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THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 186C — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTH AMPTON COUNTIES KEEP ON with WAR BONDS Seventy-Sixth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina THURSDAY, MARCH 16th, 1911 i*trumenU Needed >r Overseas »rvice Men Now I j„e is not only going to Lnue Wasting Japs and Nazis [an ever increasing rate, but | going to do it to music — Lks to a nation wide campaign Icollect musical instruments for hoys across the seas. This npaign, now going into its fi | week, is being sponsored in Uoke Rapids by the Weldon a.Oia Bottling Company, at request of the War Depart nall instruments such as har hieas accordians, guitars, ban [ eU.' are particularly needed. Le wishing to donate are ask to take them to any “Coca-Co Idealer. "Coca-Cola” trucks will . them up and forward them he Army, which will send them fseas at once. Weldon and Roanoke Rapids are hundreds of mu - 1 n |nv.y. that "mid deb, ■ .he t, . lonesome soldiers. Kv |ne is urged to dig down in linents, attics and storage Ts for those musical instru [ts that aren’t being used and them to the nearest ‘‘Coca I” dealers. here are few if any comforts nd a foxhole. The least we |do is give our boys a little c, according to Mr. D. W. Sei manager of the Weldon ^-Cola Bottling Company, who charge ot the local cam TIE GIFTS FROM HOME Mi*a Virginia Mile hell's job ler igp wounded soldiers be at to a port of debarkation ima A - Red Cross worker Detroit, she passes c it , cigs. cites, smoking tobac | other items to boys on a 1 African hospital train. ort Prices d For mts, Soybeans ibove those originally pro-! Kill be guaranteed under W price support program, ip to G. T. Scott, chair the State AAA Commit * -i Uncement of the increase in Bs made by the War Food Itration and is in accord-1 Ui recent Congerssional ac-1 ^homing the 1944 support f' , (tha program, peanuts 1 in 1944 will be supported prices to farmers of $160 lor Spanish, Virginia, and ■ types and $145 per ton ner types. These base", re for peanuts having a Hature kernel content of cent in the case of Vir alencia and runner types, per cent in the case of Scott said. Premiums ounts will be established r qualities. Prices origi tounced were $150 per ton tish und Valencia types, per ton for runners. ns produced in 1944 will >rte<| at a price to pro E $2.04 per bushel for id yellow beans grading 1 better with 14 per cent content delivered to elevators or other normal delivery points. Prem I be provided for lower content and discounts i effect for lower grades, II be 20 cents per bush for brown, black and ans. prices were announced Ear Fund Administration >rt to encourage planting >als for these crops,” d. “The price of these 6 were increased above i proposed originally in give producers a price ine with others crops.” Carolina goal for pea 10,720 acres and the goal >eans is $395,913 acres, |IES INVITE SUBS Ind woods fires along itic and Gulf Coasts cani prious menace to war-es-! pvigation. The glow of, I provides a background | louettes coastwise shipp-' Ivites attack by maraud- ' l Jury Drawn For Civil Court Beginning On March 20 J. li. Pope_ .__ Conoconara Allen H. Alexander_S. Nock J. W. Tillery _ Conoconara I. F. Harrison _Scotland Neck H. B. Willey_ Faucetts Henry L. Faucett_Littleton Sterling L. Keeter __ Weldon James H. Harris, Jr, „ _ Enfield •/,. (', Pair _ - Faucetts Taylor W. Crocker K. Rapids Clifton W. Smith _ . - K. Rapids H. C. Crawley - -Buttenvood A. A. Hedgepeth_Faucetts L. M. Chichester -,_ Faucetts R. L. Wrenn _ R. Rapids Robert T. King _____ Littleton Chadlie Lee Hodges — .Weldon Albert Cooper _ Littleton E. A. Smith _ Enfield Ray R. Shearin Butterwood S. M. Stallings_Brinkleyville Moody Westray __ Enfield Jacob A. Dickens ___ Weldon J, A. Acrey __. Roa. Rapids H. E. Pope_ Littleton M. A. Butts __ __. Faucetts Willie R. King _ Littleton E. A. Cross _ R. Rapids Willie Brantley -- R. Rapids L, N. Howard — S. Ne.-k T. M. Smithwick Theodore M. Smithwick, 50, who for a number of years was manager of the local A. and P. (Store, died Thursday in Elizabeth City. Funeral services were con ducted from his home near Aurora Friday afternoon and burial fol lowed in the family cemetery. