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Gala Parade Led By Band to Mark Opening Of Yuletide Season Roanoke Rapids’ annual Christmas Opening will get under way here tonight at seven o’clock, when Santa Claus will start a parade from First Street up Roanoke Avenue accompanied by the Roanoke Rapids High School band. Between Second and Third Streets the avenue will be closed to traffic, and Santa Claus will stop for approxi mately a half-hour in the block handing out gifts to all the children who have come to see him. - ■ ■ ~ & A ff r>r fhp Mni-t Vi Vn rl cora. tomgm until nine o clock in order to porvide those attend ing the opening a chance to see some of the Christmas decora tions in the stores and merchan dise on display. Santa Claus will remain in Roanoke Rapids from tonight until Christmas and will be in the various stores in all parts of the city each day between ten o’clock in morning and six o’ clock in the evening. After the parade tonight there will be further festivity when Roanoke Rapids High School and Weldon close their football season with a ball game at Sim mons Park at eight o'clock. Three Men Hurt In Auto Crash Weldon—Three Rocky Mount men were injured in a car-truck Thanksgiving morning highway crash about three and one half miles south of Weldon on high was 301. State Highway Patrolmen who investigated the accident said a 1941 Pontiac headed north damaging both vehicles badly and sending the three men to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. This morning at the hospital it was reported that James Will iams is still a patient and is suffering from five broken ribs on his left side. His condition was reported to be “painful but not critical.” Two other men, Robert Taylor and Roscoe Har rell, both occupants of the auto mobile with Williams, were treat ed yesterday at the hospital for severe bruises and slight cuts but were dismissed after out-pa tient treatment. Patrolmen said Walter Lee Montgomery of Tampa, Florida, operator of the truck, which was carrying cucumbers to the North ern markets, was uninjured in the accident. Offices said no charges had been preferred against drivers of either vehicle, adding that they are continuing their investiga - tion of the wreck. t Kerr Scott Still Absent Without Leave Raleigh, Nov. 26—VP)—Ef forts to locate Governor-elect Kerr Scott have run up against a blank wall since Monday. Many of his friends have ex pressed concern over his unex plained absence. Scott had said he would meet with the Advi sory Budget Commission Mon day through Wednesday, but never made an appearance. The commission met to draft tax | and spending recommendations I to be made in the 1949 general assembly. The last anyone admits know ing is that Scott and his wife closed their farm home at Haw River last Sunday. No one seems to know where they went o r when they will return. Scott is known for his inde pendence. A brother said yes terday, when queried as t o Scott’s whereabouts: “Kerr doesn’t tell us what he’s going to do; he does as he pleases.” In Haw River, brother Ralph Scott said the family had expect ed him back for Thanksgiving day. Another relative said Scott may have “gone up North some where, but I don’t know where.** monies the band members and others will be transported to Ninth Street and the parade will re-form again, halting between Tenth nad Eleventh Streets where the avenue will again be closed and children in the South Side will get an opportunity to get acquainted with Santa while he distributes gifts to all. In line with the Christmas Opening the Christmas decora tions in the city will all be lighted and will provide a can opy of multi-colored lights and bells interwoven with greenery which stretches across the ave nue. All street lights in the city’s business districts have been decorated with pictures of Christmas trees in gaily-decorat ed colors. The lights on the de- _ corations were turned on for the first time this season last night aqd added their holiday glow to the Thanksgiving evening. The Roanoke Rapids Mer chants Association, which has made plans for the Christmas Opening, said today the stores and business places will be open 1*15 Billion Ceiling On Defense Is Aim Washington, Nov. 26—(AP)_ Senator Tydings (D-Md) served notice on the armed services to day that the new congress will wim at a $15,000,000.000 ceiling on defense costs next year. “We must keep America strong and the world at peace," he said, “but do that with the idea that taxpayers also must survive." “We will cut out every bit of military expense that is not fully justified,” he told a reporter. , Tydings is due to become chairman of the Senate armed! services committee when the De-1 mocrats take over Congress Jan uary 3. He also will be a rank ing member of the appropria tions committee, which has a hold on government pursestrings. “It is my hope,” he said, “that for purely armed services at home and abroad we will make expenditure less and certainly Aft greater than the present year.” The current defense budget ranges around $15,000,000,000. But next year, Tydings said, "we