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THE KIDS all know where the ' schoolhouse is, but Just the same the school bell rings. Many people know tohere your business is; ad • vertlsing Is the bell you ring. O—M—g—g— — ■ ■ 1 1 1 , ■■ I J VOL. LXIV. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE » NUMBER 40 Tom Street In County To Take Farmer Census Local Man Making Count Os Persons Employed On Farms. A count of the number of persons. .14 years old and «fter, employed on farms In Person County *ls being made by enumerators of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Com merce, as one of the principal fea tures of the 1945 Census of Agricul ture now underway. This enumer ation will provide information, it is ’ explained by ■ Tom Street, of Rox boro and Grgensboro, supervisor of the 1945 farm census in this district, on the- extent of the fatrn labor force* in this county after three years of war and its drain on the farm population. The agricultural labor force count now in progress throughout the Na tion, a statement received by Mr. Street from Census Director J. C. Capt. at Washington points out, will provide detailed information on the number of farms in each of the country's more than 3,000 counties * related to the number of persons residing in the farth households, -and the number of persons employ [cd on farms classified in three * groups—farm operators, unpaid members of the operators’ families and hired farm laborers. At the time of the 1940 farm census, five years ago and two years before the entry of this country into World. War 11, there were 6,096,799 farms in the United States. Os these, .5,321.248 farms reported 9,- 694,168 persons working, with 5,- 081.848 farms reporting 7,940,727 •members of the farm operators' families working on the farm, while 892 648 farms also reported employ pient of 1,753.441 persons as hired labor. According to recent estimates of * the Census Bureau-she U. S. civilian farm population was 25,700,000 in October, 1944. aji decrease of. 4,410,000 from the 19'40 2Vngus total of 30,394,000. o : Exchange Club To Be Installed » TV ' ' Discussion of Charter Night to be held Wednesday night at Hotel Rox boro and the election of a Board of Control to act as directors, furnish ed chief business last night at sec ond meeting of the formed Exchange Club of Roxboro, also at the hotel, where Capt. A. P. Barclay, of Toledo, Ohio, assistant national director of extension, presented the club covenant to J. H. Lewis, new club’s, president. Members of the Board of Control 'arc. for twelve months, C. B. Kirby, V. A.- Thomas and Riley Oakley, and for six months, Jesse Whitt, Ivey James and Henry O'Briant. Full roster of members of the Roxboro club will be announced at Charter Night, which will be at 7:30 o'clock, with wives of the members as special guests. Also to be here will be mem bers of the Exchange clubs from Durham dnd Henderson. Presenting tlic Charter to the club will be Charles McKay Clarke, of Durham, District Governor of Exchange Clubs in North Carolina and a past presi dent of the Durham club. Read at the meeting here last night was an In Memoriam from National Exchange Club headquart ers honoring the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was a member of the Exchange Club, Poughkeepsie, New York, for twenty years, said to be only civic club with which he retained affiliation. o Pfc. Carltcn James In England Now Ffc. Carlton James, recently wounded in Germany, has been transferred to a hospital In .Eng land fpr treatment of knee and leg injuries, from which he is making good recovery, according to a let ter from him received today by his wife, who lives on the Hurdle 'Mills road. Mrs. James has also received the Purple Heart from her husband and a government card from Wash ington reporting on his condition. o One More Day Roxboro merchants who have goods to sell under OPA Regula tion 580 must file papers by to morrow, Friday. An animated dis cussion meeting on the famous order was held at Person Court House, with W. Wallace Woods, Chamber of Commerce Secretary as a leader in analysts. Allies Advance Across Germany Together .. ••• II JJ I I §§ IPl| w S ~ $$ **&&&ss >* r - > s&ai $ , v,v, * yink Paratroopers riding a column of Churchill tanks of the Scots Guards regiment of the British 2nd Army are shown in this picture advancing thru the German town of Dorstcn. At one point the Yanks—of the 513th Parachute