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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME EIGHTEEN_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29th, 1932. NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN.
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WHO IS UNEMPLOYED?
UP AND DOWN
£?he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
The Womans Club will hold the
first meeting of the new year on
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at
the Womans Club building. The
program will be !n charge of Mrs.
Bahnson Weathers, chairman o f
the Welfare Department.
Christmas Days are over and the
Christmas Daze is still with us.
Business on the Avenue, rushing
last week, is at a standstill this
week. But will pick up again next
week as the annual clearances be
gin.
While there was plenty of noise
around the holidays, there were no
serious accidents or disturbances.
The police report a very orderly
holiday season, on the whole.
How many able bodied men in
Roanoke Rapids and Roanoke Ra
pids Township are unemployed?
That is the question we would
like answered and we see only one
way to do ;t: All unemployed men
may come to the office of The
Roanoke Rapids Herald and give
theij* names and other informa
tion.
This is positively no guarantee
of a job but is simply the means
of finding out the exact nature
and extent of unemployment in
the city and district.
We are not interested in persons
who live outside Roanoke Rapids
township for the purpose of this
survey; nor need persons from any
distance away come here for the
purpose of getting work, as The
Herald has nothing to do with that.
We would, however, like to have
a list of both skilled and unskilled
labor now unemployed,
i You will lind slips at The Her
ald office to be filled out. Come
just as soon as you read this as
this information should be com
pleted by Monday of next week,
(Jan. 2).
Edit^M^Youth
RED DEVILS
PLAY AT
GREENV’LE
After losing their opening tilt
to Chowan College by a close mar.
gin last week, the local Red Dev
ils bsketball quintet will journey
to Greenville Friday night to tus
sle with the lEas|D?jr*’‘i Carolina
Teachers College.
The Red Devils showed great
form in their last drills and may
tipset the college lassies Friday
night. Fletcher Dickens, the for
mer all-Southern from N. C. State
is plenty dangerous at forward,
This fellow is fast and tricky,
working with Louis Taylor at the
forward post. Louis did his bit of
bouncing at State also. This pair
of forwards are hard to be com
pared with.
Fleetwood Sullivan, who star
red on the local High School cage
team last year is getting back to
his old florm along wtfth Hugh
Cobb, Guilford College two seasons
ago. Two good bets for the guard
positions.
Tubby Speight, who did good
work in the Chowan fray seems
to be in tip-top condition. Fred
Mills and Lefty Everett, the for
mer whiz from Alligood Junior
team also are working hard for
the tilt.
Wilton Dickens and Phillip New1
ton of th eYellow Jackets Aces will
accompany the Devils on this trip
as some of the members are away
for the holidays.
Viola lima, 22, a literary prize
winner at 17, is to edit a national
magazine called “Modern Youth,”
. . . mouthpiece of the younger gen
eration . . . and whose contributors
’ st be under 3( years of age.
COUNTY
DEATHS
Mrs. George Pearson, 40 years
old, died this Tuesday at her home
near Smith’s Church after a long
illness. Funeral services and in
terment were at Smith Church with
Rev. J. M. Sharpe officiating, yes
terday afternoon.
Surviving are her husband, Geo.
Pearson, well known farmer and
two children. Susie and John; one
brother, Baloy Green; four sisters,
Mesdames J. W. Snipes, B. S. Haw
kins, John Hale and A. D. Pittard.
Squire Cullom
Squire Cullom, 63, prominent
farmer of Thelma, died at his home
in Thelma Dec. 22. Funeral ser
vices were preached Dec. 24 by
Brother Bingham at the house. Mr.
Cullom is survived by his wife
and several children.
This service by your home town
paper will cost you nothing and
may be the means of getting fu
ture work for many.
New Doctor to Supply
In Dr. Long’s Absence
Dr. J. M. C. Covington of Lau
rinburg will assume the practice
of Dr. T. W. M. Long when the lat
ter goes to the General Assembly
next week, according to an an
nouncement made by Dr. Long
yesterday.
Dr. Covington is a graduate of
Davidson College and of the School
of Medicine of the University of
Virginia. He has had three years
hospital training as well as experi
ence in the practice of medicine
and surgery.
Mesdames J. M. Jackson, Wm.
Jackson, Francis Patterson and
Miss Virginia Jackson attended the
wedding of Miss Katherine Jack
son and Mr. Wilbur Anderton in
Richmond Christmas Eve.
