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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME TWENTY_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 19th, 1934 NUMBER FOURTEEN
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BOOM TO OUR CITY
UP AND DOWN
t3he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
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Robert W. Madry, Halifax Coun
ty man, who is director of the
University News Bureau and
President of the American College
Publicity Association, stoutly
championed the so-called “Wash
ington Brain Trust,” and other
Federal aids in his recent address
at the opening session of the
Association’s 15th Annual Conven
tion. The convention was held at
Western Reserve University in
Cleveland. Mr. Madry is a former
resident of Scotland Neck.
Tunstall-Johnson Company,
Norfolk paving contractors,
started work today on the final,
special-treated Asphalt course,
on the Avenue paving project.
Work on the third, and final
course, was started on the Roa
noke Junction end, and will pro
ceed as rapidly as the balance
of the Avenue paving is ready
for it. This means that the busi
ness section in the South ward
will be open to traffic within
approximately 10-days.
Friends of T. O. Wilson will be
glad to know that he has been dis
missed from Watts Hospital in
Durham, where his condition has
been considered critical for the past
several weeks. Mr. Wilson was re
moved to his home near Paces,
Va., last Sunday, and attending
physicians say they think he will
be able to be up within sixty-days.
More boquets for Graham Poy
ner, including several orchids.
The popular High School teach
er and Kiwanis Minstrel perform
er has been promoted at Station
WPTF, Raleigh, and is now
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Mill Explosion
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DRY CANS
IN BLEACH
DEPT. BANG
Blame On Steam Reducing Or
Outlet Valves; Nobody
Injured; Much Damage
A peculiar explosion that shook
half the city and left the other
half undisturbed, that was un
heard in parts of the town and
heard and felt distinctly sever
al miles out of town, took place
yesterday afternoon at 6:10
when a series of dry-cans in the
bleach house of Roanoke No. 2
Mill blew up.
The force of the explosion was
so great that it tore a 13 inch
brick wall out and hurled heavy
parts of the machine many feet.
Windows near the machine were
lifted out by the frames and sent
winding. Windows in other parts
of the building and in other rooms
of the mill were cracked and shat
tered by the jar.
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Has Best Home Essay
GEORGIA ARNETT
Starting her essay with “You
can rent a house but you can
not rent a home,” Miss Georgia
Arnett, of Greensboro, won
first prize in the State Essay
contest of the N. C. Building
& Loan League. The essay will
be printed in next week’s issue
of this newspaper.
As Chaos Reigns on Waterfront
A general strike, tying up the major portion of Pacific coast trade,
threatened when troops shown at center, left, were called out to halt
further riots between policemen and striking longshoremen who
sought to prevent movement of cargo from the San Francisco docks
by strikebreakers. Above, strikers are shown fleeing a tear gas bar
rage; below are two casualties in the strike war; and, at center
right, is Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco, chairman
of the National Longshoremen’s Board, organized to settle the strike.
DOZEN NEAR TOP
END SECOND WEEK
Only three weeks left after
this Saturday night in the Herald
subscription drive.
In listing the standing of con
testants, we are not going to kid
them or the public by listing a
bunch of phoney votes. We know
what each contestant has and that
contestant knows. It would hurt
them in this race for their oppon
ents to know how many they had
for they could start figuring out
just how many 10-year subscrip
tions it would take to forge ahead.
We are going to tell how they
—
stand and here it is.
In First Place at the end of
the second week was Mrs. A. O.
Pendleton of Roanoke Rapids.
Now here is a strange turn.
Pushing her closest and in
Second place ds Miss Dorothy
Bennett of Enfield, while the
next two, right on the heels of
the two leaders are Mrs. E. P.
Hyman of Camp’s Store, and
Mrs. Raleigh Daniel of Weldon.
In the same breath almost,
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WORKMEN
BUSY ON
PROJECTS
Roanoke Rapids Folks Blessed
With Extra Projects And
Improvements
“You Roanoke Rapids people
don’t know when you are well
off,” was the expression of a
young textile worker who has
been seeking employment in
other1 parts of North Carolina
and in South Carolina. “There’s
more work going on in Roanoke
Rapids, both in the mills and
also outside the mills than any
place I tried to get work.”
So far as that work outside the
mills is concerned, a trip up and
down the Avenue and on some of
the other streets also will convince
anyone that this young man knew
what he was talking about.
The first thing that strikes the
eye is the handsome two-story
brick building between 10th and
11th Streets that J. C. Smith is
building for the new home of
Rose’s Five & Ten Store. This
will be the second largest store
room in the city. A lobby entrance
to the second story is on the South
of the building. Upstairs will be
built some twenty rooms with con
venient baths which will serve
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FUNERAL
MRS. SHELL
THIS P. M.
Pioneer Citizen Of Town Laid
To Rest In City Cemetery
Today
Hundreds attended the funeral
this afternoon of Mrs. Cornelia
Edwards Shell, one of the pioneer
citizens of Roanoke Rapids, and
mother of L. G. Shell and Curtis
C. Shell of this city and R. G.
Shell of Fayetteville. Business
houses of the city closed during
the funeral hours this afternoon.
Mrs. Shell died yesterday at the
Roanoke Rapids Hospital of pneu
monia. She would have been 75
years old in October. She is the
last of her generation on either
side of the family. The day she
was taken to the local hospital,
John B. Shell, her brother-in-law,
88 years old, was buried in Bruns
wick County, Va.
The Shell family came here in
1903 from Brunswick County. Her
husband died here in 1916. Her two
sons have been in the mercantile
business and have taken a promin
ent part in the civic and business
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