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N. C.’s TABleid Picture N'EWSpaper — All Home-Print — VULIJJV1E TW EJN T X -1HKEE KUAN UK Hi KATUIS, IN. t. 1HUKSUAK, SET1. 23, 1937 NUMBERTI UP AND DOWN WITH THE I Ghe Avenue SeUM J • • With the help of the Rev. Joe Bynum, presi dent of Associated Charities, this column will give each week for the next few some true stories of what is happening in Roanoke Rapids to certain folks and families being helped from time to time by Associated Charities. No names will be used but the facts told will be true ones to show the great need for this organization and the great work it is quietly doing among those who really need assistance. Probably five hundred citizens here donated to Associated Charities last year. These stories will interest them as they are the ones who made this type of assistance possible. • • It has been said by some that the government is taking care of all these cases now, so what’s the need of local charities.' In the first place, there are plenty of cases the government does not take care of at all, and in the second place, there come times of emergency when something must be done to help just for a short period and that is when Associated Charities steps in, investigates the case and tries to help out over the tough stretches. • • Take case No. 1 for example: In Koanoke Rapids lives Mrs. A, an old woman and her son. He is unemployable by local industry because of ill health and is not strong enough for WPA or simi lar work. The mother is infirm and is in bed part of the time. She needs a lot of medicine. The son is also ill in bed part of the time. When he is able, he does odd jobs of a light nature and picks up a little money. This is their only income. The moth er has been ruled ineligible for old age assistance because the son is able to give partial assistance. But there are times, when he is ill, that there is not enough income to pay rent, food, fuel and medi cine. And when those times come... and they will be oftener with Winter coming . . . Associated Charities is the only hope for this old lady and her sickly son. Several times, Associated Charities has made it possible with medicine and food and fuel for them to tide over those bad periods. There is no other agency to help them. The above is a true case from the records of Associated Charities. Your donations have been responsible for keeping this pair alive and hopeful more times than one. • • Members of the Roanoke Rapids police de partment enjoyed a “barbecue” at Harrison’s Springs Wednesday evening of this week. • • A. K. and Jimmie Hatem, former Avenue bus iness men, have engaged in an entirely new ven ture for them, and are now operating the lunch room formerly owned by J. C. Wells, on Tenth St. The place has been re-decorated, and is gaining in popularity daily. . _ ., _ , • • Members of the Roanoke Rapids Gun Club will meet the Rocky Mount Gun Club at the Skeet Field, on the Weldon Road, next Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Teams are composed of five men, and are usually selected at random from Club mem bers The Kinston Club defeated the locals at Kin ston last Sunday, in a game full of “upsets.” Some of Roanoke Rapids’ best shots were evidently suf fering from stage fright, it is reported, especially (Continued on Page 4) Garysburg Up In Arms Over School STORY ON PAGE 6. SEC. A CURB MARKET BUILDING STARTED i 9 STORY ON PAGE 8, SEC. A FOOTBALL OTHER FALL SPORTS BEGIN See Sports Sec. B GEORGE STANLEY IS DEAD See Pg. 6, Sec. B TO START DENTAL CLINIC (Se<* Pg. 7, Sec. A) Clear Church Debt Here The First Methodist Church of Roanoke Rap ids, just finishing a successful campaign in which $8,000 was raised tq pay off the church debt, will hold a special service at a.i Suaihyjnwji ing when the mortgage will be burned. The public is invited to attend and join with the membership in this happy hour of worship and thanksgiving. Complete story inside. Yf*i day Biggest Store In City This Size Now Ready The new Woolworth’s five & Tell store is opening its doors to the public at 8 a.m. this Friday morn ing In the new building at the cor ner of Roanoke Avenue and 10th t. recently completed by J. C. Smith. The new store is 50 feet by 125 feet on the main floor with a stor age basement 50 feet square. Brand new fixtures have been in stalled and the stock of merchan dise which fills the store is all new, just received from the manu facturers. This Roanoke Rapids store, ac cording to the management, is much- larger than the former Woolworth stores in towns of this size and the extra counter space making it possible for this store to handle a line of merchandise with retail prices running up to a dol lar. However, the regular Wool worth five and ten line will be carried complete. A. B. Crane is the resident man ager of the new store and is busy today utting on the finishing toucher fbr the opening Friday and Saturday. There will be no extra effort to draw crowds on the o pening days, other than an open invitation to the public to come in and inspect the new store and stock. L. P. Kilpatrick from South ern district' headquarters in At lanta has been here a couple of days and will return to Atlanta tomorrow. E. F. Harrigan, super intendent of the Norfolk Division in which Roanoke Rapids is locat ed, is here and will remain a few days with Manager Crane. All of them are pleased with the new [building and with the outlook for future Woolworth business in Roa noke Rapjds. As one of them said today, “Woolworth does not come into a city unless it is a good bus iness city and we certainly consider Roanoke Rapids just that” The new store will employ from 25 to 30 girls on peak days of the week and a smaller number regu larly. They are employing all lo cal girls and giving them the spe cial Woolworth training course in salesmanship. The big store building is divided as follows: on the main street floor the big display and sales room, with most modern heating and cooling systems as well as the lat est in lighting effects; in the rear of the sales room are the offices; in the back of the building is a supply room and a rest room for employees. Downstairs, where all shipments of new merchandise are received and stored, is a freight chute and unloading department; then row upon row of shelves filled with merchandise ready to be tak en upstairs at any time. contrary to general opinion, each Woolworth store manager does all the buying for his store and has a choice of firms from which be buys, so that he may keep at all times that type of merchandise for which there is demand in his ter ritory. Manager Crane stated that be (Continued to Page 7)
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