if RATION DEADLINES
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Tb-XB expire Apr. 28; Y5-Z5 and
A2-D2 expire June 2.
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expire M 11; C2-G2 expire Apr.
28; H2-M* < -pire June 2.
VOL. LXIV.
G-1. Bill Program
Helpful Now, Says
Person Director
Claude Luquire Discusses Bill
At Agency Session. Dr.
Winston Will Come.
Dr. Ellen Black Winston, of Ra
leigh, State Commissioner of Public
Welfare, will pay her first official
visit to Roxboro on Thursday night,
March 29, and will speak at a city
wide civic club meeting under spon
sorship of the Person County Coun
cil of Social agencies, according to
announcement made yesterday by
the Agency Council program chair
man, Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff.
Speaker at February luncheon
meeting of the Agency Council at
Hotel Roxboro yesterday was Claude
Luquire, of the Roxboro office of the
U. S. Employment service, who dis
cussed in open forum form the pro
visions of the Service Men’s Re
adjustment Act, better known as
the "G. I. Bill of Rights”.
Presiding at the session was the
ReV. Rufus J. Womble, chairman,
who next week will leave for Rich
mond, Va., where he will be rector
of Epiphany Episcopal church. Also
at the luncheon was Mrs. Womble,
who shared with her husband in
tributes received from W. Wallace
Woods on behalf of the Agency
Council. '
Mr. Luquire, who. in discussing
the G. I. Bill had the assistance of
Mr. Woods and of Thomas J. Shaw,
Jr., Agency vice-chairman, as ques
tioners, said that placement and
compensation are now chief aspects
of administration under the Bill,
which is applicable both to men and
women discharged from military
service. So far only one application
has been made for G. I. assistance
by a discharged Person veteran, ac
cording to Mr. Luquire.
Considerable discussion was pre
cipitated by questions from Gordon
C. Hunter, of Peoples Rank, {ega rd
■*tng difficultiffl~TJaHKS ,
ing in working out loans for veter
ans under present rules of the G. I.
Bill, but Mr. Luquire expressed him
self as hopeful that the discussed
details will be worked out.
The U. S. Employment service, ac
cording to Mr. Luquire, will be glad
to render all Bill of Rights services
possible under the regulations im
j posed. The Bill is applicable to all
* veterans who have had as much as
90 days in service and who have
received proper discharges. An im
portant feature of the Bill is the
Education provision under which
veterans, not older than 25 at time
of beginning of service, can secure
financial assistance and loans for
college or vocational training.
Dr. Winston, next speaker, will
appear, at a meeting of combined
• memberships of the Agency Council,
the Kiwanis, Rotary and Business
and Professional clubs.
Cpl. Blackwell
Ends Course
Cpl. Richard Blackwell, son of
Mrs. Irene .Blackwell of Roxboro.
has recently completed a course as
a Film Projectionist at the Post
Film Library, Indiantown Gap Mil
itary Reservation, Pa.
The course is designed to train
operators for the Army Film Train
ing Program.
Cpl. Blackwell is a former resi
dent of Baltimore, Md.
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Sgt. James Woody
Wounded Twice
Sgt. James Woody, son-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. King, of Rox
boro, wounded several months ago
in the European theatre, has re
ceived a second wound recently,
but is getting along well, according
to Pfc. Robert M. (Tiny) Long, Jr„
who writes that he has seen him
in a hospital and has given him
several copies of the Courier-Times.
Pfc. Long’s letter was sent to his
father, R. M. Long, Sr.
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No More, No More
The night clnb and theatre
black-out or midnight curfew,
which went, into effect nationally
on Monday, hits Roxboro in that
no more week-end mid-night
shows can be given in movie thea
tres, according to O. Teague Kir
by, manager and owner of the
Palace and Doily Madison,
expects to abide by the curfew
ruling as long as it is in effect
Roxboro has no night clubs, but
such cases or other places of
amusement as it does have de not
come under the curfew since they
have for many months been dos
ing long before mid-nigh*-
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J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Pfc. Allen Home,
Pays Tribute
To Red Cross
Jeep Driver In France, Where
He Was Wounded, Has
Months In Hospital.
Now at home for his first visit
since his arrival in the United
States on Christmas eve, is Pfc.
Richard H. Allen, 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Allen, of Roxboro,
who received a hip wound at Vire.
France, near St. Lo, several months
ago and was first sent to a hos
pital in England, where he spent !
five months before being sent to !
Kennedy General Hospital, Mem- :
phis, Tenn., where he is now sta- :
tioned. He was wounded in Au
gust.
