THE KIDS all know whare th" uchoolhousc 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. Hunter Installed As Head Os State Bank Association Helping Rather Than Hurting Minister's Theme Picas for social service that helps rather than hurts or hinders per sons who arc aided by welfare pro grams were voiced yesterday here by the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pas tor of Roxboro First Baptist church, who spoke at May meeting of the person County Council of Social agencies at Hotel Roxboro, where luncheon was served at twelve noon. Introduction of the speaker was by the Program Chairman, Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff. Presiding was the Council chairman, Thomas J. Shaw Jr., who announced that sessions of the Council will be suspended dur ing Summer months. Next meeting will be the last Wednesday in September. Mr Brooks, new member of the agency group, said that social ser vice work must get at the root of social problems, correcting funda mental faults rather than seeking to aleviate surface manifestations. Wrong approaches can hurt or hin der by being either misdirected or short-sighted, said the speaker, who said with emphasis that welfare work should have the Christian ap proach. He also Indicated that churches and church people, often by kindest intentions, commit errors of judgment in attempting to solve social problems. o Roxboro Man DuflTßader In Pacific Section A Western Pacific Army Base, Pacific Ocean Areas, Corporal Wil liam H. Lawrence, Jr., 23, from Rox boro was in command of a squad of five Ducks in an Army Amphibian Truck company which ferried two Marine Artillery battalions ashore during the heat of D-day,' it was reported here today. After all of the Ducks Under his supervision reached the shore and deposited their cargo of guns, am munition and men, they attempted to make their way back to the LST, but spent the night floating about in the water, dodging the Japs con tinuous mortar barrage. At the time of his entry into the Army 27 months ago, Lawrence was a student at the South Carolina State A. & M. College, in the School of Electrical Engineering. He plans upon finishing his studies when the war is over. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lawrence, Sr., live in Roxboro. J. B. Crumpton On Destroyer John B. Crumpton, fireman, first class, USNR, Route 2, Roxboro, is now serving on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic with the U. S. Navy. Crumpton was transferee! to the DE after completing training at the Naval Training Centers at Bain bridge, Md., and Gulfport, Miss. He is working toward a rating as motor machinist's mate aboard ship. Sen of Mrs. B. G. Crumpton, he is married to the former Rosie Av erettc, daughter of John T. -Aver rtte, also of Route 2, Roxboro. They have one child, John Berkeley, Jr., 4 months. Crumpton graduated from Allens villc High School in 1939 and was engaged in fanning until he enter ed the Navy. He has one brother in the service, Sgt. Robert B. Crumpton of the Army Air Forces, at Mountain Home, Idaho. Freezer Manager Chosen Contract for the new freezer lockfer here has been let to the George W. Kane company, of this city, it was announced today by officials of the Person County Free* zer Locker company, who said that the contract was signed Tuesday. Officials at the same time have an nounced that manager of the plant is to be Carl Winstead, of Roxboro, former grocery merchant and more recently engaged In farming since J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Executive Committee of the North Carolina Bankers Association met at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, yesterday for a one day session. The meeting was held in lieu of the annual convention cancelled I previously in keeping with war reg ulations governing large gatherings. Installed as president was Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro. At the meeting in Raleigh yes terday it was brought out by Mr. Hunter in his address of accept ance that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the North Carolina Bankers association, the first meeting of which was held at Morehead City, with the late J A. Long, I, of Roxboro, as instigator and first presiding officer. Noting this Roxboro connection with the leadership of the Association. Mr. Hunter pointed out that he has great pleasure in carrying forward the tradition. Mr. Long was the organizer of the Peoples Bank, was later its presi dent. He was succeeded by his son J. A. Long. 11. The Peoples Bank is four years older than the asso ciation. Mr. Hunter also pointed out that two men who were present at this first meeting in Morehead City were now living. They are W. A. Hunt of Henderson and Oscar T. Smith of Baltimore, Md. President Hun ter plans to invite these two men to the next annual meeting of the N. C. Bankers Association. The bankers agreed at their meet ing yesterday to hold a series of district conferences on the G. I. Bill and its banking aspects, ac cording to