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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1941
Page
6
In Surry County a man recalls seeing a black object racing across the daytime sky and a meteor explosion near Boone, describing multiple vivid fireball events during April nights and late nights. He recalls a World War era sighting that left him awed and convinced a meteor burned out in the sky rather than hitting the ground.
The Iron Duke mobile tea kitchen from London Fire fame rolled up to the British Embassy in Washington D C to serve Lord and Lady Halifax during a U S tour. It will appear in Roanoke Rapids soon under the local British War Relief Society chapter chaired by Mrs R P Beckwith. Lord Halifax praised the service and noted its morale impact for bomb survivors as the tour continues across the United States.
The Roanoke Rapids Nurses Alumnae Association will hold its next regular meeting on Friday night March 21 at the Nurses' home of Roanoke Rapids Hospital. No meeting on the first Tuesday in April. All nurses are urged to attend. Mrs East, Supervisor of Public Health Nurses of Halifax, will speak.
The Y W A held its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening in the Rosemary Baptist Church. The program opened with America being sung and followed by prayer. Miss Evelyn Johnson read the scepture and Miss Hattie Humphries introduced the program God has Blest America with assistance from several members. Mary Louise Ray led God Bless America as a dismissal prayer with twelve members present.
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