P^BUSINlSSlI
HORIZON
Ut f 11 Ay HOWARD HANCOCK
Advertising Mini g> r, Roanoke Rapids ^Herald
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"THE LOST COLONY” at Man
teo this year has been attractinj
more visitors than usual, accordinj
to reports, and undoubtedly mor<
Javorable publicity for the state
J. Hammond Brown, radio and out
door editor of the Baltimore News
Post, in a recent letter to Normar
Clark, theatrical editor of thai
sheet, wrote as follows:
“The Outdoor Writers of AmericE
were holding their summer conven
tion with headquarters at Manteo
which is located on Roanoke Islanc
just inside the outer banks below
Nag’s Head and the spot where th<
Wright Brothers made their firsl
airplane flight from Dare Devil’s
Hill ....
It might have been a typographi
cal error (such things do occui
even on the best of NEWSpapers)
but we would like to set Mr
Brown straight on the fact that
the famed site of the Wright Broth
ers first airplane flight was Kit
Devil Hill . . . not Dare Devil’t
Hill as he refers to it.
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AT ANY RATE the Baltimore
newspaperman, after expounding
upon the perfection of the mechan
ics involved as an intricate bit ol
staging, sort of "squares himself"
with North Carolina readers by
ending up his letter to Norm as
follows:
“As out-of-the-way as the place
is, there are fine roads all the way
and a most comfortable modern ho
tel nearby. I really believe you
should go down there and see it
for yourself.
At least one highway commission
er I know, as well as a hotel pro
prietor from Manteo I once met,
will like the ending of Mr. Brown’s
letter.
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THE NEW TRAFFIC LAWS for
Roanoke Rapids have been the
subject of much discussion up and
down the Avenue since they were
passed oy the city commissioners
a week ago. Undoubtedly the in
stallation of three traffic signals,
or “stop and go lights” as they are
commonly referred to, has been the
main topic in connection with the
new regulations with opinions va
rying. It is therefore interesting
to reproduce herewith an editorial
that appeared in the Marshall (N.
C.) News-Record a couple of weeks
ago. H. L. Story is Editor and
Publisher, and penned the follow
ing editorial after a visit to this
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jTOWN OF 12,000
AND NO SIGNAL LIGHTS
| Believe it or not there is one town
in North Carolina that deserves be
Jing mentioned. We often run into
small places, villages and some
times mere crossroads where we
*are compelled to stop and wait for
(the lights to change before we can
^proceed. Take a town like Val
Ddese, for instance, where we can
?see very little if any need for stop
lights, and there we are faced with
Pit least two before we can pro
ceed. Tt has been suggested that
Marshall should have such lights.
>fet up in the northeastern part of
lur state, there is a town claiming
jiround 12,000 people and a real
business "enter, with four cotton
Jnills, a paper mill and other in
dustries, with some of the finest
und largest air conditioned stores
[jn the state, and thousands of cars
}i>n the streets, especially on Satur
lay nights, and yet not a signal
tight to stop or warn you. People
*ust are accustomed to giving other
jtars a creak without lights to
make them do so. That town is
s.toanoke Rapids in Halifax Coun
ty. We are not arguing that sign
lid lights are not needed in that
sown or that they are not a great
Help in most towns; we are mere
ly calling attention to an unusual
condition in one of North Caro
lina’s growing cities. We do say
lhat there are lights being used in
|ome places in Asheville that could
iirell do without them. Maybe a
jftght or two Btrung across Mar*
• shall’s Main street would tend to
: impress tourists that Marshall is
; large enough to have some traffic
: attention. But if we had such
lights, we would also advocate their
being kept on green all the time
so as not to delay traffic any more
than necessary. Maybe one or two
blinkers would answer the purpose.
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Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harper spent
Sunday at Tuscarora Beach.
Howard King, Evirn Sadler, and
Mrs. Reeves of Huntington, West
Virginia, spent the week-end with
Mrs. Whit Morris.
Mrs. Robert Morris and children
spent the week-end with friends
in the community.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Riggan, of
Roanoke Rapids was the supper
guest of Mrs. E. S. Jenkins Thurs
day night.
Mrs. L. W. King spent Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of last week
with Mrs. Archie Wilson.
Harvey Morris spent Monday and
Tuesday in Huntington, West Va.
Miss Ethel Bobbitt spent last
week in Dunn with her mother,
Mrs. Bryant Reid.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Woodlief and
daughter, Edna, of Richmond, Va.,
spent Saturday night in the home
of Mrs. Frank King.
Mrs. Whit Morris visited rela
tives near Churchill Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Harper and
daughter cf Dunn, spent the week
end at thsir home here.
Randolph Mitchell of Norfolk,
Va., spent the week-end with his
parents here.
Mrs. E. L. Mosely and son, Mrs.
Red Johnson, and Miss Virginia
King of Roanoke Rapids were vi
sitors of Mrs. Frank King Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Stephenson
and son of Fremont spent Sunday
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Faucette.
Miss Mary Emma Walker spent
the week-end in Roanoke Rapids
with her sister, Mrs. Clifton Floyd.
H. D. Myrick of Raleigh, spent
the week-end at his home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Myrick and
family of Weldon, were visitors of
Mrs. H. Z>. Myrick Sunday.
E. S. Jenkins, of Franklin, Va.,
spent the week-end at his home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Perkinson
and family of Norlina sp'ent the
week-end at Mrs. Perkinson’s home
here.
Quite a number of people from
the community attended all-day
services at Hawkins Chapel Sun
day.
