WANT AOS 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
'Singing Boy Louis’ Turns
Out To Be Durham Lad
"Singing Boy Louis”, nine or ten,
who on last Wednesday said his last
name was “Shouis” or "Shove”, was
it turns out, more nearly right when
he identified his Person County
aunt as a ,‘Susan Knutsof”,
His real name, as he finally told
Roxboro police the next day, is Ron
nie Knutson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Larry Knutson, of 301 Morris street,
Durham. Ronnie, who was taken in
to a sort of unofficial custody Wed
nesday night by Officer Page Brooks,
at first continued those irressponsi
ble tales about a waiting mother in
New York City who was going to
send him traveling money by tele
graph so he could join her, and
about “Aunt Susan” tKnutsof) who
either lived in Person County ten
miles out from Roxboro, or had just
died there and been hauled away to
a grave in a wagon because of the
deep mud.
There was a deal of travel in Ron
nie's conversation, too, Alexandria,
La., as mentioned in Thursday's
•story of last week, and, in addition,
some rather indefinite places in Mis
souri and Minnisota, in which last
state he claimed to be able to iden
tify and name his school teacher.
The truth, that he was a Durham
boy who had run away from home
twice before and nad gotten as far
as Norfolk, Va.. with his name in
the headlines, came out Thursday
after he spent the night in the Per
son jail, not as a confined criminal,
but as a wayward boy.
But it took almost ceaseless ques
tioning from Officer Brooks and
Police Chief George C. Robinson to
break Ronnie’s mountain of fabri
cations. Late that afternoon he was
taken to Durham by a Roxboro of
ficer who was going over. And now
he is probably at home. But he is a
bootblack of accomplishments and
can sing, too, which means he
can make money, if he wants *o run
>iva)*dgaui.
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New Tobacco
Record Hade
In Past Year
Stale Department Cites New
High.
Raleigh. January 9. —The Stale
Agriculture Department reports that
total production of tobacco in 1945
was 2 042,000,000 pounds, a new high
record. This total compares with the
1944 crop of 1,956,000,000 pounds.
The acreage planted to tobacco was
larger in most states this year than
last, whilt average yields per acre
were generally below last year. The
few states where acreages were
smaller than in 1944 were those
where plantings were reduced by un
usual difficulties at planting and
setting time. Approximately 57 per
cent of the production was flue
cured and 31 per cent was light air
cured. Fire-cured, dark air-cured
and all cigar classes accounted for
only about 12 per cent. This distri
bution of production among the to
bacco classes will provide relatively
more tobacco for cigarette makers
.than for other manufacturers. Size
able quantities of flue-cured tobac
co should be available for the export
trade from the 1945 crop.
The 1945 production of flue-cured
tobacco was 1,175,000.000 pounds,
compared with 1,090,000,000 in 1944.
This year's crop is slightly larger
than the record 1939 crop of 1,171,-
000,000 pounds. Blue mold in plant
beds and cold, rainy weather in the
early season held the acreage in
crease to only 6 per cent above 1944.
Early season growth was also im
peded by unfavorable weather.
Warm, dry weather in June was
conducive to development of a good
root system and also provided op
portunity for cultivation. Adequate
to excessive rainfall in July and
early August brought about lush
growth and interrupted priming.
Earjy September was warm and
ideal for priming and curing.
The Burley crop met some serious
obstacles in the early season. Blue
mold was severe in many plant beds,
and cold weather in the spring re
tarded progress. Dry weather fol
lowed and became acute in Ken
tucky, but rains fell in time to bring
about substantial recovery in most
localities. The present estimated pro
duction—6o3.ooo,ooo pounds ex
ceeds last year's record output by
about 2 per cent and the 1934-43
average by 84 per cent. The ihcrease
In production over last year was
brought about entirely bjr increase
: in acreage. The average' 1945 yield
per acre for all Burleytobacco is
1,135 pounds per acre, compared
with ltlKi pounds per *eee in 1944.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Roxboro To Be
Represented At
Red Cross Meet
Preliminary Session Held Here
By Miss Grace Taylor.
Preliminary plans for the 1946 Red
Cross fund campaign here, which
Will begin March Ist, were discuss
ed Thursday afternoon with Miss
Grace Taylor, of Danbury, field
representative, who announced the
calling of a regional meeting for
campaign directors to be held on
Wednesday, January 23, in Burling
ton.
