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ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH, RICHMOND COUNTY, N. C.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1956
Tennyson's "Death Of Old Year
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The Old Year Lies A-Dying. But here
Is a New Face at the Door, My Friend.
One of my earliest recollections is my father, read
ing every December 31st just before midnight Tenny
son's beautiful "The Death of the Ol'd Yeir." He and
my mother were married June 22nd, 1875, and they be
came engaged the previous New Year's eve and to
gether read this Tennyson's poem. And they kept it up
every year until his death in 1918; and their children con
tinued the custom. Alfred Lord Tennyson was born 1809,
died in 1892.
The' poem is beautiful pathetic but beautiful.
Please read this carefully, and appreciatively.
"Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing;
Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.
Old year, you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with us so steadily,
. Old year, you shall not die.
He lieth still: he doth not move:
He will not see the dawn of day.
He hath no other life above.
He gave me a friend, and a true true-love,
And the New Year will take 'em away.
Old year, you must not go;
So long as you have been with u
Such joy as you have seen with us.
Old year, you shall not go.
He frothed his bumpers to the brim;
A jollier year we shall not see.
But, though his eyes are waxing dim,
And though his foes speak ill of him,
He was a friend to me.
Old year, you shall not die;
We did so laugh and cry with you,
I've half a mind to die with you,
Old year, if you must die.
j He was full of joke and jest,
! But all his merry quips are o'er.
To see him die, across the waste
His son and heir doth ride post-haste.
But he'll be dead before.
Every one for his own,
The nieht is starry and cold, my friend,
And the New-Year, blithe and bold, my friend,
Comes up to take his own.
How hard he breathes! over the snow
I heard just now the crowing cock.
The shadows flicker to and fro:
The cricket chirps: the light burns low:
'Tis nearly twelve o'clock.
' Shake hands before you die.
Old-year, we'll dearly rue for you:
What is it we can do for you?
Speak out before you die.
His face is growing sharp and thin.
Alack! our friend is gorier- i.
Close up his eyes; tie up his chin;
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standeth there alone,
And waiteth at the door.
Thpre's a new foot on the floor, my friend,
amH a new face at the door, my friend,
A new face at the door.
A Very Happy New Year To You All. ISL
Otis Lamonds
Bound to Court
Otis Lamonds, of Biscoe charg
ed with the murder of his wife,
Pauline Parks Lamonds, was
bound over to Montgomery Coun
ty Superior Court without priv
ilege of bond at a hearing Dec.
18 in Troy.
Held in $5,000 bond as acces
sory after the fact is Lamonds'
mother, Kate Lamonds.
Lamonds' wife was formerly
from Richmond County and has
relatives living here now. Mrs.
Lamonds' brother, an uncle and
a friend were held in jail for
two days until Lamonds volun
tarily confessed to the shoo tins
of his wife.
Lamonds took the stand Tues
day in Troy recorders court and
told the story of what led to the
shooting of his wife.
On the stand for the state was
Sheriff Elwood Long of Mont
gomery County who related the
testimony bf one of the Lamonds
children who witnessed the
shooting.
After the shooting, the little
girl told Sheriff tong, she was
warned by her grandmother not
to say a word to anybody about
what she had seen.jbut that if she
were questioned to say that the
mother shot herself.
Lamonds in his statement said
he and his wife had attended a
trial in Carthage Ion the morn
ing of the shootingj. They return
ed home sometime near noon.
Shortly after arrival at home a
quarrel started over a gun which
it was related that Otis was
threatening to use on Lester
Parks, a brother of the deceased.
Lamonds was quoted as saying
that his nerves gt the best of
him and he pulled the trigger
of the gun. The eldest Lamonds
child also testified that the
grandmother threatened to use
the gun on them if J they told any
body what happened.
The case was set for trial in
the next term of Superior Court
in Troy which w;
uary 20.
11 begin Jan-
NEW PICKUP & TRUCK
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MODS
New 1957 Ford Trucks Go On Display
About February 1st
We just received our last shipment of 19
56 models
which will be closed out at greatly-reduced prices.
We have only 3 HALF-TON PICKUPS and
two 600 2-TON TRUCKS
SEE US FOR REAL TRUCK BARGAINS
MclNNIS MOTOR SALES
Franchise Dealer License No. 2208
Phone 2432
Rockingham, N. C.
