes by Friday.
After the prizes were given the
first grade gave a program. The
Dutch Windmills.
The sponsors were honored at
a tea given in the Elementary
School library. At this time each
sponsor was given a present for
their work in making thei contest
a success.
The winning number of votes
was 3650.
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When in Weldon be sure to vis
it the Roanoke News office.
They’re All Germans Now
Snapshot taken in a village near Linz, Austria, after the recent occu
pation by the German troops. A German soldier holds an Austrian lad
on his knee add they chat in a friendly way.
On last Tuelnay the Weldon
High School baseball team went to
Roanoke Rapufc, the underdog,
but came away fbe victor in every
way. Both team& played hard and
had the score tied when they went
into the tenth Inning.
The. Weldon boys Jed by William
“Buck” Stevenson held the Rapids
boys to 10 hits while they them
selves collected 11 hits off Clar
ence Byrd and Windell Poung the
Roanoke Rapids pitchers.
The Weldon boys were led at bat
by big William Henry Taylor who
got 4 hits out of 5 trips to the
plate including a home run in the
fourth and James 'Read whose
double in the tenth brought in a
couple of runs.
On the defense side Weldon was
led by W. J. “Peahead” Boseman
who was outstanding in his posi
tion at third base.
The Roanoke Rapids team was
led at bat by Clarence Byrd and
Waters.
The box score is as follows:
WELDON AB H E R
John Riddle, rf. 5 2 0 1
“Bug” Edwards, cf. 4 10 2
James Read, If. 4 2 11
W. H. Taylor, lb. 5 4 0 2
“Dooley” Taylor, ss. 5 0 0 0
“Buck” Stevenson, p. 3 10 0
W. J. Boseman, 3b. 5 0 0 0
Billy Rabil, 2b 3 10 0
Haynes Gregory, c. 3 0 0 0
Total
37 11 1 6
Roanoke Rapids
Brown, rf
Starke, ss,
Newsome, lb.
Wright, c.
Byrd, p.
Shell, If.
Edmonds, 3b.
Hayes, 2b.
Waters, cf
AB H E R
5 2 0 2
5 10 0
5 2 0 1
5 0 0 0.
4 2 0 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 2 0
4 10 0
3 2 0 1
Total 39 10 2 4
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Enfield Man To
Run For The House
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A. M. Atkinson, of Enfield is
announcing this we k in the News
his candidacy for re-election to the
Sitate House of Representatives,
subject to the coming June Pri
mary.
Mr. Atkinson is well-known
throughout Halifax County. His
Colleagues in the State Assembly
last year regarded him as an able
law-maker and he made a good re
cord.
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Melvin J. Maas, Congressman
from Minnesota: “Ship for ship
and man for man, the American
Navk is the superior of any navy
on earth.”
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Trade with the merchant* in
Halifax County and get good bar
gains.
Local P. O. Ranks
High In Sale Bonds
A recent report issued by the
Treasury Department showed that
Weldon’s Post Office ranked 28th
out of more than 70 second
class offices in North Carolina in
the sale of U. S. Savings Bonds
with a total sales total for one
year of $20,006.25.
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau has announced that the
total maturity value of United Sta
tes Savings Bonds sold through
the close of business, March 7, 1938
amounted to $1,584,462,875. This
total was purchased by more than
1.260.000 investors and represents
an average sale for each business
day since March 1, 1935 when these
bends were first sold, of 1,720,
375.
Among the features of the bonds
most frequently influencing their
purchase are safety, the constant
availability of the funds and the
fact that Savings Bonds increase
33 1-3 per cent in value if held for
ten years. The redemption feature,
winch eliminates any chance of
loss to the investor, appeals to all
purchasers.
P.T.A. Will Sponsor
Dance April 22nd.
The Parent-Teacher Association
will sponsor a “Festival of Dan
ce” presented by the pupils of
Mrs. Thomas H. Holmes at the
Weldon High' School auditorium,
Friday evening, April 22nd., at
8:00 o’clock.
The program this year will con
sist of three parts. The first “B-d
lime”. A Mother Goose festival
wherein the characters of folk
lore step out of the pages of the,
Mother Goose book.
The second part will be a series
of Taps, Falk and Aesthetic dan
ces and the finale a skit called the
“Modernist”. A group of artists
and models who give up real art
to turn bubists.
The proceeds of the festival will
be the gift of the P. T. A. to the
Weldon Community Center.
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Town Plans To
Hard Surface Sts.
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Bids are being called for by
Town, authorities this' week for
18.000 square yards) of surface
treating of local streets. This
means that when the project is
completed most of the streets in
town will be, hard surfaced.
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Policeman Ward and family were
recent visitors in South Carolina,
whore Mr. Ward visited his mother
and father.
5 Local Boys GetLong
Terms For Stealing
Blindfold Drive
Route Mapped By
The Great Kirma
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On Monday, April 11, at noon,
The Great Kirma, stage star at
the Weldon Theatre all of that
week, will make a blindfolded
drive through the streets of
Weldon. His itinerary follows:
At noon, zero hour, blind
folded n front of Weldon Mo
tors, Inc., Ford agents, where
he wll start his death-defying
dash.