The Roxboro meeting of last week
was held in the office of G. Lemuel
Allen, new finance chairman for
1946, and in attendance, in addition
to Mr. Allen and Miss Taylor were
Mrs. Sue Featherston, executive se
cretary of the Roxboro chapter. Dr.
Robert E. Long, chairman, and Tom
Shaw, for publicity.
It is hoped that a number of
chapter officials will be able to go
to the Burlington meeting, where a
more general discussion of aims and
objects for the campaign will be
held. Quota for Person county has
not yet been announced, but it is ex
pected to be slightly smaller than
it was for last year, chiefly because
of a reduction in needs of Red
Cross services in military establish
ments. both at home and overseas.
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Clarence Holeman
Seeking Office
As Sheriff Here
Former Deputy And Guard To
Seek Place Now Held Bv
Sheriff Clayton.
Clarence Holeman. 39, of High
School drive. Roxboro, a member
of the sales staff at Long, Bradsher
Hardwars company, who has also
had three years of experience as a
law enforcement officer in Person
county, this morning anounced that
he will be a candidate for Demo
cratic nomination as sheriff of Per
son county. *
Holeman, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Holeman, of Timberlake,
prior to his present connection with
Long Bradsher Hardware company,
where he has been for twelve years,
was for two years a guard at Col
lins and Aikman, Plant E, here and
served one year in addition as a
sheriff's deputy in Person county.
He is married to the former Miss
Blannie Berry, of Durham. The
Holemans have three daughters. He
is a deacon in Roxboro 'First Bap
tist church and is a member of
Roxboro Kiwanis club. Mr. Hole
man’s announcement may result in
the holding of a Democratic pri
mary in the race for sheriff, although
the present holder of the office,
Sherif M. T. Clayton, has made no
announcement of his intention to
run again.
Sheriff Clayton, who has held of
fice since 1928, has in recent years
had no opposition in seeking re
election.
First Baby
Miss Bowling, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ollie Bowling, of Rougemont,
Route 1, who was born January 1,
at 12:30 a. m. at Duke Hospital, was
the first baby born in Durham in
1946.
Hospital Chairmen
To Meet Tonight
To be held tonight in Roxboro
Chamber of commerce office is a
meeting of township chairmen for
Person Memorial hospital fund, ac
cording to plans formulated Thurs
day night at a general committee
session held in the main court
room at Person Court house, where
encouraging reports were presented
by R. L. Harris, finance chairman.
Goal here is $250,000, of which
a considerable sum has already been
raised. The meeting tonight will be
one in which plans will be formed
for county-wide organization of the
campaign which is expected to be
gin in a few weeks. It is expected
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President Harry S. Truman
sees 1916 March of Dimes, Jan
uary 14-31, as "a fitting tribute”
to liis predecessor, Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Hold Riles Today
For Mrs. Bowes
Os Woodsdale
j Mrs. Mose Bowes Dies After
i Second Stroke Os Paralysis.
Mrs. Mose Bowes. 62, of Woods-
I dale. Route, one. died Sunday morn
ing at nine-fifteen o'clock from- h
! second stroke of paralysis suffered
about ten days ago. She was the
former Miss Mallie Solomon. Her
I husband died eight months ago.
| Funeral was at Oak Grove
| Methodist church Monday afternoon
I at four o'clock by the pastor, the
Rev. Daniel Lane, with interment in
the Painter family cemetery near
the I. G. Stephens' residence. The
body will be at the residence of a
step-daughter, Mrs. M. F. (Lula)
Fox, near the Green Williams resid
ence in the Oak Grove community
until hour of the funeral.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
Ralph Rice and two grandchildren,
of Woodsdale, route 1, three step
sons, four step-daughters, four
! brothers, four sisters, many step
| grand children and nieces and ne
[ phews.
j Brothtrs are, William, Oscar and
! Clark Solomon, all of Woodsdale.
and Ollie Solomon, Roxboro. Sisters
are, Mrs. Mack Long, Woodsdale,
Mrs. Zack Briggs. Timberlake, Mrs.
B. L. Walker and Mrs. Johnnie Clay
j ton, both of Roxboro. Stepsons are
! Clem Bowes, Hurdle Mills, Clifton
i Bowes, Bushy Fork, and Rueben
Bowes, Woodsdale. Step-daughters
are Mrs. s. S. Gentry, of Blanche,
Mrs. Alex Watson and Miss Hallie
May Bow'es, both of Roxboro, and
Mrs. Fox, of Woodsdale.
