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VOLUME TWENTY ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934_NUMBER TWENTY TWO
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Must Hospital Close?
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UP AND DOWN
£>he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
“NEW TIME” is the latest
movement. On the theory that
October and November are the
two best months outdoors, pro
ponents advocate two hours day
light savings for those months.
Their charts show it daylight at
8:30 p. m. October first and still
daylight at 7 p. m. December 1st.
Under present time it is dark a
little after 5:30 p. m. October
fjrst. Th|ey claim early risers
in those months must use arti
ficial light anyway to dress by.
Sounds alright. The only troub
le is getting everybody to fol
low the same rule. They have not
been able to do that with summer
time daylight savings yet.
The Garden Department of the
Womans Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Manning on Mon
day, Sept. 17th, at 3:30 p. m.
All members are urged to be
present as this is the first meet
ing of the Fall.
Percy Tanner and Miss Anne
Clary of Roanoke Rapids, were
married by Justice of the
Peace, Jas. G. Butts, Tuesday
morning.
PARTIN-BARRINGTON
Miss Georgia Mae Patricia Par
tin, daughter of Mrs. Claudia
Partin of Weldon, was married
to Carl A. Barrington of Fay
etteville in Rocky Mount Sept6.
They will be at home after Sept.
15 at Wake Forrest.
OATES-BATTON
An engagement of outstanding
interest was announced this week
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Oates an
nounce the engagement and ap
proaching marriage of their dau
ghter Miss Nora Chrystabelle Oa
tes to Mr. George Dewey Batton.
The wedding to take place on
Tuesday morning at 10:30, Sept.
18th at All Saints Episcopal Ch
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DECISION
DELAYED
NEXT WK.
Strike Causes Lack Of
Necessary Operating
Funds; Action Delay
ed.
At a regular monthly meet
ing of the Board of Trustees
of the Roanoke Rapids Hos
pital, Inc., held on Tuesday,
Sept. 11th, with a large maj
ority of trustees in attendan
ce, the question of the ability
of the Hospital to continue
in operation was most care
fully considered.
Lack of necessary funds, due
to the strike situation, -with which
to continue operation after this
week , brought up the discussion.
The Hospital trustees are doing
all within their power to keep
the hospital open and have ap
pealed to the Duke Endowment
Fund managers, the FERA and
other agencies for assistance but
have met with no results which
would help the situation.
Hoping for some disposition of
the strike situation, any definite
action regarding the hospital was
postponed until Wednesday of
next week.
In the meantime only emergen
cy cases will be admitted to the
hospital under the hospital’s pres
ent regular rates.
In the editorial columns of
this paper , the operating ex
pense of the local hospital is
put at $3,000 per week. This
was the figure for a two week’s
period, the actual operating ex
pense of the hospital for the past
year being an average of $6,642
per month.
Curtis Shell, city merchant and
president of the Roanoke Rapids
Merchants Association, is up af
ter a two week illness. Mr. Shell
suffered from a severe attack
of “devil’s grip following his re
turn from a recent market trip
to New York City.
Sinclair Now Center of Political Spotlight
PASADENA, Calif. . . . Upton Sinclair (above, right) Socialist
author turned Democrat, is the target of all pojitical eyes as he makes
plans for his Fall campaign for election to California governorship on
the Democratic ticket. Above (left) is Sheridan Downey, Sacramento
attorney, Sinclair’s running mate for Lieutenant-Governor.
WARSAW
PEOPLE
INJURED
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Askew of
Warsaw, N. C. were injured when
their car overturned near the city
on the Richmond highway last
Saturday night. Mrs. Askew will
be confined in Roanoke Rapids
Hospital until the latter part
of the week, attaches say, while
her husband’s injuries were of
a slight nature, and he was dis
charged after being given first
aid treatment for minor cuts
about the face.
The Askews were returning
to their home in Warsaw from
Richmond, where they had been
for a visit. Their car overturned
when he sought to avert a crash
with a machine operated by a
colored man, which he said came
directly into his path from a
side road.
Mr. and Mrs Page Taylor, of
Richmond, enroute to Roanoke
Rapids to visit Mrs. Taylor’s
mother, Mrs. J. M. Grizzard,,
picked up the injured people and
brought them to Roanoke Rapids
Hospital.
CONDITION
OF TYLER
IMPROVED
The condition of George Tyler,
popular city mail carrier, is much
improved, according to word com
ing from Dr. C. C. Coleman,
Richmond physician who perform
ed an operation Sunday. Young
Tyler was injured in an automo
bile accident late last Thursday
night, Sept. 6th, when a car he
was driving overturned near La
Crosse, Va.
Earl Rook the only other oc
cupant of the car was given em
ergency treatment for minor cuts
and abrasions at the local hos
pital, and has been discharged.
Tyler was brought to the Roan
oke Rapids Hospital late Thurs
day night where an Xray picture
revealed his back was broken.
It was feared at first his spinal
cord was severed, though accor
ding to word coming from Memo
rial Hospital, Richmond, where he
was taken Sunday, a broken back
was the extent of the injuries.
It is said he is still paralyzed
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WANT TO
RETURN
TO WORK
Tell Governor they did
not go out voluntarily;
represent majority
ot Workers
The employees of Rosemary
Manufacturing Co., thru their
local organization, the Rose
mary Textile Workers, Inc.,
have appealed to Governor
Ehringhaus for protection in
order to return to work.
First appeal was made last Fr-i
day but there was confusion in
Raleigh as to its source. The
Governor’s office apparently, from
Raleigh newspaper reports, thou
ght the mill management was ask
ing for troops.
In a long telegram of explana
tion to the Governor this Tues
day, the employees, who say
they have 600 members of the
home union out of 850 on the pay
rolls, again asked the Governor
for protection in going back to
work, pointed out the fact that
they had been out of work two
weeks longer than those who went
on strike the first of last week,
due to the two weeks summer
vacation, and pointed out to him
that they had not gone out on
strike voluntarily but had been
forced out by pickets from the
other mills.
At press time today, the Gov
enor or Adjutant General Metts
had taken no definite action on
the matter. Reports say that they
[ are being besieged for troops
from all over the State and are
sending them to strike areas
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SHAHEEN
INJURED
Leo Shaheen may loose a leg
as result of a wreck on the Weldon
Road Sunday afternoon. With
two others he was riding on a
truck of the Weldon Ice Co.,
when the truck turned over near
the Country Club entrance.
One of those with him was
injured in the hand. Shaheen suf
fered a leg fracture and is in
the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. At
tending physicians are awaiting
complications before deciding on
amputation which may be nec
essary.