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S 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, 1948
JAMES W. WHITBY, Navy, Oct 26, 1942WINFIELD HASTY, Army, August 19, 1948
«THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
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Volume xxix boanoke rapids, n. cT Thursday, January 27,1944
STUDENTS BUST BOND QUOTA
HUGE THRONG WILL ATTEND
PRESIDENT'S BALL HERE
SATURDAY NIGHT, JAN. 29TH
(fag Day All Day
Saturday By Boy
And Girl Scouts
By MORRIS S. CLARY
m Hundreds are expected to crowd
the Armory to attend the Presi
dent’s Birthday Ball on Saturday
night, January 29, from 8 o’clock
to midnight where the Johnson
County Ramblers will furnish mu
£jc for round and square dancing.
™ All net proceeds will go to fight
the Crippler, Infantile Paralysis.
The Lions Club and Veterans of
Foreign Wars are co-sponsoring
te Ball.
The Girl Scouts will have Tag
ay and Boy Scouts will carry
the “March of Dimes” to its con
clusion on Saturday in a Tag Day
I program. Girl Scouts will sell
^tags in the various drug stores
ikad the Boy Scouts will sell them
the department and dry-goods
t stores. This part of the “March
i; of Dimes” program will be under
the direction of Frances New
| some, Chairman Halifax County
Roman’s Division of the National
■Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
| Inc.
A door collection will be made
[at each of the three theatres on
Thursday night, Saturday after
noon and night by he Scouts. A
*milar collection will be made at
* th; theatres on Sunday afternoon
and night by the Business and
Professional Woman’s Club. “This
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New Pastor
The Reverend B. Marshall
Whitehurst, new pastor of the
Rosemary Baptist Church. The
Reverend Whitehurst was pastor
at Fairfax, Virginia, for the past
4 years. He is a graduate of the
University of Richmond, South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville, Kentucky, and Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Virginia. The Whitehursts have
two small children and the fami
ly moved in the Rosemary Baptist
Parsonage a couple weeks ago.
'NATIONAL RED CROSS TO
ASK ROANOKE RAPIDS FOR
75 PER CENT INCREASE
■Because of the extra demands;
on the National Red Cross, the
%uotas in the country will be
raised 75 per cent over those of
last years’ Annual Roll Call when
the 1944 drive starts here in
March.
r ft Last year, the citizens of the
Roanoke. Rapids Chapter, which
includes Roanoke Rapids, Littleton
and Butterwood townships, gave
$5300 to the National Red Cross.
This year they will be asked to
ftve $9,300. Those who gave a
Hollar will be asked to give $1.75
and those who gave nothing will
be asked to give a dollar. L. S.
Neal of Roanoke Rapids has ac
cepted the tough job of Roll Call
jpiairman.
* Miss Marian Weinel, General
Field Representative of the Nat
ional Red Cross, was in Roanoke
Rapids today and pointed out a
few of the reasons for the in
C*ease in the quota with the ex
tra calls made because of the
war. She pointed out that the Red
Cross is the only organization
which is actually in camps at all
t *
s
times and on the battle fields
while the work of getting contact
and the gifts to our men who are
war prisoners is a new task
which the Red Cross is burdened
with.
Chairman Gordon Price stated
a publfc meeting would be held
of all Red Cross workers and civ
ilian volunteers prior to the March
drive.
Poyner Promoted
Graham Poyner, former member
of Roanoke Rapids High School
faculty and later program manager
at WPTF, Raleigh, has been pro
moted to Lieutenant Sr. Grade in
the U. S. Navy.
Scott In Hawaii
Lt. M Scott Benton, U. S. N. is
now on active duty with the
Navy in the Hawaii area. L. Ben
ton is a member of the law firm
of Allsbrook, Benton, Gay and
Midyette.
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QUOTA I
BUSTERS
Roanoke Rapids High School
students are busy busting quotas
every day in the 4th War Loan
Drive now on.
Reports this afternoon shown
the new quota of $$15,000 had
been topped with a total of $15,
979.80 bought or sold by Junior
and Senior students in War
Bonds and Stamps. Of this
amount Junior High had $12,
886.60 and Senior High $3,093.20.
The original quota for High
was $3,215, based on an average
of $5 per pupil, 508 in Junior
High and 335 in Senior High.
This quotas was busted the sec
ond day and a new one of $15,
000 set for the month. That
one fell today and reports to
night are the young Bond and
Stamp salesmen might set a goal
of two training ships instead of
one, with Junior High on one,
Senior High on the other.
New Address Of
Sgt. Leroy Morris
The address of Technical Ser
geant Leroy W. Morris, who is a
prisoner of war of the Germans,
published last week was his for
mer address before his capture by
the Germans.
