North Carolina Newspapers

he Home Sphere Edited by | MISS FLORENCE COX Home Demonstration Agent Miss Estelle M. Edwards distant Home Dein. Agent Club Achievement Day a Success 3„ Saturday. .January 22, over hundred 4-H club girls and tents gathered in the Weldon Jhool Auditorium for the Annual Ihievement Day Program. Miss Lnces Mactiregor, Assistant r. 4_il Club Leader of Raleigh fom| , with her presence for day giving the main address [the morning and leading in rec Ition in the afternoon, pro ’li" V, .. 4, president ami Ellen, Secretary, both fEnfield. Miss Barbara Collins I Win R Davie led the group Jthe i-ll Club Pledge. Devotion I were given by Rev. W. W. Fin 1,. pastoi of Weldon Baptist t,eh who spoke very fittingly the occasion. Miss Virginia Inian ,,f Weldon welcomed the |sts and the response was given |Mss Sarah Ann Butts of Aur Sprngs. Mss Carlton Jenkins barlington led the audience in Pledge to the Flag. Miss Ag Kllen introduced Miss Frances jcGregor who gave and inspir bnal address on opportunities fered tin >ugh the greatest use 4-11 Club Activities. Miss Alice of Weldon, accompanied mother closed the morning era in with a solo rendering lu? Song of Health.” pi the afternoon Miss Mary loner Harrison of Enfield gave i readings. State honor medals were pve (ted to Agnes Ellen and Alma Whitley for placing in the ribbon group with their jry Team Demonstration, to [ia Lee Whitley for Food Pre iitioii Records, to Agnes Ellen [State Dress Revue and Cloth Achievement Records, to Vir |a Pittman for Food Preserva and Best County Aehieve Jlt Records. (a.-, Estelle M. Edwards, Ass Hr.me Demonstration A then presented Count■ |mpionship certificates to e- Marie Hoggard, for vege gaedening’. .m.ah Ann Butts, n Improvement and Poultry c, Alma Lee Whitley, Food hiaration. Virginia, Pittman hi Preservation and Best all-a pd Club Member, and Agnes ■ r Clothing Achievement |ect 'k. Thirty five Achieve |i Certificates were presented satisfactorily completing a 1 of 1-11 Club Work, and twen enifnales for rendering help pervicc in the war effort. MacGregor led in group png and recreation, accompa un tile piano by Miss Sue le of Thelma. ft- Wild.ui 1-H Clubs acted as for the day and served close of the afternoon, le and cookies together popcorn and candy. :al Boy jns High Honor Joseph P. Thorne son of Inul Mrs. J. P. Thorne of Wel I X. C. was awarded the good pci medal by his regimental blander, Colonel T. A. Pedley, rfc. Thorne is now stationed [amp Clairborne, Louisiana. ith Carolina |n Meet In London ladquuiters, European T'hea p operations—All the excite I of a honeymoon was brought |o fourth overseas rennion of t arulitia soldiers in Lon lecently when Staff Sergeant Ban Stevens, Jr., of Rocky It, brought his English bride ■ v Jays to the American Red 1 Mostyn club for the party ^gt. and Mrs. Stevens were home town soldiers helping' fcelebrate. I' feminine companionship at ■inner, Mrs. Stevens had two |S. Private Mary D. Wilkins Thmmi and Private First Dorothy E. Wain of Gran luarry. • Wilkins started off an ev °f reunions when .she met Oral Clarence P. Armstrong elmont, whom she had not I in many months. Three Ru lordton soldiers met for the ltiine overseas, and to fill out livening, Corporal Burton R. is and Technical Sergeant k'l't. R. Brown of Bethel met fhc first time in more than Br. guest for the fourth time at |rtli Carolina reunion, Lance pral Jack Edwards of the dian forces, from Hickory, present. |iong those present at the re was Private Julius Silves Weldon. THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTH AMPTON COUNTIES KEEP Oil with WAR BONDS Seventy-Sixth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina THURSDAY, JAN. 2 7, 1911 Weldon Boy Undergoes j Operation While At Sea: Charleston, S. C., Jan. 15th—A “play-by-play” and stitch by stit-j ch broadcast of his emergency ap-' pendectomy at sea as enjoyed by the patient himself and the entire crew of his ship was described ye-terday by Motor Machinist's I n Elliott Moore, 18, of .••■‘■.on, .Sul iii Carolina. Moore1 returned to active duty at a Coast Guard station in Charleston yes-1 terday, after recuperating at the! Naval Hospital from his dramatic operation. j Crew members of a Coast Guardi manned destroyer escort under way at sea, Moore was stricken with appendicitis. An immediate operation was considered essent ial. A flotilla doctor was taken a board the destroyer escort and the ship’s sick bay became the scene of a detailed description of the appendoctomy which was broad cast over the ship’s communica tion system and followed with breathless suspense by all mem-! tiers of the crew. “They gave a spinal anaesthe tic”, Moore grinned, “and 1 saw and heaid it all without felling a thing.” 