Will Present Annual Play Friday Night at Roanoke Rapids High
The Roanoke Rapids High School senior class will stage Tomorrow the World at 8 15 in the auditorium tomorrow night. The Broadway style drama, new last year, portrays Nazi youth training and warns of Hitler’s rise. Cast includes Elizabeth Beckwith Hozin Webb Mary Sanders Martin Leigh Johnson Kenneth Tiley Daniel Davis James Bennett Harold Carrawan Oscar Wright Clifton Harrison.
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Noke Rapids High School
Germany
Hitler
Elizabeth Beckwith
Josehine Webb
Mary Sanders
Martin Leigh Johnson
Kenneth Tilley
Daniel Davis
James Bennett
Harol Carrawan
Oscar Wright
Clifton Harrison
Musical Given Tuesday Night By Music Study Club
The Music Study Club sponsored a Tuesday evening musicale at the Weldon home of Mrs. W. Pierce with an artfully decorated lower floor. Mrs. Sterling Beres opened with I Am Music as program prelude, followed by the Roanoke Rapids String Ensemble performing the National Anthem. Performers included piano soloist Billy Waters On Wings of Song and Mendelssohn, Mrs. C. R. Paniel Rest In Peace, Miss Lorraine Pritchard mezzo soprano, Raymond Finley, and others in a varied program across solo and ensemble pieces.
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R. W. Vaughan
Roaoke Rapids
Emonies
Gbuys
Engleman
Roanoke Rapids String Ensemble
Billy Waters
Mendelssohn
C. R. Paniel
Shelley
Weidlinger
R. J. Councilman
Windsor
Kreisler
Raymond Finley
Omoke Rapids
Handel
Bohm
Berlin
Loraine Pritchard
Murfreesboro
Ava
Maria
Schubert
Local Musicale Aids Overseas Donation Drive
Gharms led the Roanoke Rapids Ensemble with Mrs C J Sawyer Billy Waters and Louise Farber as accompanists. The Roanoke Rapids String Ensemble performed first and second violins Viola and Cello with Mary Ann Broun Eloise Taylor Lucy Rawlings Mary J. Smart and Billy Waters on piano. Refreshments of cream cake and salted nuts were served and a silver offering was collected at the door to fund instruments and records for the boys overseas.
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Roanoke Rapids
C. J. Sawyer
Windsor
Billy Waters
Louise Farber
J. A. Fleetwood
W. A. China
Mary Ann Broun
Eloise Taylor
Lucy Rawlings
Mary J. Smart
Chauffeurs urged to renew licenses for 1944 45
Ronald Hocutt director of the Highway Safety Division announced that driver license examiners statewide will accept renewal applications for chauffeurs licenses for 1944 45 starting May 22. All North Carolina chauffeurs licenses are valid for one year and expire at midnight June 30, 1944.
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Ronald Hocutt
Highway Safety Division
North Carolina
Chauffeurs' Licenses Reform 1943 Act Lowers Age Rules
The 1943 Legislature amends the Driver's License Act removing the chauffeurs' badge requirement. Chauffeurs for 1944-45 will receive only the license. Applicants carrying public passengers must be twenty one. those hauling public property must be eighteen.
Weldon Club Campaign Raises Funds for Musical Instrument Drive
The Weldon Music and Study Club reports strong public support for its drive to collect old instruments and cash. A $190 check was sent to Greensboro authorities to purchase and ship the musical unit promptly.
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Weldon Music and Study Club
Greensboro
William R Davie School Exercises Begin Next Sunday
Graduating exercises at William R Davie School start next Sunday night at 8 30 with Rev Harvey Davis of Litteleton delivering the baccalaureate sermon Commencement is Wednesday night at 8 30 with John W Kerr of Warrenton speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives. W C Matthews will present diplomas. Valedictorian is Doris Bullock and salutatorian is Middie Ann Underhill.
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Liam R. Davie
Harvey Davis
Littleton
John W. Kerr
Warrenton
North Carolina
House of Representatives
W. C. Matthews
Doris Bullock
Middie Ann Underhill
Davis Completes 11 Week Navy Pre Flight Course
Naval Aviation Cadet Charles Walker Davis of Roanoke Rapids has completed the 11 week course at the U S Navy Pre Flight School in Chapel Hill and is promoted to primary flight training at the Naval Air Station in Michigan. He is a Roanoke Rapids High School class of 41 alumnus who played football and basketball. Eligible boys may enlist after age seventeen and before eighteen with the nearest Naval Aviation Selection.
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Naval Aviation
Charles Walker Davis
C. W. Davis
Roanoke Rapids
U. S. Navy
Chapel Hill
Naval Air Station
Michigan
Davis
Roanoke Rapids High School
Visitors From Lawrenceville Spend Sunday Here
Mrs. George Cook and her mother Mrs. Watkins of Lawrenceville Virginia spent Sunday as guests of Mrs. Fannie Hayes in town.
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George Cook
Mrs. Watkins
Lawrenceville, Va
Fannie Hayes
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Bougainville
U. S. Marine Corps
Music Study Club
Weldon Club
Smart
U.S. Treasury Department
DAVIE
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OPA
Marks
D'Orsays
Tweedies
AAA
Roanoke Ave
Dial
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