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(Roanoke ^ Ramblings; Cables back and ... pronunciation, why should k-e-r-r be said like c-a-r? That question has haunted the Rambler since he started roving around Roanoke Rapids and at long last he has discovered that Judge Kerr isnt the only one. Now Hollywood comes up with that statement that “Gable’s new star is Deborah Kerr” with the ^parenthetical explination that s-t-a-r and K-e-r-r rhyme. All we can say for that is—we heard of the Judge before we heard of the star and, as far as we’re concerned she's just a Janie come-lately. Message to Hollywood: quote— we’ll keep our own Kerr, thanks! —close quote. SEVEN YEARS AND OUT. James T. Martin, who left here with the National Guard and who had seven years and three months service with Uncle Sam in the armed forces, writes from San An tonio’s Fort Sam Houston that he got his discharge there on July 22 as a major. . . Jim, who origi nally enlisted as a private, served in alrfiost every state in the union and overseas in the Pacific Thea* dftter . . . now he’s going back oyer (to Asia) as a civilian . . . “I’m taking a job in the Far East. I expect to spend the rest of my life over there in some part of Asia helping them to rebuild what has been destroyed,” he wrote in part as he requested the Herald to tell his friends here of his plans and whereabouts. YES. SIB WE’RE FROM HERE. jry This past week end we were in a city in our neighboring state of Virginia and met several peo ple we had never seen before. One of the first questions most of them asked was, "where are you from?" and, upon discover ing that we hailed from Roanoke Rapids, the majority would come back with, "Roanoke Rapids? Oh, yes, that's the town with the ti} strongest ball club in the Coastal Plain League, isn't It?” At first we didn't get the con nection, but one of our new ac quaintances gave us the scoop by saying, "they must have the strongest team In the league . they're holding up all the other teams.” Well, mister, when we got through telling them how Stu Martin had started ten yards be hind aero (with not even a ball 0 park) a few months back and had developed a team that .up to the hour of our conversation! had won seven straight games and tied the eighth at 5-all in IS innings, they, Instead of us, had to laugh out of the other side cf their Jaw. (They should have cr.ow loot n'lcrht’a hnme-run fiesta.) WELL, WE WERE! * Jt is the custom of the Ram * bier to purchase a newspaper prior to entering a cafe for din ner in order that he might in crease his meager knowledge of the world while waiting arrival of his food ffom the kitchen. And, on some few occasions, he has even been known to g^i so far as to add a magazine tt> this pre-dinner purchasing spref, ut-ing same to weight down thfe | rewspaper while his hands were otherwise occupied in silverware management. Such was the case one evening lust week when suddenly an old gentleman diner, previously safe ly at anchor in another part of the establishment, arose from his Coffee and pie and advanced Warily upon our stronghold with a greedy look in his eyes. We were pet to respond to an ) pxpeoted request for'the loan of our magaaine with an "oh-go r!ght-ahead-I-wasn’t - reading-it anyway” when we were startled no little by a sudden outstretch ing of his hand toward our re cently purchased stack of litera ture. Hypnotized by this sudden and entirely unexpected action and unwilling td believe our eyes, we stared in horror as the magazine ) was quickly lifted and the news paper “snitched” to be borne in proud triumph back to his table (p feat accomplished without so much as a “pardon me” or a backward glance). Helplessly we boiled — the pet ty Isfrceqy was done—we half heartedly contemplated an appeal to the U. N.—then rejected the idea—and at the time our feel ings were not unlike those of > £he npw-famous prize fight man ager who once exclaimed to the nation over a radio network that: ►We WUZ EODDeq: SHADES OF HAHVEY! The scene: a ball diamond In Belmont a few years ago. The " better hits a long one qut to the right fielder—(so Ed Elmore says) -in his baste he picks up a rab bit instead qf the ball and hurls 1 it to the catcher at home plate . . , yells the umpire: "Out—by a hare!" HERE AND THERE Jpe Kidd dropped In this week lie's Rr. and Mrs. P, 1- Rldd's boy who went tp the service a while back . ■, got Ms basic it Fort Bplvoir, Va- . • • the* went to Oarnp Stoneman, pal,, fpi about two months . , . lumped ti Hawaii in November and stayet lr. the land of the pineapple anc