VOLUME xxvm_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943 NUMBER 46
$540. in ABC
Funds Monthly
Are Available
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ENFORCEMENT
OF LAWS IN
CITY, COUNTY
Board Proposes Split
.Of Funds Between
County, Towns
About $540. monthly is now a
vailable for enforcement of ABC
Laws, and the ABC Board voted
Tuesday to split this amount, with
$270. going to police in towns with
ABC stores, and $270. to the
sheriff’s office.
This will be an increase of $15.
monthly to regular policemen, and
about $7.50 monthly to extra po
lice in the towns in the county
affected.
The Roanoke Rapids Board of
City Commissioners adopted a res
olution that ‘ the city accept the
supplement in pay to local police
officers at their regular June
meeting.
BILL BELL IN
HOSPITAL IN
CALIFORNIA
Family Notified Of
Safe Arrival By
The Red Cross
Relatives of Pvt. Bill Bell, local
youth who has been serving with
the ,U. S. Army at New Caledonia,
have been notified of his safe ar
rival at a hospital in California
by the American Red Cross. The
notification, addressed to his sis
ter, Ruth Bell, who has just com
pleted her basic training with the
WAAC’s at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.,
stated that he woulld write home
as soon as he could.
It is not known whether young
Bell was wounded, or suffered
illness while in foreign service.
Bill Bell has another sister with
the WAAC’s, Miss Bessie Bell,
stationed at Des Moines, Iowa.
Cpl. Herbert Bell, U. R. A., was
shipped out of California several
months ago for foreign service and
the family has been notified of
his safe arrival. Another brother,
Noah Bell, is in civil service with
the government, stationed with
'American Airlines in Panama.
City Observes Flag Day Monday
“Old Glory,” proud emblem of liberty-loving Americans, reached
ar|ther milestone Monday, June 14th. On that date, in 1777, the
first Stars and Stripes, made by Mrs. Betsy Ross in Philadelphia,
Was adopted by the Continental Congress. “Flag Day” was observed
in the city Monday, with “Old Glory” flying from practically every
place of business. The above shows U. S. Marines carrying the flag
an^ their own regimental standard.
lUUNIT rAKMtlu Unoto
TO CLEAR THEIR LABOR
FOR DRAFT DEFERMENT
I A I -‘
Itpproximately 500 Of
rhem Had Not Done
So On June 15th
approximately 500 farmers in
nfax County had not cleared’
ir labor for draft deferment on
le 15th, according to a state
nt from County Agent W. O.
vis today.
V second notice was mailed this
k to those farm producers who
/e not shown the necessary 10
r crop units per manpower,
e firsti notice was mailed about
i middle of May.
Joducers are being urged to
; war crops being grown in ad
ion to those shown on the first
tum manpower survey
in March of this year, and
arrange for their surplus la
get work on neighboring
where sufficient war crops
being grown to take care of
surplus labor. In this way
farmer will be able in many
to keep his labor for at
part of the time and to aid
production of vital war
ceeping experienced la
case in which
subject to in
services
Sec. A >
5-YEAR OLD
BOY IS SHOT
BY ACCIDENT
Pistol Accidentally
Discharges In Hands
Of Older Brother
Donald Barnhill, five year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. -Reno Barn
hill, of Enfield, was accidentally
shot by hig brother, Kenneth, age
eleven, Sunday afternoon, and is
in a Rocky Mount Hospital seri
ously ill.
The young boys were playing at
home of their grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Logue Barnhill, near
Dawsons, and in the car of their
uncle, Horace Barnhill, one of En
field’s police ^officers, they got a
pistol and in some way it acci
dentally discharged in the older
boy’s hands and shot the youhg
brother in the left side of his
face. The bullet went through the
neck and out the right shoulder.
He was rushed to the hospital
Recent reports are that he is
slightly better, blit still in a seri
ous condition.
MANPOWER
DISCUSSIONS
AT MEETING
P. B. Pollock Speaks
To Group Meeting
Here Wednesday
P. B. Pollock, area director of
the War Manpower Commission,
whose headquarters are in Raleigh,
was' the principal speaker at an
open forum discussion for employ
ers and employees held by the
United States Employment Ser
vice at the Municipal Building
here Wednesday night. The meet
ing was for the purpose of estab
lishing a uniform interpretation
of the Stabilization Plan which
became effective May 15th, and
was attended by some 40 persons.
Two revisions to the Stabiliza
tion Plan were brought out at
Wednesday night’s meeting, and
were explained by Mr. Pollock.
The first was that persons may
leave industry and go to agri
cultural employment without a
statement of availability, providing
they are share-croppers or farm
owners.
The second revision regarded
persons who had come to this
section from other areas, and
brought out the fact that if they
had established residence here
for 30-days they could be re
ferred by the local United States
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CRADDOCK ON
WOUNDED LIST
NORTH AFRICA
Wife Is Notified Of
His Release From
Field Hospital
Pfc. Johnnie Craddock was
wounded in action in the North
African war zone some three-weeks
ago, according to a message re
ceived from the war department
by his wife, Mrs. Mary L. Crad
dock, who formerly made her home
at 1220 Roanoke Avenue. Yesterday
it is said a second communication
received by her indicated he had
been released from the hospital.
Craddock is about 25 years old,
and although he considered Roan
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LATE NEWS
BRIEFS
Important Notice
Workers Engaged
Essential Industry
Under the Employment Stabili
zation Plan of the War Manpower
Commission no worker now en
gaged in essential activity may
be hired locally unless he has a
statement of availability from his
last employer. Beyond normal
commuting distance no worker
can be hired without a statement
of availability issued by the
United States Employment Ser
vice. Before changing jobs wor
kers are urged to visit the Em
ployment Office serving their area.
VFW TO STAGE
ARMORY DANCE
The local VFW post will re
sume its regular Saturday night
Square Dance at the Armory this
week, with music starting at
eight o’clock. A dance was not
held last week because the floors
had been waxed, and had not
had sufficient time to dry. The
dances will be held on a weekly
basis throughout the summer
months, according to local VFW
officials.
Need Three Ice
Cream Freezers
At Preventorium
Think it’s hot?
Know that it is?
Well how about those 30 kids
out at the Preventorium that
opened Monday?
Children like ice cream. There’s
a shortage of it just now. How
ever, Miss Ruth Strickland, in
charge of the kitchen, will gladly
make it for them . . . but there
are no facilities for freezing it.
The Preventorium is in urgent
need of three or four 1-gallon,
“old fashioned” ice cream freez
ers — the kind you turn with a
crank. They are not asking you
to give them, but if any one will
be so kind as to lend (me for a
few weeks, the loan will be so
much appreciated.
If you have one to spare call
j Miss Strickland at R-781-1.