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
Some Schools To
Start Extra Classes
To Make Up Time
M. /
mmm * W. A. DOBSON
(Regional Executive, Region j
No. 6, Boy Scouts of America
Plans Formed
For Cherokee's
Annual Session
Officers For Year Will Be
Elected Friday.
W. Ernest Thompson. President of
Cherokee Council. Bpy Scouts of
America, which includes Alamance
Rockingham. Person and Caswell
counties, announced today that the
Council's Annual Meeting and Ban
quet would be held in Draper. N. C.
at the Draper Hgh School, Friday
evening. January tfie 18th, 1946, at
7:00 p. m. There will be a business
meeting of the executive board
prior to the Banquet at 6:00 p. in.
at the same location.
A 111 Scout Leaders and Council
Officers and members are urged to
attend and bring their wives. Tick
ets may be secured from Scout
Headquarters in Reidsville or a rep
resentative in tile various districts.
Walter A. Gardner, of Leaksville-
Jspray, is serving as Program Chair
man and he and his committee have
planned a most interesting program.
Two Silver Beavers will be pre
sented. This is the highest honor
(hat can be paid to any man. by the
Local Council. This award is given
for distinguish service to boyhood.
Several other awards will be pre
sented.
Highlight of tile program will bo
an address which is to be made by
W. A. Dobson, Region Six, which
consists ,of the 36 Boy Scout.
Councils in North and South Caro
lina, Georgia, and Florida, He is a
nattye Southerner who has been both
a volunteer and Professional Scout
Leader since 1921.
Mr. Dobson is considered one of
the outstanding speakers in the
South.
Council officers to serve during
1946 will be elected at the meeting.
Before becoming Regional Execu
tive on Februray 10. 1936, Mr. Dob
son was Scout Executive of the At
lantic Council for eight years. Un
der his administration the Atlanta
Councli grew from 67 troops with
1,567 Scouts to 148 troops with 3,004
Scouts. During this period Scouting
Slight Delays In
Traffic Reported
Comparatively little disruption of
train service because of the snow is
expected, but considerable delay is
being experienced in bus runs, al
though State highway crews are
busy with both highways and
streets, it was revealed here this
morning. No disruption of tele
graph service has been felt and none
with telephone connections except
those incidental to certain repair
work now being done.
P. 8. Dillard, new manager for the
Bus Service center, reported this
morning at ten o'clock that only
one bus from Danville to Durham
had made Its run from Danville to
Roxboro and that driving time was
one and three-fourths hours, com
• pared with a normal running time
of about one' hour.
No other busses had come througn
this morning, not even from Dur
ham, although the one from Dan
ville headed towards Durham from
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
By Operating On Alternate
Saturdays Hope Held For
Same Closing Date.
County schools in the Person area,
many of which have lost as many
as ten classroom teaching days be
cause of closings due to muddy roads,
| will begin holding Saturday classes
|on alternate Saturdays, beginning,
DELAY
| Closing of all schools today be
; cause of snow, will delay start of
i Saturday classes until next week
| and will probably cause an exten
sion of the number of such elass
l es to be held. Today's closing will
I bring to twelve the number of
classroom days lost because of
j weather and roads.
1 January 19th, it was announced to-f
| day by Superintendent R. B. Griffin,
| who said that the extra class
j. schedule will continue through
| March in the majority of schools.
I
j Under such a schedule it is ex
j pected that all schools, including
those in the Roxboro district, will
; be able to end work on May 23, three
I days later than originally proposed.
; Schools in Roxboro district, where
only three days were lost, are not
under the Saturday teaching order
and it is reported that two county
schools will have less of such teach
inb than the others because less
time as been lost.
School roads were reported as
considerably improved the first of
i tlie week when regular class sched
! ules were successfully resumed, but
the damp, wet weather of Tuesday
started the damage In again and
, caused considerable apprehension.
: partially relieved yesterday by cold
weather under which the roan; froze
i and became rough instead of muddy.
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Driver's Course
To Be Presented
Mrs. Bill Flythe, of Raleigh, who
is with the education division of the
| State Highway department, will
| conduct a truck or bus drivers school
: for Person and Roxboro students on
1 Tuesday, January 22. it was report
ed today. The session will begin at
nine-thirty o’clock in the morning
iin Person County Public Library
and all who apply for instruction
must be sixteen years of age and
must have a driver's license.
