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. LXV Local Board Ready ♦To Cooperate With Student Deferments Successful Soil Saving Program Held Yesterday Hubert Shotwell And W. R. Wade Cite Personal Experiences. With ah attendance of thirty* one, the soil conservation meeting 1 held yesterday at Bethel Hill was smaller in number than in spirit and interest, although J. M. Wil burn, agricultural teacher at Bethel Hill, pointed out that the gathering was one of the largest of its type in two years. Presiding as chair man was Wilburn, who introduced the first speaker, J. R. Adair. of the soil conservation service, who traced the history of consevatlon |at Bethel Hill, explained the pur -1 pose of the meeting and expressed (appreciation for (cooperation ie ceived. Brief talks were made by Pcsott Agent H. K. Sanders and by ciaude T. Hall as well as by J. M. Parks, of Reidsvilie, district conservation*, ist. who showed a film on good con servation practices. Tlie film, "Building Back," show ed practices and improvement in ► building back soils on American farms. The District Conservation 'said three fourths of the land in Person County had lost from one fourth to three fourths of the top soil and that this soil loss meant reduction in plant food and lower crop yields. A ten minute film title "Farm In conveniences” dealt with accidents and hazards shown on poorly ma r aged farms compared to good cure and mc'jjSenance of equipment, livestock ana buildings which results in better rural living. Also among the speakers were J. Hubert Shotwell and W. R. Wade, as was Dr. H. M. Beam. Shotwell, one of the leading far mers in this section of the county, declared that in his opinion our greatest enemy to us farmers is sheet erosion, the slipping off of I topsoil. He said the educational value to us from this project is a challenge to us and our young boys through accepting scientific information brought to us through agricultural workers. This will im prove ourselves and our land and future generations. I would like to see the project carried 100 per cent. Wade, tenant farmer alpng this highway who is a community lead er and Sunday School superintend ent, very ably and forcefully ex pressed his views from the tenant standpoint, saying that ; tenants should realize the importance of saving and building land, for it is j beneficial to the tenant as well as j the landlord. Some tenants think : that the farm they are living on only in the sense that they will do the work and will have to leave the farm and move and the landlord j I gets the benefit. He lalso Maid I that there were several large land j owners in that section with many! tenants and he believed that any \ tenat who will cooperate in this program and work with the land lord will have a place to farm for j many years without having to move. I The tenant will want to stay and j the landlord will want to keep him. Dr. Beam of Roxboro, and also; landowner on this highway, said ; he attended the meeting to find out more about this highway pro- j ject and that he was in favor of it j and would like to see it completed. | Announcement was made by | Parks upon request from Gordon! Hunter, local banker who could not be present, that the N. C. Bankers Association is sponsoring an essay j speaking contest among high school; students on some phase of soil con servation and that Person Couty along with many other couties is j going to award prizes for the eoun- j ty contest. The State winner will deliver his conservation essay at the N. C. Bankers Association An nual meeting on May 8, 1946 at ; Pinehurt. The winner will receive $50.00 Victory Bond and the trip to Pinehurst. o ( Expected Cpl. William A. Wrenn, son of Mrs. Dolly Wrenn, of Cavel. has arrived in the States, having landed at Tacoma, Wash., according to a message received here by his moth er. Cpl. Wrenn, who has been in overseas service in the Pacific for two years and three months, is ex pected to be home by Christmas. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Follow Metts’ Plan. Christmas Holiday Schedule Given. j Person Selective Service board has j received from State Director Gen J. Van B. Metts a copy of the ruling ; concerned with delays in military service for students who are still in high school and the Person board i will be pleased to comply with the , j ruling it was revealed today by I Miss Jeanette Wrenn chief • clerk, •who said that a number of local in quiries have been made as to effec ■ ' tiveness of the new ruling. ; j Under this ruling, as it was an . i nouriccd several days ago from Ra . [leigb, delays in induction to military . I service mav be granted to high [j.school students up to the age ot . 