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VOLUME xxxn ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. O, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946 NUMBER 5
Dobbins Relieved as Chief
Of the Police Department
H. E. Dobbins has been relieved
as chief of the Roanoke Rapids
police department and has been
transferred to the city tax collec
tor’s office where he will assist in
the collection of delinquent, privi
lege and other taxes handled by
that office, it was announced yes
terday.
This action was taken by the
City Board of Commissioners at
its meeting last Tuesday after
noon.
Mr. Dobbins, a law enforcement
officer for approximately 32 years,
being connected with the sheriff’s
office as a deputy until 1931 when
Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids
were incorporated into one town,
joined the Roanoke Rapids police
force in August of that year. In
1936 he was made chief of the
department in which capacity he
served until this week.
t
Succeeding Dobbins as head of
the police department is T. J.
Davis, who came here about three
months ago and assumed duties
as a night officer. Davis comes
with a long record of law enforce
ment activities, having been con
nected with the Burlington police
department for 14 years with the
exception of 15 months when he
was chief of police at Laurinburg.
q Davis’ education in law enforce
ment includes a course at the In
stitute of Police Government held
in Chapel Hill in 1937; six monthhs
.study in fingerprint identification
in 1938 under W. P. Whitley, who
is now director of the Bureau of
Identification for Wake County
and the City of Raleigh, and is
a graduate of the FBI National
Police Acadenfy.
* Asked if he had any new plans
" for the department Chief Davis re
plied: “There will be no change
In the present personnel of the
department. We hope to add more
officers, however, and with the
two-way radio system installed in
police cars the city will have con
siderably better police protection.”
rile new chief, who is married
and has one child, assumed his
duties Monday morning.
22 Buildings Are
Being Constructed
According to the records of
Henry Fitts, city building inspec
tor, there are now in course of
construction in Roanoke Rapids
twenty-two buildings, both resi
dential and business. The city
has been on a "building boom”
3 for some time, however, a number
of new buildings have already
been .Vnnpleted.
Episcopal Church
Fellowship Dinner
Members of All Saints Episcopal
Church will have a fellowship din
ner at the High School lunch room
Friday night at 6:30. The dinner
| is free and is being given for the
purpose of increasing fellowship
among the congregation, introduc
ing new members and furthering
plans for the new parish house.
Turkey with "all the trimmings"
will be served.
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Cute, Isn't She?
Pictured above is Maxine
Daughtry, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd L. Daughtry. Maxine
will be the "bride” in a Tom
Thumb wedding which will be
presented in the school auditoui
um in Emporia Friday night.
The Auxiliary of the V. F. W.,
is sponsoring the entertainment.
Kiwanis Club
New Officers
The Kiwanis Club at its meeting
Thursday night elected Don Til
lar president for 1947 and Dr. W.
D. Hall vice president George L.
Hayes was elected secretary-treas
urer.
Four new directors elected were
Bill Medlin, Frank Neal, Epps
Ready and Dave Clark. Hold-over
directors are W. G. Collier, Ned
Manning, Bob Cleaton, Graham
Shell and Bob Vaughan.
The new officers and directors
will be installed at the first meet
ing in January. Almand White, the
retiring president of the club, will
serve with the board of directors
for the coming year.
Police Cars
Be Equipped
With Radios
In a move to more modernize
the Roanoke Rapids police depart
ment the Board of City Commis
sioners at its meeting Tuesday
afternoon authorized the purchase
and installation of two-way radios
on all cars used by the depart
ment..
This announcement was made
today by Mayor Kelly Jenkins. The
equipment has already been order
ed and will be installed on the
cars with the transmitter in the
chief’s office as soon as possible.
Cost of equipping the police
cars with this modern parapher
nalia will be about $3,200. The
system will make it possible, said
the Mayor, to keep in touch with
officers at all times during the day
or night wherever they may be. i
Please Don't
Burn Leaves
On Pavement
George Justice, street superin
tendent of Roanoke Rapids, said
today that he “wished residents
of the city would stop burning
leaves on the streets, especially
the ones that are paved. Justice
said that it was not against any
city ordinance to burn trash in
the streets, but it was against a
city ordinance to burn it on those
that are 'paved.
“When people burn leaves, etc.,
on the pavement of a street it
heats it to such an extent that it
will crack and consequently has
to be repaired. That cost money,
not for the city, but for the tax
payers.’’
So if you have to bum leaves
or trash after you have raked
your yard do it in a place that is
not paved. It will save the street
department time and save you
money in the long run, said Mr.
Justice.
"SNAKE" POTATOES TOP ALL
“Snake potatoes,” not the pois
onous, biting kind, but honest
to-goodness sweet potatoes—the
kind you eat. There are two of
them and to prove our story
they are on display in the news
room of The Herald. They were
brought in by Jessie Porch who
lives at 98 Monroe street, last
Friday.
The larger one resembles a
corbr that is found in Africa.
There is no evidence that Jessie
has ever lived in Africa, but just
the same, any one who has ever
seen a cobra will have to admit
the potato is a likeness of the
reptile.
