WANT ADS in this newspaper will
bring you good results. Use them
to sell, buy, rent or hire. The cost
is small the results good.
VOL. LXIV.
Young Mother Has
Direct Aid From
Sea! Sale Funds
R. C. Winstead
Dies In Hospital
In Ohio City
Former Mebane And Leasburir
Man Had Been 111 With In
fluenza In Cleveland.
Roy C. Winstead, 43. of Mebane.
N. C.. and Cleveland, Ohio, a govern
ment employee in Cleveland, died
there Monday night in a hospital I
following an illness lasting one week
with influenza, according to a mes
sage received Tuesday by his pav
ents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarence Win
stead, of Leasburg.
Funeral arrangements are incom
plete. pending information from his
mother, and a brother, Clarence, Jr..
Funeral for Roy C. Winstead
will be held Friday afternoon at
two o'clock at Concord Methodist
church with interment there. The
body is not expected to arrive here
until noon Friday.
who have gone to Cleveland. •
Mr. Winstead lived in. Mebane un
til a year ago. He graduated from
high school there and also attended
King's Business college. Raleigh.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth
Winstead, of Mebane, four daught
ers, Mrs. David Squires, of Mebane,
Mrs. Rill Washburn, Knoxville,
Tenn., and Misses Rosa, Hattie and
Patricia Ann. both of Mebane, and
a son. Roy C.. Jr., of Mebane.
Also surviving are his parents, two
sisters, Mrs. Willard Abbitt and
Mrs. Howard Winstead, both of Rox
boro. and three brothers, Lester and
Clarence, Jr., both of Leasburg, and
Lacy Winstead, of Roxboro.
John W. Umstead
To Speak Here At
Teacher Session
Rep. John W. Umstead, of Chapel
Hall, veteran member of the North
Carolina General assembly, will be
speaker here on Wednesday, Decem
ber 5, at next meeting of the Person
chapter of the North Carolina Edu
cation association, ii was announced
, today. The meeting will be at seven- ;
thirty at night at the Roxboro USO
Service Center, with Allensville and
Hairdlc Mills as the host schools.
Umstead. recently appointed by
Gov. Cherry as chairman of a com
mission to consider the establish-;
ment of a merit system for school
teachers, is expected to discuss pros i
and cons of the subject. Interested
persons, in addition to school teach- 1
ers, arc cordially ivited to hear Mr".
Umstead, who is well-known here.
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Negro Woman Shot
By Her Brother
Mary Moore, Negro, about 25, wife
of James Moore of the Nelson place,
near Roseville, is a patient at Duke
hospital, Durham, to which she was
taken last night after she was shot I
in the eye by a pistol said to have
been in the hands of her brother,
who is also named James Moore. The
shooting occurred in the Moore home
on the Nelson place and was describ
ed as accidental. The woman, who
lost the sight of her eye, was shot
around seven o'clock at night, the
bullet passing through her eye. She
was at first brought to the office of
a Roxboro doctor, who sent her to
Duke.
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Soldiers Speak At
Club Session
Cpl. Colby, of the personnel staff,
Fourth Division. Camp Butner, and
Pfc. Maurice Darvit, also of the
Fourth division there, were speakers
Tuesday night at a meeting of Rox
boro Business and Professional Wo
man's club at Hotel Roxboro, where
they discussed activities of the
Fourth Division from Normandy
beachhead days onward. Presiding
was the club president. Miss Billie
Vogler. Expected to be off the press
soon is the Roxboro edition of the
State publication of the club, the
“Tar Reel Woman",
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Two Additional Cases of Tub
erculosis Listed Here
In Week.
A young Person mother, the vie- j
tint of tuberculosis, was today sent
to a State sanitorium for treatment
and the ambulance trip for her was ,
made possible through local funds l
contributed to the Christmas seal
campaign here, it was reported to
day by Miss Evelyn Davis, senior j
staff nurse of the Person Health de- j
■ partment, who cites this case as just
one way in which the Seal Sale, j
sponsored here this year by Roxboro
! Kiwanis club, can help people right
here at home.
j Miss Davis said further that two
additional cases of tuberculosis, out
in the City, one in the County, have
been reported within the week and
that such help as x-ray examina
tion and the purchase of sputum
cups and other necessities for the;
patients come from Seal sale funds.
One of the two newest cases report- i
ed is said to be that of an elderly
man, too ill to- be moved to an in
i stitution for treatment.
