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The Roanoke Rapids erald
VOLUME TWENTY ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th„ 1934_NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE
54 Needy Families
UP AND DOWN
t3Ke Avenue
WITH THE EDIVOR
If you want to get the real
old Ch istmas spirit, take a
jaunt up and down the Avenue
under the Christmas lights.
Feast your eyes on the window
displays of progressive mer -
chants who have filled those
windows with samples of what
awaits you within th:ir stores.
Thii is the Christmas season.
This is buying time. This is giv
ing time.
In th's issue of The Herald and
particularly in next week’s Big
Christmas edition, you will find
messages from merchants calling
your attention to gifts for every
members of the family and for
those friends who must not be
forgotten. Read these ads care
fully and have your mind pretty
well made up when you hit thf
Avenue for that buying time. 11
will save you much time and wor
ry, save you much- money and tell
you where you can find just what
you want.
A tip from Santa: Merchants
with roller skates should tell the
wol-ld about it. There’s an urge
for skates in Roanoke Rapids.
Letters we are sending on to
Santa, a few printed in this is
sue, show skates most popular
this season. Reason: CWA side
wa'ks of which more than 8 mil
es have been laid in Roanoke
Rap'ds this year. Who said there
wars no Santa Claus?
Children desiring to write Santa
Claus, we have found, like to hear
their letters read to them from
the newspaper, and we will hav°
space for a few short letters in
the Christmas edition of Dec.20
All letters received at this desk
before Dqc. 18 will receive due
consideration. Those received af
ter that date will be sent on to
Santa but cannot be printed. Get
yours in early. Monday wi!l be the
best time so g:t mothers and fa
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A Mother at 13
Mrs. Andy Ruzetka, Jr., 13,
wife of a 23-year-old Ezra, 111.,
coal miner, is pictured above
with her baby daughter. The in
fant, entirely normal in every
way, weighed 6 % pounds at
birth.
PIONEER
IS AUTO
VICTIM
C. A. Lyerly Dies Sunday
In Avenue Accident
C. A. Lyerly, 56 years old, died
Sunday morning from injuries re
ceived when he was struck by a
car on the Avenue list Friday.
Funeral services were held this
Tuesday afte-noon.
Mr. Lyer'y came to Roanoke
Rapids 24 years ago and bps been
an employee of Rosemary Mfg.
Co. and Patterson M.lls Co. ever
since.
He was struck by an automobile
driven by Herman Shearin, 18,
son of Hannibal Shearin, at the
corner of the Avenue and 9th
Street about 8 p. m.
He was crossing the Avenue on
his way home. The Shearin car
vas traveling North on the right
side of the Avenue. When the
car struck him, Mr. Lyerly was
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CALL AND
TAKE A
FAMILY
54 Opportunities To
Bring Christmas To
Needy Ones
Fifty four fami ies will depend
upon the gen'fosity of others
more fortunate in Roanoke Rapids
to bring some Christmai cheer in
to fifty four homes which have
been invest'gated by Associated
Charities and found worthy of as
sistance.
Individuals, clubs and other
groups and organizations are ask
ed to get in touch with Reverend
J. N. Bynum at once and take one
or more of these Christmas Op
portunities. Mr. Bynum's telephone
number- is R-5791
The Opportunities listed here
by numbers are only to give an
idea to those wishing to help. Full
details as to names, ages, address
and condition can be obtained from
Mr. Bynum. Call and ask him
concerning any Opportunity us -
ing the number as listed below.
Food, clothing, toys, fruit and
candy, fixed up in a basket will
mean real Christmas to these
folks, wh(o otherwise, will have
very little Christmas.
No 1, Widow, family of five.
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HUNTER-LONG
WEDDING HERE
The wedding of Miss Maria
Greenough Burgwyn Long and
Mr. Prank Patterson Hunter, Jr.,
Lieutenant Air Corps, United
States Army, was solemnized at
four o’clock, Saturday afternoon,
December eighth, in All Saints
Episcopal Church, Roanoke Rap
ids, with the Rev. Mr. Joseph
Fletcher, Rector of St. Marys’
School, Raleigh, officiating. White
chrysanthemums and many burn
ing tapers on the altar made a
beautiful setting for the wedding.
Prior to the ceremony, Mrs.
Gaston Foote of Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, gave a program of organ
musci. The “Bridal Chorus” from
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Mrs. ‘Babyface’
Held by U. S.
Believed at large after her es
cape from a gunbattle in which
two federal agents died and her
husband, George “Babyface"
Nelson (alias Lester Gillis) re
ceived his death wounds, _irs.
Helen Gillis, above, 21, has been
held In Chicago by federal men,
It was announced recently. Fed
eral authorities are seeking the
man who escaped with her.
TEACHERS
GUESTS OF
KIWANIS
The 65 school teachers of Roa
noke Rap'ds public schools were
guests of the Kiwanis Club at
the weekly meeting and supper
tonight and the program of the
evening was arranged and put on
by the visitors.
The teachers were welcomed by
Billy Norwood and the response
on beha f of the teachers was
made by Miss Eddins. The pro
gram was a radio broadcast with
announcer Tommy Martin doing a
regular McNamee at the "mike”.
In addition to the usual announc
er's line of chatter between num
bers, which consisted of much
‘ragging ’ of Kiwanians, on the
program was a solo by Miss Ote
ia Vaughan, a reading by Miss
Ruth White, singing by the sta>
ton’s NitWit ssters, Misses
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ALSO PLAN
FOR STORM
SEWERS
At an important special
session of the City Board ®f
Commissioners tonight, the
s.te for the proposed munici
pal building was selected and
authorization was given for
a loan of $10,000 in order to
complete storm sewers and
assure the immediate widen,
ing of Roanoke Avenue in
the business areas.
The municipal building will be
located next to the corner loca
tion selected by th)e Federal gov
ernment at 7th Street for the new
postoff ce building. The Commis
sioners authorized the purchase
of most of the vacant property
in that block which was not pur
chased by the Federal government.
In order to assure the widening
of Roanoke Avenua from curb to
curb in the bus. ness sections, the
Board ordered a loan of $10,000
to purchase concrete p.pe and fi
nance the installation of storm
sowers at once.
As stated in another story in
this issue, the contractor is ready
to begin on the street contract af
ter Christmas. A committe, head
ed by the Mayor, is endeavoring
to get FERA aid on the storm
sewer project to cut down the
cost as much as poss.ble.
Bids on tbe municipal build -
ing should be advertised in tbq
next two weeks as the money
for this project has already been
appropriated and approved by the
government. Work shou d be un
der way the first part of 1936.
Later in the year, work should
also start on construction of the
Postoffice building.
Manning-Boswood
Marriage Monday;
Miss Sara Louise Boswood,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Boswood of Coinjock, Currituck
County, N. C , and John Rivea
Manning, son of Mrs. T. R. Man
ning of Roanoke Rapids, were
married at noon Monday, Decem
ber 10th., at the Chapel, Old Fort
Raleigh on Roanoke Island.
The young couple are on their
honeymoon and will be at home^
in Roanoke Rapids after the lat
ter part of this month. Mr. Man
ning is Presid nt of the National
Loan and Insurance Company,
and executive vice-president of the
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan
Association.