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I ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT NANTZ Jonnny Hiliis of the seventh grade, stole the show yesterday •in assembly at the local high school, when the Glee Club pre sented their Christmas program, “Why The Chimes Ring” . John ny acted the part of Little Brother, who put the two pennies in the offering for Christ, anc made the chimes of the Cathe dral ring. He acted so natural in the part that you would al fjgmost know he was really a little ^brother in his home . .especially ly in the balcony, where the eleventh and twelfth grades sit you could hear remarks aboul how he seemed to just live thal part in the short time he was ar actor . . this program was giver last evening in the high school auditorium for the benefit of the towns-people, so you probably know what I mean, if you sav P>‘. There will be a rush on Santa’s supply of toy typewriters this season, and on cowboy suits and boots . one of the many who are asking for these is Davie Jarman Miller.and Dea» Fildes, even though he is jusl six years old, has an eye foi Saint Nick for a filling statior ... maybe he means just a smal one, although we will remembei •this is the atomic age and any thing can happen.... Leaving San Diego, California tomorrow are Earl Glover, Lewis Smith, and Frank Nantz . . they will arrive here on Tuesday tc spend about seven days with their families . . . leaving his home tomorrow will be Roben Rlflkp VlP Vine tp ronnrt o* Car Diego Naval Training Center 01 the 22nd of this month ... Mr. and Mrs. John Medlin wil have as their holiday guests, Mr and Mrs. T. C. Collins of Char lotte . . . Mr Collins is a brother of Mrs. Medlin’s. .the: expect to remain here until Jan uary 1... Dr and Mrs. M. J. Levin and small daughter, Judith Marie o Richmond, Virginia arrived las night at the home of Mrs. Levin’s lister ,Mrs J. J. Connor of Madi son street.... they will visit witl Mrs. Connor until Sunday Everyone is wondering how tht game with Raleigh will come ou tonight.... frankly I am too The local Yellow Jackets wil meet with the team of Needham Broughton High School, at Ral eigh, tonight for the first time. . . and anything can happen. Be cause we have never played tha team before and the towns-peo pie haven’t been keeping up with Raleigh’s progress this sea son, they hesitated to make pre dictions, but you can rest assur ed they will still be pulling foi the local Jax, all the way . , „ A sailor went dashing dowr the float to a boat just as i was pulling out. The boat hac moved off three or four yards and he jumped and fell, hitting a thwart with the back of hi: head. For several minutes h< lay stunned. When he came to the boat was several hundrec yards from shore. He lookec back, blinked a time or two anc shouted: “Boy! Oh, boy; car I # Radio Berlin Back On The Air; Soviets Say U. S. Ordered Towers Blown Up By French Military in / a tin _ I Berlin was doing business at the same old stand again today. Russia’s most powerful pro paganda voice in Germany went ^back on the air only 12 hours ^after the French had blown up its giant transmission towers. Soviet commentator Heinz Sc hmidt began broadcasting again last night on the same wave length and apparently with the same broadcasting power, even though the station’s two tall tramsmitting towers lay shatter ed in the French sector. Radio Berlin’s personnel re - ^fused to say how they managed it. German Engineers said they might be using another tower ||| at Potsdam. Taegliche Rundschau, official Soviet Army Newspaper, hinted at reprisals. “This barbaric demolition will be entered in future accounts ffi and all necessary conclusions %, drawn from it,” Editor S. Ti Sal mofejew wrote. “German public opinion ful ly and completely supports the ! decisive protest of Soviet author ities in Berlin against the high handed act of the French mili tary government,” the Russian editor said. The Communist-led Socialist unity Party issued a manifesto to all Berlin workers warning them that “American Monopoly ^capital and its henchmen” plan ™ned “further sabotage acts.” Gasburg, Va., Man Breaks Leg While Killing Hogs E. D. Jones of Gasburg, Va., suffered a broken leg yesterday ! morning in a freak acident which | occurred while he was killing a .