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
Judge Carr To Be
Here For Superior
Court Next Month
Peoples Bank
Has Recognition
Local Bank Honored In Ap
pointments By American
Bankers Association
New York—Peoples Bank of Rox
boro has been honored through ap
pointments made by Frank C.
Rathje, president of the American
Bankers Association, to the working
organization of the Association.
Bankers named as members of anv
of the 40 working groups of the As
sociation will this year represent
banks of the nation in their cooper
ative program of promoting the gen
eral usefulness of banks. An appoint
ment as a member of a committee,
subcommittee, commission, council,
section, or division of the A. B. A. is
not only a personal recognition ac
corded the individual banker, but a
national recognition shared by all
banks in his home community.
The appointments made by Presi
dent Rathje, who is also president
of the Chicago City Bank and Trust
Company, Chicago. Illinois, include:
Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice
president. The Peoples Sank, A.8.A.,
state Victory Loan chairman.
The American Bankers Association
is the nationwide organization
through which more than 15,000
banks, representing more than 99.2
per cent of all the banking resources
in the United States, channel their
activities leading to constant im
provement of banking services to the
public. Included in this membership
are state and federally chartered
.vterUAV i y Rations, cunir.ticlal
banks; trust institutions, and savings i
banks. I
The Association's program reflects I
the changing and expanding needs
of the public for financial services
through the work of its committees,
commissions, councils, divisions, and
sections. Work done by these groups
not only results in improvement of
local banking services, but aids banks
to contribute leadership and assist
ance in projects for community de
velopment outside of banking.
Funeral Held For
J. B. Stegall
Funeral for John B. Stegall. 87,
of the Olive Branch section, whose
death occurred Christmas day at
the Person County home where he
had lived for the past fourteen
months, was held last Wednesday
at Olive Branch Baptist church by
the pastor, the Rev. J. B. Currin,
with interment in the church ceme
tery. Immediate survivor is a broth
er, C, D. Stegall, of Olive Branch.
Also surviving are a number of
nieces and nephews. Death was at
tributed to old age and complica
tions.
Stoops' Move
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stoops and
daughters, Terry and “Possum", for
several years residents of Roxboro,
where Mr. Stoops was with the Plan
tation Pipeline company, moved on
Thursday to Rahway, New Jersey,
where he will be with a gasoline re
finnery for Standard oil. The house
in which the Stoops have lived will
be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Shuford and family. Mr. Shuford
is manuel arts instructor in Rox
boro high school. 7
H. B. Blanks To
Head Junior Order
To be installed next Monday night
as councillor of Longhurst Council
of the Junior Order is H. Bohan
non Blanks, of Roxboro, formerly
vice councillor. Another new officer
to be installed will be Lewis Tapp,
, assistant recording secretary.
Re-elected and to be installed
again are I. T. Dickerson, recording
secretary, C. S. Dixon, financial
. secretary, and W. A. Wrenn, treas
' urer, the last named having held
his position for the past thirteen
years. Present councillor is Jasper
4 Whitfield, while present warden is
| Talmadge Clayton and present con
•i ductor is Walter Hamlett. Other of
if-ltoea to-he pied are those of .out
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Will Exchange With Snow
Hill Jurist For First
Week Os Term.
A two weeks term of Person Sup
erior court for the trial of criminal
and civil cases is scheduled to begin
on Monday, January 28, it was re
vealed by A. M. Burns, Jr., clerk of
the court, who said today that the
presiding jurist will be Judge Leo
Carr, of Burlington, resident judge
for this district, who is to exchange
" courts with Judge J. Paul Frizzlle,
• of Snow Hill, regularly assigned here
1 for the next six months.
The exchange, however, is effec
r tive for only the first of the two
- weeks and in the event that Person
t court continues for more than one
■ week Judge Frizzelle will come to
• Roxboro for the second week. That,
■ nevertheless, is not expected to oc
, cur, since few cases are reported to
, be on the docket. In the letter from
; the Governor's office relative to the
■ coming term some doubt is shown
i as to who the solicitor will be and
I there is indication that William H.
