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THE KIDS all know where the schoolhouse Is, but Just the same the school bell rings. Many people know where your business Is; ad vertising Is the bell you ring. VOL. LXIV. Martin Head Os 6 Clothing Drive To Start Soon Heads Drive tsjßjtfSUtkrW: mamam* hiii 'jjjjH ** V'TWHSrJ. 1 Wtt ‘ Jjfl REV. W. C. MARTIN Cities Want Hospital For War Veterans Salisbury Has Inside Track, According (o One Con gressional Secretary Washington, April.—Twelve North Carolina cities are competing for the $4,550,000 neuropsychiatric hos pital the Veterans’ Administration plans for the State. One Congress ional secretary suggested today, Sah.ibury now holds the lead. Spokesmen for the Veterans’ Ad ministration say no site for the 900-bed institution has been decid ed upon. But the secretary, who wished to be unnamed, argued Sal isbury has the inside track for these reasons: Its gently rolling topography * whore patients might regain health through farming; an offer by the Amdrican Legion of Salisbury to do nate 80 acres of land, including a golf course, and Salisbury in the district of Representative Dough ton, dean of the North Carolina delegation in Congress. ■ o Helena Leads In I County Says Yates Contributions to the Red Cross fund have reached $12,300.24, ac cording to Miss Dorothy Taylor, of Itoxboro Chamber of Com merce and the total may well go above SIO,OOO, since contributions are still coming in. School leader in tlie campaign, according to L. 31. Yates, principal, is Helena High school, with $610,80. Helena also led in County School con tributions last year, according to Mr. Yates, who said today that he wishes to thank all canvassers and contributors. Person Women Will Meet Soon Person County Home Demonstra tion club women on Thursday, April 5, at 10:15 in the morning at the USO Service Center here will have general get-togerher meeting at which one of the chief speakers will be Miss Willie Hunter of Raleigh, clothing specialist. State College Extension Service, who will give a hjat renovation demonstration. t Plans for the gathering, which will be an all day affair are being arranged by Miss Evelyn Caldwell, Person Home Demonstration agent, who said that afternoon speaker will be a representative of the North Carolina Hospitalization associa tion. A brief session of the Coun ty Council of clubs will also be held. Luncheon in the middle of the day will be in picnic style. Women who are .to attend the general session are requested to bring with them one old Summer hat for the demon stration program. The program is District meeting, which has been intended to take the plane of a called off, but Miss Caldwell is l»p J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Mayor Winstead Names Lead er For Clothing Drive By Civic Clubs. By official proclamation from Mayor S. G. Winstead, of this city, the Rev. W. C. Martin, pastor of Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church and prominent in Kiwanis circles, has been named as chair man of the United National cloth ing collection to be held here in April under auspices of three civic clubs here, Kiwanis, Rotary and the Business and professional Wom an's Club. Starting date for the clothing collection here, a benefit for men, women and children in war-ravaged areas throughout Europe and else where, has not been set, but it will begin soon, according to Mr. Martin. Heading the drive here as mem bers of the planning committee are Fred Long, chairman, for Rotary, J. A. Long Jr., for Kiwanis and Mrs. ' Beth Brewer Crutchfield, for the Business and Professional Woman’s club. The committee as above nam ed by Mr. Martin, is composed of presidents of respective clubs. It is also planned that the drive will be conducted in county areas. Mayor Winstead’s proclamation reads as follows: "Due to the war, more than 125 millions of men, women and chil dren of the war-ravaged acreas are in great need of clothing. More than 30 millions are children. To meet this situation President Roose velt has selected Henry J. Kiser as national chairman of a United Na tional Clothing Collection which is sponsored by the war relief agen cies and the United Nations and Rehabilitation Administration. Be lieving this to be a most worthy