1th Year No. 22 — -———
----Tuesday, October 5, 1948 5 Cents Daily; 10 Cents Sunday
Roanoke
Ramblings
BY PAT NANTZ
One thing of importance that
/l was brought to my attention, is
the meeting of the alumni of the
Roanoke Rapids Hospitah.it will
be held on Tuesday October 5,
at 7:30, in the hospital dining
room...so all of you alumnae
be sure to attend....
To you musically inclined citi
zens don't forget the meet
ing of the local mixed Chorus,
r, on Tuesday night, at 7:30...in
the band room of the junior Hi
Building....
Walter “Bear" Myrick spent
the week-end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Myrick,
and the family.. "Bear” is a
48 graduate of Roanoke Rap
ids High School, and is now a
freshman at High point College.
..he has not yet determined his
major subjects and therefore is
» taking a general college course..
Perhaps the most perplexed
persons in our city, on Sunday
night, was the Reverend J. F.
Herbert, pastor of the First Meth
odist Church...when during his
sermon he was capably pointing
"Ut that the home life of today
has not really disintegrated,
but merely changed—he reach
ed the point of marriages of
* the younger people — meaning
to say it was thought to be ter
rible when a girl of f8 eloped
in the “Old Days”.... Reverend
Herbert said that it was thougt
badly of when a young girl of
81 ran away to be married...
well, after all, he was right;
what would you think???
The many friends of Mr. J. K.
_,.*pickens were very grieved to
•/jfV &r of his death on Monday,
October 4. Mr. Dickens was
one of Roanoke Rapids older
citizens, and has been here for
many years. He succumbed to
the effects of a heart attack,
early Monday morning, when he
opened his small store on East
Street. Prior to his death, Mr.
Dickens was living in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Benny Webb,
on Roanoke Avenue.
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Robert Burton, one of Uncle I
Sam’s sailors is home on leave |
now. He is visiting his parents i
and family here...Robert will re |
turn to his ship in Norfolk, Va., |
on October 9.
The hospital is surely doing j
some business with those foot- i
ball players. There have been |
numerous “casualtiees” this year
% and now another is Eugene Epps.
Although, Gene didn’t get hurt i
while playing in a game, he was
playing football... and conse
quently hurt his knee...he pro
bably won’t see very much act
ion in the games scheduled for
the near future....
v-ungiauiaiions are m oraer
fot* one of the Herald’s corres
pondents. She is Mrs. Fannie
i|l Hayes, who has just become a
grandmother, on October 3....
Mr. and Mrs George Hayes Jr.,
are the parents of a beautiful
boy, Robert Frederick Hayes...
I’ll bet the happiest person at
the Herald Office today is Lola
Cates..the reason is that Earl
Waters was one of those who
was expected home on furlough
this week, actually got here...
!t# Jerry Kidd and Fred Etheridge
had a slight change of orders!
and will leave today....
You Can Shop And
Not Leave Home
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Do you like io go shopping?
I do too, but it certainly does
Swear you out sometimes.
Here's a tip on how you can
shop with ease. Grab your fav
orite easy chair, reach for the
Herald and turn to the Want
Ad page. That's all there is to
i*. If you don't find what you
A want, advertise for it. If you
<remember some unused articles
you would like to dispose of,
sell it with a classified ad.
Household goods are always
needed.
<9, This ad had no trouble at all
finding a buyer: For Sale—
Clean 9x12 blue rug with pad.
$40.00. Call-.
Place your want ad today,
just pick up the phone and dial
P-326 or R-9621. At your ser
vice, Ruth Cooper.
POWER OF THE PRESS
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Gen. Clay Says
Airlift's Life
Is Indefinite
Berlin, Oct. 5—(/P)—Gen. Luc
ius D. Clay said today the Unit
ed States and Britain can keep
up their airlift to blockaded
Berlin for two years if need be.
