Victory Bonds
Will Spee<T
Them Home
VOL. LXIV.
Two Achievement Events
Reveal Club Work In Person
Four-H Comes Next. Appeal Made For
Aid To Camp Butner Hospital
Person County Home Demonstra
tion club women, who gathered last
night in the'main court room at Per
son Court House to have their an
nual achievement program, heard a
comprehensive yearly report from
Mrs. B. B. Bullock, county council
president, who presided. Featured
also were program skits put on by
the twelve clubs, each one illu
strating a definite stage in club work
progress.
Special guest and speaker was
Miss Anamerle Arant, state leader
of home demonstration, from Ra
leigh, who praised the accomplish
ments of Person members, especial
ly during war-time, and who pre
sented reading certificates. A brief
message was also given by Miss
Evelyn Caldwell who announced that
next important club event will be
the Four-H. achievement night to be
given next Tuesday night. November
20. at the Court House, with Ned
Wood, of the State 4-H, personnel as
guest speaker.
Miss Caldwell also reported that
demonstration clubs arc again invit
ed to contribute gifts to Camp
Butner hospital, Durham, and ORD
Education Building,
Peele Memorial
Brother Os Imte Minister Will I
Be Dedication Speaker. ;
Bishop W. W. Peele, of Richmond,
Va., a brother of the late Rev.
Francis Boyd Peele, of Roxboro, will
be speaker here on the Sunday after
Thanksgiving at a dedication service
for the educational building of Oak
Grove Methodist church, it was an
nounced today by the pastor of Per
son circuit, the Rev. Daniel Lane, j
who this week was reassigned by the 1
North Carolina conference to con-1
tinuc as pastor of the circuit.
The six-room educational build
ing at Oak Grove, probably the only
such church building in Person coun
ty to have flurescent lighting, was
constructed during the ministry of
the late Rev. F. B. Peele, who died
while serving his pastorates here a
little over two years ago, and was
succeeded by the present pastor, the 1
Rev. Mr. Lane.
The Oak Grove church education
al building will serve as a memorial
to the late Rev. Mr. Peele and will
be so dedicated in exercises to be
held on Sunday morning, November
25, at eleven o'clock. Expected to
be here for the ceremony are mem
bers of the late minister’s family,
including his wife, now a resident
of Leaksvilte.
o
Bethel Hill Has
Plans For Band
Bethel Hill school, of which W. L.
Wellons is principal, is seeking to |
raise funds for the establishment of
a band, revealed today by Mrs. Bry
an Boswell, teacher of the first
grade, together with that of Mias
Nellie Gravely, the sixth grade, is
having a turkey contest for that
purpose.
Bethel Hill, which at present has
no band, is seeking to raise $1,500
for that purpose and various grades
are using different fund-getting
techniques. Teacher of music at
Bethel Hill is Miss Annie Lee Rose,
who has said that she will be glad
to organize and teach a band when
funds are available.
Four hundred dollars has already
been raised for the fund.
Church Buys New
Building Lots
Mitchell’s Chapel Baptist church
has recently purchased three lots
in the new Montwood development
with intention of building a new
church there, it was reported today
by the pastor, the Rev. B. B. Knight,
who added that plans for the new
church and for a much needed Sun
day school unit are going forward
and that all contributions will be
greatly appreciated.
Brought to a close Sunday at
the church was what was reported
as a very successful revival, with the
Rev. R. W. Hovis as guest speaker
for all except the Sunday morning
services, when the pastor was the
speaker. Music was by Mrs. R. V.
Hovis and H. Y. Yarborough. Ten
professions of faith were reported.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
hospital, Greensboro, the gifts to be
sent to Camp and Hospital com
munity service committee here by
December 10th for redistribution to
the camp hospitals. Chairman is Mrs.
T. Miller White and packages, mark
ed with detached labels or tags, are
to be delivered in Roxboro to Caro
lina Power and Light company
office.
Urgent appeal to the club women
for sixty pumpkins to be used at
Camp Butner hospital for food and
decorations at Thanksgiving, was al
so made by Miss Caldwell on behalf
of Mrs. White and her committee.
The audience last night, oensider
ing the weather, was large, with
more than half of the downstairs
auditorium filled. A number of those
in the audience were men. some of
whom, especially those from Allens
ville ,came along to assist with put
ting on the Club skits. Topic for Al
lensville was "Recreation'' and in
cluded as a sample of it was choral
or group singing for mixed voices.
Another effective skit was the
clothesline one put on by Warren's
Grove, while along the instructive 1
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Person Memorial
Hospital Group
Meets Wednesday
Finance Committee Called For
. November 20th In Grand
Jury Room of Court
House.
At a meeting of the General Com
mittee held Wednesday evening, the
selection of other Committees was
made.
The Finance Committee is com
posed of the following: R. L. Harris,
R. P. Burns, R. B. Griffin, Mrs. A1
Martin, D. L. Whitfield, J. A. Long.
Jr., Mrs. W. R, Woody, George W.
Kane, John Dempsey, Mrs. Robert
Foster, F. D. Long, O. B Mcßroom,
G. C. Hunter. E. E. Bradsher and
Errol Morton.
Also B. B. Newell. John H. Mer
ritt, Jr., E. M. Wells. T. H. Clay'. C.
T. Hall. Bradsher Gentry, Giles
Crowder, D. M. Cash, J. W. Green,
Clarence Warren. Preston Satter
field, Sr., S. P. Gentry, Crowder Rob
ertson and Frank Timberlake.
A Meeting of The Full Finance
Committee is Scheduled to Be Held
in The Grand Jury Room on Tues
day evening, November 20 at 7:30
P; M.
The committee on Memorials in
cludes Gordon C. Hunter, Mrs. J. A.
Long, Sr., Mrs. Clyde Wagstaff, Mrs.
John H. Merritt, Sr.. Mrs. H. W.
Winstead, Sr., C. A. Harris, and Rev.
J. Boyce Brooks.
Tlie Publicity Committee includes
the following: J. W. Noell, W. W.
Woods, J. S. Merritt, Ralph Tucker,
and S. F. Marsh.
The Building Committee includes
the following: A. M. Burns, W. R.
Woody, C. T. Hall. R. L. Hams. D.
L. Whitfield, R. B. Griffin and John
M. Dempsey.
Other committees, including the
colored citizens committee, will be
named shortly.
Two nice contributions were an
nounced at the meeting and it is
hoped that all the plans can be well
under way in a very short time.
WilfGoTcT
District Affair
Miss Billie Vogler, club president,
together with Mrs. A. F. Nichols and
Misses Vivenne Hiers, Mary Jones
and Zelle Harris, all of Roxboro
Business and Professional Woman’s
club, will be in Greensboro at
Sedgefield Inn this week-end for a
district conference of clubs, it Was
announced Tuesday night at regu
lar meeting of the Roxboro club at
Hotel Roxboro, where club projects
for the next year were considered.
Among projects being considered
is the giving of memorial volumes
to the public library here in honor
of Person and Roxboro men who
gave their lives in World War 11.
)t Coumr=®4tne2
Tobacco Sales
Continue Heavy
And Prices High
Averasre For This Week Set
At $47.15. Total Pounds
For Year Eisrht and A
Quarter Million.
The Roxboro Tobacco Market has
sold 7.759,302 pounds of tobacco
this season, ending Friday of last
week, for $3,382,416.64 at an aver
age of ,44.90. Sales this week, for
the first three days, have been 466,-
682 pounds at an average of $47.15.
This makes the total sales for the ■
season around eight and a quar
ter million pounds.
I So far the closing date of the
market has not been set but it is
thought that it will be sometime in
January. A large part of the crop
that was raised in this county has
been sold. One warehouseman es
timated that 85 percent had been
|sold but lie Stated—the price of
tobacco is just as high as it has
! been.
Last year the Roxboro Market
■sold 8,755,810 pound* of tobacco
at an average of $42.90 and the
I total amount of money paid was
i $3,756,277.60. It. is thought that
sales this year will possibly go in
the neighborhood of ten million
pounds.
For the past several years this
market has been steadily gaining
ground and sales this season will be
greater than at any time in many
years.
Four houses have operated and
one set of buyers have handled the
above amount of golden weed.
Press Group Has
New Officers
Green Discusses Essay Con
test Os Which He Is State
Chairman.
New officers of the North Central
or Piedmont Press association are
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Oliver of Burl
ington and Graham, president end
secretary, respectively, who were
elected at a meeting of the Asso
ciation held Saturday night in
Durham at Harvey's cafeteria, where
presiding officer was the retiring
! president. Tom W. Johnson, of the
! Public Ledger. Oxford.
Speakers were Ted Davis, of the
Zebulon Record, and Dr. Sylvester
Green, editor of the Durham Morn
ing Herald. Topic for Davis was
the new role of photography in the
newspaper field, while Dr. Green
discussed the importance of the
public relations aspect of newspa
pers and mentioned specifically the
! high school and college Press As-
I sqciation sponsored essay contesi,
I of which he is chairman.
Named as an executive committee
to work with President Oliver, were
E. D. Stephens, of the Caswell Mes
senger, Yanceyville, Mr. Johnson
and Mr. Davis. Roxboro represen
tative at the meeting was Thomas
J. Shaw, Jr., of the Courier-Times,
who was accompanied by Mr. Steph
ens. Next meeting of the Associa
tion will be in January, prior to
; the gathering of the State Asso
ciation.
First Court For
; New Official
| A. M. Burns, Jr., new clerk of
Person Superior court, who also
acts as clerk for Recorder's court,
1 had his first experience in that ca
| pacity Tuesday, when first Novem
' ber term of Recorder's court was
held, with Judge F. O. Carver, Sr.,
presiding. Twenty-four cases were
I disposed of by trial and chiefly in
-1 volved drunken driving, no opera
tor's license, possession for for sale,
and the like, according to Clerk
Burns, who said that heaviest fines
were imposed on Ed Harris, Negro,
$75 for manufacturing whisky, and
upon Buster Roland, SIOO and costs
for possession of white lightning
for purpose of sale.
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Eastern Star
I Regular meeting of Person Chap-
I ter of Order of Eastern Star will be
: held tonight at seven-thirty o’clock.
according to announcement made by
i the secretary. Mis. Jessie Overton
Whitfield.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Vice Admiral Presents Medal
\ I
WiM
IH ■ ■
Ensign Jesse Henderson Munday, of Woodsdale, son of Mrs
Coquella Munday, a machinist with tin* I’nited States Navy, shown
above, recently received from D. E. P.arbcy. Vice Admiral U. S. Navy
Commander of the Seventh Fleet, a Bronze Star medal and a citation
for “distinguishing himself by heroic conduct in action on December
30, 1944, as an assistant Damage Control officer on a destroyer, the
! USS Pringle, which was damaged by an air attack.’*
j The citation continues. “By cool and capable direction and personal
leadership, he caused the ship’s Damage Control parties effectively
and quickly to put out a i;ajoline fire caused by a suicide plane crash,
in and around ready service and handling room ammunition. He or
ganized. directed and personally led i\ party who removed ammunition
from a burning ready room and thereby prevented further damage to
the ship. His courage and conduct throughout have distinguished him
among those performing duties of the same character.
Earl Broach Died
In Japanese Camp
Methodists Will
Hear Former
Army Chaplains
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Although the now •minister, the!
Rev. Ben H. Houston of Sinithfiei'i,;
is licit expected to arrive in Roxboro
until next Wednesday. November ;
21st ~ there will be services a' Long ,
Memorial Methodist church Sun
day, November 18111., at. both ;he
mcrt>ing and evening services. I.laj.
Harry; Jackson, recently discharged
as a Chaplain in the Armed ser
vices, will conduct the eleven e'e lock
worship service, and Rev, Daniel
Lane of the Person 1 Circuit will
preach *at the evening service a!
seven-thirty.
Mr. Jackson .vho mai'cved tin*:
former Miss Vertie Moore of lt'px-!
boro, entered the Army as Ch twain'
in 1940 and was at Avden V pisoo : ;i.
church prior to, entering ih ■ Arni' .
where he was attached .o [he ::ot'v
Division in Europe c:m attained rtc
rank of Major.
The Rev. Mr. Lane was returned;
to the Person Circuit again this
year by the North Carolina Con
ference recently lie; I in G-uidso >"o.
Ml. Lane was a Chaplain in World;
War I.
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Maurice Claytons
Go To Kinston
Cpl. and Mrs. Maurice Clayton, of.
Kinston, who have been spending
some time here, have returned .to
their home at Kinston, While here
the Claytons were the guests of his
aunt, Mrs. Dallas Long, and of his
brother, Bruce Clayton. At Chub
Lake they also were guests of Cpl.
Clayton's mother, Mrs. Walter Clay-j
ton. and of another brother, Maxie.
Cpl. ClaJton was in the Army over 1
three years and spent half of that
time overseas with the Third Army
Engineers in England. France, Ger
many, Czechoslovakia and Austria.
He is a native of Person county. 1
COURIER-TIMES TO SPONSOR NEWS
ESSAY HIGH SCHOOL CONTEST
! Submitted to Person and Roxboro
! high school principals is a plan for I
|an essay contest for high school]
students sponsored by the North]
Carolina Press Association with the
cooperation of the Courier-Times,
according to announcement today
by J. S. Merritt, ot this city, asso-.
ciate editor of the Courier-Times, |
which is offering locally in the city j
| and county bash prizes for the best |
[essays on the topic, "Newspapers;
j Serving the Community”.
| First prize from the Courier-
Times will be five dollars, while
| second prize will be two dollars and
| a half, with the winners to be:
] forwarded to a State committee ior j
j the Press Association to be headed
i by Dr. Sylvester Green, editor of
1 the Durham Morning Herald. Grand
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1945
Deliivetl War Department
Message Savs Cause Was
Malaria.
Fact that Tech. Sgt. William Earl
Broach. 24. of Bushy Fork, who was;
;in! he i’hiilippihes at the fall of
Cor:. stdor in May 1942. died about
1 o month later, oil June 6. 1942. in a
: Japanese prisoner of war camp from
! malaria, is contained in an official
• U tter Loin the War Department re
ituved last week by his parents, Mr.
aiid Mrs. Eddie Broach.
Writer of the letter was Edwin F.
, Witsell. ot Washington, acting the
Adjutant General, who reports that
Broach died in Camp O'Donnell. Til •
Bushy Fork man. who was a dose
P isoiltd friend of the late Pfc.
i.ewC'U T. Huff, with whom he was
■graduated from Hurdle Mills high
school in 1937, had been declared
'.t o he "presumed to be dead on May
8. 1944". but nothing further in the
way.of information was received un
til last Week-
I . 'J i ch. Sgt. Broach, who was in
civilian life a farmer, thus apparent
ly becomes the first Person man to
have, died as a prisoner of war and
the first to die in World War II in
overseas capacity, although his
; triend. I’to. Huff, for whom the local
post of Veterans of Foreign Wars is
named, remains as the first Person
. native to be reported as killed in ac
tion in that.war. Huff was killed
in action m the African invasion.
First son Os .a Roxboro resident to
■ fee listed killed, however, was
Pfc. Sam. C: Fisher. Jr., of this City.
| and Nathalie, Va.
In tile family of Tech. Sgt. Broach,
in addition to his parents, are two
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Three Os The Boys
"Pinky" Bradsher, of the Seabees.
Who has been in the Aleutians, Ben
Thaxton. Jr., of the Marines in the
Pacific area and "Buster" Jones, also
from the Pacific area, are recent
| arrivals here. Thaxton. who was a
Private First Class, has received his'
1 discharge papers, while Jones, who
was here Sunday, is expecting to be
| out in a few days. Bradsher will
j have a leave of fifty days here and
• then may receive his discharge later.
• it is said.
prize for the State will be a hun
! dred dollar Victory bond for each
j first choice and a fifty dollar Vic
] tory bond for each second choice.
I All manuscripts to be sent on to
j the State, committee must be in
i that committee's hands by January
'.l, 1946, and for his reason the final
| date for manuscripts to be submit
| ted in the local contest sponsored by
| the Courier-Times will be Decem
; ber 15th. Manuscripts must not be
longer* than one thousand five hun
dred words, about six typed pages.
Purpose of the contest, as outlined
in letters sent to various high school
: principals here, is a stimulation of
j the interest of the present student
i generation in the place and the
t importance of newspapers in mod
ern society.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Robot Plane For Victory
Loan Here Next Tuesday
Miss Brandon To i
Leave OPA Staff
By Tomorrow
Price Panel Consolidated, But
Two Clerks Remain Here.
Resignation of Miss Virginia •'
Brandon, chief clerk of the Person
OPA office, to be effective tomor-;
row was announced today, when j
it was revealed that tile price panel
division of the office will bp con
solidated with that of the Durham
office, December 1, and will be oil
that date moved to Durham, al
though there will be a retention ol
a rationing staff here in Roxboro
as long as tires and other items ;
such as foods remain on the ra
tioning list.
Miss Brandon, daughter of Mrs.
W. D. Brandon, ivho. has been with :
the Person office since March 1942.
and was first paid employee ol
OPA here, will join the staff of
Peoples bank on next Monday, it
was announced.
Reduction of the. OPA staff here
will mean the selection of a new
OPA office location bv December 1.
Site of the office will be announced
later. Expected to remain with the
staff are Miss Mildred Carver and
Mrs. John Clay Lunsford, who will j
look after tire rationing and food
rationing, both of which, are still
required.
Listed as still critically short are
stocks of tires, according to Miss
Brandon, Who urges motorists to |
use much care in driving, as only
tlie most .urgent tire applications
can be filled. Tires, incidentally,
were among : the first items to be
rationed back in December 1941.
when rationing Was first introduced.
The OPA staff here reached a
High point shortly before tlie end
of the war, when six to eight per
sons Were employed.
Allgood Talks
For Kiwanians
j-' "■ vV. ‘ "•••
I Christmas Seal Stile. Sponsor
ed Bv Club, Starts Monday.
Induction of two new members
and ail informal talk or. pharmacy
by a former member now an Ensign
in the Navy,, featured Monday
! night's meeting of Roxbtirp Kiwanis
club at Hotel Roxboro. it was re
ported yesterday.
Speaker was Ensign W \V.
1 'Buddyi Allgood, former druggist of
: this City, who Was introduced by
| Kiwanian Joe David, of Roxboro
Drue company; Ensign Allgood is
spending several days here With his
wife and family.
New members inducted were John
Dprey. recently discharged from
! Naval service and a brother-in-law
of Ensign Allgood, who is now on
the faculty of Helena school, and
I Stuart Tripp, director of athletics
in Roxboro high school, wild came
here in September from Aj'den and
Greenville.
Kiwanians, beginning Monday,
with Jack Strum as chairman, will
sponsor the 1945 Christinas Seal
sale here for the Tuberculosis asso
ciation, Person and Roxboro quota
is set at $2,300 and Chairman Strum
is expecting full cooperation front
both club members and citizens gen
erally. The quota here, on a per
capita basis, is larger than it has
ever been.
O -c
Brooksdale Charge
Services Planned
Preaching services for the Brooks
dale Methodist Charge for Sunday
Novemlier 18, will be conducted by
the pastor. Rev. E. C. Maness, at
AUensville at eleven o'clock, and in
the Brooksdale Church at seven
o'clock P. M. This Will be the be
ginning pi the services for the new
Conference Year. Visitors are given
a special welcome to attend the
services
bleeds $63851
A check from the Standard Oil
Company for $35.00 now puts the
United Community War fund total
collected here from all sources at
$9,311.49, leaving $638.51 to meet
the entire quota of $10,050.0(1 for
Person County, it was reported
today by W. Wallace Woods, of
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce.
Victory Loan Drive Feature Expected At
Roxboro Airport Or High School
A twelve-loot wingspread robot
plane, now mi tour from Fort Bragg
in interest of the current Victory
Loan drive, will be in Roxboro oil
Tuesday. November 20. it was an
nounced today.
The time will be 2:30 in the after
noon and the show will be at Rox
boro high school or at Roxboro air
port. with details to be announced
Monday.
Appearance of the plane in
Roxboro was Arranged by R. L. Har
ris, co-chairman for the Victory
Loan drive here, who about two
weeks ago received a message say
ing a visit of the plane could be ar
ranged.
Expected to be held here in con
nection with appearance of the
plane, according to district chair
man Gordon C. Hunter, will be a
special bond sale, promoting Vic
tory E: Bonds, tlie sale of which
to date lias totaled $43,000. Goal
is $149,000 in E Bonds, included in
an overall quota of nearly three
hundred thousand dollars.
The plane was first expected to
be here Friday after Thanksgiving
or on Thanksgiving day, but a
City Delivery Os
Mail Comes Closer
Huff Post Will
Follow Up Plans
Made This Week
i
Armistice Dinner Held At
Hotel With Many Guests.
Next meeting of Lewell T. Huff
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, tlie |
members of which had an Armistice ,
Day dinner Monday night at Hotel j
Roxboro, will be on Tuesday night,!
November 27th at the USO Ser-1
vice Center, according to announce
ment by Commander J. W. Allgood,
who expects the installation Os new
members to take place at tlie De
cember meeting, it was reporud
today.
Speaker at the dinner Monday
was Warrant Officer L. M. Carlton.
Jr„ recently elected as an officer
of the Post, who paid tribute to
the ideals of the Veterans of For
eign Wars, appealed for preserva
tion of standards of the organiza
tion and briefly mentioned over
seas service experiences.
In attendance at the hotel af
fair. with Commander Allgood pre
siding, were twenty-seven veterans
of overseas service, including a
number of young men recently re
turned and not yet affiliated with j
tlie Huff Post. Present overseas;
membership of the Huff Post is j
placed at forty-six, with fifty-two j
additional members in Roxboro and i
in Army camps in the United !
States.
Prater was offered by John Dorev, I
a new member and brother-in-law,
of Commander Allgood. Brief re
marks were made by Ailgood and
by former Commander Garrett and
others. Special guest was Thomas
J. Shaw, Jr., of the Courier-Time's,-'
who spoke of the heritage of tlie
name of tlie Post, commemorating
the first Person native listed as
killed in action in World War 11.
Huff was killed December 10, 1942.
in North Africa.
Announced for Sunday, November
18, at Leaksville-Spray is a district)
meeting of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and to be in attendance from
Huff Post will be Commander All
good and Vice Commander Gar
rett. Mr. Garrett is Deputy Chiel
Marshall of District Five.
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Senior Hostesses
Listed For Week
Senior hostesses for the Ruxboio
USO Service Center for this week
end, as selected by Miss Hilda
Shoemaker, chairman of that com
mittee, will be as follows:
For Saturday, two to four o’clock
Mrs. George Thomas; four to six,
Mrs. Martin Michie; six :o eight, j
Miss Shoemaker and eight to ten,
Mrs. W. H. Minor, and for Sunday j
twelve to two Henry O'Briant;
two to four, Miss Elizabeth Raines;
four to six, Mrs. W. H. Adair; six
to eight, Miss Gertrude Holt and
eight to ten, Mrs. Jerry L. Hester.
2 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1841
DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 100
i change of schedule moves it up to
j next Tuesday, oiv basis of long dis
tance reports received late this
i morning from Fia t Bragg.
The plane will come here from a
showing in Burlington and after
staying in Roxboro will go to
'Mount. Tour ol' the plane began
j Tuesday and will cover tile State,
ending December 9. at Andrews.
! Tlie robot craft, ail OQ-3 pilotless
target airplane which was veiled
, under close U. S. Army secrecy dur
'ing tlie war. is launched from a cat
japult at express train speed and is
j powered by a man on the ground
| wiio holds a radio-controlled box
and moves a pehcil-like stick to
transmit signals over a frequency
modulated wave to a radio receiver
in tlie plane. These signals actuate
a unit, nicknamed "the muscle,”
which transforms electrical impres
sions into mechanical action and
moves tlie airplane controls.
Tlie primary war-time purpose of
t liis electric wonder, which will be
used to stimulate interest in the
purchase of savings bonds through
. out eastern North Carolina, was to
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I’os'lmasUT L. M. Carlton Ex
pects Decision at Early Date.
Possibility that City Delivery of
mail may be established in Roxboro
“at an early date" is contained in
a statement issued today by Post
master L. M. Carlton, who says that
a Post Office inspector is expected
here shortly to make a final check-,
over before submitting a report to
tlie Post Office Department in
Washington.
Mr. Carlton further says that cer
tain conditions relative to number
ing houses and placing of house
boxes by residents must be met if
the City Delivery system is adopted.
There has been in Roxboro for some
lime considerable agitation for the
establishment of a free
system within tile city limits.
Tlie Carlton statement, including
tribute to efforts being made by
City Manager Guy Whitman and by
Wallace Woods, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, reads as fol
lows :
"For the information of the public
I mil glad to say that I am very
hopeful of having City Delivery es
tablished in Roxboro at an early
dale.
"In order to do this numerous
governmental requirements have to
be met such as population, paved
streets and sidewalks and volume of
postal business done in Roxboro.
During the past sixty days or mpre
a large amount of statistical uata
has been prepared and maps of the
town showing residences, business
places a unoccupied lots and the
proposed routes for carriers. A post
office inspector has made three trips
here checking up on the information
furnished and is expected to return
this week for a final check up be
fore presenting the matter to the
Post Office Department. The in
formation furnished tire Inspector
lias been impressive and I am of the
opinion that lie will recommend tho
establishment of the delivery.
"In these preliminary matters 3
have found our people enthusiastic
and helpful and I am especially in
debted to tlie City Manager, Guy
| Whitman, and Secretary of Chamber
of Commerce Wallace Woods lot
their many courtesies and whole
hearted support and help— and f
now feel confident that our people
will cooperate by complying with a
few necessary details, such as put
ting up mail receptacles at their
doors and numbering their houses.
Full information about these mat
ters wilt be furnished' later as soon
as the department desires to egtabr
lish the service—and when estnfe*
lished I am convinced that ourpeoyy
pie will be proud of it and appn* |
Meets At USO J|
Roxboro Exchange club last
varied its program by meeting
; the USO Service Center,
buffet supper was served by
of Mount Zion Methodist
An informal get-to-gether web heSi
Presiding was Ralph Tucker,
president. '^3