cause which will commend itself Ito every pitizgn of our community, I and acting upon the recommenda tion of the Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club and the Business and Profes sional Woman’s Club, I have nam ed Rev. W. C- Martin general chair man. “Done in the city of Roxboro on this, the 30th day of March, in ,the year of our Lotd, nineteen hundred forty five.” Signed: S. G. WINSTEAD. Mayor. Other assisting committees for collection, publicity, storage, pack ing and shipping, have been named, says Mr. Martin, and will be: Collection committee: Floyd L. Peaden, chairman, Roxboro; Dr. Robert E. Long. Ed Owen, Rube Yarborough, Martin Michie, coun ty; L. F. Hester, S. P. Gentry, C. A. Long, D. L. Whitfield, Flank Whitfield, Garland Chambers, D. M. Cash, L. L. Blaylock, John Q. Yarbrough, Albert Wrenn, W. W. Peed, Manley Woody, R. G. Rober son, W. L. Rudder, Eddie H. Per kins, Melvin Carr, Charlie Holman: Publicity committee, Tom Shaw, chairman. Storage, Packing and Shipping committee: Wallace Woods, chair man, Coy Day, Bill Harris, 111, T. T. Mitchell, Mrs. T. T. Mitchell, Coleman King, Collins Abbitt, Miss Jean Rook, Miss Margaret Brown Martin, Mrs. W. H. Adair. 0 “I'm just a stubborn Swede," Carl son shrugs. “But I guess some times I just make sense.” ing that all interested Roxboro and iPsrscfi women will not fall to come to hear Miss Hunter ar.d that they will enjoy the informal pro gram planned. Published below is a list of in dividual club meetings for April. Chub Lake, Tuesday, April 3. at 2:30 p. m„ at Mrs. Earl Clay ton’s; Helena, Wednesday, April 4, at 3 p. m. at Helena school; Prov idence, Frldpy, April 6, at three at Mrs. Hattie Pulliam’s; Warren's Grove, Tuesday, April 10, at Mrs. John A. Clayton's at 3:00; Bushy Fork, Wednesday, April 11, at 3:00 at the Community house; Mount Tirzah, Thursday, April 12, at 3:00, at Mrs. Clint D. Moore’s; Velma Beam, Tuesday, April 17, at 2:30 at Mrs. P. T. Wilkins; Olive Hill, Wed nesday, April 18, at 2:30, at Com munity house; Allensvllle, Thurs day, April 19, at 3:00 at Mrs. Dan iel Slaughter's; Olive Branch, Tues day, April 24, at 2:30, at Mrs. Fel ton Wllkerson’s; Bethel HIU, Wed nesday. April 25, at 2:30, at Mrs. Alex Winstead’s and Winplay, Thursday, April 26. at 3:00 at Mrs. Paul Buckerner’s. Courier=®imes Changing Trends In Welfare Cited By Stale Head Person On Middle Ground In Two Aid Programs, Says Dr. Winston. Saying that Person averages in Aid to Dependent Children and in Old Age Assistance grants are just below the State average, Dr. Ellen Black Winston, of Raleigh, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, who spoke here Thursday night at a civic gathering, made it plain that there are great variations in amounts contributed by the State's cne hundred counties, but that on the whole citizens can be pleased that the recent General Assembly did much to advance progress of North Carolina’s Public Welfare program. Sponsor of the meeting at which Dr, Winston was speaker was the Person County Council of Social agencies and guest participants in cluded members of Kiwanis, Rotary and the Business and Professional Woman's club. Program chairman for the session which was at Hotel Roxboro, was Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff. Introduction of the speaker was by formef Lt. Gov. R. L. Harris and presiding officer was Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., chairman of the Agency Council. Dr. Winston, who spoke for more than half an hour, devoted a few moments to a review of present ac tivities of the Welfare Commission, with special emphasis on assistance to children and the aged, as men tioned above, but the better part of her talk was concerned with the ex pansion of the Welfare Program, in- I eluding the delegation to County Departments of many duties form erly carried forward in Raleigh by the State Commission. The State Department is placing [more emphasis on boarding homes ! for children and the aged, accord j ing to Dr. Winston, and the super j vision of juch homes is an Important ; factor. Also under supervision are orphanages and boarding homes maintained by them. Orphanages, incidentally, have had boarding homes as a part of their programs for a number of years. Forward-looking