THE KIDS all know where the schoolhouse is, but Just the game the school bell rings. Many people know where your business is; ad vertising is the bell you ring. VOL. LXIV. Full Time Bible Teacher Sought Job Os Packing Forces Call For Extra Workers United Clothinir Drive Highly Successful, But Packers Now Needed. The Rev. W. C. Martin, general chairman of the United Clothing drive, and W. Wallace Woods, chair man of the packing and shipping committee, report that the response for Old Clothes has been magnifi cent. The collections have been handled very successfully by the collections committee and by various stores throughout the county desig nated as collections centers. The big problem now is the com pletion of sorting and packing for shipment and Mr. Woods is now calling for volunteers to assist with packing, which is being conducted in the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco stor age building on Reams Avenue, op posite the Wade grocery, company. Those who can help in this project arc asked to call the Chamber of Commerce for further instructions. The shipment is supposed to be completed by April 30th. Mr. Woods reports that the quality of clothing donated has been excellent and commends the citizens of Roxboro and Person County for their splen did cooperation in this humanitar ian undertaking. The campaign officially ended Friday. Roxboro chairman has been Floyd L. Peaden, with much assist ance by civic club members and Boy Scouts. » Person Boy Has Freedom From German Camp Pvt. W. A. Wilson. Jr.. Prob ably First Person Native. So Liberated. Pvt. William A. Wilson. Jr., of Timberlake, first reported as miss ing in action in Germany and then listed as a prisoner of war there, has been released from his capacity and is now a free man, his parents learn ed Friday when they received a card from their son, probably the first Person man to be liberated by an advancing army. That is the way Pvt. Wilson ex plains his liberty, received April 2, possibly by an American army, since he speaks of being so very, very happy when he saw an American tank roll into camp. No other de tails of Wilson's liberation are giv en. although he says he expects to be home at Timberlake within about thirty days. He says, ”1' am one of the happiest boys in the world today, (April sth). Again I am a free man. X am so happy I don't know what to say. Feeling fine, only a bit bad today because I have eaten too much good American food. My prayer has been answered and I’ll probably be home soon, maybe back in the States within thirty days.” Wallace Kirby Radio Trainee Wallace H. Kirby, of Roxboro, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Teague Kir by, has recently been assigned to Radio Training at the United States Maritime Service Radio Training Station, Gallups Island, Boston, where he will complete twenty weeks of intensive Radio training, preparatory to taking Federal Communications commission exam inations for a Second Class Radio Telegrapher’s license. Upon receipt of his Second Class License, Kirby will, be appointed Warrant Radio Electrician U. S. aboard a vessel of the United States Maritime Service, and will be as signed to duty as Radio Operator Merchant Marine. Superior Court Person Superior Court, with Judge W. C. Harris, of Raleirh, presiding, opened this morning for a one week term. Following selection of the Grand Jury and the charge work of the day be gan about eleven o'clock. Fore man of the Grand Jury is A. R,. Newton, of Moriah. . - . .. • -A,-; •• - • . J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Ministers Meeting This Aft ernoon Also Are Discuss ing Scouting. The Person! County Ministerial association will meet Monday af ternoon at three-thirty o'clock in a called session in the pastor's study at Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church for the purpose of discuss ing plans for the employment of a full-time teacher of Bible in Rox boro high school, according to an nouncement made this morning by the Rev. B. B. Knight, secretary of the Association. Teaching of Bible in the high school has for the past several years been done on a part-time bas is by ministers in the Person asso ciation. Present teacher is the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pastor of Roxboro First Baptist church, who last month succeeded the Rev Ruf us J. Womble, now of Richmond, Virginia. Plan of having a full-time Bible teacher in the high school here has been discussed informally with school officials by members of the Association and among afficials who are approving the proposed plan are Jerry L. Hester, district supervising principal and head of the high school and R. B. Griffin, Person superintendent of schools. It has been suggested that Fred Bishop, now a member of the high school faculty, may be the one to take the new position. The ministers are also expected to take some action on the greater cooperation of churches with- the | Boy Scout organization, a proposal made abut two months ago by Cherokee Council Executive E. Pierce Bruce, of Reidsville. Mrs. 0. H. Oakley Dies Sunday At !Her'Residence i < Mrs. Mary Elizabetli Long Oakley. I 63, wife of O. H. Oakley, Sr., and i mother of the late Melvin J. Oak- I ley, died Sunday night at seven j o'clock at her home in ,the Rock i Grove section, near Allensville, af | ter an illness last six days. Death j was attributed to complications. Funeral