may be able to cut it to 14Vj, 14 or 12. We’ll have to be a little their cases." Tydings said the armed ser vices committee plans to call in Secretary of State Marshall and Secretary of Defense Forrestal ¥l the start of the next Con gress for a full report on world conditions. ‘‘Seal Season” Is Proclaimed 15v Mayor ► Mayor W. ^Bernard Allsbrook Today issued a poclamation de signating “Christmas Seal Sea son” in Rounoke Rapids, and said every adult in Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County can enlist in the nationwide fight against tub erculosis by purchasing Christ mas Seals. The mayor pointed out that the sale of Christmas Seals annually is the sole means of support of |^.e Halifax County Tuberculo sis Association. ‘Tuberculosis is a public health problem, a serious threat to everyone in this community, because it is spread from person to person.” Mayor Allsbrook said. “We must give unqualified sup port to those who work directly to halt the spread disease. "We must show our desire to support the tuberculosis control fyork of this cpunty when we purchase Christmas Seals. We arc also taking a wise precau tion when we take the associa^ tion’s sound advice and have our l11 >is A-rayeu reguiariy. The proclamation issued by the Mayor is as follows: "Whereas, tuberculosis is spread from person to person and constitutes a major public health problem, and * ^ Whereas tuberculosis claims 'ihe lives of approximately 50,000 Americans annually, killing more of our citizens between the ages of 15 and 44 than any other dis ease, and Whereas, the Halifax County Tuberculosis Association is con ducting a tubeculosis control program in Halifax County, and Whereas, the Association’s sole support is by the sale of• Christ mas Seals, Therefore, I, Mayor of Roanoke Rapids, do hereby officially de signate the period from Novem ber 22 to December 25 as Christ mas Seal Season and do urge the residents of Halifax County gen erously support the 1948 Christ mas Seal Sale.” Two Birds, Too Much •For This Policeman Boston, Nov. 20-^-(AP)— Two birds—a turkey and the stork— —were too much for Patrol man John Mee in one day. When he arrived home from his tour of duty Thanksgiving • Bay morning his wife told him he had better start preparing the ] turkey dinner for their two i ^young children because she was %>ing to the hospital. Mee and the children. John 5. and Maueen, 2, had just finished dinner when,he got a call to the hospital. There was a new mem her of the family when he ar rived there—an eight pound girl. It was then time to go back to *ork. Lt. Patrick J. O’Donnell heard his story. “Take the night off,” said the ileutenant. “Brother, you deserve Weather North Carolina—Increasing cloudinead and mild today and tonight taUOvcd by rain and warmer ’tonight with rainl be ginning fa wait portion this moon: Saturday, rain and mild becoming partly cloudy cooler extrema west por *ton Saturday afternoon. s Old Father Roanoke Says: Let me introduce myself. I’m Old Father Roanoke IV. That “IV” shows how long' Gramp (as his numerous progeny' calls the one who usually occup ies this space) has been aroupd. This part of the country has sev eral “The Thirds, ” notably the state golf champ, Robert Casey | Josey III, but I’m probably the only “The Fourth.” My principal use for today’s column is to appeal to you to be | indulgent with Gramp. He’s like the GAR and Confederate vet-| erans. To hear them talk, you’d think they fought in the front lines in every battle of the War be tween the States from Bull Run to Appottomax. They’ve told those tales of heroic exploits so nftpn thpv hplipvp t.hpm thpm selves. The truth is, nearly every blue and grey veteran now living got in as drummer boys just before the end. Well now, about Gramp’s columns, Miss Jessie Helen Belche, our learned history teacher says they ought to be collected together and tit led: ‘‘Baron Munchausen's Latest Up-to-Date History of Roanoke Rapids.” If, after this exposure of Gramp, I get a chance to write more columns, I’ll tell you some of the stories he has told me a bout his four marriages and his hundreds of romances. This time I’ll just say a few words about his present wife, his fourth, who is 17-years-old. She married Gramp for his money. He gets $30 a month government pension. That’s all the money he’s got, but you know what girls are like today. This girl wasn’t sat isfied until she got that. She takes the check right from Mail man Dewey Waters’ hand every month; Gramp never sees a cent of it. That’s the kind of' wife he’s got now. No wonder | he wants to write a column. She pul t.ie ba 1 and chain around his ankle on Feb. 25 of this Leap Year. He was a Leap Year vic tim each of his four times to the altar. Doc Taylor diagnoses his obsession about “35 Days Before the End of Leap Year” as “Mis ery Loves Company.” I'm 34 myself, but this 17-year old girl, young enough to be my daughter. is my step-great grandmother—the third, by the way, to become my step-great grandmother. So I suppose I’m the step-step-step-great-grand son of this girl who is half my! age. Send that to Ripley