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
Two-Day Holiday
Will Be Observed
* By City, County
Many Have Not
Filed Practice
* Reports Says Hal!
Approximately 685 Person County
farm operators have not yet filed
their 1945 Practice Reports, C. T
Hall, Chairman Person County AAA
committee said here yesterday.
The 1945 program year ends De
£ cember 31, 1945, he said. Although
* February 15 is the deadline for fil
ing these reports, he urged “early
filing so that the county office may
put the finishing touches on all
outstanding 1945 jobs and make
ready for the New Year with a
clean slate."
He pointed out that all Conserva
tion Materials that were received
under the 1944 ACP Program must
u be properly used before December
* 31 if proper credit and no deduc
tions are to be made. Performance
reports are now being made by the
local AAA community Committee
men. .. |
All farm operators who received |
materials under the 1945 ACP pro- j
gram and do not use them by De-!
cember 31 should report the amount |
used at the county CCC office so
£ that proper credit may be given
and the unused amount transferred
to the 1946 program.
Telephone Service
To Improve Soon
9 There has been something wrong
with the telephone service in this
city for the past two or three weeks
cannot be denied and is not being
denied, not even.by John Morris,
telephone manager.
Mr. Morris is very much aware of
the trouble people have been having
in getting numbers and he has been
doing all in his power to have the
trouble corrected. As a matter of
JP fact he knew more than a year ago
this trouble was going to come and
he took all the steps he could to
prevent it. New machinery was ord
ered but as you know there was a
war on the machinery.
Here's what is back of the trouble.
In 1942 the average number of calls
the first three days was 7552. The
average number of calls this year is
13853. That makes a difference even
to automatic machinery.
* As soon as the new machinery is
completely installed your troubles on
the talking machine will be over and
Mr. Morris promises it will not be too
long.
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Veterans Stalled
On West Coast
Washington.—Some 82,000 soldiers
and 14,000 sailors face the unhappy
prospect of being stuck on the west
coast for Christmas. The army said
if the railroads don't speed up their
eastbound troop transportation. 82,-
000 newly arrived Pacific veterans
will still be waiting Christmas eve
for transportation home.
The navy estimated that 6.000
navy veterans of the Pacific due
* for discharge and 8,000 on furlough j
won’t get home for Chtfstmas be- |
cause of the train shortage.
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IN CITY
Elmore Mitchell, of the United
States army, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Traynham T. Mitchell, Is spending
the Christmas holidays here with
his family. He may receive his dis
" charge next month.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Practically All Business Ends
For Next Two Days.
Beginning today or tomarrow and
continuing through Tuesday or
Wednesday, and in some instances
for longer periods, residents here are
havig holidays, a cessation from
work more general than that seen
at any time since before the days
of World War 11.
Schools are having the longest
respite from labors, since students
were released from classrooms as
of last Wednesday morning because
of snow and will not return to desks
until Monday morning, December 31.
Almost as log is the vacation per
iod for Roxboro Cotton mills, em
ployees of which it is reported are
having a whole week, from Monday
through this week. Plant E, of
Collins and Aikman plant at
Cavel is closed through Wednesday,
having started holidays on Satur
day. Listed also is presentation of
bonuses of twenty-five dollars to
each Plant E employee.
Merchants generally, will be
closed Christmas day and the day
after, as Will most public offices.
The ■ Health Department, having
closed Saturday, will be closed
| through Wednesday, and the Per
son County Public library, which
J closed today (Monday) will be clos
jed until Wednesday morning. No
j public gatherings are being planned
| here, but it is expected that num
erous residents will have family
dinners and open houses.
Listed as taking only one day of
holiday is H. K. Sanders, Person
Farm Agent, who will stop for
Christmas, but will be back on duty
Wednesday. Service will also con
tinue with the Police force and the
Sheriff's staff, as well as with the
Fire department, but to all appear
ances Roxboro and Person county
mean to make Christmas 1945, a
real holiday. ►
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Three Way
Auto Crash
Three separate cars were involved
last night in a Court street crash in
which chief damage was done to the
cars. Charged with careless and
reckless driving this morning and
bound over to Recorder's Court un
der a two hundred dollar bond was
J. J. Slaughter, driver of one of the
machines, which allegedly struck the
parked automobile of Abe Johnson,
a Negro, and then careened to the
other side of the street to strike the
oncoming auto of Tobe Tapp. In
vestigation was by City police.
