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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1935 NUMBER TWO
NEW FBE TRUCKS SAVE
THOUSANDS* DMHBS
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KILLED IN
WRECK IN
GASTON
I Robert Sims, colored employee
of Halifax Paper Corporation, died
Sunday night at the Roanoke Rap
ids Hospital from injuries receiv
ed in an automobile wreck an
hour before.
Sims was in a car which turned
over in upper Gaston Township
and was caught beneath the over
turned car. A friend with him
received minor injuries.
POUCE
DRIVE IS
SUCCESS
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A drive by Roanoke Rap
ids police and the Sheriff of
Northampton County early
Saturday morning resulted in
the raids on the Log Cabin
at the second bridge, Smith’s
cabin on the old river road
and the arrest and conviction
of three men.
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UP AND DOWN WITH THE
£?he Avenue Sf/Mm
SATURDAY is election day in Halifax County. The voters will decide
whether or not they desire a control system of the liquor question.
Above we reprint a sample ballot which is all1 there is. The voter
either marks a cross mark “For Control Act” or “Against Control Act.”
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QUESTION of registration has been brought up. No new registration
was needed for this election. All voters on the old county-state books
are entitled to vote in this election. Voters in the South Ward will
vote in the store formerly occupied by Tilghman Furniture Co. Voters
in the North Ward will vote in the Warehouse as in the past.
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DOCTORS from Halifax County met in Roanoke Rapids Tuesday
night at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. Dr. Paul D. Camp of Richmond
read a most interesting paper on “High Blood Pressure in Hearts
Disease and Brights Disease.” Dr. Camp is a cousin of Frank C.
Williams and Hugh D. Camp of this city. Fifteen doctors from Hali
fax and Northaihpton attended.
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SAMPLE BALLOT
Alcoholic Beverages Control Act
SPECIAL ELECTION UNDER HOUSE BILL 1491
Halifax County, North Carolina
INSTRUCTIONS
1. To vote For Control Act, make a cross (x) mark in the square
opposite the words, “For Control Act.”
2. To vote Against Control Act, make a cross (x) mark opposite
the 'words, “Against Control Act.” v
3. If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it
and get another.
4. Mark only with a pencil or pen and ink.
SPECIAL ELECTION, JULY 6, 1935.
□ FOR CONTROL ACT.
□ AGAINST CONTROL ACT.
; Wm. E. BELLAMY,
Chairman of Halifax County Board of Elections.
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the medical expert.
NO NEW
CASES IN
THE CITY
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Ruby Baggett Is Victim In
fantile Paralysis; No Cases
In Local Hospital
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Ruby Baggett, age 13, daughter
of Mr and Mrs. H. A. Baggett,
died on Saturday from infantile
paralysis, the first death in Roa
noke Rapids from this malady.
Funeral was Sunday in Samp
son County.
There are no cases in the Roa
noke Rapdis Hospital. One case
from Gasburg, Va., was in the
hospital on Saturday, was sent
back to Virginia this Monday, thus
clearing the local hospital of its
last case.
No new cases have been reported
in Roanoke Rapids for the past
week. The only case left in town,
Walter Jones, Jr., is a mild form
with no paralysis and complete
recovery is expected.
WIN THIS
MORNING
Roanoke Rapids won a league
ball game this morning at Hob
good by a score of 7 to 3 behind
exellent hurling of Russell Bird
song.
The two teams will play here
this afternoon. The win this
morning made the locals one full
game behind Windsor for the
league lead.
WOULD
LOWER
RATES
If the city of Roanoke Rap
ids, and particularly the fire
insurance policy holders, want
to invest’$11,219 in modern
fire-fighting equipment, those
policy holders will save each
year from 20 to 30 per cent.
Fire insurance agents here
figure this will save property
owners from ten to fifteen
thousand dollars a year in in
surance premiums.
The City Board of Commis
sioners wants to know if
these policy holders are will
ing to help buy this equip
ment in order to make such a
saving.
The savings would be 20
per cent on dwellings and 30
per cent on business property.
Needed equipment would
include a 750 gallon Triple
Invader Pumper and La
France truck, a second hand
combination chemical and
hose truck, the present truck,
2,000 feet of hose, a 35 foot
extension ladder, smoke
masks and salvage covers.
It would take 4 months to
get the new truck which
would be just before the new
fire department building is
finished.
JULY 15TH
DEADLINE
Monday, July 15th, is the dead
line set by the Roanoke Rapids
Sanitary District when all proper
ty owners must have connected
their properties with the Sanitary
District lines. !
TWO MORE COUNTIES WET
Two more Eastern North Carolina counties, Craven and New
Hanover, went wet by sweeping majorities yesterday.
The vote in Craven, with onegmall precinct missing, was 2,237
for liquor stores, 553 against—a better than four to one victory
for the wets. Only two precincts in the entire county went dry.
The vote in New Hanover., was 5,403 for liquor, 758 against.
However, the New Hanover wets were “voting against” a regis
tration of 7,192, necessitating 3,596 to win.
So far every county which has voted on liquor since the legis
lature made it possible for 19 counties to get legal liquor has gone
wet.
The counties that have voted are Edgecombe, Wilson, Beau
fort, Vance, New Hanover and Craven. In Franklin the election
was enjoined as well as the opening of stores.
Nine additional counties, Pasquotank, Martin, Halifax, Car
teret, Onslow, Pitt, Lenoir, Warren and Nash, are scheduled to
vote on the question Saturday.