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« Northampton Farm Income Of $12,583,000 Greatest In History ' 1 ■ 1 ... —— .... - ■ —————“a I* ROANOKE RAPIDS FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK Series of six illustrated ar ticles, beginning Sunday, De cember 19, in the Herald and Ending Friday, December 24. _____________________ ———^_ 34th Year—No. 81_ Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Thursday, December 16, 1948 5c Daily; 10c Sunday ' ' ■ ■ ■■ - I ■ . ■ ... ......I.M — ' '■ ..... ■ .. _,,, _ - Schools Begin Yule Holidays 4Qn Friday Christmas holidays will start tomorrow afternoon for all white schools in Roanoke Rap ids and Halifax County, it was announced today simultaneous ly by I. E. Ready, superintend ent of Roanoke Rapids Schools, and W. Henry Overman, sup erintendent of Halifax County Schools. A The two superintendents wsaid there will be a 16-day holiday for all the children in the schools before classes start again on January 3. Ac tually there will be ten schol days' vacation for the annual holidays. John A. Chaloner School in Roanoke Rapids and all Hali fax County Negro schools will start their holidays on Tues day, December 21, because of *a difference of the schedules of the county systems. All schools, however, will start again on January 3 after the holiday merry-making is completed, the superintendents said. Grand Jury To See Microfilms *Of Spy Papers New York, Dec. 16—(—AP)—A federal grand jury has indicted Alger Hiss for perjury, accus ing hicm of lying when he denied \ he gave secret government pap ers to ex-Communist Agent Whittaker Chambers. The action last night climaxed jury probe of espionage. I** Hiss. 44-year-old former high ranking policy adviser in the State Department, was charg ed on two perjury counts. Maxi mum penalty on each is a $2, 000 fine and five years impri sonment. s The indictment said Hiss “unlawfully, knowingly and I* wilfully' swore falsely that (a) a;,7 _.is. —j_i:.1 ci.i. Chambers, and (b) that he did no talk to Chambers in Febru I ary and March, 1938. Chambers is a confessed pre war courier of Red intelligence. Prosecuting attorneys said Hiss, now on a paid leave of absence from a $20,000-a-year post as head of the Carnegie Endowment for Internation al Peace, probably will be ar raigned today or tomorrow. if Following his indictment, Hiss issued this statement through his attorney: “My testimony before the grand jury was entirely truth ful.” Chambers, formerly a Time Magazine senior editor, first accused Hiss of supplying him with secret government data for transmittal to Russian agents testimony before the House Tln-American activities commit tee. Hiss has made repeated denials. The indictment came at the end of the grand jury’s 18 months term. Attorney General Tom Clark said in New York that he thought Hiss would be brought to trial in January. f 'T anfare Marks I Millionth Rural Telephone Burlington, Dec. 16—(/P)—- The I Bell Telephone System observed I with fanfare and a call to the President of the United States I today installation of the 1,000, 000th rural telephone since the ppnd of the war. From the farm home of W. J. Pace, Who received the 1,000, 000th phone, U. S. Senator J. M. Broughton placed a call to the President at the White House. Governor-Elect Kerr Scott, '“ho blasted telephone and power companies in a speech at v-aleigh last night for not get ting service to faimers fast enough, made the principal Ippeech at the ceremony. He pledged his administration to work for moTe rural phones, aaore farm electrification and better country roads. ^Good roads, electricity and telephones are not luxuries for the farm,” Scott saiu, “they are necessities. The farmer must have good roads to get his pro- ■ duce to market. He must have ! electricity to do the chores and #mve labor. He must have a ^telephone for the orderly mar keting of the crop he produces.” ] i ROANOKE RAMBLiNGS By PAT NANTZ The many friends of Theron “Baldy” Harris will be glad to know that he returned to his home on Jackson street yester day, after having spent two weeks in McQuire General Hos pital, Richmond, Virginia. . . . Theron underwent an operation on December 8 and is reported to be in much better condition. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Harris, and a ’42 grad uate of the local high school and is now a junior at Wake Forest College. He plans to return to his studies with the January class. . . and some day hopes to be a dentist .... Billy Moore, who is with the Army, is spending several days furlough with his parents, Mr and Mrs. Charles W. Moore of Williams street ... he is a ’47 graduate of the local high school Those celebrating their birth day today are Gloria Hawkins, Bobby Jenkins, and Margaret Gukich. . . . here’s wishing you all a very happy birthday and may yon all have many, many way. It will be a great day to morrow at 3:30 o’clock when the schools will close for the holi days . . . most of the classes of all grades have already had their Christmas parties and are just waiting for that ol’ bell to ring. . . . The reason for those happy and shining faces you have seen today of the high school stu dents, was caused last night when both the girl’s and the boy’s teams beat the Weldon High School teams . . . the girls took the score at 32-25, and the boys at 55-33 . . . even though at the end of the first half of the boys’ game, it looked as if either team could end up the winner, the Jackets came through in the last half by scor ing 41 points for the win. Some of the college students who have already arrived for the Christmas holidays or will be here soon are Richard Alls brook of Carolina, who arrived last night; Frank Hawley, Bill Pruden andNick Long all of Carolina who are expected to Ar rive before Saturday--they will remain here until the first of January . . . “What were you doing about that chicken-coop at midnight, Mose?”, the judge asked. “Jes’ circulatin’ roun’, Jedge; jes’ cir culating roun’.” “Clerk, make a notation: “Withdrawn from cir culation for 60 days.”. Mrs. Josie Lee Martin of St. Petersburg, Florida, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Marie Lang ster of Madison street, over the holidays. . . . Mrs. Martin is the former Miss Josie Lee Pitt of this city. . . . A Hobo’s Toast: “Here’s to the holidays! Bless the whole three hundred and sixty-five of them Scott Warns Telephone Companies They Must Service The Rural Areas $ .. Kaleign, uec. id— iakj—a re vocation of franchises was threatened yesterday by Gover nor-elect Kerr Scott if telephone companies don’t get “telephones to the people.” Scott sounded the warning as a guest speaker before a meet ing of the N. C. Citizens’ As sociation. The association’s mem bers also took a verbal cuffing. , Scott declared: “I see we have telephone company representa tives here today. If you can’t get telephones to the people I’ll join in with others, using any powers I have as Governor to see that something is done about it. “If it takes reorganization of the utilities commission, I’ll try that, too. Rural areas need tele phones, and I’m going to go to work to see that they get them. I see that we have represen tatives of power companies here today, too,” Scott continued.9 If they had had the vision of the founder of Duke Power Company we would not have had any need for the read today. Remember that.” The Tax-Conscious Citizens’ or ganization, organized six years ago, is composed mainly of big businessmen interested in hold ing down taxes. Scott said “your organization and your magazine, ‘We the People,” are sometimes called ‘We the people against the people’ ”. Scott asserted that high fran chise taxes are not keeping in dustry from the state. The bot tleneck, he declared, is lack of labor. Movie To Be Shown At Lions Party One of the features of the Lions jClub’s annual Christmas party for underprivileged chil dren tomorrow night at the high school cafeteria will be the showing of a moving picture, “the Night Before Christmas”, it was announced today by Lion C.A. Irby, chairman of the program committee. He said the picture is a sound picture which will be shown for the children at the party by Jack Livesay. The party will start at seven o'clock and there will be a num ber of entertainment features including the movie for the children who will be the guests of the Lions. Santa Claus will be on hand at the party to give out gifts of fruit, clothing and toys and refreshments will be served all who attend. Communists At Out Skirts Of Peiping City Nanking—(^P)—This Chinese capital was stunned today by news that the Government’s j commander in the north has al lowed the Communists to reach Peiping’s walls. Chiang Kai-Shek’s military propagandists and other quar ters had promised that Gen. Fu Tso-Yi would defend the entire Peiping-Tientsin area indefinite ly. Most observers here expressed belief that some understanding was being negotiated between the Reds and General Fu— which would be almost certain to speed the situation in Nank ing to a climax. President Chiang’s top ad visors already have urged him to quit and let others try to talk peace with the Communists. Officials seeking an acceptable cabinet for the new premier, Sun Fo, are watching the Peip ing situation anxiously. The communications ministry reported that the telegraphic link with Peiping remains nor mal. The official Central Daily News said the communists cut off Peiping’s power and water supply upon reaching Shihching san, west of the city, but that emergency power plants inside Peiping later restored electricity to essential reas. Warm Weather Is Continuing BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Unseasonably warm weather continued today in the Carolinas. Scattered rain also