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' ■ - ■ .... "I ljll DIRT FLIES AT NEW SCHOOL IN THE DITCH —and the car kicked— A generation ago, when a man appeared on the street with his arm in a sling everybody knew he had been on the wrong side of a mule. Everything is changed to day. Automobiles kill folks and they also kick them. This week, Mayor Kelly Jenkins was chang ing tires by the side of the high way. He had his car jacked up and was in the act of changing a tire when the jack slipped out and the car kicked him into the ditch. His arm pained him but it was not until X-rayed it was discovered it had been fractured. He will wear his arm in a sling for many days. Work Begins On New Bldg Here Today New Water and Sewer Line to School Also Started v Work began in earnest on the newest school building for Roa _noke Rapids today with dirt being thrown for the foundation by a crew of a dozen men and brick and lumber piles already beginning to grow. It is hoped to have the building completed by Christmas. The superintendent of the Little Construction Co. of Charlotte, suc cessful bidders on the building at $26,896, arrived the first of the week. Plumbing, heating and the (Continued on Back Page) $58,000 MADE IN ONE YEAR Balance Made In Cash And Paid-Up Stock On Hand Monday at Halifax, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Halifax County presented a check for twenty-five thousand dollars to the County Board of Commissioners, representing part of the net profits of the first year’s operations of ABC stores in the county. The check was presented by W. A. Thorne, ABC Board chairman, and accepted for the county by Chairman J. Waldo Whittaker. At the same time, Mr. Thorne present ed the armual audit of the ABC system for the quarter ending (Continued on Back Page) "PROF. WHITE" —prognosticates perpetuations— Folks in Rich Square and Ki wanians last Thursday were intro duced to a gentleman of much col or who went by the name “Profes sor White” despite his blackness. Beneath that lampblack, minstrel goers recognised their old friend, end-man Roland Johnson, who has a new spiel these days when he dons the kinky wig. He is a learn ed professor discoursing on the wonders of this “scientifical age and de wonderments of de univer sal on which Ah prognosticates perpetuations". LOCATION NEW SCHOOL Explanation: 1—Central Graded School at 5th and Hamilton; 2—Junior-Senior High School, with administration, domestic science and manual arts buildings; 3—Rosemary Graded School at 11th and Hamilton; 4—Clara Hearne Graded School at 8th and Cedar, completed last year; 5— Location of new Graded School building to be lo cated on Vance between 2nd and 3rd Streets. Work began this week on the sixth building in the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District. The other building, not shown on The Herald Pictograf above, is the Colored School located between the R.R.-Weldon highway and Chockoyotte Creek. Other streets shown above but not named are: East of the Avenue, Washington and Jefferson; West of the Avenue, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Henry, Franklin; West of Cedar is Rapids St.; East of Jefferson, not shown above, are Charlotte, Williams, Marshall, Carolina, Raleigh, Virginia and Halifax Streets. 3,000 children are expected to register in the schools of Roanoke Rapids when they open next month. The enrollment has been increasing steadily. Schools Nos. 4 and 5 will be used for the lower grades West of the Avenue. City Loses One of 1st H. D. Camp Resigns And County Board Puts Hedgepeth In H. D. Camp, one of the origin, members of the Sanitary Dist " Board of Roanoke Rapids wh brought water and sewerage to the city, resigned as a member of the Board at its last monthly meeting. Vacancies on this Board are fill ed by the County Board of Com missioners and Monday this va cancy was filled by the County Board when they appointed M. H. Hedgepeth to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Camp. None of the three first members of the Sanitary Board are now left. J. W. Taylor resigned some time ago due to ill health and A. J. Young resigned several months a go when he moved from the city. Mr. Camp’s resignation completes the list of the original board which spent months in getting finances and installing the water and sew age system. Mr. Camp gave no reason for his resignation but friends say he felt it best to resign after the annual audit was completed for this year in view of the recent election in which he was defeated on a cam paign issue of lowering water rates to users. His regular term would have expired in December. The Sanitary Board is now com posed of Dr. W. E. Murphrey, R. E. Cleaton Jr. and M. H. Hedge peth. To Hold Hearing For Guardianship Of Robert Shell A lunacy hearing and appoint ment of a guardian is scheduled this week for Bob Shell, eccentric citizen of Roanoke Rapids and at one time one of the largest prop erty owners in this section. He is confined today in the county jail at Halifax where he was taken for safe-keer .-^g by lo cal officer#. This is third at tack of this,*- ’""' A * s had in the past 4’ * before he has \ returned
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