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THE ROANOKE I N. C.’a TABIold Picture NEWSpaper — All Home-Print — S ■_. V _ _ _ VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE ROANOKE RAPIDS. N. C. _THURSDAY, OCT. 19, 1939 TRADE CAMPAIGN BY MERCHANTS TO START ON NOV. 3 Plans for the annual Fall Trades Campaign were outlined by the committee and accepted by the membership of the Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association in session Tuesday night. The meeting was held at the High School lunch room and was preceded by a barbecue and bruns wick stew dinner. The membership voted to have similar meetings ev ery other month. C. C. Shell reported for the com mittee, giving the details of the Trade Days campaign to be par ticipated in by all member firms of the Association. The campaign will start on Friday, Nov. 3rd, and continue for seven weeks with prizes to be awarded each Saturday afternoon at one o’clock. H. S. Loy and F. M. Sherry sug gested another plan which would include heavy seasonal advertising,! signs at the city entrances and schools to train local salespeople. President W. A. Thorne appointed a committee to work on these plans for next year, the majority deciding it was too late in the year to plan anything other than what was recommended by the commit tee. There was a round-table discus sion in which all present took part, the majority favoring a similar type of campaign for this year as used for the past four or five years. Leading in the discussion for the committee were Graham Lynch and Wyche Land. Thd association went on record favoring securing the sale of auto license tags for Roanoke Rapids, Bill Edwards and Bill White, local auto dealers, led in this discussion. TROOPER LEAVES; PROMOTIONS MADE IN 1ST DIVISION Clay Goes To Beaufort; Long Made Corporal J. K. Clay, State Highway Patrol tiHin who was stationed in Roanoke Rapids about the middle of Septem ber, has been re-stationed at Beau fort, North Carolina, at the same time receiving a promotion to Corporal. Mr. Clay came to Roa noke Rapids to work in conjunction with H. W. Rothrock in this local ity from Kinston where he had served with the force for a number of years. All changes have come as a result of a reorganization of the Highway Patrol Department. J. C. Long, who has been with the Patrol for over four years and is at the present time stationed in Weldon, was also promoted to Cor poral. Mr. Long,,;, is a native of Weldon. All changes will be made by November 1. With Patrolman Long’s promo tion, the First Division has a Cor poral at Weldon and at Plymouth. Tom Brown is the Corporal down in the sound country. A Corporal’s duty is to patrol and to supervise other patrolmen to some extent. North Carolina is divided into four troops, A, B, C, and D. Each troop has three divisions and each division has a senior sergeant, ju nior sergeant and two corporals. Troop A takes in North Eastern North Carolina, beginning with the western end of Northampton Coun ty, running south to Green, and then east to the coast. SAFETY COUNCIL COMMITTEE WILL MEET TOMORROW The Safety Council Committee, appointed at a meeting in Roanoke Rapids held on September 22 when the council field worker, Mrs. Bill Pleasant Flythe, and State Safety Division men, Dr. Walter Cutler, and Ronald Hocutt appeared before representatives of the industries and organizations of the city in behalf of the Safety Council, will meet Friday, October 20, at 1:00 p.m. in the Municipal Building to discuss further plans toward the organization of a council in the city. The committee is made up of Frank Sherry, chairman, Mayor Bernard Allsbrook, Carroll Wilson, Mrs. Gordon Berkstresser, and C. W. Davis. Mr. Sherry said today that no definite form for the council had been worked out, but he expected thj? committee to be able to present to the representatives from the dif ferent organizations and industries a definite plan soon. | CRIMINAL COURT IS CANCELLED The October 23 term of Superior Court, criminal docket, has been cancelled by Governor Clyde R. Ho ey. Governor Hoey cancelled the term, which would have begun next Monday, at the request of the County Commissioners in their last meeting. The commissioners stat ed in their request that there were not sufficient cases to come up to warrant the holding of a term of court. The next criminal docket will be held