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s> VOLUME xxvm_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 4,1943 NUMBER 31
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’ KIWANIS CLUB
WILL STAGE
1 MINSTREL
Thursday and Friday
March 25, 26 Is Date
Set For Big Show
Announcement is made this week
by- the Roanoke Rapids Kiwanis
J Club that their 13th annual min
strel-revue will be presented to
city audiences on Thursday and
Friday, March 25th and 26th, this
year, with actual practice probably
{getting underway Monday, March
f 15th.
The title of this year’s minstrel
revue will be: “At Your Service,”
and it has been written especially
for Roanoke Rapids by the John
B. Rogers Producing Company. It
P will be directed by Pat Gorman,
one of Rogers’ ace directors.
With the staging of “At Your
Service,” local audiences will again
have the opportunity to see a show
of the same high calibre of the
i many productions presented by
Kiwanians in the past. As one
member of the local club put it
this week, “fun has not been ra
tioned,” and the 1943 minstrel will
not only be up to par but will pos
• sibly eclipse other home-talent pro
ductions presented by the club here
over a period of the past twelve
The show will feature all home
talent, and will include snappy
►' dance numbers, new songs, bril
liant costumes, and the minstrel in
terlude, which will customarily
form the second part of the show
will be one of the best yet pre
sented, it is said.
* The annual minstrel-revue pre
sented by Kiwanians offers local
people, both old and young, the op
portunity to display their talents,
and provides the principal means
of obtaining money for the club to
P carry on its program for under
privileged children. All of the
shows presented by the club here
in the past have been outstanding
successes, both from a standpoint
of entertainment and revenue
* earned for the club.
For a number of years the den
tal clinic has been the club’s’ under
privileged child project. They sub
^dt the following statistics for their
last dental program, showing the
I score of this work:
"This program was conducted by
Dr. Spencer Woody of the Oral
Hygiene Department of the State
Board of Health. For a period of
twenty weeks the clinic was con
ducted in both the white and col
ored schools. All children in the
lower grades were examined. If
the chO '*en needed dental atten
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PROMOTED
NORMAN SCRIVENER
The Field Scout Executive above
has served in the city since last
year, and has recently been pro
moted to Assistant Scout Execu
tive, and will leave the city shortly.
Full details of the promotion of
the city man will be found on Page
2—Section A.
OFFER FREE
COURSE AIR
"SPOTTING"
Ben E. Lancaster, chief observer
at the Air Warning Station in the
city, announces that a free course
in air recognition will soon be
available to anyone interested in
taking it. The offer applies to eith
er adults, men or women, or chil
dren of boy or girl scout age. All
materials incidental to the instruc
tion will be furnished, and the
course will be given without obli
gation to those taking it serving
as “airplane spotters” for the city
observation station in the future.
Lancaster has just returned from
a week’s course in air observation
at Virginia Beach.
In an interview the first of the
week he stressed the importance of
the local air observation station be
ing furnished with a pair of field
glasses. He appealed to readers of
this newspaper last week to “do
nate” a pair of field glasses, stating
that they would be returned after
the war, but thus far no contribu
tors have signified their willingness
to loan the local station the binocu
lars. They are sorely needed by the
local air observation post, and will
be well taken care of, Lancaster
assures.
ABC BILL IS
LAW; COUNTY
BILL PASSES
County Commissioners
Will Be Elected From
Districts In Future
The bill introduced by Represen
tative Ben Everette to set up an
ABC Board for Halifax County
passed the House Monday night;
had its final reading in the Senate
yesterday, and today is “the law of
the land.”
It names Clyde Liske of Roanoke
Rapids, Dave L. Suiter of Weldon,
and G. H. Johnson of Scotland
Neck as members of the Halifax
County ABC Board, and takes all
of the affairs oSf the county’s Al
coholic Beverage Control out of the
hands of the present Board of
County Commissioners. Enactment
by the legislature of Representative
Everette’s bill restores the set-up
of the county’s ABC affairs to
those originally set forth by Sena
tor Julian Allsbrook when legisla
tion creating the ABC Board was
enacted into law under his direc
finn sevpra.1 vpnrs a era
The bill had been bitterly opposed
by various citizens of the city and
county who openly fought it at its
hearing before the House Com
mittee on Counties, Cities and
Towns last week. Many of these
same citizens continued their ef
forts . in opposing the legislation
even after the committee reported
it favorably last Thursday, but
their efforts were to little avail, as
evidenced by the legislature en
acting the measure into law.
