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' ^ ROANOKE RAPIDS fiaily Herald •i 44th Year—No. 51 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Wednesday, November 10, 1948 5e Daily; 10c Sunday I ( Roanoke Ramblings By Pat Nants Looking ahead to Christmas is ™ little Barbara Ann Bland. . . . it was reported that Santa Claus received a letter from her Monday, requesting a small doll . . , here’s hoping you get your desire Barbara Ann ... be cause Santa has so many beau tiful dolls, I know he can find just the one you would love to have. . . . There were many exclama * tions of admiration heard last * night when R. J. Grant com pleted his new window display —The expressions were for the display, though, not Mr. Grant— he has actually topped the ex hibition which he had on Moth er's Day, and . most people thought that was tops. ... I won't describe the scene which he has now, but believe me, it has all the feeling of the warmth and security an old iS fa.hinn.S livina nvim nn.. sessed. • , . It seems that I didn’t give Joyce Lewis all the years she deserved the other day when I said she celebrated her sixteenth birthday—she is seventeen, in stead—and that last year was worth being added on to her life, so congratulations Joyce, for - not showing your age. . . . Visiting his family here is 1 Corporal James T. Hodges . . . Jimmy has been stationed in Texas, and this is his first trip home since he entered the air corps on July 27 ... he is spending his fifteen day fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hodges, and his brother, Odem Hodges, of Lit tleton. . • • Carlton Walker has returned to his work at Mansfield, Penn sylvania—Mr. Walker was called to Roanoke Rapids because of "the illness of his mother, Mrs. C. M. Walker, Jr. . . . Mrs. Wal ker, reported to be in better health, now, will go to her son’s home next month, and will re main there indefinitely. . . . Celebrating her birtday, to day, is Sylvia Gay—here’s wish ing you a very happy birthday, Sylvia, and may you have many -7 more just as nice. . . . Also, ceiroraung ner Dinnaay ioaay is ! Mr*. C. T. Thompson. . . she was honored last night by her three children, at her home, with a birthday dinner. Mrs. Thompson said it took a large cake td take care of all of the candles necessary to indicate her age. . . but it took only three tries to blow them all out. . . I can’t see why she had to have % three tries, because it was only her seventh-sixth birthday. . . . Timid Wife (to husband who had fallen asleep at the wheel) —“I don’t mean to dictate to you, George, but isn’t that bill board coming at us awfully fast??’* . . . Local Employment Office To Be Closed % Armistice Day The North Carolina Employ ment Security Commission of :ce at 216 Roanoke Avenue will be closed all day tomorrow in scrvance of Armstice Day, it was announced today. Officials of the local office said -'1 unemployment compensation •d rehabilitation allowance ■mants shoud report on Nov lber 18, when two sets ol J <ims will be accepted. The office will reopen as usual it nine o'clock Friday morning. Youth In Barricaded Home Battles Fohcemen Ray Aldridge (right), 21-year-old ex-convict, sits in police headquarters after barricading himself in the home of his parents at Gastonia, N. C„ and fighting a two and a half hour battle with officers. Two policemen and two bystanders were shot and wounded during the siege. Officers finally drove him out with tear gas and he surrendered. Officials said the youth chased other members of the family from the house after an argument before the siege started. Officers and spectators (left) surround the house just after the youth surrendered. (AP Photos). __ Hurricane Is Moving Toward State’s Coast Miami, Fla., Nov. 10—(/?)— Hurricane warnings were order ed hoisted from Cape Lookout to Cape Hatteras on the North Carolina coastline today aS a small and unusually late tropi cal hurricane swirled toward the mainland with 75 miles an hour winds. The Miami weather bureau or dered the red and black flags displayed at 9:15 ,a. m. (ESTj and warned that Wfery precau tion should be (taken on the North Carolina capes.” It was expected to hit along the North Carolina coastline this afternoon. The storm was located about 120 miles southeast of Wilming ton, N. C., at 9:15 a. m. and moving northeast at about 20 miles per hour. Cape Lookout Is a tiny point jutting into the Atlantic about 75 miles south of Cape Hatteras. The storm—one of the few to reach hurricane intensity this late in the “season”—was com paratively small in area with its strongest winds on the north east quadrant. Gale winds, of 00 miles an hour or stronger, spread outward from the center toward the north and east some 100 miles. The area where Hurricane warnings were hoisted covers some 75 miles of North Caro lina coastline. It w'as the second time this year that warnings have been displayed in the same area, Early in the season a tropical storm threatened the North Carolina coast, but veered ofi into the Atlantic. Weather North Carolina--Cloudy and mild with some rain today; showers and windy over east portion; clearing and colder west portion tonight; clearing and colder east; fair and rath er cold west portion Thursday; low temperatures 26 to 32 in mountains and 33 to 37 cen tral portion tonight. City School Board Chairman Gives Some Facts On Costs Of