Wakiin a half ym • • • J» April Joe Went with a company fron the 80tb Engineer Base Topo graphic Battalion to the Palai Islands for a month • • ■ Jun 29th was discharge data for th happy lad at Fairfiskl Army Ai Base, Oak . . . Stow (Bd tkw , , , now brt bin. * * * THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ★ ★ ★ What Roanoke Rapids Makes __ .. Herald Classified Advertising —Makes Roanoke Rapids _ . . , „ . r Gets Quick Results * * * ★ ★ ★: VOLUME XXXII ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY' 31, 1947 NUMBER 39 McFee Addresses Merchants Group jbhbi ————... Shown addressing the recent annual outdoor meeting o( the Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association is Charles B. McKee, managing director of the V irginia Retail Merchants Association. With McKee at the “rostrum” are C. C. Shell, a director of the Noith Carolina .Merchants Association and member of the local group, and (ieorge Wilkes, vice-president of The local association. (Photo by Tudor.) Vic Huggins Here On Official Visit Local Rotary Club L. V. (Vic) Huggins of Chapel Hll, newly-elected governor of the 189th Rotary district, was here last Monday evening for his first official visit to the Roanoke Rapids Rotary Club. Huggins was greeted with a nice attendance of local Rota rians and addressed the club aft er dinner had been served. “Anything that Rotarians or people in a community want, they can have if they work hard enough for 'it,” said Huggins in stressing that Rotarians should work for “belter schools, better law enforcement and the other things that go to make a better and finer community." The new district governor, a merchant In Chapel Hill, was warmly greeted after his talk by local Rotarians. some of them expressing belief that it was one of the best talks heard by the membership in a long time. Young Child Dies Suddenly Alice Faye Hazelwood,, seven year-old daughter of Mr. and Mr.s. William L. Hazelwood of Wel don, died suddenly Monday morn ing in Roanoke Rapids Hospital following an operation. Funeral services were conducted from the residence in Weldon Tuesday aft ernoon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. W. C. Grant, pastor of the Wel don Baptist Church. Interment was in Cedarwood cemetery. Be sides her parents, she is survived by one sister, Barbara Ann Ha zelwood, and one brother, Billy, both of the home. Gaston Cops Two During Week-end The Gaston baseball team won two games last week end, drop ping Roanoke Rapids Eagles by 10-5 on Saturday and sending Triplett, Va., home on the short end of an 8-0 count Sunday. Batteries for Saturday’s game were: for Gaston, Burnette, Oli ver and Garner; for the Eagles, Stewart, Lewis and Cook. In the Sunday encounter Charles Draughan pitched his second suc cessive shutout, scattering eight hits over the route. Score by innings: Triplett _000 000 000-0 8 6 Gaston _141 010 01x-8 14 3 Batteries: Pearson and High; Draughn and Oliver. Former Littleton Resident Among Kerr's Visitors Washington — Visitors from all parts of Eastern North Carolina came last Thursday to the office of Representative John H. Kerr. John P. Leach, formerly of Lit tleton, and now living in Ohio, stopped off to pay his respects tc the congressman on his way home to Littleton on vacation, W. H. Fountain, Jr„ of Rocky Mount, and A. D. Harris of War renton. were among the other Sec ond district visitors to the Kerr office. From outside the district, Van B. Sharpe, of Carthage, was one of the Kerr callers. Methodist Youth Caravan Here Soon Members of the Methodist Youth Caravan which will be at Rosemary Methodist Church during the week of August 8-8 are pictured above. Left to right (standing): Ramalee Resler, Topeka, Kansas, and Jimmie Miller, Elizabeth City, N. C.; (seated): Eve lyn Sanders, Scottsboro, Alabama; Ella Jackson, Godwin, N. C., and Gwenell Eagan, Olney, Texas, The caravan is one of four groups of young people working this summer in the North Caro lina Methodist Conference. The caravan program of one week is designed to include both youth and interested adults. Program for the week was list ed by Rev, W. R. Stevens, pas tor of the church, as follows: Sunday, August 3 At the morning churoh school hour members of the caravan will teach classes and participate in the church school proram. 7— 7:45 p. m., classes. 8— 9 p. m., worship service. 0—9:80 p. m., fellowship period, Monday-Thwrsday, Au. 4-7 9— 11 a. m., workshop for in i termedlates (age 12-14). > 0:45—7:30 p. m„ _classes.. > 7:80—8:10 p. m,,'forum. ' 8:15—0 p. m., worship. » 0-9:40 p. m., recreation. jvMby, iwiut t 9—ll a. m.fc workshop for in Urmediates. 