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The City League All Stars will clash with the Romances Saturday night at Ledgerwood Park at 8:30 p.m. in a double-header. Lieut. Bob Moore will coach the All Star team, that will be selected by City League coaches and Owen “Speed" Hux of Roanoke No. 2 'will act as field captain. The a bove announcement was made by President Paul Harris of the City League. Official sanction for the game has been given by City Commissioner Roddy Meikle. All profits from the doubleheader will be turned over to the USO. Ad mission will be twenty cents. A good old fashioned brunswick stew will be the order of the day when the City League honors Company D, 30th Engineers soft ball team on Saturday at Poplar Springs. The feed is in honor of two City League officials who will soon leave, Lieut. Graham Waitt, Secretary and Treasurer of the League, and Lieut. Bob Moore, vice-president. All teams entered in the City League will be pres ent, President Paul Harris an nounced today, along with other softball officials in the city. To Lieut. Bob and Lieut. Gra ham. goes a world of credit for helping the City Softball League. Both have worked hard to make it a success, and although they may not realize it softball players and officials alike in the league ap preciate their efforts. The feed Saturday is pest a small way of showing a little appreciation. And Company “D" 30th Engineers, while they have had the hell slapped out of them going and coming in the league, have really had the "guts" to stick in there and finish it out. The feed is in their honor, too. —o— Lieut. Bob Moore can put a powerful lineup on the field for the game Saturday night. Taylor, Hux, Rogers, Jernigan, and Clary, Cooper of Roanoke No. 2. Jones, the Allen Brothers of Roanoke No. 1. Murphy, etc., of the En gineers, and Carlysle. Nethercutt, Outland, Harris and Blue of Hali fax. Moore can throw pitchers at the Romancos at the rate of one every three innings. He can put an infield out there with Taylor on first, M. Outland on second, Rogers on short, Wheeler or Blue on third and Allen catching that can hold its head up in any com pany. It should be two hotly con tested ball games. Out of all the players in the city league we think Ronald Ev erette, catcher of the Romanco softball team, deserves untold credit. Laid up with an injured leg in 1940, Everette decided to give up the game in 1941. But after Hank Stewart went in the Marine Carps, and realizing that the Romances had no catcher, he decided to come back out, well realizing that catching Russ De Berry is no child’s play, and lay ing off for a season from any game makes it doubly hard to •'come back”. He has caught most of the season with an injured hand, (tnd after all he makes his living with his hands. So I think Ronald Everette, who could be a star outfielder on any man’s ball club, deserves a lot of credit for filling in at a position that he does not like, just to help out. So when you start making cracks about his lack of catching alnlity, stop and realize that he is not only playing out of position, but he is also catching the slants of one of the best softball pitchers in the country, just to help out. —o— Internal friction can destroy any ball club, good or bad. Only per fect team work in playing and "feelings” on the field during a game can achieve success. Work hard, play hard, fight together, overlook your teammates’ faults, -.-...-. and correct your own, then when the hard fought battle is over, and you can look deep in your own heart, and say “We fought the good fight, and lost or won”, that’s when you have no regrets! •—o— Pickups N’ Putouts: Building a fire under the sport pot! Halifax did our softball league no harm, when they tripped Jacob and Levy, Capitol City League Champions, 3-1, last Sat urday night in Richmond . . Jacob and Levy boast of Virginia’s fast est softball team . . They do say that Ed Graves almost ripped up Byrd Park when Hapco went to town . . Dick Brown, who in his aay was trie greatest blocking back in local high school history, is in town this week, visiting . . Back in the old days he belonged to that great foursome of Powell, Johnson, Alligood and Brown . . a group of clean wholesome boys . . Ask Ted Speight! Chet Alls brook is playing good dependable ball at second base for the Ro mancos . . Mrs. Murray Stacia, Mrs. Jerry Brown spent the night with Mrs. George Gurley last Sat urday night when the Romancos visited Raleigh . . A noise during the night caused all three your.g ladies to back up in the darkness of the kitchen with draum butcher knives . . Personally we think they were waiting for their dear hubbies . . “Pepsi” Boyd and “Old Hoss’’ Finch departed for the Army on Thursday . . bye, boys! . . Don’t forget to come out Sat urday night and support the All Star-Romanco game . . It’s for a good cause . . the good old USO! Displays Freak Tomato In City Frank Newsom of 117 Madison Street displayed a four-pronged tomato in the Herald office Wed nesday, which he grew in his garden. The tomato was an oddity because of its shape and size. Miss Ida Belle Keeter has re turned home after spending a week in Goldsboro visiting rela tives. GIRL SCOUT CALENDAR JULY 27-31 Monday—Swimming, 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. Leave Scout Hut for swim ming pool 8:30 a.m. Tuesday—9:30 a.m., Senior Ser vice instruction. 