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VOLUME xxvm ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 8,1943-XCMBER 49
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LIONS STAGE
FESTIVAL ON
AUGUST 914
To Be Seventh Annual
Venture Of Local
Civic Club
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The Roanoke Rapids Lions Club
will stage their seventh annual
“Mid-Summer Festival” in the city
the week of August 9th to 14th,
according to announcement made
today by Dot Bennett, club presi
dent and chairman of the festival
committee.
Scene of this year's festival will
be Simmons Park. The attraction
is usually located on the Avenue;
just south of Rosemary Manufact-!
uring Co. but that land is given
over to Victory Gardens this year,
so the ball park was decided on as
the location.
W. C. Kaus Shows, the same or
ganization that played here last
^year, will occupy the midway with
a twin ferris wheel, other rides,
shows and concessions. Proceeds
from the venture will go to the
Lions blind and welfare fund, all
of it being spent locally.
The local civic club has in
*<Rie past been highly successful in
► staging their annual festivals, and
for the past three-years has netted
substantially more than $2,000 a
show.
Serving with Bennett on the
Committee are Lions: Joe Talley,
Ed Knott and Basil Glover.
NNY TO PLAY
ROMANCOS ON
fRIDAY NIGHT
Local Scftball Team
Wins Game With
S. A. L. Shops
&,• The Romancos will play the Nor
ICfolk Navy Yard for the second
time this season at Ledgerwood
- Park in a double-header encount
er tomorrow, Friday night. Games
are to start at 8:15.
< * ^Rivalry between the two teams
t«s particularly high, and it is said
the navy yard intends to bring a
much stronger aggregation to bat
tle the state softball champs tom
orrow night. The line-up will in
pjpbability include “Smut”
NBarnes, who pitched them to a
double-victory here last season.
Barnes, now is tide-water’s fastest,
pitcher. ,,.?•••“ I
The Romancos line-up will pro
\b«hly be: DeBerry and R Everette,
fbatteries; L. Everette, 1-b; C. Alls
brook, 2-b; R. Rogers, s, s,; Boyd
or Cooper, If; O. Worsham, cf.; F.
Rhone rf.; and S. Hux, short cen
ter field.
The Romancos took a double
lleader from the Seaboard Shops,
of Portsmouth, here Saturday night
by scores of 2 to 1, and 5 to 1. R.
Everette and Hux scored homers
for the locals.
Marine Corps Officers Promoted
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Five Marine Corps officers who have been promoted to the rank of brigadier general are, left to right,
T -F.oy P. I3-nt, Thomas E. BourI:e, Harold D. Campbell, Leo D. Herml* and Claude A. Larkin. Each
has been a Marine Corps officer since 1917.
IN ARMY
Pfc. Raymond Britton, shown
above, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Britton, 1314 Washington St.
A former employee of Roanoke
No. 1 mill, he married Miss Vir
ginia Bryant, who is making her
home with her parents for the
duration.
PREVENTORIUM
SECOND GROUP
ARRIVE MONDAY
The first group of 30 young
sters will complete their four
week’s period and leave the City
Preventorium Saturday morning
about 10 o’clock. Parents of the
children are asked to call for
them at that time.
This will enable workers at the
Preventorium to clean up and
put things in order for the sec
ond group of 30 children expect
ed to arrive next Monday at 8:30
a. m. It appears there will be
several vacancies in the second
group, and anyone desiring to ent
er a child may do so by contact
ing any one of the doctors clinics
in the mill villages.
This year has been one of the
most successful ones for the op
eration of the preventorium. Dr..
J. W. Martin, chairman of the
Preventorium Committee, in com
menting on the program today
stated that: "Every child looks
better than he or she did upon
entering. A few of the children
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SOUTH CAROLINA BUYS
CARLOAD OF WHISKEY
REFUSED FOR HALIFAX
| J. F. White Makes Statement Regarding
Resignation As ABC Manager To Correct
Misleading Reports; Chairmen Change Minds
| j. jp. wnne, Jiinneia, manager of
the Halifax County ABC system,
who resigned -from that position
last Thursday night, made a pub
lic statement yesterday after news
articles from Weldon had appear
ed in the Raleigh News & Observ
er which Mr. White states were
untrue and misleading.
Mr. White states he resigned
only after G. H. Johnson of Scot
land Neck, chairman of the ABC
Board, had resigned. The chairman
withdrew his resignation when Mr.
White said he would resign instead.
