COUNTY 4-H CLUB
MEMBERS PREPARE
FOR SHORT COURSE
Group Will Leave
Monday For State
College Campus
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Halifax County boys and girls
are busy getting ready to attend
the 4-H Short Course held on the
State College Campus the week
of July 28 through August 2. The
theme of this year’s Short Course
will be: “Our Responsibilities as
4-H Club Members in the Present
World Crisis". The program is
planned from the standpoint of
the home, the farm, the commun
ity, the club and country, and the
following courses are offered: The
4-H Meeting, Discussion Technique.
Song Leadership, Recreation Lea
dership, How to Become A Strong
American. News Writing Designed
For Club Reporters, Books and
You, Home Management and Rural
Electricity, Clothing, Food Conser
vation and Marketing, Farm Man
agement, Foultry, Horticulture,
Forestry, Field Crops, Dairying,
Animal Husbandry, Entomology,
and Getting Along With People.
To the 4-H-er the 4-H Short
Course is a highlight in the year’s
work. One boy and one girl from
each club is selected to attend as
a delegate, and before the club
boy or girl becomes a delegate, he
or she must be fourteen years old
and a club member of good stand
ing.
The following Halifax boys and
girls will leave the Agricultural
Building in Halifax Monday morn
ing, July 28, at 9:00 o’clock to
attend the short course: Ringwood
Club—Alton Wood and Dorothy
Anderson; Hollister Club—Theresa
Branch and Bill Hux; Hobgood
Club—Livie Ruth White and Mary
Lawrence; William R. Davie Club
—Margaret Thompson; Roanoke
Rapids Club—Anne Pearson and
Theodore Ray; Weldon Club—Vir
ginia Pittman and Lee Garner.
Funeral Services
Ben Stansbury
Funeral services for Ben Stans
bury, 58, were conducted from the
Enterprise Baptist Church, Sun
day afternoon, July 13 at 4 o’
clock. The Rev. E. Gray Jones
and the Rev. John Edwards were
in charge.
Mr. Stansbury died in Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore, after a
prolonged illness.
Surviving are his wife, Eugie C.
Stansbury; a daughter, Mrs. S. C.
Vann of Roanoke Rapids; two sons,
John Bill and Willie Ben of Little
ton; one grandchild, Franklin
Stansbury; his father, Jerry Stans
bury; two sisters, Mrs. Della Mau
bery of Littleton and Mrs. Martha
Riggan of Roanoke Rapids.
Kiwanis Club
Raises $335
for War Relief
At the meeting of the local Ki
wanis Club on Thursday night of
last week a moving picture
"Thumbs Up" was shown, and de
picted the spirit of the British
during the current war and some
of the damage done by German
bombing of English towns.
It was announced at the meet
ing of the club that $335 had been
collected through that day for
British relief.
During the business session of
the club Dr. Bahnson Weathers
was put in charge of arranging
attendance at the baseball game
at Portsmouth, Virginia, next
Monday night when the Ports
mouth Cubs are scheduled to play
the Cleveland Indians. Bob Feller
is slated to pitch for the Indians,
and the game will dedicate the
new baseball stadium at Ports
mouth.
Vitamin Value
Of Peaches
Is Stressed
Tasty appetizing peaches ... so
good to eat and so good for you.
will be the central attraction on
most tables during the period of
July 24th thru July 30th.
During this period the Georgia
Carolina Peach Marketing Board,
and other organizations of the
Food Trades Industry of the
Food Trades Iudustry of the
South are cooperating with the
U. S. Department of Agriculture in
a public-spirited campaign to in
crease consumption of fresh
peaches by everyone.
Mrs. Hazel E. Wheeler, Halifax
County Home Demonstration A
gent, pointed out that while food
is rationed in war-torn Europe, we
in America are faced with a dif
ferent but serious problem.
"We are.^not eating enough of
the basic health-protecting foods
of which there is an abundance in
this country,” he said. “More than
40 percent of our people are actu
ally suffering from malnutrition
in this land of plenty. And today,
more than ever before, America ;
needs strong, red-blooded men, wo
men and children.
“We have always relished peaches
and this delicious fruit now takes 1
a new rank as a healthful food, i
“Recent vitamin research has re- I
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veaJed that peaches axe rich in Vi
tamin A, B, C and G (b2) neces
sary for good health.”
In urging all homemakers to eat
more peaches at this time, W. J.
Wingate, Area Supervisor of the
Surplus Marketing Administration,
pointed out that the National De
fense Conservation and Nutrition
program calls for more home can
ning and preserving. Home-canned
peaches provide a splendid supply
of basic health-protecting foods,
and a very thrifty home food sup
ply, too.
