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BLOYS W. BRITT
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WASHING: This newsman, go
ing home late Thursday night, al
most ran over a drunk crossing
the street near the playgrounds
, . . Two of the Latin-Americans
appearing before the Kiwanis La
dies Night affair boast of good,
old-fashion American names . . .
Apologies to CLOSS for the joke
appearing in this col’m last week
... It appeared in her strip some
months ago . . . Democrats of this
county must be DEMOCRATS to
shake out $25 for a seat at the
Washington Day dinner over in
Edenton Saturday night . . . All of
which reminds us that this up
roar being raised in Washington
about entertainers being on the
payroll should have started long
ago . . . Nye, Vandenberg, and
Wheeler caused enough laughs, un
til the Japs did their stunt at
Pearl Harbor.
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MORE WASH: Note to Mrs.
Nellie Mae Brown: We shall speak
to a Hollywood authority about
you, on the advice of just about
all who heard the skit in which
you took part at the installation
of the LAC, of the UCC here on
Thursday night . . . The notice
tacked up in the postoffice com
manding all aliens to register was
evidently intended for aliens only
. . . No full-fledged American can
read it . . . The "Seasons Greet
ings” sign still in the Roanoke
Bank and Trust Co. window, down
town . . . Which prompts us to
ask w lat season.
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RINSING: It was supposed to
have happened at a Recorder
court session here in the county
some months ago. Seems the law
yer became somewhat acrimonious
in his cross-examination, but the
little woman in the witness box
remained calm. Eventually the
lawyer said: “You say you had no
education, but you answered my
questions smartly enough.”
The witness replied meekly:
/You don’t have to be educated to
answer silly questions like those
you asked me."
MORE RINSING: We never
cared a great deal for poetry, but
here’s a little piece we picked up
that our five readers might like:
Here lies the remains of Danny
O’Day,
He died maintaining his right-of
way.
He was just as right as the day
is long,
But he’s just as dead as if he’d
been wrong.
****
STILL MORE: And here’s another
that interested us right much, due
to the fact that we went through
the same thing once. It’s a typical
letter from a college student to
his dad: “Dear Dad: Gue$$ what
I need mo$t of all. That’$ right.
$end it right along. Be$t wi$he$.
Your $on.”
****
STILL MORE: Bill Cherry, the
employment man, studied journal
ism . . . Ditto Mrs. George Neth
ercutt, the former Winifred Shell
. . . Johnnie Lupton took care of
the drums in the Jelly Leftwich
Uct.UU 1UI <X HUIHUCI yCiXL • • .
! Now he’s selling hardware to beat
the band . . . Magazines can be
bought at all local drug stores . . .
which is some sort of a record . . .
Blackout shades are at a premium
here since Sunday’s blackout . . .
People realize now that just turn
ing off the lights wouldn’t do in a
sustained blackout, such as might
come later.
We may be running this in the
ground, but—
STILL MORE: A seventh grade
pupil in the John Armstrong
Negro school writes in and wants
to know why Negroes aren’t ad
mitted into local movie houses.
Well, we don’t know. We’re not
in the motion picture business . . .
On December 18, the HERALD
published a poem, the title of
which was “Hitler and The Devil”.
Comes a letter from Maj. Harold
W. Clascock, Jr., of Fort Jackson,
who says that he has had the
poem revised, set to music and is
ready to have it published under
its original name as an Army pep
song. The officer is executive of
ficer of the 105th Medical Regi
ment.
SOAP SUDS: We hear a number
of local businessmen are preparing
to purchase bicycles on which to
ride back and forth to work . . .
Preparing to, me eye! They’re go
ing to have it to do! . . . Friday
was the 13th and the first thing
we did after getting to the office
was to leave the door open . . .
An adv. appearing in one of the
State papers read: “For Sale—al
most brand new set of automobile
tires, $850. Will throw in 1939
Pontiac coach, driven 15,000 miles”
. . . We’d like to insert one of our
own: "For Sale—1941 Ford Coach,
driven 26,000 miles . . . has no
tires”.
HERE’N THERE: This govern
men business works in circles.
Take the draft boards for instance.
