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*mnail»inmnn»mniinn»mill lllll| mill lllll) - 'I II II niJI u II 4 rsi ■» I ROBERT E. MAY, Navy, May 8, 1942. JAMES VV. WHITBY, Navy, Oct. 26, 1942. lllllllllllll h 1 »• till 1,14 ”1 Ik 1 I R. H. McCOMMONS, Merchant Mar., July 5. 1942 WILLIAM H. CAMP, JR., Navy, Nov., 1942. mllilllllllllllllkllllUHHIIlllIll lllllll lllll llllhl THE ROANOKE RAPIDS - I-l F.RAl n Picture NEWSpaper M H H ^^8 81 K — AH Home-Print — 1 I CAROLINA'S FIRST^^^ ■ M V-r * M. nrABAiw/ >aKNEWS/»per VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7,1943 IER23 -—---------« CITY BOARD MEETS HERE ON TUESDAY Limit Parking In Front Post Office At the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Roanoke Rapids, held at the Municipal Building here Tues day afternoon, a motion was made by V. E. McDowell, seconded by W. P. Taylor, that the Finance Committee and the Mayor make proper recommendation to the General Assembly to amend the Charter of the City of Roanoke Rapids by removing the 50c tax limitation. The motion was car ried. Several other important business matters came before the commis sioners at their first meeting of the year. Mayor Kelly Jenkins presided. The following four com missioners attended: A. N. Martin, V. E. McDowell, R. I. Starke and W. P. Taylor. The Mayor stated that G. A. Berkstresser, Chairman of the Citizens Service Corps, could not adequately carry on the work of the Citizens Service Corps without funds for establishing and main taining an office and employing a secretary and that it was also ne cessary to provide funds for carry ing on the work of the Civilian Defense Council. He further stat ed that the Civilian Defense work is a function of the City and that he felt that the City should pro vide the necessary funds. After a discussion, motion was made by A. N. Martin, seconded by R. I. Starke, that the City ap propriate a substantial sum to be used for carrying on Civilian De fense work, including the Citizens Service Corps and the Civilian De fense Council; that bills of any size paid from this fund be ap proved by the Board of Commis- * sioners ana tnat the Director of Civilian Defense and the Chairman of the Citizens Service Corps J invited to attend the meetings the Board of Commissioners, tion carried. The board unanimously an ordinance providing t' ing in front of the jy the Avenue, and O' between the Ave* back of the to 30 minute tween the 6:00 p. a pen violf ASSEMBLY IS ADDRESSED BY GOVERNOR For 150 years "no session of the General Assembly of North Caro lina has met under circumstances so fateful or critical as now con front the World of which we are part”, said Governor J. Melville Broughton as he addressed the joint session of the 1943 General Assembly in Raleigh at noon to day. D. Mac Johnson of Enfield is representing Halifax County in the State Senate and B. B. Everett of Palmyra in the House of Repre sentatives. John H. Kerr. Jr., of Warrenton, was elected Speaker of the House without opposition. Ex-sheriff H. L. Joyner of Northampton County wis elected Master-at Arms of the House, a post he held two years ago. The governor recommenaea a short session, special war legisla tion conferring special war powers on the Governor and Council of State, that taxes not be increased, that 20 million dollars be set aside from the General Fund sur plus as a Post-War Reserve, a reasonable increase in the pay of school teachers and other State employees, ^the cancelling of old highway bonds at the end of the ivar and the issuance of new ones at lower interest rates to provide funds tor post-war highway con struction, a nine-months school erm fcr every public school (op tional for the duration), modifying amendments to the State Board of Education recently passed, a uni fied board to supervise all State institutions for insane and mentally defective persons, a constitutional amendment which would make the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Commissioner of Labor mem bers of the Council of State, bet ter auditing and accounting facil ities or the Department of Rev enue, a delinquent school for Ne gro g'vla, more adequate regulation and Supervision of the sale of wine;, better check of money col lecte» by all legulatory boards of the ftate, and election law im provements. MOBILIZATION FARM DAY SET FOR TUESDAY President Roosevelt Secre tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, have designated Tuesday, January 12, as Farm Mobilization Day in every county in the United States. On this day farmers all over the nation will be asked to meet in their community centers. At these meetings farmers will be told how they can contribute to the war effort by producing food and oil crops. To win this war food is just as necessary as men, guns, ammunition, and airplanes. Food can only be produced on the farm. In 1943 farmers will be asked to produce more war sup plies, although the labor situation and farm supplies are even less. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard says, ‘:It is necessary that all agriculture be fully mobil ized in order to meet maximum production in 1943. We can’t pro duce too much of the things we need. The job is to produce the right amount of the right things in the right places. This will re quire careful planning and hard work. In the battle of food we are not going to be too late with too little.” The following meetings will be held in Halifax on Tuesday, Jan uary 12, 1943: Hobgood High School Auditor ium, 10:30 a. m.; Scotland Neck White High School, 2:30 p. m.; Scotland Neck Colored High School 2:30 p. m.; Enfield White High School, 11:00 a. m.; Aurelian Springs High School, 2:30 p. m.; William R. Davie High School, 10:30 a. m.; Littleton White High School. 2:30 p. m.; Littleton Col ored High School, 2:30 p. m.; Hol lister School House, 2:30 p. m.; Ringwood School, 10:30 a. m.; Farm Security Community Center at Darlington, 2:30 p. m.; Eastman Colored School, 2:30 p. m.;Terra pin Colored School, 10:30 a. m.; Dawson Colored School, 2:30 p. m.; Tillery Farm Security Store, 2:30 p. m.; and Halifax Court House, 2:30 p. m. Farmers are urged to attend the meeting most convenient for them. LT. "BULL" TAYLOR OF THE MARINES STILL A PRIVATE IN THE ARMY Charles Lewis Taylor, either Private U. S. A. or First Lieuten ant U. S. M. C. was still at Fort Bragg the first of this week. The former Roanoke Rapids High School football star, known as “Bull” in those days, State Col lege grad, and lately employed in the engineering department of the Virginia Electric & Power Co., has the Believe It Or Not record ol being both a private and also a commissioned officer in two dif ferent branches of the service. On Dec. 7, 1942, Taylor was com missioned a First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps where he had applied several months ago for a commission based on his engineer ing education and training. On Dec. 9, before the notice of his commission had been received, he was inducted into service at Fort Bragg in the army. After notice of his commission, his wr —- — -. . — commanding officer at the Recep tion Center at Bragg wrote Wash ington for orders to release him. The first of this week, when Mrs. Taylor visited her husband at Fayetteville, nothing had been heard from Washington. Bull’s orders from the Marine Corps on Dec. 7, read “Upon ac ceptance of commission as First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve, you are assigned to ac tive duty, will proceed on that date to the Marine Barracks, New River, N. C., and upon arrival re port to the Commanding General, the Training Center, for Engineer ing duty.” Pvt. and/or Lt. Taylor hopes to be in Roanoke Rapids this week end to visit his wife and friends. Meantime, according to the record, the Marine Paymaster was noti fied on Dec. 7 that he was a First Lt. as of Dec. 8 or acceptance of the commission. JOHNSON GETS 16 COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS Senator D. Mac Johnson, of Hali fax County, was appointed chair man of the Senatorial Districts Committee, and a member of 15 additional important committees for the 1943 General Assembly, by Lt. Governor R. L. Harris, when he set the stage for a short session of the present legislature by announc ing his committee appointments within 25 minutes after the Senate officially convened at noon Wed nesday. In addition to his chairmanship on the Senatorial Districts Com mittee, the Halifax senator is a member of the following commit tees: Finance, Constitutional A mendments, Agriculture, Courts and Judicial Districts, Judiciary, Conservation and Development, Consolidated Statutes, Counties, Cities and Towns, Military Affairs, Manufacturing Labor and Com merce, Library, Rules, Salaries and Fees, Public Health, and Public Utilities. FAMED CHIEF IS GUEST OF CITY SCOUTS Chief William Red Fox, a full blooded Sioux Indian is in the city planning an interesting and var ied program under the sponsor ship of Roanoke Rapids City Schools. He will also appear in a Special Boy Scout program to be held for all Troops Friday eve ning at the Municipal Building at 7:30. Chief Red Fox has appeared be fore hundreds of city and county schools throughout America. He can recall a colorful career which has carried him all over the West ern Hemisphere as a rodeo rider, Chautauqua speaker, Boy Scout worker, vaudeville performer and film player. In motion pictures he played outstanding roles in such films as the Covered Wagon and The Vanishing American. He is a graduate of Carlisle Un:. ■ versity of the Class of 1889 ai is considered an outstanding thority on American Indian I In his programs here Chie' Fox will appear in full trih tiime and will give a nir Indian Dances and songs tion to descriptions in Indian customs and tra< LIONS DRIVE FOR OLD CLOTHES •a*_ Od Clothes Week To lie Held Here; Fire jtndon. Depository ' I Roanoke Rapids Lions Club i* Jjonsoring an “01(3 Clothes Week” starting next Monday, Jan uary 11th, and running through Saturday, January 16th. The purpose of this campaign is to secure all the wearable old clothes to supply the needy of this community. Containers will be placed at the Fire Department and • all persons are requested to leave donations there. The local Boy Scouts are assist ing in this very worthy cause by conducting a house to house can vass during this, week, to obtain contributions.
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