Only Two White Couples, But —
MARRIAGE LICENSE
BUSINESS ON BOOM
19 Colored Licenses issued
There's little news for white
people coming from the Register
of Deeds office at the County Seat
this week, but take it from Mrs.
Milton Norman, who issues the
Marriage licenses (and also wit
nesses many of the ceremonies)
the colored people of Halifax
’ County spent the holidays getting
1 married. Only two white couples
' applied for licenses during the
’ holiday week. The white appli
cants were Irvin Gold Cherry, Tar
boro, and Josephine Batchelor,
Scotland Neck; and Odis G. Cheely
Hopewell, Va., and Ida Belle Jolly
Hopewell, Va.
Colored applicants were; onauc
Johnson, Tillery, and Della Har
vey, Tillery; Ben Snearin, Halifax,
and Florine Edmonds, Roanoke
Rapids; Ralph P. Hardee, Ayden,
and Mary Bullock Frazier, Nor
folk, Va.; Julius Caudle, Enfield,
and Maggie Mae Arrington, En
field; Brazil Davis, Jr., Jackson,
and Annie Louise Ghee, Weldon;
Jake Hedgepeth, Enfield, and Mag
gie Silver, Enfield;
Ernest Baker, Enfield, and
Madge Hunter, Enfield; Bobby
Enfield; Anthony Persons, Tillery,
Jones, Enfield, and Odessa Wade,
and Celia Hill, Tillery; John Carey
Lewis, Enfield, and Anna Elizabeth
Mo'sely, Enfield; Tom Burt, Jr.,
Littleton, and Marion Olelia Man
ley, Littleton: Euphates Bridgets,
Enfield, and Inez Bailey, Enfield;
George Edward Brinkley, Whit
akers, and Margaret Garrett,
Bricks, N. C.; Waverly Rawls,
Jackson, and Louise ,Garner, Ga
rysburg; James Hardy, Garysburg,
and, Cora Louise Jones, Garys
burg; Eulas Allen, Enfield, and
Vernelle Peterson, Enfield; Joseph
Hewlin, Hollister, and Beclde Jane
Richardson, Hollister; Rossie Bak
er, Palmyra, and Bettie Beatrie
Smallwood, Palmyra; and Frank
Cooper, Halifax, and Mary Smith,
Halifax.
Special Defense
Training Offered
Youths By NYA
Roanoke Rapids and Halifax
County boys and girls between the
ages of 16 and 25 years who wish
to have an important part in the
nation’s war effort as war workers
are now offered an opportunity to
secure such training without cost
in the National Youth Administra
tion’s resident centers throughout
North Carolina, according to an
announcement by Thomas H.
Broughton, NYA Project Manager.
Special courses of training are
now open for jobs in war indus
tries for white and negro boys and
girls as sheetmetal workers, weld
ers, patternmakers, machinists,
radio operators and repairmen,
aircraft woodworkers, power sew
ing and foundrymen.
Young men and women interest
ed in enrolling in these courses of
training are urged to make appli
cation at once to the “Personnel
Officer, National Youth Adminis
tration, Greenville, N. C.”
As a result of training received
in defense shops of the NYA in
North Carolina more than three
thousand boys and girts have been
placed in defense jobs in the Nor
folk Navy Yards, North Carolina
Shipbuilding Company, Glenn L.
Martin, Consolidated Aircraft and
many other firms holding war con
tracts.
While undergoing training,
youths are paid $10.80 per month
plus board, lodging, work, clothing
and medical expenses. NYA pro
jects are now in operation at Scot
land Neck, Greenville, Kinston,
Washington, Wilmington, Durham,
Raleigh, Burlington, Greensboro,
Lexington, Lenoir, Winston-Salem,
Charlotte, Ellerbee and Asheville
for white youth, and at Rocky
Mount, Elizabeth City, Fayetteville,
Winston-Salem and Charlotte for
Negro youth.
James Cranford
is Back From The
English War Zone
One of the first soldiers from
Roanoke Rapids to come back
from the war zone is 23 year old
Private James A. Cranford, a
member of a ground crew for Our
“Flying Fortresses” somewhere in
England, who now is back in the
States. Cranford enlisted in the
U. S. Army June 2, 1942, and re
ported to Fort Bragg for induc
tion. From there he went to
Keesler Field, Mississippi, then to
Salt Lake City Air Base, Utah,
and then to Murock, California,
for training in maneuvering. Af
ter his extensive training he was
ordered September 1st to combat
duty in the war zone. Private
Cranford was in England for
about four months and while there
he says his group was treated
royally and the people there were
about as hospitable as any he had
ever met.
