Victory Bonds Will Speed Them Home VOL. LXIV. Extra Spurt For War Fund Shown, Half Mark Passed Seeding Small Grain Advised AAA Head For Persoh Ad vises Planting For Grazing Purposes. With Person County feed crops having been damaged recently by feather conditions, Claude T. Hall, Chairman, Person County AAA Committee, urges farmers to seed additional acreages to wheat, oats, barley, and rye for grazing next spring. "An increase in the seeding df small grains for pasture purposes will aid materially in supplementing feed and hay for the production of livestock and dairy products,” he said. Mr. Hall stressed the importance of adequate fertilization to insure better stands. He pointed out that establishing a satisfactory winter cover from seedings of these grains, made this fall, had been approved as one of the twenty-four practices under the 1946 Agricultural Con servation Program. "To qualify for the practice pay ment of $1.50 per acre, the crops may be grazed or turned, but not harvested for grain or hay,” he add ed. o Lester James Has Army Award The Bronze Star Medal has been ay urded tp Warrant Office". Lester James. Service Company, 309th Infantry, 78th Lightning Division in Germany, which holds three bat tles stars for the Ardennes, Rhine land and Centray European Cam paigns, a War Department dispatch received today. WO and Mrs. James are natives of Roxboro. His citation, for meri torious, reads, in part: “During the period from 13 De cember 1944 to 17 April 1945. . .WO James consistently performed his duties as Assistant Regimental Sup ply Officer in a highly efficient manner. During the initial stages of combat and throughout the swift pursuit of the enemy from the Roer River, to the Rhine River, across the Remagcn Bridge and the reduction of the Ruhr Pocket.. The close su pervision he exercised insured the adequacy of issue items. His loy alty and performance under com bat conditions arc in accordance with the highest military traditions. James entered the military service from North Carolina." He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivey James, of Roxboro. His wife is ihe formei Miss Harkrader of Dobson. Carr Holeman Back In City Carr Holeman of Roxboro, who has been in service for tne past four years has received his army dis charge and accepted a post ion with Bumpass Service Center. He spent 27 months in the South Pacific and has seen quite a bit of the world since leaving Roxboro. o Two In India Pfc. Harry Lee Garrett, of the U. S. Army Air Force, has recently landed in Calcutta, India. He has a brother, Sgt. William Bruce Gar rett, some where in India whom he hopes to meet before flying the Hump into China. They haven’t seen each other in over three years. Brooms From City In State Schools Eighteen hundred dozen brooms from Roxboro are going to be used in sweeping up in North Carolina’s public schools in the next few months. That is a lot of brooms, part of the State contract on such, which was awarded Saturday to Carolina Broom Works, it was re ported today. Unofficial report of the coming of the contract to the Roxboro con cern was. received Friday, but pa pers did not arrive until Saturday,. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR | One Week Os Collection Time Remains. Scout Quota Vital. spurt in United Community War Fund drive over the week-end was reported here this morning, with total contributions to date reaching $5,187.92, slightly over the half-way mark for a goal of $10,050 ! for Person and Roxboro, accordinf to figures cited by Miss Dorothy Taylor of the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce staff. The drive will continue through October 29, and possibly longer, but Jerry L. Hester and J. A, Long, Jr., co-chairmen for the drive, pointed out today that much work remains to be done in the next seven days if the quota here is to be reached. Officials also urge citizens to re member that included in the War Fund here this year is a personal quota of over SI,OOO for the Scout District, which will be without its regular quota of funds unless the over-all quota is passed. Person Scout district, incidentally, under the United War Fund plan has no other resources for carrying on its work and in the event of any failure to reach the general over-all quota would receive only a propor tionate part of the amount raised. I Biggest gain reported today has j come from the special gifts division I headed by George W. Kane, with ! $2,372.50, reported at noon. Other large units are the uusiness district, with $630.03, and the Woman's div ision, with $653.55, while a much larger total. $1,455.30, comes from the white public schools' report. On ly division showing no increase is the Industrial division with $117.54. o Order Released For‘Pecan 'Crop Ralefgh.