steps in Public Welfare must include the care of I children and young people who are mentally defective, but provision ought also to be made for those of semi-subnormal condition, according to Dr. Winston, who also pointed out that fields of psychology and | psychiatry in the Public Welfare sense are not yet developed in North Carolina, while a new job for Public Welfare will be cooperation with Selective Service in aiding re turning veterans to establish them -1 selves at home. Prevention of conditions produc [ tive of social evils is the new trend ;in Public Welfare, intimated Dr. .Winston, who mentioned specifical |ly improvements in the matter of l the care of children in jails, a prac tice which is forbidden by law and is steadily decreasing. One hundred and twenty-five or more citizens at tended the dinner. New Buildings On Test Farms ■■ i Raleigh. Despite the critical shortage of labor and materials, a dozen new buildings have been erected on test farms recently pur chased in Washington, Ashe, and Haywood counties, it is announced by F. E. Miller, director of the Test Farms division of the State Depart ment of Agriculture. Miller said that eight new poul try houses and a home for the poul try director have been built at the Mountain Experiment. o Red Cross Ends First Aid Job * Some twenty-five persons finish ed the Red Cross First Aid course here Friday night, according to Dr Robert E. Long, who reports that attendance was good, although num bers of citizens who began the course dropped out before it was over. Certificates will be awarded later. o WILL BUILD HOUSES Washington, March 29.—Salis bury, N. C., will build 2,000 of about 30,000 prefabricated houses the Fed eral government has ordered for Great Britain, aides of Representa tive Doughton (D-NC) announced today. The Walsh Construction Company has leased a building from the Goodman Lumber Company, Salisbury, to build the houses, the aides said. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA ‘Kussin Kitty’ Collects p jEflpiil:- After hearing a sermon by their battalion chaplain, Navy Lt. John M. Du Puis of Detroit. Mich., these five members of a pioneer bat talion of the Fourth Marine Division sclnewhere in the Pacfic, swore off swearng. The "Kussin Kitty," a tobacco can with a slot in the top. helps them keep their resolve, for each time one of the quintet cusses, he must make a contribution to the “kitty.” The money goes to Chaplain Du Puis, who turns it over to a local insti tution for religious charity. The five Marines are, left to right, Corp. John M. Saunders of Nashville, N. C., Sgt. Tcjn L. Williams of Tacoma, Wash,, Corp. Willard A. Carpenter of Grand Rapids, Mich., Corp. William .1. Seipel, Jr., of Columbus, 0., and Staff Sgt. Charles J. Moore of Warren Point, N. J. ONE HUNDRED HORSES EXPECTED FOR KIWANIS SHOW WEDNESDAY Rabies Clinics Td SfarS Soon Series To Begin This Month In Orange County. LVs. A. S. Nathan ..and W. G. Chrisman, two veternurians located in Orange. County will conduct ra bies clinics at every school in that , county soon, it was announced to day. The clinics will start about the middle of April and are conducted under auspices of the tri-county health department. Rabies is a disease of all warm blooded animals, . including man. Every state in America has had cases of it. likewise every county in North Carolina. The disease is transferred from one animal to an other by the bite of a rabid animal, or the saliva entering a Cut. stratch, or wound on a sueceptible person or animal. There is no treatment for rabies after it develops. Preventive treat ment or vaccination is the only safe way. Last year rabies was found in Orange County and all .the adjoin ing counties. A number of people were bitten by rabid dogs and had to take the Pasteur or anti-rabic treatment. The treatment is pain ful and costly. Rabies is one disease in which prevention or vaccination is the only treatment. No announcement concerning ra bies clinics for Person County has been made. —— —u ——— Sam Allen, Mt. Tirzah Resident, Accidentally Shot Sam Allen, .32, of the Mt. Tir- ! zah community of this county was accidentally shot by Connie Vau-i ghan of the same community on Friday of last week as the two were crow hunting. Vaughan fell down ! and