D. Mac Johnson, State Senator
from Enfield, who had been acting
as attorney for 'the Board, handed
in his resignation and retainer fee
after Mr. White resigned and was
followed last Friday by the resig
nation of Clyde D. Liske of Roan
oke Rapids as a member of the
Pna rrl
The clash between the chairman
and the manager came after a
trip made to the State ABC office
in Raleigh by Chairman Johnson
and Messrs Wade Dickens and Er
ic Rodgers of Scotland Neck in
regard to a car load of whiskey
purchased from Eastern Distilled
Spirits Co. of Boston by Halifax
County. Carl Williamson, State ABC
manager, is reported to have told
Johnson that he had not approved
the shipment of the car after it had
been purchased by the Halifax
board. It had also been charged
that White was acting without the
sanction of the local board and
had paid too high a price for the
whiskey.
Minutes of the board meeting of
May 28th show that the purchase
of this car load of whiskey was
the purpose of the meeting, that
quality, price and terms of pay
ment of the whiskey was discussed
and that “Upon motion of Chair
man G. H. Johnson, seconded by
C. D. Liske, the manager (White)
was instructed to proceed to Boston
and purchase the whiskey in ques
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Close Surgical
Dressing Rooms,
Lack Materials
The city workrooms for pre
paring surgical dressings, main
tained by the local chapter of ;
the Red Cross, have been closed J
temporarily because of lack of
materials. It seems the last ship
ment of gauze intended for city
workers, was lost or routed the
wrong way in shipment by freight <
Until material is received, the
workrooms will remain closed '■
Workers and supervisors will be
notified upon its arrival. i
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DENGES WILL ;
AGAIN HEAD I
CHEST DRIVE !
Appoint Ned Manning t
4s Co-Chairman, j
A New Post i
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Fr. Peter N. Denges will serve (
as chairman for the 1943 drive to i
be conducted by the Community i
Chest, a position he successfully
held last year, it was decided at a I
recent meeting of the campaign <
committee here. " 1
Ned Manning was appointed to 1
the post of co-chairman for this ’
year’s drive, under a new set-up i
adopted by chest officials. The new ;
plan of operation calls for the ap
pointment of a drive chairman and
a co-chairman, with one man serv
ing both terms successively. It is
thought that under this system, ■
the person holding this post will
be more familiar with the work
confronting him when he becomes.
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ELMORE IVEY
SLAYS WIFE
NOON TODAY
Father-In-Law Is
Second Victim Of
Shotgun Wounds
A double killing and suicide
occurred at Halifax at noon
today.
Clinton Elmore Ivey, 29
year old city textile worker,
fired a 12-guage shotgun at
bis wife, Ellen Clary Ivey, 25
year old mother of two chil
ilren. The full load took ef
fect under the left arm, kill
ing her instantly. He then
turned on his father-in-law,
R. E. Clary, 51-year old em
ployee of E. W. Smith, city
electrical contractor, mortally
wounding him. Clary was
brought to Roanoke Rapids
Hospital, where he died at
l :50 p. m. His wife, Mrs.
Vfurdie C. Clary, mother of
the girl, was a witness to
:he shooting.
After the shooting in the base
nent apartment of the Ivey’s at
;he home of Jonas Avent in Hali
ax, Ivey, armed with the shot
;un, ran into the woods near the
louse a few hundred yards, to the
ianks of Quanky Creek, where
le removed one shoe and managed
o pull the trigger of the shotgun
vith his toe, firing the full load
>f the gun into his own head,
lis body was discovered about
!:45 this afternoon.
Officers believed Ivey committed
uicide soon after fleeing from the
louse. The sheriff’s force, state
dghway patrolmen and a posse,
vith aid of bloodhounds, had been
earching for him from the time
>f the shooting up to discovery
-f his body. It is reported blood
lounds went within 20-ft, of him,
iefore officers, hesitant to enter
he dense woods because it was
mown he was armed, discovered
he body.
The Iveys had maintained
heir apartment in Halifax for
3-months, tho’ the couple had
leen separated since May. He was
•laced under a two-years suspend
id sentence at the June term
•f Superior Court by Judge Claw
on Williams, on a charge of as
aulting his wife.
The double shooting and suicide
his morning brings to a tragic
•nd an era of domestic strife in
heir household over a period of
he past several years, during
which time they have been in and
>ut of court on various charges
frowing out of their marital re
ationship. It is said they were
narried when she was 14-years old.
Soon after Ivey was placed un
ier the suspended sentence, his
wife appeared before Magistrate
iV. O. Thompson, swearing out a
warrant for him stating he had
;ried to cause her to wreck her
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