County 4-H Members Prepare for Short Course
Halifax youths from Ringwood Hollister Hobgood and Roanoke Rapids clubs head to the State College Campus for the 4-H Short Course week July 28 to August 2. Delegates include Alton Wood Dorothy Anderson Theresa Branch Bill Hux Livie Ruth White Mary Lawrence Margaret Thompson Anne Pearson Theodore Ray Virginia Pittman Lee Garner.
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State College
Halifax
Agricultural
Ringwood Club
Alton Wood
Dorothy Anderson
Hollister Club
Theresa Branch
Bill Hux
Hobgood
Livie Ruth White
Mary Lawrence
William
Anne Pearson
Theodore Ray
Weldon Club
Virginia Pittman
Lee Garner
Funeral Services for Ben Stansbury Held at Enterprise Baptist Church
Funeral services for Ben Stansbury, 58, were held Sunday at 4 p.m. at Enterprise Baptist Church with Rev. E. Gray Jones and Rev. John Edwards officiating. He died after a long illness at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Survived by wife Eugie C. Stansbury, daughter Mrs. B. C. Vann of Roanoke Rapids, two sons John Bill and Willie Ben of Litteton, one grandchild Franklin Stansbury, father Jerry Stansbury, and sisters Mrs. Della Maubery of Littleton and Mrs. Martha Riggan of Roanoke Rapids.
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Ben Stansbury
Enterprise Baptist Church
E. Gray Jones
John Edwards
Stansbury
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Eugie C. Stansbury
8. C. Vann
Roanoke Rapids
John Bill
Willie Ben
Littleton
Franklin Stansbury
Jerry Stansbury
Della Maubery
Martha Riggan
Kiwanis Club Raises 335 for War Relief
The Kiwanis meeting screened a moving picture Thumb s Up showing British wartime suffering and German bombing damage. Members announced 335 raised for British relief and Dr Bahnson Weathers was tasked with arranging attendance at the Portsmouth baseball game against the Cleveland Indians featuring Bob Feller next Monday night at the new stadium dedication.
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Kiss Club
Bahnson Weathers
Portsmouth
Virginia
Portsmouth Cubs
Cleveland Indians
Bob Feller
Indians
Ports
Vitamin Value Of Peaches Is Stressed
Campaign runs July 24 to 30 in Georgia and Carolina Peach Marketing Board with U S Department of Agriculture backing to boost fresh peach consumption. Hazel E Wheeler notes wartime rationing differs from American malnutrition, urging more healthful foods and recognizing peaches as nutritious.
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Georgia- Carolina Peach Marketing Board
Food Trades Industry
Food Trades T Industry
South
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Hazel E. Wheeler
Halifax County
Europe
America
Peaches Endorsement Links Nutrition and thrift
W J Wingate urges homemakers to eat more peaches as part of National Defense Conservation and Nutrition guidelines. He notes peaches are rich in vitamins A B C and G and promote home canning and preserving for a healthy, economical food supply.
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W. J. Wingate
Surplus Marketing Administration
National Defense Conservation and Nutrition Program
President's Birthday Ball nets record funds for paralysis charity
The 1941 Celebration of the President's Birthday raised a record net of 2 104 460 53 for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, surpassing 1940 by 697 214 79. Expenses were 136 996 61. Half the net goes to state and county chapters, the other half funds research and medical outreach. Dr Julian S. Miller led North Carolina efforts, with Thomas Howard directing organization.
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National Foundation For
Roosevelt
National Committee
White House
Keith Morgan
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation
Foundation
Julian S. Miller
Charlotte
North Carolina
Thomas §. Howard
Chapel Hill
Glimpse of a quirky era tales and veterinary wit
A collage of humorous vignettes from Gloss and Over the Bridge Table recounts a skeptical army deferment joke about alcohol content in a brother's blood, a bandaged arm claim, a memory of calling Mary to reach Abbie, and a biting quip about veterinarians facing resistant patients. It weaves colonial era tone with local color and oddball anecdotes.
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Junior
Mary
Ingle
STATE
Tioga
Joe Louis
Mixed Dinner and Imaginative Ice Insertion Tale
A playful piece blends a child's dinner plea with a grandmother and mother pressures to eat spinach and apricots mixed with peas and pepper in milk. The comic contrast shifts to a military mock-lesson about imitation ice and imaginary delays in an exercise.
Gaston Man Spent Two Weeks in Hampton and Washington for Treatment
E. P. Hyman of Gaston spent the past two weeks in Hampton Virginia and Washington D C where he was treated for an ailment.
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E. P. Hyman
Gaston
Hampton
Virginia
Washington, D. C
Hyman Family Visit From Fort Jackson
Ned Hyman of Fort Jackson S C spent last week with his parents Mr and Mrs E P Hyman of Gaston.
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Ned Hyman
Fort Jackson
S. C
E. P. Hyman
Gaston
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Kiwanis Club
W. 2Nd Street
EXIDE
Brickell
Abbie
Bessie
Grandma
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