Victory Bonds
Will Speed
Them Home
VOL. LXIV.
Co-Chairmen Give
Final Appeal For
Lagging War Fund
Exchange Club
4 To Sponsor Dance
At High School
Benefit Will Be For Club Pro
ject, Crippled Children.
Roxboro Exchange club, which
has as its benefit a program with
crippled children of Person County
and Roxboro, made final plans last
night for its third benefit dance
for the project, the proposed dance
to be given on Friday night, No
vember twenty-third, the night af
ter Thanksgiving, according to Ar
thur Rimmer, dance chairman, who
has successfully piloted the club’s
previous dances.
Time for the dance will be from
nine to one o'clock, with music by
y Jimmy Fuller and his orchestra, an
organization which has appeared
here for other dances sponsored by
Exchange. Place will again be the
gymnasium at Roxboro high school.
Speaker last night at the club
meeting, with Ralph Tucker, pres
ident presiding, was Miss Evelyn
Davis, staff nurse for Person Health
Department, who discussed prob
lems connected with the care and
treatment of crippled children here.
AnnouncemeYit was made by Pres
ident Tucker that the oxygen tent
given by the club to Community
Hospital lias been properly and
completely installed and is now
ready for service. The club session
was, as usual, at Hotel Roxboro.
, Rufus Powell, Os
Cavel r Dies Al
His Residence
Funeral Foi* Collins And Aik
man Man To Be Held Friday.
k Rufus M. Powell, 55„ of Ca-Vel,
died at his home at 2:30 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, with complica
tions causing death. He had been
ill for the past four months.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Nancy Crisp Powell; two sons:
Francis tCotton) Powell, of Ca-Vel.
recently returned from Pacific ser
vice. and Sgt. Graham J. Powell
of Pratt Field, Kansas; three dau-
ghters: Mrs. Frank Williams, Miss
Hughlo Powell, and Miss Mary
Powell, all of Ca-Vel; four brothers:
Bud, Frank and Ben Powell, all of
Roanoke Rapids, and Henry Powell
of Allentown, Penna.
Mr. Powell, a native of Halifax
County, North Carolina, had been
a resident of Roxboro for many
years and was a mechanic at Plant
E, Collins and Aikman. "Cotton”
| Powell, his son, referred to above,
was prior to going to the Army,
a well-known baseball player for
the Ca-Vel team.
Funeral for Rufus M. Powell will
be held Friday afternoon at four
o'clock at Ca-Vel Methodist chuach,
of which he was a member, by his
pastor, the Rev. Alvin C. Young,
assisted by the Rev. J. N. Bowman,
Baptist minister. Interment will
. be in Burchwood cemetery annex.
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Mrs. Wagstaff's
Brother Passes
Edgar Robert Horn, of Valdosta.
Ga„ formerly of Winston-Salem, a
brother of Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, di
rector of the Person Department
. of Public Welfare, died Tuesday
at his home at Valdosta, ac
cording to a message received here
* yesterday morning by Mrs. Wag
staff, who left immediately for Val
-1 dosta, where the funeral will be
held this afternoon at four o'clock.
Mr. Horn died suddenly after
suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.
A resident of Valdosta for many
years, he was with a tobacco com
pany there. Surviving, in addition
1 to his sister, are his wife, of the
home, and a brother, W. H. Horn,
of Decatur, Ga. Also surviving are
two nephews. Sgt. T. C. Wagstaff,
now with the U. S. Army in the
Pacific, and Robert McG. Wagstaff,
of the U. S'. Navy, Florida, both
sons of Mrs. Wagstaff, Who was
joined in Valdosta by her navy son.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
County And City May Fall
For First Time From High
Standard.
Conviction that Roxboro and Per
son County, which have never in
this war period failed to over-sub
scribc to war-sponsored causes, can
not now afford to fail to reach the
$10,050 quota of the United Com
munity War fund, was voiced here !
this morning by ti,u co-ciiairmen for
the War Fund, J. A. Long, Jr., and
Jerry L. Hester, who said this morn
ing that $805.51 remains to be se
cured before the goal can be reach
ed.