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Nixon of Beaufort County, two brothers and two sis ters. __ P.T.A. To Hold Meet The Parent-Teacher Associa tion will meet Monday afternoon at 3:30 in the High School Li brary. Mrs. W. O. Davis will be the speaker for the afternoon and ill use as her subject“Teen-Age Children.” All members are urged to be present and visitors are cordially invited to attend also. I RECORDERS COURT NEWS Andrew Turner, colored of Wel don charged with murder of Allen Thompson was given a hearing and no probable cause was found. Frank Pittman, white of Whita kers plead guilty of driving while drunk and was fined $50 and costs License revoked for 12 months. Willis Knox, white of Bethel, charged with abandonment, and I non-support prayer for judgment continued to March 28, 1044. Milton J. Powell, white of Roa p nuke Rapids plead guilty to driv I ing drunk and was fined $50 and j costs and license revoked for 12 months. David Tant, white of Roanoke Rapids, charged with driving while drunk was found not guilty. Ralph H. Gay, white, charged with abandonment and non-sup port prayer for judgment contin ued on payment of the costs and the sum of $10 per week for sup port of his minor children, Willie Jones, white of Weldon, charged with illegal possession of liquor was given 0 months on the roads, suspended on payment of the costs and good behavior for two years. Robert Faucett, white of Roa noke Rapids, charged with illegal possession of liquor and public drunkenness was found guilty and prayer for judgment continued on payment of the costs and good be havior for two years. Willie Jeffries, colored of Roa noke Rapids was found guilty ot | assault on a female and drunk and disorderly and was given 6 months on the roads, suspended on paymnet of a fine of $20.00 and costs and on condition he remains of good behavior for two years, j Mrs. McClees of Anderson. S. 1 ('. arrived here today to visit Mr. and Mrs Lawrence MacKirdy. MINNIE PEARL Featured in W. S. M. Grand Ole Opry show ap pearing at the Roanoke Rapids High Schoo 1 Auct ftorium next Tuesday night, March 21st at 7:00 and 9:30 o’clock. Negro Is Killed At Rail Crossing Major Hunter, Negro, was kill ed instantly and his brother, Cae sar Hunter was critically injured when the fertilizer truck in which they were riding was struck by a southbound streamliner of the At lantic Coast Line Railroad about 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at a northern intersection here. It was not determined immediately which of the brothers was driving The truck was demolished. The train stopped following tne acci dent and carried Caesar Hunter -o a Rocky Mount Hospital. It was understood that his condition was critical. The Negro brothers were sons of Minnie Hunter of near En field. __ Scou-t Camporee To Be Held Here Plans are being made for^ the Halifax District Boy Scout Cam opree to be held here this year on May 5. 6 and 7th. The camp | will be set up in the ball park i and between 4 and 5 hundred boys are expected to attend. ) More complete details will be found in a later edition of thiSj newspaper. Pi Tau Sigma Initiates vS. A.. EUEC+/ES Raleigh, March 15th — Four, leading students have recently] been initiated into the State Col lege Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, national honorary machanical en gineering fraternity. Newly - chosen members, who were select ed for their scholastic accom </<?W A/, «5Wa?oa/c» plishments and for outstanding qualities of leadership, are: Rich ard M, Weatherly, II, of Greens boro; Hugh C. Murrili of Wel don; S. L. Kui’che of \\ ins ton ISIalem and John M. Simmons of Greensboro Youth Of County invited To Join In Food Contest Nationwide Vegetable 1‘roduction and Marketing Competition for $6,000 in Scholarships An nounced. North Carolina boys an 1 "nil . between the ages of 14 and 20 and with two year’s experien 1 >n veg etable gardening, are eligible to compete in the $0,000 wartime food production and marketing contest of the National Junior Vegetable Growers’ Association, ilt was announced today. L. R. Harriil, sate 4-H Club leader, joined with Earle Par sons, Jr., twenty year old North ampton (Mass.) president oi the association, in inviting both farm an dtwon youth to register for the fourth annual contest imme diately. Additional intonwation may be obtained from county 4-11 leaders or by writing Harriil at North Carolina State College in Raleigh. Contestants from this county will compete for a $500 national scholarship, a Southern regional award of $200 or for one of the ten sectional awards of $100 trom a scholarship