Operating Local Schools And The Financing v riui is me zourm oi a series of articlei written by local leaders in observance of Na tional Education Week, Nov ember 7-12. Tomorrow’s arti cle will be “Safeguarding Our America,” by the Reverend Edmund Berkeley. Rector ot All Saints Episcopal Church. ,. ByW.L MEDLIN Chairman CUy School Board Schools cost money. At the present rate of expenditures, it V costs approximately fifty cents per day to send one child to the public schools in Roanoke Rapids. This means that each high school graduate costs the taxpayers $1,080.00 for bis twelve years of education. Most parents as individuals bear only a small part of the load through property taxes. This cost is shared by federal, state, county and local tax V sources. Most taxes come from die sales tax, Income taxes end t^jces on business and com i A * merce. xne unuea oiaies ber of Commerce has stated that it considers the money spent foi schools a good investment. Or ganizations in industry repre senting both labor and manage ment have expressed the same view. Why do they look at 11 this way? Suppose, instead of giving a child a high school education we should invest the $1,080.0C for him at six percent inter est. This would bring him $64.8C per year. Statistics show con clusively that the difference ir average earnings of high school graduates whei compared wish those who have not had that ad vantage is many times ovei $64.80. We should spend mon than we now spend on schools If we spent twice as much would anyone question that high school graduation brings a high er financial return on the in vestment than could be brought in any other way? American Dependents Evacuate Nanking As Red Army Advances iicuinnis, iiuv. iw gency flights of American de pendents left China’s rioting capital today as starvation stall ed ahead of advancing commu nists. First to go were expectant mothers from the U. S. advisory group. They were flown in Air Force and Marine planes to Tsingtao, U. S. far eastern na val base. Most of the 500 Nank ing dependents will gq aboard the Navy hospital ship Repose. From Shanghai northward the situation worsened. Millions milled in cities, towns, villages and over the countryside. Food riots swept Shanghai and Nanking. Shops, trucks and carts were looted by the hungry. Shopkeepers were clubbed. Workers demanded their wages in rice. Government rail way employes went on strike when they got none. The whole economic structure of the Chiang Kai-Shek govern ment appeared to be crumbling in the wild melee along coastal China. The national gold yuan plummeted downward. Alarmed European nationals, confronted with anti-foreign feeling in many quarters, sought means of escaping. There was a hint here that an American warship from Tsingtao might be sent up the Yangtze to protect foreigners and speed evacuation. General MacArthur in Tokyo had at least one Army trans port on its way to Shanghai to evacuate Americans there. Two more were reported ready to sail from Japanese ports. Not all of the estimated 7-000 Americans In China were leav ing. Only dependents, tourists and business men who have giv en up. In all about 1,000 women and children will be moved first. Cold Wave Seen Hitting State BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A storm with winds that just reached hurricane force of 75 miles an hour was expected to pass close to the North Carolina coast late today or tonight, af ter missing the South Carolina coast. Meanwhile, across the states, a cold air mass was expected to come over the mountain barrier late today and plummet tem peratures to a freezing 26 to 32 degrees in western North Caro lina and 32 to 36 in northwest South Carolina. A rainbelt moved eastward. The forecast for tomorrow was fair and rather cold in South Carolina and Western North Carolina, clearing and colder in Eastern North Carolina. Officer Shoots Self While Seeing Movie Oakland. Calif., Nov. 10—(/P) —all of the shooting during a horse opera at an Oakland theater wasn't confined to the sound track. . As Po" e Officer Roy G. Hooper watched a mighty stam pede yesterday on the screen he must have reached for his .45 automatic pistol. Anyway, it dis charged and shot him in the leg. ' t County Four-H Honor Day Is November 20 Halifax.—Halifax County 4-E Club Members will hold theii annual Achievement Day at the community building in Enfield on Saturday, Nov. 20, 194.8 4-H boys and girls, parents and friends will gather on this day to give due recognition to those 4-H’ets having done outstanding work during 1948. Buses will be chartered for the occasion to bring club members and each will be expected to meet the bus at the bus station either in Roanoke Rapids, Weldon, Halifax, or Scotland Neel:. Boys and girls from other communi ties should pick up club mem bers along the way. The morning program will be gin at 10-30 a. m., ending at 12:00 noon. Everyona is ex pected to bring a picnic lunch. The crowning of the cuunty health king and queen will high light the afternoon session. Af ter the presentsiion of awards by the Assistant Home and Farm Agents, a recreation hour will follow. f orrestal In Europe For Conferences Washington, Nov. 10—(JF)— The civilian boss of the United States’ armed forces was due in Europe today. There, it was announced, Sec retary of Defense Forrestal will talk with American officials at Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin and London, including Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany. And there seemed no reason to believe he would pass up any chance to confer with officials of other friendly governments in Europe where this country has a* high military stake. Forrestal’s visit to Clay assumed special significance in the light of the general’s con ference Monday with Viscount Montgomery. The British field marshal is chiarman of the mili tary committee of the Western European alliance. The formal announcement of Fofrestal’s trip said he would “discuss problems affecting the national military establishment” with American officials in Eur ope. Any development concern ing military aid to the western aliliance is directly related to problems of the American mili tary establishment L.ooley Jrledges Support To Farm Parity Naahvile, N.C., Nov. 10-(AP) —The American farmer today had the assurance of two con gressional leaders that farm prices still will be supported at 90 per cent of parity. Rep. Harold D. Cooley (D-NC) who likely will be chairman of the House** agriculture com mittee* said he is in favor of the support program if prod uction controls are linked with it. Joining Senator Elmer Thom as (D-Okla), who’is in line for the Senate’s agriculture com mittee chairmanship and who earlier approved the same sup port level, Cooley said: “I am definitely in favor of a 90 per cent support program’* for the basic commodities — cot ton, tobacco wheat, corn and peanuts—provided the “growers will accept** production controls It’s Against The Law To Fish While Asleep New Westminster, B. C.t Nov. 10—(jP)—A magistrate fined a fisherman $25 yesterday for fishing in his sleep. Ed Simmons of Stevenston told magistrate H. J. Johnston he set his net at 3 A.M. and aet an alarm to awaken him at 5 A.M. The alarm failed to awaken him and a fisheries patrol found Simmons, still asleep and with his net still in position, at 7:50 A.M.—an hour after the fishing season closed. Scribe Says Textile Industry Is Between Pleasant Prosperity And Months Of Severe Competition yn .1 . mt:. ' il nm monir tovtilo mpn ond of a series of four stories on the New England textile industry, where the first pains of wartime to peacetime tran sition showed up. An on-the spot survey disclosed textile manufacturers optimistic for the future, but showed they face a buyers’ market and competition from lower coast areas.) By Richard Fiske Boston, Nov. 10—()P)—The textile industry is dangling be tween pleasantly prosperous days and months of severe com petition. It has felt the first pains of transition from wartime to peacetime economy. And as prices soften and boomtime profits began to slip it laid bare an old New Eng land textile problem—competi tion with lower cost areas. Royal Little, head of the huge Textron Corporation, says the cost of northern mills was pro hibitive when compared with the South. He announced he would close some New England interests. And that started a reassessment of the industry hereabouts. But the lure of lower taxes and talk of lower costs in other sections have been dangled in front of New England industrial ists before. Some snapped at the bait. But oters merely took a tighter grip and met the com petition. who agree with Little that the cost situation in New England is creating a squeeze. Most of them feel that while the out look for the future is good, they will have to work hard and call upon all their business acu men to remain prosperous. Poli tical leaders and other business men avowedly have faith that it can be done. It wasn’t so many years ago that the huge Amoskeag Manu facting Plant at Manchester, N. H., closed its doors. At that time there were numerous predictions that Manchester was dead indus trially. But today, there are over 100 small and diversified industries, many of them textile manufac turers, occupying the same floor space that Amoskeag abandoned. And as Governor Charles M. Dale of New Hampshire recent ly pointed out, the new indus tries are employing more peo ple and maintaining a larger to tal payroll than before. Practically coincident with Little’s statement on operating costs, two other textile concerns were setting up new plants in New Hampshire towns. And in Massachusetts textile manufac turers were carrying on plant expansion projects that come close to the $10,000,000 (ra) mark. (Editors Note: Tomorrow— what do north-south differen tials really amount to.) I 1 School Officials Receive No Official Word About Funds For Chaloner School Facilities Superintendent of Roanoke E u and Superintendnet of Halifax County schools W. Henry Over man both said here today they have not been officially notified as to any decision by the Hali fax County Board of Commis sioners concerning the John Armstrong Chaloner School i n Roanoke Rapids except what they “read in the papers." Ready said he is certain the public health situation at t h e Chaloner School is no better now than it was a month ago whenj members of the Roanoke Rapids School Committee appeared be fore the Board in Halifax o n October 4 to request funds forj the installation of badly-needed septic tanks at the schools to replace the outdoor privies now being used by the more than 600 students in the school. He said he understood the Commissioners nad agreed t o lend the Roanoke Rapids district