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Victory Bonds Will Speed Them Home VOL. LXIV. Person Buys Huge 'Sums In War Bonds Over Long Period Large Investment Reported As Plans Are Made For Victory Loan Drive. "Person County has invested a large amount in Government oonds”, said Gordon C. Hunter, of this City, district chairman for War Loan drives in a statement issued today in connection with plans for open ing of the Victory Loan drive at the end of this month. ‘‘Since May 1, 1941 through July 7, 1945, Person County has bought p, $5,991,734.25 in War Bonds. Os this amount $2,G09,.396.75 has been in the E Bonds of the type of bonds the individual buys," says Mr. Hunter, who adds that the figures cited do not include over $3,000,000 in bonds bought by Peoples bank, of which he is executive vice president. Such bank figures are never included in county totals, according to Mr. "“Printer. t The remainder of Mr. Hunter’s statement reads as follows: "The aitizens of the county have not only helped win the war in pur chasing these bonds, but they have, also, layed away a nice nest egg for the future. "This amount is quite a savings for the county, and many of the holders are planning to build a home, fix up the farm, build a new j house, buy a new car, or electrical equipment as soon as these things arc available. "The longer these bonds are held the more interest they pay, and the holders of these bonds know that they have the safest investment in the world that they can own. "The Eighth and last Victory Bond Drive starts October 29th. "Since Person County has never fallen down on a War Bond Drive I quota, a Red Cross quota, or a Unit erf' War Euntf“u*tite 'SuMa,' r am ] quite sure that the county will raise the Eighth War Loan Victory Drive quota. "The boys in the service have fin ished their job. It is up to the home front to finish theirs. It will take a I lot of money to bring all ‘ the boys home, and everyone wants to bring them home as soon as possible.” 1 o Pfc. G. L. Davis Shares In Honor Pfc. George L. Davis, of Roxboro, whose father is a veteran of World War 1, was wounded several months ago while on duty in the Pacific area. He did not want anything said | about his injuries then, and nothing was, but now he is sharer in unit citation, the award of a meritorious service plaque and he wants the home-folks to know it. The plaque has been presented to the 91 AAF Base Unit, Section F, 141 Army Airways Communica tions System squadron, with which Davis is connected. The award comes for difficult tasks in connection with , the liberation of the Northern Phil ippines and for similar work in the Southern Philippines. o Rites Held For Mrs. M. A. Walker Funeral for Mrs. Martha Ann Walker. 83, of Longhurst, whose death occurred Friday morning at 1 her home from complications and infirmities of age after an illness lasting nine weeks, was held Satur day afternoon at her home at 2 o’- clock by the Rev. C. G. McCarver with interment in Providence Bap tist Church cemetery. Surviving are four sons, Major, Norman and Jesse of Longhurst. Charlie of Ca-Vel, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Bessie Dixon of Ca- Vel. o Mrs. Clayton 111 • ————— Mrs. Alvis Clayton, wife of the , manager of the Person County home who has been ill for several months, is still confined to her room, it was reported today. Here for a week end visit with her Was her niece. Miss Mary Elizabeth McKinney, daugter of Mrs. Maude McKinney and a student nurse at Memorial Hospital, Jianville, Va; . • o HAS BRONZE STAR V) _ S. Sgt. Charles D. Garrett, hus band of Mrs. Ruby Clayton Garrett, has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Germany, i J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Wayland Woody's Rites To Be Held At Bethel Hill Person Native Dies Sunday In Richmond, Va., Hospital. Wayland W. Woody, 71, of Mid lothian, Va., a native of Person county, died yesterday in a Rich mind, Va., hospital from complica tions after an illness lasting one month. A farmer, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Gillis Woody. FVr was unmarried. Funeral will be held Tuesday af ternoon at four o'clock at Bethel Bill Baptist church by the pastor, the Rev. J. F. Funderburk, with interment in the church cemetery. Surviving are, one sister, Mrs. E. Y. Jones, of Bethel Hill, three broth ers. G. G,. and Carl, both of Bethel Kill, and Ira, of Greensboro, route one. Active pallbearers will be E. J. and Ralph Jones, Biblon and Bryan Boswell, Clyde Woody and William Wilburn. Hospital Reveals Scope Os Plans The incorporation charter for Per son County Memorial Hospital. In corporated, Ijpek Jion-piofi;, organization, was signed last Tues day by Thad Eure, secretary of State for North Carolina, according to R. L. Harris, of this City, chair man of the committee in charge of the proposed structure and leader of the group which will conduct the financial campaign to