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•*MM IHIIMIlUiy Vernon Edgar Whitley, Marvin William Mt, William H < amp, Jr, Robert E .May, R. H. McCommons, James W. Whitby,
•*• I # J Grover Woodruff, Winfield Hasty, Daniel E. Faison. Robert Lee Moore, Curtis E. West, Edgar H. King, Robert Lee Ingram,
III III I hi Thomas A. Cooper, Marvin F. Matkins, James G. Whitby, Thos. H. Cook, Jr., Elmer E. Chambliss, Randall White, Robert L.
_ _ „l„ . mi, |„||t|] Harris, Joseph A. Crouch. Davie L. Harper, Brutas W. Rook. Roht R. Northingtn, Eugene Basil Glover, William C. Moody,
Flank* W^Harris”Wayne C. Green’ Rufus S. Finch, Lawrence W. Myrick, Walter G. Cooley, Charlie L. Whitby. Melbourne Barry Jones, Robert A. Rogers, Rufus J. T. Wood
ruff, Clinton P. Deberry, Herbert S. Edwards, H. Charles Leatherwood, Jr., John Wayne Thomas, Alex Bullock, Jr., Frank P. Hunter.
THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
! VOLUME XXXI ” ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.,THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945_ NUMBER 12
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Robbers Of Service Station
Plead Guilty Monday; Given
Sentences In State's Prison
George William Moore, 24; Ray
mond Mark Zalewski, 23, and Jos
eph L.0 Guedice, 17, all white men,
pleaded guilty last Monday in Hal
ifax County Superior Court to
charges of robbery with firearms.
Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke
Rapids, presiding jurist, sentenced
all three of the men to “not less
than five years and not more than
10 years” at hard labor in State’s
'fe'ison.
The case is the outgrowth of the
holding up of Pepper’s Service Sta
tion about 12:15 Monday night,
Nov. 19, and the locking of Ed
Glover, employe of the station, in
the rest room. The robbers then
rifled the cash register, taking
$55.75. Jumping into a grey-green
Buick master coach, the trio fled
the city and were captured about
an hour later as they neared the
£ty limits of Emporia, Va.
Moore is believed to be from
Marlow, Okla.; Zalewski is thought
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Guedice from Middletown, Conn.
Another case disposed of was
that of Robert Jones, white, of
Scotland Neck, who was charged
with kidnapping and assault with
a deadly weapon on Berry Smith
and Lorenzo Covington, negroes.
Me was sentenced on the two as
sault counts to six months on the
roads and fined $150 and court
costs in each case. The road sen
tences were suspended and Jones
placed on probation.
A 15-year-old negro boy, Arthut
Sessoms, who has a long Criminal
record, and is said to be a six
times escapee from the Morris
Training School, pleaded guilty to
a charge of breaking and entering
|^ie store of Ray White at En
field. Judge Parker sent the negro
to the roads for one year.
Today the court is hearing
divorce cases. It will adjourn this
afternoon, resuming sessions next
Monday morning with Judge Q.
K. Nimmocks presiding.
Robert Vick
Discharged
From Service
Corp. Robert S. Vick, son of
Mrs. W. R. Vick, has been dis
charged from the army after hav
ing served 22 months overseas as a
f member of General Patton’s Sev
enth Armored Division, known as
,^ie “Ghost Division.”
Robert, who entered the service
i? in 1942, is a graduate of Roanoke
Rapids High School and later at
tended Guilford College. He has
been awarded four battle stars and
a number of ribbons and medals.
Vick is at home with his mother
for a long rest. He has made no
11 definite plans for the future.
El. C. State Guard
o Serve Dinner
The 14th Company North Caro
ia State Guard will serve a chick
i dinner to the personnel next
onday evening at 7:00 in the
rmory. All men are ordered to be
esent. The regular drill will tol
w the dinner.
Class D League
Of Pro Baseball
Being Agitated
A letter from the post athletic
officer at Fort Story, Va., say
ing he had been “approached by
business associates with the idea
of forming a pro class D base
ball league, has been received by
the secretary of the Merchants
Association here. Suggested
teams for the league are: Roa
noke Rapids, Elizabeth City,
Edenton, N. C.; Franklin, Hope
well, Petersburg, Lawrenceville,
and Suffolk, Va. Anyone in
Roanoke Rapids interested in
this city joining in such a move
may obtain information from
Mrs. C. D. Martin, secretary of
the association.
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Captain West
Is Back Home
From Pacific
Captain Stanford C West son
of Dr. and Mrs. J. Frank West,
has returned to the states a ®r
I-—ving 18 months overseas With
» 11th Airborne Division.
West entered the service as a
ivate, having been inducted at
»rt Bragg, April 7, 1941. Si"ce re‘
iving his commission April, 194j,
has served at Replacement Ce -
r at Fort Bragg and with the
th Airbobne at Camp McKall and
imp Polk. He went overseas with
ie 11th Airborne Division, seeing
;tion on New Guenia, Leyte and
uzon. On August 30 he entered
okyo with the 1st Airborne
•oops who acted as honor guard
>r Gen. MacArthur. |
Captain West, a parachute field
rtilleryman, was a battery com
aander with the 674th Parachute
r*ield Artillery Battallion, the
fump Battallion of the 11th Air
>orne Division Artillery, and serv
>d as combat liaison officer in
iction directing artillery Are at
STickols Field and aided in the lib
jration of internees at Los Banos
prison camp on Laguna De Bay
near Manilla. _ f
It was at Lipa, Luzon, that Capt.
