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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Roanoke River Continues to Rise;
40 Foot Crest Is Expected Tomorrow
Aerial Survey
Shows Damage
To Be Slight

The muddy waters of the Roa-
noke River had reached stage
of 1913 feet this morning in
Weldon, according to L, M.
Shearin, official weather FORE
caster, and a crest of 40 feet,
nine feet above flood stage, was
expected tomorrow.
An airplane flight down the
river from Roanoke Rapids to a
point near Halifax by Herald
staff member and Sherrod
Crunpler, who piloted the
plane, showed that much of the
marsh land along the river was
inundated.
The part most severely flood
ed was almost due east of We'll
don and across the river from
Halifax.
The Old Jackson road was
completely flooded near Weldoh
and several farm families in the
area could only get into town by
boat.
The area around the old fish
hatchery in Weldon ana the
Community building were inun-
dated.
| Along the river from the air
port to Roanoke Rapids the
muddy waters were swirling and
rushing madly down the stream.
There was still plenty of room
to spare under the bridge cross
ing the river at the paper mill.
The river did not appear to
have risen high enough to get
into Roanoke Number One or
the paper mill and there was
every indication that the paper
mill was working full blast.
Across the river alongside the
CASTOR Highway there was con-
siderable water, but it had not
crossed the road.
1t was estimated that if the
water reached crest of 40 feet
at Weldon the damage would
not be too great, but several
farms in the area would be
flooded.
There were two or three farms
in the Halifax area well-covered
by the flood waters, but there
did not appear to be too much
damage to the crops along the
stream, most of them being on
higher ground.
One peanut field was noticed
which had been flooded and on
which the crop apparently had
not been harvested.
The extent of the flood dam
age did not seem to be too great
up to noon today.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
coroIino Telephone Grained
Increase In It's Rurdl Rdfes

Raleigh. Dec. l-(P)-The
State Utilities Commission has
granted authority for higher
rates to two telephone COM
panies.
Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company of Tarboro
was permitted TO boost rural
rates by an estimated total of
$4e.o4l 4 year.
The commission authorized
Hickory Telephone company
to increase rates in Hickory.
Granite Falls and Valdese by
an estimated total of $4,000
yearly.
Carolina Telephone will add
rs cents monthly TO charges
for multi-party rural business
phones and so cents for multi
party. rural residential phones.
It had sought boosts of 81 and
rs cents.
AT a hearing Nov. S. the
company said it served 68.26S
phones. including ssS rural
phones.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
What do you want for Cstmas See all the Gifts in the Stores
Then write letter to Santa Claus in care of the Herald
Peoples Named
To New Guard
Company Post

Sergeant Carl E. Peoples has
been named administrative ASST
tant to Captain Raleigh F. Seay,
commanding officer of Company
E of the North Carolina National
Guard here, it was announced to-
day.
The appointment of Peoples to
the fulltime post was announced
by the state adjutant general a.
long with the announcement that
the quota for the local company
has been increased to six Off
GERS and 161 enlisted men.
Peoples, who has had nine
years in the National Guard was
with the 263rd Coast Artillery
during the war as master SER
geant with the regimental supply
section.
Peoples will be on duty at the
Armory daily from 8 am. to S p.
m. for the purpose of enlisting
young men above II years of
age in the National Guard unit
here.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Roanoke Rapids Woman, Now In Germany With Army
Husband, Appeals For Christmas Gifts For German
Youngsters Whose Plight Is Pictured As Very Dark

ken" of what Christmas means
to these children here in oc-
cupied Germany.
We realize that the various
clubs and organizations in Roa-
noke Rapids are probably, very
busy with their own Christmas
programs, but if the people there
could only send trifle it would
be received with gratitude. You
should have seen a Soap Box
Derby that was sponsored for
the German children here re-
Gently by the Army Special Ser
vices Division, If only you could
have seen what some Of those
kids put together for their
racers. There were old wash
boards perched on four wheels,
wash basins on wheels, ladders
on wheels, tin cans for bodies
and everything imaginable,
We went down to the Com
missary one day before the race
was to be held. There on stone
step sat a most pathetic little
boy. He had taken two planks
and nailed them together and
had four broken wheels on the
boards. Two of the wheels were
broken so badly that he couldn't
enter the racer in the race. The
little boy was cripple, having
only one leg, the other was
wooden. After awhile an Ameri-
can man took the little boy
Continued on Page Eight
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Allen Ill;
Hearing Is
Tomorrow

