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Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Local P. r. A. Council Will Be Host
To District Meet Here October 20

One of the most interesting
events of the parent-teacher cal
endar year is scheduled to be
held in Roanoke Rapids on Oct
ober 20, when the local P. T. A.
City Council will be host to the
various groups of the Seventh
District of North Carolina Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers.
Representatives from Edge.
combe, Green, Halifax, Johnson,
Nash, Northampton, Wayne, and
Wilson Counties are expected to
attend.
This will afford an excellent
opportunity for all P-T-A mem
bers in the city, and all parents
interested in the activities of
this organization, to attend Dis
trict Conference. The state P. T.
A. president will be among those
present, along with several other
important P. T. A. officials. The
meeting will be an all-day SEES
sion and promises to be an in
spring and momentous occa-
sion.
Under the capable leadership
of Mrs. H. S. 10y, President, the
Roanoke Rapids P-T-A City
Council is functioning to make
this a successful event. A meet
ing of the Council was held re-
Gently to discuss and formulate
plans for the Conference. All
P. T. A. groups of the city were
represented. Council officers are
as follows: President, Mrs. H. S.
10y; Vice-President, Mrs. D. C.
Clark; Secretary Treasurer, Mrs.
T. ]. Taylor; superintendent of
city schools, Mr.. l. E. Ready:
elementary schools, Miss Mary
Hicks, supervisor.
The members of the council
are representing the High School;
P. T. A. President, Mrs. l. E.
Ready, Principal Joe W. Talley.
Mrs. J. E. Mausteller and Mrs.
D. C. Clark, delegates at large;
Sixth Grade, Principal, Mrs.
Grace Holler and Mrs. Jesse Har-
rell, delegate at large; Central
School, President, Mrs. John
Lackey, Principal, Miss Imogene
Booker and Mrs. Howerton Cow
en- and Mrs. S. F. Hutchins, de-
legates at large; Vance Street
School, President Mrs. ]. M. Sea-
yer, Principal, Miss Thelma Gar
riss and delegate at large, Mrs.
N. T. Jones and Mrs. Ed Wrenn;
Rosemary School. President, Mrs.
Rod Wood, Principal, Miss Viola
Glover and delegates at large
Mrs. Elaine Hulk and Mrs. ]. M.
Williams and Clara Hearne
School, President, Mrs. w. D.
Connell, Principal, Miss Olivia
Harmon and delegates at large
Mrs. Ned Manning and Miss
Irene Gordon.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Five Killed In
State Mishaps
BY THE ASSOCIATED PPREss

D1 1HE ASSOOlA LEU ff htSs
At least five persons died by
violence in North Carolina over
the weekend.
Nine-year-old Carroll Ray Ball
of an Orphanage near Ashville
wasn't allowed to go to Sunday
School. He had a minor con-
tagious skin infection. He was
found hanging from an apple
tree in front of the orphan home.
Coroner P. R. Terry said the lad
took his life.
James Ray Ellis. 10, of
Plymouth, fell over log while
hunting. His shotgun discharged
into his right shoulder.
Three Negroes died in Winston
Salem hospitals, victims of sep
arate accidents.
Tee Martin of Martinsville,
Va, was burned when his truck
crashed down bank and caught
fire near Yadkinville.
Clyde Yokley, 81, was shot
through the heart. Police
charged another Negro with
murder.
Isaac L. Kershaw died of gun
shot wounds in the chest. Po-
lice quoted another Negro as say
ing he had shot Kershaw in sell
defense.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Troops Quen Riot
In Peruvian Port

Lima, Peru, Oct. 4P- Gov
eminent troops held full control
over the port of Callao today af-
ter smashing a bloody revolt by
sailors and civilians.
The insurgents, who seized and
used the full firepower of war
ships and heavily armed Naval
installations at Callao, Lima's
port, launched the revolt early
yesterday.
BY late last night, government
infantrymen, supported by tanks
and fighter planes, had rooted
the rebels out of their fortified
strongholds and apparently had
captured them all.
There was no official indication
of the number of casualties or
of how many persons took part in
the revolt.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Russia Tells u N Security Council Can't Act In Berlin Crisis
Seek To Throw
Issue Into
Bio Four Group