"Only eight pcrceiv of the goal
remains to be reached", said Mr
Long, who added that “failure to
reach the goal which has been met
only by 92 percent, will result in a
five percent reduction in the total
allocated to that portion of the fund
reserved for the Person Boy Scout
district, only local agency sharing
directly in the fund.”
"Final efforts are ue.ng made to
reach the complete goal", asserted
Mr. Long, who said further that
“many people have not yet contri
buted to this cause”. Contained in!
his statement was a vigorous appeal
for such non-contributors to dig
down in their pockets and to realize
that service men overseas and in!
this country will still vitally need
the services of the USO. Part of the
funds collected are also used to take j
care of sick and starving civilians
in areas of Europe and
China.
Formal and organized effort to i
reach the goal here through solicit- I
ors Ls at an end, said Mr. Long, but j
contributions will be gladly and
thankfully received for the Fund at j
Peoples Bank, at the Courier-Times!
! office and at the Chamber of Com- j
merce. All additional contributions
| will be duly credited and it is hoped:
j that numbers of contributors who
, nave already made gifts to the fund"
j will see fit to make additional con- j
j tributions in an effort to see that i
1 the standard of oversubscribing all
quotas here will not at the last mo- !
ment go into discard.
Plan Exhibition j
Os Famous Art i
•
Benefit Project Will Be Soon-;
sored By Bible Department, j
Classical and modern artists will
be represented in an exhibition of |
i copies of paintings to be shown I
! here next week at Roxboro high :
! school and at Ca-Vei and Long- j
hurst schools under auspices of the
Bible Department, of Roxboro high
school, it was announced today by
Fred Bishop, instructor in Bible in
the sponsoring department, who
says that modest fees will be
charged.
The exhibition will be at Rox
boro high school on November 13
and 14, from twelve-thirty to four
thirty in the afternoon, and at
Longhurst school on the 16th, from
twelve-thirty to four in the af
ternoon. The display will then be
taken to Cavel school on the 16th,
for showing at hours identical with
those planned for at Longhurst.
The various exhibitions will be
as a benefit for the Roxboro high
school Bible Department and it is
planned to use the funds received
to buy suitable religious paintings
(print copies i for use in connection
with the work of the department,
according to Mr. Bishop, who says
that if enough money is realized,
other paintings will be bought as
gifts for rooms in the high school.
American, British, German,
French, Flemish and Italian artists
are represented in the collection,
said to be one of the most com
• prehensive ever brought to Roxboro.
| Still In Hospital
! W. Reade Jones, of Hyco Ware
-1 house, is still a patient at Com
| munity hospital, where he has
I been for a week or more since
| having suffered a fall in the ware
house, where he broke two ribs and
his collar bone.
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Higher, Higher
i
Roxboro market in the past three
! selling days has reached an av-
I erage of $47.14, for 417,554 pounds.
I Total for the season b close to
the seven million mark in pounds
with 6,864,368 pounds sold at an
average of $43.54.
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®bt Courier-tEimes
VFW Speaker-
Warrant Officer L M. Carlton,
Jr., recently returned from service
in Europe and also an officer in
Lewell T. Huff Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, here, will be speak ■
er Monday night at Hotel Rox
boro at seven-forty-five o'clock at
a dinner sponsored by Huff post,
it was announced today by J. A.
Jordan, adjutant. It is hoped that
many members and other inter
ested service men will attend, says
Jordan, who is in charge of ar
rangements.
Chairman Harris
Announces List
Hospital Group
Other Committee Members
Will Be Appointed at Meet
ing in Chamber of Com
merce Office Nov. 14th
at 7:30 P. M.
R. L. Harris, Chairman of the di
rectors of the proposed Memorial
Hospital for this county has an
nounced the members of the Gener
al Committee of the hospital and
also the officers of this committee
as follows: Claud T. Hall, Chairman;
Dr. A. F. Nichols, Vice Chairman;
Gordon C. Hunter, Treasurer and
Robert P. Burns, Secretary. Other
members are R. L. Harris, F. D.
Long, J. W. Green, George W. Kane.
Dr. G. W. Gentry, Dr. B. A. Thax
ton. Dr. E. M. Hedgepeth, D. L.
Whitfield, A. M. Burns, J. W, Noell.
