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bring you good results. Use them
to sell, buy, rent or hire. The cost
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VOL. LXV
Citizens Urged To
Invite Service Men
As Holiday Guests
Essays Late
Saturday was last day for turn
ing in high school newspaper es
says in the State Press Associa
tion contest with which the Cou
rier-Times is cooperating. Several
essays have been -received, but
others are wanted at once, as
the state deadline is not far off.
All papers, two from each school
should be identified by numbers
rather than names and all manu
scripts should be sent to J. S. Mer
ritt, associate editor of the Cou
rier-Times.
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Navy Ceased
Tp Listen To
Jap Phones
Washington—Pearl Harbor inves
tigators were told today that the
navy, after a row with the FBI,
stopped listening in on Japanese
telephone conversations in Hawaii
five days before the December 7,
1941 attack.
The FBI continued tapping one
Japanese consulate line up to the
moment of the assault, and in this
way learned that the consul in
Honolulu was destroying his codes.
The tapped line led to the cook's
quarters in the consulate.
This evidence, placed before the
joint congressional investigating
committee, was included in a report
by Lt. Col. Henry C. Clausen, as
signed by Secretary of War Stim
son to make an independent in
quiry in 1942.
The committee also was informed
of another long-time secret—the
navy, had reports in June, 1940,
that the Japanese Would try to
sabotage the Panama canal if the
fleet moved from its Hawaii base
toward the Atlantic. The fleet
feinted an approach to the canal,
but the sabotage didn’t occur.
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Mrs. Clayton 111
At County Home
Mrs. Alvis Clayton, wife of the
former keeper of the Person Coun
ty Home, is reported to be seriously
ill at the Home, where she and Mr.
Clayton are keeping an apartment
during her illness. Present keepei
of the Home is B. J. Bowen, who
with his family also have residence
there.
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Bill Kane Here
Bill Kane, of the Seabees, who has
been on duty for many months,
has arrived in Roxboro and is with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
W. Kane.
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*JHere For Holidays
Richard (Duck) Clayton and
Payne Wilkerson, both of the Mer
chant Marines and recently in ov
erseas service, have arrived in Rox
boro and will spend the holidays
here with their respective parents.
State Leader Has
Praise For Hospital
Saying, "It is gratifying to learn
that the people of your County plan
a worthy living memorial of tlie men
who served in both World Wars,”
Josephus Daniels, editor of the News
and Observer, expresses full com
mendation of the Person Memorial
hospital project in a letter written
last week to the finance committee
chairman, R. L. Harris, former
Liectenant Governor.
"A hospital”, says Mr. Daniels, "is
a living benefaction to thoses who
stand in need of the blessings it
alone affords".
Addressing Mr. Harris as “Dear
Governor”—Mr. Daniels writes as
follows:
“In both World Wars Person
County gave promptly and fully
the best beloved of its patriotic
youth ready to give all they hod and
all they hoped to be at the call of
their country. It Is a matter for
congratulations that most of them
by Good Providence returned home
to receive the plaudits of tbfeir
friends and neighbors.
“It is gratifying to learn that the
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
jUSO Service Center Director
j Outlines Plans for Full
Week
At leash two supper programs are
being planned for Christmas week
at the Roxboro USO Service Cen
ter, it was announced today by Dr.
Robert E. Long, chairman of the
board of directors, who said this
morning that dates for the suppers
will be Sunday and Tuesday nights.
Sunday night will be the big night
of the week, with a Christmas tree
and gifts for the service men under
sponsorship of the Junior Hostess
groups.
Large numbers of service men arc
expected to be in Roxboro on Sun
jday and Tuesday and any citizens
j interested in having one or more
of them as visitors or as dinner
I guests in their homes are requested
I to call Dr. Long on or before those
dates.
There is to be a Santa Claus at
the Sunday Christmas gathering at
the Center and plans arc going for
ward for a genuine exposition of
southern hospitality. Vespers Sun
day night will be in charge of the
Rev. Ben Houston, new pastor of
Edgar Long Memorial Methodist
church.
