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Business Men Ex
press Opinions
Since the city board of commis
sioners authorized the purchase
and installation of traffic signals
at intersections of Ninth, Tenth
and Eleventh Streets on Roanoke
Avenue, a number of citizens in the
other business section along the
main thoroughfare of the city have
publicly expressed their desire for
“stop” signs.
A groun of businessmen have
stated they think a traffic signal
is particularly needed at the Se
cond Street and Roanoke Avenue
intersection, and one said he
thinks the electric traffic regula
tors should be at Second and Third
streets.
Mooney Greenberg, one of those
interviewed about the matter,
placed himself as strongly in fav
or of a traffic “light” at the Roa
noke Avenue intersection with Se
"From any standpoint we should
have one at this end of town”,
Greenberg said. “Traffic is very
heavy on the streets at certain
times of the day, and every week
end. Also, there are a large num
ber of young children crossing at
the intersection, and to see them
confused by the traffic reminds me
of scared rabbits sometimes. It’s
pitiful to see them get caught out
in the street by passing cars, and
very dangerous. If we had a stop
light here, it would remedy that
situation*”
“A ‘stop’ light at the Roanoke
Avenue and Second Street is a ne
cessity”, he continued, “and would
certainly help this end of the city.
It is an injustice to the tax-payers
at this end of town to put the traf
fic signals in the Rosemary section
and not put them in our section of
town.”
Greenberg also pointed out what
he thinks is another matter in
front of his store the town officials
should be concerned with — the
broken sidewalk. ,A couple of days
ago, Greenberg haid, he saw a
young girl stumble! over the broken
cement and narrowly escape a
sprained ankle Or broken leg.
“What do tne commissioners want
to do?” he asked, “Wait until
someone gets hurt before repairing
the sidewalk?”' He added that
Mrs. B. Marks, one of the first
merchants jn the Roanoke Rapids
section, also favors the motion.
F. M. Coburn, Sr., proprietor of
a shoe store near the intersection
in question, could not be reached
for a statement, but J. H. King,
an employee of -.the establishment,
said that “it wouldn’t hurt any
thing” to have a stop light at the
corner. “I headed the town is go
ing to put them in the other sec
tion of the city and wondered if
this end was going to be left off”,
King said.
Manager R. 'A. Matthews of the
ABC store or* the corner said a
light is needed at the Second
Street-Roanqke Avenue intersec,
tion, and .added that one at the
Third Street intersection should be
installed, also. Accidents have
happened at both intersections, he
said, which probably would have
been avoided if traffic signals had
been in pjlace at the time.
Marked , off lanes for pedestrians,
and “safety-zones”, are needed
more than traffic lights at the Se
cond Street corner, according to
Manager H. T. Moore of a general
merchandise store nearby. The
“jay-walking” of pedestrians is
dangerous, he says, and something
should lie done about it. However,
if the tfown sees fit to put up a
“stop” lijght at the corner, he stat
ed, no objection will be offered by
him. "I chpn’t think it is needed
there as rmkch as at the other end
of town”, h\e said, "but it wouldn’t
be a bad i i.”
City Cor issioner W. P. Taylor
of the Ro >ke Pharmacy on the
Second Str corner didn’t express
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himself pro or con about the issue.
He stated that being on the town
board he’d rather know what oth
ers in this section of town think
of the idea.
LITTLETOM
Miss Annie Farmer left Tuesday
for Norfolk v/here she will visit for
a week.
Mesdames J. R. Wollett, Mattie
E. Johnston and Claude Johnson
spent Tuesday in Raleigh.
Miss Ellen McIntyre arrived
Monday. She is a member of the
High School Faculty in the Home
Economics Dept.
Miss Ed;ch Ristine of New York
City is a guest in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. H. House this week.
Miss Elizabeth Bridgers is spend
ing this week in Wilson and Clin
ton with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Currin spent
Tuesday in Halifax on business.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDavid and
children of Columbia, S. C., are
visiting in me uonie 01 ivn. auu |
Mrs. H. Claude Alston.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pope were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Matthews in Rocky Mount Tues
day night.
Mr. J. B. Aiken of Washington.
D. C., is spending this week in the
home of Mrs. T. J. Miles.
Mrs. M. F. Smith spent several
days this week with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Harvey in En
field.
Miss Fannie P. Newsom spent
several days with friends in Rich
mond, Va., this week.
A1 Quarles, of Norfolk, Va., is
spending some time at his home
here.
Miss Pearl Fishel of Chapei Hill
is visiting in the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. P. A. Johnson.
