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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS Our City Needs J° Part - S_ r >-^ VOLUME TWENTY-ONE _ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. NUMBER^ELEVEN UP AND DOWN WITH THE “Ghc Avenue grUto* ’ SALUTES to various towns of North Carolina are given over Station WPTF at Raleigh each morning with a brief descripton of the towns. How’s this one for Roanoke Rapids: population 9,000. Largest indus trial city in Northeastern Carolina. 100 retail stoves. Cotton market and warehouse. Four large cotton mills employing 3,000. Largest damask mill in tl*e United States. Paper mill. North Carolina plants and office headquarters of Va. Electric & Power Co. Two banks, news paper, laundry, bakery, mattress facto, y and small manufacturing establishments. Farmers cu.b mt.lM. In i'l'st three years has in stalled water and sewage, White Way, paved business sections, ten miles concrete sidewalks. Has eight church buildings. Five city school buildings with school enrollment :!,500. New Postoffice build ing and new Municipal building now under construction. 100 oeu * j pital and Nursing School. On Seaboard Airline and four miles dire<" connection to Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Only city in State with two A. B. C. stores. Ten new homes now under construction or jus,, completed. Projects applied for: street paving, sidewalks, recreation park, airport. Roanoke Rapids, an industrial, agricultural and edu eational leader, fastest growing city in Eastern Carolina, the little industrial giant. -o MOVING to Roanoke Rapids are Mr. and Mrs. William Harris II of Henderson. Mr. Harris will manage the Roanoke Rapids Bonded Warehouse Co., the 5,000 bale building which has just been completed. Mrs. Harris is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Peace. BACK in Roanoke Rapids in time for both Sunday services will be Reverend Gordon L. Price, pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has been holding a revival meeting near Richmond. 4 RADIOS on automobiles are great company when driving along the road at night but the railroads advise drivers of such cars to be care ful when approaching railroad crossings. In Ohio last month an auto drove into a train, got twisted underneath, derailed 32 cars, smashe up the car and injured the three occupants. The conductor of 1h wrecked train advised that the driver of the wrecked car told him did not hear the signal bell or see the train until too late because h: had the radio in his car turned on. .-o APPROPRIATE is the word to use. It seems appropriate that John Peele, 3rd vice president of the United Textile Workers, is billed to speak in Roanoke Rapids on Saturday. Appropriate because this is anniversary week. It was one year ago that the United Textile Work ers were responsible for the strike in Roanoke Rapids. The strike which cost our workers here thousands of dollars in lost wages. The strike which tore our town apart and left deep scars. The strike which cost the mills orders which accounts for the short time this Summer. Yes. It is very appropriate. r. FORTYNINE boys from Roanoke Rapids have enlisted in Uncle Sam’s army, according to reports reaching this office tonight. Most of the boys are at Fort Jtonroe. When the recruiting officer returns Saturday, it will be for1, the last trip. At that time we hope to get an official list of the names of those who will wear the uniform. -o HONOR members on the Honor Roll of those who have pledged to ward the purchase of the new fii'e truck and equipment. These names are in addition to those printed last week. Brickell Motor Co., Wil liam Farber, C. D. Clark, J. D. Thompson, T. B. Parker, A. C. Doyle, Roanoke Furniture Exchange Co. A complete list of all the honor roll will be printed again next week. Have your name there. See Coir miss:oners George Taylor or Irvin Starke at once and sign the pl-d-e. GETS W.P.A. JOB W. F. JOYNER of Roanoke Rapids, who this week was ap pointed Field Representative o the Works Progress Administra tion for the first and second <!i tricts in North Carolina. Mr. Joy ner, business man of this city and former member of the County Board of Commissioners, has al ready entered on his new duties. His position will carry him all o ver the Eastern section of the State representing the Federa' government in the W.P.A. I -—- i TENTATIVE I ORDER FOR FIRE TURCK The City Board of Com missioners has placed a ten tative order lor a new fire truck and equipment. This order may be cancelled with in the next 30 days and will be if sufficient funds are not raised to make the first pay ment. The reason for placing the or der now is so that, in case the necessary amount is p'edged by property owners who will save on fire insurance premiums, the fire truck, which must be built by the factory, will arrive here at about the same time the new mu nicipal building is completed. Fire Commissioners George Tay lor and Irvin Starke are planning to make every effort to raise their fund to the necessary amount within 30 days so the order will not have to be cancelled or de (Continued on Back Page) REPORT STORM COMING Reports to the plant of the Va. Electric & Power Co. here are that, unless it changes its course, a wind storm will hit Roanoke Rap ids and vicinity sometime be j tween early morning and | :ioon Friday. . This is the same hurricar | which has devastated parts of Florida a.n3 today struck I Georgia traveling North. ; Hundreds are dead in that isection of the hurricane and properly damage is millions of dollars. -o SCHOOLS WILL OPEN MONDAY The city schools of Roanoke Rapids will start Monday and reports tonight show a par ticularly heavy registration of pupils in the Junior High (Continued on Back Pag«) Staff Representative .Miss Janet Ralwlings has ac cepted a contract as staff repre sentative of Eastman School of Business Administration, Sarato ga Springs, N. Y. in the territory of Weldon, Halifax, Enfield, Roa noke Rapids and Aurelian Springs. Miss Rawlings has charge of the registration. » -o POLICE INCREASE VIGILANCE r our Places Molested In r'as" Week Altho No ; ■?nt ronre Made The epidemic of house breaking- of two weeks ago when nine homes were en tered seemed ready to return with reports of four a!tempts made during the past week to enter homes. While no homes were actually entered, the screens from windows were being removed in two cases when the thieves were scared off. Victim of the first outbreak, Mac Johnson was awakened early Friday morning by the sounds of someone removing the window screen from his bedroom window. Mr. Johnson jumped up to get his gun and the thief escaped. At Mrs. Armstrong’s i esidenee on Roanoke Avenue, south of the Citizens Bank & Trust Co., a neighbor who was staying v. ith her awoke to find a man removing the screen from the win.iov. She screamed and the man escaped. At nine o’clock last night police were called to the home of F. L). Wilson, coiner the Avenue and 8th, where a servant -r . and watched a man who was 1 , mg in the yard. The Wilsons were at the show and the servant called across the street to .Mrs. i Pinning, who phoned the police. They came at once and searched the premises but the man had slipped away in the darkness. During the week, the home of Mrs. Dunning was robbed twice. Money was tain n the first time, canned fruit th mem !. These robberies to 1: in the day time. Police say this . r. the work of the crazy ' ’to is said to have robbe . homes a week ago. Chi •" F- rlv has visit ed other towns \>mr. mis same robber has been, both bed’ore and also after his Roanoke Rapids trip. Police of these cities say they know who it is and a net has been spread for him. His i dentity is being kept quiet for obvious reasons.
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