On this past Sunday, last night,
Baptist church circles with Miss
Sue Frederick and Mrs, R. L. Wil
burn as chairmen, served slipper
and the program was made festive
by the singing of Christmas carols.
Among visitors was Robert Edgar
Long of the Army, recently dis
chared after overseas service, who
was accompanist at the piano.
Group singing was led by W. Wal
lace Woods. The soldier gues>3
were also invited to the night ser
vice at First Baptist church, where
a Christmas program was presented
by the training union.
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Mrs. P. T. Whitt's
Father Passes
Funeral services for George W.
Rogister of Scotland Neck, father
of Mrs. P. T. Whitt, Jr., of Roxboro,
who died early Saturday morning
in a Tarboro hospital, will be con
ducted from the Scotland Neck Bap
tist Church, of which he was a
member, Monday afternoon at three
o’clock. The Rev. Mr. Douglas, pas
tor, will officiate, assisted by the
Rev. R. W. Goode, a former pastor.
Interment will be in the church
cemetery.
, Going from Roxboro for the fun
eral are members of the Whitt
family, including P. T. Whitt, Jr„
recently discharged from the army.
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To Come Friday
Sergeants Bailey and Allen, of
the recruiting service, the United
States Army, who were here on
Thursday of last week, will not be
here thiri week until Friday because
of a change of schedule. Their Fri
day visit will be the last one before
the Christmas holidays.
people of your county plan a worthy
living memorial of the men who
served in both World May
I congratulate you that you have
chosen to erect a hospital as the
most suitable memorial? Medical
the high duty of every county in
care and hospitalization constitutes
a period when more and more for
ward looking and generous people
are living up to the belief that in
a real sense we belong to one fam
ily and every man owes an obliga
tion to his neighbors.
"A Hospital is a living benefac
tion to those who stand in need of
the blessings it alone affords. Just
as every child has the inherent
right of educational advantages,
just so every person in sickness
should be given the best medical
care. I am sure that the appeal for
this Memorial will be regarded by
the people of Person County as an
opportunity that will pay the best
return for any Investment and as
the most fitting honor to those who
worthily wore Uncle Sam’s uni
form."
Courier=®ime?
Funeral Will Be
Held Today For
Person leather
Mrs. Emmalou Bennick Van
hook, of Roseville, Dies
From Heart Attack
Funeral for Mrs. Emmalou Ben
nick Vanhook, 38, teacher at Bushy
Fork School and wife of William
Vanhook of Roseville, was held
this afternoon at three o’clock at
Edgar Long Memorial Methodist
Church, Roxboro, of which she was
a member.
Officiating ministers will be hei
pastor, the Rev. Ben Houston, as
sisted by the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks,
and a former pastor, the Rev. J. H.
Lanning of Clinton of the Methodist
Church. Interment will be in
Burchwood Cemetery, Roxboro.
Mrs. Vanhook died Saturday
morning at her home from a heart
attack. Her husband, who survives,
is with the Person County Farm
Security Administration as a staff
member.
Pallbearers will be R. L. Hester,
Stephen Pleasant, R. B. Griffin, M.
Coy Mabe, B. B. Bullock, Jr., Jerry
L. Hester, W. Reade Jones and Jo 3
Y. Blanks.
Mrs.,Vanhook, an active civic
leader at Bushy Fork during eleven
years of teaching there, became ill
Tuesday with influenza, but was
improving until the time of the
sudden heart attack.
She was a daughter of Mrs. Lora
Hall Bennick. of Canton, who also
survives, as does a brother, Sgt.
James Bennick, of the U. S. Army,
,on duty in the Pacific area. She
i was an alumna of Elon college and
I a graduate of Greensboro college
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j Sub-Zero Weather
Strikes Numerous
Sections Os Nation
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j Frigid weather, direct from the
1 Artie Circle spread over virtually
j all of the States east of the Rocky
Mountains, yesterday (Sunday), re
cording below zero weather in the
northern half of the Great Planes
States tlie Chicago Weather Bureau
: said. The coldest place in the na
tion last night was Wllliston, N. D.,
j close to the Canadian line, where
1 22 was reported.