fund provided for the association by the Great At lantic and Pacific lea Company. Parsons said. In addition two $2o war bonds are offered to othei outstanding contestants from tnej state. i ‘■Our association feels that by j encouraging boys and girls to, study and utilize m. re efficient j methods of producing an dm.uk-1 eting vegetables we tire helping j conserve manpower in a year in j which every pound of food ^ is needed,” Parsons said. “In this, contest it is not how big a vege table grower you are, but how good a grower.” North Carolina contestants^ ranked high in the contest last year. Rulus Benton Turner of Polkton, was named regional champion while sectional womens included Marcelene Simmons, ol R F L) 1.. Mt. Airy; William Breedlove of R. V. D. 2. Nashivlle and Howard T. Blalock, R. F. 1 • 1, Durham. War bonds v. inneis were Milton Ward of R- E. D. -, Clinton and Carmel Hollingsv.’ >rth of R F. D. 1, Waynesville. Winters of the 1944 contest, who will be announced in Decem ber, will be based on grades a chieved in studies of a five unit course on production and market ing methods, a report on the con testant’s vegetable project and a summary of community activities. W. T. Shaw Attends Meeting, Greensboro W T Shaw attended a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of Allied Churches in Greensboro, N. C. During the session a plat form was formulated and adopted and will be made public soon, SUPERIOR COURT A one week term of Civil Com t wlill' begin Monday v^ith Judge Walter J- Bone of Nashville pre siding. CAR STOLEN W. T. Shaw’s car was stolen on Wednesday night hut was found abandoned on Cedar Street near the cemetery. The plug at the bottom of the tank was re ! moved and all of the gas stolen. Jean Tilghman In Music Recital The Greensboro College school of music presented Miss Jean Til ghman, daughter of Mr. and M-s C. G. Tilghman, Weldon in a :In dent recital Wednesday, March S in Odell Auditorium, solo enttiled odar mb modal* mmm soloentitled "First Arabesque” by Debussy. She is a member of the college glee club and sophomore class. Mrs. Selden To He£ ! Mrs. J S. Selden, Weldon Nortn j Carolina has accepted the local; chairman-ship of the annual East er seal sale to linance the pro gram of the North Carolina Lea gue for Crippled Children for the coming year. Opening on March ill and continuing until Easter, the i seal sale is sponsored nationally | by the National Society for Crip-j pled Children, with which forty state - wide societies for the clip pled and disabled are affiliated, j In accepting the chairmanship Mrs. Selden stressed the import ance of inti"' '•'•aticm of volun tary organizui,■ i '*" Gelds of PLANT FOR BOGUS COUPONS IS FOUND IN HALIFAX COUNTY J. D. Hartsoe Is Now U. S. Fighter Pilot Receives Pilots \\ inns ami Olfi cits (onimission at Graduation Exercises At Georgia School ■Spence Field, Ga., March 11th Joseph Della Hartsoe, 22, son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph A. Hartsoe of First St., Weldon, North Caro lina was appointed a second lieu tenant in the Army of the Unit ed States, Air Corps, and award ed his silver wings and the rating of Pilot on March 12th in colorful graduation exercises at this AAF Training Command Advanced Single Engine Pilot School. Prior to his enlistment in the Army Air Corps he attended N. Carolina State College, “Fighter pilots must have fighting hearts,” Maj. James D. C. Robinson, now commanding of ficer of a fighter squadron at the Thomasville (Ga.) Army Air Base told the graduating class in the principal address at the gradua tion ceremonies. Major Robinson, back from com bact in the southwest Pacific where he saw action at Guadal canal and other points, gave the graduates advice on what to do when flying over flak and what to do when a Jap zero was on then tails, - advice that Lt. Col. Wil lard V. Brown, Spence Field’s ocmmanding officer said when he introduced Maj. Robinson “might save their lives someday.” “When flying over flak.” the major said, “don’t fly straight and level; change altitude, roll, climb, zoom - and tlak wont botn er you. When a zero is on your tail, outsmart the Jap, don’t try to out-acrobat him.” “Experience and an under standing of the enemy, his equip ment and his tactics are the pri mary requisites of a fighter pilot” Maj. Robinson said. The hard-earned silver wings of a rated Pilot were presented to the graduates by Capt. T ncodore G. Ramsdell, commanding