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if RATION DEADLINES Meats—Red: Q5-S5 expire Mar 31; TS-X 5 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. Health Work Goes Forward Despite Staff Depletions Miss Fisher To Be Succeeded By Miss Davis. Puppet Show Coming. Person Health Department, de spite staff shortages and curtail ments, is carrying on all essential activities, according to Miss Julia Fisher, senior staff nurse, who an nounced today that the “Little Jack Puppet Show," under sponsor ship of the Division of Oral Hy giene, the State Department of Health, will give showings here in public schools on Friday of this week and on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Miss Fisher at the same time confirmed reports that she is re signing her position here on March 17, to enter the Army Nurse Corps as a second lieutenant. She will be succeeded here on a temporary basis by Miss Evelyn Davis, now of Chapel Hill, formerly of the Per son staff. Miss Fisher, who came here over three years ago and has been ac tive in business, church and social circles, will report to Fort George G. Meade, Md., for assignment af ter spending two weeks at her home in Richmond, Va. Miss Davis will not come to Roxboro until April 1, but work of the staff will go on under Drs. O. David Garvin and G. W. Rogers, with clinic assist ance from Misses Lake Allen and Agnes Bowe, of the Chapel Hill unit. Remaining wilh the Roxboro staff arc Mrs. Susan Hendley secretary, W. B. Taylor, sanitarian, and Nurse Elma Katherine Woods, of the Ne gro division, who will carry on daily activities. Regular clinics will be held as usual with staff assist ance from Chapel Hill. The “Little Jack Puppet Show," which comes in alternate years, has as puppeteers Misses Mary •aiW ‘Mar Davis, of Chapel Hill, and is al ways popular. On Friday morning it will be at Bethel Hill and Al lensville and on that afternoon at Bushy Fork. Monday shows will be for East Roxboro and Central school at Central, and at Olive Hill that morning, w'ith afternoon per formance at Mt. Tirzah. while Tuesday shows will be at Negro Schools, Person County Training school and Lee Jeffers in the morn ing, and Olive Hill (Negro) school that afternoon. Miss Fisher in announcing her own resignation expressed regrets at leaving Roxboro, but said she feels that the call of duty at this time is with the Army Nurse Corps. .—o Pvt. T. C. Day Slightly Wounded Pvt. Thomas C. Day, husband of Mrs. Hazel Briggs Day, and son of Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Day of Roxboro. was slightly wounded in action in Germany in February, according to a message received by his wife last week. Pvt. Day entered the army July 1944, received his basic training at Fort Me Clellan, Ala. and went ov erseas in January 1945. Prior to en tering service he was engaged in farming. Pvt. Day was a graduate cf Hurdle Mills high school and King's Business College, Greensboro. He reports that he is getting along fine. Capt. Clark, Nurse Receives Honor Captain Mary Belle Clark, of Virgilina, Va., daughter of Mrs. W. L. Clatk, of Virgilina and sister of Miss Addle Clark, of Duke Hos pital, formerly with Community Hospital here, is chief nurse at 68th Station hospital, in the Cise sec tion of France. In service since 1940 and overseas for two years, Captain Clark a graduate of Me morial Hospital, Danville Va., has recently received an official citation from Gen. C. C. Thrasher, divisional commander. o Tobacco Growers Can Get Fuel Oil Tobacco growers who have re placed, or who, may desire to re place their wood-burning curing • equipment with oil burners may now obtain a fuel oil ration for this purpose, according to an nouncement made today by the Person OPA office, where many inquiries have been received in the past few weeks. Cltisens who have already made application and three who have made verbal Inquiries are being notified of the change in ruling. Oil for curing purposes was at one time unob tainable under OPA regulations. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Terrace School Needed In Area Reports Sanders Formation Will Depend On. Interest Shown The demand for terracing is in creasing here to such an extent that more available farmers, in cluding young men, are needed to terrace farms in Person County, according to Person Farm Agent, H. K. Sanders, who said today that if as many as a class of 10 can be secured, it is proposed to hold a terracing school in Person county to train young men or middle-aged men, to run terrace lines for the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration. This article is written, says Mr. ! Sanders in the hope that those in terested will notify the. County i Farm Agent, who is cooperating ! with the AAA committee in enlist ing applicants for this school. If as many as 10 men show" inter est, the school will be headed by the Vocational Teachers of Per son County, assisted by the Farm Agents and the Soil Conservation 1 Service. The men completing this coarse will be paid a certain sum of money for running lines for the AAA. ano this is considered a splendid oppor ! tunity for men to learn terracing. If interested, notify H. K. San ders, Roxboro, who says that if ! enough interest is shown, more de- ! ; tails regarding the school will be ; announced. o Lt. Lester Has i Fourth Cluster i First Lieutenant Raymond O. 1 Lester, 23, of Woodsdale,; stationed i at an Eighth Air Force Station in : England, bombardier oh a B-17 Flying Fortress, has won a fourth Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for "meritorious achievement" dur ing Eighth Air Force bombing at- : tacks on military and industrial tar- I gets in Nazi Germany. Lt. Lester is a member of the ! 34th Bomb. Group, a unit of the Third Air Division, the division! | cited by the President for its now historic England-Africa shuttle j | bombing of Messerschmitt plants at Regensburg, Germany. The son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Lester, Route 1, Woodsdale, Lt. Les ter was a textile worker before en tering the AAF in January, 1942. He is a graduate of Bethel Hill High School. ■■ '- ; O —1 - J. M. Dempsey Gives Program Roxboro Kiwanians. who last week had a program presented by J. M. Dempsey, resident manager of Plant E, Collins and Aikman, will meet again tenight at Hotel Roxboro for a regular program. Attendance last week was 97 per- ' cent. Pledge to the flag was led by L. C. Liles and the invocation was by the Rev. B. B. Knight. Mr. Demp sey, who had as his topic "Collins and Aikman Fabric From Raw j Wool to Finished Product”, showed a sound-truck film giving all details of actual production in Collins and Aikman mills. —— 0- Market Opens The Person County Home Demon stratlon club curb market, closed for the past several weeks, will re- 1 open for business on Saturday, morning, March 10, at eight-thirty > o’clock in the USO Service Cen ter building here, according to an nouncement made today by Miss j Evelyn Caldwell. Person Home Agent. ( o Miss Lucille Cothran and her mother and brother now have res idence on Academy street, next door to Mrs. W. A. Sergeant. Miss Cothran is manager of the Rose store here, having come to Rox boro from Henderson. o To Richmond Rev. and Mrs. Rufus J. Womble and daughter will leave here Wed nesday for residence in Richmond, Va., where Mr. Womble will serve Epiphany Episcopal church. ■ tea's, W,:'. Courier=®mef( Dies In Action RH!**!* S. SGT. ODELL GATES Mrs. Odell Gales Has Message In Husband's Praise Learns Details Os Death Os Her Husband S. Sgt. Gales In Germany. Mrs, Odell Gates, of Timberlake, ! whose husband. Staff Sergeant Odell Gates, of Hillsboro and, Tim beriake. was reported as killed in ‘ action of Germany, October 23, 1944, | has received a letter from his com manding officer, Coi. Branner P. Purdue, of the 120 Infantry, giving additional details concerning the ! death of Sgt. Gates, who is buried !' in Belgium. Col Purdue writes as follows: "The news has already been brought to you by The Secretary rof War that your husband, Staff Sergeant Wildred O. Gates, was killed in action 23 October, 1944, i iii Germany. “The purpose of this letter is to j express my own deep sympathy for the loss you have suffered and to acquaint you with all of the facts that can be described. I wish it were possible for me to give you all the details surrounding the death of your husband, but I am sure you will understand that cen (sorship regulation will not permit | sucii disclosure at this time. "I can say, however, that your husband died in the line of duty and in the highest tradition of the Array and of his country which he ! served so nobly and well. May I : express the hope that it will be a source of comfort during your hours of sorrow to know that no man could have done more to help 1 bring an early end to this struggle for the cause of human freedom. * "Appropriate religious services were conducted iii your