O. T. Kirby, R. B. Griffin, E. E.
Bradsher.
Also Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, T. H.
Clay, John H. Merritt, Jr., J. A.
Long. Jr., H. W. Winstead. Jr.. D.
M. Cash, J. M. Dempsey, Dr. J. D.
Fitzgerald. Ned Dillard, T. O. Pass,
O. B. Mcßroom, W. Reade Jones.
Ralph Tucker, T. T. Mitchell. E. G.
Thompson.
The General Committee will meet
in the office of the Chamber of Com
merce on Wednesday, November 14th
at 7:30 p. m. and appoint other ma
jor committees as follows: Finance.
Cub-Finance Commit tees’ Committee
on Memorials, Building Committee,
Duke Foundation Co-operation Com
mittee, State and Federal Aid Com
mittee and Colored Citizens Com
mittee.
A site committee was named sev
eral months ago and this group has
been at work.
Also announced by \tr. Harris was
the fact that Dr. W. S. Rankin of
the Duke Foundation is planning to
be here in November and will ad
dress a meeting to which all Inter
ested persons will be Invited and
urged to attend.
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Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Eller
Former Virgilina Woman
Dies At Home In Roxboro.
Funeral for Mrs. George A. Eller.
47, of the Ridge Road, Roxboro,
whose death occurred Monday night
at 10 o'clock at her home from a
stroke of paralysis, suffered two and
one half hours earlier, was held Wed
nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Red
Bank Baptist church In Vlrgilina by
the Rev. C. E. Newman. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Eller, the former Miss Lula
Ella Smith of Virginia, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith, was
twice married, first to the late Mr.
Young and then to Mr. Eller who
survives and with whom she came
to Roxboro from Virglllna in 1943.
Also surviving are a son and a
daughter by her first marriage, Wil
liam Young and Mrs. Allen Mapire
both of Roxboro; one sister, Mrs.
Lelia Blume of Longhurst and a
brother, William Early Smith of
Goldsboro.
E. G. Longs Return
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Long, for the
past two to three years residents
of Creedmoor and Carthage, have
returned to Roxboro for residence,
it was reported yesterday. Mr. Long
will be in business here and Mrs.
Long, who formerly operated a flor
ist shop, will be associated with Hes
ter Florist, according to announce
ment from Theo Hester, owner
manager.
OUT OF ARMY
T-5 Eddie F. Zimmerman receiv
ed his discharge from the' army Oc
tober 19th. In service for four years,
he was overseas in the Central Paci
fic for forty five months. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. EL B. Zimmer
man of Roxboro.
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
Diphtheria Spread
Alarms Director
Two cases of diphtneria, the most
recent one having occurred Tues
day night, are cause of concern to
the Person Health department, it
was reported today by Dr. O. David
Garvin, director, who said that the
case developed Tuesday is regarded
as serious.
First case, reported about three
weeks ago was that of Carolyn
CHILD DIES
The Oakley child died last night
at seven o’clock at Watts Hos
pital, Durham. Funeral will be
held at the home of her parents
Friday afternoon at two o'clock
by Elder N. D. Teasley, of Dur
ham, with interment in the Oak
ley cemetery, near Ceffo. Surviv
ing, in addition to the parents,
are a brother, Bobby Julian, and
a sister, Lonie, all of the home.
Lockhart, fifteen months old daugh
ter of the Otis Lockharts, of Semora,
New Veterans At
Helm In Huff Post
| Seven out of nine new officers of
i Lewell T. Huff Post, Veterans of
! Fort ign Wars, here are overseas vet
erans of World War 11, it was re-
Ivealed today by Warrant Officer L.
} M. Carlton, Jr., patriotic instructor
'for the Post, who said that new com
-1 manrier, chosen Tuesday night at a
| meeting held at the USO Service
I center, is James W. Allgood, of Rox- (
j boro, formerly in the Pacific theatre
of war.
! Only old officers returned to office
j were C. C. Garrett, formerly com
j mandor, as senior vice commander,
j and J. A. Jordan, as adjutant, a posi
| tion previously held by him. Both
I Jordan and Garrett are veterans of
World War 1, and were largely in
strumental in formation of the
■ Lewell i T. Huff Post, In connection
with his retirement as commander.