Pfc. Allen, formerly with West
ern Union and Service Dry Clean
ers, here, spent twelve months in
France and Holland and England,
where he was a Jeep driver. Like i
many other wounded soldiers he
has highest praise for the Red Cross t
which he says is doing a good job,
especially In hospitals in England.
Glad to be home, Pfc. Allen, who
expects to be here 30 days, says
he will return to Kennedy hospital,
where a second operation will be 1
performed on his hip. Naturally,
he finds life today in Roxboro very
quiet, with most of his friends
away in service. In all his months
overseas he saw no men from Rox
boro. Nearest he came to it was
finding Dolian Long's name on a
hospital register in England, but
by that time Mr. Long had re
tUiieUl , uiuty. .
Pfc. Allen has two battle stars
for service in France and Holland,
the Purple Heart and a good con
duct ribbon. He entered the Army
about a year and a half ago.
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One Veteran And
Six Widow? Get
Pension Checks
One Confederate veteran, Gen. j
W. F. Reade, of Mt. Tirzah, State ;
Commander, and six widows of vet
erans in Person County are still
receiving Veterans checks, accord
ing to R. A. Bullock, assistant clerk
of Superior Court, who is charged
with mailing out the checks and
did so yesterday for March allot
ments. The widows receiving them i
are Mrs. Eunice Wagstaff, Leasburg,
Mrs. Irene Chandler, Route 2, Mrs.
Laura B. Dixon, Mrs. Dora Dun
can, Mrs. Fannie H. Long, all of
Route 3, and Mrs. S. C. Rice, Route
1.
All of the above live on Roxboro
routes, except Mrs. Wagstaff. One
other widow, Mrs. Molly G. Farmer, I
formerly of Roxboro, died last
month in Danville, Va.
W. A. Gravitte, Jr.
In California
Mrs. Geraldine M. Gravitte has
received word that her husband,
William A. Gravitte. Jr. F.l-c of the
U. S. Navy, has just arrived in San
Pedro, Calif. Fireman Gravitte has
been at sea since last October, serv
ing aboard a supply ship, and has
seen action In the Philippines and
several other Pacific Islands. He ex
pects his stay in the states to be
very brief.
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Bobby Long Has
Ear Operation
Bobby Long, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hassell Long, of this City, who on
Tuesday underwent an ear opera
tion at McPherson hospital, Dur
ham, is expected to return to his
home here tomorrow. Student at
Roxboro high school, young Mr.
Long has for the past several
months acted as sports reporter of
events at the school for the Courier-
Times. He has been 111 for a week
or more.
Slightly Wounded
Pvt. Julian L. Oakley was slightly
wounded February 6th in Germany,
according to a message received
from the War Department by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Oakley,
of Rougemont. He entered the army
in June 1944 and went overseas in
December.
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HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Missing In Action
s
BUNNIE W. BLALOCK
Pvt. Bunnie W. Blalock, 18,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Bla
lock, of Surl, has been missing in
action in Belgium since January
Xsth, according to an official
message received here January
25th. Pvt. Blalock, who was with
an infantry unit, received his
basic training at Fort McClellan,
Ala. He is a brother of the late
Pfc. Coy Blalock who was killed in
; action in Italy in May 1944.
Person's Negro
Four-H Groups
Plan Meeting
R. E. Jones, Os Greensboro,
Will He Chief Speaker At
Gathering.
March 3rd through March 11th
: is national 4-H Mobilization week,
! during which time an especial in
! tensifieation of Negro 4-H club work
in Person County will be sought,
according to announcement made
loday by two adult leaders. C. J.
Fold and Miss Annie Mae Tiifek,
j Person Negro county and home
i agents.
A campaign here will begin on
j March 5. and will conclude with a
County-Wide mobilization program
to be held at Person County Train
i ing Schcol, Friday, March 9, at 1:40
P. M. R. E. Jones, State Agent and
4-H Club Specialist of A. and T.
College. Greensboro, will be main
speaker and neighborhood leaders
, and other interested persons are
! asked to attend.
According to the 1940 census there
! are 2,453 Negro boys and girls in
Person County, rural and urban,
between the ages of 10 and 20. Due
to war conditions the number has
been reduced considerably in the
upper bracket, but there is still a
| large number of boys and girls of
! club age who are not listed in the
16 4-H clubs in the county.
