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\ .~- - - -■ ■ q_> _ q >_.1 " ' >_ ' I=W=*riPf ™®Tf®IWP*lvMiiOD Edgar Whitley, Marvin William Scott, William R Camp, Jr, Robert E Ha* R H MK'ommons James W WhHfey. » II “'ll . . | . . || “ J| '“|| » I Grover Woodruff, Winfield Hasty, Daniel E. Faison, Robert Lee Moore, Curtis E West, Edgar R King, Robert Lee “ h '|| Hill |]|| | |||| || H> j| nil a '| Thomas A. Cooper, Marvin F. Matkins, James G. Whitby, liras. H. Cook, Jr, Elmer E. Chambliss. Bsmhn White, UkHunuHilUlllill_Jiillllinlinniinnnilninu Harris, Joseph A. Crouch, Davie L. Harper, Bruhss W Rook, Roht R vwthtnrtn Enron* Basil Glover. WMliam C. Frank W. Harris, Wayne C. Green, Rufus 8. Finch, Lawrence W. Myrick, Walter G. Cooley, Charlie L, Whitby, Melbourne Barry Jones, Robert A. Rogers, Rufho J. T. Wood ruff , Clinton P. Deberry, Herbert 8. Edwards, H. Charles Leatherwood, Jr, John Wayne Thomas, Alex Bullock, Jr, Frank P Hunter, Cecil Coburn, Wilbur Anderton, Harris Shearin. * IN a: t TABloid I Picture NBWSpapen 1 AU Home-Print | VOLUME XXXII- ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1947_NUMBER 16 Halifax County Board of Health Passes County-Wide Milk and Trailer Ordinance The Halifax County Board ot Health met in special session in January in the Health Depart ment Building in Halifax and passed a county-wide milk 6rd inance and a county-wide trailer ordinance. These ordinances apply to the Whole of Halifax County, including the cities and towns therein, and are to become effec tive immediately. The milk ord inance passed by the Board is known as the U. S. Public Health Service Standard Milk Ordinance. This ordinance normally allows only the sale of Grade “A” Pas teurized and Grade “A” Raw milk, tout art emergency clause has been included in this ordinance to allow the sale also of Grade “C” Pasteurized and Grade "C” Raw milk until such time as Grade "A” Pasteurized and Grade “A” Raw milk are available in adequate supplies. Moreover, this milk ordinance is an ordinance defining milk and certain prod ucts, milk producer, pasteuriza tion: prohibiting the sale of adul terated and misbranded milk and milk products, requiring permits for the sale of milk and milk products, regulating the inspection of dairy farms and milk plants, the examination, grading, label ing, placarding, pasteurization, regarding, distribution, and sale of milk and milk products, pro viding for the publishing of milk grades, the construction of future dairies and milk plants, the en forcement of this ordinance, and the fixing of penalties. This milk ordinance provides that all milk producers and milk distributors must apply immedi ately to the Health Officer of Halifax County for a permit to produce or distribute milk or milk products in Halifax County, The ordinance proyides further that all milk and milk products must be properly labeled in Hal ifnv P/I11TI+V. After application is made to the Health Officer of Halifax Count} for a permit to produce or dis tribute milk in Halifax Count} Mr. Charles Morgan, the milk sanitarian with this department will visit the premises of the milk producer or distributor and ad vise how his milk or milk prod ucts shall be graded and labeled The above milk ordinance a dopted by the Halifax Count} Board of Health has already beer adopted by sixty-five other coun ties in North Carolina, includint most of the counties surround'm* Halifax County. B. L. Jessup, milk specialis from the State Board of Health met with the Board of Health a the time this ordance was passe< and explained the details of thi ordaninance. Mr. Jessup pointei out that this ordinance is not i means to penalize milk producer or distributors in Halifax Count; or any other county in the Unitei States, but rather the ordinanc serves as a means whereby thes distributors and producers cai furnish high quality milk prop erly graded to the citizens o this county. The people of Halifa County have just as much righ to know what quality or wha grade milk they are buying a they have to konw what grad (Continued on page 8—Beet. A) Police Give Out Over 250 Traffic Slips To Violators In the past three days officers in the Roanoke Rapids Police De partment have given out over 250 tickets for violation of traffic reg ulations in the city and for fail ure to display a city tag on mo tor vehicles. These figures were disclosed this morning by*the de partment. Most of the tickets issued were for parking on the wrong side oi the street. However, a number were issued for failure to have a city tag displayed on vehicles. It is not the wish of the police department to cause any unnec essary inconvenience to the motor ing public, but rather, on the oth er hand, the department woulc highly appreciate cooperation. II has long been a state law tc park on the left-hand side of a street. And the deadline date for the purchase of a city tag for au tomobiles and trucks was Febru ary 1. The department has issued warn ings long in advance on traffic violations, and if you are caught don’t blame . the police. Graduation Of Nurses Held Monday The graduation exercises of . th< Roanoke Rapids Hospital Schoo of Nursing was held in the Roa noke Rapids High School audt torium last Monday evening a: 8:15 o’clock. The colors of this class, red anc white, were carried out in th< decorations with the use of rose: and carnations. The nurses car ried arm bouquets of red roses. The Rev. W. R. Stevens gave th< invocation and I. E. Ready, sup erintendent of the school, deliver ed the address. The diplomas were given by T J. Alford, hospital administrator Mrs. F. L.