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VOLUME TWENTY-THREE KQANQKK KA1MDS, N. C. _THURSDAY, NOV. 4,1937 NUMBER 17
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UP AND DOWN WITH THE
Ghe Avenue
• • Proudest hunter in the city this week is Allie
Wood, who Tuesday shot and killed a fine 180
pound buck near Tillery. On the hunting party
were Joe Bynum, John Matthews and Mort White.
It was Allie’s first shot in ten years of deer hunting
and he made good. Mort says that when he got to
the deer, Allie said, “Isn’t that the biggest buck
you ever saw?” Mort replied, “Yes, and you’re the
palest man I ever saw.” The antler spread was at
least a yard from tip to tip. __
• • Which brings up an argument we heard the
other day in Hezzy Hodges shop. One group as
serted that a deer sheds his horns every year and
then grows a new set the next year. Another group
says this is impossible as an old buck will have an
immense set of antlers which could not grow out in
one year. Answer of group one was that the older
the deer the faster the antlers grow. Group two
says that young horns are tender and the deer
could not use them as does sometimes if they were
fresh each year. The question then arose: if they
shed every year what becomes of all the discarded
horns? And so on .. . far into the night. A prong
a year is what those who refuse to believe the shed
ding story say . . . Other successful deer hunters
this season: Jessie Lee. John Smith.
• • The Strates Shows Carnival is wintering in
Weldon this year, using the old mill in South Wel
don for storage. The show claims to be the third
largest on the road today with a train of 20 flat
cars and two pullman cars. The owner of the show
lives in a fancy Pullman which has five drawing
rooms, an office, dining room and kitchen and an
observation room. About twenty people will re
main with the equipment which starts on the road
again in April.
• • The Richmond Debutante committee will in
vite debs from other cities and towns as their
guests for the Salzburg Opera at the Mosque on
Nov. 23rd. From Roanoke Rapids, the following
young ladies have been suggested: Misses Frances
Hines, Julia Moseley, Lelia Murray, Edith Moody,
Mildred Balmer and Mildred Burton.
• • City police are holding Ferrell Jefferson in
jail here at the request of Washington police who
are coming after him with a warrant for abandon
ment and non-support. Jefferson has been work
ing in a local textile mill for the past year, says he
has not been making enough to support himself
and his wife too.
• • Births: to Mr. and Mrs. whittord Watters, a
boy, Oct. 28th; to Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Pierce, a girl,
Nov. 1; to Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Brindle, a girl, Nov.
3rd . . . Mitt Bennett, local carpenter, is still very
ill at the hospital after a major operation . . . Out
of town patients: Mrs. B. C. Gay,. Seaboard; S. E.
Vaughan, Jackson; Mrs. Helen Marshall, Halifax;
Dorothy Massey, Pleasant Hill; Mrs. Roger Pair,
Halifax; S. E. Shirley, Weldon; Wm. Whitehead,
Pleasant Hill.
• • A final coat of tar and gravel was put on the
Avenue in front of the Post Office and Municipal
Building this week by the State Highway Depart
ment and the street almost immediately thrown o
pen to traffic. It was a neat and speedy job.
KIWANIS
REPORT ON
A.C. DRIVE
Most of the Kiwanis meeting bus
iness session tonight was in re
ports from teams working on the
annual Associated Charities drive
which is scheduled to close this
Saturday night.
The teams reported that the Ki
wanis Club had secured contribu
tions totaling $718.50 to date with
several committees yet to report.
Best reports were by chairmen T.
J. Alford, in charge of hospital,
nurses and doctors; A. E. Akers in
charge of North Ward; Henry Loy
in charge of South Ward; Clyde
Liske for Patterson Mills Co.; W.
L. Medlin and Hugh Horne for
Roanoke Mills Co.; Fred Wilmer
for Halifax Paper Co.; Byrd Dav
enport for Mat”;#>ster Board Co.;
Paul Reid for the schools.
All team members were urged to
make final efforts this Friday and
Saturday in order to get as much
as possible before the drive closes.
A check-up will be made over the
week-end so that those who have
not been reached will have oppor
tunity to contribute.
Program chairman George Taylor
had a musical program with the
Misses Buckles and Miss Josephine
Hoback entertaining the club with
splendid musical selections.
Kiwanians Howard Pruden and
C. Li. Wilson appeared on the pro
gram of the Seaboard Civic Club,
attended by more than 25 of the
leading business men of that sec
tion.