Congressmen To
Quit Their Jobs
Washington.—Rep. Rubert Ram
speck, Democrat, Georgia, the house
majority whip, joined two departing
colleagues in giving poor pay as his
reason for quitting Congress.
Ramspeck counseled house mem
bers in a “swan song" speech that
they not only should up their $lO,-
000 a year salaries but also should
vote funds for establishing offices
for themselves in tneir home dis
tricts.
Representatives Woodrum, Dem
ocrat, Virginia, and Weiss, Demo
crat, Pennsylvania, already have
announced they are leaving for i
more lucrative jobs.
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Same Cemetery
! Buried in the Luxembourg ceme
tery, near Hamm, Germany, where
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., was in
i terred today, is a Roxboro boy Pfc.
Bernard Whitfield, of Patton's
Third army, son of Mr. and Mrs
Robert Whitfield, who was killed in
action during World War 11. Mrs.
Whitfield has a photograph of ihc
cemetery.
I /
je Counet-dmes
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Patton Funeral
Held Yesterday
! Episcopal Service Held In
Christ Church With Full
Honors.
Heidelberg, Germany, Dec. 23. ;
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., rode j
with armor again yesterday. His I
body was carried in state on an ar
mored half-track from Chris j
Church, where a 25-minute Epis-1
copal military service was held, to j
the Heidelberg rail station.
There it was put on a train for j
Hamm, Luxembourg, site of his final I
command post and the cemetery I
chosen for his burial.
The four stars of Patton's rank i
were painted on the half-track. It j
was the kind of vehicle he had I
' clamered aboard often to jolt and ]
jounce across battlefields with his j
beloved armor. It was the kind he
. had loaded with armored infantry j
and sent racing across France and .
Germany to rip the Hu into shreds.l
1 i
. i Things were done the way Pat
•! ton would have wanted them today. |
The 7th Army, first of all. had
I banned soldiers from the church j
j service. But at the last minute the I
j order was reversed so that "every
| soldier who can jam his way in will I
i be allowed to enter the church."
"Patton would have wanted them
to be here,” was the simple expla
- nation." ;
j So they were thare—the vet
i erans who had been part of Fai
j ton’s columns in his conquest of
j the continent and the replacements
! knew the glory of "Blood and Guts” <
only through hearsay. They jam
med the church and they lined the
streets of this ancient university 1
; town. Their faces were solemn;
j their grief had the flavor of awk
ardness peculiar to fighting men.
Patton's cortege, in contrast to •.
i the speed of his marches in life,
! took three hours to wind through
j tile streets of Heidelberg from Villa
i Reiner, outside the city, to the
j church.
Mrs. J. L. Monk's
Riles Conducted
Mother of Roy Monk Dies At
Age of Seventy-Five On
Friday.
j Funeral for Mrs. John L. Monk,!
| 75, of Rougemont, the former Miss
Rosa Walters, a native of Person j
County, whose death occurred Fri
day night at 6:15 o'clock at her
home from complications after a
critical illness lasting several days;
was held Sunday afternoon at three
o'clock at Berry’s Grove Baptist
church, of which she was a char
ter member, with interment in the
church cemetery.
' Rites were in charge of the Rev.
| R. W. Hovis, assisted by the Rev.
Floyd Villines, Jr„ of Helena, rnd
the Rev. J, B. Currin, of Roxboro.
She was a daughter of the late Cart.
! and Nancy Walters.
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Survivors are four sons, J. C.
Monk, of Hurdle Mills, R. B„ and W.
R. Monk, both of Roxboro, and C
C. Monk, of Greensboro, and three ■
daughters, Mrs. Robert Duke, ot
Rougemont, Mrs. R. Curtis Clayton,
;of Hurdle Mills and Miss Nannie
Monk of tlie home, together with j
! several grandchildren and .a nuin- ]
I ber of nieces and nephews.
