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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. Sunday Selected As Date For Clothing Collection In Roxboro Collection Centers Chosen. County Contributions Must He In Within Five Days. Sunday, April 15, has been set as collection date for the United Na tional Clothing drive in Roxboro, according to the Rev. W. C. Martin, general chairman, who said today that collections in County areas, to be made through designated stores and in cooperation with the public schools, will continue through the week of April 15, ending on Friday, the 20th; Every effort will be made to end the drive in Roxboro on the one day. Sunday, says Mr. Martin. City collecting will be done chiefly by Boy Scouts, with assistance of members of Kiwanis, Rotary and 'the Business and Professional Wo man’s club collection centers will be maintained on the Court House lawn and also under the marquee at the Ration Board office, while a sorting depot has been arranged in the R. j, Reynolds tobacco company building, near Wade Grocery com pany, according to W. Wallace Woods. Floyd L. Peaden, collection chair man for Roxboro's area, has also said he will be pleased to accept clothing at his plant, the City Milk and Ice company, Depot street. No clothing will be accepted for col lection at the Reynolds building, however, which will be used exclu sively for packing and sorting. The clothing to be collected will be sent to destitute civilians, men, women and children in Europe’s war ravaged countries. The need, says Mr. Martin, is urgent, and clothing of all kinds, including shoes, is wanted. County residents may bring their clothing to the collection centers at the Court House, at the Ration Board marquee or at City Ice and Milk company, or they may leave the clothing at various county stores ppfeiousiy cent ers and listed by -name in last Mon day's Courier-Times. Decision as to collection dates and other details was arrived at Thurs day night at meeting called by the Chairman at Hotel Roxboro. Among those present were Fred Long, for the Rotary Club, Mr. Peaden, Rox boro chairman. Mr. Martin, General chairman. W. Wallace Woods and Thomas J. Shaw Shaw, Jr. Both county and city-wide coop eration for the drive is sought and one of the slogans is, “What Can You Spare, That They Can Wear?” E. F. Craven Is Rotarian Speaker E. F. Craven, of Greensboro, known throughout the State as a contractor, was guest speaker Thurs day night at Roxboro Rotary club bn a program sponsored by I. O. Abbitt. Here with Mr. Craven, who had as his topic, “The Bible", was a Mr. Cain, also of Greensboro, a retired YMCA executive, formerly rl New York. The meeting was at Hotel Roxboro. Next meeting will be concerned with election of officers, President Fred Long having ap pointed a nominating committee for that purpose. Mr. Craven, an outstanding churchman as well as a successful business man, praised the Bible as a book to live by and pointed out that its rules must be followed in both personal and international re lationships if moral progress is to be gained. Highlight of his talk was bis closing illustration, the story of his visit to Jaurez, Mexico, across the border from the United States. Saying that social and moral condi tions in Jaurez are bad, Mr. Craven pointedly observed that the U. S. has little business setting itself up as a moral leader in Europe and the rest of the world if it fails so mis erably with a close-to-home neigh bor, Mexico. o Sgt. Larry Flinn Reported Missing St. Sgt, Larry Flinn, 35, of Cha pel Hifl and Hampton, L. I„ hus band of the former Miss Marion deVlaming, of Roxboro, has been reported as missing in action as of March 18, in Germany, according to a message received here by his mother-in-law, Mrs. A. S. deVlam ing, Mrs. Flinn is now in Pitts burgh, Penn., at the home of her husband’s mother, Mrs. George Hamilton Flinn. Sgt. Flinn, who went overseas in September 1944, has been in the Army for a year and a half. Sgt. Flinn with Patton's Army In the 101 Infantry, spent much of his time in chapel Hill before entering the Army. The Flinns have three sons. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Club Women To Aid Clothing Drive New Officers Os V Os W Will Be Installed Soon Lt. Whitlow Detained Hv Gov ernment Business. Does Not Come. New officers of the Lewcll T. Huff Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars will be installed by State Command er Frank Warren, of Graham, here on Thursday night, April 19, at the USO Service Center, according to plans revealed today. The Post was organized several months ago and present Commander is C, C. Gar rett. Lt. Evelyn Whitlow, of Leasburg, Bataan nurse and recently return ed from a Jap Prison in the Philip pines, scheduled to have appeared here Friday night at an open house of Lewell T. Huff Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was unable to come because of a previous mission an which she is engaged for the Gov ernment, but the VFW program went ahead with various State of ficials as speakers, according to Mr. Garrett. Message from Miss Whitlow was received Saturday after the meeting had been held at the USO Service Center, where other speakers in cluded State Commander Warren, of Graham, and A. C. Ingham, of High PoiiM* saute Also present were Mrs. Sykes, of Burlington, formerly head of the VFW auxiliary in North Carolina, Mrs. Crouse, also of Burlington and Mrs. Ingham, of High Point. Refreshments were served by wo men of the Post, among them Mrs. Garrett, wife of the Roxboro com mander. Installed as an officer was J. A. Jordan. Eugene Wade Receives Star Winner of the Bjonze Star for spectacular participation military action near a bridge in Germany is Pfc. Eugene E. Wade, of Roxboro, Route I. sen of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert E. Wade, who have received the official citation from Maj. Gen. A. R. Bolling, commander of the 4th “Railsplitter" Infantry Division. Pfc. Wade, an alumnus of Roxboro high school who farmed until he entered the Army two and one-half years ago, has been overseas since September 1944. In part, the citation reads as fol lows: “For heroic service in military op erations against the enemy in Ger many, February 23-25, working without relief, under artillery fire and aerial bomb and strafing, with complete disregard for his own safety (Pvt. Wade) directed and controlled traffic at an im portant river crossing in a manner which prevented congestion and contributed materially to the suc cess of our mission. On an occasion when the bridge over the river was being strafed by enemy planes. Pvt. Wade manning a machine gun fired on hostile aircraft with disdain for danger and with superior perform ance of duty. The conduct display ed by Pvt. Wade reflected high credit upon himself and upon the Armed Forces of the United States". Sgt. R. H. Gentry Chief Inspector Chief Aircraft Inspector at a large strategic aerial repair depot, with the Bth Air Force Service Com mand, in England is Master Ser geant Raymond H. Gentry, Woods dale. Sgt. Gentry inspects battle damaged B-17 Flying Fortress bom bers of the Eighth Air Force that had been repaired. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gentry, Woodsdale, he is a graduate of Bethel Hill high school. His wife, the former Miss Gwendolyn Minor, lives in Macon, Georgia. Prior to his entry into the Army, October, 1936, he was employed by Collins Sc Aikman. Co., Roxboro. He has been overseas for 20 months. ®be Courter=®tmes Sprinjr Federation Also Hears Os Library Open House. Important in the calendar of Home Demonstration club members was the Spring Federation held here on Thursday, in the Roxboro USO Service Center. The morning session was sighlighted by Miss Willie Hunter. Clothing Specialist of the N. c. State Extension Service, who | gave a practical demonstration in | making over hats —a subject of wide | spread interest to women, Emmedi : ately following her demonstration, j Miss Hunter called for the hats that I club women had brought with them {to make over. Many helpful sugges -1 tions were given and several hats j were reworked by lunch hour. Picnic lunch was then spread by | the club members and a social hour was enjoyed. Important items of business dis cussed at the Council session in cluded: the National Clothing drive which begins here on April 15; the Person County Public library Open House to be held on Friday, May 11, ! and a suggestion for the selling of i produce on Saturday at the Curb Market. In the clothing drive, as explained by Miss Hunter, each club will be ; called upon to help, the