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VOLUME TWENTY-TWO ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 1936_NUMBER TEN
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NEW FACES SEEN N CITY HALL
Superstitious? Not 'Bubbles'!
Pictured above is “Bubbles” Becker and his National Broadcasting
Orchestra who will be in Roanoke Rapids next Thursday night to play
for a dance in the downtown hall. Although “Bubbles” carries 13 pieces
in his band he doesn’t let the superstitious idea cramp his style and
that’s why his band is much in demand and being hailed as one of
America’s foremost entertaining orchestras. “Bubbles” recently was
featured in Robt. Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” column as being the only
person alive that could blow smoke bubbles from his mouth. Mind you,
smoke bubbles—not smoke rings. This band recently played Steel Pier
at Atlantic City. Tickets are now on sale downtown by J. D. Edwards
and uptown at Rosemary Drug Co.
CHANGES
MADE IN
PERSONNEL
Several new faces are seen this
week in the personnel of city and
sanitary district employees in and
around the Municipal Building.
In the sanitary district office,
Mrs. Julian Glover has replaced
Mrs. George Hayes and in the city
clerk’s office, Miss Dorothy Askew
has replaced Miss Early as assis
tant to Clerk Ruby Wood.
Tonight winds up the notice of
“Stormy” Kirkland, traffic officer
of the Police Department, and to
morrow Chief Dobbins states he
expects G. D. Wheeler to report
for duty as a regular officer. He
also plans to use an extra officer
in each end of town over the week
ends.
Mrs. Hayes who has been in the
Sanitary District office since it be
gan business, resigned to accept a
better position and stated in her
letter of resignation she would
work until Sept. 15 and assist her
successor in getting started. How
ever, she was relieved immediately
by order of Dr. W. E. Murphrey,
Sanitary Board chairman.
812 ARE
IN HIGH
SCHOOL
Roanoke Rapids City Schools o
pened Monday with what will prob
ably be an all-time high in enroll
ment before this month is over.
Today there were 2,303 white chil
dren enrolled with 812 in High
School and 1491 in the grades.
The colored schools had not re
ported but it is expected this en
rollment, with additional ones in
the white schools, will bring the to
tal in the city school system up a
bove the 3,000 mark.
The number this year was cut
slightly by the new State ruling
that children must be six before
October 1st to enroll in the first
grade. Last year, the time limit
was November 15th. Several were
also lost this year when South
Rosemary School decided to oper
ate the 7th grade. Last year 7th
grade students from there came to
Roanoke Rapids.
School authorities report every
thing running smoothly after a
hard week’s work for everybody
getting the huge school machinery
in proper shape.
SOFTB'LL
TEAM TO
CHIC'GO
Twenty happy men left Roanoke
Rapids today for Chicago when the
Rosemary Spinners Softball team
entrained for the Windy City to
enter the National Softball Tour
nament.
Last night, the team received a
telegram from M. J. Paulley, who
is in charge of the World Series at
Chicago, stating the local team
would be entitled to enter the tour
nament by virtue of their position
as runner-up in the recent North
South Carolina tournament.
Those leaving this afternoon
were Doug Worsham, Bill Alli
good, Babs Ryals, C. Everette, R.
Everette, R. Hansley, L. Outland,
P. D .Harris, L. Sadler, E. Lee, D.
Lee, H. Buck, C. Whitby, R. De
berry, G. Hall, A. Moye, Chester
Allsbrook, E. Williams, B. Jenkins
Malcolm Outland.
The squad will arrive in Chicago
tomorrow night in time for the
games which start Saturday and
last thru Sunday and Monday. ,
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TO STUDY
LIVING
OF POOR
A question of much importance
to Roanoke Rapids will be discuss
ed at a meeting of Roanoke Rapids
Churchmen which will hold its first
meeting of the Fall at the Rose
mary Baptist Church next Tuesday
night at 7:30. The subject will be
“How To Improve Living Quarters
of Destitute and Relief Families
In and Around Roanoke Rapids” .
The Churchmen’s league is made
up of all the male officers of the
churches and Sunday Schools of
the city and every member is urg
ed attend this important meeting.
Leading the discussion will be J. R.
Allsbrook, Rev. J. N. Bynum and
T. M. Jenkins.
PLANNING
Fall Campaign
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Merchants
To Better
Parkings
At a meeting of the Roanoke
Rapids Merchants Association this
afternoon, the membership voted to
agree to park their own cars other
than in the four business blocks of
the city on the Avenue and to ask
their clerks and other employees to
do likewise.
A petition will be circulated a
mong non-members of the Associ
ation asking that they agree to do
the same. Complaints from shop
pers and visitors, both in and out
of town, that they could find no
parking spaces was responsible for
this voluntary movement.
It was agreed to try this plan
before asking for a city parking or
dinance. It was pointed out that
much space is lost by driveways
and fire plugs, thus leaving little
parking space in the four blocks.
Those who have been using this
part of the Avenue as open-air ga
rages, leaving their cars parked for
; days at a time, will be handled by
xne
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~->*.the request of the As