Murdock, former solicitor and more
. recently in the Navy may be retum
; ed in time to take the place of the
; present solicitor, Judge R. H,. Sykes.
Both men are from Durham.
■ The January term will mean the
, first Superior court to be held here
with Mr. Burns as clerk, who several
weeks ago was named to the posi
-1 tion to succeed the late R. A. Bul
-1 lock. The coming term will also be.
the first in several months which
! will have the services of a regularly
| named clerk, since Mr. Bullock, who
succeeded the late Miss Sue Brad
sher, was ill before the last regular
' term of Superior court.
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Crosby Again
: Heads List
Hollywood.— Bing Crosby was
! named the movie box office leader
again in 1945 in a poll of exhibitors
conducted by The Motion Picture
Herald.
Ranked in the top 10 in six of
the 14 annual polls, Crosby scored
heavily in “Going My Way," which
The Herald said has grossed
$8,000,000. Crosby also appeared this
year in "Here Come the WAVES,”
“East Side of Heaven,” "Duffy's Tav
ern” and served as the voice of Eddie
Bracken in “Out of This World.”
Van Johnson was ranked as the|
No. 2 drawing power, followed in J
order by Greer Garson, Betty Grable i
and Spencer Tracy, with Humphrey I
Bogart and Gary Cooper tied for!
sixth; Bob Hope, Judy Garland,
Margaret O'Brien and Roy Rogers.
From 10th place to 20th, here's
how they finished:
: ' • ; . '• ' ' •" I.
Abbott and Costello, Betty Hut
ton, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis,
Alan Ladd, Dane Clark, Joseph
Cotten, Claudette Colbert, Walter
Pidgeon, Fred Mac Murray, Danny
Kaye, Gregory Peck, Ginger Rogers,
John Daync and Mickey Rooney.
Crosby won the poll’s top spot in
1944, Betty Grable in 1943, Abbott
and Costello in 1942, Mickey Rooney
in 1939, 1940 and 1941, Shirley
Temple from 1935 to 1938 inclusive,
Will Rogers in 1934 and Marie Dress
ier in 1932 and 1933.
For western pictures exclusively,
the poll this year shows these top 10:
Roy Rogers, George “Gabby"
Hayes, William Boyd, Bill Elliott,
Smiley Burnette, Johnny Mack
Brown, Charles Starrett, Red Barry,
Tex Ritter and Red Cameron.
; side and inside sentinals.
1 Planned here in Roxboro on Jan
• uary 28, with Longhurst council as
■ host is a class initiation for the
1 nineteenth district at which at
, least fifty new members are to be
received. Present membership of the
, Longhurst chapter is listed at two
; hundred and sixty.
1 Feature of the meeting which is
to be held this Monday night, De
cember 31, in the chapter hall, will
be a report by Whitfield and twen
• ty-four other members who on the
i day after Christmas went to the
Junior Order orphans home at Lex
ington to present gifts and have
lunch with the children.
Courier-lEimejs
Hew Stamp For
Sugar Becomes
Valid Tuesday
District OPA Office To Take
Over Certain Local
r Functions.
Sugar stamp No. 39 becomes valid
for five pounds of sugar January 1.
Theodore S. Johnson, of Raleigh,
OPA District Director, said today.
Since this stamp must cover the
period through April 30, Johnson
p urged consumers to conserve their
’ sugar supply. A survey on December
' 1 showed that present sugar supplies
, in the Southeast, rather than being
' plentiful, are in fact 16 percent less
than at the same time last year, he
| said.
The turn of the year finds only
300,000 tons of sugar available from
( Cuba and Puerto Rico in “carry
| over" stocks from last year, Johnson
| pointed out. He added that addition
al receipts for the next two months
1 are expected to be considerably be
-1 low those for the corresponding
period a year ago.
Beginning January 1, consumers.
, industrial and institutional users of
sugar in North Carolina will apply
to the OPA District Office in Ra
leigh for their allotments, Theodore
,S. Johnson, District Director, an
nounced today.
