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1 COURIER • TIMES
Roxboro, North Carolina
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11m Roxboro Courier Established 1881
The Person County Times Established 1829
J. W. Noell Editor
J. 8. Merritt and Thos. J. Shaw, Jr Associates
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945
It Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It,
but the COURIER-TIMES says It because It Is true.
WHERE CUSTOM COULD HAVE SAVED
FACE
AfOretini.es, unless memory is playing us
false, it has been the custom for the members
of the cabinet of an out-going-and-an-incom
ing-same President of the United States to
offer their respective resignations, thus
clearing the air for any departmental changes
that a President returning to office might [
wish to make. This custom, apparently, has
not been followed in the beginning of Presi
dent Roosevelt's fourth administration. Per-:
haps, for all that, resignations are not the j
custom, but if they are not, they should be. |
if only to avoid the present Jones and
Henry A. Wallace spectacle, a show which is
doing the administration no good and cer
tainly cannot be expected to improve the!
tempers of the men involved, let alone that
of the President.
The situation is painful in that Hon. Jesse
Jones has had the Commerce job, plus the
more recent loans authority, for some twelve
years. Twelve years is a long time, three
times as long as the average four years of an
administration and long enough for a longer
suffering Chief Executive to change his mind
as to the type of Cabinet material wanted for
a given job. The Jones-Wallace crisis is, in
deed a fruit of President Roosevelt’s own
long tenure of office. Such a situation as has
resulted could not otherwise have taken
place, but the awkwardness of the happen
—jng only gives emphasis to a slip-up in the
usual Roosevelt finnesse in handling men and
situations.
Mr. Wallace is not popular with certain
t conservative elements, but if the truth were
fully known about ex-Secretary Jones, we
doubt if his own popularity would be any
larger. The Wallace appointment offers sat
isfaction to the so-called liberal elements in
the nation, but if the Congress is going
through with its stripping of powers from
the Commerce Department the new secre
tary Will have just the empty honors that his
enemies wish him to have. We do not like the
spectacle of so much disharmony between the
President and Congress.
Custom and commonsense, it seems to us,
could have saved a lot of face and avoided
that public bickering which does nothing so
much as to give pleasure and amusement to
Nazi leaders.
o
NEW CHANCE FOR EDUCATION
Two U. S. Army gliders, each manned by
a crew, are expected to appear here Friday
afternoon at Roxboro Airport near Bethel
Hill, according to announcement made today
by Malcolm (Mac) Warren, local airport
manager, who says the gliders are being sent
here with a tow-plane through courtesy of
Col. Frank Dawson, of Charlotte, command
ing officer of the North Carolina Wing of
the Civil Air Patrol.
So much for the facts, except for a note
that all prospective Person and Roxboro Civil
Air Patrol cadet members, together with
prospective adult members, are being extend
ed an invitation to be at Roxboro airport to
see what they can see about one of the most
recently developed forms of airbourne Army
service. Riding in such gliders, or rather,
landing in them is a rough and a sometimes
hazardous experience, according to reports
received from a Roxboro young man who is
in a glider unity We can’t expect Friday’s
I spectators to realize those factors just ircn
looking on, but we are willing to hazard the
suggestion that few citizens here will have a
better opportunity to see gliders in operation.
Demonstration shows of this kind just don’t
take place every day except in and near glid
: er training bases.
There may be some doubts hereabouts as
ff to the over-all soundness of the Civil Air Pa
li trol program, but Friday’s promised demon
stration, which could not have been arranged
for without the assistance of Col. Dawson,
, is at least a step in the direction of backing
up previously made promises from CAP for
I an airwise education of citizens here.
GOOD BEGINNING
First to come forward publicly in print in
support of the five-point program for pro
gress in Roxboro as advocated last week by
' Editor J. W. Noell is C. M. Abbitt, city water
plant superintendent, whose “Open Forum”
communication is with pleasure being pub
[ lished in today’s issue of the Courier-Times.
! Other citizens here have since the Noell ad
| dress come forward with spoken words of
'approval, but Mr, Abbitt is the first to put
| his thoughts on paper, unless the long-ago
j received letter from that Campbell college
j student could be counted as a forerunner.
I Said student, a resident of Person County, it
will be remembered was the only person who
responded to a previous appeal from the
Courier-Times for a suggested program of
! Roxboro and Person improvements.
