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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
4
City hall shows 1605 water meters for the Sanitary District with gaps due to incomplete city coverage and multi family buildings sharing a single meter. Each apartment can house separate households even if only one meter serves multiple families.
The County Board approves a Raleigh designed armory near Ninth Street between Hamilton and Washington Streets. Construction may start in six months and finish within a year, costing 55 to 60 thousand dollars with 60 percent funded by the federal government. The facility will include a drill floor strong room library reading room locker rooms showers and three basketball courts under Guard supervision.
The building will remain available for use by the National Guard at any time while high school athletic teams, the general public, civic clubs, and social organizations are also granted access for varied activities.
Dr Robert Young county health officer led a group to Tarboro to inspect a preventorium now operating there Plans convert the building into two dormitories for girls and boys a classroom dining recreation room and two rooms for kitchen and office Cloak rooms will be toilets and showers Septic tanks and a deep well water supply will serve the unit A pumping outfit will be installed About 30 children will be admitted chosen by local doctors and the school nurse Ages six to fourteen Children will be undernourished or show signs of tuberculosis Matrons and nurses will be supplied by the Community Chest
Doctors and the County Health Officer will provide medical care while the preventorium, a Community Chest project, receives capital remodeling funds and $1500 for running expenses. Operation will run seven to eight weeks this summer in a County rented building. Dr. T W M Long chairs a committee with Dr. T J Taylor Hugh Horne Zollie Powell and Mrs. T M Jenkins.
A boy and a girl were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Banas of Weldon at Roanoke Rapids Hospital on June 14. A boy was born June 13 to Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Baird, and a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Harlow on June 17.
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