1 sort of enjoyed it like the rest of ’em did at the time. Our shiji was under way all the time but the “skipper" was great. He kept her in the swells thru out the operation to keep her from rolling. The blow by blow, as the boys called it, went some thing like this; '0320 first incis ion, then a lot of details, 3040 ap pendix out, etc., through to the happy ending for me an I every-. body else. It -was really a big e-! vent and everybody was in on it.1 It was about the only time I have 1 every been the complete center of attention, and 1 enjoyed it until tiie next day.” Moore is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F, S. Moore of Weldon, N. C. He is well enured to macabre going-on having been an under taker’s assistant in his home town before his enlistment in the Coast Guard at Raleigh, N. C., in Jan uary last year. Since the above was written by a Navy public relations official John has been given a ten day leave and visited relatives and friends here. He returned to Charleston Sunday to begin active duty. While here John was quest ioned by a News reporter, but modestly refrained from giving many details. However, he said “1 am grateful to the Skipper and Doctor as well as the crew. Ev eryone was real nice to me.” Promoted Barksdale Field, La., January 17, 1944. The promotion ol Jo seph Rabil from the rank of Cor poral to the rank os Sergeant has been announced by Lt. Col. Geor ge P. Kiene, commanding officer of a Service Gxx>up at this field. Sgt. Rabil was formerly a res ident of Weldon, N. C. His mother, j Mrs. Mary Id. Rabil lives at Ce dar Street, that city. He enlisted in the Army on November 17, 1942 and. prior to being transferred to this field was stationed at Newport, Arkan sas. Sgt. Rabil is a member of a Service Group and is at present on duty as a Combination Welder. Before joining the Army, Sgt. Rabil was employed as an Electric Arc Welder b ythe 'Sunship Co., Chester, Pa. Troy D. Holoman Tioy D. Holoman, 49, died in Roanoke Rapids Wednesday af4.ei' an illness of several weeks. Fu neral services will he conducted from the residence, the old Sim mons place on Bolling road, Fri day afternoon at 4 o’clock by the Rev. S. A. Fann. Mr. Holloman came to this coun ty twenty-three years ago. Until 1938 he was employed by the Roanoke Mill Company, he was then in the dairy business in which business he was very suc cessful and made many friends. Fast year he became connected with the Roanoke Rapids police force and made a good officer. Survivors include his wife Mrs. Addie Keeter Holloman, two sons, George Holloman of Camp Wheel er, a., and Garland E. Holoman of the home, one brother, George Holoman of Danville, Va., and one sister, Mrs. Pearl Leonard of Charlotte. Square Dance Friday Night Here A square dance will he given Friday night, January 28th in the Weldon Community Center. The Happy Retonga Rangers will play and the proceeds will go for the benefit of the Weldon Infantile Paralysis drive fund. The admission is only fifty cents. “Come and dance that oth ers may walk ” Lespedeza Tests Give Varied Data Preliminary studies indicate that Kobe and Korean lespedezas yield approximately the same a mount of forage under the same grazing conditions, reports Dr. R. L. Lovvorn, in charge of for age crop investigations at the State (College Experiment Sta tion. Tests revealed that when plant ed together, the total yield was approximately the same as either variety alone, but Kobe contribut ed only one third of the combined yields. Common and Tennessee 70 made much less growth. The yield of a mixture of Kobe with either common or Tennessee 70 was intermediate between the two. On the other hand, where Korean and common were seeded together, the result was decid-1 edly different. The combined yield was equal to the yield from] a pure stand of Korean, but was j made up of DO percent Korean and 10 percent common. “These results would raise some question as to the advisabil ity of seeding common or Tennes see 70 with either Korean or Kobe,” Lovvem says. He suggests that growers pur chase their supplies of lespedeza