"If it is necessary to continue
the airlift until economic re
covery restores the stability of
Europe we certainly can do so
indefinitely—two years if nec
essary, the American military
governor told newsmen.
Meanwhile, Berlin city offi
cials told reporters last night
that municipal elections will not
be held Nov. 14 as scheduled,
because the Russians have refus
ed to permit the printing of
posters and election regulations
in the Soviet sector.
The anti-Communist city as
sembly decided Sept. 6 to hold
municipal elections. The decision
was opposed by both the Ger
man communists nad the Rus
sians.
City officials said the assem
bly will consider the question
of setting a new date for the
balloting. They said two dis
tricts in the Soviet sector have
been forbidden flatly to prepare
ballots.
Citizens Of Slater
Waging Cold War
With Weatherman
Slater, S. C., Oct. 5—m—Citi
zens of Slater are waging a cold
war with the weatherman.
Last Monday night reports
from this small textile town
on the edge of South Carolina’s
mountain fringe were that a
powdery snow had fallen. ,
“Impossible,” said the Atlanta
Weather Bureau. An official
pointed out that the temperature
at the time was 55 and it “just
couldn’t happen.”
It was 51 degrees here at 8:30
o’clock last night and Slater citi
zens reported a fine snow again.
Residents in two nearby com
munities said they too saw the
flakes.
Unawed by the weather’s
scientific data, Mrs. T. L. Pak
acy gave last night’s report. ,
“Whether Atlanta believes it l
or not, it’s snowing in Slater,”
she said. }
Rosemary P. T. A.
Meets Wednesday
The Rosemary P. T. A. will
meet Wednesday afternoon Oct- ]
ober,6th, at 3:30 o’clock.
Dr. Young of the Halifax i
County Health Department will '
have charge of the program and 1
will speak on polio. c
Miss Syble Beaman will lead <
the devotional. All parents are c
urged to come to this first meet <
ing of the school year. <
Rosemary Baptist’s Homecoming
Day Sunday Is Well-Attended
Rosemary Baptist Church’s
first Homecoming Day was at
tended by a large number of for
mer members and visitors, as
well as present members, in
crowds that overflowed the
church for the full-day’s services
Sunday.
It was the first Homecoming
Day staged in the 46-year his
tory of the church.
There were 469 people in at
tendance at Sunday School ser
vices, and at the morning wor
ship service an overflow crowd
was onhand to hear an evange
listic message by the Rev. C. J.
Sheets of Mount Ranier, Md.,
a former pastor of the church. I
During the morning service Mrs
Roy Carver and Mrs. William
3oindexter took care of small
children in the church’s nursery.
Following the morning wor
ship service the congregation
enjoyed a dinner on the grounds,
with picnic lunches spread by
the members of the Woman’s
Missionary Society and Bruns -
wick stew prepared and served
by the Men’s Bible Class.
The Rev. W. C. Reed, superin
tendent of the Kennedy Home,
Baptist orphanage in Kinston,
was guest speaker for the after
noon service, addressing his au
dience on “projecting ourselves
into the next generation”. The
Rev. B. Marshall White-Hurst,
pastor of the church, brought the
message at. the evening service
and the full-day’s activity was
brought to a cvlose witth a bap
itsmal service Sunday night.
Special music at all services
was presented by the church
quartet composed of Paul Over
ton, Roy Carver, Rudolph Waters
and John Spence.
In accordance with World-Wide
Communion Sunday, the Lord’s
Supper was observed at the
afternoon service. At that ser
vice J. Byron Gurley, a deacon,
read to' the congregation a his
tory of the church which was
compiled by Mrs. T. M. Jenkins.
U. S. Making Long Strides In Air
Invasion Florida Maneuvers Show
Eglin Field, Fla., Oct. 5—(AP)
—The United States is making
long strides in the art of air
Dorne troop warfare, joint
nilitary exercises here reveal.