20, provided such students are In , good and regular standing -scholastic . ally and do not leave school to go to i work or because of failures or low f grades in school. , All boys, however, are still requir , ed to register when they become . eighteen years of age and all boys I who register are required to go to camp under Selective Service order for pie-induction examination. One i such group is expected to leave hers . next Tuesday for Fort Bragg and In , the group are several young men who . will doubtlessly seek to delay their . actual induction until they have graduated from high school. Parents or boys interested in se • curing such postponements of indue i tion are requested to make applies - i tion to the Board in writing, or if i desired, the application may be > | written by the school principal at ■! the institution which the boy is at t tending, it was said by Miss Wrenn' r Holiday closing of the Selective Service board here was announced -1 today, as follows: closed December i | 24 and 25, and on December 31 and ■ January 1. Open on Saturday, Dec ;' ember 2'), and on Saturday, January , 5. Snfnrt'.Tp. ein‘>ng will > obsereisd. »i on each Saturday after January 5, las usual. Regpiar office hours are . j from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. .! Most recent group to go to Fort Bragg for induction from -here was ■ composed of negro men, with Quin ,! eey Adams Dickens as leader. Others ' I in the group were Albert Tapp, Hen <| ry Philman Trotter and George E i Washington Jackson. Also sent down I: for preinduction examination, with I I Walter Oliver Bradsher, as leader, : i was a larger group of negroes, fn -11 eluding Willie Wiley, Luther James i! Thomas Ragland, Bernice Edward ■! Link, Ernest Bryce Smith, George t Hamlet. George Junior Allen, James 1 Earl Nichols, Jr., James Freeman ■: Goods and James Purnell Gentry. ■! Men in both groups went to Fort ! Bragg a week ago yesterday, but were not reported as having gone until i first of this week. :! ° Huff Post Has Officers Installed Veterans of Foreign Wars, the j Lewell T. Huff Post, on Tuesday j 1 night in regular meeting at; the I Roxboro USO Center installed as I j Commander James W. Allgood, j j with c. C. Garrett as vtce-com-1 ; matider. Other officers installed j ! included, Richard Warren, quarter■- j | master, J. A. Jordan, adjutant (re-j i elected i. Next meeting of the Post will be! I held on Tuesday night, January 8. (The officers installed were elected j | at a previous meeting, as were sev ! eral others, some of whom are now j out of the city. Other officers installed Tuesday i night were J. E. McFarland, Jr.. I as junior vice commander and Le'.v --| is E. Pulliam as sergeant at arms, j Vice commander Garrett is former | j commander. | Mill Creek Will Meet In School Mill Creek Baptists, whose church' i was recently destroyed by fire, have | completed arrangements to use the Allensville school auditorium as a ! place of meeting, it was reported ! here Tuesday by the pastor, the Rev. IJ. F. Funderburke, services will be i held on regular schedule. I I Sunday school will be Sunday and I preaching services will follow. o Lawyer Returns . j Robert Edgar Long, son of Mrs. 11 J. A. Long, Sr„ well known young : i attorney, who has been in overseas j military service in the Pacific for j many months, returned to Roxboro i: Monday after having received his ■! discharge. Also here is his brother, ■ Lt. Bickford Long, who is still in service. ®f)e Cotmer-tßjmeg HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Proposed New First Presbyterian Church For Roxboro ' - . ■■■- " -vY'. : • '-f * -V W ■« ■: i . :■ >■ ■, - ;■; •. •, '■ j, .' J.