Regiment—leapt off the tanks, and supported by the guns of sixty Brit ish tanks, crossed a. river to silence German opposition. Then, as the Guardsmen cheered, the Yanks returned across the stream with 400 swimming and wading prisoners. Mrs. R. B. Dawes To Leave School 1 i Hospital Men From Butner To Come This Week i Roxboro Service Center Group Plans Picnic Sunday With . Vespers. • i , Twenty-five or mors Camp But-: ; i lier hospital* pattern? |o’iuiers in a> | convalescent condition, will come to | j Roxboro Sunday and will be enter ' tained by Roxboro young women at | the USO Service Center and at the j Fred Long cabin, where a picnic will be held in the afternoon in con nection with a vesper service, it was announced today by Dr. Robert E.. Long. USD chairman, who says that: this group of hospitalized soldiers ■ . is to be one of the first of several such greups to come here. Speaker at the vesper services at 1 ' Chub Lake is expected to be the j ■ Rev. Daniel Lane, of Person circuit. | * The picnic supper will be under j : auspices of USO girls here, mem -1 bers of a recently reorganized 1 Group 11. : Chairmen of Group II are Misses j ' Peggy Whitten and Anita Kirby. who have said that all young wo -1 men associated with the USO pro -1 gram are invited, although they 1 1 may not be members of Group II In addition to the chairmen, oth -1 er girls in Group II are: 1 Misses Arine Clayton, Marjorie j Dickerson, Marion James, Winnie ■ • McWhorter, Lelia Dale Monk, Mar -1 garet Munday, Janie Murphy, Ida | Pleasant. Dorothy Rowe and Daisy 1 Thompson. Other service meii visiting in Rox- [ boro from Camp Butner, or else -1 where, arc invited to the Sunday | ; program and to the Service Center at any time during the hours in which it is kept open on Saturday ’ and Sunday. Regular Saturday and ■ Sunday hours are being maintain- j ed at the Center, according to Dr. 1 Long. 1 o Hunter Will Be Agency Speaker Speaker next week on Wednes- j day at noon at Hotel Roxboro at April meeting of the Person Coun ty Council of Social agene'es will be Gordon C. Hunter, active mem ber of Lester Blackwell Post No. , 138, the American Legion, who will j discuss the “G. I.” Bill of Rights,; with particular reference to loan features as arranged through banks The address •by Mr. Hunter will , : be the second one the Agency has ; , had on the “G. I.” Bill. First j speaker was Claude Luquire of the . Roxboro USES office. o i Has Purple Heart Pvt. Leamon Joseph Dixon has t been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action in Ger- j many on February 24th. Pvt. Dix-; on sent it to his mother, Mrs. Maude L. Dixon, who received it last week. | According to word received from j the War Department and also Pvt. j Dixon’s letters he is making nor mal improvement in a hospital In England] * ®fe Courter=®tine? At least two impending changes] in school administration in white I public schools in the Perscii sys-1 tem are to be looked for, it was] learned today. One ha s previous- ] ly been announced, while the other [ was publicly revealed for the first \ time this week following a school ' committee meeting a! Olive Hill. Mrs. R. B. Dawes, of Roxboro, | for the past three years principal ] of Olive Hill school, who has been j : re-elected to that position will not i accept it and is expected to resign at the end of the present school ; year, according to Person Superin tendent- R B. Griffin, wl.v sc.id [yesterday that Mrs. Dawes is leav ing the Olive Hill school because she finds it increasingly difficult jto continue duties of teaching and (principal and too at the same time supervise home duties. Mrs. Dawes, wife of R. 3. Dawes I present solicitor of Person's Re- j ! corder's court, has been a faculty I ■ member and principal in the Per-' son and RoxborO system of schools' ! for several years and before going j !to Olive Hill was with the Cun- j ! ningham school and Roxboo high ! | school as teacher. j Superintendent Griffin in mak- 1 ing announcement of Mrs. Dawes’i intention to resign, praised her' highly for efficiency of adn l inistra- j tion at Olive Hill and for her other I ! work here in the schools One of j ] the chief projects at Olive Hill has recently been the school lunch ; room. Also expected to resign although I she has been re-elected is Mrs. Pa i mela Rcade, teacher of the second j grade at Mount Tirzah. Mrs ] Reade, who previously had served [ as principal at East Roxboro. came , jto the Person system from the ! Gastonia schools. She lives at Mount Tirzah. j Still another impending is that of ]C. H. Mason, principal of Bushy Fork, who is expected to receive ap pointment as Postmaster at Hel ; ena-Timberlake. All faculty members. Including principals, at Olive Hill, Allens j ville and Mount Tirzah have been, ! re-elected in the past few days, ac cording to Mr. Griffin. The Mount Tirzah meeting was held Tuesday, j : the Allensville one on Saturday and j the Olive Hill one on Monday, j Principal at Allensville is D. W. j Kanoy. who came to the school ' last year for the first time, while administrative head at Mount Tir zah is J. S. Fleming, formerly with the faculty of Roxboro high school I PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADDRESSES CONGRESS Washington, April 18.—President s Truman pleaded with Congress and I with all Americans Monday to help [ him carry out the war and peace i 1 ’ideals of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1 1 j and boldly warned the Axis: i j I—There will be no terms short of i unconditional surrqpder. ; i 2 —No war criminal can hope to • [escape punishment. None will be i | permitted to plot future wars irfany ! ; mountain retreat, such as Berchtes- ■ Igaden. Immediate reaction to the speech , l I was couched in the. highest of i i ! praiseworthy terms. Senator Van- i | jdenberg <R., Mich.) called it “a very I fine dedication to victory and the I public welfart.'' To Senator Con-! j Inally (D. Tex.) it was “eloquent and i forceful." Many House members hit on the same phrases—honest, sincere re as- i HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Clothing Piles Up Roxboro and Person citizens, j according to the Rev. W. C. Mart in, general chairman, are con- j tinuing to pile up and bring in clothing for the United Clothing collection, which started in the ] | City Sunday afternoon and is ex- ] pected to end tomorrow after j j County collections are all turned | in. Response to the appeal has I been great, says Mr. Martin, who I never-thesless urges that all pos- I sible contributions be turned in i by tomorrow so as not to prolong | the campaign. i Biggest jab now remaining is ! packing the clothing and getting i it ready to ship to a distribution depot. Woods Speaker At New Rotary Club In Milton •.' '■ . V ] Speaker Friday night at Milton 'at the organization meeting of the ] North Caswell Rotary club was W. ] Wallace Woods, of Roxboro, past j president of the Roxboro club, who I was invited to attend the Milton j affair by Joyce Early, of Yancey ville, president of the Yaneeyvilie club, sponsoring organization for I the new club at Milton. i Mr. Woods, discu.-sing, "Your Op- I portunities in Rotary," told the new j members something of what they ] can give to Rotary and what Ro j tary can give them. He said also I that he was much impressed with ! the citizenship standards held by members of the hew club and that the club should mean much to the North Caswell section. President of .the North Caswell club is L. Banks Satterfield, with Jake T. Bradsher as secretary. The Jclub, according to Mr. Woods, nas jover twenty members. Mr. Woods in his address extended felicitations' from the Roxboro club to the new organization, saying he hopes the members of the respective clubs will; visit one another in exchange meetings when possible. Regular meeting night for the North Cas jWell club will be Friday. and well-known here, j Other schools, including Rox | boro high school, are expected to ] have faculty elections in the next |few weeks. Elections are by school committees for the various schools and are frequently held in consyl ] tation with County administrative heads and county and district I Board members. suring. Soviet Ambassador woiny ko called it “wonderful.” Captulated to the highest office ]in the land by the death of Mr. ! Roosevelt, the President seized his ] first opportunity to address a joint i session of Congress shortly after ; nocn, punctuating a hectic day that started for him in the White House at 8:15 a. m. Highlights Os Address ] Applause interrupted President Truman 12 times during the speech ito Congress. Following are the de clarations which brought the ap ] plause: I Tragic fate has thrust upon us [grave responsibilities. We must car ry on. Our departed leader never look ed backward. He looked forward Mass Meeting For City Nominations Tonight At Court House To Be Quiet