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 <li*hris.
Karmors li*arm*<l that in
They learned ii again in 1’•»•** 1 and
in I<):'.(? when drought and diisi
storms laid dead hands on the
land. Out of this knowledge grew
farm demand for help from the
cities, dependent on farms for
food, as farmer arc dependent on
cities for income.
Anil the cities and the farms
pulled together. Out of a nat
ional Congress came programs ot
relief .... An Agricultural pro
n
Schedule Weldon
Roanoke Rapids
Legion Baseball
Shaw Post No. 38
Tuesday, June 11th, Wolilon at
Roanoke Rapids, 4 P. M.
Wednesday, June 12, Washington
at Wilson.
Thursday, June 13, Roanoke Ra
pids at Washington.
Friday, June 14, Roanoke Rap
ids at Wilson.
Saturday, June 15, Washington
at Roanoke Rapids, 3 P. M.
Monday, June 17, Wilson at
Washington.
Tuesday. June IS, Roanoke Rap
ids at Wilson.
Wednesday, June 19, Washing
ton at Roanoke Rapids, 3 P. M.
Thursday, June 20, Wilson at
Washington.
Friday, June 21, Roanoke Rap
ids at Washington.
Saturday, June 22, Wilson at
Roanoke Rapids 3 P. M.
Monday, June 24, Wa»hi»o4an "t
Wilson.
gram, later followed by an Agri
cultural Conservation program, to
help farmers adjust production to
market needs, to support prices
of basic farm crops, to help far
mers husband their soil, to help
farmers produce more of their own
food supplies. . . .A Soil Conserva
tion program to show farm'-rs hew
to stop wastage of land . . . A
Farm Security program to help
lo their feet farmers on unecono
mic farm land and farmeif with no
capital. . . A surplus remo.-.tl pio
giam to prevent unn arketnble sup
plies of farm -induce from press
ing too heavily on farm pi ices,
and to ease these supplies into the
market baskets of people with lit
tle money to buy. . . A crop in
surance program. . . . Loan.; on
farm products.
These are ac*icn programs, pro
grams that require farmers to lake
thought of their neighbors* prob
lems as well as their own, pro
grams that need ns! mt adjust
ment to fit the oi lividaal needs
of people on land.
Emergencies do not allow
plans, but as emergency conditions
settle into long time problems time
must betaken to work out plans
that will give the greatest number
of people affected a part in mak
ing tlm decisions conditioning their
lives.
(To Be Continued)
Population Of 23 Cities
In 2nd District Released
John M. Smith
Roanoke Rapids—John M. Smith
32, member of the Roanoke Rapids
High School Faculty died Sunday
afternoon at the home of his fa
ther in Greenville, S. C. Funeral
services were held there Monday'.
Mr. Smith had been in ill health
for tin' past nine months and was
visiting at his father’s home at the
time of his death. He had been as
sociated with the local schools in
the Industrial Arts department sin
ce 11)32 when he came here after
graduating from Clemson College,
lie was active in the work of the
Presbyterian Church, having taught
in the Sunday School for a number
of years. He was a member of
the Lions Club.
Mr. Smith is survived by his
wife, formerly Miss Aline Cannon
of Henea Path, S. C. a daughter,
Martha Boggs, his parent:, Mr
and Mrs. llassie Smith and seve
ral brothers and sisters.
FOR DEFENSE OR
FOR WAR?
BY J. E. JONEIs
Washington, 1). C., June 13tli- —
The United States Government is
actually preparing for war. ’the
President and members of his Ad
ministration and both houses of
Congress have been proceeding a
long exactly the same lines in
making these preparations, there
is no important show of politics in
proceedings. On the contrary the]
President has asked for billions of
dollars for preparedness against
invasion, and Congress has approv
i *1 i..o...iMrvtonrl!it ions \VlL.h
relatively unimportant change*. I
The Hitler machine unloosed it-*
terrors on a halt dozen helpless
neutral nations as part ol' its cam
paigns to crush Britain, which
Hitler declares he intends to dom
inate. Your government feels that
it must be prepared for invasio 1
of the United States or some part
of the Western Hemisphere in case
Hitler is victorious and captures
the British Navy.
A resolution in Congress that is
likely to be passed declares that
the United States would not “re
cognize any transfer and voul .
not acquiesce in any attempt to
transfer any geographical region
of the Western Hemisphere from
one non American power to any
other non-American State Hint
means that the United States for
bids the transfer or capture of is
lands anj colonies now under Bri
tish, French and Dutch sovereign
ty, such as Jamaica, British Hon
duras, French Guiana, Dutch Guia
na and British Guiana. In direct
relation there is actual fear that
some Latin-American territory, or
the Panama Canal might be inva
ded by a victorious-Hitler.
:,ny attempt to interfere with
„--.y ,<t'l~:*.urT, it Jte
Western iftsinz#! it * i” he re
garded by Congress -^w l \d
ministration as a challenge .. .he
Monroe Doctrine. And if llitlei
should seek to violate the Mon
roe Doctrine there can be but one
result-war tile United States.
In 1915 and 1916 the Adminis
tration and Congress prepared a
gainst possibilities that could not
be foreseen. We said then, as ne
are saying now, that it was all
being done for defense against in
vasion. In 1917 the United States
did the invading. Right now pow
erful voices are being lifted l >
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*