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Iffy The Charter for the town of i Roan'he Rapids went into ef I feet n February 23, 1897. The ty jail was such a pop* ular p ce in 1922 that on April 20 of ihat year the <Aty com misaio ira were forced to enact an ox .nance making it a mis demes or punishable by a $50 fine -> » "loaf, loiter or congre gate round the town lock-up or da jail" tnless one had permission 9 to v$,ic an inmate. Th present 30 year franchise, gran id by the city to the Vir ginif Eelectric and Power Com pany went into effect on Sept emb : 3, 1929. T s first fire chief for Roa nok Rapids, B. R. Weeks* was app inted by the board of com ^mii loners on March 2, 1920 and waj!i authorized to organize a voj nteer fire company. S iptember 9, 1931—J. L. Vest, po master of the South Ward, told th board of commissioners that th Federal government had de : ci< »d to consolidate the city’s two p< toffices. -■“* _ IN OP” »ool rooms were banned for £h) years by refusal of the city cl «nmi.«sioners to issue a license fl • the operation of same start U g wun me uscai year ueguuuug .1 ily 1, 1921. They weren’t given l lenses until that motion was i ipeajed on July 5, 1927 by a < ifferent board. THE COLONEL Friends may remember Geln Thompson who left here about ^ welve years ago and entered West ; Point. It’s Colonel Thompson of t he U. S. Army Air Force now | . . and he’s being assigned to j ar-off Manila where he’ll be air jf ittache to the infant Philippines | Republic. The Colonel, al hough a native of South Caro ina* came to Roanoke Rapids w’lth his parents back in 1912 at the age of one. . . He left Tues day for San Francisco where he'll board a boat. Hashing Through the Cily Files C A. Barkley, Chief of Police, . was called before the commission I era on April 6, 1920 to explain I why he failed to arrest the person who had 'cut Mr. B. S. Webb. According to minutes of the meeting, “Mr. Barkley’s ex - planation was not very satisfac • tory.” Also on April 6, 1920 the mayor and board of commissioners or dered the chief to stop the sale of a tonic known as “Beef, Wine fc Iron” ’in certain stores in Roa noke Rapids. M Siamese twins N. A. Cates was in the office Friday morning proudly displaying what he appropriately called a I- “Siamese Squash”. Two perfectly formed four inch long squash grown togather in the manner of the famed Siamese Twins were a novelty to him and to us* al though he said he had seen twins (two growing from the same stem> before. The oddity was a product o’ his garden at 837 Jackson Street. J FAMOUS TELEGRAM fl< | Ack In the days when the hero I 1 the Spanish-American War was I Siting In the house now occupied I oy one Harry S. Truman and I tv... Dr\n<rVi Ridops urprn sihin? around telling tales of how they had whipped the Spaniards at San Juan, there came to the young town of Roanoke Rapids a man with five or six million dollars coupled with an open mind as to how it should be spent. ♦ John Armstrong Chaloner, a young New Yorker, upon whom fortune (in the shape of blood relation to the fabulous Astor clan and an inheritor of no small amount'of coin therefrom) had pot only smiled, but had grinned from .ear to ear, met in the per son of one Major Emry, a man with an idea and without a hope of obtaining one single red cent. 1 It was a situation leading to 9 the natural consequence of a mer ger of fortune and Idea. T. L. Emry had once. wanted to operate a grist mill in the town of Weldon, but owners of an old canal had refused to furnish him with the necessary power. "All right," he had declared, "I’ll build my own power plant.” At the time John Armstrong Chanler had appeared on the I scene Emry was very nearly ™ broke in attempting to make good the boast, and to the prideful old Major, the young dreamy-eyed New Yorker seemed the answer to his every need. He had quickly sold the mil 1._I_kl. they had conspired to build not cne but several enterprises. As a result of this spending [ of the family millions in a man . ner which seemed to them very * haphazard, the family of John Chanler laid a very carefully con cealed trap and sent a man named Stanford White to North Carolina to fetch John back home, to the Empire State of New York for a visit. Now, to digress a bit, it may be said that Stanford White, whose name occasions no interest in the minds of the present generation, was one of the foremost figures ' of his time in the architectural world, having designed no few in dustrial plants. (It was White, incidentally, who designed the ori ginal mill village house in Roanoke Rapids.) But, to return to John: White was sent to lure him back to New York and this he did. With a (Continued on Page f-0eetfcm A) Attend All Celebration Events * * * THE ROANOKE RAPIDS Wlat Roanoke Rapids Makes .,„,**,* ... „ .