Here’s the Way Leathernecks Go Ashore
United States Marines go ashore in style—towing
a 37 mm anti-tank gun behind them. The Leather
necks have at last found a car that will take
all the knocks a Marine must take in fighting
the Devil Dog t>pe of warfare. This “jeep” took
part in a recent Leatherneck landing maneuver.
SUMMER PROGRAM
FOR SCOUTS
BEING ARRANGED
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Girl Scents To
Participate In
Many Activities
Girl Scouts in troops in the
city this summer will enjoy a full
program of summer activities for
the first time in their history, Miss
Frances Newsom, recently ap
pointed as Girl Scout Executive,
announced yesterday.
Miss Newsom said that troop
camping this year would be dif
ficult due to transportation short
ages, but that the Girl Scout
Council has worked out arrange
ments whereby a full program of
activities for the Scouts could be
provided this summer.
The summer activities will be
under the direction of Miss New
som and she will be assisted by
regular Scout leaders in the city
and by additional consultants from
tne community.
The following schedule for the
week of June 15th to 19th will be
of interest to Girl Scouts in the
city:
Monday, June 15: Troops 2, 3
and 4—9 a.m. Brownies, 4 to 6
p.m.
Tuesday, June 16. Troops 7 and
g_9;30 a.m. Activities: Senior
Service practise. Troops 2, 3 and
4, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Activities: gen
eral recreation.
Wednesday, June 17: Brownies,
9:30 a.m. General activities.
1 Thursday, June 18: Troop 6, 9:30
a.m. Troops 7 and 8, 7 to 10 p.m.
Friday. June 19: Bikes, bicycling,
general activities planned by
groups. Overnight activities at
the Girl Scout Hut or elsewhere.
Time schedules are subject to
change, as cook-outs may be plan
ned following morning activities,
or preceding evening activities.
Watch the paper and bulletin
boards in the Scout Hut for spe
cial interest scheduled on the pro
gram. Troops will be divided ac
cording to interests and activities,
and Scouts chosen as leaders of
each group where several troops
join in activities.
Scouts interested in advancing
in rank will find the summer pro
gram helpful and interesting. In
termediate Scouts not yet 15 years
of age, but having attained the
first class rank may begin work
on their badges which will enable
them to receive the curved bar
and will also afford practise for
the senior Service rank.
SHAW - FAKKlUn
Miss Julia Archer Farrior,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Davis Farrior of Warsaw, became
the bride of Joseph Edward Shaw,
Jr., son of Mrs. Joseph E. Shaw
and the late Mr. Shaw of Macon,
on Thursday, June 4, at the First
Presbyterian Church in Raleigh.
The Rev. M. O. Sommers, pastor,
performed the ceremony and the
nuptial music was rendered by
Mrs. Clarence Brown of Warsaw,
organist.
The bride wore a blue suit with
white accessories and a corsage of
pink roses and valley lilies. She
wore a diamond necklace, heir
loom of the bride’s family on her
paternal side, and a diamond
bracelet, a gift of her father to
her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw left imme
diately for a wedding trip to West
ern Carolina and will be at home
at Camp Croft, S. C. Mrs. Shaw
changed to a tan linen suit with
brown accessories and flowers
taken from her bridal bouquet for
traveling.
The bride is a graduate of East
Carolina Teachers College i n
Greenville and has been a mem
ber of the Roanoke Rapids high
school faculty several years.
The bridegroom is a graduate of
State College and holds a position
with Rosemary Manufacturing Co.
in Roanoke Rapids.
Atwell Taylor Is
Sent To Keesler
Field For Aviation
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Pvt. Atwell T. Taylor, son' of
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Taylor,
222 Hamilton St., Roanoke Rapids,
was enrolled as a student this
week in the country’s greatest Air
Corps Technical School at Keesler
Field, Mississippi, and has started
an intensive 19-week course to
qualify as an airplane mechanic.