establish the institution. Mr. Harris is by virtue of these chairmanships also chair man of the Board of directors. ] Signers of the certificate of in -1 corporation, a five page document, 1 are, in addition to Secretary Euro end Mr. Harris, George W. Kane, Dr. John D. Fitzgerald, Gordon C. Hunter, R. B. Griffin. J. M. Demp sey and R. P. Burns, all of Roxboro. Mr. Burns is also chairman of the Board of Directors of Community hospital, present hospital here, which is expected to be absorbed by the larger institution if and when It is erected. Set forth in the certificate of in corporation are purposes of the in stitution, which is to be a memorial to veterans of World War 1 and World War II from Person County, and also included are provisions for duties and membership of the Board of Directors, together with an ana lysis of principles under which the $200,000 institution is to operate. A digest of contents of the certi ficate of incorporation, translated into non-technical and layman’s language, reads as follows: “We the undersigned do hereby associate ourselves into a non-stock and no’n-profit corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the State of North Carolina. “Name of the corporation is Per son County Memorial Hospital, In corporated. “This corporation is formed and will be operated as a living memori al to those individuals from Person County, North Carolina, who served in any branch of the Arihed Services of the United States of America in either the First World War or the Second World War and especially ns a memorial to such of those in dividuals as sacrificed their lives in such service. "Location of the principal office of tlie corporation is Roxboro. N. C. "Objects for which the corporation is formed, are, to maintain and op erate an institution for the treat ment of sick people, under the di rection and supervision of skilled physicians and surgeons; to supply modern physical aids in the diag nosis and treatment of disease and to furnish to the medical staff of the hospital an opportunity to render to patients the best care, attention and treatment which medical sci- j encs affords. "To appoint a medical staff and' to promulgate rules for the hospital j and staff; to furnish physical equip ment for the medical staff; to pro-! vide an adequate nursing staff, eith- j nr with or without a school for thfc Courier-TOmes ! Former Person Man Tennessee School Official Baxter E. Hobgood Changes From College To Public School System. Baxter E. Hobgood, 37, formerly of Roxboro and son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Hobgood, of this City, has be come city superintendent of schools and principal of Central high school, Murfreesboro, Tenn., it was learned here today, Hobgood was formerly a member of the Tennessee State Teacher’s college faculty. Hr began his new work in Mur freesboro the first of last week. The following account of the Hob good appointment is taken from the October 8, issue of the Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro: Mr. Hobgood succeeds J. C. Mitch ell, CHS principal and city schools superintended? for 26 years, who has tendered his resignation due to ill health. The new school head is fully ac quainted with local school problems, having first served here as principal of McFadden school in 1930-31, fol lowing his graduation from TSC in the class of 1930. In the fall of 1931 he joined the Central High school faculty as history teacher, remain ing there until 1940 when he was made high school supervisor for Middle Tennessee with headquart ers at the college. He served as research director for (continued on page 6) j professional training of nurses, and in connection therewith to provide j housing and other accomodations for tire nihrStifg W:aff: • to provide 1 ! equipment and organization for the , instruction and training of doctors, nurses and technicians. | “And, in order to properly prose ,cute the objects and purposes above | set forth, the corporation shall have j full power and authority to pur | chase, lease and otherwise acquire, ! hold, mortgage, convey and other j wise dispose of, all kinds of property, i both real and personal, both in this State and all other States j and generally perform all acts deem-1 ed necessary for proper and success- j ful realization of objects and aims | for which the corporation is formed. "The organization is to have and issue no capital stock and is not or ganized for the purpose of profit or gain to the members; "Names of the Incorporators are, R. L. Harris, G. W. Kane, J. D. Fitz gerald, G. C. Hunter, R. B. Griffin, J. M. Dempsey and R. P. Burns, all of Roxboro, N. C. “Period of existence of the corpor ation is unlimited. “Mwnbers of the corporation shall be limited to twelve, who shall be directors of the corporation and shall constitute and be known as the Board of trustees, with full authori ty to control and manage the hos- 1 pital and