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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
1
Mayor Kelly Jenkins was changing a tire by a highway when the jack slipped and the car kicked him into a ditch. He suffered a fractured arm evident after X rays and will wear a sling for many days.
Work started on the Roanoke Rapids school building with a crew of a dozen men throwing dirt for the foundation. Brick and lumber piles are rising as the project progresses toward a hoped for Christmas completion. The Little Construction Co of Charlotte, successful bidder at 26896 dollars, arrived earlier this week.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Halifax County presented a 25000 dollar check to the County Board of Commissioners as part of the net profits from the first year of ABC stores in the county. W A Thorne chaired the presentation, and J Waldo Whittaker accepted for the county while an annual ABC audit for the quarter ended was also shown.
In Rich Square and Kiwanians last Thursday a man known as Professor White appeared in a blackface minstrel performance. Audiences recognized Roland Johnson, once an end-man, now in a new routine praising the wonders of the scientific age and universal wonders as he wears a kinky wig.
Work begins on a sixth graded school building in Roanoke Rapids with 3 000 children expected to enroll next month. The district lists five active schools and notes the Sanitary Board vacancy filled by M. H. Hedgepeth after H. D. Camp resigns amid audit and water rate debate. The board now includes Dr W E Murphrey and R E Cleaton Jr.
A lunacy hearing and guardianship appointment for Robert Shell of Roanoke Rapids is scheduled this week. Shell, once a major local property owner, is confined in Halifax County jail for safekeeping by local officers amid ongoing concerns about his condition.
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