INSTRUCTIONS ARE ISSUED
ON ABSENTEE VOTING AND
REGISTRATION BY SOLDIERS
The State Board of Elections
today issued instructions on absen
tee registration and voting by
North Carolina men and women
in the armed services.
“It is the desire of everyone that
the privilege of voting be exercis
ed to the fullest extent by our
men and women in service,” said
Chairman William T. Joyner of
Raleigh. “The procedure is sim
ple. Any member of a soldier’s
family can fill out the application
form and deliver it or mail it to
the Chairman of his County Board
of Elections. The Chairman will
do the rest.
“An application by the soldier
on a card furnished by the Unit
ed States Government, addressed
to the Secretary of State who
will forward it to the chairman
of the proper county board), is
sufficient application for registra
tion and general election ballots,
and is just as good as one made
to the Chairman of the County
Board of Elections.
“One application is all that is
necessary. It will secure for the
applicant all the registration or
voting privileges to which he is
entitled in both the primary and
in the general election. For ex
ample: if an applicant makes ap
plication prior to the primary and
is found to be entitled to be reg
istered, he will be registered for
the primary and general election,
and will be sent ballots for the
primary and for the general elec
tion.
"After a proper application has
been filed giving the necessary in
formation, there is nothing furth
er for the applicant or for his
family to do either for the pri
mary or the general election. The
Chairman of the County Board of
Elections will do the rest.”
NAVY NEEDS
TECHNICIANS
Radio technicians are urgently
needed in the Navy and every
youth enlisting has an opportun
ity of becoming a radio techni
cian first class at $114.00 per
month base pay within ten months
if he can qualify, it was announc
ed today by J. W. Brown, Chief
Petty Officer in charge of the Eli
zabeth City Navy Recruiting Sta
tion.
Any youth successfully passing
the entrance examination will be
enlisted in the Navy as a seaman
first class to start, with base pay
of $66.00 per month, and after
three months they are promoted
to Petty Officer third class and
so on up the line until they com
plete school at which time they
will be Petty Officer first class.
Brown said that anyone with a
fair knowledge of physics and
math and who knows the basic
principals of electricity would be
able to pass this examination. In
taking this examination you are
not obligated to enlist in the
Navy and you will still have to
pass a physical examination.
The Navy urges every one in
terested in becoming a radio tech
nician or in any other rating in
the Navy to contact Recruiter
Brown when he is in your vicinity.
He can give you the examination
immediately and then you will
know whether you can enlist in
the field of your choice or not.
Brown will be in Weldon at the
Post Office on Thursday, March
23; Roanoke Rapids, at the Radio
Station on Friday and Saturday,
March 24 and 25, and every Fri
day and Saturday thereafter.
Any information which you may
desire about the Navy will be
gladly given and to the girls who
are between the ages of 20 and 36
Brown has some new booklets just
off the press about what you can
do in the “WAVES” and whether
you are interested in enlisting or
not please call or write for one
of these books and there is a
world of information in them.
MEETINGS BEING
HELD EACH DAY
Revival services are now in
progress at the First Methodist
Church in this city, and are be
ing held daily at 2:15 and 8 p. m.
m. The meetings will continue
through Friday, an don Sunday
the closing service of the series
will be held at 8 p. m. Rev. E.
C. Crawford of Enfield is the
guest preacher. The public is
cordially invited.
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE GUARD ON PARADE
Passing in review before a group of Ft. Bragg officers and dignitaries including Gov. J. Melville #
Broughton is this file of North Carolina State Goardsmen led by the State Guard band during last July’s I
10-day encampment at the huge training post. The State Guard will return to Ft. Bragg this July for # 1
another training period. (U. S. Army Photo). * ft
TOWN TALK
Mrs. Harry McClure, of Newport
News, Va., spent the week-end
in town with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Collins
and family of McKenny, Va., spent
Sunday with Mrs. Collins’ parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Shell.
Pvt. Joseph W. Norwood, of
Fort Benning, Ga., spent last week
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jake Norwood.
Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Hux and
daughter, Patricia, spent the week
end in Weldon with Mr. and Mrs.
H. T. Norman.
Miss Alma Crawley spent the
week-end in Rich Square with
Miss Myrtle Warren.
Mrs. L. E. Keeter, of Scotland
Neck, is spending this week in
town.
Ensign Daniel Hart of Newport,
R. I., is spending this week in
town with his family.
Mrs. Mattie Shelley spent last
week in Dillon, S. C., with her
father, J. L.. Owen.
A. M. Wrenn and Woodrow
Wrenn attended the funeral of
H. T. Moore in Brunswick Coun
ty, Va., Sunday.
Edward Norwood, of Ports
mouth, Va., spent the week-end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jake Norwood.
Mrs. Burnette Connell left last
Wednesday for Little Rock, Ark.,
to visit her husband, Staff Ser
geant Burnette Connell.
,Mrs. Carl Keeter and son, Fred
die, Mrs. Marvin Deberry, Mrs.
Rudolph Waters and children, Bert
Michael and Myrtle Rose, spent
last Thursday in Scotland Neck.
Pvt. W. L. Newsom and Pvt.
Carl Willis, of Camp Davis, spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Newsom.
Cpl. Hubert James Roberts Iras
been promoted to Sergeant. He
enlisted in the Army July 8, 1941
and took his basic training at
Fort Belvoir, Va. Sgt. Roberts has
been oversea since August, 19'G,
and is now some where in bR
Southwest Pacific.
Sgt. Murrell Hudson, of Aber
deen Proving Ground, Aberdeen,
Md., spent the week-end in town.
Lt. Harvey Woodruff, of Barto^
dale Replacement Depot, Barlff
dale Field, Shreveport, La., spent
last week with his mother, Mrs.
W. V. Woodruff.
The Methodist Conference, held
in Wilson last Tuesday, was ^
tended by the following. Mrs. W.
L. Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse Harrell,
Mrs. R. M. Bardin, Mrs. Leon
Walters, Mrs. Graham Lynch, Mrs.
J. L. Ridout, Mrs. Alfred Thorne,
Mrs. L. A. Tilley, Mrs. Jake A^
kins, Mrs. J. W. Taylor, Mrs. Ms®
vin Collier and Mrs. Clary.
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