Safety course to be given drivers for school buses
The Highway Safty Division with the Highway Safety Patrol will conduct a safety course for all school bus drivers in Halifax County on August 26 27 28. Sup t Matthews says applicants will be notified to attend in groups with 48 drivers last year and about 70 being considered this year. White drivers report first day August 26 to various routes. Negro applicants on last day August 28. Attendance does not guarantee a job. final selection by patrolmen and county mechanic.
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Highway Safty Division
Highway Safety Patrol
Halifax County
W. C. Matthews
Aurelian Springs
Hollister
William R. Davie
Weldon
Enfield
Hardrawee
Scotland Neck
Hobgood
Matthews
Halifax
Social notes from the coast and nearby towns
Mrs S B Pierce and Mrs D A Green with children spent last week at Virginia Beach. Susie Spruil Mohorn attends a house party at Virginia Beach. Will Selden family vacationing two weeks in Carysburg. Alice and Frances Moore at Ocean View this week. Frank Willey of Tarboro weekend with Sallie Dawson. Jessee Harvel Jr of Fort Belvoir Virginia visited his parents. Frank Cole Jr has joined the U S Army. Evelyn Mitchell visiting in Richmond. Edith May Alston visiting in Freemont. N S Barnes Roscoe Hamel and Wilkins Tilghman leave for Nags Head for several weeks. Chas R Daniel and family and Rev Carney Hargrove return from Virginia Beach. Lennie Todd returns from Raleigh. Ruby Murrill Sara Murrill and Lee Murrill weekend with Rena Crocker. Elsworth Jones and son of
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S. B. Pierce
D. Allen Green
Virginia Beach
Susie Spruil Mohorn
Will Selden
Carysburg
Alice
Frances Moore
Ocean View
Frank Willey
Tarboro
Sallie Dawson
Jessee Harvel, Jr
Fort Belvoir
Lions Club festival sets attendance and receipts records
The fifth annual Mid-Summer Festival set new attendance and revenue highs last week. Miss Reba White of Pleasant Hill won the $500 grand prize, presented by H. B. Ted Speight, who also awarded nightly $25 prizes. Mamie Little Cooper was crowned Queen of the Festival, aka Madam X, with the Dr Pepper Bottling Co. sponsoring the queen’s advance ticket contest.
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Lions Club
Reba White
Pleasant Hill
H. B
Ted” Speight
Prize winners named in local festival vote contest
The first prize goes to a contestant with 25 700 votes. Second prize of 25 dollars to Es telle Braswell with 20 120 votes. Geraldine Butler wins third prize of 10 dollars with 19 330 votes. Other votes listed for Mildred Fulgum 17 170 Fannie Stephen son 14 800 Virgie M Whitby 12 250 Margaret Tucker 11 520 Helen Pope 6 395 Lucille Butler 5 Alice Jones 3 500 Evelyn Hid ridge 40 Dorothea White 4 700 Mary 2 500 and Lee Baird 2 000. Lions Club thanks fire department and local bottling companies for support and concessions. Financial report due in weeks.
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Estelle Braswell
Geraldine Butler
Mildred Fulgum
Fannie Stephenson
Virgie M. Whitby
Margaret Tucker
Helen Pope
Lucille Butler
Alice Jones
Evelyn Hidridge
Dorothea White
Mary
Lee Baird
Lions Club
McPherson Brothers Bottling Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Spirit as Lesson Topic at Local Christian Science Society
The Christian Science Society at 930 Roanoke Ave invites the public to Sunday services and reading room hours on Tuesday and Friday 3 to 5 PM. The Sunday subject is Soul with the Golden Text from Ephesians 5 9 and citations from the Bible including Joel 3 28 29.
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Roanoke Ave
Christian Science
Joel
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Plumbing Contractors
Fred Forest
General Contractors
Roanoke Rapids
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Doans
Chockoyotte
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