THE KIDB all know where thfe
school house 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.
Two To Four Tons
Os Clothes Given
Here In One Day
Dr. Fitzgerald
New Presideni
Os Rotary Club
Other Officers Elected.
Gcorirc Wilson Speaks. Tri
bute Paid To Roosevelt.
New president of Roxboro Rotary
Club and to be installed in July will
be Dr. John Fitzgerald, of this City,
a surgeon here and for many years
active in the club’s leadership and in
other civic affairs. Dr. Fitzgerald,
who will succeed Fred Long as Ro
tary head, was elected to his new
office Thursday night at the club's
session at Hotel Roxboro, where pro r
gram for the evening was furnished
by George Wilson, student in Rox
boro high school, who gave his
American Legion oratorical contest
address.
Presentation of Wilson, whose
theme was, “The Constitution In a
Changing World", was by club mem
ber Rodcric Griffin, superintendent
of Person schools, while introduc
tion of Louis Wilson, father of the
speaker and a special guest was by
Floyd L. Peaden, Rotarian, who also
had as his guest the Rev. W. C.
Martin, general chairman of the
United Clothing drive.
Rotary vice president for the com
ing year wil be the Rev. Daniel
Lane, who will succeed the present
vice president. Dr. Fitzgerald. Re
elected as secretary was Ray Par
rish. while new treasurer will be W.
Reade Jones, who will succeed Ern
est Lunsford. New directors will be
T. T. MHohMl and Dr. A F. Nichols.
Others NMidiftuea #er<?Wr. W. Mor
rell and Joe Burke.
Chairman of the nominating com
mittee was George W. Kane. Other
candidate for president was J. D.
Mar.gum. while other nominee as
vice president was Sidney Marsh.
Defeated candidate for secretary
was J. Y. Blanks and loser in the
race for treasurer was Claude Har
ris.
The club stood for one minute in
silent tribute to the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The tribute
was paid immediately after J. W.
Noell. editor of the Courier-Times
had delivered an impressive im
promptu appraisal of the life and
work of the late president by invi
tation of Fred Long, club president.
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Kiwanis To Meet
Roxboro Kiwanians who Jsst
week heard an address by Person
Farm Agent H. K. Sunders, will
meet again tonight ut the regular
time at Hotel Roxdo’.o. Mr. Sand
ers in his address of last week dis
cussed pertiment farm problems.
J. J. Woody, Horse Show chair
man, reported considerable success
with that enterprize, a benefit for
under-privileged children. Finan
cial success of the venture was far
beyond expectations.
Hurdle Mills To
Have Senior Play
“Betty, the Girl O' My Heart."
Senior class play at Hurdle Mills
high school, will be presented there
in the auditorium on Friday night,
April 20, at 8:30 o’clock.
In the cast will be Mary Lou
Gates, Margaret Breeze, Dorothy
Phelps, Dallie Mae Horton, Gladys
Sartin, Russell Breeze, Nathan
Hurdle and Vernon Davis.
o ——
Has Purple Heart
Tech. 5 Charles Snipes, son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Snipes, of Per
son County, who was wounded in
action in Germany on February 24,
has received the Purple Heart, ac
cording to information received here
today. He is reported to bz getting
along fine.
OPA No. 580
Meeting Planned
The Person OPA Committee on
Regulation No. 580, of great Inter
est to merchants, will meet Tues
day night at 7:45 in the Grand
Jury Room at Person Court
House, according to announce
ment made today by W. Wallace
Woods, Chamber of Commerce
secretary, who urges a full attend
ance, as all forms under Regula
tion No. 580 must be filed With
OPA by Friday, April M.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Boxes Continue In Place.
County Residents Urged
To Give Before Friday.
From two to four tons of cloth
ing were collected here yesterday
for the United Clothing drive, ac
cording to Rev. V/. C. Martin, gen
eral chairman, and Floyd L. Pead
en, Roxboro chairman, who this
morning issued a joint statement
saying that they expect County
response to be even greater.
County deadline is Friday and
residents in county areas are re
quested to take clothing to re
spective neighborhood stores, some
twenty-two merchants being among
those who have agreed to let itheir
stores be collection centers.
