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VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FARMYILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1985 NUMBER FIVE
Staggering Toll Taken By
Floods Over Wide Front
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More Than 500 Deaths
In United States and
Mexico from Raging
Waters
Raleigh, June 4.?Floods, already
charged with more than 500 deaths
and upwards of $25,000,000 damage
in Western states and in Mexico,
rolled relentlessly last night (Tues
day) over rich regions of Kansas,
Missouri and California.
The raging waters spread de
struction and threatened further
loss of life over a widening area.
The big Missouri hit new crests.
It passed its 1927 level. It promised
to equal the disastrous proportions
of the flood of 1903.
The smaller Raw, carrying the
tide which swept southward out of
Nebraska into Kansas by way of
the Republican River, raced east
ward toward Kansas City?and con
fluence with the swelling Missouri.
Army engineers and city officials
feared the full crest of the Kaw,
roaring into the Missouri, would
bring flood conditions at Kansas
City similar to 1908. Industrial sec
tions were inundated then with
heavy losses.
The threatened portions of Kansas
City include the stockyards and
buildings, numerous industrial plants
and the Kansas City livestock ex
change.
National Guardsmen, regular Army
men and police rushed ahead of the
surging crest in Missouri and Kan
sas. They helped farmers and towns
people in the lowlands to higher
ground.
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Prompt warnings were cretuiea
with preventing great loss of life.
Still, death estimates already had
pushed toward 600. The dead in
cluded 400 persons drowned in
Mexico and more than a score in
Colorado and Wyoming last week
as well as victims in Kansas, Mis
souri and Nebraska. ' I
Damage in Kansas, Nebraska and
Missiouri alone was set unofficially
in the neighborhood of $20,000,000.
The Kaw valley, from Kansas City
west to Topeka, a distance of about
75 miles, took on an appearance of
war-time evacuation.
At Topeka, capital of Kansas,
thousands of persons lined the
river's banks as an expected six-1
foot crest approached from the west.)
where the business district of Man- <
hattan, site of Kansas State College,
lay largely under water.
The Missouri river flood waters
swirled through deserted Missouri
towns of Cedar City, Tebbets and
Wainwright. Residents had fled
before the approaching wall. i
The Red Cross was unable to con- i
centrate its efforts in Kansas and
Missouri. It notified county chap
ter to handle each district in
dividually. Arrangements were
made to distribute rations among
refugees.
In a race against threatened* new
floods, tugboat crews and workmen
strove to repair broken levees of
the San Joaquin river near Man
teca, Cali.
It was believed .a 300-foot broken
section could be repaired by Wed
nesday night.
Already, however, 5,000 acres of
rich land were under water. Prop
erty damage was estimated at "sev
eral hundred thousand dollars."
Thirty-four families fled their
homes.
ESTIMATES 400 PERISHED
IN MEXICAN DISASTER
Mexico, D. P., Jane 4.?Floodwat
ers receded, today: from the volley oi
Mexico, leaving many of an estimat
ed 400 dead buried in a newly-creat
ed cemetery of mod.
Many children were amcng the
2S6 persona whose bodies were re
covered from the wreckage of the
dRpA in jSaa Pedro, where each
year the revoat' r the countryside II
kneel in prayer, the supplicants be
seeching their patron saint for life
giving rant
The Hood waters, risking down
l^^the valley yesterday in a narrow
oSaTtowns^ "thf*
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vnim?. greto <rf a?|
sister's two children drowned."
From San Pedro the rushing
waters swept on down the roads
leading to other villages, trapping
many who had been on their way to
the little church.
Some of* the bodies were carried
from San Pedro as far as San Gre
gorio, 15 miles down the mountain.
It was believed many victims were
buried in the mud.
Damage to the crops was less than
at first reported, since the waters
followed a comparatively narrow
course.
Early in the morning, the police,
firemen and relatives of the victims,
working in the church debris by the
light of flickering candles, began
the task of seeking the bodies. They
carried them to the outside and the
wailing of the women were made.!
The roads were crowded with rela
tives of the victims, and many chant
ed religious dirges.
The rain started at 2:30 p. m. yes
terday, and soon the mountain
streams overflowed, forming another
great stream through the valley
bottom. In two hours the fields
were lakes and roads rivers.
The village folk tried to stop the
soldiers' first efforts to retrieve the
bodies because they believed the
disaster was an act of vengence
from Heaven. Earlier in the day
the village priest was arrested and
the service halted by the authori
ties.
The known victims in Milpa Altar
totaled 21 and in Xochimilco 22.