They are allowed to publish the
names of all men inducted into
service, but are not allowed to
publish the number. Which means
that it is only a simple case of
counting . . . Jig-saw puzzles are
coming back into style, now that
people can’t ride ... A group was
putting one together in a local
store the other day . . . Many out
of-town patients use the local
hospital ... It might be a co
incidence but Rev. Paul H. Fields,
pastor of Rosemary Methodist,
and R'ev. Daniel Lane, pastor of
First Methodist, both held pastor
ates in Wallace, our home town,
at various times.
Government Will
Buy All Soybeans
The County Committee of the
Halifax County Agricultural Con
servation Association has received
an announcement of a plan where
by the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion will purchase all lots of un
mixed approved varieties of soy
beans remaining on hand May 1,
1942, at a price of $2.00 per bushel,
provided the germination is 85%
or better.
All growers who have approved
varieties of soybean seed for sale
are urged to have the germination
tests made immediately.
The purpose of this offer is to
encourage farmers to save from
crushing seed suitable for plant
ing, and to insure them against
loss caused by cleaning and testing
in case any soybeans are not dis
posed of for seed purposes. It is
important that all producers need
ing soybean seed make arrange
ments to purchase them immedi
ately.
Approved varieties, as designated
by the State War Board, are Ark
soy, Biloxi, Clemson, Herman,
Mamredo, Mammoth Yellow, To
kio, and Wood’s Yellow.
Hearing Tests
Conducted In
Northampton
White school children in North
ampton, and a few hundred in
the colored schools* have under
gone auditory tests during the
past few months to determine the
perfectness of their hearing, it was
disclosed yesterday by Dr. W. Ra
leigh Parker, director of the coun
ty health department.
Miss Cora Beam, a nurse from
the State Health Department at
Raleigh, conducted the tests. All
school children through the second
grade have been given the audi
tory tests, a total of 1,511. Of
this number 357 were found to
have defective hearing.
Many of these children, Dr. Par
ker said, were deficient in their
hearing because of wax in their
ears, acute colds or for some other
reason. Others were actually be
low norfnal in hearing. The ma
jority of cases, he stated, could be
corrected by some specialist.
Civilians
Register In
Northampton
More than 1,100 citizens of
Northampton county—white and
colored—registered for civilian de
fense duties during the registra
tion period held last week, it has
been announced by A. C. Gay,
chairman of the oivilian defense
organization for the county. White
persons registering for duty in
civilian defense totaled more than
900 and 200 colored persons reg
istered, according to reports.
The civilian defense organization
in Northampton is moving along
rapidly, getting the county in
shape for whatever emergency
might come in the future, it was
stated.
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WASHINGTON DAY
DINNERS FOR j
DEMOCRATS SLATED
Halifax To Be
Represented At
Edenton Dinner
Halifax county Democrats are
expected to take part in the Wash
ington Day dinner and festivities
scheduled to be held at Hotel
Joseph Hewes in Edenton on Sat
urday of this week.
Only seven of these dinners are
being held in the State this year,
and are being held in lieu of the
annual Jackson Day dinners. The
Edenton dinner is being held for
the benefit of fifteen counties in
the Northeastern Division.
A chairman has been appointed
in each county in the division to
raise each county’s quota to go
toward the replenishing of the
Democratic Party funds. Dr. R.
M. Nicholson of Enfield has been
selected to serve as the Halifax
county chairman. W. J. Long will
serve as chairman in Northampton
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county. I
Plates at the dinner will cjost
$25 each, and the State is asf^ed
to raise a total of $20,000 as iilS
quota in liquidating the party’s
debt remaining from the last Dem
ocratic campaign. Each coufaty
has been asked to raise a qu<pta,
based on its population. j
Isham King ;
Rites Are Held j
Enfield—Isham King, 73, of , Es
sex, died in a Rocky Mount '.hos
pital on Wednesday of last yJ/eek.
Funeral services and burial were
held at Areola Methodist Church
at two o’clock Thursday afternoon.
He is survived by one jsister,
Mrs. J. J. Stallings, three Slaugh
ters, Miss Annie King and Miss
Sallie King, of Essex; Miss P'annie
King, of Warrenton; five sofas, B.
E. King, T. M. King, Frank! inton;
Jessie King, R.F.D., En. field;
George King, Rocky Mount; and
James King of Essex.
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