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I I i . 1 w THE ROANOKE RAPIDS Volume xxxi _roanoke rapids, n. Thursday, September 36,1946_ number 50 Board Elected For County Sanatorium «Ihp Board of County Commis sioners and the Halifax County Board of Health met in a special session in the Health Department Building at Halifax at 7:30 last Friday night for the purpose of discussing the present states of the County Sanatorium and of electing a Board of Hospital Man agers for the Sanatorium. Kelly Jenkins, county attorney, the section of the North Car olina status which provides for the election of such a Hospital Board. These provisions are es sentially as follows: That the Board of Hospital Man agers for a County Sanatorium shall consist of five members, with the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners serving as chairman of the Board of Hospit al Managers by virtue of his off i\a and so long as he holds of xice. That the other four members shall be elected by the county commissioners to serve as follows: one member, one year; one mem ber, two years; one member three-1 years and one member, four years. That the Board of Hospital Managers shall be entirely respon sible for the administration and deration of the County Sanator ium and shall not be responsible to the Board of Health or to the Board of County Commissioners. That the county health officer shall serve as an ex-officio mem ber of the board. That the board shall elect a Treasurer to be responisble for approving the expenditure of funds for the Sanatorium. Upon motion by John Davis of Vfield the following men were elected by the County Commission ers to serve on the Board of Managers with Mr. Wrenn: V. C. Matthews,, Halifax, one year; Dr. W. G. Suiter, Weldon, two years; Dr. M. C. Maddrey, Roanoke Rap ids three years, and C. E. Shaw, Halifax, four years. Mr. Shaw was elected to serve as treasurer of the Board. During the discussion Dr. Rob -|t F. Young, county health offi cer, read recent letters from Dr. P. P. McCain, Superintendent of North Carolina Sanatorium from Miss Amy Fisher, supervising pub lic health nurse, State Board of Health and from Miss Bessie M. Chapman, secretary - treasurer, Board of Nurse Examiners. Radio Schedules Change Sunday ■Radio fans in this section are reminded that effective Sunday, there’ll be a lot of confusion on all network radio schedules. Inasmuch as aff four of the major networks have been operat ing on Eastern Daylight Saving Time, the schedules will move back one hour with their return to East ern Standard time. ^Roanoke Rapids and North Carolina did not switch to Day light Time last Spring, and thus radio stations in this area will he forced to jumble their schedules to take care ^f network programs which will be heard one hour later than usual. Services In All Churches Start Monday City-Wide revival services will be held in the churches of Roa noke Rapids during the week of September 29 - October 6. Services on Sunday evening, September 29, will be at 8 o’clock. Services Mon day through Friday will be at 7:30 o’clock. Most of the churches will have visiting ministers to do the preaching. The First Baptist Church wiil have as its visiting minister, Rev. .foe Johnson of Bassett, Va. The First Methodist Church will have as its visiting minister, Rev. Cevil W. Robbins of Warrenton, The First Presbyterian Church will have no visiting minister,, but the pastor tvill lead his church in a program of visitation evange lism during the week. The All Saint’s Episcopal Church will have as its visiting minister, Rev C. Alfred Cole, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Char lotte. The First Christian Church will have as its visiting minister, a former pastor of the church, Rev. Kermit Traylor of Portsmouth, Va. The Rosemary Baptist Church will have as its visiting minister, Rev. Luther J. Holcomb, pastor of the Luther Rice Memorial Bapt ist Cnurch, Washington, D. C. The Rosemary Methodist Church will have as its visiting minister, Rev. Key W. Taylor of Walston burg, N. C. It is the sincere desire of ail the ministers of Roanoke Rapids that everyone who possibly can will attend the church of his choice during next week. This will be the third year that simultaneous serv ices have been held in the city and the plan here tofore has work ed well. You will receive a warm welcome at any of the churches. The general program will in clude services beginning in each of the churches at 7:30 p. m. and the services will be adapted to the programs of the local church es. The guests will speak over Radio Station WCBT each morn ing. All ministers will meet to gether for devotion and educa tion at the All Saint’s Episcopal Church at 10:30 Monday through Friday with the exception of Tues day. The visiting ministers will speak in the various schools Mon day through Friday. On Tuesday the group will drive to Rocky Mount for a fellowship dinner at Bob Melton’s. Half Holiday For City Stores Ends The Wednesday afternoon half holiday for the stores in the city ended yesterday. All stores will resume their usual hours each day except grocery stores which will continue the Wednesday afternoon closing throughout the year. Gurley Heads Chest Drive As Chairman %/ BYRON GURLEY . The Community Chest Campaign committee with Ned Manning, chairman, and assisted by C. M. Fleming and Ray Stephenson, an nounces the following leaders in the 1946 Community Chest drive. Byron Gurley heads the list as drive chairman. He will be as sisted by the following drive ma jors: Industrial groups will be in charge of Dot Bennett; business houses in the South Ward, Frank Neal; business houses in the North Ward, Carlton Cannon; special groups, not included in the above, Jack Vincent. The publicity com mittee with Harvey Woodruff, chairman, consists of Houston Ful ler, A1 Drew, George Hayes, Rev. E. Berkley, Bill Rhoden and Cran ford Hoyle. Chairman Gurley in announcing the beginning date of the drive to be