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WEAVE ROOM personnel on the second shift at Safie mill presented their bosses with
Christmas gifts Friday afternoon at the group's annual Christmas party. Shown above, 1. to
r. are Archie Flowers, second hand. W. G. Kirby, weave room overseer, and Ben Gore, shift
ovwseer.
Town of Rockingham, North Carolina
Statement of,
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET OF FUNDS ON
June 30, 1956
ASSETS
TREASURER'S CASH
UNCOLLECTED TAXES
OTHER RECEIVABLES:
Water Rents .
Street Assessments and Accrued Interest
Water and Sewer Connections
Cemetery Lots
58,170.40
43,762.01
INVENTORIES AND OTHER ASSETS:
Water Department Supplies
Other Departments Supplies
Gas and Oil
Contra-Due To General Fund from Debt
Service and Library Funds
FIXED ASSETS:
Real Estate
Plant and Equipment
TOTAL ASSETS
3,725.68
4,174.29
177.00
589.00
3,752.96
54.99
108.57
234.47
5,1,093.86
765,574.37
8,665.97
4,150.99
816,668.23
$931,417.60
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A pretty reminder for Tar Heel motorists that it's almost time
for new license plates is Warner Bros, actress Virginia Mayo.
The state's new yellow-on-black '57 tags go on sale January 2
and must be displayed after February 15.
Highway Projects
Finished in County
The State Highway Commis
sion completed 97.56 Smiles of
road improvement in the Eighth
Highway Division during the
months of October and Novem
ber, Commissioner Forrest Lock
ey of Aberdeen, said today.
He praised State forces upon
the fine road work which was
finished.
With Division headquarters in
Aberdeen, the Eighth is compris
ed of Chatham, Randolph, Lee,
Hoke, Moore, Montgomery, Rich
mond and Scotland Counties. A
veteran engineer, T. G. Poindex-
ter, is Division Engineer. T. C.
Johnston, Jr. is Assistant Divi
sion Engineer.
In Richmond, State forces
placed a sand seal on the follow
ing 16 to 18-foot wide county
roads and their lengths: County
road from US 220 southwest to
Mountain Creek south of Cov
ington, 8.10 miles; County road
from NC 73 south toward Eller
be, 1.30 miles; County road from
road junction 1.5 miles southeast
of Ellerbe to Sandhill Game
Management Area, 2.50 miles;
County road from US 220 via
Covington to NC 73, 8.40 miles;
County roads from NC 73 north
west towards Covington, 3.50
miles; County road from US 220
southeast towards Roberdel, 3.60
miles; County road from Exway
south of Covington, 2.60 miles;
County road from Exway to NC
73, 2.60 miles; County road from
NC 73 towards Exway, 1.70 miles;
County road from Prison Camp
road west one mile, thence north
2.8 miles, thence east 1.5 miles
back to Prison Camp road, 5.30
miles; County road from Sand
hill Game Management Area
west to Ellerbe, thence south
east 2.1 miles towards road
junction, 7.10 miles; Street in
Hamlet, 1.20 miles; and county
road from US 220 north of Eller
be to NC 73, 1.30 miles. A new
bituminous treatment was plac
ed on 18-foot wide streets in El
lerebe for .90. NC 109 from
Montgomeery County to the Pee
Dee River was improved by State
forces with a drag retreatment
for 3.45 miles. State forces plac
ed a sand seal on the 16-foot
wide county road 1.7 miles
southwest of Norman west to
wards Exway for a distance of
2.70 miles.
REFUGEES.
Nearly 100,000 Hungarians
have fled into Austria in the last
four or five weeks and are scat
tered throughout that country.
Many are being housed in tem
porary camps. The American Red
Cross is aiding in caring for these
people who have left their homes
In Memory of
Walter Pope
This is written by his mother,
Mrs. Florence Pape, in loving
memory of Walter T. Pope who
died January 18, 1956:
"There is a vacant chair
In our home this year,
Dear son, that can never
Be filled by any but you.
And left, us dreaming
How very fair
It needs must be
Since you linger there.
We miss you so much
As we see that vacant
Chair that can
Never be filled.