Likewise, replacement of ration
. books, and new ration books for
babies and returning veterans will
be made by the District Office,
, Johnson said. Applicants may either
write or call in person for such
blanks at the District Office.
Although Price Control Boards will
, no longer issue any ration books or
rationed commodities, a few appli
cation blanks will be placed at each
, board for the convenience of con
sumers. Johnson added.
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Wiley Bradsher,
Famed Preacher,
Dies At Home
i -
j The Rev. J. WUey Bradsher, 76,
pastor of the “Church of God in
the Wilderness" (Union Grove
Baptist church) and one of the
most widely known Negro min
isters of this section, died yester
day afternoon at one-ten o’clock
at his home close to the church.
He suffered a stroke of paralysis
several months ago and had been
ill since then.
Funeral will be held at his
church Wednesday afternoon at
one o’clock. Survivors are his sec- i
ond wife, Mrs. Lessie Currie Brad
sher, one daughter, Mrs. Lilly B.
(Rufus) Johnson, of Roxboro and
a number of grandchildren.
His church, at Hurdle Mills,
j route one, has attracted national
■ attention both in the press and on
1 the radio, chiefly because of its
eccentric decoration, In keeping [
with the strange habits of its
long-time minister, who until re
rent months was frequently seen
on Roxboro streets.
Has Air Medal
Flight Officer Jack E. Gates, of
Roxboro, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
H. Gates, of this City, who is withj
the India-China division of the Air
Transport command, has been I
awarded the Air Medal, according
to announcement received here from
Brig. Gen. Charles W, Lawrence,
commanding officer. The Air Trans
port is completing homeward move
ments at this time.
Has Discharge
Cpl. Clyde B. Davis, son of Mrs.
Ada C. Davis, of Durham, and the
late L. P. Davis and brother of
Mrs. O. B. Riley, of Roxboro, re
ceived his discharge from military
service December 22nd at Fort
Bragg.
Cpl. Davis entered service Jan
uary 28, 1942 and served for more
than thirty months in the New
Hebrides, Admiralty, Morotai, and
Leyte Islands.
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Mrs. Yarborough
Mrs. John Yarborough, of near
Ca-Vel, died this morning at her
home. Surviving are her husband,
several sons and a daughter. Other
information has not yet been re
ceived.
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Ten North Carolina breeders and
six Virginia breeders of the Aber
deen-Angus Breeders Association
will offer 45 females and 10 bulls
at Elkin on March 13,
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
Negro Listed As
3rd Traffic Death
Expected to face charges of in
voluntary manslaughter in Record
er’s court here on Tuesday, Janu
ary 8, is William A. Sanders, 21, of
the Marine corps, Cherry Point and
Roxboro, who on Sunday night,
December 23, struck and fatally in
jured Aaron Blackwell, 78, Negro
resident of near Pix's siding, when
Blackwell walked into the path of
a car driven by Sanders and owned
by his uncle, J. A. McWhorter.
Blackwell, who is reported to have
crossed the Durham road and then
turned back into the pathway of
the car, sustained a broken right
arm and leg and body bruises. He
died Tuesday morning in Duke Hos
pital, Durham, to which he was
taken by Sanders immediately after
the accident.
Blackwell’s death brings to three
the number of traffic accident
deaths in Person County for 1945.
Each of the three traffic fatalities
was suffered by Negroes and eacn
involved pedestrians who were walk
ing along highways or attempting
to cross the roads when they we ri
struck. The first death here was
that of a small Negro girl named
Person, who was hit by an ambu
lance near Olive Hill and the second
TWO ROXBORO AND PERSON MEN
ON TOBACCO ADVISORY BOARD
Hunter And Hall Among State
Leaders Chosen By Cherry.
j ~
Two Roxboro and Person men,
Gordon C. Hunter, of this City, and
i Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdale, have
1 been named as members of a twen
; ty-eight man State Tobacco Ad
j visory board by Gov. R. Gregg
[cherry, it was revealed yesterday,
i Hunter serves by virtue of his pres
idency of the North Carolina Bank-
J ers association. Hall, a member of
j the Agricultural commission is a
i member-at-large. All members of
jof the new board are interested in
> the production and the marketing
|of tobacco. Hunter also a member
iof the executive committtee of the
Rural Industries conference, a re
lated organization, a recent meeting
of which was attended by him. j
Both Hall and Hunter were
1 present at initial sessions in con
j nection with the Tobacco Advisory
board.