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Catholic Church
To Have Service
Christmas mass will be observed
Tuesday morning at nine-thirty
o'clock at Saint Mary's and Saint
Edward’s Catholic church here, with
Father King, of Henderson, as the
celebrant. There will be no midnight
service tonight, as Father King ai !
that time will be holding a service
in Henderson. No churches in Rox- \
boro are expected to have midnight
services and as far as is known the j
only Christmas day service in the j
City will be that at the Catholic I
church.
1 St '.'r 'llAft. it
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1945
Student Night To
Cl ose Year's Work
On Sunday. December 30, Student j
Night will be observed at First Bap- !
! tist Church, Roxboro. Students:
j home for the Christmas holidays, !
will have complete charge of the
| program. The theme will be “Christ ; <
My Imperative”.
Wallace Zimmerman, of Mars Hill
| college, will be at the organ and will j
; play Steiner's "God so Loved the j:
; World” for the prelude. "This Land I
| of Ours" and "The Resolutions We !
I Made" will be opening talks on the ]
| program, followed by a quartet ]
| "Sweet Peace, the Gift of God's
To Hold Funeral For;
Teacher's Mother
Person Woman's
Husband Passes
L
J. Frank Blakely. Prominent
South Carolina Resident
Dies.
Funeral for J. Frank Blakely, of i
i Spartanburg; S. C., head of the .1
I Frank Blakely company, electrical
contractors, and husband of Mrs.
Freddie Allen Blakely, a Person ntv
j five and formerly of Roxboro, was j
held Wednesday afternoon in Spar
tanburg at the J. F. Floyd mortuary, j
with interment in Greenlawn Mem- ;
orial Gardens, Spartanburg. Mr. j
Blakely, in ill health for several
years, died Monday of last week in ]
Biltmore hospital, Asheville, after he ;
had spent a week in a Spartanburg !
hospital.
He underwent an operation in the
Asheville hospital. A Spartanburg
civic leader he was a member of
First Baptist church there, a charter
trustee of the County Tuberculosis
hospital and a Kiwanian. He was
also active in the Salvation Ai.uv
program.
In addition to his wife, es 176
Victoria road, Spartanburg, also sur
viving are two daughters, Miss Rose
; Mary Blakely, a sophomore at Con
verse College, and Miss Nancy Blake
ly, a high school student, and one
son, Bobby Blakely, all of the home.
In Spartanburg for the funeral were
Mr. and Mrs, Howard Alien, Miss
Bessie Allen and Logan Jackson, all
of Roxboro. Mrs. Blakely and Mr.
Allen are sister and brother.
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Recruiting Time
The U. S. Army mobile recruit
ing unit in charge of Sergeants;
Bailey and Allen, which was in
Roxboro Friday, will not return to
this city until the second week in |
January, it was reported today. The
time off will be a Christmas vaca- i
tion for the officers, who have been
! coming to Roxboro once each week
for the past two months,
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IN HOSPITAL
1 '
i M, G. Johnson, of Roxboro, is a.
I patient in University horpital, Char- i
I lottesville, Va„ which he entered ]
j about two weeks ago He will be '
\ there through the holidays.
| - AlofUf jUe ■
i Dear Santa—l have been a good boy this year and in return I would
like a few presents. Please bring me a few pounds of bacon, an old
country ham, some pineapple, black pepper, lard, and a few more things
that I have had trouble getting. Bring our newspaper plenty of news
print for the coming yeai and bring us some of that new machinery
that we have been wanting for a long time,
i Bring my friends Dolian Long. Gene Thompson, Charles Wood, Tom
Shaw and a few more a companion for their latter days. They may be
too old to marry but I am sure that they would appreciate having,
! someone-around the house. Please do that.
\ But most of all, Dear Santa, I would like for you to bring the .
I readers of this paper 365 days of happiness during the coming year and j
so to each and all I wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
I
| Love". "Myself and My World", a
! discussion in five parts will then bo
presented.