Influenza is prevalent in Roa
noke Rapids at this time. There
are more sick folks than in a long
time.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Alford of
Hazard, Ky., have moved to Roa
noke Rapids. Mr. Alford will be
business manager of the Roanoke
Rapids Hospital starting January
1st.
1,873 Kiwanis Clubs
Celebrate Birthday
“The local Kiwanis Club will ob
serve the 18th anniversary of the
founding of Kiwanis International
during the week of January 15 to
21,” said C. W. Davis, new presi
dent of the local club. Kiwanians
here will join in with members in
1,873 other communities through
out the United States and Canada
to observe this event. The com
mittee on Kiwanis Education is in
charge of the program for the Roa
noke Rapids Club.
U. B. Bryant spent the week-end
in Scotland Neck with his parents.
Miss Lona B. Acree has been
visiting friends in Skeltos, Va.
Speaking a If out the Christmas
noise, we have reached this con
clusion. As long as most of the
fireworks in these parts are shot
in Halifax County, we believe they
might just as well be sold here
and let Halifax County get the
benefit of the extra taxes.
The Avenue certainly looked
plenty Christmasy last week and
this. The Power Co. colored up all
the White Way red and green, out.
door Christmas Trees were more
numerous than ever, stores were
prettier than usual. We saw few
towns that looked better.
L. S. Cannon and W. C. Will
iams brought back a new fruit
He will be here during Dr.
Long’s absence and will live at his
residence and occupy his offices.
Everett Crowder of Kendridge,
Va., visited friends here last week
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Doyle spent
Christmas Day with Mrs. Hobbs
near Camps Store.
from Florida. It is called a Tan
gelo and is a cross between a
grapefruit and a tangerine, lar
ger than an ordinary orange,
peels like a tangerine and has a
grapefruity tang.
M. F. Long
M. F. Long, 66, prominent farm
er of Seaboard, died Dec. 21. Fu
neral services were held on Dec.
23 at the Seaboard Methodist
Church. His wife and several chil
dren survive.
Miss Ophelia Daniel left Mon
day night for Mount Holly to at
tend the funeral and burial ser
vice of her aunt, Mrs. B. C. Small.
Mr and Mrs. Jesse Lee and Mr.
and Mrs. Duval Murray spent Mon
day at Washington.
Harry Johnson, four year old
Weldon cl ild, narrowly escaped
dreadful injury and possible death
last Thursday night wnen he fell
from a car into the pa'h of anoth
er car.
He was out riding with his
mother, Mrs. H. W. Johnson, ar.d
was sitting in the fiont seat wnh
her.
They making a U-turn
under tne C. L. viaduct and as
the car swung mound, the front
door of the car flew open nod the
child was thrown into the strcel.
Immediately behind the Johnson
car was the car of Henry House.
Mr. House saw the child fall out,
stopped his car in an instant.
Jnmned «?i t tm!’, ; ’ 0
fellow to safety.
In turning, his front wheels had
missed the boy whose legs were
just in front of the rear wheel.
The child was not badly hurt,
having only a slight cut on the
forehead, probably from falling
out the car, and a few minor bruis
es. He is all right today.
I he car did not run over him a«
first reported here nor was the
child seriously hurt, according to
• he mother, who said the whole ac
cident was unavoidable amd she
was thankful for the narrow es
cape of her boy.
To Broadcast Sunday
Service Over WPTF
Beginning Sunday, January 1,
the Church of the Good Shepherd
(Episcopal), Raleigh, will broad
cast its eleven o’clock service di
rect from the church, through the
cooperation o f radio station
WPTF. It will thus make a ser
vice available for shut-ins and all
others who are unable to attend
one of their own.
This broadcost, which is made
possible by the generosity of a
layman of the Church of the Good
Shepherd and the liberal policy of
Station WPTF, will continue for
three months.
MISSES REAVES ENTERTAIN
Misses Cora and Ethel Reaves
entertained a few friends at their
home Monday night. Games and
dancing weu. enjoyed. Those pres
ent: Misses Cora and Ethel Reaves
Alice Massey, Edythe Morris, Lil
lie Belle Etheridge, Mildred Bur
ton, Dorothy White, “Pinky”
Jones, Cleo Gums, Mrs. J. R. Bur
ton, Messrs Howrard Simpson,
James Cannon, Dallas West, Jake
Jenkins, Johnnie Gossett, Leonard
Sullivan, Dick Burton, Clarence
Burton, Horace Williams, “Duck”
Finch, Wylie Reaves, Richard
Reaves.