Warrenton - William w. Tay-
lor, Jr., solicitor for the Warren
County recorders court said
here today he has received no
request for the continuance of
the scheduled preliminary hear
ing in recorders court here to-
morrow for j. Edward Allen,
former superintendent of War
rem County schools.
Allen was admitted to Duke
Hospital yesterday where hospi-
tai officials said he was brought
in to the Durham hospital in an
unconscious condition. The ma
ture of his illness was not dis
closed, however he was accomp-
anied to Durham by DR.. Charles
H. Peete, his family physician,
and Mrs. Allen in an ambulance.
The former Warren County
school head was indicted
last Saturday on warrants char
ging him with the embezzlement
of $40, ,372.85 in county funds and
the forgery of 126 Board of Edu-
cation checks. Bond in the a.
mount of SIS, 900 on the warrants
was posted for a hearing sche-
duled for tomorrow before Judge
John M. Picot in the recorders
court.
Solicitor Taylor said his only
knowledge of Aliens illness is
what I have heard, but said
Aliens attorneys nor anyone else
had requested a postponement Of
tomorrow's scheduled hearing on
the charges. He said he intends
to call the case tomorrow unless
he receives some positive infor-
nation as to why the case should
be postponed.
Allen was indicted in Septem-
ber on charges of embezzling
$24,32775 in State school funds,
false pretense and forgery. The
trial on the earlier charge is doc
keted for the January term Of
Warren County Superior Court.
At the time the first warrants
were drawn Allen was a patient
in Duke Hospital where the war;
rants were served. He has been
in bad health for some time CIV
ing his health as the reason for
his recent resignation from the
post as head of the county schools
which he had held since 1919.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01

Jackson way. This fellow was
named Tecumseh Randall; he
was half Indian. 'Tec," as he was
called for short, was having a
brain operation one time in Wei
don back in 81 when such things
were just starting. The Weldon
doc took out Tees" brain and
carefully laid it on the table.
Just then the patient comes to;
anaesthetics weren't too good
those days. Seeing the surgeon,
knife in hand, coming at him,
Tee" jumps off the operating
table, dashes out the door and
gets clear away.
1t caused a worldwide sensa-
ton. Scientists organized hun
dreds of searching parties; they
wanted to know what man
without brain would do. Finally
two years later, they found him;
ne was teaching high school
down in Tarboro.
Well, ON accountsa because
of what happened to "Tec,"
Gramp finally said mo" when
they wanted to operate on his
brain. The old man never did
like Tarboro.
One day, a couple months
later, Gramp was down at the
American Shoe Shop. He was
still in terrible pain. He told his
troubles to Sam Butler, Sam
suddenly said: Take off your
shoe" Gramp obeyed. Sam took
nail out of the shoe. The pain
stopped.
Today Gramp always calls
Butler DOC" and you can under
stand why.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Brown Cuts Wrists
In Halifax Jail

Halifax said here
today that Chester H. Brown,
Roanoke Rapids man who was
sentenced here last week to eight
months on the roads in an as
sault on a female case, yester-
day slashed his wrists with a
razor blade in the county Jail.
Jail officials found him in his
cell and had first-aid admins
tered Immediately. County au-
thorities said he was not badly
injured, having been found by
the jailor soon after he had cut
himself.
Brown had been under obser-
walton for a week following his
sentence by Judge Charles R.
Daniel, however he was sent
from the Halifax County Jail
to a prison camp yesterday, it
was revealed here this morning,
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Chinese Grid
For Battle
At Marking

Nanking, Dec. 1-(P)-The
desperate Chinese government
abruptly cut its air link with
isolated Suchow today and de-
ployed its forces for a battle
to save this tense capital from
advancing communists.
The airlift to the big nation
alist base some 200 miles to the
northwest was stopped as Such
ow's garrison of 250,000 troops
tardily needed orders to move
south to rescue trapped and out
numbered forces.
Those harried armies of some
100000 troops and the Suchow
garrison are the only ground
forces available for Markings
defense.
Nanking urgently ordered the
abandonment OF Suchow five
days ago.
because the order was not
obeyed promptly, suspension OF
the airlift was regarded as a
move to force the ground troops
to get out and fight. And it
means that no additional sup
plies will fall into communist
hands if the Reds march into
Suchow.)
Nationalist warplanes were re-
ported to have abandoned Such
ow's dusty airfield. Capture Of
the field appeared imminent.
Disorder bordering on panic
at the airfield was reported by
American pilots who tried unsuc-
cessfully to land early today
with the last load of supplies.
They said ble-bodied soldiers
milled about in confusion.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Regrouping OF
60 Agencies
Is Proposed

