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PAGE TWO j*i COURIER-TIMES Roxboro, North Carolina PUBLISHED MONDAY and THURSDAY BY Courier-Times Publishing Company The Roxbore Courier Bstablhhed 1881 The Person Counts Times-BMabllshea 1888 J. W. Noell Editor J. 8. Merritt and Thoe. J, Sba** Jr, Associates M. C. Clayton Adv. Manager D. R. Taylor, In Bervlc» With U. & Nary 1 year, Out of State 83.00 1 year ggjo 6 months $1.40 3 months 75 ADVERTISING RATES Display Ads, 48 Cents Per Inch Reading Notices, 10 Cents Per line* The Editors Are Not Responsible for Views Expressed By Correspondents Entered at The Post Office at Roxboro, N: C. As Second Class Matter MONDAY, AUGUST 27. 1945 —4 It! Isn’t true because the OOURIE3FI-TIMES says It, btit the COURIER-TIMES says it because it * Is' true, I . I HEARTENING ENOUGH Good morale up-lift for business in the Roxboro section is furnished by last week’s report from three largest industries here ! that reconversion is not at the moment and j apparently will not be a problem. Plant E,' Collins and Aikman, the Roxboro Cotton j mills and Somerset mills cannot be accounted j as the backbone for living in a community] such as this where farming still has its dom inant role to play, but there is no use in say ing that what the aforementioned mills do or do not accomplish in supplementing pay- j rolls looms importantly as a backlog, and ev- j en on occasion, when farming goes limp, as- I sumes more than backlog proportions. We remember at the other end of conver sion, when the war started, when the change*- over for local industries was a headache both j to management and labor. Nobody quite knew j where anybody was going, although there was firm conviction that the glimmering goal of war production had to be reached. During those first days many workers left the Roxboro and Person area-, the attraction being higher wages elsewhere, plus a senti ment and an urge for change and coupled, no doubt with the feeling that making bombs, just plain ones and then the atomic varieties, and ships, was more important than the pro duction of cloth, even if that cloth was to go tq Army purposes. The day of change again, the other way ardund, is here. And there is considerable confidence local ly that the reconversion is to be easier, especially if some of the service men and the bomb-makers and the ship-builders who were mice just plain Person folks come back home in an appreciable ratio, a trend and a turn which has started and appears to be picking up speed. o ACT OF NATURE VERSUS ACT OF MAN I .The Person and Roxboro community, and I iij particular the Cunningham section of it, his not recovered from the tragedy visited the Snow family, tenants on the J. A. Long farm, during Wednesday’s late after noon storm, when, three women, sisters-in lajw, had their lives snuffed qyt by a bolt of lightning. Scarcely less, has this community pulled itself up from contemplation of the wreck near South Boston, Va., in which one Longhurst boy lost his life and another has been placed at point of death. i The bolt from the sky can be considered an act of nature. The car wreck is judged as an accident brought about through human im-* perfection, the split-second timing of speed ing, perhaps, or the incidental business of two moving objects being at the same place all nearly the same time. But there is, too, the human element in the deaths wrought in that tobacco barn on the Long farm. Small sheds, such as barns are. and filled with a super supply of electrically conductive metal, are poor places of refuge against storms and those who seek shelter in them take the chances of such shelter. Logic, nevertheless, offers no substitute for sorrow, which comes regardless of the how, or when, or why of death. It should be said that the South Boston wreck, which can not be counted as a Person item since the hap pening of it occurred in Virginia territory, is as impressive here as anywhere as a warning to youth as to how to drive, and it must be observed that despite the lesson , offered in the tobacco bam incident, all com mendation should be in evidence for the ef forts of the Roxboro American Legion in seeking money to aid the stricken survivors , in the Snow circle. o j£' ’ * NOTIN OTHBIrPASTURED : ’ .William Y. Pass, of Roxboro, whose unex pected death on Thursday removed * native citizen thoroughly conversant with the ways; poatoms and habit*- of hir community, did right welTTr> the carrylfijfon oTthV fufiaturt business established by his father. There was nothing flashy in the operation. A