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VOLUME 1, NO. 2 ROCKY MOUNT, NO TH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934 SI.OO PER YEAR..

Celebrate Golden Anniversary

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MR. AND MRS. CHARLES W. HARRIS

\u25a0 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. HarrisCelebrate Golden Anniversaryl

CITYFINANCES AREIN GOOD SHAPE NOW

Largest Payroll. Distributed Here

The largest payroll yet paid localCWA employes today was announ-ced by A. D. Dozier, disbursingofficer.

Totaling $6,476.25, the payrollwas distributed to 479 employes on

various projects within the city.

Mrs. R. D. Bulluck, civil worksadministrator here, said that theentire quota for Rocky Mount wasrepresented on the payroll.

Monday, however, the CWAworkers will start on their first24-hour week, having previouslyworked 30 hours per week.

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Expect To Collect$25,000 In BackTaxes In Edgecombe

I'arboro.?J. W. Martin, Edge-combe county tax collector, expectsto collect approximately $25,000in back taxes, he has announced.

Mr. Martin said collections onproperty and dog taxes were beingmade for 1929 through 1932, andthat a sizeable amount had al-ready been collected.

oCATTLE SALE TO

BE HELD IN CITY

Sale to Be Conducted at Man-gum's Warehouse at Noon

Saturday

A sale of purebred Guernseyheifers and bulls, sponsored by thelocal Kiwanis and Rotary clubsand the dairy extension office ofthe State college, will take placeat Mangum's warehouse Saturday,starting at noon, it is announced.

SURGEONS OF THESOUTH TO MEET

IN NASHVILLEWhat promises to be one 0f the

greatest gatherings of surgeonsever to take place in the South willbe the occasion of the Fifth An-nual Assembly of the SoutheasternSurgical Congress, March#s, 6 and7, in Nashville, Tennessee.

According to information releas-ed by Dr. B. T. Beasley, Atlanta,Director General of the Congress,new methods in surgery with dem-onstrations and a three days in-tensive post graduate study ofsurgical conditions will be givenby the nation's most celebratedsurgeons.

oDoesn't It?

Boy?Mother, I wish you would-n't call me your "little lamb" whenpeople are around.

Mother?Why not?Boy?lt makes me feel sheepish.

PLANS FOR COMMUNITY CENTERIN EDGECOMBE ARE CONSIDERED

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liupme From General SourcesI ,rliekd of Budgetary Expec-

tations, Report Shows

! Although several months remainbefore the close of the city's fiscalyear next June 80, the city on Jan-uary 1 had $2,423.49 more on handfrom general sources of revenuethan was anticipated when the an-imal budget was prepared lastsummer, according to a monthlyreport of City Manager Leslie B.Aycock, submitted to the board ofaldermen in session at the record-er's court room.

This fact was accounted for bythe iac'usion in the "general sourc-es" list of $75,289, designated as''cash in banks," a large part ofwhich was already on hand whenthe fiscal year started last July 1.

According to budget figures,$122,903 was expected from gen-eral sources during the year. Onthe first of this month the sum

. received was stated as $125,326.49.Income from property taxes,

however, had some distance still togo tQ reach bugetary expectations.A levy of $45,000 was adopted forthis fiscal year and on January 1the amount received totaled $19,-145.75, leaving $25,854.25 yet to becollected.

Utilities likewise, althoughbringing in as much income as wasexpected up to the present time,lacked a large amount of equalingthe figure set out for the year.With $443,500 expected and $249,-

251L53 received by January 1,there remained $194,244.17 still tobe collected to balance the utilities'

i budget.Meanwhile, expenditures for the

general administration had totaled$118,96 on January 1, leaving a

balance of $195,628, from the ap-propriation of $314,524.

Expenditures for each item werelifted as follows: general govern-ment $13,230.70; public safety,$37,243.92; health and sanitation,

$18,055.76; highways, $27,904.21;recreation, $6,584.69; city farm,$890.{>5; general items and debts,$14,986.17.