! The sub-zero readings extended
] as far south as Central Ohio, Indt
| ana, Illinois, lowa and Nebresk i.
I Columbus. Ohio, registered 7; In-
I dianapolis-6; Quincey, H1.,-6; Chi
| cago-3; Sioux City, lowa-6; Burwell,
Neb.,-19; Lemon, S. D.,-19; Land, ’O
| Lakes, Wis.,-19; and International
; Falls, Minn, on the Canadian bor
; der-11.
i The mass of cold air came on
i high winds, accompanied by some
j snow squalls, which were followed
by cold weather, the weather bu
j reau said. No relief is in sight.
Moves Into Carolinas
i The cold wave moved into the
! cast, overspreading New York, New
1 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware,
Maryland and Virginia, and was ex-
J pected to reach into the New Eng
; land States and the Carolinas last
; night. Sunday New York City had
la low of 26 above, Phildelphia 18
1 above and Boston 24 above, but
Pittsburgh felt the sting of cold at
2.
Approximately three inches of
snow- fell Saturday night and early
Sunday in the Carolinas. At Char
leston the temperature was 30; Ra
leigh, reported 22 and Atlanta, G.i„
24.
Gulf States felt the approach of
j the Northern blast. At Birmingham,
; Aia„ it was 20 above, at Vicksburg,
j Miss,, 19,, and at Jacksonville, Fla.,
38,
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Patton Winning
Fight From Injury
Army medical specialists said to- j
night that Gen. George S. Pattan,
Jr., apparently was winning a bat
tle to throw off the paralysis which
has gripped him since his neck was
broken a week ago in an automo
bile accident near Mannheim.
The colorful American general
slowly was regaining feeling in his
numbed limbs and his broken neck
was well on the way to recovery,
the specialists said.
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IF AT FIRST
Montgomery, Ala.—The 25 child
ren and grandchildren of Dr. B. J.
Lewis are glad that,, after 24 years
of trying, he finally killed a deer.
The 72-year old retired surgeon j
announced he would serve a the j
four-point 110-pound deer at a
Christmas dinner for all the family. ;
It was his first, he said,, after near- j
ly a quarter of century of persia- j
tent hunting,
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
PINEY RIDGE COMES TO CITY
IN PERSON OF dILLEN JOHNSON
Piney Ridge. Lum and Abner and
all the folks, in the person of Cul
len Johnson, radio entertainer of
WRAL, Raleigh, came to Roxboro
Rotary club Thursday for the club's
"Ladies Night" at Hotel Roxboro,
where one hundred and thirty mem
bers and guests listened to Johnson’s
wisecracks and interpolations mixed
with stunts for more than an hour
Method used by Johnson was that
of impersonation in which he drew
into a typical Lum and Abner dia
logue scintilating comments on Rox
boro and various members of the
host club. He also did an impersona
tion of the late President Franklin
Roosevelt and singing a skit of Bing
Crosby, which brought the house
down. Purely local touch was his
gathering in of a selected group of
clubmen for a "Truth or Conse
quences" program.
Participants in this skit included
Lee Umstead, Coy Day, Hubert Eg
gleston, Joe Kirby, Dr. A. F. Nich
ols, Rev. Daniel Lane, Wheeler
Newell and others.
Returned Veteran
Takes Old Job On
City Police Force
I Seoul Dislrid
To Meet Tuesday
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December meeting of the Person
. Scout district will be held on Tues
-1 day night, December 18, at seven
> thirty in the Roxboro Chamber of
j Commerce office, with Chairman J.
W. Greene presiding. A number of
, important matters pertaining to the
; new Scout year are to be discussed
■ and a full attendance is request
ed Expected to be present is John
; B. Oakley, Jr., of Reidsville, Chero
] kee council executive.
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No Eisenhower?
In Postal Guide
Washigton, Dec. 16.—1 t doesn't
prove a thing but Eisenhower, kid
dies, is strictly not a postoffice.