Every effort will be made during
the National 4-H Club period to in
crease the number of Negro 4-H
Club members here from 739 in
1944, to at least 1,000 in 1945. To do
I this is needed the cooperation of
the 167 neighborhood and 4-H club
I leaders in the 31 neighborhoods in
! Person County, including teachers,
principals, ministers, parents and
4-H club members themselves.
Natidal 4-H Club Week will play
a new and very important part in
strengthening the 4-H war pro
grams, according to Agent Ford.
The war tempo has up. The
production of war materials is on
the increase, and the need for fight
ers on all war fronts looms up larg
er than ever before. As a result
more of our formerly deferred farm
workers are being drafted for the
armed forces. Fewer are being left
;on the farms to raise the food that
lis as badly needed now as at any
j time heretofore. This critical situa
! tion presents a supreme challenge
; to the remaining members of every
farm family. In all this, the part
that every 4-H Club member will
necessarily have to play takes on a
new significance.
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Interesting Series
Os Sermons
Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, Pastor of
the Roxboro First Baptist Church,
is conducting a series of sermons at
the evening service on characters
that played a vital part In events
leading up to the Crucifixion of
Christ. The first of this series was
cn Peter, the second on Judas, and
the third, which he will deliver next
Sunday evening at the 7:30 service
will be on Caiaphas. '
This service promises to be most
interesting and instructive, judging
by the first two of the series, and
we are sure the church going people
will enjoy them. You are cordially
invited to attend these services.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Three Os Person's
Soldiers Speak Up
For Red Cross Job
.Praise for work of the American
Red Cross, the Person fund drive
for which will begin next Sunday,
March 4, with a quota of $8,900, is
voiced today by three Roxboro and
Person soldiers, one of whom writes
from Italy and two of whom, recent
ly returned from overseas action,
have expressed their praise and ap
preciation in personal interviews.
One of the two returnees Is tall
and slender Dallas Briggs, of Hurdle
Mills, who has now returned to a
Florida rest camp or hospital, but
who has been visiting his people
here after a stay in France, especial
ly in Normandy hedge-rows during
the Invasion period, where, as he
says, the “Red Cross did a wonder
i ful job, right up in the thick of
fighting”.
Other man who is back and who
wants to put in his word for the
Red Cross program is Tech. Sgt.
! Floyd E. Tuck, of Longhurst and
i Danville. Va., wounded in the left
| hip after seeing action for three
years, mostly in Africa. Sicily and
France, and now stationed at Camp
Butner hospital, where he Is receiv
ing treatment and is allowed brief
visits to Longhurst where his wife
lives.
Elwood Shotwell
Will Be Honored
Pfc. Elwood Shotwell, 22, son of
1 Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Shotwell, of
| Woodsdale, who was reported as
, killed in action in France on Oc
tober 9, 1944, will be honored Sun
day with a memorial service to be
held at Mill Creek Raptist church,
according to aftti&incifhent made
today by the pastor, the Rev. J. F.
i Funderburk.
l Exercises are scheduled to take
placq at the morning service at
eleven o'clock, with the Rev. Mr.
Funderburk as speaker. Special
music by the choir and the blowing
of taps by two Boy Scouts from
i Roxboro will be features of the
| rites, which will be kept to a sim-
Short Story
Short story from two Person
prisoners of war, both in Ger
many: “Darling, see the Red
Cross at home concerning my
address and thank them for the
wonderful things they are doing
over here for prisoners of war”—
Tech. Sgt. Bealer Moore, to his
wife; "The Red Cross gives os
enough food and clothing"—
William T. (Bill) Clayton, to his
mother, Mrs. J. M. Clayton. Rox
boro. Route 2.
The Person Red Cross drive be
gins here Sunday, with a quota of
$8,900.
Pvt. Suitt Hurt
In German Area
Pvt. Walter Thomas Suitt. Jr., ol
Roxboro, was slightly wounded in
action in Germany on February 3,
according to a message received here
by his wife, Mrs. Elma Holt Suitt.
His sister. Miss Pauline Suitt, lives
in Norfolk. Va.
Pvt. Suitt. 19, In service about six
months, has been overseas since the
first of January. He was formerly
with Longhurst mills. He recently
met Roy Bohanon, who has been
overseas for twelve months.
FIRST AID WILL BE OFFERED
SECOND TIME IN ROXBORO
A Red Cross First Aid course, first
to be given in Roxboro since 1942.
is scheduled to begin here on March
19, and will continue for more than
a week at Roxboro USO Service
Center, according to announcement
made today by Fred Long, local
First Aid chairman.