In Orchestra
| Miss Billie Street, of the first vio
lin section, the Duke Symphony or
chestra. played in Saturday night's
highly successful concert in Dur
ham. Going from here with her for
' the performance were Sam Oran
. hood and her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
'Kendall Street.
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| Chinese truce negotiations under
! way for the past several weeks, are
| reported to be bogging down.
that a general meeting of citizens
interested in the project, a hospital
as a memorial to those who gave
their lives in and served in World
War one and World War two, will
be held later and that speaker then
may be Ferrell Evans of Scotland
county.
Evans is or has been finance chair
man in Scotland county for a sim
ilar project, recetly completed with
much success. Scotland county is
similar in population to Person.
Presiding at the Thursday meeting
here was Claude T. Hall, general
chairman for Person, with R. P.
Hunts as secretory.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Winstead Home
Cliff Winstead, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Winstead, of Roxboro.
has been discharged from the Unit
ed States Army and is now in Rox
boro. He received his discharge at
Fort Bragg several days ago after
having landed in the United States
the day before Christmas.
Winstead saw service in Northern
Fiance. Ardennes, the Rhineland
and Central Europe. He received the
Purple Heart, and several other
medals including the Eamc T Cam
paign with four service stars, Good
Conduct. Victory and American
Theatre Campaign.
Organization Plan
For Polio Drive
Now In Operation
j Schools Have Part. Or
chestra For Dance
Engaged.
Getting underway this morning,
the 1946 March of Dimes campaign
for the Polio fund of the Infantile
Paralysis foundation here has a
| goal of S2OBO, it was revealed Fri
!day by the Rev. Daniel Lane, gen
jeral chairman for Person County
and Roxboro. who held a general
round-table discussion with his
campaign committee.
It is expected that considerable
I work will be done through the
schools, where a motion picture
j from the Foundation will be shown.
Appeals will also be made to civic
| clubs, church and social organiza
tions and to individual citizens,
| many of whom are to receive let
ters of explanation. One of the
chief fund-raising projects will be a
Polio or President’s Birthday bene
fit dance to be staged by the Rox
■ boro Exchange club. Thursday night
January 31, in the Recreation Cen
ter, where music will be furnished
by Russ Carlton's orchestra from
Danville, Va.
Meeting with tne Rev. Mr. Lane
were Mrs. T. C. Wag,staff, who will
j handle arrangements for club
women and church circles; Fred
Bishop, for schools, Rev. George
W. Heaton, for the Ministerial as
sociation, and Tom Shaw, general
publicity. Released by the General
I Chairman was a list of white and
i Negro citizens, chiefly teachers in
; the schools, who will head up that
part of the work in each school.
: General chairman for Negroes will
be Dr. R. A. Bryce.
In white schools those expected
!to assist are, Miss Claire Harris.
Central; Mrs. Blanche H. Wagstaff.
ICavei; Ruth Williams, Longhurst:
| Mrs. Huldah Winstead, Olive Hill;
Miss Lucy Green, Cunningham,
Miss Naomi Blalock, Bethel Hill;
' Mrs. J. F. Funderburke, Allensville;
1 Mrs. B. B. Knight, Mt. Tirzah; Mrs.
Vera H. Fox, Helena; Mrs. Norma
Whitfield, Hurdle Mills; Mrs, Grace
Shuford, Bushy Fork and E, L. Wch
, renburg, High Plains.
Letters are also being sent to
: leaders in each of the many Negro
schools and communities in the
County.
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China's Civil
War At End
Chungking.-Generalissimo Chiahg
Kai-shek opened the Peoples Con
sultative Council by announcing
that end of the Chinese civil war
and a government amnesty for all
political prisoners.
To guarantee the peace, he also
proclaimed full civil liberties for the
Chinese people and equalization of
the Communist party with the gov
ernment Kuominating party.
A special three-man commission
headed by • American Charge d'Af
faires Martin Robertson was created
lo set up headquarters in Peiping
and order an immediate official halt
to the bloody fighting that has rav
aged China for more than 18 years.
More than 13.000 men, women and
children In the United States were
victims of infantile paralysis in
1945. making it the fourth highest
year on record, the National Found
ation for Infantile Paralysis reports,
■ Ahuuf, *7<4e Waif, -
Another white man has bit the dust . . . . P. T. Whitt, Sr., the man
that sells gas is married. What more can I say about my friend Whitt
. . . .• gone but not forgotten. I can remember when he did not have
to work but now he must work from dawn to dusk. I am very glad that
.he is a friend of David Brooks, the banker, cause he is going to need
a financial friend.