fell. For tomorrow, cloudy and cooler, with rain early in the day in coastal areas was indicated. High temperatures yesterday averaged in the Spring-like 70’s. Charlotte’s 73 was the warmest Dec. 15 on record. Columbia had 79. This morning’s lows: Raleigh 49, Charlotte 61, Spart anburg 65, Charleston 63, Colum bia 60, Cape Hatteras 62, Mount Mitchell 46, Wilmington 62, Myrtle each 60, Elizabeth City 48, Greenville, S. C., 61, Hickory 56, Winston-Salem 48, Greens boro 47, Florence 59, Lumberton 63. weather North Carolina—Cloudy and warm with rain today; rain and mild oast and caniral por tions and partly cloudy and coolar in mountains tonight; Friday, partly cloudy and aoolar, pneadad by raid id Southern Governors Study Regional School Plan Gov.-elect Kerr Scott (toft) of North Carolina, and Governors William M. Tuck of Vir ginia. Beauford Jester of Texes, and J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (left to right) go into a huddle to study the southern regional educational program at the Southern Gov ernors conference in Savanah. Ga. (AP Wire photo). Choral Club Will Present Christmas Program Friday Night At The First Christian Church The Koanoke Kapids Choral Club will present a program of Christmas music at the First Christian Church here at 7:30 Friday night, it was announced today by the Rev. Lewis Styon, pastor. The club, which gave a similar program Tuesday evening in Rich Square, will be making its first appearance in Roanoke Rapids. Club members have been re hearsing the Christmas music program for a number of weeks, and the general public is invited to Friday night’s program. Joe Parker, Roanoke Rapids High School instructor, is the vo lunteer director of the chorus. Four-part arrangements for male and female voices will feature the variety of selections to^be presented in the concept tortfcr row. Miss Caroline Broun, pianist, is accompanist for the chorus and she will play a prelude, **A Carol Fantasy” by Roger Wilson, and “O Holy Night” as an offertory selection. The Rev. Mr. Styon will give the scripture and prayer and the benediction. One of the special parts of the program will be the singing of two selections by & men's quartet consisting of Tom Taylor, Monroe Starke, Clifton Wrenn an Arnold Hughes. Jhe program at the church Will be given by candlelight and will consist of ten Christmas anthems in three groups and congrega tional singing. In the first group of anthems will be “Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light” by Bach, “Westminster Carol” and “Chri$mas Hyipn” by Jungs t. The second group will consist of “Gesei Bambino” by Yon, “Carol of the Bells” by Wilhousky, “Lul laby on Christmas Eve” by Christiansen and “What Can This Mean by F. Broadus Staley. me nnai group or anthems will be “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee” by Bach, “Let Us Sing This Happy Morn” by Goodhart and “There "Were Shepherds” by Vincent. The Rev. Mr. Styon said he is glad the choral club has chosen his church as the scene of their Christmas concertm and said he wants to extend a cordial wel come to everyone to attend the program for sacred, music they are sure to enjoy. Members of the Choral Club who will appear in tomorrow evening’s concert are Sarah Pope, Jean Busby, Doris Fahey, Made line Lipscombe, Virginia Gurley, Ruth King, Lois Taylor, Louise Burke, Elladean Lee, Mrs. John Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. ’Paul Over ton, Beatty Taylor, Paul Green, Gilbert Vaughan, Roy Carver, John Spence, Arnold Hughes, Clifton Wrenn, Monroe Starke, Hubert Speight, Whitt Copeland and Tom Taylor. French Destroy Soviet’s Berlin Radio Towers As Airlift Menace Berlin, Dec. 16—{IP)— The French today blew up the tow ers of the Soviet-controlled rad io Berlin, knocking the station off the air. The Russians, however, have another tower outlet, Ger many’s old Deutschland sender, 20 miles east of the city. Brig. Gen. Jean Ganeval, French military commander in Berlin, said the two towers were demolished by French forces this morning. The radio was not on the air at the time. Ganeval said he was compell ed to destroy the towers be cause they were “a very great danger” to allied airlift planes coming in by radar to the new Tegal field in the French sec tor. The towers were near the field. The French commarder said he had notified the Berlin radio station management on Nov. 20 that the demolition would take place today in order to allow the management time to arrange new installations in anotner sector. German postal authorities said the French not only blew up the radio towers, but also the control installations for the towers. Demolishing the towers cli maxed a long four-power dis pute over radio Berlin. The radio station itself is lo cated in the British sector. The! Russians have successfully re sisted British efforts to force them from the station, which they took