A trained Instructor from nation
al headquarters of the American
Red Cross will be here to give in
struction and it is hoped that many
citizens, especially public school
teachers and mill employees, will
enroll for the course. Around sev
enty-five persons here took the
1942 course and many certificates
were awarded.
It Is planned that Instruction will
be given five nkhts each week, and
the Instructor xTexpected to be here
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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1945 $2.50 PEII YEAR IN ADVANCE
Sen of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Tuck,
of Danville, Sgt. Tuck says with 1
feeling, "The Red Cross Is tops and !
I mean It. They are doing a fine
job. all they can, and all of us at
home ought to help as much as we
can by giving to the cause, the work
cf which is as apparent at Camp
Butner hospital as it is overseas.”
Direct testimony from the Italian
front comes from Pfc. Robert M.
(Tiny) Long. Jr., of the medical
corps with an evacuation hospital,
who writes to a Roxboro friend:
“We have recreation room here
and a girl. There were two, but one
has gene. I think, probably because
she was ill. They visit the patients’
and give them reading material and
other things for amusement, also,,
things to eat—they are doing a good |
job.
We (in the hospital) don’t get
hot doughnuts very often, but we
did have some extra girls who came i
sometime ago and gave us dough- l
nuts at chow. They were certainly
good, too . . . The combat soldiers
got them more often and I am glad
of that. I would rather they get j
them, instead of us, for we “rear 1
echelons" have hot food every meal.”
pie pattern in conformity with
wishes of the family.
Pfc. Shotwell was a brother of
Sam Shotwell. coach at Bethel Hill
high school and well-known in
Person sports circles, who is him
self a veteran of World War II
, and was wounded in Sicily, where
’ he iost a hand in a grenade explo
| sion. Also surviving are a number
of other brothers and sisters.
Rites for Pfc. Shotwell will con
, tinue a series of such exercises at
Mill Creek church, which began
over a year ago with services for
Pfc. Lewell T. Huff, officially list
ed as of today as the first Person
native to be killed In action in the
present war.
Gayland Harris
Listed Missing
I ”
I Former Bethel Hill Student
Missing After Fighting In
Patton’s Third Army.
| Pfc. Gayland Harris, 22, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harris, of Vir
gilina, Va., Route ”, Person County.
1 has been reported as missing in ac-
Ition as of February 9. in Germany,
: according to a War Department
, message received here Monday as
! ternbon.
1 With General George C. Patton's
Third Army, Pfc. Harris had been
overseas about three months and in
service six months.
A brother. Pfc. Newman Harris, is
in England. Three other brothers
and five sisters live In and near
Roxboro.
Pfc. Gayland Harris was with
; Longhurst Mills before entering the
] Army. He attended Bethel Hill high
I school.
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■ j The first certain reference to the
burning of mineral coal was made
iby the Greek philosopher, Theo
phratus, about 300 B. C.
for two weeks. The First Aid chair
man here points out that certificates
must be renewed every two years,
this being a war-time extension ov
er the previous one year rule. It Is
also thought that numbers of per
sons who have never taken the
course will wish to do so, since ac
cidents are so much more prevalent
, tinder war-time working conditions.
Letters are being mailed out to
school principals and to many
teachers and other Interested clt
, Izens. In the letters are application
forms for the training course and
: all recipients are requested to turn
; them in as soon as possible.
Citizens who do not receive letters
of application, but who are interest
ed in enrolling for the course may
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Killed In Action
flki
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ROYAL P. TODD
Further Details
Received Dealing
With Sgt. Todd
Son Os Mrs. N. .1. Todd, Killed
Over Vienna, Had Won
Many Decorations.
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Sgt. Royal P. Todd, 22, son of
| Mrs. N. J. Todd and the late Rev.
|N. J. Todd, route .2, Roxboro, was
killed in action, September 10, 1944.
over Vienna, Austria. He was pre
viously reported as missing in ac
tion on the same date.
Sgt. Todd was a waist gunner on
a B-17 and was or. his 20th mission
when his plane was shot do" .. He
had been over seas only 23 days and
during this time won the President
ial Citation Unit, the Air Medal, 3
oak leaf clusters and the Purple
’ heart.
He entered the army May 17,
11943 and went overseas in August
1 1944.
Sgt.'Todd received his education
,at Allensville school and Bethel
Hill high school. Graduated in the
spring of 1940, he was employed at
Collins and Aikman, plant E, at the
| time of his induction into the army,
j Other members of the family in
; addition to his mother, are one
brother, N. J. Todd, Jr., who has
recently entered the Navy and will
-leave Monday, and eight sisters,
Mrs. Earl W. Gentry, route 2. Rox
boro. Mrs. J. D. Hicks, Kannapolis.
