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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
11
A boisterous amateur singer caused a stir at the fire station as Chief Lipscombe ordered quiet. Fireman Skinner mocked the performance while fellow crew members sought order and tried to resume duties amid the rumbling crowd.
Halifax County proposes maintaining the current tax rate of 85 cents per hundred dollars for the 1938 39 fiscal year. The budget estimates $332 034.94 to operate the county, with property valuations dipping from 30 million to 29 million dollars. General fund remains 15 cents, school debt service 2 cents, and school capital outlay 12 cents. some rates ease for old age assistance and other programs while others rise due to outside revenue and specific needs. Profits from the ABC system are not included in the budget and will fund a 1940 bond issue.
A string of visits and weekend gatherings from Wendell to Snow Hill Hertford Maxton and Lynchburg is noted. Residents include Martha Clary Bessie Bailey Rufus Edmonds Miss Lucille Tyson Miss Maybell Pridgen and many others visiting relatives and hosting guests across towns.
The Roanoke Rapids Board of Commissioners approves a nighttime parking prohibition on Roanoke Avenue from 2:00 AM to 6:00 AM in business districts from First to Third Streets and Ninth to Elev nth Streets. Vehicles towed at owner expense up to five dollars, with fines of five dollars for violators. The ordinance takes effect August 1 1938.
The missing man is a brother of Mrs. P. H. Hux of 205 Jackson Street Roanoke Rapids. He formerly lived in Roanoke Rapids thirty one years ago and in Rosemary for three years before moving at age 22. Born in Wilmington North Carolina he traveled seven years before settling in Petersburg. He married a Petersburg girl and later moved to Hopewell. Mrs. Hux has resided in Roanoke Rapids for ten years.
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