§hog. The Birginia farmer, who was admitted to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital for treatment yesterday afternoon after having had his left leg fractured below the knee, told hospital attendants he was preparing to throw a hog down preparatory to killing it when the animal slipped and fell on Jones’ leg. ^ Hospital attendants here said ^the break was a simple fracture I and said Jones is recovering nice ly from the accident. — Missionary To Preach Sermon At Rosemary Methodist The Rev. Linwoodf Blackburn, ^ young missionary who has just ^completed his first five years of service in Africa will deliver the | sermon Sunday Morning at the 'I Rosemary Methodist church at j the regular worship hour. ! The Rev. and Mrs. Blackburn and Polly Blackburn are will jj known to the young adults at tending the Louisburg Assembly a few years ago. The Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Ste .vens will have as their guest this Weekend, The Blackburn’s and their son Lin wood Jr. Rose-Colored For, Orange Spots, Its An Albino Leopard New York, Dec. 17—HP)—Did you ever see an animal with rose-colored fur and orange spots, glaring at you with glaz fk.'rt yellow eyes? Visitors to the Central Park Zoo did yesterday. State’s Farm Income Higher Than Last Year Washington, Dec. 17—(/P)— North Carolina’s farm income for the first ten months of 194£ is $45,133,000 ahead of the same months of 1947. Income totalled $626,194,000 for ten months this year. Crop sales made a gain of $37, 121,000 and livestock $8,012,000 over sales of last year. However, the Department o: Agriculture reported farm ex penses shot up to such an ex tent that the U. S. farmer car expect his net income for this year to be less than it was ir 1947. Farmers in the nation are ex pected to receive two percenl less for crops this year than ir 1947 because cash from corn is less; tobacco growers are receiv ing less money than they did i year ago, cotton and fruil receipts are below last year’s. But potato prices ar * highei while other vegetables are low er. Higher tobacco prices have not quite offset lower market ings. And receipts from meat milk and eggs are expected tc be higher. North Carolina farm income for October reflected this de cline: cash from crops wen1 down $35,844,000 below Octobei crop sales of last year, but live stock gained $170,000 over the same month. Post Office Open All Day On Saturday Postmaster L • G. Shell said here today the Roanoke Rap ids post office will remain open until five o'clock tomor row to handle Christmas mail ing if business warrants keep ing postal employees on the job until that time. He said the post office was "nearly swamped" yesterday as employees handled approxi mately 50,000 pieces of incom ing and outgoing mail. The postmaster said it was one of the biggest days on record for pre-Christmas mail business. He said it was either an in dication that people are ac tually mailing earlier or that the 1948 season is going to be the biggest ever for the local post office. Shell said in addition to remaining open on Saturday to accommodate Christmas mailers, the office will also be open again all next Wednes day afternoon instead of ob serving its usual noon closing hour. Board Okays Rail Workers’ 40-HoUr Week Washington, Dec. 17—(/P)— A presidential board today recom mended that the railroads give their “non - operating” employes a seven-cents an hour wage in crease immediately and put them on a 40-hour week next Sep I tember without loss in pay. The non - operating employes - the clerks and mechanical workers who do not operate trains — now work 48 hours a week. The board proposed that the seven-cent increase be retroact ive to Oct. 1. Under the proposal, the shift to the 40 - hour week would be made without any change in “take home* pay. The board cal culated that it would take the equivalent of a 20 percent in crease in base rates to preserve the “take home” pay unchanged. The board estimated its pro posals would cost the railroads $340,000,000 in 1949. This would include $150,000,000 for the cost of the 40-hour week from Sep tember to the end of 1949, plus the seven-cent increase for all of 1949. The workers had asked a cut in the work week to 40 hours, without any reduction in “take home” pay, and—on top of that —a 25 cents an hour wage in crease. The so - called “non - oper ating ” railroad workers are those who do not operate trains. Long Session Of Recorders Court Here Four Negroes, all found guilty of illegal possession of non tax paid liquor, were given the longest sentences in a day-long session of recorder’s court here yesterday, and a number of oth er defendants were fined or freed in the long court. Because of the crowded dock et of cases involving Roanoke Rapids defendants, Judge Char les R. Daniel ordered a special term of the recorder’s court to be held here on Decem ber 30 to clear up the docket. Ordinarily the court would not have met in Roanoke Rapids before January 6, hpwever a session will be held on consec utive Thursday because of the special session