Among new techniques and
equipment disclosed in demon
strations are two of major signi
ficance:
1. An airborne force now can
nove twice as many fighting
nen with the same number of air
:raft as in World War II.
2. The conventional parachute
nay be on its way out as a me
hod for dropping assault troop
?rs, to be replaced by a rotary
Slider.
Operational plans and prelimi
lary demonstrations for “opera
ion combine” dealing with the
lirborne phase of these exercis
;s, which are being run by the
battle-tested 82nd airborne divi
sion, shows that one modern
transport-cargo type plane can
carry 42 fully equipped paratroop
ers compared with only 20 for
most World War II types.
This means that not only fewer
planes are now needed to get
the same number of men into bat
tie but that also fewer fields are
needed from which to operate
them.
Planes for invasion of mythical
deluvia by forces of namora re
fer to moving two corps of four
divisions of airbourne combat
troops. That indicates 55,000
men plus light artillery and
vehicles are to be transported in
about 1,500 airplanes and three
thousand gliders, far better than
in World War II campaigns.
Rail Workers
Get More Pay
Chicago, Oct. 5 —(AP) —Two
•ailroad unions, representing 175
100 workers, have settled third
ound wage demand with the
ountry’s carriers.—A 100 an
our pay increase.
The wage hike, to become eff
;ctive Oct. 16, will add a out
14.80 to the weekly pay check
f members of the order of rai.
vay conductors and the brother
lood of railroad trainsmen.
A spokesman for the railroads
istimated the new wage boost
vill add $55,665,000 annually to
he carrier’s labor costs, inclu
ing payroll taxes. The workers
iffected include trainmen, con
uctcrs, yardmen, yardmasters.
lining car employes, and 93 per
ent of the country’s switchmen.
Library Officials
To Attend Meeting
Mrs. D. L. Wheeler, treasurer
for the Halifax County public li
brary, Mrs. Gay Spivey, Halifax
County librarian, and Miss Al
berta Wallace and Mrs. Susie
Head, assistant librarians, will
attend a district library in Green
ville tomorrow.
Library workers from Halifax
and surrounding counties in this
area will be represented at the
meeting.
In line for discussion are
several phases of library work
including a national plan for pub
lie library service and North
Carolina’s part in the plan, books
and issues of world significance,
plans for state aid for future li
brary work and development of
memorial collections.
United Nations Security Council Votes
To Admit Western Power Case Against
Soviet Ovei Protests Of The Russians
Paris, Oct. 5—(/P)—The United
Nations Security Council' voted
9 to 2 today to admit the West
ern Powers case against the So
viet blockade of Berlin and Rus
sia immediately announced she
would not take part in the de
bate.
Deputy Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky demanded the
floor and declared:
“The Soviet Union considers
that the Security Council, by
agreeing to put the Berlin ques
tion on its agenda, has violated
the Charter of the United Na
tions.”
Only Russia and the Soviet
Ukraine voted against discussing
the Berlin crisis. A majority of j
seven affirmative votes was re- |
quired.
Vishinsky declared that the
adoption of the agenda was a
violation of the United Nations
charter, specifically of article
107.
Dmitri Manuilsky of the Uk
raine then announced that he
also would refuse to participate
in the debate on Berlin, “for the
reasons outlined by the Soviet
delegate.”
Council President Juan Atilio
Bramuglia of Argentina then ad
journed the council at 5:30 p.m.
(11:30 a. m. EST) w’ith the an
nouncement that there would be
two meetings tomorrow.
Dr. Philip C. Jessup of the
United States announced that he
would speak at the session to
morrow morning.
Vishinsky, followed by his
aides and a crowd of newsmen,
stalked out of the great hall of
the Palais De Chaillot imme
diately after the adjournment.
“We shall see,” he said, when
asked whether he would attend
tomorrow’s sessions.
He gave the same answer
when asked if Russia would con
sider herself bound by any Se
curity Council decision of the
western charges that the Soviet
Union was menacing world
peace with her blockade of Ber
lin.