! The tobacco board will be a part
of the state department of agricul
' ture. W. Kerr Scott, agriculture
' commissioner, was named ex-officio
} chairman.
It was appointed at the sug
j gestion of a temporary committee
J. G. Chambers
|
Rites Conducted
Former Postmaster at Timber
lake. 11l Many Months,
Dies Wednesday.
Funeral for J. Garland Chambers.
159, of Timberlake, former postmast
er, tobacco warehouseman and mer
chant, who died of a heart attack
Wednesday in a Durham hospital
was conducted Friday afternoon at
2 o’clock from the home by the Rev.
E. L. Hill.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lil
lie Cash Chambers, four daughters,
Mrs. Bill Wynn of Durham and
Misses Myrtle, Gladys and Joan
Chambers, all of the home; and
three sons, Lance Chambers, with
the Army n Germany, and Monte
and Garland Chambers, Jr„ both of
Timberlake. A fourth son, John Mer
ritt Chambers, Was killed in action
last year in Italy.
Mr. Chambers also was active on
the Helena school board and main
tained a large store at Timberlake.
■ Alantf < 74e Waif, -
William Marcus Thomas, a big butter and egg man from Washington,
D. C. is in the city and his friends here have been showing him the
night life of Roxboro. Now William, better known as Chick, has seen
quite a bit of night life in the larger cities of this country and has held
up rather well under it. But Roxboro night life is getting him down.
On Friday night of last week he was supposed to go to a dance at ten
o’clock. He had just been to a big meal at the hotel and he was riding
around after the' meal with his friends. All at once they looked over
at Chick and he was fast asleep in the rear seat of the car. When he
reached his house here he asked to be let out in order to make a tele
phone call and suggested that jiis friends call back for him in thirty
minutes to go to the dance. The friends called back and when they did
my friend Thomas had gone to bed and left word that he could not
make the dance that night. And all of this after he had been here only
two days. _
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1945
occurred when a Negro woman
named Vincent was struck on the
Longhurst highway.
With Sanders at the time of the
accident was his cousin, John A.
McWhorter, Jr., student at Wash
ington and Lee University, Lexing
ton, Va„ and home for the holi
days. Investigation of the accident
was by State Highway Patrolman
John Hudgins, who reported 'hat
Sanders first brought the injured
man to a Roxboro doctor and then
borrowed a Negro ambulance to take
him to Duke hospital. Blackwell
was brought to Roxboro in a pass
ing cab, but driver of the ambulance
was Sanders.
His bond has been placed at SSOO.
Landers since the accident lias been
ill here at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. c. Sanders, with
influenza. He served many months ;
overseas in the Pacific area.
Funeral for Blackwell was held
Friday afternoon at Shady Hill
church. His relatives reported to of
ficers that he had for long time
been in the habit of walking along
the highway and that his health
had been bad. It was also said that
he was careless in watching out icr
vehicles. The accident occurred near
Langford's Service station.
headed by former Governor J. M.
Broughton. Meeting here recently,
the temporary committee said that
the constant exchange of advice
and ideas “is not only desirable but
essential in view of the place that
the production of tobacco oirupies
in -the state's agriculture program ’
As a part of the agriculture de
partment, the council will serve as
| a medium for consultation arid co
[ ordination of problems relating to
| the production “of the world's
| finest tobaccos" through intensified
j research relating to soils, fertilizer,
• cultural practices, plant diseases,
j entomology, seed selection and
j methods of harvesting, curing, han
| dling, sorting and grading.
