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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS N. C.’s TABloid More News — More Picture NEWSpaper Advertising _ More - AH Home-Print - __ , ^ H w Paid Subscribers N CAROLINA'S FIRST^^f ■ # k J TAB/ok//H^NEW$/»mp v-r VOLUME TWENTY-SIX ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 13,1941 NUMBER 35 ■ i ■ i JACKETS BASKETBALL TEAM -1941 I Above are eight members of the Roanoke Rapids boys basketball team for the past season. They ended their season last week by dropping a close game to Dunn in the Henderson tournament). Reading left to right (standing) “Chinchy” Bowers—Captain, Billy Neal, Claude Kitchin Josey, William Davis, Hugh Horne, (sitting) Ford Buffalo, Lawrence Clements, Tiieron Harris. Clarence Byrd, Garland Matthews, and Douglas Warrick were absent when the picture was made. (NewsKuts by Brigman) Julian R. AlIsbrooK ALLSBROOK SELECTED AS LEADER By W. T. Bost Legislative leaders, picked by press reporters and radio com mentators as the most useful members of the 1941 session, have been announced and given in the order of their choosing. In the Senate’s half of the big six are Stacy of Robeson, Cherry of Gaston, and Gray of Forsyth with honorable mention for O’ Berry of Wayne. The house trio are Bryant of Durham, Pickens of Guilford, and Allsbrook of Hali fax with Ward of Craven and Tay lor of Wayne as men of distinc tion. Tne selections were not made on the basis of intellectual equip ment or parliamentary power, but on usefulness alone. Stacy, Cher ry and Gray all headed important Senate Committees, and Bryant and Pickens ran two of the .very hard working House units. As House Finance' head, Bryant’s group fashioned the financial pat tern; and as Judiciary 2’s chair man, Pickens was in strategic position of ten. The press and ra dio workers rated him largely on dissents, on his blocking rather than Vila nWHhr fft narrv fVio Vinll Allsbrook won his distinction largely on his ability as debater and his watchfulness over House action. He held no committee head and therefore was disadvantaged from the start. But much the best speech of the session in eith er branch was made on the ap propriations bill a week ago. Old timers rated that utterance the ablest in several of the state’s most recent parliaments. When the verdict went against him, his colleagues felt better that be had spoken. The Halifax member nev (Continued on Page 5, Sec. A) Weldon Boy Victim Of Hit And Run Gregory Held As Suspect In Case Edward Twiford, 18 year old Weldon youth, was seriously hurt Sunday night when hit by a hit and-run driver on the highway south of Weldon. Dolphus Greg ory, also of Weldon, is being held in connection with the case. Twiford, who is a senior in the Weldon high school, was walking along highway 301 late Sunday evening in the company of a wo man and two children near the ball park. A car with an un known driver struck him and hurled him against the park wall, reports say. He suffered a broken leg and severe bruises about the body and chest. Gregory was arrested Monday after officers had made an in vestigation of the case. He is being held at Halifax Jail in de fault of a $500 bond. No hearing in the case has been set. However, a hearing is ex pected as soon as Twiford is able to leave the hospital here. BENJAMIN H. GAMMAGE Benjamin H. Gammage, (above), Field Representative First Aid, Life Saving and Accident Preven tion Service of the American Red Cross, will come to Roanoke Rap ids to instruct a class in First Aid and Accident Prevention at the Woman’s Club house beginning Monday, March 17. S. H. dumpier, Chairman of the First Aid and Life Saving service of the local Red Cross chapter, will be in charge of the school and will accept applications for entry. (De tails inside.) FLOOD OF LETTERS TO GOVERNOR Halifax, N. C.—Endorsements and letters from all over this dis trict and State for Carroll L. Wilson of Roanoke Rapids as a member of the State Highway J and Public Works Commission are , pouring into the office of Gov-1 ernor J. M. Broughton. Latest endorsements from Hali- { fax County are by the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of En field and Hobgood and the Ki wanis Club of Scotland Neck. The Mayor and Board of Com missioners of Roanoke Rapids, Scotland 'Neck and Halifax had already endorsed Mr. Wilson, as had the Roanoke Rapids Mer chants Association, the Roanoke Rapids Kiwanis Club and other civic bodies in the county. Business men of Scotland Neck yesterday sent telegrams of en dorsement when they heard early appointments might be made. Thousands of Halifax County cit izens have signed petitions of en dorsement for the local man’s ap pointment. It is generally under stood in Raleigh that Halifax County will receive the post. Endorsements of the Halifax County man have been sent to the Governor and made in person by (Continued on Page 5, Sec. A) PRESENT TWO BIG NIGHTS '"All-American Follies" Offered Thursday-Friday IT S PATRIOTIC 150 Talented Citizens Working Under “Slim” Hutchings In Show The “All-American Follies’’, a sparkling and spectacular patriotic review, will be presented by the Roanoke Rapids Kiwanis Club on Thursday and Friday nights, March 20 and 21, for their eleventh annual benefit show. First curtain will go up at 8:15 each night. » It is timely, gay, featuring ga laxies of “gorgeous girls” in the true American style. It is care free and colossal, and broad enough in scope to take in dude ranches, polo playing, the seashore, and dances from the coy Eskimo to the hip-swinging rhumba girl of South Sea Islands. In other words, it’s American—from beginning to end. The opening scene of the show will introduce the "Patriotic Girls” in a swingy little number, "Every thing Starts With Rhythm”. De vised to give the crowd the right “mood”, this number capitalizes on captivating cuties—"the cutest the town affords”. After the rhythm number the Rhumba and the La Conga girls”, to the tantalizing tunes from the Argentine Pampas, present "Down [Argentine Way”. With Mrs. Julia Moseley Byrd, a trooper in the Ki wanis shows for the past several years, in the featured part, this number is stamped with “Guaran teed To Satisfy, or Your Money Back”. uuae rumen” scene, with the cowboys, cowgirls, and city girls, promises to be one of the hits of the evening. The members of this skit are dressed the part and “give” when singing old and familiar cowboy tunes and dancing the dances of the plains. A trim number is offered when a group of girls participate in a bit of horseless polo, swinging their mallets about the stage as they keep up the chatter In swingy rhyme. The “Boarding House” scene presents the outstanding singing talent in Roanoke Rapids. Sever al old time tunes will be given a workout here, for those at the boarding house believe in singing loud as well as well. TOe broad expanse of the Am erican Seashore will be represent (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A$ A LEADER INSTRUCTOR
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