Washington, Dec. 1-P(-A
proposed rearrangement of go
federal agencies which may save
the government $4,000, 900, 900
annually had the approval of
President Truman today.
The plan was submitted by
former President Herbert Hoov-
er, who hears a bipartisan COM
mission which will recommend
changes in the executive branch
of the government to the next
Congress.
Hoover estimated the proposed
regroupings could save the gov
eminent as much as $3,000,00O,-
900 a year.
He matde known Mr.. Tru-
mans approval following As
minute conference at the White
House.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Auto Inspection
Lane Here On
Final Trip +

North Carolina Mechanical We
hicle Inspection Lane 38 rolled
into Roanoke Rapids this morn
ing to set UP shop for its last trip
of l948.
The lane will open at eight O.
clock tomorrow morning for five
and one-half days, which lane SUI
pervisor E. G. Whitehurst said
he expects will be plenty busy.
He warned all motor vehicle own
ers in the vicinity of Roanoke
Rapids that they will get no more
chance to have their cars, trail.
ers, motor bikes or any other re.
quired vehicle before the January
l deadline imposed by law.
The lane which will open here
tomorrow will be located on
Twelfth street between Roanoke
Avenue and Hamilton street.
Whitehurst said the inspectors
will handle vehicles from eight
a. m. until five p. m. daily
through next Wednesday. On
Saturday the lane will close at
noon and will be closed Sunday.
Whitehurst said he is convinced
there are a large number of We
hicles in the Roanoke Rapids
area which have mt haop ,,n~$
the inspection, and said he Was
anticipating a rush of ''last min
ute" owners. He said some Of
the waiting could be avoided by
coming to the lane as early as
possible instead Of waiting until
next week in the last couple Of
days the lane will be in placo
this year.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01

Last March a Roanoke Rapids
resident, Mrs. Helen Wilkinson
Kohn, went to Germany with
her husband, who is Captain
in the American Army of occu-
patton in Germany. i.
The daughter of R. R. Wilk-
inson of 403 Monroe Street, she
was married to Captain Kohn a.
bout two years ago.
Relatives in Roanoke Rapids
said she has written that she
is getting along well in the for
mer Nazi state, but often wishes
she were back in Roanoke Rap
ids where conditions are better,
This week letter arrived
from Mrs. Kohn addressed to the
Herald in which she has man
aged to picture some of the con-
ditions now existing among the
young children in Germany to-
day.
Mrs. Kohn has written as fol-
lows:
Oddly enough we have no axe
to grind. We don't want any
thing for ourselves. Nor are we
particularly interested in the po-
litical future of Germany.
Perhaps we should go back a
bit in order to explain what
we want. All our lives we have
been taking Christmas for grant
ed. We have even forgotten that
we were celebrating the Birth of
Christ. Christmas meant to us
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01

This is Old Father Roanoke
w back again. 1 just brought
word to the Herald office that
Gramp is sick. Nothing trivial,
l hope" said the editor, not
knowing Mark Twain said it so
years ahead of him.
Gramp has a combination of
gout, asthma, diabetes, and rheu-
matism with a touch of collie.
But Gramp won't see a doctor;
he says he'll live if he doesn't.
He says he hasn't gone to a
doctor since the time he had
that terrible pain in the heel.
He went to a young doc just
graduated from medical school
and the doc took out his tonsils.
Still pain, so Gramp went to
Enfield where dentist who
took out all his teeth. Still pain
so he went to Rich Square where
the doctor sent him to a special
ist in Raleigh. Taking out ap-
pendiXes was then the fad, so
Gramp lost his appendix. Still
pain, so a doctor in Warrenton
took out his adenoids.
Still pain, so he tried Norfolk
this time and that doctor said
he would perform an opera
ton on Cramps brain. On gen.
eral principles, that would have
been a good idea, but the doc
tor gave the wrong reason. He
said the pain was all in the
imagination and only an opera
ton could cure that.
Gramp said, "N-n-n-no!.!!" He
remembered what happened to
an old crony of his from over
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Greater Production OF Poultry, Milk
Vegetables And Lamb Urged For 1919