officer of Group IT, after Capt. Dwight. W. Pratt, School Secretary, had administered the oath of office to the class as a group. id Easter Seal Sale social welfare in order to keep the home front intact in the pres ent emergency. “Because crippled children grow up and because they want to be come contributing members of o c-iety, the program of correcting physical defects through medical care and surgery assumes unu sual significance this year. Sym bolizing the program is the East er seal which appears every year during the Easter season. We can all do our part to support this splendid movement in buying Easter seals and using them on our stationery”, she said. An Of.ice of Price Administra tion agent ami members of the Halifax County sheriff’s depart ment are conducting an investi gation into the origin of counter feit gasoline rationing coupons lr. - ing circulated in this section. Although no arrests have been made, the investigation thus far has resulted in the finding of a job-shop printing press appar ently used for printing bogus cou pons. They also reported finding a motor used to run the press. The press was found on Tues day in a vacant house about two and a half miles from Aure’ian Springs. And Friday upon further investigation the investigators found some of the type used on the press and also found a sup ply of the water marked paper used by the OPA for printing official coupons. Officers esti mated that the paper found was sufficient to permit printing of coupons with total “value” of at least 15,000 gallons of gasoline. It appeared that the operators of tiie press planned to print the coupons in strips, as the paper was not in whole sheets, but in a size which led to belief that they were “ends” cut from the whole sheets. No stamps were found in the house. Officers said that it lias not been established whether the bo gus coupons which have been cir culated in this area came from the “vacant house” printing plant un covered on Tuesday. OPA’s Fight Against Inflation The merchant has a responsibi lity in this war that has the fu ture of the homefront at stake. He has every reason to help devel op the price program. His supplies are at stake. He wants his fair share of scarce supplies at a fair price, for a few black market dealers could take large portions of scarce supplies from honest merchants. This is a protection for the honest merchant. Also the stability and security of ev ery family and every business is at stake. We on the homefront have a job to do and do it we will. Long hours of work after regular store hours are necessary to kepp prices checked, prices posted and stock in order. Inability to secure competnent help makes this job more difficult. The man on the fighting front cannot leave his post because the task seems un surmountable, the weapons few, they have a job to perform to hold back the Axis. The merchants have a job to perform to help hold back inflation We must make it possi ble for the families of soldiers' to live on small incomes and for the man whose salary has been in creased very little, to obtain the cost of living items necessary to him and to his family. We have not all made money during the war. It is of prime importance that prices be kept down and price ceilings adhered to. This is a job for all of us. Consumers and mer chants must join hands and work together in ths fight against in flation. We are pleased to quote two let ters received from merchants un der this Board, experssing their views of the Price Program. Mr. H. B. Speight, Chairman War Price and Rationing Board 45:29.1 Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Dear Sir : During these days of World turmoil and strife, when every body and everything has been thrown out of customary action, we merchants are having an ex ceptionally hard time trying to supply you, the consuming public, with essential living commodities. We are not complaining because of these forced conditions, w are honestly trying to do our best, under our handicaps, to serve you and we solicit your full apprecia tion of our efforts and y tr sym pathetic cooperation. Many times we cannot serve you as promptly as you want to be served, this is no more to our liking than it is to yours, we just cannot secure enough competent help to render this service. Then too, we are not able to buy e nough of many items to supply (Continued on back page)
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