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* TAKING ADVANTAGE of the sunshine Monday afternoon was Clifton Duke, the engineer down at the fire department, who was observed patching a couple of spots on the roof of the fire sta tion. It must have come in handy during that downpour yesterday. Uninitiated as is the Rambler, he thought the Roanoke River was flowing past the Herald office . . . Somebody stuck his foot ^through a plate glass window over at the Easy Pay store some time Saturday night. (It couldn t have been a Wake Forest old grad imbued with joy over the football game, could it?) The boys over there speculated' he was probably imbued with some thing at anv rate. HUNTING COMES INTO the spotlight . . . W. O. Davis, the Halifax county agriculture agent, &has been hunting at the Roanoke and Tar River Gun Club down at Kelford recently. To date, he has reported no deer killed, but he did get a few squirrels. . . “Wick” Cagle, who lives on Hamilton Street, got a deer that weighed about 110 or 115 pounds Satur day morning over in Bertie coun ty near Lewiston, according to an always reliable source . . . -Somebody said they heard also *lhat D. C. Clark, the city com missioner, got one too, but we haven’t been able to contact him about it. Tried to call him last night, but the D. C. Clark we called lived over in Gaston and ing this year. Incidentally, the Gaston man was very helpful and apparently not in any bad humor over having to answer the |Phone when the caller evidently 'was trying to get another man by the same name. He even told us he thought the Roaonke Rap ids D. C. Clark lived at 79 Ham ilton Street. Thank you and if anyone sees D. C. from R. R. please ask him if he got a deer. In deer hunting, the Wildlife commission says, only male deer with antlers may be taken. Any time anyone gets a deer just f call R-326 and tell us all about it. (Our society correspondents will tell us when somebody gets a dear). THE COLLEGE MYSTERY is half solved. One of those two boys who go to Louisburg Col lege is Kirk Taylor, Jr., so we are informed by one of our friends who was talking to Kirk’s brother. The next time somebody who sees this sees Kirk please | ask him who the fellow was who caught the bus at the Junction about 6:35 on the morning of September 2nd just be.' -re be caught it farther along the Lit tleton road in South Rosemary about three minutes later. That’ll help the Rambler clear up this mystery . . . Douglas Wilson, who is a senior at State College, is going to be an agriculture teach er say his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I N. E. Wilson whom he visited last week-end at his hoiiie near Littleton . . . The friends of Charlie Butler will be interested to know that he is attending E. C. T. C. His sister phoned in this information about "Boo Boo" (as he is known around here.) uti.i.iv/L, iv nig on mo desk say “L. W. Pullen, now Sergeant, U. S. Air Force, attend ing Univ. of Calif.” L. W. got ) his three stripes October first and he's taking a special course j in English taught by one of the | It ading professors at the school on the west coast. His mom, who ;* has a very swell voice for tele : phone, told us he plans to at r tend Wake Forest as soon as | possible after he’s discharged in December. Mrs. R. A. Pullen of 523 Hamilton Street is his mom . . . Switching to the Navy—Sea |man first class Billy L. Hock aday and his wife were in town over the week-end visiting Bil ly’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hockaday, Sr. Billy will leave sometime this month for a six months cruise aboard the USS Midway. SOMEONE WE MENTIONED above may be listed among the following, but we just want to say that the “shower” which was & given for a couple of the Her ald’s “bachelors” last Friday night was made possible by the following people, their kindness and their generosity: Mrs. Edith Massey, Mrs. Louise Umphlett, Mr. and Mrs. “Sheriff” Bell, Miss Inez Williams, Miss Louise Burke, Miss Rae Martin, Johnny Wilbourne and Johnny Crutch field (who for some reason were referred to as “Mr. Easy” and * “Mr. Pay” throughout the entire evening). Mr. and Mrs. T.arrv Willis, Bill Clary, Johnny Gar ner, Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Bain, Mrs. W. H. Daughtry. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Elmore, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Luter, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Doug Debnam and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas. It was truly a heart-warming house warming. 