The smaller one looks more
■ d»
like a water moccasin, found
plentiful in the streams of the
south, especially in Georgia. It
is in a coiled shape as if ready
to strike. The "head” is straight,
fangs protruding, two eyes form
ed, and if you saw it in the dark
you would certainly have that
"creepy feeling” running up your
spine and you’d jump back from_
it.
Porch said when he dug them
up he raised his rake up to
“kill ’em,” but realized his mis
take, and swore to the ed he
hadn’t had a thing to drink but
ice water, and brought ’em in
to prove his point.
New Preacher
i II,,, !
Pictured above is Rev. D. A.
Clarke who will succeed Rev.
Lester Tilley as pastor of the
First Methodist Church.
Clarke New
Pastor Here,
Tilley Goes
To Morehead
Rev. Lester A. Tilley, who has
served the First Methodist Church
here for the past four years as
its pastor, leaves Friday with his
wife and three children for More
head City where he has been sent
by the North Carolina Methodist
Conference.
Rev. Tilley, coming here from
Ayden, has been one of the moat
popular pastors of the local Me
thodist Church. Besides his activi
ties in religious circles in the city
he was an active member of the
Rotary Club and he end his wife
have made a host of friends thru
out the city.
Succeeding Rev. Tilley will be
Rev. D. A. Clarke, who has serv
ed several charges in North Car
olina, among them being Farm
ville, First Church in Washing
ton and First Church in Oxford
Rev. Clarke is married. He and
Mrs. Clarke have three children,
two sons and a daughter. Thom
as, the eldest, will graduate in
December from the USMC Acad
emy at Kings Point, New York,
and be commissioned in the Unit
ed State Navy. Dorothy will
graduate from Meredith College
next June with a major in ele
mentary education and child psy
chology. She is also a talented mu
sician. Milton, the youngest, is a
student in the freshmen class at
E3CTC.
Error Appears In
Final Tabulation
In the final tabulated report of
the recent Community Chest cam
paign an error appeared in the
amount contributed by the Man
chester Bard and Paper Company.
The figures in the story read
“$22.35,” but should have been
$222.35.” The paper company has
always been one of the liberal
contributors to financial cam
paigns in the city that are worth
while and should be given due
credit for the amount given.
'Book Week'
Programs Are
Broadcast
National Book Week broke into
radio Monday night in Roanoke
Rapids through the courtesy j£
Station WCBT. This program was
the first of a series of three, the
ethers being scheduled for Wed
nesday and Friday nights of this
week.
Children of Rosemary School,
cooperating as Brownie Scouts and
Intermediate Girl Scouts, presented
a clever Book Week version of
the Pied Piper, as suggested by
the Children’s Book Council of
New York City. The cast was as
follows: Jackie Johnson, Betty Cul
lom, Marilou Mausteller, Anna
Harper Murphrey, Anne Smith,
Margaret Griffin, Martha Boggs
Smith and Jane Ray White, in
cluding Donald Bennett, a senior
high school student, as the Pied
Piper.
The story of Little Red Riding
Hood was told by Charles Anna
Johnson, a charming little girl
from the second grade, and the
story of Robin Hood was render
ed in clever style by Johnnie EIHs^
a fifth-grader,
These little folks were rehearsed
and directed by Mrs. J. Ellis
Mausteller, radio chairman of the
Girl Scout Council, assisted by
Jesse Helms, program director of
Station WCBT, and Ted Jackson
as announcer.
These programs were planned
with the cooperation of Mrs. Gay
H. Spivey, county librarian, to em
phasize the Book Week Slogan,
“Books Are Bridges”—Bridges to
Lands Around the World, Under
standing Other People, Realms of
Imagination and Joy—Bridges to
Facts and Information, The World \
of Nature, The Wonders of Sci
ence or Growing Up with New Ex
periences — Bridges to Fun tnd
Entertainment, An Appreciation of
The Past — Bridges to Building
the Future.
The program Wednesday night
was outstanding in that Mrs. Haz
el Wheeler, member of the Halifax
County Library Board, was guest
onoo lror
The Friday nigtht program
promises to be a lively one, pre
senting "The Book Worm dub”
of Junior High School. This acti
vity is under the supervision of
Miss Iris Davis, ninth grade Eng
lish teacher and guidance director
of Junior High School. The idea,
was presented to the students by
Miss Davis and received enthus
iastically. It intails writing their
comment into script form for tho
radio and will give the public in
side information as to what teen
agers like to read. It is also in
tended to encourage good reading f
habits among the young people of 1
the community.
—
William Lowe Is
Hospital Patient
I
Corp. William S. Lowe, eon of .
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lowe of this ^
city, is a patient at Walter Reed I
Hospital in Washington, D. C., ac- f
cording to an announcement made fa
today. Lowe, a World War II vet- L“
eran, is being treated for a blood I'
disease contracted while overseas s
in Korea. His address at the hos-fi
pital is ward 38.