the week beginning with No vember 27. Cases that were sched uled for the October term have been continued until that time. Budget For Chest Is Submitted A meeting of the Officers and Trustees of the Roanoke Rapids Community Chest was held in the Virginia Electric & Power Compa ny office Monday afternoon, Octo ber 16th at 5 o’clock. The proposed budget for 1940 was submitted by the Budget Com mittee along with the recommen dation that additional money be given to the following agencies to complete their 1939 work: Woman’s Club Milk Fund $100.00, School Lunch & Book Fund $100.00 and Associated Charities $1,250.00. A complete budget for the com ing 1939 drive will be announced shortly along with more details of the new Campaign. Boykins Man Injured Sat. Earl English, young man of Boy kins, Va., is in the Roanoke Rapids Hospital suffering from head in juries that he sustained in a JfiflSj last Saturday night on the way between Boykins and Em Three other people in thJ which English was driving] uninjured. According to English the c the road with him and turnei He does not know the cause The others in the car wi drian Edwards, Hugh Thom wards, and an unidentifi The two Edwards boys ar Boykins. J. T. Clark Tak Richm'nd Hasp John Clark of 1207 Was Street was taken to the Ri< Hospital last week by the V ambulance. Mr. Clark h; suffering from pneumonia past several weeks. OVERSEERS LEAVE, FOUR PROMOTED ROANOKE NO. 1 & 2 Several important changes and iromotions were made at the Roa noke Mills recently, the men in volved taking up their new posi tions last Monday. J. W. Brown, overseer of the spin ning, spooling, and warping rooms of Roanoke No. 2, went to the Henderson Cotton Mill where he holds the same position as he held here. Mr. Brown came to Roanoke Rapids 14 years ago from South Carolina and has been an overseer in Roanoke No. 2 since that time. Shearod Crumpler, who has lived in Roanoke Rapids since birth, was given the spinning room in addi tion to the carding room that he has been overseer of for the past several months. Mr. Crumpler has been employed by the No. 2 Mill for about three years, going to that mill from Roanoke No. 1. He has been with the mills about seven years. * W. L. Jenkins was made overseer of the spooling and warping rooms of Roanoke No. 2. He haw been assistant to Mr. Brown for the past 14 years. He is a native of Halifax County and at present Uvea on Monroe St. J. L. Jenkins, who was also an assistant to Mr. Brown, went from Roanoke No. 2 to Roanoke No. 1 as overseer of the spinning room. Mr, J. L. Jenkins has been with the Roanoke Mills for the past 22 years, coming here when the New Mill was built. He is a twin of W. L. Jenkins who was made overseer in Roanoke No. 2. J. L. Jenkins takes the place of R. H. Higgins in the River Mill. Mr. Higgins went to Pilot Mill in Raleigh as an over* seer. Claude Perkinson, who has been in the employ of Roanoke No. 2 for the past 16 years, was made as* sistant to Crumpler, overseer of carding and spinning. Mr. Perkin* son is also a native of Halifax County and w-ent to work for the mill when he was 15 years old. NEGRO MAN USES RAZOR ON CAPTOR & MAKES ESCAPE f rancos K. Leonard, ot Mecnanic ville, New York, learned something of the art with which a southern darky can flourish a razor, last Saturday night. Mr. Leonard is now in the Roanoke Rapids Hos pital recovering from a number of wounds, which took approximately 50 stitches to close, he received from a negro whom he was trying to hold for officers in a peanut field near Woodland. Blinded from the blood flowing from his many cuts, and unable to defend himself, the twenty-year-old man turned the negro loose and allowed him to escape. Late today the negro was still at large. sion at tne woodland f air aoout 8:30 Saturday night and ran. A crowd of Fair visitors and show people gave chase. Leonard, be* coming separated from the others, discovered the thief in a peanut fielct. Catching the negro by the arm, the New York man, who is connected with the Miller Bros. Shows, called for help and held on. The colored man secured a razor with the free hand and began slashing his captor about the throat and shoulders. In trying to defend himself, the white man had his left hand cut severely. A gash of several inches ranges from his throat downward across his left
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