* Herald Classified Advertising —Makes Roanoke Rapids | . ,, . _ _ _ Gets Quick Results ★ ★ ★ Growing With M ^ Carolina’s Fastest Growing City ^ ^ ^ I wvtt =========^- ■ . ■ — — _ _____ _____ - _ROANOKE^RAPIDS^^^^^^^HTTRanA^^jT^^^j^lJ NUMBER 35 Burglars Empty Two Safes; Smash One, Snatch Other An investigation into the disappearance of one small safe, weighing between four and five hundred pounds, and the jimmying open of a larger one went into its second <lay Wednesday morning with one development: recovery oi the missing strong Imix reported about 2 o'clock Tues day afternoon. Gone from its euslomury location in the Seaboard de pot early Tuesday morning was the smaller safe contain ing an amount of money estimated by company offieiuls, according to police- to have been In-tween $200 and $250 It was recovered Tuesday afternoon by an officer from the sheriff’s department working in conjunction with a spe cial agent of the railroad when it was found in a clump of bushes on a dirt road leading from South Kosemary to Smith’s Church about a half mile south of a creek, where the burglars bail pried it open. Tb r, L-A/-ns H hnsnlosir Kelisirnd I _ by Sheriff Harry House to havt been directly connected with the Seaboard depot job and alsc reported Tuesday morning, oc curred in the office of the Roa noke Builders’ Supply Company Dn the Roanoke Rapids-Weldon highway sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning Exact amount of the loss was not disclosed, although F. J Rightmyer, owner, told investi gating officers that the safe con tained all the cash from Mon day’s sales. House, who took personal charge Df the investigation, declared he believed the burglars to be ama teurs as the method employed in opening the two safes was very crude. Entering the builders’ sup ply building through a back doox on the east side, the men drilled the rivets out of the safe doox with an electric hand drill found dp the premises, pried the doox loose and hammered the lock off The railroad safe, when found showed marks of the same sorl of treatment. Jimmy Rainey, manager of tht builders' supply company, hac worked until 10 o’clock Mondaj night, which placed the time o: the robbery between 10 p. m., anc 7. o’clock Tuesday morning wher Mark Harris* another employe ness and discovered the burglary In an apparent preparation foi a quick get-away if necessary, the thieves knocked out a section oi plaster wall partitioning the offict in which the safe was kept froir the room in which their entrj point was located. Contents of the safe were in disarray and, in addition to re moving all the cash and checks the prowlers had lifted the firm’s bank book. In the depot, a window on the south side of the building (nex! to the tracks) was jimmied open and the. burglars lifted the safe physically, carried it out of a door, loaded it into a vehicle and de parted. Officers advanced the the ory that the safe had been car ried out in view of the fact that no marks showing evidence of its Having been skidded out werq ap parent and residents of nearby bouses did not hear the robber-s at work. The sheriff said Roanoke Rap ids and Weldon police were work ing with his office on the case with Weldon Chief of Police E. R Kitchen handling the fingerprint work for the investigators. First Sight Was Of High Water, Akers Relates A. E. Akers first came to Roa nnkp R_a.niHs rvn Ancmut 31 100k to accept a position in the city schools. When he arrived "the river was out of banks," the genial city tax man recalled this week “Coming in through Weldon," continued Akers, “I saw water in the ditches in the south side ol town so I went on uptown where I’ve lived ever since.” Akers first came to North Caro lina in 1905 when he came from six years of school teaching in Virginia to Henderson schools. He stayed at Henderson until the ap pointment to head the local school iu 1908. One hundred and Sixty-two pu pils and three teachers besides himself made up the Roanoke Rapids school personnel in the fall of 1908, he related. In one of the earlier classes he remem bers Julian Allsbrook (now state senator) as having been undei his tutelage. Akers was appointed county su perintendent of schools in July 1915, a position he held for 2! years, and has been tax collectoi for the City of Roanoke Rap ids and the schools since Julj 1, 1937. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Pearsoi and son, James, and Mrs. H. £ Cameron and children, Hugh an Addle Lee, spent Saturday in Em porla. Bond Set at $1000 In Macon Slashing Forty stitches were required to close the wounds of Waverly King, an attendant at a Macon service station, who was slashed about the arms, throat and legs Saturday night, June 21. Meanwhile, Matt Harris, Negfo, was bound over to the September term of Superior Court and bond was set at $1000 after King told officers Harris attacked him after he (King) asked him to cease causing a disturbance. NO RECORDER’S COURT There will be no Recorder’s Court in Roanoke Rapids July 3rd, the session having been postponed until July 10th, it was announced today by T. J. David, police chief. Cotton Bloom Is First of Season The first cotton bloom of the 1947 season was brought to tine Herald office Monday morning by Otha Love who lives about three miles from Roanoke Rap ids on the Littleton Highway. Otha usually is among the first to bring in a cotton bloom. Three years ago he was first and the following year he was second. This time he is first again. CLYDE ERWIN IS SPEAKER AT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Clyde Erwin, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, was the main speaker at the Semi - Centennial Celebration opening Wednesday afternoon at Simmons Park. -•lujui u. uu»c govr u low on the history of Roanoke Rap ids. Erwin was introduced by State Senator Julian Allsbrook. Magazine Subscriptions No. Good; Police Nab Charlotte Salesman Howard N. Bass, who said he was born in Charlotte and who claimed to be a war veteran, was picked up by police Tuesday after noon on a charge of receiving money under false pretense. Police said Bass was getting war savings stamps as payment for subscriptions to a magazine he displayed by telling housewives that the stamps were no longer any good. In reality, they pointed out, it was the magazine subscrip tion that was no good. OPEN THE DOOR. Police were startled Saturday night when a slightly intoxicated prisoner whom they were bring ing in to the lock-up suddenly darted away from them and head ed for the front doors of the muni cipal building. His one mistake, other than that of attempting to leave the house, was that he tried to open the doors with his head and in the opposite direction from which the carpenters had intended they should open. Result: bent doors, probably a sore head and re-pay ment to the city of cost of repairs. COON BITES BOY Hugh Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Cameron of Monroe Street, is recovering from a coon bite suffered last Wednesday at noon. It happened when the coon, property of Hugh’s father, escap ed from a pen in the Cameron back yard while several of the neighborhood children were play ing nearby. Hugh happened to be the victim and he was rushed to the hospital where three clamps were used to close the wound in the calf of his right leg. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Jenkins have returned from Savanah, Ga., where they attended a convention held by the presidents’ club of > the Durham Life Insurance Com • pany, of which Mr. JenklnB is I a leading representative. The con • vention was held at the General Oglethorpe Hotel. County Health Officer ^ Gives Information On Polio and Experiments tsy ur. Kobert r. Young County Health Officer The season rs again at hand for poliomyelitis, more commomy known as infantile paralysis. Dur ing the past few years, the in cidence of this disease has been gradually increasing with 1946 set ting a new record as having more cases of the disease reported than any year since 1919. There were eight cases reported in Halifax County during 1946, whereas only four were reported during 1946, and one during 1944. It was in teresting to note that during the past year the fatality rate of this disease was lower than in pre vious outbreaks and, also, there was a lower ratio of cases re sulting in paralysis; however,, it is too early to determine whether or not the virulence of the dis ease is decreasing. In the June 28, 1947, issue of 