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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1947
Page
1
Roanoke Ramblings covers a mix of local notes from Halifax County and Roanoke Rapids. It shares career moves school enrollments and college rosters along with revival event updates and a governor bid rumor.
Halifax County commissioners vote 3 to 2 to fund a $200,000 airport. The decision follows a contentious hearing led by Dr. Crocker Maddrey with support from Roanoke Rapids, Weldon, and Littleton leaders.
Roanoke Rapids board of city commissioners votes to install five traffic signals at Ninth and Hamilton, 10th and Hamilton, Seventh and Hamilton, Fifth and Jackson, and 10th and Jackson. Corpral Lane, a Roanoke Rapids patrolman with eight years service, will be stationed permanently here starting October first.
Five local men joined the United States Army in September, with 31 from Halifax Warren and Northampton counties enlisted through the Roanoke Rapids sub station. Names include Marald B Walker James W Walker Earl H Johnson Rufus Mountford Jr John W Wills and others. Sub station commander Sgt Norvert M Veyoung notes Army offers near home assignments and school opportunities for qualified graduates.
Roanoke River basin civic clubs send delegations to a US Army Engineers led tour of the Buggs Island project on the Roanoke River in Virginia. The October 17 event, arranged by the Roanoke River Basin Association and Roanoke River Flood Control Committee, showcases flood control and hydroelectric progress for basin residents and industrial development.
Mrs. Lucy Stroup of National Headquarters Girl Scouts of America visited Roanoke Rapids Girl Scout Council, first HQ visitor since 1944. Plans for Leader's Drive and Training Course were made, with focus on aiding community projects and school activities through public relations efforts. Plans for American Education Week were discussed, urging cooperation from civic clubs and community groups.
Roanoke Rapids will open a new cotton market next Monday as Dean Cotton Company of Tarboro establishes shop at the Farmer's Warehouse beside Simmons Park. Graham Dean and Eugene Wood say they will buy all grades and staples of cotton from farmers and ginners, aiming to benefit area merchants farmers and mills and serve Halifax and nearby counties. Local community chest drive begins today with urges for participation.
Roanoke Rapids Yellow Jackets travel to Edenton to meet the Aces at Hicks Field with three first-string players suspended for a week. Coach Venters disclosed the ineligibilities stemming from actions in the Tarboro game as Roanoke Rapids seeks a second straight win.
T Davis returned from a week long FBI National Police Academy retraining in Washington DC as part of the 17th class. Walter F Anderson of the NC SBI retired as president of the academy graduates association after six years, succeeded by Chief Peterson of San Diego.
Rotarians heard about veteran reintegration through a NC Employment Service film showing how handicapped veterans can work in modern industry. James M. Kennedy Jr and JA Wadsworth presented Dream of an Empire about the Japanese campaign, narrated by Joseph C. Crew, after an earlier film on handicap veterans. President Ben Lancaster led the meeting as members congratulated Dr. M. C. Maddrey on county airport project victory announced that afternoon.
Lions Club drive in Roanoke Rapids shows early signs of meeting the $300 goal aided by Girl Scouts. Chairman Thurman Bullock reports initial figures from committee members and notes final tabulations await the next Tuesday meeting with strong community backing.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church Roanoke Rapids sponsors a Negro conference on October 19 at 2 p m at Quankey Baptist Church. The theme is The Christian Home with speakers from both races including laymen and ministers. Mrs Jona Johnston will preside.
Several persons arrested recently in an investigation into illegal liquor sales by Alcohol Beverage Control agents have already been tried in Recorder's Court and will be sentenced at Tuesday's Halifax court session. Prayer for judgment had been continued in these cases until after the next steps in litigation. Similar cases will be tried in Roanoke Rapids at the following Thursday's Recorder's Court session.
The Rev Ray Holder, rector of Christ Episcopal Church Raleigh, will open a preaching mission at All Saints Church Roanoke Rapids on October 12 at 7 p.m. and run it for a week ending October 17 as the Episcopal share in a city wide revival campaign. Evening services will be informal with congregational singing and a question box for religious discussion on Personal Religion.
In observance of National Business Women's Week the BPW Club opened with a lunch at the club house on Jackson Street with Mrs Priest as guest speaker on facing the future spiritually. A Rosemary Cafe luncheon featuring Rev Edmund Berkeley on facing the future socially followed. The week ends with a dinner meeting at 7 pm at the Rosemary Cafe with Mr LB Ready as guest speaker. The club remains a civic force active in community affairs.
Charlie Roy Jones, 29, a Black man, died after stepping from a train at Weldon depot to bid farewell to a departing acquaintance. The locomotive ran over him, severing his right leg and crushing his shoulder. He was rushed to a local hospital about 5:30 pm and died there. Coroner Rufus Britton said no inquest was necessary.
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