when he fell his shotgun was accidentally discharged, a part of the load striking Allen in the face 1 and neck. Two teeth were lost as a result and he was treated by a doc tor. It is thought that, his wounds 1 are not serious. - Alone}, *7<4e lAJatf ■ Bill Walker is quite a golfer and when he was young he was a fair tennis player— :> now in his old age he is overestimating his power as an athlete, ’’he other day he went over to his neighbor's house where there was . horseshoe pitching game under way. Bill .watched the men, and women throw the shoes for a few minutes and then started running his mouth about how good he was. Just about the time that he really started talking he was challenged by a lady. Mrs. Huck Salisbury. Bill said that he oould beat any lady and did not want to play her but she insisted and they started. They played two games and Mts Sausbury won both by large scores. The scores were so large that Bill actually quit before the third game was played and went home somewhat sadly. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Parade Will Take Place In Roxboro Business Section • At 11:00 A. M. Wed j nesday. Roxbifro’s Kiwanis sponsored licr.se Show is all set and ready for tiie showing of horses on Wednes day, April 4th at the Roxboro High Athletic Field. The fence has been erected, the bleachers are up and the grand stand lias been repaired. Everything is now' ready including the tickets and the programs. On Saturday of last week 65 en -1 tries had been received and more were expected. It is probable that ever a hundred horses will be en tered by starting time. Many of the horses that have been entered are from Tennessee, Gorgia, South Car olina and other states. They arc coming here from other horse shows and many are famous horses that have won prizes over many states. On Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock there will be a parade through the business section of Roxboro. In this parade will be 16 i ponies sent to the show by a popu ! far fertilizer company. After the parade these ponies tvill be in the regular show. Love B. Roush, American Horse 1 Show Association judge will be on hand to do the judging. Mr. Roush is from Bristol, Tenn. Tom Bennett, popular fertilizer dealer and horse man of Roxboro will serve as ring master. Mr. Bennett has had a large amount of experience with horses as well as horse shows. C. E. Garten oi Chatham. Va. has been secured as the announcer. He is also a man cf much horse show experience. Miss Dorothy Taylor of the Rox boro Chamber of Commerce will serve as ribbon clerk. In case of rain on Wednesday the show will be held the next day. Thursday, April sth. Time of the shows will be at 1:30 P. M. and 8:00 P. M. Profits from the show will go to benefit under privileged children. o SGT. BLALOCK LEAVES • S. Sgt. Richard Blalock, of Tim berlake, son of Mrs. Agnes Bla lock, who spent several days here with his mother, has returned to*his station at Craig Field, Selma, Ala., where he is with the Air Corps. Sgt. Blalock recently returned from months of service in the Philip pines, MONDAY, ARRIL 2, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE | Hamilton Says Mortality Rate Misleading Low Over-All Death Rale In Slate Misleading. College Specialist Says Raleigh, April.—Current vital sta j tistics which show North Carolina’s | “crude" death rate to be lower than I than of many other states Is often i misleading to the general public, | Prof. C. Horace Hamilton, chief of the Department of Rural Sociology at N. C. State College, said in a sur vey report issued recently. “For instance," said Prof. Hamil ton. at a recent public hearing be fore a legislative committee, some j one was heard to remark, ‘There is | little need to get excited over a ! medical care prog’ram, because j North Carolina has the lowest death ! rate east of the Mississippi." j This view, contended Professor i Hamilton, is a result of misinter | pretation of the statistics. He con tinued: j “The person making this remark - was thinking of the crude death | rate, which is low in North Carolina because we have a young popula tion. -which in turn is due to our i high birth rate. Tire crude death i rate is simply the number of deaths per 1,000 people. j "In order to compare