concern for quality in merchandise, which apparent ly passed from the father to the son, does not put forth flash and dash. And this is log ical, despite what might be said about con servatism. We rather like to think, however, that William Y. Pass did his best according to his sensitivity in seeing that his father’s busi ess went forward. Numbers of sons try to do jas much, but with less success than had this Ison who was not concerned with greener (pastures out of the field of his experience. | He may have made a few mistakes, but if I he did they were his own and he did not at- I tempt to evade them bv sounding off to all •and sundry. o l TOE OMISSION IS STILL GLARING Now being distributed hereabouts to school folks, teachers, officials and others supposed ] to be interested in the Person angles of pub lic instruction is volume one of a Person iCounty Board of Education sponsored publi cation, a “Yearbook for Teachers and Princi pals”. The volume is filled with facts, fig jures and aspirations concerning which plen ty can be said in the way of commendation land praise, both for the book and for its spon- • jsors, but what hits us in the eye as a remind er of an existing condition is the list of no iless than eight Parent-Teacher Associations! land their officers The list is fine. There is I nothing wrong with it, except that the larg- j est school for white pupils, and to that ex tent the most important. Roxboro high school, is not on the Hat. The reason for that omission is obvious to 1 those who have kept up with PTA affairs in the school we have just mentioned. There L no PTA in it and has not been for two-three years, ever since the then president disolv ed the organization under patriotic impulse j of saving gasoline for the war. That attitude was right enough then, but there is no rea son for continued neglect at Roxboro high school of what could be a valuable PTA re lationship. We have, ourselves, never had a cure-all faith in PTA programs, but we do hold it a shame that Person’s largest high; school for white pupils should continue to do ] without the possible benefits of such an or ganization. That continuance, as we see it, is due more to the indifference of parents rather than that of teachers. And, incidentally, while we are about it, it might be just as well-to be come concerned over the fact that Person County Training School for Negroes, largest or rather only high school here for members of that race, lists no such organization as a PTA. 0 WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING MAKING AND SAVING Shelby Daily Star. Some folks have been doing a lot of worry ing over what our workmen will do in the in terim between war production and the time that civilian industry will be meshing into gear. The transition period may last until the end of 1946, if is predicted with'jthe : f£- maining months of 1945 expected to be the most difficult ones. These fears may not be altogether un founded. There may be considerable unem ployment and in individual cases there will undoubtedly be hardships. But there is another side of the picture, too. Americans have on hand $66,000,000,000 more cash and bank deposits than they had in 1939. They hold $44,000,000,000 more in government bonds. Industry is also some $22,000,000,000 to the good in liquid assets. These billions will bear considerable squeezing in our economic wringer and will make for a comfortable cushion for the shock of reconversion, no matter how long the critical period lasts. Mind you, we are not saying that all Amer icans got rich during the war and will live happily ever after. If they had got rich they likely wouldn’t live happily thinking about how they made their profit. But as a matter of fact the increased cost of living sort of evened with increased wages and nobody can point the accusing finger at the American labor: r and call him a plutocrat. What wo arc ravin# is that the inborn frugality and thrift * orr people saved a tidy sum against the vr such period that confronts us now. Ihdlvidvni income * have been running at the rate of $H;2,09t».0©(),v07 a year. That is a considerable sum, bat i must go around a lot of people. And a lot or people have reserved from this total, little nest eggs which are particularly appropriate right now. We sincerely trust that peacetime indus try will soon get into full swing and that American workmen- and laborers find them selves much more prospective than they did THE COURIER-TIMES in was " CehT&inly tKEy’WWlfc'aMe to satisfy their own needs better because of more goods available. , , Irrespective of what ttie" future holds; however, we can be thankful for the saving instinct among our people. It relieves them from embarrassment and adds to the stabil ity of the country. .