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PAGE FOUR f COURIER - TIMES Roxboro, North Carolina f PUBLISHED MONDAY AND" THURSDAY BY Courier-Times Publishing Company The Roxboro Courier Established 1881 > The Person County Times Established 1929 3. W. Noell Editor J. S. Merritt and Thos. J. Shaw, Jr Associates M. C. Clayton Adv. Manager D. R. Taylor, In Service With U. S. Navy 11 year, Out of State $3.00 1 year ', $2.50 ■ 6 months $1.40 * 3 months 75 ADVERTISING RATES Display Ads, 49 Cents Per Inch Reading Notices, 10 Cents Per Line ( The Editors Are Not Responsible for Views Expressed By Correspondents ‘> Entered at The Post Office at Roxboro, N. C. As Second Class Matter r ~» Carolina | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945 It Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It, hut the COURIER-TIMES says it because it Is true. FOR WHAT WE HAVE i Announced today, for reasons clearly stat ed in the news article concerned, is an im pending change in the administration of iCommunity hospital. The announcement ‘comes from the hospital’s Board of Directors, Which met Saturday and accepted with re gret the resignation of Mrs. Sarah Gran Allen, supervisor and superintendent. The Board at the same time secured the services of Allvn S. Norton, who will succeed Mrs. Allen as hospital manager. In revealing these changes in administra-1 tion the Board of Directors of Community | hospital is making it clear that Community | hospital, like alj other institutions of similar j standing, has had and is still having difficul ties of operation, chiefly because of the shortage of nurses. Efficient management is ’a problem, too, but the hospital has had that and it is to be hoped will continue to have it. The statement from the Board of Directors is clear enough, but with, perhaps, a becom ing modesty, it does not go far enough, name ly that Roxboro is fortunate in having a hos pital and should go to all ends of trouble to: with it. Other sections of the State are not so for- j .tunate, as witness a large paid advertisement a recent issue of the News and Observer •in which the General Assembly is called up ‘on to push the State hospital program more jstrongly for the benefit of areas without hos pital facilities. Signer of that advertisement .is a Mr. Basnight, representing the Chowan of three counties, including Bertie land Chowan, that are completely without fhospital facilities except as provided in the neighboring state of Virginia. Citizens from SVIr. Basnight’s area are ready to build a hos- j »pital and have funds for it. But they do not ’ Snow have a hospital, although they see the meed for one. r We hope that Roxboro and Person folks rwill be as much concerned to appreciate the lone they have. ! 0 l THE FATHER AND SON BANQUET IS AT HAND \ On Friday night, tomorrow, at Hotel Rox .boro, slightly later in the season than usual, and sons of the Person Boy Scout [district will have their annual get-together. It is an important event, one looked forward from year to year. Call it a banquet, or a 'dinner in the evening, or what you will, there ;is more to it than food and fun. And the boys are quite naturally anxious to have j :their fathers there with them. In fact, the •boy whose “Dad” cannot be with him —unless there is a mighty good reason—feels out of i it, even though an “adopted father” does his •-best to fill in. There is really no need to boost the father and son Scout night program here. It has a reputation and has had for many years, main ly because the men and boys who plan it are enthusiastic believers in the benefits of get- L ting together. And while we are at it, this is as good a place as any to say that the job of t seeing Friday night's program through is falling upon C. A. Harris, who ha 3 voluntari ally and deliberately done the work for years just because he likes it, and is this year not to' be stopped by waiter shortages, food limi tations, or what have you. Under such determination, the least that other fathers here can do is to come on out and join their sons at Friday’s affair. It is the one time of the year when fatherly obli gations cannot well be side-stepped in Rox boro’s Scouting circles. o [ THE GIRLS HAVE A DIFFERENT JOB [ For many months, over a period of % two * years, ever since Camp Butner began opera tion, Roxboro young women have been going ito parties, including dances and other social levents at the Camp. Main emphasis has been the dances, Quite properly chaperoned by a committee of Roxboro WOmed* nKa’SM ’ “by Mrs. R. H. Shelton, who is still chairman and through whom reservations can be made, but as Mrs. Shelton has announced, there is a radical departure, a new and different turn to the job that goes with entertainment pro grams at Butner, one that will be in effect on this Friday night, when twenty-five Rox boro and Person girls are being asked to as sist at a square dance to be given for con valescent and hospitalized soldiers. The answer to the new problem in enter tainment lies in the last few words of the last sentence above. Many of the soldiers who are to be guests have not recovered to the extent that they can enjoy round dances. Jitterbug is out. Even the waltz can be com plicated. The easier routine of square dancing may be possible, perhaps, with not quite so much of athletic vim as