The campaign in Roxboro, which
began yesterday afternoon at one
thirty, was managed chiefly by Boy
Scouts under leadership of Dr.
Robert Long and other scoutmas
ters, but so successful has the cam
paign been that city collection
boxes are to remain at the Court
House and at other strategic points
through Friday. City residents who
were missed in yesterdays eity-wide
canvass may also call Mr. Peaden
at City Milk and Ice Company, who
will receive clothing there or make
other arrangements for its collec
tion.
Better part of the colthing gath
ered so far is described as being
of good quality, central warehouse
for sorting and packing clothing is
in the R. J. Reynolds building here,
where the task is expected to ex
ceed all calculations.
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Sgt. Jacobs, Os
City, Listed As
War Prisoner
I
Had Previously Been Listed
As Missing: In Action.
S. Sgt. John W. Jacobs, 23. of
: Roxboro and Longhurst, son of Mr.
' and Mrs. A. G. Jacobs, is a prisoner
of war in Germany, according to a
card from hiim received Saturday
by his parents, Sgt. Jacobs had pre
, viously been listed as missing in ac
tion as of January 15.
Sgt. Jacobs, who becomes the
| third Person prisoner of war to noti
:fy his parents of his imprisonment
Iby mall that reached here ahead of
War Department notification, is a
brother of Seaman Second Class
Harry G. Jacobs, 21. -
The father, A. G. Jacobs, who
came to the Courier-Times office
just before time of closing of. the
office in memory of the late Presi
dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
said that Sgt. Jacobs entered the
Army in 1941 after having previous
ly served three months with the
Navy. He has been overseas less
than a year. The card is dated Feb
ruary 19, 1945, and was the second
message sent by the soldier, al
though, according to his father, the
first has never been received.
Mr. Jacobs has had a phostostatic
copy of the postcard made and will
file it with the War Department as
an official record. Sgt. Jacobs writes
that he is getting along O. K. and
says he does not have an opportuni
ty to write often, but tells his par
ents not to worry.
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Seaman Clayton
Ptr. Second Class Russell Thom
as Clayton and his wife arrived
here yesterday to visit Mr. Clay
ton’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
L. T. Cozart. A pre-Pearl Harbor
Navy veteran, Mr. Clayton, who)
was wounded on Paluie, has been in
hospitals since last September. He
was formerly with the Palace and
Dolly Madison theatres.
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Scout District
Will Meet
Person Scout District will meet
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock in
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce,
where reports of the Cherokee
quarterly meeting will be present
ed. Negro division of the District
will meet at 8:30 on the same
night at Person County Training
school. Executive E. Pierce Brace,
of Reldsvllle, will attend both
sessions.
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In Rocky Mount Fat Stock Sale,
44 steers in Grade 1 averaged $26.68
per 100 pounds; 18 in Grade 2,
$23.90; and 5 in Grade 3, $21.60.
Cmirier=f4ines
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Impressive Final Rites In Garden At
Hyde Park Held For Late President
Students Conduct
Memorial Rites
I Students of Roxboro high school
on Saturday morning, assembled in
j a quiet and reverent spirit in the
| auditorium, to pay tribute to the
i late Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd
| President of the United States.
Fred Bishop a member of the Rox
boro High School faculty, conducted
I the services, reading from the 15th
chapter of First Corinthians, after
which he led in prayer. This was
followed by a fitting tribute to the
man who had led the American
people through the* critical years
of 1933-1945.
The text of Mr, Bishop’s speech,
follows:
“Grief that surpasses its manifes
tation in human tears tugged at the
hearts of millions of people as we
learned of the physical passing of
our chief. As we reflect back to the
beginning of his career and see him
as he took over the ship of state
as it drifted so helplessly into total
chaos, we realize that he was our
true deliverer. So well did he dis
charge his duties during that first
term of office that we Americans
(for he taught us to be just .hat)
chose him to lead us for another
jfour years. This term, too, was so
I marked by acheivement that we felt
we could not let him go. Again af
ter his third term, accompanied by
so many unseemly difficulties and
tragedies, we knew that we could
still not let him go.
