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Jt/NE ‘-3rd., 19-12
. ,.nh L vnch, colored of En
***« found guilty of driving
tile 'drunk and given 3 months
Vdward H-vell. white of Martin
nantv charged with driving wmlc
01in.PL with leave,
johmu- Gregory white of Roa
i Rapid- charged with assault
pros with leave.
,,.uje Willey, white of Weldon
:!L while under the influence
liquor, fine 1 >50 and costs. Li
se revoked t o 12 months
vlbert Brown and Edward Lee
... colored larceny and receiv
; Scott not guilty, Brown H
;ths on the roads - capias to
it an - me within tw > years
defendant found in Halifax
wiin t m die White, colored of
w;n found guilty of being
d and disorderly and assault
months on the roads for as
. and 31) days on the reads
drunk and disorderly to begin
he completion of six months
enCe said 30 days to be sus
ed on good bhavior.
Linwood Smith, colord of
land Neck assault with deadly
)0n six months on the roads,
ended m payment of a fine
05 and -ts and on londition
,emai!:- good behavior for
years.
jllie I., Pi u e. colored of Wel
trespa four months on the
:1c li. Brantley, white of
ike Raimi.- non-support and
rt and n--ault nol pros with
ie B a i'. colored, larceny
month- ui jail.
x B - r. colored of Roa
Rapic . assault, 8 months on
jails, -u-pended on payment
ts a. ,. a fine of $15.00.
M. uian, white of Rea
Kapii:-. .1 ault and non-sup
0 nu * the roads, sus
d on i syn.ciit of the costs
n pay 'f $15 per mon
L'ity i . . r support of mi
hild. I!.- 'is in no way to
t his w I hat on the first
bird s ■ : ivs of each mon
(ividcd ■ .- behavior is goo 1
iy olgi.it the custody of his
from It A. M. to 0 P. M.
merican Legion
Collects Records
i July _,l. Actual Collection
f Victrola Records Will
tart li> \|| American Le
ion Posts Throughout the
ountrt.
■
il Arm ■ Legion post thru
the c•• i have been asked to
tieipau , campaign to col
all i ml a records, both
and for resale, which
produ sufficient funds to
* poss. 2.000,000 or 3,000,
new n i |. for the men in our
bng Go all over the world
the next Is months.
nu' i urganizritions of
Amen. Legion Auxiliary lias
!ed tu ; our posts, units
dcpai ms to undertake
collect: . . of 37,000,000 old
throughout the
dale until July 20,
radio and publicity
campaign will he
Iery Person In N. C. Urged To
rn in More Than 5 Pounds Rubber!
tu ‘‘Y'-iy man, woman and
in Nona Carolina to accept
“Hill a quota of at least five
, ul 1 “up rubber to be
ado today by T. A.
•' live pound quota,
piiidrv pointed out, it will
pt'e.vMin lor some people to
lm ,l"u or triple their quo
[ “''Irr to make up for the
1 thihlrr i, and the adults who
|na j1> u> meet their full
[' U|v basis of the last
f' au average of five pounds
r'l’ita would produce around
f’ . * bounds of scrap rub
P - oi'th Carolina, exclusive of
Fi“l scrap.
I l!l“ war, America must
r,n,e. Ils rubber shortage,”
Fui'»1kc said. '‘Old rubber
r,s around m basements, at
Ef‘'afes and barns only rots
|s»»tegrates and does no
r
11 Men 18 To 20 To Register On Monoay June
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Seventy-Sixth Year
Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina
Thursday, June 25, 1942
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(ISO Drive Sta
County Monday
WELDON’S QUOTA IS $700.00; D. W.
SEIFERT NAMED LOCAL CHAIRMAN
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Halifax county’s drive lor $6,000 in United Service Or
ganization funds to help meet the state quota of $111.000 and
the national quota of $32,000,000, will begin on Monday of
next week and end on Saturday, Frank C. Williams of Roa
noke Rapids, chairman of the drive, announced yesterday
With the county and com
munity organizations complete
to carry out the drive. Chair
man Williams said today ' hat
he felt confident that the:
entire quota would be over
subscribed during the six
days.
1). W. Seifert, Weldon Chair
man, has secured the services
of the members of the Rotary
Club in making the drive in
Weldon. The Rotary Club has
agreed to sponsor the drive
here. However, other citizens of
the town will assist in the drive
for funds here for the box s in
the Armed Services.
Quotas have been set for each
town and community in the coun
ty, Chairman Williams said, ami
each chairman has accepted their
appointments and were busily -■
gaged in working up their own
committees to assist with tin
drive in their respective town and
communities.
