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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
5
Local beer retailers face OPA classifications with 2-B and 3-B price caps. Distributors protest shortages and price hikes citing premium and non premium beer costs rising since 1941. They argue the 2-B rules would force losses and demand reconsideration.
Pvt Wade L Thomason has been in England seven months and is now with a medical detachment in France. He enlisted June 11, 1943, trained at Camp Robinson Arkansas and Camp Reynolds Pennsylvania, and is the son of Mr and Mrs W E Thomason. His wife Lena Hargrave and child stay with his parents. His brother Sgt Edwin R Thomason serves at Camp Robinson Arkansas.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for George Badger Read of Halifax a prominent farmer and lumberman who died in a car accident on the Enfield Halifax Highway. Survivors include his wife Mary Read his mother and several sisters and brothers.
Union announces August prayer services at the First Baptist Church every Tuesday at 7 30 p m.
Coast Guardsman James R. Vaughan of Roanoke Rapids and fellow hatchmen worked 48 hours nonstop to land heavy equipment, enabling the beachhead and later advance on Saipan. Vaughan, 24, and his crew operated cargo nets and shipboard hooks amid mortar fire to assist infantrymen on the frontline. Vaughan’s wife, Hazel Vaughan, resides in Roanoke Rapids.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive exam for a Substitute Clerk Carrier at the Roanoke Rapids Post Office North Carolina. Applications are taken by the Director Fourth U S Civil Service Region Winston Salem NC until needs are met.
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