corporate affairs. "Until the members are elected as hereinafter provided, the present in corporators shall constitute the Board of Trustees; the incorporators shall have power to name the several members of the corporation. Any citizen of Person County shall be eligible for membership on the Board of Trustees; Two-thirds of actual membership must vote for the election of any member of the Board (continued on page 6) j. Battle Ol Hugenten Forest Is Related Writer of a sort of autobiography of his overseas experiences in Europe is Sgl. William Ira Wheeler, 23, of Roxboro, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wheeler, of this City, and nephew of Mrs. R. W. Benson, of Oxford, the former Miss Lorena Dixon, to whom he has sent his narrative, which takes in the June 1944 inva sion in Europe, his fighting through France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany with the Fourth Division, and finally, back to Fort Lewis, Washington, after a furlough here in Roxboro with his parents. Sgt. Wheeler, who was inducted at Fort Bragg in September 1943, got to France in time to participate in the fall of Cherbourg, the fighting at Brest and the entrance to Paris. An incident near the Selgfred line was the interruption of the making of a cup of coffee by grenade throw ing from the enemy. "Two of his men were hit,” writes Wheeler, who adds that he and his friends began to get -JS ■ '■s.P'i •< <-V ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA HARTZ PRAISES MILITARY POLICE FOR JOB BEING DONE IN JAPAN “Tokyo and Yokohama are bomb ed, blasted and burned to the earth, particularly in those sections where 'essential military installations' were located", says Chaplain Edwin R. Hartz, formerly of Roxboro, in a letter to J. W. Noell. editor of the Courier-Times. Chaplain Hartz, now on Pacific duty with the U. S. S. Dionysus and the U. S. S. Argonnc, adds that; "the sight of Japanese instruments 1 of torture leaves American lads 1 thankful that Nipponese dreams of j world conquest were nipped in the bud." ; Hartz, who sends a printed pro gram for services aboard his ships, says also that he was recently at a service with Eugene Tuck, of Rox- j boro. Frequently men aboard sub- 1 marines, destroyers and cruisers without chaplains come to ships served by Chaplain Hartz. Ivy Division To j Send Officers For Civic Club Lt. Col. Strickland Will Be Speaker.At Rotary Thurs day. Lt. Col. K. H. Strickland, of Fourth (Ivy) Division, Camp Butner, com mander of the Eighth Infantry regi ment, who was with that regiment when as battalion commander it spearheaded landings ill France on D-Day in June 1944, will be guest speaker Thursday night at Hotel Roxboro at next meeting of Roxboro 1 Rotary club, it yas revealed today i by G. Lemuel Allen, club secretary, i Coming with Coi. Strickland are Major Miles A. Warren, executive officer, 29th Field Artillery battal ion; Che plain William E. Boyce, 22* Infantry regiment; Lt. Noble V. Borders, intelligence officer, first battalion, 12th Infantry regiment; and Lt. James H. Huff, division pub lic relations officer for the Fourth Division. Program for this past Thursday was Night with teachers j of the Roxboro District system as' club guests for a program in charge of O. B. Mcßroom. who presented R. P. Burns as guest speaker. Principals i of various schools introduced their \ teaching staffs. Spokesman for this! part of the program was Superin tendant R. B. Griffin, club member, i Gifts were furnished by Rotarian J.! D. Mangum, of Peebles Department j store. Praising the teachers for their work in guiding children and young people, Mr. Burns declared that up on the work of teachers rest the fu ture welfare of Person County. He said that worth of their services cannot be underestimated, particui arly in this present time as a bul-, wark against juvenile delinquency j: and a decline of moral standards. ■ AlotUf, *7i4e Waif, ■ Our partner and fellow sufferer, J. W. Noell, left last week for a nice vacation. He said that he was going to Shelby and then in the western part of the state. Where he is actually going I do not know. Even at that he was rather smart. All this summer he refused to take a vacation. He sat in the office and sweated it out. Now when it is nice and ccol and just right to enjoy tilings he takes off while we have to stay here and work. I wish that I had put my vacation off till fall. Whether he had any money or not I could not find out. I think that he had a little and I warned him before he left not to trust strangers and to keep his money buttoned up or to put it in his shoe. Above all I warned him not to play poker. If he comes back with a lot of money I will know that he did play a little. rid of souvenirs they had taken; from Germans they had captured Describing a German attack on his pillbox. Wheeler says that only seven guys in his platoon got out. The struggle lasted several days be fore reinforcements