—o OF HOLIDAYS Greensboro Daily News To Comptroller Paul Reid, of the state pub lic school system, comes a letter from a coun ty superintendent of schools who had a few teachers on the job when Governor Cherry declared a two-dfiy holiday for the celebra tion of the victory over Japan. Other state employees got it; do the teachers? —that is the question. And now the state board of education is facing the question of whether it will carry on the schools for the full term and give the teachers an extra two-days pay, or reduce the term by two days and short-change the children. To those of us who have watched the schools and their reaction to holidays the Dr. Meadows Gets Three Year Term Appeal Taken From Unusual ly Long Sentence Imposed At Greenville. Greenville—Dr. Leon R. Meadows was sentenced in Superior court Friday to serve three years in the state penitentiary after he was convicted of embezzlement and false pretense in connection with his handling of special student funds while president of East Carolina Teachers college. A jury empaneled from Pasquo tank county, always in htrict cus tody of a deputy sheriff, returned Its verdict at 10:19 a. m. today. It received the case at 3:42 p. m. yes terday, The jury ha bdeen locked up for 11 weeks—only a week less than the duration of the trial. It was seated after efforts to get a jury from Lenoir county pfioved unsuccessful. Foreman J. O. Btmdy rapped on the jury door at 10:08 a. m. tfadav and told Sheriff Ruel Tyson) the jury was ready to rgfSO'ft. Iff the intervening minutes the defendant, his "wife and daughter. Elizabeth, and Judge Paul Frizzell were hasti ly summoned to the court room. Convicted On Two Accounts Bundy reported a verdict had been reached that he defendant had been found guilty of embez zling $3,040.82 and of false pretense in his monetary manipulations while college president. He was found innocent of nine of the 11 counts against him. He orig inally was charged with embezzlin'.; more than $14,000, and with false pretense. The embezzlement count on which he was convicted dealt with the Ricks Tour Fund of the college, or better known as “Memo Book No. 2. The false pretense item related to Dr. Meadows' alleged procure ment of signatures on a blank re ceipt from three negro workmen. He allegedly got the negroes to sign blank pieces of paper, and then filled them in for amounts total ing *705.40 more than he actually had paid the workmen and cnarg ed the college for that amount. Judge Frizzell pronounced sen tence after pleas for leniency from defense counsel members Albion Dunn. Clay Carter and John G. Dawson, and after state’s Attorney D. M. Clark, and special Prosecutors Jesse Jones and J. Henry Harrell had protested any Such action. "God be with him," said Jones, “if he even now does not realize that he has committed a wrong." Solicitor Clark, who preoared the state’s case, followed through with an accusation that Dr. Meadows in tentionally embezzeled monies be longing to "school children ’ at tne college, that he “deceitfully and fraudulently" tried to change his records to show otherwise. o Stories Convince Japs War Ends With 38th Division, Luzon, P. I.— Surrender of several thousand Japanese in the Northern Luzon mountains was arranged yesterday —over the “adamant" opposition of their commander.- "Allied head quarters in Manila tefclay reported similar negotations proceeding or the important island of Mindano and Cebu. Display of an Associated Press story in a worn American Army Ws sheet pUlled from the pocket of a C. I. convinced Japanese at :"’in_: of the war’s oddest |pi~ .: pcrlevs in the Northern Lu- I zon mo..;u..ir.j that the war was over. Their lieutenant colonel promised to’ notify his higher*,t ranking commander—who stiil op posed move—that they were yielding. o Dial 2381 for Newspaper Services problem is simple. There WasnTT&riytHing much accomplished within two days before and after V-J day anyhow, so let the schools, if thejrare clicking, run on for the full length and slip a little extra in the-teaehera’ pay envelopes. Or the whole business could simply be for gotten, as has been the qpss aforetime when something came up that called for a decision as to whether school teachers are employees in the ordinary sepse, or even people. Except for Sundays and Saturday after noons off for those who are working