call being issued by project leaders. The libra ry open house, an annual event, was described by Mrs. J. Y. Humphries, prominent as a leader in club work fas' a member of the library board. Each club is to be asked to send flower arrangements for the flower show to be held in connection with the open house. In the discussion of selling produce on the curb market. Mrs. Dan Whitfield, of the Velma Beam club suggested that each club be responsible for selling produce i on the Curb Market for one Satur j day and that and that the proceeds j be given to the County Council. The suggestion was approved. After the business session Mrs. C. E. Brooks, of the Olive Hill Club, gave a b»ief review of Home Dem onstration work in Person County. | dating back to September 12, 1938 when the work was revived after be ; ing inactive for twenty years. The | report was brought up to date by mentioning the high-lights of, the program in 1944 and up to the pre sent and by setting goals for the remainder of this year. C. A. Houck, Jr. of the Hospital ; Savings Association, Inc. of N. C. , discussed group hospitalization giv ing the Council Members an op : portunity for questions. Since the District Meeting for i 1945 will be held only for the Coun ty Council Officers of each County i in the District, the Spring Federa ; tion was planned as a substitute in ; Person County and proved to a most i enjoyable occasion for the sjxty three members who were able to at tend, according to Miss Evelyn Caldwell, Person Home Agent. Rites Held For C. P. Grinstead Os Hurdle Mills Funeral for C. P. Grinstead, 87, of Hurdle Mills who died Tuesday night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Jack Whitfield of Bushy Fork after twelve months of illness, was conducted Thursday afternoon at three o'clock at Wheeler's Churcn with interment in the church cem etery. Rites were conducted by the Rev. L. P. Martin. Active pallbearers were nephews, Jack, Harvey and Eddie Lee Grin stead, Johnnie, George and Char lie Buckner. Flower bearers were grandchildren. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Jack Whitfield of the home. Mrs. J. Dameron Long of Yantey ville, seven sons, Cliff Grinstead, of Cedar Grove, Howard Grinstead of Hurdle Mills, Trojan and Albert Grinstead of Roxboro, John Eugene and Jesse Grinstead of Durham, A number of grandchildren and great grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive. o Over Both Goals Red Cross contributions total $12,648.74, according to W. Wal lace Woods, who said today that the Person drive, of which O. B. Mcßroom has been chairman, is virtually at an end. Original quota was $8,900, while new goal was placed at $12,900. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Accommodations in Pacific ji l An Allied uniform is nil that’s needed to secure accommodations at “Flyspeck Hotel.” si called because it’s located on a ’’flyspeck” of and island in the Pacific. Marine Lt. Arthur E. Montague, (lef. top photo) of Detroit, Mich., a torpedo bomber pilot, is being told the "house rules" I:v the "manager." Marine (’apt. Odell C. Olson of Brady, Texas. Below, Lt. Montague signs the hotel register while the “desk clerk," Marine I’vt. George L. Dnduk of Streator, 111., looks on. Guests make up their own bunks at “Flyspeck Hotel," which is oper ated by a Marine aircraft grdup stationed on the island. mm LEG SEEMS NOT TO BOTHER PERSON SOLDIER j Recently, reperted as seriously j wounded itreGerm ny and Luxem-. | bourg are two Person soldiers, one from Roxboro and one from Rouge jmont. Both men are how in hos pitals and members c. i their fam ilies, in addition, to receiving War ! Department telegrams, have had follow-up cards showing that th* men are making normal improve ment. i One of the wounded is Pvt, Ernest ! Taylor, of Longhurst and Rouge- I ment,. husband of Mrs,. Lottie Carv er Taylor and son of Charlie Tay lor. the last named being a resident lof Rougemont. Pvt. Taylor, wound |ed on March .24, was hurt about the j face and suffered a fractured jaw. lln the Army since May 1944, and I overseas for three months, lie was formerly with Roxboro Cotton Mills j and has two children, one three j years of age and the other three ! months old. He has never seen his youngest child. Other man reported as wounded is Pfc. Roy Bohannon, of North Main street, husband of Mrs. Ger trude Hamiett Bohannon and son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiilliam Bohannon. Pfc. Bohannon, first wounded in Luxembourg, January. 