Mr. Hunter, who said that first such meeting, with two Veterans Administration officials expected to be present, will be held on June 11, in Durham. Other meetings are being arranged for in the remjtlninfi*Jen districts. A group of forty-three executive officers and other prominent bank ers met to further the cause of the bank's efforts in behalf of the war program and to prepare plans for Association activity during the year. J. N. Coburn, Executive vice pres ident of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company, Whiteville, and president of the North Carolina Bankers Association presided. Among those appearing on the program were, Mr. Coburn, of Whiteville; Garland Johnson, Exe cutive vice president, Bank of El kin, Elkin; J. R. Evans, Vice pres ident, Morris Plan Bank. Charlotte; < W. W. Shaw, Trust Officer, Peo- ! pies Bank and Trust Company, f Rocky Mount; J. P. Robinson, Vice president. American Trust Com- j pany, Charlotte; Frank P. Spruill, ‘ President Bank and Trust Company, j Rocky Mount; W. H. Neal, Vice president, Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Winston-Salem.; Warren S. Johnson, President, Peo- ; pies Savings Bank and Trust Com pany, Wilmington; Ben R. Roberts, Executive vice president, Durham Bank and Trust company, Durham I and Mr. Hunter, executive vice I president of Peoples Bank, Roxboro i and former first vice president of! the association. o Methodist Revival To Begin Sunday Revival services beginning at 1 Edgar Long Memorial Methodist i Church Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock will continue with two ser vices daily through the week, it was announced today. The pastor Rev. W. C. Martin will preach Sunday and the Rev. Leon Russell, pastor of St. Paul Church, Goldsboro, will arrive Monday and preach at 8:00 o'clock Monday evening. The morn ing services will be at 9:00 and the evening services at 8:00. Youth Activities Week now under way has an enrollment of 140 and the attendance and interest has ex perienced a gradual growth each day during the week. Rev. Lester Jackson and Rev. Preston Hughes, Duke Divinity students are helping with the program. his return from a period of service with the United States army. There has been considerable de lay in getting materials and ma chinery due to the war, but all equipment has now been located, and all priorities obtained and con struction on the new plant is ex pected to start as soon as the ma terials can be shipped in. The plant will be located on the site for that purpose on the Leas Cotmer*®tmejs New Job if..,.: v ... ... ... . / j i;: .ajlf >" • - i ‘ 3 GORDON C. HUNTER 1 * ; Two Roxboro ! Men Implicated In Meat Charges i : Raleigh. May 29—Two Roxboro meat retailers have been served no tices to appear before the OPA : hearing Commissioner here to an > swer charges that they dealt in : “black market" meat sales in vio : lation of the ration regulations, i Thomas J. Wilkerson, of North ■ Main Street, and Dee Cleanve John i son, of the D. C. Johnson Grocery, ■ were both charged by OPA with acquiring, purchasing, using, and i handling meats without surrender ' 1 ing, or requiring ration points to be f j surrendered by buyers. , Theodore S. Johnson, Raleigh dis j 1 trict OPA director, said that OPA investigations into the Person coun ty meat distribution channels have j revealed that cattle have been slaughtered on farms, sold to deal i ers, and sold at retail without ra tion points being used in any trans- I action. The meat in most eases a has not been inspected or graded. . of’A's new meat control program : is designed to protect the public r against “black market” meats and : I to allow a fair share for ah per . Isons desiring to purchase meats . J with ration points. 1 ; The two Roxboro dealers will ap l pear before Chief Hearing Commi.;- i sioner Daniel L. Bell, of Atlanta, at Raleigh, on June 25th. The in i; vestigation in Roxboro was carried E| on for several weeks before any • 1 announcement was made as to find* ■ i ings. ■ j -o Raymond Gentry Receive* Award Master Sergeant Raymond H. Gen-. •, try, of Roxboro and Macon, Ga , • l has been awarded the Certificate of : Merit for outstanding performance I as chief aircraft inspector at a large .aerial repair depot for B-i7 Flying I Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force in England, it was reported today. M-Sgt. Gentry’s work during his 1 J 22 months on this strategic aid de- I I pot has been in overseeing the re | pair of “Forts" that are returned to 1 \ pound Nazi war targets. He previ ously served three years in Panama, i His wife resides on Rice Mill Road, Macon, while his parents, Mr. and ' Mrs. T. H. Gentry, are of Woods jdale. Presentation of the certificate was by Col. William E. Shuttles, of 1 Dallas, Texas. ,io - - Three Speakers For Association Annual meeting of the Baptist j Woman's Missionary Union at the Beulah association will he held on Friday, June 8, at ten o’clock, In the morning at Mill Creek Bap tist church, according to announ cement made today. Among the speakers will be Mrs. J. M. Far mer, of Raleigh, acting executive secretary, Mrs. Bunn Olive, also ] of Raleigh, missionary to China, 1 and Miss Madge Funderburk, of Pageland, S. C. All Association members are urged to attend and to bring lunch, according to custom. burg Road between Roxboro and the prison camp. The lot is lo cated on the corner of Long Avenue and the Leasburg Road. The building will be set bad: 90 feet from the street, thus affording ample parking space. The building will, also, be fireproof, and modern in every respect, according to cials. The management expects the locker plant to be in operation by early fall. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Legion Backs Thrust At Red Tape For Jobs National Organization Joins Many laical I’osts In M.crvement. Washington, May 29.—The Ameri can Legion threw its weight today behind a drive to “slash red tape" from the loan provisions of the Q. I. Bill of Rights. Through John Thomas Taylor, its legislative director, the Legion called for changes in the law itself and for elimination of 'narrow interpreta tions” of legal provisions by the Veterans' Adminsitration. j The Legion's move coincided with a campaign in Congress to simplify the legislation written last year to provide readjustment help for ex ! service men. Chief complaints have been aimed at the loan and educa tional provisions of the G. I. Bill, but the Legion confined its current campaign to the loan section, under which the Government guarantees repayment of part of the monev loaned for the purchase of property and businesses. The Legion program was develop ed at a two-day conference between bankers, building and loan, real es tate, insurance and appraisal offi cials and head of the Legion legisla j tive and rehabilitation divisions. ! “The financial experts agreed that jthe GI Bill of Rights can be made Ito work with added interest and effort cn the part of lending insti- Itutions, with a minimum of changes in the bill itself, and a liberalization of the hampering restrictions impos ed by the Veterans Administration." i Taylor said in a statement. ! The' Legion program calls, among other things, for: Small business loans for working capital and inventories, not now covered by the bill. Liberalization of the Veteran's Administration's interpretation of the "reasonable normal value” clause of the GI Bill. The bill restricts the Government guarantee of loans to those which represent a "reasonable normal value" of the porperty or business to be purchased. The legion said this language has been interpreted so rigidly as to bar thou sands of veterans from obtaining sound loans. Speeding up the issuance of a veteran's certificate of eligibility, which is a statement of his militaiy record and type of discharge. Four Men Said To Be Liberated j S. Sgt. R. J. (Jimmy) Alderman, of Roxboro and Brevard, sop of Mrs. Lucy Alderman and brother of Mrs. Preston Satterfield. Jr., both of this city, is one of several local men recently released from German prisoner of war camps, according to reports received here yesterday. Sgt. Alderman with the Air Corps of the United States Army and for |mcrly with the Canadian RAF, be came a prisoner in August 1943. (Since that time he has sent sev eral letters to his mother here and Ito his wife, of Brevard and Lake i Toxaway. News of his release, as jof May 26, was first received by his wife. ! Also listed as liberated is Pfc. Wil liam J. Owen, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Owen, of Woods dale, who have received a message saying he was released April 30, from S'talag 7-A in Germany, af ter having been a prisoner since September 1944. The message, re ceived Tuesday, said that Owen is well and expects to be home soon. Likewise listed as having been re leased is William c. Clayton, to gether with David Winstead, of Leasburg, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Nash Winstead. ! W. H.—Has Another W. H. Harris, Sr., who keeps on having birthdays, had his 84th an niversary Saturday in traditional family style, a dinner at home, with all of his children on hand for the occasion. There were, however, two differences, the rain moved the din ner from the garden to the house, and many of the grandsons, away on military duty, were unable to be present. With those exceptions, the party was a success and quite in keeping with those of former years. At Saint Mark’s Preston Wiles, of Duke University, Durham, win be Sunday morning speaker at eleven o'clock at Saint Mark’s Episcopal church, It was an nounced this morning. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Two Men Will Face Month For Stephen Methodist Women Attend Session District Conference Held In Roxboro With 200 Present. Two hundred Methodist women, members of Ihe Society of Christian Service in churches in the Durham District, had their annual district conference here last week at Edgar Lons Memorial Methodist church, where one of the speakers and pre siding officer was Mrs. A. H. Bor land. of Durham, district secretary The meeting here took the place of | the anuual North Carolina confer ence session of the Society ot Christian service and for this rea son several Important matters of business came up for discussion. Hostess church for the gathering was Edgar Long church and its So ciety of Service, the Mary Hambrick society, of which Miss Claire Harris is president. Leader of the Person Zone, one of several zone units in the Durham District, is Mrs. Rainey Crumpton, who also had an import ant part on the program. Luncheon was served at the church and among the guests were the past ors of various churches in the dis trict. No announcement was made of the place of meeting for next year and no election of officers was held. The meeting here was held on Thursday, with a morning and an afternoon session. Scouts Urged To Be Prepared For June Camp Week 'Many Awards Presented At Court Os Honor. Person and Roxboro district Boy Scouts who are planning to attend the opening session of Camp Chero kee, Sunday, June 10. are urged to be on time at the meeting place at j the Court House, or else they may |be left behind, according to C. A. Harris, camping and activities chair man here, who is arranging trucks for transportation of the boys and their leaders. At the May Court of Honor meet mg, with Gus Deering and George I Currier presiding officials present | included E. Pierce Bruce, of Reids ville. Cherokee Council executive, | who gave special instructions con jeerning camping equipment. It was ;also pointed out that all boys should | have examinations by their doctors and should fill in blanks so that doc 'tors will not have to do it. ; Present at the Court Honor, whish was held at Person Court House, ; were twenty-two scouts, two par j ents, one scoutmaster, one visitor ! and one soldier, in addition to offi cials already mentioned. Scouts who received badges were: Larry Woods, tenderfoot; Gene Coz jart, first class; Billy Johnson, first ! class; Joe Featherston, wood turn-j jing; Gene Cozart, wood turning: i David Barrett, second class; Carlton Binter, cement work, handicraft, personal health, and public health and Reginald Jones, cement work. o Yates Remains L. M. Yates, principal of Helena j high school, who recently was re nlected to his position there, said this morning that he as decided : i to accept his re-election. Yates for a I time was undecided and was re- , ported to be considering several of- j fers to head other schools. It is un-; derstood that there are now two faculty vacancies at Helena and that, one other vacancy, in the first grade, has been filled. Yates and his family are expect ed to move to Roxboro soon for the summer. o Now At Butner Julus Hicks, of Roxboro and Longhurst, veteran of many months of service overseas in the Pacific with the U. S. Army, who has been in Florida for the past few months, has been transferred to Camp But ner and is spending several days here with his wife and family. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1945 52.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Promoted BpM rj jgnUfg 1R 4 jp>y * * -r ■* ‘ r: i? ■*. Lt. Lester Morrell, son ; Johnson, tenant on the Frank J. 'Hester farm. Death is said to have lesulted from loss of blood. Weapon iused was a shotgun. One of several witnesses to the i shooting was the father, Alex John i son, who could ascribe no motive, j Stephen Johnson was shot as he ; fell, according to the father, who I said he himself made a vain effort |to come between the two men, resi dents of the same neighborhood, who had not previously had any disagreements. o Swimming Trunks Wanted For Soldiers i Greatly needed here are bathing shorts, trunks and suits for use of j soldiers from Camp Butner who , come here for week-ends, it was re -1 ported today by Dr. Robert E. ; Long. USO Center chairman, who | requests that citizens having such | suits telephone to him or to his brother, Fred Long. At least two dozen suits or trunks i are wanted, according to Dr. Long, who says that the suits will be kept ! here especially for the visiting sol j dlers, many of whom come for | swimming at Chub Lake. Regular USO Service Center program will be held this week-end both at he Center and at the Lake. o At Great Lakes Jesse James Walker, 28. son of Mrs. Sallie Sue Walker, is receiving bis initial Naval indoctrination at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. “At the last meeting of your City i Councilmen the parking problem ■ was considered thoroughly. Realiz ing that it would continue to get ; j worse, it was determined that soma .; change in parking must be made im i mediately. j "With the cooperation of mer i(chants and employees no ordinance i j will be necessary. "Please see that you and your em i ployees park your cars outside of ■ the business section. Start Immediately and -keep the ' business section clear for your cus ; j tomers. : I "Main Street from Bradsher Street :| to the Methodist Church, and UM . first blocks on Abbitt, Reams/Court, ; ] and Depot Streets should be kjapj