Juniors To Give jLeasburg Flag i Stale Councilor A. C. Edwards! May Be Chief Speaker. State Councilor A. C. Edwards, nf Hcokertown, is expected to be in Roxboro on Sunday, April 22, when he will go to Leasburg that after inoon to speak to Solomon Lea school at exercises to be held by Longhurst Council No. 750, the Jun j icr Order, for presentation of a [Bible and an American flag to that i school, it was reported today by Marvin Clayton, of Roxboro, coun j cilor of the Longliurst Council, j Program will be in charge of Mr. ! Clayton, who says he is expecting a [good attendance from Roxboro. ] Longhurst, Leasburg and other near by communities. Longhurst Council ‘several years ago received into its ! membership men from Leasburg j Council after it was dissolved and it jis said that as many as fifteen to twenty Leasburg residents are now affiliated with Longhurst Council. Mr. Clayton also says that Long j hurst Council at least once each [year sponsors presentation of a j Bible Mild a U. S', flag to some pub- I he school within the area served by i the Council. Sunday's program at Leasburg will begin at two-thirty o'clock in the afternoon. The flag measures six by ten feet in size and* the Bible, said to be of medium size, has an unusually handsome bind ing. according to Mr. Clayton. Prin cipal of Solomon Lea school, which has a student body of around 150, is Mrs. Penn Noell, of Timberlake. On the faculty at Solomon Lea school are two Roxboro women. Miss Biilie Vogler and Mrs. Hazel Brooks Ft; therston. Tlie Juniors here are having yet j another Council event, a barbecue i supper to be served tonight (Thurs day) at seven o’clock at the Louis] Long farm, near Roxboro, at which many non-member guests are ex pected to be present. Calvin Milam Now Sergeant Calvin C. Milam, 21, of Roxboro. engineer with a B-24 Liberator ! group in the 15th AAF in Italy, that ] has over 160 combat missions to its credit, has been promoted to the grade of technical sergeant, it was announced today. Since his arrival overseas Ser-: geant Milam has participated in numerous attacks on enemy air craft factories, airdromes, bridges. | oil refineries, and other strategic targets in southern Europe. Prior to his arrival overseas he j attended airplane mechanic's school at New Orleans, Louisana, and gun , nery school at Laredo, Texas. He is a graduate of Bethel Hill high school, where he was active in ! | sports. Sergeant Milam is authorized to wear the distinguished Unit Badge as a member of a heavy bombard ment group which has been cited | by the War Department for “out-! standing performance of duty while ' in armed conflict with the enemy." Before entering the service he j was employed by the Glenn L. Mar tin Aircraft Company. Baltimcie, j Maryland, as an aircraft mechanic and was stationed at Pueblo Army Air Base, Pueblo, Colorado, before embarking for overseas duty. o Serve us well in what you tell! and moved forward. That is what he would want us to do. That is l what America will do. With great humility (the fore-, i going three words were interpolated in the prepared speech). I call upon all Americans to help me keep our 1 nation united In defense of those ideals which have been so eloquent ]ly proclaimed by Franklin Roose velt. i America will continue the fight i for freedom until no vestige of re sistance remains. ' l Out demand has been, and it re mains—unconditional surrender. The laws of God and man have been violated and the guilty must not go unpunished. r ! George W. Kane Named Chairman War Memorial Approximately Twenty Rep resentatives Present For Meeting Held In Court House. George W. Kane, local contractor, i was named permanent chairman of j the Person War Memorial Commit tee at a meeting that was held I Tuesday night in the Register of. Deeds office in the. Court House in! Roxboro. At this meeting, attended by about twenty representatives front the City and County, it was decided that the memorial should take the term of a hospital for the people of this County. Other memorials discuss ed were a stadium and a play ground but it was decided .nai a hospital would be of grea.ef bene-j fit to the people of both llie Ciiy ■ and County. It was brought out at the bidet-.j ing that Federal aid Would probably j be forthcoming for the hospital af ter the war and that other aid i such as the Duke Foundation would j help with a project of this kind. All present at the meeting agreed that the hospital