His present address is American
P. O. W. No. 112592, Stalag Luft 3,
Germany (Stalag 7A, Germany) via
New York, N. Y.
In the left hand top of the en
velope those desiring to write to
Sgt. Morris should print Prisoner
of War Mail, and in the right hand
top corner, Postage Free.
In England /
CpI. George A. Lucas, the
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Vaughan of Gaston. George grad
uated from the Gaston High
School in 1940. He was drafted
in the armed forces in Feb., 1948.
He took his basic training in
Keesler Held, Miss, and Daniel
Held, August, Ga. He was sent
to England in July, 1943. His wife
was the former Miss Louise Hin
son of Gaston. George said to tell
all his friends hello and to write
to him, for he is always glad to
hear from some one back home.
His address is: CpL George A.
Lucas (84665991), A. P. O. 688, %
Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
HERE BREAK WAR BONDS
DRIVE QUOTAS IN 3 DAYS
Wins Wings ^
Breaking quotas they had set
for a month’s drive in the 4th
War Loan starting last Thursday
in the first three full days, stu
dents of the Senior and Junior
High Schools of Roanoke Rapids
voluntarily set new quotas for the
month more than three times their
original goals.
Based on purchase or sale of
an average of $5 per pupil the
335 Senior High School students
had a goal of $1,675. Tuesday
noon of this week they had re
ported $3,350.50 to their sponsor,
Miss Martha Rice.
In Junior High the first goal
was $2,640 for the month which
ends Feb. 18 and this amount had
been passed Tuesday noon, ac
cording to sponsor Miss Iris Davis.
“Buy-A-Plane” is now the aim
of the students who now want to
sell $15,000 worth to purchase a
PT-19B Fairchild Training Plane
on which tpe Army Air Force will
put the name and address of the
High School responsible for rais
ing those funds.
Boys and girls are scouring
Roanoke Rapids business and re
sidential sections asking folks to
purchase War Bonds and Stamps.
The High School office has been
rushed filling out bonds for pur
chasers.
The drive will be climaxed Feb.
18th with the Roanoke Rapids
School Band and students in a
gala parade at 2:40 p. m. and an
informal Valentine Dance in the
Armory later that evening.
On Tuesday night, Feb 1, a
double-header basketball game will
start at 7:30, with the 1890 Facul
ty of Jr. High vs. 1944 Girls and
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HOLLOMAN
FUNERAL
ON FRIDAY
Troy V. Holloman, 49, died yes
terday at Roanoke Rapids Hospi
tal after a several weeks’ illness.
He is survived by his wife, Addle
Keeter Holloman; two sons, George
Holloman, Camp Wheeler, Ga.;
Garland E. Holloman, Roanoke
Rapids; one brother, George Hol
loman, Danville, Va.; one sister,
Mrs. Pearl Leonard Shallotte, N.
C., and a host of friends.
Mr. Holloman moved here about
23 years ago and worked for Roa
noke Mill Co. until 1938 when he
went into the dairy business in
which business he was very suc
cessful and made lots of friends.
In 1943 he became connected with
the (Police Force in Roanoke Rap
ids and made a good officer.
Funeral service will be conduct
ed at his home at the old Sim
mon’s Place on Bolling Road, Fri
day, January 28, at 4:00. Rev. S.
N. Fann will conduct the funeral.
Harvey W. Woodruff, son of Mrs.
W. V. Woodruff of 504 Jackson
Street, Roanoke Rapids, has been
awarded his wings as a pilot and
commissioned a second lieutenant
in the Army Air Forces following
graduation from the advanced fly
ing school at Fort Sumner, New
Mexico. He is a graduate of Roan
oke Rapids High School and en
tered the Army on July 30, 1943,
and trained at Santa Ana, Califor
nia, Ryan Field, Tuscon, Arizona;
Pecos, Texas and Fort Sumner,
New Mexico. Lt. Woodruff has been
assigned to Del Rio Texas.
LT. WELCH
MISSING
SINCE 11TH
Lt. Rudolph Allen Welch has
been missing in China since Jan.
11th, according to a letter received
this week by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Welch, from General
Ulio, the Adjutant General.
He was on an operational mis
sion over China and failed to re
turn, according to the General's
letter, which also said it would
take some time to get all the facts
but searches and investigations
would continue. However, as the
letter pointed out, if he had bailed
out and been captured by the
Japs, the time would be still long
er before any news might be re
ceived that he was alive.
Lt Welch was on a B-24 Bomb
er and had taken part in a re
cent bomber raid on Rangoon. His
last letter was written to his par
ents on Jan. 4th and reached
Roanoke Rapids on Jan. 14h. As
he was a consistent letter writer,
his folks are expecting to receive
a letter any day written just be
fore the take-off on Jan. 11, six
teen days ago. j