1941 President's
Birthday Ball
Funds Set Record
Sweeping high above all former
records, the 1941 Celebration of the
President's Birthday to raise funds
for the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, produced a net
total of $2,104,460.53, President
Roosevelt was told yesterday. This
was $697,214.79 more than the $1,
407,245.74 raised in 1940, the pre
vious high mark.
Expenses of the National Com
mittee for the Celebration of the
President’s Birthday were $136,
996.61, or 6.1 per cent of the total
net amount raised.
The President received the cam
paign report in his executive of
fice at the White House. The to
tal figures were revealed for the
first time in an inscribed testi
monial report and audit handed
him by Keith Morgan, national
chairman of the Committee, and
Basil O’Connor, president of the
National Foundation, and former
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Under the usual plan of the
National Foundation, approximate
ly one-half of the net proceeds, or
$1,096,865.84 will be used by State
and County chapters of the Foun
dation to aid those in the various
communities who have been strick
en with the disease.
The other portion of the funds,
or $1,007,594.69 will be expended by
the National Foundation to com
bat epidemics of infantile paraly
sis, for research, for aiding hos
pitals and institutions in the study
of the treatment of the after ef
fects of the disease and in dis
seminating knowledge regarding
the disease and its treatment to
the medical profession and the
public.
Dr. Julian S. Miller of Charlotte
was State Chairman for North
Carolina, and Thomas S. Howard
of Chapel Hill was Director of
Organization.
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0 Front Axles Straightened
0 Frames Straightened
0 Bent Wheels Straightened
0 Head-lights focused with the
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0 Radiators Cleaned (to pre
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0 Radiators Repaired
0 Special Machine Work
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0 Brakes Re-Lined
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A SLIGHT DEFERMENT:
“Any of your family going in
the army?” we asked a young man.
“No . . . My brother thought he
was, but the doctor tested his
blood and said it was 90% alcohol
and 10% Seven Up.”
OVER THE BRIDGE TABLE: The
girl was receiving condolences and
inquiries about her bandaged arm.
“It isn’t anything,” she protested.
“But I had to put it on to prove
to Junior that a bandage doesn’t
hurt.”
—o—
SHE TELLS OF CALLING at the
home of a relative, a man who had
been married twice. After chatting
for a few minutes with the visitor,
the man decided it was time to
call his wife.
“Abbie? . . . Abbie? ...” There
was no answer. "Abbie!” There
was still no answer. Then the vis
itor heard him mutter under his
breath. “Dammit, I forgot. Ab
bie’s dead. It's Mary.” (Then
louder) "Mary? Mary! Mary,
Cousin Bessie is here!”
I CALLING "MARY” BROUGHT
RESULTS. Now won’t someone
write in the story of Mr. Ingle
and the church bell named after
his wife?
"STATE AND TIOGA” ADMIRES
VETERINARIANS . . . points out
that human patients are usually
docile, but animal patients may
have to be hogtied before the doc
tor Can inquire about symptoms . .
and the animal patient may weigh
a ton or more . . . besides having
the single ambition to kill all vet
erinarians. The poor vet. is often
in the position he might be in if
“called on to remove Joe Louis’
tonsils on a day when Joe Louis
was feeling ornery, didn’t want his
tonsils removed, and didn’t want
no truck with no doctors no
time ...”
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A TRIFLE MIXED
My dinner’s getting colder . . .
It’s nearly time for bed . . .
I b’lieve I’ll leave my dinner
And eat a “cook” instead.
There’s milk upon my table
To make my meal complete,
But don’t you want my dinner?
My spinach and my meat?
The spinach and the apricots
Are mixed in with the peas,
And pepper’s in my glass of milk.
So won’t you eat it please?
My mama says I gotta eat
My dinner just the same,
But maybe she won’t make me
If Grandma takes the blame.
EXPANDING ARMIES resort to
imitation equipment if the real
thing is not available. This hap
pened in the recent maneuvers.
The ice truck was late and the
Captain called the driver to ac
count.
“Sergeant, your truck was nearly
three hours late carrying two
blocks of ice, one of 2000 lbs., one
of 3000 lbs. What happened?”
"We were delayed because the
ice spilled out, sir.”
“But Sergeant, it was only card
board. It wasn’t real ice, it was
only imaginary.”
“Yes sir, but we used the imag
inary time it took to get it back
on the truck again!”
TREATED
E. P. Hyman of Gaston has spent
the past two weeks at Hampton,
Virginia, and Washington, D. C.,
where he was under treatment for
an ailment.
Ned Hyman of Fort Jackson, S.
C., spent last week with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hyman
of Gaston.
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