THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
t i r d A f
More News — More m ^B ^B Bb TABloid
Advertising — More j fl ^fl B> Picture NEWSpaper
Paid Subscribers | ■ ■ CAROLINA’S FIRST^^^ ■ M All Home-Print —J
--r A A nrABM/JMNEWSwjMP * ^ \-r
VOLUME TWENTY-THREE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. W THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1937_NUMBER 12
■
I
6 MONTHS DENTAL
CLINIC FOR ALL
CHILDREN STARTS
4- *.__
Kiwanis Club
Project Gets
Under Way Here
A twenty three weeks free dental
clinic for all school children in
Roanoke Rapids began Monday
with Doctors A. D. Underwood and
F. Spence Woody setting up their
clinic office in the library of Cen
tral School and beginning a com
plete dental examination of every
child in that huUdiag. *
The first days of the week were
spent in getting acquainted with
the children by giving them class
room talks on oral hygiene. Ex
amination work began yesterday
and by today more than forty first
graders had been examined.
The clinic, which is sponsored by
the Roanoke Rapids Kiwanis Club,
is educational and corrective, cor
rection will be confined to those
unable to afford private den
tists. Examination will be made
of all children and parents will be
notified when anything is found
that needs imrfiediate attention.
GaRYSPL'RCi
Y7EL0OM
^Jacwoh
The Garysburg school situation at a glance. The
dots represent school children affected by the rul
ing of the State School Commission that they go to
Jackson instead of Weldon. In addition to the dots
shown there should be five more just to the right
of the nine shown at the crossroad^, 2 miles East
of Garysburg. Concentration of the children in
and near Garysburg is shown. Between the two
dots halfway between Garysburg and Jackson and
the crossroad where three children are picked up
near Jackson, no white school children live. 46
children live within five miles of Weldon, 25 of
them within three miles. Distances as shown in
approximate comparison above are: from Garys»
burg to Weldon 2% miles; from Garysburg to
Jackson 10% miles; from Garysburg to main
^crossroad at East 1.75 miles.
The educational part will include
use of tooth brush, necessity of
good teeth, diseases caused by bad
mouth, and other talks made in an
interesting manner with the aid of
models , and diagrams.
In the early grades, particularly,
Doctors Underwood and Woody are
handling the children very care
fully and are getting splendid co
operation from the children and
their teachers.
At the Kiwanis Club tonight, Dr.
E. A. Branch, State Director of
Oral Hygiene, and Doctors Under
wood and Woody were guests of
i'.e club a^d explained the work
which their clinic proposed to do
here. This is the first of its kind
in several years and it is hoped
that it can be continued for several
years with lasting benefit to the
children of the city.
The proceeds of the Kiwanis
Minstrel of last year is being used
to help defray the expenses of tne
clinic. As soon as the work is com
pleted at Central School, the den
tists will move their office to an
other building and begin their work
there. It will take almost six
months to complete the work as
planned at present.
_._. _ I
BARRED FROM SCHOOLHOUSE
flight Garysbnrg children, attending Weldon High School, found
themselves denied admission under orders of Senator Archie Gay of
Northampton, member of the State School Commission, and Lloyd C.
Griffin, executive secretary of the commission, when they sought to at
tend school last week. Principal C. B. Thomas said he had his orders
from Griffin and Gay. The children, ordered transferred to the Jack
son school, ten miles away from Garysburg, from the Weldon school,
two miles away, refused to go on the school bus to Jackson and walked
the distance to Weldon, appearing on time only to be denied admission.
Top picture was snapped by Grant for the Roanoke Rapids Herald just
as the children were denied admission; the lower picture shows the
heart-broken children starting home.
"Might"
Consider
Gorysburg
The State School Commission will
meet in Raleigh Friday, October 8
to consider budgets for city and
county schools, Uoyd E. Griffin,
executive secretary, said yesterday.
Queried concerning possible at
tention on the Garysburg-Jackson
Weldon school dispute, Griffin said
that this “might” be considered
and added that a group from Ga
rysburg had requested a hearing on
the matter.
Garysburg parents and children
are attempting to have rescinded
action of the commission transfer
ring pupils from that town to
Jackson, 10 miles away, and not
allowing them to enter the Weldon
school, two miles away.
Miss Omara Daniel had as her
guests throughout the week-end
Mrs. Daniel, Mias Jesse Daniel,
ARREST
HIT-RUN
DRIVER
Stanley Askew Victim
Of Hit-Bun Driver
Last Midnight
— flash —
Dave Barnes, 27 year old Negro,
was arrested at 5 o’clock this after
noon and charged with the death
of Stanley Askew at midnight last
night. Barnes finally admitted he
was the driver of the death car to
Chief of Police H. E. Dobbins and
State Highway Patrolmen Long
and Hines when they found him in
his garage repairing his damaged
car.
The Negro is in Roanoke Rapids
jail tonight and preliminary hear
ing will be before Mayor Kelly
Jenkins Friday morning.
Patrolmen and police worked fast
on the case today, checking all ga
rages and spare parts places. A
tip from a Weldon concern this
morning set them on Barnes’ traiL
They had sold a new light lens and
a new windshield.
Barnes, who works at a local mill,
arrived at work this morning in a
car other than his own. He left
his work later in the day and re
turned to his home in Northamp
ton County, after procuring the
needed parts. At 4:45 p.m. the of
ficers walked in on him. He had
put in the new windshield and
hammered straight a bent left fen
der. Barnes denied the charge at
first but later admitted all. He
says he was coming toward Roa
noke Rapids and meeting another
car when a man walked in front
of his car. He says he was afraid
to stop but did not know he had
killed the man until told so by the
officers. In the car with him was
Anna Ingram, colored cook in this
city. The officers found the two
had been to Amos & Andy, a color
ed rendezvous, some time before
the man was hit.
Barnes lives near Brewers Cross
roads a short distance from the
Virginia line in Northampton
County.
Stanley Askew, 20 year old tex
tile worker at Roanoke Mills No.
2, was instantly killed by an au
tomobile at midnight last night
as he was returning home from the
Halifax County Fair.
The driver of the death car is
unknown, having continued on aft
er hitting Askew, leaving his bleed
ing body in the middle of the high
way at “Black Bottom” on the edge
of the city. Askew was only a
short distance from his home next
door to the old skating rink when
he was struck by the car.
Askew was walking home from
the Fairgrounds but officers had
not been able to find today if any
one else were with him at the
time he was hit. Highway patrol
men and city police began an in
vestigation as soon as the body
(Continued on Page 10>