October 14, asks the coopera tion and assistance of every citi zen in Roanoke Rapids in order to make the drive this year the most successful Community Chest Campaign of all. No fund, drive or campaign reaches out into so many worthwhile projects as does the Community Ohest. Funds derived from the Community Chest Campaign are used strictly in Roanoke Rapids. Plan now to do your part. Brockwell Is Speaker Here Taking “Fire Prevention Week” as his subject for discussion, Sher-' wood Brockwell, of Raleigh, state fire marshal, was guest speaker at the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Roanoke Firemen’s Association last Thursday night. The meeting was held in the basement of the First Baptist Church here. A de licious fried chicken dinner was served to the members and guests of the association. , “Fire Prevention Week” begins Monday, October 6, and continues through the 12th. The Roanoke Firemen’s Association is composed of the firemen in Roanoke Rapids, Enfield, Scotland Neck, Halifax, Weldon, Rich Square and Whita kers. E. R. Medlin of Weldon is president. Major Leaguers Will Play Here - I Veterans Are Passing Up Educational Opportunities Many adult classes planned for veterans in Roanoke Rapids Hign School are closed due to the dis appointingly small enrollment, I. E. Ready, superintendent of Roa noke Rapids Schools, said today. The following classes are not 'run ning because they do not have the minimum enrollment of five stu dents per class: mechanical draw ing, building trades, cabinet mak ing and refresher mathematics. Several textile classes under the supervision of Will Nelson have had fairly good enrollment. Class es in loom fixing and machine shop are meeting every day, and designing is being taught to a small number of students. Any veteran who wants to take advantage of the educational pro visions of the G. I. Bill of Rights should enroll in one or more of these classes. This may be done by contacting the superintendent of schools in his office in the high school building,, telephone R-337. wilt: ui Liie grtJctLt;sL neeus t-H Lilt; South is to train more skilled workers, said Mr. Ready. The pro gram offered in the local schools will help do this, provided those eligible will take advantage of the opportunity before them. Clara Hearne P-TA Session Wednesday The first regular meeting of the Clara Hearne P.-T. A. for 1946 -47 will be held Wednesday, Oct ober 2, at 3:30 o’clock. A social hour is scheduled from 3:00 until 3:30. There will be a short business session, which will include naming committees, outlining the program for the year, and making a few plans for the Halloween festi val. The readings will be presented by Mrs. Edwin Akers. A brief report on the P.-T. A. congress, held this summer at Greensboro, will be given toy Mrs. J. W. Taf-fey, the Clara Hearne delegate to this conference. Old and new members are urgently and cord ially invited to attend in an ef fort to give the F.- T. A. a suc cessful start. The meeting has been planned to last approxi mately one hour. To Speak Here Rev. Kerrnit Traylor of Ports mouth, Va., a former pastor here ■ will be the guest speaker during the revival meeting of the coming week at the First Christian Church. His many friends welcome him back to this city. Kae Scarborough and Tommy Byrne, a couple of familiar names to sports fans here who remember the era of the Roanoke Rapids Owls, will lead a troupe of barn storming major league baseball players against a team composed of Virginia-Carolina League all stars in a baseball classic at Sim mons Park next Saturday, Oct. 5. The game, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be a climaxing highlight of the. baseball season in this section, and will get underway at 3 o’clock. All of the major league stars who will play here are native Tar Heels. Byrne, of course, is a North Carolinian by adoption. He was the hot southpaw who burned up collegiate circles at Wake For est, later' playing with Newark of the International League and the New York Yankees. No advance ticket sales are con templated by the Jaycees, but plenty of seats will be available at Simmons Park for all coiners. Among the leaders, also of the major league team will be J. K„ (Buddy) Lewis of Gastonia, the pride of the Washington Senators. From his own team, the Wash ington Senators, Lewis has sign ed up the prize rookie, Gil Coan, who led the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association in l»45; Jake Early of Kings Moun tain, veteran catcher; another re ceiver, A1 Evans of Rocky Mount who went up via Charlotte; and Rae Scarborough, right - handed chunker, who did a lot of pitching in the Tar Heel state before go ilfe l-'-' lUV/CCtUlJF CU UUUU. Burlington. The New York Yankees’ roster donates three stars to Lewis’ team including big Aaron Robinson, the sensation catcher who twice this, season has clouted a brace of homers in a single game. Robin son’s home is in Lancaster, S. C.„ and he got his start around Rock ingham. Bill Johnson, the Yankee third baseman, is a strong addi tion to the them, a sis Lefty Tom my Byrne, former Wake Forest pitching sensation. Taft Wright of Lumberton, Ralph Hodgin of Greensboro, and Joe Haynes of Columbia, S. C, the latter Bob Feller’s pitching namesis this season, are the Chi cago White Sox representatives on the team. Wright and Hodgin are outfielders. Jimmy Brown of the Pittsburgh Pirates will play shortstop for the All-Stars, and Frank “Rube” Mel ton of Gastonia, who, while pit cning for the Dodgers, has hand cuffed St. Louis at crucial mom ents in the race this season, win be on the tour if the Bums lose out. Chief Issues "Kill" Order for all Dogs Chief of Police H. E. Dobbins has issued an order to kill all dogs running at large in the city. This order was brought about by the biting of two small boys re cently by a mad dog. It i* ate known that the dog bit several other canines in the city.
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