over when Berlin fell. When the western powers came to Berlin the Russians insisted they retain control of the radio station, saying it was their only broadcast outlet to the Soviet zone. The Russians posted armed soldiers at entrances to the building and no one was allowed in without special pass. As the east-west position worsened in Berlin the British were urged by the other west ern powers to take over the sta tion which broadcast long tirad es against tho western allies. Spy Probers Promise New Sensations Washington, Dec. 16—(/P)— Congressional spy hunters today promised new and up-to-the minute sensations, now that the celebrated Hiss-Chambers case shifts from Capitol Hill to a Federal court room. Yesterday’s Federal grand jury indictment of Alger Hiss, former high State Department official, on two counts of lying under oath satisfied the House Un American Activities committee that it has nailed down evidence of a pre-war Soviet espionage ring. Now the committee intends to prove, members insist, that Red spying still is going on in the government. They claim that a man still working for the Army as a civil ian stole secrets of the famous Norden bomb sight and passed them along to Russia in 1938. In the grand jury indictment handed down in New York Hiss was accused of having sworn falsely (a) that he did not give secret State Department papers to Whittaker Chambers a de cade ago and (b' that he did not talk to the confessed for mer Communist spy ring courier during February and March of 1938. Episcopal (Junior Brotherhood Will Meet Tonight At 7 The Rev. Edmund Berkeley, pastor of All Stints Episcopal Church, announce! today that members of the Junior Brother hood of Saint Andrew are to meet this evening at seven at the church to g i together *o Longview, home cf Bill Long,, for the regular meeti ns. 1 The Rev. Mr. Berko my said transportation for the meeting will be provided to th Long Jameson Taking Orders For Cotton Seed Jackson.—County Agent P. H. Jameson said today he is ac cepting orders for cotton seed from growers who wish to get their seeds for the 1949 crop now. He said the seeds he has on hand have been tested and show 86 per cent or better germina tion. The seeds are all first quality and he said the price is quite reasonable. Jameson said any farmers in terested in obtaining these seeds are asked to get in touch with the County Agent’s office in Jackson at their earliest con venience. 7 Shopping Days Until Christmas Agent Jameson Makes Estimate Of County’s Total Farm Income Jackson.—Northampton County farmers will gross over $12,583,000 on their farm crops dur ing 1948, it was estimated by County Agent W. H. Jameson today. He stressed, however, that the gross farm in come is a far cry from being all profit, pointing out that the cost of producing such a record in come is much greater than it was a few years ago. Jameson said he figured the total farm in come in the county this year from cotton, corn, peanuts, tobacco and hogs will be greater than any year in history. He said in spite of high prices and high production costs “this year is a lot better than things were back in 1932 when the farmers didn’t even have enough left to pay Hoover Group Says Defense Too "Costly" Washington, Dec. 16—(^P)— This country’s national defense system is “enormously” costly and its machinery needs over hauling, a Hoover commission “task force” reported today. A 211-page critique said the unified military establishment set up by law last year “is, on the whole, soundly constructed, but is not yet working well.” A 14-member advisory com mittee to the commission on or ganization of the executive branch of the government, head ed by former President Herbert Hoover, cautioned that Russian strategy may be to keep Ameri can defense costs mounting in an effort to gain “victory by bankruptcy.” The commitee recommended this six-point program to hold improve the operations of the security setup: 1. Give the Secretary of De fense more direct control over the three armed forces because his present “difficulties lie in vague authority.” 2. Take steps to assure a “full er measure of teamwork” among the offices and services which compose the national military establishment and the top-level national security organization. 3. Overhaul the military bud g-t system because the “military services are far too prodigal with government funds.” 4. Relate scientific research more closely to strategic plan ning. The failure to have war plan ning geared to feasible scientific developments was said to consti tute “one of the most glaring de ficiencies in the whole panorama of the national security organi zation.” 5. Speed up plans for civilian mobilization in case of war, in cluding economic, industrial and manpower mobilization. 