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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS T t 17 13 A f T\ nWHfl |H I More News — More ■ . ~"M ■ M M ■ ■ | Advertising - More I I CAROLINA’S FIRST^^^ I M 1“ J * M ^TAB/oicf J—^NEWSpoper - VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.'C. THURSDAY, MARCH 12,1*142 NUMBER 32 May Prove Interesting Airport For Area Is Talked At Meeting Of High Officials Here Survey Made For Likely Location A chance for Halifax County to get an airport was offered when G. L. Bobbitt, State Director of Operations for WPA, Lee Wallace, District Manager and Earle Park er, Halifax County Manager, met with a group of Roanoke Rapids and Weldon citizens here Tuesday afternoon. The old county Fairgrounds be tween the two cities had been sug gested as an airport location but this was given up when Mr. Bob bitt explained the minimum re quirements, which are a tract of at least 400 acres, two runways each 4,000 feet long and 150 feet wide, sufficient land adjoining for future development, no obstruc tions within a mile to the ap proaches such as high tension lines, telephone wires. There are now 19 WPA airports in the State and Mr. Bobbitt said Roanoke Rapids will be the only city of 10,000 population which does not have airport facilities within ten miles of it after July 1. He stated any town which does not have an adequate airport after the war will be like one which did not have water and sewage, so im portant will air travel and traffic be in the future. The sponsor must furnish the land and the plans. WPA or CAA or both jointly will then furnish the funds for the construction of the airport after a suitable location has been found and approved by the CAA and the War Depart ments. Mr. Bobbitt estimated Hal ifax County could receive from $300,000 to $500,000 for the airport if It acted before July 1 of this year. A temporary committee was se lected Tuesday to - take up the matter with the County Board of Commissioners: Mayor Kelly Jen kins, chairman, Mayor J. T. Mad drey of Weldon and Carroll Wil son. The committee traveled over roads leading out of Roanoke Rap ids and Weldon to points about five miles from the two places looking for possible locations. Cul tivated areas are not required, said WPA officials. Ike Rochelle, local real estate man, has offered , to help the committee in trying to find a low-priced tract which would meet the requirements. Kiwanis Club Minstrel, “Hooray America”, Opens Next Thursday —For Details See Page 1, Sec. C I*- • __ te Blackout Test CALLED IN AREA TUESDAY Roanoke Rapids and this entire section of the state will undergo its first blackout test under super vision of State Civilian Defense authorities on Tuesday night of next week, W. P. Medlin, of Wel don, District Air Raid Warden, said yesterday. Medlin announced that W. F. Nufer, member of the State De fense Council and in charge of the air raid warning system in Eastern North Carolina, will be in the area control station in Weldon prior to and during the progress of the blackout. A plane from the Civil Air Patrol, a division of the State Civilian Defense organization, will check the results over the entire area from the air, Medlin said. Time for the blackout test has not been set, the exact minute be ing reserved so as to completely test the warning system, the con trol rooms, and the residents of the area, themselves. However, it was announced that a warning signal would be flashed from Nor folk all over the area via a tele phone network sometime between the hours of 8 and 10 o’clock. / Pnnf nn Do rvn C Cno A \ PRECINCT MEETINGS SCHEDULED Precinct meetings for Halifax County Democrats will be held in the county this year on May 9, Robert C. Josey, chairman of the .county elections board, said yester day, in announcing that the State Board of Elections would hold its annual meeting on March 21 to appoint county Boards and to take other steps to set up machinery for the Democratic primary on May 30th. Josey also announced that the C o u n t y Democratic convention would follow the precinct meetings one week la,ter, on May 16th, and that the State convention would be held in Raleigh on May 22. Candidates for county and legis lative offices must complete their filing by April 18, while candidates for state and district offices must (Continued on Page 5, Sec. A', .' ■ ■ ■ .'