6:40—7:30 p. m., classes. 7:45—8:30 p. m., recreation. 8:30—9:40 p. m., a service of , dedication. During the class period the group will be divided as follows: (a) Intermediates (age* 12-14), course, "Our Intermediate Fellow ship." (b) Seniors, young people, (age 15-23), course, "Youth Living for God.” (c) Adults, course, “Guiding the Adolescent." A Youth Caravan is composed of four young people and an adult counselor with special training. They spend their summer vaca tion months going into different churches for a week at a time for the purpose of helping to re vitalise and strengthen the pro gram of tho church. Two Make Break From Road Camp Hire Roanoke Rapids Taxi For Journey To Tarboro A manhunt was in progress this week for two Halifax County prisoners who fled from Halifax County road camp some time last Monday afternoon. Arthur Goff, 26, formerly of LaGrange, and Ernest Eubanks, 18, formerly of Swansboro, es caped from the county camp seme time after noon Monday and hired a taxi in Roanoke Rapids. Arriving in Tarboro, the men pa'id the driver $15 and disap peared in the vicinity of a serv ice station, located on the edge of town, before the driver real ized the pair were escaped pris oners. Tuesday night's developments found the two on the road again, this time in a blue 1946 Chevro let coupe (license number 657 606), allegedly stolen in Green ville. Goff was serving a six months’ sentence for trespassing, wr Eubanks was serving time on a larceny charge, was to have been released shortly. $33,960 Gain Registered In 1947 Building Figures For First Seven Months Listed A gain of $33,960 on compara tive figures of building permits for a year ago was registered this month, a compilation of estimated costs totals showed yesterday. Total for construction permits issued during the first seven months of 1946 was $583,190 as compared to the end of the pres ent month figue of $488,850. How ever, whereas a month ago, the 1947 total was running $128,300 worth behind that of 1946, this month’s total has pulled ug to within $94,340 of the total for first seven months of last year. Home building, just as in every other city in the .state, in Roanoke Rapids, continues its phenomenal lead over that of 1946 .Whereas in July of 1946, only five permits! for new home construction in the amount of $22,000 were issued, seven permits for this month add ed up to $33,500 and coupled with an "other construction" classifi cation, totaled $71,300. Last year in July all the permits together total ed a meager $37,340. A persual of the figures In tabu lated form shows that, while the contemporary total is still almost n hnnrirpri thnnsnnri rtnllnrs nff Inst years pace, the accelerated build ing in residential structures should more than offset the lack of other building and pull the total at the end of the year up to (or near) that of last year. Home Construction A tabulation follows: t Home Construction July 1940, 5 permits for $22,000. July 1947, 7 permits for $33,500. First 7 months 1946, $169,600. First 7 months 1947, $352,400. Other Construction i July 1946, 5 permits for $15,340. July 1947, 5 permits for $37,800. First 7 months 1946, $413,590. First 7 months 1947, $136,450. Totals July 1946, $37,340. July 1947, $71,300. First 7 months 1946, $583,190. First 7 months 1947, $488,850. Only two permits were issued during the last week in July. The first was to Leon Edwards for a one stoity frame residence with five rooms and a bath on Rapids Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets at an estimated cost of $4,500. The other was to Con nie Ivey to build a one story cin der block store building on Popular Street at a cost of $1,000. A good rule to follow in feed ing dairy cows U to give a cow all the good hay the will eat and three pounds of silage for each 100 pounds hvt weight Nine Arrested On Gambling Charges After Knife Attack The Local Week... C ity Commissioners Meeting The board of city commissioners vhich met last Thursday to con »ider the budget for the forth :oming year will hold its regular nonthly meeting this Tuesday, August 5th, in the board room at he Municipal Building. Air Force Day Tomorrow, Friday, August 1st, Is \ir Force Day. Firemen Called Twice Firemen were called out twice luring the past week. On Friday noming they answered a call to ;he home of Bill Lowe, 210 Madi son Street, where an oil stove had iaused some trouble, but a fire ex tinguisher was all that was need id to extinguish the blaze. Sunday noming. a curtain