Halifax County •Youth Shares In N. C. State Award Raleigh, August 19,— TwelVe Carolina have been awarded $100 Outstanding farm boys in North 1 scholarships to help them enter 1 the School of Agriculture at N. C. State College next month, Dr. Z. P. Metcalf, director of instruc tion in the school, announced to •ay. The scholarships are provided annually by the Sears-Roebuck Company to assist worthy farm | youths in getting an agricultural 1 education. & This year’s recipients, Dr. Met calf reported, are Jake M. Carter of Halifax County; Malcolm Cash well Cumberland; Robert James Davis, Granville; Earl Eason, Sampson; Nathan Hughes Garner, •hrteret; Donald H. Humphrey’s, Robeson; Tom Morgan, Anson; Ellis Parker, Harnett; Joe Mack Stout, Randolph; Daniel Wayne Taylor, Orange; Dena Tugman, Wautauga; and George R. Walsh, ijnerokee. Rev. Berkeley To Conduct Service Ks Usual Sunday Rev. Edmund Berkeley, pastor of All Saints Episcopal Church, had previously planned a vaca tion that would have taken him cjfc: °f the city over the week-end, but because of the illness of Mrs. Berkeley he will fill the pulpit as usual. He will also fil his reguar engagement at Saint Luke’s Church, in Northampton County, S^iday afternoon at 3:30 o’cock. EDITORIAL (Continued from Page 2-Sec. B) banks. He has probably saved im^iy lives by persuading boys not to swim in that river. But, de spite warnings and signs, boys will take a chance and through the years, the Roanoke, some say cal led by the Indians, River of D^th, has taken from our midst yoimg boys and men in the prime of life or just on the verge of en tering that stage of manhood when they might be worth some thing to their familiy and their community. When this war is over, one of the first things we should strive for in Roanoke Rapids is a muni cipal swimmng pool large enough to fill our needs and so conducted thajj. our boys would never again see* solace in the turbulent rap ids of the Roanoke. 538 a Minute < ■ i—:-1 That machine-gunner above ^ can give the Japs 538 bullets L" a jni iute. That is, if we here 3, InTi' ame of Town) can keep T his gun loaded. Each spruce if in our woodlots yields 0 enough nitrocellulose to (J mvke 7,500 cartridges. Let’s g get in there for 3 extra days ‘ —and cut more pulpwood! n p • r :e Ik |c i ! --——1— HALIFAX NEWS Mrs. and Mrs. Caswell Shaw and ;wo children and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boyken spent last last veek at Ocean Drive, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Vaughan mb sons, Charles and Larry are spending the week at Ocean Drive 3. C. Mrs. Will Neil and grand dau ghter, India, have returned after laving spent the week in Phil adelphia, Pa. Mrs. Neil was called there due to the illness and death if an only brother. Miss Carey Barbour of Clayton was the week end guest of Miss Edith Avent. Mrs. David Kerr was a visitor in Raleigh several days last week. Mrs. Jack Eason spent several days in Rocky Mount last week. Mrs. M. W. Perry and son, Mar cus have returned after a trip to Washington, D. C., to visit rela tives and friends. FDR iauyi: Originally we asked for 10 percent in bonds; now we need considerably 1 more. Cords' of PuIpwood^Cords of Shells (Official U. S. Signal Corps Photo) CORDS OF SHELLS protected by casings made from cords of pulpwood cut in farm woodlots of United States are needed for our armed forces along the road to victory. At U. S. Army ammunition dump in South Carolina members of 51st Ordnance Company “pass the ammunition” during recent maneuvers. Later they will pass it for guns to blast the Avis. Inset shows cord of pulpwood which will ma’te enough smr’ powr’er to fire two rounds of a 16-inch naval or coast defense gun. Cut more pulpwood and help win the war! CALVARY CHURCH Sunday School Sunday morning at 11:00. Everyone is urged to at tend. Mrs. Herman R. Ryles of Ports mouth, Va., visited her mother, I Mrs. Grover Ricks, for a few days last week. MARRIAGE Halifax, Aug. 17—The month of July came to close with not a single marriage license having been issued from the Register of Deeds office in Halifax during the latter half of the month. An all time low of only 10 licenses were issued from that office dur ing the month of July. Seven to colored applicants and three to white. August is also off to a very poor start with only 10 hav ing been issued thus far. One of the deputy register of deeds sug gested that maybe “they are all married” because until the off month of July, the office did a rushing business. Applicants during the month of August are as follows: Willie Kiah (col.) Scotland Neck and Hester Mae Day, Scotland Neck; Albert Smith (col.) Palmyra and Mary Brown, Scotland Neck, Sam Perry (white) Roanoke Rapids and Betty Moore, Erwin; Willie Watson (col.) Enfield and Sallie Mae Jordan, Enfield; Allen Moore (white) Roanoke Rapids and Mary Helen Hall, Aulander. During the month of January 35 licenses were issued, in Febru ary 45, in March 28, April 31, in May 30, in June 31, in July 10 and thus far, in August 7. * This community is on the spot! We are in a pulpwood growing section and there is now a pulp wood shortage. The country needs vast quantities of pulpwood for explosives, rayon parachutes, gas mask filters, shipping containers and a thousand other uses — yet some of the mills that make these things are actually shutting down., for lack of wood. This is a desperate situation— a war emergency. Something must be done QUICKLY! And only we who live in the pulpwood cutting areas can do anything about it. This is OUR responsibility. How the problem con be solved Mr. Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, gave the key to the solution in the following statement: “If every one of the more than 3,800,000 farmers in the 27 pulpwood producing states were to devote 3 EXTRA days in 1943 to cutting pulpwoor’ we could overcome the threatened 2,500,000 cord shortage with wood to spare.” ★ ★ ★ ★ mmu—m—m Will you enlist for 3 extra days? If you are now cutting pulpwood part time; if you have cut it in the past; or if you have never cut it but know how to use an axe and saw, will you pledge 3 extra days (at regular pay) to meet Mr. Nelson’s challenge? j Fill in the coupon. Mail it to this newspaper and you will receive the pledge badge which identifies j you as a Victory Pulpwood Cutter. This is a war amarcranrv. ■ ] CHAIRMAN NEWSPAPER PULPWOOD CAMPAIGN [ ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD I I pledge myself to work at least 3 IXTtA days during the I balance of 1943 cutting pulpwood. Please send me the campaign a badge which this pledge entitles me to wear. | Name I Address_ _ L.......—