ourselves I accurately with other states, we j must use only adjusted death rates, from which we have eliminated the bias due to age. That is. an adjust ed death rate assumes that people in North Carolina have the same (Please turn to page 8) Rites Held For Mrs. A. R. Bivens Longhurst Woman Dies After Second Stroke. j Funeral services for Mrs. Alice R. Bivens, 62, of Longhurst, who died Thursday morning at the home of 'a son. Fonnie F. Bivens, from a stroke of paralysis, were conducted Saturday afternoon at four o'clock iat Cavel Baptist Church, of w'hich iShe was a charter member, with in- I terment in Providence Baptist | Church cemetery. The rites were conducted by her pastor, the Rev. J. N. Bowman. Mrs. Bivens had been in ill health about two years. Survivors include three sons, Fon nie F. Bivens of the home; J. H. Bivens of the Army in the South Pacific, and R. L, Bivens of Rox boro; three daughters, Mrs. H. H Moss, Mrs. R. A. Self, and Mrs. H. N. Langford, all of Roxboro; lour brothers, Roland and Hiram Smith, both of Forest City, and Patton and Alonzo Smith, both of Sutherford- I ton; six sisters, Mrs. H. Z. Bivens of Beaver Dam, Va., Mrs. Ellen Craig, lof Rutherfordton, and Mrs. Dearlie ! Anderson, Mrs. Ada Walls, Sarah Honk and Mrs. Lula Guffey, all of ' Forest City, and 18 grandchildren. FDR Praises New Management Pact ; Washington— A labor-manage j ment plan designed to promote i postwar industrial peace and pros i perity drew a letter of praise to day from President Roosevelt, j The Chief Executive was inform ed of the project by William Green, - president of the American Federa -1 tion of Labor, President Eric John ston of the United States Chamber !of Commerce, and Philip Murray, j president of the Congress of In dustrial Organizations. Acknowledging their letter, the Chief Executive said he was “very pleased," He added: "The close cooperation between labor and management during the war has made possible our great and unexcelled achievement in war production. That close cooperation must be continued to make possible the full employment of labor and capital under our system of free competitive enterprise when hostili ties cease." o Gets Package Pvt. W. A. Wilson. Jr., or Timber lake, a prisoner of war in Germany, sends his second card to his family and boosts the Red Cross, saying he appreciates his food parcel. He also tells his family that he wants parti cularly to have canned foods, dried fruits and candy. The card was re ceived last week. Sgt. Warren Swanson Person Marine, Dies In Battle Os Iwo Jima Son Os Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swanson Volunteered Three Years Ago. Sgt. James Warren Swanson, 22, of the United States Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swan son, of Hurdle Mills, formerly of Leasburg, was killed in action March 7, at Iwo Jima "in performance of his duty and in the service of his country, according to a message re ceived yesterday by his parents from Lt. Gen. A. A. Vandergrift. commander, it was learned here today. Sgt. Swanson, a volunteer for the j Marines, was in service three years and overseas for two years. Educat ed at Leasburg school, he worked for two years with Adair Drug com pany, at Ca-Vel. Last letter was re ceived by his parents on February 8. He was a member of Person chapter. Sons of the Legion. Further information will be sent to the family later, according to Gen. Vandergrift. in addition to the parents, other members of the family are. two brothers. Arvin Nichols Swanson and Wallace Allen Swanson, both of the home, and four sisters. Misses Helen and Janie Swanson, both of Burlington, and Misses Peggy and Bonnie Swanson, both of the home. o Brother Killed In German Battle Sgt. Daniel Underwood. 