Following are the town ami
community chairman and the quo
to sot aside for each community :
Enfield, Ivey Watson, chain'.nr,
quota, $700; Halifax, W. R. Cau
dle, chairman, quota $200; Little
ton, Paul Johnson, chairman, quo
ta, $350; Scotland Neck, Charlie
Shields, chairman, quota $700;
Weldon, L>. W. Seifert, chairman,
quota, $700; Roanoke Rapids, Nor
th Ward, Frank J. Hawley, chair
i man, quota, $2,125; Roanoke Ra
pids, South Ward, Alfred Martin,
chairman, quota, $2,125.
The Halifax drive will include
the communities of Tillery, Fau
cette and Butterwood, Enfield will
include Ringwood and Hollister
communities and Scotland Neck
will include the communities of
Hobgood, Rosoneath and Palym
ra.
In discussing plans for the cam
paign with chairman in the va
rious county communities yester
day, Chairman Williams reviewed
the national USD need for $32,
000,000 for its services in the com- (
ing year to our nation’s fighting
men anti the forces behind the lin
es.
“Funds for the operation >f in
dividual USO clubs and other ser
vice units", Chairman Williams
declared, ‘are made available on
a month-to-month basis. Re
quests for such funds are review
ed by the USO Budget committee
before they are authorized by the
Board of Directors. In thi. way
USO is able to exercise far great
er control than would be pos-,
body any good. But if it is turned
in to a service station before June]
30 it will be reprocessed and will
help materially to ease the string
ent rubber shortage.
“Not only is this one way for
every man, woman and child to
help win the war, but it will do
much to prevent every individual
from being deprived of the many
daily necessities of lile which are
made of rubber.
“The scrap rubber campaign
ends June 30. Until that time fill
ing stations will pay one cent a
pound for rubber baby carriage
tires, bicycle tires, automobile
tires, rubber soles or heels, rub
ber gloves, bathing caps, bathing
suits and aprons, rubber sheets,
pads, mats and baby pants, rub
ber boots and overshoes, garden
hose, and other articles made of
rubber. Not only will filling sta
tions pay a cent a pound for rub
ber, hut everyone who contributes
to the drive will be repaid a thou
sand times in satisfaction for help
ing to salvage rubber for vie
tory.”
hie ii' funds were allocated in one
yearly sum.”
Williams cited the fact that
there are 107 USO clubhouses in
the country, each of them at -aid
adjacent to a military encamp
ment, and each of which are main
tained for the benefit of men in
the armed forces by USO funds.
They offer recreational facilities
and entertainment for the fight
ing men of the armed forces. In
addition the U.SO during the past
year engaged the services of some
of the best known figures in the
musical and entertainment world
to appear frequently in army and
navy posts to furnish programs
of entertainment for the boys in
the service.
This work, he said, must be
kept going if the morale of the
boys who are in the armed force-,
is to be kept to a high level from
which victory will be assured. By
giving all you can to the L'SO
drive for funds, every person in
the land is hacking the boy ; who
are carrying the guns that will
mean certain victory in the end for
the Stars and Stripes.
Industrial Sugar
Users Must Re-register
All Industrial and Institutional
users of sugar must re-register
at the Ration Board office in
Roanoke Rapids between June -0
and July o, according to an an
nouncement issued by the Ration
Board today. This applies to ho
tel.-, restaurants, boarding house.-,
etc.
Anyone interested in getting su
gar for canning purposes should
apply from I) to 1 o clock on .Mon
days and Tuesdays and on Wed
nesdays from 9 to Id o'clock. Tncy
can get 1 pound per pel son ir. the
family for preserving and jelly ’
making, and 1 pound for each 1
quarts of finished fruits canned.
Application must be made after
the fruit has been secured. The
No. ."> Ration coupon is good for !
d pounds of sugar during the per- '
iod of June dll to July d7 and the!
No. ti Ration coupon will be good
for d pounds from July dT to Aug
ust 24.
Applicants for gasoline ration
ing should apply on Thursday
and Fridays between the hours of
it to 1 o'clock. Those applying for
Tires, Tubes or automobiles should
go tu the office oil Saturdays
from y to Id o’clock a. m.
Carolinian !
Jap Prisoner
I,. J. I.ee, Roanoke Rapids,
Held At Shanghai
Lenzie Jerome Lee a civilian
employe on Wake Island when it
fell to the Japanese, whose n-xt
of kin is listed as Mrs. W. C.
Whitley, R.F.D., No. 1, Roanoke
Rapids', N. C„ was reported by
the War Department at Wash
ington as being one of the 230 A
lucrican civilians held prisoner
by the Japanese at Shanghai. I’hi
na.
Lee, who was listed as a drill
helper, was employed by a con
tracting firm engaged in woik for
the United States Navy on Wake
Island when that territory fell to
the Japanese in the early stages
of the Pacific war.
