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Roanoke Rapids Herald in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina

07 May 1942

Page 6

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Roanoke Rapids Herald

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Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America

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May 07, 1942

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6

Local man recounts 17 000 mile sea voyage through war zones

Charlie Harlow describes sailing from Norfolk to Shanghai and Rangoon aboard the Wah Wah and Day Star, facing Japanese shelling and U S aviators in Rangoon. He details encounters with AVG fighters, near misses with a U boat, and wartime port calls from Honolulu to Cape Town to San Francisco.

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Charlie Harlow San Francisco California Pacific Rangoon Burma Manila Shanghai Calcutta Soerabia Honolulu Charlie Herald Norfolk Standard Fruit Steamship Company Canal Zone Hawaii Yangtse Hong Kong Wah-Wah Philippine Islands Roanoke Rapids Willie Strickland Willie Star AVG Royal Air Force Avg’s Bengal Bay Colombo Ceylon Cape Town South Africa Trinidad West Indies San Pedro
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Hostess at Bridge Club and Winners Named

Mrs E B Smoot hosted a Tuesday bridge event for three tables with floral décor in the living room. High score went to Mrs Bill Alligood, second to Mrs Allie Wood, and travelling to Miss Edna Watford. A salad course followed prize presentation as players included Mesdames Wood, Alligood, Pope, Mahorn, Currin, Pappendick, White, George, Rook, Bunn, Adams and Miss Watford.

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E. B. Smoot Bill Alligood Allie Wood Edna Watford R. M. Pope Ivey Mahorn James Currin George Pappendick M. F. White A. O. George Earl Rook Sam Bunn T. N. Adams Edna Wafford
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Typhoid Clinics Planned Across Halifax County 1941

County Health Officer announces free immunization clinics starting May 11 with five physicians and five nurses funded by a Children’s Bureau program. Vaccinations cover typhoid smallpox and diphtheria for all ages, with whooping cough shots for children under one. The schedule spans six weeks across multiple towns.

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Robert F. Young Halifax County County Health Department Children’s Bureau North Carolina State Health Department North Carolina Scotland Neck Mary's Chapel Roseneath Mullins Hobgood White White’s Col Crowell’s Tillery— Park’s Enfield Enfield (Col
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No Seventh Grade Graduation At Halifax Grammar School

Halifax grammar school will end the present year with no seventh grade graduation exercises. An extra grade will be added next fall so pupils advance into it without a graduation ceremony. Other county grammar schools are also cancelling seventh grade graduations for the same reason.

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