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DIAL R-326 ALL DEP’TS THURSDAY, AUG. 20,1942 SECTION B—PAGE 1
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BIG SHOW &
FREE ACTS
Plans Perfected For
Biggest Show Yet To
Be Staged By Lions
Everything is in readiness for
he biggest show yet to be staged
>y the Roanoke Rapids Lions
31ub as their Sixth Annual Mid
Summer Festival date draws near.
The show will open next Monday
light on Roanoke Avenue, and
vill last for six full nights. The
W. C. Kaua Shows will give the
liions by far the largest midway
ittraction ever to exhibit in Roa
loke Rapids, and at present indi
;ations point to the fact it will
>e the biggest outdoor amusement
irgamzation to appear in this sec
ion this year.
Clayton Gurley, chairman of the
:ommittee in charge of promoting
his year’s exhibition, is no novice
it the task, having successfully
nanaged the first Mid-Summer
festival to be staged by the local
:ivie club some five years ago. It
9- 3aid his committee is running
smoothly and everything is in
•eadiness for this year’s exposi
ion
Several radically new departures
vill characterize this year’s show,
:hief of which will be that there
vill be no advance sale of tickets
o the gates this year. Admission
o the gate will be by tickets,
>ut they will be on sale only at
he showgrounds. Adults will be
edmitted for the nominal sum of
,5c, while children’s tickets will
ell for only 10c.
All of the gate admission price
joes to the Lions Club to be used
>y them in their blind and wel
are work. The festivals, all of
irhich have been highly successful
rotn a financial standpoint, have
letted the club in excess of $6,
*00.00 in profits since they were
tarted here five years ago. All
>f this money is spent locally,
enabling them to examine thou
| ands of children for defective
| yesight and to provide hundreds
j >f pairs of glasses for worthy
|ases whose parents could not
Riave otherwise procured them.
I Tie Lions Club Festival brings
f he only outdoor show organiza
Sj iontion to exhibit within the city
l imits, and because of cancellation
I 'f dates of Fairs in this and the
urrounding territory this year, it
irill be one of the few large
hows to be seen in Eastern North
larolina. Always a “high-spot”
f the season’s entertainment, the
^estival bids fair to outstrip all
■ther events of its kind this year,
’he Kaus organization was book
d earlier in the year. They will
xhibit a high-class aggregation of
.hows j,and attractions and will
'nature at least seven new, mod
rn rides.
In addition to the carnival at
raction, the “American Eagles”,
, high-class company of circus
tars, will appear nightly on the
aidway. This company of acro
bats is said to be one of the most
xciting aerial attractions of mod
ern time's, and comes to the city
firect from Steel Pier, where they
iave been appearing all summer.
£ is said they open their act with
tricks and difficult routines usual
ly reserved for the closing “punch’'.
Among many other difficult feats
the “American Eagles" perform
awe-inspiring and hair-raising
stunts, including somersaults and
blind-folded routines on bicycles
backward without a net beneath
them.
The “American Eagles” are cir
cus stars from “way back”. Born
and raised in an atmosphere of
“sawdust and spangles,” they have
acquired the polish that is pos
sessed only by performers of long
years of experience. It is said
that they will present the most
sensational array of aerial routines
ever to be seen here.
Ever mindful of the fact that
free cash prizes have a lot to do
with “getting a crowd” the Lions
have literally “doubled up” this
year, and Monday thru’ Friday
two cash prizes of $25.00 each will
be awarded nightly, the first to
be given at 9:30 and the second
at a time to be announced at
the showgrounds. The grand cash
prize, which will be awarded Sat
urday night, will be $100.00 in
cash. Full details will be an
nounced on the Festival grounds.
Good, clean, moral shows of the
very highest type have always
characterized the Lions Mid-Sum
mer Festivals here and this year’s
exposition will not be an excep
tion to this steadfast rule. It ha3
invariably been the policy of the
local civic club to secure shows
that offered a maximum number
of rides and educational side
shows, as well as the highest type
of concessions, and in securing
the Kaus shows they have again
accomplished this feat, according
to advance reports.
“This may be the last Festival
for the duration,” Chairman Gur
ley said in commenting on the
attractions booked here the first
of the week, "so we are determin
ed that it will be a good one. We
have never let the public down,
for we are grateful to them for
their generous support which has
enabled us to carry on our blind
and welfare work, and we are de
termined to give them the best
Festival we have ever presented
this year.”
Robert Coppedge
Graduates From
Army Air School
Chanute Field, 111., August 20
Private Robert N. Coppedge, son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Coppedge,
426 Henry, Roanoke Rapids, was
graduated recently from the Cha
nute Field school of the Army Air
Forces Technical Training Com
mand.
While at Chanute Field he was
trained in various technical op
erations vital to the maintenance
of the country’s fighting planes.
Farmers To Be
Paid For Using
Cotton Bagging
Cotton farmers who wrap their
bales in cotton bagging henceforth
will receive payment for seven
pounds in addition to the gross
weight of their bales, the National
Cotton Council announced today.
Under agreements completed by
the Council between mills, trade
associations, and cotton exchanges,
all trading rules governing the
buying and selling of cotton have
been amended to compensate the
seller for use of cotton bagging in
place of burlap, jute or other ma
terials.
“These agreements,” according
to Hugh M. Comer, cotton mill
eexcutive ana cnairman of the
t
Council’s committee on cotton bale
covering, “reverse the former pro
cedure under which the farmer
was penalized for use of his own
product. They indemnify him
completely for the difference in
weight between cotton bagging
and jute bagging, and remove the
last obstacle to the adoption of
cotton wrappings for cotton bales
throughout the entire industry.”
Mr. Comer said that serious
shortages of jute and burlap for
use on cotton bales had made it
imperative that protection be giv
en to farmers in time for the
movement of the current crop. In
recognition Oi such shortages, the
Department of Agriculture has
subsidized the manufacture of suf
ficient cotcon bagging to cover
four million bales, or approxi
mately one-third of the 1942 crop.
Under previous practice, the dif
ference in weight between these
cotton coverings and the heavier
jute would have resulted in direct
cash loss to farmers in excess of
$5,000,000.
Mrs. Howard Hancock and
daughter, Neil, visited Mr. -and
Mrs. Raymond Gentry in Norfolk
last week-end.
MERRITT ENTERTAINS
Mrs. R. E. Merritt was hostess
to the South Rosemary Demon
stration Club Wednesday evening.
Enjoying Mrs. Merritt’s hospitality
were Mesdames R. L. Powell, M.
E. Faison, T. B. Turner, Mary
Edgeridge; Messrs. R. E Merritt
and T. B. Turner; Misses Erma
Powell, Anne Powell, and Amelia
Jenkins. Sandwiches, cake and
iced tea were served.
The electric generators oa a big
U. S. battleship or carrier could
fill the electric power require
ments of a city the size of New
ark, N. J. Such warships have
power plants generating an output
two-thirds as great as that of
TVA’s Norris Dam,
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