Those taking part on the program !
will be. Panthea Bullock, Meredith j
j college, Marion Long, Kings Busi- j
i ness college Sally Lou Kirby, Aver- !
ett, Janice Rimmer, Elon, Mary!
t Jane Fox, W. C.U. N.C., Nathan!
i Fox. State, George Barrett, Wake
Forest, George C. Long, State, John j
! McWhorter, Washington and Lee,!
I Tom Woody, University of N. C.J
j Wallace Zimmerman, Mars Hill, and
Eugene Wade. Wake Forest.
Riles Tuesday For Mrs. Mollie
Satterfield. Mother of Mrs.
A. F. Nichols.
Mrs. Mollie Satterfield, 83, of
Roxboro, wife of the late Albert G.
| Satterfield and mother of Mrs. A. F.
j Nichols, of this city, died at ten
. o'clock at the Nichols' residence,]
! where she made her home for many I
y ..
! Immediate Cause of death was!
pneumonia, but she had been da in-
I valid for the past nine years and ,
spent many months in bed. She
was a member of Mount Zion Meth
odist church.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs. i
I
j Nichols are two sons, Albert J, Sat- j
terfield, of Durham, and Byrd I.
| Satterfield, of Timberlak". Also;
1 surviving are three granddaughters,'
! Misses Mary Emily, Winnie Davis I
I and Byrl Austin Satterfield, daugli- 1
! ters of Byrd Satterfield,
i Funeral will be held Christmas
] afternoon at three o’clock at the
Nichols' residence. Academy street.
Officiating ministers will be two
former pastors, the Rev. J. H. Shore,
of Roxboro, and the Rev. H. E.;
Lance, of Rougemont. Place oi in- i
torment had not been decided •.•non j
this morning.
Albert G. Satterfield died ;u 1907.
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Long hurst And
Grace Programs
Christmas services for Longhurst i
and Grace Methodist churches were
held Saturday and Sunday nights, i
where Christmas tree programs were
held in each of the churches for
children of the congregations Fea
j lured Saturday at Longhurst was a
; pageant with music called the "Star!
|of Bethlehem", while the program
at Grace on Sunday night was ]
! devoted to music given by the chil- j
; drens' choir. Pastor for both!
churches is the Rev. C. G. McCarv
er, who assisted with all programs.]
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Two Cantatas In
Churches Sunday
i
Held yesterday afternoon and
night in two city churches here were ,
final cantata programs of the sea-!,
son, both ol which attracted large ! j
! audiences. First program was j j
"Chimes of the Hold Night," given !,
at five o'clock at Edgar Long Me
l-morial Methodist chinch, while]
! second, at eight at night at Firstj,
> Baptist church was, "The Prince j
of Peace.”
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
No Thursday Paper
The Courier-Times, in accord
ance with its custom, will omit
publication on Thursday, Decem
ber 27th, and the office will be
closed for the Christmas holidays
on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, but will reopen for
business on Friday morning; Dec
, ember 28th and regular publica
; tion will be resumed with the
Monday paper, December .‘*o.
I
Five Young Men
Rotary Speakers
(luesls Band Together. (live
Personal Sketch Program.
Five young, men from Roxboro
] high school, all of whom had' pre
viously in different weeks been m
! dividual guests of Roxboro Rotary
! club, banded together and put
on a program of their own at 'he
club’s Thursday session at Hotel
! Roxboro, where Joe Burke, club
member, had charge of arrange
ments.
The five ybUiig speakers, each
one of whom identified himself and
■ expressed appreciation to the club
for previous hospitalities,. were.
John Robert Hester., Johnny Horton,
! Paul Slaughter, Robert O Briant
i Blanks and W. D. Fisher, with
j the last named giving, the clos
ing address, which was concern
ed with the "Dream of Peace".
Most. varied personal experience in
living was probably that reported
by John Robert Hester,, son of Jer-
Irv L. Hester', who was born in
1 Guatemala and has also spent some
j months in Rochester, N. Y., in the
home of his maternal grandparents.