It is a heartening thing that Mr. Abbitt
| has himself written out his thoughts and it
|is but natural that his conception of a Com
| munity Center should be limited to City
'functions of government, whereas the con
jception advocated by Mr. Noell places an em-
Iphasis on smoothing out County functions,
a thesis made plain by recollection that Coun
jty offices are and have long since reached an
'overflow stage in and around the Court
i House, and up and down Main street and Ab
jbitt avenue.
j Real solution, probably, lies in a combina
tion of the Noell and Abbitt conceptions, if
. that could be worked out, but in any case,;
|both City and County groups have long had]
jtheireyeson Roxboro Central Grammar
!school building and both groups are longing
[for the time when that building can be con
verted to at least some of the civic purposes
‘enumerated by Mr. Noell and Mr. Abbitt.
;Good, too. this the Abbitt suggestion of get
ting that adjoining lot to provide extra park
I and recreation space. Still another suggestion
I would be the construction of a County Cent
er building back of the Court House on what
is now a parking lot and USO Service Center
[spot.
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
j Tomorrow Will. be observed as National
I Public Health Nursing Day. the first such
‘ day set aside to honor the women, who, in
[the face of increasing difficulties brought
[about by war-induced staff shortages, are
carrying forward the high standards previ
jously established in public health work.
[Some measure of the difficulties being en
countered can be seen right here at home —
in Person County—where one or two women,
assisted by volunteers drawn from the
ranks of homemakers, are going ahead each
jday with a job that used to be allotted Us a
j trained staff of from four to five persons.
It is true that there are nursing shortages
everywhere and in all ranks, in hospitals at
[home and in front line tents, but except for
[nurses needed in military service, none are
more essential than those who are sustaining
public health programs. Americans have be
come so accustomed to public health services
as to take them for granted. National Public
Health Nursing Day, if it does nothing ex
cept lift us out of this taking for granted
complacency, should be worthwhile.
J—o
HARD-HEADED MRS. JACKSON
Public opinion is with North Carolina’s
public school teachers in their fight to secure
higher salaries on the $125 to S2OO basis
proposed by. the North Carolina Education
association, but that same opinion is divided
over the wisdom of the walk-out threat made
last week by the Greensboro Association of
Class-room Teachers, of which Mrs. Nevelyn
' Martin Jackson as president is spokesman.
Opposition to the walk-out technique is
based upon an assumption of long standing
that ladies and gentlemen of a professional
status do not use such methods, however
pressing their financial condition may be,
but as a one-time fellow pupil in the public
schools with Mrs. Jackson, when she was an
equally determined Miss Martin in a desk
across the way, we can understand how she
has lost patience with more dignified meth
ods of protest. In the years since she passed
from the relationship of a pupil to that of
a teacher Mrs. Jackson has sought to give to
the profession of teaching all that dignity
i expected by tradition, but she has never got
! ten her feet off the ground of commonsense.
The j : >test which she and the Greensboro
teachers L w voiced may be wrong tech
nique, but at Ida. ; it will force to the atten
tion of some who w::m., - ‘ otherwise listen,
the very real struggle that fc.’.G'crs are up
against in the job of making ii.run' I ends
look at each other, much less meet.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
A PROUD RECORD
News and Observer
The State School for the Blind and Deaf
THE COURIER-TIMES
on Tuesday celebrated its' feehtennial. The
record is a proud one.
One hundred years ago, government rend
ered far fewer services to the unfortunate
and the helpless than is the case today. But,
North Carolina, early in its history made
provision for the education of the blind and
deaf and that provision was maintained even
in the dark days of war and reconstruction.
With the coming of better times, the insti
tution was enlarged and has long been one of
which the State is justly proud. With the be
ginning of its second century, the State looks
with confidence to the School for the Blind
and Deaf for even more useful service- in the
years ahead.
JUST WONDERING
Greensboro Daily News
Comes word from Newton, via an item in
the Hickory Record, that the civil term of
Catawba county Superior court lasted only a
day with all cases calendared for trial being
disposed of in one way or another.
We have noticed similar reports in papers
flowing across the exchange desk from all
parts of the state. Litigation is apparently
• OPEN FORUM
January 22. 1943
Roxboro. N. C.
Dear Mr. Noell:
Your address to the Rotary Club
last Thursday evening was enjoyed
by me very much. The five point
Post-War program you so ablely
presented was especially interesting
to me because T have already plan
ed to myself fas if it meant any
thing i the answers to them.
This is my thought and sugges
tions, which lacks confirmation in
to the circumstances, to the above
five points.
