Peoples Theater to Reopen Friday After Repairs
The Peoples Theater will close for most of the week for interior and marquee repairs and plans to reopen Friday with Tramp Tramp Tramp starring Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant as the feature. The film follows two barbers who form a civilian army for home defense and face a gang of killers. Also on Saturday Roy Rogers stars in Romance on the Range with The Sea Raiders chapter. Local notices list recent visits and family gatherings among the Hawkins, Greene, and Cullom families in Roanoke Rapids.
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Peoples Theater
Roanoke Rapids
Jackie
Gleason
Jack Durant
Jackie Gleason
Durant
Glen
Son
Home Defense Army
Florence Rice
Bruce Bennett
Hallene Hill
Billy Curtis
Mabel Todd
Forrest Tucker
James Seay
John Tyrrell
John Harmon
Eddie Foster
al Hill
Borrah Minnevitch
the Peoples
Roy Rogers
Hawkins Chapel Youth Assembly Delegates Named
Sunday School at Hawkins Chapel at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. Delegates chosen for the Youth Assembly in Louisburg June 18 22 include Melba Barrett Janet Hughes Andrew Taylor and Bennett Stephenson. Mrs T T Stephenson and Selma Pritchard to attend for women groups. Leaders meeting discussed cost of living program and farm wartime efforts.
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Louisburg
Melba Barrett
Janet Hughes
Andrew Taylor
Bennett Stephenson
Woman’s Society
T. T. Stephenson
Wesleyan Guild
Selma Pritchard
Community Notes Show Local Visits And Travel
Sgt Randolph Stephenson of Fort Jackson is home on furlough. Miss Hattie Capel visits her parents in town. Mr and Mrs Paul Stephenson and son Dwight visit his mother. Antoinette Stephenson leaves for Mary Washington College summer school. Mary Price stays with her sister in Norfolk. George Capel spends summer with his parents. Randolph Bottoms of Parris Island Marines visits home. Inez Parker visits Mildred Parker in Portsmouth. Martha Hughes visits Roxobel residents. Nancy and Antoinette Stephenson with Mrs Gilbert Brown in Roanoke Rapids. Phylis Kirkland visits Winifred Taylor. Pleasant Grove Church Youth Fellowship holds meeting.
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Sgt
Randolph Stephenson
Fort Jackson
S. C
Hattie Mason Capel
Richmond
P. R. Capel
Paul Dwight Stephenson
Dwight
Wadesboro
L. M. Stephenson
Antoinette Stephenson
Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg
Mary Price
Bennett Hughes
Roxabel
Nancy
Gilbert Brown
Roanoke Rapids
Phylis Kirkland
Seaboard
Winifred Taylor
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Pleasant Grove Church
Negro Farm Leader Visits Halifax County
Dr E H Shinn senior agriculturalist of Washington DC visited Halifax County on June 4 to review the Negro Neighborhood Delineation project led by D J Knight and Ruth V Whitworth. State Agent John W Mitchell and Daselle F Lowe joined the conference at Enfield Agricultural Office to discuss 3859 Negro farm families in 70 neighborhoods and 18 communities with 265 elected leaders and assistants.
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E. H. Shinn
Washington, D. C
D. J. Knight
Ruth V. Whitworth
John W. Mitchell
Dazelle F. Lowe
Shinn
Enfield Agricultural Office
Halifax County
Captain Taylor Graduates From Army Med School
Captain Thomas J. Taylor of Roanoke Rapids is among 52 United States Army Medical Corps officers who received diplomas at the Medical Field Service School in Hoff Hall Carl yle Barracks Pa. The class trained for service in Medical Battalions of four new triangular Infantry Divisions to be activated in July. All officers, including Captain Taylor, are assigned to the 80th 88th 89th and 95th Divisions. The diploma course lasted one month and covered medical work in the triangular divisions.
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Thomas J. Taylor
Roanoke Rapids
United States Army Medical Corps
Medical Field Service School
Carlyle Barracks
Hoff Hall
Taylor
Local Visits Far and Wide Highlight Hawkins Chapel News
Louis Hawkins visited grandmother Mrs C M Hawkins while Mrs Haywood Joyner joined Mrs Irene Hawkins for a Thursday evening gathering. Weldon guests Mr and Mrs Charlie Elias and daughter Charlotte visited Joy Lee Hurst. Families from Portsmouth and Roanoke Rapids spent weekends with Hawkins kin as Quankie Baptist Church held services. Mrs Henry Thomas Fowler and daughter Carol left for Nakina after time with local residents.
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Louis Hawkins
C. M. Hawkins
Haywood Joyner
Irene Hawkins
Charlie Elias
Charlotte
Weldon
Joy Lee Hurst
Andrew Pittard
Quankie Baptist Church
Frank Pearce
James Howell
Mollie Hawkins
Forrest Hawkins
Lonnie Greene
Bernard Morgan
Portsmouth
Otis Hawkins
Roanoke Rapids
Henry Thomas Fowler
Carol
Nakina
Mesdames Lonnie Greene
S. B
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Laynette Hawkins
Mrs
Marvin Hawkins
Claude Hawkins
J. D. Hawkins
Saul Inscoe
Lucille
Tommie Hawkins
W. T. Hawkins
Clifton Hawkins
Paul Hawkins, Jr
Norfolk ,Va
Walter Grooms
John Denton
Alice T. Greene
W. G. Jr
Margaret Ann Mitchell
Vivian
Lynwood
G. L. Thompson
Dora Hawkins
Ethel
Hawkins
Lizzie Shearin
Clarence Hawkins
Louis and
Louise
Eugene Powell
Lynwood Wayne
Lois Marie
J. W. Hale
Julius Adkins
Linda
Richard Cullom
Jimmie Cullom
Eliza Cullom
Hollister
Mitchell
Gumberry News
Captain Taylor
Army Med
Marcella Seymour
Chester
Decoles
Spencer Tracy
John
Hedy Lamarr
Robert Paige
Romance
Jane Frazee
Judy Canova
Ann Miller
Bela Lugosi
Allan Jones
Ralph Byrd
SOS Coast Guard
Roanoke Rapids Theatres
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