The citizens of Roanoke Rapids
who have been puzzled in years
past as to just what Scouting
means to our boys and girls would
do well to follow with interest the
East Caroina Boy Scout Camporee
to be held here on Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday of this week.
Around 1500 boys will set up tents
around the local high school and
Patterson Mills and engage in the
three days of acthritesBeginning
with an opening welcome cere
mony at 1, p.m., things will move
at top speed until Sunday at 12
p.m. Come out and see what
Scouting means. Visitors are wel
come at the camp site.
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According to “Genial George"
Gurley, business manager of the
Romancos, the state champions
will open their 1942 schedule with
the 6th Bat. softball team from
Camp Lee, Va. here on probably
May 23rd or 30th. From then on
the Romancos will have a full
slate with their City League sched
ule and outside games. The boys
are already yelling “On To De
troit”, but realize that they have
a hard, rough road to travel, with
Stewart, Riggan, and Lee missing
from last year’s famous outfit. So
far the opening lineup seems to be
DeBerry, R. Everett, C. Everett,
Allsbrook, Simms, Hudson, Stacia,
Waters, Boyd and Brown.
Coach Worsham cut the squad
on Monday to thirteen men: Russ
DeBerry, pitcher; “Squeal” Stew
art, pitcher; Ronnie Everett and
Alfred Hall, catchers; Capt. “Lefty”
Everett, 1st base; Chet Allsbrook,
2nd base; “Chippy” Simms, short
stop; Jimmy Hudson, 3rd base;
Louis Outland, utility infielder;
Murray Stacia, If; Otto “Twinkle
toes” Waters, cf; “Pepsi” Boyd,
rf; and Jerry “The Face” Brown;
slated to come in for tryouts after
high school is out will be "Red”
Jenkins, outfielder and infielder;
Orian Worsham, infielder; and
“Lefty” Boyd, outfielder and in
fielder.
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The regular Saturday square i
dance mill get started as usual at ,
8 p.m. an Saturday night at Rose- i
'tnary Recreation Club, 1100 Frank- .
lin Street. Music is furnished by •
“that man with the square dance .
band”, Overton “Blondy” Cook and i
his “Carolina Hill Billies.” Admis- ;
sion is ladies fifteen cents, men ■
thirty five cents. All tickets are .
sold at the front door by the <
dance committee, composed of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Blowe and Grady
King.
The Senior Girl Scouts will en
tertain all Senior Boy Scout Pa
trol Leaders at the Girl Scout Hut
Ion Friday night from 9:30 till 11
| oclock. The dance will honor al!
visiting Senior Patrol Leaders that
will be here attending the Camp
oree. All boys who attend will
have to register in advance at the
Camporee headquarters, located at
the Armory.
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To a lot of people: the famous
saying of a certain old Quaker
should be posted so that you could
read it each day. Clip this out and
save it:
“I expect to pass thru life but
once. If there is any kindness or
any good thing I can do to my
fellow beings, let me do it now
as I shall pass this way but once.”
The entertainment committee of
the Camporee has secured the ser
vices of Prof. White, PHD, DDL,
HQK, BBS, and CCS, of Tempera
ture Normal College, Rangdon,
Burma, to address the visiting
Scouts at the huge Campfire pro
gram on Friday night at 8:30 p.m.
He will appear on the program
with Bob Feller, Sam Chapman,
Gov. Broughton and other visiting
celebrities. Prof. White’s talk will
be sponsored by Williams Funeral
Home, on Roanoke Ave., just in
case!
Visiting Scoutmasters will be
entertained at the Country Club
Saturday night at a smoker. The
affair will be handled by F. S.
Kemp of the entertainment com
mittee. All visiting Scouters are
asked to register with Mr. Kemp
at Camporee headquarters on Sat
urday.
‘Pickups N’ Putouts”
Don’t forget the big parade Fri
lay at 4:30 p.m. down Roanoke
ive. 1500 Scouts on parade, and
'isiting celebrities including the
Governors . . visit the camp site
m Saturday and watch the visit
ng Scouts go thru their events . .
’ighting for patrol honors . . hats
>// to Chairman Clyde Liske for a
twell job well done! . . The Ro
nanco outfield of Murray Stacia,
Itto Waters, “Pepsi” Boyd and
ferry Brown will be better than
ast year’s star studded outfit . .