Expenditures for utilities Janu-arys had totaled $160,609.69, leav-ing an unexpended balance of$136,269.31 from a $296,879 appro-

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S3 H. S. StudentsMake Honor Roll

40 Girls and 13 Boys on ListRevealed Today by Prin-

cipal J. R. Simpson

Forty girls and 13 boys, students

at Central high school, today had

their names affixed to the school's

honor roll for the first term of

the current year.J. R. Simpson, principal, said

that the list of students totaling53, was comprised of boys andgirls who had averaged 90 or aboveoiv all of their subjects, includingconduct, for the first half of theyew.

The names of the students mak-ing the honor roll are as follows:

J. D. Christian, Wesley Coghill,Francis Mehle, Ann Burnett, Eliza-beth Low, Eloise Robinson, Alice

1 Suiter, Mary Wood Winslow, Jose,

phine Long, Aliens Moore, EdsonDraper, Louise Ashley, EdithDixon, Polly Easley, CarolynSmith, Adelaide Winslow, Peggy

Zerbach, Anne Blount Jenkins,Gertrude Powers, Connie Lee Thig-pen, Ballard Wilson, ElizabethSykes, Ida Wood, Louise Bames,Margaret Garvey, Hugh Price, An-nie Braswell, Esther Simmon 3,

Pauline Smith, Beatrice Temko,Gordon Burns, Charles Arrington,John Chambliss, Cortell Gay, TomJennings, Edith Brown, and Fran-ces Daughtridge.

Carolyn Meadows, DorothyDraine, Lela Mae Hilton, MickeyBennett, Ruth Brower, Mary Lee

| Daughtridge, Ruth Harrell, Mary[I Leonard, Doris Robbins, Martha

Ann Speight, Rose Wilson, Hazel! Bulluck, Lottie Beard, Frank Bone,'I Tommy Brafford, and Lem Korne-.j gay.

; 47 H. S. SeniorsHoping To Finish

| Commencement Exercises toGet Underway Sunday, Jan.

I 28, Wilson States

A total of 47 Central high school' seniors are expecting to receive

their diplomas on February 2 at; the mid-term commencement exer-

cises, J. R. Simpson, principal,made known today.

The list includes 30 girls and 17boys and is one of the largest mid-term graduating classes, the prin-cipal revealed.

All must weather the examina-tions that will get under way on

%Uesday, Mr. Simpson said. Theexamination period extends fromJanuary 23 through January 25.

Friday, January 26, will be ob-served by all local schools as aholiday, Superintendent R. M. Wil-son has announced.

The baccalaureate sermon to bedelivered on January 28 this yearby Dr. J. W. Kincheloe, pastor ofthe First Baptist church here, willbe the first of the commencementfunctions. On Friday night, Feb-ruary 2, Dr. F. B. Bishop, pastorof the local Universalist church,will deliver the commencement ad-dress, while graduation exerciseswill be conducted at the high schoolon the morning of February 2.

The list of prospective gradu-ates is as follows:

Arthur Norman Armstrong, Jr.,Emma Louise Ashley, Edgar RoyBarnes, Norman Leonard Bradley,Calena Newell Brothers, MargaretCaroline Brothers, Henry WatsonDozier, Charles Edward Daught-ridge, Edith Augusta Dixon, OscarTiencken Elliott, Albert RussellElmore, Polly Irby Easley, GladysMildred Farmer, Shirley GwynnFountain, Rachel Voorhees Gor-ham, Marshall Webster Henry,Lester Howell, Rachel Lillian Her-ring, Mary Louise Hodges, SamuelS. Henry, Blanche Bridgers Ivey, 'Mary Adelene Jackson, E. Geral-dine Johnson, Kathleen Whitaker (Johnson, Louis T. Joyner, PageClark Keel, Ralph Brook Livesay,Edith Ray Lancaster, Emmie MaePrice, Margaret Marie Price, Nan- 'cy Grace Powell, Felix Val Price,Harriette Bryan, Kuhl Robertson, 1Mitchell Russ, Edith Jordan Rose,Joseph L. Suiter, Jr., Alice MaudeSnipes, Mary Elizabeth Steigel-man, Carolyn ElizabethMae Taylor, Ruth Evelyn Tuttle, :Dorothy Belle Tetterton, AdelaideParis Winslow, Virginia Clemen-tine Wenk, Elizabeth Jea n Walker,Van Sharpe Watson, Jr., and Ruth 1Margaret Zerbach. ]