“He reluctantly said that as a
good soldier he would continue to
lead us if we wanted him. Not
thinking of his age and the frail
ties that accompany every man as
he grows older, we allowed him to
launch out for another four years.
Many of us thought at the time
that the strain and stress of these
hectic and memorably distressing
days would be too much for him,
yet we hoped, and prayerfully so,
that he could manage to stand at
the helm these last years, which
would have landed our already
smoothsailing ship Into the har
bor of final peace and unquestion
able security.
Rites Conducted
This Afternoon
For Mrs. Boyd
Funeral was held this afternoon
at 3 oclock at North Fork Bap
tist church, for Mrs. Martha Morris
Boyd, 71, of near Vlrgilina, Va., wife
of Johnny A. Boyd. Interment was
in the church cemetery. Mrs. Boyd,
a native of Halifax County, Va., who
made her home near Virgilina, died
at her home Saturday morning after
an illness lasting nearly one year.
Death was attributed to complica
tions.
Survivors, in addition to her hus
band, include: four sons, a daughter
and two step-sons. Rites were in
charge of the Rev. E R. Harris.
She was a daughter of the late R.
A. and Elizabeth Elliott Morris.
Among survivors are a number of
relatives in Person county.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Roxboro Joins Nation In Prayers For Roosevelt And Truman
"Despite the fact that he has
left us in body and mind, he has
not left us in spirit. W e accept
his philosophy of benevolence,
charity and world-wide brotherhood
and combine Tt with the philosophy
of our Lord, who taught us to love
our neighbor as ourselves. ,
Thus combining these two philo
sophies into the American way of
life, we, the people of these United
States will continue to lead the
people of the world into that uto
pia that our chief so ardently was
striving for and gave his life for
its achievements.”
The glee club quartette sang'
"Tile Lord's Pray" by Maiotte.
With bowed heads the student ,
body prayed silently for one minute
after which taps was played.
Schools To Help
Again With Job
Os Sugar Listing
Home sugar canning registration. j
to be again conducted in the Per-.
son and Roxboro public schools,:
will be held the last of this month,
although the exact date will be
announced later, according to the
Person OPA office. Plans, howev
er, are already underw-ay and full
cooperation of the public is re
quested, since sugar supplies are :
reported to be lower now than in
sometime.
It is urgently requested that only
those persons who need sugar for i
canning use it.
General statement. of plans, to
gether with regulations to be fol
lowed in the registration read as
follows:
"Applicants will take All of their
War Ration Books 4 to the desig
nated school sites and will be as- I
sisted in making out their applica
tions there by the teachers. Nuir,- i
her 13 Spare Stamp from Ration ]
Book 4 will have to be turned in ! ■
with the application for each per- I
son. Instructions on applies- 1
tion state: You may apply on this
form for yourself and members of j <
your family unit, r A family unit ! j
consists of all persons related by l
blood, marriage, or adoption, who
regularly reside in the same house- ji
hold.) Boarders or other persons.
■ Alo*uj Way
-T. Whitt, Sr„ needs a new hat. The one.he has is too small
for him since he got the swell head. Now he needs about two sizes
larger. The reason for this larger head, so his friends say, is the
fact that he was recently elected vice-president of one of Roxboro’s
civic clubs and it went right to his head. Os course, all the fellows
say, he had worked hard to get the office. Had been giving away
cigars and calling the members off to one side for conferences ajid
doing many other things in an effort to get votes for this office.
One member said that there was no telling how much the whole
thing cost Mr. Whitt. Here's another thing, you had better call him
Mr. Whitt Irom now on, not Pres. i
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Honor to the late President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (left)
and prayer for success of the new
Chief Executive Harry S. Truman
(right) marked Roxboro services
held Saturday afternoon at four
o’clock at Roxboro First Baptist
chi.rch, where chief speaker was
Mayor S. G. Winstead and pray
ers were offered by Rev. W. C.
Martin, of Edgar nong Memorial
Methodist church, with J. W.
Noell, editor of the Courier-Times,
presiding.