seed for planting this season as early as possible because there are shortages in certain areas and seed are hard to get. He points out that the need for lime and fertilizer becomes great er the longer lespedeza is grown on a farm, due to the depletion of the soil’s natural supply of plant] nutrients by removal of the hay. For this reason it now' pays to fertilize lespedeza on lands where formerly it did not. More Phosphate To Be Available Farmers of Halifax County again may obtain superphosphate as conservation material under the 1944 Agricultural Conservation Program of the AAA, according to D. M. Crocker, Secretary of the Halifax County AAA Committee. The deduction rate * for phos phate this year will be $18.0 per ton for 20 per cent material $17. 60 per ton for 9 per cent, and $17. 00 per ton for 28 per cent, which is slightly more than the rate which prevailed in 1943 due to increased costs of shipment from the sources of supply, Crocker said. “As was the case last year, phosphate supplies will be limited in 1944, but have been assured that the amounts available will be somewhat larger than last year,’ he said. “Allocations will be made on a monthly basis, and ev- j ery farmer who plans to use phos- j phate should give us his order as, soon as possible so we ean tell what will be needed.” He said a total of 36,963 tons was used in the entire state last year and that prospects are bright for more than that amount this year. Of the total amount used, farmers of Halifax County applied 250 tons under the 1943 pro gram. “Furnishing phosphate and oth er conservation materials is a part of the AAA program designed to increase production of food crops immediately, and at the same time to maintain fertility of the soil, he said. “Costs of all such ma terials are deducted from pay ments due individual farmers at the class of the program year.” All orders for phosphate under the 1944 program should be plac ed at the County AAA Office, he added. V. S. Treasury Department Farm Security Offices Are Moved To Halifax Cotton Ginning Report Census report shows that 25, 228 bales of cotton were ginned in Halifax County from the crop of 1943 prior to January 1(5 as com pared with 27,358 bales for the crop of 1942. RECORDERS COURT NEWS Dorsey Harper, colored of En field charged with bastardy nol pros with leave. Murphy Carter, white of Little ton was found guilty of reckless driving and prayer for judgment continued on payment of the costs. Hugh Smith, colored of Scot land Neck was found guilty of non support and prayer for judg ment continued on payment of the costs and on further condition he remains of good behavior and properly suports his family. Mary Lee Bradley, colored of Enfield was found guilty of lar ceny and given 3 months in jail. Willie Capehart, colored of Scotland Neck was found guilty :>f possession and sale of liquor and was given eight months on the roads to be suspended on pay ment of a fine of $35 and court costs and on condition he appear :he first Tuesday of each month for two years and show that no tas not violated any criminal sta tute and that he has not used or lad in his possession any alcoho ic beverage. Eddie Long and Timothy Mills colored of Weldon were found guilty of engaging in an affray rnd were given six months on the roads each to be suspended on payment of one half the costs each rnd on condition each remains of good behavior for 2 years during vhich period he shall refrain from Tequenting any so called Piccolo loint, cafe or place where beer ,s sold. Timothy Mills to pay in rddition to half the costs, the ac count of Dr. R. B. Blowe. Nathaniel Mitchell, colored of Northampton County was found guilty of speeding and prayer for judgment continued on payment jf the costs. SUPERIOR COURT A term of Superior Court will oegin Monday with Judge Walter 3one of Nashville presiding. Mrs. J. V. Larkin is visiting in Richmond. Mrs. . Foster Jennings spent Wednesday in Greensboro. T o Farm Security Administra tion office which for the past sev eral years has been located in the Bank of Halifax building here has been moved to Halifax into the government owned office building, located south of the town, T. J. Swain, who was in char ge of the FSA set-up here, stated this week the offices were moved to consolidate the work and cut down expenses. He expressed ap preciation to the people of Wel don for their co-operation while theworkwasbeingoarried