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STUDENT MAKES MIS-TAKE OF PUTTING

ACID IN NOSE

Davidson.?W. H. Brown, a stu-dent at Davidson college, last weekused a very powerful liquid toalleviate an irritation in the nose. ,Having had an operation for nasaltrouble, he kept a specially pre- 1pared fortn of nose drops -ready 1for use. In the early morning ihours of last Saturday he searchedfor the solution, and dropped sev-eral drops of it into his nose. It jturned out to be hydrochloric acid.

Brown, crazy with pain, rushedout of the house and drove rapidlyto a physician's house, where hewas treated.

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JAP ADMIRALATTACKSU. S.

Tokyo. The Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Navy, ViceAdmiral Shetsugu, is quoted inthe magazine, Gendai, as declar-ing that the. United States andRussia were scheming to surroundJapan for military purposes.

The Admiral's attack on Ameri-ca declares that the United Statesdoes not need its present navy,which is "nothing but a menace toother nations.**

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Morgenthau says managed cur-rency is aim of program.

Tarboro, Jan. 18.?Plans forbuilding: an Edgecombe countycommunity center are under coa-

I sider&tion by Mrs. Thomas O'Berry,I state CWA director.

The plans were submitted yes-terday by J. A. Abernathy, county

r superintendent of schools, and Miss' Catherine Millsap, county demon-

" stration agent.

| The community center calls for- erection of several buildings?tem--1 porary home with quarters for the

' sick, school children's week-endcamp, central activity building, and

! 4-H club camp.A site for the project has been

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' TOBACCO FIGURESRELEASED TODA

( Sale of tobacco on the localmarket, it was learned today from

; official statistics of the Tobacco' Board of Trade, has reached the

( total of 48,249,828 pounds. Ther goal of the local market at Rocky

Mount has been striving for thisseason for 50 million pounds and

, it is apparent now that more than50 million pounds will be sold be-

, fore the close of the season.The average price this year will

be near 17 cents, probably a littleabove. The average last yearwith only 26 million pounds "wasonly 13 cents, which shows thefarmers have received this yearmore than twice what they receiv-ed last. year.

' Rocky Mount is splendidly equip-ped for handling the sale of to-bacco and the plans are going for-ward now to take care of the

; greater sales next year which areanticipated for the season.

o-J. A. HARPER WAS

RE-ELECTED SEC. "Y.*Mr. J. A. Harper was re-elected

General Secretary 0 f the Y. M. C.A., here at its regular Januarymeeting. Other officers elected

, were, Mr. Owen Page, president;J- L. Home, vice-president; W. A.Bulluck, treasurer and W. B. Mid-dleton recording secretary. Theold Board of Directors was re-elected with the addition of Mr.O. N. Monroe. \

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Cotton Meeting HeldWednesday Night

A meeting of Nash and Edgecombe county farmers at which thepurpose of the federal cotton re-duction campaign and reductioncontracts was explained was heldat the recorder's court room hereat 7:30 Wednesday night.

The meeting was in charge ofHerman W. Taylor and H. G.Wharton, farm agents of Edge-combe and Nash counties respec-tively, and was conducted alongsimilar lines to a recent gatheringat which tobacco reduction con-tracts were discussed and ex-plained.

All cotton growers present wereurged to familiarize themselveswith the plans so that work couldbe speeded up in the campaignwhen the township committeemencalled on them later.

STEALS 23-DAY OLD BABYNew York?A young woman

went to a home where there wana 23-day old baby and, with abogus note regarding a baby showwhich promised attractive prizes,made away with the infant. There

i was no idea of ransom becausethe parents are virtually penniless.