Mrs. Luther V. Dixon, Roxboro, and
Misses Ellen, Nancy Nora. Sallie,
Anne, and Geneva Todd of Roxboro.
and his grandmother. Mrs. L. W.
Todd, who lives with Mrs. N. J.
Todd.
Message that Sgt. Todd had been
j killed was received here on Mon
day, February 15, and a brief an
nouncement of his death was car
ried in the Courier-Times of that
date.
Mrs. E. T. Chandler
Dies At Home
Near Surl Church
Held yesterday at Surl Church
! were rites for Mrs. Ed T. Chandler,
| 75, of Surl, who died Tuesday morn
ing at her home from a stroke of
\ paralysis alter an illness lasting five
i years.
Funeral was conducted at two
o’clock at Surl Primitive Baptist
. church of which she had for forty
] years been a member. Interment
was in the church cemetery. Rites
were in charge of Eldefrs L. P.
Martin and N. D. Teasley.
Survivors include: her husband,
of the home, a daughter, Mrs. Coy
Kirk, of Timberlake, and two sons.
E. T.. Chandler, Jr., of Raleigh, and
E. J. Chaudler of Washington, N. C.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. 1
Carey Brooks, of Durham, and two
I half sisters, Mrs. Bunnie Lunsford,
| of Timberlake, and Mrs. B. R. Dun
can, of Roxboro. and thirteen grand- j
children.
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Sgt. Wagstaff Hag
Filipino Son
God-father to a sixteen year-old i
Filipino boy is Sgt. T. C. Wagstaff.
of Roxboro, a former Courier editor,
now stationed in the Manila area.
Sgt. Wagstaff writes that Japanese
military equipment, particularly
motorized units, is mostly of Ameri
can make, but in bad condition be
cause of lack of oil and gasoline.
Substitute oils of vegetable types
are being used by them.
Sgt. Wagstaff says his “god-son”
speaks English, but is very shy with
strangers. Home on leave in Rox
boro is Sgt. Wagstgff's brother, Rob
ert 'McO. Wagstaff, of the United
States Navy, Bainbridge, Md.
NEW SCHOOL SITE
APPROVED BY
DISTRICT BOARD
Mrs. Cherry Has
Appeal For
Army Nurses
Raleigh, Feb. 28.—Mrs. R. Gregg
Cherry, wife of the Governor, today
asked all eligible North Carolina
women to consider seriously the
service they might render as medical
and surgical technicians in Army
general hospitals now receiving over
30,000 wounded and ill men month
ly from foreign battlefronts.
Mrs. Cherry issued her appeal in
connection with the current special
campaign of the Women’s Army
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George Ball To
Be Here Each
Week For Navy
Chief Petty Officer George Ball,
of Burlington, with Navy Recruit
ing office. Greensboro, is to be in
Roxboro each Tuesday at Person
Court House for the purpose of en
listing young men of 17 in the Navy.
All boys interested are requested to
bring one of their parents with
them in order that consent papers
may be signed. They are also ask
ed to have with them their birth
certificates.
Officer Ball was here for the first
time this past Tuesday, when he
secured a number of enlistments.
All Person youths who are interest
ed are requested to see him, it being
reported that many have hitherto
been going to Danville, Va., or to
; Raleigh.
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Two Person Men
Share In Awards
T-5 Loyd W. Averette. son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Averette, of Route
2, Roxboro and Cpl. Samuel E. Yar
boro, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G.
Yarboro. of Route 3, Roxboro, are
members of the Engineer Aviation
regiment which was awarded the
Meritorious Service Unit Plaque this
week, according to information re
ceived here.
Averette’s and Yarboro's organi
zation was awarded the plaque for
I superior performance of duty under
exceptionally difficult circum
stances. This included the entire
construction of the airfield there,
j administration building, base and
operations headquarters, runways,
all camp barracks, recreational cent
ers. roadways, dry cleaning and
'laundry plants, a post exchange and
an intricate job on drainage.
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Sgt. James Shell
Receives Award
Mrs. James Shell, of Roxboro, has
received the Purple Heart awarded
her husband. Sgt. James A. Shell,
who was slightly wounded in Ger
many on December 16. 1944.
Sgt. Shell is a member of the 78th
Lightning Division, formerly station
ed at Camp Butner and has served
in the European theatre of war for
the past four months. He writes his
wife that he Is seeing plenty of ac
tion and living in pill boxes.