Paris, Oct. 4 (AP)- Russia
told the United Nations Security
Council today it has no right to
consider western charges that
the Soviet blockade of Berlin is
a menace to world peace.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis
ter Andrea Y. Vishinsky led off
his fight to keep the Berlin issue
out of the Councils hands. He
declared the western demand for
U. N. consideration of the dis
pute was "devoid of any
ground, as it does not fall within
the scope of the Security Coun-
Gil"
The issue, he said, should be
sent to the Big Four Council Of
Foreign Ministers, as a formal
note from Moscow proposed
earlier today.
Vishinsky declared the U. N.
Charter forbids the Council to
discuss anything concerning Ger
many until the four occupying
powers have written a peace
treaty for the beaten country.
Taking the argument to the
foreign ministers council, he
said, offers the only legal way to
settle the problems of Germany,
including Berlin which has been
under a Soviet land blockade
since last June %.
He said the Berlin problem is
closely linked to the whole Ger
man problem. He charged that
the currency reform in western
Germany last June was an "act
of aggression" against the
Russian occupation authorities
and had forced the Russians to
take defensive measures"
United States, British and
French foreign ministers met
today to discuss Russia's call for
resumption of Big Four talks on
Berlin and Germany. They met
while the United Nations Security
Council was opening debate on
the Berlin crisis.
U. S. Secretary of State Mar
shall, Britian's Ernest Bevin and
their top advisers of German at
fairs met with French For
eign Minister Robert Schuman
In Schuman's office, a French
spokesman reported.
They had before them fully
translated texts of Russian
note, received in the early
hours of this morning, which re-
piled to their notice to the Krem
lin last week that they con-
sidered direct east-west negotia-
tons for a Berlin settlement a
failure.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Enfield Men Are
Charged With Having
Game Illegally

Enfield - A preliminary hear
ing on charges of illegal poss-
ession and transportation of
game animals against R. E.
(Buck) Sherevette and Thad
Harris, Enfield businessman, will
be conducted in Roanoke Rap
ids before magistrate W.O,
Thompson on Friday evening
1t was announced today by Dis
trlct Game Protectors C.M. Pet
lit of Enfield and HIM. Hilliaro
OF Leggetts.
The game protectors said the
two men along with George
Wills and Tom Lewis, Enfield
Negroes, were arrested Thurs
day by the game officers and
were supposed to have had p
hearing Friday in Weldon before
Magistrate D. C. johnson in Wei.
don, but the hearing was cor
tlnued until this week upon re
quest of Joseph Branch, attor
ney for the defendants.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Ickes To See
Truman. Dewey
Has Conference
BY The Associated Press

President Truman and Harold
l.. 1ckes, who quit the cabinet
explosively two and a half years
ago, were booked for a midday
get-together at the White House
today.
With Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
also home temporarily from the
campaign trail, the Republicans
send Senator Arthur H. Vanden-
berg to a microphone tonight.
The Michigan Senator, as
Chairman Of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, is the chief
COP Foreign Policy spokesman
on Capitol Hill.
Tomorrow Dewey has schedul-
ed conference with John Fos-
ter Dulles, another of his foreign
affairs advisers who has been at
tending the United Nations ses-
sions in Paris.
Mr.. Truman also planned q
series Of brush-up conferences
on the ticklish international sit
uation. But his meeting with
Ickes held top interest with po-
liticians in the Capitol.
About the only advance word
was that the veteran New Deal
cabinet officer had asked for the
appointment and that the Presl-
dent had agreed. 1ckes broke
with Mr.. Truman over the pau
ley incident" in February, 1916.
He had testified against the no.
mination of Edwin w. Pauley to
be Undersecretary of the Navy,
and the President later said
Ickes could have been wrong.
After his resignation had been
accepted in terse note devoid
of the usual words of praise,
Ickes said he wanted to hold no
job under Mr.. Truman's juris-
diction.
Dewey wound up his first trip
of the campaign, an 8,800-mile
coast to coast swing, last night
when his 17-car special train re-
turned to Albany. He will go
back on the road in about 4
week with a major speech set
for October Is from St. Paul.
That swing may take him into
the border states and Kentucky
and West Virginia, which Mr..
Truman visited last week on the
last laps of his 8,300-mile tour.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Light Rains
Cooler Weather
Is Prediction
BY The Associated Press