The course is one of a series given
1 each year to train new drivers as re
; placements for those who graduate l
from school.
i for Negro boys was organized in this
. Council. Under Dobson's leadership,
• 1 Cubbing, the pre-Scout age program
. for boys, 9, 10 and 11 was organized,
t j Sea Scouting, Explorer Scouting and
, other Senior Scout activities for
' boys 15 years of age and upward
; were also introduced in Atlanta dur
: ing Dobson's tenure.
Dobson served as the first Camp
: Director of Camp Bert Adams, the
. Atlanta, Ga., Scout Camp when it
first opened in 1927. The Annual Boy
Scout circus, a great spectacle of
■ boys demonstrating Scout handicraft
activities, games and contests which
. gives an incentive to boys to become
i proficient in all phases of Scoutcraft,
i became a part of the Atlanta Coun-
I oil's yearly program.
here about nine this morning.
Lee Umstead, of Norfolk and
Western said this morning that
freight trains coming through had
been slightly delayed and that no
report had been received concern
ing passenger trains, which it is pre
sumed will operate on schedule.
Being used to scrape Main street,
Depot street and other main traf
fic lanes are snowplows of the State
Highway department. Their work,
however, according to City Manager
Guy Whitman, is of a courtesy na
ture and is rendered in cooperation,
since the City of Roxboro has no
snow-scraping equipment. The
State machines are, of course, being
used to clear highways in and near
Roxboro and the job done here for
the City is incidental to that work.
Mr. Dillard, of the Bus Service
center, came to his work at the
end of December, succeeding Vir
gil Thomas.
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Club Candidate
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JRHral
I. M. BAILEY
I. M. Bailey
Has Support
Os Raleigh Rotary
Wake Lawyer Backed As
President 189th District
Os Rotary.
!
: Raleigh, Jan. 17. —Enthusiastic
and unanimous approval was ex
pressed by tlie 137 members of the
Raleigh Rotary Club in their meet
ing Monday of a proposal to offer
j I M. Bailey, local attorney, as can
j didate for Governor of District 189
Jof Rotary International.
Election of district governors
j thorughout the Rotary world will
j head up at the international meet
l ing in Atlantic City the first week
! in June. Candidates from the num
\ pious districts will be selected mean
j while at district conferences such as
I District 189 will stage at Pinehurst
i the eaely part of May.
Candidate "Ike'' Bailey, Tar Heel
; born lawyer and civic leader, witli
long-time experience in Rotary, has
an impressive record in community
and state affairs. Graduating from
Chapel Hill in the class of 1914, he
has practiced law in Jacksonville
and at Raleigh. He was attached to
the State Corporation Commission
for a number of years as member
i and general' counsel.
Bailey also nas been president of
tlie North Carolina Bar Association
and has served on several of its com
mittees. He was president of the Na
tional Association of Security Com
missioners in 1929-1930. He w'as pre
sident of the Raleigh Chamber of
Commerce in 1938: president of the
Raleigh Community Chest in 1933
and chairman of the Wake County
War Finance Committee from 1942
to 1945.
Fred Greene, president of the
Raleigh Club, has named a "Bailey
for Governor" Committee with S.
Paul Vccker as chairman.
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School Os Missions
At Long Memorial
Beginning next Sunday evening
the annual School of Missions will
be held at Long Memorial church.
The pastor, Rev. B. H. Houston, who
was a missionary in Brazil for a
number of year, will teach the study
book, "Christ and Our Century", by
Bishop Arthur J. Moore. The ser
vice is at 7:30 P. M. and the School
will continue for four Sunday eve
nings.
The study is for all members of
the church, and a large attendance
is expected for the series. Visitors
are cordially welcome.
Two To Arrive
T. C. Wagstaff, of the United
States army, who has just returned
from service in the Pacific area,
came to Roxboro Tuesday after
receiving his dicharge. He is a son
of Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, director of
the Person Department of Welfare.
Also discharged Tuesday was Flint
liver, husband of Mrs. Virginia A.
Oliver and son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
A. Oliver, who spent the week-end
here after arriving from months of
service in the European theatre.