1’he Journal of the American Medical Associationn, Dr. Albert B. Sabin of Cincinnati, gave some interesting findings in “The Epi demiology of Poliomyelitis.” Dr. Sabin stated that “the abundance of the virus in human stools to gether with the demonstration of Its presence in sewage has, by analogy with the bacterial enteric infections, naturally raised the question of the possible role of flies and drinking water in the causation of epidemics of polio myelitis. The first extensive work on flies in relation to outbreaks nnllnmvulific uta o 1 CM 1 by Drs. Paul and Trask and then associates, who recovered the vi rus from flies trapped in rural areas close to a potential source of virus in the form of exposed recently evacuated human feces, and simultaneously by Ward and myself, who recovered the virus from flies trapped in urban areas, rhree years later Ward, Melnick and HOrstmann carried this work a step farther during an outbreak in North Carolina by demonstrat ing that the food which was ex posed in homes of poliomyelitis patients became contaminated with mough poliomyelitis virus to be capable of establishing the infec tion in chimpanzees that ate it. Hie high incidence with which /irus could be demonstrated in Elies caught even in some of the cleanest and most sanitary urban areas cannot, it seems to me, be Tobacco Growers To Vote July 12 On Assessment Tobacco growers will vote on Saturday, July 12, to decide whether or not there should be levied upon themselves an annual assessment of 10 cents per acre Dn the tobacco acreage planted for a three-year period, 1947s 1943 and 1949, which fund will be used to help finance the Tobacco As sociates, Inc. Tobacco Associates, rnc., Is an organization of all flue-cured tobacco interests. It Includes farmers, bankers, mer chants, warehousemen, redrying plants and manufacturers through out the entire flue-cured belt. All these interests contribute to To bacco Associates, Inc., based on their interests in tobacco. The as the farmers’ share in this fund. frolls will be open from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., on Saturday. Juty 12. Growers will vote at the poll ing place nearest their commu nity. Farmers engaged in the produc tion of tobacco in 1947 as owner, tenter or sharecropper have the rtght to vote. If two-thirds or more of the eligible tobacco growers voting n the referendum vote for this as sessment, the assessment will be levied. If the- tobacco growers vote for this assessment, the money will be collected by the tobacco ware houses when the first load of 1947 tobacco Is sold. Tobacco mar keting cards will be stamped to show the assessment has been paid. Assessments collected by tho warehouse, will be turned over to the treasurer of “Tobacco Asso ciates, Inc.,’’ to be used for stim ulating, developing and expanding export trade of flue-cured tobacco. Since 40 per cent of the flue cured tobacco is normally export ed it ia necessary to keep up this volume of export if farmers are to oontlnue to plant the pres* dismissed as an incidental find ing without epidemiologic imp'll cations. It must mean that a some time or other, somewhere ir the vicin'ity within a radius o one or more miles, the flies mus have had the opportunity to pic* up the virus.” Dr. Sabin revealed in his a tide that recent stud'ies have re vealed that the presence of th. virus of poliomyelitis is more per sistent and found in greater abun dance in discharges from the al. mentary canal or in human stool; than found in the respiratory tract. Dr. Sabin feels that as i result of these studies the trans mission of the disease is morf likely brought about through dis charges from the alimentary tracl than from discharges from the respiratory tract that is brought about by coughing or sneezing 'rhic nhcorvnti^n uoomc hn hm-n out by an experiment in whicr extracts were taken from mask; worn by poliomyelitis patients ir the acute stage of the disease, anc even after these patients ha coughed and sneezed into t'hesi masks only a very small percent age of them were found' poaitivi with tho Virus of infantile paraly ais. It has been thought for som. time that insects must play a - important role in the transmissioi of poliomyelitis since the seasons incidence of the disease is durin; She-, summer months and earl, autumn, particularly during th late summer. These observation are presented in an effort to giv. the public a progress note