Light rain and cooler weather
were predicted for the Carolinas
today and tomorrow.
For North Carolina the fore
cast was for considerable clol,di.
ness with intermittent light rain
today, tonight and tomorrow
Cooler weather was due today
and tomorrow.
South Carolina was expected
to have considerable cloudinecs
today, tonight and tomorrow
with occasional light rain over
the south portion and intermit-
tent light rain or drizzle over the
north portion. Cooler conditions
were anticipated today, lasting
through tomorrow.
Low temperatures this morn
ing ranged from the high SOS
to the low SOS.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
State Board Seeks
Fort CarsWell As
A State Park

Wilmington, Oct. 4-(P)- The
State Board of Conservation and
Development has decided to ask
the War Assets Administration
to give Fort Caswell to North
Carolina for a park. rs
Chairman George w. Gillette
Of the Board said he has bean
named to start the negotiations
with Atlanta WAA officials. Il
The fort is located at the
mouth Of the Cape Fear river. n
has been a military installation
since the Civil war. The proper
ty also includes hot watar wells
and . yacht basin near IL -.
land waterway.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Two Arrested For
Hunting On SUNDAY

Weldon - District Game Pro-
tector c. M. Petit of Enfield
said today that he and H, M
billiard of Leggetts, another
game protector, made two ar
rests near here Sunday for hunt
ing on Sunday.
Taken into custody were Sam
Birdsong of Weldon and Phillip
Birdsong of Halifax, and both
were charged with illegal Sun
day hunting. Petit said
both defendants will appear for
a prelRinary hearing before
maglstrate D. c. johnson here
on FridpH
The game officers said that
Eddie Gibson of Halifax had also
been arrested on Sunday, Gil
son is charged with keeping rae.
coons in captivity without : per
init. and his case will also Be
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Political
Talks Slated
For The State
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. ]. Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina today launchd
a busy week of campaigning in
North Carolina by four politi
cal parties.
Thurmond the presidential
Candidate of States Rights Dem
ocrats, started at Charlotte a
two-day swing through the Tar
Heel State. Other stops were
booked for the day at Gastonia,
Hickory and Hendersonville,
with major address slated at
Asheville tonight.
Tomorrow Thurmond is sche
duled for appearances at Win
on-Salem, High Point, Greens
boro, Burlington, Durham, Chap
ell Hill and Raleigh.
Two more in the Democratic
party's series of congressional
district rallies are scheduled for
the week. The fifth dis
trict rally will be held at Reds
vile Wednesday and the first
District rally at Washington, NC
Friday. Governor-Nominee Kerr
Scott and U. S. Senator-Nomi
nate j. Melville Broughton are
spearheading those meetings.
An Eastern Republican Rally
is on tap at Dunn Thursday. Top
speakers will be George M. Plit-
chard, COP nominee for Cover
nor, and John A. Wilkinson, nom
inee for the us. Senate.
Charles B. Howard of Des
Moines, Iowa who keynoted the
progressive party's national con
vention at Philadelphia, is book
ed for appearances at several
rallies in the state beginning
this week.
Howard will talk, at Winston
Salem Thursday it was been an
nounced by the Rev. W.T.. Brown
of Maxton, Negro Methodist min
lister and Progressive Candidate
for the us. senate Brown said
Howard also will appear at Gree
nsboro, High Point, Henderson,
Rocky Mount, Raleigh and Dur
ham. Dates of the rallies have
not been announced.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Railway Express
Agent Seeks To
Better Service

