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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
13
Easy Bay Furniture Store announces a two page advertisement for its annual anniversary sale. Management says the showroom is packed with fine furniture all priced for the buying public. The firm plans to make this sale an annual event.
Mrs. G. R. Pulley spent last week in Norfolk and Suffolk visiting her daughters Mrs. T. A. Davis of Norfolk and Mrs. R. H. Pair of Suffolk.
Vernon T Bradley urges daily small acts to conserve wildlife. He notes forests shrink while wildlife value cannot be counted, stressing universal, unselfish effort from all to protect diminishing natural resources.
The Bird Club of Roanoke Rapids held a four to six thirty meeting with a bird walk and picnic honoring Miss Clara Hearne and Miss Mary Lowder. A post walk picnic at the Country Club followed. Hearne, retiring from local teaching, received a birth print, antique frame, Nature Study and Audubon magazines, and a five year State Bird Club membership. Lowder received a hand painted plate. Hostesses were Mrs. Talton O Briant and Mrs. A O Pendleton.
Road work is planned on Stephens streets and roads north of U S Highway near the 200 loop west of Dickens Avenue and Dickens Avenue. The work covers parts of Ransom Hurley Oakley Avenues West Eighth Waldo Belmont Maple via Mrs W Pierce s loop to the cemetery Hornertown Ninth Raleigh Park Marshall Third Georgia Fifth Elm Wyche Lewis Pine Poplar Edwards streets and is expected to start as soon as possible.
Raleigh May 19 Production of cotton in North Carolina for the 1947 season reached 452000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, 12000 bales more than the 1946 crop, per Frank Parker of the Federal State Crop Reporting Service. Acreage harvested stood at 647000, with lint yield 335 pounds per acre. Cotton and cottonseed value totaled 87220000 dollars. Prices for lint sold by May 1 averaged 8 cents per pound. Funeral notices: Alvin Johnson, killed in France August 3, 1944, with family in Capon, Virginia.
Lola Cates thanks the nurses and doctors of Roanoke Rapids Hospital and the high school teachers for excellent care and kindness during her recent illness.
Roanoke notices include a benefit party hosted by The Jocal Woman's Club on Friday June 4 at 8 PM with bridge rummy and Chinese checkers, prizes and refreshments. Reservations to Mrs L E Ready or Mrs Edwin Akers. Also W S C S meets June 1 at First Methodist Church with theme Church Alcohol and Public Health. speaker Dr T J Taylor. Graduates Cum Laude William Sanders Jr salutatorian at Louisburg College. Coach Crawford Hoyle to speak at Rosemary Baptist Church about recreation for youths after church.
Overlapping campaigns affected totals but focal response in Roanoke Rapids remained generous and gratifying. Chairman Mrs. Taylor credited a large slate of volunteers including Mrs. M. F. White Mrs. J. B. Dunn Mrs. F. J. Hawley Mrs. M. C. Newsome Jr. and many others for their efforts.
Baldanzi warns of future South confrontations as unions press gains. He cites wage boosts for southern workers, claims conflict will fatally injure in the region, and notes tense public safety raids, gunfire in Rome Georgia amid striker and non striker clashes.
The class of 1948 lists graduates including Helen A Adams William Graham Baird Shirley Mae Barfield Doris ie Barrow Robert Frank Blake Marilyn Bullock Martha Elizabeth Braswell Aydlette Willard Briggs Jr Sae htyn Brigman Rachel A Britt Dorothy Eloise Brown Christine Montella Bryant Virginia Dave Bryant James W Cannon Lola Lexine Cates Clara Revers Clarke Hamlin Allan Collins Rosa Elaine Conwell David Lee Cox Odie Benjamin Crumpler Jr Horace Peter DeLoateh Grace Aleane Dixon Shirley Mae
A long list of local residents and relatives appears in a public notice style item. The names include Draper, Anne Irene Erwin, Fredrick Frazier Etheridge, Mildred B. Ferrell, Mary Roberta Fisher, William Joseph George Jr, Helen Graham, Janet Marie Griffies, William Bert Hall, Doris Winston Han cock and many others. The roster covers multiple families and suggests a forthcoming community acknowledgment or notice.
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