Services At The Baptist Church The pastor’s subject for the morning hour will be: “SPEAK TO THIS YOUNG MAN.” His subject for the evening hour will be: “OIL FOR THE LAMPS.” The pastor is very anxious to have the Lord’s house filled with eager, worshipping people, at both hours next Lord’s Day. Be there, and bring some one else with you and do not forget to attend the Sunday School and the B. T. U. An old legend says that once three young ladies disputed about their hands, as to which were the most beautiful. One of them dip pei her hand in the pure stream, another plucked berries until her fingers were pink, and the th.rd gathered flowers whose fragrance clung to her hands. An old hag gard woman passed by and asked for some gift, but all refused her. Another young woman, plain, and with no claim to beauty of hand, satisfied her need. The old wom and then said “It is not the hand that is washed in the brook, nor the hand tinted with red, nor the hand garlanded and perfumed with flowers that is most beau tiful, but the hand that gives to the poor.” As she spoke, her wrinkles were gone, her staff was thrown away, and she stood there an angel from heaven. This is only a legend; but its judgment is true. The beautiful hands are those that minister, in Chnst’s Name to others.” By the Pastor. Officers Elected For Coming Year Wm. Shaw Post No. 38 Weldon—At a meeting of the Wm. Shaw Post 38 of the Amer ican Legion Tuesday night, the following officers were elected: Commander, H. W. Johnson, Wei don, N. C. 1st. Vice Commander, W. B. Joyner, Weldon, N. C. 2nd. Vice Commander, D. P Wyke, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Adjutant, H. G. Leigh, Weldon. N. C. Finance, Mike Josephson, Wel don, N. C. Service Officer, F. H. Clark, Weldon, N. C. Guardianship, S. L. Robinson, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Sergeant at arms, H. E. Gibson, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Chaplain, W. J. Norwood, Roa noke Rapids, N. C. Historian, A. W. Oakes, Jr., Wel don, N. C. Ahtletic Officer, Frank S. Kemp, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Child Welfare, Ned Manning, Roa noke Rapids, N. C. Americanism, W. G. Suiter, Wel don, N. C. Graves Registrati*n, D. P. Wyke, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Employment, Frank S. Kemp, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Membership, A. N. Martin, Roa noke Rapids, N. C. Publicity, Carroll Wilson, Roa noke Rapids, N. C. Goodman Predicts Biggest Farm Week Present indications point to a record smashing enrollment at this year’s Farm and Home Week to be held at State College, July 29-August 2, announces John W. Goodman, assistant director of the State College Extension Service. Their attendance at these an nual events always far outdis tanced by women, men delegate* will have their strength bolstered this year by county and commu nity AAA committeemen who will attend the convention. Goodman pointed out that all of North Carolina’s 100 county com mittees, composed of three men each, have been scheduled to at tend. In addition, one delegate from each township committee will be present. This should assure at least 1,200 farmers in attendance at the convention. Ordinarily, from 1,200 to 1,500 farm women register for the event. Plans for the week are now nearing completion, Goodman said. Subjects of interest to both men and women will be taken up during joint sessions of the two groups, while separate sessions will be held for other topics. In addition to the educational side of the program, a full sche dule of entertainment and recv n tion have been planned for the delegates. Tours, contests, games, group singing, square dancing, and other lighter features will serve to enliven the program. As has been the custom for the past three years, Governor and Mrs, Clyde Hoey will appear on the Thursday, August 1, night program. Other than these two, there will be no speakers sched uled for the evening recreational periods. Rooms will be provided in Sta te College dormitories and meals will be Served in the college cafe teria. THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES Americanism: Prosecuting unim portant monopolies; big oil com panies quietly leasing whole Sta tes to' prevent any drilling by in dependents. Seventy-Third Year • Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina Thursday, June 13, 1940 To Place 100 Yellow Metal Insect Traps In Weldon During the next few days the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Entomology and I’lar.! Quarantine, in cooperation with State and local officials will plu 100 yellow metal insect traps in Weldon, N. C. to ascertain wheth er the Japanese beetle is present Should infestation be found th information would be used to guide possible control activities. These traps will be placed chi 'f ly in residential sections, and those doing the work will have credentials which will be produced on request. State officials, ask re sidents to cooperate by allowing .traps to be placed on their p.