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. o 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. o 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. ► o 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. o— 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. I v l 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. o 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. * 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, * : i 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. —o 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.] o 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. o 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. o 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. -1 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. ;; -—" ■ ■ STILL TAKEN ———w ■ | 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. ; ~ I 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

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