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Picture NBWSpaper — All Home-Print — THE ROANOKE RAPIDS FIRST 1 . »...— nSfeNEWS/awi' More Advertising; — Paid Subscribers VOLUME TWENTY-SIX ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, DEC. 19,1940 NUMBER 23 NEW ADDITION AT PAPER MILL Above photograph shows construction work in progress on the new addition at the Halifax Paper Company. This three-story addition will be over 50 per cent larger than the section, on the same location, that collapsed during the August flood. (NewsKut by Brigman) CHEST TRUSTEES HEAR REPORT OF CAMPAIGN DRIVE * ... - ·· ' The Trustees of the Roanoke Rapids Community Chest held their ι postponed November meeting on ι December 11 in the Municipal ] Building. The highlight of the ] meeting was a report from the j Campaign Drive Chairman, T. J. < Alford. < Mr. Alford explained that the a- 1 mounts he was reporting had been checked through the office and to ] date this was not a complete report 1 as the General Gifts Division still : had some pledges and cash to be ι turned in. The report is as fol- < lows: Industrial ; Gifts Division, < $6,472.23, Special Gifts Division, $4,- 1 303.50. General Gifts Division re- * ported $2,466.22, making the total 1 pledged $13,241.05. While the report is not complete ' it will be interesting to note here what the Community Chest cam paigns over the nation are doing. : The Chest office here received : from thé national Council a report from Charles Francis Adams, Chairman of the Community Mo bilization for Human Needs. In this rèport he states: ."For the sec ond consecutive year, the nation's community chest campaigns have shown substantial gains both in money raised and in the number of contributors. To date, 262 cities have reported their fall campaigns. They have gained 2.6 percent over the amount raised last year when an increase of 3.9 percent over the previous year was obtained. "Reports indicate that the total lumber of contributors to com (îunity chests also shows a gain, irobably reflecting increased em iloyment over the country," Mr. Ldams said. Approximately one iut of five residents contribute to ommunity chests in cities where hey exist. Community chests reached 98.2 >ercent of their goals this fall. On y once during, the past twenty rears, in 1931, have chests averag id 98 percent of their objectives. Chests of all sizes and in all parts if the country shared in the gen sral increase. More than two hirds of the reporting cities ex seeded last year's figures an<| city >y-city inspection shows that rel itively few fell far below their ireviou* campaigns. Immediately after the meeting of ;he Trustees, the Executive Com mittee composed of F. C. Williams, 5\ M. Sherry, Β. E. Speight, A. Vteikle, A. N. Martin and T. W. Vlullen, met and appointed a Nom nating Committee of five persons ind a committee of three Tellers jo conduct the forthcoming elec :ion of Trustees Those appointed to the Nominat ing Committee were: Byron Gur ley, Chairman, Tom White, J. T. Forrester, Shearod Crumpler, and Lewis Taylor. The Committee of three Tellers were: Calvin Kenneirvar, Chair man, William H. Thome and Rus sell Buxton. iPf IMWS'ff! Close Christmas Most of the stores, banks, and the ABC stores will be closed Christmas day and the following day, Wednesday and Thursday, December 25 and 26. The post office will be closed on Christmas Day only. The local textile mills will be closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 23, 24, 25. The State Employment office will be closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wedne^êay, running on the same schedule as the local tex tile mills. The post office, banks, and the ABC stores will be closed again a week later on New Year's day. The stores will remain open on New Tear's. Schools will be closed from December 20 to January 6. The Herald office will be closed on Christmas Day only. The Virginia Electric and iFower Company office will be closed on Christmas Day and the following day, Thursday. The city clerk's office will be closed on Christmas day. The office will open again on Thurs day, giving license purchasers a chance to buy their tags. The Sanitary District office will be closed Tuesday afternoon and all day Christmas day. The Halifax Paper Company will be. closed only one day (24 hours) and that will be Christ mas Day. The Manchester Board and Paper Company has tentative plans to close the plant from Tuesday morning, December 24 until the following Monday. However, the force will observe only two holidays, Christmas Eve and Christmas day. CANAL READY FOR WATER AGAlfr .5..* '....Γ Wet. "\. JSWÊ ι Above is a recent picture ol the gates at the lower end Virginia Electric and Power Company canal. New gratings in have been put in since flood in August. Behind the gratings flume that takes water to the Halifax Paper Company. The canal has been repaired and water is expected to be turned into Friday morning, enabling: the industries and the power plants river to utilize the water directly from the canal once again, inside) (NewsKuts by Brigman) of the picture is the entire it thte at the (Story OFFICE CASHIER HELD UP BY MAN WITH MASK & GUN * Leaves Without Taking Anything As Girl Faints A masked man, described as white, short of stature, frail of body, and wearing a dark cap, walked into the freight office of the Seaboard Airline Railroad in Weldon Tuesday evening about 6 o'clock and demanded that Miss Ora Shores, cashier ol the office, hand over the money in the office safe. He emphasized the demand with a pistol that he kept trained on Miss Shores. The cashier told the bandit that he could have her own personal money that she had in her purse but that she would not unlock the safe. In turn the man told Miss Shores that he did not want her money. He said 'that the Seaboard Company "had done him wrong" at one time and that he was after the company's money. Miss Shores is reported to have fainted at that point, and when she /'came' to", the bandit was gone. Nothing has been missed at the station thus far, according to re ports. Miss Shores was able to give po lice a rather detailed description of the man. However, he had not been picked up late today. It has been reported that a man who might have answered the de , scription of the person at Weldon η as been seen loitering about the freight station of the Seaboard in Roanoke Rapids. Miss Shores viras alone in the of fice at the timè of the attempted hold-up. She had remained at the office after working hours in order to catch up on some of her work* according to reports. Police have been able to find no other persons who saw the man enter or leave the freight office. Miss Shores was unable to give any light on how he arrived at the of fice or how he left it. Chief of Police H. E. Dobbins; who was called to Weldon on the case, said that in his opinion the would-be robber was an amateur. A professional would have com pleted the job, he said. Registration Of Aliens Will Stop Registration of aliens will be discontinued at the local post of fice after December 26, L. G. Shell, postmaster, said this week. It is understood that several men have reported to the office and have been finger printed by the depart ment. All aliens are required to regis ter by an act of Congress. This has to be done voluntarily. No requests are sent to those people who have not become naturalized. However, they will be subject to action by the government if they do not present themselves for reg istration.
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