came. Hutengen Forest, which followed, “was the j worst battle I was in", he writes, | ‘‘fifty square miles of forest, where j you could see only about twenty-j five yards in front of you"/ “And the shells would hit in the tops of the trees, so we would take big logs and put tops over our fox ! holes so the shrapnel wouldn't come through”, he adds, saying also, "Then on Thanksgiving Day we were surrounded by the Germans . . . .i We had nothing to eat, no water, no blankets, and it snowed and \ sleeted and the water came through j into our foxholes, so that we were \ wet for three or four days. ... it was cold. “Then into the attack again. We got to the edge of the forest. The j; HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1945 Paying tribute to the "gallant, , courageous, cool-headed and well ■ trained military police", Hartz writes ) that "they are doing an excellent . job of supervising the Japanese pop , ulace". He adds that "many Japan ; ese people are homeless, some help less and the majority hungry "Each day they (the Japanese) can i be seen coming down the road with j packs on their backs", he says, point iiing blit that “the more fortunate ! ones own oxen and carts”. His con : | elusion is that “Out here one feels | that in the future it must be Christ. ! or else chaos. America still has the best of everything, schools, homes, churches, papers, cigarettes and lov ed ones”, he says. J Chaplain Hartz, formerly a pastor l of Methodist churches in Roxboro. was for many months assigned to a station on Long Island before he went to Pacific duty and Japan. , ] Tobacco Market iTo Start Five Day Week Selling Beginning Monday, Oct. 22nd the Roxboro tobacco market will begin selling tobacco five days a week. The selling days prior to this have been for only four days. There has been no tobacco Sold on Mondays. Sales continue heavy on the lo cal market. Last Thursday and Friday the market sold 435,508 pot-mis of tobacco for an average of $42.50. Total saues for the sea son now stand at 3,723,696 pounds for an average of $41.61. Quality of the leaf is improving state warehousemen and prices are i pleasing. O : | I Oxford Man To Talk At Grange Brent Meadows, of Oxford, master j of the Granville grange, will be i guest speaker Thursday night at | at a meeting of the Person Grange | which will be held in the USO Set - , ! vice Center, according to announ cement made this morning by Errol j Morton, A good attendance is re quested. o— STATIONED IN MANILA I j Pfc. Ira Oakley, son of Mrs. S. : T. Oakley, Roxboro, is with the 249th ' ! Port Company in Manila, serving as i assistant pier supervisor. Pfc. Oakley participated in the j New Guinea, Leyte and Luzon cam- j paigns. ■ His message was brief, but forceful, purposedly made short because of his expressed belief that teachers are “too much talked at whenever they gather together”. Presiding was Dr. John Fitzgerlad, I club president. Members of the club j introduced themselves. The program was at Hotel Roxboro. ;sun came out, and our Air Force [came. Boy, that was what we were looking for. The planes started bombing and we started the attack again, but the Germans had their tanks dug in, and as we came out j they started shooting. We went back j into the forest again and spent a j couple of days, while our artillery land air force gave them a going ! over." The narrative continues. “We were so close to the Germans we could have hit them with rocks, but’ we couldn't see them. Then we started out again. They opened up with ev erything they had. We were ordered bock to our foxholes. A shell hit | about two feet from the hole I was j in. It covered me with dirt and con ! crete. . . . hurt my back, so I start j ed to the aid station. Another shell S came. I ran back to my foxhole and it hit just behind me. I was hit i j i again) breaking my arm, and hit ,in five places in my back with , shrapnel. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Miss Harris To Welcome Truman At Statesville [ Miss Zelle Harris, Person San itarian, Named To Recep tion Committee. * Miss Zelle Harris, of Roxboro. Per ' son County sanitarian, formerly of Wilkes county, has been asked to be j a member of the State-wide recep tion committee next month in j Statesville during the appearance | there of President Harry S. Truman, 'it was learned today. j Miss Harris, who has accepted the | appointment, will have as her com- I mittee chairman Mrs. R. S. Fergu -1 son, of Liledoun, Taylorsville, famous in her own right as a Tar Hfeel hostess. Miss Harris will be in Statesville on November 2 and 3rd ( Her invitation was extended by Hugh G. Mitchell, of Statesville, chairman of the committee on ar rangements. President Truman wil speak at Statesville at a session of the State senate and will then go to Raleigh for a night address. Also on the I program at Statesville are to be Se j cretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vin |son and Scretarv of War Robert P. : Patterson. Many Tar Heel notables ! are expected to be present. Memorial Shelf Created By Library First persons to be honored in a 'new "Memorial” shelf collection be j gun last week at Person County ! Public library are the late Miss | Miss Evie Long, of Roxboro, prom j inent church woman, and Pfc. Bas- Jsett Poole, of near Virgilina, killed j in action overseas in World War 11. i Announcement of the beginning | the "Memorial" collection of vol j times for the library, a project long j considered, was made Saturday by Mrs. Margaret Howard, chief librw jry clerk, who has arranged an at j tractive shelf space back of her desk, where white, purple-trimmed columns frame a top-piece bearing | the word "Memorial”. Centered low er down over the shelf is a portrait lof the late President Franklin D. ; Roosevelt, flanked by the American flag and a service flag. The portrait | is the incomplete one on which Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatofl was working | at time of the late President's death : at Warm Springs. Dollars of the first books in tile | memorial collection are Dr. and j Mrs. Robert E. Long and family, for | Miss Long, who was Dr. Long’s aunt, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Long, for their cousin, the late Pfc. Poole. Books given by Dr. and Mrs. Long are three books for children, Walt Disney's, “Surprise Package”* Earl and Linnette Burton’s, "The Ad ventures of Waldo", and Waiter Foley's, "The Black Stallion", while the volumes given in memory of Pfc. Poole are, Roy J. Snell’s, “Sally Scott of the WAVES" and Norma Kent of the WACS”, two books, for young people. Persons interested in adding to the memorial collection in tribute to members of their families or in memory of friends, are requested to see Mrs. Howard, who has charge of the collection and who has al ready the promise of several more volumes. Each book in the mem- ' orial collection bears a book-plate j with the name of the person hem- j ored and that of the donar. j "The shrapnel knocked my watch 1! off my arm. Mother gave me that : watch when 2 first went to the , j Army, so I couldn’t leave without it. .1 1 took my arm with my other hand, : 1 fixing it so the bone wouldn't stick , | up so far. I looked around and saw my watch. I put it in my pocket, and j ran for about a mile to the medics, | where they fixed my arm put me on ■ a stretcher. In a few hours I was in ! a hospital, and from there was sent | back to England”, j The story ends with Wheeler's re , covery and transfer to another unit j in a limited service capacity. On his I way back to Germany he heard peo ple in Belgium saying the war was over. It was, and by July he was, back in the States, after fourteen! [ months overseas. And was he glad : |to get back to Roxboro? Here is I 1 what he says, “When I saw the girls < 1 around Roxboro, it was like a dream .to talk to one and she could speak I English", ‘ Court Delayed To Afternoon; Judge Puts Off Arrival Gain Shown In War Fund Total One School, Mount Tirzah. Listed As Am oner Those Over Top. $2,859.22 inis been reported this morning as total so far in the Per son and Roxboro United Commun ity War Fund, which lias a goal of $10,050. Co-Chairman J. A. Long. Jr., pointed out that the collected total as of today represents over one-fourth of the amount to be collected, but that much work must be done to bring in the remainder. In this connection W. Wallace ! Woods, business district and pub- I licity chairman, lias requested el! i collectors to complete their as signments and turn in reports as soon as possible. Numbers of cit - izens last week said they had not yet been approached by solicitors Only one school, Mount Tirzaii, (continued on page 6) Hold Riles Today | For Mother Os Roxboro Woman ■ Mrs, Mamie Osborne, 67, wife of | the late Charles S. Osborne, alio mother of Mrs. Burleigh G. Clay- I ton of Roxboro. died at her home, j 818 Sixth Street, Durham, yester- I day morning at 7:15 o’clock, follow j iiig a long period of ill health. Funeral will be held at Asbury Methodist church at Durham, at three o’clock this afternoon with tile pastor of the church, and Dr. H. C. Smith, district superintendent, officiating. Surviving are her daughter. Mrs. Burleigh G. Clayton of Roxboro; one brother, E. R. Thomas, Sr., ot Erwin, two sisters, Mrs. Gordon B. Rowland of Raeford and Mrs. R. H, Cla.vtor of Hillsboro; and two grandchildren, Miss Grace Osborne : Clayton who is with the American Red Cross at Fort Story, Va.. and Thomas Hill Clayton of the United States Naval Reserve. A nephew is Philip L v Thomas, also of Roxboro. ; Honorary pallbearers will be members of the board of stewards of Asbury Church. Active pail bearers will be the Rev. Arthur Dennis, tile Rev. Donald Smiley, C. G. Bennett, Capt. Edwin Hamlin of Winston-Salem, C. B. Kirby of Roxboro and B. U. Rose. Floral bearers will be members of the deceased’s Sunday School class and missionary circle. | Mrs. Osborne for many years a j prominent merchant in West Dur j ham, was a sister of the late Fr*><! iS. Thomas, druggist of Durham. ! She was born October 13. 