LOCAL T-MAN j
J. F. WELCH of the Internal
Revenue Division of the Treasury
Dept., who has been transferred to
this section of the State with Roa
noke Rapids as headquarters. Mr.
Welch will have four counties in
Ills territory: Halifax, Northamp
ton, Bertie and Hertford, where he
nill take care of all pertaining to
Federal taxes with special empha
lis on the Social Security taxes. He
dans to spend more time in Roa
loke Rapids now and will be glad
;o help all taxpayers with their
Federal tax problems.
MONTHLY MEETING
OF THE CITY BOARD
The November meeting of the
City Board of Commissioners was
held Tuesday afternoon with Mayor
Tenkins and Commissioners W. B.
Allsbrook, E. B. Manning, R. I.
Starke, G. N. Taylor and F. C.*Wil
liams present.
The board contracted for a page
in the special edition of The Roa
noke Rapids Herald and for 200
extra copies of the edition to be
sent to large business and financial
concerns. It was reported that sat
isfactory arrangements had been
made between the First Baptist
Church and Edgar Bounds relative
to the erection of the filling station
near the church and that the
church had entered into arrange
ments to buy the four lots between
the church and the filling station.
The matter of storm drainage,
curb and gutter and tar surface on
Jackson and Hamilton Streets was
discussed and the Mayor was au
thorized to have Engineer Christie
submit plans and prices for this,
with these figures to be used as a
basis to determine the cost of the
same treatment on other streets.
Fire Chief Lipscomb recommend
ed the purchase of another fire si
ren to be placed in the South Ward
and this matter was referred to the
Fire Committee.
The contract for supplying gas
oline to the City for the six months
period starting Nov. 1 was award
ed to the Tri City Motor' Co., low
bidder. The report of the City
Treasurer for October was read and
approved.
Teachers Meeting
At Goldsboro
The following teachers from here
will attend a Teachers District
Meeting in Goldsboro Friday and
Saturday. Misses Clara Hearne,
Frances Newsome, Evelyn Tillman,
Ruth Chapman, Martha Craddock,
Messrs. C. W. Davis, P. A. Reid,
Morris Clary and Walter Sheppard.
At Golf Club
Paul Jones and his Orchestra,
“The Swing Band of the Land”, will
play at the Chockoyotte Country <
Club on Armistice Eve, Wednes
day, Nov. 10th, starting at 10 o’
clock. t
A local committee has been ap
pointed by Mayor Kelly Jenkins to
assist the Post Office Department
n taking the nation-wide census of
inemployed and partly unemployed
n Roanoke Rapids.
In naming this committee, May
r Jenkins, acting on request of
ohn D. Biggers, National Census
-dministrator, stated that he had
’.ade his appointments with the
■*ew that most of those named had
had experience in past years with
the unemployment situation in
Roanoke Rapids. For this reason
he named the Rev. J. N. Bynum as
chairman of the committee, as Mr.
Bynum has been President of As
jociated Charities of Roanoke Rap
:dfr$>r a number of years.
Others on the committee are F. S.
'.Cemp, T. W. Mullen, C. W. Davis,
Mrs. T. M. Jenkins, C. W. Capps,
E. A. Telliga, the Reverends Gor
don Price, J. J. Boone and J. I*
Willis, and C. L. Wilson.
Postmaster L. G. Shell is a mem
ber ex-officio of the committee and
will be busy supervising the actual
clerical work of the census which
will be handled by the Post Office
Department. The duty of the com
mittee is to give full publicity to
the census so it will be thoroly un
derstood by the public and parti
cularly those unemployed or partly
unemployed. The success of the
census will depend on a complete
and immediate response in order to
give a quick and adequate picture
of the unemployment situation in
the United States.
On November 16th and 17th, the
Post Office will deliver blanks to
31 million homes in the United
States. Those unemployed or only
partly employed should fill those
cards in and return to the local
Post Office not later than midnight
of November 20th.
IS INJURED
IN SCHOOL
BUS CRASH
One school child was rather se
riously injured and a number of
children were shaken up consider
ably when one Halifax County
school bus rammed another one
near Halifax yesterday afternoon.
Adelaide Whitley was thought
to have received a fractured rib
in the crash. She was brought to
the Roanoke Rapids Hospital to
day for X-ray and treatment.
It is claimed that faulty brakes
on one of the busses was respon
sible for the accident. A bus driven
by Miss Virginia Ayers rammed a
bus driven by Henry Cobb. The
latter had stopped to let some chil
Iren off when hit by the bus driven
jy Miss Ayers.
Several bruised children wer*
reated by Dr. White of