Roanoke Rapids Students Exceed War Bond Quotas Quickly
Roanoke Rapids High School seniors and juniors surpassed their threefold bond quotas in three days of the 4th War Loan drive. Students aim to raise 15000 for a PT-19B trainer while the school band parades on February 18 and hosts a Valentine dance. a basketball double header caps the week. Lt Harvey W Woodruff, son of Mrs W W Woodruff, was commissioned as a second lieutenant after training at Fort Sumner New Mexico and other sites and assigned to Del Rio Texas.
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Harvey W. Woodruff
W. W. Woodruff
Jackson Street
Roanoke Rapids
Army Air Forces
Advanced
Fort Sumner
New Mexico
Roanoke Rapids High School
Army
Santa Ana
California
Ryan Field
Tuscon
Arizona
Pecos
Texas
Woodruff
del Rio Texas
Martha Rice
Iris Davis
Army Air Force
Jr. High
Presidents Birthday Ball Draws Huge Local Crowd
Hundreds are expected at the Armory for the Presidents Birthday Ball on Saturday January 29 from 8 pm to midnight. Johnson County Ramblers will provide music for round and square dancing. Proceeds aid Infantile Paralysis. Co sponsors Lions Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Girl Scouts run Tag Bay and Boy Scouts carry the March of Dimes final push. Frances Newsome directs the Halifax County Woman's Division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Inc. Door and theatre collections planned Thursday Saturday and Sunday by the Scouts and local clubs.
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Morris
Clary
Armory
Johnson County Ramblers
Lions Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Boy Scouts
Frances Newsome
Halifax County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis Inc
New Pastor Joins Rosemary Baptist Church
The Reverend B. Marshall Whitehurst becomes pastor of Rosemary Baptist Church after serving four years at Fairfax Virginia. A University of Richmond and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate, he also attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. The family moved into the Rosemary Parsonage recently with their two young children.
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B. Marshall Whitehurst
Rosemary Baptist Church
Whitehurst
Fairfax
Virginia
University of Richmond
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Kentucky
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
Whitehursts
Rosemary Baptist Parsonage
National Red Cross to Seek Roanoke Rapids 5 Percent Increase
Roanoke Rapids area will begin its 1944 Red Cross drive in March with a quota rise of 75 percent over last year. The Roanoke Rapids Littleton Butterwood chapter seeks 9300, up from 5300, with pledges scaled by prior giving. Marian Weiner cited war burdens, war prisoners, and camps as reasons for the higher goal. Gordon Price announced a public meeting of Red Cross workers and volunteers before the March drive.
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National Red Cross
Joke
Roanoke Rapids
Red Cross
Gordon Price
Navy promotes Graham Poyner to Lieutenant Senior Grade
Graham Poyner formerly on the Roanoke Rapids High School faculty and later a program manager at WPTF Raleigh has been promoted to Lieutenant Senior Grade in the U S Navy.
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Poyner
Graham Poyner
Roanoke Rapids High School
WPTF
Raleigh
U. S. Navy
Navy officer Benton active duty in Hawaii region
Lt. M. Scott Benton of the U S Navy is listed on active duty in the Hawaii area. Benton is a member of the law firm Allsbrook Benton Gay and Midgette.
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M. Scott Benton
Navy
Hawaii
L. Benton
Allsbrook, Benton, Gay and Midgette
Quota Busters at Roanoke Rapids High Hit War Loan Target
Roanoke Rapids High School students surpassed their $15,000 quota in the 4th War Loan Drive with $15,979.80 in War Bonds and Stamps sold. Junior High contributed $12,886.60 and Senior High $3,093.20, following a sequence of raised quotas and a plan to set two training ships as future goals.
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Roanoke Rapids
New Address for Sgt Leroy Morris POW
The prisoner of war Leroy W. Morris now lists American P. O. W. No. 112592 Stalag Luft 3 Germany via New York. The envelope should read Prisoner of War Mail on the left and Postage Free on the right.
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Sgt
Leroy Morris
Leroy W. Morris
Stalag Luft 3
Germany
New York
N. Y
Sgt. Morris
England-born Gaston soldier arrives home greeting friends
Cpl George A. Lucas, grandson of Mr and Mrs H E Vaughan of Gaston, a Gaston High School graduate in 1940, drafted February 1943, trained at Keesler Field and Daniel Field, sent to England July 1943, now serving with a salute to friends back home. He is married to Louise Hinson of Gaston and asks friends to write.
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Cpl
George A. Lucas
H. E. Vaughan
Gaston
George
Gaston High School
Keesler Field
Miss
Daniel Field
August
England
Louise Hinson
Missing Lt Welch Rumored Still Unaccounted For In China
Lt. Rudolph Allen Welch, on a B-24 bomber mission, has been missing in China since January 11. A letter to his parents from General Alia notes ongoing searches and possible delays in confirming his status, with his last letter dated January 4.
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Rudolph Allen Welch
China
J. F. Welch
Alia
Adjutant General
Welch
Rangoon
Roanoke Rapids
Holloman Funeral Set for Friday in Roanoke Rapids
Troy V. Holloman 49 died after weeks of illness at Roanoke Rapids Hospital. He leaves wife Addie Keeter Holloman two sons George Holloman Camp Wheeler Ga and Garland E Holloman Roanoke Rapids one brother George Holloman Danville Va and a sister Mrs Pearl Leonard Shallotte N C. A Roanoke Mill Co employee turned dairy businessman then Roanoke Rapids police officer, his funeral will be held Friday January 28 at 4:00 at his home on Bolling Road Simmon's Place with Rev N Fann conducting.
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Troy V. Holloman
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Addie Keeter Holloman
George Holloman
Camp Wheeler
Garland E. Holloman
Roanoke Rapids
Danville
Pearl Leonard Shallotte
N. C
Holloman
Roanoke Mill Co
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