. The child was later discovered! the home of a white woman t '

, he r negro husband. The woi \

. claimed to have "bought" the

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CASTOR OIL FOR DRU

I Denver.?Magistrate A. Hens is giving fines of $lO c

. of castor oil to men fount\u25a0 of drunkenness. A public 01

\u25a0 citizen has contributedt four bottles of the oil

maintain the treatment.

Plans Made forRoosevelt Ball

Committees met in the Chamberof Commerce room Wednesdaymorning and formulated plans forthe holding of a Roosevelt Ballon Jan. 30, in honor of PresidentRoosevelt. The funds derived fromthis social event will be presentedto him for the purpose of estab-lishing an endowment for theWarm Springs Foundation.

Politics should be adjourned inthis tribute to a President who iscredited by friend and foe, domes-tic and foreign critics, with mak-ing a heroic effort to meet a dan-gerous situation.

With the same fortitude that heexhibited in his long battle withinfantile paralysis the Presidentis facing the complex problems ofhis nation today. He is deeply in-terested in the work at WarmSprings and would be greatlytouched if the people of this na-tion, through an expression of re-gard for him, would contribute itsendowment.

Those who prefer to attend ballscan do so but others, too, canshare in the national expression bycontributing a dollar.

oCURB MARKET

One of the most progressive in-stitutions of Rocky Mount is thecurb market, which has been andis so ably directed by Mrs. EffioVines Gordon, the home demonstra-tion agent of Nash County. Thisinstitution has grown from a smallbeginning until it has become oneof the most important agencies inthe city. It is not only an ex-change for the farm men and wo-men for Nash and Edgecombecounties of products raised on theirfarms and gardens but in addition,it has become a social center forthe ladies of both Nash and Edge-combe Counties and the City ofRocky Mount.

oEXPLODING OIL KILLS

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Hartford, N. C.?When a boilerexploded in a cotton oil mill, sixmen were trapped beneath fallenbricks and timber. Those notkilled outright were scalded todeath as the steam and boilingwater poured over them. The ex-plosion shook the town as if itwas an earthquake.

NATION'S LARGESTBANKS

New York.?There are 38 banksin the country With deposits oxmore than $100,000,000 each, ac-cording to The Financial Age,which reports four institutions ofthis size disappeared during lastyear. Thirteen of these banks aresituated in New York City.

U. S. NAVALPLANESSET NEW RECORD

The recent massed flight of sixUnited States Navy patrol seaplanes from San Francisco toPearl Harbor, Hawaii, 2,408 sta-tute miles, set a new record foroverwater formation flying. Pre-viously, the same squadron flew2,059 miles from Norfolk to CocoSolo, Canal Zone.

The longest flight of the Italiansquadron, under General Balboa,was from West Africa to Brazil,a distance of 1.864 miles.

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CAR HIT BY TWO TRAINS

Merritt, L. I.?Henry Cawkerwas killed when the automobile inwhich he attempted to cross tworailroad tracks was sandwiched be-tween two trains«approaching fr0mopposite directions.

oSpeed of 544 miles is claimed

for new plane design.

0 f Rocky Mount join with the child-ren of this delightful couple in ex-tending felicitations to them onthis notable occasion.

I Estate Is Held Inf Trust By Woman5

Well Known Here

N,.mes of persons well known

, in this city were included in the

will of the late Mrs. Mary Bell» Heyer, of Wilmington, filed for

3 probate yesterday, according to in-' formation received here today.

The bulk of a $300,000 estate

j will be held in trust by Mrs. BellHeye r Bulluck, of Wilmington, and

her daughter, Mary Bell Bulluck,granddaughter of the late Mrs.Heyer, was bequeathed $30,000 tobe received when she is 30 yearsof age.

Two brothers, one sister, and a( niece are to receive $2,000 apiece

I and two Negro household servantswill receive SI,OOO apiece.

Mrs. Mary Bell Bulluck is thewife of Dr. Earnest Bulluck who

. is a nephew of Mr. Reading Bul-

i luck of Rocky Mount.o

Congress defends RFC, author-j. izing $850,000,000 fund.

Above is the photograph of Mr.and Mrs. Charles H. Harris, Mr.Harris being familiarly known a?

