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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS HRRAin 1 B B^^ CAROLINA'S nwri^^ B y {} DIAL R-326 ALL DEP’TS THURSDAY, FEB. 12,1942 SECTION B—PAGE 1 if 1 ~ —-—-— : JOSEPH AYCOCK ■ FOUND DEAD AT 2 MILL ON MONDAY he ixu - Coroner Rules Death Due To Electrocution Joseph Aycock, an employee of ,u Patterson Mill here, was instantly - kill* 3 when he came into con * tact with a high voltage electric 1 motor in the compressor room of ■ the mill early Monday morning, 1 and Coroner T. M. Cooper, of En * field, termed his death an accident f and ruled an inquest unnecessary. le Aycock, a machinist in the em !e ploy of the mill for the past four years, was found dead beside the 01 electric motor about 2:30 Monday 1 morning by another employee in the machine shop. He had been 01 dead about 10 minutes when found, 'h according to Coroner Cooper. ja Cooper, who with Chief of Police n< 1L E. Dobbins, was called to in 'rl v istigate the death by mill offi •3 cials, said that the position of the in body when found indicated that 1 Aycock had apparently placed his !r hand on the 500 watt electric mo 3 tor in the compressor room and at d the same time gripped a water j'd pipe, which was well grounded in r the concrete floor, with his right ® hand, thus bringing the entire voltage, in contact with his body. n He apparently died instantly. v The Coroner stated that machin d nwn mi.nn nloplm, P hands on motors to determine 01 whether they are “running hot or 33 cold”, and that Aycock had appar 3 ently done this, and without think - 3 ing had placed his hand on the * grounded water pipe. The position if of the body, and the fact that the a right hand of the victim was badly burned, caused the Coroner to re *■ construct the tragedy along these a lines, the official said. - Aycock was a valued employee * of the mill and had been employed f there in the machine shop for * three or four years, coming to the t «ity from Weldon where he had t been in the employ of the mill t there. He was 43-years of age, e married and has four children. He and his family made their home f. on the Roanoke Rapids-Weldon e highway. >1 Fpneral services were held from I the • Williams Funeral Home here :1 Wednesday afternoon and burial t followed in the Weldon cemetery. . '4 r — S llobt. L. Moms a Dies In Weldon « _ 1 Robert Lee Morris, 08, died Tues day morning at his home in Wel ’'•don, following an illness of several ’•days. r Funeral services were held from “'the home on Wednesday afternoon ^ at 5 o’clock, with burial following in the family cemetery near the | fairgrounds. The rites were in 1 charge of Rev. Mr. Davis and {Rev. Mr. Jackson, both of Hert ford. 1 Surviving are the wife, Mrs. Luvina Morris, and three sons, {James C. of Roanoke Rapids, Her man T. of Woodiand, and Carleton ^Morris of Roanoke Rapids. RABIES IN THE COUNTY ROBERT F. YOUNG, M. D. County Health Officer Littleton is under quarantine for rabies after having been besieged by three rabid dogs. One child has been bitten severely about the face and is under the Pasteur treatment. The remainder of the county has been placed on the ‘alert’ in order to prevent a further spread of this disease among the innumer able stray dogs. All law enforcement officers outside of corporate limits are taking stray dogs without rabies vaccination tags to the nearest town where the dogs will be held for three days and if not claimed at the expiration of this period will be destroyed. The officers of the various towns are taking up all stray dogs within the corporate limits and carrying out the same These measures are essential to the control of this horrible disease. I don’t believe there are many folks in this county who will not cooperate in this program in order to protect our children against rabies. In most instances the children are the unfortunate vic tims of mad dogs, since they do not recognize the symptoms of the disease in the dogs in time to protect themselves. This article is an official notice to the effect that the Rabies Law will be carried out to the letter in Halifax County effective im mediately. VALENTINE LUNCH A Valentine luncheon was given by the third year Home Econom ics class on Thursday, in the high school dining room. The luncheon was given for the purpose of teaching the girls the importance of food values in the diet and to learn to plan and serve meals. The table was decorated with white cloth with a red stripe of paper down the center of the ta ble and red ribbons with hearts at the end, running to each plate. A large Valentine cake served as a centerpiece. Those who enjoyed the luncheon were: Miss Evelyn Gilliman, Ger aldine Britt, Charlotte Cole, Mar jie Williams, Dorothy Clary, Francis Gibson, Marjorie Kidd, Dorothy Tyson, Josey Saddler, Ruth Smith, who acted as hostess, and Pauline White, who served as host. Miss Grace Tanner has arrived in the city after a tour of sixteen states, starting in California, in a trailer. She will enter William R. Davie school, from which she expects to graduate this Spring. 3,000 Auto Tax Stamps Sold Here Postmaster L. G. Shell yesterday announced that the local postoffice had sold between 3,100 and 3,500 automobile use tax stamps and that numbers of automobile own ers were coming in daily to make | purchases. The postmaster stated that, while Roanoke Rapids had not sold as many stamps during the allotted time as postoffices in the larger cities, the number sold here ranks high in this section of North Carolina. There are only about 1,200 automobiles registered in the city, he stated. The original allotment of stamps to be sold by the postoffice here was 400, Mr. Shell stated, and added that this supply was ex hausted in a few days, and that the office ran out of stamps sev eral times during the rush period just prior to February 1st, the deadline for displaying the stamps. Gordon Dobbins In N. Y. Hospital Gordon Dobbins, son of Chief of Police H. E. Dobbins and Mrs. Dobbins, is in Presbyterian Hos pital, New York City, where he underwent an eye operation in the Eye Institute of that hospital, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Word received early this week by his parents stated that he was getting along fine. Mrs. W. A. Daniel and Miss Ha zel Small of Charlotte spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Wood ruff. freshment...with the quality of gen- CARTON uine goodness. BOTTIED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA . COMPANY BY WELDON COCA-COLA BOTTLING WORKS, INC.
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