Mr. Garrett said he has particularly
' appreciated support of the Veterans
|of Foreign Wars program received
! f rom Person and Roxboro citizens,
many of whom have given not only
! of time, but money.
Legion Completes
Armistice Program
Introduction of Col. Paul C. Mus
, sell, chaplain of the United States
Army, Camp Butner, who will speak
iin Roxboro Saturday morning al
Armistice Day exercises sponsored
by Lester Blackwell Po6t No. 138.
the American Legion, will be by
Gordon C. Hunter, of this city, for
mer commander of Lester Black
well post, it was announced today
by the present commander, Joe Y.
Blanks.
Col. Mussell is scheduled to speak
in the main cqurt room at Person
Court house, the exercises to start
about ten-thiry o'clock, immediate
ly after the annual parade staked
by the Post. Address of welcome
will be by the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks,
of Roxboro First Baptist church,
and the invocation and benediction
USO Center Plans
For Week Formed
Senior hostesses at the USO Ser
vice Center for this weekend as an
nounced today by Miss Hilda Shoe
maker, chairman for that group, will
be as follows:
Saturday from two to four o'clock.
Mrs. E. M. Hedgepeth; four to six.
Mrs. R. P. Michaels: six to eight.
Miss Shoemaker and eight to ten.
Mrs. Burley Day, while on Sunda
those who will serve will be. from
twelve to two, Mrs. Henry E. O’Bri
ant; two to four, Mrs. R. Cliff Hall:
four to six, Mrs. V. A. Thomas; six
to eight, Mrs. A. J. Jackson and
eight to ten, Mrs. B. B. Strum.
General activities of the Center
program will be in charge of Law
rence Featherston, entertainment
chairman, who is planing a regular
Saturday night dance and a Sundav
prograpi with vespers and supper,
assisted by junior hostess groups.
Dr.' Robert E. Long, chairman of
the Board of Directors, who entered
Community hospital Monday for an
operation, is improving, but will not
be able to assist with the program
this week.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Route 1. while the second case is
that of three year old Rebecca Lane
Oakley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Oakley. Ceffo. Route. The
Lockhart child is reported as im
! proving satisfactorily, while the
i Oakley child Is listed as a patient
' in an out of town hospital.
! Dr. Garvin in discussing the cases
| asserted that all small children
; ought to be vaccinated against diph
theria. that the law provides that
| such vaccinations * must be made
! and that the health . department
| here has the facilities to provide
> vaccinations. One instance was re
cently reported in which eight chil
| dren except one in one family had
: not ever received such vaccinations.
| The diphtheria season is here, ac
j cording to Dr. Garvin, who joins
| with State Department officials in
] urging full compliance with State
j vaccination laws not only as pu‘-
■! son protection but as a means of
| safe-guarding the children in vari
' ous communities.
I Other new officers were elected its
follows:
Junior vice commander, J. E. Mc-
Farland, Jr.; quartermaster. Richard
I W. Warren officer of the day, Lewis
j E. Pulliam; sergeant major. Charlie
T, Fox; legislative officer, John J.
| Dorey. and patriotic instructor, L.
iM. Carlton, Jr.
| Many Veterans of Foreign Wars
members are also affiliated with
!Lf star Blackwell Post, the American
; Legion, here, and as such affiliates
! will take part in the Lester Black
!wrli Post Armistice Day program to
! be given here this Saturday at Per
jsoii Court house, it was revealed, but
no format Armistice Day program is
■ being planned in Roxboro by the
.Veterans of Foreign Wars, many of
The'members of which are still oveV-'
(■“as or in military service in the
i United States, it is said.
Present for the Roxboro meeting
Tuesday night were around twenty
members of the Huff Post. Next
; meeting is planned lor Tuesday.
November 27th.
will be by the Rev. B. B. Knight,
Post chaplain and pastor of Theresa
and Mitchell’s Chapel Baptist
churches.
Taps in honor of departed com
rades will be sounded at eleven
o'clock and special, music will be
rendered by the Roxboro high school
glee club and band. Advancement
and retirement of the colors will
feature the program and presid
ing officer will be Commander
Blanks, who urges all service men,
regardless of whether they are
members of Lester Blackwell post,
to participate.