for day’s wages and want a chance to spend them, wo are beginning to wonder if there is anything to a holiday anyhow. Counting the time con sumed in getting ready for one and that giv en to catching one’s stride the next day, there is no such thing as a simple holiday. It amounts to a day and a half off so far as effectiveness of routine is concerned and when that is doubled, three days or more will be lost. We hold the chief need for employees, if an adequate wage is being paid, is a work week probably geared to the business of liv ing; Washington Says Lid Removed In Aide Production Washington The Government lias told auto-makers to go the limit as it strove to unite unions i and bosses in labor peace. And—to open Jobs for veterans and fired war workers—it ordered 16 and 17-year-old girls out of plants working for the Government. To them the Labor Department said: Go back to school. The approval on unlimited auto j production was official. Previously the Government, had ! told the manufacturers it was go- ! ing to issue this order, that they were to go ail-out. This was the | order itself. Meanwhile: 1. There’ll be fatter books and! inaiagineS. Qff wept the controls in the pubiUhersv'cah nee. Only limits left: On paper for news- • papers. 2. OPA said: Throw awav your fuel oil and gasoline coupons. Ra tioning won’t come back. 3. The Government seized a strike-threatened railroad, proving it still holds the big wartime stick. 4. ! Federal farm bosses buckled down to changing farming back to peace. They may ask some crop cuts in 1946. 5. The Army slashed its contracts for gasoline—and offered 250,000 badly needed surplus tires for civil ian trucks. 6. Garment makers asked the Government to ease up on its or ders about low-priced clothes. 7. There will be ample supplies of penicillin—the “miracle drug”— for civilians. The last controls i*me off August 31. Dooiiffte Vets Reluming Heme Chungking. Three American fliers, heroes of a Japanese prison camp ordeal after their capture in the 1942 Qpolittle raid on Japan, left for the United States today, speeded by a No 1 air travel prior ity. The liberated men—Lts. Chase J. Nielsen and Robert L. Hite, and Sgt. Jacob D. Deshazer—during their one-night stopover in Chungking tasted the comforts of civilization for the first time in over 40 months. ’ They spent the night in good beds with clean sheets in a house belong ing to Prime Minister T. V. Soong. It is now used as a residence by Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, former U. S. commander in China. It was wonderful to the three men after their years as prisoners and long periods of solitary confinement. They turned on the faucets and marveled at the hot water. They read magazines with avidity and in terest which would have brougnt joy to the publishers. The American air commander, Lt. Gen. George Stratemeyer, gave them new air corps insignia- and shoulder patches. A West Point col onel dispensed iced bottle beer—a semi-precious commodity in Chung king—«nd they gobbled toasted sandwiches between swigs. ’‘You’re the bosses,” Mad docks told them. “Sleep as late as you want, and have breakfast whenever you want.” For Saturday night dinner they had tomato soup, roast pork* pota toes, lemon pic and coffee. ( “This is find This is fine! Nielsen i said, patting. Ms stomach content edly. tt colonel from Texas, IMnbUl* Berlin Musical Director Killed Berlin—An American sentry's bullet killed Leo Borchard, 55-year old conductor of the Berlin Phil harmonic Orchestra, just before midnight last night when his au tomobile failed to stop at the com mand of soldiers at an outpost. Borchard was struck in the head by one bullet. Another man and a woman in the car escaped injury. Three soldiers on duty waved flashlights and shouted for the car to stop, but it went on. Sgt. Dar rell R. Odell,-Littlefield, Texas, and Pfc. John D. Jones, Dodson, La., opened fire, an official announce ment said. De Gaulle Visits Grave 01 late F. D, Roosevelt H.yde Park, N. Y.