memorial Would be of greater benefit. The meeting Tuesday night .. was j opened by Gordon C. Hunter who | asked for nomination of a perma- I nent chairmdn. After the election ! of George W. Kane as chairman, he. ] Mr. Kane appointed the lotlrnvinj;! men as a sub-committee to make on j ' investigation of hospital needs ior i the county and to aservtain var-j • ious costs, etc., R. L. Harris, chair ! man. Robert Burns, Dr. B. A, ] \ Thaxton. Dr. John Fitzgerald and' | Jim Long. It was voted that those . .present, | at the Tuesday night mooting be] ! recognized as the Central Group of ] the hospital project and that others] others be added by the chairman. o Mother Reports Loss Os Her Son, David S. Walsh. 23, of Asheboro, i i machinist first class with the U. I 'S. Navy, and known to a number j ! of Roxboro residents, is reported to ] !have lost his life in a sea battle] in the Philippines, October 24.] ; 1944, according to a message re- ] 1 ceived today by the Courier-Timer, from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.! T. Walsh, of Asheboro. In addition to the parents, others j in the family are five brothers, A. I ! J. Walsh, of Portsmouth. Va„ C. L. Walsh, of Danville, Va., R. R. Walsh, of the United States Navy, j Lt. E. J. Walsh, now in Florida as ! ter two years in India, and Cpl. G. ] Thomas Walsh, now in Italy, and i three sisters, Mrs. H. L. Haynes ;of Danville. Va., and Misses Alma and Reba Walsh, of Asheboro. ] David Walsh, who took part in many major battles between Sep tember 1943, and October 1944. was] ! at first reported as missing, accord ing to information furnished by his mother, who later i eceived ; word from one of her son s ship- ] mates saying that he (her son) was I last seen in the WRler. (After prolonged applause the I President continued —“nothing shall shake our determination to punish ] the war criminals even though we ! must pursue them to the ends of ; } the earth.") Let me assure the forward-look ing people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts [to improve the lot of the common people. , i The grand strategy of a United Nations war has been determined due in no small measure to the vision of our departed commander in chief. I want the entire world to know i that this direction (of the war un : der tire present high command) (Please turn to page 8) Present Mayor And Board Ofj Commissioners Slated For • Renomination. Roxboro citizens interested in! nominations to be made for city of ] ] Roxboro offices for the next two | I years will meet tonight at eight ] [ o'clock at Person County Court ] House, where a duly called session ] [as prescribed by the city charter] ] will be held. The meeting, of the ] traditional town meeting type, is j ] expected to be of conservative tone ] ! and of brief duration, with nomi- j nation of all the present elective! I officials slated. Nominations will be made from ] the floor for an election to be held ! in May. i Regular April meeting of the Board of City Commissioners was held Tuesday afternoon, with all of the members present and with Mayor S. G. Winstead presiding. Also present were City Attorney F. ;O. Carver and City Manager Guy i Whitman. Some consideration was j again devoted to problems pertain- ] ing to street paving and sewerage j | services. Budget matters were not ] discussed, but are expected to be ] 'an important item at the May meeting. Commissioners present were Gor- j don C. Hunter, C. Lester Brooks, ] R. Cliff Hall. Philip L. Thomas and j C. Martin Michie. All except Mr. j Michies have served one or more i complete terms as Commissioners. Mr. Michie was appointed several j months ago to fill out the unex- ] pired term of the late George J- j Cushwa. Mayor Winstead, who was ] j first appointed to his office to suc ceed the late S. F. Nicks, Jr., in 1940, has since that time continued in office by election and is expect j ed to seek renomination tonight. ; Offices of city manager, tax col lector, chief of police and of fire 1 and city attorney are by appoint | ment or election by the Board of Commissioners. ,; —o Mrs. R. P. Burns Again Named As PTA Leader j Re-elected as president of the Pa ! rent-Teachers association at Rox- ] I boro Central Grammar school at j [the April meeting * Tuesday after-] noon was Mrs. R. P. Burns, oc- j cording to announcement made to- ' day in which it v.as also repotted that membership now stands at 212 ! with paid-up dues. It was also indicated