First feature of the day will be
the parade, which will form at ten
fifteen o’clock on the grounds of
Roxboro Central Grammar school
and will march through the Main
street sections at ten-thirty. Music
will be by Roxboro high school band
and also expected to participate will
be the fire departments, the Red
Cross and other civic and social
service agencies. Heading the pa
rade, in addition to the guest of
honor, Col. Mussel, will be Com
mander Blanks, former Command
er Hunter and other Legion offi
cials, together with civic leaders.
Traditional feature, the open
house and lunch at the Legion hut.
Chub Lake street, will close the
exercises. Basket luncheon will be
served there at noon under auspices
of the Legion auxiliary.
Expected to be on hand for the
first time are many recently re
turned veterans of World War 11.
Armistice Day, however, will not be
observed as a general holiday here.
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Has Promotion
Staff Sgt. Lacy Johnson, was pro
moted to that rating from Sgt. when
he recently returned to Camp Clai
borne, La. after spending a forty
five day furlough here with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Johnson.
The latter part of this week he will
be transfered to New Orleans, La.
He has recently returned from ov
erseas after serving twenty months
in the European Theater of Opera
tion.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Wheeler, Allen, j
Recruiters, Will
Come Each Week
Number Os Changes Make
Army I’olicv More Liberal
Now. '
Here yesterday and to return each I
Wednesday were First Sergeant Guy j
B. Wheeler, Jr, of Wyewond, Penn,
end Sergeant James L. Allen, of
Danville, Va, of the United States j
Army recruiting service, Durham,
who are interested in contacting!
men for enlistment and re-enlist- !
ment in military service.
Sgt. Wheeler, in charge of the \
mobile unit car which is to be sta-j
tinned each Wednesday at Roxboro
: Post Office, and Sgt. Allen are both !
overseas veterans of World War "I
and expect to constitute a perman
ent team covering the Roxboro area.
In connection with their visits to i
Roxboro. Maj. Webb, commanding !
officer of the recruiting service, is- |
surd the following information con- I
; cerning desirable features of service \
land enlistment pointers:
Under the recently enacted Armed ,
Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act!
of 1945, the Army has set as its goal)
: an all-out program designed to make
enlistments and re-enlistments more
and more attractive.
Major phases of the revised re-1
cruitment regulations included the J
: following:
, Seventeen-year olds may be en-
I listed with parent's consent.
Enlistments for one, one and a
I half, two and three years are au
i thorized. with the one-year enlist
ment restricted to those men hav- j
ing at least six months.'prior, service.!
. and who are on active duty. \
( Retirement after twenty years sec- i
vice is now authorized. In this eon- ]
nection, all active Federal military |
service ( Army, Navy. Marine Corps;
and Coast Guardi counts towards I
retirement.
Men discharged between May 12
and November 1, 1945, inclusive, may;
be enlisted or reenlisted in the regu-]
lar Army at the highest grade held j
at the time of discharge, provided
such enlistment or re-enlistment is,
effected on or before November 21,
1945. After November 21, 1945, dis
chargees, will have to enlist or re
enlist within twenty days of their
discharge to obtain the privileges of
this regulation.
Re-enlistment furloughs, subject
to certain restrictions, are authoriz- ;
ed for all men enlisting in the reg
ular Army, provided they re-enlist
! within the twenty-day grace period,
i ■ Re-enlistment allowances provide
| for SSO for each year of previously
j completed service,
! The GI Bill of Rights will extend
! to all men enlisting or re-enlisting
! in the regular Army within one year
I after the passage of the Voluntary
j Recruiting Act; such rights to cover
I the individual's first period of en
listment.
The free mail privilege will extend
|to December 31. 1947.
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Service Board
To Have Holiday
With Joseph Drumwright as lead
! er, eleven Negro men from Person
County and Roxboro left this morn
jing. for Fort Bragg for induction,
;it was announced this morning by
Miss Jeanette Wrenii. chief clerk of
; the Person Selective service board.