I - HOSPITAL: Net many of US
like the place tile present hospital is
located but I have, been told that
before the late Mr. Jack Pass died
he had quite a sizable tax debt to
tlie county and city. To compensate
the county and city they were to
receive both the brick and frame
houses on Academy St. at Mrs.
Featherston's death to be used as a
hospital. If this is true some day
Roxboro and Person will have a
fine beginning to the much needed
hospital with room to expand and
in a fine location,
II - THE HIGHWAY LOOP: I
like to think of this project as a
traffic relief artery to-wit; another
good wide street through the city
to relieve traffic and improve prop
erty rather than a By-pass Loop. I
don't like that word by-pass it
means leave: out and we don't want
Roxborc left cut of anything except
trouble. I don't think we will have
much, to worry about in this project.
The plans and location are r hope
settled. The plans gre no stranger
to me as many times as I saw them
changed, and resurveyed.
111 - COMMUNITY CENTER:
This suggestion is my pet dream of
No. 3. This project calls for a sizable
sum of money and an appropriate
location. It must be in the business
district. To obtain such a place,
which luckly is already located and
available when the time comes, We
must secure an appropriate place
fer tlie grammer school. Then the
Grammer School building become
the City Hall or Municipal Building.
The LONE RANGER jTkit a MINUTE, HF&fco \i HLL!,O, TIM if* YCU IF v OU MEAN I'M 0051 WONDERIN', SON,
c 'v r : ‘V - -M / I PAD HE LIKED TIT. EDiT- 'fl Krfc?OH PRAiSm* I A6CUT BEING WHETHER THE EDITOR OF
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!,:?•*; i i VTt'vm HIM " I• -J ' STATE'S BEST SHERIFF -OR HIS DAUGH
VOU'LL HAVE TO EXCUSE me] I TIM'S A FINE BOY KIT 1 DON’T I YOU WANTED TO WOH, YES, |*
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sharply on the decline in tooth civil and crim
inal courts with the result that terms are un
usually short in some instances have been
dispensed with altogether.
It is against this background, the accuracy
of which we are certain can be established
or disestablished by statistics available at
Raleigh, that the Daily News finds itself
wondering whether the state needs all the
special judges who are at present function
ing as part of the judiciary. One vacancy ex
ists following the death of Judge C. E. Black •
stock at Asheville. Is there any need, other
than that which might be attributed to poli
tical expediency, to fill it?
So far Governor Cherry has given no in
dication of the manner and the spirit in which
he is going to exercise his appointive power.
We have a feeling, however, looking at the
record and the character of the man now in
the executive mansion, that he will not clut
ter up the public pay roll with appointments
which rest upon pay-off rather than upon
need.
(lovernment agencies ought to be the very
first ones to take cognizance of what every
body else knows; i. e„ there’s a manpower
shortage on.
j Now. what finer location and bund
ling could you wish for? With a
• mil amount of remodeling we can
have what w'e want. We can have a
City auditorium, there are ten big
T corns that can be made into two
[•or three offices. Mayor, City Man
agers. Water Supt, Police etc. office
and Police Court. Water Dept, store
room and City shops in the rear and
basement. All of these agencies cen
trally located will be a great help.
IV RECREATION CENTER:
Tills is not a large spot but like ev
erything else in Roxboro if it is not
on the beaten path it will not be
used, I refer to the grounds around
the present Grammer School. We
will have to secure the lot on the
corner of Bradsher and Main Street
to carry out tile idea. With the space
from Main to Lamar St. and Brad
sh v St. to the Chevrolet building
properly landscaped with walk,
trees, shrubs, park benches, drink
ing fountain arid floral borders all
cf which will help beautify the City
Hall, The present City Hall can be
used, for a second piece of fire
equipment and personnel.
V - AIRPORT: This is a sugges
tion from James Abbitt enlarged on
by me, The idea is to combine high
way traffic with air traffic in small
towns and cities who do have avail
able areas for landing strips North-
South and East-West. Example:
suppose we have a town with a
North-Soptli highway. The side of
tow'ii having the most suitable ter
rain and using the present highway
pavement as a center. Broaden the
pavement, let’s say to 500 feet, from
[the city limits to 1-2 mile out.
Where the regular pavement joins
| the widened pavement, traffic keep
to the right around the outer edge
[of the strip. Outgoing traffic will
I keep to the opposite side leaving the
1 center for planes. A wind indicator
'be erected to show wind direction.
It may be necessary to widen tv sec
tion of an East-West highway the
same as mentioned above to facili
tate landing in case of cross-wind
at the North-South strip of vice
versa.