The new' postal guide which goes
on sale tomorrow lists MacArthur
and Nimintz in West Virginia, Hal
sey in Nebraska and Oregon and
Marshall in 14 assorted States.
But no Eisenhower.
j Tile Post Office Department re
j ports many an interesting change
over since its edition, including
j some strange goings on down in
! Kentucky,
j For instance:
j Fed has become Hihat, Hot Spot
‘ has been cooled into Premium,
I Omarsville has changed to Kalli
-1 opi, and—geographical marvel!
[Northern has turned into Eastern,
j Os course, you remember good
| old Johnnie Mine, New,? It’s now
I Pahrump, Nev
Four Tokios and 13 Be.-litr;
rode out the war, but Berlin, Ala ,
was renamed Sardis.
There are 28 Franklins, 27
Washingtons and 24 Springfield,
scattered between Massachusetts
and Oregon.
The guide is in red this jear
instead of the usual postman’s uni
form gray. It also tells when to
ship baby chicks. This intelligence
is in pretty highflautin’ language,
but the gist of it seems to be that
baby chicks should be shipoe.l when
quite young.
j GRIFFIN BETTER
j
R. B. Griffin, Person superinten
dent of schools, who has been ill
for several days at his home with
influenza,, is expected to be able to
return to his desk in the Board of
Education building tomorrow.
■ Alo+uj *74e Way. m
.Monday, December 17th: The hunting season has been in since
Thanksgiving day and there have been a large number Os hunting
days since then. ■R. B. Dawes is still using my shotgun but so far
he hasn't killed any birds. I know because if he had he would have
brought me some. That fellow had better take shooting lessons.
And while I am trying to fill my refrigerator I might as well
add that Sim Clayton of Lillington, N. C., has promised to send me
one dozen slices of OLD ham and if he doesn’t do it then Sim is
stretching the truth a little. I know that he killed hogs the
other day cause Gip Prilliman .was down there and he said that Sim,
a former Roxboro resident, had more meat than he knew what to
do with, P. S, Gip wants some meat too.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1945
Address of welcome was by R. L.
Harris, with response by Mrs. A. F.
Nichols. Presiding was Dr. John
Fitzgerald, club president, and in
charge of the program was Mr. Eg
leston, who acted as toastmaster.
Gifts to the ladies were towel and
washcloth sets. Music was in charge
of W. Wallace Woods, who directed
group singing. Pianist was Mr."
Woods.
Vote of appreciation on behalf
of the club for the serving of tire
dinner was extended to Karl Bur
ger. honorary member, and Mrs.
Burger. Decorations were in Christ
mas red and green, with red can
dles. ribbon-tied and pines and pine
cones. Assisting with decorations
was Mrs. J. H. Hughes.
Chairman of the club’s program
committee, which arranged the af
fair was Coy Day. Special guests
included Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Long.
Jr., of Kiwanis, Miss Billie Vogler,
of the Business and Professional
Woman's Club and Mr. and Mrs
Ralph Tucker, of the Exchange club.
Possibility Seen That Depart
ment May Be Permanent
ly larger
Sam R, Whitten, Jr., recently
, returned veteran of many months
jof Pacific duty with the United
! States Navy, has his old job back
j with the City of Roxboro Police
' department as a regular patrolman
; or officer, it was revealed Saturday
j'SJy' Police Chief George C. Robin-
I son. following a meeting of the City
i Commissioners,
j Whitten, who resumed work Sat-
I iaday under an agreement readied
prior to his entrance in the service
•s provided for returning veterans
and for him the change from Navy
to civilian status has been an ex-
I change of one set of blues for an
other. He was away from his police
jjob for about two years.
Return of Whitten has caused a
change in line-up of the police work
i here, with Sam Briggs, an auxiliary,
I or night policeman and also a vet
, eran of World War H, released from
1 his job. Briggs, who has served on
: Saturdays and Sundays, has, how
ever, a private position with a Rox
boro business house which he has
retained while serving as a police
man and which he will remain.