—Buyers of orchard-run improved and seedling pecans will be required by the Office of Price Administration this season to as- I sume all costs of transportation from the producer's nearest shipping point, it is announced by D. S. Math eson, marketing specialist with the State Department of Agriculture. For the 1945 crop season, grow ers’ maximum prices of 28 cents a pound for orchard-run improved pe jeans and 21 cents for seedlings will be established at the point of ship ment. These represent the addition of the customary l'/z cents a pound for average transportation costs to ceilings established at the produc er's nearest shipping point. 0 Apple Ceiling Said Climbing Raleigh.—An advance of seven cents per bushel in the ceiling 011 apples has been granted North Car olina apple growers, the Office of Price Administration has notified the State Agriculture Department. Marketing Specialist W. R. Sechler said the advance, which is now in effect, was made to compensate for the extremely low yield in this State. For graded and packed apples grown in North Carolina the ceiling f. o. b. shipping points are as follows: October, $3.92; Nov. 1-15; $4.02; Nov. 16-30. $4.07; Dec. 1, 1-Jan. 5, $4.15; Jan. 6-Feb. 5, $4.18. o Bill Clay Home Staff Sergeant Sgt. Bill Clay, vet eran of many months of overseas service in Europe, arrived in Rox boro last night for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Omega Clay. He spent much of his time in England, but also saw active service in Europe. according to C. T. (Jack) Satter field, co-founder with Guerney Young, of the broom works, which was established in April 1943. Eight or nine bids were made on the contract, says Satterfield. Awarding of the contract is on an annual basis and runs from No vember to November. The winning company has a staff of ten and has purchased a Depot street lot with the intention of erecting a new fac tory us soon as'conditions permit. ®he Courttr-UCimes Tobacco Highest Best average since the opening of the Roxboro market this year was reported today for Thursday and Friday sales of last week when 403,242 pounds brought an average of $45. Both sales and av erages for today (Monday) are re ported as high, although figures were not available at noon. This Monday, incidentally, marks the resumption of Monday sales after ! several Mondays had passed In sus | pension because of complications in marketing conditions. [ Tptal sales on the Roxboro mart now stand at 4,540,682 pounds at i an average of $42.12, according to ' figures cited today. I 1 Person Women Democrats Plan ! Party Finances Will Take Part In National Day By Raising Precinct Funds. Person County and Roxboro wo men who are affiliated with the Democratic party are making plans for the observation here Thursday of Democratic Women’s day, which j will be marked by a nation-wide j program, according to Mrs. A. F. | Nichols, of this City, vice chairman of the Person Democratic Executive j committee. j Included in plans for the day is 1 the raising of precinct funds by the ! women. Goal for the fund is three 'dollars per precinct, with one dollar j going to the County fund, one to the j State organization and one to the i national party treasury. Person County last year oversubscribed its quota and is expected to do so again, according to Mrs. Nichols, who said there are seventeen precincts in this county. Democratic Women’s day was first established in 1939, at the suggestion of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and is generally observed on September 27, commemorating the date on which the Democratic National committee in 1919 voted to admit women to party membership, virtually a year prior to ratification of the Constitu tional amendment giving the fran chise to women. Planned for the day this year, on Thursday, October 25, will be a coast to coast radio broadcast of addresses by four women representatives in I Congress, Mrs. Mary T. Norton, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, Mrs. Emily T. Douglas and Mrs. Helen Gahag an Douglas. Time will be 4:30 tc 4:45 in the afternoon and introduc tion of the speakers will be by Mrs. C. W. Tillette, Jr., of Charlotte, vice chairman of the National Demo cratic executive committee. Particular interest for North Car olina women is attached likewise to the appearance on the program of Mrs. Woodhouse, now of Conneti cut, but formerly a resident of Greensboro and Chapel Hill. 0 Butter Prices To Advance In November Official news that the retail ceil ing price of butter was to advance five