ordered. Charlie Hicks, Lawrence, Nell Scott and Missie Scott, Negroes, were all sent to the roads for six months each on the liquor charges. One defendant, Edwin L. Moseley, who appeared in court to answer a charge of posses sion of non tax-paid liquor was ordered jailed by Judge Daniel when it appeared to the judge that Moseley was under the in fluence of alcohol when he ap peared in court. He was jailed and ordered held without bond until the next recorder’s court here. Henry T. Fowler, who was found guilty of driving drunk, was given 18-months’ sentence for a repeated offense, however the sentence was suspended and Fowler was ordered to remain of good behavior, ordered to given up alcohol and his auto mobile and to enter the Veter ans Hospital at Roanoke, Va., for treatment. In other cases heard William H. Renn of Greenville and Joe S. Bennett, Hopewell, Va., Neg ro, were both fined $25 and costs on charges of reckless driving. Edgar Wheeler and Bill Ray both received suspended judg ments on the payment of $25 High School Glee Club Gives Inspiring Dramatization Of “Why The Chimes Rang” by A'ax nanxs On Thursday afternoon the Roanoke Rapids High School Glee Cluv, under the direction of George Baird, presented to the students from the sixth through the twelfth grades, one of the most inspiring plays ever dramatized on stage at the local school. It was from the original story, “Why The Chimes Rang,” by Grace Van Dyke. When the curtain was raised, on-stage were Ann Bunn, Wil liam Speight and Johnny Ellis, who represented the poor moth er, and her two sons, Pedro and Little Brother. The scene to6k place in the small dining room of their humble home lighted only by candles, which were on the table. From the outside there could be heard the voices of the caroler, as they sang “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” As they entered the room, carry ing lighted candles, the. sang “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear,” after which Pedro re quested “We Three Kings of Orient,” for the sake of Little Brother, who had never heard it 'lerbert Moore, Sonny Hines, and Vance Collins took these three parts. “God Send A Happy New Year” was sung Ky Gene Waters, Noah Sadler, Sonny Hines, Edward Harper, Clyde Camp, Herbert Moore, Vance Collins, and Billy Fanney; the carolers, upon leaving the home sang, “Pack the Halls.” The next scene was that which most deeply impressed the audience. I4, showed the in side of the Cathedral and was especially effective because of a beautiful stimulated stained window glass, which cast a sha dow over the altar and across the floor. On the altar were two lighted candles and a cross which furnished the light. The priest, Clyde Camp, was on one side, with the choir entering on both sides behind the altar, sing ing “Oh, Come All Ye Faithful” and then “Oh, Little Town of Bethelhem.” Mary Speight, Neal Allsbrook and Anno Grizzard then sang a Christmas hymn, followed by the choir singing “The First Noel.” As they sang each verse, a member of the congregation would come forth and present their offering. However, none was great enough to make the chimes ring, and as they bowed in reverent prayer, the figure of a small boy appeared, walking slowly and in wonder down the aisle and by the rich people, pass the noble priest, and then to the altar. He timidly placed his two pennies on the top of the altar table; as he knelt in prayer and the pennies shone in the light of the window, the chimes began to ring and every one was amazed. At firat it was s> spected to be a miracle, but they soon realized that an offer ing had been made from the heart and not for the sake of trying to give the most or best. The choir then sang “Joy to the World” and closed the program with the singing of "Silent Night.” Those participating in the pro gram were director, George Baird; Anne Bunn, William Speight, Johnny Ellis, Margaret Lou George, Clyde Camp, Mah lon Epps, Aim King; Pat Raw lings, Mary Jo Suitor, Donald Reaves, Mary Frances Allsbrook, Herbert Moore, Sonny Hines, and Vance Collins. The party ol carolers and church choir consisted of Neal Allsbrook, Derrell Armstrong, Jo Ann Barnes, Naomi Barnette, Johnny Beer, Peggy Billups, Jo Ann Black, Martha Bowers, Bus ter Britt, Barbara Britton, Rach el Braswell, Alice Brown, Rich ard Brown, Caroline Broun, pianist; Marie Bullock, Thurman Bullock, Anne Bunn, John Bush, Faye Butts, Clyde Camp, Mar garet Clary, Mary Ann Clary, Vance Collins, Rebie Davis, Jud ith DeLoatch, Janet Dixon, Gladys Draper, Jane Edwards, Dwight Elting, Angelyn Emery, Sue Epperson, Mahlon Epps, Ed ward Fanney, Doris Freeman, Ruby Futrell, Patricia Gay, Bobby George, Margaret