Roanoke Rapids News Briefs and Sports Roundup
Our financial expert notes gold dollars now worth only the old prese for gold and gold certificates may be exchanged at par for a short time longer. Treasury extends the limit. Windsor basketeers visit next Tuesday. Jackets play Elisabeth City Friday. Girls lose two to Teachers and Aurelian Springs. Jackets beat Henderson 41 to 7 last Thursday. City Board of Commissioners reviews municipal building plans with the architect. Roanoke Rapids airport work delayed as Halifax County uses its CWA labor quota. In Florida Mr and Mrs F M Coburn and guests vacation ten days. VMI fans will hear a 30 minute program on WSM this Friday night at 8:30. Orchids to Steve Lipscomb for leading the Roanoke Rapids Choral Club formation. first meeting tonight at the Womans Club building with about 100 singers invited.
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Windsor Basketeers
Elisabeth City
Aurelian Springs
Henderson
Steve Lipscomb
Roanoke Rapids
Womans Club
Simmons Refutes Roanoke Rapids Mill Ownership Rumors
The Simmons Company denies circulating any plan to change Mill ownership or management in Roanoke Rapids. Grant G. Simmons, president, says rumors over several years are false and no sale of Roanoke Rapids property has occurred or been offered. A telegram from New York confirms no truth in the Jan 13 Roanoke Rapids article.
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Simmons Company
Raleigh News & Observer
Roanoke Rapids
Grant Simmons
Altho
News & Observer
Roanoke
Rapids
Grant G. Simmons
New York
Retailers urged to form Merchants Association in city
Willard L. Dowell executive secretary of the North Carolina State Merchants Association addressed city retailers last Thursday evening urging renewed enthusiasm for organizing a Merchants Association.
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Willard L. Dowell
N. C. State Merchants Association
Express Safe Is Cracked and Robberies Reported
Two local businesses were robbed in the late week with thieves taking only cash. The Seaboard Air Line office safe was cracked Friday morning and the New Bakery lunch stand receipts were stolen Saturday night or early Sunday. Other sites were entered but nothing was missing. The same crew may have hit the freight office and Newsome Oil.
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Seaboard Air Line
Newsome Oil
Roanoke Rapids CWA Projects Halted as Payroll Cuts Ordered
A telegram from State CWA administrator Mrs. O Berry to Halifax County administrator J B Hall halts new hires and reduces hours on local Civil Works projects in Roanoke Rapids. Effective January 19 1934 workers in towns over 2500 face 24 hours weekly, under 2500 or county 15 hours, clerical and supervisory staff 30 hours with wage adjustments.
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J. B. Hall
Admr
CWA
Halifax
N. C
Verdicm
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City Board of Commissioners
Public Works Administration
Halifax County
Florida
F. M. Coburn
B. D. Johnson
Coburn
Greenville
Virginia Military Institute
WSM
Simmons
Weldon
Merchants Association
Soviet Russia
Washington
Alexander Troyanovsky
United States
Paris
William C Bollitt
Russia
Bullitt
Raleigh
O’berry
Hopkins
Hall
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