Members of the groups which
l they represent are:
J Harry B. Caldwell, of Greensboro,
i state Grange master; R. Flake
jShaw, of Greensboro, secretary of
| the state farm bureau; Dean I. O.
[Schaub, director'of the state agri
cultural extension service; Dr. L.
D. Baver, director of the state ex
periment stations and dean of ag
riculture at State college; Dr. Paul
M. Goss, director of research at
Duke university; E. G. Moss, direc
tor of the tobacco experiment sta
tion at Oxford.
I W. Kersey Smith, of Kinston,
[president of the Eastern Belt Ware
house association; Fred S. Royster,
| of Henderson, president of the Mid
!dle Belt warehousemen; E. D. Mat
| thews, of Winston-Salem, president
of the Old Belt Warehouse asocia
tion; Harry D. Love, of Asheville,
representing burley. tobacco grow
ers; M. E. Reeves, of Laurel Springs,
a Turkish tobacco grower; L. L.
Gravely, of Rocky Mount, president
of the Tobacco Association of the
United States; J. C. Lanier, of
Greenville, representing the Leaf
Tobacco Exporters association; J. F.
Strickland, of Durham, of the'
American Tobacco company; J. W.
Glenn, of Winston-Salem, of the R.
J. Reynolds Tobacco company; Arch
Taylor, of Winston-Salem, of the
Taylor Brothers Tobacco company
and J. E. Farley, of Durham, rep
resenting the Liggett Meyers To
bacco company and
E. Y. Floyd, of Raleigh, president
of the plant food institute; Gordon
Hunter, of Roxboro, president of
the North Carolina Bankers asso
ciation: Willard Dowell, of Raleigh,
president of the North Carolina
Merchants association; Tom Pear
sall, of Rocky Mount, president of—
(See TOBACCO Page Seven)
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Warrens, Roxboro
Men, To Build
New Warehouse
! Danville. Va., Gels New House
With Warrens As Owner-
Operators.
W. Clarence Warren and his
i brother, Ivey Warren, both of Rox
! boro, are planning construction of a
$105,000 tobacco warehouse in Dan
ville, Va., according to announce-
I ment made today by Clarence War-
I ren. who says that the new structure
] will be known as Liberty warehouse
and will contain forty-eight thous
and square feet of space, with ten
thousand square feet of storage
space under it.
j Tile new house will be on Wil
| son. Court and New streets, Danville,
j and will be of brick, construction
witli concrete floor and steel frame,
i Construction is expected to begin
j in February and may be completed
i by July. Contractor is p. L. Ander-
I son and architects are Thompson
! and Ragsdale, all of Danville.
Both W. Clarence Warren and
i Ivey Warren have been associated
with Planters warehouse, Danville,
but will as owner transfer their in-
I terests to the new Liberty, which
will be the twelfth warehouse in
! Danville. W. Clarence Warren has
j been in the warehouse business
I since 1924.
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| Corrected Shells
iSave Lives Os
Many Soldiers
New York. —Three little things
about artillery shells Were corrected
• i in the middle of World War Two.
| and the immediate result was that,
jin the Normandy invasion, there
j was not one reported instance of
American shells falling on Ameri
can troops.
The three things were polish of
the shells, the brass' bands that fit
into the gun rifling and differences
in mass production of powder
charges.
The discoveries were disclosed by
the award recently of the Legion
of Merit to Col. Leslie E. Simon,
Ordnance Corps, Chief of Ballistics
Research Laboratory, Research De
velopment Center Aberdeen Proving ;
Ground. Maryland. He headed a :
team which discovered and correct
ed the gun errors in tests in Eng- ;
land, Normandy and Italy in 1944.
The tests were made in laboratory
and in battle.
It is a truism that no two things
in the world are exactly alike and
this applies even to artilery shells
manufactured under most careful
conditions. Ordinarily the three
principle causes of variation are
differences in the surface finish or
polish of the projectiles, differences
in the copper rotating band that fit
into the gun rifling, and differences
which occur in the mass production
of powder charges.