We miss you at Church
And everywhere:
Artd in our homes there
Is an empty chair
Remindful of you.",
SPINNER AT ALEO
GET SETTLEMENT
Some 40 Aleo Mfg. Co. workers
received final, out of court, set
tlement pf a suit against the
company by these employees,
Dec. 20, 1956.
The matter grew out of a 1954
arbitration case at Aleo. At that
time warp and filling spinners,
through the union, filed a griev
ance over workload charges.
The arbiters ruled that the
warp spinners were to be given
over load pay and lightened
work loads. Filling spinners
were given a decision which al
lowed them no money and they
filed suit as individuals against
the company.
A company spokesman said the
arbitration, decision was ambigi
ous and not comprehensive to
see a mm
)im
Fri. & Sat. 'Til 8 PM
Huntz Hall and the
Bowery Boys
"HOT SHOTS"
S t1 Nlte at 8 & io pk
Calling aa
n Mir
"ROCK, ROCK
Allen Freed
either company or workers. The
company offered a compromise
to the workers before they inti
gated the suit.
After a considerable period of
time, attorneys for the mill and
for the spinners settled the
complicated matter out of court.
Total to the -workers was $9,-190.
"SKIPPY" HAS PARTY
On Friday evening, "Skippy"
Sims, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Sims celebrated his birthday
Friday, December 21. In the
evening he invited a number of
his boy friends to his home for
a weiner roast.
The Sims home was beautiful
ly decorated for the holiday
season which made an enjoyable
setting for the party.
Those present were Zachery
Long, Victor Goodman, Billy
Hartgrove, Bill Smith, Carlyle
Capps, Eric Sims and the hon
oree "Skippy".
$ 26,368.46
739.23
218,000.00
1,069.54
28,159.24
LIABILITIES, ENCUMBRANCES AND SURPLUS
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE:
Tralde Suppliers . 5,186.88
Prepaid 1956 Taxes 17,165.44
Water Guarantee Deposits 4,016.14
Accrued Salaries and Interest .........
Bonds . Payable '.
Reserve for Accrued Interest Receivable
ENCUMBERED BALANCES :
Library and Debt Service Fund-Contra 234.47
Powell Bill Funds 24,436.90
Parking Meter Collections: 3,487.87
SURPLUS OR (Deficit)
From Investment In Fixed Assets 598,668.23
General Fund-Operating ....... ( 4,951.49)
General Fund-Uncollected Taxes ... 43,762.01
Water and Sewer Fund 19,602.38
TOTAL LIABILITIES, EMCUMBRANCES AND SURPLUS
Note: There is on deposit in The Hanover Bank, New York, New York
$586.25 to cover an unredeemed matured bond and unredeemed interest
the same amount and is not reflected in the figures above.
CERTIFICATE
In our opinion, based upon our examination, the above consolidated statement
of financial condition of the Town of Rockingham, Rockingham, North Carolina, fair
ly presents its financial position at June 30, 1956 and the results of operations for
the year ended that date in conformity with generally accepted auditing standards
applied on a basis consistent with the preceding year.
Respectfully submitted,
Lundin and Spencer
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
November 13, 1956
Rockingham, North Carolina
657,081.13
$931,417.60
the sum of
coupons of
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Every Christmas time, we welcome
back many Carolinians who have
migrated to other areas of the coun
try to seek their fortune. At Christ
mas, more than at any other time,
it means so much to be "home for
the holidays." Home ... to be with
the family for a short while. Home
... to visit old friends again. Home
... to re-evaluate the home tov.m.
Now is the time for us to re-evaluo!'. d
also, with a specific aim of keeping
the present younger generation in
the Carolinas and bringing those
who have left . . . "home" to stay.
We are producing potential good
citizens in Carolina
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scnoois, couecres una helping to
universities. Doctors,
lawyers, teachers,
architects, engineers
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. . . the business and professional
leadership which will mold our
future. But, they are going away
from the Carolinas to larger in
comes . . . more opportunity.
How can we keep them here? Each
person in each community can
Farc the responsibility and the
place to start is with a community
cooperative effort . . adequate mu
nicipal facilities . . . well kept hous
es . . . clean streets . . . churches .
schools . . . parks . . good stores and
r.ioct of all ... a progressive spirit
. . . civic pride.
Thrn we may attract new industry
and business which will provide
the opportunity our
young people are
looking for . . . and
bring the others
"home" to stay.
(CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY)
in Hungary.