Mailed out last w'eek and this
i week by Jack Strum, Kiwanis chair-!
man for the Seal Sale fund, were
letters containing stamps and an ap
;peal to citizens to meet this year's ’
goal here, w'hich has been set at
$2,300. The campaign will last;
through Christmas ana is being vig
orously pushed by the Kiwanians.
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Gayland Harris
Listed Dead By
War Department
Virgilina Road Man Reported
Missing In Action Since
February.
Pie. Gayland Harris. 26, husband
of Mrs. Mary Tuck Harris and son
of Mr. and Mrs.' Weldon W. Harris,
of the Virgilina road, previously list
ed as missing in action in Germany
• since February 9th, has been re
ported as having been killed in ac
tion on that date, according to a
War Department message received
this week by his wife.
Pfc. Harris, who attended Bethel
;B‘ll high school and was an Infan
j.try machine gunner, entered service;
in April 1944, and went overseas in
September that year, one month
after the birth of a daughter, Betty.
Fa is also survived by a four-year
I old son. Judy Devon.
Also surviving, in addition to his
wife, his parents and his children,
are four brothers, Pfc. Newman M.
! Farris, now stationed in Missouri,
; and Rhodes, Woodrow and Lem 1
| Harris, of the home, and four sisters,
j Mrs. Willie Morris, of Liberty, and
| Mesdames William McCarthy. Henry
Tuck and Irving Sider. all- ’of the
j Virgilina road.
He was formerly with Longhurst
; mills and with W. W. Tuck, of Vir
gilina. His wiffc was Miss Mary Tuck,
daughter of Mrs. Nathan Tuck, of
| Crewe, Va.
Four Hester Sons j
Petty Officer Stedman Hester, of
j the Seabccs and son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. H. Hester, of Hurdle Mills,
j has returned from thirty-two j
months of Pacific duty. Another
son, N. H., Jr., of Danville. Va., has!
been released from the Merchant
Marines, while’ a third, Master Ser
geant Randolph Hester, is at Gowan
Field, Idaho, with the Army Air
forces and a fourth, Sgt. Billy Hes
ter, in the same branch of service
is at Keesler Field, Miss.
At Conference
R. B. Griffin, Person Superin-!
tendent of Schools, will be in Chap- j
el Hill today, tomorrow and Satur-)
day for a State-wide conference eS
county and city school superinten- 1
dents. He is a member of the pro- ;
gram committee and participated
, in arrangement of a six-point pro
j gram for the session.
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Two-Discharges
Sgt. Roy E. Foushee, husband of j
: Mrs. Lois C. Foushee, of Durham.
: | and son of R. Foushee, of Roxboro,
I has received his discharge from the
; Army Air Forces, at Seymour John
i; son field, as has Herman N. Bowles,
i; r Private, First Class, son of Mr.
! and Mrs. R. B. Bowles, of Longhurst.
; and husband of Mrs. Janie Bowles,
of Hurdle Mills.
®be Cotmer-tJTimes
Bond Show Totals
Yesterday’s matinee show at :
the Palace theatre In connection
with the Victory Loan drive repre
sented three hundred eighty-one
bonds sold, with a maturity value
of $39,900, according to R. B.
Griffin, co-chairman, who' said
that the night show last night
represented two hundred four
bonds with a maturity value of
i $38,375, and a total maturity value
from both shows of $78,275, most
ly in E bonds. Ticket holders for
the shows represented purchasers
here sincc/thc beginning of the Vic
tory Loan drive.
AAA Voting Will
Occur Friday In
Store Centers
Claude 'l'. Hall Issues An Ap
peal To Farmers To Cast
Ballots.
Final appeal to “get out and vote";
; has been sent today to Person Coun
ty farmers by Chairman Claude T.
Fill of the County AAA Committee.
, Farmers in sixteen communities will
ballot this week on AAA committee
men who will represent and assist,
) them the coming year. A big turn
out of voters will demonstrate that '
Person County farmers believe in the i
elected Committeemen system which
enables farmers to run their own
farm programs, Mr. Hall said.
On tlie other hand, a small turn
out might be interpreted to mean
| that farmers are not interested in
having their programs run by farm
ers.
With many reconversion problems
ahead, the AAA Committeemen will
' have heavy responsibilities in 1946.