Washington, Dec 1-(AP)-The<
government staked more chips
on continued prosperity today,
asking farmers to produce extra
poultry, milk, vegetables, sheep
and lambs next year.
Anticipating continued high
consumer demands" the Agri-
culture department announced
these 1949 goals:
Poultry-35, 100, 900 turkeys and
700, 100000 young chickens--a 10
per cent increase, it suggested,
however, that this years esti-
mated total of 425, 900, 900 laying
hens be cut by 10000, 1000. That
would give each person an aver
age of 37O eggs-instead of 800
during the year, and about four
pounds of turkey and 23.5 pounds
of chicken.
Milk-a three per cent boost
to 100000, 100000 pounds.
Vegetabies-with acreage in
creased to 1880, the depart
ment suggested five per cent
more lima beans, sweet corn and
cucumbers; per cent more snap
beans; II per cent more sweet
potatoes; four per cent more
beets and watermelons and two
per cent more tomatoes. Goals
for peas, peppers, cabbage, car
rots, caulifloWer and spinach will
be the same as this years, but
a cut was advised on lettuce,
celery, cantaloups, honey-dews
and onions.
Sheep and Lambs-the addi-
ton of at least 100000 to this
years flock of 28,500,00
The department already has
called for II per cent boost in
the 1949 spring pig crop-to in.
sure more pork chops for next
fall and winter.
Since consumption of farm
products tends to rise and fall
with business and employment
conditions, the call for increases
was taken as farboravle straw
in the economic wind.
From this years record farm
production, the department said,
Americans have had IA per cent
more to eat than in pre-war
years, while breaking all marks
in the amount of food sent over
seas.
During the crop year ended
last July l, this country export
ed 19,347, 900 long tons of food,
mostly grain, topping the pre-
vious years record by $4,000
tons.
But because of the huge wheat
and potato production, the de-
partment has asked farmers to
cut down next years planting
to market-glutting surpluses.
To get help for the tasks ahead
thousands" of farmers, mean
while, were reported offering
homes and jobs to displaced
Europeans being brought to this
country.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Veterans Affairs
Group Will Meet

A discussion of Veterans Al
fairs will take pla-s tonight at
eight o'clock in the court room
of the Roanoke Rapids Munich
pal Building, it was .anr ounced
here today by Nathaniel Lowe,
chairman Of the Veterans At
fairs committee for Roanoke
Rapids township.
Lowe said State Senator Jul
ian R. Allsbrook will be the
chief speaker at the meeting,
which is sponsored by the North
Carolina Veterans Affairs COM
mittee.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01

The many friends of Mrs. Les
lie Stafford will be interested
to know she is now at her home,
after having been a patient in
the Roanoke Rapids Hospital :.
Visiting here over the week
end, in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Harris,
Sr, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jim
Crumpler of Monroe street, were
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Royal Lloyd,
Mrs. j. D. Lewis and twins,
Janet and Wayne of Fayettevil-
lie.
Since the item appeared in the
paper, yesterday, about the per-
son who pulled up the flowers
which had been planted on the
grave of William Moody, there
have been many comments.
George Etheridge asked me if l
would mention, in hopes that
the thief would read it, that
he, C. w. Mills, and Hal Thomp-
son, would personally donate
flowers to whoever, needed them
so badly they would desecrate
the grave of a fallen war hero
other comments were not so
mild as this one. Mr.. and
Mrs. Moody placed those flowers
on his grave in devotion known
only by parents, just as they
donated the chimes to the First
Baptist Church in his memory,
and I should think anyone would
hesitate a lifetime before they
would do any harm to a monu-
ment for him, material or living.
= A. ~
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Warmer Weather
Is Predicted
By The Associated Press

Shivering Carolinians greeted
December today, comforted
somewhat by a forecast of quite
a bit warmer" weather this af-
ternoon and several degrees
warmer" tomorrow morning
than it was early today.
Asheville's Is and Mt. Mitch
ellis 26 were the lowest tenn
peratures reported in the two
state area. Greensboro's % was
third low for the Tar Heel State.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Frank B. Noyes
Dies In Washington

Washington, Dec. 1-(P-
Frank B. Noyes, IS, one of
Americas pioneer newspaper
leaders, died today.
Noyes, who helped organize
he present Associated Press
and served 38 years as its first
president, had been in failing
lealth for some time. But until
last winter he had taken an ac-
tive hand in the management of
the Washington Evening Star.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01
Court Commission
To Meet Friday

Raleigh, Dec. 1-(AP)-A COM
mission named to suggest chan
ges in North Carolina court pro-
cedure has worked cut a tenta-
tive draft of its report.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-01

