Lions Aid Many Families From Festival Funds
The Roanoke Rapids Lions Club Blind and Welfare Committee spent about 600 dollars assisting the blind and near blind and other relief cases. Funds from the Annual Mid-Summer Festival supported eye clinics, home service, and baskets for needy families. Notable efforts included glasses, a talking book, a glass eye, and aid for two state aid cases. Rachel Britton's improving condition after an operation was highlighted.
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Roanoke Rapids Lions Club
Mary Ruffin Roberterson
J. M. C. Covington
North Carolina Commission of the Blind
Bailey Watson West
The
Blind Commission
Rachel Britton
State Commission
75 Killed In State This Year Failing To Make Curves
Ronald Hocutt, director of the Highway Safety Devision, warned North Carolina drivers to slow down as 75 motorists were killed this year in crashes caused by drivers failing to negotiate curves. He said many curves remain and highway officials face long, costly work to straighten them, urging motorists to maintain safe speeds for any curve.
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Ronald Hocutt
Highway Safety Devision
North Carolina
Hocutt
State Highway Commission
Roanoke Rapids Lions Club Elects Ted Speight President
H. B. Ted Speight was chosen president of the Roanoke Rapids Lions Club for the 1940 41 term after two years as Festival Committee chair. Under his leadership the Mid-Summer Festival became a city feature while he also coached the Romance Bees softball team and stayed active in local affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B
Ted) Speight
Roanoke Rapids
Lions Club
Ted
Speight
Romance Bees
State cautions on curves and speed in North Carolina highways
The safety director warns drivers to slow down before curves on North Carolina highways. He notes many curves cannot be safely navigated at 50 or 60 mph and urges motorists to reduce speed and increase caution when approaching curve markers.
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North Carolina
Time Extended for Cotton Classing Applications Here
Extension of the time limit for free cotton classing applications was announced by the Agricultural Marketing Service. Delayed planting explains the extension. final dates in August apply to groups in several states and Texas counties. Instructions and forms are available from listed cotton branch offices in Atlanta Memphis Dallas Austin El Paso Bakersfield.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
North Carolina
Virginia
Tenessee
Kentuck
Missouri
Oaklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Texas
The
Peachtree St
Atlanta
Georgia
P.O
Memphis
Tennesse
Dallas
P.O. Box
Austin
U.S. Court House
el Paso
Progressive
Bakerssville
Butts Joins Trial Voyage Aboard S S America
Joseph G. Butts Jr of Halifax, secretary to Congressman Kerr, boarded the S S America at Newport News for a trial voyage to New York with a group of senators and federal officials hosted by John M. Franklin. The party left Washington by train Saturday and returned Monday night after a weekend cruise on the vessel described as the largest and fastest liner yet built in the United States. Kerr could not join due to official matters. The S S America spans city-block length with eight elevators eleven decks four air conditioned dining rooms and room for over two thousand passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph G. Butts, Jr
Halifax
Congressman Kerr
S. S. America
Newport News
New York
Mr. Butts
John M. Franklin
United States Lines
Washington
Capitol
United States
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Lions Aid
George Lampley
O. Griffin
Gordon Price
S. G. Wilson
J. A. Wood
Claude Cannon
W. B. Allsbrook
J. E. Michael
Astor Richardson
Local Lions Club
LIONS
E. W. Smith, Inc
EW. Smith Incorporated
Joseph G. Butts
the Lions
Starke
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