★ ★ ★ ★ 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. ★ ★ ★ ★ * 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. ftftftftftftftftftftftft ftftftftftftftftftftftft; 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.’’ THE ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD ADVERTISING — PRINTING EMBOSSING OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES The Largest Newspaper in Halifax County By Mail — $2 Yearly—In advance ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. MILLTON L WICK, Publisher. Entered as Second Class matter April 8rd, 1914, at the post office of Roajioke Rapids, North Caro lina, under Act of March 3rd.. 1879 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 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. 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