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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS i__ _( More News — More > Advertising — More I Paid Subscribers | s_r "VOLUME TWENTY-SIX ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941_NUMBER 43 ROANOKE MILLS OFFICE DOOR Above is a close-up of the door opening on Fifth Street in the re cently completed general office building for the Roanoke Mills Company here. Photo shows the brick work, iron railing, marble topped steps, door panelling—all colonial Williamsburg designs. _ Conduct Vepco Cooking School 1*ABOVE is Misses Virginia Blount and Naomi Shank (left-to-right) home economists of the Virgiiua Electric & Power Co., who will conduct a cooking school to be given by the company at the Imperial Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday mornings of next week. Complete details of the school and the handsome list of prize awards will be found on Page 4—Section A—this issue. PUBLISH TAXES IN AUGUST Property in Roanoke Rapids will be advertised for sale for city and school taxes on the second Monday in August this year, it was decided at a meeting of the Commissioners and the Mayor on Wednesday of this week. This is in accordance with the usual procedure in advertising de linquent taxes for the city and school districts. The matter came up for discussion before the com missioners because they were un der the impression delinquent county tax lists would be adver tised in May this year instead of in August as had been the custom followed for the past few yeais. This belief was obviously based upon an advertisement appearing in county newspapers on April 10th, 17th and 24th to that effect and signed by E. H. Smith, tax collector of Halifax County. On April 23rd, however, Smith notified the newspapers that the Board of County Commissioners , at a meeting Monday, April 21st, decided to postpone the sale of taxes until August, further stating that taxes would be advertised during the month of August and sold the first Monday in Septem ber as usual. It is apparent Smith failed to notify any of the other various taxing units of the coun ty of the change of plans. (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) NEW MAYOR Roanoke Rapids voters returned Kelly Jenkins, shown above, to the office of Mayor of the City for the next two-year term (a post he had previously held for four terms) by a majority of 324 votes in Tuesday’s election. Lt. Graham Dean was holding his own yesterday afternoon after undergoing the second major operation within the last week, a telegram from W. S. Dean, his father, said. Young Dean was taken to a Louisville, j Ky., hospital last week after he I had suffered a relapse from a ! serious illness several weeks a go. Mr. and Mrs. Dean are in : Louisville with him at present. —-I ROSEMARY INC. TO SEND SALESMEN ON VISIT TO MILLS Fourteen salesmen of Rosemary, Inc., sales organization for the lo cal textile mills, will visit Roanoke Rapids next Wednesday and Thursday and make a tour of the mills. ' The purpose of the visit will be to better acquaint the salesmen of our local textile products with the manufacturing end, thus providing better co-ordination between manu facturing and selling. The salesmen will tour the plants of Rosemary Manufacturing Co. next Wednesday afternoon and next Thursday will find them at Roanoke Mills Co. No. 1 in the morning, at the Sample and Style Card Department of The Herald Printing Co. at 11 a.m. and at Roa noke Mills Co. No. 2 and Patterson Mills Co. Thursday afternoon. Swain Norman Is Appointed To Job Prison Supervisor Swain S. Norman of Halifax has been appointed Prison Division Supervisor in the first Division of the State Highway and Public Works Commission. The division covers fourteen counties in this section of the State: Warren, Halifax, Northamp ton, Edgecomb, Hertford, Bertie, Martin, Gates, Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Camden, Curritnck, and Dare. WINS BY 324 VOTE MAJORITY VOTE BY AWARDS North: South: Total: Allsbrook _ 221 450 671 Jenkins_ 772 223 995 COMMISSIONERS VOTE Collier (North Ward) _ 776 Starke (South Ward) _ 483 Roanoke Rapids voters returned Kelly Jenkins to the office of Mayor by a majority of 324 votes over the present Mayor, W. Bernard Alls brook, in a city-wide election Tues day. Mr. Jenkins received a total of 995 votes while Mayor Allsbrook received a total of 671. M. D. Collier, unopposed for re election as Commissioner in the North Ward received a compliment ary vote of 769; R. I. Starke, un opposed in the South Ward for re election as Commissioner, polled a complimentary vote of 483. Jenkins, who served as Mayor of the city from the time the two bus iness districts were incorporated in 1931 until 1939 when he was defeat ed by Allsbrook, received 772 votes in the North Ward and 223 votes in the South Ward. His total of 995 in both wards equalled two more than was polled in the North Ward of which he is a resident. There were 993 votes cast in the North Ward for Mayor. nnauiuim, wau UCiCiiieu tile 111 coming Mayor by a majority of 310 votes in 1939, received a total vote of 671, polling 221 in the North Ward and 450 in the South Ward. The outgoing Mayor has served in that capacity for a term of two years, having been elected in May 1939. The name of Dick Smith was written in on one ballott in the North Ward for Mayor. The incoming Mayor will be sworn in on the first Monday in June, taking up his duties as Mayor on that day. Mrs. Dorothy Shearin, notary employed in the City Clerk’s office, administered the oath to Mayor Allsbrook in 1939. No ceremony has been cus tomary in the past. A. M. Cameron served as reg istrar in the South Ward. W. G. Alligood and Allie Wood were Judges. Assistants at the polls were Glenn Gurley, Robert Vick, Robert Josey, and C. C. Shell. In the North Ward S. C. Cook served as registrar. Henry Fitts and J. O. Brown were Judges. M. B. Anderton, Ross Edwards, Earl Daughtry, D. C. Gore, and Mrs. Harvey Hazelwood were assis tants at the polls. .. ■' .---■ ..
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