husband's memory by the Protestant Chaplain at his grave in Belgium. Both of ficers and enlisted men of this reg. iment miss him greatly. His cour ageous example in making the su preme sacrifice has given us re newed strength to carry on to com pletion the unfinished tasks before us." -o Washington Secretary Miss Pauline Solomon, of Wash ington, secretary of Lodge No. 2, the American Federation for the Physic ally Handicapped, spent the week end here with her famliy. Miss Sol ;omcn, who has a government posi tion in Washington, says the AFPH is concerned with the rehabilitation !of all types of physically handi i capped persons, including war vet erans. i n Fcx Promoted Fred H. Fox. of Roxboro. now at Great Bend. Kan., with the United States Army, has been promoted from Private First Class to Corporal, according to information received I here today. With the 435 Bomb : Squadron, the 333rd Bomb Group, A. A. F„ his assignment nujnber is | 34438082. o Miss Epps Dies Held last Tuesday at Mayo Chapel were rites for Miss Margaret Epps, 17, of Person County, daughter of Nathan Epps. She died on Monday, after a long illness resulting from a childhood attack of polio. Interment was in the chtirch cemetery. Also surviving are two brothers and three sisters. o Beulah To Meet Sunday Schools of Beulah Asso ciation will meet Tuesday night, March 6 at 7:30 o'clock at the first Baptist Church, Roxboro. Speaker will be Rev. A. F. Stephens of Burl ington. .It is hoped that ail Sun day Schools will be well represent , M .. -u ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Mrs. Buchanan's Mother, Oxford, Dies Suddenly Sudden Heart Attack, Fatal Rites Held In Oxford At Hester Church Mrs. F. S. Beasley, 63, died at her home on Henderson Street exten sion at 4:15 Thursday morning as the result of a heart attack. She was the mother of Mrs. A. B. Buchanan, of Roxboro, bookmo bile clerk for Person County Public Library. The funeral was held at four o'clock Friday afternoon at Hester Baptist Church with the Rev. W. D. Poe, pastor, officiating. Inter ment was in the church cemetery. The body was removed to the home of a son, W. T. Beasley, on Front Street in Oxford. Mrs. Beasley had been in her usual health and hfer sudden death came as a shock to members of the family and friends. She has resid ed in Granville County and Ox ford all her life and joined Hes ter Church in girlhood. Surviving are her husband, F. S. Beasley, five sons, W. T. Beasley and Albert Beasley. Oxford; Lewis Beasley, Washington, D. C., B. F. Beasley, Portsmouth, Va., and Rus sell Beasley. Athol, Mass., two daughters, Mrs. A. B. Buchanan, Roxboro. and Mrs. Ed Averett, Route 1. Oxford, one brother, Jim West, Laurinburg, and a sister, Miss Bell West. Oxford. : New War Loan Starts April 9 Washington. March—The Seventh war loan drive, with a $14,000,000.- 000 goal and calling for record in dividual purchases, will open April 9 and close July 7, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., announced tonight. The over-all goal is the same as that of the sixth drive but half of the amount must come through in dividual purchases. Morgenthau said. Os the $7,000,000,000 individ ual quota. $4,000,000,000 was fixed as the quota for E bond sales as compared with $2,500,000,000 in the last drive. Highest sales to individuals were registered in the fifth war loan drive and amounted to $6,351,000,- 000. The highest previous E bond goal was $3,000,000,000. o— W. S. Wilson, Jr., Has Recognition T-5 William S. Wilson. Jr„ son of Mrs. W. S. Wilson, has received the following commendation from his commanding officer: Capt. Jack C. Lanver. "Since his assignment to this company Tec. 5 William S. Wil son has served in the capacity of armorer and assistant supply N. C. O. He has made a considerable con tribution to the eficiency of the company, by his altertness and effi ciency in arming and equipping the reinforcements. He has displayed a conscientiousness toward his work, that has made him a thoroughly dependable noncommissioned offi cer." Harris Family Other members of the family of Pfc. Gayland Harris, of Virgilina, Va„ and Roxboro, recently listed as missing in action, are his wife and two children. In service about ten months, he has been overseas for six months. ss AlotUf. he Way - few days ago this paper carried an announcement that Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Oakley of Raleigh, former residents of this city, were announcing the birth ol