George, Dorothy Gray, Ann Grizzard, Cora M. Haggins, Vivian Hag gins, Edward Harper, Margaret Hunnings, Doris Ingram, Lewis Ivey, Hazel Jenkins, Helen Joy ner* Erline Keeter, Peggy Kidd, Ann King, Genldine Lewis, Thomas Mason, Jewel Mitchell, Tha Jane More, Billy Morgan, Faye Ogden, Joyce Oliver, Jud ith Parker, Bobbie Peade, Joyce Rawlings, Hattie Reid, Pat Raw lings, Betty Robinson, Earl Rook, Noah Sadler, Peggy Scott, De lores Sheffield, Mary Speight, Mary Jo Suitor, Mary Starke, Shirley Stewart, Vance Stewart, Lois Taylor, Patricia Topping, Gene Waters, Bobbie Watson, Mary J. Whitby, Nadine Wil iams, Ann Wood, Mary Joyce Finch, Lola Sykes, Sonny Hines,!: 1 oward Williams, Billy Clem- ‘ per, and Lawrence Fahey. I] Flying Santa Claus On Annual Tour Of Coast V t Coast Guardsman of the Brant Point Life boat station at Nantucket, Mass., wave greetings to the plane bearing Edward Rowe Snow, Bo sion's "Flying Santa," on his annual flight. He is dropping Christmas packages to isolated lighthouses and Coast Guard stations along the At lantic coast from Maine to Florida. Right: Snow has landed at Marthas Vinyard, Mass., and is delivering a doll to seven-year-old Seamond Ponsart, daughter of the West Chop lighthouse keeper. Last year the little girl had a tearful Christmas because the Doll Snow dropped was broken in landing. This time, the "Flying Sa nta" wrote Seamond in advance that he would land and deliver the doll in person. (AP Wire photos). Congressional Spy Hunters Say Man Accused Of Giving Norden Bomb Data To Russians Is A Ballistics Expert it oMuuywtti wwv. — v Aitomey General Clark said today the administration will ask for tightening of the na tion's espionage laws as soon as the new congress meets next month. Washington, Dec. 17—(AP)— Congressional spy hunters said today the man accused of get ting the norden bombsight se cret for Russia is a ballistics expert who has been spotted and questioned by Federal agents. The House Un-American Ac tivities committee also: Showed signs of reopening the Alger Hiss case by asking Fran cis B. Sayre, former Assistant Secretary of State and Hiss’ one-time boss, to be a witness Monday or Tuesday. Assigned Rep. McDowell (R PA) to go to New York as a one-man sub-committee and question other witnesses about Hiss’ activities back in the 1930s. Kept its furious feud going with President Truman and the Justice Department. Mr. Truman isn’t changing a bit his stand that the committee spy case is a “red herring.” That’s, what he told a news con ference late yesterday. Committee members jeered at that, especially since a New York grand jury indicted Hiss on a perjury charge on evidence turned up as a result of the committee’s spy hearings. Committeemen said they un derstood the bombsight suspect authority on such things as rockets, bombing tables and testified that he was a courier for a red spy ring before split ting with the Communists i n 1938, apparently supplied the man’s name to the committtee Committeemen said they un derstood the bombsight suspect testified to that same grand jury and that a new grand jury will go more deeply into the case. It was set up after the other jury expired at midnight Wednesday. Rep. Mundt (R-SD), acting committee chairman, has said :h man is a civilian employe of he Army at its Aberdeen (Md.) 1 ^roving Ground but is temper- 1 trily on leave because of illness. 1 [*he proving ground tests wea-, < >ons and all sorts of equipment.1 c Truman Will Give Views On Labor Washington, Dec. 17 —OP)— rhe White House said today President Truman’s views on abor legislation will be clearly ;tated in his state of the union message to Congress Jan. 5. William Green, head of the \merican Federation of Labor, said after a call on Mr. Tru nan yesterday that the Presi ient still favors repeal of the raft-Hartley law and re-instate nent of the Wagner Act. That*s vhat the labor unions want. The AFL leader said he and Mr. Truman had not discussed possible amendments to the iVagner Act, the basic labor law jrior to enactment of the Taft dartley measure. Today, Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross was asked if le knew whether Mr. Truman ;hinks the Wagner Act should be changed in any way, if the Taft dartley law is removed from die books. Ross replied that he knows Mr. Truman’s views on the mat ter, but could not state them for publication. He added that the President will cover the matter thoroughly in state of the union message. Rain, Cooler Is Prediction By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain and cooler weather were forecast for the Carolinas today, tonight and tomorrow. A drop in temperatures would signify a return