1 Caboose Way Ahead " 'Choo-Choo' Justice, meet 'Caboose' Murphrey,'' said vic torious Wake Forest football players Saturday as they in troduced Willis Murphrey, Jr., to Asheville's Charlie the Great in the locker room fol lowing the Deacons' 19-7 up set win over the Carolina Tar | heels. It seems that young Murph rey, who played his prep school football here with the Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets and who. at 148 pounds. Is the lightest man on the Deacons’ squad, had been running at Justice* position in scrimmage against the first stringers all week. t * * * THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ★ ★ ★ Wliat Roanoke Rapids Makes „ ,, ... , . . Herald Classified Advertising —Makes Roanoke Rapids „ „ . , _ . r Gets Ouick Results * * * * * * VOLUME XXXII ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16th, 1047 NUMBER 50 Roxobel - Kelford Scouts in New Mexico PH1LMONT pa SCOUT RANCH Roxobel-Kelford Scouts recently returned from a camping trip to the Philmont Scout Ranch at Cimmaron, New Mexico. The six members cf the Roxobel-Kelford troop accompanied by their Scoutmaster were among the first representatives of the East Carolina Council to visit Philmont. The group was the recipient of the Indian Head award while at the ranch. Shown here are: (front row, left to right) Scoutmaster L. B. Griffin; second class Scout Mickey Vick; Star Scout Gene Peele and Eagle Scout Jack Peele; (second row) Eagle Scout Howard Vick; Eagle Scout Joe Cole, Jr., and Life Scout Sol Cherry. East Carolina Council, Boy Scouts of America, To Meet in Rocky Mount O. B. Everson, National Direc tor of Rural Scouting of the Boy Scouts of America, has been secured as the speaker for the annual meeting of the East Caro lina Council, it was announced this morning by N. M. Schaum. President of the Council. The meeting will be held Tues day, November 25th at the Ricks Hotel in Rocky Mount, beginning with dinner at 7 p. m. J. W. E. Joyner, chairman of the Rocky Mount District, is serving as ar rangements chairman, assisted by Schaum and Henry L. Owen, Jr, Field Scout Executive. The officials of the Council fee! they are indeed fortunate in securing Mr. Evenson, as he js one of the most forceful speakers on the Home Office staff, and will have a message that will be of interest to all. Representatives, including Exe cutive Board, Council, District and Troop Committeemen, and Unit Leaders, from the 16 Dis tricts of the 20 counties of East ern North Carolina that make up the Council area, will be in attendance. Important business ol the meeting will include the report of the President and of the Operating Committees, the election of officers for the new year, and local and regional awards to the various units who will have qualified in the nation wide round-up now under way. — Emporia Concert Season To Open October 22nd Emporia — Leona Flood, the distinguished young American violinist, opens the Emporia con cert season Wednesday evening, October 22, at 8:15 o’clock. First cf a series of three concerts by outstanding artists presented in the Greensville County High School Auditorium, Miss Flood’s appearance will be her second in Emporia in 1947. In her previous concert, presented in January, she so charmed her audience with her fine talent, her gracious personality, and her gifted in terpretations that her return was requested to open the 1947-48 concert season. Arrangements Complete For Halifax District Boy Scout Camporee All arrangements for the fall camporee of the Boy Scouts of Hoanoke Rapids and the Hali fax District have been made, it was announced today l>y the Camping and Activities chair man, I. A. Irby. The camporee will be held October 24th and 25th in the city park adjacent to the First Methodist Church. The Scouts will pitch camp at 4 p. m., Friday, Oct. 24th. After camp has been set up, they will cook supper. The big event of the evening will be the campfire. There will be group singing, stunts by each patrol, hypnotist S. H. Crumpler will demonstrate the mysteries of the occult and some of the leading scouters will make short talks. The public is cordially invit ed to the campfire at 7:30 p. m.. Scout leaders announced. Saturday morning various scouting events will be run with all scouts participating on a patrol basis and the scouts will break camp at noon Sat urday. Road Information Released For Tour For the convenience and in formation of those planning to attend the inspection tour of the Buggs Island project on the Roa noke River tomorrow, the Roa noke River Flood Control Com mittee today released the follow ing directions: “In order to reach the Buggs Island Project, persons coming from the north should proceed to the junction of Highways No. 1 and 58 and then turn West on 58 about 4 miles to a red on white sign of the Army Engi neers. Avoid sideroads marked with white arrows pointing to Buggs Island Dam. Persons com ing from south or east should proceed to the same junction and then as above. Persons coming from the West should proceed to Boydton, Va., and thence along No. 58 to the Buggs Is land turnoff.” Cemetary Near Completion WILLIAMS ELECTED Frank C. Williams, of Roanoke Rapids, was elected second vice president of the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Associa tion Saturday at the group’s meeting in Asheville. A research project, seeking ways and means to reduce costs of feeds by developing and pro moting the construction of