a brand new baby girl. Today we had a letter from Papa Kenneth stating that he survived the ordeal in excellent shape. Stated that cigarettes were hard to get but that he had saved some special for the occasion and that he came thru in fine shape with the help of the cigs. P. S. Dr. John Fitzgerald denies the fact that he has bought a motor such as we described in this paper last week. He said that he would work his garden by hand just like a poor man and that he expected to have as many vegetables as he ever had. However he failed to say how many he had been having in the past. Puppet Show Little Jack’s Puppet Show es the Division of Oral Hygiene of the North Carolina State Beard es Health Travels in Ms own Red Track. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT The causious tread of the Marine in the lead indicates there will be no violation of the traffic regulations shown on the sign erected during the Peleliu campaign. Each of the Leathernecks is carry ing a pistol in his right hand for travel elver “Sniper’s Mile.” 'Pal/ Who Is Lonesome Wants Kind Boss And New, Soft Bed I'm just a little dog. but please, ; do you know of anyone who would ; like to have me? I'm black and white and my name is "Pal." One of my eyes is out and doesn't look very nice, but my mistress did j not mind and I am sure you ! would not. j We lived all alone, my mistress and I. in a big house with beautiful old oakes all -around it. She loved \me dearly, and I loved her. But | now she has gone away and I can't find her. The: door is locked and my box has been put outside. I am still searching all over the neighborhood for her. One night about dusk I saw the top of a head through a lighted window and I thought surely I had found her. I balked and barked, but she didn't come out. I'm so sad and lonely and nobody seems to need me. I just visit around among the neighbors. I heard one of them j say I had more sense than any dog i they had even seen and that I obeyed perfectly. I know I could make some family away from my old environment mighty happy to have me. Just call for me, or drop • a line to “Pal,” at Semora, N. C. Editor's Note: "Pal" was the be i loved friend and constant compan ion of the late Miss Betty Kersey, of Semora. Spokesman for "Pal" and author of the story published above is a neighborhood friend at Semora. o Girls Here Asked To Share New Butner Program Mrs. R. H. Shelton, Camp But i ner social activities chairman here. ■ has received a request that twenty five Roxboro and Person young women attend an informal square dance at a recreation center, Camp Butner on Friday night, March 9. Formal dances are being planned ! for later in the season, according to Mrs. Shelton, who says that need at the present time is for young women who can entertain conveles cents. previously entertainment has been ! on a sharing basis, but wounded and hospitalized soldiers need the com ; panionship of young women who 1 can play games and enter gener ally into the spirit of activities other ' than dancing, according to informa tion received from Camp officials. Young women who are interested in going to Friday's informal square dance are requested to telephone Mrs. Shelton at once. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Traffic Sign On Peleliu Sgt. L. W. Roberts Reported Killed Sgi. Landreth W. Roberts, soil of Mr. and Mrs. E. (/. Roberts of Jonesborc, lias been killed in ac tion in France, relatives in Hurdle Mills were notified Saturday. He had been overseas since June 1944. Sgt. Roberts’ wife is the former Miss Clarice Rimmer of Hurdle j Mills. He has two other brothers in service in the European Thea tre of war. Building & Loan Officials Meet j Stockholders of the Roxboro Building & Loan Association met Saturday in its 23rd annual meet ing. After reading minutes of the | past meeting a resolution was offer |ed by R. L. Harris authorizing a committee to be appointed to draw resolutions on the death of the late 1 secretary. J. S. Walker. Mr. Walker had been secretary of the Associa tion since its organization, and it was the first meeting since organi- I zation that he was not present. V The report for the year was most | satisfactory, and notwithstanding | the large amount of money which j the Association carried at all times, ; owing to the fact that building was i not possible, earnings for the year j were 5.57 per cent. The report also j showed that the Association had j grown largely during the past year, and