toward normal after several consecutive days af above normal readings. The weather bureau reports that :emperatures have averaged ap proximately 20 degrees above lormal. The lowest temperature for Charleston, S. C., this morning iras 64 degrees—highest of the 'arolinaa. Winston-Salem, N. !., took low honors for major ities with a 48 minimum. Farmers Advised To Ascertain Cotton Loan Value Raleigh, Dec. 17—(JP)— North Carolina farmers were advised yesterday not to sell their rain damaged cotton until they check its loan value. Dan F. Holler, cotton market ing specialist for N. C. State College’s Extension Service, ad vised growers to find out the loan value free of charge. This should be done, he ex plained, by the producer asking his ginner to submit cut staple to the government cotton class ing office. The office will return a carcl showing the grade, staple and loan value, he said. Holler declared that by taking advantage of this service, a grower may save from $2.50 to $40 per bale. FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK Series of six illustrated ar ticles, on The Christmas Story, beginning Sunday, December 19, in the Herald and ending Friday, December 24. < 34th Year—No. 82__Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Friday, December 17,1948 5c Daily; 10c Sunday Legislation To Make Caledonia Test Farm Is Urged By Speaker At Local Kiwanis Club Meeting V Manning Says Farm Could Be Great Asset Rives Manning, a member of the agriculture committee of the Kiwanis club, envisioned great possibilities at Caledonia Prison Farm in Halifax County, in an address before the members of the club last night at the high school cafeteria. Manning urged the members of the club to consider asking the state legislature to take the farm from the jurisdiction of the high way commission and make it into a test farm under the jurisdic tion of the state department of agriculture or the North Caro lina State College extension ser vice. Manning told the group that with the coming flood control under the Roanoke Valley dam construction program that “Cale donia could become a field la boratory for agriculture and live stock and could serve as a live stock seed farm.” Saying that he had all due re spect for the operation of the farm under its present organiza tion, Manning declared, “the farm is not now an asset to Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County or Eastern North Carolina, but it is an asset to the state of North Carolina. It can become a distinct liability to the state.” The speaker urged that some action be instituted in the stale legislature which convenes in January to take the farm from the jurisdiction of the state high way commission and make of it a test farm under the jurisdiction of the departmet of agriculture or State College’s extension ser ! vice, but continue to use prison labor under an honor system. Manning said that the farm which contains some 7,300 acres now has some fine beef stock and some fine swine an grows many crops, but that none of the stock or crops can be sold ex cept to the state unless it is sold at public auction. He said, “A farmer or a Four H club member wanting some of the stock for breeding purpose or for the Four-H contests cannot now buy any of the stock.” All of the production of the farm is used by state institutions and surplus sold only by public auc tion. He envisioned the possibility of making a great stock farm of Caledonia and quoted County Agent W. O. Davis as saying that the farm couM support 2,000 head of beef cattle, a herd of 500 dairy cows, many swine besides raising all the necessary crops. Manning pointed out that at present some of the land at the farm in unandated by the Roa noke River when it is high but added flood control by the build ing of 11 dams on Roanoke Ri- • ver this handicap would be overcome. Following the meeting, Man ning told a reporter that the farm could be made into a model prison farm for white first of fenders who would work the farm and produce the crops. Under the present systerm Negro pri soners some of whom are third and fourth offenders operate the farm. Present at the meeting were -5 members of the local Kiwanis Club and officers of clubs from Tarboro, Williamston and Eliza beth City who attened a dis trict organization meeting here yesterday. Kenneth Running was induct ed as a new member of the club. weather North Carolina—Consider able cloudiness and coolar to day and tonight, preceded by showers coastal area this morning; Saturday, mostly cloudy with little change In temperatures followed by rain Saturday night. 6 Shopping Days Until Christmas
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