Roanoke Rapids PTA Holds Largest Mass Meeting
About 837 parents and many teachers attended Roanoke Rapids High School for a joint PTA session delving into local and state school issues. Leaders urged no further budget cuts and stressed maintaining facilities as Raleigh calls loom for a statewide PTA gathering next Tuesday. Mrs. Ethel Faucett visited Oxford over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers Association
Mary Cannon
A. L. Clark
County Board of Education
T. W. Mullen
Roanoke Rapids
Raleigh
Carroll Wilson
Raleigh City Auditorium
Girls High School to Meet Rocky Mount in Friday Clash
The Girls High School team will play Rocky Mount here this Friday night at 7 30 in the High School Gym. Also notes on local welfare meetings and Red Cross gathering, with several social updates and family notices.
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Rocky Mount Girls
The
Red Cross
Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District Project hires two three day crews
Eighty unemployed men hired by Fiske- Carter Construction Co. to begin this week on the East Fourth Street outfall and water main preparation. A second, similarly sized crew will take over for three days this week and the first three days next week. Local labor is preferred. a small colored crew handles rough work as weather slows progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiske- Carter Construction Co
Roanoke Rapids
Fourth Street
Plan To Beautify Womans Club Ground
A Civics Department meeting at the Woman's Club house on Monday January 23 discussed grounds beautification. Mrs Joyner reported progress and the Garden Department pledged seed funding while members were urged to donate books for the club house library. A tea followed with guests from Roanoke Rapids Weldon and New York Dr Cronk attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civics
Woman’s Club
Club House
White House
Bynum
Heydendrich
Alford
W. C. Allsbrook
Marvin Collier
E. P. Brenner
J. N. Bynum
A. L. Clark
W. T. Lamm
Miss Hedgepeth Hosts Tacky Party at Aurelian Springs
Miss Jane Hedgepeth entertained a number of friends last Thursday night with a tacky party at Aurelian Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Hedgepeth
Aurelian Springs
Pair of Teens Guilty in Sewer Pipe Destruction
Buck Loomis and Rufus Daniels were found guilty of destroying more than 50 pieces of Wilke Carter Construction Co sewer pipe in Patterson Mill village. Daniels pleaded guilty. Loomis was also found guilty and both received suspended sentences with shared payment of half the repair costs and court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilke Carter Construction Co
Buck Loomis
Rufus Daniels
Patterson Mill Village
Loomis
Jenkins
County Recorders Court
Daniels
Recorders Court
Daniel
Two More Pneumonia Victims Include Boseman and Butler
Two more pneumonia deaths were reported last week, Mrs Mollie Boseman aged 59 dying at her daughter’s home in South Rosemary and infant Thomas E Butler ten months, son of Mr and Mrs W Butler, dying at the hospital. Funeral services for Boseman were at Quankie Church with two ministers officiating and burial in the family comer. Butler’s services were led by Rev J N Bynum and interment in Roanoke Rapids Cemetery. Mrs Pattie Avent died at her daughter’s home on Williams Street with burial in Littleton and five Avent sons surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke Rapids
Pattie Avent
van Carter
Williams St
D. M. Sharpe
Littleton
Carter
Ernest Avent
Battleboro
Spencer
Faison
Waverley
Whittakers
Zeb
Hopewell
John Avent l
Pine Ridge
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Ers
Ethel Faucett
Oxford
N. C
Woman's Club
H. T. Woodruff
Alton Thomas
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Edwin Akers
Bill Allsbrook
Alton Gurganus
Bethel
Catherine Hall
Scotland
Neck
A. P. Mustain
Mars Hill
E. W. Eubanks
Ernest
Richmond
Clarence Thompson
Macon
J. F. Shaw
Aurelian, Springs
Auguste Piccard
America
Piccard
New York
Iis
Jean Piccard
Marshallton
Delaware
Womans Club
Mollie Boseman
Thomas Butler
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