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; THE ROANOKE RAPIDS — L j N. C.’s TABleid More New* — More ! Picture NEWSpaper Advertising — More I — All Home-Print — Paid Subscribers | V__y * * ^TAB/oi(/iM&NEW^,_V / VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, DEC. 1,1938 NUMBER 21 CHEST 01ER $12,000 YOUNG BOY SHOT IN STOMACH HERE IN CRITICAL CONDIT'N John Thomas Cleary, 14 year old Roanoke Rapids boy, is in a very critical condition at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital where he is suf fering- from a bullet wound. In what the boy’s father told po lice was an accident, young Cleary was shot Tuesday afternoon while he and a group of his boy friends were “hunting” in the woods near his home. Curtis Bullock, 15, was handling the gun, a .22 rifle, when St fired, the bullet striking young Cleary in the stomach. The wounded boy was brought to the hospital about 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon where it was found the bullet had pierced the intestines about eight times. He is doing fairly well after an opera tion but his condition is regarded as serious and it will be several days before the outcome can be known. Luther Cleary, the boy’s father, is an employee of Patterson Mills Co. They live at 752 A Charlotte VICTORY DINNER A Victory Dinner for all workers in the Community Chest drive was set last night for Saturday, Dec. 10th. Exact time, place and other details will be announced later by Ted Speight, appointed chairman of a dinner committee by Fund Chairman Frank Sherry. About 200 citizens worked as so licitors in the Community Chest announced that the expenses of the dinner will not come from the Chest Fund but will be raised by a special committee for this pur pose. St. John Thomas is their only child. Mr. Cleary told Officer P. C. Luter the rifle belonged to his son and that he had investigated the shooting and found it was purely accidental. CHARITIES MEETING An important meeting of Roa noke Rapids Associated Charities will be held at the Municipal Build ing at 7:30 Monday night, Dec. 5th. There will be an election of officers and a discussion of plans for the coming year. All churches and civic clubs are urged to send representatives to the meeting and the public is in vited to attend. For immediate action will be the selection of Christmas Oppor tunities and a list of the neediest families will be published in next week’s Herald as is done each year. Mother Of F. J. Hawley Is Dead Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hawley returned Tuesday night from Christiansburg, Va., where they were called Sunday by the death of Mr. Hawley’s mother. The Young Peoples Missionary Society of the Rosemary Methodist Church will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday night at the church at 7:30. THANKS We wish to take this means of publicly expressing our thanks and appreciation to those who worked so hard, so willingly and so suc cessfully in this, Roanoke Rapids’ first Community Chest drive. The results obtained have passed our greatest -expectations -and -this week will go down in the history of the city as one never to be for gotten. To all those who contribut ed and made pledges to the Com munity Chest, we express our heartfelt thanks for you are the ones who made this possible be cause of your generosity and your willingness to give that others, not so fortunate, might receive. T. W. Mullen, President Frank M. Sherry, Campaign Chairman, Roanoke Rapids Community Chest With amazing speed and success, the first Roanoke Rapids Commu nity Chest Fund went far above expectation as every division in the campaign reported more than their original quotas and by last night the amount paid and pledged had reached $12,773.76. With Chest workers finishing up Friday, final reports will be turn ed in at the Municipal Building tomorrow night at 7:30 and some optimistic citizens are looking for a grand total of over $14,000. The Industrial Division, employ ees of the industries in Roanoke Rapids, is leading all others in a mount raised. The employees of Roanoke Rapids, last night, had paid or pledged a total of $5,971.67. It was divided as follows: Rosemary Mfg. Co. _$1414.55 Patterson Mills Co. _ 1326.68 Roanoke No. 1 _ 1303.00 Roanoke No. 2_ 1015.84 Manchester Board_ 332.00 Halifax Paper Co._ 305.00 VEPCO employees _ 274.00 TVin Tnrlliofniol F\! Trlnlnn ttmnlrnwn LOCAL HAPPENINGS ..ByAlligood were headed by T. J. Alford with the following in charge at plant: Rosemarv Mfsr. Co.. Virsril lybta^oF_ -■Headwear — USED 0V I AT — , DUKE' P' tr / G-A M E ! i « A*. — ■■■■ A.HECKLE: VJlLL SOON STAPT H IS - — HQ6BY. " ——— _ l i I ■ ,_ Ljv — -rdcky mount— VS OWLS AT ■='. ARENA SATORr^YW1 W— Ab. MARTIN — — —-yMfcjy decides to g-o I ^ ’jy I III TRIP TO bowl.1 IT -=S3£?- ~ duke je^ HaRREU 5 ucc'ES! s we'll* go , McDowell; Patterson Mills Co., A. Meikle; Roanoke No. 1, W. L. Med lin; Roanoke No. 2, J. D. Cassada; Manchester Board and Paper Co., R. G. Jones; Halifax Paper Co., Thorton Wilson; Virginia Electric & Power Co., C. L. Elting. Each of these men had scores of work ers under him who did the actual soliciting. The Special Gifts Division un der Colonel R. L. Towe has re ported a total of $5,603.50. This division solicited the industries, which gave a total of $4,020.00, and individuals in the city and offices who were on a special gift list. These teams reported as follows: W. H. Pruden’s team $375.00; C. D. Liske’s team $275.00; W. P. Tay lor’s team $265.00; F. D. Wilson’s team $252.50; H. E. Lee’s team $231.00; W. A. Thorne’s team $185.00. u-enerai Solicitation under Col onel A. E. Akers reported a total of $1198.59 last night. These work ers picked up all the loose ends left by other teams and saw in dividuals not classified for the oth er divisions. A. N. Martin’s team led with $404.00; C. W. Davis’ team $169.60; Dr. Bahnson Weathers’ team $162.00; R. E. Cleaton’s team $139.00; L. D. Hines’ team $128.70; M. C. Newsome’s team $88.30; L. G. Shell's team $75.99. Miscellane ous $31.00. Frank M. Sherry, chairman of the drive, was elated over what his workers and the citizens had done, as he saw the drive go over the top and way over the top on the big thermometer in front of the Hospital. T. W. Mullen, president of the Community Chest, stated the Chest would begin organization work at once and has called for a meeting of the oop.rd of trustees of the Chest to meet next Tuesday night at 7:30 at the Municipal Building.
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