Mrs. John P. Leach spent the
week end in Raleigh with her
daughter, Mrs. Cary Dowd.
Mrs. Sarah A. Glasgow return
ed Wednesday from a visit of sev
eral weeks with her daughter, Mrs.
W. H. Hayes in Newport News,
Va.
Ferdie and Macon Moore, Jr.,
Edwin Hale attended the Fire
men’s Convention in Asheville.
Among those attending the fun
eral of Mrs. Harper Alexander
in Scotland Neck were Mrs. A. M.
Newsom and family, Mrs. J. H.
Newsom, Mrs. T. J. Miles, Mrs. V/.
T. Person, Mrs. C. A. Jones, Miss
Lucretia Jones, Misses Carrie H.
and Elizabeth Moore, Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.
McPherson, Mrs. T. W. Cole, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Pippen, Mrs. W. B.
Browning, Mrs. Robert Newsom,
Mrs. Paul Johnston, Mesdames J.
A. and E. L. Crawley, Misses Doris
Hayes, Hattie Daniel, Emma Bon
ney, and George Threewitts and
Wheeless Cole.
J. B. Aiken, Mrs. Sallie Worthen,
Mrs. T. J. Miles and Miss Mattie
Jenkins, spent Thurday and Fri
day in Durham, and Charlotte.
Prof, and Mrs. A. W. Parker and
children accompanied a group of
F. F. A. hoys for an outing at
White Lake this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Maynard and
family left Thursday for Mocks
ville, where they will make their
home.
Mrs. J. N. Moseley spent several
days in Durham and Chapel Hill
this week attending a Conference
of the Parent-Teacher’s Associa
tion.
Mrs. Richard Thomas of Roxboro
is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Delbridge.
Miss Gladys Johnson, of Wilson,
is visiting in the home of Mrs. Mat
tie Johnston.
Mrs. O. N. Snead of Sanford ar
rived Thursday to visit her moth
er, Mrs. H. L. Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Delbridge
spent Tuesday and Wednesday in
Norfolk.
Mrs. Lewis Rosenthal and baby
spent several days in Raleigh this
week.
Mrs. Dorsey Woodleif of Poko
FEDERATION SPEAKERS
Speakers at the recent Halifax County federation of Home Demon
stration clubs, held in the Eden Church with the Hardrawee Club as
hostess to others in the county, are shown above. They are, left to right,
the Rev. C. E. Crawford of the Hobgood Baptist Church, the Rev. Albert
E. Simms of the Willcox Memorial Field of Baptist Churches, and the
Rev. W. F. Elliott of the Eden Methodist Church.
moke City, Md., is visiting her sis
;er, Mrs. Herbert Northington.
Miss Frances Newsom returned
Monday from a months stay in
Pleasantville, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Moseley and
son, and Mrs. O. L. Currin, spent
Friday in Richmond.
PASSES BAR
Among the seventy-eight students
>f law in North Carolina who took
he North Carolina Bar examina
tion and will receive licenses to
practice law is William Lunsford
Crew, of Roanoke Rapids. Ninety
six young men took the examina
tion.
Young Crew will be associated
with his brother, J. Winfield Crew,
Jr., in the practice of law here be
ginning September 1.
Marriage Permits
The office of Register of Deeds
M. H. Mitchell during the past
week issued marriage licenses to
the following white couples: j.
A. Wrenn and Vera Ethel Wright,
Roanoke Rapids; Marion R. Park
er and Julia Lee Wright, Roanoke
Rapids; and Linwood T. Gates of
Roanoke Rapids and Lois Montford
of Boykins, Va. ,* ’
Seventeen Found To
Be Average Age Man
Starts To Drinking
“The real key to the problem of
whiskey addiction lies in the field
of education’’, stated C. D. Cun
ningham, Director of the Alcoholic
Research Department of the Keeley
Institute at Greensboro.
“This organization has just com
pleted a study of the history of
more than 400,000 Keeley patients
who have taken treatment for
whiskey addiction during the past
50 years. Among the startling facts
revealed by this study is that the
average man needing treatment
started his drinking at the tender
age of seventeen,” Cunningham
continued.
“A thorough training in the ef
fects of alcohol upon the mind and
body, given in the grammar schools
of the nation would be the greatest
single step toward a logical solu
tion of the problem that has yet
been made. We who have worked
for a half-century with the treat
ment of men addicted to whiskey
will be the first to subscribe to this
long-range program of control,”
was Cunningham’s closing com
ments.
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Excellent mechanical condition. Looks good, runs good and will give
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Roanoke Ave. at Ninth Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
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