Visit to Weldon Coca Cola
Bottling Works, which is sup
plying nourishment for his
sleeping subject.
Visit to Favorite Beauty
Shoppe, which will beautify the
young lady he will hypnotize
Tuesday night.
Visit to Acme Grocery Com
pany, sponsors of the hypnotic
sleeping demonstration.
Visit and inspection of sleep
ing quarters for his subject, the
showroom generously |don^tod
by Tilghman Furniture Com
pany.
Visit to Weldon Theatre, and
end of the drive.
To Make No Con
cessions In Closed
Fishing Season
Raleigh, April' 6 — Requests for
“lay” or open days for fishing
during the 40-day closed season
will uniformly be refused, John D.
Chalf, Game and Inland Fish Com
missioner of the Department of
Conservation and Development,
said today after he had declined
to permit Wake County residents
permisssion to fish two days in
each week.
The state fishing regulations
forbid all fishing frim April 1 to
May 10, and Chalk said these reg
ulations will be maintained.
The Wake delegation which call
ed on the fish commissioner was
accompanied hy State Senator L.
Y. Bellentine and Repi-Jfentative
“Bill” Hatch and it was indicated
—thought no direct threat was
made—that refusal to allow the
two "lay” days might result in lo
cal 1 gislation in the 1939 General
ssemblyi, somefthing the Depart
ment frequently finds itself foreed
to fight.
Chalk pointed out that fisher
men all over the state have an un
interrupted period of 225 daysf or
fishing and that th y may well
give up the remaining 40 to assist
in propagation of fish during the
spawning season.
As for “lay days” within the
closed season, the fish commission
er said they have been uniformly
uncessful wherever tried. H cited
the Federal regulations on migra
tory birds, Formerly shooting three
days a week was allowed and it
was found that under such a sys
tem there was invariably a wild
ruch to hoot on those particular
days, so that in the aggregate
there was about as much as though
there had been no closed days at
all. A straight open season of 30
days a year was therefore put into
effect and it was found that this
is far more successful.
~p7t. a.
The P. T. A. will meet Monday
afternoon, April 11 at 3:30 in the
school library.
At this time Dr. R. S. McGea
chy will show a health picture
which will be of interest to every
one.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
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James W. Wadsworth, Congress
man from New Pork:
“Dictorial Governments are on
tha march, seeking new fields to
expolit.”
A verdict of "guilty” was re
turned by a Superior Court jury
in Jackson Tuesday against five
South Weldon boys. They were
charged with stealing a large
quantity of cur. d hog meat and
lard from the smokehouse of Bud
Jones, who lives about 5 miles
South of Jackson.
Elmo Harrison, 28 the ring-lead
er was sentenced to State Prison
for a term of 4 to 0 years by
Judge Clawson Williams, who pre
sided over the court. While three
of the others, William Crowder 23,
Richard Crowder 25 and Richard
Padgett 27, were given from 2 to
3 years. Henry Crowder, the young
est of the gang, reieived a sen
tence of from 12 to 18 months.
The quintet were rharged with
stealing about 650 lbs. of cured
hams, shoulders and sides and two
stands of lard from Jones who is
an uncle of the Crowders, about
three weeks ago.
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Advance Sidewalk
Paving Proposal
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Unusually interesting, in view
of the fact that most of the side
walks here are covered with mud
and water which plays havoc with
spring footwear, is the announce
ment of the Town Board of a plan
to have more paved sidewalks.
LIGHTING PLAN
APPROVED
During their regular meeting
Monly night the Town Board
of Commissioners placed its ap
proval on the plan to moderize
the lighting in the two business
blocks on Washington Avenue.
This plan originated and spon
sored by the, Weldon Merchants
Association calls for seven new
type light fixtures to be erected
where five old lights are now, and
and both the Virginia Electric
and Power Company and Carolina
Telephone Company officials have
agreed to completely rebuild the
present wiring system in these
blocks. They plan to start on the
project in the near fhture.
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N. C. Cotton Growers
Overlook Big Market
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Every year North Carolina
mills consume twice as much cot
ton as is grown in the State —
but thousands of bales of North
Carolina cotton must be exported
because local mills dont want it.
Some mills send out to Texas
and California for the kind of cot
ton they want, cotton that could
be grown in this State, said P. H.
Kime .agronomist at the N. C.
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The mills prefer a medium sta
ple cotton from 15-16 to 1 1-16 in
ches >n length and of good quality.
When they buy, they want large,
ever-running lots of these lengths
in order to produce a uniform
grade of fabric.
North Carolina could supply a
good part of this demand if growers
in the different communities would
“standardize” a good variety Kime
added.
When all growers in a commu
nity plant the same strain of seed
they reduce the chances of the seed
becoming mixed with other strains
and they produce fairly large
quantities of uniform cotton. This
is just what the mills are looking
for.
Kime pointed out that if all
strains producing staples shorter
than 15-16 inch or longer than 1
1-16 inch were discontinued, there
would still be too many varieties
grown in the State. Five or six
varieties should be enough for the
entire State.
Whole counties and groups of
counties would find it profitable
to standardize one variety. They
could put on the market huge lots
of uniform cotton that would com
mand a higher price, and buyers
would be glad to pay it in order to
get what they want.
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