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VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N."p. THURSDAY, APRIL 23,1942 NUMBER 38 £§
CRIMINAL
CASES IN
MAJORITY
One murder case, a rape case, a
manslaughter case and two at
tempted rape cases, as well as a
number of felony charges will be
aired at the one week term of
mixed Superior court which gets
underway in Halifax on Monday
of next week, with Judge Henry
La. Stevens of Warsaw as the pre
siding jurist.
Willie Walter Johnson, Littleton
Negro, will be tried on a charge
of rape. He allegedly assaulted
Lucy Ann Brown, a Negro woman,
on the night of April 19th, near
Littleton.
urner cases aocaetea xor inai
include James Otis Harris, Brink
leyville township Negro, who is
charged with the hit and run
slaying of James Rudd, also color
ed, in that township last Decem
ber. A true bill was returned at
the January term of court by the
grand jury.
Dave Martin, colored, will be
charged with assault with intent
to kill. He had been held under
$5,000 bond pending the outcome
of the condition of Will Delbridge,
whom he is said to have shot with
a shotgun early in January.
Jessie Banks, local Negro, will
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COUNTY SETS ABOUT TASK
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RATIONING TO START SOON
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Halifax county rationing boards
this week received official orders
to prepare for sugar rationing in
every city, town, hamlet and ru
ral area of the county within the
next few weeks.
Ration registration for trade
users, which includes cafes, board
ing houses, bottling plants, drug
stores, lunch rooms and other
commercial users, will be held in
the schools of the county on
Tuesday of next week.
Registration for rationing to in
dividual users will be held for
four days, May 4, 5, 6, and 7th,
and will also he conducted in the
schools of the county, with teacher
personnel assisting in the regis
tration.
Rationing boards, which have
been rationing automobiles and
tires in the past, will now take
over the rationing of sugar and
other commodities that may be
rationed in the future, in addition j
to their previous work as tire
ration boards. The entire ration
ing program in the county, includ
ing sugar, will be under the direc
tion of J. T. Chase of Roanoke
Rapids, county rationing adminis
trator.
W. R. Caudle of Halifax, a mem
ber of the Halifax rationing board,
has been appointed by Mr. Chase
as county custodian of supplies
and records of the sugar rationing
board. His duties will be to keep
the rationing ticket books and
other records of the sugar ration
ing board. Records of this sort
have been kept since received in
the county by A. Leonidas Hux,
county Superior Court Clerk.
In an effort to prepare the tea
chers of the county for the job
they will have to do in register
ing the entire population of the
county for sugar rationing books,
Superintendent of County Schools
V. C. Matthews is calling county
wide teacher meetings to be held
in Halifax within the next week
or so. The first meeting will be
held on Saturday morning, when
colored teachers and school prin
cipals of the county will be
brought together and their duties
explained to them. The date for
the meeting of white teachers has
not been announecd but will be
held sometime next week. Mat
thews said that principals of
schools would be notified as to
the date of the meeting.
Matthews pointed out that at
least five teachers and the princi
pal of each school should attend
the teachers meetings so that if
all cannot attend that will work
in the campaign, at least enough
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SCENES TAKEN AT CAMPOREE PROGRAMS HERE
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A Herald photographer was on hand for the two programs given at the Boy Scout Camporee here on Friday afternoon and night and
snapped these pictures. In the picture at left is shown Governor J. M. Broughton as he addressed some 1,500 Boy Scouts and hundreds of
other visitors at the official opening of the Camporee on Friday afternoon. Gov. Broughton told the Scouts their organization was one of the
most patriotic in the nation and that some of the nation’s greatest leaders received their early training in Boy Scout work.
In the middle photo, Mrs. Howard Pruden, wife of the Scout Commissioner of the Fast Carolina Boy Scout Council, is shown pinning the
Fagle Badge on her son, Bill Pruden. The ceremonies took place just prior to the appearance of Bobby Feller, Johnnie Hutchinson and a
number of others on Friday night’s program at Patterson ball park. Young Pruden on Saturday night had the honor of pinning an Fagle
badge on a Rocky Mount Scout.
In the picture at right, Julian Allsbrook, former legislator and candidate for the Senate from Halifax county, is shown welcoming the
Scouts, Scouters and visitors to Roanoke Rapids. Mr. Allsbrook told the gathering that the city had been preparing for weeks to welcome the
Boy Scout Camporee here and that every effort would be put forth to see that they enjoyed their stay in the city. i
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ALL SET
FOR THE
PRIMARY
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With one new candidate in the
race for Sheriff, three in the race
for county commissioner, another
in the race for the county’s House
seat, and with the filing of all
present members of the County
Board of Education and the Roa
noke Rapids Sanitary District
board, the field was complete as
filing books for the Democratic
Primary May 30th closed at 6 o’
clock Saturday afternoon.
By late Saturday all members of
the present Board of Education,
composed of Ralph Rives of En
field, R. L. Applewhite of Halifax,
Mrs. Anna K. Josey of Scotland
Neck, Mrs. J. T. Thomason of
Roanoke Rapids and A. G. Wilcox
of Brlnkleyville, had filed for re
election with no opposition.
Members of the present Roanoke
Rapids Sanitary District Board,
composed of M. G. Newsom, M. H.
Hedgepeth, and R. E. Cleaton, Jr,
all of Roanoke Rapids, filed with
out opposition.
One new candidate entered the
race for Sheriff of the county,
bringing the number of candidates
for this office to four. Joe L.
Riddick, of Scotland Neck and a
former Sheriff of this county, filed
in opposition to H. A. House, in
cumbent, P. C. Luter and S. M.
Thompson, all of Roanoke Rapids
and all of whom had previously
filed.
In the race for the House of
Representatives, B. B. Everett,
Palmyra man and present Rep
resentative, received last-minute
opposition in F. M. Taylor of En
field, a former holder of that of
fice.
lnree new candidates filed for
the office of county commissioner
in opposition to the incumbent
board, who filed earlier in the
week. These latest candidates
were D. G. Dickens of Littleton,
P. R. White of Enfield and G. H.
Johnson of Scotland Neck, a for
mer Sheriff. The present Board
of Commissioners is composed of
J. Waldo Whitaker of Enfield, W.
J. Collier of Littleton, J. R. Wrenn
of Roanoke Rapids, N. W. Warren
of Littleton and M. W. Perry of
Halifax.
Incumbent Coroner T. ML Cooper
of Enfield did not file for re
election, but one candidate ap
peared on the filing books for
that office. He is P. N. Rowe Of
Weldon.
No new candidates offered for
the office of Judge of Recorders
Court and Charles R. Daniel, in
cumbent, of Weldon, and A. M.
Atkinson of Enfield are in a two
way race for that office.
Wade H. Dickens, of Scotland
Neck, incumbent, filed for renom
ination to the office of Solicitor of
Recorders Court.
E. L. Travis, incumbent, of Hal
ifax, and Julian Allsbrook of Roa
noke Rapids, remain as the only
candidates for the seat in the Sen
ate.
A. Leonidas Hux, incumbent,
and Sam A. Dunn of Scotland
Neck are in the race for Clerk of
the Superior Court.
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