Urges Halifax County March of Dimes Support
Halifax County health officer Dr. Robert F. Young urges citizens to back the March of Dimes poliomyelitis drive. He notes six polio cases treated locally in the past year with high hospital costs and highlights ongoing vaccine efforts, stressing the need for foundation support to aid victims. The plain truth is that any weak country is a threat to peace if it has anything worth stealing.
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Robert F. Young
Halifax County
Young
Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Dr. Young
Alonzo F. Coppedge Dies at 66 in Roanoke Rapids
Alonzo F. Coppedge, 66, died at his home Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were held today at 4 PM from First Methodist Church conducted by Rev. Dave Clark. Interment followed in Roanoke Rapids cemetery. Survived by widow, seven daughters Mrs. A. S. Grey, Mrs. Pauline Coppedge of Portsmouth Va, Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews, Mrs. Hazel Roberts, Mrs. Mildred Coppedge of Roanoke Rapids, and Mrs. Herman Bright of Macksfield, three sons Marshall Coppedge of Virginia Beach, Robert Coppedge, Leon Coppedge of Roanoke Rapids, and fifteen grandchildren.
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Alonzo F. Coppedge
First Methodist Church
Dave Clark
Roanoke Rapids
A. S. Grey
Pauline Coppedge
Portsmouth
Elizabeth Matthews
Hazel Roberts
William Robinson
Mildred Coppedge
Herman Bright
Maccelsfield
Marshall Coppedge
Virginia, Beach
Robert Coppedge
Leon Coppedge
Fine Arts Club Meets With Mrs Ready On January Thirteenth
The Woman's Club Fine Arts Department met with Mrs I B Ready and hostesses Mrs Blair Gibson and Mrs Richard Taylor on January 13. The meeting opened with the chairman Mrs Scott Benton reading minutes. A Library Committee update preceded the program on Old Glass, followed by a display of antique glass in the dining room.
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Fine Arts Club
Woman's Club
I. B. Ready
Blair Gibson
Richard Taylor
Scott Benton
Library Committee
Ready
Mrs Broun Hostess For Study Club Meeting
The Study Club met at Mrs. Matthew Broun's Roanoke Avenue home Friday afternoon with D C Clark presiding. Program committee for 1947 48 named, and Allmond White led a talk on Practical Ideas for Home Making before a sweet refreshment.
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Mrs. Broun
Matthew Broun
Roanoke Avenue
D. C. Clark
W. A. Thorne
Edwin Akers
Edmund Berkley
Crawford Hoyle
Roderick Meikle
Allmond White
Farms Idle as Help Lacking Amid Social Shift
Idle farms reflect labor shortages as residents seek companionship and community by moving away from solitary work. The trend shows people preferring shared labor and sociable settings over lone farm tasks, altering rural productivity.
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Taylor's
Joe Taylor
Madison Street
Jacquin
Charles Jacquin
Cle
Phila
Esy
Willard
Onis
Rosemary Drug CO
Roanoke
Roanoke Ave
ESSO
Ted
Esso Station
Johnson’s Cabs
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