They will be handling details -of
Government programs and also voic-!
ing the opinions of local farmers on
recommendations for new or im- 1
proved programs.
Committeemen elections will b?
hold in Person County beginning
Friday, November 30, 1945 according
to the following schedule:
Allensville No. 1. Denny's store;
Allensville No. 2. John Q. Yarbor
ough's store; Bushy Fork No. 1.
Frank Whitfield's store; Bushy Fork;
Bushy Fork No. 2. D. L. Whitfield’s
store, Hurdle Mills; Cunningham,
Ceffo; Flat River No. 1. Teague's
Service station; Flat Rive No. 2,
Garland Chamber's store, Helena;
Holloway No. 1, T .A. Melton's store;
Holloway No. 2, M. R. Woody's store;
Mt. Tirzah No. 1. W. W. Peed's store;
Mt. Tirzah No. 2, D. M. Cash’s store;
Olive Hill, Flem Long's store; Rox
i boro No. 1. Grand Jury Room. Court
House; Roxboro No. 2, Grand Jury
Room, Court House; Roxboro No. 3.
Grand Jury Room, Court House;
Woodsdale, E. J. Robertson's store.
Heavy Docket In
Recorder's Court
More than twenty-five cases con
. sumed half of yesterday and all of
Tuesday in Person Recorder's court.
Bound over on a charge of malicious
; maiming was William Bumpass, ne
gro. veteran offender. Roy Lee Row
land Buster Rowland and Charlie
■ | Roach, white men, charged with
possesion and possesion of materials
i for making whisky, furnished high- !
i lights of the court, where Buster
| Rowland received eight additional 1
months to run concurrently with a
sentence passed in a previous court,
| and Roy Lee Rowland and Charlie
\ Roach received six months each,
■ I suspended with one hundred dollar
i fines apiece and half costs each.
, with good behavior six months.
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Baptist Service
The Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pastor!
of tlie Roxboro First Baptist church
will have as his subject at the regu- 1
lar eleven o'clock service Sunday I
! morning "Standing Steady". Special J
music w ill be rendered by Mrs. j
Wallace Woods and Miss Anne;
! Briggs Moore, whose selections will
| include "The Andante cantabile" j
!by Tschaikowsky and "Sweet Hour j
| of Prayer" by Bradbury.
! There yIH be no evening worship;
| service because of the Union ser
vices at Long Memorial Methodist
church.
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Librarian Here
■ j Miss Dorothy Wightmnn, recent-1
■ ly elected as tri-county librarian, |
, arrived in Roxboro yesterday and!
expects to establish residence here. |
• She will serve Person County Pub- 1
, lie library, together with the 11-
. bra lies in Orange and Caswell, end
. comes here from similar work in
. Ohio, as successor to Mrs. Ethel j
Walker Whetstone, resigned.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Official Union
Service Plbnned
Official welcome to Roxboro and I
Person County for the Rev. Ben H.
Houston, formerly of Smithfield, >
new pastor of Edgar Long Memorial
Methodist chuuch. will feature Sun
day night's union service at seven
thirty o'clock at that church, where
ministers of other denominations,
together with civic officials, will be
participants, it was announced to
day.
Because of the union service there
will be no services in other churches
in tlie City Sunday night.
Welcome from the City of Rox
boro will be by Mayor S.' G. Win
stead and from Presbyterians and
Housing Shortage
Much More Acute
J. Mac Long
Os Chub Lake
Dies Suddenly
i
Funeral To Be Held Here This i
Afternoon At Oak Grove <
Church. i
J. Mac Long, 72, of Chub Lake, a i
Person native and prominent farm- ,
er, father-in-law -of Fred Main,-pro i
at Roxboro Country Club, died Tues
day morning at his home at six- :
fifteen o'clock from a sudden heart ■
attack. He had an operation at ,
Duke hospital a few weeks ago. but j
was mpe-h improved.