The red-faced, white-haired
Russian leader appeared in good
spirits. He smiled and laughed as
he chatted with his assistants. I
Manuilsky, the Ukrainian for
eign minister, left the hall be
hind Vishinsky.
Before the vote. Vishinsky
pleaded with the council to ig
nore the Berlin blockade, which
Western Powers charge endan
gers world peace and security.
Vishinsky, a purge trial prose
cutor who became Deputy For
eign Minister of Russia, con
tended again “there is no block
ade of Berlin,” although the Rus
sians closed land access to the
four-power city in June. He ar
gued that the council of foreign
ministers was created to solve
German problems and that this,
rather than the Security Council,
is the correct forum for the is
sue.
Registration
Books To Open
On October 9
Halifax—Books for registration
for the forthcoming General Elec
tion on 'November 2 were de
livered to registrars throughout
Halifax County this morning in
a meeting of the Count/ Board
of Elections here at the court
house.
S. W. Dickens, of Enfield,
chairman of the County Board of
Elections, said here today that
the registration books will open
Saturday, October 9, for registra
tion and will be open at the poll
ing places also on October 16 and
October 23. Registration books
will be open each Saturday from
9 a.m. until sundown and Chal
lenge Day, October 30, the books
will remain open from 9 a.m.
until 3 p.m.
Acocrding to the chairman, on
ly those eligible voters in he
county who failed to register for
the Democratic primary in May
need to register this time.
Balloting for the General Elec
tion will be conducted at
tthe usual polling places Dickens
said. He said precinct registrars
to officiate at the 17 polling
places in the county have been
named, with the exception of En
field, and will be named in a
day or two.
Rev. Grogan
Will Begin
Revival Tonight
REV. C. S. GROGAN
Rev. C. S. Grogan, pastor of
the Church of God, will begin a
series of revival services at the
church at 7:00 o’clock this eve
ning.
Rev. Grogan, who recently suc
ceeded the Rev. Floyd A. Boger
as pastor, said the services will
continue each evening through
Sunday, October 17. He will con
duct the serie^ of services him
self and has issued a cordial in
vitation to the public to attend
the meetings.
Lewis Assails
Truman, Says
He Is Unfit
Cincinnati, Oct. 5—(AP)—John
L. Lewis today assailed presi
dent Truman for prosecuting
the united mine workers in re
cent coal strikes and advised
the miners to “do something
about it” in the Nov. 2 election.
“He is a man totally unfitted
for the position,” Lewis said to
a wildly cheering, horn-blow
ing opening session of the UMW
convention.
“His principles are elastic. He
is careless with the truth. He
is a malignant, scheming sort
of an individual who is danger
ous not only to the united mine
workers but dangerous to the
United States of America,”
Lewis shouted.
The UMW leader said that Mr.
Truman was “too cowardly” to
put him in jail in 1946 and last
spring when the president in
voked injunctions to halt cripp
ling mine strikes.
Interdenominational Teacher
Training School Plans Are Set;
Roland Johnson Named Chairman
Claris tor tne interdenomina
tional teacher training school for
Sunday school teachers in Wei
don and Roanoke Rapids church
es were announced today by the
Rev. John M. Walker, Jr., chair
man of the teacher training com
mittee of the Ministerial Associa
tion.
Roland Johnson, general super
intendent of the Rosemary Bap
tist Sunday school has been elec
ted permanent chairman for the
school, and Edwin Akers of
Roanoke Rapids will serve as
secretary. Mrs. W.W.Selden of
Weldon was elected treasurer
for the interdenominational
school.
Officers for the school were
chosen at a meeting held recent
ly in which ministers, Sunday
school superintendents and de
partmental superintendents of all
Roanoke Rapids and Wei
don churches met at the First
Presbyterian Church here to for
mulate their plans for the three
day school.
The school will be conducted
at the First Presbyterian Church
Roanoke Rapids, from Novem
ber 29 through December 1.
