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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS • MRRAI n ■ B B J ■ B The Workshop of 1 I CAROLINA’S FIRST^^^ ■ M ^aslern Caroli"^l _1 M ^TAB/oic/&NEW5wwr AX '-r VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._ THURSDAY, MAR 19, 1936 NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT Red Cross Aids Flood Victims UP AND DOWN WITH THE Tj>he Avenue IF the majority of the people want to wait until we can get the money, we will be willing to start a concrete program over a several year period between Roanoke Rapids and Lit tleton, this program to start with a contract calling for the use of the funds we planned to use on putting that road back as it was. That, in brief, was what the State Highway Commission said yesterday about concreting the Littleton Roanoke Rapids highway. In short, they have left the de cision up to the people themselves. They say if we are willing to use a smopth, dusty, dirt road for a time, without complaining, they are willing to cooperate by laying con crete just as fast as they find the money to do it with. There could be no fairer proposition. They do not have e nough money to do it all now. That is agreed by all. It should be a concrete road to bear the traffic and make cost ly repairs and detours impossible. That is agreed by all. What we must agree now is to take it when we can get it and pay no attention to the dust. We ought to be able to do that after all these years’ experience. This may be our one r- and only opportunity to get concrete. Let’s grasp it. STATISTICS of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., ac cording to J. F. May, their local representative, show among other interesting facts for 1935 the following: “The lowest alcohol delath rate since 1921 was recorded in 1935, the sec ond full year since the repeal of national prohibition. _The 1935 death rate from this cause was 2 per 100,000, which marks a decline of 13 per cent in deaths from alcoholism a mong insured wage earners.” SPRING painting and redecorating is being done to the in terior of the W. C. Williams Funeral Home this week. CHRISTIAN Science meetings will be held, in the future, in the store building site of the old post office. The store win dows have been appropriately draped for this use. WORK continues on the installation of fixtures for the Wellworth 5c-1.00 Store which will open here in the near future in the 300 block of the Avenue. ROCKFISHERMEN will be glad to know that Sen. Alls brook talked with Bruce Ethridge of the Dept, of Conserva tion in Raleigh yesterday and the ruling re fishing in the Roanoke Rivter was changed so that fishing for rock may be y done up to the Highway bridge, as in the past. The first ruling was to a mile below Weldon. That no longer holds good. F1JNAL, inspection ot the new Municipal Building will be made Saturday by W.P.A. officials. If everything is OK the building will be officially turned over to the city and mov ing day will be Monday. By the middle of next week all city departments should be in the new building: city clerk, Sanitary district, Mayor’s Court, Fire and Police Depart ments. (Continued on Back Page) Emergency Call Sent Out Over Nation To Help -0 The Roanoke Rapids Chap ter of the American Red Cross met in special session this afternoon in answer to a national call from Red Cross headquarters to send emergency relief to the vic tims of floods now raging in eleven states. Our special quota is $250. This is not to be confused with the annual drive which is mostly for local work. However, there will be no drive for funds. All citizens are asked to make donations. There will be Red Cross Sta tions to receive these Friday and Saturday at the local the atres and drug stores and at all mills in the city. It is hoped to receive the neces sary quota in the two days. The following telegram was received today: Reports received late tonight indicate thirty eight thousand families in eleven states driven from their home in flooded areas stop this number expected to in crease stop these people all look continued on Page 2) - . ■ ■ - . n--. Announce Bids To Beautify Grounds Around Postoffice -o Sealed bids will be received un til 11 A. M. Monday, March 30, 1936, for furnishing all labor and materials and performing all work for seeding and planting the grounds of the UNITED STATES POST OFFICE, according to L. G. Shell, Postmaster. The right to reject any and all bids is re served by the Post Office Depart ment. Plans and specifications may be obtained from Mr. Shell. LACK OF FUNDS ONLY BLOCK TO ROAD PLAN Will Start Concrete Program If People Cooperate -0 Fifty representative citi zens of Roanoke Rapids and Littleton appeared before the N. C. State Highway Com mission at Raleigh yesterday afternoon and asked that the State build only a concrete highway between Roanoke Rapids and Littleton. When Commissioner W. E. Woodard pointed out that it would be impossible for the State to concrete this 16 mile stretch this year because of lack of funds and the many calls on the Department, and asked if the people of this section would be satisfied with the same type of road as in the past, the delega tion said No. Mr. Woodard, as well as Chairman Capus Waynick and other members of the Commission admitted (1) that the old type of road be tween the two cities was in adequate to handle the type of traffic and (2) that con crete was the only answer to the problem, altho still say ing they did not have the funds, and (3) that this part of Halifax County was en titled to the concreting of this “missing link” on a main trunk line. After compelling talks by Senator Julian Allsbrook, who was chief spokesman for the delegation, Joseph Pippen and Joe Wollett of Littleton, who led that group, Mayor Kelly Jenkins and C. C. Shell, pres ident of the Merchants Asso ciation, the Commission, while taking no official ac tion, agreed to start a con creting program to last over at least a three year period IF the majority of the peo ple of Roanoke Rapids, Lit tleton and between would be willing to put up with the de lay and dust in the meantime. It was also pointed out that Roanoke Rapids, with 10,000 pop ulation and Littleton, with over 2,000, and the entire section of Halifax County had only 3 miles of concrete North of the A.C.L. R.R. The new plans of the state, if adopted after assurance the peo (Continued on Page 2) -v>-1 ■ ■ No School Friday With Teachers Out -0 There will be no school here this Friday as all teachers are in Raleigh attending the annual session of the N. C. Educational Association. New Athletic Fields At Roanoke-Patterson The booming heard in Roanoke Rapids this week is not war on the Rhine. Clearing away stumps on the new athletic field for Roanoke Mills Co. employees, dynamite is being used to loosen the stumps. The field will be located next to Roanoke No. 2 and will be an up to date softball diamond with bleachers at the Northeast corner. The wooded section to the South will be fitted up with swings, benches and see-saws as a recre ation park for old and young. Most unique will be the bleach ers at the Patterson Mill diamond in front of the mill. Here the seats are being built in a pine grove so the spectators will have a natural shade and roof. A new parking space for cars has been arranged North of the playing field. Softball will be under way in full swing at all the mills next week. The teams are playing this year as members of the State Softball Association.
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