everything was in first class I condition. The most promising fea | ture was the large number of sub i scribers who are laying by in store ; for the time when they can build, j When peace is declared and the lumber situation is such that build [ ing can get going there will be more building here than ever before in : the history of the City. I All of the old directors, save Mr. [Walker, were re-elected: and the ! board will meet soon to elect a se | cretafy and treasurer to fill the va- I cancy. The board as elected are as follows: R. L. Harris. O. B. Mc- Broom. Preston Satterfield. Dr. A. F. Nichols, George J. Bullock and J. W. Noell. Immediately after the death of Mr. Walker J. C. (Bill) Walker was elected assistant secre tary and treasurer, and will act un til his successor is named. Bill has been acting as assistant for a num ber of year and is well qualified for the position. o Pvt. J. E. Davis Now In Charleston Pvt. Janies E. Davis, of Roxboro, son of Mrs. Johnnie M. Davis, of this city, lias returned from thirty one months of overseas duty in the Eurojjean theatre and is now at Starks General Hospital, Charles ton, S. C„ for treatment. He will soon be transferred to another hos pital. He returned to the States on the U. S. Hospital ship, Blanche F. | Sigmon. o— Now Recovering ( W. C. Webster, 30, of the Devero Davis farm, who on Friday a week ago received a severely burned left hand and other injuries when blast ing powder in a bucket became ig nited, is still a patient at Communi ty Hospital, where he is reported to be improving. He is a son-in-law of Jasper M. Hamlett. —o The U. S. is sending the Allied nations about 10 per oent' of Its 1043 food supply. D. S. Coltrane Says Farm Progress To Depend On Unity Teachers Only Authorized, Says Negro Chairman I The Person and Roxboro Negro Division of the American Red i Cross under the supervision of T. C. Tillman, principal of the Per | son County Training School, got ; its drive underway March Ist. with teachers in the Roxboro district as volunteer helpers, according to Principal Tillman. The volunteers will visit each home, and when the drive ends, they hope to have the name of ev | er.v Negro citizen in Roxboro as a contributor. With so many dl our husbands, brothers, sons, sweethearts and daughters in the service, we can do our share to comfort the families of those who have given their lives and the men who have been wound ed says Tillman, who adds, your contribution to the Red Cross will help in these and many other ways. Principal' Tillman says that it has been reported to him that un authorized solicitors, persons other than teachers have been seeking Red Cross contributions. Sgt. Sanders Has Many Missions Marine Sergeant William A. I Sanders, 20, son Os Mr. and Mrs. ;T. C. Sanders, 1492 Peachtree St., Roxboro, who has returned from the Hscific where lie was a radio gunner witli a torpedo bomber squadron of the Fourth Marine Ai> Wing, based on Guam and in the New Hebrides is now at a Marine Corps Depot, Miramar, Calif. The Sgt. Sanders is credited witti 400 flying hours. He had com pleted 56 missions strafing gun po sitions, airstrips and ammunition dumps at Rota and other Central Pacific areas. Sgt. Sanders attended Boys High School, Atlanta. Ga„ and was cm | ployed by the Office of Price Ad ministration, Atlanta, before en- I listing in January 1943. He was promoted to his present rank in September 1944. ——o —-— W. H. Bradsher Has Promotion Pvt. William H. Bradsher. 22, of i the Fifth Air Force in the Southwest i Pacific, husband of Mrs. Lenora L Bradsher, Route 3, Roxboro, has been promoted to private first class. Bradsher. a truck driver is in one of j the new'est units of the Fifth Air I Force Troop Carriers commanded by Brigadier General Paul H. Prentiss, j Bradsher's unit is working with Air I Freight Forwarding, which is re sponsible for the rapid delivery of supplies and personnel to the Phil ippines and bases in the Southwest Pacific. Prior to joining the army, Pfc. Bradsher was a farmer. He wears the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon with a battle Star for the New Guinea campaign. Mrs. Otto Wade Dies At Home Mrs. Otto Wade, the former Miss Allie Wagner, wife of Otto Wade, of near Antioch church, died at her home this morning after an illness lasting five months. Death was at tributed to complications. Graveside rites will be held Tues day afternoon at three o'clock in the Wade family cemetery by Elder N. D. Teasley. Survivors, in addition to her husband, are a half sister, Mrs. L. A. Gregory, of Timberlake, and a half-brother, L. W. Wagner, of Roxboro, Route three. o Scout Dinner Roxboro and Person district Boy Scouts will have their annual Fath er-Son banquet Friday night at Ho tel Roxboro. Many tickets have al ready been distributed, but both fathers and their Scout sons are urged to cqgnplete arrangements. Tickets may be obtained from C. A. Harris and from various scout masters. With G. L. Allen D. Edwin Featherston, ol this City, retired rural route mail-carrier, has accepted a position with the G. L. Allen Mutual Insurance agency. 