West with six of his men, made
a demonstration jump from a Cub
plane for Gen. Joseph Stillwell
showing that the small plane could
be very useful and economical for
aerial resupply in tight places.
West wears the Asiatic Pacific
riDDon wun tnree Dacue stars, uue
arrowhead, the Philippine cam
paign ribbon with two battle stars
and was awarded the Bronze Star
medal for meritorious achievement.
Mrs. S. C. West and son, Staf
ford, Jr., are here visiting with
Captain West at the home of his
parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. F. West.
Legion Changes
Its Meeting Day
The Robert E. May Post of the
> American Legion has changed its
' meeting day to the first and third
1 Sunday afternoons beginning at 2
1 o'clock, it was announced today.
These Five Pretty Lassies Are Winners in Any League
MARILYN BULLOCK
County Winner in Canning
DORIS STRICKLAND
County Winner Food Preparation
LA RUE WHITLEY
State Winner Dairy Foods
Demonstration
SABA ANN BUTTS MART LEE WILLEY
County Winner Senior Dress Revue County Winner Jr. Dress Revue
(See Story on page 5, section A)
Public Hearing On Roanoke
Flood Control Is Scheduled
For Wednesday, December 5
For the purpose of furnishing to
the public the complete and final
report of the U. S. Army Dis
trict Engineers’ Office on the pro
posed Flood Control and Power
Development Project on the Roa
noke River, a public hearing will
be held at South Hill, Virginia, at
10 o’clock in the morning Wed
nesday, December 5th. The hear
ing is scheduled for the South Hill
High School Auditorium, and all in
terested parties are invited to at
tend the meeting.
It is expected that several hund
red persons will be present, for
during the past few weeks the
question of what to do on the Roa
noke River has aroused tre
mendous interest. The Roanoke
River Flood Control Committee
composed of representatives of the
communities and rural area from
Roanoke Rapids to Plymouth,
where the greatest damage Is al
ways caused by floods has been
actively pushing the matter during
the past several weeks and is
urging that the project be com
pleted as outlined by the District
Engineer’s Office.
1 A group of citizens residing a
above the proposed dam, which is
Island is also expected to be repre
sented at the meeting. This group
represents the owners of land
above the proposed daw, which is
flooded to some extent each time
the Roanoke River overflows, but
which will be permanently flood
ed if the dam is built. The gov
ernment proposes to pay for this
land and the resettlement of
these individuals, but they are an
xious to retain their land, if pos
sible.
The third group which is expect
ed to be represented will be the
Power Companies, chiefly the
Carolina Power & Light Company.
This group is actually fighting
any development on the Roanoke
River which will create electric
energy. Their representatives have
been very busy visiting communi
ties up and down the river and ex
plaining their viewpoint on the
matter. The Carolina Power &
Light Company representatives
maintain that it is not possible to
build dual purpose dams which
(Continued on page 4—Sect. A)
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State Winner
in Contest of
Dairy Foods
LaRue Whitley of the Enfield
High School, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Whitley of Enfield, Rt.
2, has been announced State Win
ner in the Individual Dairy Dem
onstration Contest which was held
in September. The young girl will
receive a $50.00 War Bond from
the Kraft Cheese Company, and a
free trip to Chicago, November 30
to December 9. In Chicago, she
will attend the National 4-H Club
congress and will be the represen
tative from North Carolina in the
Individual Dairy Contest Winners
from all other states in the U. S.
A. and in various other Contests
offered in 4-H Club Work will be
at the congress.
La Rue has given her demon
stration on “Ice Cream Scoops
Them All," fifty-five times and to
various groups. Some of which
were the County 4-H Clubs, Home
Demonstration Clubs, and on Sled*'
eration Day it was the outstand
ir»cr nvpnf rvf flip dfi.v. In her dem
onstration, she shows the import
ance of milk in the diet, by matt*
ing correctly, Vanilla Ice Cream.
La Rue says, “That she is a copy
cat” when it comes to why she be
gan her dairy work. “My sister
started me when she was a mem
ber of the County Winning Team
three years ago.” When one asks
La Rue what her work with dairy
demonstration has meant to her
she replied: “I have not only
learned the importance of milk in
the diet, the care of milk in the
home, its food value, the many
ways it can be introduced into the
diet, but the experience in public
speaking and technique acquired
have been most valuable to me.”
In preparing for her demonstra
tion, La Rue received her training
under the direction of her 4-H
Leader, Estelle E. Garner, assist
ant home demonstration agent of
Halifax County.
Phone Number of
New Beauty Shop
The telephone number of the
Helena Beauty Shop, located over
Brown Furniture Store, is R-403-41