-* Tlie center of worship, or auditorium is the Church Nave. Gothic in style, it conveys a worshipful atmosphere and spiritual inspiration. The doors, windows, and other necessary accoutrements, reflect beauty and strength as well as being cf utilitarian value. Sealing !00 the Nave is entered through the vestibule faring Lamar Street. The. raised chancel is centered on the Nave providing space for pulpit, organ console, and choir seating of 21. Immediately to the rear of. the choir is’ the choir dressing room. The main floor of the Educa tional Building (Sunday School) is shown a half flight of steps from the Nave. It may be entered directly from the outside or through a passage way extending along the Chancel. Architect is William Henley Dietrirk, of Raleigh. Plans for the church wen first considered last spring. Presbyterians Begin House To House Appeal For New Church Structure Boy Saved By Chum At Well Grateful parents are Mr. and i Mrs. James Carver, of Chub Lake j street, and the boy who basks in . their affection Is Jimmy Perkins, 9, j son of Arthur Perkins'and play mate of the Carver's son “Bud,” ! or Janies, Jr„ aged five years. It all happened last Saturday after ; noon when the two boys were playing around an old well on the W. I. Newton place. Action began when Bud climbed up on top of the old well which ( was covered by boards. The boards were nailed down and concreted, too, but were rotten with age. I Snap went the boards and Bud 1 started failing. It would have been a drop of about sixty-five feet, but for the fact that Jimmy Perkins quickly grabbed his chum and held him dangling un ' til adult help, attracted by wild cries, could arrive. Riles Will Be Held Tomorrow For Mrs. Wrenn , Mrs. Mattie Loner Wrenn Dies ! In Durham Hospital After An Operation. < Funeral for Mrs. Mattie Long 1 1 Wrenn, 40, of Chub Lake, daughter , of Mrs Grant Long and wife of the l late Bernice Wrenn, whose death 1 occured last night at ten o'clock at I Watts hospital, Durham, following ] an operation, will be held at Oak ’ Grove Methodist church Friday i afternoon at three o'clock by her i pastor. Rev. Daniel Lane, assisted i by the Rev. B. B. Knight, with inter- i merit "in the church cemeteiy. Mrs. Wrenn was taken to the hos jpital Saturday. Death was attribut ed to complications ; Surviving, in addition to her moth er. are five sons. Burley. Calvin. William Ernest. John Richard and Frank Wallace Wrenn, all of Chub Lake; three daughters. Mesdames Will Reaves and Sallie Sue Evans and Miss Annie Zell Wrenn. all of Chub Lake; three brothers, Tommy, Edgar and Gleinon Long and three sisters, Mesdames Mary!' Wilson, Bessie Black and Pallie Sue ' Bowes, all of Chub Lake. Mrs. Wrenn's father died only ap few months ago. I Over The Top 1 E bond quota in the Victory | < Loan drive for Person County and i ] Roxboro has been oversubscribed | by about six thousand dollars, i< ji was reported this morning. Total i raised in E bonds is $155,000. j i whereas the quota wai $149,000. |i ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1945 Nylons Make Eyes Sparkle For Kiwanis | Nylon hose, the real thing, one j pair for each feminine guest, helped to make the Roxboro Kiwani; I club's "Ladies- Nignt" program: Monday night one of the most me- i inorable held here in years. Soj overwhelmingly important and ap- i preciated were the gifts (the source! for which remains a deep, dark j Kiwanis secret) that even the j speaker of the evening, Jasper Hicks, >, Henderson attorney and governor- j elect of Kiwanis District, had to: take a back seat. Mr. Hicks, who was introduced by his brother-in-law, F. O, Carver, ! < Jr„ of Raleigh, kept most of his j j talk in a light and humorous vein i with jokes and side, remarks, but!: toward the end he launched into \ i serious observations as to the tole j, which Kiwanis can play in the new,), postwar world. Mr. Carver, itvei- i dentally, is a former member of the i Roxboro club and is now director j of public relations for the State j ! Highway commission. I Response for the ladies was made j by Mrs. J. A. Long, Jr., wife of the j club president. Introduction of | toastmaster, the Rev. J. Boyce j, Brooks was by the club president, I while pledge to the flag was led by j Claude Luquire and invocation was by Dewey Young. Quartet singing [ was led by T. C. Sanders and ad- | dress of welcome by R. P. Burns, j • Program chairmen were Frank Wright and R. D. Bumpass, while ! : the decorations were in charge of! Robert Long, Leon Wilson and J,! W. Bolick. Decorations in the din- j 1 ing room at Hotel Roxboro, where I the dinner was served, were of Christmas and holiday motif and regarded as the most elaborate and beautiful in several years. < Members of the favors committee, < the one responsible for those Ny- FIRST FLIGHT HAS THRILLS i FOR ROXBORO GRANDMOTHER Mrs. John T. Wade, 74, of this 1 city, mother of Police Officer l Charlie Wade, likes to fly in air- t planes. She had her first exper- t ience with that mode of travel last i [ week when she went to Knoxville, i jTenn., to