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War Bond Dollar* Are Double Duty Dollars VOL. LXIV. Postal Receipts Almost Enough To Warrant First Class Status L. M. Carlton. Postmaster. Says Receipts Show Large Gain Over Last Year. Roxboro Post Office, on the basis ' of receipts for the fiscal year just ended shows an increase of nearly SB,OOO. almost, but not quite enough to give it the rating of first-class, it was revealed this morning by Post master L. M, Carlton, who said that 1045 receipts, which include stamps and stamped paper, but not money order or C- O. D. services, total $39,559.18. Receipts last year, for 1944. on the same basis, in contrast were only $31,654.11, which places the 1945 gain at $7,905.07, according to Mr. Carlton. The Postmaster further points out that the Roxboro Post Office has stepped up several grades in the past three to four years. One reason for the increase in postal volume may be the large amount of mail being sent to men in service, both in the United States and overseas. Another may be based upon the fact that citizens in general now have more ready cash and arc not inclin ed to hestiate when it comes to sending extra letters and parcels. Probably the heaviest quarter of business for the year occurred at the end of December. Wildcats Meet Again On Sunday Wildcat Veterans, under the guid ance of Jas. E. Cahall, National Ad jutant of the Division, have about completed the program for the Dis trict Reunion of the Wildcat Veter ans to be held in Oxford Sunday, July 29. "it- The .da., 4vfel start with registra tion of the Veterans at Hotel Ox ford beginning at 9:30 A. M, At 11 A. M.. the Veterans will assemble at the Court House for a meeting at which they will hear a number of addresses, one by the National Com mander, Banks Arcndell of Raleigh, and another by a representative of the newly appointed State Veterans Commission. At 3 o'clock, the Veterans and their ladies, all city, county and state officials, representatives of civic, veteran, and fraternal organi zations will gather in Oxford Bap tist Church for the impressive mem orial service for the dead of the Di vision. Major T. G. Stem will make the memorial address, and a spec ial program of music will be rend ered. The Veterans and invited guests will enjoy a chicken barbecue din ner served at the Oxford Recrea tional Center at 4:30 P. M. The Committee of Granville Wild cats is as follows: J. E. Pittard, Chairman, W. B. Crews, Sam L. Knott, Harvey R. Harris, T. W. Al len, H. M. Puckett, and c. S. Puckett. A number of Person "Wildcat” representatives are expected to .at tend, as are men from other counties. Ropald Briggs’ Rites Conducted Ronald Wayne Briggs, one and one-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Floyd Briggs, of East Roxboro. died Friday at 12:30 p. m.. at their home after an illness of three weeks with whooping cough. Funeral was held Saturday after noon at four o'clock by the Rev. C. G. McCarver, at Grace Methodist church, with interment in Burch wood cemetery. In addition to the parents, survivors are two brothers, James L., and Archie L„ and two sisters, Shirley Mae and Betsy Lou, all of the home. o Rain Cause Os Change In Plans Camp Butner soldiers and others visiting in Roxboro yesterday got rained out of the Roxboro USO picnic at Chub Lake, but had it anyway at the Service Center. Sun day was considered an off week-end for the program, but a number of soldiers were on .hand and quite a few of them got in some swim ming at the lake before the storm broke. Attendance is expected to be larger this week-end, according to Dr. Robert E. Long, USO director. On hand to take the men to Chub Lake yesterday was a truck furn ished by Arthur Tuck. It brought them back, too. i J. W. NOELL, EDITOR D. W. Knott, 92, 'Dies At Home Funeral Held Yesterday At Trinity Church For One of I Oldest Residents. Funeral for D. W. Knott, 92, na- ' five of Person County, and one of I its oldest residents, whose death oc-, cured Saturday morning at his home near Trinity Methodist Church from j heart trouble and infirmities of old I age. was held at Trinity Methodist j Church Sunday afternoon at 4. o'clock. . He was a member of Sharon Bap tist Church. Rites were in charge of his pastor, the Rev. E. G. Usry of Oxford and the Rev. E. C. Ma ness, pastor of Trinity church. Inter ment was in the church cemetery.! Survivors are four sons, Will and Arthur of Fayetteville, Luther of Virgilina, Va.. and Eugene of Rouge mont, and four daughters. Mrs. Earlie Pritchett of Fayetteville, Mrs, Eva Moore and Mrs. Pattie Fogle man, both of Rougemont. and Mrs. Willie Sherman of Oxford; 35 grand children and 22 great-grandchildren His wife, Mrs. Sarah Knott, died about 20 years ago. The Knott home is close to the Person-Granville line. 