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VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 25,1942 NUMBER 47
ELECT SHERIFF SATURDAY
OVERSEAS
FRANK BURRELL
The two Roanoke Rapids youths
pictured above have landed safely
on foreign soil with American
troop consignments, according to
word received here by parents of
the two boys.
James W. Vaughan, a former em
ployee of the Herald, and a son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Vaughan, has
landed safely in an unannounced
port across the Atlantic. His new
address is in care of thfc Postmaster
in New York. Vaughan worked for
the Herald for about 10 years. He
was drafted into the Army on
October 6, 1941 and was sent to
Fort Knox, Ky.,. where he was
trained in the Armored Force
school.
Frank C. Burrell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Burrell of this city, is
among some of the first Roanoke
Rapids soldiers to arrive in Au
stralia. He was inducted into the
service in the Spring of 1940 as a
member of Company “B”, 105th
Medical Regiment, local National
Guard unit. Last week his parents
received a letter from him stating
that he was well and happy and
was liking the Australian climate
fine.
HALIFAX COUNTY'S -.
U S 0 DRIVE TO
START MONDAY
VICTORY
PROGRAM
PLANNED
Under authorization of Governor
J. Melville Broughton, who has
designated July 4th as Victory Day
in North Carolina, a movement is
underway to hold a Victory Cele
bration in Halifax on Independence
Day, according to A. Leonidas Hux,
chairman of the county Civilian
Defense Council.
According to plans now being
formulated, a mass gathering of
citizens of the county will be held
at the Halifax County courthouse,
with a prominent speaker on hand
to address the throng. Plans are
now underway to secure a speaker,
and many other details of an in
teresting program are being work
ed out, according to Chairman Hux.
It was stated that a state-wide
broadcast between 1 and 2 o’clock
would be heard in Halifax. Wheth
er the program will be an all-day
one and other details of the cele
bration will be carried in next
week’s Herald.
OFFICERS
ELECTED
BY LIONS
Carl Thompson, local ice and fuel
dealer, was installed as President
of the local Lions Club at the reg
ular meeting of the club held last
Thursday night in the social rooms
of the First Baptist church.
Other officers installed at the
meeting were: Thomas L. Martin,
first vice-president; Tommie Ad
ams, second vice-president; L. B.
Brown, third vice-president; Har
vey Woodruff, secretary; Steve
Roberson, treasurer; Rev. Edmund
Berkley, tailtwister; and Dot Ben
nett, Lion tamer.
Members of the club who attend
ed the Lions Convention in Raleigh
early in the week returned to the
city in time to assist with the in
stallation of officers for the com
ing year.
Thompson succeeds O. Griffin as
President of the club.
FEARED LOST (?)
*ABOVE is First Sergeant I). L.
Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Robbins, of 83 Jackson St., for
whom his parents have grave ap
prehension of his safety today. They
have just had their last two letters
sent to him returned to them mark
ed: “Service Discontinued,” though
they are still hoping he is alive.
Young Robbins served with the l).
S. Army in the Philippine Islands.
Soon after the first of the year he
was reported to be stationed al
Manilla Bay.
Ration Hoard
Sets Dates For
Applications
H. B. Speight, chairman of
the local rationing board today
announced new dates and hours
for carrying on business with the
ration board, certain days in
each week being left open ex
clusively for applying for ration
cards for sugar, gasoline and
tires and tubes. The following
schedule was announced:
FOR SUGAR
Monday and Tuesday, 9 A.M.
to 4 P.M., and Wednesday, 9
A. M. to 12 P.M.
GASOLINE
Thursday only, 9 A.M. to 4
P.M.
TIRES AND TUBES
Friday, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. and
Saturday, 9 A.M. to 12 P. M.
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COUNTY
QUOTA
*6,900.
Halifax county’s drive for $6,900
in United Service Organization
funds to help meet the state quota
of $444,000 and the national quota
of $32,000,000, will begin in the
county on Monday of next week
and ends on Saturday, Frank C.
Williams of Roanoke Rapids,
chairman of the drive, announced
yesterday.
With the county and community
organizations complete to carry
out the drive, Chairman Williams
said today that he felt confident
that the entire quota would be ov
ersubscribed during the six days.
Named to the county-wide com
mittee to assist in carrying out
the drive are: R. Hunter Pope of
Enfield, named as vice-chairman;
Carroll L. Wilson of Roanoke Ra
pids, named as publicity chair
man; and William L. Medlin of
Roanoke Rapids, named as treas
urer of the county campaign com
mittee.
Quotas have been set for each
town and community in the coun
: ty, Chairman Williams said, and
each chairman has accepted their
appointments and are busily en
gaged in working up their own
committees to assist with the
drive in their respective towns
and communities.
Following are the town and
community chairmen and the quo
ta set for each community:
Enfield, Ivey Watson, chairman,
quota, $700; Halifax, W. R. Caudle,
chairman, quota, $200; Littleton,
Rodney Glasgow, chairman, quota,
$350; Scotland Neck, Charlie
Shields, chairman, quota, $700;
Weldon, D. W. Seifert, chairman,
quota, $700; Roanoke Rapids,
North Ward, Frank J. Hawley,
chairman, quota, $2,125; Roanoke
Rapids, South Ward, Alfred Mar
tin, chairman, quota, $2,125.
The Halifax town drive will in
clude the communities of Tillery,
Faucette and Butterwood; Enfield
will include Ringwood and Hollis
ter, communities, and Scotland
Neck will include the communities
of Hobgood, Roseneath and Pal
myra.
In discussing plans for the cam
paign with chairmen in the var
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AFFIDAVITS
OF 200 TO
REGISTRARS
Local Registrars Do Not
Have Instructions
About Ruling, Books
Or Ballots Tonight
HOUSE~vs LUTER
Nine Deputy Sheriffs
Also At Stake In Im
portant Race June 27
At 5 o’clock this afternoon, only
two days before the second Primary
election in Halifax County, the Reg
istrars in Roanoke Rapids had not
received the registration books or
ballots for the Saturday election.
Neither had they received any in
structions from the County Board
of Elections as to what to do about
the more than 200 affidavits by
Roanoke Rapids Democrats who
were left off the Democratic regis
tration books two years p.qn.
They did receive this morning a
letter from S. W. Dickens, Chair
man of the County Board of Elec
tions, telling them to use the same
election officials and the same pro
cedure in holding the election on
June 27th as on May 30. There
was nothing in the letter about
the ruling of June 12th by the
State Board of Elections in which
the County Board was told to in
struct the various registrars in re
gard to those voters who had been
left off the’ primary registration
books, and to place them on those
books when satisfied they were left
off through no fault of the voters.
W. A. Lucas, Chairman of the
State Board of Elections, when in
formed at 5 o’clock today that the
registrars had not been so instruct
ed, stated he was sending a tele
gram to Mr. Dickens at once, noti
fying him again to properly in
struct the registrars about the
Democrats left off the primary
books.
The four registrars in Roanoke
Rapids received tonight the sworn
affidavits of Democrats here who
registered in 1940 and whose names
were left off the Democratic books.
The affidavits and lists were pre
sented by the Democratic precinct
Chairmen and County Chairman.
Additional affidavits will be pre
sented tomorrow.
It is expected that the regis
trars, who will probably get their
books tomorrow, will check the
affidavits with the general election
books of 1940 and place these
names on the Democratic primary
books as outlined by the ruling of
the State “Board of Elections and
the Attorney General.
County Chairman Dickens told
D. Mac Johnson of Enfield that
the signing of the affidavit by the
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