-'P ’ erty for a period of about thirty days. Police have been notifii I, about the work. Each trap will be visited at frequent intervals by an inspector working under the supervision of C. J. Weaver, U. S. Department Agriculture. The Japanese beetle is a pest of economic importance in sections of the country where it is abuu dent. Most of the insects life ;s spent in the soil where the grub feeds on the roots of plants. The adult, which is present in tic summer, is about one quarter ol an inch long with a green head and brown wing covers. The feed ing of the adult damages the flow ers, fruit and foliage of many plants. In this section tlie first aupetfr ance of the beetle would .«• n.-ted on grape leaves or in the blos soms of roses. Trap inspectors do not have in formation about other plant pests. Requests for such informulio i should he addressed to County A gent. Finals At Tilghman s Business College Certificates and awards were given the following students com pleting courses at Tilghman Busi ness College, the session just end ed: Misses Louise Joyner and ito roth Cook of Garyshurg; Jennie Pugh of Portsmouth, Virginia; Mrs. Roscoe Hamill, Helen Collins, Nan Anthony and Messrs Billie Rahil, John Riddle, Billy Bounds, Carrol Anglin, W. J. Boseman and Charles Williamson. Miss Louise Joyner was the recipient of an award for the greatest improvement, while Mr. Billy Rahil received the one for I the highest average. Mrs. Williamson thanks her pa trons and says her school has had I the largest enrollment in it ; his-' tory and equipment is cornin' m| for courses in Comptometry for the coming fall. J. H. Hawkins J. H. Hawkins, 02, died early this morning at his home in Fan cetts Township, after an illness of several months. Funeral services will he held Friday 14, at 3:30 o’clock, at the Hawkins Chapel church of which he was a member, with interment in the church cemetery. Mr. Hawkins is of one of the old est families and was active in the affairs of the community. Surviving are his widow, one daughter, Mr*. Frank Piece*, ,.f near Halifax, one son, Forrest) Hawkins of Faueetts, one sister Mrs. Z. C. Hawkins and four bro thers, J. E. Hawkins, William VV. Hawkins, Roger Hawkins and Fitz hugh Hawkins, all of Halifax County. White Lake Camp Littleton-Those from Littleton who attended the Camp at Whit ■ Lake from June 3rd to the 3ih were: Doris Alston, Dorothy El lington, Pearl Jenkins, Aliee New som, Mary Esther Saddler, Ruby Topping and Miss Katie Kiblo.k. | Ruby Topping represented Lit-] tleton on the Student Council dur ing the week ami took part on the1 Candle Light Vesper Service Fri day night. Thursday the Campters went to Carolina Beach for the day. There were around 200 girls at the camp who took part in the various act ivities including, swimming, soft ball, volley ball, table tennis, crafts, songs, first aid instructions and shuffle board. , Miss Katie Niblock assisted with the Craft Work at the camp. To Direct U. S. Preparedness Program Here arc the seve~n experts who as members of the new National Defense C™-™ ^11 ^Irert and co ordinate the $3,300,000,000 U. S. preparedness program, l op (le« to right) , n tj% steel chairman, Motors president, in charge of industrial production; Edward R. Stet .nius, Jr, U. Che te C t industrial materials; and Ralph Budd, Burlington Railroad ch^rman tianspm a ion Lower, L * Davis, former head of the A.A.A., farm products; Leon Henderson, of ^Jf “Harriet • n-Aerial prices; Sidney Hillman, Amalgamated Clothing Workers head, employment. and Miss n.ui Elliott, University of North Carolina dean of women, consumer protection. Planned Land Use Program Taking Shape C.UY A. CARDWELL General Agricultural \gem Atlantic Coast l.ine Railroad Co. In August of last year I cir culated an article telling of "I!.i ral Land Use l’ianning - A New Profession.” I am now pa -sing to my readers some recent infor mation about the progress bein''.' made in land use planning as told in Consumers’ Guide, a public ion of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Consumers' t'-aii sel Division, and reprinted in ex tension Division News, Virginia Polytechnic institute, May issue. This material is being cir. alaled simply as information, and in se rial form (three letters i because of the length of the article. Land Use Program Planning Grows It's a tough fact, leut. true, that you can’t "discover" the good 1 te, as a prospector •‘discovers told. No shaft shot into the ear h, no patient panning of lh6 iml in a river, can bring forth the period pattern for living. What each of us want, whai aii of us want, changes in sun lance and shape and place and time D 'W we get it must necessarily evolve, too. But people in democ ratio ce.un tries hold stubbornly to one init! : That the chance for eveiyone to get a belter living increa es as peo ple pull together. That’s why county land use planning committees are terming hither and yon over the country That's why tiK states already have agreed to create state head u " planning committees. That c wr\y a special office of govecamu nt ha. been created in tlm Department of Agriculture to servo necting link in the planning by counties and states to the and north, to the west and Committees Are Workshops County and state land use1 plan ning committees are work Imps in which farmers, tcehni al c xpe rts and administrators of larm pro grams pool their experience; work out detailed analyses cd i ie land resources and needs of their own communities; scrutim ".e plans lor aid in their communities; and ad just programs to the necessities of their own people. They are a brand new venture in citizen collaboration. Each col laborator has his own cmlrili ction to make to better land u,ce. Each has something to learn from the (lone east. .nth. other. Together, their i wents are multiplied ami their I’orees geii' rale new energy tor the building of a sounder, ho.idnier agric.d t lire. There was a time when people operated oil the theory that e Uira Iion alone would achieve for !ar mors the -rood life- These who were not smart enough to learn (rood farming, these who were not diligent enough to practice it, eouhl be left by the wayside, Educa:ion was the care all of fu'-m proh lt-ms. That was before the Gk it War, when farmers' problems centered Ja'",vly ' n how t" P'*‘t nif.iv? arvl more farm produce. Then weie markets at home and maiket < a ]„Vast, mi dunit >d markets Gr ' V,mark t . Markets t > he I , ,.s j.