So long. Pres, I hope to see you every now and then but no more after
six o'clock in the afternoon and never on Sundays unless we go to the
same church. It’s been nice knowlg you.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Charles Wood Now
Lt. Commander
Charles Wood, former citizen of,
this city and for the past three I
years in the United States Navy is
now Lt. Commander Charles Wood. I
He received this promotion around i
the first of the year being promoted
from lieutenant to the next rank. !
Commander Wood has seen ser
vice in the Pacific where he was sta- j
tioned on the battleship Washing- j
ton for several months *and has j
been in Washington, D. C. for the j
past year or longer.
He expects to be in Roxboro next
week and will spend ten days here.
Mrs. Sallie Whitt
Os Olive Branch
Dies At Home
Kites Held Yesterday At
Church For One Os Old
est Members.
i
j Held Sunday afternoon at three
j O'clock at Olive Branch Baptist
church of which she was one of the
oldest members, was the funeral ser
vice for Mrs. Sallie Dewberry Whitt,
81, whose death from old age and
complications occurred Saturday
morning at ten o'clock at her home
near the church. Rites were in
charge of jier pastor, the Rev. Joe
;B. Currin. of Roxboro, with inter
ment in the church cemetery,
Mrs. Whitt, a native of Mississippi,
ciime to Person county at the age of
Hghteen as the wife of the late
phitrles G. Whitt, who died in 1935.
She Was a daughter of Wilks and
Mary Whitt Dewberry, of Virginia,
who died a number of years ago.
Surviving Mrs. Whitt are four
daughters. Mrs. B. F. Lowery and
Aits. Mattie Stone, both of Roxboro,
Route two, Mrs. Charles Montgom
ery. of Kenbridge, Va., and Mrs,
Russell Carmichael, of Oxford, and
one son. Joseph S. Whitt, of Yong's
Island, South Carolina, and twenty
four grandchildren.
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Clothing Plans
Revealed Today
By Fred Long
!
Fred Long, chairman for thel946
Victory clothing collection, today
announced that Floyd L. Peaden
will be collection chairman, with
Joe Adair and Charlie Wright in
charge of packing, and C. C. Jack
son as shipping manager. Church
collections will be in charge of the
! Rev. George W. Heaton, and schools
will be in charge of R. B. Griffin
and J. L. Hester. Date for opening
of the drive will be Sunday after
noon, January 27th, at one-thirty
o'clock.
Collection boxes will be placed
as formerly at important locations
in the City and each contributor
is asked to give at least one article
of clothing. County collections will
be handled as they were last year
through various merchants, whose
names will be announced soon.
Dice And Death
Go Together
! Charlotte.—An official police re
, port said Orville A. Gibson, 49, pro
jprietor of a cigar store here, shot,
land killed himself because he lost
' $2,500 in a dice game with two men
the night before.
Detective Capt, Frank N. Little
john said the two were taken to po
lice headquarters after their names
had been found in a note left by
Gibson, and one of them turned ov
er $2,550 to Mrs. Gibson.
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1946
$2.60 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Authorization For City Delivery
Os Mail Effective Next Month
Polio Singer
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MISS CAROLYN TALLEY
Miss Carolyn Talley, singer with
the Russ Carlton orchestra, will
be among those helping with the
Person Polio drive, which has a
goal of $2,080 and started here
today, with the Rev. Daniel Lane
as chairman. The Carlton orches
tra will play here at a Polio bene
fit dance sponsored by Roxboro
Exchange club on Thursday night,
Jan. 31, at the Recreation Center.
First contribution to the fund here
was received last week from Mrs.
Ola Long Evans, of Richmond,
Va„ a former resident of Roxboro.
T. H. Owen, Os
Cunningham,
Passes Sunday
Merchant At Cunningham
Had Keen In 111 Health"
Many Years.
Thomas Hester Owen. 55. of Cun
ningham, for more than twenty
years a merchant there, died at his
home Sunday morning from paraly
sis after seven years of ill health.
A member of Ephesus Baptist
churefl. Person county, he was a
veteran of World War I. and a
member of the American Legion
post, South Boston, Va. He was a
son of the late James W. and Mary
Tate Owen and a native of Pittsyl
vania county, Va.