'T’TardHolders May Get New Tires Says Agency Washington, July 19.—Some pas senger cg£ t “A” i card holders, became eligible today for new tires tires for a bona fide change of address that required a special time since the' beginning of, tire rationing that any "A card hold ers have been eligible for new tires. "This extension of the eligibility is particularly needed now that in creasing numbers of persons are; moving from one city to another,” j OPA said in announcing that: These persons may apply tor new j tires if they have a tire failure while i making a permanent change of resi- ; dence, regardless of the type of ra- i tion they hold: 1. War workers moving from one city to another as production shifts j from type of war goods to another and to civilian goods. 2. Members of the armed forces j moving to a new port. 3. Discharged veterans returning heme or moving to another city to accept a job. Before being elgible to apply, a motorist must have been issued a special gasoline ration for the trip. “B" and "C” motorists have t,?en eligible for new tires, but not for tires while actually making a change in residence. o Eighteen Girls Complete Course The eighteen girls who success fully completed the course in Red Cross Home Nursing at the Roxboro High School have just received their certificates. This class was taught by Miss Julia Fisher in collabora tion with Miss Opal Brown, teacher of Home Economics. Miss Magnussen, Director of Nurs ing Service, Atlanta, Georgia, wrote complimenting Roxboro on this well : attended and good sized class. She ; hopes it will be possible to organize other classes as successful as this one. The girls who completed the course are: Mary Elizabeth Long, Janie Dickerson, Aileen Barnette, Lucille Chambers, Pattie Chambers. Jean Chandler, Nancy Daniel, Jessie Winstead, Arista Rudder, Audrey Wright, Lorene Dixon, Annie Ford. Dugrette Steele, Geraldine Clayton, Edith Singleton, Pauline Solomon, Constance Whitt, Juanita Gravltte. o Wyatt Blalock Receives Badge Pvt. Wyatt J. Blalock, of Rox boro, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Blalock and now Stationed at the Redistribution Center, Camp But ner, has received the Combat Infan tryman's Badge. Husband of Mrs. Margaret Blalock, also of Roxboro, he was in the Pacific theatre for twenty-one months and has also re ceived the Purple Heart medal, the Asiatic-Pacific and Philippine Lib eration ribbons. ©he Courttr*©itne? Fewer Cases I Fewer cases of whooping cough have been reported in the past ’ few days, according to the Per | son Health Department, although the dcaht cf one child from that disease was reported last week j by a Roxboro funeral home. A ; larmed by this report a number of parents have been since bring ing their children to the Health | Department for vaccinations j against whooping cough. One or two other children in the family ; of the child that died are also I reported to have the disease. No Sense Os Guilt Observed In Germans Berlin—Berliners seem to have no sense of guilt, no feeling for the victims of Nazi aggression and a conviction the Allies owe them a living. All this has been evident during the two weeks of American occu pation here. The fact that the leaders of the three nations that conquered these Germans are de ciding in Potsdam what shall be j done with them, hasn't changed ] them even a little. For instance: Forty-five German housewives whose homes were requisitioned by Allied troops boldly held a meet ing of protest against this “out rageous invasion of private prop erty.” They were taken to mili | tary government headquarters, given a stern lecture and asked 1 "Didn't >tjU bring -this on your selves?" But they went home, not in the least chastened. A middle-aged German ap proached an American officer in the street and demanded: "You must help me obtain penicillin for ray seriously ill son." He was asked. “Did you provide ! penicillin for the dying victims of Buchenwald?” The German j shrugged. In a bomb-shattered downtown I area, adult Berliners have become more and more bold in demand ! ing chocolate and cigarettes from American triops. An 18-year-old i youth who unashamedly asked for j candy was asked: "What did you j give the Poles?” o Parkway Routes Being Studied Wa.vnesville, July 23.