caught fire at he Cagle home at 519 Hamilton street, but there was only minor lamage and the fire was out vhen the firemen arrived. Mrs. Sam A. Dunn Named At a meeting of the County Democratic Committee in Halifax Friday morning, Mrs. Sam Arring on Dunn, of Enfield, member of >. prominent Halifax County fam ly, was appointed by unanimous rote to fill the vacancy on the Soard of Education left by the re cent resignation of R. C. Rives. Local Scout Sails For Paris Scout L. D. (Sonny) Hines, Jr., on of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hines,, it Franklin Street, sailed from 'lew York last Thursday aboard he Army transport the "General ytuir," to attend the Sixth Inter lational Jamboree of Scouts in ^aris. France. 30,000 Scouts from all countries, (1,020 of them from the U. S. > will attend this jamboree,, the first bo be held in 10 years. While in Europe, the Scouts will :nur Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland, and a special group will oe taken on a tour of England. The American scouts will return ;o the United States on August 50th. Roanoke Valley Shrine Club The Potentate, William J. Bundy, if Sudan Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., will visit Roanoke Rapids Wed nesday, August 13. He will be ac .ompanied by the Temple Band, which will play a number of selec tions on the evening of the 13th it a band concert on Roanoke Ave nue between 10th and 11th Streets. Jackson Court Term Superior Court term in North ampton County will open August 1th, presided over by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, of Snow Hill. Trial of the seven men charged r. the Buddy Bush case is sched- j lied for August 6th. Tragedy Averted What could have very easily been i tragic accident was averted at i bout 8:25 Monday evening when E. Cleaton, Jr.v of 541 Hamilton street, who was driving slow'y southward on Roanoke Avenue in ;he 200 block, saw a young boy lart between two parked cars and (tart across the street. Cleaton ap plied his brakes and the boy, later ! dentified as Gordon "Bo” Ray, j, son of Ottis Ray, of 40 Madison Street, ran into the right front ender. An examination of the child it Roanoke Rapids Hospital after :he accident, disclosed no broken uones. Central Wins Second Half Loop Title Central's eleven-inning 1-0 win ruesday over Rosemary clinched :he second half title for the mid :ity club and now gives them :he right to meet Clara Hearne s f:rst-half winners next week for he city playground title. The playoffs w’lll get under way Monday morning. On Wednesday light the champions of each half n both the senior and junior eagues, will battle it out under ights at Ledgerwood Park. The attendance total dropped o the 1779 mark this week. Cen ral moved out front with 449, ind was followed by Clara Hearne vith 437, and Vance Street and Rosemary who had respective to als of 399 and 297. The colored layground at John Armstrong ^haloner School fell way below c a mere iai total. City Playround League W L Pet Central -7 1 .875 *oseary _ 5 3 .625 :iara Hearne _ 4 4 .500 ifance Street - 0 8 .000 Results—July 84 : Slara Hearne -000 000 0—0 Rosemary .. 000 000 1—1 Storey and Lynch; King and Maurice. Vance Street _000 000 0—0 Central - 000 100 x—1 Batton and Myrick; Acree and Joyner. Results—July 28 : Rosemary - 314 023—13 Vance Street -000 000 - 0 King and Maurice; Rook and Myrick. Central -101 120 000—5 Clara Hearne _041 000 001—6 Adams, Acree and Joyner; Tritt, Results—July 29: L.yncn ana L^yncn, smitn. Vance Street -000 20— 2 Clara Hearne _621 4x—13 Rook, Myrick and Edmondson; Tritt and Lynch. Rosemary _000 000 000 00—0 Central _000 000 000 01—1 King and Maurice; Acree and Adams. Junior Division W L Pet Clara Hearne -5 1 .833 Rosemary _ 4 3 .572 Vance Street _ 3 4 .42£ Central -1 5 .163 Results—July 23: Vance Street -000 01— 1 Central -030 7x—1C Edmondson and Doyle; Poin dexter and Vick. Results—July 25: Central -801 10—I Vance Street _000 00—1 Poindexter and Ed ward*; Ed mondson and Wrenn. f Rosemary___103 00— Clara Hearne -840 Ox—1 Brown, Little and Warrick; Cobl and Back, I Police Investigation Of Sabbath Morning Stabbing Results In Mass Arrests -, Mias Hendley Bonded At $500 After Monday Apprehension Silas Hendley, formerly of Hen derson and now of Roanoke Rap ids, posted bond of $500 Tuesday night after he had been arrested and lodged in city jail Monday by police and sheriffs deputies cn a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with ar early Sunday morning knife slashing of Joe (Pete) Wells, Jr., in an alley behind Wells’ home