•* r- v'’o was smart ,'.\,'iH-h to , *'•«» products prnduee I In- right quality, market v oh efficiency. V el ion Programs To Meet ('linages Times changed with the Great \\ . One hy on". countries a'.ro.ul turned their harks on American farm products. One hy one, th‘\ raised high tariff . laid heavy em bargo s, imposed ta-:es on hie ports of farm produets. After the great I'lirh of glory in the ..ids, even Amei-i m markets for iaiai products collapsed. Depre ion wept the land Millions ot work ers were laid off. Wages sweeped down to u! teiiee lee. 1; mm btlow Prici : rank. Unemploy ed mils and . i-.Vcr : moved Mi-k l„ the land. St a • "nation spivau. Being one degree smarter than the nest man d.m't help much when an earthquake hursts through the crust el' things as they are. Eeartjiquakes are no re.-meit ors of persons. Nor are d'piys There hrieks and stones fall on the wise and the Cupid. As individuals hath are helpless 'i o gd lust they must pull each other out of Iho demand help for the Allies, even to the point of lending them money and giving them arms, food and ammunition. ‘A very few are talk ing about going “Over There.” Forces of the Army, Navy and the Air are being increased as they were before the former war, and previous to the draft. Now we are for defense. Every one hopes that the remedies pre scribed by the Government will stop Hitler from coming into our yard. If he loses, then there will he nothing for America to fear. CHAIN Eight purebred gilts will he given to Durham County 4-H hoys as the first step in starting a pig club chain, says J. A. Sutton, as sistant farm agent of the State College Extension Service. Wilson Leads Lisl With Large Lain — Koanoke Kapids Shows Large Increase Rocky Mount, N. C.—Supervisor A. Al. Atkinson today released preliminary census reports for 23 cities and hamlets of the Sec ond Congressional District, varying in size from Wilson’s 19,213 to Grainger's 120. Although the preliminary figur es for both ides of Rocky Mount have been sent to E. A. Hughes, area supervisor in Raleigh, the main office has not released them for publication yet. Reports have been expected daily inasmuch as Mr. Hughes assured local men that he would take up the matte. with Washington officials imme diately. Wilson, Kinston, Scotland Neck, Roanoke Rapids, Weldon and En field are the only towns in the second district in which "the cen sus has been completed of which the population is over 1,000. These are the population fig ures released by Mr. Atkinso t to day. City 1940 It Wilson _ 19,213 Jt 5* Kinston __ 15,49* 11,38* Scotland Neel _ 2,552 2,339 Roanoke Rapids -- 8,521 3,404 Weldon_ 2,344 2,323 Enfield_ 2,203 2.234 Snow Hill _ 920 828 Elm City _ 940 905 Rich Square _ 941 800 Jackson _ 757 677 Stantonsburg _ 595 607 Woodland _ 485 501 Seaboard_ 562 534 Severn__ 323 364 Conway _ 444 400 Milwaukee_ 291 321 Roxobel_ 332 334 | Colerain_ 300 224 uarysuuj g Hookerton Graingers Deep Run Halifax 318 307 120 60 150 160 375 321 Sirene Will Be Sounded On Wednesdays The town fire sirene will be sounded each Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock to give warning that all local grocers begin their half holiday at 12 o’clock and the other stores here will close at 1 o’clock. These half holdays will continue thru June, July and August. SUPERIOR COURT NEWS Lee Smith, colored of Scotland Neck, charged with bastardy nol pros with leave. Buddy Prince, colored of Roa noke Rapids, -4 months on the roads for larceny. 1 e-.vis Putney, colored of Roa p.a Rapids, 4 months on the roads for larceny. Tommie Pearce, colored of En field, charged with assault with deadly weapon, not guilty. The following Divorces Have Been Granted During this 'tern Margaret Johnson Wv* Jaavea Wilton Wwks; Lyla Baird Wollcox vs W. H. Willcox; Nan nie Whitby Jones vs. William Da vid Jones; Willard Edward Vau ghan vs Lola Lee Slut/ Vaughan; Louise Ballance vs. Curtis Ballan ee; Rebecca Bond Harrell vs. W. II.’ Harrell; Hazel T. Rook vs. James R. Rook; Gladys Ford Mc Cloud vs. Landres McCloud; Paul ine Devereaux Wilkins vs. Tom Wilkins, Jr; Kelly Vann Parrott vs. Alice Grace West Parrott -— 0 Lions Club Elect Officers Littleton, N. C. At their regular meeting on Thursday evening June 6th the annual election of officers took place and the following were elect ed: President, Paul Johnston; 1st. V-President, C. C. Abernathy: 2nd V-President, John Skinner; 3rd. V-President, W. B. Browning. Secretary, Dennis Rose; Tail Twister, W. M. Bruce; Lion Tam er, R. B. Patterson; Directors, W. W. Johnston and A. W. Parker*