Lions Club to stage boxing card at festival arena
Roanoke Rapids Lions Club prepares a two night boxing event at the high school field festival grounds on Sept 21 22. Referee Dick Collins signed. 52 prisoners volunteered then trimmed to 98 will box. multiple bouts cap the program with knockout wins and eliminations.
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Lions Club
J. W. Talley
Jacns Clip Committee
Dick Collins
Army
Collins
Herzabouts
Talley
Williamston
Roanoke Rapids
One
Sai
Roosevelt Weldon
Robert Worsley
Weldon
Kelly Carr
Bennie Daniel
James Whitted
Sam McCoy
Smokey Harris
Harris
Troop 144 Wins Scout Baseball Final 7–5
Troop 144 defeats Troop 141 7 to 5 in a single completed game of the Boy Scout baseball finals at Roanoke Mills Number Two Park. Five pitchers saw action. Batton credited with the win, Acree the loss. Tournament finals to be finished later based on players’ football schedules.
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Ids
Roanoke Mills
Houston Fuller
Halifax
Erferes
Boy Scout League
Aotal
Batton
Acree
Lynch
Carter
Myrick
Bate
Jays Fall to Tarboro 4 2 as Gonzalez Injured
Tarboro defeats the Jays 4 2 with See earning his 27th win amid a 8 hit Jays effort. Val Gonzalez remains sidelined with an injury, and Stan Madijeski leads Jays with three hits. The Tars take a 2 run edge in the fifth, while Brown keeps the Jays in check.
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Jays
Tarboro
Tilt
Tobs
Val Gonzalez
Deane O
Romanecky
Townes
Shurley Hammack
Neville
Tars
Brown
Pavlich
See
Marko
Journeyea
Tartoro
Billie See
Jay
Milt Bolick
Alton Brown
Lee
Stan Madijeski
Stortstop
Jeys
Neville Wasi
Jays Rally Falls Short in Fifth Inning Setback
Dickens singled to drive in a run before Lofler retired. Gay's single plated Dickens and Wolfe later scored on a Wolfe double and Moss single for the decisive run. The Jays led 4 0 until a fifth inning rally cut the margin, with Lefler troubled in that frame as Wilson worked the mound and Jays manufactured three runs to close in.
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Wilson
JAYS
Neil le Ler
Wilson Tobs
Jesse van Hoose
Val Gonzales
Jay
Pete King
Hayes
Lefler
X. Dickens
Lofler
Gay
Dickens
Wolfe
Moss
van Hoose
Pavlich
Samoyede delivers papers in Texas town
Dos Gives Service CISCO Texas reports Sam the Samoyede a two year old white dog runs a delivery service for Roy A. Fonville. The dog delivers the paper to Fonville in his office at noon carries his lunch and will fetch about 10 objects from the house on demand.
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Dos
Cisco
Tex
U. P
Sam the
Samoyede
Roy A. Fonville
Fonville
Traubel Spends Night Incognito in Huntington Visit
Opera star Helen Traubel, while vacationing in Huntington, spent the night inconspicuously in a hotel. Recognized by local fan Mrs. R. Eugene Beatty, Traubel asked not to be told. She secretly visited a street fair for two hours with no further recognition.
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Huntington
Ind
U.P
Helen Traubel
R. Eugene Beatty
Miss Traubel
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Botth
Arctic Circle
Vuttee Aircraft Corporation
C. W. Carlstrom
War Assets Administration
Scruggs and Company
San Fernando
Boy Scout
Herald Sports
WCBT
Coca-Cola Company
Weldon Coca-Cola Bottling Works. Inc
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REM
Roanoke Rapids High
Oldsmobile
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Chance
Hartford
W. Second St
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