Going down, also, were eight Ne
groes for examination, with Flint
F. Johnson as leader.
Those in the first group, in ad
dition to Drumwright, were, Wal
j ter James Thorpe, Theodore Mel
vin Crowder. Godfrey Winstead,
McDonald Green, Wesley Thomas
King. Theodore Roosevelt Mitchell,
, William Edward Poteat, Fonzer
Jones, Harvey Lee Bradsher and
i Jesse Lewis Holloway. Jr.,
i Those going for examination were.
I in addition to Johnson, David Mc
i Cargo, Jr., John Robinson, Robert
Lee Satterfield, Clarence Leroy
! Wade, Buford Bryce Thorpe, Alfred
Allen and Ezra Bowman.
Miss Wrenn said yesterday that
j the Person board will observe Mon
day, November 12. as a holiday in
| commemoration of Armistice Day.
The office is also closed each Snt
jurdya and thus the staff will have
a long week-end of freedom from
office duties.
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W. A. CARVER OUT
Pfc. William Arthur Carver, son
| of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Carver, of East
I Roxboro, recently received an hon
orable discharge from the army.
Carver, who served two years in
Europe, was awarded four Battle
| Stars, Good Conduct Medal, Combat
Medics Badge, E T O Ribbon and the
Presidential Citation.
Merchants Agree
On Holidays, Not
On Store Hours
Will Take Two Days As Holi
day For Christmas.
Agreement on mercantile holidays j
to be observed here at Thanksgiving!
and Christmas, but no general agree- j
ment as to store hours, or for a form- |
ai opening of stores lor the 1945 j
Christmas season, resulted here ;
Tuesday night at a Chamber of j
Commerce sponsored conference of;
City and County merchants at Per- |
son Court house.
According to the vote taken there!
by ten representatives of mercantile |
establishments, stores here will close j
one day for Thanksgiving, November !
22. and will take two days, December
25th and 26th, for Christmas. There
will, however, be no formal opening
|of stores to mark the beginning of:
the Christmas trading season and;
there will be no general agreement !
on extra, holiday, opening and clos-!
ing ltours.
The matter of hours will be left j
up to individual merchants, or to j
groups of merchants, i. e., those sell-1
ing the same type ol merchandise, it i
was reported. Reasons lor abandon-:
ment of a formal opening and for!
uniform extra hours of staying open,
were given as shortage of clerical I
help and an expected shortage of j
holiday merchandise.
It was also agreed that no formal,
Christmas street lighting be arrang- i
; ed, although T. Miller White, of
! Carolina Power and Light company,
I urged, that individual merchants ar- j
. range their own show windows and '
; suggested that prizes be offered for
i best windows: No action was taken'
!on this matter. Abandonment, of 1
street lighting decorations was also
| placed upon shortages of equipment, j
' in this instance, electrical, plus the !
i fact that improper street wiring re- |
( .suits in damage to electrical service
here, particularly to telephones.
Presiding was W. Wallace Woods,
Chamber of Commerce secretary.
| who said that tnoVe than ninety let
| tors were sent to local merchants. |
Those who attended were Miss Lu
cille Cothran. Frank Wright. Osby
| Gentry. Jack Strum, Zan Pulliam.
H. C. Steele, T. Miller White. Victor
i Satterfield. Robert Jackson. Bill
Stewart. Coy Day, J. G. Pass. Repre- j
' senting the Cojtrier-Times was j
Thomas J. Shaw. Jr., to whom it
! was suggested that group or individ
junl advertising of holiday selling
hours, might be a solution to the
i present problem.
At Conference
W. Wallace Woods, lay represen
; ‘alive for Edgar Long Memorial
; Methodist church, and Clarence
Brooks, of another church of that
| denomination, are in Goldsboro
■ for the North Carolina conference.
! which opened Wednesday and w ill
I continue through Sunday. Also in
! attendance are Methodist minis-
I ;ers from various churches in the
! Roxboro-Person area. Appointments
i will be read Sunday.
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At Saint Mark's
The Rev. Henry Johnston, rector
of Stephen's parish, Oxford, will be
guest preacher Sunday afternoon at
four o'clock at Saint Mark’s Episco
pal church, Roxboro, it was annunc
ed today. The Rev. Mr. Johnston
; lias been a frequent visitor in Rox
! boro and is well known here.
