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DIAL R-326 ALL DEFTS _THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1940_ SECTION B—PAGE 1
COUNTY SHOWS 25
' PERCENT DROP IN
1939 FATALITIES
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is A total of 18 highway fatalities
for Halifax County during the year
1939 was reported this week by
Patrolman H. W. Rothrock, four
of deaths coming from wrecks in
the vicinity of Roanoke Rapids,
f Total fatalities for the county
show a 25 percent decrease from
those of 1938, according to figures
given by Patrolman Rothrock. He
said there were last year accidents
from which 24 deaths resulted in
• the county, saying at the same time
that fatal accidents rose 67 percent
In 1938 over 1937.
The area around Scotland Neck
in the eastern part of the county
led in deaths with six. Roanoke
9 Rapids came next with four, Little
ton had three, Halifax three and
Enfield had two. Ten of the fa
talities were white people; eight
were colored.
The four deaths in the vicinty
tj* of Roanoke Rapids were Otwa
Lakey who was killed while riding
on the running board of a car driv
en by Robert Clay, the accident oc
curring on Roanoke Avenue as the
car and a truck sideswiped near
# the old canal; Joe Suiter who was
killed as his automobile turned o
ver near Deep Creek; the Twisdale
child who was hit by the Clarence
Ricks car in the West Rosemary
section; and Ella Lynch, colored
woman who burned to death after
an accident at the Junction.
Those dying in accidents near
Littleton were Surry Keeter and
Prances Warren, young boy and
girl who were riding the running
:M board of a car as they returned
from a Sunday School picnic, the
car sideswiping a truck; and Thom
as Perry, colored man who was
killed on highway 158 a few miles
east of Littleton as his car turned
% over.
Three were killed on highway 301
during the year. Those were Bud
Allen, Mrs. Clara Jane Scott of
Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Eva
. Brand of Freehold, New Jersey.
Four Negroes, a woman, two
men, and a boy, a white woman and
an aged white man were all fatally
Injured in accidents in the Scot
land Neck vicinity.
Two Negro men were killed on
the highways in the vicinity of En
field during the year.
Williams Child Is
4 Buried Monday;
Diphtheria Victim
Funeral services for Jennie Ma
1!* rie Williams, 5, daughter^of Horace
Williams who lives on the Roa
noke Rapids-Weldon road, were
held at the Rowe Funeral Home in
Weldon Monday afternoon at 2:30.
The Reverend C. T. Thrift of Hal
■'t ifax officiated. Burial followed in
the Dickens burying ground be
tween Roanoke Rapids and Wel
don.
The child, who suffered from
diphtheria, was admitted to the
% Roanoke Rapids Hospital on Do •
cember 28 and tjied December 31.
The deceased is survived by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wil
liams, and a younger sister.
A. F. Ford Is
Buried Sat.
In Richmond
Alex (Mike) F. Ford, 31, died
Thursday, December 28, in Grace
Hospital, Richmond, Va. Funeral
services were held Saturday at 3:30
p.m. in the Joseph W. Bliley. Fu
neral Home in Richmond with the
Reverends Emmet Robertson and
Edgar G. Hill officiating. Burial
was in the Riverview Cemetery.
Mr. Ford, who has recently made
his home in Roanoke Rapids and
was connected with the Halifax
Paper Company, is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Estelle Johnson Ford: a
son, Alton F. Ford; a daughter,
Nancy Mae Ford; four brothers,
Ashley Ford of Roanoke Rapids.
Maurey, Harden, and Clyde Ford,
all of Richmond; two sisters, Mrs.
J. H. Burns and Mrs. W. L. Nance
of Richmond.
Attending the funeral from Roa
noke Rapids were Mr. and Mrs.
Bud Langston, Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Massingale, Mrs. Henry Fitts, Miss
Eva Gibson, Miss Evelyn Phelps,
and H. J. Deitz.
Credit Associate
To Hold Meeting
At Jackson Jan. 23
Stockholders of the Weldon Pro
duction Credit Association will hold
their annual meeting in Jackson
at the court house on Tuesday
morning, jlanuary 23rd, at 10 o’i
clock, according to an announce
ment by IjV. E. Smith, president of
the association.
At this meeting, complete and
detailed / reports will be made by
the officers of the association on
its oilferations for the past year,
directors will be elected and other
important business transacted.
In/announcing the date of the
annual meeting, Mr. Smith said
thatl it was hoped to make the at
tendance of stockholders at this
year’s meeting the largest in the
history of the association. He said
that the annual meetings of the
association afford the stockholders
an) opportunity to learn every de
tail of the operations of their or
ganization.
The Weldon Production Credit
Association, which makes short
term loans to finance all types of
farm and livestock operations,
serves Northampton and Halifax
counties and in 1939 made loans
totaling $385,000.00 to its 717 mem
bers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rook and
?laughter, Margaret Anne, of Suf
olk, Va., Spent the week-end with
Mrs. Ida Rbok.
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Mrs. Everett To
Speak To Gaston
Parents, Teachers
Mrs. Ruth Vick Everette, Field
Representative of the N.C.E.A.,
will address the parents and teach
srs of Gaston School at their next
meeting, which will be held on Fri
iay, January 5, beginning at 7:30
p.m.
Mrs. Everette, widely known
througout this section of the state,
is a speaker of unusual ability.
Those who are privileged to hear
Mrs. Vick at the coming meeting
will hear one of the most interest
ing and instructive addresses of
the school year, according to re
ports.
Prizes will be awarded to the el
ementary and high school grades
that have the largest number of
representatives present according
to reports.
Prizes will be awarded to the el
ementary and high school grades
that have the largest number of
representatives present according
to the present enrollment.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Yelverton, of
Wilmington, announce the birth of
a son, Harold Jr., on Sunday, De
cember 24th. Mrs. Yelverton is the
former Miss Marjorie Whitaker, of
Enfield.
Enfield Party
The Junior Contract Club was
entertained by Mrs. Henry Cuth
riel Friday evening. Mrs. Collins
Cuthrell won the high score prize,
and Mrs. R. W. Baugham the sec
ond high. Mrs. James Harris cap
tured the traveling honor prize.
At ten-thirty Mrs. Cuthrell serv
ed a delicious salad course to the
following guests: Mrs. D. B. Banes,
Mrs. Otto Meyer, Mrs. Collins Cuth
rell, Mrs. Harold Burrows, Mrs.
James Harris, Miss Mabel Powell,
Mrs. H. C. Futrell, Mrs. Jack
Whitehead, Mrs. Max Meyer, Mrs.
Robert Ivy, Mrs. Bennie Bobbitt,
and Mrs. R. W. Baugham.
Every day people the world
over stop a moment... enjoy an
ice-cold Coca-Cola... and go
their way again with a happy
after-sense of complete refresh
ment. The pause that refreshes is
a real idea,—really refreshing. ^
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