1945, was | again wounded in Germany. March 16. Thirty years of age. Pfc. Bohan | non was formerly witli Bumpass | Service Center. Overseas for five months, he is now in a hospital in j England, where ho is receiving i Roxboro Group Attends ‘Martha’ Mrs,. W. Wallace Woods, accom panied by a number of young peo ple, the majority music students, attended the Page Auditorium pre sentation of Von Flo tow’s opera. “Martha," Thursday night at Duke University, Durham. Also in the party were Fred Bishop and Mrs. H. C. Kynoch. Students and other young people in the party were: Nathan Fox, Eu gene Wade, Wallace Zimmerman, | Ryland Young, Monna Lee Morrell, Edriel Knight, Jean Bradsher, Ai- I leen Barnette, Patsy Beam, Ann Briggs Moore, Jane Dickerson, Jean j Paylor and Eloise O’Briant. - Alow}, Way - early gardeners: including Bill Walker, J. W Noell, Louis Tapp. Sam Merriit, Pat Robinson, Preston Satterfield, Jr., Gus Deering, but not Henry O'Briant. Maybe after this last freeze you will know better than to plant your vegetables in the middle of the winter. Now that everything in your garden is black or blue you should know better next time. It's alright to plant onions in the winter but you cannot plant many other things. Os course you ean plant but you should know now that you will have to replant. We are glad to state that Henry O’Briant was not caught in the freeze. He had not plowed much less planted and the chances are that he will not be caught in the dry spell as we have an idea that he is going to continue to put off the planting. It's really getting to hot to work with a hoe. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT treatment after having had his left, lower: Jeg amputated. Pfc. Bohannon has two children, four and two years of age. Buddy and Bill by name, to whom he sends cheerful messages in a letter to his wife. Without mentioning that he i has been wounded for a second tinv, | Pfc. Bohannon tells his wife that lie is in a hospital in England, mak ing it fine. He adds that "they al ways talk about England in the Spring and now I’m seeing it". He also remarks that there are few oth er in the ward with him and that he enjoys being with them, although he expects to be home be fore so many more months. o Brooks, Lynch, To * Conduct Revival The Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pastor of Roxboro First Baptist church, assisted by A, E. Lynch, musical di rector of Campbell college, will con duct a revival service in the Rox boro church, April 29, through May 6, according to announcement made today by A. H. Rinuner. publicity chairman. Evening services will be held at 8 o'clock on each night except Sat urday, while morning services at 9 o'clock will, begin on Tuesday and will continue through Friday. Mr Lynch is well-known as a director of religious music. Preaching .will be by the pastor. It is expected that other churches here will co operate with First church fn its program, says Mr. Rinuner. Jim Broadhead Visits In City Jim Broadhead of Cincinnati, Ohio, spent last week-end in Rox boro as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Harris. Mr. Broadhead was one of the founders of A. T. Baker and Co., and lived here for a num ber of years. o Eating more eggs at this season will have the double-barreled ef fect of bolstering the wartime diet and utilizing a plentiful food. MONDAY','APRIL 9, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE All Fruits In Person Killed By Big Frost Plums Killed. Gardens Sev erely Damaged. One hundred percent of all fruit iu Person County, including peach es, apples, strawberries, pecans, : plums, and pears were reported as dead following the cold snap of last Friday, when the thermometer reached a low of 21. according to Person Farm Agent H. K. Sanders, who at noon today telephoned the Courier-Times office from Concord section, where he had completed inspection of as many as live farms. The kill, according to Sanders, i is apparently the same all over Per- ' son County, although a few fruit ' trees may have escaped The situa tion, says Sanders, seems to indi- ; cate there will be virtually