The Baptist church was taxed to
capacity, with many civic leaders
and officials in the audience.
Stores in the city were closed
during the hour of the service, an
olfieial proclamation having been
issued that morning by Mayor
S. G. Winstead. Special music was
lurnished by a quartet. President
Truman issued a statement to
Congress this (Monday) afternoon
after returning yesterday from
the Roosevelt rites at Hyde Park.
The memorial services in Rox
boro coincided in time with fun
eral services held Saturday in the
White House for the late Presi
dent.
! Held yesterday at Hyde Park were
| final rites and internment for Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt, 31st President
|of the United States, whose death.
• while in office, occurred Thursday
i afternoon at Warm Springs, Gal.,
from a cerebral hemorrhage. A
!state funeral service, marked by sifri-
Splieity was held Saturday in Wash
-1! ington at the White House in the
> famous East Roam.
• New president is Harry S. Tru
• man, former vice president, W'ho was
I sworn into office Thursday night
r mss than four hours after the death
‘, of Mr. Roosevelt,
Shock of the news of President
> Roosevelt's death —first received ov-
I I er the radio Thursday about five
. ifi the afternoon—was as great in
. Roxboro as it was elsewhere in the
; nation and throughout the world
■ Moving tribute to him was paid at
Thursday's session of Roxboro Ro
tary club by J. W. Noell, editor of
the Courier-Times, and numerous
:, other local expressions of sorrow
■ and regret were voiced during
Thursday night and later by both
| not related by blood, marriage c:
; adoption must file separate appli
cations if they need sugar for ln inc
canning.”
"The application asks the fol
lowing questions which must be
answered:
How many pounds of sugar we:
used in 1944 for jams, jellies, pre
serves, etc,, and how many pounds
will be used for this purpose in
1945?
How many quarts of fruit were
canned with sugar in 1944 and how
many will be canned in 1945?
How many pounds of sugar were
used in 1944 for canning fruit?
How many pounds of sugar were
granted by the board in 1944 for
both canning and preserving?
Does the applicant grow his own
fruit?
Each applicant must be approv
ed by a Board Member before cou
pons can be issued. The food panel
of the local Board is being en
larged so that the applications may
be approved as quickly as possible.
After applications are approved, the
coupons will be mailed to the ap
plicants.
“Your co-operation is requested
in bringing in the required infor
mation at the time of registration:
(Please turn to page six)
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945
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'V- \i H fl||
HARRY S. TRI'MAX
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
| civic and. business leaders and by
; the man in the street.
Washington. April lot— Accession
of Vice-President Truman to the
Presidency moves Secretary of State
Stettinius up to next,in line for the
office.
The Vice-Presidency itself re
mains vacant, but Senator Kenneth
D. McKellar of Tennessee, president
pro-tempore, becomes permanent
. presiding officer of the Senate.
Congress long ago provided tor a
Presidential succession ranging
through seven cabinet positions.
In event of the death, removal or
resignation of a. Vice-President who
. has succeeded to the Presidency, the
line is this: Secretary of State, Se
cretary of the Treasury, Secretary
of War, Attorney General, Post
master General, Secretary of the
Navy. Secretary of the Interior.
It never has been necessary in
United States history to go beyond
the 'Vice-President.
Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar, Dem
ocrat, Tennessee, became presiding
officer of the United States senate
when Vice President Harry S. Tru
man took the oath of office as
President.
McKellar, 76, attains the office of
“president of the senate” by virtue
of the fact that he was elected
"president pro tempore” last Janu
ary 6. As president pro tempore he
[was the official president officer at
any time Truman w.as not in the
chamber.
The office of vice president will
remain vacant until the 1948 presi
dential election and subsequent in
auguration of the winners in that
campaign.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's first
word when she learned that after
noon that the President was dead
were:
T am more sorry for the people
of the country and the world than
, I am for us.”
She was talking to the White
House press secretary, Stephen T.
Early, an'd Vice Adm. Ross T. Mcln
tyre, the President’s physician.
Early told how the news, flashed
here from Warm Springs, was brok
en to the first lady.