A son of the late MU', and Mrs. i
Byrd Long, he tvns for years’]
a member of Oak Grove Methodist
church, where rites will be held |
Thursday -afternoon at four o’clock |
by his pastor, the Rev. Daniel Lane, i
of Roxboro, witii interment in the I
church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jen- ]
nie: Solomon Long, of the home, two i
daughters, Mrs. Alfred A. Main, ol •
Roxboro Country drib, Miss Eva i
Lou Long, and one son, J. Mae Long; i
Jr., botli of the home. ]
Also surviving are a number of ]
gland children. i
Mason Named As :
Person Chairman
Os Postmasters i
]
C. H. Mason, postmaster at Hel- *
ena-Timberlake. has been seller id '<
as Person chairman of the National
Association of postmasters, North 1
Carolina chapter, according to an- 1
nouncement made today by Post
master J. Bryan Boswell, of Woods- :
dale, chairman for tlie Fifth Dis
trict, which includes Caswell, Per- ■
son. Forsyth, Granville, Rocking- :
hamr Stokes and Surry counties. i
Boswell also has chosen Mrs. Eu- i
genia Wallers, of Blanche, form
erly of Person county, as chairman
for Caswell. Chairmen for the re
maining counties in the district are ,
yet to be named, says Boswcti.
Secretary of the State association;
is Miss Pearl Linville, of Oak Ridg> ; (
Boswell was named district chair
man at a recent State meeting held |
in Winston-Salem. Next district
meeting will be in January.
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Orphans Fund On
All Next Month
Contributions to the orphan's i
fund for the Masonic orphanage at
Oxford will be gratefully received
throughout the month of Decem
ber, it was reported today by J. ;
Brodie Riggsbee, chairman for the i
Person Lodge 113 committee, who
says, "We do not have any special i
dollar goal, but our duty goal is! i
rather high".
Riggsbee says further: "This in-i
formation is given in the hope and 1 1
belief that there are many people ,
who have not intentionally forgot- ; i
ten the orphans. Person county hasjj
ten children at Oxford orphan'-’.c i •
and mafiy good Person county;;
people are helping. Small or large !
your contribution will help. We are |
sincerely grateful to those who'
have joined us in this work”.
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USO PROGRAM |
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USO Service Center program this j:
week-end will be in charge of Junlpr j i
Hostesses of group four, circles :
one and two of First Baptist churcn j
i serving Sunday night supper.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945
I the Person County Ministerial as
sociation by the Rev. George W. j
Heaton, pastor of that church and
! president of the association, while
welcome from the host church will
be by R. L. Harris.
Serintual reading will be by the
Rev, Daniel Lane, of Person circuit ;
’ and a prayer will be offered by tile j
Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, of Roxboro
First Baptist chuich. Organist will
be Mrs. Kendall Street, with special!
music by the choir, and the invoca- !
lion, benediction and sermon will be
by the Rev. Mr. Houston, who is a
Trinity College iDuke University) !
graduate, a Kiwanian and a Mason. l
Chamber Os Commerce Di- i
rectors Concerned Over i
Homeless Veterans. ji
Discussion of the housing short- j j
age here, an endorsement of the p
Person Memorial hospital plan, con- i
sideration of the proposed City de- .
lively system lor mails and the ap-j,
pointment of a committee to arrive j
at some solution to the problem of j t
over-solicitation from merchants,!)
occupied the attention of Roxboro j)
Chamber of Commerce directors atj
a meeting held Tuesday night in the t
Chamber offices it was revealed to- (
day bv W. Wallace Woods, execu-: (
tive secretary.
i
Directors attending were Teague | j
Kirby J. J. (Dicki Woody, Floyd L.
; Pea dm, Traynham T. Mitchell, (
Robert A. Whitfield and David s.j.|
Brooks.
Summary of activities as reported j
by Secretary Woods, reads as fol-;'
tows: ‘
Chief among discussions was the',
present housing shortage. Tlie direc-j ‘
tors are most, interested in trying jj
to work out some plan whereby ;
building materials may be secured;
for those wishing; to build. An acute
housing shortage is becoming more {
and more evident as returning ser
vice men are unable to find suitable '
quarters in which to establish their j ,
Hew homes. The Board urges all;’
people will) may have apartments
lor rent to please list them with tlie f
Chamber of Commerce.
Tlie Secretary made a report on ‘
the progress being made in working j
out preliminary plans for City Mail (
Delivery. The principal obstacle at
present is the proper numbering of j
tlie houses in the business and resi- 1
dcntial section. Guy Whitman. City j t
Manager, and the secretary have
been working on this for sometime, .
and when they have a rough out- ‘
line of the numbering system, they j
are planning to call in several other
citizens to okay their plans before
any definite numbering system is |
submitted to the public.
A Committee is to be appointed to
work out some regulation governing : i
solicitations for various funds from
the business firms of the town. De
mands from various sources have
been increasing with each month
and the merchants and business j
people have applied to the Chamber
of Commerce for some plan by which
this may be regulated.