on here. Mr. Swain and his office force are carrying out the same pro gram as in the past of helping farmers who need government aid. 1944 Plate Sales Lag Despite Time Extension More than 50,000 Carolina auto mobile, truck and trailer owners have not bought their HIM license plates, according to D. C. Johnson local Manager of the Carolina Mo tor Club. This lag is in spite of a thirty day extension granted mo torists by virtue of a bill enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly at the 1943 Session. The local office of the Carolina Motor Club has sold a total of 3,500 automobile, truck and trail or plates through the 22 days of January. This repre a i i loss af 1,000 plates over the :.i n -id during 1943. The extension of time was blamed for the decrease in the number of plates sold here, and it is expected that a last min ute rush will be created by those motorists who have put off pur chasing their plates until the last minute. 1). C. Johnson, local Manager ot the Club, cites a recent notice re ceived from the Department of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh, in which definite commitment was made that no extension of time beyond January 31 would be granted motorists this year. It was also announced that prompt and vigorous prosecution by 'S'tate Law Enforcement Agencies would lie started February 1 to sec that all cars operating on State High ways display new 1944 license plates. The local office of the Carolina Motor Club observes the hours of 9 A. M. to 4 P. M., and motorists are urged to buy their plates im mediately or stand the chance of being delayed due to heavy crowds congesting the office dur ing the last five to six days of January. _ Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Williams had as their guests on Monday Jimmie Larkin and Miss Mickey Larkin of Washington, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shaw of Enfield. MYSTERY GIRL BURIED TUES. .Time To Apply For Crop and Seed Loans Mr. S. R. Griffin, Jr., t'i«>l«i su pervisor for the Emergency Crop ami Feud Loan Office, stated that farmers of Halifax and North ampton County are now applying j tor loan.-, to finance the produe i lion of their 1944 crops. Applica tions for loans are now being ! written in the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office at Halifax, X. C . He stated that in addition to financing the production of the crops regularly grown in this vic inity, loans were also being made for the production of those crops declared essential to and so vi tally needed in the \rf.ir effort this year. Plans for 1944 call for increased production of many food crops. The production goal for such of these crops as the Ex tension Service considers can He successfully planted and grown in Halifax and Northampton Coun ty should be met. The need for funds necessary for the produc tion of these crops will be given special consideration with the view that credit will be extended, wherever needed, so that no farm family will be denied tlv> oppor tunity to make its maximum con tribution to the Food Production Program. | Emergency crop loans are avail able tr farmers, either owners or tenants, who own or can make arrangements for land to farm; who own or have the use of nec essary workstock and equipment with which to farm, and who ran give as security a first lien on the crops to be financed. These loans will be made to farmers whose casli requirements are rel atively small and who are unable tn obtain loans sufficient to meet their needs from other sources, including local banks and produc I lion credit associations. Loans are also available for t■ purchase or production of feed ' for livestock whose products will be marketed, for livestock to be fed for the market, or for breed ing animals with the increase to l>e marketed, but, as security, a first lien on such livestock is re quired. Mr. Griffin emphasized that these loans are not restricted to selected applicants but are avail [ able to all farmers who can esta i 1 >1 ish eligibility, according to the terms of the loan regulations and the authorizing Act of Congress. Jury List First Week Wesley Lynch, Jr., Scotland Neck S. A. Hux_ _ Faucetts Hugh Bloomer .. Brinkleyville L. H. Liles _ .. Faucetts Sam Brown _ Palmyra J. A. Pittard -. Faucetts R. A. Rogers . Faucetts Shady Bradley _ Scotland Neck ! M. J Hux _ Halifax I. M. Lewis B•■in' ' : " 1 W. 