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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS H EK^XD VOLUME TWENTY-TWO ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. ~~* THURSDAY, Dec. 3,1936_NUMBER 22 I ■ UP AND DOWN WITH THI Ghe Avenue • • Due to a heavy run of news and advertising on press day, it was necessary to leave out some news. We regret this unusual situation which does not happen very often. All this type, includ ing local news, letters to Santa Claus and some county correspondence will be run in the next issue. • • Miss Fanny’s Sunshine Girls will have their annual King’s Daugh+m's Tap- ^Oay commencing Saturday, Dec. 6th. They Will sell all kinds and breeds of dogs for five cents apiece. This money will be used to clothe a little girl. Her name is Hoke Hooker of Hookerton and she lives at the Masonic Home at Oxford. Please buy a dog. • • All the way from Brattlesboro, Vermont, comes a Wedding announcement to The Herald. It is from Mrs. Gladys Cook, 183 South Main St., Brattlesboro, Vt. Mary Lee Cook, formerly of Weldon, was recently married in Brattlesboro to Myron A. Turner of that city. They expect to make their home in Philadelphia. • • Oddity in the news as Walter Winchell would proclaim. Somebody stole the pet goldfish from the office desk of the Roanoke Rapids Hospital Saturday night. Here is the notice put out by hos pital authorities: If the person who took our two poor little sick goldfish from the office desk Satur day night, Nov. 29th will call by the office, we will be glad to give them the special food we have for them. These fish were suffering from diabetes and have to stick to their diet. • • Final reports from mill teams in the annual Red Cross Roll Call for the Roanoke Rapids Chap ter will be made tomorrow night and until then it is impossible to tell how much has been raised. A full report of all workers will be ready for next week’s issue of The Herald. Chapter Chairman Gordon Price is still optimistic about reaching the thousand dollar goal. • • On a special State merchants committee is C. C. Shell, president of the Roanoke Rapids Merch ants Association. His committee will confer on the 10th with Governor-elect Hoey on what, how and when of the sales tax. Local directors in ses sion this morning instructed Mr. Shell to let the new Governor know that this section is still oppos ed to any kind of sales tax. However, with Mr. Hoey the victor, any real relief is unlikely unless there is a concerted drive made in the legislature itself for repeal of the sales tax. • • Bingo every Friday night is again announced by the Roanoke Rapids Fire Department, sponsor ing this entertainment for their fund and the fun of the public. The Bingo stands are at the old band hall, 10th and Henry, and play starts at 7:30 each Friday night. i IONS CUJB Vlax here ON FR'°AX . eT^ieaS8P» *Vewrd a^»al V'thich be the third aven.ing,- "'"school Au “AdaO' s the H'g pece,v,ber P'esentm Friday "ig'J’oI ten local ditoriu'U * ted cast. ” will he 4th, by a additi°n’ . novelty jSm- sfS a8hit9 between t^rise ^g rfhe ^Friday h'^-^most *uc' 8 o’cloth the fiot' Uapf>5,r and fair t0 , v B°tn overtime ccssfnl P'apeen worhiW atld aC ^thTpast--^ f^aU the * participant parts. ^ three their re P ^ {arce com and was The P^y- dern sett 'mittee of acts’ has tbe play c a{ter much selected s- Club produc the l°ca' The entl„age Twol deiiberatronontinuedon^J_ “The Governor of North Caro lina has no right to gamble with the money which belongs to the workers of North Carolina”, said J. R. Allsbrook tonight when ask ed his opinion as to a special ses sion of the North Carolina legisla ture to pass legislation which would satisfy the Social Security Board and guarantee two and a half million dollars in unemploy ment insurance to workers in this State. Mr. Allsbrook suggested that Governor Ehringhaus call the spe cial session immediately after Christmas, say Monday, Dec. 28th, and in the meantime whip satis factory legislation in shape for im mediate passage. In 48 hours, this special session could get up the proper State agency and legisla tion to make certain this State starts sharing in this phase of So cial Security, he said. Then the legislature, which would be the newly elected mem bers anyway, could continue on with the regular session without interruption. The Governor has refused, so far, to call the special session, claiming there were enough States without proper legislation to com pel Congress to change plans of the Social Security Board. But in the past few days, several States have called special sessions, others plan to, and the picture is rapidly changing. STATE HIWAY OFFICIAL SAY CONTRACTS WILL BE LET IN TWO DAYS ********** Herald Gets Exclusive Report On Highway Holdup; "Technicality11 Is Minor But Not Explained ********** (Special To The Herald) By United Press RALEIGH, Dec. 3.—L. W. Payne, assistant Chief State Highway Engineer, in answer to a query as to why the two Halifax County road con tracts had been held up this week, made the fol lowing statement today, “The contracts were un let because of a minor technicality which we will clear up in two days and awards will be made then. They will not be held over for another letting. Work will begin immediately after contracts are awarded.” Ames and Webb, Raleigh contractors, said to day they had been notified they were low bidders on the two Halifax County projects but had not been informed why the contract letting was held up. Engineer Payne refused to elaborate or ex plain the “technicality” which had made the two Halifax contracts the only ones of eighteen not to be approved. xne commission approved all oth-: er bids submitted Monday for 18 projects to cost more than $1,500, 000 but announced it would study further the bids submitted for the two Halifax County projects. Ames and Webb, Raleigh contractors, bid low on the projects. The projects called for grading and paving of 4.03 miles on U. S. Route 158 between Littleton and Roanoke Rapids, low bid on which was $92,039.20; and of 5.36 miles on U. S. Route 258 between Scotland Neck and the Roanoke River bridge, low bid on the latter being $128,401.15. J.M. Horne Will Be Buried This Friday Funeral services for J. M. Horn, 54, who died at Thelma last night, will be held at the residence at 2 p.m. this Friday afternoon, with interment in Roanoke Rapids Cem etery. Mr. Horne, who was a former employee of Rosemary Mfg. Co., has been in ill health for the past several years. Surviving are his wife and eight children: Mrs. Sa rah King, Mrs. Nellie Whidby, Mrs. Mattie Stamey, Willie, George, Charles, Joseph and Gilbert. : Speaks Monday Congressman John H. Kerr will speak at Aurelian Springs School auditorium Monday night, Decem ber 7th, at 7:30 and his subject will be “The Farm Program of The Future”. The speaking is under the sponsorship of the Agricultural Department _at .Aurelian Springs High School. .The public is invited to hear the Congressman.
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