; The directors whole heartily en- 1
| dorse tlie plan for the new Memorial i
Hospital in Person County, and they ,
' urge every citizen in the County to <
be present at tlie court house on ]
| next Wednesday, December 5. to i
; hear Dr. W, S. Rankin. They have :
j pledged to the citizens in charge of i
1 raising funds for the Memorial their
1 whole hearted support. I
The secretary reported that lie |(
held a meeting with merchants con- <
corning the Christmas holiday open
ing, decorations, etc., but as then i
were only 11 firms represented at ,
tlie meeting, it was decided this this j i
year it would be left up to individ- i
util firms as to hours of Christmas i
trade observance. Mr. Woods mailed 1 ]
out 97 letters to firms concerning!i
lhe meeting and that only 11 were i
; present. .] 1
| It was brought out at the mer- i
I chant’s meeting that no city lights i
;or decorations would be available t
this year, but it was urged that the ’
I individual stores make such prepar- ’
! i.tions as possible with the limited 1
j amount of decorations available. ]
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Advent Service i
Fli'st Sunday in Advent, together
I with Holy Communion, will be ob- i
; served Sunday morning, December 2, i
' at Saint Mark's Episcopal church at j
J eleven o'clock, with the Rev. Henry i!
Nutt Parsley, of Duke University. 11
j Durham, as the- speaker and cele
! brant,, it was announced today. , <
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Dr. Rankin Comes
l)r. \V. S. Rankin, of Charlotte,
ilirrrtin" head of the Duke Found
ation. will be speaker at a public
meeting in the Interest of the Per
son Memorial hospital to be held
in Roxboro at Person Court house
on Wednesday afternoon, December
5. at two o'clock. Dr. Rankin is
considered an authority on hospit
al plans and programs and it is
expected that many citizens in ad- r
diiion to members of the General
Committee Tor tlie hospital will
attend. Committee chairman is It.
1.. Harris. g
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Honor To Mark
Person Progress ;
1
With Red Cross
l
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Prosnini On First Aid Brines ,
Reception To Local Chapter. )
The Person County Chapter, j
American Red Cross, will be saluted
Friday, Defc. 7. at 1:15 p. m. in the (
fifth of a series of five broadcasts ;
on the role played by North Caro
lina chapters in the Red Cross pro- J
grain at home and overseas. The
broadcast Will come from Station (
WSJS at Winston-Salem.
This will be rendered to the Per- J
son County Chapter in recognition
of its outstanding work in First Aid. i
The chapter will be cited, along with
two others lit the end of a round
table discussion on Red Cross plans ;
for the future. i
In referring to tlie forthcoming 1
broadcast. Dr. R. E. Long empliasiz- '
ed the need for Red Cross workers <
to stay on the job and for new re- i
crults to assist them in the expand- 1
ing program. 1
"Red Cross services have not been I
curtailed witii the coming of peace.
Dr. R. E. Long said. "On the contra- 1
ry, in many fields these services will 1
be greatly increased. Services to the 1
Armed Forces are still urgently ‘
needed for the men still in uniform. *
and every day thousands of newly 1
discharged men are applying to their f
home chapters for aid. 1
"The peace-time community will 1
receive more assistance from this ‘
organization as time goes on. Under *
its chapter, the Red Cross has many 1
permanent obligations which will *
come more and more into the tore- 1
ground as its war-time obligations ‘
are discharged,
"This broadcast, the fifth in the
series, will be especially interesting, •
as it will give a picture of the whole 1
program as it is now planned for the 1
future. Those who have heard the 1
other four broadcasts know how vit- 1
al this work is. Those who have not 1
heard them can still learn something 1
of what Red Cross plans to do by 1
tuning in Friday evening.
Dr. R. E. Long expressed appreci
ation of the salute, and said that i
workers in tlie First Aide were all
looking forward to the broadcast. '
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Roxboro Native
Dies In Virginia
i
Mrs. Corinna Clayton William
son, Os Near Milton. Dies
Tuesday.