This is just to remind you not
to forget the first meeting Of the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1948-10-01

Rosh Hashonah marks the an
niversary of Creation. And all
Jews flock to the synagogue to
honor that day..
How right we are to give reng-
ious expression to that event, for
it is fraught with spiritual inn
plications. Before God created the
world, there was a void and a
waste. Physically there was an
archy-no laws of nature, no al
Continued on Page 40
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-02-26

SUNDAY: Visitors at the brick man.
sion on tthe Duke and Duchess were:
Charles Layman and wife, Madge;
| Grace Renner and daughter, Lillian
Renker, all of Cambridge way; Paul
Bates and wife, Helen, and two
charming daughters, Kay and Car
| olyn, of Salesville; Irven Bates and
wife. Barbara; John Bates and wife,
Chariot, and daughter, Ruth, Of the
deserted road at Tobacco road. An
enjoyable afternoon was had by all
! The roads were in poor condition
and the Charles Layman car could
not get up the road past the Oak
Hague residence. Charles was driv-
ing a new Chevy.
* X y
MONDAY: This type Taper fox
hunted in the afternoon, not very
good luck, as the three dogs were
too excited, being their first day
out of kennel since early Decem-
Der. Dogs are Queenie, Fannie and
Blackie, all three are girls, as l like
girls the bestest Queenie is plat
mum blond, Fannie a brunette and
| Blackie and in between. | prefer the
brunette type of foXhounds.
Oak Hague on hill, teaming with
sled, snow scarce.
TUESDAY: Out foxhunting at the
crack of dawn. We, and the dogs
showed so many grays in holes we
lost count of them, but sure we
holed up eight, two of them came
near running us over, me, not the
| dogs. Fannie was within one foot
of one when it holed up and Wher
Fannie put the brakes on to stop
they must have grabbed, as she
turned a complete end over end
Jake Carpenter assisted Oak
Hague cut posts.
WEDNESDAY: More foxhunting
but this was the red letter day O
the three. Near the old Dolph Car
penter house in Harley Bates woods
the three dogs opened up all at the
same time, like they had hit vel
low jacket nest. Fannie was sing
ing about 200 yards from Queeni'
and Blackie. Fannie carrying th'
bass, Blackie, baritone, and Queeni'
the tenor what music. / was abOu
one eighth of a mile from then
when the chorus started. Soon thert
past 300 feet of me skinny red fO1
and a full grown black coon. Th'
coon was about fifty feet opposite
the red fox, Fannie was pushing tn
coon and Queenie and Blackie Wer
doing likewise to the fox. | though
sure the coon was going to be caugh
and Blackie was showing the fox
The fox ran thrOught tree tor
and the coon past the fox an,
popped into q hollow tree and tn
red fox did likewise. I thought Fan
ME and Blackie were going to chey
the tree down. | got out my knit
4 and cut a sprOut to twist them Ou'
then thought better of it, as | wa
sure here would be a killing, SO
> called the dogs off and went on.
In our three day hunt, we fOun
= several rabbits dead but unmoleste
and whole. We also found severe
clumps of rabbit fur, where skun
signs showed they had eaten then
e beating the fox to a free meal.
:. The severe winter has been har
S on the rabbit and fox, in fact a
wild life, so don't blame it all 0
the fox!
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-02-26
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and all duly impressed with
necessary hinge panel
realized
which this industry has achieved during the past Two floral
officials from the Noble County
Commerce and The Journal
the march Caldwell will get
FInalste handle this
officer E. E.
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handle applications within their terri
400 this county and need
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a day. the others might we'll follow suit
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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-02-26
SHENANDOAH TRAIL

SHENANDOAH TRAIL - Mrs.
Glen Williams entertained Buffalo
township farm bureau council No.
two, Wednesday evening. B. w. Lar
rick led the discussion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon IVey have
moved on a farm near Columbus.
James Stillion of Pittsburgh is
the guest of friends along the Trail.
Mrs. w. E. Bond entertained with
a rook party Saturday night. Pres
ent were: Mr.. and Mrs. AlVa Wat
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Vandyne, Mr..
and Mrs. Bob Cooper, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ladd Wheeler and Mr.. and Mrs.
Kyle Wheeler.
On account of the tournament the
regular farm bureau meeting at the
school house has been postponed to
a later date.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wheeler Of
Canton were weekend visitors OF
their parents here.
Many from this place attended
the funeral of Jeremiah Jordan al