Four courses will be taught
during the three-day session as
follows: Children’s Division to
be taught by Mrs. W. W. Reed,
Director of Children’s work of
the Virginia Conference; Young
People’s Division to be taught
by the Rev. R.W, Bradshaw,
pastor of Jarvis Memorial
Church of Greenville; Adult Bib
le Teaching to be led by Dr.
Joseph M. Geddys, professor at
Assembly Training School of
Richmond, Va., and Methods in
Visual Education to be taught
by the Rev. Fon Schofield of the
Department of Visual Education
Baptist Foreign Mission Board,
Richmond, Va.
Rev. Walker said that a comra
ittee consisting of Russell Bux
ton, Virgil McDowe^ and Mrs.
Hattie Cullom was appointed to
decide how the finances of the
school are to be pro-rated
among the participating
churches.
Other committees appointed
by chairman Johnson are the
following: hospitality committe
Rudolph Williams, George Papp
endick, Mrs. Jarvis Taylor, Mrs
J.U. Vaughn and Miss Josie
Moore; program and steering
Manning, R.T. Floyd, Miss Bet
ty Leathers and Miss Ruth Tran
son; publicity committee, all
inisters, with Rev. Walker as
chairman.
It was announced that Rev.
G.B. Garlington of Pleasant Hill
will also be a faculty member
teaching for South Rosemary M.
E. Chapel.
It was announced that regis
tration blanks for the three-day
course will be prepared at once
and sent to each church, where
they are to be filled out and
sent to Chairman Johnson no
later than November 7.
Woman’s Club Is Reactivated;
Hears Reports Of Work Being
Done By Other Civic Groups
Representatives of all the civ
ic clubs made reports at the
the Roanoke Rapids Woman’s
club, which yesterday became
reactivated after a five year per
iod of dormancy.
The first Club to report was
The Business and Professional
Women’s Club, represented by
Miss Josie Moore, Club presi
dent. Miss Moore stated that
the club is not social but civic
entirely. It was organized five
years ago. Among their pro
jects were contributions to old
clothes drives for Russian relief
help Chinese nurses.; Red Cross
call for rolling bandages and
many others.
The Kiwanis Club’s representa
tive was Edwin Akers, vice-pre
sident of the club. Akers said
some of the club’s efforts had
been centerd on the following:
dental clinics in schools, agricul
tural department given five re
gistered calves with records kept
4-H clubs aided and scout troop
sponsored.
troup sponsored.
Henry Akers represented the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Akers stated theirs was the
youngest civic dub in Roanoke
Rapids.
Their prime object as stated
by Mr. Akers, was to learn some
thing about city government and
train other young men for civic
duty.
Their present project is to
get everyone out to vote.
Lunsford Crewe, spoke for the
Exchange Club, which is work
ing on a hearing aid program
for children and adults. They
also helped with donation to glee
club, families of children not in
school, and gifts for santa claus
to children who might not have
any Christmas.
The Rotary Club was repres
ented by R. C. Josey III. This
club also aided' the teenage
group, March of Dimes, Christ
mas baskets, ‘‘Calf Club”. Their
major project now is the orthe
pedic clinic.
Harvey Woodruff, gave a re
port front the Lions Club. Their
great effort now is on blind pre
vention and sight conservation.
The club adjourned for the soc
ial hour that followed.
Superior Court
Civil Term Is
Under Way
Halifax. — The regular Tues
day session of recorder’s court
here was postponed this week
because of the two-week’s term
of Halifax county Superior court
which got underway here yester
day for the hearing of civil act j
ions.
Judge J. Paul Frizelle of Snow |
Hill, presiding jurist for the Sup !
erior Court for the term, yester j
day disposed of a number of j
divorce actions and started em'
panelling jurors for an action in
whch the will of Walter G. Holli
day is being contested.