24. of Fayetteville, brother of Mrs. How ard Franck, of that City, formerly of Roxboro. was killed in action March 4, in Germany, it was learned here yesterday. Son of Mrs. C. T. Underwood, of 321 Pine Street, Fay etteville. he was with the Georgia [Turpentine company before, enters ! ing the service in the 100 Division. Third Army. Other survivors are two brothers and two sisters, all of Fayetteville. Setting Tobacco In Border Belt Raleigh. Setting of tobacco plants in the North-South Carolina border belt already started in some sections last week, the State De partment of Agriculture reports, marking the earliest beginning of the crop on record. Full planting operations are ex pected to get under way between April 2‘and April 10, M. R. Buffkin, the Department's tobacco marketing specialist, said. Normally, planting in the belt begins about April 15 and gets into full swing during the last week in the month, he said. Favorable weather conditions of the last three weeks gave plants the opportunity to develop faster in beds, the specialist said. Reports from the belt indicate on ly isolated cases of setting thus far, Buffkin said, but these are the earl iest ever recorded by the Depart ment. Generally, however, plants lack the necessary maturity to be reset, he pointed out. Meanwhile, the Department said tobacco acreage in the border and other flue-cured tobacco belts now was expected to be three per cent above last year’s acreage. Leasburg School Suspends Program Leasburg school will be open for work on Monday morning, accord ing to a statement made Saturday afternoon by Miss Billie Vogler, a faculty member, who reported also that a pipe line is being run from another and nearby well on the Kelly Brewer farm. This wa ter is now being tested, according to Person Sanitarian W. B. Taylor. Testing requires forty-eight hours. ] Leasburg Elementary school, scene of a health department Investiga tion since last Tuesday because of an epidemic of stomach ailments which developed in eighty or more pupils, over half of the student body, from food poisoning or from in fected water, closed Thursday and will remain closed until Monday morning, or later, unless conditions are remidied, health authorities re ported Friday. B-Coll (harmful) bacteria are re ported to have been found In food and water samples taken the first of the week, following outbreak of the epidemic, but chlorine has been 0 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY! NUMBER 35 Jap War Dog I ' Marine Pfc. Carl E. Bliss of East Syracuse, N. V., is shown with his canine charge, “Boy,” a cap tured Jap war dog seized on Guam and retrained for use in action against his former mas ters. The shepherd-collie is with the Second War Dog Platoon, now serving with the Second Ma rine Division somewhere in the Pacific. Schools Receive Surplus Carrots j** Raleigh.—Seventeen carloads of ■ surplus carrots —10.000 bags—will be distributed to school children of ! Ncrth Carolina during the first two weeks of April, according to George I Ross, who represents the State De jpartment of Agriculture in coopera | tive project in the distribution of I surplus commodities. Ross said the carrots were grown in Texas. They will be sent into ap proximately 70 counties where ap proved lunchroom programs are es tablished. 0 Committee For Merchants Chosen Members of an Advisory Com- I miltee to assist merchants with OPA Regulation MPR 580, were appointed here Thursday night at an OPA meeting at the Court House at which E. M. Hairficld and Jim Gregory, both of the Dis trict OPA office, Raleigh, were speakers. About eighty merchants were present. Committeemen arc, J. D. Mangum, Victor Satterfield, E. O. Eggleston, A. M. Burns, Sr., Frank Howard, Gordon Brown, R. P. Burns and T. B. Woody. Oth ers may be added to the commit ! tee at a later date. , added to the water and further wat er samples will be ineffective until the chemicaS effect of the solution ! wears off. I Working on the case are Person Sanitarian W. B. Taylor and Dr. Drake and Sanitarian Reed, Cas well authorities, both of Yanceyville, j Two more cases developed Thursday and Mrs. Nash Winstead, co-work er and P. T. A. President has been ill. It is thought contamina tion of the food, if any, may have come about through use of water from the school in cooking, the wat er being from a well and piped into a tank in the school. It has also been reported that the septic tank at the school is closer (about thirty feet) to the well than - it should be and that there may be possibility of seepage through terra cotta pipe sections. Part of the pipe line for the sewer, however, h. ■ digg cast iron and It all may be .of thi* material. The story of the epidemic has at tracted state- wide attention and him been given on radio broad-easts.