J.J. Roberts new Railway Elk
press agent for Roanoke Rapids,
said today that the new express
office has been set up here sep
arate from the former freight
office in order to give the PEG
pie of Roanoke Rapids quicker,
more efficient express service
He pointed out that the office
has been established in the pass
enger station on one end of the
building to handle nothing but
express shipments, adding that
the space so far allotted seems
inadequate to handle the volume
of express that comes into the
city. He pointed out that the
office now has a truck of its
own to speed shipments to those
to whom they are sent.
Roberts, who came to Roa
noke Rapids recently after hav
ing served as assistant to the
agent for the Railway Express
agency in Raleigh for two years,
has been employed by the com
pany for the past % years. He
said he came to Roanoke Rap
ids voluntarily because he feels
that the town is rapidly progress
sing and said he has been fay
orably impressed in the time he
has been here.
The opening of the separate
agency marks the first time that
the city has been offered such
a service. Previously both freigh,
and express were handled
through one office in the freigh,
depot, with E. w. Eubank as
agent for both. Eubanks is still,
freight agent for the railroad.
The new express agents son
John T. Roberts, has employed
to operate the express truck anc
Miss Peggy Lou Roberts is assis
ting her father in the office. MI
and Mrs. Roberts and the tive
children are making their home
in Roanoke Rapids, and a mar,
led daughter lives in Schenect
ady, NY.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
IL Persons Lost
Aboard Plane
Down At Sea

Miami, Fla, Oct. 4-(P)- A
twin-engined charter airliner
with 81 persons abroad was
presumed down at sea" today
after it sounded distress calls
somewhere between Charleston,
S. c., and Nassau, Bahamas.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration official listed the plane
as owned by the New England
Air Express Company of Teter-
boro, N. j., and said ian accident
is presumed to have occurred"
The planes gasoline supply
was exhausted at 4:45 a. m.
(EST). 1t was last heard from,
calling the international distress
signal "Mayday" at LA a. m.
I'VE can only presume the
plane is down somewhere be-
tween Charleston and the Bahia
mas" the CAA said. 'Its gaso-
line is gone and we haven't
heard from it for several
hours"
The charter airliner, a DC-3,
was en- route from Teterboro to
San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1t depart
ed Teterboro at 1880 p. m, yes
terday.
The first distress signal was
picked up by the CAA's listen
ing post in the Everglades al
1921 a. m. 1t was heard on a
regular communications fire.
quency. The Coast Guard, other
CAA stations and Federal Com
munications Commission were
alerted, in an effort to get a
fix" on the distressed aircraft.
The pilot was instructed to
lock his sending key to cause a
continuous signal in hope of
making a Fix" The signal was
heard in Puerto Rico, Jamaica
and Miami but died before q
cross-bearing could be obtained
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Rev. Crandall
Opens Mission
Talks Tonight

The Rev. Robert L. Crandall,
Rector of St. Peters Episcopal
Church in Charlotte, who will
open a five-day teaching and
preaching mission at All Saints
Episcopal Church here this even
ing, has been head of the largest
church in the diocese of East
Carolina since 1916.
A graduate of Mercer Uni
versity and on the Theolo-
gical Seminary of Virginia, he is
a native of Georgia. Prior to
the outbreak of World War II he
was Canon of the Cathedral of
Philip in Atlanta, leaving that
post in 1912 to become a chap
lain in the United States Navy.
After duty in Norfolk and the
Great Lakes, ILL.,, naval train
ing station he was assigned to
the aircraft carrier, USS Wasp,
where he served for year and a
half in the South Pacific. His
ship engaged in the major cam
paigns from the capture of Sia-
pan to Two lima to the closing
months of the war, returning to
the United States only after Sc
we're damage in the Okinawa
campaign. He is entitled to wear
nine battle stars and two cita-
tons.
At the close of the war he re-
turned to the Cathedral in
Atlanta, and in October, 1916, he
was called to be Rector of the
church in Charlotte.
He will conduct services each
evening through Friday at eight
o'clock with the subject of "the
Christian Home and Family
Life"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
County Board Has No Funds Available
For Installation Of Sanitary System
At ChoIoner School: Situation Acute