After the jury had been impan
elled for the case, Judge Friz
elle excused jurors who were
not sitting on the will case from
duty for the remainder of the
week, saying that he expected
the. one case to take up the first
week of the term.
Vance Street
P. T, A. To Meet
Wednesday At 3:30
The Vance Street School Par
ent Teacher Association will
meet at the school, Wednesday,
October 6, at 3:45.
Mrs. J. M. Seaver, president
will preside at the meeting which
will be short but very important.
All parents are urged to be pre
Refreshments will be served,
sent.
Girl Scout Troop
One Names Officers
At a decent meeting of Girl
Scout Troop No. 1 under the
leadership of Mrs. Cotter Mur
ray, the following officers were
elected for the coming year, Pre
sident Frances Schipid; Vice-pre
sident Maria Hunter; Secretary
Jeanne Gibson; Treasurer Patty
Cole; Representative Juliet Lowe
Patrol Leaders, Harriett Atwell,
Ann Beverly Gates, and Lucy
Readv.
Hurricane
Strikes Cuba
And Florida
Miami, Fla., Oct. 5—(APP)—A
small but severe hurricane that
smacked Havana with 132-mile
an-hour winds roared across the
Florida straits today and began
to sweep Key West with 75-mile
gusts. Several hundred persons
were reported hurt in Havana
and 12 buildings flattened.
The island city reported a
steadily dropped barometer as
the first hurricane force winds
struck. The storm’s center was
expected to pass close to Key
West early this afternoon.
Winds were increasing all
along the southern part of the
peninsula.
The weather bureau said the
storm was traveling about 15
miles an hour in a northeasterly
direction. It will bring hurricane
winds over most of the evergla
des—Lake Okeechobee area
southeastward to the coast and
at least as far north as Jupiter
tonight, an advisory stated.
The hurricane followed almost
exactly the same course as the
storm of mid-September.
Hurricane warnings now ex
tend from Jupiter southward on
the east coast, and from Naples
southward on the west coast.
Experts See
Lower Meat
Prices Soon
Chicago, Oct. 5—(#)— Lower
prices for meat—major item in
the family food budget—are pre
dicted by livestock experts.
Hog prices at the principal
corn belt markets, on the decline
all last week, broke sharply yes
terday—around $1 to $2 a hun
dred pounds. The drop, the big
gest one day break in six months
at some markets, was attributed
to heavy receipts.
There probably will not be
an immediate showing of lower
prices in the retail markets, the
American Meat Institute said. It
said signs of declines in some
wholesale meat prices are deve
loping “but it takes a little time
for adjustment in wholesale
prices to be reflected at re
tail levels.” More meat supplies
also are indicated, the institute
said.
The top price for cattle—a
round $40 a hundred pounds now
—will drop to around $25 next
year, Chauncey Watson, presi
dent of the Illinois Livestock
Feeders Association, told thi Chi
cago Farmers Club yesterday.
Mark Pickell, secretary of the
Corn Belt Livestock Feeders As
sociation said “meat prices are
coming down.” He said “there
should be a good quantity of cat
tle coming to market in Nov
ember and December at mater
ially lower prices.”
State Revenue
Collections Show
Million Increase
Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 3—(JP)—
State Revenue collections last
month totaled $12,293,261—or
$1,005,989 higher than those for
September of last year.
Collections for the first three
months of this fiscal year, the
State Revenue Department re
ported, were $37,239,064, com
pared with $33,043,553 in the
corresponding quarter of 1947.
Ellis Heads YDC
In Warren County
Warrenton,—Joe N. Ellis ol
Warrenton has been appointed
as chairman of the Young Demo
crats Club of Warren County by
Belford Black of the state or
ganization, it was announced
here this week.
Ellis said today that there will
be a meeting of the Young
Democrats on Friday evening,
October 8, in the Warrenton
courthouse and urged all Demo
crats in the county to attend.
He said he hopes at this meet
ing to appoint a chairman and
vice-chairman for each voting
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