or six cents a pound caused quite a bit of talk in Roxboro and Person County as does all rationing and price news. The new price will go into effect Nov. Bth. Reconversion Director John W. Snyder directed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to remove the live-cents-a-pound government sub sidy and authorized the OPA to make compensating increases in re tail butter prices. The RFC said that subsidy pay ments to butter manufacturers | would end Oct. 31. OPA announced that the retail price increase would be five or six cents a pound, but would not go into effect until Nov. 8. Creameries and wholesalers will be permitted to add the Increase to their ceiling price Oct. 31. Removal of the butter subsidy is the first step in a broad Govern ment program to end all food sub sidies. On Aug. 8, President Tru man called for relaxation wherever possible of controls over prices, wages, materials, and facilities. 0 VFW To Meet Lewell T. Huff Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet Tuesday j night at seVen-thirty o'clock at the 1 Roxboro USO Center, according to announcement made this morning by J. A. Jordan, adjutant. A full at tendance is requested. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA Coal Situation In Roxboro ‘Bad’ Report Dealers Very Little Coal Now On Hand Anc Little Expected For Sixty Days Be very conservative with your coal this winter is the advice that ! coal dealers are giving to the peopl {of this city and county today. A survey of the local dealers stocks i Saturday revealed the fact that there ' j is scarcely any coal in the yards ex- ! ; cept a little slack 01 stoker coal. The dealers further’revealed that expected very little help until after November loth or later. One dealer stated that he had ap- j proximately 150 families in this city that had no coal on hand and that j he did not know when he was going to be able to get them any. The oth er dealer said that he had more than 75 families with no coal. It was further pointed out that 1 there is no rationing of coal to the I consumer but that the dealers them selves were getting an allotment, or iTwo Pack Barn Losses Last Week Two pack barn losses occurred in Person County last week, both from fire. The first one was on Wednesday when the pack barn belonging to Burleigh Clayton, col ored, burned. This barn, in the Surl community, had 200 sticks of tobacco in it and only two sticks were saved. The second tobacco loss was by fire Friday with a pack barn be longing to William Y. Cviso of the Prospect Hill community burn ed. This barn was reported to have housed seven barns of tobacco.*’ Both are reported to have had some insurance. 0 Natives Parade For Person Man V-J day brought Technician Grade Five Guy L. Ashley Route 1. Hurdle Mills, a surprise in the lor n of a ceremony in honcr of nim and members of his organization staged by citizens of Penablanca Cagavan Province, Luzon. The mayor of Penablanca and his people complete with brass band and color guard I paraded through the battery posi ; tion. The mayor made a speech thank ing the battery for the part i. had | played in relieving the suffering ! the inhabitants had endured din ing the Japanese occupation Technician Ashley, the son of T. Tinnie Ashley, is a driver in a Hold ! artillery battery. He entered the [service in November 1944. After completing his basic train ing at Port Bragg, Artillet yrnan j Ashley left the States in May, 1945. 1 for overseas service. He joined the 37th Division in the Cagayan Vai-i ley on Luzon. a o Odis Day Coming ! Cpl. Odis Day of Roxboro, a vet- j j eran of seventeen months of over seas service in the Army in Europe, has arrived in the United States; j and is expected home as soon as he can receive his discharge, it was j reported today by his wife. Cpl | Day has for the most part been stationed at Foggia, Italy, and has | been in military service nearly three years. His wife, who has been liv ing in South Boston, Va., during her husband's absence, has re-es tablished residence in Roxboro. o , Corn, tomatoes, and potatoes, in particular, have been an important long range factor in improving the 1 nutrition of the whole world, says I a research scientist. -■ Alo+uj *llte Way The war is over. Things are changing but some are changing more rapidly than others. The other day I went to my favorite bank to pay the interest on a note. Mind you I said the interest. Not the amount. After the officials pushed die hard and finally decided j that I couldn't pay anything but tl>e interest they became very warm and nice. As a matter of fact they leaned over backwards to help me. David Brooks gave me a fresh pack of cigarettes, a whole pack and Gordon Hunter knocked off a nickie from the interest. I guess he Just didn't have the right change handy. As for David I think l that he had decided to stop smoking this particular brand of cigs and was hunting for someone who f.’puld take them. P. S. I took the nickle and also tjpife cigarettes. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1945 1 Supposed to get one, and that even ; though thro is no rationing they just do not have the supply. Their allotment is not enough and they , can t get all of this. As a matter of 1 ! fact not over 80 percent of the people j signed up for coal and those who ‘ did not sign have to have coal too. Many soldiers have just come to this country for the first time in yeais : and they have to have coal as much so as anyone. | One suggestion that has been [ made is that a responsible party of I several people from here be sent to see the district fuel administrator in behalf of this county. Thu situa tion might then be relieved, i As an overall survey one might say that people who use coal and do j not have any are in for a fairly tough time unless relief is forth coming very soon. I Welfare Meeting ! Plans Arranged Two members of the Person coun ty welfare department will attend the 26th annual Public Welfare In stitute for North Carolina Social Workers in Raleigh next we ;k. The meetings will l'e h-jd at tne Caro lina Hotel. October 30 and 31. The program Will include dh ti.s sifins of current development in dealing with juvenile dciinqu.ncy. adoptions; and social case work. The w*. • of the Domestic Relations Commission, and the Hospitals Board of Control as they relate to county welfare situations will be coii.-id ! ered, | Dr. Arthur Fink, new head of tile (Division of Public Welfare and So jcial Work at the University of North Carolina will give the feature :d- I dress Tuesday night on "Current Developments in Training for So cial Work." The final address on "Social Pro gress in the Southeast” will be giv en President Frank P. Graham of the University. On Monday preceding the opening of the Institute Tuesday morning, the N. C. Assocaition of County Superintendents of Public Welfare will hold their annual business meeting and dinner session. d>ov j ernor Cherry will address the su [ perintendents night meeting on The State's Responsibility for Pub lic Welfare.” Attending the sessions from Per son county will be Mrs. T. C. Wag staff and Mrs. Glen Brandon. o Person Native Dies j Received here last week was news jof the death of Mumpford Carver, of South Hill, Va., a native of Per ! son County who died at his home in j South Hill on Thursday, October j 11th. Rites were held there on Sat ! urday, the 13th. He was a cousin of F. O. Carver. Sr., and of A. W. Clay ! ton, of Roxboro. In South Hill for j the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Carver. Sr., of this city, and F. O. Carver, Jr., of Raleigh, publicity di j rector for the State Highway com mission. o- To Be Here John B. Oakley. Reidsville, Scout executive for Cherokee Council will be jin Roxboro tomorrow or. businesjf and will visit Helena for tile purpose of reorganizing a troop there. Flanned for Friday near Graham is quarterly meeting of the Executive Board of Cherokee coun ted which is expected to be attended by a number of Person representa tives. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Agency Council October meeting of the Person Cc-unty Council of Social agencies will be held Wednesday at noon at Hotel Roxboro, where luncheon will be served and Miss Vivienne Hiers, secretary of First Baptist church will be speaker. Miss Hiers will discuss “Rrecreation and the Church,” with particular ref erence to the recreational program for young people now being con ducted by First Baptist church. This will be the second in a se ries of recreation talks and a full attendance is requested. Masonry Cited As Four-Point World Influence : ! i Dr. H. M. I’oteat Pays Tribute! To Masonry As An En during Force. I Four points which have helped Masonry to serve through the centu-j ries were cited here Friday night at! Hotel Roxboro by Dr. H. M. Poteat,. i jof the Wake Forest college faculty tand leader in Masonry in North ! ! Carolina, who was guest speaker for j the annual ladies night of Person ■ Lodge 113. Covers were laid for 131 Masons, ! their wives and special guests, in i' eluding wives of deceased members 1 of the Lodge. Toastmaster was J. ! Edward Allen, of Warrehton. I Dr. Poteat mentioned first as a cornerstone in Masonry a continuing faith in the diety, without regard l ,to various isms of manifestation. | Connected with this faith has been ■for all Masong