—Gen. Charles J de Gaulle on Sunday paid tribute to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, placing a wreath on the grave of the former President in: the rose garden of the Roosevelt estate. The tall soldier-statesman and | his party arrived here shortly be fore noon and were met outside the [garden by Mrs. Roosevelt. About 150 visitors stood in the background as De Gaulle, provision al president of France, and Mrs. Roosevelt walked silently through the tall hedge which surrounds the rose garden to the simple grave. After placing the floral piece at the head of the grave, De Gaulle lowered his head for a few seconds, then drew himself to attention and saluted. He chatted with Mrs. Roosevelt and then he and his party left by automobile for the United States military academy at West Point foi luncheon and an inspection trip. The 11-car caravan entered the military academy ground about 12:45 p. m. and the De Gaulle party went directly to the officers’ mess where they had iunchein with West Point officials. After the luncheon, the Frenoh general visited the academy library and examined the sword of Napo leon which he had presented to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisnehower who, in turn, gave it to the academy. De Gaulle reviewed a battalion of plebes and placed a tri-colored wreath at the base of a statue, fac ing the barracks, given to the mili tary school by l’Ecole Polytechnique. De Gaulle toured the post tind then headed for New York city where tomorrow he will be given an official reception. The French leader, who arrived' In this country last Wednesday to confer with Persident Truman, came here from Washington on an air transport command plane: He landed at Stewart field, West Point, and motored to Hyde Park. Johnson, gave each flier throw tom els, three shirts, three pain of trousers, shaving equipment, tooth brushes and paste. Johnson’s’ son, a flier, was taken prisoner in Italy and escaped after 20 days of’ soli tary confinement. He talload' to the three fliers like a father, advlsM#. them to talk about their - experi ences and answer all quieU—) OO matter how many times they ndgM be asked the same thing; LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE SALE OF LAND* Under and by virtue of thw au thority conveyed upon ma iga cer tain deed of trust, executed by BUa Slaughter Horn and husband, A. B ora, on June 18th, ISIS end duly, recorded in the office of- the* ister of of-Person Oenetßi Bfc DeMPOf-TfUßt’ Book'lo, Kt page 183, default having been made In the BegWMt of the bond there by secur ed and at the request of the holder thereof, I will on Saturday, Septfcm bhr 29th, 1946, at the court heuse door 1* Roxboro, sell to the highest (bidder . for cash, the tract of land conveyed In said deed of trust, to-1 wit: I That certain tract of- land in Al lensviiie Township, bounded on the North by the lands of W. H. Gen try and other lands of Ella S. Horn, East by E. E. Bradsher, South by other lands of Ella S. Horn and H. D. Dickerson and on the West by the lands of O. W. Walker, contain ing ninety-four (94) acres, more or less and being' composed of two tracts, T. P. Slaughter, tract of fifty-four (54) acres and the Ida Slaughter tract of forty (40) acres. The purchaser will be required to make a deposit of 10 percent on day of sale. This the 27th day of August, 1845. NATHAN LUNSFORD, Trustee. Lunsford & Burke, Attorneys. Aug. 27, Sept. 3, 10, 17. SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under the authorized Investment. In me- as Trustee in that certain deed of trust, executed June 19th, 1935 by Ella S. Horn and husband, A. E. Horn and duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of j Person County in Deed of Trust | Book 10, at page 184, default having been made in the payment of the bond thereby secured anti at the re quest of the holder thereof, I will on Saturday, September 29th, 1945, at 12 o’clock 1 noon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the court house door in Roxboro, the lands conveyed by the said deed of trust; to-wit: Beginning at a stake on the road from Roxboro to Mill Creek*, thence North 88: degrees Bast 16.60 chains to a stone; thence South 14.98 1 chains to a stone' in the Roxboro ] thence North 88- degrees West 30.32 | chains t oa stone in the Roxboro and Mill Creek road; thence with the road to the beginning, contain ing thirty-one (31) acres, more or less, being Lot No. 2 in the division of the J. M. Slaughter land and al lotted to 01a Slaughter Horn in the division of J. M. Slaughter’s estate. See Book B, at page 453, of Orders and Decrees in the Clerk’s office of Person County, North Carolina. Highest bidder at the sale will* be ] required to deposit ten per cent of ithe bidder's price as evidence of good faith. > This the 27th day of August, 1945. NATHAN LUNSFORD, Trustee. Lunsford & Burke, Attorneys. Aug. 27, Sept. 3, 10, 17 *» • EXECUTOR# NOTICE Having been duly qualified as I executors of the estate of D. W. Knott, deceased, late- of Person County, North Carolina, inis is to notify all holders of claims against the said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned executors on or before August 27, 1946, or this no tice will be-pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to this estate- will please make Im mediate payment. This August 22, 1945. A. E. FOG LEMAN; W. R. SHERMAN. Executors. Lunsford &- Burke) Attys. 