Benefit Film
"Wide-Open-Faces", a Joe E.Brown
; comedy film, will be shown on Fri
-1 day night, November 9, in Hurdle
j Mills school auditorium, at seven
' thirty o'clock as a benefit for the
I school, it was announced today. Ad
! mission will be moderate.
HAS DISCHARGE
Pfc. James L. Morris, son of Mr.
; and Mrs. J. L. Morris, of Roxboro,
■ has received his discharge from the
' army after serving forty one months
overseas with the Medical Corps. He
j was in service forty five months.
$25,000
1
Victory Loan Bonds in the El se
ries have sold here In the amount
of $25,000, it was reported today.
Larger or regular bonds will be on
sale November 15th, and planned
for later in the month is a Vic
tory Loan drive benefit theatre
show. Quota in E bonds here is
$149,000, with an overall, in elu
sive quota of $397,000.
2 Fatal Highway |
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1949
DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
Women Plan To
Have Program On
Club Progress
Achievement Night Will Be
Observed Next Week At
Court House.
A County Wide Home Demonstra
tion Achievement Program is sched
uled for Wednesday night. Novem
ber 14. at 7:30 in the court room at
Prson court house, and a most in
teresting program lias been plan
ned around work that has been done
in each of the twelve clubs during
the past year, according to Miss
Evelyn Caldwell, Person Home
agent.
In place 0.. every club putting
(ip an exhibit, some will stage
skits built around one of the month
ly demonstrations or around the
progress of their club.
Subjects to be used on the pro
gram will be as follow's:
Chub Lake. Christmas Gift sug
gestions: Helena. Color in the
Home; Providence, A Mock Club
Meeting; Warren's Grove, It Will
All Conic put In The Wash; Bushs'
Fork, The March of Time; Mt.
Tirzah, A Miscellaneous Exhibit;
Velma Beam, Garden Sass; Olive
Hill. Flower Show; Allensville, Re
creation; Olive Branch, Dress Re
vue; Bethel Hill. Mrs. Smith's
Emergency Shelf Comes to the
Rescue; Winplay, Statiscial Report.
All club members are urged to
attend with their families and bring
with them any interested neighbors
and friends.
Package Work
For Soldiers To
Be Continued
Camp Buiner General Hospital
Not To Close. Says
Red Cross.
Camp Butner hospital, despite all
: reports to the contrary, will not be
1 closed and plans are being made
lor full continuance of the Christ
mas gift program for patients there,
!it was said yesterday at a district
I meeting of the Camp and Commun
-1 ity service units of American Red
I Cross, according to Mrs. Sue Fea
i therston, executive secretary of the
! Person chapter of Red Cross, who
with several other local represen
tatives was in Chapel Hill for the
■ conference.
| Packages should be ready and
! shipped December 10th, with labels
! tied on and not stuck on, it was
i reported at Chapel Hill, because the
labels have to be removed before
packages are given to the soldier
patients.
Full cooperation of the American
| Legion here and throughout the
j State is expected again, according
ito Mrs. Featherston. Those who
went with her to Chapel Hill were,
Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Jones, Mrs. C.
B. Kirby, and Mrs. James Newman.
Chairman for the Camp and Hos
' pital service group here is Mrs. T.
Miller White, who was prevented
I from attending because of the fact
that she is in Goldsboro at the
• North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist church.
: Expected to be closed soon is the
i convalescent unit of the Butner hos
! pital but this will not and does
not affect the General Hospital,
officials said yesterday.
o ,
Roxboro Boys At
Church Session
Raleigh Division of Royal Ambas
sadors met in First Baptist church,
Siler City, last week with over- 200
boys present. Those attending from
Roxboro were Robert Bass. Hugh
Beam, Bobby Burns, Paul Burns, Nett
Humphries, Latney Pittard, Hay
wood Giles Simpson and Ruffin- '
Woody, who were accompanied tap u
their pastor, Rev. J. Boyce Bnioki^||
The meeting opened with &.Bal*|fl
juet on Friday tuning. Those at
tending were eptertatned in homes
of Siler city, the Divisional o*ll. :
clave will hold its next miitt|gy|
November 1-2, 1946 with First Jbp* i
tist church, RoSboro. „ A
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