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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C„ THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1st, 1932. NUMBER THIRTY-THREE.
J. T. CHASE NEW PRESIDENT
UP AND DOWN
Ghe Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet Waters
announce the birth of a son, Nov
ember 18.
The members of the Study Club
have Tubercular seals for sale and
will be glad to sell to any one
desiring .same. They will sell any J
amount dec
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District offices for the Life-^nd
Casualty Insurance Company of;
Nashville, Term., have been open
ed in the Imperial Theatre build
ing and will be in charge of Lun
dy E. Hudson. Agents working out
of this office include Tommy Cox,
Basil Glover and C. Ogletree, Jr.
The Pendleton Grizzards are
building a new home on the Ave
nue, on the East side just ' cyond
4th Street. It will be a modem
seven or eight room house of the
bungalow type. Work on the foun
dation is now under way.
There will be a meeting of all]
those in Halifax County interest-,
ed in organising a county unit of]
the Institute of Government, start
ed by Professor Albert Coates of
the University of North Carolina.
This meeting is at the courthouse
on Monday, Dec. 5, at 7:15 p. m
All District, cHy and county offi
cers are urged to attend as well as
officers of an aseoda’ions and
dubs of business and professional
men and community organisations.
E. L. Travis, Jr., and J. R. Alls
brook are helping Prof. Coates get
the Institute started in this coun
ty.
Did you realize there are only 21
■hopping days left before Christ
mas T And there are only three
more issues of The Heftilj after
this one to tell the world what yon
have to offer.
Jack Jones, genial political lead
er and general merchant of Til
lery, was a vistor here today. He
and Corner Billy Williams are
warm friends and Jack wanted to
go thru the new Williams Funer
al Home Brat thing.
Bob Reynolds will be sworn 1*
as United 8tates Senator Monday.
Many of his friends In the Stats
plan to be up In Washington Man
day to honor Our Bah.
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team for 1932. Roanoke Rapids placed five men on the first team.
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Already the stores of Roanoke
Rapids are taking on Christmas
color, near stocks of Santa Clans
arriving daily. Shoppers in this
section will make no mistake when
they come to Roanoke Rapids to
do their Christmas shopping. More
■tores and more stocks to choose
from than in a radios of forty
miles
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Miss Josephine Hargrove of En
field sepnt Thanksgiving with
Meads here.
CORRECTION
On some of the circulars of the
Hub Department Store appears
these prices: Children’s Shoes 48c,
Ladies Galoshes 96c. This should
read the reverse as follows: Chil
drens Shoes 96 cts, Ladies Galosh
es 48 cts. This transposition was
the fault of The Herald Printing
Co., and the correction was made
in most of the circulars and in the
two page Hnb ad which appears
in this issue.
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Heads Hospital
J. T. CHASE
RED CROSS
DRIVE GOES
OVER TOP
Under the leadership of Rev. S.
H. Bradley, 1932 Roll Call chair
man for this city, the annual Red
Cross drive for funds hit the high
est record for the past five years
with a total of $414.61.
There are 230 annual members
at $1 each, 2 contributing mem
bers at $6 each, nad three sup
porting members at $26 each. $100
was collected from persons giving
less than $1 each.
$167.30 of the money goes to
National Red Crose and $247.31 re
mains with the Roanoke Rapids 1
chapter. '
Mr. Bradley stated he wished to
especially thank the Eiwanis Club
for giving 100 per cent, every
member joining, and for the work
of Kiwanis members in soliciting:
Messrs A. N. Martin, H. S. Loy., A.
E. Akers and Steve Lipscomb were
in charge of the business section
drive. A. Miekle was in charge of
Patterson Mills Co., which mill led
the industries in donations.
They were followed by Rosemary
Mfg. Co., with Howard Pruden and
S. D. Brown and Roanoke Mills
headed by R. L. Towe and Jack
Cassada.
Every teacher in t h e Roanoke
Rapids School joined the Red Cross
and Mr. Bradley asked also that
special donations from the Power
Co., and other local industries re
ceive special mention.
Graham Shell spent Thanksgiv
ing here with his parents.
The Roanoke Rapids Hospital
will reopen on Monday December
12th.
This was the decision of the ex
ecutive committee of the Board of
Trustees, meeting with the medi
cal staff yesterday,
i At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees on Tuesday, all the 0ffi->
cers of the hospital handed in their
resignations and these were ac
cepted by the Board.
J. T. Chase was then nominated
for the office of President of the
hospital by F. M. Brown, man
ager of the Halifax Paper Corpora
ation. The nomination of Mr.
Chase was seconded by Dr. T. W.
M. Long, former President of the
me election of Mr.
Chase was by unanimous vote.
Ihe new head of the hospital,
who is vice president of the Vir
ginia Electric and Power Co., has
been a member of the Hospital
Board of Trustees for the past fif
teen years, and for the last two
years has been treasurer of the
hospital.
Hr. R. P. Beckwith was elected
Vice President and Chief of the
Medical Staff. Dr. F. G. Jarman
v^as elected Secretary and Dr.
Bahnson Weathers was chosen as
treasurer.
The new president called for
yesterday’s meeting to determino
the possibility of opening the hos
pital and to set the date. It was
pointed out that with the ban life.
:d in the injunction against Roa
loke Mills Co., so far as the hos
pital was concerned, and with the
imployees of this mill and all the
ither industries in the group plan
ligned up 100 per cent for
i continuance of the plan
ormerly in use, there was enough
•evenue in sight to warrant re
opening the hospital, provided cer
tam economies could be put in ef
fect.
The Wednesday meeting set the
date of reopening as Monday, De
ember 12, and most of the day was
spent in reorganization of hospit
al and receiving recommendations
from the medical staff as to eco
nomies to be put in force as soon
as the hospital is opened.
The Nurses Training School will
be reopened so those who are near
ing graduation may complete their
work, but it was necessary to ef
fect economies here as elsewhere in
the operation of the hospital, which
has been operating at a loss for
many years sometimes running an
annual deficit of as much as fif
teen thousand dollars.
The news of reopening will be
received with delight by the citi
zens and by those in the surround
ing territory served by the hospit
al.