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VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY^JULY 13, 1939 NUMBER 1
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OWLS WIN FIRST
©AME IN SEMI-PRO
RACE iN Hi©H POINT
Rae Scarborough pitched three
hit ball and shut out Elkin in their
first game of the State Semi-pro
fessional Tournament at High
Point tonight, while his team
mates got Jt Slits, just as many
runs and played errorless ball.
Elkin - 000 000 000— 0 3 1
Owls - 323 210 OOx—11 11 0
Solon Honored
PPive years of conservation under
;the Taylor Grazing Act was signal
led by Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes by presentation of
}» walnut and silver gavel to Repre
sentative Edward T. Taylor, at
(Colorado, author of the grazing
control legislation, in Washington.
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GIRLS COMPETING
FOR QUEEN HONOR
START THIS WEEK
With a hard-working committee,
under the capable direction of Lion
Ted Speight, last year’s Festival
chairman who has been again se
lected to direct the destinies of the
Lions big Mid-Summer show, plans
are rapidly taking shape, and this
year’s big Mid Summer Festival,
to be held here during the week
of August 7th to 12th, promises to
be an even bigger-better show.
This will be the third annual
Mid-Summer Festival to be staged
by the Lions, and the two pre
vious ones have been decided suc
cesses both from a standpoint of
entertainment and funds obtained
for the club. The money earned
goes into the Lions treasury for
regular club activities, outstanding
of which is their blind prevention
work.
The Crescent Amusement Co.,
high class North Carolina outdoor
shows, have been signed for the
midway again this year, and it is
reported that they have made ex
tensive additions to the shows,
rides and concessions. The Fes
tival will be held at the Roanoke
Avenue Grounds near Rosemary
Mfg, Co. (known as the old Ball
Park) the scene of the two pre
vious expositions.
This week-end should see some
25 or more young ladies selling ,
advance admission tickets to the
gate, under the directon of Mrs.
Edwin Akers, who has been ern- i
ployed by the club to supervise this i
work. Mrs. Akers was highly sue- '
cessful in her management of the i
advance ticket sale for last year’s •
show, and with the experience !
gained last year is in a better po- (
sition than ever to handle this
work for the club.
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Local girls will compete for the 1
honors of Queen of the Exposition t
by selling advance tickets to the 1
gate, and in addition to the honor 1
of being Queen, a number of 1
handsome cash prizes will he a- s
warded those finishing “in) the <
money” as well as a straight cash <
WHY NO PIX . .
NO PIX ill The Herald this
issue because our photo-engrav
er, Sheared Crumpler, has been
sick in bed this week.
The doctors called it some
thing else but we believe that
Shearod is working too hard,
what with overseeing at the
mill, business muinger of The
Owls and photo-engraving.
We hope he dont give up the
last named because he is the
only man in Roanoke Rapids
who can make our newscuts for
The Herald and give you those
pictures you like to see printed.
, Top Woman Flier
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Mrs. Arlene Davis, Cleveland so
cialite, passed government tests to
obtain a 4-M air rating, permitting *
her to fly any plane made except fori
the giant oceanic flying-boats. She'
is the only woman in the U. S. to1
hold the coveted rating. |
jommission to all who actively en
ter the advance ticket sale.
Smith’s Hotel will be headquar
:ers for the Exposition again this
/ear, with J. C. Smith generously
giving a portion of the lobby and
i desk to the use of Mrs. Akers
in transacting business for the
Club.
While a number of “star work
ers” have already been lined up by
Mrs. Akers, actual ticket sales will
lot be made until this week-end,
ind there is still ample time to
snter the contest. Efforts will also
v£ made to induce young ladies in
learby towns to sell tickets this
/ear, and anyone interested in en
uring the contest may obtain full
letails from Mrs. Akers.
The Club will continue the pol
cy of awarding a $25. cash prize
lightly, and the committee is now
vorking out plans to award a large |
najor prize at the climax of the
Exposition on Saturday night, Au
gust 12th, at which time the
Jueen will be crowned.
Roanoke Rapids has always been
renerous in their patronage of the
did - Summer Festival, enabling
he Lions Club to carry on their
vork in helping and caring for the
>lind. With more stress being
riven this year to clean, wholesom''
hows and latest riding devices the
Hub should net more money than
iver out of their undertaking.
WINSTON TO PLAY
OWLS AT SIMMONS
PARK 3:30 SATURD’Y
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Roanoke Rapids N. C.
July 12, 1939.
Mr. Carroll Wilson, Publisher,
The Herald,
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
Dear Carroll:—
1 have learned with interest of
your plan to publish an edition in
pictorial rotogravure depicting ev
ery phase of life and activity in
our city and county, and graph
ically delineating the many ad
vantages, opportunities and at
tractions this particular territory
has for the visitor, the home
seeker and investor.
Roanoke Rapids is one of the
best cities in the State of North
Carolina. With. a remarkable in
dustrial development, and sur
rounded by a rich agricultural
country, and unexcelled all year
round climate, beautiful scenery,
Roanoke Rapids has much to in
terest the visitor, the homeseeker
and investor. It is only a matter
of presenting our unrivalled at
tractions to the outside world in a
pleasing and graphic manner, as
you propose doing, to attract a
very desirable class of visitors and
hoineseekers.
Your undertaking is a very com
mendable one, and I am sure you
will receive the support of all our
citizens in this work. I take pleas
ure in assuring you of my deep
interest, and to wish you the suc
cess such a movement deserves.
Very truly yours,
W. Bernard AUsbrook, Mayor,
City of Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
Tlie Roanoke Rapids Owls, vic
tors in their first play-off in the
State race at High Point tonight,
will play in Roanoke Rapids at
Simmons Park on Saturday at
3:30 when they meet King’s of
Winston-Salem.
The Owls will return to High
Point Sunday to resume tourna
ment play, the game starting
at 1:30 p.m. against Hanes Knit
ters.
The Winston-Salem visitors are
playing in the State Tournament
and lost a close one to Durham
Lucky Strikes 5-4.
Fans Demand
Play By Play
Description
Western Union special wire has
been leased and all future games
at the High Point State tourna
ment in which the Owls play will
be broadcast from in front of
Rosemary Drug Co., according to
assistant manager Gilbert Brown
tonight.
The next game there will be at
1:30 Sunday afternoon. Local fans
were not satisfied with an inning
by inning report.
Inspired by Dog
Born in Colombia, where his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Price, oil
Port Alleghany, Pa., have lived X4
years, Bob Michael Price, 6, couldn’t,
speak a word of Spanish, the natiw
tongue, until two years ago when her
was presented with “Rebelde,” a
Colombia dog, who couldn’t under
stand a word of English. Now pro
ncient at Spanish, Bob is shown as
he arrived, in New York with his net