The latest list swelled to 1,208
the American prisoners whose
names have been ft^uvarded by
the Japanese through the Inter
national Red Cross committee at
Geneva to the army’s provost
marshal general.
The latest group reported in
cludes civilians from 25 states and i
the territory of Hawaii.
N, C. First 1 o Be Accredited Free of Disease
Iltfetp
VICTORIOUS VETKRIX A RIA X 8--X orfh Carolina is now 11,
first State in the Nation to be "accredited" as free of Hand's
disease, a malady of cattle that lowers milks production, interferes
with reproduction and spreads the serious disease of man known
as •iindulant fever." Dr. \\ illian. Moore (center), chief of the
veterinary division of the State Department of Agriculture and
director of the stale-participation in the Hang's war. is drawing
a blood sample from a fine dairy animal, one of KOI.1 lit tested in
the 1 i\e-y. uv battle against Hangs. Dr. \\. A. Hornaday. of
Greensboi (left), sterilizes his hypodermic syringe and needle
awaiting his turn to draw blood samples, 1.240.000 of which were
analyzed in the laboratory before North Carolina won its victory
over Hang's disease.
Big Crop Loss
Feared Unless
Fruit Is Canned
Housewives Urged to
lake Advantage of Extra
Sugar Ration Provided
For Canning
Atlanta, (la.. .June 10—OPA of-|
t'icials express fear that a major j
portion of the $15,000,000 fruit
anj berry erop in the Southeast!
will be lost unless housewives take I
advantage of lie extra ration of I
sugar provided for running and
preserving.
The Office of Price Administra
tion said reports from Georgia,
Tennessee and the Carolinas indi
cated that there was virtually no
market for the already ripening
fruits and berries in these Stat
es,
Housewives seemingly are not
aware that t! oy can secure extra
sugar for canning purposes, in ad- j
dition to the sugar alloted to them
on their ration cards. Application
for this additional supply of s.u
gur for canning and preserving
should he made at local rationing
boards. So far, applications for
sugar for preserving' have been
light.
Housewives are urged to apply
to their local rationing boards ter
the sugar fluty will he allowed for
canning and preserving. They
will he assuring themselves of a
winter supply of sweets in the
event of the further tightening of
sugar rationing, and at the same
time will prevent the waste ol
the Southeast’s present fruit and
berry crop, which would result in
a hea\y loss to Southern growers.
The rugar ration board is locat
ed at Roanoke Rapids.
Commercial canneries can only
use a small percentage of the
crops in this region.
CONTROL
Treatments recommended by Ho
ward Garriss, Extension plant pa
thologist of State College, were
100 percent effective in controll
ing small grain diseases on the
farm of Larry Pate in C raven
County, says R. M. \\ illiams, as
sistant county agent.
MEET IN JULY — N. H G.
Balfour of Hol:e county, pictured
above, is president of the State
Association ot County Commis
sioners which will hold its annual
convention in Asheville July 13-15.
The association at its last convert* j
tion adopted a resolution com
mending the "clean up or cl
up" campaign ot the North Caro
lina committee of the Crewing In
dustry Foun lotion. t
New Schedule For Typhoid
Fever Immunization Clinics
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Halifax Count}' Health Depart
ment announces the following cli
nic schedule for typhoid fever
immunization:
Monday, July li-'am Jones
drove. A. M. Old Time
Monday. July ({--McDaniels.
»>;iA. M. Old Time.
Monday. July li-Bellamys Store
10;:!0 A. M. Old Time.
Monday, July 6—Eden School.
11 A. M. Old Time.
Monday, July 6 - Waynian
School. 12:30 1’. M. Old Time.
Monday. July li—Springfield, 2
p. M. old Time.
Thursday, July P--St. Luke
School, !• A. M. Old Time.
Thursday. July P-Goldmine. 10
A. M. Old Time.
Thursday. July P-A-irlie Store,
11-Jo A. M. Old Time.
Thursday. July 9 - Terrapin
School, 12:30 P. M. Old Time.
Much Interest Evident
In Second Primary
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SHERIFF’S RACE TO BE DECIDED BY
SATURDAY’S 2nd PRIMARY ELECTION
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Interest is running high in the run-off election foi Sher
iff of Halifax County to be held throughout the county on
Saturdav. Harry A. House, present Sheriff, is being opposed
by Paul'Luter of Roanoke Rapids, although 1.liter trailed in
the first Primary held May MO by less than halt the num
ber of votes polled by House.
While House was given the tremendous majority ot
Mrs. J. M. Stanley
Mi's. Heula Louise Stanley, -l-l.
(lied suddenly at her home heit oil
Thursday night. The body "as
taken to her former home in Che
raw, S. C. for funeral and burial
services.