The following spent Sunday at
Tuscarora Beach: Misses Ethel
Bobbitt, Edith Sillery, Nettie Dix
son, Edna Woodlief, Mary Crews
Myrick, and Evelyn Myrick; Mes
sers. Bill and Jack Bobbitt, Harold
and James King, Robert Jenkins,
Lewis Collier, M. A. Sillery, Eddie
Blake King, Johnnie Aycock, and
Rob Myrick. *
Johnnie Aycock spent last week
in Roanoke Rapids with his sister.
Calvary Church
Sunday school Sunday morning
at 10:30. Services Sunday night at
8:30, Daylight Saving Time, by Rev.
H. L. Davis. We are hoping to
have a large attendance.
Mrs. Lucy Morgan and grandson
and Miss Marie Morgan, of Frank
lin, Va., spent Monday and Tuesday
with Mrs. W. C. Myrick.
Mr. and Mrs. Red Wood and
children of Roanoke Rapids and
Mr. and Mrs. Murry Myrick and
son spent Sunday at Tuscarora
Beach.
Halifax Girl
To Compete In
Beauty Contest
Miss Mary Laura Twisdaie of
Halifax, attractive college student,
has been invited to go to Wilson as
entrant in a bathing-beauty contest
to be held during the fifth annual
Tobacco Exposition and Festival.
The water carnival will be topped
by the coronation of the Bathing
Beauty Queen of the Festival at
the Municipal Stadium in Wilson.
The contest will be held at the
swimming pool at 5:30 o’clock in
the afternoon n Thursday, August
21, and the winner will be crown
ed at 8 o’clock that night at the
Stadium.
Negro Bound
Over On Charge
Of Killing Mule
Sam Mason, Negro who ran into
a mule owned by Clarence C'op
pedge and killed the animal, was
given a preliminary bearing before
Magistrate W. O. Thompson here
last Thursday night and bound
over to the county recorder’s court.
Mason, who was driving a truck
owned by Estelle Read, allegedly
was speeding down the highway
when he struck the mule and com
pletely tore off one side of the ani
mal which had broken out of its
lot. The owner was trying to
catch the mule when the accident
happened, and Mason sped away
from the scene without stopping.
A soldier stationed at Fort Bragg
came along about five minutes
later, and with the mule’s owner
overtook the car Mason was driv
ing. Coppedge immediately swore
out a warrant for Mason.
Mrs. Maywood Hudgins and chil
dren, Jack, Sara and Carolyn, re
turned to Newport News Tuesday
after visiting her sister, Mrs. John
Fisher.
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ROSEMARY RED
SOX WIN TITLE
CITY PLAYGROUNDS
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Baseball Series
Ends, But Pool
Is Still Open
The Rosemary Red Sox won the
city playground baseball cham
pionship this week by defeating the
Patterson Yellow Jax two straight
games in the league finals.
First game Tuesday morning
ended in a 7-0 victory for the Red
Sox, and they defeated the Yellow
Jax again Wednesday morning by
a score of 11-2.
The champs and their positions
are: Barfield, cf; Rawlings, 3b;
Walker, S3; Lee, lb; Lyles, 2b;
Jones, If; Hall, rf; and Taylor and
Lyles, catchers; and Draughan
and Taylor, pitchers.
Box score for the first game was:
Jax_ 00000 0 0 0 0 0
Sox___ 00127 0 0 1 2 7
Batteries were: Patterson Yellow
Jax—Hock and Hasty; Rosemary
Red Sox—Draughan and Lee.
Second game box was:
Sox _ 1213103 1213103
Jax _ 2 0 0 0 0 0
Batteries: Sox—Taylor and Lyles;
Jax—Fisher and Hasty.
SEMI-FINALS
The Yellow Jax met Bunker Hill
Yanks in the semi-finals last
week, and the Rosemary Red Sox
played Central. Pattterson’s Yel
low Jax lost the first game to
Bunker Hill, 11-3, but came back
to take the last two games 9-0 and
9-0. The Red Sox defeated Cen
tral the first two games, 5-0, and
5-3, respectively, to meet the Yel
low Jax in the finals.
The baseoall series for the boys
winds up the playgrounds for this
summer, but Supervisor J. C. Hoyle
announced today that the swim
ming pool is still open for every
body in the mornings from 10 o’
clock until 11:30 o’clock and in
the afternoons from 2:00 o’clock
until 5:30. This schedule is for
five days each week—Monday
through Friday—and will be in ef
fect for the rest of August.
Local Poet Wins
Place In Volume
Firman C. Myrick, Roanoke Rap
ids. North Carolina, is one of the
authors whose poems are included
in THE BOOK OF MODERN PO
ETRY, 1941, (The America Forever
Edition), an 800-page volume just
published. More than 12,000 writ
ers living in every part of the
United States and Canada compet
ed for a place in this important
volume; only a small percentage
of these were found to write poetry
of sufficient merit to be accorded
a place in the book. The volume
contains the work of little-known
authors as well as that of writers
who have been published in many
magazines and books. A similar
vlume is now being compiled and
poets who are interested in having
their work considered for the new
book should write to the publish
ers, Avon House, 1107 Broadway,
New York City, for information.
Mrs. M. E. Faison, Mrs. C. W.
Cook and Miss Mertie Faison at
tended Farm and Home Week,
which was held at State College in
Raleigh last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom White and
daughter, Jane Rhea, are spending
the week at Virginia Beach.
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