President Lazaro Cardenas order
ed a mobilization of relief forces to
aid the stricken populace.
Riggs Is Found
To Be Insane
Self Crucifier of High
Point Will be Commit
ted to Hospital in Mor
ganton
High Point, June 4.?R. J. Riggs,
36-year-old filling station proprietor
who voluntarily underwent "cruci
fixion" last Saturday morning in a
vain attempt to win back the affec
tions of his estranged wife, was or
dered committed to the State hispi
tal for the insane at Morganton late
yesterday.
The commitment order was sign
ed by Justice of the Peace C. C.
Muse upon a statement by Dr. W. J.
McAnally, High Point city health
officer, that Riggs was in need of
mental treatment.
Weak and apparently dazed, the
man lay nailed to a rude cross for
more than two hours, was transfer
red from the High Point jail to the
Builford county jail at Greensboro
to await removal to the institution.
He offered no objection.
"I want to see my babies," he said,
"and if I can't I dont care where
you put me. I wont live long, no
matter where you put me."
Since officers discovered him upon
the cross, with nails piercing the
flesh of his heels and the skin be
tween his thumbs and fore-fingers,
Riggs has not been visited by any
relative.
Summer Term To
Open NextTuesday
College Campus Quiet
Since Graduating Ex
erases
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Greenville, Jane 4.?The College
campras is quiet after the biggest
commencement in its history, and
the one that starts the new quarter
of a century. The students have all
gone and some of the members of
the faculty, but most of them are
still here finishing up the - term's
work and checking up, at the end
of the year.
The Summer School will open on
next Tuesday morning, June 11,
eat tn many years, with a.^ possibil
the faculty and officers, but the
full teaching staff is not on duty
Drovina very popular. The three
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FarmiHe Tobacco
Board of Trade |
Elect Now Officers
H. N. Howard Elected
President, J. S. Gates,
Re-elected Vice Presi
dent; Committee Ap
pointed to Work with
Citizens Committee In
Advertising market
The Farmville Tobacco Board of
Trade met in special session in the
offices of A. C. Monk and Co., Wed
nesday night with a large number
of the members present.
The object of the meeting was for
the purpose of electing officers for
the ensuing year and laying plans
for the approaching season.
In the absence of a presiding of
ficer, A. C. Monk was called upon to
act as temporary chairman, and after
stating the purpose of the meeting,
called for the nomination of a presi
dent, as this office had been vacant
for some time. Mr. H. N. Howard
was then nominated and unanimous
ly elected to the office of president.
J. Sterling Gates was re-elected as
vice-president,
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The election of a secretary ana
treasurer was deferred and a commit
tee appointed by the president to in
vestigate the possibility of securing
a whole-time sales supervisor and
publicity man who could also act as
secretary-treasurer; this committee
to report their findings to the Board
as soon as possible.
The president was also asked to
appoint a committee to work in con
junction with D. E. Oglesby, Geo.
W. Davis and T. E. Joyner, who have
been asked to serve for the business
firms of the town in raising funds to
keep our market ever before the
growers of Eastern Carolina. On
this committee from the Board of
Trade president Howard the follow
ing: J. Y. Monk, R. H. Knott, J.
Branch Bobbitt, Grover C. Webb, W.
S. Royster, I. E. Satterfield and
Playto Monk, the members of the
Board asking Mr. Howard to act as
chairman of this committee. ?
Among those attending the meet
ing were: A. C. Monk, Plato Monk,
Coy Monk, J. Y. Monk, R. H. Knott,
J. M. Hobgood, L. R. Bell, J. Branch
Bobbitt, Grover C. Webb, H. N. How-,
ard, J. L. Tugwell, R. C. Thornton,
of the Imperial Tobacco Co.; Tom I
Roberts, of American Suppliers; I.
E. Satterfield, of Export Leaf Tobac
co Co.; W. S. Royster, of Leggett and
Myers Tobacco Co.; and Alex Allen,
of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Health Officer
Warns Publie
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I The Health Officer, Doctor Ennett,
I feels that the Infantile Paralysis sit
Buation has reached the point where
I the public should be advised as to
I the early symptoms of the disease
I and as to the generally accepted
? measures of control. He states that
? there are many things about the di
? sease which are obscure and still
I baffles medical science.
I The early symptoms, however, are:
I fever, headache, vomiting, pains in
llimbs, back or neck, fretfutness, and
I followed usually within three or four
? days with paralysis or loss of use of
? certain muscles, more often a leg or
? an arm or any combination of these.