Each one of the speakers also
i mentioned his school career and
! I
i gave intunation of the life-work he
j expects to follow’. The program was
! brief but was obviously appreciated
by the members, many of whom ex
tended personal greetings to the
boys at the end of the. affair. Pre-!
siding was Dr. John Fitzgerald,
Financial report was presented by i
treasurer, W. Reads Jones, and
1 singing was led by W. Wallace
! Woods, with Mrs. Woods as pianist.
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Pulliam Twins
Receive Discharge
Recently discharged from the Sep
eration Center at Fort Bragg were
i Bruce and Talmadge Pulliam, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pulliam. The
] twins have just returned from twen
j ty-six months of duty in the Pacific
area, serving on the islands ot Dahu,
Hawaii and Guam, M I. They serv
ed with the 204th General Hospital
land both are Technicians Fifth
] Grade and wear the good conduct
i medal. Asiatic Pacific Theater cam
] paigii medal with one Bronze star
j end the Victory Medal.
Response Slow
For Seal Sale
Roxboro Kiw’anis club will not;
meet tonight because of the Christ
inas holidays. The club will also
omit its December 31. session because
of New Year's festivities. Major club
' project for the past several weeks
lias been sponsor ship of the Christ
mas seal sale, which has a quota
j here of $2,300. Total raised as of
December 10th was $936 and it is
! estimated that the total has since
) reached as much as $1 200. according
to Jack Strum, chairman.
It is his hope that many more
i contributions will be received in the
next day or two, but he feels that
much hard work will have to be
done if the quota is to be met.
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Bank Holidays
Peoples Bank will be closed Tues- !
day and Wednesday for the Christ
mas holidays, it was reported *odnv.
Effective from Thursday, of this
, week through New Year's day, the j
bank will close each day at twelve ]
noon. After that time the regu
, lar two o’clock schedule will i)e re- j
sumed.
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Taxi Control Has
Airing At Special
City Board Session
Cilv Commissioners Approve
Loop Road Route.
Adoption of. two resolutions, one j
concerned with approval of plans |
for the proposed new loop road I
here; and another dealing with the j
control of taxi applications, sea-;
lured a called session of Roxboro |
' City commissioners last week, it
was announced Friday by City !
( Manager Guy Whitman.
At the meeting which was held j
Thursday afternoon and at which
' all but one Commissioner was in
attendance, the resolution of ap
: proval for the loop road was more
1 of a formality, according to Whit
eman, who said that also present j
■ was Merle Atkinson, of Durham, of
the State Highway department. The
( proposed rond, designed to
I , take heavy traffic off Main street,
| ; is expected to run west of Lamar
street which parallels and will
be about two miles in length.
No information has been given i
i as to wh'*t the work on the new 1
■, loOb bad 'will be begun. It will be |
' ifccfeu- (however, that the road ha*.*
■ beew under discussion for the past j
t several years.
I
. .For that other resolution, pertain- ]
i ing to taxi-cab applications, the I
, spring-board was given several I
, weeks ago when as many as five j
applications were granted, some two j
, to three returned veterans and for-
I! mer operators. Full text of the taxi
. i resolution is published elsewhere
j in this issue of the Courier-Times |
[ and is concerned with the certifi
cates of necessity and convenience
, i required in the granting of taxi
. j applications, it being the opinion
! of Cty Commissioners that no such
. ] certificates should be issued without j
1 ; publication of due notice to the pub
,! lie. ] ,
Under - the resolution no applica- !
; lions are to be granted until after
twenty days publication in "some
newspaper published and circulat
ing in Roxboro.” The resolution
follows in line with a recent State!
law giving municipalities rights to ]
. 1 regulate taxi operations in their ]
. borders. The resolution does not j
"have the effect of repealing or |
; modifying the rule passed at the j
. regular meeting (of the City Board
of Commissioners) October 16, 1945, ]
! with reference to such applications", j
That last mentioned October j
; rule, it appears, was adopted on or |
1 , about the time that five taxi-cab i
licenses referred to were issued.!
