Price ceiling on 100 plus items hits Roanoke Rapids stores
Roanoke Rapids merchants join nationwide May 18 to implement a price ceiling on more than 100 retail items under an Office of Emergency Management bulletin. The rule requires visible max prices not higher than March 1942 levels and permits marking on the item or shelf tag. Commodities include tobacco drugs toiletries apparel food furniture hardware and automotive items.
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Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association
Jennie Walton
The
Merchants Association
Bulletin
OPM
North Carolina Merchants Association
Office of Emergency Management
Imperial Theater
OEM
Final Meeting Of Women's Club Art Department Here
The Roanoke Rapids Women's Club Fine Arts Department will hold its final meeting on Monday May 11 at 3 o'clock. The event takes place at Miss Evelyn Mullen's home on the Roanoke Rapids Weldon highway. A planned program will follow.
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Women's Club
Roanoke Rapids
Closing picnic meeting urged to end year
All members are urged to attend a picnic on the lawn marking the closing meeting of the year.
Rites Held For Henry Phillips
News of the death of Henry N. Phillips 53 at his Selma Alabama home after a heart attack. Funeral and burial were held in Selma Monday afternoon. He was son of the late Jessie Phillips Waring and Gilbert Phillips of Weldon, who lived there before Henry moved to Alabama. He is survived by his wife and two Weldon sisters Mrs F A Cole and Mrs H A Hardison.
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Henry N. Phillips
Selma
Ala
Mr. Phillips
Jessie Phillips Waring
Gilbert Phillips
Weldon
Alabama
F. A. Cole
H. A. Hardison
Monday Night Bridge Club Enjoys Hospitable Evening
The Monday Night Bridge Club met at Mrs Julian Allsbrook's home this week. Miss Elizabeth Clark won the high score and received defense stamps as a prize. Flowers were used decoratively.
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Monday Night Bridge Club
Julian Allsbrook
Elizabeth Clark
Social hour notes and players list at club gathering
A refreshment period featured a salad plate as guests mingled. Attendees named include Mesdames Frank Hawley Carroll Wilson Howard Pruden Rives Manning J E McGee Ned Manning Allen Zollicoffer and Miss Elizabeth Clark.
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Mesdames Frank Hawley
Carroll Wilson
Howard Pruden
Rives Manning
J. E. McGee
Ned Manning
Allen Zollicoffer
Elizabeth Clark
Birthday Party for Bruce Cashwell at Monroe Street Home
Bruce Cashwell celebrated his twelfth birthday with a party at his Monroe Street home. Guests included Glenn Rogers, Pells Jane Moore, Imogene Wheeler, Patricia and Robert Nantz, and many other friends. Bruce received many gifts while relatives from Petersburg Virginia and local hosts shared the weekend visit.
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Bruce Cashwell
H. C. Cashwell
Monroe Street
Glenn Rogers
Pells
Jane Moore
Imogene Wheeler
Patricia
Robert Nantz
Helen Joyner
Russell Joyner
Jack
Sherod Waters
Muriel Fay Price
Thelma Hinchey
Sonny
Larry
Carlton Matthews
Billy Polston
Sylvia Lynch
Earl
Willie
Marvin Johnson
Shelton Wilder
Otha Reynolds Transferred for Aero Hydrantics Course
Otha Reynolds, son of Mrs. John Pierce, moved from Biloxi Mississippi to 334 East Washington Street Pasadena California to take a course in Aero Hydrantics at Clark Aero Hydrantic Corp factory in Pasadena. The transfer places him in a training program at the local facility.
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Otha Reynolds
John Pierce
Biloxi
Miss
Washington Street
Pasadena
Calif
Clark Aero Hydrantic Corp
Davis Norwood Announces Daughter Mary’s Marriage
Mary Davis wed Corporal Edward B. Davis on Friday May 1 in Ridgeland South Carolina. J T Norwood and Mrs Norwood announce the union with families in Roanoke Rapids and nearby towns.
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J.T. Norwood
Mary
Edward B. Davis
B. B. Davis
E. B. Davis
Roanoke Rapids
Ridgeland
S. C
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ARMA
Henry Phillips
Thomas Reece
Petersburg
Charlie Keeter
Fenton Johnson
Baltimore
Davis
Norwood
Garland McGhee
A. V. Vick
Ocean View
J. B. Lee
Seaboard
Vernon Lee
A. D. Lynch
Richmond
W. T
Robert Edwards
Norlina
Ida Taylor
Emily Lor
Elizabeth Wilson
Louisburg
Jeff Ingram
Ashton
Washington, D. C
Caree On
Coca-Cola Company
Weldon Coca-Cola Bottling Works
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