Accommodations to and from the
air strips can be easily made by bus
The Polio City
When Hickory became "Polio City"
[last June . . . 13,000 citizens pitch-
I ed in and licked the epidemic in a
[way that made American medical
history, according to an article in
I the February issue of CORONET
J magazine. Overnight it brought
about a miracle of united commun
ity spirit and civic co-operation.
On June 12 terror stalked the
streets of Hickory for a little eight
year-old boy became violently ill
and the diagnosis was to be: "In
fantile Paralysis.” Before another
24 hours passed six cases were re
ported in the nearby vicinity, 20 in
the country and quickly the disease
spread from family to family. At
this moment the town of Hickory
became great—for all time.
The miracle that followed w'as
the result cf complete civic co-op
eration and the by word became
"How can I serve?" Two doctors,
Dr. H. C. Whims of Newton and Dr
A. Gaither Hahn of Hiexory, began
the difficult task of turning un
trained civilians into nurses, attend
ants and medical aides. The race
aganfet death was on and even as
the architect was drawing plans for
a new hospital, lumber began to
move toward the building site. Men
who had worked as dentists or
artists, now pounded nails and
hoisted timber. Mothers left their
children to the men in white and
turned to cooking meals, heating
water, washing blankets, continues
CORONET.
In just 55 hours a great building
feat had become fact—a 55 bed
and taxi cabs. Plane schedules will
be like the bus and train. Person
leaving town go out in cabs or
busses and person coming in can be
carried right to their doors.
This has been a little bit of think
ing on my part. It all seems so in
teresting and easy or is it? May be
part of my suggestions will become
a reality some day, who knows?
I remain,
Yours very truly,
C. M. Abbitt
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945
hospital had been built and equipp
ed, but even as the last nail was
driven and the last bed moved in, j
the hospital was found to be not
large enough. With 224 cases re- ,
ported, the epidemic had kept pace
with the workmen. So the architect
went back to his plans and new beds j
were being moved in even as the ,
roof w»as being nailed down. Then ,
the outside world began to move in. ,
Nurses left high-salaried jobs and
came to the improvised Hickory
hospital: the Red Cross moved in;
Johns Hopkins Hospital sent ex- '
perts and doctors, specialists, phy
sical therapists, Kenny-trained
nurses and iron lungs arrived, as if
by magic, to combat the epidemic, | -
relates CORONET.
How much it actually cost to set
up Hickory’s emergency treatment
center is not yet known, but it's es
timated that $50,000 could not pos
sibly pay for the labor and equip
ment involved. While due credit
must be given to all co-operating
agencies it was Hickory and its civ
ilian population which really per
formed the miracle. From June 12
to September 27 the town was com
pletely mobilized and there was no
"normal life." Mothers were giving
10 and 12 hours a day to the fight
on infantile paralysis while fathers j
were exhausted from overwork. For
Hickory in that four month period
built an eight structure hospital
and cared for more than 400 cases
of Polio.
The hospital stands as a monu
ment to a people's courage and the
j selfless devotion of an entire city
lof people. The brave little city has i
taken a terrific financial beating [
and willingly took on itself the stig- j,
nta of being known as ‘‘Polio City": ]
By that very sacrifice, concludes
CORONET. Hickory became great
for all time.
Farmers carried out more soil
building and erosion-control prac
tices under AAA last year than ever
before.
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known resident of 161 Blu’ Ridge
St., Lynchburg. Va. Mr. Carr was
raised near Halifax Courthouse,
and is engaged in Government work.
Discussing his case Mr. Carr grate
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scarcely at a meal that didn't dis
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| 'up the whole night through. I felts
I so nervous that I could hardly stand
the slightest noise, in my home, J
] had to use powerful laxatives, and
I felt so rundown that I sometimes
thought nothing would ever get m?
. to feeling good again. •
“Retonga gave me prompt relief
Within a few days I could get a
good nights rest and I soon began
i to eat. anything on the table. My
Need For Points
On Fruit Juices
i '
RALEIGH, January 25.—Restora
tion of point values to canned grape
fruit juice and grapefruit-orange
juice combinations was necessary to
provide equitable distribution of
available civilian stocks, Theodore
S. Johnson, OPA district direetbr
said.
The action was taken at the same
time that the War Food Admini
stration froze sales of these juices
by canners for an indefinite period
until increased military require
ments are met.
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nerves settled down and I got re
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the job every day now feeling better
than for years and I can never
thank Retonga enough.”
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