Up and Down The Avenue With The Editor
The Avenue’s last block between 3rd and 4th Streets may delay opening next week due to weather. Most of the block remains unfinished while a sewer repair on the West side between 2nd and 8th Streets will be paved this week. Sidewalks are improving citywide with completed walks on Charlotte to 4th Street and enhancements around the High School. Jackson Street from 4th to the Hospital is next. future walks focus on schools churches and the hospital. Fronts at Smith's Billiard Parlor Olympia Cafe and Rosemary Drug Co. are being upgraded with stucco stone finishes and new entrances starting next week. News-item writers are urged to print readable names using typewriter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altho
Charlotte
4Th
Jackson Street
Hospital
Smith’s Billiard Parlor
Olympia Cafe
Rosemary Drug Co
Prisoner James Smith Accused in Fatal Farm Assault
James Smith, 21, a Negro convict, is charged with fatally striking Lonnie Green, 22, also a convict, at Caledonia State Farm near Scotland Neck after a dispute. Three eyewitnesses saw consecutive blows, with Green dying about 30 minutes later. Smith, serving 30 years for second degree burglary, is held in solitary. Green was serving 15 years for assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Smith
Lonnie Green
Caledonia State Farm
Scotland Neck
Green
Smith
Halifax County
Tillery
Raleigh
Revival pastor to resume pulpit at Jarrats church
Reverend Gordon L. Price of the First Baptist Church returns Sunday to lead both morning and evening services in Jarrats Virginia after a week of revival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon L. Price
First Baptist Church
Jarrats
Willing Victim Of Snake Bite Demonstrates Faith
The Rev. Albert Teester, 39, of Sylvia North Carolina, a preacher, allowed a five foot rattlesnake to bite his arm twice to prove the power of religion. After days of pain he spoke to his congregation again, though his arm remained swollen and he refused medical aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Teester
Sylvia
N. C
Teester
Playing with gun ends in death in Scotland Neck
Clarence Sherrod a 55 year old Negro was shot and killed at Sam Purvis home in Scotland Neck last Thursday. John Craughan is jailed without bond charged with the killing. The gun was missing when officers arrived but later recovered from a person who turned it over to Sheriff Johnson. The man said he received the gun from Sam Purvis. Purvis and Jack Reynolds were held on a charge of aiding and abetting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teer Scotland
John Craughan
Edwards and four others convicted in Jackson Street affray
Five men found guilty in a one day Superior Court trial over the Jackson Street shooting. Millard Edwards fined 100 dollars and costs for assault with a deadly weapon after admitting returning inside his house for his gun. Gilbert Barber, leader, jailed eighteen months in a district road camp. Alien Barber gets twelve months in a district camp. Morris Blanton and Richard Searce receive fifteen and six months in district camps. all cases noted for Supreme Court appeals. Crowded courtroom scene described as highly contentious.
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Jackson Street
Superior Court
Millard Edwards
Small
Gilbert Barber
Edward
Alien Barber
Morris Blanton
Richard Searce
Blanton
Searce
Supreme Court
Bloody bundle found in Ray's Creek near Roanoke Rapids
A bloody clothing bundle recovered from Ray's Creek near Roanoke Rapids by Jim Taylor from a nearby saw mill. The items include a bloodstained undershirt with a bullet hole and striped shorts. no identification is found and officials have no clues yet.
Seven leg kitten born to Wheeler family in city
A seven leg kitten born Tuesday to Marylyn Wheeler, daughter of D W Wheeler of 231 Jefferson Street, had six full legs and one small extra limb. The unusual kitten lived 24 hours and was buried yesterday then to be preserved in alcohol or formaldehyde while residents visited the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marylyn Wheeler
D. W. Wheeler
Jefferson Street
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State Farm
Herald
Clarence Sherrod
Edwards
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