Senate Bill 16, introduced soon
after the first of the present legis
lative session by Senator D. Mac
Johnson, was also ratified by the
legislature on Monday of this week,
in its substituted form. This bill
districts Halifax County into flye
districts, each to nominate one
member of the County Board of
Commissioners in the next primary
election.
The voters will select their mem
bers from the following districts:
One from Roanoke Rapids town
ship; one from Littleton, Butter
wood and Brinkleyville townships;
one from Weldon and Faucette
townships; one from Enfield and
Halifax townships; and one from
Scotland Neck, Conoconnara, Pal
myra and Roseneath townships.
Each district will nominate its
own member on the County Board
of Commissoners; for example:
the Commissioner from Roanoke
Rapids will be voted on by the vo
ters of Roanoke Rapids township
only.
"WAR DEAD"
PEG. JOHNNIE W. BRANTLEY
The Marine shown above is a
former resident of the city who,
was killed in an automobile acci-'
dent at a California Camp on Feb
ruary 19th. Funeral services were
held here last week. He was the
adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. L R. <
White of this city.
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BLACKOUT OF
THURSDAY IS
BIG SUCCESS
The blackout test held here last
Thursday night was “particularly
successful” in the words of Eld. H.
Graves, chairman of the local civil
ian defense corps. It was the first,
such test for the city and surround
ing territory since early last fall,
and came as a surprise to everyone,
including OCD officials. The local
civilian defense unit had been told
that a blackout test would be called
for some time between Monday
morning and Friday midnight of
last week, but other than that they j
had no further information.
The yellow signal was sounded
here at 9:11 p. m. last Thursday;
the blue signal was flashed at ex-1
actly 9:22; the red signal at 9:40;
the blue again at 9:52, and the all
clear at 10:11 p. m.
Graves reports the signals were
sounded on time to the exact sec
ond almost, that local civilian de
fense workers mobilized immedi
ately, and that only one case of an
unattended light was reported to
local OCD officials. It seems there
were a few isolated cases of misin
terpretation of the signals, but
these were quickly straightened out
by air raid wardens. *
RAISE QUOTA
TO $10,000
IN TERRITORY
The annual Roll Call drive of the
American Red Cross will start in
the city on Monday of next week,
with $10,000 as' the goal for Roan
oke Rapids and surrounding ter
ritory, which includes Littleton,
Aurelian Springs and places near
those towns and communities. The
goal is by far the largjest set for
the local chapter, though local of
ficials expressed themselves as con
fident the amount could be raised
this year.
The goal for the last drive was
only $4,000.00 and was more than
doubled by the local chapter. The
same procedure in soliciting funds
will be carried out this year, ac
cording to preliminary plans an
nounced by Rev. Gordon Price,
chairman of the local chapter.
A meeting was held Monday night
at which time the following officers
for the local chapter to serve dur
ing 1943 were elected: Rev. Gordon
L. Price, chairman; Rev. John
Walker, vice-chairman; Mrs. J. E.
McGee, executive secretary, and
R. W. Vaughan, treasurer*. The
nominating committee was com
posed of C. W. Davis, Mrs. J. E. Mc
Gee, Mrs. F. G. Jarman, and
Shearod Crumpler.
A financial report was submitted
at Monday night’s meeting showing
that the local chapter had received
$10,198.19 from all sources as of
the period ending December 31st,
1942, which with the balance on
hand gave them a total to be ac
counted for of $11,054.48. Of this
amount the major disbursements
included- the Roll Call Remittance
to National Headquarters of
$1,180.90, and the War Fund Re
mittance to National Headquarters
of $5,859.22, with other disburse
ments running the total to $9,951.72.
This left a balance on hand of
$1,102.76, with which to start the
new year.
Reports of various activities con
ducted by the local chapter will be
found on the inside pages of this
issue of the Herald, and R. W.
Vaughan, treasurer, acting also in
the capacity of publicity chairman,
has turned over additional reports
which will appear in-next week’s
issue of this newspaper.
Officials of the local chapter of
the Red Cross pointed out this
week that the national organiza
tion faces the second year of United
States’ participation in World War
II secure in the knowledge that its
vast resources have withstood the
rigid tests of wartime in the months
since Pearl Harbor.
To meet its increased wartime
responsibilities, the Red Cross has
set a goal of $125,000,000 for the
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