approximately $6,000 of the $12, 000 requested for the installs - tion of State-approved septic tanks and a water line but said there has been no word con - cerning the availability of the money so work can start. At the last regular meeting of the Board of County Commis sioners the request was bcought up for discussion after having been deferred for a month, and Commissioners agreed to lend the Roanoke Rapids schools half the money requested. At the time the decision was made it Industries To Revert To German Owners Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 1C —(AP)—The vast German coal, iron and steel industries in the bizonal area will revert to Ger man ownership in the “near fu ture,” the British and America military governments announced today. The military governors, how ever, are retaining a certain con trol of powers,” the announce ment said. Gen Luciu9 D. Clay is th< American military governor ii Germany and Gen. Sir Briar Robertson is Britain’s top oc cupation official. The industries including those of the Ruhr, have technically been owned by the military gov ernors since the end of the war, New German companies will be established to operate the companies subject to these stip ulations: 1. There will be no “excess ive concentration of economic power.” 2. Persons who “permitted and encouraged” the nazi party will be banned from positions of ownership and control. 3. The drastic reorganization shall not prejudice a possible future decision by a Germar govenment as to whether the industries will be socialized. Mrs. A. Meikle Dies Suddenly In Hospital Mrs. Archibald Meikle, wife of the superintendent of Pat terson Mills here, Archibald Meikle, died suddenly in a Rich mond Hospital last night. Besides her husband, Mrs, Meikle, who came to Roanoke Rapids in 1928, is survived by one son, J. Roderick Meikle, alsc of Roanoke Rapids, three broth ers, Matthew Jardine, George Jardine, and John Jardine; twe sisters: Mrs. Livvie Robertsor and Annie Littlejohn, all whe live In Scotland. Mrs. Meikle came to the United States in 1907. She wai 68 years old and has been il only a short time. Funeral services will be helc at the First Baptist Church here Friday at 4 p. m. The body was returned tc Roanoke Rapids in a William! Funeral home ambulance. If You Fail To Get Your Paper Call Complaint Office The Daily Herald Circula tion Department has establish ed a "Complaint Service.' If do not receive your copy of the Daily Herald by 8:00 P. M. during the week or by 8:00 A. M. on Sunday morning, call R-326 or R-882-1 Circula lion Department, and a copy will be delivered to your door. Also if you do not receive pro per delivery service please call us. It is our aim to give our subscribers the best delivery service possible. Any persons who are not subscribers to the Daily and Sunday Herald and wish to subscribe, please celi and we will start delivery to your borne immediately. was planned to make the money available in the schools’ capital through Superintendent Over man’s office. Board chairman D. G. Dickens said at the time he would ad vise Roanoke Rapids school au thoruties “tonorrow” of the de cision of the Board and find out if it would be satisfactory with the. As yet, Ready and Overman said today, no one has informed them of any decision of the Board. Ready said if only $6,000 were •f ?red i start te work it might be possible to start work on the construction of the septic tanks by using State Board of Health blueprints as a guide. He said the Chaloner School has a ve terans’ masonry class which will provide labor for the project without cost. This class will be supervised by a construction foreman if the work is under taken by the veterans. The city superintendent said the Roanoke Rapids School Com mittee has been unable to make plans regarding the work, how ever, since they have not as yet been informed that any funds will be available. He said he hopes something may be start ed soon in order to take advan tage of the money-saving labor supply in the veterans’ class and also to get things started before the weather makes it im possible to work on such a pro ject. % Vinson had told Commissioner at the November meeting the funds “will be available some how”. Since the Roanoke Rapids school group first appeared be fore the Board accompanied by County Health Officer Dr. Ro bert F. Young 37 days have e lapsed. .. . .ding to the recomraenda , ions made to the Board in Oct ober, two separate projects will ; have to be completed in order .> improve the sanitary facijj ; ties at the school to a degree • where they will not be a public 1 health menace. Septic tanks will have to be built and a wa I ter line will have to be run to tl.e school, which is located within the Roanoke Rapids city I limits but is outside the limits of the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District. Each of the projects will cost an estimated $6,000 each to complete, therefore the $12,000 appropriation was re I quested in October. In the October meeting Com missioner Meade H. Mitchell moved to appropriate the entire amount but the motion received no second. On November 1 the Mitchell motion was withdrawn and a motion made by Commissioner John B. Davis to lend the Roa noke Rapids Board of Educa ! tion $6,000 for the John Chalener j School project was passed. | Commissioners suggested that another $6,000 item be included I in next year’s capital outlay i budget. Barnes Bound Over To Higher Court On Larceny Of Airplane Charges; Draws Fine On One Other Count Halifax. — Claude Barnes of Roanoke Rapids this morning was being held in jail here after he had been bound over to Superior Court on a charge of larceny of an airplane. Bamese was tried yesterday af ternoon late before Judge Char les R. Daniel in Halifax County I recorder’s court on three charges of operating an airplane in a reckless manner, operating an airplane while under the influ ence c/t intoxicants and larceny. A nol pros was taken on the charge of operating while intoxi cated and he was fined $100 and costs on the charge of reckless operation of a plane. In the lar ceny case Barnes was bound over to the November term of Halifax County Superior Court slated to start here on Novem ber 29 and a $1,500 appearance bond was ordered posrted. Court officials said this morn ing the bond had not been post ed and Barnes was still in jail. Barnes allegedly took a Piper Cub training plane from the Roanoke Rapids airport on Sep-, tember 21 and later crashed in the airplane in a pine thicket near town demolishing the air plane and incurring slight per-, sonal injuries. The airplane was ( the property of W. B. Copenhav-; er, airport operator, who said1 Barnes took the plane after hav ing been previously refused per-1 mission to do some flying on the day of the alleged theft. Barnes holds a private pilot’s license Judge Daniel yesterday con cluded a total of 60 cases on the recorder’s court docket out of 95 which appeared The court lasted until late yesterday af ternoon. Most of the cases heard yes terday, court officials said, were uncontested and the presentation of e vidence vai made rapidly. The majority oi the cases ap* [•st-r ng yesterday for trial were misdemeanors in which fines were levied. Most of those dis posed were traffic violations. It was one of the largest re corder’s court derkets for trial here in some time. Truman May Go To Moscow Is, Tass Report Moscow, Nov. 10 —(AP)—The Moscow Press gave heavy play today to a Tass dispatch from Washington quoting an Ameri can newspaper as saying Prqpi dent Truman may come to Rus sia for a personal talk with Prime Minister Stalin. The fact that this item was published here at all is not with out significance. The newspap ers made no comment on the report. But it is hardly likely it would have been published if the editors did not look upon it as a^serious worthwhile piece. Its publication caused much comment in the foreign colony of Moscow. The Soviet News Agency dis patch said the Washington Time Herald printed the report. (The Dispatch may have referred to a syndicated column, Tris cof fin’s Daybook, published in the Times Herald. It said Monday President- Truman wants a con ference with world leaders on peace and might even go to Moscow.) The dispatch said that “Al though no definite decision has been reached, Truxhtn pre sumes he can meet Stalin at his place (presumably Washing ton) instead of going to Moscow.* “Boots” Used To The Ways Of The City Gets Lost On A Fishing Trip And Has Not Been Seen Since Late Saturday Boots never should have gone to the country. She went Saturday and hasn’t come back. Used to the ways of the city and pavement underfoot, she ap parently got confused in all the woods and grass and wandered away from her fishing friends. They came back to the spot be side the stream where they had left her a couple of hours be fore and found that eight-year old Boots was nowhere to be found. That was late Saturday after noon, and the North Ward has been missing her since then. Boots is a German shepherd dog and for several years now she’s been sort of “everybody’s dog” in the North End business district. Her natural place of adode was the business firms in the 200 block of Roanoke Avenue and by long practice she had de veloped a system of begging ice cream cones, cookies,. pretzels and anything else edible that would put a professional pan handler to shame. Her owner, Mrs. J. T. Glover who works in the Sanitary Dis trict office in the City Hall, said McRae Faison gave Boots to her about five years ago, but she said Boots belonged to every - ot Last Saturday afternoon R. P. Smith and F. L. Price decided to go over to Northampton County and do a little fishing. Just as they were getting in their oar Boots came along and begged to be taken to ride. As usual, she got her way and in a short time she was romping with her two friends along a creek bank between Garysburg and Seaboard. At a footlog across the creek the men told Boots to stay and wait for them, then they crossed the log and went a short dis tance to fish. When they came back to the spot they had left Boots she was nowhere to be found. In spite of their long search and calling her vainly they had to return to Roanoke Rapids with out her when darkness caught them. Since that time no word has come regarding Boots. Mrs. Glover said today ahe’a afraid Boots is somewhere griev ing for the Roanoke Avenue friends she’s left behind and said she will certainly appreciate it if anyone in that section at Northampton County where aha was last seen will notify her so she can bring Boots back to the haunts with which sha is ...; familiar. It’s tough on a city doft i way. km
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