—Looking forward to the earliest possible re sumption of work on the Blue Ridge Parkway in this area and develop ment of recreational facilities along the great scenic travel route and |in the Great Smoky Mountain Na tional Park region state officials and Western North Carolina civic lead ers today played host to top figures of the National Park Service at a i luncheon at the Piedmont Hotel i here. Newton B. Drury, director of the park service, made the significant statement during an address that "all arc agreed that we must get a move on this end of the parkway." A. H. (Sandy) Graham, chairman !of the State Highway and Public ! Works Commission, formally listed a group of parkway and other road projects in the park area which North Carolina desires be given im mediate and preferential attention in postwar plans of the park service. At the same time he proposed a group of recreational developments for the park and parkway area, an nouncing plans of the State com mission for road projects in con nection with these proposed Federal undertakings. :—o Tobacco Field Day Being Planned A field day has been arranged for farmers from Guilford, Alamance, Caswell, Orange, Durham and Per son counties at the Oxford Tobacco Experiment Station for Friday, July 27, at 1:00 p. m., according to C. J. Ford, Negro Agent. Groups will meet at the curing barns in Oxford about 12:30 p. m. Friday, July 27, or at the Rural Center in Roxboro not later than 11:30 a. m. Friday. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Roxboro Woman Army Technician Exercises Held Last Week At Battey Hospital. Rome, Ga. Three North Carolina Wac tech nicians were among the third class of graduates who received their di plomas at Battey General Hospi tal, Rome, Ga., They are Pvts. Kathleen Hargis of Roxboro. a medical technician. Euris Norris of Whiteville, a medical technician and Corienne E. Craver of Charlotte, a surgical technician. Pvt Hargis, a graduate of the Roxboro High School, was employ ed in Roxboro Cotton mills in ci vilian life. She has four relatives in the service; Albert Hargis with the infantry in the Southwest Pa cific; George E. Hargis, an infantry man also in the European Theatre and two brothers in the Air Corps, John H. and Richard T. Hargis. Their mother, Mrs. Lonnie P. Har gis, lives in Roxboro. Diplomas presented to the grad uates by Col, D. B. Faust, Com manding Officer of the hospital, signify the successful completion of six weeks' training at an Army technicians' school and an addition al four weeks "on-the-job" train ing at an Army general hospital. The North Carolina Wacs are now regularly assigned to duty at the Rome medical installation. All of them took their initial training and basic at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Nearly One Hundred Veterans Discharged Farm Leaders Say Workers Reluctant To Stay On Job Wilson, July 23.—F. W. Boswell, Wilson, County farmer and former member of the State Legislature, charged in a meeting held here to discuss barn wood ceiling prices that the War Manpower Commis sion had been forced to bring 1.000 Barbados workers into this agricul tural area not because local help was not here but because local work ers wouldn't work. His statement Was made after other speakers had told Raleigh OPA officials that the question wasn't what the consumers price on barn and fire wood should be but was whether or not workers already here could or should be made to work. Boswell told the.OP A officials that "these people have money in : their pockets and while they have that, money they aren't going to work." State Senator J. C. Eagles, farmer [of this area, told the OPA that “the surplus labor may be here but it will not work. The War Manpower I Commission reported recently that I there was a surplus of labor in this j area. Maybe there is, but it certain ly won't work.” The meeting was held when it Was reported to the OPA that what wood was being sold here at sls a cord while the ceiling price, based on 1942 figures, was around $6,50 a !cord, Robert Yowell, price executive of the Raleigh OPA office, told the gathering of wood dealers that an effort would be made to stabilize the price of wood but that it would not be done in time for tobacco cur ing. —■———-o— ■ Youngest In Service Pvt. Burley W. Dunn, son of Mrs. Sadie Jones Dunn and the late W. A. Dunn, of Providence, a 1945 grad uate of Bethel Hill high school, now stationed at Camp Croft, S. C., is the youngest of four brothers in military service. Pvt. Burley Dunn. 44087293, U. S. Army 2nd Platoon, Co., A, 39th I. T. B„ Building 347, Camp Croft, S. C., says he would like his friends to write to him. ■ /Uo+Uf *H. se 'Waif, m I have just returned from a most pleasant vacation spent with three of my friends who now live in Washington, D. C., namely William Mar cus Thomas, Lt. E. G. Thompson and Lt. Charles Wood. All of these boys formerly lived in this city but have recently become "city slickers”. They were very nice to me while there and Gene Thompson even went so far as to have this scribe and his family out to a nice dinner. Yes. he paid the bill and left a tip. I hated to disfumish him but I really did enjoy it. These same fellows are all getting on fine and have retained their southern accent. I would have expected that they would be talking like Yankees by this time but so far they still say “youall” and can eat as much as they could when they left home. I know. I fed them one night. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT In Florida W iJBIH -t* ' "f j Marine Private First Class Fred T. Nunn, 22, son of Mrs. Mary E. Mooney of Route 1, Wondsdale. who was recalled to the States after 14 months of Pa cific duty, has joined the Marine Guard at the Naval Air Station at Dcland, Fla. Attached to Marine anti-air craft battalions during his entire overseas tour, Nunn was station ed throughout the Wallis and Gilbert Islands. His longest spot of duty was at Apamama Island in the Gilberts, where he under went lfi Jap air bombings, hut escaped injury. Nunn, a native of Woodsdale, has been in the Corps since March 1943. I Sherman And McFarland Lat- I est Returnees To List Dis l charges Here With Reg ister of Deeds Kirby. i A total of 98 returned and dis charged Person and Roxboro vet es*ns of World War II have regis . tered their discharge papers with W. IT. Kirby, register of deeds, in the I past several months and the numb, ‘ er, according to Mr. Kirby is con stantly increasing, so much so, in 1 j fact, that Mr. Kirby is wondering [if he ought not to have a special j helper for that work. i The two latest to register their i papers with the Person register of deeds are Pvts. Lewis E. Sherman land Joseph E. McFaiiand, Jr. Sher !man was with the 35 Division in Germany and McFarland also was jin Germany. Both men have phy sical disability discharges that were issued at Camp Butner. 1 No other check on the number of World War II veterans discharged and returned here is available, al though the men may and frequently do report their status to the Person . Selective Service Board office, which has its own files on them, but does I not keep tile names bound in one : volume as does Mr. Kirby. It is regarded as possible that 1 ; more than one hundred young vet erans have now returned to Roxboro and the county. The ratio of dis charged returnees has not yet ap proached the proportion of those civilians being called up for service. Put it is apparently fast coming to !an equality. o Women Requested To Aid Red Cross The Red Cross Production room, iin tfie Wilburn-Satterfield build ing is open each Thursday, accord ing to Dr. Robert E. Long, chapter : chairman, who said this morning lhat there is a great need for ad ditional work on kit-bags, bedside bags and other handsewn items to jbe used in Camp Butner hospitals, i Mucli of the material is already cut ! and needs only to be taken home or worked on in the production room. Women who are interested in assisting with the program are re quested to call at the Production room on Thursday or contact chair men of the various units. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Rains Have Not Yet Damaged Person Crops Says H. K. Sanders Flue-Cured Crop On Same Basis Allotment of 1915 Flue-Cured Crop Similar to Program of Past Two Years. Washington, July 21. -The Agri culture Department announced Thursday that the 1945 crop of l'lue cured tobacco will be allocated among manufacturers, dealers and foreign buyers under a program similar to that in effect during the past two years. Flue-cured is the principal tobac co. by volume, in most American made cigarettes. It likewise is the most important American export type. The allocation program will be based on the July crop estimate of flue-cured tobacco totalling 1,091,- 000,000 pounds. Manufacturers will be permitted to acquire flue-cured tobacco up to 98 per cent of the quantity, includ ing scrap, used by them for manu facturing purposes from July 1, 1944, through June 30, 1945. Their auction purchases and pur chases from dealers will be limited to the same proportion of total pur chases as was similarly acquired from the crops of 1939 through 1042. Dealers may purchase 1945-crop flue-cured tobacco at auction for their own accounts, up to 95 pet cent of the basic quantity which they were entitled to buy from the 1944 crop. The department will allocate 666.