■ WOODMEN CELEBRATE-DINE The above pictures were snapped by a Herald cameraman at a fecen meeting of Birchwood Camp No. 55, Woodmen of the W’orld, held in th< lodge hall on Roanoke Avenue. In the top picture is shown a numbei of officers of the Camp and two state officials of the WOW. In tin bottom picture a portion of those attending the meeting are shown en joying the picnic supper served by the ladies. Staff Phot< Long Hours Ahead For Ladies! $ 4s ♦ ♦ ♦ Sfc CONTROL CENTER BEGINS WORK HERE ON MONDAY - * The control center set up in the commissioners room at the munici pal building will officially begin operation on a 24-hour a day, 7-day week basis through the duration, on Monday morning at 8 o'clock, officials in charge of the center said yesterday. In connection with the opening of the center, officials said that the first class of instruction in the rudiments of operation of the post for volunteer workers will be held on Friday night at 7:30 in the municipal building. The work in the control center will consist most ly of telephonic and clerical work, the latter in connection with the scope of duties the center will per form all over the territory. The control center here will act as a filter center for messages to and from the various departments of civilian defense during an air raid alarm. Commander Frank Sherry, of the local Civilian Defense Corps, said yesterday, “I am highly gratified at the response made to our appeal for lady volunteers in the operation (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) COURT OP NS MONDAY Judge Henry L. Stevens of War saw is calendared to preside ove the two weeks term of civil Su perior Court which gets underwa; in Halifax on Monday morning. Judge Stevens, who made a dis tinct impression on court official and attorneys alike when he pre sided over the January terms c Superior court, will be making hi second visit to the county as presiding jurist. Calendared for trial on Friday c the first week’s session are eleve divorce cases, while a part of th day Friday will be devoted to tal ing care of the motion docket. Scheduled to be aired at th (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A HEAD OF RETAILERS IN CITY C. A. Wyche, owner and man ger of the Halifax Farmers Supply Company and one of the city's leading merchants, was elected President of the Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association for the coming year at the annual meet ing of the Association held in the banquet room of the Junior-Senior high school on Tuesday night. George N. Taylor, secretary of the Triple R Grocery Company, was elected Vice-President of the Association. Elected as directors to serve during the next three years were I». D. Hines, general manager of the Dr. Pepper Bot tling Company; O. Griffin, local druggist; Graham Shell of Shell Furniture Company; and W. H. Proctor, owner and manager of Proctor’s Department Store. Old members of the Board of Directors, whose terms have not expired, are: Carroll L. Wilson, Frank Sherry, A. N. Martin, M. H. Hedgepeth, M. D. Collier, R. I. Starke, L. G. Shell and C. A. Wyche, who also served as Vice PrPSl'Hpnf of tVwi AeoruiioHovi <!•••» i ing the past year. C. C. Shell, retiring president of i the Association and First Vice President of the North Carolina i Merchants Association, presided o ver Tuesday night’s banquet-meet ing, at which more than a hun dred members, their wives and invited guests were in attendance. He Introduced invited guests and as retiring president thanked the members of the Association for their cooperation and support during the past year and pledged continued support for the new of ficers and directors. Rev. Edmund Berkeley, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church here, gave the invocation. A. N. Martin, a member of the Board of Direc tors, introduced the speaker, Ed mund Harding, humorist and phil osopher, of Washington, N. C. Harding, in an address prepared especially for the meeting, and punctuated by frequent jokes, used as his theme “What Helps Busi ness Helps You". He told the mer chants to be friendly, to stay in good spirits, to be thrifty, co operative and to know the business in which they were engaged. Wide ly known for his after-dinner speeches, Harding kept the gath | ering in laugnter all through his r address with illustrations of vari - ous points which he brought out. ' At the conclusion of the address, the speaker accompanied the - gathering in the singing of favor s ite numbers, using an accordion. Harding, in addition to being ex f ecutive secretary of the Washing s ton Merchants Association and a Chamber of Commerce, is an ac complished musician and organist ffor one of the Washington rt churches. e Miss Jennie Walton, executive - secretary of the local Association, gave her annual report at the e meeting, and the report showed a ) , (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) ..-.■■ _i' ■ ■_.s
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