more qffecient marketing facilities, has been approved by the U. S. De; irtment of Agriculture un der the Research and Marketing Act of 1946. The new Roanoke Rapids Cem etery is rapidly nearing comple tion, a drive through the 30 acre area at the end of the West Third Street extension showed Wednesday. Largely through the efforts of veteran City Commissioner M. D. Collier, streets In the ceme tery have been paved, water piping is in and power mowers have already been ordered. Sale of lots now awaits only the pricing of the lots and it is contemplated that this will be done in the near future, the I Herald learned today. Trio Arrested In Auto Entries Face Trial Today Three men, identified by police Harry H. Rose and Howarc Horton, of Roanoke Rapids, anc Jessie D. Pruitt, of Mississippi were arrested about 1:20 Satur day morning at the bus statior in Roanoke Rapids after officers had received complaints thai some automobiles in the vicinity of Rosemary mill had been enter ed earlier that evening. Warrants against each charged tiiat they “Did wilfully and un lawfully and forcibly trespass upon the property of M. A. Al len, Lawrence Acree, James Ac ree, Clifton Hasty, Thurman As kew, to-wit: automobiles, and did steal, take and carry away property consisting of personal property, light bulbs, coffee val ued at $ __ and received same knowing them to have been stol en.” A separate warrant drawi against Horton charged that he “Did wilfully and unlawfully carry on his person a concealed weapon, to-wit: a pair of bras knuckles.” At preliminary hearing Mayor’ Court Monday afternoon, prob able cause w*as found and the three men were bound over fo trial in Recorder’s Court being held in Roanoke Rapids today. 514 Drivers Get License Since July Only 514 drivers license have been issued by the Roanoke Rap ing office of the Examiner, High way Safety Division, since re examination began on July 1, 1947. it was announced today by Irwin K. Weeks, examiner for Roanoke Rapids and vicinity. “With only two months of re examination time remaining for those whose last names begin with “A” and “B”, there’s going to be either a big rush at the last minute or a lot of people are going to be without proper lic ense on January first,” Weeks told the Herald. “At. any rate, due to the short age of time for further study in case persons make a failure of their first examination, there are certainly going to be some with out license entirely,” he added. In the latter statement. Weeks referred to the possibility of go ing back for another examination after the applicant has failed to pass the tests on the first try. The examiner again requested applicants who have no license to bring an automobile and n qualified and licensed driver with them when they come to take their driver's tests. Masonic District Members Gather In Littleton The members of the Fourth Masonic District will gather on Monday. November 3. at Little ton for a district communication beginning at 3 o’clock when an Officers Conference consisting of Masters. Wardens and Secretaries of each Lodge will convene with Grand Master Luther T. Hartsell, Jr. of Concord and Grand Secre tary Wilbur L. Mclver of Raleigh in charge. Supper will be served at 6:30 o’clock in the High School Gym nasium, followed by a tiled ses sion in the High School Audi torium at 7:30 o’clock. Several distinguished guests other than i‘ ° Grand Lodge officers will be present and have a part on the program of the day. All Master Masons are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Cold Drink Truck Overturns In Mishap A traffic mishap early Sat urday morning seven miles from Roanoke Rapids on the Littleton-Roanoke Rapids sec tion of U. S. Highway 158 re sulted in a large number of cold drink bottles being spilled over the highway and should ers of the road. State highway patrol officers who investigated said a 1941 Chevrolet truck, driven by H. E. Pope, 35, of Littleton and carrying a load of soft drinks, overturned following a near collision with a 1947 Oldsmo bile driven by Dr. Ernest D. Harbour of Roanoke Rapids. No one was injured in the accident and, although the truck was damaged, there was no damage to the Oldsmobile. The Local Week... | _ CLINIC BOARD NAMED The County Commissioners last week appointed the following as members of the Board of Direc tors for the new Scotland Neck Hospital: J. E. Martin of Tillery; Balfour Dunn and Cecil Cotten, of Scotland Neck; L. F. White hurst of Hobgood and N. O. Mc Dowell and C. Shields Alexand er of Scotland Neck. Named by the Scotland Neck City Commis sioners and approved by the county board also was Frank Shields. NO FINAL RESULTS YET T. M. Bullock reported to day that no final report was possible as yet on the recent Lions-sponsored White Cane Sale as all of the Lions had not reported to him. SUPERIOR COURT SESSION The fall term of Superior Court of Halifax County will be gin next Monday and Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn, of Woodland, is tentatively slated