? Doctor Ennett states that the disease
lis seasonal, usually beginning in May
I and reaching its height in August or
I September.
The health officer advises that in
lease of sickness in children, parents
should not take the children to the
physician^ office, but call the physi
cian to the home. Especially should
? the childdren be segregated from
other children, be protected against
I flies, either by screens or by mosqui-1
j to netting, and that the eating uten
sils of the patient be sterilised and
kept from those of other members of II
pfc#/family.. (I
He further advises that all chil-|l
jdren avoid picnics and other such!
I gatherings, in fact he feels that it J
would be much safer for;j|ll small 1
children to remain at home until the
prevalence, of Infan^le Paralysis has!
Through State
Capital Keyholes
By Bess Hinton Silver
AMUSING?-Along about this time
of the year presetting State-wide pri
mareis, candidates for the big posts
begin to visit Washington to ascer
tain how they stand with the boys
from the home-State who have prov
ed their vote-getting ability. So far,
not a single one has returned dis
couraged. The lands who get to
Congress must be good at politics
rnd must be better to stay there.
They know better than to give office
seekers the impression that his Con
gressman is not his friend. Ifs the
old army game of science and skill
but it still works.
SCRAPPING ? North Carolina
power industries are going after the
Rayburn bill, now in the United
States Senate, out in the open. Some
of the companies are running adver
tisements in the State newspapers
giving the public their side of the
case. Privately some power officials
express the opinion that there is so
much of the undersirable in the
measure to put unprecedented con
trol of local business in the hands of
the Federal Power Commission that
the public can be trusted to decide
against the Rayburn bill. Be that
as it may, Tar Heel members of
Congress have -reported that their
mail has been 'filled with protests
against the power control bill.
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IN THE MAYING?It now ap
pears that Wrightsville Beach, near
Wilmington, may be given a new
lease on life by the building of a
bridge to the island and constructing
a road on the sound side beyond the
center of public attraction. New
Hanover county commissioners have
asked the State Highway and Public
Works Commission to spend the
money to be 'allotted for general
road purposes in' their county on the
Wrightsville Beach project. Since
resort business means so much to
this county by the sea, it is not im
probable that the commission may
grant the request. In that event
you will be able to drive your car
right up to dear old Wrightsville,
something- no -living being- has -ever
done before. ,
NEUTRAL??-As things are now
snapping up it appears the Ehring
haus administration will be neutral
in the coming gubernatorial primary.
In 1932 charges were hurled that the
Gardner forces favored Ehringhaus
over his opponent iR? T. Fountain.
This time iLeutenant Governor A. H.
Graham and Clyde R. Hoey, of
Shelby, brother-in-law of former
Governor Gardner, are considered the
chief contenders for the red leather
chair and the Mansion on Blount
Street in Raleigh, but so far there
has been no indication that the pres
ent Governor desires to play favor
ites. In fact, different key men in
the Ehringhaus organization are fov
oring first one and thta the other
of the two big-shot candidates.
ilo SHOCK-ABSORBER ?Native
ig along former county dirt roads
e gone along uncomplainingly
ling their gasoline tax of six cents
I the gallon. They were content
ler the promise that as soon as
I primary State road system was
Ipleted the roads along which
Id folks" live would be put in
I table all-weather - shape, i But
It are they going to say when they
le up and realise that the state
lem is finished and the money
I was supposed to be spent in i ru
ling by-ways has been diverted
Various and sundry purposes?
le of the politicians now advocat
lusing your gasoline tax money
laway from your roads may be
ftrrassed in answering that very
ltion,_ not so long in the future.
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|DTERMINED-Thad Eure,;prin
I clerk of several sessions of the
le of Representatives, now says
I is no doubt that he will expose
my W. Wade for Secretary cf
I s in the Democratic primary nixt
g& Mr. Eure adds that he is
I lent of success but Secretsry
I) believes he will have some
to do with the matter. Cure I
i Carolina and reports that hel
NIBBLING?M. R. Dunagan, Ral-j
Wade for the post of Secretary of!
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Golf Enthusiasts
To Hold Meeting
On Monday Night
Meeting To Be Held In
City Hall at 8 o'Clock
for the Purpose of Dis
cussing Possible Ways
and Means
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Interest is developing rapidly
among our citizens - for the early
formation of a Golf Club for Fann
ville, and also in connection there
with the possibility of a Community
Club House and Gymj all of which,
I we learn, may be obtained on a 25-.7IT
; per cent basis through the FERA,
j costing the town only 26 per Cent.
