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jiIhiIIIii IhiiiI InmOkl Harris. Joseph A. Crouch, Davie L Harper, Brutas W Rook, RnW R Vnrthimrtn Eugene Basil Glover, WiUlam C. Moody,
Frank'w. Harris, Wayne C. Green, Rufus S. Finch, Lawrence W. Myrick, Walter G. Cooley, Charlie L. Whitby, Melbourne Barry Jones, Robert A. Rogers, RutVis J. T. Wood
ruff, Clinton P, Deberry, Herbert S. Edwards, H. Charles Loath exwood, Jr., John Wayne Thomas. Alex Bullock. Jr., Frank P. Hunter, Cecil Coburn, Wilbur Anderton, Latt
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THE ROANOKE R API OS
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VOLUME XXXII_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946_NUMBER 9
Two Roanoke Rapids Men
Jailed in Oxford Robbery
Over $500
Contributed
In Seal Sales
Roanoke Rapids citizens have
eontributed $515.80 to the tuber
culosis seal sales now in progress
in this city, announced Mrs. D.
L. Wheeler, chairman. Seals have
been mailed to a large number of
individuals and many have not
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Still Time to
Get X-Rayed
You can still have a free chest
X-ray. The survey being conduct
ed in Roanoke Rapids will con
tinue through Friday of this week.
The X-ra,y bus, located on 10th
Street, will remain open from 11
a m. to 5 p. m. both Thursday
and Friday, and all citizens who
have not already done so are urg
ed to get their X-ray before the
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Chances Are
City Will Get
Franchise In
Hail League
Roanoke Rapids will have an ,
entry in the Coastal Plain League
—IF . . .
And the “if” is a big one—but
not too big, the Junior Chamber
of Commerce in Roanoke Rapids
believes, for them to handle.
The Jaycees were notified over
the weekend that Roanoke Rapids
is in line for the Coastal Plain,
franchise now held by Fayetteville.
Fayetteville has seucred a berth
in the Tri-State League, and has
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Randolph White and Percy Mid
yette, 22 and 23 years old, res
pectively, were arrested on the
streets of Roanoke Rapids last
Sunday afternoon by Officers High
and Luter on request of Granville
County authorities, who wanted the
two young white men on charges
of aiding and abetting in robbing
Sam Freeman, Jr.,, of Clarksville,
Va., University of North Carolina
student.
They were returned to Oxford
by Patrolman C. M. Byrd and held
in default of $2,500 bail. »
m Freeman reported Saturday aft
ernoon that he had been held up
and robbed in a wooded spot near
Creedmore by four men, with
whom he had hitch-hiked a ride in
Durham en route to Clarksville.
The robbers stripped Freeman of
his cash, watch and clothing, val
ued at $300, and left him tied to
a tree with his hands behind him,
he told officers.
White and Midyette told officers
«fchat they were hitch-hiking from
California, where they had been on
a visit, and that the two strang
ers who robbed Freeman had
lucked them up Friday night near
Marion. The car was a 1942 Chev
rotel bearing an Alabama license.
Freeman told the officers that
the operator of the car was direct
ed from the highway to a side
road a mile south *of Creedmore
by one of the Roanoke Rapids
«boys and that one of the men
brandished a .38 calibre pistol as
he was relieved of $52 in cash, a
watch and chain valued at $200,
and a top coat and other clothing
valued at $100.
Freeman said Midyette searched
him to see if he was armed and
that a sleeve was torn off White’s
shirt to tie his hands behind him
to a tree. He said after the four
men left, he wiggled himself free
|»)and made his way to the highway
13-Year-Old
Bride Tells
Weird Story
Barbara Jane Long, 13-year-old
Roanoke Rapids girl, and a bride
yj)bf only a week, told Columbia,
(S. C.) police a weird story of a
week’s honeymoon in several cities,
spending her time in the after
noons alone in movie theatres
after which her husband, Bernard
Eugene Rice of Danville, Va.,
would appear with considerable
cash.
Columbia Chief of Detectives W.
H. Rawlinson said the girl appear
ed ignorant of her husband’s actl
^jvities during these movie trips,
but that the couple was being held
for investigation in connection
with two daylight home robberies
in the South Carolina city.
Rice was arrested after he was
pulled from a hall closet in a
house in Columbia that had been
ransacked.
Rice told officers that he and
the Long girl were married on
^.December 10.
V Barbara Jane told police that
Bernard had “parked” her In
movie houses at Raleigh, N. C.,
and Durham, N. C., turning up
afterwards on both occasions with
cash he said his father had te’e
graphed him.
to sound the alarm.
White and Midyette formerly
worked for 'Irvin’s Tree Surgery
Service at Roanoke Rapids, but
recently had been visiting Mdd
yette’s brother in Stockholm, Calif.