- 000,000 pounds of the crop for do mestic use and 395,000,000 pounds lor export. The amounts earmarked for export will be allocated directly to the Commodity Credit Corpora tion and to dealers for procurement on the auction markets. The department said that should later crop estimates modify the July j estimate of production, adjustment., will be made in allocations. o City Manager Has Look At DDT Job At Lake Friday — City Manager Guy E. Whitman. I accompanied by Mrs. Ctherine Hi jdy, of the Health Education ser | vice, on Friday made an inspection | tour of the area covered by DDT spray program and reported Sat urday that work appears to be com pletely effective. In agreement is T. T. Duncan, Woodsdale merchant, whose store was partially sprayed. It is hoped that the program can be repeated in a few months, possibly in September. Effects of the spray, used in malaria control, are said to | last several months. The spray, however, has not been ; released as yet for general use and j the reason it has been used at t Chub Lake is because that area comes under the United States j malaria control w»ork. DDT kills j both flies and moquitoes, but also | kills other insects, some of which i are classified as helpful rather than I harmful. Capt. H. K. Sanders Improves After Jeep-Truck Crash | Capt. H. K. Sanders, Jr., after going around all over European combat zones, has his hard luck, being in a traffic wreck in Munich, where his jeep was struck by a truck driven by Gerinans. The truck loomed up out of a sidestreet and did not stop. As a result. Capt. Sanders is at Riems, France, in a hospital, where he is recovering from a broken knee-cap and other leg injuries. While in Munich he was detailed as an instructor of young officers. Several months ago he was in Rox boro on leave, but returned to Ger many after having previously ser ved in France and Italy. o DEANS RETURN TO NORTH CAROLINA Mr. and Mrs. Nat Dean, who have been living in Bristol, R. 1., con nected with the Collins & Aikman Corp. for the past several years have been transferred to Norwood, N. C, another branch of the C. & A. Corp. They expect to arrive here on or about the 28th and will spend a few days here with home folks. After a short rest Mr. Dean will leave for a 6 weeks Summer course before going to Norwood to take up his regular work. Nearly Two More Inches Os Rainfall Recorded Since Sunday Morninsr. Approximately two more inches of lain fell here within the period of twenty-four hours ending this morn ing at 9:30, according to Collin Ab- j bitt, of the City of Roxboro Water , Department, who pointed out that one of the heaviest downpours oc curred this morning about three o'clock. For Saturday and the early part of Sunday only a trace of pre cipitation was reported, but total for the pervious lour to five days was placed at 3.77, making grand total since July 13, of around six to seven inches. Confronted with these figures.! Person Farm Agent H. K. Sanders said that notwithstanding the large amount of rainfall, only a few in stances ol too much rain for tobacco have been reported to him. The damage of tbo much rain here is slight, thinks Sanders, who said this morning that damage thus far in tobacco, if any, is more than made up for by the help the extra rain lias given other crops. However, Sanders avers, some farmers are | difficult to satisfy and the very ones; who may now complain about too much rainfall were tile ones who were complaining last week because of lack ol' rain. In seine eases before tire rainfall began it was reported that tobacco growers here might not have made more than seventy-five to eighty percent of their crop, but damage the other way around, ot too much rain, is very slight now, according to Sanders, unless the rains of the iiext few days prove to be unusual ly heavy. Favorable tobacco crop reports have been received from adjoining Caswell and Granville, but in the east, around Wilson, complaint of too. much rain is being voiced* Progress On Farm Gels Boost From Person Agent More rural telephones, a rest cent er in Roxboro for farm women, a building to house various agricul tural departments, a Four-H Guern sey club, an exhibition of blooded bulls, an increase in the production of milk for sale and an emphasis on a war memorial are some of the projects which Person Farm Agent H. K. Sanders has in mind for the improvement of farm living and prosperity here, according to his address Thursday at Roxboro Rotary club at Hptel Roxboro, where lie was guest speaker for Tom Bennett, of the rural-urban committee pointing out that these advance ments cannot all take place in a day or a year, Mr. Sanders, said that progress is relative but should be constant and he expressed the hope that Rotarians would do much to see that farm work here goes for ward. In sharp contrast, he spoke