F . . they work and work and
cork! . . to strive for team work,
ill bets called at “Greasy” Neal’s
fafe that Russ DeBerry, pride of
he Romancos, will average twelve
itrikeouts per game for the season
. Jimmy Hudson will have his
:hcst tapped Wednesday for the
irmy . . the Romancos’ “thin man”
mil probably be tapping Japs be
rore long . ■ “Chippy” Simms look
ing like a million at shortstop . ;
nore power to him. He’s a great j
kid . . See you at the Camporee
Friday and Saturday!
BRICKLEMEYER TO
OPERATE CITY
RECREATION UNITS
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Expect To Open
Playgrounds Here
About June ^th
Eugene Bricklemeyer, recently
elected high school coach here,
will have charge of the city’s rec
reation activities and playgrounds
this summer, C. W. Davis, Super
intendent of city schools and a
member of the city playground
committee, stated yesterday.
Mr. Davis said that it is the
policy followed each year for the
high school athletic coach to su
pervise playground activities each
summer under the sponsorship of
the Community Chest, the school
-hcwnrH dtv. and sanitary district.
He stated that Bricklemeyer was
authorized at a meeting of the
recreational committee held last
week.
The plaground supervisor is now
busy lining up assistants to work
with him during the coming sum
mer in the supervision of the five
playgrounds. He stated yesterday
that the playgrounds and pool
would probably open around June
4th, shortly after the closing of the
local high school for the summer.
The five playgrounds will be lo
cated at “Bunker Hill”, Central
school, Rosemary WPA playground,
Patterson Mill playground, and the
John Armstrong Chaloner school,
the latter to be used by colored
children.
The swimming pool, which is
leased from the Rosemary Manu
facturing Company, will probably
be the most welcomed project in
the playground program. Hours
have not been set for use of the
pool, nor has the opening date
been set.
r TOWN I
I TALK |
Jack Sanders of Newport News,
Va., visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Sanders, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rook and
Earl Jr. spent last week-end in
Greenville with Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Pruden.
H. E. Gibson left Thursday for
Richmond where he will be em
ployed by Seaboard Airline Rail
road Co.
Tommie Merritt of Newport
News, Va., spent the week-end here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Merritt.
Carl Coates has returned from a
visit to Kershaw, S. C.
Mrs. L. H. Taylor, Mrs. P. L.
Harden and Miss Margaret Harden
spent Thursday in Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wood spent
last week-end in Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. Raymond Cordery of Rich
mond spent the week-end here with
her husband in the home of Mrs.
R. J. Rightmyer.
Mrs. J. M. Jackson was called to
Charlotte Saturday on account of
the illness of her son, William
Jackson.
Miss Sallie Andrews of Rocky
Mount spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Wilder.
Mrs. Dick Bracey of Scotland
Neck is a visitor in town this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Pierce and
family of Newport News, Va., and
Russell, Winfrey and Albert
Pierce, all of Phoebus, Va., were
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Harris.
Miss Betty Selby of Proebus, Va
spent last weeK-ena in town witu
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner and
daughter, Bobby Anne, of Norfolk,
Va., spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Waters.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wall and
daughters, Sarah and Winnie,
spent the week-end in Lawrence
ville, Va., with Mrs. J. B. Norwood.
F. C. Hege was a business visit
or in Gastonia Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Liverman
and daughters, Florene and Jerry,
of Newport News, Va., spent Sun
day in town with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Duke,
Miss Gladys Pearson, Mrs. Rufus
Britton and sons, Winfield and
Janies, spent Sunday in Durham
and visited Rufus Britton, who is
a patient in Duke hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Moore and
son of Emporia, Va., visited Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Edmonds Sunday.
G. W. Brewer, Jr. of Fort Mead,
Md., visited his sister, Mrs. Ira Ed
monds, during the weeke-nd.
G. W. Brewer and daughter, El
sie, of Charlie Hope, were guests
of Mrs. Ira Edmonds Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. Brewer of Charlie
Hope, Va. spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Edmonds.
ALWAYS GETS
“THE 0. K. SIGN”
FROM ANY
BOY SCOUT
After long hard hours
of work or play, they
“go” for its — i
Ounces
McPherson bros.
BEVERAGES I
the bottlers of PEPSI-COLA in this ]
territory, join Eastern Carolina in I
WELCOMING the SCOUTS to the \
1942 EAST CAROLINA CAMPOREE
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