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' * * - • \ ■ VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1939_NUMBER 9 STATE CHAMPIONS AT CHICAGO w.- ' . mm XM % ....Mill.I. The Romancos, North Carolina State Softball Champions, arrived in Chicago last night to par ticipate in the National Softball Tournament beginning there today. Having won the North Carolina Crown in one of the most sensational games known to softball against Pilot Mills on Wednesday night, August 30, the Roanoke Rapids boys took off in a gay and enthusiastic mood by bus last Tues day morning for the windy city. Reading from left to right: Front row—Bill Alligood, coach; C. Everette, 1st base; Russ DeBerry, pitcher; Bill Speight, shortstop; Malcolm Outland, 3rd base; Chet Allsbrook, 2nd base; L. Outland, utility; Dick Lee, pitcher and captain; O. D. Worsham, manager. Back row—Hurley Midgette, catcher; Frank Rhome, utility; Lindsley Sadler, shortfielder; Arthur Moye, centerfieider; Murray Stacia, leftfielder; Bill Jones, utility; James Hudson, utility; Ronald Everette, rightfielder; Bryant Gray, assistant manager. Left below shows some of the wives and heirs of the Romancos bidding the champions some fond farewells. At right below are the boys lined up before the Virginia Trailways bus that took them on the first leg of their journey, to Raleigh. Coach Alligood stands far in the back but not far enough to hide that smile of happiness that covers his face. CITY BOY WHO JOINED CIRCUS KILLED Thomas Moore of RFD 1 Run Over By Circus Truck Monday Thomas Moore, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moore of Route 1 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., was killed instantly im an unavoidable acci dent between Dardenelles and Rus selville, Ark., last Monday night, according to a telegram received Tuesday by Miss Elizabeth Brown of 778 Williams Street, Roanoke Rapids. The telegram was sent by the Barnett Brothers Circus, with whom Moore had been working for several months. Moore was riding on the back of one of the circus trucks en route from Dardenelles to Russelville, ap parently asleep when he fell into the road and was run over by a following truck, killing him in stantly, according to the report of the investigating coroner in a tel ephone conversation yesterday with W. C. Williams, local funeral director. The body was shipped from Ar kansas last night and will arrive in Roanoke Rapids Saturday. Fu neral services have not been ar ranged. The deceased had been an em ployee of the Barnett Brothers Cir cus for the past year, except for a while last winter when the circus (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) PROfEST VOICED HALIFAX Disagreement On New Building Site Incites Action Matter To Be Taken To State Department Of Education Work was suspended on the new South Rosemary elementary and high school building, which was be ing constructed near the New Hope School on the Littleton highway about five miles from Roanoke Rapids, in a joint meeting of the County Commissioners and the Board of Education at Halifax last Monday, September 4. Between 60 and 75 citizens of the school dis tricts involved appeared at the meeting to voice their protests a gainst the location and erection of the building. The majority of the protests heard were in regard to the loca tion of the building. However, many citizens of the involved dis tricts voiced their protests against a high school being erected any where in the community. The present site, where construc tion has begun to the extent of laying out the foundation and building a tool shed, was selected by the State Education Depart ment. At the meeting Monday a delega (Continued on Page 6, Sec. A) Candidates File For School Vote Three candidates have filed their names for the Roanoke Rapids School Board election to be held October 3, according to a report by Registrar Will Nelson. Those filing are: E. A. Telliga, E. W. Eu bank, and R. L. Towe. Candidates Eubank and Telliga. are for re-election, their terms ex piring this year. Mr. Telliga was named to the Board a little over a year ago to complete the term of J. T. Chase, who resigned at that time. T. W. Mullen, present Board Chairman, leaves a vacancy on the Board for the third place to be filled, when he moved outside the school district. Filing time for candidates is open until five days before the October 3rd election. Mr. Towe is a former member of the Halifax County Board of Edu* cation.
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