no fruit i in Person this year, i Person Farm Agent H. K. Sand ers said this morning in reporting on Friday and Saturday low temp- j eratures that he has not yet com- ! pleted investigation of peach and applet rees, but . that plums in the ; lowland, areas; here have undoubt edly been killed, Sanders expects to finish his investigation by noon. Family gardens in the Roxboro | area were virtually wiped out and Sanders said that oak leves, as well ias leaves on other less hardy trees were killed. Temperatures were re ported as tow as .30 and 25. No to-' jbacco has been planted yet in Per -1 son. Other reports received Saturday Horn Charlotte and from Raleigh j show practically -.the same damage : over the State, with heavier losses j in- the western half. Smudge pots, j [or instance, were used at Hickory. | Charlotte. April B.—Heavy frost, coming in the wake of exceptionally warm weather, did considerable damage to fruit, and truck crops in western North Carolina Friday night. Temperatures that ranged ‘down to 20 degrees at the cliimax of a three-day cold snap laid a blighting blanket on the apple growing section around Asheville land spread a lighter mantle of frost into. South Carolina. I Commercial apple growers in the j Asheville area said they expected the apple crop to be a total loss, amounting to around $200,000. The thermometer dropped to 21 degrees at Waynesville and 28 at 'Asheville. Other crops were not so severely | damaged, Buncombe County . Farm Agent W. Riley Palmer said dam aged truck crops and tobacco could ,be replanted. At Winston-Salem, Farm Agent, R. W. Pou reported probable heavy damage to Forsyth county crops, especially small grains, beans, pota (Please turn to page 6) o Easter Is Time Os Changes For Roxboro Man Pfc. A. R. Davis, Jr., of Roxboro, who has been in the Army four years and overseas for three, begins to believe that everything happens ; to him during Easter week. He went to the Army during that week; he was overseas before the next Easter and stayed still another one before ;he came home a few weeks ago to ■ spend a rotation furlough, which I ended again in Easter week at the reassignment center, Camp Butner. Friday of last week, Pfc. Davis left for Los Angeles, Calif.. Where he will be with an anti-aircraft unit, similar to the one in which he served overseas. Pfc. Davis, before returning to the U. S.. was in Aus tralia, at Guadalcanal, and in the Solomons. Two Roxboro men Who I were with him in the Pacific area j and are now in the U. S„ on rota- I tion leaves are, the Horton broth ers, J. B„ and Elbert, both of Per !son County. | Pfc, Davis’ address in Los Ang eles is 37 AAA, Brigade AAC, 741 Flower Street. Garland Blanks Now At State Pvt. Garland Clay Blanks, son of ! Mr, and Mrs. B. C. Blanks, of Rox -1 boro, Route I. is now at North Car olina State College, where he will be for six to eight weeks. Pvt, lanks entered the ASTRP on Dec ember 6, 1944. After finishing his course at State Pvt. Blanks will re ceive basic training, probably in a Northern state. A graduate of Rox boro high school. Pvt. Blanks was taking a postgraduate course there at the time he entered the service. He has an uncle, S. Sgt. Leonard Puryear, who is with the First Army, Germany, and has recently been re ported as wounded in action. Person Friends Meet On Ship JOHN V. JONES On "shipboard, somewhere on the Atlantic enroute to Europe, two young Person County soldiers. Cpl. Lewis T. Yarborough, 23, and Sgt. John V. Junes, 21, both shown above, met unexpectedly when a call came for fellow county men to get together for group pictures. Neither of the boys knew the other was on the ship until that call came, and then when they got the camera the supply (if film ran out. but their parents, back home. decided their boys’ pictures ought to be to gether, and so here they are. Cpl. Yarborough, son of Mr. and Mrs. P II Yarborough, of Route two, Roxboro, who went to Allensville high schuoi, is now with the First Army in Germany and says he is proud to be with that famous unit. Sgt. Jones, in England with the Eighth Air Force and a gunner on a B-17, is the sin of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jones of Tim berlake and Roxboro. Recently on a number of missions, he is a graduate of Mount Tirzah high school. Radios Wanted For Butner Men Newest Tests Show Water At Leasburg Safe City Os Roxboro Laboratory Report Received This Morning. Although the presence of gas in test tubes of first samples of food and water taken at Leasburg at the Elementary school about two weeks ago did indicate the presence of B- j Coli (harmful bacteria) in the wat- j er and the food, final tests made j Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Other samples in the laboratory at ; the City of Roxboro show no B-Coli in the present samples, according ■ to Person Sanitarian W. B. Taylor. 