that prog ] ress this year, as summarized at ] the final meeting Tuesday, has ; been unusually good. Various com- i .' mittee reports were presented and j I words of appreciation were spoken j for the school by Miss Inda Col- i I ] lins, principal. Central PTA,; ] among other things, has with the j active assistance of grade mothers, ] bought numbers of pictures for I I rooms in the school and some ] equipment for the playground. Pre-school clinic will be held 1 { Monday, May 7, at the school. At tendance award was divided Tues day between Miss Maude Monta- j gue's third grade and Mrs. W. H. • Long's first grade. Miss Claire ] Harris, acting on behaif of the As- ] ■ sociation, presented gifts to three 1 members of the School Patrol, it j being said that only three mem- I bers kept up duties throughout the i year. 1 In announcing the re-election of Mrs. Bums as president the As 1' sociation has also revealed the se lection of the following new of -1 ficers to assist her: I Mrs. J. L. Hester, first vicc-pres j ident; Mrs. B. B. Strum, ssccnd I vice president; Mrs. Preston Sat terfield, Sr., secretary and Mrs. Franklin Long, treasurer. A moment of silent prayer fol lowed by a prayer by Met. Burns, j j marked the Association's tribute to ] ■ the late President Frank’ln D. j l Roosevelt. i- ■ ' * Open House Open House will be held on Wed nesday, April 25, at Roxboro Cen : tral Grammar school, according to ; Miss Inda Collins, who says that i ] parents, patrons and interested ] friends of the students are cordially : invited to attend. I o VFW Installs Held Tuesday night at the USO Service Center was regular meeting > of Veterans of Foreign Wars, the - Lewell T. Huff Post, at which new > I officers wert installed la an im pressive ceremony. : , 0 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY! Birthday C. H. HUNTER jC. H. Hunter Will Observe Birthday Friday Carl H. Hunter will celebrate his 82nd birthday tomorrow, April 20th. While not a native of this county he has been here long enough to know more of our citizens and to number his friends in largo num i bers than almost any other citizen of the county. He came here just about the time that the Noell , brothers moved . in, coming front' - near Morejread City. He entered the grocery business and was most successful, so much so that he retired as one of our capitalists about ten or twelve years ago. That of itself attests to his business ability, for in our long experience we have known very few of our friends in position to take such a step; true, now and then one of our godd Methodist ministers lias retired after long and useful I years, but not because he has reached the stage where he has no further call to carry on, but an ac count of long and faithful service. Mr. Hunter has, and is a, useful citizen, and many there ate who i will testify to the fact that when !in need he came to their rescue. : Truly, he is one who did not let his right hand know wha„ nis left : hand did, for when he lent a help i ing hand it was not for publication. Long may he live, we all ’ove hint Lt. Humphries In Belgian Hospital Lt. William Smith Humphries, of Roxboro and Bethel Hill, son of Mrs. J. Y. Humphries, who last week was reported as wounded in Ger many, has been moved to a United States Army hospital in Belgium for treatment of injuries to his left shoulder, according to a message ; dictated by him to his mother and ] recently received. ' Lt. Humphries is left-handed and ; hence is unable to write to his mother, but urges her not to worry. In addition to the telegram of last week, Mrs. Humphries has also re ceived a letter from the Adjutant General. Lt. Humphries was form erly an associate editor of the Rox boro Courier. Rock Grove Meets ! Regular monthly meeting of the ]W. M. U. and other organizations, j including G. A., Y. W. A., and ! Brotherhood was held at the Church ] Sunday night. There were forty members present. O . Uft'-'d] Pre-school Clinics Pre-school clinics under spon sorship of the tri-county health department will begin here next week, according to Min Evelyn Davis, senior staff nurse. First clinic, on Monday, will be at Per- , son County Training sc heel. Sec ond will be on Wednesday at Olive Hill Negro School, ( link* of tin weeks following will be ai Hurdle. Mills, Longhurst and at Roxboro - Central school, on Monday, Tues day and Monday, April M. Malta May 2 and 7th. Bonn for alt clinics will be from 9 to 11 A, JL