Halifax, Oct. 1.-The finance
committee of tie Roanoke Rap
ids City Schools was told this
morning by the Halifax County
Commissioners that the only way
in which money could be obtain
ed for installing a sanitary Sc
wage system at the John Cha
loner School in Roanoke Rapids
is to borrow it.
The Commissioners, only three
of which were present for the
meeting, heard 1. E. Ready, SUI
perintendent of the Roanoke Ra
ids Schools say that the installa-
ton of the facilities at the Cha
loner school would cost and esti-
mated $4,000 to $4,000 by using
veterans masonry classes at the
school for labor.
Ready pointed out that the
situation at Chaloner is one
which is acute from the stand
point of public health"
He said that the first months
enrolment at the school was 604
and that more pupils are ex-
pected to enroll and 1.-THE only
sanitary facilities available are
outdoors privies."
Commissioner Meade Mitchell
made motion that an attempt
be made to borrow the money
from the local government but
his motion went begging with
out a second.
The commissioners told the
members of the committee,
which included William L. Mann
ing, R. L.Towe and WI. Medlin,
that there is no budget item from
which the amount needed could
be obtained and that the only
way to obtain the money is to
borrow it.
Ready said that the state board
of health had prepared blue print
for construction of septic tanks
adequate for the schools needs.
He pointed out that while the
school is inside the Roanoke Rap
ids City Limits, it is out side the
sanitary district limits and can
not be connected to the city sew
age system.
DR.. Robert F. Young, Halifax
County Health Officer, backed
Ready's statement about the stu
alton be a menace to public
health and added, unless some
thing is done locally, the State
board of health may make it
mandatory"
The commissioners deferred
any other action on the matter
until the next meeting.
Commissioners present at the
meeting were Chairman Dickens,
Mitchell and John Davis.
The only other business during
morning session was the draw
ing of a jury for the superior
court Criminal term to convene
October 10.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Roanoke
Ran,bIings

Guy Leedy, Daily Herald pub
Usher, was honored by the Her.
aid employees, on Thursday al
ternoon. They helped Mr..
Leedy celebrate his birthday, by
presenting him with a white
shirt and two beautiful neck
ties. Mr.. Leedy commented, Il
wasn't that he was getting old.
but this was the last birthday
he would acknowledge
Seen pulling a wagon load OF
clothes to the launderette on Fri
day morning, was the very small
five year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. X. Ellis. Little Jo-
Anna, who is really an attrac
tive child, and exceptionally
small for her age, drew the att
ention of all who saw her. she
had in her red wagon and entire
weeks washing 49,. Marvin Will
Jams even offered a helping
hand to the little worker, but
sh politely refused andy help
Shortly behind her was her faith.
er, who was prepared to take
over in case she became tired OF
being Mothers little helper"
Miss Jesse Helen Belche, jour
nalism teacher at the local high
school, announced Friday that
all who wish to subscribe to the
high school paper 1.-THE Ronoko"
and the annual 1.-THE Ro-Rap".
see James Warren or Johnnie
Lynch in the staff room, on
third floor of the Senior Hi Build
ing this offer is directed to
the people who are not in school
as the students will surely sub
scribe any way.
The first senior class meet
ing was held Friday morning
in the high school auditorium.
Principal j. w. Tally discussed
business of the class and ann
ounced the election of class offic
ers would soon get underway.
One "dignified senior" who did
MT think that seniors should have
to sit in the corners of the bal
cony was Anne Bum. land she
voiced her opinion at the meet
ing and due to Anne's loyalty
to the class, the seniors will now
occupy the middle section of the
balcony senior privileges
you know.
]. M. McNeal sends his best
wishes from Miami. Florida; to
his friends and relatives here.
He is having many interesting
experience in the vacation
state. he is visiting his son,
Jim McNeal, Jr., who has recen
tly accepted a position there.
Two more local citizens who
celebrated on Thursday, were
Mrs. Cation Jenkins, and John
C. Allen, both were born on the
same day So. they were
eighty-three years young on Sep
TENDER 80. Here's hoping you
both have many, man.- more.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Several Things Wrong

TALL RIVER, Mass. (UP.l
John Morro's one-way auto :
mobile took him the wrong way
into court. Police stopped Nor
no for driving without light. A
check OF the machine showed de
iective wiring, no foot brake, no
hand brake and inability to
drive in reverse. Moore wa S
fined $40.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04
Nurses Alumni
Group Meets
Tomorrow Night

The regular meeting of the
Roanoke Rapids Hospital Nurses
Alumni Association will be held
in the dining hall at the hos
pital at 7::30 tomorrow evening.
All nurses who are graduates
of the local hospital are request
ed to be on hand for this meet
ing.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-04

The name of a Massachusetts
lake - Chaugogagogmanchaug
agogchaubunagungamaug = is
said to mean in Indian language
You fish on your side, I fish
on my side, nobody fish in mid
de-"