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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
17
Editor notes launch a weekly mental health feature with Dr. Watson's counsel. A highlighted address cites that one in 22 public school children will spend time in a mental hospital, implying a million plus at risk. Expert Hincks says half of mental illness could be prevented with timely action.
A Roanoke Rapids Halifax County letter from Ben Braswell is printed to honor signed readers though the paper contests its claims. The editor praises local civic harmony over the Long and Allsbrook feud and notes a Jefferson Street playground project funded by Virginia Electric and Power Company and city officials for child safety and community welfare.
Citizens in the northeast section worry as children form improvised baseball diamonds on streets. With no proper field, they raise bats and balls and play with simple setups, echoing a makeshift baseball culture in the area.
Roanoke Rapids high school marked a red letter day on Friday March 29 with the music department sending about 80 students to the district elimination contest in Greenville where nine honors were won. The baseball club defeated Elizabeth City 8 0 and the debating team triumphed in Greenville and Tarboro earning a spot at Chapel Hill on April 18 and 19. The piece notes the school’s rising prominence and future leadership potential.
The Roanoke Rapids Woman's Club regular meeting set for Monday was moved to Wednesday April 10 due to the Jarman funeral. Mrs Bernice Kelly Harris of Seaboard will speak, famed NC writer of the novel Purslane.
Beginning April 8 and for one month daily except Sundays from 1 to 4 pm the typhoid vaccine will be administered to employees of Roanolke Mills Halifax Paper Manchester Board and Paper and others at Clinic 201 Jackson Street. Signers include Drs Long Maddrey and Taylor and Mrs Andrew J Adkins. Harriet and Andrew Adkins return from Virginia. Jack Fanney and Charlie Briggs visited Rocky Mount on business.
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