Private Taylor, who came here
from the Fort Jackson, S. C., re
ception center, already has com
pleted his basic training which in
cludes marching, target practices,
gas mask and bayonet drills, and
orientation lectures. At the com
pletion of the Air Mechanics
course at Keesler Field, he will be
prepared for assignment to active
line duty with some fighting unit
of the Army Air Forces.
BRIDGE HOSTESS
Mrs. W. D. Hall and Mrs. M. C.
Maddrey were joint hostesses on
Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Maddrey, honoring Mrs.
Graham Jarman.
Tables were arranged on the
porch for bridge, with a lovely
setting of mixed summer flowers.
Mrs. John Dunn won high score
prize, Mrs. Lunsford Crew, second
high, and Mrs. M. F. White, third
prize. Mrs. Jarman, the honoree,
was presented gifts and Miss Em
ily Dunning, bride-elect of the
week, was also remembered with
a gift.
The hostess served frozen fruit
salad, cheese biscuits, pickles and
fruit drinks at the refreshment
hour.
Invited to enjoy Mrs. Hall’s and
Mrs. Maddrey’s hospitality were
Mesdames F. G. Jarman, Graham
Jarman, W. A. China, Norman
Scrivener, W. E. Murphrey, John
Dunn, Frank Wilson, Frank Sher
ry, William Proctor, M. F. White,
Lunsford Crew, R. M. Bardin, J.
W. Martin, Claude Cannon, Hunt
Parker, W. J. Long, T. W. M.
Long, L. R. Moody, Mrs. Bridgers
and Miss Emily Dunning.
Wins Her Second
Schol'ship Award
Miss Elsie Sharpe Barnhill of
Enfield has been awarded the H.
P. Haynes Scholarship award for
1942-43, following a meeting of
the educational committee of the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy. She was awarded a U.D.C.
scholarship last summer and at
tended Brevard College where she
was an outstanding student. Miss
Barnhill is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Egbert Barnhill of En
field.
First Christian
Church
Robert Virgil Hope, Minister
Morning—
9:45 Church School. Classes for
all ages.
11 o’clock The Lord’s Supper
and sermon. This sermon will be
broadcast by Station WCBT.
Evening—
8 o’clock Worship in song and
sermon. Come worship with us.
A church with a message for you.
Commissioned
2nd Lieufencmf
Claude Kimball, Jr., of Enfiield,
was one of some 100 young gradu
ates of N. C. State College to
take the oath as a Second Lieu
tenant in the United States Army
at graduation exercises in Raleigh
recently. Young Kimball had tak
en training in the R.O.T.C. unit
at State, where he graduated. He
expects to be stationed at Tacoma,
Washington, where he will be at
tached to an aviation unit.
I STATEMENT I
I The PEOPLES THEATER I
■ WILL NOT REOPEN ON I
I JUNE 19th I
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I JUNE 26«> I
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SUNDAY, JUNE 21st, IS A RED LETTER DAY
FOR ALL DADS IN THE COUNTRY - SO ... .
FATHER'S DAY
should he a special occasion with us. Select a
gift for him from the many appropriate ones ;
listed helow:
Genuine Polaroid
SUN GLASSES cameras
$i-5o ®t95
^ $14.50
! Guaranteed to protect the Make a Camera
eyes from sun glare of Him
SHEAFFER PEN SETS $3.95 AND UP
SCHICK ELECTRIC RAZORS $12.00 UP
PIPES AND TOBACCOS — ALL KINDS
BILL FOLDS — FAMOUS MAKE
MANY OTHER GIFT ITEMS
COLGATE
AND
PALMOLIVE
SHAVE SETS
Made up in “Travel
Kit” design. About all
he would need for a
week-end away from
home.
★ WEEK-END TOILET KITS
LEATHER, ZIPPER STYLE, for “CARRY-ALL”
He can take his razor, file, comb, tooth' brush, toothpaste,
shaving cream, and blades in this handy little FATHER’S
DAY gift item. If he goes away for the week-end, or if he
spends the week-end at the beach, this handy little kit will
come in mighty handy.
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DRUG STORE
M. C. SAVAGE, Proprietor
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