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Family Needs
To Be Stressed
North Carolina rural families are
spending too much time making a
living and too little time livng, says
the Family Life Committee of home
demonstration agents in the State
College Extension Service, working
under the supervision of Mrs. Vir
ginia S. Swain, staff member.
“The unity of family life needs to
be strengthened, and character edu
cation needs to be emphasized,” the
committee explains in its official re
port. “When a group of people meet
together and pool their ideas and
experiences concerning every day
matters, they gain courage, help,
and inspiration for meeting them.
“People should be made more com
munity conscious, thinking beyond
their own home and family. In ad
dition, that family will be happier,
if all family members understand
each other better." ~
Plans are being made for integrat
ing the family life program with
home demonstration and 4-H activi
ties, with the whole plan having a
family approach. It is suggested that
all church, school, civic, social, and
county organizations work together
in making the family life program
a success. The committee also sug
gests that the rural church be made
the center of community life.
The Family Life Committee of the
Extension Service is composed of
the home demonstration agents of
Pitt, Rowan, McDowell,. Chatham,
Ho£e, Watauga, and Clay counties.
Muddy Roads Keep
Five Schools From
Scheduled Opening
Extension Os Holidays For
Five Schools. All Others
Are Open.
Three white schools and two Ne
gro schools in the Person County
public school system will have de
layed openings because of muddy
roads, which are practically impass
able for motor vehicles because of
recent snows and rains, it was re
ported at noon today by Superin
tendent R. B. Griffin, who said that
majority of schools, however, are
i open and will continue in operation,
| All schools were scheduled to have
opened this morning and all at
tempted it, but those which have
run into difficulties are Helena high
school, which win be closed until
Wednesday morning; Hurdle Mills
and Allensville high schools, which
will be closed until Thursday morn
ing, and Olive Hill Negro school and
Person County Training School for
1 Negroes, each of which will be clos
jed until Thursday morning.
All other schools, including those
|in Roxboro district, together with
[Bushy Fork. Olive Hill white school,
Bethel Hill, Cunningham and Hign
Plains have opened this morning
j and will continue in operation. Also
open are various small Negro schools ,
to which pupils walk.
Four teacher changes of the ne\y
year have occurred.
Resignation of Donald Dorey, of
i Roxboro, now at Fayetteville, was
reported this morning by Griffin,!
who said that his place as a com- j
mercial teacher at Helena has not!
j been filled. Dorey resigned to enter j
other work. Expected to resign soon!
jat Helena is Mrs. Pamela Reade,
; teacher of the fourth grade, Vacan
! cies also exist in the grammar grade
| at Hurdle Mills and in the second
!at Olive Hill. Substitute teachers
[ who have had these positions but [
i have resigned as such are, Mrs. Rob
i ert Featherston. Hurdle Mills and
j Mrs. Mildred Pointer at Olive Hill.
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Theatre To Be
Finished Soon
Announced today were plans to
i complete the movie theatre in the
j Kirby-Ledbetter building which was
[ begun about three years ago. The
! new theatre is expected to take place
of the present Dolly Madison thea
tre, according to O. Teague Kilby,
who said that construction of the
theatre proper, back of the present
marquee and stores will begin in
1946. depending, of course, on the
availability of building materials.
The new theatre, planned about
the time the war began, will be con
! siderably large than any now in the
City and will become the first run
house here. Stores on each side of
the marquee will not be disturbed.
Also contemplated in the 1946
building plans are the already an
nounced Pioneer warehouse and four
churfches, that of the First Pres
byterian. that at Mill Creek and the
new Methodist and Baptist churches
at Longhurst. It has been indicated
likewise that other new business
buildings may be built this coming
year. There is , also an acute need
for dwelling houses, with many vet
erans and others waiting for the go
ahead signal on an availability of
supplies.
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Tomatoes and sweet corn together i
make up three-fourths of the total!
tonnage of vegetables for processing.
Canning of green peas and snap j
beans have also greatly increased.