our own high school students have been putting into it on Satur day nights. Parties at Butner are going on, in other words, but the burden of entertain ment is more squarely on the young women, who may be called upon for tact and patience in leading a wounded veteran back to the all but forgotten graces of social life. The vet eran himself will be the last to ask for any special consideration. He does not want it, which is one reason why the approach must now have more of subtlety in it. It has been easy to go to the average Camp Butner dance. From now on, for a while at least, the girls are going to have the harder task of quick adaptability to meet unusual situations and circumstances. Probably, the job will not be so much fun, but it is much more important and will be greatly appreciat ed by the boys. And what is Said here may | j apply equally as well to some instances with j I the USO Service Center programs in Rox jboro, since many of the visitors there are | apt to be from the same groups at Camp j Butner, or elsewhere. o GEORGIA JOKE Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sanders, of this City, and their Roxboro kinsfolks, the McWhort ers, are originally from Georgia, from one j of those small towns near the red clay of j ! their small Washington, but T. C. and his wife lived for some . j coming to Roxboro. In -\tlai; | Ponce De Leon street, or uvct...qe. .; I thing, but when they came to Rdxbuio they got a house on Peachtree street, close to their McWhorter relatives, but no relation to the famous Peachtree street in Atlanta. The War Department does noUknow about Peachtree street in Roxboro, on which there are only two or three houses and all of them unnumbered, quite in contrast to the multi tude on Atlanta’s stately street of the same name. As we have said, the War Department | does not know all this, but Marine Sergeant i William A. Sanders, son of the T. C. Sanders jand expected here shortly front a stay of months overseas in the Pacific area, started as a joke a Peachtree street number in Rox boro—l492—that is in Army files and was used here Monday in the Courier-Times in a War Department story concerning the fact that Sgt. Sanders is now at Miramar. Calif. First to spot that 1492 in the Courier- Times was editor J. W. Noell, who wanted an explanation. This is it, and in the process the. Sanders are getting one, too, where the wholq story came from. o - WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING PIECE DE RESISTANCE Richmond News-Leader „ t ;i A menu of the incomparable “loved aria lost” restaurant of the lamented Voison, Rue St. Honore, Paris, is reproduced in the cur rent issue of Table Topics, the fascinating house organ of Bellows and company. It is a startling menu, because it was printed Christ mas day, 1870, when besieged Paris was eat ing horse flesh and the meat of rats, of dogs, of cats and of the animals of the zoo. Num bers of these appear on Voison’s menu, but the eye passes quickly over them to the wines for which Voison was renowned. Listed for the day were a Mouton Rothschild of 1846, an incredible Romance Conti of 1858 r & port of 1827. Your eyes bulge at You swallow and you tell yourself that for the sake of those wines you would try to put down as a roast the formally presented Chat flanque de Rats—roast cat flanked by rats! _ o NOT LESE MAJESTY Greensboro Daily News Revival at Nassau of the Bahaman folk song, “Love Alone Caused King Edward To Lose His Throne,”"!" K e s ~> —■‘t l * —- efforts at repression. • hum it are being punished, says k, . with fines of 50 pounds and 10 days in jail. Well, British courts, colonial or in the Un ited Kingdom, have a fashion of handling their business better than courts of well , high any other race or nationr“sS r Tt 1 "! s . rwfejju^Rg»-'gMii»t? Kbly well erttiugn Tu'let fhem attend to the matter. But it is to be hoped the misdemean or—it could hardly be termed -a high crime— will not be labeled lese majesty. It has been our notion all along that per haps the simpler West Indian subjects of the British crown had a deeper and sincere re gard for the Duke of Windsor than British T' i Back In Our Town, Or Some Ollier Town "T'try- Atlanta. Mar,' 7.-—He's back in our town, or in some .other town, this slim young soidler, wearing the pur ple heart which signr#Br; that he was wounded on a foreign battle field. He’s back with the same grin he wore when he ctubarkfed on the great adventure. He’s lost a lot, maybe an arm or a leg, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. He’s too American for that. Meet Jim. for instance. Jim's 20. He has snapping brown eyes and a \ contagious smile. We saw him the other day for the first time in many, many months. He didn't look any- i thing like he used to look except for j those snapping eyes and that con- j tagious smile. They were just the j same as always. Jim leaped across the street to, meet us, that is tie did if you canj call the peculiar gait he had leap ing. He . was almost as fast as ever, but he walked on crutches and he had 'only ''one; lag,- Vet his great hands had tft&r eld strength as he put both of thrim out and wrung j ours. | We averted our eyes when we saw . j those crutches and that dangling j trouser leg. We didn’t want him to think that -we were sorry for him. ] We knew how he had always hated! to be pitied. But, when he looked us j straight in the eye and gave us that: old-time grin once again, we forgot! for a moment about the lost leg and talked of the days before Pearl Harbor when we were great friends. It was Jim who had always want ed to be a reporter. He would have J been one if it hadn't been for the I war. Always hr had pictured him ! self running out of news room doors las city editors snapped orders. He ’ ' .'