She was attending a “Thrift club”
meeting at the Sulgrave club here.
Early telephoned her and asked her
to return to the White House as soon
las possible.
Mr. Roosevelt had not been in
the best of health for some time, it
was disclosed Thursday night.
Last week at a banquet for Asso
cite Justice Hugo Black of the Su
preme court, Mrs. Roosevelt disclos
ed to Senator Barkley of Kentucky,
the Democratic leader, that the
| food the President had been eating
recently had no taste for him.
j Barkley said he remarked that
Mr, Roosevelt looked thin and hag
j gard and Mrs. Roosevelt said she
also felt lie was too thin.
Mrs. Roosevelt said that for sev
eral days previous the President had
been taking only gruel because he
had no taste for other foods.
When the death became known
here, several hundred gathered out
side the iron railings of the White
House grounds. They questioned
guards through the fence, without
success. The lowering of the flag
atop the White House to half staff
attracted scores of other passersby
late in the afternoon.
(Please turn to page six)
Lively Query And
New Program In
Debating Series
Roxboro Teams Anticipate
Discussion Voting Age.
Person and Roxboro high school
students who are in enter the an
nual triangular debating contest to
be staged soon at the University of
| North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will
| have a lively query to debate, “Re
solved that the voting age should
j be lowered to eighteen.”
I The query, which has in its fav
or the adoption of such a law by
the State of Georgia, leader of the
vanguard in a movement of such
I a law widely discussed, was an
j nounced today by Jerry L. Hester,
[ supervising principal of Roxboro
! high school, who said that Roxboro
debaters are to be four boys, all of
! whom were participants in the
i American Legion oratorical contest.
To be tried out this year for the
! first time will a system under which
] all debaters will meet on neutral
j territory. The Roxboro negative
: team, composed of W. D. Fisher,
| and John Robert Hester, with Ru
| fus Shelton, Jr., as alternate, will
meet Oxford Orphanage in Ox
lord high school auditorium, while
! the Roxboro affirmative crew,
George Wilson and Nathan Fox,
with Eugene Wade as alternate,
will debate against the Oxford high
school team in the Oxford Orphan
age auditorium, and visiting teams
in Roxboro at Roxboro high school
(Please turn to page six)
Beulah Groups
To Meet Next
Week For Study
1
Annual Institute Will..Be Held
In Yancevville This Time,
At Yanceyville Baptist churcn on
Thursday. April 26, the Woman's
Missionary Union of Beulah Asso
| elation will hold a Mission Study
'lnstitute, theme of which will be,
"Stewardship and Our World Mis
sion,"
Each church in the Association is
expected to be represented by the
President of its Missionary Society
Chairman of Mission Study, Chair
man of Stewardship, Pastor, and a
prospective teacher for every age
group.
Faculty members known to many
in Beulah Association have been
selected and a full and inspiring
program has been planned, accord
ing to Miss Ella Thompson ci
Leasburg.
Mrs. M. A. Huggins, State Chair
man of Stewardship, will Conduct a
[class for teachers of adults, using
Simpson's Stewardship and the
World Mission. Mrs. Gordon Mad
drey, State Chairman of Mission
I Study, will use Stewardship in the
j Life of Youth in a class for teach
ers of Intermediates. Mrs. L. L.
i Morgan, of Raleigh, whose name is
; well known through her Sunday
: School Secretary husband, will
j have a class for teachers of Junior
R. A.'s and G. A.'s, using The Ste
ward Family and Stewardship
t Please turn to page six)
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Fred N. Day
Home From Sea
■ Seaman First Class Fred N. Day,
Ison of Mrs. E. J. Day, of Roxboro,
I Route 3, who has been on active
sea duty since last October, is
spending several days with his
mother. He entered service about
a year ago and came home on leave
I Monday. On duty in both the At-
I lantic and the Pacific theatres of
war. he will be here for around
: another week.
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Cousins Meet
. Sgt. Chas. Donald Garrett, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Garrett of
Roxboro, and Pfc. N. Boyd Barrett
also of Roxboro and son of Mrs. N.