Mi's. Stanley, who was a grad
uate nurse, was born in Cheraw,
S. C. and came here about 1 year
ago to make her home
Survivors include her husband,
Julius M. Stanley and three chil
dren, Prentiss Stanley, D. Bakei
Stanley and William T. Stanley
all of Weldon.
Classes Closed
The two classes in Aid t'ros
nutrition joined together on Tues
day evening, June lith to close
the twenty hour course which Miss
Mazie Castlebery has been tea
ching for the past month. The
women who had received certifi
cates for this course met at Mrs.
Howard Bounds for a picnic sup
per followed by a surprise shower
foi' the learner. Miss Castleberry,
who will mary Kev. Tom Free
man of Kenley, \\ C. in August.
The nutrition course has been
thoroughly helpful as well as
very enjoyable to all those who
were fotunate enough to be able
to attend, ami 27 women received
certificates and will he eligible
to take the course in cantine to
follow soon.
First Cotton Bloom
Mrs. M. I.. Shearin, who re
sides near here, brought in a
cotton bloom to the Roanoke
News office Friday, June 19th.
This is believed to be the lirst
bloom reported so tar in the
county. Mrs. Shearin received a
one year subscription to the
News.
.1. K. Taylor. R. K. 1). No.
2. Enfield sent into the office
of the News last Saturday a
cotlon bloom. As has been the
custom of the newspaper, he, as
i In second person to bring in a
bloom, was also given a year’s
subscription to the paper.
Thursday, July 9—Tabron School
2 P. M. Old Time.
Thursday, July 9—Ray Shearins
Store, 3:30 P. M. Old Time.
Friday, July Hi.-White Hill
School, 9 A. M. Old Time.
Friday. July 10~Twilight School
10 A. M. Old Time.
Friday, July 10—Old Rocky Run
School, 11 A. M. Old Time.
Friday. July 10—Quankey School
12:30 P. M. Old Time.
Friday, July 10—Simmons Grove
l 'hurt'll, 2 P. M. Old Time.
DK.WBK PRIES
Recent dry weather <1 id consid
erable damage to the dewberry
crop in Sampson County, says .1. P.
Stovall, assistant Extension agent
who reported that the dewberry
crop started off as the best in
years.
All chief registrars who served
asked to serve in the fifth registry
tration will be the same ones used i:
jLolt \Olt\s in lire
mary to Luter’s 1401 votes,
Luter took advantage of ' tie
fact that House did not se
cure a plurality and called for
a second primary to be held
June 27th The second Pri
mary demanded by Luter will
cost the taxpayers of the
county around $1500.00.
Harry House has proven to be
one of the most efficient Sheriffs
in the countys history and his
many friends believe he will win
Saturday if the people over the
county attend the pulls and vote
in numbers comparable with the
first primary.
The second primary wifi be held
under the same laws governing
the first primary ai d all voteis
duly registered on the primary reg
istration b ook will be allowed to
vote.
Voters throughout file county
are urged to come out and vote
for their choice.
Softball Games
Get Underway
METHODISTS DEFEAT KOT.Vin
HERE TUESDAY
The newly-organized Twilight
Softball League organized in Wel
don started its schedule Tuesday
when the Methodists defeated the
Rotary' Club team by the score of
16 to 6.
The winners punch out 15 hits
to completely overpower their op
ponents, who made only 4 hi's off
Norfleet Clark, the winning pit
cher.
Friday afternoon the Lions Club
team will play the Baptist team
at the ball park. The game starts
at 6 o’clock. On Tuesday afternoon
at 6 o’clock the Lions will oppose
the Rotary team.
Maladay Of Peach
Now Eradicated
Raleigh, June 25—North Caro
lina Is i.st Southern State
to eradicate "Phony peach disease’
a serious malady that kill- peach
trees, Commissioner of Agriculture
\V. Kerr Scott, announced today.
The P hony peach disease eradi
cation campaign in North Caro
lina has been under the supervi
sion of C. 11. Brannon, chief of
the entomology division of the
State Department of Agriculture,
working in cooperation with the
United States Bureau of Entomo
logy and l’lant Quarantine.
As a Phony disease-free State,
for three consecutive years. Nor
th Carolina peach growers no lon
ger are faced with a federal qua
rantine 'that would otherwise
hamper the shipment of peaches or
peach trees from certain areas
where the disease was found in
previous years.”
“By controlling Phony disease,
the peach industry in North Ca
rolina has been saved from die
certain destruction which would
have followed the uncontrolled
spread of this malady throughout
the State," Brannon said.
BREAKS LEG
Cliff Moss had the misfortune
of breaking his leg Wednesday
night. His many friends hope for
him a speedy recovery.
in the fourth registration are
tion. The places for the regis
i the first four registrations.