Herald Will Print 'em, But—
LETTERS TO SANTA
* MUST BE IN EARLY
Will Start Them Next Week!
f It’s an old “time-honored” custom for Santa Claus to
get scores of letters of “fan mail” from his youthfid ad
mirers i n Roanoke Rapids and surrounding territory
through the columns of the HERALD. Years ago, the pub
lishers of this newspaper arranged for him to he delivered
jl Wcial copy at the headquarters at the North Pole, and
H ^assistants inform us that he reads each and every letter
the little boys and girls of this territory write to him, which
is published in the HERALD.
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This year, because of war-times,
anc^the “last minute” rush Old
Man Santa and all of his helpers
will be in, it is more than ever
necessary that letters to him be
sent early. And, because Santa
Cl^ is a very busy man these
days, it is equally important that
the letters be “short and snappy.”
“You see it’s like this,” one of
Santa’s helpers told us the other
day, “Santa Claus knows most lit
tlojpboys and girls from Rapids
and he does not have time to do
much reading. The importin'
thing is for children to tell him
what they want, and where to find
them on Christmas Eve, and to
letliiim know well ahead of time
they are expecting a visit from
him. Just write Santa telling him
what you want, and where you
live, and if you will get it to him
early enough he will attend to the
resjf’
“Letters to Santa” should be
legibly written (on one side of the
paper only) and mailed or brough’
to the Herald office. All such let
ter* received early enough ( and
by®hat, we mean that now is the
time to write) will be published
in some issue before Christmas.
Use the child’s own phraseology
Dr. Harold L. Trigg urges new am
enlarged program of Episcopa
Church work with Negroes in th
South. He is President of Stati
Teachers’ College, Elizabeth Citj
N. C.
r that is half the charm of Ole
"Santa's letters. The importan
h;ng to remember is: GET THAI
GETTER OFF TO SANTA CLAUS
^ODAY, if you want to see it ii
•r!'it before Christmas.
• THE HOME SPHERE
Edited By
i MISS FLORENCE COX
Home Demonstration Agent
Q MISS ESTELLE M. EDWARDS
Assistant Home Demonstration Aaent.
The Year’s Work:
The year of 1944 begins in Ex
tension Work with December 1st
so®t may be not amiss to give
the general public some idea as
to part of the work that has been
done by the Home Demonstration
Club members, 4-H Club members
and the Home Agents during the
pa* twelve months..
Home Demonstration Clubs grew
from 15 to 21 clubs with an in
creease of 132 members, there now
being 437 * women on roll. 4-H
Cl#i's have increased one, to 20
4-H clubs, and an increase from
525 girls to 615 girls now on roll.
Club members have made a to
tal of 657 garments for the Red
Cr«s, 19 lap robes for wheel
phmr patients, 10 bed pen covers,
knitted 45 articles and made 9173
^surgical dressings as well as done
pouch special work with the Red
Cross Funds, ambulance fund etc.
'Biev have purchased or sold
$9u7852.05 worth of War Bonds
and stamps. This is investment
not face value.
The two Home Agents made 621
visits, received 312 office calls, and
23yW telephone calls, distributed
6TW government and state bullet
ins, held 8 training meetings for
local leaders, gave 225 demonstra
tions to adults and 216 demonstra
tions to 4-H Club girls, attended
SO ^Pther meetings for 4-H Club
girre. Eighteen Club meetings
were held without the presence of
either Home Agent and the dem
onstrations were given by one of
the club members.
^ club members reported hav
ing canned 37,164 containers of
food during the year. Figuring
from that and averaging for Hali
fax County would indicate that
Halifax County families will not be
hiuwrry this winter. It gives about
197!® containers per famijy. In ad
dition to the canning they dried
1162 pounds of fruts and vege
tables.
t
The 188 club members reported
having remodeled 118 dresses, 31
coats, 11 hats, and 128 children’s
garments. This shows that home
makers are taking seriously the in
War Economy “Use it up, wear it
out, or do without.”
Rural home-makers are also fol
lowing war recommendations in
manv other ways. One illustration
is the report of the sale of home
products, which adds to the total
available food supply for Ameri
can people. We have reported
from the woman’s curb market
and individual families together
the following amounts: Dairy pro
ducts $3648.65 Vegetables $1734.12
Poultry and eggs $16,345.22, Foods
$9943.77, Handicrafts $288.32 and
Miscellaneous $793.37 making a to
tal of $28,413.28.
HOME DEMONSTRATION
FEDERATION MEETING:
The annual meeting of the
Federation of Home Demonstra
tion Clubs will be held in the
Halifax Community building, on
December 8th at 2:00 p. m. The
Hardrawee Club will act as host
ess assisted by the Halifax Club.
Local talent will be featured in
this meeting. Agnes Ellen and
Alma Lee Whitley of the Enfield
4-H Club will give the Dairy
Foods Demonstration that won
them honors in this district and
placed them in the blue ribbon
group for the states. Agnes El
len will also model her costume
that placed in the district and
in the state blue ribbon group.
Other features will be the honor
ing of club members who have
sons or husbands, or daughters in
the armed forces and the installa
tion of officers for 1944-45.
Everyone on the program is a
Halifax County person so come
and help us enjoy the afternoon
and at the same time help honor
those among us who are deserv
ing that honor. The time is De
cember 8th, the place is Halifax.
STATENEAR
GOAL IN WAC
RECRUITING
According .to a WAC Recruiting
Bulletin recently issued from the
headquarters of the Fourth Ser
vice Command in Atlanta, Gerrgia,
North Carolina has come nearer
her goal for the All-States Re
cruiting Campaign than has any
other state in the service command
except Florida. Sixty-four percent
of the total quota of women from
the state has already been enlisted.
With the idea that ‘‘North Caro
lina Casulties need North Carolina
replacements”, Wacs in the state
have enthusiastically promoted the
All-States plan for an effort to
enroll a company of women by
December seventh. Lt. Pegram,
Roanoke Rapid’s WAC Recruiter,
will be in the post office again
this week on Friday and Satur
day to talk with those women in
terested in joining. Since little
time is left for those women who
would like to belong to North
Carolina's company, she urges that
local women come in this week.
"The deadline date, December sev
enth, doesn’t mean that WAC Re
cruiting will cease — far from it!
— it just means that if you’d like
to represent Roanoke Rapids in
our state company, you should
join now,” Lt. Pegram stated in
an intervieew while here last week.
Girls who join during the All
States Campaign still have thee
choice of signing a regular WAC
application, or of signing an ap
plication to become an Air-WAC,
for service with the Army Air
Forces.
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