Private Cranford is married and
his wife resides at 211 Jefferson
Street. A former employee of
Patterson Mills Co., he is well
known here and has many friends
among his former co-workers.
Private Cranford is now sta
tioned at Tilton General Hospital,
at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and will
report back for duty January 7.
New Rotary
President
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late J. VV. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor
of this city, and is now connected
with the high school system at
Greensboro, while her husband is
serving in the armed forces.
Ar; interesting highlight at Tues
day’s Rotary meeting was brought
out when a survey was conducted
to determine the amount local
Rotarians had invested in war
bonds and stamps. M. McRae
Faison, editor of “The Rotary
Rambler,” club bulletin placed be
side the plate of each member at
tending the weekly banquets, had
a space at the bottom of the bull
etin for members to fill in the
amount of stamps and bonds pur
chased. Some 25 men attended
Tuesday’s meeting, of which If
filled out the desired information
A check-up revealed the 1.6 mem
bers reporting had purchased
$26,975. worth of stamps and bonds
to date, which was an average oi
$1,686. for each member filling oul
the report. Faison explained thal
it was optional as to whether the
members gave this information
and did not request them to sigr
their names, as the survey was
'being made simply in the interesl
of revealing some interesting facts
Cpl. Marvin G. Smith, stationec
at Philadelphia, Pa., spent Christ
mas holidays with his mother ant
sister, Mesdames J. W. Smith ant
W. M. Thomas at 320 Madison St
Mrs. Jay Thompson is spending
the week in Lumberton.
DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE
LAST MINUTE TO FILL
OUT YOUR
Income Tax
Returns!
Do It Now! For Expert
Assistance At Reasonable
Rates, See —
J. F. WELCH
225 Hamilton St.
Telephone R-777-1
J. W. Womble
Funeral
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been in failing health for the past
year. He was striken with a kid
ney ailment November 12, and died
in the Roanoke Rapids Hospital
December 28t.h.
His survivors are: his wife, Mary
Pierce Womble; one son, Thomas
L. Staton, and four daughters:
L ~ "■
Mrs. C. H. Albright, of Spartan
burg, S. C.; Mrs. I. C. Askew and
Mrs. Willie Crumpler, of Roanoke
Rapids; and Mrs. Sidney J. Riv
enbark, of Wilmington. Surviv
ing also are fourteen grandchil
dren, several nieces and nephews.
The pallbearers were: C. N.
Wheeler, Thurman Bullock, W. N.
Underwood, M. D. Collier, H. E.
Mansfield, and L. W. Draper.
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Branch
spent Sunday and Monday here
with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Smith.
Cecil Coburn returned to V. M.
I. Sunday.
Duke - Buck
The wedding of Miss Theodosia
Patricia Buck, daughter of J. E.
Buck and the late Mrs. Buck of
Roanoke Rapids, to Stephen Rob
ert Duke, son of Mrs. A. V. Driver,
and the late Thomas M. Duke, of
Nashville, was solemnized on Dec.
13th in Dillon, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Duke will make
their home in Petersburg.
Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Morgan, Miss
Derith Morgan and Billy Morgan
spent the week end in Suffolk.
JAKE SPIR
NEW YEAR
Many of our products are now being rationed.
Scarcities in other lines we handle make them
hard to get. The labor shortage, also, keeps us
from giving you the fine SERVICE that you form
erly expected from us, — but all of these things
will be back again — bigger than ever before —
AS SOON AS THE WAR IS OVER!
As we take stock of the year 1942 just passed, we consider our
greatest asset is the fine spirit in which our faithful customers have
accepted shortages, rationing, and in some instances, service that
is not 6iquite up to par” for us. We will continue to serve you to
the very best of our ability. We hope we can continue to count on
your patronage for 1943 . . .
i
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- HALIFAX WASTE MATERIALS CO.
~ ROANOKE RAPIDS OIL CO.
- ROSEMARY GLASS COMPANY
J. SPIRE, Manager Roanoke Rapids, N. C.