Funeral was held Monday af
ternoon at two o'clock at the home
by the Rev. C. E. Newman, of Vif
gilina, Va., and the Rev. A. F. Yar
borough, of Milton, with interment
in the Semora Christian church
cemetery at Semora.
Survivors are his wife, the form
er Miss Willie Bray, of the home,
Farmers Deserve
Laboring Share
Asserting that farmers ought to
receive more. too. if prices go up
because of labor condition, that is I
strikes and an accompanying infla
tion. former Gov. J. Melville
Broughton, of Raleigh, speaker ip.
Roxboro Thursday at a Farmer's
Night program of Roxboro Rotary
club, also said that this year, 1946,
"is one of the most doubtful years
in modern history." although a
bright future can he seen lor the
State and its farmers and all citiz
ens provided commonsense is used
in avoiding dangers of inflation.
Introduction of the speaker was
by Claude T. Hall, who praised Mr.
Broughton's interest in farmers, par- ;
ticularly tobacco growers, and in !
the State generally. A round of ap- 1
plause greeted Hall’s reference to the
fact that the guest of honor would!
make an aceptable U. S. Senator in!
Washington. Mr. Broughton, himself,
did not refer to that statement in j
his own address, although it is re-|
ported he has been similarly intro
duced at other gatherings in the 1
State.
Should he choose to become an ac- .
tive candidate for Democratic nom
ination as Senator, Mr. Broughton
would be seeking the seat now held
by Sen. Josiah W. Bailey, whose
term expires in 1948 and who lias
not yet announced any intention of
retirement despite persistent rumors
as to the condition of his health.
Mr. Broughton in his preliminary
remarks here paid tribute to a num
W. W. Harris, Os
Virgilina Road,
Dies At Home
Rites Held At Olive Branch
Baptist Church East Week.
Funeral for Willie Weldon Harris,
77. of near Tuck's Store, the Virgi
lina road. Person county, whose
death occurred last week on Sunday
night at his home from complica
tions after a long illness, was held
j Tuesday afternoon at two-thirty
| o'clock at Olive Hill Branch Baptist
! church by the Rev. C. E. Newman,
'of Virgilina, Va., who officiated in
j the absence of his pastor, the Rev.
| Joe B. Cun'in, of Roxboro. who was
J unable to be present. Interment was
lin the church cemetery.
! The deceased was a native ol'
| Granville county, the son of the late
1 Fielden and Mary Barnette Harris,
;He was married to Miss Callie B.
■ Seate in 1899. who survives, as do
I eight sons and daughters, twenty-
I two grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
Daughters surviving are Mrs. Mal-
I lie Morris, Mrs. Mamie Tuck, Mrs.
| Will McCarthy and Mrs. Irving Sid
! er. Sons surviving are Rhodes,
j Woodrow, Lem and Newman Harris.
! the last named in military service.
; Another son, Gayland Harris, was
| killed in action in overseas service.
Exams Begin
Semester examinations began
this morning in Roxboro high
school and will continue through
| Wednesday, it was reported this
' miming by Jerry L. Hester, dis
trict superintendent. All schools
1 that have been closed because of
! muddy condition of highways are
j reported to have resumed work
j this inomlng.
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GETS NEW LINE
} Luther Dixon, operator of City
i Bus lines here; has also taken over
■ a six bus company in Henderson,
i Tile change was effected last Week.
! The business in Roxboro has grown
| from one bus to four or five in less
’ than a year.
I .
' two daughters, a son, live sisters
and three brothers.
Daughters are. Misses Mary Ellen
j and Fay Owen and son is Ray Owen,
, all of the home. Sisters are, Mrs.
Ora Baynes, of South Boston, Va.,
Mrs. John Russell, of Nathalie, Va.,
Mrs. John Burgess, of Paces. Va.,
Mrs. Eliza Moorefield, of Danville,
Va., and Mrs. Anna Carmichael, of
Chatham, Va., while brothers are C.
J. Owen, of Semora. W. B. Owen,
of Paces Va. and Jim Owen, of Dan*
■ ville, Va.
ber of Roxboro citizenh, including
Gordon C. Hunter, as President of
the State Bankers’ association.
George W. Kane, of the State High
way commission, former Lieutenant
Governor R. L. Harris, who served
while Mr. Broughton was governor,
and J. W. Noell, editor of the
Courier-Times. Mention Was also
made of W. H,. Harris, Sr., identified
in good humor as the "elder son of
the former Lieutenant Governor.