Funeral for Mrs. Corinna Clayton . i
Williamson, 78, of the Calvary com- <
infinity near Milton, whose death 1
occurred Tuesday morning in Mem- 'i
orial hospital, Danville. Va., from a i
heart ailment after an illness last- i
ing one week, was held Wednesday ;
afternoon at Calvary church, with i
interment in the church cemetery. '
Mrs. Williamson, a native of Rox- 1
boro and .wife of tlie late Charles i
C. Williamson, had lived in the Cal
vary community for forty years. 1
Surviving are seven children: T. i
Sgt. Malcolm R. Williamson of the i
Army Air Corp, stationed at Green- (
ville. S. C.; Mrs. Harvey W. Grin- l
stead and George Williamson of
Milton; S. Sgt. John Williamson of 1
Fort Meade, Md.; Mrs. B. L. Lewis I
and Miss Mae Williamson of Balti
more, Md. and Frank Williamson of
Milton. She also leaves two sisters, i
Mrs. Virginia Strum of Richmond i
and Mrs. H.assie Lou Regan of Mon
roe, N. C., also four brothers, Robert
W. Clayton of Jackson Springs, N. C.,
Thomas Hugh Clayton of Ucon, '
Idaho; Ernest Williamson of Idaho
Falls and Leslie Williamson of Cal- .
ifornia. I
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FROM RALEIGH
Miss Mary Ayscue, of the Baptist j i
Book store, Raleigh, was here Tues- ]
| day night at the meeting of the i i
; Workers Council of the Roxboro i:
i First Baptist church. She had an |;
i interesting display of books and :
; Bibles which she discussed. The I
■ Council meets once each month.
KS— 1 J.V*.’"'■ V Tri it ‘i.Kfc
Bishop Vigorous
In Seeing Need For
New Gym Here
Teacher Savs Physical Educa
tion Must Be Provided.
A vigorous and dynamic appeal'
for the institution of physical edu- :
cation in Roxboro schools and for
the construction of a badly needed
new gymnasium at Roxboro high
.’Chool where such training could be
given, marked a spirited address
yesterday by Fred Bishop, of Rox
boro high school's Department of
Bible, who had as his subject, "Re -
creation in the Public Schools".
Bishop, who spoke at a noon meet
ing of the Person County Council of
Social agencies at Hotel Roxboro.
was scathing in his denunciation of
blind spots regarding recreation in
the schools and especially so at a
tailure to provide more than one
kind, that for the more normal or
brawny athlete. He declared that
recreation should include, ping-pong,
painting and other arts lor those
who need lighter forms of entertain
ment. He had praise for music as a
form of recreation which is being
provided here, but declared that tile
crying need is a realization that re
creation can be something besides
vigorous sports.
Introduction of the by ;
Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff. program chair
man. Present for the first time were
many additional guests. Tlie council
was so impressed by Bishop's ad
dress that it unanimously approved!
a resolution offered by the Rev, i
Daniel Lane that a full and com
plete report of Bishop's address be j
published in the Courier-Times.
Bishop began his discussion by re- 1
marking that even among boys there!
are three types in need of recrea
tion and that each type needs' a l
different form: He said the average !
brawny type can and does chjo,
football, baseball, basketball aiid
softball, but that the schools are
also obligated to meet tlie recrea
tional: requirements of others, more
delicate and senitive, mentally and
ever contributes to poise, harmony,
eevr contributes to poise, harmony, j
knowledge and rest, whether in play
or through art or cultural subject.;!
can and ought to be counted as re- j
creation.
In discussing the need for tlie new.;
gym. Bishop declared that physical j
education is desperately needed inn.
for all types of boys and girls and
that the present chuly gym is totally;
unfit for such a program. He said;
the money should be found for new
Construction at once, and the soon- ,
er the better, it materials could be ;
located.
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Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Conner
At Olive Branch
Person Native Dies In Chat
ham, Va.. Hospital After
Illness Os Many Months.
Held Saturday afternoon at two
o'clock at Olive Branch Baptist
church, of which she was a member,
were funeral services for Mrs. Lucy
Conner. 63, of Harmony, Va.. a na
tive of Person County, whose death
occurred the previous Wednesday in
a Chatham, Va.. hospital after an
illness lasting several months. Rites
were in charge of her pastor, tlie
Rev. Joe B. Currin, of Roxboro, witii
interment in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Conner had been a patient at
Duke hospital, Durham, for some
time, but returned to her home a few
days before she was taken to the
Chatham hospital. Death was at
tributed to complications.