in the 900 block of Jackson Street. Meanwhile Wells, whose stom ach wound required 20 stitches and 11 clamps to close, was also under a bond, although of only $200, on charges of gambling, operating a gambling house and engaging in an affray in which a deadly weap on was used. Hendley was also charg'd with gambling and another man, Gar land McGee, was charged with aiding and abetting in gambling. Six other men, Lindsey Shearin, Claude Barnes, Hassell Bridgeir.an, C. C. Baity* Basil Davis and J. C. Warwick; were arrest cl and charged with gambling after news oi the cutting scrape had sent of ficers into an investigation of circumstances surrounding the 3:00 a. m. Sunday fight. Preliminary hearing for the nine men will be held Saturday morn ing at 10:00 o’clock before Major J. T. Chase in the courtroom cf the municinal hnilriincr Home Economics Teachers Attend Conference Home economics teachers of the eastern counties of North Carolina biMd their annual voca tional k ; ne economics conference at Era’. Carolina Teachers Col* lege July 21 through July 26. ' The 123 home economics teach crs attending the conference were ! instructed in home improvements, clothing, health, home nursing, consumer education, teaching food |in the 60-minute period, unusual aids and care and use of equip ment. Themes for the general session hroughout the week included “To ward New Horizons for Future iHomemakers in 1947-1948,” “Suc :tssful Experiences in Working with Adults in Home Economics" and "How Active County Organi zations of Home Economics Teach ers Can Contribute to More Suc cessful Teaching.” Among the speakers and leaders discussion groups during the w eek were Catherine T. Dennis >t Raliegh, Mabel Lacy and Mrs. Adelaide Blaxton of East Caro ina Teachers College, Mrs. Doro thy B. McClure of Clarkton, Ju aa Bradshaw of Rock Ridge, Rose Mary Codell and Mrs. Will Frances Sanders of Raleigh,. Louise Lowe of the Womans Col lee, Greensboro; Emily Burt Per son of Tarboro, Mrs. Clarinda Britt of Goldsboro, Marjorie Smith of Burgaw, Carolyn Outlaw of Kenansville and Josephine Grant of Edenton. Helen Sorrell, vocational teach er at Hillsboro, was announced is the only teacher representive from North Carolina who will at tend the national executive meet ing of the Future HomemAkers of America in Kansas City on Euly 28. Betty Cannady of Frank inton will attend as student rep esentative from the state. Smith's Church Homecoming Day To Be Observed Next Sunday marks the home coming day and beginning of a j revival at Smith’s Methodist Church, it was announced today. • j All former pastors, members, ab sentee members, resident mem bers and friends are invited to be present Sunday for the all hay services the announcement ’] stated. Rev. P. F. Newton of Enfield will assist the pastor in the vival and participate in the coming day services. The day open with the sessions of church school at 10 a. lowed by an service at 11 dinner hour pervice will be former pastors make brief remarks. The pastor stated probably be the laat revp the present auditorium h remodeled and a new school piar.t has been bn architect la drawing pfc remodelling the preeoat ""<* “'lOtm* the new Thirteen Meters Installed Here Meter changes for the past week were listed by the Sanitary De partment as follows: Meters Removed Patty Dickens, 117 Washington end Pearl Harris, 312 Monroe street. Meters Installed Marvin Anderton, 813 Jackson street; Dr. E. C. Murray, 1003 Jackson street; W. H. Stokes, 90C Vance street; Grace B. Gates, 602 Jefferson street; Dr. W. W. Far ley, 711 Madison street. D. M. Chestnut, 10th and Mar shall streets; E. R. My rick, 312 Monroe street; J. W. Shay, 117 Washington; Bill idins, 1014 Ham ilton street; Sam T. Brown, Eighth and Madison streets. Alton Baggetts, 1305 Washing ton street; ,W. C. Simpson, 813 Jackson street, and Ashley Smith. 200 Roanoke Avenue. Revival Services Beginning Sunday Revival services at Quankie Baptist Church near Roanoke Rapids will begin Sunday, August 3 at 11 a. m., with a sermon by Rev. Thomas Greene of Ken tucky^ assisting the pastor, Rev. E. W. Greene. At the noon hour a basket lunch will be served. The afternoon ser vice will begin at 2 o’clock. Two services will be held each week day night beginning Mon day night at 7. The second.serv ice will begin at 8:15 p. m. The pastor announces that the public is cordially invited to these services. The "Cherokee Boys," local ra dio entertainers, will render a pro gram of gospel songs at the Sun day morning service.
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