To be kept on with the Depart
ment in a temporary status is Ma
con Thompson, who joined the force
some several months ago and who
during the next six months at
least is to remain with the force as
• a full-time officer, thus giving the
! Department six full-time men,
: counting Chief Robinson. It is hop
j ed that Thompson, the last man to
1 join the force, can be retained in
| his present capacity after the six
months period is up.
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DAVENPORT HERE
Capt. Willinm Hoyt (Bill> Daven
port, recently returned from months
of overseas service in the Pacific, is
spending several days here, where
he was formerly with the Farm Se
curity administration. His mother
and brother live at Kinston.
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CHARLES CLAY OUT
Charles Clay, son of Mrs. Omega
Clay, who has been in the United
States Navy, has received his dis
charge. He arrived here last week.
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CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
A Christmas program. “Seven,
Christmas Stockings,” will be given
at the Rock Grove Baptist church!
Sunday night, December 23rd, at 8
o'clock. The Christmas tree will be
held afterwards.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Dental Shows In
Schools For Four
Days Program
Health Department Sponsor
ing Annual Sound Teeth
Project
j Person Health department, in
cooperation with tire State depart
ment, is this week sponsoring its
j annual dental puppet show which
!is being given in county and city
j schools here for four days, starting
i today. Puppeteers are Misses Fran
ces Ceeley and Nelda Ferguson and
| first shows for today were given
this morning at East Roxboro and
! Central schools, while a third per
j formance is scheduled for this as
-1 ternoon at Person County Training
, school for Negroes.
Schedule for the remainder of the
| week is as follows:
! Tuesday, 9:30 A. M.. Bushy Fork:
1 11:30 A. M„ Hurdle Mills and 1:30
, P. M.. Helena, while on Wednesday
| the show will be at Longhurst at
|nine A, M„ at Ailensville at 11:00
A. M„ and at Mount Tirzali at 1:30
P. M.. and on Thursday at Olive
Hill white school at 9:00 A. M. at
Olive Hill Negro school tit eleven A.
M., and at Bethel Hill white school
at 1:30 P. M.
The Person Health department,
! incidentally, will be closed for
Christmas, the 22, through Wednes
day, the 26, according to Miss Eve
; lyn Davis, senior staff nurse.
The puppett show is arranged by
the division of oral hygiene.
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jThree Churches
Plan Christmas
Programs Sunday
! Three churches, Berrys Grow,
Antioch and Mt. Harmony will
(sponsor a Christmas program Dec.
23, under the leadership of Rev. R
IW. Hovis. Sunday School will bc
[gin at 10:00 A. M. The guest speak
er will be Dr. I. G. Greer from
Thomasville Baptist Orphanage who
j will speak at 11:00 A. M. There
.will, also-be group and special sing
! ing in the morning.
| Lunch will deserved at noon.
Afternoon service will be compos
ed of congregational, group and spe
jcial singing and Christmas rou.it a
j tions by the children.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
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China Gains In
Manchuria
I Chungking Cenrti government
[ troops moved by road into Mukden
I and by air into Changchun today
in two giant strides toward restir
j ing China's sovereignty over Man
j churia, a Tientsin dispatch said.
' Associated press correspondent
Olen Clements, quoting Chinese
| military sources in Tientsin, said Lt.
j Gen. Tu Li-ming's forces entered
| Mukden without incident after a
i 240-mile march across southern
I Manchuria that began last month,
j Tientsin sources reported the
| moves were made in an agreement
j with Russia under which Chung
! king forces will occupy most strs
! tegic areas in the vast and partly
industrialized territory seized by
Japan when she began her fateful
era of Asiatic conquest in 1931.
These sources declared Russian
troops had cleared the way for the
entry of Shungking’s divisions
whose possession of Manchuria has
been contested by Chinese com
munist forces.
While Tu's overland units enter
ed Mukden, Manchuria’s largest
city, the Fifth division of Chung- j
; king's 94th army began landing by
plane at Changchun, the capital 170
miles to the northeast. Clements'
reported.