5:30-8:30 p.m., Bicycle trip for cyclist group. Wednesday—9:30 a.m., Senior Service check-up. All Senior Scouts must be present, or notify Troop leader. Thursday—8:30 a.m., Leave Hut for swimming pool. 7-10 p.m., Senior recreation. Friday—8 a.m., All Scouts meet at Hut to take part in the “Metal Drive”. This is your opportunity to serve your community, and country! TO COLLECT METAL The Roanoke Rapids Salvage Committee has designated Friday, July 31 as the date for the “Metal Drive”. All Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are to report to the Girl Scout Hut at 8 a.m., to be assign ed to various sections of town. Let’s make this even bigger and better than the “Rubber Drive”! SENIOR SCOUT ACTIVITIES By Jane West, Troop 8 One of those early meetings was called at 9:30 Tuesday morn ing for the Senior Scouts who are in training for the Service Rank in Scouting; so of course most of us were there on time, because punctuality is one of the main re quirements. At 10:45 after a ses sion of announcements and in structions, we left on bicycles for the V.E.P. Co. Clubhouse for a lecture on “Meal-planning” by Miss Virginia Blount. It turned out to be one of those interesting talks that you could choke your self for dreading. Miss Blount in terestingly illustrated her points in meal-planning, and at 12:30 p.m. there was our lunch: Tomato Juice Cocktail Roast Beef Baked Potatoes snreaaeu oeeis Steamed Corn on the Cob Corn Meal Muffins Iced Tea Ice Cold Watermelon With satisfied groans we left for home, after assisting with the cleaning-up and planning for our next assignment whicji was to plan for an overnight in the hut including supper and breakfast. By 5:30 we were back at our beloved Hut for the night, lugging cot mattresses, blankets, pillows, and toothbrushes, and food. In groups of six or eight, we began our “Kapers”. We cooked on out door fires which resulted in three delicious meals,—the more we ate the better the food tasted. I guess that goes for the other groups, too. There was time after clean-up for games and freedom so the gang enjoyed badminton, ping pong, and bicycling before the main feature of the evening’s program. Naturally we all like “pictures”, so when we found out that Pri vate Dan Guion was to show some of the pictures of his travels, and that they were to be “Scenes from Alaska” we were tickled "pink”! What a cooling thought! We were so interested in the gorgeous sun sets that we even had them re peated. That’s proof enough that the pictures were really wonder ful, isn’t it? We didn't have to be forced to get ready for bed, for the day’s activities had kept us in a strut; but we didn’t go to sleep immediately as one may well guess, for when sixteen girls get together on this rare occasion whispering and giggling do take place. All too soon, though we had been warned, somebody was drag ging me out of my “bed”, but it was 7 o’clock and everyone had met the same fate. Hunger, break fast, kapers, and we were satis fied again. Miss Blount came at 9 a.m. to give us instruction in Canning and Food Drying. We learned a lot of things about dry ing food that we had never heard of! So ended the educational in terlude and a good time. Enfield Board Sends Draftees To Fort Bragg Enfield—The following men from Local Board Area No. 2, lower Halifax County, left Enfield via bus on Monday for induction in the U. S. Army at Fort Bragg: Lucious Sherman Witchard, Hob good: Jessie Williams, Enfield; Willard Laddie, Enfield; William Joseph Shearin, Halifax; Daniel Laurence Barnhill, Scotland Neck; Thomas Jefferson Hux, Halifax; Walter Coffield Bradley, Enfield; Ulysses H. (Pete) Hardison, Jr., Enfield: Thurman Williams, Hob good; Ralph Emerson Bradley, Hobgood; Eugene Grady Dickens, Halifax; William Douglas Whit ley, Enfield; William Teossa Har rell, Scotland Neck; Clifton Glas ter Haddock, Scotland Neck; Har old Monroe Sherrick, Enfield; Loyde Hobson Little, Littleton; Joe Plummer Crawley, Hollister; James Edmon Massengale, Hali fax; Calhoun Braswell, Enfield; Murry Hammond Liles, Littleton; Edwin Barmer Coppedge, Halifax; Charles Robertson Smith, Scot land Neck; George Harrison Ran dolph, Enfield; Arthur franklin Sauder, Jr., Enfield; Whitmel An thony Van Landingham, Scotland Neck; George Thomas Register, Scotland Neck; Joe Landen, Jr., Halifax; Archibald McDowell, Jr., Scotland Neck; Victor Braswell Barkley, Enfield; John Wesley Landon, Scotland Neck; Oliver Max Smyer, Scotland Neck; and Grady Bradley Hux, Littleton. Miss Mary Lillian Meade and Miss Doris Harrison are spending this week on Long Island, New York, as guests of Mrs. C. H. Muller. Larry Tucker Meade is now sta tioned with Company C. 8th Training Battalion at Fort Mc Clellan, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Stokes and son, Donald, spent several days last week at Buckroe Beach visiting friends. SAVE THIS PAPER! Your Government Needs It. HELP THE WAR EFFORT BY SAVING YOUR SCRAP Beautiful New 7-Room House For Sale By Owner! Located Corner of 14th & Washington Sts. Has hardwood floors, built-in cabinets, Screened Back Porch, Modern Light Fixtures, and is beautifully finished throughout. Ideal location — 60-ft. front lot. House built by owner for private occupancy — but have now decided to sell. Terms arranged. See J. ROY TAYLOR 1917 Daniel Street South Roanoke Rapids I STATE ME NT ( /£ AFTER FIRE If; For ROUSE II01D J £ GOOOSdosErorxMw, M £ Fir*...VALVE j Ip: PAIO BY V \£ IRSVRAWCt V> /1J BALARM j,. 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