Introduced prior to the Broughton
address were various Person farm
ers, honor guests of Rotarians. The
meeting was in Hotel Roxboro, where
a good half of a crowded dining
room was reserved for the event.
With reference to tobacco the
speaker said that foreign markets
continue to be vital, that the CCC
bought forty-five percent of the
1945 crop for foreign markets, that
such markets make it necessary for
farmers to have an interest in in
ternational affairs, that sale for our
tobacco ought to be sought both in
Russia and Japan and that you
can’t trade with people if you do
not buy from them, too.
He mentioned also the importance
l of crop controls applied to tobacco
I and asserted that such controls, to
be voted on again this year, must be
.kept. Government regulations are
I here to stay, he said, and are neces
jsary.'They will be continued until
international problems are settled.
Presiding at the session was Club
President, Dr. John Fitzgerald.
fk Fatal Highway
" Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1946
LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 12
Order Comes Through From
First Assistant Postmast
er General.
The City iif Roxboro can have
street delivery of mail by February
Ist, it was revealed this morning in
a letter received from First Assis
tant Postmaster General J. M.
Donaldson, of Washington, who has
written Roxboro's Postmaster L. M.
Carlton that the go ahead signal
has been given.
Tlie announcement ends more
than six moths or intensive effort
on the part of Postmaster Carlton,
City Manager Guy Whitman, Sec
retary ol commerce W. Wallace
Woods and others, and is a climax
to a more general agitation for
such service, here extending over
a period of years’
Authorization, which is to be ef
fective Friday, February Ist, calls
for two street deliveries each day
except Saturday, when only one will
be made. The order stipulates ser
vice by three regular carriers under
civil service appointment and per
sons interested in such work are
urged by Postmaster Carlton to se
cure blanks at the Post Office and
to file them at once.
The order from Donaldson like
wise makes the new system con
tingent upon having all houses num
bered. with proper mail boxes for
each house and with street signs
properly placed and in good repair.
Donaldson also indicates that effort
is being made to put through a bid
lor a vehicle for delivery of paretet
j post.
In Roxboro some difficulty has
been reported in the securing of
metal numbers to put on houses and
in some quarters here doubt has
been expressed that all stipulations
can be complied with by February
Ist. All requirements must be met
before the free street delivery sys
tem can be instituted. One possi
\ bility is that the new system will in
a measure reduce the crowefed con
dition long prevailing here among
iboxholders, some of whom have
shared boxes with several persons.
There is a long waiting list for
boxes now.
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Leasburg Church
Plans To Build
New Structure
Leasburg Methodist church, a,t
| Leasburg, of which the Rev. W. G.
1 Burgin is pastor, is planning thfe
I erection of a new church building.
I according to announcement made
I today by the pastor.
It is estimated that the structure
will cost eighteen thousand dollars.
Treasurer of the building fund is
Miss Bessie Thompson and mem
jbers of the committee are Mrs. W.
j J. Newman. Mrs. J. W. Stepens. Miss
i Mattie Pulliam. Mrs. W. E, Con
| nally, Mrs Ernest Winstead and
j Miss Jean Winstead.
It is planned that at least $14,000
will be raised or pledged by April 1.
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More Acres
Os Tobacco
North Carolina’s 1946 flue-cure(s
! tobacco acreage allotment, increased
| by 10 per cent in a blanket move bj
' Secretary of Agriculture Anderson!
j now is 838,435.7 acres, it was taw
) nounced yesterday by G. T. Scott J
! State Production and Marketing^
! Administration director. t j
i All farmers growing flue-cured
leaf for the first time this year ira
granted the 10 per cent lncreasa
and growers whose allotment is one-j
half acre or less will get a boost Os
one-tenth of an acre, Scott said.
Individual allotments are not ex
pected to be available before (ta
middle of next month.
The revised allotment gives thd
State 89.294 more acres of tobMCto
this year than last, when the toll)
acreage was 749,141.7. The national
increase was 130,000 acres, with
North Carolina getting about t|
per cent of the gain.
War-depleted foreign stocks Id!
flue-cured tobacco are expected $»
get between 250,000,000 and 300JMDz*
000 pounds of this year’s crop.
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CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS %
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In view of the prospect of estafai
lishing City Delivery in the neaa
future those persons desblnf
take the civil service exarninatidot
for this position may obtato lftjMsl
applications at the Post Office, !to»
boro. Applications should bft IBM'!
at once os it is hoped to estatjUiK
this service by February Ist, 1945.
L. M. Carlton