0 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1045 HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY! | Assistant Commissioner Os | Agriculture Delivers In spiring Address. "The war has taught farmers the value of full-time employment,” asserted D. S. Coltrane, of Raleigh, assistant State Commissioner of Agriculture, who on Thursday night ' spoke at Roxboro Rotary club as ! guest of Thomas R. Bennett and I presented an analysis of postwar | farm production problems, with a j chief emphasis on the prosperity of all. based on a continuation of the greater cooperation between farmers 1 and industrial workers that is now being noticed. Mr. Coltrane, a native of Ran dolph county. but for many years a leading figure in State farming circles, said that farm production lias been much greater in the U. S. in this war than in the last, but that "Agriculture will feel the ef fects of economic readjustment soon unless farmers continue to apply present production methods.” Standards of living have nevei been too high among farmers, ae cording to Coltrans, who cited as a glaring example the small number of farms having telephone service, a condition particularly true In Person County. In reviewing State progress in farming, the Assistant Commissioner paid particular tri bute to forward looking attitudes shown by legislatures of the past six to seven years, especially the current Assembly. "What kind of an America do we want?" asked Mr. Coltrane in ' closing, and giving for his own op ! inion that the future looks good, provided we as citizens are as alert in peacetime as we are in war.” Next club program will be by R. H. Gates, and the next by Claude Harris. * lAesiding at the session which was held at Hotel Roxboro was Fred Long, club presideht. Mr. Coltrane, who spoke for about half an hour, went back to Ra leigh that night. Also here was a Mr. Ludlow. Club members agreed to sponsor a city-wide clothing drive for overseas civilians. o County Session s On Lumber May Be Needed Here i • ——- | H. K. Sanders, Person Farm Agent, who is interested in coop erating with local farmers in pro grams to aid in the production of lumber and pulpwood, has receiv ed from State officials a report of a conference called last month by Gov. R. Gregg Cherry, in Raleigh, which, according to Mr. Sanders, should be of interest in the Per son area, where a number of saw mills and lumber plants are in op eration and where a county con ference of interested citizens is ex pected to be called. That report, prefaced by an op ening paragraph with the calling lof the State Conference and the : results found there, reads as fol -1 lows: ! Governor R. Gregg Cherry, r#» , cognizing the urgent, need of for [ est products to meet the war de -1 mands, and at the request of the , War Production Board and indus ■ try representatives, held last month j a conference of lumbermen, pulp , and paper manufacturers, and rep -1 resentatives of agricultural and for i estry agencies and the various war j activities groups. The conference checked the record of progress Ip North Carolina and found that we have done remarkably well in sup-, plying lumber and pulpwood, but at the same time believes that we can do more in helping to meet urgent needs. Goals for the first six months of 1945 call for North Carolina to prqt I duce 450.000 cords of pulpwood and 850.000,000 board feet of lumber bj July 1. The conference chairman, Dr. I. O. Schaub, Director of Extension at State College, has appointed a> committee of industry representa -4 Turn to page 8 please) O ■ - ", ■' ■yi Red Cross Today Business district hed Cross can vassers are out working today to- :i ward the local goal of SI,MO. Only official report comes from the Rial Gifts committee headed Mr George W. Kane, which began ; work last week «MLnew has on - gtjSj NUMBER 27