At that time, it will be recalled,!
several present operators of cabs
here expressed dissatisfaction that
licenses were issued to certain
parties. Injected into controversy at
that time was the feeling that
licenses should not be denied to re
\ turning veterans, but that more care
should be used in giving them to
| civilians who remained home during
i war years.
i
, The new’ resolution specifically
states that the twenty days notice
. rule does not apply to persons al
ready holding a taxi-cab license,
but it gives the right of complaint
or approval to anyone desiring op
. portunity to make known their
, views, either favoring or opposing
; such applications" for new and non
license holding would-be operators.
Absent from the Thursday session
: was Commissioner Philip L. Thomas,
who is also Police commissioner.
' Discussed and approved at the first
regular session of Commissioners a
week ago was tht matter of the re
turn of Sam R. Whitten, Jr., a vet
eran, to the City Police force and
the; retention of Macon Thompson
as an extra officer on a tentative
basis.
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STILL TAKEN
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■ | Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton last.
] week reported the capture of a fifty
gallon still near AllensviUe.
,
Fatal Highway
~ Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 104 t
DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 7
Revised G.l. Bill
More Liberal
| ' : • ... ■ I
Washington. Dec.—Congress lias
] approved and sent to the White
I House a compromise bill liberalizing
] loan and educational provisions of
[ the GI Bill of Rights and eliminat
ing "red-tape."
Tlie measure raises the maximum
amount of a government guaran
teed farm or home loan from $2,000
to $4,000. The present $2,000 limit
on business loan guarantees was
I unchanged. The bill, worked out by
! house and senate conferees, also:
Removes the 25-vear age limit on
veterans who may go to school un
der the GI bill, and raises the
subsistence allowance of veterans
going to school front SSO to $65 a
i month for single men and from $75
!to S9O for ex-servicemen with de
] pendents.
U Eliminates Lhe, present require
tCnent tt-fans administra- 4
jtion must/apprfrve GI loans before :
! they can be guaranteed. For farm
! and home loans, however, it pro
j vides that a government appraiser
must assure the veterans adminis
; tration that the veteran is being
] charged a fair price.
Repeals the present provision to
compel the government to deduct
benefits paid out under the GI bill
] from any general bonus that Con
gress might decide to vote for vet
erans.
The measure answers a general
demand among veterans and organ
izations for more liberal and easier
! to-get loans. President Truman
, gave it prior endorsement.
Tite house, in approving the core*
1 lerence bill, overruled tlie objec
tion of Chairman John E. Rankin,
Democrat, Mississippi, of the Vet
erans committee to repeal of this
"bonus deduction."
Rankin said that repeal of the
] provosion “w ou 1 d discriminate
j against 9n per cent of the veterans.”
I He said he meant that only about
j 10 per cent of ex-servicemen would
take advantage of the provisions
of the GI bill.
The house approved the com
! promise by a vote of 132 to 23, ;
! and it was approved without con- |
I trovers? by the senate 30 minutes ijj
later.
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Gifts For Living
Christ Is Urged
Gifts for ihe Living Christ as A
remembrance at Christmas is sug- 1
gested in a program for bringing ;
Christian living to our own people
here at home in Person County,
according to Mrs. J. H. Merritt, of
Bethel Hill, who today expressed •v,
the hope that the idea will gain A |
foothold not only in Person Coun- J
ty, but throughout the State and j
Nation. |
Christmas, of all times, is the time M
that the founder of Christmufl
should be remembered, says Mrs, W
Merritt, who feels that some fongM
of county organizations should
effected and that individuals antt-ll
families could give money to aid. 9
in a program of conversion for tlw'Ji
unchurched. It is her thought, ala&tJ|
that Bibles should be pm i liiiismß
with a portion of the funds XtMB
The program of “Gifts ft* t«S
Lit ing Christ" would be worked gfl (
in cooperation with the cBuiMM9
but would extend its influence taiM
yond church borders. It has d
suggested until a Person group with
a treasurer could be formed ttWj
ministers of various churcttMsMwMt
receive the gifts with the under
stunding that the donations.be;«Aw|
in the proposed qpited, soul-saving
worth . - -4ylj