6-ts-Aug 27, Sept 3-10-17-24; Oct 1 ADMINISTRAT'D IPS' NOTICE Having been duly- qualified as ad ministrator-' at the estate- of Mrs. Edna B. Bullock, deceased, late Os Person County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons holding claims against the said estate to ex hibit them to the undersigned ad. minlstrator on or before- August 16, 1946, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said' estate 1 will please make immediate payments. This August 16, 1945. R. A. Bullock, Administrator. Aug. 20, 27, Sept. 3, 10; 17, 24: pd. Sheetrock • ’ Wie Have Just Received A Car Os: SWEETROCK If you need this material now or will need: any in' die near future we wotdtf urge-you to get your need* froofr tHi* shipment #' ROXBORO LUMBER (mm -‘Mwnv Os Quality Lumber” ’ .. •( ... ■ ' ' ' ■ MONPAY, AUGUST 27, 1945 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NORTH CAROLINA, PERSON COUNTY. IN' TRBSUPWHOR COURT BEFORE: THE- CLERK. Httel J. Lem in her own behalf* as creditor of the estate of E. J. Tucker, deceased, and on behalf of' all other creditors of said decedent who choose to make themselves party plaintiffs herein, vs. W. L. Foushee and J. H. Hughes, Administrators C. T. A. of If J. Tucker, deceased, and John Archi bald Tuoker, sole legatee and de: visee named In the last WUI and testament of E. J. Tucker, deceased: ITo Creditors of the late E. J. Tuck* 6r: -v* The above is a creditor’s pnaeedi lng for an accounting institute, ax a special proceeding under seißpn 28-122 of the General- Statute* by Hlizel J. Lee- in her own behejL as creditor of the estate of &J. ‘rock er, deceased, and on behalf of all other creditors of said decedent who choose to make themselves party plaintiffs, and the time for answer ing having been extended by differ ent orders of the court, thereby granting to the defendants differ ent times in which to file answer, and it appearing that the under signed Clerk of Court should give notice to all other creditors to come lin and file their claims with the i undersigned and to make them selves parties to this proceeding, if they may choose, notice is hereby given to any and all creditors of the late Dr. TUcker to file with the un dersigned, at his office in Roxboro, as Clerk Superior Court of Person -County, their respective claims duly verified on or before the 20th day of September, 1945, and if they be advised, and so choose, to make themselves parties to the above en titled proceeding, as prescribed by section 28-126 of the General Stat utes of North Carolina. ! This 3rd day of August, 1945. R. A. BULLOCK, Clerk Superior Court Person County. B. & S. Aug. 6-13-20-27. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Sue C. Bradsher, de-, ceased, late of Person County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the uno’eieigned on or before the 23rd day ot July, 1946, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. I All persons inrietrc-J to said estate will piease make immediate pay. n.t nt. This 21st day of July, 1945. L. C. Brqdshcr, Admr. of Sue C. Bradsher. Win. D. Merritt, Atty. 1-23-46 61s. .ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having been duly qualified as ad ministratrix of the estate of Edgar S., Regan, deceased, late of Person County, North Carolina, this Is to notify all persons holding claims against the said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned administra trix on or Before July 14,1946, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immedi ate payments. This July 14, 1945. MISS LOTTIE WALKER, Administratrix. R. B. Dawes, Attorney, July 16, 23, 36, Aug. 6, IS, 20. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having been qualified as the ad ministrator of the estate of Jog T. Hamlin, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons holding claims against the estate to present the same to the undersigned administra tor within twelve months from the 13th day of August, 1945, or this no - tice will be pleaded in bar of-their recovery. All persons Indebted to the estate will please make Immedi ate payment. This August 13, 1845. I. T. STANFIELD, Administrator ;R. P. Bums, Attorney. AUg. 13, 20, 27, Sept. 3, 10, 17.
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