Roanoke Rapids Weighs 1200 Dollar Annual Medical Unit Aid
Local committee reports progress toward establishing a National Guard Medical Unit in Roanoke Rapids. County and City Boards approve 600 yearly pledges each, totaling 1200, to fund the unit with a shared quarter and armory plan. General Metts plans another inspection soon as War Department sets a May 1 recognition deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van B. Metts
Roanoke Rapids
County Board
Ted Speight
Frank Vaughan
Frank Kemp
Alfred Martin
Martin
City Board of Commissioners
Veterans of Foreign Wars
War Department
T. W. M. Long
General Metts
Minstrel Show Recreates Gay Nineties At Local High School
Kiwanis Club staged its tenth annual benefit, "The Gay Nineties," in the high school auditorium with 1200 patrons enjoying period costumes, songs like Bicycle Built for Two and After the Ball Is Over, and the melodrama The Bitter Reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mama
Papa
Kiwanis Club
John
Slim) Hutchings
John B. Rogers
Nellie
Gay Nineties benefit show at high school auditorium
Kiwanis Club presents its 10th annual benefit show The Gay Nineties Friday night at the high school auditorium. Girls in period outfits stroll the park while flirting with a buckaroo as part of the entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Death sentences commuted for Hanfords and Kelly
Governor Clyde R. Hoey commuted the death sentences of Roy and Wade Hanford and Roy Kelly to life imprisonment for the December 7, 1938 fatal shooting of Sheriff M. P. Robertson and Officer Sonny Vaughan during a Burlington filling station robbery. A petition with over 8000 Alamance County and Montgomery County residents influenced the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Wade Hanford
Roy Kelly
M. P. Robertson
Sonny Vaughan
Burlington
Clyde R. Hoey
Gill
Hoey
Alamance County
Hanfords
Montgomery
Kelly
Paroles Board
Earl G. Bruton
Troy
Smith
N. A. Sinclair
Huffman
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Herald
Kiwanis
Will Dean
Leslie Towe
Bill Hodges
Charlie Davis
Graham Lynch
Tomorrw
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