Roanoke Rapids Board to Review City Budget
The Roanoke Rapids board of commissioners will meet Monday night to consider the current year budget. City clerk Mrs. Ruby Wood Mincher said a tentative budget has been prepared and will be presented for approval and possible amendments. Mayor Kelly Jenkins reported a telegram from Governor J M Broughton urging cooperation with daylight saving plans to conserve electricity during national defense concerns. The board also approved a motion related to workmen's compensation.
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City Board of Commissioners
Roanoke Rapids
Ruby Wood Mincher
Kelly Jenkins
J. M. Broughton
Eakins
Wernor
Local youth charged with carnal knowledge of underage girl
Buddy Sanderford, about 19, was arrested and released on $500 bond on a charge of carnal knowledge of a female under sixteen. The warrant was sworn by Rennie Doris Tidwell’s father Thomas J Tidwell. The girl is said to be about fourteen and the alleged act occurred around March 14, 1941. A hearing is expected next week in Roanoke Rapids.
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Buddy Sanderford
Thomas J.tidwell
Rennie Doris Tidwell
Sanderford
Roanoke Rapids
Army unit comes here from Langley Field for maneuvers
The Aviation Engineers of the 21st Regiment from Langley Field Virginia arrived Tuesday with 25 motor vehicles to bivouac on Rapids Street. Captain H A Byroade led 147 men and four officers in a 400 mile training move to test equipment and rapid movement. They trained at Fort Belvoir and can lay runways for heavy bombers within 24 hours.
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United States
Aviation Engineers
21St Regiment
Langley Field
Bivcuse
Rapids Street
H. A. Byroade
A. L. Winkler
John Wachter
Preston D. Cockey
F. J. Deberuyelle
Outfit
Army
Upper
New York State
Fort Belvoir
Company F
Halifax
Byroade
Department
the Army
Air Corps
Aluminum drive in Halifax County nears completion
The aluminum collection drive led by A Leonidas Hux reports strong county cooperation and progress. Bins statewide, including Halifax jail slot machines, feed the national defense effort with Raleigh as the concentration point. drive ends next Tuesday night. Local towns Scotland Neck and Halifax broadcast appeals to boost donations.
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A. Leonidas Hux
Halifax
Hux
Raleigh
Scotland Neck
Jack Whitehead
A. W. Martin
Kelly Jenkins
Gordon Price
Frank M. Sherry
Howard Pruden
Martin
Roanoke Rapids
Robert C. Josey
M. C. Maddrey
Local Hero Joins Army After Noted Design Work
Lieutenant William Garlon Holadin of Roanoke Rapids reports for active duty at Fort Bragg on July 15 and will attend Quartermaster School in Philadelphia until September 30. A 1935 Roanoke Rapids High School graduate, he studied at UNC and NC State, gaining fame for a cloth likeness of Governor J. M. Broughton and earning Sigma Tau Sigma honors. He previously worked at Burlington Mills and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Holadin, aged twenty four.
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William Garlon Holadin
Fort Bragg
Quartermaster School
Philadelphia
Holadia
Roanoke Rapids High School
University of North Carolina
North Carolina State College
J. M. Broughton
Sigma Tau Sigma
State College
Burlington Mills
Army
J. J. Holadin
Roanoke Rapids
Four-Ear Corn Exhibit Traced to Local Gardener
Carl Ray found a horticultural oddity in his garden a stem bearing four ears of corn each four to six inches long with full grains though not fully developed. His eight year old son Albert Ray brought the specimen to the Herald office for display.
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Carl Ray
Herald
Albert Ray
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Langley Fields Station
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