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Mrs. Santa Claus
Presides Near
Husband's Tree
Mrs. Santa Claus? Yes, indeed,
and she is right in the Person coun- j
ty Public library as a creation of
Mrs. Margaret Howard, chief li
brary clerk, who has placed Ma-1
dame" on one side of a beautiful!
snowy white Christmas tree, with
“Mr." Santa Claus peeping around |
from the other side. Also in the
display in the front reading room
is a nativity niche and a music box
alter, the last named a gift to Mrs. j
Howard from a son.
In the other room, in addition to I
the tree, there Is a Christmas house j
and a special display of small
Christmas figurines atop of a book
case. right red candle arrangements
complete the decorations.
Thursday Closing Os
School Will End
Heavy Schedules
Many Singers To
Be In Baptist-
Cantata Sunday
"The Prince of Peace," a Cantata
by E. L. Ashford will be presented
jat First Baptist church Sunday,
. December 23, at 8:00 P, M. Mrs.
' Victor Satterfield is the director ol
the choir and Mrs. Wallace Woods
. organist.
"The Prince of Peace," is a can
tata of two parts; Part I, The
Promise and Part 11, the Fulfill
ment. Part 1 includes the followin'’
selections: "Sing. O Heavens," a
chorus; "The Heavenly King" a bass
solo by J. W. Montague, Jr.; And
There Shall Come Forth," a chorus;
"Fear Thou Not," tenor solo by T.
jC. Sanders and chorus; "Hail 3eth-
J lehem," contralto solo by Mrs. A. M.
Burns, Jr
| Part II includes the following
selections: "O Holy Night," a male,
j chorus; "There Were Shepherds,"
! soprano solo, Mrs. E. G, Long, male
' chorus and chorus; "Bright Star of
! Hope,” a duet by Mrs. Victor Sat
terfield and Mrs. E. G. Long;
"March of the Magi." male chorus;
1 "O Blessed Lord," soprano solo by
Mrs. G. W. Walker; and “Blessed Be
The Lord God," final chorus.
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Mrs. B. C. Clayton
Os Hurdle Mills
i Dies Suddenly, ,
| -
j Mrs. Ben C. Clayton, 65. of Hur-
I die Mills, formerly of Angier, died
this morning from a heart attack
at two o’clock at the home of a son,
jR. Curtis Clayton, of Hurdle Mills,
with whom she lived.
Funeral will be held Tuesday
i afternoon at two o'clock in the An
gier Primitive Baptist church, of
: which she was a member, with in
terment at Angier in the church
cemetery. Rites will be in charge
of Elders Louis and Stephenson.
Surviving are her husband, of
Hurdle Milk, three sons, R. Curtis
Clayton, of Hurdle Mills, Ira T. of
Wilmington, and Pvt. Ben C. Clay
ton, Jr., the United States army and
two daughters, Mrs. Bert Clayton,
of Angier and Mrs. A. B. Wilker
son, of Benson. Also surviving are
two sisters, Mrs. Charlie Dixon; of
Oxford, and Mrs. Annie Averette,
of Roxboro,
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LIBRARY HOLIDAYS
Person County Public library will
be closed next week on Monday and
i Tuesday for the Christmas holidays,
; according to a decision reached Fri
day at the board of directors meet
j ing.
Lumber Manager
Killed In Wreck
] Several wrecks on snow and ice
; coated roads in and near Roxboro j
were reported over the week-end. i
] I
. but only serious crash involved a I
| Roxboro and Mayo, Va„ lumberman, j
j who was killed Saturday night.
Tlie dead man is Charles E. Wait
man. Sr., 56, of Mayo, Va., Drill]
manager for the McWhorter dum
ber Co., Roxboro, who was killed
instantly Saturday night about
8:15 o'clock when the car In which
he was riding went out of control
and turned over on the highway
between Mayo and Gliristle. Va.
Waltman was pinned beneath the
automobile and suffer'd a crushed
chest,
An unidentified Nefcro was drivs
ing the car at the time of the ac
cident. Patrolman C. T. Coates of
the Virginia State Highway Patrol,
who investigated the accident, re
ported that the Negro lost control
of the vehicfle on an ice-covered;
curve.
