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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald ____..___ VOLUME TWENTY_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1934_NUMBER SEVENTEEN , City Health Officer, has what ' might be termed a "dirty job.” He signs orders for premises to , be cleaned up when investiga gation proves them unsanitary. For this thankless job, Dr. Mar tin receives no pay. In the past, jj the City Health Officer receiv ed a small monthly salary. Troop 2, Boy Scouts, and Scout master Bill Alligood, gave the program for the Kiwanis Club at the regular meeting at Lake Thom ,as tonight. The Scouts put on a couple of clever skits and then showed the Kiwanians different kinds of Scoutcraft in signalling, camping, cooking, making fires, tying knots, use of axe and knife, etc. The program was much en fjoyed by the older men who were high in praises of Alligood and his troop. The Roanoke Rapids Kiwanis Club will attend a joint meet ing with Rocky Mount and Ahos kie next Friday night, the last night of the three day and night Jubilee being staged at Ahos kie by the Kiwanis Club of that city. J. U. Loftin and family of Al bemarle are visiting Mrs. Tommy Jenkins, aunt of Mrs. Loftin. Mr. Loftin was for years the manager of the original Rosemary Drug Co., coming here in 1909 and leaving in 1920. The store for years was on Tenth Street and a community center. Mr. Loftin and family have just returned to the State after a five weeks trip to the Pacific Coast. NOTICE CORRESPONDENTS All correspondents to this newspaper are hereby informed to continue sending in news as before. Please get all news of county-wide interest happening in your community. Use type writer if possible. Write all names of persons and places clearly. Do not use Mr. before a name when the first name or initials are used. Many times it is hard to decide whether it is Mi*, or Mrs. The Lottie Moon Circle of the W. M. S. of the First Baptist church will have an ice cream supper in the park on Friday even ing at 7:30 o’clock Home-made ice cream and cake will be served, come and bring your friends. There will be both morning and evening services at the Presbyterian Church Sunday. Christian Endeavor: interme diates at 6:30 p. m., seniors at 7:15 p. m. STORM SEWERS City Budget Adopted $39,000.00 FOR CITY EXPENSES Extra Money For Chief Of Police Causes Usual Ex citement As To Whom. While much of the busi ness of the City Board of Commissioners in regular meeting Tuesday was con cerning the proposed, storm drainage of the Avenue, other important business of the city was discussed and acted on, including a doption of the new budget. The budget for 1933-34 was adopted. This includes adminis trative $3,550. Fire Department $1,643. Health Dept. $300. Jail $200. Miscellaneous $795. Police $8,125. Sanitary Dept. $4,100. Street Dept. $14,720. Tax Dept. $1,540.90. Vital Statistics $175. A total budget for the year of $35, 148.90. To this was added for Debt Ser —(Continued on back page)— State Champion George Franklin Hahn, of Mount Pleasant, who won first prize of a one-year tuition scholarship to any North Caro lina college in the finals of the seventh annual essay contest of the North Carolina Cotton Grow ers Cooperative Association. Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of the Greater University, pre sented the scholarship. DRIVE ENDS SATURDAY P. M. The Herald circulation drive will come to a close this Saturday night at midnight. Contestants are urged to finish up their work as soon as possible before midnight and make their reports promptly to avoid last-minute confusion. No one but contestants will be allowed in the building due to lack of room. jur. xioyie, wno nas conducted the cleanest circulation campaign possible, will act in advisory ca pacity only at the last round-up. The management of The Herald will have nothing to do with the final count. That will be in the hands of an impartial group of three, one from each bank in the city. This committee will audit all back re ports of each contestant and will receive and total the final re ports and make the awards. Keys for the cars and titles are waiting for the winners. All need ed Saturday night is to fill in the names. Trips are all arranged for and commission checks will be paid before Good Night is said. It has been a great contest and the only regret is there are not automobiles for everybody. But only two can win. Who will they be? That last report this Saturday night will tell the tale. Miss Bennett turned in a good report last Saturday night to go ahead of Mrs. Daniels and very near Mrs. Hyman who still retains second place, with Mrs. Pendle ton stiii holding on to first place. Miss Carlin is fifth with Mrs. Lampley and Mrs. Moody in striking distance. The balance of the contestants, it can now be seen, will not be on the prizes, but will receive their commission checks of 25 per cent. Insures Curb to Curb Both Store Sections The City Board of Commissioners in regular meeting Tuesday voted to construct the necessary surface drainage and storm sewers from First to 13th Street in accordance with plans and specifications drawn up by Spoon & Lewis) and presented to the State Highway Department. This is in answer to a proposition made by Chairman Jeffress and Commissioner Will Woodard of the State High way Commission, if the city woul<| put in storm sewers, the State would widen the Avenue in both business sections curb to curb, making a uniform street in both ends of town, and would further widen the street from the Taylor & Col lier corner to the city limits North to 30 feet instead of the present 18 and dispense with the bridge over the old canal. HIWAY COP MAY LOSE LEG Sergeant Lewis Injured Near Rocky Mount When Motor cycle Hit By Car Sunday .. ■ Sergt. Dewey G. Lewis, of State Highway Patrol, who last year was patrolman of Weldon and Roanoke Rapids, was critically in jured near Rocky Mount Sunday afternoon when an automobile said to have been driven by Charlie Proctor, Wilson County farmer, crashed into his motorcycle several miles north of Elm City. Hospital attaches said that his left leg was crushed and that it was feared amputation would be necessary. Lewis, a war veteran, has shrap nel scars on his leg. Proctor was arrested and later released under bond. Local offic ers quoted the man as having said that he drove onto the highway without seeing the officer. The right fender of the car struck the motorcycle as it was driven at about 30 miles an hour. A number of officers have vol unteered to give blood in case it was needed for a transfusion. Jimmy Baker and Will Sledge, both colored, got in an argument last night at the latter’s home in Lincoln Heights. Sledge took three shots with his shotgun at Baker as the latter fliwered away. One load hit Baker’s car. While many here have been trying to get the entire 14 blocks widened from curb to curb, word comes from Raleigh today that the funds have already been set aside for the four business blocks and the extra block only, at this time, and any other widening in the residential section must come under new appropriations at some later date. The work of laying storm sewers would cause the tearing up of por tions of the present curb to curb street in the North section and this would be (relaid with the same type street as the rest of the new Avenue. On a recent visit here, Mr. Woodard of the Commission, would make no commitment but agreed he would usg his best efforts to eventually get a full paved Ave nue the entire fourteen blocks. The resolution of the Board here was contingent on action by the State Hiway Dept. Another mo tion ordered Spoon & Lewis to make the necessary survey of territory to be drained by the sew age system. Wife Of Fireman Dies Here Today Mrs. Ophelia Wright, wife of Alfred Wright, 102 Monroe St., died at the hospital here a little after noon today. Funeral services will be held near Potecasi Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Surviving are the hus band and three ^children. Mrs. Wright has lived here for the past six or seven years. Mr. Wright is an active mem ber of the Roanoke Rapids Fire Department.
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