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• © First story in the Jan. 2 issue of the weekly
magazine of Carl Goerch, The State, is entitled
“Scene of The Nativity” with the following sub
head : “And many thousands visit Roanoke Rapids
annually to see graphic portrayal of the scene in
connection with the birth of Christ”. The story is
by Rosa Crocker Carter. At the top is a picture of
the Christmas scene A. Meilde erects each Christ
mas adjacent to his home in Roanoke Rapids. The
story tells how he and his assistant, Francis
Starke, have been building and adding to the scene
for several years until now each Christmas finds
the nearby world beating a path to the Meikle
home. A description of the scene is given in detail
and so next year, many thousands more will come
to Roanoke Rapids to gaze at this handiwork.
There will be those who make it an annual pilgrim
age. Thanks to the State-wide publicity of The
State, it will include many who come for the first
time, they, in turn, to be numbered among those
who come again and again.
• • Discovered among notes of 1936 was the fol
lowing change of times in the arrival of trains on
the Seaboard in Roanoke Rapids. We trust no
further changes have been made in 1937 to date.
No. 13 South Bound Train arrive at 12:41 PM
No. 14 North Bound Train arrive at 3:57 PM
No. 17 South Bound Train arrive at 6:56 PM
No. 18 North Bound Train arrive at 8:44 AM
No. 15 South Bound Train arrive at 11:22 PM (No
Change)
No. 16 North Bound Train arrive at 5:11 AM
• • Cleaning out our pockets for the new year,
ransacking files, digging up notes, we find, includ
ed among the usual junk, memos, notes, reminders,
tips, a score of odds and ends from which a report
er makes a story. So, if your tip to us failed to
appear in print in 1936, you can rest assured it was
all because it was put on an envelope which went
later in the wastebasket or was one one of those i
tems found in some pocket in some discarded pair
of pants.
• • We always like to get tips from our readers
on good news stories. Many items of general in
terest are lost in the “gone forever” because those
most interested fail to tip off the news reporter.
He, after all, is a gatherer of news, not a maker,
and the only way he can gather it in is to have
somebody start him on the trail. It may interest
those who have fears to know that the source of
information is never revealed by a real newsre
porter. To give away sources in cases where there
is any chance for reverberations would only serve
to dry up those sources which are necessary to ev
ery reporter.
• • The safest and surest way to get a news item
printed is to write out the facts and mail to The
Roanoke Rapids Herald. There are certain simple
rules which should be followed, such as writing on
one side of the paper, typewriting if possible, al
ways spell proper names carefully, watching the
vowels so that we can tell whether it is an e, an i,
or an a or an o; also give us a chance to decipher
when it is a u, m, n or w; never use Mr. unless with
out the man’s initials or first name: write A. B.
Jones not Mr. A. B. Jones; (the reason: Sometimes
we can’t tell whether it is Mr. or Mrs.); when you
have more than one guest, the plural is guests; and
never use the first person: never write, “we hope
a big crowd will attend our program”; write, “It is
hoped a large crowd will attend the program.” And
do not get too flowery in use of adjectives: we as
sume the party was delightful, the decorations at
tractive and the food delicious.
• • The Herald has more reporters than any
other newspaper in this section of the State. Last
week there appeared the names of more than one
thousand local people in the columns of The Her
ald. It takes time and money to gather all this in
formation. And there are bound to be mistakes.
Not all of them however, can be charged to the me
chanical department of The Herald. Lots of times
we must guess at a name or address because it is
so sloppily written.—And remember, if no mention
is made of something you know about and think
should have been in the paper, do not blame the
paper. You are to blame for not tipping us off be
cause we are always anxious to get news of gen
eral interest and 90 per cent of the news is that
which comes from a tip-off by those nearest to it
or most interested.
• • The only time we will accept blame is when
we lose the notes after you have tipped us off or
when we fail to follow through and get all the de
tails of an interesting story.
insurance Supt.
Wins Trip for Self
and Wife to Tenn.
James R. Foley, Superintendent
of Life & Casualty Insurance Co.
here, has just been notified by Mr.
Walker, vice president of the com
pany, that his 1936 record has won
for Mrs. Foley and him a trip to
Nashville, Tenn., the first week in
February.
While in Nashville Mr. and Mrs.
Foley will attend a birthday party
given for A. M. Burton, President
of the Company.
LEGGETT’S
NEW SPRING
SHOWINGS
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Comprehensive
Idea of the
Styles you'll be
wearing in '37!
WHY NOT
GET THEM
NOW!
It’s smart to be FIRST with the
latest—at least we think so to the
extent that we go to no end of trouble
to provide those hundreds of smart
dressers who look to our ready-to-wear
dep’t. first with a showing in line with
those smart city shops specializing in
“Going South in January” fashions.
See them Today!
DRESSES from $2.98
SUITS from $9.95
The Wheels of Progress turn Slowly -
but when you see the new, BIGGER LEGGETT’S of which we’ll soon
hold a formal opening, we believe you’ll agree it is worth the trouble
we’ve gone to and the possible inconvenience we have caused you in
having our store rather “torn up” for the past few days.
Watch for Opening Announcement
"BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE"