Victory Bonds
Will Speed
Theifi Home
VOL. LXIV.
Church Rats Vex
Minister And Create
Problem Within City
Increase Os Rats Reported To I
Sanitarian, Who Cites Dan
gers And Remedies.
Rats in the church, that is what
one Roxboro minister is up against,
it was revealed today by Miss Zellc '
Harris, Person sanitarian, who i
agrees with the minister that Rox- 1
boro is in danger of being overrun
by the rodents. They are everywhere, i
and not only in churches, says Miss '
Harris, who points out that private
dwelling houses, cases and various
public buildings here are homes for
rats, against which a ceaseless war :
must be waged.
The preacher came to. Miss Har- 1
ris a day or two ago with his prob- :
lcm, how to get rid of the ecclesias- ;
tical-rat. Frankly, Miss Harris has
no cure-all. She however, ] 1
that keeping garbage cans tightly :
closed is one help. A garbage can is!'
like well-loaded dinner table, a \
Thanksgiving spread with trimmings!
for Mr. and Mrs. Rat and their ;
numerous offspring. But rats can't!
and won't live where they can’t get!'
food.
That is one way out. Other meth-!
ods of elimination are by the use j
of traps and poisons, now generally
available and known to the public. |
Being a diplomatic person and not
a sales agent, Miss Harris is not go
ing to recommend one trap or one
brand of poison over another, but
she did tell the inquiring minister
where such rat-killers could be
bought and she agrees with him
that rats are dirty, bothersome
pests, destroyers of property, car
riers of disease and starters of fires.
And she wonders if some of those
New York rats have not hopped
train rides to Roxboro, where there
are lots more of them than there
used to be.
Tobacco Prices
Holding Strong
With the demand continuing ex
ceptionally strong, prices for most
grades were steady to $1 per hun
dred higher on Old and Middle Belt
flue-cured tobacco markets Tuesday,
the Federal-State Market News Ser
vice reported.
The gains on Old Belt markets
were confined principally to leaf
and smoking leaf groups. However,
best thin nondescript was up $2 per
hundred, averaging S4O for the first
time this season. Sales continued
fairly heavy on most markets.
Monday's gross sales totaled 5,-
599,332 pounds, which averaged $47-
.22. which tops all daily averages
for the season thus far. The sea
son’s total sales were brought to
236,465,796 pounds at an average of
$43.77.
Although several grades showed
advances on Middle Belt markets,
most averages were steady at quota
tions established Monday. Gains
amounted to only $1 per hundred
and occurred chiefly in leaf grades.
The majority of grade averages were
in the very narrow range of S4B to
SSO.
Monday's gross sales amounted to
$1,861,310 pounds at an average of
$46.95 per hundred, an increase of
40 cents over last Friday’s average.
Season's sales were brought to 140,-
814,181 pounds at an average of
$43.59.
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Explosive
Christmgs
Danville, Va.—Fireworks will be
the order of the day here during the
coming Christmas, notwithstanding
the adoption of a county ordinance,
which concurs with a Danville or
dinance forbidding the sale.
The supervisors made the ordi
nance effective on December 1 but
after scores of merchants had de
scended wrathly on the cdunty
board explaining that they had in
vested collectively, about $20,000 in
fireworks, the board changed the
effective date of the ordinance to
January 1.
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Out Os Service
0
Sgt. Davie L. Phillips, of Roxboro,
was separated from the Army Air
Forces, it was announced today. Sgt.
Phillips was last stationed at the
20th Ferrying Group, the Air Trans
port Command’s Ferrying base at
Nashville, Tenn. He bears life Good
Conduct Medal.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Television As
Four-H Theme
Creates Interest
Maj. Ned Wood. State Four-H !,
Leader, Main Speaker.
Television as a program theme ]
furnished illustration Tuesday night «
at the court house here of the pro
gress of Four-H, club work done dur
ing the year by 810 members in
fourteen clubs in Person County and
Roxboro in an Achievement night
display.
Discussion leaders for the televis
ion stunts which were participated
in by eleven of the fourteen clubs,
were, Bruce Mooney, of Helena, an
nouncer, John D. Winstead, 111, of
Roxboro high school, Clyde Gentry,
Jr., of Allensville, Joanne Whitfield,
of Hurdle Mills, and Frances Jones,
of Helena. Presiding was Sarah
Jane Hester, of Bushy Fork, council
president, and chief speaker was
Maj. Ned Wood, of Raleigh, assist
ant State Four-H, leader.
Maj. Wood, recently returned from i
forty-three months of overseas duty,
and stationed for a long period at.
Cairo. Egypt, discussed observations
gained by him during visits to thirty
eight countries. Greetings were ex
pressed by Agent H.. K. Sanders, and
active assistants with the program
were Miss Evelyn Caldwell and C. C.
Jackson, Person's Four-H, leaders.
On display were canning and wild
life exhibits and reviewed during the.
television episodes were progress in
dress-making and the production of
corn apd tojjacco. An interesting
discussion of recreation had illustra- j
tio by from forty to thirty-five tap j
dancers. High Plains students, about |
twelve in number, sang a "Song of >
Health” and a duet was rendered
by Alta Rimmer and Katie Lee j
Currin, Roxboro high school.
Group singing was lead by W. j
Wallace Woods and devotional was I
by Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, of Roxboro!
First Baptist church. Presentation
of awards was by the County Agents
and saying of the Four-H, pledge
brought the meeting to a close. At
tendance was estimated as over one
hundred, slightly less than attend
ance last week at a similar program
given by the home demonstration
club women.
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Psychologist At
State Hospital
Raleigh.—Appointment of Don
ald S. Carter, of New York, as prac
ticing clinical psychologist for the
state's five mental hospitals, was an
nounced by Dr. David Young, gen
eral superintendent of mental hy
giene for the hospital system.
Young said Carter will have a
permanent office at Dix Hall, ‘the
Raleigh institution, and that he will
travel to the other hospitals regu
larly. The appointment marks the
first time any of the hospitals have
had a full-time clinical psychologist,
Dr. Young said.
Carter recently was released from
the army, where he served as a
first lieutenant.
Reporting on the progress of the
state’s newest mental institution at
Camp Sutton, Dr. Young said 150
(senile patients now are being cared
for there. The number will be in
creased to 200 by December 1, Dr.
Young said, with addition of 25 from
Dix Hill and 25 from Morganton.
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AT ST. MARK’S
Rev. Henry Nutt Parseley,. of Duke
University, will speak Sunday after
noon at four o'clock at services at
Saint Mark's Episcopal church.
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DAY REPORTS
Simon Day, of the Ira Stanfield
| farm, reports that he has sold
| 1,000 pounds on the Roxbnro mar
ket at a fifty cent average, and 210
pounds at fifty-one.
NO MEETING
Roxboro Rotary club will not meet
until next week, it was announced
, today. Tonight's meeting will b£
; omitted, because of Thanksgiving.
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> County Agents of the State Col
• lege Extension Service say that
t some counties seeded ten times as
d much alfalfa this fall as a few years
ago.
®he Courier-tH/ime?
Holiday Workers
Musi Have Cards
Students Who Work During
Holidays Will Need Social
! Security Account Cards. '
' 1
Durham.—Every student who is 1
I planning to work during the holiday I
season will need a social security >
account number before he takes a 1
job—that is, if the job is with a busi
ness, or industrial concern. If lie is I
going to work for the past office or •
any other Government agency, he <
will not need an account number ’
card. If his work is for a church. I
public library, school, or other non- <
profit organization, on a farm or in
domestic service or if he is under 21,
and works for his parent, he will not
need an account number card. None
of those jobs are covered by the So
cial Security Act.
* No student should apply for an ac
count number card until he has the
promise of a job, according to Nina
H. Matthews, manager of the Dur
[ ham office of the Social Security i
Board, who said that some boys and
girls apply for account numbers,
when they have no prospect of a, ,
job. This practice costs the Govern- |
ment money and often causes con
gestion in the office df the Social
Security Board.
Mrs. Matthews explained that a
boy or girl who takes a job, even for
a short while, in a shop, mill, store,
or in any other business or industrial
establishment should have a social
security account number in order
that he may receive credit on the
books of the Social Security Board
j for every dollar he earns in a job
covered by the law. "The Social Se
curity Board has an extensive ays
tern of bookkeeping", she added. |
"When a worker fills out an appli
cation for a soeial security number,
he receives a card, which certifies
that an account ha.v been establish
ed for him. The card contains the
number of the worker's account, and
it is in this account that the work
er's wage record will be kept, until
the time is reached for paying his
benefits. This account number al
ways remains the same. It is not
j affected if the worker changes jobs,
j if he works for more than one em
| ployer. or if he is out of work for a
while.
In case a student who previously
j obtained a social security account
j card has lost that card, he should
I not apply for another number but
I should ask for a duplicate. If lie has
I a record of the number, it will be
easier to obtain the duplicate. If he
does not remember the number, it
will take some time to get the dupli
cate card—but it can be done.
I To apply for an account number
card, call at the Durham office of
the Social Security Board located in
Room 201, Post Office Building.
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Market Report
Roxboro tobacco market, which
will close Thursday and Friday
for Thanksgiving and will reop
en Monday, sold on first two days
of this week 335,594 pounds for
an average of S4B, It was reported
yesterday. Seasonal total is list
ed as 8,483,482 pounds for $44.25.
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J. L. BERRY 04 T
Among those recently discharged
at Gulfport, Miss., - Army Air Field
was S-Sgt. John L. Berry, son of
■Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Berry, Tim
berlakc. Sgt. Berry entered the
Army on February 28, 1942. His
wife has been living ‘.n Durham.
No Other Cases Os Diphtheria Reported
Beset by questions pertaining: to
1 diphtheria from many anxious pa
rents, Miss Evelyn Davis, senior
staff nurse of the Person Heslth
■ department has today issued a
statement in question and answer
form concerning the disease its
cause and prevention.
Miss Davis at the same time lias
; made the request that parents wisti
: ing to bring their children to the
Department for vaccinations do so
only during regular clinic hours on
Mondays and Saturdays. Hours are
two to four o'clock Monday after
noon and nine to twelve noon on
Saturdays.
I No additional cases of diphtheria
I have been reported this week since
■ the development of the fourth ease,
■ that of a Negro child, listed last
week and said to be improving al
ter having been taken to-Duke hos
pital for treatment. Many more
; cases have been reported in Chat-
I ham and Orange than in Person
! County, but the death rate} here has
been higher in proportion, with two
fatalities among the four cases te
• ported.
t The questions and answers p.e
--; pared by Miss Davis are as follows:
Q Where does diphtheria come
1 from? i
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
BOMB WHICH FAILS TO EXPLODE
GIVES MORRIS TIGHT MOMENT
Charles E. Morris, seaman, first ]
class, of Roxboro, who has served'
on the cruiser USS Biloxi. near j
Okinawa, probably owes his life to i
the fact that a bomb did not go off.
according to a story just released by
the Navy Department.
It was in the midst of an attack
by Japanese suicide fliers: A fourth
Jap pilot began a suicide run on the
cruiser. Though hit repeatedly, and
with the pilot apparently dead at
the controls, the plane continued its i
dive. The captain ordered an emerg-
Progress Shown
In Victory Loan
USO Center Has
Holiday Plans
Will He Open All Day Thurs
day And For The Week-End.
Roxboro USO Service Center,
which was open last night for be
ginning of the Thanksgiving holi
day season, will remain open all
day Thursday, with giris from all
junior hostess groups assisting with
the program, it was announced to
day. Many visiting service men
are in the city and it is expected
that numbers will be invited to 'he
homes of residents for meals.
Junior hostess chairmen for this
week-end, Saturday and Sunday, j
will be Misses Lucille Oliver and';
Fay O'Briant, while vespers speak- j
er will be Major Harry Jackson, tin- |
til recently a chaplain in the U. S.j
Army. Working with Miss Oliver j
and Miss O'Briant will be girls I
from group three.
Speaker last Sunday was the Rev. j
i George W. Heaton of Roxboro,!
Presbyterian church and'leaders oft
music were Mr. and Mrs. W. Wal- j
lace Woods. uJnior hostess groups !
were in charge of Miss Anita Kir
by, her associate. Miss Peggy Whit
ten, having been ill at the time.
Expected to be able to resume some i
of his Center activities is Dr. Rob- I
ert E. Long, who has recently i e-!
turned from the hospital after an j
operation.
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Agency Council
To Meet Soon
Fred Bishop, head of the depart
ment of Bible. Roxboro high school,
will be speaker on Wednesday, Nov-j
ember 28, at the Person County
Council of Social agencies meeting
at noon at Hotel Roxboro, where he
will discuss "Recreation in the Pub
lic Schools". Has address will be the
third in a series devoted to recrea
tion. Previously discussed have been
home and church aspects, with
j different speakers for each topic.
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IN STATESVILLE
Misses Jean and Sylvia Bradsher.
cousins, will leave this morning for
Statesville, where they will visit
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Crowell, grand
parents of Miss Jean Bradsher.
11 A The infectious germ spreads
from one person to another by a
• carrier ta person who has the di
i sease—sometimes so mild they do
i not recognize it —may carry the germ
• in their throat a long timei —and
; by a person who has the disease.
! Sometimes germs may be carried
; | through contaminated milk or food
• and freshly soiled articles.
■ Q Can one have diphtheria more
>:than once?
i A One attack of the disease us
; ually leads to lasting immunity,
• there are few instances of multiple
i attacks.
Q What is the first sign?
i A The onset is usually gradual—
> a moderate temperature, tired feei
, ing, general loss of pep, loss of up
: petite, sore throat. The sore throat
■ is not often marked and this often
• leads to a delay in discovering the
: disease. Be suspicious of any com
■ bination of the above signs that
i doesn't seem better in 48 hours.
i There may be signs of a head
) cold.
The grayish white of grayish green
spots may not appear in the throat
-for the first day or two—these spots
: are due to the poison of the disease.
; | Q Can diphtheria affect anything
but the throat?
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1945
I cncy turn, which looked like it would
’ turn the trick. But the plane did a
freak half-roll and crashed into the
I ship's aft section.
| Strangely, there was no explosion,
j Descending into flooded compart
j merits, the boys soon found the rea
son —an unexploded 1,100-pound
bomb. Hoisted gingerly to the sur
face, the bomb was rendered harm
less.
| The bomb now is mounted oiv the
(ship's quarterdeck as a memento of
'the occasion.
Many person, including a large j
; number of high school students, i
gathered here Tuesda^afternoon to j
witness two robot plane demonstra- j
lions held in connection with a Vie- j
tory Loan rally at Roxboro high!
school, it was reported this morning j
by Gordon C. Hunter, district chair- j
man, who said that $1,850 worth of j
bonds were sold during the after- j
noon at a booth set up on the high ,
school field. Assisting him with sales j
was his daughter, Mrs. George i
Cushwai, Jr.
Speaker was Mayor S. G. Win
stead, who was introduced by R. L.
'Harris, co-chairman here for the
Victory Loan drive. Also assisting
with the program were R. B. Griffin,
Co-chairman, and J. A. Long, Jr.
> Major interest of the crowd was '
| centered on the two planes, which j
j went through executed stunts as i
i planned, but dropped prematurely j
| to the ground, a defect in plans said :
jto have resulted from presence on
j the field of high tension wires. Witli
j the planes came seven crew members
from Fort Bragg.
i. ' ■
j A total of $61.0G0 in E bonds, about
iforty percent of the E bond quota
: of ,$149,C00, has been sold to date,
i according to Mr. Hunter, who said
said also that overall total sold here
stands at $122,000, including E bonds.
General overall quota is close to
$300,000, with E bonds counted in.
[Greene To Again
[Head Boy Scouts
! J. W. Greene was reelected as i
chairman of Person Scout district at |
a meeting held Tuesday night, while
new vice chairman is Rev. C. G.
McCarver, who succeeds J. A. Long,
| Jr. Reelected also were the sec-'
'! rotary, Tom Shaw, and the treas
! urer, O. B. Mcßroom. Presiding
j was Mr. Greene. Plans were made
' jto have a committee headed by Dr.
Robert E. Long and Mr. Greene
'j to go Friday night to Olive Kill
i for conference with new troop
leaders there.
i
i Held at meeting of the Negro di
vision, also, was an election of of
ficers resulting in retention of C.
J. Ford as chairman. Present at.
both meetings was John B. Oakley.
. of Reidsville. Cherokee council cxe
l cutive, while the Negro divisional
t meeting was also attended by Chur
- ies Chalmers, field director, and
Tom Shaw, interracial chairman.
A Yes, any thin moist membrane,
or open skin wound.
A If the case is mild there may
i not be any serious complications. In
t to the body—other than the throat 0
Q What harm does diphtheria do'
more severe cases the poison thrown i
off by the germs may cause ab
scess of the tonsils, infection of the;
ears, weakening of the heart, weak- !
ness of the eyes, paralysis of the
throat muscles or muscles of breath- j
iug. and pneumonia.
. Q. How long after exposure before I
■ the disease is developed?
A This varies between one and!
ten days but is usually two to five I
days.
Q How long after one has the]
disease does he or she carry the
: germs?
i ;A This varies, but in uncompli
■ cated and recognized diphtheria it
is seldom over three weeks.
All cases should have two nega
tive throat test (cultures) taken
l two to three days apart before be
ing allowed out of quarentlne. This
i is usually done by the P. H. N.
Q If my child had one dose of >
>' toxoid when 6 months of age and
. qh® 1* ribw lour should she have
[ another?
A>The health department recom-
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Kiwanians Push
Sales For Seals
Each Member To Buy Seal
Bond. Speaker Monday Is*
Clifton Dunnevanl.
Purchase of a Christmas Seal
"bond" at five dollars each by ev
ery member of Roxboro Kiwaals I
club is expected to give the Seal |
Sale fund here a good start this j
week, according to Jack Strum, j,
chairman, who said today that I
many of the Kiwanians, members j'
of the sponsoring organization fori,
the Seal Sale, have already bought. I
their bonds.
Already dispatched ; through t lie j
mails are several hundred lettois:
containing blocks of the Seals, aj *
traditional way used h :rc to ; ail:- !
er funds. Quota this year is $2,200,1
much larger than heretofore. ,says |
Strum', who adds tin* additional '•
letters will be sent out during the ' (
[remainder of this we I *. :■
Kiwanis program Moiidiiy j t
|at Hotel Roxboro was in cimrg?- of-*'
H. Dewey Young, who had as spe.uc- ! (
er Clifton Dunnevant, cf Bushy 1 j
| Fork, a returned from overseas;
j veteran, who saw service m France, I,
! England and Italy and related ins
! experiences in those countries, per- '
1 ticularly in France. Danevant, who
1 1
j was before the war a ministerial
[student at Mars Hill college, plans!'
i to resume his studies soon.
His talk to Kiwanians v.as r-'lated j 1
! more to battle experiences rathe:
1 (
than to observation of social or
moral conditions. Fact that sod
many men in Italy were killed or [
wounded was ascribed by him to the !
rocky areas in which bombs hit. :
Fragments of bombs were much
more deadly in rocky country than
in more normal soil, aid Dunne-, i
vant.
| ° j
Sgt. Saunders
Back Home
Sgt. Fuller Saunders of this city ! 1
has received his discharge from the,
V. S. army and is now back in Rox
boro. Sgt. Saunders served over three
years and was released last week in
Mississippi.
Prior to his entrance into the armv i
lie was with the Roxboro Courier, j
Orphanage Fund
J. Brodie Riggsbee, chairman for
the Oxford Orphanage fund com
mittee for Person Lodge 113, today [
has issued a statement of thanks;
j for support given to the fund drive
j from citizens here and says that the j
drive will continue for a few more
j days.
I’° " ”
Enroute Home
j Capt. Bill Davenport, of Rox- ;
j boro, who entered service in Febru •;
j ary 1942, and has been overseas in I
[the Pacific area since May of that:
[year, is enroute to the United j
| States, according to a cable me: -1
I sage received here. Capt. Da veil- j
j port, a graduate of State College,[
> went to the Army as a lieutenant, j
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FIELD WORKER
Miss Jeanette Simmons oi lowa
.; and Chapel Hill, who is stationed |
jin Hillsboro with the tri-ccuuty j
! health department, where she is re- I
! eeiving field training, was in Rox
• boro during the week with Miss.
1 Elizabeth Lovell, of the Health Ed
ucation service.
mends two doses, one month apai
when a baby is 6 mo. to a year ok
(preferably at 6 months) then
booster dose at 5 or 6 years. I
your case we would advise two dose;
; If your private physician guv
j the toxoid you should ask him a
he may have used a differen
' strength toxid.
Q. How long does it take the tox
oid to build up a safety?
A Usually about* four weeks.
Q What’s the difference in anti
I toxin and toxiod?
| A Antitoxin is usually given to th
! patient after the symptoms of diph
jtheria are recognized or suspecte
I and is also given to the close con
| tacts in the home. This is usuall
given by the private physician.
Q Does antitoxin make one sal
for life as the recommended doses c
toxoid does?
A No. A month after the antitoxi
is given, the child should take tl:
recommended two doses of toxioi
The antitoxin helps the patient i
a few hours but lasts only a mont
whereas the toxiod takes about
(month to help build an immunit.;
All cases of suspected diphtheri
should be under a doctors care. H
will report the disease to the Healt
’ Department.
Renewed Appeals
Being Made Here
For Service Program
Miss Denny, 24,
Os Allensville
Dies Tuesday
Funeral Will Be Held This
Afternoon At Sherron
Church.
Miss Mary Frances . Denny. 24. :
daughter of the late Ira and Nannie I
Adcock Denny of Allensville Town
ship, Person County, died at the
State Sanitorium at six A. M. Tues- ]
day. She had been critically ill lor : .
the past five weeks and in failing;!
health for eight months, . ‘,
Funeral services will be held <
Thursday afternoon ;u 2:30 o'clock,
at the Sherron Baptist Church.!
Where she was a member. The pas- [■;
tor, the Rev. E. G. Usry will offi
ciate, assisted by Rev. E. C. Maness '
ol' Roxboro. Interment will be in j
the Denny family cemetery.
Surviving art* four sisters: Mrs. |
C. R. Melton of Oxford; Mrs. J. A. j
Bagby, of Virgilina; Misses Millio
Ree and Margaret Denny of the [
home; three brothers: Spurgeon.
Fate and Ernest Denny, and a num- !
her of aunts and uncles.
Thanksgiving Is
Quiet Day Here
As People Rest
Thanksgiving, 19-fc. iiJL ksxbofo
and Person County literally taking
I the day off, and in the instance of
school children and some adults, two,
! days, a survey shows. j
i Church services were held this
[ morning and will be held tonight, j
with the first service that of First
Baptist, where sunrise rites were
held. Night services are being
planned at Longhurst Methodist
i church, of which Rev. C. G. Me-j
[ Carver is pastor, and at Longhurst
; Baptist, where the Rev. Auburn C.
Hayes is minister.
!. Chief attraction for the afternoon
will be the Bethel Hill and Roxboro ]
[ gridiron clash on the Roxboro field,
but some individuals will have their
[ own sport with opening of the hunt- '
ing season.
’ Merchants are closed for the day [
land about the only governmental;
j services functioning are those of the!
Sheriff’s office, the fire and police i
I departments. Everybody else is go- '
I ing to be at home eating turkey or
• traveling somewhere else to eat with
i other family groups. Even the re-
Istaurants, many of them, will be
j closed here.
Great Wealth
Seen In Soviet
Moscow.—Soviet geographers back ■
from four years’ exploration ol the]
coldest place on earth-—the Yakutsk '
j region in Siberia —reported vast gold [
[ fields, precious stones and valuable '
mines were under the frozen soil
1 000 miles north of Manchuria.
Tlie explorers told strange tales
of tlie little known land where the j
temperature dropped to 94 degrees [
below zero in winter (Fahrenheit)
—lowest ever recorded near the ■,
earth's surface by soviet observers
, —only to rise to 95 degrees above
. zero in the same region during the j
summer. But even the summer heat
thaws the earth only on the surface.
Geographer Dimitri M. Kolosov
told tlie Moscow news that gold
fields along the Lena river, already
acknowledged as among the most
important in the world, are capable
' of great expansion. Mining ol pre
cious stones and various ores also
I could be developed, it was reported
In four years the explorers cov
■ ered an area about the size of Mis
souri in northeastern Yakutsk on
* foot, by reindeer sleighs and air,
E "In the deepest canyons winds of
colossal force can stop an automo
i bile dead in its tracks as it drives
■ along the mirrorlike surface of froz
. en rivers,” Kolosov said.
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l OUT OF NAVY
i
William M. Jones of Roxboro,
t signalman, first class, has received
i his discharge from the Navy at
i Charleston. S. C., it was announced
today by the Navv Department,
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IN PERSON COUNTY IN IMI
DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 102
Mrs. T. Miller White Lists
(lift Suggestions For Ser
vice Men In Hospitals.
Start oil your Christmas shopping
now with a gift for the soldiers at
the Camp Butner General Hospital.
An urgent request that you do so
comes from the Camp and Hospital
Council of the Person County Red
Cross chapter.
Every citizen oi Roxboro and Per
son County can have a part in mak
ing the first Christmas of peace a
happy one for the bed patients at
tlie Camp Butner Hospital. Here is
how you can participate, says Mrs,
T. Miler White, Chairman.
Individuals may give items listed
below for hospital Christmas pack
ages (they should be dropped in at
tractive holiday paperi by communi
cating with the Camp and Hospital
Council chairman, Mrs. White, and
delivering the gilts to the Carolina
Power and Light Company office
'here before Deeembei 10.
Civic organizations and churches
will receive communication from the
Red Cross regarding gifts for hos
pitalized soldiers, These organiza
tions. as well as individuals, may
choose to donate S2l. which will ba
used to purchase radios which are
available immediately through the
Red Gross. A radio will bring cheer
not only to the lucxy individual but ,
to ills entire ward as well.
Each gilt package should be label
ed clearly as to its contents, and a
card may lie enclosed in each box
bearing the name ot the individual
or organization donating the gift.
Money for radios must be turned
over to the Rett Cross not later than
Saturday, November 24, and gifts
must .be delivered to the Red Cross
not later than Saturday, December
3. Gilt packages should contain four
or t'iv of .k.jArm* tytar'£'W* JVtytt
not contain'atty item not appearing
on the list, '**
The following items are acceptable
tor tire soldiers’ Christmas packages:
Address books imedium size), men's
manicuring sets, snapshot albums,
leather-framed mirrors, wallets,
shaving sets, money belts, cigarette
cases, military-brush sets, white
handkerchiefs, white scarves, tobacco
. pouches, pipe and pipe tobacco, me
i ehanical pencils, shoe-polishing sets,
sewing sets, sewing kits, small dic
tionaries,, small books (late editions),
shaving cream, tooth paste, playing
cards, cigarettes, socks, puzzles, dice,
j small magazines, stationery and
; writing portfolios, leather traveling
i playing-cards sets, whisk brooms ill
leather cases, small leather or
plastic boxes for insignia. •„ *
Low Standards
In College Hit
. Greenville,- Approximately 1,100
delegates from schools in 22 coun
ties gathered at East Carolina
Teachers college here Friday for
the annual meeting of the north
eastern district of the North Caro
lina Education association.
Highlights of tlte opening session
I were addresses by Chancellor J. ,J
I W. Harrelson. of State College, Ra
! leigh. and former Governor J. Mel
j ville Broughton of Raleigh.
"There is no substitute for Eng
: lish," Harrelson said, in discussing
] difficulties colleges have with high
| school students," at the afternoon
i session. He told of the "poor” rat
i ing in English made by freshmen >'
:on entrance tests at State college.
Success in any type of education,
lie said, depends upon mastery of
the language,
i Foot preparation in '
j makes 50 per cent of freshmen en
! tering State college unable to com
plete courses of college level in tho
subject, he added. He pointed out
a student in a technological school,
like any other student needs a good
j general education. Only three out
lof every 10 students who enter ;
State college are able to graduate, 1
lie said, asking greater co-operatfatt 1
between high schools and colleger. 1
in discovering remedies for these |
i difficulties.
o—■ —. .4|
How Many?
Signalman, first class, William) 'j
Morris James, 20, of Roxboro, whA
was with the USS Mason (DestNjfaf'J
er 29) was in battles with subnuei’<|
tines and planes in the SouthehlvJ
France area and has also seen aef3||
vice in Iceland, England, Bermad# J
and Africa, but when it come tojj
citing his ribbons he mentiMiM
: those for the countries in which tgfcfl
ha .red he is modest^to^H
few stars.” jii.'?,