Funeral services for Mr. Waltman,
a native of Bedford,, Pa., who had
lived in Mayo and Victoria, Va., for
the part 20 years, will be conducted
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from Woody's Funeral Home here
by the Rev. Mr. Harris' and the
Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1841
DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 5
.Musical Programs Make
Heavy Schedule As Holi
day Approaches
Person and Roxboro schools will
close Thursday afternoon for the
Christmas holidays and will remain
closed until Monday, December 31,
it was announced by R. B. Griffin,
superintendent, who said this morn
ing that all members of the teach
ing staffs and other personnel will
receive checks on the last day oi
school before the holidays.
Numerous faculty members are
already making plans for spending
the holidays in their respective
home towns and communities, but
before they leave many of tha
teachers are concerned with the
production of Christmas programs
in their respective schools and in
tile churches. Planned for Wednes
day night at Roxboro high school,
for example, is a Christmas pageant
to be directed by Fred Bishop, of
tlie Bible Department, assisted by
singers from the glee club.
Given last night at Roxboro First
Baptist church was the first of two
Christmas programs and presented
yesterday afternoon at Roxboro
high school was the first of what
is expected to become an annual
"Carol Sing" by Person and Rox
boro schools. Scheduled for this
next Sunday at Edgar Long Me
morial Methodist church at fivp
■ o'clock is a cantata by the church
I choir and a similar attraction Sun
j day night at First Baptist church
! will be given at eight o’clock.
Last night’s production at First
! Baptist church by the Training
: Union told the Christmas story of
i Christ in song and color, while the
afternooij program at Rox£qfo_bigh 5
school, with Bethel Hill, Helena and -
Central schools also participating,
was devoted exclusively to carols.
Cold weather and bad roads cut
down the number of singers at the
high school, but seemed not to ef
fect the quality of singing. Audience
• attendance was large, with appre
ciative response in applause.
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Reappointed
Claude T. Hall, of Roxboro, has
been reappointed as director of the
Third District Farm Credit Board
by I. W. Duggan, Governor of tha
Farm Credit Administration, ac
cording to word received by Harry
L. Brown, general agent of the
Farm Credit Administration, Co
lumbia, S. c.
Mr. Hall was first appointed fcO
the Farm Credit Board in 1940. HU
new term is for three year*, lib
ginning aJnuary 1, 1946.
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HAS DISCHARGE
T-Sgt. Harold G. Oakley has re
cently received his discharge from
military service after nearly thirty
four months of service. He was a
prisoner of war for four months.
His wife is the former Miss Betty
: Iltman. of Shelbyville, Ind.
Rev. C. E. Newman, both of Vir«
jgilinh, Va. Interment will ba tS
| Union Cemetery at Virgilina,
The rites will be delayed until
Thursday because of the death 0|
Mr. Waltman’s brother, Roy WU*
liam Waltman, a Bedford and Phft>
• adelphia attorney Friday.
1 Surviving C. E. Waltman, Sr,, ari)
• his wife, Mrs. Virginia Hood Walt*
1 man; three sons, Charles E, Jr.,
• Elmer C. and Roy W. Waltman;
' three daughters, Virginia, Katherind
1 and Mary Elizabeth Waltman, l&
'! of the home; two sisters, Mrs. laofea
.! tie Stagerman of Rocky Mount, u 4
Mrs. Hazel Houchnit of Crewe, Vagi
l and his mother, Mrs. Mary Soupofc
Waltman of Victoria, Va.; anothat
son, Edwin Sherman Waltman, fotig
died last year from spotted feeetl
Funeral for Roy William Watt*
man will be held Tuesday In Bedi>
ford, Penn.
Driver of the car in which ChulA
E. Waltman, Sr., was riding wag
later identified as a Virgilina fqn|
eral home operator named OUM
ningham who pickedup Waltnmn d|
a store or rilling station and wm
taking him to his home in ChristtiL
The Negro waa aoa injured, iMim
Waltman had bean manadur Tea