1878 in 1 Moore County, the daughter of tire late John Lewis Thomas and Em ily Ragland Thomas. Mrs. Osborne moved with her family to Dur ham in 1894. She was married to Charles Osborne on February 13. 1895 in Durham. At the time ,'I her death, Mrs. Osborne was a member of the board of stewards at the Asbury Methodist church of which she was long an active mem ber. o Women Here To Edit Club Sheet Navember issue of the Tar Heel Woman, monthly publication of the State Federation of Business and Professional Women, is to be edited by members of the Roxboro club, it was reported SatuMay. Members expected to act as editors are Mrs. A. F. Nichols and Miss Nancy Brad sher. The magazine is expected to contain a number of pictures and articles about Roxboro, according to Miss Billie Vogter, president of the Roxboro club. Fatal Highway ** Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 91 Johnson Negro Murder Case | I*ut On Calendar. Few Ol her Cases Listed. | Delayed until this afternoon was ! the opening of Person Superior court i because of lateness of arrival of : Judge Henry L. Stevens, of Warsaw, I wtio notified Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton yesterday by telephone that lie would be unable to reach Rox boro until noon today because of I distance of travel from the jurist’s j liatne at Warsaw, j Sheriff Clayton (lid his best to i notify members of tile bar and oth ! ers concerned with court affairs, but despite this many interested persons | could not be reached and so came | on to Roxboro this morning, expect j ing court to open at ten o’clock as j scheduled. It was expected, however, ; that Judge Stevens would begin court immediately as soon as he ar ■! rived and Would begin the business of selection of a grand jury to be | followed by his charge to that body. Calendared on the criminal cal endar lor trial is the case of Aubrey Johnson. Person Negro, charged With the murder of another Negro, Stephen Johnson, a kinsman, in a church light, Aubrey .Johnson, who was to have been tried at August term of court, which was cancelled, lias been in jail lor several months. Facing trial as all accessory after tlie fact in tile same case is George | Washington Rogers, also a Negro. I His bond was fixed at SSOO. I Other cases expected to be reach jtd shortly are those against Thom as Self, charged with robbery, Clar i ence Locklear, charged with larceny jol an automobile, and Wilson Lock i hart, listed as charged with rape. Scheduled on the civil docket are a number of divorce cases. Affairs of Court Clerk R. A. Bul lock. who is iff in Watts hospital, Durham, will be handled by Miss Nancy Brasher, his deputy, assisted by W. Roy Cates, county surveyor, ! who frequently helps in such mat ! tors. Mr. Bullock, however, is report ! ed as improving and is expected to I return home from the hospital this I week. j o Junior Hostesses Tighten Program j USO Service Center junior hos-* tesses in a meeting held Thursday night at Person Court house, agreed to continue the present arrangement of Junior hostess groups to serve each week-end at the Center. They further agreed to a greater program of cooperation and at least twelve girls from the group serving on a specified week-end will be in at tendance. Presiding was Dr. Robert E. Long, chairman of the Board of Directors, of the USO Center. Also present in an advisory capacity was Lawrence Featherston, entertainment chair man. Plans were discussed for a Hallowe'en dance and a committee was named to select a suitable date, o Ten Register i For Service Eight young white men and two Negro youths registered during the past week with the Person Selective Board on becoming eighteen years of age, it was reported today. White men who have registered are: Ste phens B. Ellis, Arnold T. Gentry, Ralph O. Harris. Arch M. Suitt, Hassell T. Blalock. John W. Pass, Horace D. Knotte, George E. Har ris and Johnnie O. Jordan, while Negroes who have signed are, Ezra Bowman and Flint F. Johnson. o Longhurst Revival The revival at Longhurst Baptist Church conducted by the pastor, Rev. Auburn Hayes, with music un der the direction of A. E. Lynch of Campbell college continues to draw large crowds eacli night. Last night ! there was one of the largest crowd* ! in the history of the church accord* ! ing to the older members. The meaty: ■' ing will continue through next Wed- | nesday night and the public is Ja+ \ vited to attend. Providence Reviral The revival meeting whiob yesterday at Providence church will be continued each night this week through Saturday, with time of services at seven o’clock. Speaker will be the pastor, am-ajjl J n N ifXd a to Tte .df >uc OBKJL *
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