OVERHEARD: “You wanta know
how I got this black eye? I ask
ed a fat girl how she sprained
her ankle . . she said when she
got off the bus it turned over . .
and I laughed.”
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A FRIGHTENED CHILD in a
blackout is something of a prob
lem. One child may be afraid of
the darkness, another of the re
curring sound of the siren, whis
tle, or bells. If the child is badly
frightened, according to one doc
tor’s suggestion, it is best to carry
it to the movies, and this is true
<he says) even if the child is only
three years old and the blackout
is late at night . . in such a
case it is necessary, of course, to
know the approximate time of the
backout in order to avoid being on
the streets at the wrong time.
One four-year-old child who was
afraid, was reassured by being
carried to the staircase where oth
er members of the family sat,
singing familiar songs . . In many
cases it seems best to prepare the
child for the blackout by explain
ing it to him; in cases where the
alarm is that of a bellowing horn,
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as sounding like a cow’s mooing.
Radio music or family singing is
reassuring, and the event can be
made less unpleasant by giving
the child a cookie.
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TO THINK that we run a column
and can’t tell you about the new
lyweds who spent an entire eve
ning breaking beer bottles over
each other's heads . . . !
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GHOST STORY: Recently we
used a story about two women
who rented a haunted apartment
in New York. The following in
cident happened to the heroine of
that story. It was told me by
the woman’s nephew. (We have
changed her name.)
There were two girls named
I Jane. One was a young girl nam
ed Jane White. The other was
her aunt, who was named Jane
Wyaat, a young woman of un
usual psychic ability. One night
Jane Wyaat, greatly afraid, woke
her husband and told him that
she was afraid she was going to
die soon. She had just seen her
dead father and he had said,
"Jane is going to be with me.”
Next morning a telegram arrived
telling that the niece, Jane
White, had been kiled in an auto
mobile accident.
The story above was used be
cause it is evidence of one theory
about ghosts: that such incidents
have a purpose, either of giving ,
comfort to the bereaved, or of
warning against a preventable
tragedy. The real tragedy lies in
the fact that . . if such a thing
does occur . . the person who sees
it is so fearful of seeing some
thing he doesn’t believe, he loses
any benefit that might be gained
by the experience.
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BONDAGE” . . (Yes, we’re read
ing it after all these years.)
To paint a great portrait, an
artist must paint first the man,
and then the intention of the
man’s soul . .
To create something beautiful,
an artist must feel an emotion
about it. He must paipt into the
picture not only the line and col
or, but the emotion he has felt.
Each persons who sees a work of
art and loves it, creates, in turn,
a new emotion about it. Thus
an old object is more beloved than
a new one.
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SULFA DRUGS are having such
numerous offspring that we’ll soon
have to call them by alphabet let
ters, like government agencies.
THE SWEET SMELL OF
STRAWBERRIES permeated the
entire front of the grocery store.
We had visions of fresh straw
berries dipped in confectioner’s su
gar . . until we bought the straw
berries and found the sugar ra
tion law had caught us with our ..
well, had caught us short.
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NOW THAT BILLY’S BROKEN
THE BACKS off two chairs, the
apartment is going in for surrea
ism in a big way.
THE MYSTERIOUS DROWNING
at Morehead . . no body was
found, but only the sight of a
man begging for help as evidence
. . reminded us of a similar hap
pening there last year. That time
it was a woman calling for help.
What is this, anyway, a plot for
a detective story?
BRIDGE PARTY
Mrs. J. D. Edwards was hostess
on Thursday evening to her bridge
club.
Mrs. Lloyd Allen won high
score prize and Mrs. Rudolph
Northington, second high.
A sweet course with tea was
served at refreshment hour.
Those playing were Mesdames J.
P. Little, W. H. Tickle, Lloyd Al
len, H. E. Cameron, Graham
Lynch, Jay Thompson, Rudolph
Northington and Miss Bernice
Hitchens.
Kiwanis Club To
Entertain Cast
Of March Minstrel
Members of the Roanoke Rapids
Kiwanis Club, sponsors of the re
cently successful Kiwanis Club
Minstrel, “Hooray America”, will
be host to the entire cast of the
show and their escorts at the
Country Club on Friday night, it
has been announced.
Invitations have been sent to all
members of the cast, reading as
ionows:
“The Roanoke Rapids Kiwanis
Club will be hosts to the entire
“Hooray America” cast and their
escorts at the country club on
Friday night, May 8. Dancing
from 9 till midnight. To those
needing transportation, Kiwanians
will have their automobiles in
front of the High School at 8:30
P.M. to assist you".
Howard Pruden, who made the
announcement, stated that an in
vitation had been mailed to all
members of the cast, but that
some of those might not receive
their invitation. He stated that
this news item would be a blanket
invitation to all members of the
cast to attend, whether they re
ceived their mailed invitations or
not.
Refreshments will be served to
those present.
Civil Service
Calls For Men
As Machinists
The United States Civil Service
Commission, through its local rep
resentative, Carl C. Churchill, at
the local postoffice, is issuing calls
for boilermakers, welders, machin
ists, boatbuilders, coppersmiths
and other types of skilled workers ,
to mi JODS in tne Manama Canal
Zone.
Rates of pay range from $1.48
to $1.74 per hour with time and
one half for overtime. Healthful
living conditions are furnished at
exceptionally reasonable prices
and meals are inexpensively ob
tained at Government operated
restaurants. Room and board in
Panama will not exceed over $50
to $60 per month.
Qualified workers should get in
touch with Mr. Churchill at the
postoffice in Roanoke Rapids.
Local Youth Is
Graduated From
Recruit School
J. Le Roy Tripp of Roanoke
Rapids was listed as one of 42
men enlisted through the Raleigh
Navy recruiting office as having
finished recruit training at the
Norfolk Navy yard and assigned
to duty aboard ship or in one of
the Navy’s trade schools within
the continental United States.
Tripp, prior to volunteering a
bout 10 weeks ago, was employed
by the Rosemary Mills, this city.
He graduated from recruit train
ing as a seaman, first class.
HOSTESS AT BRIDGE
Mrs. J. A. Wood was hostess to
her bridge club on Tuesday eve
ning.
Mrs. W. C. Williams won high
score prize and Mrs. George Pap
pendick, second high. Both prizes
were defense stamps.
At the refreshment hour the
hostess served a salad course.
Guests and members present in
cluded Mesdames W. C. Williams,
George Pappendick, M. F. White,
Jimmie Curran, E. B. Smoot, Ivey
Mohorn, A. O. George, Beaman
Helms, T. N. Adams, Gordon Stott,
Bill Alligood, and Miss Edna
Wafford.
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