3'. Davenport, Roanoke Rapids L. S. Cannon_Roanoke Rapids J, 0. Stephenson _ Halifax Claude Smith _ Weldon J. H. Bunting _ Palmyra John Paul Hardy Scotland Neck R. H. Savage _ Palmyra W. A. Harris Roanoke Rapids L. J. Barnhill _ Enfield Edgar Turner _ Enfield Henry Herbert_Brinkleyville J. T. Willey_Roanoke Rapids Glenn Glasgow _ BuUerwood J. R, Manning ..Roanoke Rapids Turner Brantely _ R. Rapids L. R. Williams .. Scotland Neck Charlie Barnes_Scotland Neck Alphonso Roberson _Palmyra Edward Parker _ Butterwood Durward Anderson _ Enfield R. L. Britton __ Roanoke Rapids Howard C. Brown_R, Rapids W. A. Johnson _ Halifax C. M. Fleming _.Roanoke Rapids R. G. Willey _ Enfield I I ! The money-eating Squander Bug was originally discovered in England, where energetic action on the part of the British people has succeeded in curbing1 his ex travagant aetivites and has pro moted the sale of War Savings Securities. The body of the ‘'Mystery Girl” known only ;m Catherine Dawson which has been held in the II. (!. Rowe Funeral Home tor the past several months, was buried last Tuesday in the local cemetery. All efforts to identify the girl were to no avail as Coroner F.N. Rowe assisted by Roanoke Rapids and County Police officers traced each lead to its origin. The girl was taken into cus tody at the bus station in Roa noke Rapids after acting stran gely Sunday. November 14 and remained in jail until Tuesday when she was admitted to Roa noke Rapids Hospital where she died several hours later. She gave no clue as to her i dentity except saying her name was Catherine Dawson and her father lived in Hoboken, N. J. Authorities in New Jersey have been unable to locate the family of a girl by that name. Dozens of people have written, wired and telephoned about miss ing women, but all failed to iden tify the body here. Many people came to the local funeral esta blishment and viewed the body. Counties Honored With “A” Adwards Haywood, Northampton, Pitt, Chatham and Wilson counties will receive Achievement “A” Awards for outstanding excellence in agriculture in 194J, according to G. T. Scott, chairman of the US DA War Board. These counties were selected by the War Food Administration be cause of their splendid perform ance in increasing farm produc tion. They not only met but also exceeded their Production Goals. They shifted peace time produc tion to meet war time demands. They made full use of their land and labor resources. In fact, ev erything possible was done to co operate in the “Food for Free dom" fight, not forgetting full suport of War Bond purchases, rationing and price control meas ures, and cooperation in all the salvage drives. Each of these counties will re ceive an '“A” banner from the* War Food Administration to be presented by the Army in appro priate ceremonies in February. Plans are now being made for the celebration in each county and full details will be announced at a la ter date, according to Scott. The State College Extension Service and all other agricultural agencies have cooperated in this work in each county, to make up the. activities of the County War Board and are all joining togeth er in arranging plans for the “A" Award celebration. Not only the county honored but also each farm family in the county. "These families are grate fully honored for services nobly rendered to our war effort and it is expected that they will all take part in the ‘Award Day’ ceremo nies to be held in February in connection with the presentation of the ‘A’ banner,” Scott said. AiiiJ Scout Meeting Tin1 Air Scouts held their reg ular meeting Wednesday night, at 7:30 o’clock at the Scout Hut. Mr. Richardson, the Scout mast er spoke on the “Infantile Para- * lysis Drive” and gave “March of Dimes” pins to the Air Scouts which are to be sold Saturday, January 29th. Lets everybody cooperate and buy a pin from an Air Scout or Boy Scout Saturday morning. (■eo. Medlin, Air Scout Scribe. One PT boat requires about 28, 000 board feet of lumber, We’re building hundreds of these craft. Army barracks require about 1400 board feet IJf lumber per man. We’re housin g millions of men. The crating for one 401 mm anti aircraft gun requires about 875 board feet of lumber. Were shipp ing thousands of these guns. One wooden landing barge re quires about 200,000 board feet of lumber, We’re building plenty of ; these craft. | The decking of one battleship requires about 3An r'nn '-1 of lumber.