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I a m: m a :tot THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ^O.’eTABloUl |hJ I ■ More News — More i rrH™^r I E r\y ^ Jl I 1 ~L«r \ / I I CAROLINA'S FIRST^^ I M L'J ~_* * ^AB^jp^WBW/iqw^ '-' VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.^" THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942 NUMBER 48 AIDS RUBBER DRIVE i! Perhaps the largest single contributor to the drive in the city to collect scrap rubber is Robert M. Pope, rural mail carrier, who is shown above with a small portion of his junked tires and other rubber goods he has collected from farm homes which he services on his R. F. D. route. To date Pope has collected over 3,000 pounds of rubber, buying same from his farmer friends in many instances. Renewed interest is being shown in the drive for rubber in the city this week and many tons of the precious scrap is being stored at the Newsom Oil Company here. The rubber. salvage drive is under the direction of Major Newsom, city oil distributor, and will run through July 10th, of next week. HOUSE NOMINATED SHERIFF SATURDAY f OVER P. C. LUTER -- - Luter Sweeps All Precincts In City; Gains 1,141 Votes ■ i Harry A. House, appointed Sher iff 18 months ago on the resigna tion of Sheriff Joe Riddick, was omin&ted for Sheriff in the second rimary last Saturday over P. C. alter of Roanoke Rapids, hitherto nknown in county politics, i House received 3,008 votes and after 2,542, a majority for House of 35 votes. p In the first primary on May 30th, I (ouse received 2,817 and Luter 401. There was an increase in le second race for House of 191 otes and for Luter of 1,141 votes. ■ Luter swept every precinct in oke Rapids. He carried No. 1 vote of 475 for Luter to 174 [ouse; No. 2 by a vote of 328 to IigTv, No. 3 (where both men live) by fc vote of 529 to 174; No. 4 by a vote If? 207 for Luter and 99 for House. The four precincts here gave Lu a total of 1,539 and Home 807, Luter majority in the city of . Mr. Luter said Saturday night er all returns were in that he (Continued On Page 8, Sec. A) - ■ FOR SHERIFF 2nd PRIMARY I The vote in the second primary for Sheriff last Saturday was as follows: HOUSE LUTER Butterwood _ 87 17 Conoconara_ 66' 34 Enfield - 487 138 Faucetts _ 178 113 Hollister _ 130 66 Halifax - 154 144 Kehukee-1- 131 47 Littleton - 348 43 Palmyra. ——- 50 IS Ringwood- 60 48 No. 1 R. Rapids .. 174 475 No. 2 R. Rapids — 160 328 No. 3 R. Rapids — 174 530 No. 4 R. Rapids .. 99 207 Roseneath --— 31 17 Scotland Neck 239 191 Weldon_*—- 441 184 TOTAL.- 3008 2542 ^ ' - ■ - . COUNTY WILL STAGE VICTORY PR.G AM . IN HALIFAX SUNDAY COUNTY USO DRIVE MOVING RAPIDLY TO GOAL OF $6,900 - ' - City And County Forces Get Set For Lost Effort With the forces of the Halifax County USO working this week like a well-oiled machine, raising of the county’s quota of $6,900 during the next few days is well on the way toward fulfillment, County Chair man Frank C. Williams, said here today as reports began to come in from the various communities in the county. As a move to assure the cam paign of success, Chairman Wil liams has written J. Waldo Whit aker, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, asking him to request the Commissioners at their regularly scheduled meet ing Monday to appropriate a $500 contribution toward the USO cam paign in Halifax. In a letter to chairman Whitaker, Williams stat ed: “I feel sure that the commission ers, as representatives of the peo ple of Halifax, will bring approval from the taxpayers of the county if an appropriation for this worthy cause is mude.” The textile division in Roanoke Rapids started the ball rolling here early Monday when it was an nounced that the textile division had appropriated $1,000 and con tributed it toward the campaign. The Virginia Electric and Power Company, as a corporation, quickly followed suit with an appropriation of $250. In the North Ward section of the city, where Frank Hawley is chairman of the drive, USO forces under him had been organized early this week and were already at work. Hawley announced the following volunteer worker sched ule: Roanoke Mill No. 1,- A. O. Pendleton; Roanoke Mill No. 2, W. T. Hodges; Patterson Mills, A. Meikle; Vepco, F. M. Sherry; Hali fax Paper Corp., E. H. Graves; downtown business section, M. D. Collier, H. E. Lee, Lyle Wilson and M. H. Hedgepeth. In the South Ward, where Alfred N. Martin is chairman, the organi zation there is a bit different. Mar tin has appointed a corps of solicit ors to work with him and these are busy today making a canvass of the uptown business section. Work ing with Martin were R. I. Starke, W. H. Proctor, Bill Edwards, Frank (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) 582 BOYS REGISTER TUESDAY Volunteer workers operating un der the direction of the local draft board on Tuesday registered a total of 592 young men between the ages of 18 to 20 years, in the fifth reg istration of man-power called by the Selective Service System. Roanoke Rapids led with 384 registrations, Chairman T. M. Mul len of the local board, said. Little ton was second with 110 registered while Weldon was third with 98. Chairman Mullen said that some of those registered here would be transferred to other boards, but that similar transfer of some youths registered at other points would be made to the local board, leaving the number of new men registered with the board here ap proximately the same. W. O. Thompson acted as Chief Registrar here for the local board during the registration Tuesday. Stores Here To Remain Open July 4 Roanoke Rapids merchants will not observe a holiday on July 4th, this year, all merchants in the Merchants Association voting to remain open on Independence Day because it falls on Saturday. President C. A. Wyche said no action has been taken on a motion to close stores on Monday of next week in observance of the Fourth. Wyche said that so far as he could learn all stores would remain open as usual and that no full holiday would be observed. He said thnV most of the merchants preferred to observe merely the regular half holiday each Wednesday, V; . — " ------ ) - PARKER TO SPEAK AT 4 P.M. Plans were completed today for staging Halifax county’s first Vic tory Day celebration, scheduled to be held in Halifax at the county courthouse on Sunday afternoon, starting at 4 o’clock, Clerk of Su perior Court A. Leonidas Hux, who is chairman of the County Defense Council under whose auspices the celebration is being held, declared yesterday. Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roa noke Rapids, Resident Judge of the Third Judicial District, will deliver the principal address. The celebration, which is one of a score to be held in the state during the July 4th week-end, was authorized by Governor J. Melville Broughton, who has issued a proc lamation calling for the celebration of July Fourth as Victory Day In North Carolina. The program will open with an invocation, and will be followed with the singing of “America”.' One of the highlights of the pro gram will be the showing of two motion pictures, . “The Warning” and “Fighting The Fire Bomb”. The picture entitled “The Warn ing” is a sound motion picture showing actual air raids in London and was released by the British Government. Chairman Hux said that the picture was timely and was very instructive. He urged that all Civilian Defense Workers in the county, as well as residents, attend the celebration and see this picture. “Fighting the Fire Bomb” is also an instructive picture and will give residents and workers an insight into the actual combating of thi3 deadly menace during the time of war. One of the pictures will be shown just before Judge Parker’s address, and the second will be shown im mediately afterwards. Judge Parker is expected to in stitute a patriotic theme of thought into his address. He is making an address at Jackson, in Northamp ton county on Saturday, July 4th, and could not be secured for the Halifax County celebration, which was scheduled for July 4th. Hence the changing of the date of the county celebration to Sunday, July Clerk Hux said today that he was expecting the county court room to be filled to capacity for the cele bration, and urged all people in the county to attend. v
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