Navy Yard Softball Invades Ledgerwood Park For Opener
Norfolk Navy Yard champions of 1939 40 bring their top team to Ledgerwood Park for the season opener against the Romances at 8 p.m. Admission fifteen cents. Swink Lee to pitch opening game with Russ DeBerry in the nightcap. Red Anderton to coach Rosemary Bees. Rowletts to play June 20 in Richmond.
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Norfolk Navy Yard
Ledgerwood Park
Navy Yard
Yard
Swink Lee
the Navy Yard
Russ DeBerry
Hustlin
Hank" Stewart
Abbotts Collegians
Romance Management
Red Anderton
Rosemary Bees
Red
Bees
St the Romances
Collegians
Tidewater Virginia
Rowletts
Richmond
Richmond Glass
Frank Mack
Bill Covington
Virginia
WCBT
Tommy Williams
Bill Brown
Kiki” Sadler
Frank Rhome
Jimmy Mayfield
Johnny Wrenn
Red Raiders
Summers at Home and Local Appointments in Weldon
Weldon residents plan summer time at home with families as several locals attend colleges or visit relatives in Greensboro Norfolk and Washington. Notables include Miss Frances Johnson at Duke University and Miss Edith Mae Alston returning to Greenville for the season. A birth announces the arrival of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs Eddie Hiias in Rocky Mount. Circle Five of the Woman’s Society meets in Weldon with program on Alcohol and Beverages and notes a future July gathering with Mrs. B M Richardson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Johnson
Duke University
Pierce Johnson
Elizabeth Harvell
Greensboro
J. A. Harvell
Nan Anthony
Suffolk
John Daniel
Norfolk
George C. Green
Edith Mae Alston
Greenville
W. L. Alston
Stirling Hilliard
Washington, D. C
T. C. Harrison
Kate Garrett
Norfolk, Va
James C. Tilghman
Mecklenburg County
Dorothy Kitner
Washington, D.C
B. M. Richardson
Eddie Hiias
Weldon
Park View Hospital
Rocky Mount
Woman's Society of Christian Service
W. B. Joyner
W. G. Farrar
M. A. Garris
Grace Kennedy
Foster Jennings
Raleigh
Social visits spread across St. Petersburg and Portsmouth
Miss Louise Johnson visits St. Petersburg Florida this summer. Miss Elizabeth Faison of Ports mouth spends the week end with Mrs W G Bunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Johnson
St. Petersburg
Florida
Elizabeth Faison
Portsmouth
W. G. Bunch
Negro children enjoy Chaloner School playgrounds in city program
About 400 boys and girls aged 8 to 18 attend the John Armstrong Chaloner School playgrounds last week. Helen Peoples and John Newell supervise. Lions Club sponsors the effort with hopes to expand into city recreational plans led by Coach Crawford Hoyle and associate Mrs. Lucy Mayfield Brown.
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John Armstrong Chaloner
Helen Peoples
John Newell
Chaloner
Lions Club
Crawford Hoyle
Lucy Mayfield Brown
Coach Hoyle
Hoyle
Rejected youths gain defense work chance at Durham NYA center
Rejected Halifax County youths due to physical defects may enter a National Youth Administration center in Durham opening June 16. The program offers work experience, training, and recreation for ages 16 to 24 with a wage of 35 dollars monthly, plus 12 dollars cash and 23 dollars for board. Training areas include woodwork sheet metal machine shop auto mechanics and radio repair with full services and living quarters. A second camp will open in Madison Wisconsin within about two months.
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Halifax County
Selective Service Board
National Youth Administration
Durham
United States
Selective Service Boards
Durham Camp
NYA
Eva Maddrey
Seaboard
Roanoke Rapids
Peoples Theatre
North Ward
John A. Lang
Madison
Wisconsin
Miss Katie Harris Visited Greenville This Weekend
Miss Katie Harris of Greenville spent the weekend here with P. D. Harris. She was seen at local events and stayed at a Greenville residence, returning home Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Harris
Greenville
Mrs. P. D. Harris
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ed Moseley
Jocko Moye
Lefty Ciercy
Jimmy Crawford
Patterson Mill
Rosemary Recreation Club
Marvin House
The
Carolina Troubadours
Jack Livesay
Jack
Roanoke
Fleetwood
Baldy” Sullivan
Roland “Curley” Johnson
Patterson
Curt Gore
Roy Blythe
Johnson and Sullivan
Hollywood
Biltmore
Kool
PENN
Davis Tires
Truetone
Wescote Paints
Western Flyer
Jack Barman
Western Auto Associate Store
Roanoke Rapids, N. Gi
Emporia, Va
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