arrangements are incom plete, but rites are expected to be held Tuesday at the home. In addition to her husband, sur vivors include eight daughters and four sons. Daughters are: Misses Nettie, Ruby and Dorothy Oakley, all of the home, and Mcsdames Daniel Al len, Talmadge and Raymond Dan iel, Dan Rogers and Ruffin Lee, all of Roxboro. Sons are: Raymond Oakley and Osborne Oakley, Jr„ both of Rox boro and Johnny Oakley, of Louis burg, and Vernon Oakley, of the United States Army, Keesler Field, Miss. Another son Melvin J. Oak ley, of Durham, was killed in ac tion several months ago in the Eu ropean theatre while serving with the Army. o S. J. Barnette, 83, Person Native Dies In Texas Storewall J. Barnette, 83. of Buf falo Springs, Texas, died there on Saturday, April 14, according to a message received here last week by his niece Mrs. W. R. Woody- Fun eral and interment took place at Buffalo Springs. The last member of his immediate family Mr. Barnette, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barnette, was a native of Person County, where he was a druggist in Rox boro before he went to Texas forty five years ago for his health. At that time he suffered from as thma. He never married. In Tex as he was for a number of years connected with a ranch. In addition to Mrs. Woody, a number of nieces and nephews who live here, are among survivors. — : — .-0 —: -- Sgt. A. W. Norri* In Philippines Sgt. Arthur W. Norris is serving with the 38th Infantry Division in mopping-up operations in the Zam bales Mountains, west central Lu zon as a stock clerk of the 38th Signal Company. Sgt. Norris is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Norris of Hurdle Mills, R. F. D. No. 1, and has been over seas in Hawaii and New Guinea be fore coining to the Philippines. He is entitled to Asiatic-Pacific and Philippine Liberation Ribbons. ®h e Courier=®imes Valued Signature On Mason Paper Mrs. C. H. Mason, whose hus band. C. H. Mason, principal of Bushy Fork school is to be post master at Timberlake, has a priz ed possession, his certificate cr commission of appointment to the Timberlake job, dated March 20, and signed by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The cer tificate of which Mrs. Mason is to be guardian, is prc4>ably among the last of such papers signed by President Roosevelt, whose signa ture is bold and black. Also on the document is the lighter signa ture of Postmaster General Frank Walker. Mr. Mason, who will resign at Bushy Fork after school is out, expects to take over his Timber lake duties about June 1. Baptists Have Full Program In Yanceyville Caswell And Person Church Leaders To Meet In Yanceyville. Two important Beulah Associa tion gatherings are scheduled for this week at Yanceyville, according to announcements made today by officials of the organization, who point out that the meetings are to be of special interest to Baptists throughout Person and Caswell counties. First gathering on Tuesday night will be that of the Beulah Associa tion! Training Union, of which J. W. Greene, of Roxboro First Bap tist Church, is director. Second : gathering is a Beulah Association ; mission study institute to be held on Thursday. Both the Tuesday and the Thursday meetings will be in i Yanceyville Baptist Church. Chief speaker at Tuesday's Train ling union will bo the Rev. W. F. Baucom. pastor of the host church at Yanceyville at 7:30. when other members of the Association will I also speak. ! One of the main speakers Thurs day at the Institute, according to I Miss Ella Thompson, of Leasburg, ' mission study leader, will be M. A. ! Huggins, of Raleigh, general secre tary of the State Baptist conven | tion. He will conduct classes for ! men both in the morning and in the afternoon. It is important that all pastors be present, says Miss Thompson, and all laymen who wished to be trained for leading groups in local churches in stew , ardship and world missions, are urg led to attend. A social feature in connection with Associational activities will be [held this iMonday) afternoon at the I home of the Rev. and Mrs. B. B. | Knight. High School drive, Roxboro, | where twelve or more ministers in [the Association will gather for a : late afternoon meeting to be ended by a six o'clock dinner to be given by the Rev. and Mrs. Knight. -0 John Howerton Is Corporal The promotion of John O. Hower ! ton, of Hurdle Mills, from Private 1 First Class to Corporal was an announced recently on orders from the Headquarters of Col. Albert J. Shower's 467th Bombardment group in England. Now serving as a Track Driver in this B-24 Liberator group, Cpl. Howerton's military career dates from January 27, 1943 when he joined the Army at Camp Croft, South Carolina. The son of Percy T. Howerton of Hurdle Mills. Cpl. Howerton is a former student of Hurdle Mills High school and was engaged in farming prior to becoming a member of the Air Force. The 467th Bombardment Group is nart of Major General William E. Kepner’s Second Air Division. Sgt. W. T. Yancey Out Os Army Sgt. William T. Yancey, of Rox boro, an official of Tar Heel Chev rolet company, who has been in mil itary service for many month;, nas received a medical discharge be cause of a shoulder injury and has returned to Roxboro, where he will soon resume his connections with the Tar Heel company. In recent months he has been at Camp Bark ley, Texas, where he has been in a hospital receiving treatment. Sgt. Yancey, originally f-om Ox ford, has been active in Roxboro business and civic affairs and a member of the Klwanis club. Now staying at Hotel Roxboro, he ex presses great pleasure in being here again. His business partner, Lt. R. Glenn Stovall, is in On*' vy. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Wounded Marine And Friend PFC. CHARLES T. HORTON NOW REPORTED BETTER Pfc. Charles T. Horton, 20, of Roxborq. first of the two men shown above, is a foster son of Mr. and Mrs. ( lea R. White, of Roxboro, who last month was wounded in the at Iwo Jima. He was taken to a hospital and is now better, being: stationed at a transit center. Pfc. Horton is in the Marine Corps. Shown in the picture with him is a friend, with whom ho trained, but whose name is not known here. Person Minister Creates State’s FourH Program May fit h Date. Person Clubs Prolid To Have Leader Honored. The entire State program for this year's observa he ev of Rura 1 Life or Four-II club Sunday, May 6, has; been prepared by a Roxboro min ister, the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pas- I tor of Roxborq First Baptist. church, according to announcement made today by L r. Harrell, of Raleigh, State Director of Four-H club work, at '-whose' invitation the program task was assigned to the Rev. Mr. Brooks, who was himself a Four-H member of Duplin County during high school days. Theme of the program as prepared by the Rev. Mr. Brooks is,'. "Stew ards of . God's Earth", and will be used in whole or in part by all North Carolina clubs, including six teen in Person County, on the as signed date in May. or as close as possible to that date, according to Miss Evelyn Caldwell. Person Home agent, who with O. C. Jackson, Jr., assistant Farm .Agent here,' are county directors of the general Four- H program. Chairman for the Rural Life Sun day programs have been; appointed for each church in Person County and Roxboro from among the club membership and all the club mem bers, says Miss Caldwell are proud of the fact that the Rev. Mr. Brooks is author of their program. While he ’ Person Soldier At Roosevelt Rites At least one native of Person i County, Pfc. Charles G. Blackard. of the United States Army Mil:- j tary Police and stationed at Hyde i: Park, was an active participant : last week in the last rites for the ] President Franklin D. Roosevelt. ; Pfc. Blackard, who stood close to the grave during the ceremony and who was afterwards on guard out side of the gate at Crum Elbow to I keep the curious out, has been a j member of the President's guard j for over two years, but as he says 1 in a letter to the Courier-Times, he will not forget his experience of Sunday, April 15, if he lives to bej a hundred. Addressing , his letter to "The j People Who Read the Courier-1 Times," Pfc. Blackard, whose par ■ AltoUf *7i4e Watf, m Some time ago Charlie Lawson and Arch Hamlin went out to look at a few fox dogs. Charlie was getting too did to hunt birds, our informer said, so he had switched to foxes. On this particular night he and Hamlin were all set to look the dogs over and then ride home together having a good time talking about dogs and foxes. After they had seen the dogs they were trying to get the car turned around to come back to town. They ran into a little ditch or some thing and Mr. Hamlin got out to see what the trouble could be. Then the car got straight and Mr. Lawson .pulled in the road and headed home not thinking about his friend, Mr. Hamlin, that he had left by the side of the road. After driving a mile or so he started talking to his friend who he thought was seated by his side. Then, and not till then, did he discover that he had left Mr. Hamlin by the side of tte road. He turned the car around and went back to find Arch walking down the road headed for Roxboro. I "recon” he was talking terrible about Charlie. P. S. If this is a lie, Louis Stanfield told lt. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT was a member the local minister was president of his club, was State King of Health, was president of the State Council and represented North Carolina at the National Fdur-H camp. Person churches and their chair man for the 1945 Rural Life Sun day are as follow’s: Mt Harmony, Thelbert Whitt; Heltna Methodist, Lucille Blalock; Mi Zion, Frances Jones: Antioch. Bruce Mooney; Bethel Hill. Cather ine Wilborn and Wilhelmina Weh renberg; High View. Robert Tuck and Carrie Lee Seat; Mill Creek, Matthew Gentry, Elizabeth Wreiin and Ann Todd; Theresa, Peggy Gentry;. Providence, Sadie Ray Wocyiy arid Ruth Fuller. Roxboro First Baptist, Katie Lee Curriri, (Jr, Dept.); Long Memorial. Rachel Brooks and Eleanor Stew art; Warren's Grove, Daphne Har ris; Presbyterian, Eunice Abbitt; Olive Branch, Mildred Gravitte; Allensville, Gustavia Gentry; Rock Grove. Frances Slaughter; Webb's Chapel. Evelyn Bagbv; Sharon, Dor is Dixon; Salem, Sarah Jane Hest er; Clement, Sara Hall; Lea's Chap el. Herbert Lea; C.a-Vel Baptist;. Margaret Hamlin; Ca-Vel Methodist. Margaret Lane; Berry's Grove, Cal lie Mae Clayton; High Plains, Ada Stewart: Ephesus, Louise Zimmer man; Oak Grove, Ann Williams: Concord, Betty Jean Howard and Lambeth Memorial, Florcstine White. cuts live in Person, says, "‘I am not a good letter writer, but I feel j like I want to write a short letter to the people of Roxboro and Per son County i for) I was picked :.s part