a faith in immortali ty. Likewise important in Masonry I has been continued support of the aspirations of life towards higher goals. Finally, according to Dr. Poteat. I there is Masonry's stressing of char ; acter in man's relationship with 1 man. All of these cardinal points, i asserted Dr. Poteat, have been found in mankind's religions through the ages and have had tlieir best and most loyal support from Masons, both in and out of Lodges. Dinner wa> served in the hotel dining room where the affair was presented. | Shot Gun Shells Short, But Why? Shotgun shells for hunting are short here, all dealers agree, but: ! hope for relief in the next few weeks ' on the basis of War Department de clarations of a more plentiful civil ian supply coming, a survey of the ! [situation showed here today. One j firm had fifty cases ordered ninety j days ago. They are not here yet. Another house has received a case ! and a half in the last three months, ! while a third has gotten a few cases every few weeks. All dealers hope for relief soon and have no alternative but to at- j 1 tribut the shot shortage to distfibu- | ! ion problems connected with .supply ing the whole U. S. A. and its avid hunters. —— o- New Ford To Be On Display Friday | Tile new Ford will be on display j 1 in Roxboro on Friday, October 26th ; at the show rooms of Kirby Jones i Motor Company on Depot Street,: stated J. E. Kirby one of the pro prietors of this firm today. This will be a public showing of the new car and everyone is invit’d! to visit this company's display rooms and see the ear, - Two Coming Soon Cpl. S. P. Gentry, Jr., of Roxboro, w'ho is with the 101st Airborne divi sion and has been m service since March 1942, is expected to arrive in Roxboro from Europe around No vember 1, according to a War De partment message received here to day. Also expected soon is Pfc.* Flint S. Whitfield, likewise of 'ho 101st, who entered service in .March 1942, and is to arrive in the United States this week. o Reported Better Mrs. T. C- Sanders, who lias been a patient for several days at Com munity hospital, where she has been suffering from pneumonia, is reported today as somewhat improv ed. Her son, William, of the Ma rines, Cherry Point, has been here for several days. Health Leaders To Discuss Tuberculosis In Session Tonight Change Made In Seal Sale Planis. Mrs. Shelton Re signs After I.ong Service, Roxboro Kiwanians, who will this year sponsor the Christmas Seal sale and will have as project chair man Jack Strum, one of their mem bers,, will tonight hear L. L. Mil ler. State Tuberculosis association official, and will have as an addi tional guest Dr. O. David Garvin, of Chapel Hill, director of the tri county health department, who is expected to discuss tuberculosis with ! special reference to Person County. Dr. Garvin, when interviewed last ; night, said he expects to cite fig- j tires as to Persons tuberculosis ’ cases and death rates. Mr. Strum in taking over th" Seal Sale chairmanship, succeeds ; Mrs. R. H. Shelton, who has for the | past several years served success- ; fully as leader. 1945 quota here i.- expected to be $2,300. according to Mr. Strum. Date for the beginning of the campaign here has not been set, says Mr. Strum, but a decision is to be reached soon, and there is all probability that the drive will begin sooner this year titan usual. Both Person County and Roxboro have always met the Christmas seal sale quota. Frank W. Webster of Raleigh, executive secretary of the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association, announced today that 'the 1943 Christmas- Seals, designed by Park Phipps of the Chicago Institute i f Art, are now being shipped to some 32 organized tuberculosis associa tions and local chairmen throughout the state. Traditional Christmas colors of red and green add a festive tneme to the 1945 seal which features u j healthy young boy, symbol ol Amer ican youth, carrying a holiday wreath toward a white hoaae with a picket fence in the background. A red double-barred cross, emblem of the crusade for health, completes tile design for this ear’s tradi tional tuberculosis Christmas seal. The new seals should reach local ! personnel by November 1, as part of the nation-wide campaign to be conducted between November 19 anti December 25, to raise funds for the control of tuberculosis, Webster said. Funds raised throughout the country, he continued, will be used principally to support local health programs, with all but five percent of the 1945 North Carolina quota of $285,000 to be spent within the state. This five percent will be for warded to the National Tubercu losis Assocaition, the parent