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Roanoke Rapids Herald

Location

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1945

Page

13

Kiwanis Minstrel Cast Dance Set At Armory May 18

Kiwanis Club Dance Committee led by W H Pruden announces a May 18 dance for Kiwanis Minstrel Show cast members at the Armory from 9 p m to 12. Each cast member may invite a guest. Ed Taylor and his band will provide music. A full cast list is published with cordial invitations to all listed members.

Kiwanis Club W. H. Pruden J. H. Mayfield Tom White Kiwanis Armory Mr. Pruden Ed Taylor E. B. Manning Bobbie Fisher Margaret Draughn Dorothea White Margaret Outland Mildred Ferrell Helen Leggett Iris Davis Alease Norton Katie Cates Alene Butler Doris Price Liane Locoff Margaret Wood Helen Edwards Donald Bennett Silas Baggett Jimmy Rogers Linwood Butler Doc” Murphrey Ned Manning Louise Cook G. Marvin Rawlings Shorty Wil Josephine Ellis Boo Boo Butler Doris Edwards Geraldine Revere Louise Burke Audrey Nethercutt Faye McLean C. W. Davis McRae Faison Joe Fields T. B. Grey Sherwood Crumpler A. White Lucille Thompson Chilotte Grant Becky Grant Do Price Dorothy Mountfor Beth Whitten Lois Mor Cates Marion Rawlings

4-H Clubbers And Colored Farmers Buy Good Plants

Fourteen neighborhoods from Scotland Neck to Thelma see 23 farmers and 5 4-H members purchase 105000 certified Louisanna Cop per Skinned Porto Rico sweet potato plants with D J Knight as Negro Farm Agent. Plants from Carolina Plant Farms Bethel serve as foundation stock for county demoes. Demonstration plots span from 1/12 to one acre, with vine cuttings to propagate main crops.

Porto Rico D. J. Knight Carolina Bethel Scotland Neck Thelma

Lieut Hamill Completes Instrument Pilot Training

First Lieutenant Wilson W. Hamill son of Mr and Mrs R W Hamill of Thelma and a veteran of overseas combat duty has completed a post graduate course in instrument pilot training at Lubbock Army Air Field Texas at the AAF Instrument Instructors School and has returned to his base to train fliers in all weather instrument flying He served with the 8th Air Force in the European Theatre and flew heavy bombing missions against the enemy.

Wilson W. Hamill R. W. Hamill Thelma Lubbock Army Air Field Texas Special Aaf Hamill 8Th Air Force

4-H Club Members Grow Certified Sweet Potatoes

The article lists individuals from Eden Tillery Chapel Halifax and other towns each planting thousands of sweet potato plants for 4 H Club projects. Certified plants will be grown under a program on agricultural methods harvest and storage with demonstrations on vine cutting and grading in areas with Potato Clubs.

Ing James Williams Eden Louise Thomas Tillery Chapel Robert Freuler Halifax W. B. Williams Daniel Chapel Mark Alston Ward Billie Simmons Diplolia N. A. McLean Osa Baker Draper Johnnie Johnson Dawson Norman Clark Bakers Columbus Davis Rev. Freeland Summer Bellamy Mill Pond F. P. Shields Plummer Hardy 4-H Club James Purnell Diololia Clifton Brown Thelma Moses Simmons Plummer Hardy, Jr Linwood Williams

Pilot earns Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal honors

Lt. Hamill is a Benjamin Franklin University graduate who received flight training in Helena and Walnut Ridge Arkansas and Seymour Indiana. He flew 30 bombing missions overseas from April 1943 to January 1945, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the European Theater of Operations ribbon. He has now returned to Aloe AAF Victoria Texas.

Hamill Benjamin Franklin University Washington, D. C Helena Ark Walnut Ridge Seymour Ind Aloe Aaf Victoria Tex

Sgt. John Jones At Miami Beach

T/Sgt. John W. Jones, son of Mrs. Willie Jones of Littleton North Carolina, has been admitted to the AAF Regional and Convalescent Hospital in the Miami District for treatment and observation. He will be under Army physicians care and take part in physical training and vocational activities of the Convalescent Services.

John W. Jones Willie Jones Littleton N. C AAF Miami District Army

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