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★ RATION DEADLINES Meats—Red: Q5-S5 expire Mar 31: T5-X5 expire Apr. 28; Y5-Z5 and A2-D2 expire June 2. FOODS.—BIue: X5-Z5 and A2-B2 expire Mar. 31; C2-G2 expire Apr. 28; H2-M2 expire June 2. VOL. LXIV. Horse Show Plans Progressing Nicely Plans for the first annual Kiwanis Horse Show are progressing nicely according to a statement by Kiwan ian J. J. Woody, director of the first event for the local club. The show will take place on Sat urday, April 7th, 1:30 to 8:00 P. M. and will take place at the Roxboro High School Athletic Ground. Entry blanks are now being mail ed out to owners of fine horses over the state and it is thought that a large number of people will bring their horses here and show them before the public. A suitable cash prize list has been made out and altho the cash prizes are not as high this year as the club later hopes to make them they are high Bushy Fork Grade Visits Places Os Interest Go To Jail. Water Plant and Courier-Times Office On Friday. The tenth grade of Bushy Fork High School spent a part of last Friday in Roxboro visiting places of interest in the city. Among the places visited were the court house and Jail, the water works and the Courier-Times office. This group was accompanied by C. H. Mason, principal of the school and Ed. Warren, prominent citizen of the Bushy Fork community. At the newspaper office they were shown how the linotype machines worked and how the paper was printed on the Newspaper press as well as other things of interest to them. Below is a list of those who made the trip to Roxboro: Lottie Hurdle, Cleo Solomon, El aine Long, Dorothy Long, Lottie Berry, Peggy Jane Warren, Carolyn Long, Mary Ruth Moore, Ruth New ton, Mary Frances Bowes, Ralph and Baynes Warren. o Ho Hew Clues In Long Case No new clues are available in the theft of the iron safe that was tak en from the North End Service Sta tion early Tuesday morning, stated officials over the week end who are interested in the robbery. The entire safe and all of its con tents were taken from the service station and carried away during the night. It has been reported that the safe had approximately fifteen hun dred dollars in it as well as valu able papers. O. W. Long, proprietor of the sta tion, has offered a reward of two hundred dollars for information leading to the arrest of the party or parties who stole the safe and is giving wide publicity to this reward in the hopes of getting some in formation in regard to the theft. Local officers are working on the case but have reported nothing yet to the public. It was evident that those who carried the safe away came in the back door but that they carried the safe out the front door. o Rites To Be Held For Infant Girl Funeral services will be held to day for Eliza Jane Vicks, five month old daughter of George Vicks and Annie Bowes Vicks of the Woodsdale community, who died at the home of her parents Saturday night about nine o'clock. Funeral services will be held at Pauls cemetery at three o'clock to day. Services will be at the grave side. Reverend W. G. Elliott will be in charge. o Kiwanians School Sextette Roxboro Kiwanis Club met last Monday night at Hotel Roxboro with Jim Long, the president, pre- j siding. Pledge to the flag was led by Tom mie Hatchett and invocation was given by Rev. B. B. Knight. The program for the evening was in charge of E. B. Craven, a past president of the club, who present ed Miss Fountain of the Roxboro High School music department who in turn presented a sextette from the high school. The sextette rend eted about- six selections that were enjoyed by thpge__nrcßent. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR enough to attract attention. It has been pointed out that the main thing that owners of horses are af ter is to win the honors in the par ticular class that they are entered in. Within a short time a list of the different events that are to be stag ed at this show will be run in this paper and at this time other de tails will be given. A number of local people plan to enter their prize horse. Several people here have horses that are rated good and it could be that a number of prizes or blue ribbons will remain here. DV. O. G. Davis has been named as veterinarian for the show. Schools Have About All Coal Necessary It. B. Griffin, superintendent of education for Person County, announced this week that the schools of the county did not have aal the coal that they needed for this school term hut that he had another car promised and that this car, if iUcomes cn time, will be enough to see the schools through the cold weather. Tar Heel Parents Seek Information On Long Lost Son Asheville, —Mr, and Mrs. Dirk Slikker of 9 Lake Drive. Enka, N. C„ tonight asked the newspapers of the country to carry an appeal on the fate of their son, Dirk Slikker Jr., last heard from in January, 1942, on Java, to communicate with them. The younger Slikker now 24. was a member of the Dutch Division -of the Allied Air Force, but the par ents have had no official report that he was killed, captured, or missing. Inquiry was been made through the Dutch and Canadian embassies in Washington, the ad jutant