body of the nation's 2,500 voluntary tu berculosis associations. Miss Wilcox To Speak Wednesday Miss Marion Wilcox, returned mis sionary from China and former war prisoner of the Japanese, will speak in Roxboro Wednesday night at eight o'clock at Roxboro Presbyter ian church. Shf was the one Ameri ‘can in her station when the Pearl Harbor attack came and she was imprisoned by fifty Japanese soldiers. Transferred later to Shanghai, she was returned to the United States on the Gripsholm in August 1942. Receives Discharge [ Pvt. Carlyle Slaughter has receiv : ed his discharge from the Army as- I ter serving two years in Europe i and four years in Panama. He is i the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Slaughter. Changes Made In Public Health Unit Mrs. Sarah Grant Allen, of Rox boro and Mocksville, wife of Cpl. Maurice (Puny Allen), of this city and for a number of years a public health nurse, returned to Roxboro this morning to become connected avith Person unit of the tri-county healtli department, ’according to announcement made by Dr. \ D*iV id Garvin, of chapel Hill, director of the health department. Mrs. Allen, who is well kown here takes the place of Miss Sphar, who has been transferred to the Chapel Hill office, says Dr. Garvin. Until recently Mrs. Allen has been with her husband at Chatham Field, Sa- Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1941 DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 93 Li. (01. Strickland Relates History Os Ivy Division Balt.ilion Commander Traces In Detail Fiffhtine Record For Rotarians. History of the "Famous Fourth 1 Ivy 1 Division, including its ser vice in World War I and particu larly its proud record in World War 11. furnished tlie theme for a map-- illustrated talk Thursday night at Roxboro Rotary club at Hotel Rox boro by Lt. Col. H. H. Strickland, of Camp Butner. a battalion com mander of the division, who spoke for nearly an hour and s half as he unfolded the panoramic back ground of the fighting saga of his men. .. .» Here with Col. Strickland were Maj, Miles A. Warren, Lt. Noble Borders and Lt, James H. Huff. Expected with the party, but unable to come was Chaplain William E, Boyce. Tar Heel highlight of Col. Strick land's story was his story of :i Gas tonia man who single-handed cap tured many Germans who surren dered to him. but probably the most interesting portion of his nar rative was concerned with the Font tit Division's trek across France and on into Germany in ccapera- ' tion with other units of American and British forces. To illustrate his points Col. Strickland had a series of from five to six large-scale maps suspended on the walls of the hotel dining room. ■ • y ■ ■ * •- On tlie maps were the now fa miliar names of Omaha and Utah beachheads in Normandy, Saint Lo and its hedgerows, together With Palis, the Seine, the Rhine, Co logne, Munich and the rest. Last duties of the Divisi m in Europe before its return to ihe States and Canip Butner in July of this year were concerned occupation deep in the heart of Germany. Col. Strickland, formerly a resi dent of Greensboro, is an old-line ofticer. has red hair and is known to liis men as "Red Rydar" Strick-i land. The program here was ar ranged bj’ the Butner officers i 4 cooperation with Roxboro Rotary club. Presiding was Dr. John Fitzgerald, president, and a special guest was the Rev. W. F. West, formerly of Roxboro and the local club, now a resident of Hartwell, Ga., and a member of the club there. Beverly Langford Gets Discharge T-5 Bevely Langford returned to Roxboro Thursday after being ov erseas two years. While over Ire 1 saw action in Italy and France. ! He has been in service almost three ; years. Langford has received his j official discharge from the army , and has only one thing to say.— ; Roxboro isn't so bad after nil.” o L. E. Day Out Sgt. Lennie Edward Day. formerly 1 with Williams-McKiethan lumber j company and in the Army service since December 1942, has received an honorable discharge at Drew Field. Fla. A member of the Air ; Forces, he was until recently at San Angelo Field. Texas. vannah, Ga. Cpl. Allen, who was in Roxboro Sunday for a visit with his family, has just returned New York City, where he, t(Mk Si course fitting him to become an ia-& surance advisor for service meeat - under the G.I. bill. Other members of the nHdflj Health staff are Miss Evelyn and Mrs. Lawson, the last as Negro case-worker. Theee two* together with Mrs. Allen, who wan formerly on the health Greensboro, will constitute ent staff in Roxboro. Becntgm||3| the Person unit is Mrs. Sne Hen* ley- ' WB&' ImM: a*

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