visit a daughter, Mrs. J. ' Howard Young, wife of the Rev. ' (Mr. Young, a Baptist minister. First [I 1 hand account of tlie trip, about 500 j ] j miles and mostly above clouds be- J; | cause of bad weather, was received 1 1 | here yesterday by her son in the | form of a letter from Mrs. Wade, j ’ jwho arrived safely in Knoxville. j The trip from Durham to Knox- ! ville was in rough weather, with I [much rainfall, but that did net i M ..... , -I T | Baptist Church Plans Music For i I : Holiday Season [! Training Union Will Have First One This Sundav i Niffhl. ! |i A Christmas cantata. "The Prince j, of Peace," by E. L. Ashford, will be I presented on Sunday night before ! Christmas, December 23, by the j| senior choir of Roxboro First Bap- j list church, it was announced *o- i day. Time for the cantata will be ‘ 1 eight o'clock. Planned for this Sunday night, 1 1 December 16, at seven-thirty o'clock' also at First Baptist church, is sti'i ; another Christmas program. "The j: Christmas Story Told in Color," ano j sponsored by the Baptist Training !■ Union under leadership of Miss Vi-j yenne. HierS, church secretary i.nJ j director of religious education. j The Training Union program will | take place of the regular Sunday i night sermon service and will be j presented by means of colored i slides with a text based upon (he j King James version of the Bible j argumented by . the singing .of ' Christmas carols by the youth choU;. : — I tons, were Jack Strum and John ' Dempsey, while members of the.l welcoming committee were J. J. iDick) Woody, Jake Taylor, and J, ; W. Green. Music was ill charge j of T. C. Sanders. The guest list in- : eluded over one hundred, together 1 with members. |i I, bother . Mrs. Wade, who says she j felt safe enough after she got off j the ground and into clouds. The j time was a lot better, too, two and! one-half hours by air, against some j twelve hours by train. And the view was beautiful. At first MrsJ Wade was doubtful about making • j that plane trip, but finally she was j | persuaded by a Durham daughter j [ and now she writes she wants to | come back that way, too. Mrs. Wade expects to be in Knox- | | ville through the winter. She made j the trip a w'eek ago yesterday. Such trips, however, are no novelty to her grandchildren, several of whom are still in military service. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Members Are Asking Com munity Wide Aid For New Church. Roxboro Presbyterians, beginning today, are starting a county and city-wide appeal lor funds' l to aid them in tlie . construction of their proposed new $50,000 church and education building. Announcement of the beginning of this community spirited drive was made yesterday by Thomas Dixon, of the executive committee, and J. D, Mangum. head of finance committee. It is expect ed that construction of the new building will begin in the Spring. Already on hand in cash is $7,000 together with $5,000 in pledges to be paid tills year, church officials reveal, giving a starting lund of $12,000. Both Mangum and Dixon, however, point out that the chinch membership of 125 persons with only thirty heads of families is small and that the new Gothic structure cannot be built without the wholenearted cooperation of generous citizens from other de nominations here, Some assistance is expected from the Presbytery and Synod, but extent of this aid can not, be foreseen. The new church will have three | floors, a basement, a first floor ! and a second story, with adequate j recreation hall;, kitchens, class ! rooms and an auditorium, the last [named with a seating capacity of I two hundred. The new building j will be erected oil the site of tlie ; present small wooden church, which jhas only one room, the auditorium [and has served the congregation | since organization of the church m 11892. Present pastor is the Rev, Geo jrge W. Heaton. Tlie church is the 1 only Presbyterian one in Person ; County. In addition to Mr. Dixon and Mr. ■ Mangum, members of the Executive committee are Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Newell, Dr. and Mrs. J. H Hughes, Mrs E E Bradsher, Sr, W. L. King, Collin Abbitt, Mrs. Lois Wairen, Mrs: Cliff Hall and Mrs. A. S. Spriggs. On the advisory commit tee are George Bullock. Sidney F Marsh. Willard Abbitt, Russell Newell, Charles Timberlake, Mrs. Thomas Dixon, Mrs. G. E. Ellmore, Mrs. Ralph Tucker and Mrs. T. Mil ler White. Two Saturdays Roxboro Post Office although usually closed on Saturday after noons. will remain open on two Saturday afternoons before Christmas, that is on December 15 and 22, it was announced to day by Postmaster L. M. Carlton, who is, however, urging early mailing in order to avoid conges tion and delays in service. Win dow service will continue until six o’clock on the Saturdays specified. Mart Reaches Ten Million On Eve Os Holiday Closing Last Sales Before Christmas Take Place Tomorrow. Prize Room Sutnrested. Roxboro tobaseo market, which so , far hiis a season average of $44.65 and a net sales in pounds of ! 