6. Make adequate provision for use of and protection against “unconventional means of war fare.” Perilous Rescue Of Airmen To Be Attempted St. John’s, Nfld., Dec. 16 —OP)— American air crews, equipped with ski-planes and attempt today to rescue nine U. S. fliers, huddled on a bleak Greenland snow bank. The U. S. Newfoundland Com mand said rescue equipment was being gathered at Narsars suak, 100 miles from where the nine men are stranded. Two transports towing red tailed gliders took off last night from Westover Field, Mass, on the first leg of the rescue mis sion. They were accompanied by Lt. Col., E. Emil Beaudry, noted Arctic flier, who will su pervise the rescue. Seven men were stranded when their C-47 was forced down last Thursday. Two more were added Monday when their B-17 fortress, trying to rescue the seven, nose-dived in to a snow bank. None of the nine was injured, officials said. Airforce officials said they had no late reports on the con dition of the stranded airmen, but said they had been dropped supplies, including small heat ing units. The men were* reported dug into snow banks in an effort to escape a biting snow storm, sweeping the 8,000-foot ice cap where they are stranded. Tem peratures on the windly heights were reported at zero. Woman Wins A Year’s Supply Of Ice Guelph, Ont., Dec. 16—(/P)— The feature prize at last night’s Board of Trade Ladies night was a year’s supply of ice, delivered. The winner was Mrs. John Col lens, wife of the proprietor of a refrigeration equipment Him. A ii tneir taxes. The Northampton County A gent’s totals will run a little less than the $17,850,000 estimated farm income in Halifax County, most of the difference being in the wide differential of tobaco grown. The combination of the two counties immediately adja cent to Roanoke Rapids, how ever, totals a gross farm income for the year of more than thirty million dollars, much of which will be used on “at home” buy ing in this immediate area. Peanut Crop Largest Jameson said Northampton, like other northeastern North Carolina counties, had suffered from wet weather in its peanut crop. He pointed out that the crop was late and said some of the peanuts would be lost, how ever he said there would be a lot of 1948 crop peanuts still har vested and sold in 1949 if proper precautions had been taken with the stacks. Peanuts will be by far the big gest Northampton County crop, aucuiuuiB iu rougn esumaies oy the County Agent. He said there are approzimately 45,000 acres of peanuts grown, with an aver age production over the county of about 12 bags to the acre. The price prevailing this year is averaging about $10.50 per bag, an increase over the 1947 price. On the basis of price, pro duction and acreage the income in the cdurity from peanuts alone will be the largest slice—$5,670, 000. Cotton, which Jameson said I has practically doubled since 1947, will account for about $3, 740,000 of the total county farm income. This figure is based on the 22,000 acres of cotton grown with a yield of about one bale to the acre. The Agent said the yield may be a little greater, but he added he wanted his es timate to be on the conservative side. Cotton this year brought a bout $150 per bale, while the seed brought about $20 more for the grand total estimate of the vear. Corn Over Million Acording to the estimated in come figures of the County A gent, com production this year will amount to about $1,680,000. He said corn was grown on about 35,000 acres of land during the year, pointing out that the yield on corn grown in the county has been steadily climbing. He said it is estimated that the average yield will be 30 bushels to the acre and that it sold for at least the government support price of $1.60 per acre and was some - time sold for an even higher fi gure. Hogs, Jameson estimated, would bring in an income of a bout $1,250,000 in Northampton County. He explained that tobacco is not and never has been an important “money” crop in his (Continued on Page 5) Holman Heads Woodland Club Woodland. — The Woodland Men’s Club at its regular month ly meeting elected as their presi A - t, Frank Holoman. Elected to serve with Holoman were T. C. Cooley, vice-presi dent and L. B. White, secretary treasurer. Dr. W. R. Parker, program chairman, called on several mem bers to give one-minute talks on some of the community’s needs. Mr. Bullock, sanitary Inspector for Northampton County, show ed a movie on farm safety, as a feature on the evening’s pro gram. committee was appointed to meet with delegates from Rich Square to study local telephone conditions in effort to get im provements in service. A contribution of $50.84 was collected to make plans for a Christmas party to be held next week. The host committee served a dinner of roast beef, candies yams, peas, cranberry sauce, ice cream and cake. Hosts were Dr. W. R. Parker S. H. White, Arthur Myers, R. B. Griffin, W. T. Outland and Stanley McDanieL / c '
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