This being true, Fannville cannot
afford to lose such a golden oppor
tunity to obtain this entire project,
and a meeting has been called of all
interested citizens, both ladies and
gents for Monday night at 8 o'clock,
in the City Hall, for the purpose of
going into the matter, perfecting an
organization, electing officers, ap
pointing committees, etc., to in
vestigate and devise ways and means
whereby such a project may be had.
This is something most of the larg
er towns have and find well worth
while, and if good for them, why
not for us. Farmville, though small
in area, has a citizenship with big
town ideas and habits and a Golf
Course here will prevent many of
our folks as well as visitors leaving
over the week end to find this recrea
tion in neighboring towns.
Attend the meeting in the City
Hall Monday night and lend your
moral if not financial, support to
this undertaking to provide health
ful recreation for Farmville and
community.
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Hold Services
I in New CM
Presbyterian of Snow
Hill Have Completed
Structure at Cost of
$7,000
Snow Hill Jane 4.?The Snow
Hill Presbyterian congregation held
the first service in its new church
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Rev.
Harold J. Dudley, pastor, delivered
the sermon from Psalm 27:4. The
Lord's Supper was celebrated. Other
churches of Snow Hill joined in the
service, with Rev. W. L. Maness,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, assisting Mr. Dudley. Greet
ings were brought to the congrega
tion from other churches.
The Presbyterian church was con
structed at an approximate cost of
$7,000, and is complete with the ex
ception of pews, pulpit furniture,
and organ. These will be added in
the fall In the meantime chain, ta
bles, and piano will be used. Work
on the church began last November.
Though there areN only 24 mem
bers of the Snow Hill Congregation,
the church was completed without
indebtedness. A stimulus was given
to the building program by the gift
of $1,000 from the Hudson-Belk
foundation*
The church is of Gothic architec
ture, with solid brick walls, slate
roof, and steple containing a bell,
given by Snow Hill citizens in mem
ory of'the late Dr. W. D. Young, ar.
elder in the church who contributed
generously towards the construction
of the church. The church is 26 by
49 by 24 high, the steeple spire at
taining to a height of nearly 50 feet
The electrical fixtures provide indi
rect lighting. ' '
Oscar Miller and Dr. W. B. Mur
phy are elders in the church. Other
Members are as follows: Sila Brown,
Mrs. P. C. vCarraway, Mrs. R. L.
Chestnut Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Her
ring, Mrs. Guy Lassiter, Mr, and
Mrs. Robert Edwards, Mrs. R. A.
Mewborn, R. A. Mewbora, Jr., Mary
Jane -Mewbonv Mrs. Oscar ] Mfllery
Pete Miller, MradS. E. Moseley, Mra.
W. B. Murphy, Miss Irene Mizella,
Mrs. G. A. McGee, Mr. and Mrs.
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State Health Dept.
Expert Visits Go.
Dr. J. C. Knox Issues
Statement on Infantile
Paralysis Situation
Upon the invitation of Doctor En
nett, the local health officer was
visited on June 4th by Doctor J. C.
Knox, State Epidemiologist, in con
nection' with the outbreak of Infan
tile Ftaalysis in Pitt County. There
are to date 7 cases in Pitt County,
ranging from 7 months to 4 years of
age.
i Doctor Knox had been investigat
ing cases of Infantile Paralysis in
the Vanceboro section of Craven
County and was anxious to learn
something at first hand of the Pitt
County situation.
Doctor Ennett, the local health
officer, requested Doctor Knox to
make a general statement on Infan
tile Paralysis as a State problem,
which statement is as follows:
i "For the State as a whole, there
has been recorded for the month of
May a total of 45 cases. This, by
the way, was the same number of
cases reported for the entire year
of 1934. Since we have been keep
ing records, beginning in 1918, this
is the highest number of cases re
corded in any single month. Pre
viously, the highest number of cases
recorded for the month of May was
6, which occurred in 1929.
The North Carolina State Board
of Health and all of the local health
departments are concerned about
the - undue prevalence of Infantile
Paralysis as this particular time of
the year, due to the fact that usually
the highest number of cases occur
in the months of July and August.
We are not alarmed about the situa
tion, however;
It is the advice of the State Health
Department that children that are in
the susceptible age, certainly those
under the age of 10 years, should
avoid such gatherings as Sunday
school picnics, vacation Bible School
or picture shows.. * In towns and
cities where there are public swim
ming pools, parents should see that
younger children not visit and use
these pools.
All mild illnesses in children
which might be confused with early
Infantile Paralysis should be treat
ed as a suspected case until proven
to be something else. Prompt isola
tion of these suspected cases will be
of value in helping to control the
spread of the disease.