* Starke, superintenden of nurses, awarded the hospita ; pins. Ray Finley, accompanied b; 1 Miss Dunlap, furnished the musi I for this occasion. s A dance at the Nurses Home fol [ lowed the graduation. The Clyd t Martin orchestra furnished th j music for this occasion. ! Flames Destroy ; Historic Church Fire of undetermined origin las f Sunday afternoon destroyed th c historic 100-year-old Methodic t Church in Halifax. The fire wa t discovered aBout 1:30 o’clock. Rot 9 noke Raplda and Weldon fire d< e partments- were summoned, bi Were unable to save the structure Swalin Has An Able Assistant Through the untiring efforts of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Swalin, pictured above, music lovers all over the state are privileg ed to hear the finest symphonic music. Dr. Swalin, the conductor, is a violinist, composer, author and public speaker. He believes in the cause of great music as a cultural, spiritual, educational and inspirational force in life. Dr. Swalin’s greatest inspiration is his charming, cultured, talented wife, Maxine Swalin, who is a skilled pianist. Together they travel over the state giving recitals and lectures on music appreciation and the state symphony. Mrs. Swa lin is narrator for the children’s programs. Shuford Brands 'Ridiculous' Rumors About Labor Bill Introduced by Allsbrook Officers Say Theft 'Rings' Are 'Broken' Five white men, George Colon Todd, Larry Cox, Zacdc McDon aid, Worth Callahan and Leo Bur ton, arrested within the past two weeks, charged with larceny of building materials, were given a ! hearing in Mayor’s Court Monday j and bound over to Superior Court under bond. ' The police department believes 5 that with the arrest of these five men two separate theft “rings,’ operating in the city for several * months, have been broken. Todd and Cox, police say, form ed one "ring”, and were arrest ed in connection with breakini at the Rochelle Realty warehousi and the Roanoke Dairy plant. The other three, offfcers say t formed another combine. The; e were charged with the theft of i t quantity of soil pipe from the nev s Easy-Pay Tire and Fumftur * Company’s building. Most of the stolen loot has beei t recovered according to police re ;. ports. UbUbV -S-fUS-TWa VVnUlU001UiiV<i M.’ Ui rest Shuford yesterday afternoon branded as “ridiculous” the rum ors circulated in Roanoke Rapids this week to the effect that the current wage-and-hour bill intro duced in the State Senate Tuesdaj to "cut the salaries of workers in various Roanoke Rapids indus tries.” Shuford said that the bill was designed to bring employes oi certain ihtra-state businesses un der the wage-and-hour bill identi cal with the federal law controlling the wages and hours of most em ployees. In no way will the bill affecl employees of the textile or papei industries. However, it will meat that employees of chain stores an< similar businesses will probably ge a raise in pay — at least to thi proposed 40-cents-an-hour seal recommended in the bill. The bill was written by Senato Allsbrook and was sponsored b; ! the Labor Department itself. The bill stipulates that employee > in the specific industries embrac r ed by the tertn “intra-state" wi 1 be paid time and a half for a! r work performed over 40 hours. - Shuford said that suiy effort t minimize the bill was — and w i quote — “malicious and unjust." H - said that Senator Allsbrook wa (Continued on page 8—Sect. A) Bill T o Amend City Charter Is Introduced By Allsbrook Senator Julian Allsbrook has Introduced in the State Senate a bill to amend the charter of the city of Roanoke Rapids with re gard to the method of the elec tion of the mayor and the Board of Commissioners. This bill has been referred ta the Senate Committee on Counties* Cities and Towns and in event a public hearing should be desired by any person or group of per sons, Senator Allsbrook will ba glad to arrange for such hearing upon being advised to that effeet. Unless he hears from some one in opposition to the enaction of thta legislation on or before Monday, * February 17, he intends asking * the Committee to report the bill favorably to the Senate in order that it may he passed by the Sen ate and sent to the House of Re presentatives the early part of next week for action by that body. A bill to be entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Roanoke Rapids with regard to the method of election of the mayor and members of the board of commissioners. The General Assembly of North riamlinn fin onapt* Section 1. That Chapter 53 of the Public-Local Laws of 1931 be, and the same hereby is, amended by striking out all of Section 7 and rewriting same to read as follows: * “Sec. 7. That at the general mu nicipal election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Mon day in May, 1947, and every two years thereafter, there shall be elected by the registered voters, of the city of Roanoke Rapids a mayor and six comissioners, three of whom shall reside in the North Ward of said city and three of whom shall reside in the South Ward of said city, aa said wards are defined in Chap ter 67 of the Public-Local Laws of 1937. The mayor shall be elected for a term of two years and staff be elected from the city at large. No persons shall be entitled to vote at such elections unless, in addition to his qualifications as a voter in state and county in jections under the general lanr, he has resided within the cor porate limits* of the City of Roar noke Rapids four months im mediately preceding said election. The officers so elected shall qual ify and be inducted into offfies on the first Monday in June fol lowing their election, and shall continue in office for their re spective terms as hereinbefore provided and until their suoces 1 sors have been dully elected and1 ; qualified. The terms of office of ! all Commissioners heretofore dec- i ! ted for the City of Roanoke Rap- ' ids shall expire upon the elee r tion and qualification of the r six commissioners elected in ae-fflS cordance with the provision* off 9 this act.” Sec. 2 That all laws and daur 1 ses of laws in conflict with tibia 1 Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. It is hereby declared that 3 the public interest require* an> s earlier elective date than July s i, 1947, and this Act shall then— ;| 9 fore become effective upon it* ratification. •
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