and I you’ll get five bucks and Roa noke Rapids will get some publi city. From what I’ve just told you, you may think Gramp is good, uui nes even uexxer xnan you1 think. Why do you think he’si not writing this column today? j Because—now please hold your breath—this 82 year old great-' grandfather, married only last' February, became a father yes teday. Thanksgiving Day, Nov.! 25, 1948. For the umsteenth time, too. He has lost track of i how many times. All you need to do is, call him “Pop” and he’ll add your name to his will. You should have seen him down at the hospital yesterday. You’d think his mind would be on the baby he was having, but that’s too ordinary. He was thinking about something ■ much more exciting to him, his column. After the baby came. Gramp was surrounded by Dr. Cutchins, and Nurses Jenkins and Sadler. Thinking of the baby, they con gratulated him. But the old cod ger, thinking they meant Wed nesday’s column, replied: “Well, I couldn’t have done it if I hadn’t had the help of the two best printers down at the Herald.” Billion Dollars Spent In Price Support On Farm Products By U. S. wasnmgion, ouv. -u—Ann— The government has put off—or set aside—over $1,000,000,000 to help farmers keep their prices up on this year’s record harvest. This outpay, under the price support program, may reach $1, 750,000,000 before the 1948 crop marketing season ends, a survey showed today. The bulk of the money has been distributed as loans o n storable products, particularly grains and cotton. Whether the government gets its money back on these loans depends on future market prices. Farmers have the option of (A) paying off these debts and re claiming their mortgaged pro ducts, or (B) turning the pro ducts over to the government as full payment of the loan if prices do not rise above the sup port levels before the loans are called. And whether the government loses money on products it takes over under loans also depeno , on future price developments. As a matter of fact, the government made money on products taken over before thd war. They were sold at inflated war prices. Loans are limited largely to non-perishable products. In the case of perishable items, the gov ernment buys the surplus out right and tries to dispose of it at home and abroad. Cotton tops all products i n price support outlays. The government has put out about $385,000,000 in loans on 2,294,000 bales from this year's bumper crop of about 15,150,000 bales. The Potato support operations, however, hive attracted widest attention. The Government has bought about 65,500,000 bushels at a cost of about $90,000,000. It has spent an-additional $10,000, 000 transporting them to public institutions, to schools for lunch programs, to starch and flour mills, alcohol plants and to live stock feeders. Bobbery Is A Monotony Winston-Salem, Nov. 26—(/P) —Robbery is becoming monoton ous at Reynolds Grill here. Manager Charlie Cheros told police that six cartons of cigar ettes were taken from his es tablishment Wednesday night. That was the fourth jobbery of the grill in tw.o weeks. It got so bad that Cheros hesi tated to put turkey on his Thanksgiving menus. He had the turkeys, all right, but he feared they would be stolen before they could be served, be served. Lions Club’s Christmas Party To Be Dec. 17 The^ Roanoke Rapids Lions Club will hold its annual Christ mas party for underprivileged children on Decefnber 17, it has been announced here. Christmas parties by the Lions are an annual event in which each member of the local club takes the name of one boy or girl for whom he is responsible. The Lions see to it that the boys and girls whose names they have get to the party and have a good time, with gifts of cloth ing and toys being given by Santa Claus to each of the young guests from a large, brightly - decorated Christmas tree. Plans, for the 1948 Christnyis party were made and the date speaker of the evening. He spoke on "What A Civic Club Can Do to Create Better Citizen ship”, with a Thanksgiving mes sage. Lion Jimmy Curran of the club attendance committee comment* ed c n the current attendance race between the red and blue teams, adding that members of the losing team will have mem bers of the other team and their ladies as their guest at the Club’s Ladies’ Night on December 7 at a supper meeting. At the meeting it was reported by George Pappendick, chair man of the club’s sight conserva tion and blind committee, that proceeds from ball-gum mach ines distributed throughout town in various business places have increased during the past month over the two previous months. Proceeds from these machines are used by the club in its work in aiding the blind and in sight conservation work. Guests of the club included the Rev. Lewis Styons, pastor of the First Christian Church of Rda noke Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. Wea ver W. Pangbun, New York City recreational planners now in Roanoke Rapids working with the Recreation Commission, Douglas House, Lion Marvin White of Norfolk and Lion Hatch of Charlotte. By Lynn Nisbet RALEIGH, Nov. 26—Complet ed