Exchange Club To
Aid Paralysis Fund
Quota for the Infantile Paralysis
fund here this year in a drive which
will begin tomorrow will be $2,080,
it was revealed today by the new
chairman, the Rev. Daniel Lane, of
this* City, pastor of Person circuit,
who says the quota for the year is
based upon the amount raised here
last year when the chairman was
the Rev. Rufus J. Womble, now of
Richmond, Va.
Both the schools and civic organ
izations, together with individuals,
will help in the raising of the hew
Polio fund. Schools, especially, are
expected to aid in the March of
Dimes program, and it is also
planned that there will be a benefit
dance sponsored by the Exchange!
club, of which Ralph Tucker is
I
'J Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN IMI
DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 8
Two Young
Women Winners
In Essay Contest
Will Receive Local Prizes And
Essays Go To Stale Contest.
Two young women. Miss Juanita
Bradsher. ol Roxboro high school,
land: Miss Sarah Jane Hester, of
Bushy Fork school, are winners in
• the Person County newspaper essay
; contest sponsored by the Courier
i Times iii connection with the State
[ contest on “Newspapers Serving the
Community", which is being con-
I ducted by the North Carolina Press
association.
j Miss Bradsher, as winner of first
place in (lie local contest, will re
| ceive a prize of five dollars, while
Miss Hester in second place, will
receive two dollars and a half, both
prizes being contributed by the
j Courier-Times.
The winning essays from Person
will be submitted to C. Sylvester
Green, editor of the Durham Morn
ing Herald and chairman of the
committee for the State Press as
sociation. state winners are expect
ed to be announced at the January
: meeting of the North Carolina Press
! association later in that month,
| First State prize is SIOO Victory
: bond, and second is a SSO Victory
bond.
Several Person schools submitted
essays and many were excellent, so
that the local judging committee
i had a difficult time making selec
i tions. Miss Bradsher, winner of first
place, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Bradsher, of Leasburg road on
the Westbrook place and is a junior
in higli school.
Miss Cothran, Os
Mt. Tirzah, Dies
• Funeral services for Miss Martha
Cothran, 67, who died Wednesday
; at her home at Mount Tirzah after
: an illness of 11 days with pneumonia
was conducted Thursday afternoon
at 2:30 from the Mount-. Tirzah
Methodist Church. Interment was in
| the church cemetery.
Surviving are one sister. Miss Rosa
Cothran; four brothers, J, W. Coth
; ran and J. L. Cothran, both of the
home, E. G. Cothran of Raleigh and
T. N. Cothran of Durham; and one
j half-sister, Mrs. E. L. Thomas of
Efland.
ij Miss Cothran is also survived by
1 a number of nieces and nephews.
Motorists Urged
To Obtain Plates
Motor Vehicles Commissioner T.
Boddie Ward, of Raleigh, reminded .
motorists yesterday that their 1943
! a utomobile license plates are valid
i until midnight January 31 under an ■;
! amended State law.
Ward urged owners to purchase \l
new plates as early as possible be
! tore the deadline to avoid the rush
i during the few days before the
! expiration date.
License plate outlet in Roxboro ia
1 the Carolina Motor Club office in I
| Tar Heel Chevrolet company with
Mrs. Jesse E. Rogers as manager.
The Exchange club,
is much' interested in the welfare
of crippled children and only thi*
last Friday night gave a highly sue- :
cessful beenflt dance for that pufwj
pose at the Recreation Center, where 4
music was furnished by Jimmy JPuSftl
er and his orchestra. The Polio fnH
dance probably will take placejflfl
the end of January on or nea£ JHfl
birthday of the late President FomM|
lin D. Roosevelt,, warm friend a&M,
patron of the Foundation. \Jj
Alm. riivcly assisting with the j
Polio Fund drive here, which wU)
continue for onejAMpilk
Palace and Dolly Madison tfcg&tl ->
in which special tjmjtfUm 4mMc*
vi. Publicity chaimUm for the f^pgi