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
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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 <
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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!
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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.
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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.
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] 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.
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