on th. work that is being done on th. dreadful disease at the presen time and are not to be consid ered to be all-inclusive sine, much more work, of course, wil fcave to be concluded before defi nite conclusions can be drawn rhese observations do, however miphasize the importance of good jafe sanitation in any community ,vith particular reference to wo. ;er supplies,'sewage disposal anc ;he control of swimming pools Since it was recently pointed oui hat the house fly plays an im portant role in the transmissioi >f typhoid fever, it is importani 'or us to note that this sam< nsect might play an even mort important role in the spread o poliomyelitis. ent acreage and to continue f. receive a fair price for their to baco. Tobacco Associates, Inc will work in this country and ii Lain the present rate of expori The assessment being voted 0! will be used to pay the expens. Df operating Tobacco Associates Landlords are requested to no tify their tenants about this ref erendum, advising of time an; places to vote. The following places have beei designated for Halifax County ts tacco growers: Airlie Community, Harris’ Store Aurelian Springs, J. H. Liles Store. Brtnkleyville, J. T. Aycock’: Store. Tillery, Parks’ Store. Darlington, School House. Dawsons, DeBerry’s Store. Enfield, Town Hall. Essex, R. I. Pullen's Store. Glenview, T. M. SykeS’ Store Halifax, AAA Office. Weldon, Town Hall. Hardrawee, School House. Heathsville, Neville’s Store. Hobgood, Town Office. Hollister, I. A. Crawley’s Store L'ittleton, Town Hall, Palmyra, Mizelle’s Store. Ringwood* Anderson’s Store. Roseneath, G. E. Cotten’s Store Scotland Neck, Town Hall. South Rosemary, Harrison' Gin. Henderson Man Talks to Local Junior G. of G. _ The Roanoke Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce heard Bloys W. Britt, executive secre tary of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce, discuss the organi sation and operation of a Cham ber of Commerce in a speech last Thursday night at the local Junior C of C*s regular meeting. Britt, who was accompanied by Ed C. Joyner, member ol the Henderson organisation*! hoard of directors, also discuss ed the plait for construction of ■ MW hotel in Henderson, Local Man Earns N.R. Commission Frank C. Williams, Jr., a re cent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve j upon completion of his studies, it ' has been announced. Williams, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Williams, ,Sr„ of Roanoke Rapids, received a de gree in commerce from the uni versity. Company Honors Four Employees For Long Service Honoring four employees who have been in the service of the company for 25 years, the Caro lina Telephone & Telegraph Com pany last Friday night gave them a banquet in the Blue Room of the Rosemary Cafe. The honorees were Mrs. Martha E. Herring, teller for the company i in Roanoke Rapids; Miss Sue i Butts, teller in Weldon; Mrs. E. ; L. Thorne, teller and chief opera ' tor in Ahoskie, and Mrs. Lucille • T. Cullen of Littleton, teller i.i i the Weldon group. The private dining room of the ! cafe was beautifully decorated for the occasion in yellow and white, and a delicious steak dinner with "all the trimmings” was served. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Maier of Weldon and Miss Gladys Davis of Roanoke Rapids greeted the guests at the door and H. Dail Holder , ness, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the company, acted as toastmaster. The honorees were given or chids when they entered the din ing room and after the speeches and dinner L. W. Hill of Tarboro. president of the company, present ed each of them a 25-year service pin, using very appropriate re marks. Enjoying this delightful affair were: Miss Margie Elks, Mrs. Amy Griffin. Mrs. Janie Riddle, Miss 1 Lucy Gay, Miss Mary Alice Gay, Little, Miss Dorothy William. . Miss Lillian Norman, Miss Beulah Tetterton. E. J. Eatman, Miss Mattie Holland. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Grimmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. ■ Ma'ier, Mrs. Nellie Vaughan, Mrs. Ethel Browder, Miss Marian Browder. Mrs. James Mountcastie and Miss Sue Butts, all of Wel don. Miss Corinne Hofler of Enfield: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark, Mrs. Lena Weaver* Mrs. James Rid dick and Mrs. Carleton Walston of Scotland Neck. Mrs. Minnie G. Ammons of Jacksonville. N. C.; Miss Norman Harris of Maxton. and Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Creech of Fayette ville. L. E. Thompson, Miss Jimmie Faucette, Miss Sadie Bell of Rocky Mount. Mrs. Kate Wooten, Miss Elma Lawrence, Miss Virginia Rodgers, Miss June Cornelius, Miss Em Pender. Mrs. Alease Horne, H. Dail Holderness, Miss Elizabetn Battle, President L. W. Hill, J. T. Sadler, J. K. Avant and Miss Emily Austin, all of Tarbo’ro. Mr. and Mrs. Howard PUts and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Dixon of Hen derson. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hilton and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Davidson of , viiiuagu. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thome, Fran cis Thorne, Alan Thorne, Mrs. Cai lie Cooper, Miss Vivian Powell, Mrs. Bessie Liverman^ M"iss Mur rell Holloman and Miss Louise Mobley of Ahoskie. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cullen and Mary Elizabeth Topping of Lit tleton. Mrs. Martha B. Herring, George Warren, Custer Kilpatrick and Haywood Draper of Roanoke Rap id a Old timers say the "Brass" Ankle” Hotel got its name from a woman who, while wearing golden yellow short boots, lifted her long skirts in order to dis play the leather covered ankles. She lived at the Hotel, hence the name. Pool Halls Face Midnight Closing Under New Law Roanoke Rapids pool halls, said by several members of the Board of City Commissioners to be at present stay ing open until the early hours of the morning, will close at midnight under a new ordinance passed Tuesday after noon by the board in its regular meeting. $171,400 ... Half Year Shows Continued Rise In Home Building Although building permits in the amount of $417,550 for the first six months of the present year fall $128,300 short in valuation of construction in comparison with the $545,850 worth granted up to and including June 30, 1946, that all important item of “new home construction” shows an increase ct $171,300 from $147,600 worth in 1946 to $318,900 worth this year. In the latest compilation of comparative figures released from the city building inspector’s of fice, other construction took a de cided drop. Last year in the first six months, permits for construc tion labeled in the classifications ‘commercial, industrial and re modeling,” had been issued in th" amount of $398,250, as compared to this year’s $98,650 worth. Comparisons of the month of june for the past two years show: June, 191(6 Four permits for new home construction were issued for a to tal nf 4137 non unH r»no nnrmit fnr remodeling was grunted in amount of $800. Total was $14,500. June, 19ift Sixteen permits for home con struction for $64,250 combined with three permit# for other building were g anted for a total of $67. 750 wf 74h building. The comparison for June reveal, a healthy $53,250 increase in this year’s figures over those of last year. The following permits were is sued during the last week in June: Home construction: B. B. Crow der, one-story frame residence on Cedar street between Fourth and Fifth streets (five rooms), esti mated cost of $3000. Remodeling: E. B. Manning, re pairs to roof on Monroe street letween Ninth and Tenth streets, $500. House Committee Recommends Fund For Buggs Island Washington (June 27)— The House Appropriations Committee today recommended a $3,800,000 appropriation for the continuation of the Buggs Island project on Roanoke River during the next fiscal year, and also placed the stamp of its approval on two other North Carolina projects. In addition to the Buggs Is land sum— a cut of a million dollars from the budget recom mendations—the committee recom mended a $100,000 appropriation for continuing the deepening of the Cape Fear River Channel at and below Wilmington, and an $85, 700 cum far a firwrw-l .w. t wO ject on the Neuse River in the vicinity of Goldsboro. The Neuse River allocation was the amount requested by Reps. Barden and Kerr, a member of the War Department civil func tions appropriations subcommittee which prepared the bill, but the Cape Fear River appropriation represented a $200,000 cut under figures recommended by Army Engineers. At the office of Rep. Clark, it was indicated he would seek to amend the bill on the floor of the House to restore the sum cut from the bill by the com mittee. The Buggs Island appropriation, although cut a million dollars under the recommended amount, was still among the ten largest of nearly 100 flood control ap propriations. It is a pet project of Rep. Kerr. The bill contained no appropri ations for the Yadkin River flood program and sources close to the committee said the strong opposi tion which had. been shown at hearings to the project had made it easy for Republicans economy wellders to leave the requested appropriation out of the bill. Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Liles and family of Norfolk were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. W Gibson of Roanoke Rapids anc Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Liles 01 Aurehan Springs. Miss Francis Wilson and Mis Elisabeth Wilson of Richmond spant Friday here with their par ante. which Chief of Police T. J. Davis took part, the board also made it unlawful to loiter on the streets after 2 a. m., or to block any alley within the city (as a result hampering firemen In discharge of their duties in case of fire) and ordered that stop lights in the city be left in operation until 12:30 a. m. Pool hall owners and employees I will have 30 additional minutes after the midnight deadline in which to clear the place, the new ordinance, which becomes effective July 12, provides. First business to come before the board was a proposal by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to trade two lots they own located in the rear of the city building, to the city in exchange for two adjoin ing lots, owned by the VFW. A.i act having been passed by the General Assembly in its last ses sion enabling this to be accepted, the commissioners voted to agree to the trade. Clifton SmifL, who was accom pany 'eting by the safety direct.*.. the Carolina Trailways Bus Company, then told the board that there was need of creating a -loading zone” in the space directly in front of the bus station for the convenience Under the resolution passed by the commissioners vehicles will be allowed to park in that space only to take on or discharge passen gers or to load and unload mer chandise. In addition all parking in this area will be parallel. The* n$w*j£treet paving contract was discussed with Phftiiji D. Freeman, Norolk engineer, and the board having been informed that « a recent tax valuation increase in the city would make possible ad ditional improvements in the amount of $120,000, voted to ac cept these additional improve ments. As a result* the much needed paving will be in the total of $352,000. The board, in passing the new alley ordinance and" taking under consideration the parking in alleys around Simmons Park, ordered "no parking” signs placed in those alleys under the terms of the new law. Chicken Dinner His Method of Saying Thanks There’s quite a difference in fighting fires and eating Tried chicken, but Roanoke Rapids "smoke-eaters” this week proved themselves as adept at devouring the tasty delicacy as they have proved themselves in combating flames. They got the chicken, incident ally, as a result of having proved their fire-fighting prowess last month in extinguishing a blaze at the home of C. W. Cook* about a mile south of South Rosemarv outside the city limits. When the fire boys arrived in answer to the call, chances of saving the house in any w^v shape or form, seemed to' be (in the words of one of the fire men) “almost hopeless." But they went to work with a determination and, aided by the efforts of several willing persons ving nearby who hauled water .«««« ian« iuii, sue ceeded in salvaging enough to that Cook would be able to con tinue living in one room. Last week, with plans completed for rebuilding his home, Cook begem to take stock of what the firemen had done for him and decided to express his apprecia tion in some material way. So last Thursday evening he called all the firemen in and set them down at tables in the firo station. Menu: fried chicken and ah the trimmings. In the words of Fire Chief W C. King, "Mr. Cook was the first person outside the city limits re quiring our services who so gen erously expressed his appreciation for those services. We want to thank Mr. Cook for hU generos ity and his thoughtfulness.” DR AND MRS JARMAN Tuesday evening, JUUne 24. Dr a*”- *"■ G' Jarm»n ente talned with a lovely family dimer honoring Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lon/ who were guests of relatives here' Flowers throughout the home wore both lovely and colorful A*« ' 5tST ”*** ^ * - *
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