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Heavy Week for Roanoke Rapids Tire Ration Board
The Roanoke Rapids tire rationing board issued more than fifty permits for tires and tubes to trucks and cars amid its heaviest week to date. The list names applicants from Littleton Halifax Weldon and Roanoke Rapids including firms such as Colonial Ice Company Weldon Machine Works Weldon Motors and Rosemary Mfg Co with divers roles from drivers to lumber dealers and textile workers.
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Roanoke Rapids
James R. Johnson
Littleton
T. R. Harris Littleton
Colonial Ice Company
City
Paul Collins
Rf.d
Halifax Paper Company
P. E. Greene
Matt H. Alston
F. B. Clary
Weldon
John R. Taylor
N. C. Highway Patrol
Weldon Machine Works
Clifton Little
Henry A. Exum
Wiley Mack Coker
Clinton P. Ivey
Weldon Motors, Inc
Pauline Burnett
Walter F. Howell
K. B. Blocker
Thelma
Rosemary
Weldon Fruit and Produce Company
J. D. House
Clifton P. Sunday
Freeman Myrick
Benard C. Hux
O. C. Harsh
Herbert C. Case
J. P. Wood
Ira L. Midgett