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Queer Month
The month just ended. February,
was a peculiar month in 1866, ac
cording to W. J. Snipes, of Hurdle
Mills, who says that February in
that year had no full moon, al
though both January and March
had two each. This oddity of the
calendar wdll not occur again for
2.500.000 years and had not hap
pened since creation until 1866, ac
cording to Mr. Snipes, who also
observes that February 1920 had
five Sundays.
On Baptist Hour
Hon. Walter F. George, United
States Senator from Georgia, will
be speaker on the Baptist Hour
next Sunday morning, March 4th,
according to S. F. Love, Director of
the Radio Committee, S. B. C., At
lanta. Ga.
Senator George, leader in the
United States Senate for twenty
yean. Chairman of the Foreign Re
lations Committee, a deacon in the
First Baptist Church of Vienna,
Georgia and a Christian scholar,
will speak on “The Foundations of
Freedom.”
0 Fatal Hb'gh way
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1845
HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
District Board Wants Opin
ions From Interested
Citizens.
Plans of the postwar variety are
being discussed by Roxboro Dis
trict School board for a new
twelve-room grammar grade betid
ing across the street from Roxboro
high school on High School Drive
on the W. H. Long estate property
adjoining the W. H. Adair resi
dence and extending from there to
the city limits, it was learned today
from Person Superintendent R. B.
Griffin following a meeting of the
-school board, members of which
' have inspected the proposed new
site.
The District Board, according to
I Mr. Griffin, is interested in obtain
ing public reaction to selection of
the Long property as a site and
i will welcome an expression of opln
| ion from interested citizens. Deal
| for the site has not been closed but
| the property has been inspected and
i approved by two District Board
! members, C. A. Harris, who is
J chairman, and R. M. Spencer.
| Two other members, R. d. Bum-
I pass and J. W. Green, were out of
; the city at the time of the Board's
j inspection tour, which was also
missed by the other Board mem
■ ber. Mrs. Sam Byrd Winstead, but
the Board in giving tentative con
sideration to the Long site has had
i the advice and consultation of
Watts Carr, of Durham, who is
to bq architect for the new build
| ing. and of George W. Kane, E. E.
Bradslier, Person School Board
j member, J. L. Hester, District Su
: pervising principal, and Mr. Griffin,
\ all of whom appear to be In favor
of the Long site.
The new building will also have
a cafeteria and an auditorium and
will take care of many pupils in
grades five, six, seven and eight,
relieving crowded conditions at Rox
i boro hilh School and at Central
.Grammar schqol. There are six
| hundred or more pupils in Rox
boro district at the present time
I who come in grade limits proposed
to be cared for in the new building.
The W. H. Long estate property
extends from High School Drive
back to what is known as the Old
Olive Hill road.
o
Miss Winstead
Has Honor Os
Keeping Record
Miss Eleanor Winstead, daughter
of Mayor and Mrs. S. G. Winstead,
of this city, who on Saturday grad
uated from the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the sev
enth in her immediate family to
receive her degree there. Her work
was completed on schedule, despite
a recent illness which caused her
to be absent from classes for about
a month. Mayor and Mrs. Winstead
| have four sons and four daughters,
j all of whom have finished at Chap
!el Hill with one exception*
That exception is Sgt. Barden
Winstead, now in France, where he
says he is up to his waist in mud.
Sgt. Winstead's education, was of
course interrupted by the war.
Description of his life in France
was received here this week by his
cousin, J. S. Merritt, editor of the
Courier-Times, in a two-part V-
Maii letter, both parts arriving the
same day. chief emphasis of this
continued story was on the afore
mentioned mud and on the art of
using sleeping bags.
O ,
i Bushy Fork To
Have PTA Meet 1
Regular meeting of the Bushy
Fork P. T A. will be held March
Bth at 7:45 o’clock with the execu
tive meeting at 7:30 o'clock. At this
meeting the nominating committee
will be appointed and a good pro
gram is planned. All chairmen are
i asked to bring their final reports
for the year’s work.
Ail parents and friends are urged
to attend. The attendance banner
and $1 will be given to the grade
having the most parents present,
i 0
Heavy Docket
Twenty-six cases In a heavy
docket in Person Recorder’s Cmt .
were disposed of Tuesday hefts*
Judge F. O, Carver, wha grouted '
a number of continuances. One
of the most complicated eases was
that of Guy Oscar Haekney,
charged with drunken driving,
driving and unlawful poHMiien.
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