Red Cross Reports 1943 Efforts in North Carolina
North Carolina Red Cross volunteers totaled over 30 000 contributing 993 000 hours in six months July through December 1943. Chapters produced 56 791 garments and 56 791 miscellaneous items while shipping 7 471 657 surgical dressings and 16 728 kit bags to armed forces and ports of embarkation.
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North Carolina
American Red Cross
Gordon L. Price
Roanoke Rapids
The
Red Cross
Victory
Nat C. Wilson
Southeastern
Atlanta
Ch Mn
Price
Army
Navy
Christian Science Service and Reading Room Schedule
The Christian Science Society at 930 Roanoke Ave invites the public to Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Wednesday at 8 p.m. The Reading Room is open Tuesdays and Fridays 3 to 5 p.m. Sundays topic is Substance with Lesson Sermon on Man including Acts 17 citations.
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Christian Science Society
Roanoke Ave
Christian Science Service
Christian Science Churches
Daniel F. Cagle Enlists for Army Air Forces Training
Daniel F. Cagle son of Mrs. E. F. Cagle of 519 Hamilton Street Roanoke Rapids has begun training as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Forces Training Command at Yale University. The course trains him as a Technical Officer in Communications and commissions him a second lieutenant upon completion. West Point traditions and discipline are cited at the Yale school.
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Daniel F. Cagle
E. F. Cagle
Hamilton St
Roanoke Rapids
Army Air Forces Training Command School
Yate University
West Point
Training Command School
Yale
Richmond Wins Josephus Daniel Medal for Naval Tactics
Charles D. Richmond of London Ohio received the Josephus Daniel Medal for naval tactics proficiency. He is nephew of Mrs. C G Tilghman and Mrs. Paul Merchant of Weldon. son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Richmond of London.
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Josephus Daniel
Charles D. Richmond
London
Ohio
Richmond
C. G. Tilghman
Paul Merchant
Weldon
Dean Richmond
Katie Stringer
Town Talk Delivers War News and Local Visits
Word has arrived that pl. Robert Wrenn, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wrenn, has landed safely in England. Mrs. Jimmy Little and her daughter Beatrice of Rocky Mount visited Mrs. Worth Gay on Wednesday. Miss Doris Hedgepeth of West Hampton College Richmond and Miss Helen Hedgepeth of R. P. I. Richmond spent the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hedgepeth. Raymond Matthews of Fort Benning spent the week in town with relatives.
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Robert Wrenn
A. M. Wrenn
England
Jimmy Little
Beatrice
Rocky Mount
Worth Gay
Doris Hedgepeth
West Hampton College
Richmond
Helen Hedgepeth
R. P. I. Richmond
M. H. Hedgepeth
Raymond Matthews
Fort Benning
Plasma on the front lines saves lives in World War II
Red Cross plasma from volunteer donors sustained wounded soldiers from Salerno to North Africa. Story details dramatic transfusions under fire, including at a beachhead and fox-holes as Marine and Army units faced constant danger. It highlights soldiers Raymond Herbert and David Carney and Captain Whelan in urgent battlefield care.
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South Pacific
North Africa
Red Cross
Ivasion Beach
Salerno
Mark Clark
Fifth Army
Raymond J. Herbert
Brooklyn
New York
Marine
Solomons
Pruden Enrolled As Aviation Cadet At Maxvi Field
William H. Pruden, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pruden of Roanoke Rapids, is enrolled as an aviation cadet in the pre flight school at Maxwell Field Alabama. He attends a nine week program of military, physical and academic training after graduating from Roanoke Rapids High School in 1943.
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William H. Pruden
W. H. Pruden
Monroe St
Roanoke Rapids
Maxv@i Field
Alabama
Army Air Forces Training Command
Pruden
Roanoke Rapids High School
Mr. Edwards Visits Daughter in Gatesville
Mr. O. E. Edwards of Gatesville spent several days with his daughter Mrs. E. P. Hyman.
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O. E. Edwards
Gatesville
E. P. Hyman
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Aviation Cadet
David C. Carney
Wakefield
Mass
Whelan
Edmund L. Whelan
Boston
Topping
Aviation
Rosemary Drug CO
LOCAL
RED Cross War Fund
Jay Sanders
Plenty of
Red Cross Chapter
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