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VOLUME 'J'YVKI\t¥-FIVE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._ THURSDAY, FEB. 29, 1940 NUMBER 33
SCENES FROM "GAY NINETIES"
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The four photographs above, snapped by the Herald Staff Photographer, represent some of the
snap and comedy that is in store for the citizens of the city when the Kiwanis Club presents its tenth
annual benefit show next Thursday and Friday. (A complete review of the show appears in this
issue of the Herald)
Reading left to right, top: “Those Darlings”—Ed Graves, T. J. Alford, John Dunn, Watt Ellerson,
Howard Pruden, Hugh Horne, and Ned Manning. “Police Gazette Girls”—Aileen Hux, Kathryn
Traynham, Merle Cole, Jean Gibson, Alice Myrick, Victoria Vester, Marie Cates, Margie Keene, and
Margaret Burton.. Bottom: “Can-Can Girls”—Mildred Burton, Julia Moseley, Margaret Speight,
Mary McNeal, Elsie Edwards, Alice Myrick, Elizabeth Brown, and Mildred Balmer. “Bathing Beau
ties”—(Standing) Elizabeth Neal, Margaret Butler, Phyllis Brown, Lois White, (Seated) Nora
Wright, Mary Cannon, Navalle Tickle, and Clara Edwards. (NewsKuts by Crumpler and Brigman)
J. L SUITER IS
NEW PRESIDENT
CITIZENS BANK
Joseph L. Suiter, native of North
ampton County and prominent in
state banking circles, was elected
president of the Citizens Bank &
Trust Company at a special meet
ing of the Board of Directors this
afternoon, and will assume his new
duties Monday, March 4th. J. Win
field Crew, Jr., city attorney, the
retiring president, will retain his
interest in the bank. All other of
ficers remain the same.
Mr. Suiter will devote his full
time to the local bank presidency,
making the first time in a number
of years that a Roanoke Rapids
bank has had a full-time employee
erve as president.
Mr. Suiter is well known In Roa
toke Rapids and this section of the
date. He is the son of the late
l(tr. and Mrs. J. L. Suiter, of Ga
ysburg, and has two brothers in
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Halifax County, Dr. W. G. Suiter,
of Weldon, and Louis Suiter, Scot
land Neck insurance man.
He began his banking career
with the First National Bank of
Weldon under Colonel Burgwyn,
and later worked with the Bank of
Northampton in Jackson. From
1907 until 1914 he was assistant
cashier in charge of the Greens
ville Bank at Emporia, Va., and
from 1914 until 1918 he was execu
tive vice-president o' the First
National Bank at Emporia. From i
1918 until 1929 he was with the i
National Bank of Rocky Mount as 1
assistant cashier, cashier and vice- '
president, and was vice-president of i
the First National Bank and of the
North Carolina Bank and Trust <
Company in charge of the Rocky 1
Mount office until 1930 when he 1
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TRAFFIC REPORT
1 KILLED, 8 HURT
Patrolmen stationed in Halifax
County report one death, eight in
juries, and approximately $2400 in
damages from traffic accidents
during the month of February. The
death occurred February 26 when
an aged colored man was struck
by a truck near Littleton.
Both deaths and injuries increas
ed over the month of January. In
that month there were no deaths,
me injury. Property damages de
creased this month from $2655 to
P2400.
H. W. Rothrock, patrolman who
s stationed at Roanoke Rapids,
said that there were possible other
iccidents in the county that were
lot reported. He also said that
he heavy damages shown in this
md last month’s report was caused
>y heavy trucks, which, when in
volved in a wreck, cause the prop
erty costs to mount up rapidly.
Mr. Rothrock said that several
Irivers had been arrested during
he month, the charges running all
he way from improper fixtures to
Iriving drunk and recklessly. c
Fund Headed
By F. Sherry
Frank Sherry, general manager
>f the Virginia Electric and Power
Company, has recently been ap
>ointed by the State Finnish Re
ief Director W. T. Rost of Raleigh
;o the Chairmanship of the Hali
ax County drive. This Finnish
Selief Fund Drive is headed by Ex
president Herbert Hoover and is
n no way connected with funds to
te used in military operations by
he Finnish government.
The drive that is being conduct
id in the state will last for the
text four or five weeks.. Mr. Sher
y said today that he had no par
icular plans in mind for the Hal
fax county campaign. The sug
;estion is made, through a letter
rom Director Bost, that the cam
>aign be worked» through the
chools, the civic organizations, and
he churches.
President Hoover wishes to raise
5,000,000 in the United States and
las set $75,000 as North Carolina’s
uota.
KIWANIS
SHOW 2
NIGHTS
"Gay Nineties" To
Be Presented
Thursday & Friday
150 TAKE PART
“The Gay Nineties”, the 10th
annual stage show and minstrel to
be presented by the Roanoke Rap
ids Kiwanis Club, a replica of the
stupendous, super-colossal stage
shows as produced 50 years ago,
will be staged at the Roanoke Rap
ids High School auditorium next
Thursday and Friday nights, March
7 and 8. Everything has gone ac
cording to schedule and the gayest,
grandest attraction of them all is
ready for the opening curtain
Thursday night at 8:00.
By actual count 146 persons are
in the cast of the show. Dozens of
others act as prop men, light men,
and assistants of a various nature.
Some of last year’s talent is retain
ed, but the list will show that the
majority of those taking the major
roles have been recruited from the
ranks of the unbaptised in minstrel
lore. The talent is new enough for
news; inexperienced enough to take
off the professional glaze.
In the cast there are 80 girls, 66
men. All have been rehearsing for
the past two weeks to master this
gayest of Kiwanis shows. It is the
gayest, yet the saddest, for the fea
tured mellerdramar, of the days
when villains were the real McCoy
and the gal wept at the drop of a
hat, will touch the heart of the
toughest hombre in the audience.
■troceeas of the show will go to
the maintenance of the all-city
Dental Clinic for children, in which!*
hundreds of children are examined
each year and many given free den
tal treatment. General admission
price is 75 cents for adults, 35 cents
for children. A reserved section is
sold at one dollar per seat. This
section affords no better location
in the auditorium than the general
admission seats but gives ticket
holders who cannot get to the au
ditorium early a chance to have a
good seat. About 15 percent of the
seats are reserved. The other 85
percent go at the general admis
sion prices.
In reviewing the show it is well
to introduce the director first:
John (Slim) Hutchings of the Rog
ers Producing Company is back a
gain to direct the show. He has
had such success with the shows
for the past several years that the
Kiwanians demand him back again
and again. And he has yet to let
them down. He brings new ideas,
new dances, new skits—he always
has the goods it takes.
Elva Martin will be at the ph»n«
—for the 8th time with the Kiwanis
Minstrel. Since she began playing
for the show in 1933, she has be
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