.fo- " "i.c \y si if; ' iar> .to coy., f ires. Who I f a leg; man,could Jim be noi. e-.e wondered.! ' j HisYtorfr is) 4nr of the many that, j haVe sonjhf of if of this war, at story j of suffering endured and of (a lifSi almost blasted, a dark story bright - J ened only by the f&nerican sense of! humor. __ I ® “Jim tf the! damned, ~endririnlpfri)iral ion i aftef-’ operation;’’ onfcyqFtrigjpomrades told; us. “ShmpUd;yhi<l’Btoctrated his leg in 3n places inches, of bmye ware everything iMt S srfciy surgeons, could do. ij|eir mlnpas sionate ccfaldnvj make it heal pronsff/’ Jim didn't),say anything ,about that. He just told the ''Cuii the old thing off," and let it go a* j that. And that's what they had tp do. finally. If you think he is crushed by all that he has been through, then you don’t know Jim. "Just think”, he said, "as soon as I get my artificial leg I can go out dancing with alt i Thfe LONE RANGER ~ .1 QUIET, ALL OF YOU/ >OU'RE UNDER ARREST,] f WATCH 1 I’LL DRILL THE FIRST ONE , ' i ptß in any other parts. Their song is not, we think, intended as disrespectful; on the con trary it might reflect tender devotion. Certainly a Bahaman could Cottle nearer understanding and sympathizing with Ed ward’s abdication than ary an English arch bishop has indicated a willingness even to attempt. • tho pretty girls. It'll be just like a real leg, and any city editor who dares to say that I won't be good enough to chase fire engines and run to catch editions and make deadlines, just like the big town re porters do, has another think com ing to him.” Jim's narrative is typicul of a lot of others that are being told today by American boys who are being invalided home from overseas. Thirty thousand of these young men come back each month for care in the Army's 60 general hospitals, the soft of care that will restore them to health and permit them to take a useful place in society. To help give this care the Army is seeking thousands of women to volunteer for training as Medical, | Surgical asd Clerical Technicians jin WAC General Hospital Com ; panics. The Way is open for the women |of our town to help boys like Jim |of the laughing eyes and the urge ] to become a reporter, get back on j their feet. Some are volunteering ! for service but many more are 1 needed. i American women with or without hospital technician training between the ages of 20 and 49, who has no Children under 14 years of age, who is in good health and of good char acter and who has two years of high school education or its equivalent 'may qualify for this service. She I i may take the first steps to become ! a Medical. Surgical or Clerical j Technician by going to the Army j i Recruiting Office anti applying for ; enlistment in a WAC General Hos pital Company. He’s Just A Pfc. .’ < Written by Mrs. Carlton James, of Hurdle Mills, and dedicated to ; her husband. Pfe. Eugene Carlton ! i James, now somewhere in Germany t. j He’s just a Pfc. in the Army; •ip: wr'r,e thposqnds of mites apart !.CiJ« : ;»M :,, lijr a ilt' how lie • .ja licit, ;., ! Wefl-rffofca, IWe .star General in .in ! • ! ; ■ Fuller Brush Agency W. RADFORD GENTRY , , JJt JtQ'Sbi'i'o 'ss Today Announcing That lie Is Now PERSON COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE ■ ; JPor The Fuller Brush Company Gee Or Write Mr. Gentry If You Need Fuller Brushes He Will Be Glad To Serve You Fuller Brush Company Lamar Street Phone 2581 Box 580 1 1 He’s just u Pfc. in the Army; i But what do I care about his rank. ! I'll bet the guys that’s wearing the stars— , If they: had his one stripe—They'd say thanks! He's just a Pfc. in the Army- . And I know he's one of the best; For he carries a gun in the infan try— And never gets to rest., He's just a Pfc. in gerlnany now. Anti his medals are—not so many; But you just wait 'til he gets to Berlin. There will be medals—and plenty! He's just a Pfc. in the Army. And yet—that is just the start; For as I have told you before He's still a live star General In my heart. o ' *■*» " Buy War Bonds TODAY WWVWVWfIWWWWMi [! Will Be Closed Each Wed- jlj ■ J nesday Afternoon from now ij] >n. Duc to shortage of labor J ■ ;! mack’s j! Used Parts jj .WVVWAYAYJWAVVW i 4 i_ zzzzzzni- We sell Eye Glauses Is Sat isfy the eyes $2.00 to SB.OO THE NEWELLL Jewelers Roxboro. N. C. I ENDER] V COLONIAL BRAND Spinach No. 2 Can 16c NEW PACK Tomatoes No. 2 can Ilk DEL MONTE DICED Carrots 16-oz Jar Ui Sterling Pender's Best TABLE SALT PLAIN FLOUR 2-lb. bag 6( 10-lb bag 59c Dromedary Blended Juice 46-oz can 41c Great Northern Beans 2-lb cello 21c Gibb’s Mixed Vegetables No. 2 can 13c Sunshine Kriepy Crackers 1-lb Pkg. 19c Fleecy White Bleach Half Gallon 25c Large Package Obelisk Plain Flour £i m Wgt k Ivory Snow pkg Aw V Ballards 10-lb bag O/ C Guest Size Ivory <4 A _ Large Package _ Soap 3 for . A*lv Ivory Flakes pkg 4wv I Large Package . 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