general, the State Depart ment, and the American and In ternation Red Cross—with no clue whatever obtained. The only information the Slikkers have received was a letter from a Dutch flier in this country to the effect that their son was one of six sent on a mission into the In terior about the time most of the Allied Forces were evacuated from Java to Australia, early in 1942. After serving in the American Merchant Marine, the young man joined the Dutch Division of the Allied Air Forces and trained at Princess Juliana Barracks, Strat ford, Ontario. In June. 1941, he sailed from New York for Java, and was stationed at the Kalidjati Airport near Bandoeng. He had expected to receive his pilot’s wings in December 1942, but his parents never learned whether he did. Greensboro College To Drop Spring i Holidays For ODT | Greensboro. —No Spring holidays I will be observed this year by the j faculty and students of Greensboro j College, according to Dr. Luther L. Gobbel, president, who has announc |ed that the college faculty, at a ! special meetipg on Thursday, vot | ed unanimously to comply with the j request of the Office of Defense | Transportation at Washington that Spring vacations be cancelled in schools, colleges, and universities which have auy considerable num : ber of students who live outside the community where the school is lo cated. u The Greensboro College faculty not only voted to cancel the Spring holidays, scheduled for the period from March 29 to April 3, but also declared the Easter week-end a "closed week-end,” which means that all resident students will be required to remain in Greensboro over that week-end and thus co operate in the nation-wide move :ment to conserve travel facilities | for the armed forces and war needs. R. L. Harris At Baltimore Hospital R. L.J Harris, president of the Roxbord Cotton Mills, is recovering from afi operation at Union Mem orial Hospital in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Harris has been a patient there for the past ten days >nd is ex pected to return to Roxboro at an early <iate. ®ht CotmeDtHames Ice Plant To Get Extra Space Soon Construction has started on an addition to the City Milk and Ice Co., plant that is located near the Norfolk and Western Railway depot. The addition will provide more stor age room and make far greater ease in handling traffic. Here's How You Can File Your Income Tax Form I Taxpayers Have Choice of Three Ways To File For 1944 Income Tax. Joseph D. Nunan, Jr., Commis ; sioner of Internal Revenue, explaiu | ed today that taxpayers whose 1944 | income was less than $5,000 have a choice of three different ways of filing their 1944 income tax returns. Taxpayers whose income was $5,000 or more must all make "long-form’' ; returns or Form 1040. The three methods open to per ; sons whose income was under $5,000 are as follows: 1. Fill out the Withholding Re ceipt, Form W-2 (Rev.), received from their employers. 2. Make a ''short-form” return on Form 1040. 3. Make a "long-form" return on Form 1040. The easiest way to file is to fill out and mail in a Withholding Re ceipt, but this method is permitted only if the taxpayer's income was virtually all from wages from which tax was. withheld. If, in addition to his wages subject to withholding, a taxpayer had more than SIOO of dividends, interest and wages not subject to withholding, or he had any income from any other source, he would have to use Form 1040. If the Withholding Receipt is used, the collector will figure the tax and give the taxpayer credit for the tax he •has already paid, and send either a , bill or a refund for the difference. If Form 1040 is used, the taxpayer must figure his own tax. In choosing which form to use (for incomes under $5;000), Nunan said taxpayers should ask them selves this question: “Did I spend more than 10 per cent of my income last year for deductible charitable contributions, interest, taxes, casualty losses, med ical and dental expenses, and other deitems,” If the answer to this question is "yes”, the taxpayer should make a "long-form” return on Form 1040, so that he can itemize and claim the actual amount of his deductions. If the answer is “no", the taxpay er should consider filing on his Withholding Receipt or on a “short form'' Form 1040. Both these meth ods of filing give the taxpayer a standard allowance of about 10 per cent of his income for the type of deductions mentioned in Question 2. The 10 per cent allowance is made through a tax table. This tax table is arranged according to brackets of income: for instance, one line in the table is for income from $2,300 to $2 325, another line is for- incomes from $2,325 to $2,350, and so on. Nunan explained that the 10 per cent standard allowance if figured 1 at the middle of each bracket, and therefore the allowance is somewhat less than 10 per cent below the mid dle of the bracket and somewhat higher than 10 per cent above the middle of the bracket.' In most cases, Nunan commented, taxpayers spend far less than 10 per cent of their income for deduct ible items, and therefore such tax- ! payers will benefit by filing either a j Withholding Receipt or a short-! form return on Form 1040. Nunan