B. Garrett, met in Germany, Ma-ch
11. Both are serving with the 9th
Army. Sgt. Garrett also has two
brothers, Cpl. Herman Garrett, Jr„
and Prt. Eric Garrett serving in
Germany. Herman Garrett is with
the 7th and Eric Garrett is with
the 3rd Army.
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Bushy Fork Clothes
Collection of clothing for the
United Clothing drive in the
Bushy Fork area will take place
Thursday afternoon by Scoots of
Tribe 4, according to C. H. Mason,
principal of Bushy Fork school,
who urge* all residents to coop
erate with the program.
0 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PFBSON COUNTY IN 1945
HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
NUMBER 39
City Police To
Work In Brake
Testing Program
Brake Inspections Began Yes
terday And Will Last
Through May.
Local police of Roxboro will as-.
| sist in the Nationwide Police Brake
: Check Program that started Sun
day and will continue through June
Ist. stated Chief of Police G. C.
I Robinson Friday.
A statement by the International
| Association of chiefs of Police is
given below.
I The police of the nation, under
I the leadership of the International
' Association of Chiefs of Police, will
conduct a nationwide brake-check
program during the six week per
iod from April 15 through June 1.
The. police objectives are: to con
i serve the dwindling supply of pus
jsenger cars; to keep cars in safe
foperating condition; and to reduce
! traffic accidents.
In advertising and publicity three
I way protection for the individual
is emphasized: to save your car;
j to protect your life; and to back the
1 war effort.
j The brake-check is a device se
| lected by the police as the best
[ means of focusing the attention of
I the public on the urgency of car
| conservation and of holding the
line against traffic accidents. Po
lice are hopeful that motorists will
not only give their brakes zareiul
attention but will extend better
S care to cars in general.
•J The check will be given only to
I passenger cars -liinvolved in traf
| sic violations where vehicles are
j moving; 2) involved in accidents;
and 3) operated in a manner indi
cating inadequate brakes.
This new' brake-check takes but
60 seconds to make. It has been
devised to be of the utmost prac
tical value to police officers. De
veloped through careful research,
it takes into full consideration the
current problems of traffic law en
forcement and the engineering and
mechanical aspects involved. Sim
plicity is its dominant characteris
tic. The method has been given
full trial in one large state with
highly successful results.
When an officer has stopped a
car for a moving violation, he asks
the driver to vacate the driver’s
seat. The officer then opens the
car door on the driving side, leaves
it open while he performs the sim
ple act o$ depressing the brake
pedal with the toe of his right sho.
In this manner he determines the
distance between the pedal and the
floorboard when the brakes oegin
to grip.
In Roxboro Patrolman John Hud
gins will assist with the checking,
as previously announced last week.
Miss Crumpton Os
Roxboro, Helps
With Program
To promote class spirit, sopho
mores at Woman's College, Greens
boro, will celebrate Sophomore Day
on campus tomorrow. During the
day they will wear their rad class
jackets and will have a banquet in
North dining hall at 6 o'clock. In the
evening, they will present in Aycock
auditorium a program of humorous
skits, entitled "Hour of Laughter.”
Skits for the evening program will
be in the form of “take-offs” on
the various departments. Majors in
each department are taking part,
including Misses Ruth Anderson,
Winston-Salem, business education;
Katherine Kelly, Washington, D. C.,
psychology-sociology; Jocelyn Hill,
Charlotte, languages; Margaret Rey
nolds, Turkey, physical education;
Janie Crumpton, Roxboro. mathe
matics; Katherine Ray, Hillsboro,
English; Elizabeth Jobe, Raleigh,
art; Dorothy Reynolds, Raleigh, his
tory; Patricia Mcßrien, Rio de Jan
erio, Brazil, home economics; Nancy
Jane Ansley, Charlotte, science; and
Arta Hiatt, High Point, pirlmary
education.
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Has Certificate '
Tec. 5 Errol D. Morton, Jr„ of
Roxboro, with the Sixth Army in
Germany has been awarded. the
Certificate of Merit for outstaad|Mti
performance of duty.
He is the son of Mr. and Wtr'
Errol D. Morton of Roxboro. V !