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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS T T^\ I H ■ H ■ For New Year - ■ ■ CAROLINA'S FIRST^^^ ■ M U)rive s'°w*r „ 1 M •nrAB/oirf ^» NEWS/Wiiey Mm^ "-f VOLUME TWENTY-ONE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._ _THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1936 NUMBER THIRTY-ONE o I UP AND DOWN WITH TOT Ghe Avenue ^ NQTHING TO DAM RUMOR There is no truth in psaoss circulated here today that the dam at Danville, VarWcf1&rdR-~ en and another big rise would come in the Roa noke River, according to the Chief of Police at Danville who talked to Power Co. officials at 8 o’clock tonight. - “If the dam here had broken, I would not be talking tp you now,” said the Chief, “I wouldn’t be anywhere around here.” The river has fallen steadily there all day, lie reported. The crest was a rise of 17 feet at Danville which had fallen nine feet tonight. STATE FARM° INUNDATED The State Farm at Caledonia was reported to The Herald tonight as being marooned and cut off from the rest of the world. This afternoon, Capt. Raines called Halifax and Weldon schools telling them to rush all pu pils from the State Farm back there at once or, it would be impossible for them to reach their' homes. 2,000 acres of the farm are under water and it is impossible to get from one camp to anoth er on the Farm. * — yj DEATH of King George of England this week, with the Prince of Wales becoming King Edward VIII, brought forth recollections of war days to Veteran K. Lewis of the Wel don Coca Cola Co. We were indulging in some swell clam chowder at K’s home, an appetizer for the Legion oyster roast which followed, when he brought out a somewhat fad ed photo. It showed sailors and marines on K’s battleship lined up on deck. 'All eyes are on a small shipmate, a Chief Bosun’s Mate, known as “Shorty” Schirm. Shorty had bragged, a lot to the fellows about the King of England be ing a personal friend of his. It seems they were on a cruise together when the King was just a Prince and an of ficer in the British Navy. The fellows razzed Shorty a lot about his claims. Then during the World War, it became known that the ship would be visited by King George. The crew made life miserable for Shorty. Accompanied by Ad miral Hugh Rodman, the King marched down the deck with the crew at attention. The King’s eye fell on Shorty. He stopped, went back, called him out. Shorty took two paces forward, stood before the King. The crew gasped in a mazement. King George Shook hands with Shorty, said, “I remember you. We were off the Philippines together.” Shorty grinned happily. It was His Biggest Moment. And at that moment someone on an upper deck snapped the pic ture. K. Lewis has it today. FIRE ALARM yesterday noon was for a call from Camps Store where fire was reported at the Lewis Camp residence. It was under control before the Department left the city and they were notified in time to save a trip. (Continued on Back Page) Tornado Sunday Is Followed by Record Rise of Floodwaters Coming Tuesday Frank Preston Johnson Famous speaker who will be here Tuesday night, Jan. 28th, on the third program of the Womans Club Festival. He will speak on ‘'Recovery Thru Discovery”. Patrons of the Festival program held each Tuesday night at the High School Auditorium under the auspices of the Womans Club were delighted with the second program last Tuesday night fur nished by the Lucille Elmore Re vue. Miss Elmore completely won the hearts of the audience with her versatile performance and was ably assisted by the rest of her company. The Festival will close Tuesday night, Feb. 4th with a play, “Pau pers and Pews”. Fred L. Parker, 32, died Sunday at his home in Hornertown. Fu neral services were held Monday afternoon at Williams Funeral Home by Rev. Gordon L. Price, with interment in the local cem etery. Mr. Parker had been an invalid most of his life. He is survived by his mother and sev eral brothers and sisters. FINALTLOOD BULLETIN The Roanoke River here is dropping 'to night. The crest of the rise was at 5 o’clock this morning. The river had risen 22 feet 5 inches above normal at Roanoke Rapids, 47 feet 6 inches at Weldon. It kept this position for several hours and then started slowly drop ping. At noon, it was down about two inches. At its highest peak, water stood 4 feet 11 inches in the boiler room of Roanoke Mills Co. It eased across the highway between the big bridge and No. 2 bridge. It reached the deck of the latter and No. 3 bridge was under sev eral inches of water. Weaving, spinning and carding departments of No. 1 Mill ran today, with heat furnished the mill by a Seaboard lo comotive. All highway traffic is being de toured. The plant of the Virginia Electric & Power Co. is down and current is being fur nished thru connecting lines with the com pany’s Richmond plant and with the Carolina Power Co. According to J. T. Chase’s figures, this rise is 7 feet less than that of 1912, 10 feet less than that of 1877, stands unchalleng ed as the third highest rise in history. A tornado Sunday, accompanied by driving rains, was followed by a steady rise in the Roanoke River here which started Monday and reached a record high early this morn ing that topped any rise since the all-time high waters of 1912 and 1877. It has been fourteen years since .anyone has seen what citizens here saw yesterday afternoon, last night and today. The highway across the river waj^ closed to traffic late yes terday as the waters rose over the highways between Bridge 2 and 3 an dBridge 3 and Jim Gurkin’s. The road to Roar noke Mills No. 1 and Halifax Paper Co. was under 2 feet of water with a heavy current running last night. Practically all of the yards of Halifax Paper Co. was under water. Part of the pulp wood was pinned down, but many pieces washed away. The mill was down yesterday and today. Most unique situation was that at Roanoke Mills Go. The mill was closed down Tuesday when water came into the boiler room. There was no way to heat the mill. It ap peared that the biggest mill in town would be down the bal ance of the week. (Continued on Beck Page)
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