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THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES
Vernon Edgar Whitley, Marvin William Soott, William H. Camp,
Jr, Robert E. May, R. H. McCommons, James W. Whitby, Grover
Woodruff, Winfield Hasty, Daniel E. Faison, Robert Le* Moore,
Curtis E. West, Edgar H. King, Robert Lee Ingram, Thomas A.
Cooper, Marvin F. Matkins, James G. Whitby, Thomas H. Cook,
V/ Jr, Elmer E. Chambliss, Randall White, Robert L. Harris, Joseph
A. Crouch, Davie L. Harper, Brutas W. Rook, Robert R. Northing
ton, Eugene Basil Glover, William 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, Rufus J. T. Woodruff, Clinton P. Deberry. Herbert S.
Edwards, EL Charles Leatherwood, Jr., John Wayne Thomas, Alex
Bullock, Jr, Frank P. Hunter, Cecil Coburn, Wilbur Anderton,
Latt Harris Shear in.
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* Editorials—
The Aurelian Springs-Roanoke Rapids
Paving Project.
Of great importance to long and short
distance transportation is the forthcoming
paving of the Aurelian Spirngs road to this
City.
* For long distance transportation it will
cut distance and time between Roanoke Rap
ids and Norfolk. Long distance buses and
trucks will make substantial savings with the
completion of this project.
Locally it means much, too. Farmers
hauling lumber and other products to this
city will be taken out of the mud and put on
pleasant hard surface.
Trade, too, comes with paved highways.
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Tenth Street.
A much needed thorofare will be opened
when the present paving effort on East Tenth
street is completed.
A paved East Tenth street will provide
an improved and safer road between this
city and points towards Weldon and east and
south. The only traffic outlet today is by way
of Roanoke Junction, where highways 47 and
158 converge and where traffic is stalled
daily because of the considerable freight car
switching which takes place there.
Tenth street’s paving also opens the way
to considerable commercial possibilities.
There are a number of business establish
ments on the street now, but its enlarged
commercial potentialities lie in the future
particularly after paving is also extended on
West Tenth street to Route 158.
Wilson Will Be
Scene of Annual
Cage Tournament
Wilson—They'll be "a feudin
and a fightin' " in all ages be
tween 14 and 60 this year at the
annual National Family Basket
ball Tournament to be held agair
at Atlantic Christian College gy
mnasium on December 26. 27
29. 30.
Shootin’ irons will be left out
side in the cloak room when the
family teams take to the basket
ball court at the college to play
in the annual feud of the Mc
Coys and the Hatfields, and the
Hartleys and the Conrads dur
ing the week between Christ
mas and New Years.
Each team is made up from
an immediate family and each
team is a family in its own right.
Brothers, sisters, mothers, and
fathers can play on the same
team. There is no age limit
and no sex restrictions. It’s all
| more or less clean fun and play
ed by regular basketball rules.
So far ihree states have en
tries in the event. Ohio, Virginia
and North Carolina will all have
teams entered and others have
asked for entry blanks. The Rob
erts boys from Akron, Ohio will
be the ones furthest away this
year.
Edgar Hartley, Sr., director of
the High Point YMCA is prob
ably the oldest player this year.
He’s the ‘pop’ of the Hartley
boys and is 60 years old. Dickie
Moore, of Wilson, is 14. He is
probably the youngest player
again this year. He plays on a
team which is composed of his
teen-age sister, his pretty moth
er and his father. They were the I
nits of the tourney last year and
darlings of the newsmen from
ail over the country.
There are plenty of “brother”
teams in the crowd. The Smiths
)f Micro, play father, mother,
two sisters and four brothers,
rhe Loftis brothers of Durham,
:hamps of the meet for the past
ew years have not yet entered
this year but may do so soon.
One new team this yeaf is
:omposed of the Gay family of
Saratoga, N. C. It is composed
:>f two sisters and five brothers,
rhen come the Conrad brothers
vho hail from Thomasville, all
brothers who can really play
oasketball.
R AMBLINGS
Continued from Page 1, Sec. A
nent of the birth of a lovely
jjirl, which, in part, stated,
‘Flash! Our Christmas Carol
ust arrived.” We are thinking:
vhat a pretty name is Carol for1
a precious Christmas arrival.
Don’t Believe It.
The other day a girl said,
“The best book ever written for
marriage is the check book."
About Parking Meiers
Two merchants on separate oc
casions yesterday told us their
opinions of the proposed parking
meters.
Said the first, “Parking met
ers will keep customers’ cars
off the street and ruin business.
Farmers will drive five miles to
avoid a 5 cent charge for park
ing their cars on free streets.”
Said the second, “Parking me
ters will keep merchants cars
off the street and make room
for customers. Farmers will no
more mind a 5 cent charge for
parking to buy merchandise they
want any more than they mind
standing in line, at a theatre
window for the picture they
want to see.’’
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Merchants and wholesalers in this area will
be better fortified to meet tougher economic
conditions as more paved roads converge to
our city.
How does it happen that the smaller
a boy is the more hot dogs he can hold?
Paving Brings Progress.
Go to the hinterlands, up and down
narrow dirt roads, and there you will find
the most backward conditions. There will be
found the highest percentage of poor homes,
inadequate farm equipment, the lowest aver
age of knowledge and the least of progress.
Quantities of refrigerators don’t travel
the poor country roads; neither do efficient
pieces of farm machinery. Persons who must
encounter rough travelling conditions don’t
attend many farm educational meetings; they
don’t see many instructive fairs; they don’t
often come to the city to see shows, nor to
buy fashion’s new clothes.
Build highways and with them will flow
modern ways of life, for knowledge of what
others are doing and how they do it travels
fast on paved highways.
They bring education, business, produc
tiveness — progress!
How to ride with
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