9.726.070. has already gone over ■ the ten million pound goal if resales are counted in. it was reveal ed today, and w ith one day more of j (ales to go before suspension tor the Christmas holidays Tli«* ten million pound mark is re garded as largest amount of tobacco ever sold on the Roxboro market, but tlie total is expected u> go con siderably beyond that figure. Arous ed by the increase, a Roxboro citizen 1 lias suggested tlie need lor tlie con struct toil here of what is known in the trade as a "prize room", which! is actually a storage house for tlie various buying companies and would i need to be about the size of a ware house. It has been suggested that the construction of such a building ought to have tlie backing of the Chamber of Commerce, the merchants and citizens generally, as well as the warehousemen and buying com- : panics. Highest reported averages here have; been forty-seven and forty- | eight, while average for this week lias been $46.30, with 227,408 pounds sold the first three days:. The mart is expected to open again on January Bth and generally con-, mutes about two weeks. Courier-Times Nolß Member Os Audit t _ v y- f * 1 9 Bureau Circulation Guaranteed Circulation Audit ' ed Regular Intervals By National Concern. First The Courier-Times, this city, is now a member of the Audit Bureau; of Circulation of Chicago. 111. To many readers of this paper this does not mean much but to the advertiser it means very much. Real significance of this is that the circulation of this paper, is now ; audited by this national concern whose only business is to audit 1 circulations of newspapers and magazines and there is no more guess work or stretching of the, truth by the publishers. The Cir-I dilation is not only guaranteed but ; is an established fact. i ... ■. ' ■ V ,1- In order to comply with the rules of the Audit Bureau of Cir • eolation, commonly known as ABC | it. is necessary for the publisher to Ido the following things: Keep a record of the press run eacli pub lication day, keep receipt stubs from every person who takes the paper, keep an accurate report of all car rier subscriptions, keep record of all desk, sales, maintain a card index of each subscriber showing when he subscribed, how much money paid and when the subscription expires. It is also necessary to keep all postal receipts and show how many j papers go in the county of publica- f tlon and how many out and to what places. All of these things and many more are necessary for ABC membership. The Courier-Times first audit was made about thirty days ago after records had been kept, for ap- ! proximately six months ahd from I | now on reports will be made to the j ABC at regularity intervals and an | audit will be made at a stated time j by one of the auditors of this con j cern. This newspaper regards this as a i | forward step by this paper and one i that should be very gartifying to' j the advertiser. Complete copies of !■ the audit report will be furnished ! to any advertiser upon request. | ( Q | No Services i The Rev. R. C. Masterton. reetoi t of the Episcopal church at Hills- t | boro, who was expected to be in t I Roxboro at Saint Mark’s* Episcopal s ! church to conduct a service, will 1 ! not come until Sunday, December i 30, it was announced today. For l this reason there will be no service | at Saint Mark's on Sunday, De- i cember 16th. /0 y Fatal Highway ** Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 194 t DON'T HELP INCREASE IT I DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 4 New Leader . . , * Jq| G. Lemuel Allen, civic ..leader, who a year mv two ago returned to Roxboro for residence, will be the 1946 finance chairman for the Red Cross, fund drive which will start here on March Ist, it was announced today by the Person Chapter's president. Dr. Robert E. Long. Allen, who accepted tlie position after consultation with the nominating committee, i f. l|ne