tabulation on several of the state’s ten highway divisions in dicates that approximately half the road mileage traveled by school buses is now surfaced with water-resistant all-weather materials, ranging from full con crete paved to approved types of asphalt treatment. Charles Ross, formerly fir many years general counsel for the state highway l coromissioou has been conducting a study of the school bus routes with re spect to type of roadway. He has completed about the half the ten divisions, and in most of the others only one or two counties are outstanding. ine nrsi division, made up oi fourteen counties—Camden, Cho wan, Currituck, Dare, Edge combe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Northampton, Pasquo, tank, Perquimans and Warren— is regarded as average, and is used as basis for this article. The first division has a total of 5.615.2 miles41 of public roads which are maintained by the state highway commission. School buses traverse 3,913 miles of these roads, of which 1,586.1 miles are classified as paved. That is 40.5 per cent of the school bus routes paved. The Ross survey goes futher and breaks down the school bus mileage into four classifications: That over which only one bus travels, that over which two, three and four or more buses travel every day. Simple mathe matics applied to this break down shows that while just a bout 25% of the one-bus-a-day j mileage is paved, more than I 95% of the mileage traversed by four buses or more is of perma- 1 nent all-weather construction. Two-bus roads average 47% pav ed while the three-bus routes! are 82% paved. Without going too much into mathematical de tail ft is obvious that more than half the total mileage traveled HIS MERRY SURLESMOBILE — Maj. Donald C. Surles of Cisco. Tex., sees Chicago ‘ sights from what he calls his Surlesmobile. He built the machine in Japan at a cost of about $2,000 i ^ Push buttons open and close doors. A jeep engine furnishes power ^ Tabulation Shows 40 Percent Of School Bus Roads In First District Are paved by school buses is over paved roads. Of the first division’s total mileage of 5,615.2 miles school buses use 3,913.4 of which 1, 586.1 miles or 40.5 percent is paved. Additional figures on mileage utilization and percent paved show that 2,118.3 miles are used by only one school bus a day of which 535.7 miles or appro ximately 25% are paved. Two buses a day travel over 1,282.00 iinileL with 002.9 miles orf 47% paved; 'three' buses travel V320.1 miles, 264.0 or 82% miles paved, while 193 miles are used by four or more buses a day, including 183.5 miles or 95% of paved surface. This tabulation for one divi sion, representing about one tenth of all state road mileage, may not be duplicated when the other divisions are checked, but it is believed to be fairly typi cal. It indicates that the goal set by incoming Governor Ken Scott of every school bus route hard surfaced is a long way oft but not as far as many people without factual knowledge ol existing conditions have thought It may surprise many of the people, and particularly the bus drivers, who live on the 1582 miles of unpaved onje-bus roads in the area thait there are l,58f miles of paved bus routes ir the same territory, and thal there are less than ten miles of unpaved roads in the 14 coun ties of the first highway divi sion carrying four or more buses a day. State Highway Patrol Radio At Halifax In Operation Halifax.—A new police ra dio for this section went into operation here Wednesday af ternoon, with the service on a transmitter-receiver outfit for the State Highway Patrol at the Patrol barracks south of here on highway 301. Patrolmen at the barracks said today the new station will be in operation daily between eight in the morning and mid night, and advised that any one in the area wanting to get a patrolman for any rea son can do so quickly now by calling 617 in Halifax. The Halifax patrol radio will operate as a subsidiary station to the Williamston ra dio, which serves the First Division of Troop A. A com plete frequency modulation (F-M) radio setup of 50 watts power has been installed in the barracks and is now in operation. There will be five men handling the radio duty at the Halifax barracks and will be on constant call during the station's regular operating hours. Officers in this area have been awaiting the installation of the equipment for some time, and the facilities of the patrol radio will be used by other law enforcement officers in the area to work in con junction with the Highway Patrol. ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT NANTZ Jack Brown, formerly of this city, until he moved with his family to South Carolina, is vis iting with Walter “Bear” My rick of Monroe street. . . . Here is a recipe revised by the Reverend C. S. Grogan, which could be applied to some of the highway accidents that occurred yesterday . . . take one sober man, one or two quarts of intoxicating drink . . put the man in a car, soak him in the beverage, then let him go ... in a half an hour take him from the wreckage and put him in a satin lined box . . . then garnish with flowers . . . now he is ready for the undertaker. . . . Mr and Mrs. John C. Massey left h yesterday for Florida . . they will visit with Mrs. Mas sey’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Eldridge.Jr. ... Tonight will be the big night for the Yellow Jackets—they finish up this football season by playing the Weldon High team. It was called off Wednesday night because of rain. Let’s hope they can finally play it tonight The many friends of little Joyce Faye McDonald will be inerested to know that she will not return .home from her grandfather’s home in Wilming ton, until Sunday. . . . Joyce Faye fell yesterday and is suf fering with a badly sprained ankle . . . She was visiting there with her parents, Mr. and Mrs J. J. McDonald, when the acci dent happened. . . . The woods around Roanoke Roanoke Rapids, as well as other places, were filled with hunters yesterday . . . and most of them seem to have had fairly good luck . . . Emmett Clary was one of the lucky ones, as was Rus sell Joyner and Raymond Bur ton . . . Pvt. Jerry Kidd, son of Mr and Mrs. D. I. Kidd, Sr., lefi Tampa, Florida, today for Cha nute Field, Illinois. He has tt report there, on Wednesday December 1 but is expected tc stop at his home, here, for a' least one day, while traveling Jerry is a ’48 graduate of the local high school, and is now planning to study to be a pro peller specialist . . . Thomas Hunter, machinist’s mate, third class, USN, is serv ing aboard the destoyer US£ Hugh Purvis, which is cruising in the Mediterranean Sea as par’ of the Sixth Task Fleet. . Hunter anticipates, seeing manj of the countries of Europe anc Africa by serving in the Medi terranean . . his wife, Mrs Mary Hunter, resides at 1321 Roanoke Avenue. • t Maritime Strike End Agreed Upon San Francisco, Nov. 26—(/P)— Terms for settling waterfront strikes on east and west coasts today cleared the decks for early resumption of normal American shipping. Negotiators in the 86-day CIO Longshore strike on Athe Paci fic Coast announced settlement terms last night. Earlier in the day negotiators agreed on peace in the 17-day strike of AFL Longshoremen on the Atlantic Coast. Both tentative agreements must be ratified by the union memberships before some 515 strike-bound ships put to sea. On the Pacific Coast four other unions are involved in the strike. But the Longshore terms are considered the key to peace. The four other unions scheduled meetings with management to Final settlement would return 92,000 to maritime jobs and many thousands more to work in other industries halted or curtailed by the strike. It would release some $30,000, 000 of Marshall Plan cargo in | eastern docks and restore busi t ness running into the millions | of dollars. The Pacific ( tieup, second i longest in history, has cost by estimate of the Pacific Ameri can shipowners about $344,000, 000 in trade at the rate of $4, 000,000 a day. The negotiators agreement boosts the western Longshore basic wage by 15 cents to $1.82 an hour, which was the amount the union was asking when it struck Sept. 2. You Have A Housing Problem? Here Is A Major Difficulty Wellington, Colo., Nov. 26— (AP)—You think you gotta hous ing poblem? The tiny three room James Geary residence, buldging with 10 persons already, will open its doors to six more today. “I'll be glad to see them, of course, but where in the world can we put them?” said Mrs. Geary, 53, mother of seven and grandmother of eight. daughter, Mrs. Emma Dorsey, 26, of Panora, Iowa, and her five children. The Salvation Army boosted them along with bus and meal tickets yesterday after officers found them hitch hiking westward toward Welling ton along a Nebraska highway near Omaha. Mrs. Dorsey told Omaha of ficers she left behind at Panora, her unemployed husband, his five children by a former marriage and a sixth child, Shirley, 11 months, to be cared for by a neighbor. Geary, 67, receives an old age pension and supplements that with odd job work. Six child ren are living with Mr. and Mrs. Geary and two grandchildren. “About all we can do is ask the county welfare officer for re lief,” Mrs. Geary said when a newsman advised her of the Iowa relatives journey toward Well ington. Bus officials at Cheyenne, Wyo., said at midnight the six Dorseys had not passed through there en route to Wellington. Rain Expected In Carolinas BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Look for today’s cloudv weather to break out into rain in the Carolinas, the weather man said. Rain was expected to begin in the mountains this afternoon and move eastward a cross the states tonight and to morrow. Temperatures were expected to be mild today and tomorrow. Cooler weather was not expect ed generally until early Sunday, beginning before then in the ex treme western portions by to - morrow afternoon. There is an inch of snow on the tops of the Blue Ridge moun tains in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. It fell Wednes day night. Temperatures got down to freezing in some Carolinas areas last night and early today.
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