ROBERT E. MAY, Navy, May 8, 1942 WILLIAM H. CAMP, JR., Navy, Nov., 1942
R. H. McCOMMONS, Merchant Mar., July 5, 1942 GROVER WOODRUFF, Army, July 10, 1943
JAMES W. WHITBY, Navy, Oct. 26, 1942 WINFIELD HASTY, Army, August 19, 1943
J fVOLUME XXIX ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1943 NUMBER 21
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• ENGINEERS AT ROANOKE RAPIDS ARMORY DAY BEFORE LEAVING
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j; Above scenes taken Thanksgiving Day at the Roanoke Rapids Armory just before Co. A, 30th Engineers and their girl friends sat down
to a swell turkey dinner and two days before the detachment moved out to a new location. Other pictures taken of the event did not develop
1 f properly. (Top left) Men Working: Sgt. Fred Ball, Marshfield, Ore.; Pvt. John Emerson, High Point, N. C.; Pfc. A. B. Henderson, Ope
4 lousas La.; under truck Sgt. Glenn Flewelling Washburn Me. (Top right) One of the reasons the Engineers like Roanoke Rapids: Miss
„ Duene Byrd has visions of that Thanksgiving dinner; Bottom left: Co. A Shed House Quartette, names misplaced; Center, Sgt E. Eckblad
Kenosha, Wis., printer’s devil; Bottom Right: Kooks and KP*s who got more to eat and drink than anybody else; it was definitely their day.
(J.t. Crouch and his detachment left Roanoke Rapids after four months of stay here with the admiration and best wishes of the entire city.
INJURIES IN
WRECK FATAL
)EMPORIA MAN
^Voodrow Male, 25-year old em
ployee of the Johns Manville Corp.,
whose home is at 445 South Main
St, Emporia, Va., died at Roanoke
Rapids Hospital before midnight
THesday, the result of injuries re
'\selved in an automobile accident
Occuring a few miles from Em
■joria on the Richmond highway
*ate Monday afternoon.
■r Male was married to the former
y^»s Estelle Braswell, former citv
/girl who is daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Neaton Braswell, 1007 Jack
son St.. They had been married
about three years, and have one
girl, Vickie Lee.
funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon, with burial at
Pleasant Hill. Besides his wife and
daughter, he is survived by his
parents, who live near Seaboard.
Mrs. Male was visiting her par
e{£s in the city at the time the ac
cident occured Monday. It is un
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HELP TAKE AT)OLL FROM JAPS
DOUGLAS O. MULLIS
Pvt. Douglas C. Mullis, Marine,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mullis,
223 Madison St., has written his
folks from Tarawa, A toll Island
in the South Pacific which the
CLEADES MULLI8
and he met In New Zealand a
few months ago. The letter was
written on Japanese letter paper.
Douglas said he had no mail for
two months. His address is %
TO CLOSE ONE
ABC STORE RR
Messrs. Hux Baird and J. W.
Humphries, employees at Store
No. 2 of the ABC system at Roan
oke Ave. and 2nd St., have been
notified by .the County ABC Board
that the store will be closed on
January 15th, 1944, due to the
shortage of whiskey.
The action was taken by the
Board on Dec. 14th and the two
men were given thirty-day notices.
Manager Ruth Coppedge stated to
day the store in Ro&noke Rapids
was the only one to be closed at
this time.
HERALD OUT
DAY EARLY
This week’s edition of the Her
ald is oat a day earlier than
usual because of the Christmas
holidays, thus the paper does not
contain the usual Thursday local
news coverage offered our read
ers. Next week’s “New Tear’s
CLOSE DAIRY
UNLESS PRICE
IS INCREASED
Atlanta OPA Writes
Congressman On
Status Here
J. Sam Powell, owner and man
ager of the largest dairy serving
Roanoke Rapids, in a statement
issued today says he must quit the
business after Dec. 31st, unless he
gets immediate relief from OPA
and the ceiling price on milk in
this county Is raised enough to
permit him costs and a small
profit.
Efforts have been made for the
past month to get the needed re
lief in a raise from 16 cents to at
least 19 cents per quart, at which
price dairymen here say they can
break even or perhaps show a
small profit. Following is Mr.
Powell’s statement in full:
It is with regret that I must
tell my customers to try to make
other arrangements to get milk, as
1 will be unable to serve them
after December 31, 1943, under the
present ceiling price for Halifax
County.
I would be glad to continue
serving them as I have for the
past 12 years but the ceiling price
of milk in this County is so low
it does not pay the cost of pro
duction and delivery. My costs
have increased 100% in the past
2 years and I have been allowed
a 6%% increase in my price up
to date.
I have done all I could to try
to help relieve the milk shortage
in this locality, producing more
milk than any one else in Halifax
County for the past 12 years and
for the past 7 years have bought
and resold over a 100 quarts of milk
per day at a loss. When I could
no longer buy outside milk be
cause of the shortage in the area
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Merchant Marine A 1 p h e a s
Leonidas Hux, Clerk of the Supe
rior Court of Halifax County,
now on leave for service with the
Maritime Commission, arrived
yesterday from St. Petersburg,
Fla. for Christmas furlough with
his family in Halifax and “Bus
tard town”. Hux will leave ter
active duty on the highseas on
Ids return to Florida where he