to be the pre siding jurist. Among cases scheduled for trial is that of E. B. Bowman, George Lewis and Lefty Down ing, Roanoke Rapids men, on charges growing out of the dis appearance last July 8th, of four hogs belonging to Roger H. Downing, father of Lefty. FORESTRY APPOINTMENT The county board of commis sioners at its Oct. 6th meeting, endorsed the appointment by the State Forestry Department of M. M. Lawrence to the position of County Forester, succeeding the late C. T. Lawrence of Scotland Neck. The commissioners also voted to cooperate with the State For estry Service in erecting a third fire tower in the county to be located near Medoc. SYMPHONY TICKET SALES Students in the city’s schools are competing in advance tick et sales for the Roanoke Rapids, presentation of the North Caro lina Symphony Orchestra, it was announced today. To the home room which shows, the most ticket sales, Dr. Benja min F. Swalin will present a musical gift at the afternoon con cert. Pupils in one gramma;' school room have already sold $40 worth of tickets. The date for the Symphony’s appearance here will be announc ed later. FIREMEN~ANSWER CALL Firemen answered a call yes terday afternoon to 120 B Mon roe Street where a defective electric light fixture had show ered a housewife with sparks when she pulled the switch. When she pulled the main sw itch, the fuses blew out so she called the Fire Department. No damage was caused, the firemen reported. 10 TRAFFIC DEATHS Halifax County’s 10 traffic deaths during the first eight months of 1947 entitled it to be placed with the list of 33 other counties of the state which were responsible for 72 percent of all fatalities during that period. Northampton had less than six. NEW PATROLMAN R. L. (Bob) Ervin, of Kannapo lis, arrived Saturday to take over his duties with the State High way Patrol station in Roanoke Rapids. Ervin has been with the patrol since September 2nd of this year. Only $6,184 Collected For Community Chest In First Week of Drive One of Yellow Jackets' Big Guns Walter Myrick, known as "Bear", has been one of the main factors in the Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets' victories over Tarboro and Edenion and is expected to be one of the pacers of the local attack here tomorrow night when Rock Venters' team meets the New Bern Bears at Simmons Park. Jackets Set for New Bern Conference Tilt Tomorrow Under Simmons Lights By WILEY WARREN Eyeing a bid for conference honors after that hairline win over Edenton, Rock Venters’ Yel low Jackets were sent through its toughest workout of the year yesterday m preparation for to morrow night’s clash with the New Bern Bears. The contest will be reeled off under the lights of Simmons Park, with the all-important tilt scheduled to begin promptly at 8 o’clock. For the first time this season, the Jackets will be the team seeking revenge. The Bears cap italized on extra points to beat the Jax 20-18 in last year’s meet ing. An intercepted pass led to the winning score. Venters had every member of the squad join in the tackling drills yesterday, a phase which certainly wasn’t up to par in the Edenton game. Pass defense also came in for a check-over. The squad will be bolstered by the return of David Cox, O. B. Crumpler and Vixon Harris, who were absent last week because of disciplinary reasons. Cox ran in the first team backfield yesterday. Crumpler anu xiarris woikcu wun me sec ond group. Crumpler, who runs from any position in the back f’.eld, is expected to see plenty of action tomorrow night. The starting lineup will prob ably consist of Wordest Felts and Russel Joyner at ends, Hubert Lowder and Lewis Ivey at tack les, Fred Etheridge and Jabo Hale at guards and pint-sized Edison Nicholson at center. Wal ter Myrick, co-captain Sam Wood,David Cox and co-captain Vance Stewart, are slaved to open in the backfield. Other conference battles this week find the two top teams, Washington and Elizabeth City, tangling for loop honors on the latter’s Memorial Field. Edenton and Tarboro will fight for the cellar slot and Greenville’s Greenies play at Kinston in the remaining game. A Yellow Jacket triumph, coupled with a Washington and | Kinston defeat, would place Rock ■ Venters’ charges in a position to capture the conference crown. A iosi by the Jax would just about eliminate their chances of gain ing the title. Conference Standings W L T Pet. Washington 2 U 0 1.000 Elizabeth City 2 0 0 1.00 Kinston 3 1 0 , .750 Roa. Rapids _2 1 0 .667 Greenville 111 .500 New Bern 011 .000 Tarboro . 