These milder, cases may be over
looked until later it is found out
that there is a partial loss of muscle
function of either arm, leg or both.
It is necessary even in these mild
cases to keep the patient in bed and
keep affected part immobilized, in
other words, place it in a splint so
that the patient cannot move the af
fected part Sand bags, when plac
ed along the side of the leg or
against the sole of the foot as a
brace, is often a very satisfactory
substitute for a splint In so doing,
it allows the part affected to regain
its fullest possible amount of func
tion after the illness.
While this rest for the affected
part in the early stages of the di
sease is important, it is equally im
portant, after the acute stage has
passed, that proper exercise of the
muscles be carried out This mus
cular training should ordinarily be
gin 4 to 6 weeks after the onset of!
the disease."
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ATTEND BASEBALL GAME
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The following were among the
baseball fans who attended the
Ayden-Greenville game in Ayden on
Tuesday; R. H. Knott, Robert Lee
Smith, R. A. Fields, J. M. Hobgood,
Billy Morton, J. Y. Monk, G. W.
Shirley, John Hill Payler and John B.
Lewis.
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BRIDGE LUNCHEON
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in. its decoration arrangement of
I Mrs. I. E. Satterfield won the high
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Business Leaders Favor
Action To Salvage NRA
Want 90-Day Truce In
Which States and Gov
ernment Can Unite on
Plans
\
New York, June 4.?Representa
tives of approximately 100 codified
industries today endorsed a plan de
signed to salvage the best features
of the NRA without resorting to a
Constitutional amendment ?
Under the plan, submitted by
Peter Van Horn, president of the
National Federation of Textiles,
President Roosevelt would call for
a 90-day truce during which the
Federal and state governments
would unite in setting up a syn
chronized program of interstate and
intrastate business regulations.
The plan was outlined at a meet
ing called by the Industry and Busi
ness Committee for NRA Extension,
headed by Ward Cheney, Soutli
Manchester, Conn., silk manufac
turer. '
Van Horn urged that President
Roosevelt call a national conference
of State and Federal officials to
consider his proposal, which he said
had been found by legal experts to
be fundamentally sound.
"Voluntary codes are impractical
to regulate the five or ten per cent
of the fringe of industry and busi
ness which generally sets the stand
ards for all and will only do the
right thing by labor and by their
competitors is compelled to do so by
law," he said.
"There must be power under Fed
eral and state laws, therefore, to
impose codes similar to those which
were attempted by delegation of
power to the President under the old
act." '
Business and industrial leaders
continued, meanwhile, to pledge
voluntary adherence to NRA stand
ards.
The Anthracite Institute announc
ed that leaders of the hard coal in
dustry were considering a plan of.
voluntary self-regulation and had
enlisted the services of C. F. Huber
of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., chairman of
the Glen Alden Coal Company, as
administrator or "czar" of the in
dustry. ?
President Roosevelt's assertion
that the Supreme Court decision
look the country back to the "horse
and buggy days" was challenged by
James R. Bancroft, president of
the American Institute of Finance.
Addressing the New England Bak
ers' ' convention at Swampscott,
Mass., Bancroft said:
"We can understand his reac
tions as he sees cherished plans lying
in destruction at his feet."
Bancroft said he believed the in
validation of the NRA would have
a "tremendous influence in creat
ing a genuine basis from which
marked business recovery in the
United States can and will develop."
The National - Music Publisher?
Association voted at its annual meet
ing to maintain provisions of the
NRA code for the time being at
least, and the Hotel Association of
New York City resolved to continue
the "prevailing" rate of hours and
wages.
Walter C. Teagle, president of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey, promised at the annual stock
holders' meeting that there would
be no salary cuts or increases in
hours.
eremiah T. Mahoney,chairman
of the regional labor board, an
nounced that the Robert Gair Com
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panyf folding - box manufacturers
with plants in Brooklyn, Piermont,
N. Y., and in New England, had
given a similar assurance tc union
leaders. *..\ _ ,/ '
Max Zaritsky, offical of the
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery
workers International Union, pro
posed to millinery manufacturers'
associations throughout the coun
try that they unite in a plan for
self-government..
Voluntary adherance to their re
spective codes was pledged by. the
Tie Fabric*. Jbnpciatiop and by the ;
Revere Copper and Brass Company,
fee,, with plants at Rome, N. Y? .
Taunto??.?(l: New Bedford^. Mass.,
Baltimore, Chicago and ^Detroit v
A number of New York house- ?
wives' organizations have informed
Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, state com
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