She was a daughter of tlie late
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Wilson and was
born April 30. 1882.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Annie Oakley, of Harmony. Va., and
Mrs. Ted Heckman, of Valdosta. Ga„
and one son, T. H.. Conner, ot
Harmony. Va. Also surviving are
three sisters, Mrs. Buck Nelson, of
Virgilina, Va., Mrs. W. P. Eastwood,
of Oxford, Mrs. Pattie Poole, of
Virgilina, Va., and one brother,
Johnnie Wilson, of Roxboro, a num
ber of grandchildren and nieces and
nephews. j
In North Carolina a sheriff has
authority to serve civil and criminal
processes of the Courts of this State
i although the service involves enter
; ing upon property bf the United
! States Government within the
• State, this being a right reserved by
Ithc State in ceding jurisdiction .to
the Fedeial Government.
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** Accidents
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DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 104
Lloyd J. Smith
Riles Held Today
At Corinth Church
Held today ;at Corinth Baptist
Church, Catawba county, near Vale;
were funeral services for Lloyd J.
Smith. 50, of Roxboro. edging ma
chinist of McWhorter lumber com
pany. whose body was found Tues
day morning in a pine thicket near
Short Lumber company after he had
been missing from his home sines
Saturday.
The body was accidentally discov
ered about seven-thirty o'clock by
Hairy Wheeler. Negro employee of
Short's, and investigation was by
Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton anil
eotoner Dr. A. F. Nichols. Death was
attributed to a heart attack, and
time of death was thought to have
been Saturday, according to Dr.
Nichols.
A native of Catawba county and
! son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Smith, the deceased had lived in
Roxboro about five years. His wife,
Mrs. Dolly Blanton Smith, told of
ficers she thought lie had gone to
Vale and for this reason no search
ing parties were organized.
Surviving ,in addition to his wife,
ill the home, near Providence, are
! three sisters, Mrs, Belton Rhinehart
' and Mrs. Carrie Clay, both of Vale,
and Mrs. B. B, McCall, of Lenoir,
and two brothers, W. J. Smith, of
! Gastonia and Clyde Smith, of Vale*.
Interment was in the Corinth
Church cemetery.
o
Dr. J. S. Dorton
Will Resume
Fair Programs
Raleigh.—Dr. Joseph S. Dorton,
State director of the War Manpower
Commission and of the United
States Employment Service for threft
years, has resigned his position, off
fective November 30. and, after ft
months vacation, will resume thft
duties from which he has been on
leave since December, 1942.
i On January 1. Dr. Dorton will
again take up his duties as manager
of tlie North Carolina State Flair,
Raleigh; president of the Southern
; States Fair at Charlotte, and execu
tive secretary of the Cleveland
County Fair at Shelby. While most
of his activities will center around
Raleigh, lie will continue to reside
at Shelby. .
In recognition of the notable and
nationally recognized job Dr. Dorton
has performed In directing the ac
tivities of the War Manpower Com
\ mission, arid its right arm, the U. S.
Employment Service, during tha
three strenuous war years, his
friends and co-workers in this Statu
and from Washington and other;
points in Region IV and in the Na
tion, will give him a recognition
banquet at the Sir Walter Hotel in
Raleigh on the evening of Friday,
November 30, his last day of service.
Among the guests gathering to
honor Dr. Dorton will be Regional
Director Henry E. Treide and oth
ers oi the Regional office in Wash
ington, directors of the agency from
other states in Region IV, Virginia,
West Virginia. Maryland and tha
District of Columbia. Governor Rk
Gregg Cherry and former Governor
J. M. Broughton, of North Carolina
and co-workers of the War Man*
, power Commission and U. S. Em*
ployment Service throughout North
, Carolina and other friends. Th9
l banquet is to be held under auspices
, of the Fellowship Club of the agency
in tlie State Office in Raleigh.
“I thoroughly enjoyed my wort
: with WMC and USES and I sincere*
. ly appreciate the fine cooperation
: and strong support of the commlsi
~ sion’s manpower program which u|
North Carolinians, the employer*
I the employes and the general pntk*
I lie, gave to me and my
said Dr. Dorton. “Tar Heels gener
ally did a fine job in complying Raiti
i and cooperating in WMC dlremWp
i I also want to thank my co-wcKksAt
for a fne job well done, and to took*
I mend the USES, under whatever ah*
■ thurity it may operate. to the aeopMl
of North Carolina, as WTKtflKVjfij
■ their support am) eottfideMjgj^jgjK