0 3 0 .000 Edenton - 0 3 0 .000 Amount Less Than Half Of City Goal With only two days of the local Community Chest Cam paign left, Roanoke Rapids’ drive was far behind its set quota of $14,030. As of Thursday morn ing contributions totaled only $6,186.50. With time growing short, Hen ry Akers, chairman of the local campaign, expressed his appre ciation to all the helpers for the work they are doing and urged citizens to contribute heavily in order that the city may meet its quota. "There are only two more days left in which you may take part in the drive. Here is your op portunity to help make your home town a beter place for all. Everybody benefits — every body gives!” Akers said. as helpers in the Campaign: Leonidus Hux, Chairman of the Industrial Group with Jimmie Sears at Roanoke No. 1; Men’s Club at Roanoke No. 2; Jimmie Mayfield at Rosemary; Ruddy Meikle at Patterson; H. W. Eller son at Halifax Paper Co.; Lewis Taylor at Virginia Electric and Power Co., and R. C. Brown at Manchester Board and Paper Co. Rev. Edmund Berkeley, chair man of the Special Group, with Mrs. Claude Keene at the hos pital; Miss Sula Williams at the post office; Joe Talley for the schools; Mrs. Norine Glover at the Municipal Building and Prof essor Lewis for the colored schools. In the North Ward, Lunsford « Crew is chairrjwj -wM Carsn^. - Blv^+o-*- >eay, Bradford^ Browi.:“;to) J. L. Langston, War ren Kidd, and Miss Mamie Nash as helpers. In the South Ward, John Lackey is chairman and his help ers are Bill Proctor, Octavius Griffin, Howard Pruden, Mrs. Elva Martin, Eugene Shell, Dick Taylor, Arthur Schwartz and Al fred Martin. - - _ ' _ Akers asks that all these help ers do all they possibly can to make the drive a successful one and urges citizens who will be called on to contribute to re member the slogan: “Everybody benefits—everybody gives!” Building Continues Drop With Only $9200 Worth jPermits Issued Up to 15th Three building permits, only one for new residential construc tion, in the amount of $9,200 have been issued up to and in cluding the 15th for this month, figures obtained from the office of City Building Inspector Henry Fitts disclosed today. The one permit for a new home was at an estimated cost of $6,500 and the other $2,700 worth was almost equally divid ed between commercial building and the “miscellaneous” classi fication. Combined with permits issued during the first nine months of the year, these latest permits rep resent a total of $593,300 worth for the city this year, of which $386,000 worth was for new homes. October Permits Permits were issued to: T. W. Outland for a one-story brick residence on Washington Street between 13th and 14th Streets with four rooms and bath, $6. 500; DeLuxe Cleaners, one story block building between 13th and 14th Streets to be used as a cleaning plant, $1,500; and Claud Cannon, one story block garage at 531 Franklin Street, $1,200. White-Hurst Is Speaker At Baptist Session Rev. Marshall White-Hurst, of the Rosemary Baptist Church of Roanoke Rapids. Rev. C. W. Bazemore of Scot land Neck, Rev. D. M. Branch of Scotland Neck and Mrs. C. R. Daniel of Weldon. were among speakers at the Roa noke Baptist Association's an nual two-day meeting Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The association, which is composed of 80 churches in eight counties, held its first day's session at the Scotland Neck First Baptist Church and the second day's meeting at the Red Oak Baptist Church. About 1200 people were in attendance at the sessions. John T. Coley, of Nash Coun ty. is moderator of the con ference which covers territory embracing 18,000 Baptists in Nash. Edgecombe. Halifax, Pitt, Martin, Wilson, Beaufort and Washington counties. County Education Unit Elects Officers $18,766,000 for North Carolina schools would result from pas sage of a bill now before Con gress, Miss Rosalie Andrews, field secretary of the North Carolina Education Association, told the Halifax County Unit of the NCEA at its organizational meet ing held in the Halifax School last Wednesday, October 8th. The group elected the follow ing officers for the year: T. O. Hickman, Enfield, president; Miss Minnie Hart, Scotland Neck, vice pre^dent and Miss Frances Phil lips, of the Superintendent of Schools office, secretary. The following committees were appointed: Legislative—G. E. Crawley, Miss Thelma Elliott, Mrs. Edith P. Ball, Grady J. Haynes, C. U. Williams; Profes sional service—Mrs. Willella Rid dick, Mrs. Marie Daniel, Miss Ethel Winstead, Mrs. Estelle Bel lamy, Mrs. Ruth J. Dickens. Planning and resources — L. W. Alexander, Miss Pearl Fishel, Mrs. Lalah Boseman; Public Re lations—Mrs. Ethel Crawley, Miss Kay Mann, Miss Kathleen Kidd; International relations—Mrs. Mir iam H. Mabry, Mrs. Louise I. Partin, Miss Katherine Wallace. Refreshment—Mrs. Mildred 0 Randolph, Min Winnie Burt, Min Mipnie Hfft* Mrs. Enups Smith and Mrs. Helen B. Milli kin. Workshops Voted Teachers attending the assem bly voted to have professional workshop studies in each school. It was decided to meet during the year to discuss and study several phases of school work, which are a matter of interest to all teachers. County meetings will be held at various times during the year for reporting problems and solutions for the benefit of the other schools of the county. The last meeting of the year was voted to be held in April, 1348, god all projects are to be completed by Out tine. . :b '■
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