Bud Harris, who recently celebrat-ed their golden wedding anniver-sary and were given an elaborate .dinner by their children, honoringthe eventful occasion, at the homeof Mr. and Mrs. Harris' eldestdaughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. <Thurman.

Present for this occasion werethe children and grandchildren andbrothers and sisters of Mr. andMrs. Harris. There were nineteengrandchildren present. The child-ren are as follows:

Mrs. Effie Thurman, RockyMount; Harvell A. Harris, Green-ville; Mrs. Robert Brown, RockyMount; Sam Harris, Denver, Colo-rado; Robert Harris, Rocky Mount;Charlie Harris, Rocky Mount; Ry-land Harris, Johnstown, Tenn.

There were also present the sis-ters of Mr. Harris: Mrs. George

S. Edwards and Mrs. John ScottThomas, and three brothers: Dr.Ryland Sadler, Dr. Dove Sadler,and Mr. Walter Sadler of Balti-more, Md.

I Mrs. Harris is the daughter ofthe late Mr. O. R. Sadler and MaryAlice Sadler, and was born nearRichmond, Va., on Walnut Hillplantation at the home of hermother's father, Mr. Otey. Shemoved to Rocky Mount when shewas four years old. She marriedMr. Harris in Rocky Mount, Janu-ary 16th, 1884, Mrs. Harris beingeighteen years of age and Mr. Har-ris, twenty-one. They have con-tinuously resided in Rocky Mountever since.

Mr. Harris was born in Franklincounty and moved to Rocky Mountwhen he was nineteen years of age.He was an editor of a newspaperfor sometime, but was later electedas City Clerk and served in thatcapacity for twenty-seven yearscontinuously; but owing to thegrowth of the City and the heavi-ness of the work, he retired fromhis duties as City Clerk, and wasimmediately elected as Clerk ofthe Municipal Court of the City ofRocky Mount, which position he isnow filling.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris are bothyoung and active, notwithstanding

J the fiftieth anniversary of theirwedding, and have seen RockyMount grow from a hamlet to theformidable City it now is, and notonly have witnessed this growth,but had their part in same, andwere important factors in its de-velopment.

No couple living in Rocky Mounthas enjoyed more wide and generalpopularity which has not waneduntil this day, and the citizenship

WILL ALLOTCOTTONFOR PARITY PA YMENTS

\u25a0 The other 60 per cent was export-. Ed or held over. This 40 per cent

. represents the amount of cottonfrom which the government cancount on collecting the processing

" tax to furnish funds for rental and- parity payments.

Dean I. O. Schaub, of State Col-' lege, has pointed out that to allow

one grower a larger allotment than3 his past production warrants would

1 result in the allotments of other: growers being cut below their just3 figure, since the total individual; domestic allotments cannot amount

i to more than the domestic allot--1 men for the State. The Sate's

J domestic allotment has been figur-ed on its average past production

i just as are the allotments for in-l dividual farms.f The cotton contracts guarantee

3 a parity amount of not less than) one cent a pound on the farmers'j domestic allotment. This means al payment of at least $5 a bale on: 40 per cent of the average pro-

duction of cotton during the basel period. This payment is in addi-

-5 tion to the rental payments and3 the increased prices the farmers> will get when they market their. crop, it was pointed out.

Cotton growers should thorough-ly acquaint themselves with the in-

dividual farm allotment for farms

brought under the 1934-35 cottoncontract, for it will play an im-portant part in determining ad-justment payments from the gov-ernment, according to CountyAgent John C. Anderson.

The allotment for each farm is40 per cent of the average annualproduction during the 1928-32 base

( period. , The exact poundage isfigured by multiplying the averageannual acreage of the period bythe average yield per acre andthen taking 50 per cent of theresult.

For an example, a grower witha five-year average of 40 acres incotton with an average yield of200 pounds to the acre would havean average production of 8,000pounds. Forty per cent of thiswould be 3,200 pounds, whichwould be his individual domesticallotment.

The domestic allotment'has beenset at 40 per cent of the averageannual yield because in past years40 per cent of the national cropwas consumed in the United States.