1 who said today that similar tests have recently been made by State Sanitation officials in Raleigh, who report that the water is now safe, or “O. K". The Raleigh officials were in Leasburg Friday and say that what ever caused the outbreak of illness among the students has “gone by". Another test will be made later, rn the meantime students are continu ing to bring water from home, pend ing completion of new well facili ties from the Kelly Brewer farm. It is understood that Dr. Drake, of Yanceyville, himself said there was gas in the first test tubes of two weeks ago, but the report of gas, according to Sanitarian Taylor, has ! never been officially confirmed. Presence of gas in such a test is however indicative of bacteria of ! harmful type. There is no foundation whatever, according to Taylor, for the rumor that the new well was a carrier of typhoid germs. o PROMOTED Charles B. Jiggetts, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ernest W. Jiggets, 614 Rowland Street, Henderson, has been promoted recently to the rank of private first class at Davis Mont :haw Field, Tuscon, Arizona, ac cording to information received here. Pfc. Jiggetts entered the service in February 1944 and is assigned to duties as a clerk. ————o SLIGHTLY WOUNDED Pfc, Carlton James, of Roxboro. was slightly wounded in action In Germany, March 24, according to information received here by his wife, who says he had written her on March 23, that he had a tough job ahead. 0 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY! i w ."Smk-iI L. T. YARBOROUGH Beth Usable And Machines Wanted For Course, Says Mrs. White. Radios, used and to be repaired, are wanted at Camp Butner, where an educational reconditioning pro gram is -in progress, according to Mrs. T. Miller White, Roxboro’s Red Cross Camp and Community hos pital service chairman, who said to day that the reconditioning pro gram. carried on in connection with the hospital is one of several voca tional rehabilitation projects now under way at Butner. The radios may be usable, in play ing condition, or they may be out of date and much in need of repairs, according to Mrs. White, who says that condition of the machines does not so much matter, as the chief purpose of the Butner program is rehabilitation to be brought about through instruction in repair work j for the men, many of whom are [physically handicapped and must : learn new trades. Persons having radios to give for the program may leave them at the office of the Carolina Power and Light company, or they may tele phone Mrs. White at her home here. In charge of the radio repair pro gram at Butner is the Special Ser vices division headed by Maj. Frank J. Anneberg, who has made the re quest to Mrs. White and to Red Cross service representatives and chairmen in other communities. Any cooperation shown here by citizens will be deeply appreciated, says Mrs. White, o Ingenious Marines Use Volcanic Rock To Get Hot Bath , Iwo Jima (Delayed)—Enterpris ing Marines had showers with hot and cold running water here even before the fierce fighting had end ed and the battle-torn istond se cured, reports Sgt. Biil Ross, a Ma rine Corps combat correspondent. Leathernecks took water from an underground spring, passed it through about 100-feet of pipes which had been part of the Jap water system, and into a natural reservoir ot "hot rocks,” the heat ing system of the Mount Suri bachi volcano. "Hot and cold running water, 24-hours a day," said one Third Division Marine, a veteran cf three campaigns in the Pacific. “It’s the first time we’ve had that kind of shower service in more thou two years." .*/, Tho’ dangers stalk them all the day, care in our talk Will light ttatl way. • 'l v : ||| They won’t repeat whftt you don’t , tell. < NUMBER 37