of what farmers and other citizens did not have fifty years ago and paid tribute to advances in healtfi and communication and farm prac tices. Burden ol' his talk, in addition specific recommendations, was that men of today owe to future genera tions, the obligation to go forward. As a sign of such progress he men tioned the freezer-locker plant soon to be built. Special guests included Mrs. Cath erine Hidy of the Health Education service, and Pfc. Vincent Paul Vittur, the last-named a son-in-law of Gordon C. Hlunter. o—— Musical Program At Baptist Church The preaching service at the Rox- Boro First Baptist church Sunday evening was preceded by a musical program rendered by Wallace Zim merman and Clyde Wade, under the direction of Mrs. Wallace Woods, both of the young men hav ing been students of Mrs. Woods. These young men are talented mu sicians and are a credit to Mrs. Woods' ability as a teacher. This program was followed by a most able and instructive sermon by Pas tor Brooks, his subject being, "Dis cerning Right From Wrong". o QUARTET PROGRAM The Grassy Creek quartet will' render a program at the Prospect Hill Baptist Church, Woodsdale, Sunday evening, August sth, at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. 2 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 67 Accident Takes Life Os Roxboro Woman Tuesday Mrs. Nancy Mae Wesley Har ris Dias Front Fall From River Bridme At Ports mouth, Va. Funeral for Mrs. Harry McCoy Harris. 32, of Roxboro ahd Ports mouth, Va.. tl>e former Miss Nancy Mae Wesley, daughter of Mrs. W. H. Wesley, of Roxboro, .whose death from the effects of an accidental fall from a bridge occurred Tues day in Kings' Daughters hospital, Portsmouth, was held Saturday morning at eleven o'clock at Woody's; iuneVal home, Roxboro, with inter ment in Burehwood cemetery. Members of her family reported that she fell from Little River bridge, Portsmouth. Va.. on Sunday night, breaking her leg as she fell into water and was then taken to the hospital, where death resulted from tile leg injury and complica tions. A resident of Portsmouth for some time, she was the wife of H. H. Harris, of the United States Navy, Wilmington. Del. Her father died about two years ago. In addition to her husband and mother, other survivors are: Four sisters. Mrs. Claude Langford, of Roxboro: Mrs: Jesse Jones, of Vic toria, Va.; Mrs. Jesse Clayton and Mrs. Guy Rice, both of Nathalie, Va , and five brothers, John and Philip Wesley, of Roxboro. Dewev Wesley, of Bethel Hill, and Julius and George Wesley, both of New port News, Va. Rites were in charge of the Rev. C. G. McCarver. First, message received here* con cerning the death of Mrs. Harris came Thursday about noon from her husband at Wilmington, Del., and was sent to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Langford, who immediately went to Portsmouth. Delay in noti fication of the family here was said to have been caused by delay in Portsmouth in sending a message to the deceased’s husband. Details concerning the accident are not known here. o Fourteen Men Report Today To Bragg For Induction With John T. Russell as leader, fourteen Person and Roxboro white men. reported this morning to Fort Bragg for induction to military ser vice, according to Miss Jeanette Wrenn, chief clerk of the Person Selective Service board. Two of the men. Ivey Geddie Maness and Everette Griffin Laws, were for another board. Alsi listed as going were: Albert Addie Hawkins, Robert Hurt Loftis, Walter Thomas Wade, Rudolph Blake McSherry, Frank Edward McKinney, Walter Edward Fox, Roy William Johnson, Heze kiah Ivory Dixon, David Beasley Pixley, George Thomas Epes and Jessie Nichols Russell, Jr. o Exchange Club Hears G. C. Hunter Expectation was voiced here Wed nesday by Gordon C. Hunter, speak ing at the Exchange club, that the freezer-locker will be in operation by Christmas. Hunter, guest speak er at the club which met at Hotel Roxboro. said that work on the locker plant is to start soon. Presiding was club president J. H. Lewis. Announcement was made that the Exchange club will spon sor the presentation of a South Bos ton, Va., minstrel show in Roxboro on August third. Place of the show’s performance here has not been an nounced. Benefits from the perform ance will go to a fund for crippled children in Person County, say club officials. o IRA LEE’S EGG Possessor of an unusual hen-egg is Ira Lee, of Hurdle Mills, Rout* Two. who brought the egg to tha Courier-Times office Friday for in spection. The egg, of average slxe, has a heavy wrinkled but firm shell. o- . Tweezers are useful for plucking out threads which have been in machine stitching.