added that persons who had more than one job during 1944 j and wish to file on a Withholding; Receipt need to fill out only the last ] receipt received, but should be sure to attach all their other Withhold ing Receipts. Also, the collector explained that [ if wage earners file Form 10i0, they need not fill out their Withholding Receipts but must attach their re ceipts to their Form 1040 returns. o Pfc. Melvin Adcock Visiting At Home Pfc. Melvin Adcock of Rouge mont has been spending the past thirty days at his home in Rougemont. He is the son of B. B. Adcock of the same address. Pfc. Adcock was wounded in France on July 11th and has been at an army hospital in Alabama for some time. He is rapidly recovering from his wounds but will return to the hospital in Alabama for the present. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Sharing Polish Rations KrUfl • iff - m K| HS ■ THIS POLISH SOLDIER, after heavy fighting: on the Tilburg front in Holland, is happy to share his rations with a little Dutch girl. Polish troops helped to bring liberation to parts cf the country held by the Germans since May, 1940. Precaution Urged In Burning Off Fields "Be careful” -the scout, motto, was i the warning stressed today to all 1 Person County farmers hy H.- —lfc-i l Sanders, county farm agent, as the danger season for forest, fires ar- i rives. Farmers are cautioned in I burning off farm lands for spring < planting to fellow a few simple rules < that will save thousands and thous- 1 ands of dollars in damages to timb er and smaller trees. t "If you contemplate burning off | your farm lands, always if possible, : notify your adjoining neighbor,” 1 stated Sanders, "as he may be able t to assist you in keeping a watch on t the* outer edges." “Just remember,” Sanders stated, < "after fires are started, they should i be watched constantly to prevent ! them from spreading to other areas.” t Mr. Sanders placed emphasis on 1 the precaution “do not start the i Cases And Markets Get Health Rating Dr. O. David Garvin. District Health Officer, and W. B. Taylor, Sanitarian announce the sanitary j ratings of cages, hotel, and meat Markets of Person County. There were five public eating places to rate grade "A”, and five school lunch rooms to rate grade “A”. There sre feur grade “A” meat markets at present. An eating establishment must av erage 70 or better in order to stay open. It is a problem to get material and labor as of a few years ago, however, all eating places must keep clean. Some eating establishments serve very little foods and of course in such'cases there is very little equipment to be graded on. The more business such concerns do, the more things that the inspector has to grade on. The scarcity of milk often causes the delivery of Durham Dairy Milk to eating places. In such instances the sanitarian has to take off 5 points in case the milk is there when the inspection is made. Some eat ing places would have made a higher grade if the ungraded milk ■ Alontf, *lUe 'Watf. m About one week ago L. R. Wilson, who runs an auto supply store in Roxboro, celebrated his Roxboro business anniversary. He started in business here seven years ago. An unreliable report states that when he came to Roxboro he hardly knew what a pair of shoes were and that he thought a necktie was srnne kind of a fancy belt. How ever we are here to deny that charge. We also believe that he wore seeks and that he absolutely knew what a stop light was. Fur thermore we know that he was not driving a horse when he came. But look at the man now. As prosperous as you find them. Active in all civic work and looks just as .intelligent as any man that you will find. That boy has made good in Roxboro in seven years. It is true that he is bald headed but he was bald the day he was born so he can’t help that. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT fire and then leave the area and go to dinner and never leave a child lto watch the •biaze,” Millions and millions of dollars in damages by forest fires, and thousands in 'this county alone oc cur each year during this season by carelessness alone, according to of ficial reports. Roxboro citizens are also urged to be careful in burning off garden plots and fields in the city as sometimes it has been known to happen when several homes were totally destroyed with the origin of the blaze being a small garden plot. Person county lacks the facilities of a forest fire warden and laws governing the burning of farjn lands during this season. The en tire burden of saving the timber lands in the county falls upon each farmer. wasn't used. The Quail Roost milk, is grade “A” milk ana full credit is given for such milk when found in ; eating places. The Durham Dairy milk has pasteurize written on the bottle cap but there is no grade cn the cap. If the milk was properly labelled the cases, etc., could get j credit for it. although it is not 1 grade "A” milk. If raw milk is class ed as grade “C” milk, pasteurizing | such milk does not change the j grade of the milk. It is impossible to get enough raw milk from Quail i Roost to supply the demand. High grade pasteurized milk is (Turn to page 6 please) Pyt. Melvin Strange Promoted In Italy WITH THE FIFTH ARMY. Italy. —Private Melvin H. Strange, son of Ulie T. Strange, who lives on Pine Street, this city, has been pro moted to private first class. He is an ambulance orderly with the 109th Combat Engineer Battalion of the Fifth Army in Italy. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE T. C. Brooks New Tax Supernsd And Mrs. J. S. Walker Assistan Thoughts On A Warm Spring Day During February < Past Several Davs In This Section Have Been Such As To Encourage Spring Time Thoughts. i j Friday A. M.—-The past several j i I days in Roxboro have, been days of : • | real spring weather with the ther mometer rising more and more each day and altho it may be cold on l Monday, the day that this paper is printed. Person County residents have been rejoicing at the nice days we have been having, j “In the spring a young man’s ' fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love". That is the old rule but spring this year makes everyone’s thoughts turn to their rapidly di minishing coal pile and breath a sigh of relief that maybe they will i not have to burn so much while the weather is warm. Many farmers over the county | have been busy fixing their plant beds and others have been busy with other farm duties but all in all they are getting: ready to plant an other crop of tobacco. Fertilizer sales have been heavy and a large number of farmers have all that they will need stored in their barbs. Soon farmers will be breaking the ground and as soon as the weather gets definitely warm all will be planting. The mule business has also been fairly good and many have been trying to get lined up to do a lot of plowing with very little help. Prac- 1 tically every farmer in the county ' could use a little more hel)?iif 7*e' could get it. Many boys who once 1 worked on the farms are now in 1 some form of service thus reducing ' the number left at home to produce something to smoke or eat. o | American Rural Libraries Seek To Expand Jobs Chicago—American librarians are out to seize what they regard as a great postwar opportunity to pro vide rural United States with sorely ! needed library service by the swords into-plowshares method, i They have their eyes on surplus ; war property, ranging from trucks which can be converted into book mobiles to the 10,000.000 or son carefully selected new books in camp libraries. And now: they mean to see that ways and means are ! provided for libraries to get them, ij Their current move is a -drive in their . own profession, led by the American Library Association, to raise runds to send one of their group to Washington. A library! representative stationed at the Cap- j ital is needed at the present time, ! they believe, to see that Congress I and administrative officers jjo not ! forget about libraries when disposal I is made of property which librar-j ies could use. Such a person also could put in a word for such Fed- j eral assistance as may be needed j to get these materials out to the | states and to help states organize to use them in areas which now lack library service. There are many areas that do lack service, officials of the Amer ican Library Association point out. At present about 1.700 counties of i the nation’s 3,000 either have no public library within their borders | or else have only service in their j cities with no extension service for country folk. Fewer than one fourth : j of the counties of the United States i have county or regional library ser vice. Thirty-five million Ameri- i cans still have no access to libra ries. Gradually service is being ex- I tended, but very gradually. All but j I one of the states now r have some j type of state library c6mmission, j 1 but these state agencies operate with varying degrees of effective- j ness, depending to a large extent on the appropriations they receive. Only 13 states were reported to have appropriations in the 1943-44 bien nium. The sums ranged from $lO,- 000 for the fiscal year in New Jer sey, to $300,000 in Michigan. o The United States grows, onehaif of the total world crop of cotton, employing 7,000,000 negroes at the height of the season. Office Will Be Maintained In Court House. Safe or Vault Must Be Purchased. Take Office For Balance Os Cnexpired Term And Two More Years. T. c. Brooks, prominent business man of Roxboro, was, this morning, elected to the office of Tax Super visor and Auditor for Person Coun ty by the county commissioners. Mrs. J. S. Walker was elected as his assistant at this same meeting. Mr. Brooks is assuming the office that wa left vacant by the death of J. S. Walker. Salaries for the supervisor and his assistant have not yet been de ! termined by the county commis sioners. Mr, Brooks is a native of this county and has been engaged in the real estate business, loans and sur veying for the past several years. For a number of years he was With the state highway department in the f capacity of engineer. Mrs. Walker is the wife of the late J. S. Walker, former fax super visor, and for several years had as sisted her husband in the tax office She also taught school in this coun ty for several years. Both Mr. Brooks and Mrs. Walker were elected to fill out the unex pired term of Mr. Walker, which runs out April Ist and then were also elected for the next term of office which is for two years from April Ist. The county commissioners have had three meetings in connection With the filling of this office. New office of the tax supervisor will be in the court house. Just where it will be has not actually been decided. A large safe or vault will have to be purchased for the office. Prior to this time all hunks had been kept in the » rln ’1 nftice where Mr. supervisor, for this position and Building and Loan. Army Skymaker Bombs In Fog WASHINGTON—The Army has a "skymarker” bomb which sends up a column of colored smoke through clouds to aid planes in hitting the target through overcast. A pathfinder plane, locating the target by radar, drops one or more bombs to spot the target. The suc ceeding waves of planes, able to sight the smoke columns as far as five miles off. then release their bombs over the spot. The bomb, a thin-wailed object containing eight colored smoke grenades was devel oped by the Chemical Warfare Ser vice's Technical Command at the Edge Wood, Md., arsenal. Baptist Press Names Prexy Little Rock.—Porter Routh. Ok lahoma City, editor of the Baptist Messenger, today was elected presi dent of the Southern Baptist Press ! Association at the association's mid j Winter meeting here. He succeeds | Finley W. Tinnin, Shreveport, La. j C. E. Bryant, Little Rock, editor of the Arkansas Baptist, was elected j vice president, and O. W. Taylor, i Nashville. Tenn., editor of the Bap tist and Reflector, secretary-treas ! ureas o Roxboro Police Fairly Quiet Over Weekend Chief of Police Pat Robinson re ported today that the past week end in this city was rather quiet with only about 12 people being ar . rested for being drunk. All were : tried Monday morning before May \ or S. G. Winstead. Chief Robinson also reported that !no new developments had been brought to light in the theft of the i safe stolen last week from the store of O. W. Long. o ; Future Railroad Dream On Wheels Future railroad coaches, accord ing to designers, will have improv ed seats to permit complete relaxa tion and sleep, rubber plastic meth ods to deaden track noises, under floor heating, widened scenic win dows, and continuous tubular lights. o Bank To Close The Peoples Bank will be closed on Thursday, February 22nd, Wash ington's fllrthday. 0 Fatal Highway | I Accidents M I IN PERSON COUNTY IN lMfl HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY-® DRIVE CAREFULLY! 9 NUMBER 231 Long Memorial Has Ho Fire 1 Sunday Morninl Janitor Failed To Build jfl For Services, Stewarts fB Meet Tonight at 7:45. ■ Long. Memorial Methodist Chufl was unexpectedly without a fire® lerdav morning and as a result til : could be no Sunday School® ; church, neither was there 9 church Sunday night. ■ For some unexplained reason® janitor of the church had sta® r.o lira Saturday night, generally started it, nor had in started one on Sunday The church was cold and tame to Sunday school and were sent back home. fl Sunday was to have day in the history of orial. This was the day for for tile Crusade for Christ officials of ilie church had h£H| me ! i In- church assesmen®Bjlj day. Ii is now probable day will be held SuncM.-'^H Toiiisht . F< binary 19th. aris the church will eineua nc\ meeting at the ot ennimtiee at 7:45. At 'thwfli iiie crusade lor Christ an®B| malic.", will he discussed. f®H -o —-f®9 Sgt. jack Perkins jfl Enjoys Rest After|S| 20 Air Missions 1M ■RV9 joyed a "recess” from ueiSH V fare at an Air Service ConM ”| Rest Center -an English SeafjH sort Hotel where America’slj^^B who provide aerial cover . advancing Allied Armies in any may relax between Hen , T-Sgt. Perkins the r. si lul atmosphere of itHH rational and hostelry and vaii d with every type of ratfHHj al facility. American and ail (in' touches of pirn Hsu b\ the American Rofgflm eo-parlncrs with the Atf® Command in tile operatiH Rial Center. After 9 dayS® back in ins combat to play his part once air battle, supporting man.h across Germany. T-Sgt. Perkins has missions over Nazi-dominaHnH rape. Before entering the®r „ j was mplcyed by the Aikman Corp. Corporal Miller J Expert Driver IMM An Air Service nance Depot in Eftglassj9K§flH Sterling S. Miller of is a driver who gets lIM j through because he knnW«P|li| makes his truck tick. 9® He was recently reWMp(H|H| title at proficiency after**® a special course on tbe-wAS “Ss 'of the big trucks which ’ and gasoline to the FortriiSßl. ill ing Germany. ®H With scores of other I at this Air Service Commiml j||j j nance depot he spent ' hrrfßjj HHf blackboard drill and actual i| moiistvarious learning method* prevent breakdown from,JiHfllS ing" his truck. tfmKM Cpl. Miller is the son Mrs. G. D. Miller of Rout«fl crluke entered the j® ',¥3 iin September, Brothejla services is Pvt. Clarence® stijS Tom Boone Davglp uoke tfo| Tom Boone Davte, jtJ tanner of the AtlenlH inanity, lost his smnhtl] fire last week, it lias beta ilillill to this office. Ho df®| *Jl§§ii lire have been the amount of meat 8 > — To Sell Std —‘—WBm The Missionary' Sode! j|f§ Church will sel|.j Saturday, FetMjM ek at LcnhJ will take place at the inti w g. Clayton.