White is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey White and Midyette
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hill
Midyette, all of this city.
Winners in Halifax County Contests
from the Coastal Plain by Ray
Goodman, president of the loop.
The Roanoke Rapids Jaycees
Monday filed formal application
for the franchise, and posted a
$930 fee as evidence of faith.
The Jaycees now estimate that
$30,000 will be needed to get Sim
mons Park, already offered the
club on «a dollar-a-year basis by
Patterson Mills, in shape fo.r night
baseball. The funds will be raised
by means of a stock company.
Stock will be offered all interest
ed persons in this locality.
Thief Enters
Smith Home
Tuesday Nite
A break-in at the home of Mrs.
Alma Smith, 101 Jackson .'treet
Tuesday night was reported to the
Police Department. The robbery
occurred while the family was'
away from home. Police officials
report that the following items ,
were listed as missing by Mrs.
Smith: three $25 war bonds* one
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FOOD PRESERVATION
Marilyn Bullock of the Roa
noke Rapids Senior Club is coun
ty winner in canning contest.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Bullock of 758 Char
lotte street, Roanoke Rapids. Her
record shows that since 1943 she
has canned 3834 quarts of food
for her mother and 455 quarts
for neighbors. She has received
$45 in cash for other canning that
she has done.
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INDIVIDUAL DAIRY
DEMONSTRATION
Pictured here is Opal Jones,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. E.
Jones, of Halifax, Route 2, who
is the County winner in the
Dairy Foods Contest. Opal is a
member of Aurelian Springs
Senior 4-H Club, and is secretary
to County 4-H Council. In her
dairy foods work she stresses
the importance of milk to every
day living and demonstrates how
to make soft custard and lemon
milk sherbet. At the district con
test held in Tarboro thi-s yeaj,.
she won first place, but was bar
red from the state contest be
cause she was under fourteen.
FOOD PREPARATION
Above is Doris Strickland of
Weldon Senior 4-H Club, and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. I.
Strickland of Halifax, Route 2.
Doris is the county winner in
Food Preparation contest. In
1943 she prepared 50 meals and
150 dishes; 1944 she prepared
150 meals, 350 dishes; 1945, 200
meals with 500 dishes and this
year, 1946, she prepared a total
of 450 meals with 1050 dishes.
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locket, desk set, yellow bowl pipe,
can of Prince Albert smoking to
bacco and a Coty’s perfume set.
No clue was left as to the culprit,
but officers are investigating sev
eral suspects.
Sick Woman
Is Found In
Alley; Dies
Cora Lee Ballott, negro woman,
was found last Saturday afternoon,
about 6:30 o’clock in an alley in.
the rear of the residence of Tuck
er Fayed, in a sick condition. She
was sent to Roanoke Rapids Hos
pital where she died a few hour*
later.
According to police investigation,
nothing has been found that indi
cates other than death from ill
ness.
Unconfirmed reports, however,
say that the woman had been to
the city on a shopping trip with,
a woman friend and a little girl i
to get some medicine. Her “friend"
ran to catch a bus leaving the
Ballott woman behind. She wa»
later found in the alley.
Another angle being investigated,
by members of the dead woman’s
family is that she was thought to ,
have had a considerable sum of j
money on her person at the time !
which has not been recovered. }
Baltimore
Police Nab
Local Negro
Wanted Here
John Brown,, negro man, wanted
here after his break from the city
jail in November, was arrested by
Baltimore police last week and
held for local authorities. Chief T.
J. Davis went to Baltimore this
week and returned with the pris
oner.
Brown was being held in ja>l
here on a charge of breaking and
entering and larceny. He is alleg
ed to have entered the home of
Walter Pearce, another negro, in
the Lincoln Heights section, tak
ing a shotgun. Brown is said to
have swapped the gun to Claude
Aycock for a pistol. Aycock, it is
said, then sold the gun to Sammy
Cowan. Officers recovered the
shotgun from Cowan and the pis
tol was found in Brown’s posses
sion.
SENIOR DRESS REVUE
Pictured here is Sarah Ann
Butts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. M. Butts of Halifax, .Route 2,
winner in Halifax County Sen
ior 4-H dress revue. Sarah, a
member of Aurellan Springs Sen
ior Club, made the street dress
that she is wearing of light blue
batony flannel, with big sleeves
and wide belt. This 4-H contest
was sponsored by Leggett’s De
partment Store in Roanoke Rap
ids and they awarded her $10 as
a prize for county winner.
CLOTHING ACHIEVEMENT
Carrie Lee Best, above, of Au
relian Springs Senior 4-H Club
was county winner in clothing
achievement contest. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Best of Halifax, Route 2. In 1945
she made 30 garments,, remodeled
several and did all the family
mending. In 1946 she made 29
garments, many of them being
for the neighbor’s children, and
'has continued the remodeling
and mending as well.