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VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 24,1941 NUMBER 1
Preventorium Activities
Some of the children at the Preventorium for the second five-weeks
it is being operated by funds from the Community Chest are shown in
the above photograph. They were enjoying a play period when the top
picture above was taken.
Shown in the bottom picture are the children grouped around Mrs.
Blanche Lane during the story-hour. Various expressions may be seen
on the children’s faces as Mrs. Lane, who may be glimpsed in the
foreground at the extreme left of the picture, held them spell-bound
with an interesting story.
INSURANCE ON
CITY EMPLOYEES
TAKEN BY BOARD
Commissioners
Have Meeting
Monday Night
The city board of commissioners
are scheduled to meet next Monday
night to consider a budget for
Roanoke Rapids for the current
year.
Mrs. Ruby Wood Mincher, city
clerk, stated today that a tentative
budget has been drawn up and
will be submitted to the board at
the meeting for approval and any
changes the commissioners con
sider advisable.
At a special session of the board
here Monday night Mayor Kelly
Jenkins stated that he had re
ceived a telegram from Governor
J. M. Broughton, a copy of which
the mayor had mailed to each com
missioner, asking for co-operation
in the day-light savings program
which is being considered in the
state to save electricity in the in
terests of national defense. Mayor
Jenkins was instructed to wire the
governor that the local city offi
cials will co-operate in this pro
gram
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION
The board passed a motion that
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SERIOUS
CHARGE
LODGED
Buddy Sanderford, about 19, was
arrested here this week and re
leased under $500 bond on a charge
of having carnal knowledge of a
female under sixteen years of age.
The local white youth was ar
rested after a warrant had been
sworn out by Thomas J. Tidwell,
father of the girl with whom he
allegedly had immoral relations.
The girl, Rennie Doris Tidwell,
is said to bp about fourteen years
old, and the alleged act is said in
the warrant to have occurred on
or about March 14, 1941.
Officers said today that Sander
ford will probably be given a hear
ing on the charge next week. The
girl was said to have been out of
the city early this week, but was
reported to be back in Roanoke
Rapids today.
METAL
GIVING
URGED
The drive to collect old alumi
num pots, pans and other objects
made from the metal is progres-'
sing nicely, Chairman A. Leonidas
Hux of the Halifax County Council
of National Defense, said today.
All sections in the county are
cooperating splendidly, Chairman
Hux stated, and a large amount
of the metal which will be used
for national defense purposes has
already been collected in the bins
places in the various communities
and taken up by the State High
way trucks.
riowever, unairman nux ieeis
that the collection of aluminum in
in the county is just getting started
and that much more work is to
be done before the drive closes
next Tuesday night and the metal
sent shortly thereafter to the near
est concentration point in this
section, which is Raleigh. All ci
tizens inthe county are urged to
make a thorough search of their
premises for any object containing
aluminum which can be spared
from the household and given for
national defense.
Scotland Neck Leads
Scotland Neck got a slight edge
over the other sections in the
county during the drive this week
when the theatre there cooperated
[by allowing admission to the pic
ture show for a piece of aluminum
instead of the price of a ticket.
However, other sections in the
county have made an excellent
showing.
At Halifax the aluminum con
tained in about 20 slot machines
which were stored in the jail,
went on the pile of precious metal
after Jailer Jack Whitehead de
cided they wouldn’t be of any
other use.
Every day this week Halifax
leaders in the drive have made ap
peals over the local radio station
asking contributions of aluminum
in the county. Chairman A. N.
Martin of the local committee and
Mayor Kelly Jenkins started the
broadcasts Sunday, and were fol
lowed Monday by the Rev. Gordan
Price. On Tuesday Frank M. Sher
ry continued the broadcasts, and
yesterday those speaking were
Howard Pruden, Chairman Martin
or Roanoke Rapids, and County
Chairman Hux. Continuing the re
quests today were Robert C. Josey
and Dr. M. C. Maddrey and Mrs.
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IN SERVICE
Lieutenant William Garlon Hola
dia of this city reported to Fort
. Bragg for active duty on July 15,
and was sent to the Quartermaster
, School in Philadelphia, Pa., where
he will remain until September 30
and then be further assigned to
duty.
Lieutenant Holadia graduated
from Roanoke Rapids High School
in 1935, and entered the Universi
ty of North Carolina the fall of the
same year. Later he transferred
to North Carolina State College
and studied for a career in weav
ing and designing. He received
nation-wide publicity this year for
designing and producing the ex
cellent likeness of Governor J. M.
Broughton on cloth. He was one
of the ten men to be accepted as a
member of Sigma Tau Sigma,
State College's honorary society for
scholarship.
Upon graduating from State Col
lege he accepted a position with
Burlington Mills, and remained,
there until he was recently called '
to active duty with the army. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Holadia of Roanoke Rapids, and is
twenty-four years old.
CORN
Four ears of corn grown on
the same stem, horticultural
oddity found by Carl Ray in his
garden here, was brought to the
Herald office this week.
The four ears were from four
to six inches long, and all had
full grains of corn on them al
though they were not fully de
veloped.
Albert Ray, eight-year-old son
of the local man, brought the
corn to this office for exhibition.
LANGLEY
FIELD IS
STATION
Troops Bivouac
Here Overnight
On Maneuvers
Local citizens had their first ex
perience with the stream-lined
fighting forces of the United States
'on maneuvers this week when 147
' men and four officers of the Avia
tion Engineers, 21st Regiment,
! Company F, from Langley Field,
Va., rolled into the city Tuesday
afternoon to bivouac at camping
grounds on Rapids Street.
The twenty-five motor vehicles
bringing the men and equipment
started arriving Tuesday afternoon,
and tents were pitched in short
order and the men ready for in
spection before the evening meal
which was prepared on the “rolling
kitchen ’ while the troops were en
route here.
Captain H. A. Byroade was in
command of the unit, which was
on a 400-mile maneuver to test e
quipment and get experience in rap
id movement. Other officers in the
outfit were Captain A. L. Winkler,
First Lieutenant John Wachter and
First Lieutenant Preston D. Cockey.
First Sergeant F. J. Deleruyelle
was the “top-kick” of the draftees
in the outfit, all of whom were in
ducted into the army about four
months ago from upper New York
State. The men attended a three
month course at Fort Belvoir, Va.,
for training in army engineering
and then went to Company F at
Langley Field.
After setting up their equipment,
the men were allowed a few hours
of leave to see the city and then
returned to the camp for a tactical
problem at 2 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Early yesterday morning
they were also out on the old Hali
fax Road in the vicinity of the
Preventorium for more exercises.
The Aviation Engineers, Captain
Byroade said, is a new department
of the army, and its main function
is to construct new airports very
rapidly. They have been so thor
oughly trained as the expeditionary
force of the Air Corps that they
can take the heavy machinery of
their department and day down
runways for heavy bombing planes
in twenty-four hours.
As the expeditionary force of the
Air Corps, the Aviation Engineers
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