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Market Closes
Roxboro Tobacco market is clos
ing today, it was reported this
morning. No final figures for sales
were available, however, although
the total for the season is expect
ed to be in the neighborhood of
nine to ten million pounds, more
than has ever been sold here in
recent years. Averages have been
good, at $44 and $45 and above,
although the price has been slight
ly off since Christmas.
INCORRECT DATE
Correct date: iv, |T'£
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OWJM'BCR 17, 1946
Garvin Quotes
McCain As To
X-Ray Benefits
Person Officer Pleased That
X-Rav Will Be Here.
Dr. O.' David Garvin, of Chapel
Hill, District Health Officer, who
last week made an announcement
regarding a mass x-ray program for
Person County, feels that the Dis
trict Health Department has been
fortunate in securing 35 millimeter
x-ray machine.
The machine has been loaned to
the Tuberculosis Control Division of
the State Board of Health by the
United States Public Health Service
and is now in use in Stanley Coun
ty. Dr. Garvin urges that everyone
in Person County take’advantage of
this service being offered through
the Local and State Department of
Health.
Tlie x-ray will be set up in sever
al locations in Person County dur- !
i ing February and the dates and
places for the service will be an- !
nounced later in the Courier-Times.;
Dr. P. P. McCain of the State
Sanitorium says. "Regardless of how
well he feels everybody should have
an x-ray of his chest. On X-raying
the chest of millions of apparently
healthy young men for the Army
and Navy the induction boards
found that one out of every hun
dred had tuberculosis and that one |
out of every two hundred had active j
tuberculosis, and needed sanatorium
treatment.
"It is an easy matter for one to j
j be cured of early tuberculosis, butj
j if tlie disease becomes advanced it
| is a long drawn out procedure and ,
: complete recovery is rarely possible.;
!If patients wait until they have j
i symptoms or feel sick to be X-ray
j ed, the great majority have advanc
j ed disease.
j When “large groups of apparent- ,
j ly healthy people have their chests
| x-rayed tlie vast majority of those
i who are lound to have tuberculosis
j have the disease in rhe early stages, i
Even though one has every reason to
believe that his X-ray will be nega-
I tive it is well for him to have an
! X-ray for a permanent record and
i for future comparison. "It lias been
j found by careful surveys that for
J every death from tuberculosis in a
| given community there are some
eight to ten active cases of the di
| sense.'* .
] "There are. therefore, in North
; Carolina at least ten thousand per
sons with active tuberculosis. Quite
j.a large number of these are undis
i covered and a great many of those
j affected do not even suspect that
they have tlie disease. Oftcii these
i undiscovered persons with tubercul
osis, who are taking no precaution.^
!to protect others, are a source of
i great danger to the public.”
I Dr. McCain points out that, "tile
j Xrray now makes it possible for ev
| ery case of tuberculosis to be dis
covered in the early and curable
| stage and usually before there is ;
any danger of contagion. If every ,
I one in the United States would have
| an X-ray of his or her chest every
| year, or even every two or three
j years, tuberculosis could soon be : i
eradicated.”
Sheriff Clayton
To Run Again
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Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton, who i
has held office as sheriff here since i
1928, today announced that he will ;
seek re-election to the office is j
Democratic nominee. This means i
there will be a Democratic primary i
to be held before tlie November i ]
elections, with the primary coming
in the late Spring or early Sum
mer.
Other candidate for Democratic
nomination as sheriff is Clarence
Holeman, who made announcement
on Monday of this week.
Sheriff Clayton had no comment
to make except to say that he will,
if re-elected, continue to strive to :
give citizens here the best of ser
vice in office as he has in the past, j
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Inducted
\
Seven Person and Roxboro young;
.white men, with Ellis Junior Moore- i
field as leader, left Monday morning 1
for Fort Bragg for induction under j
Selective Service, it was reported i
today by Miss Jeanette Wrenq, chiei :
clerk to the Board. In addition to j
Moorefield, those who reported were, 1
Bernice Cornelius Wade, James Earl
Hester. Jr., Roy Clay Pogleman.
Kelly W. Carver. Patrick O’Brien
and Walter Herbert Powell.
SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
Emmett Wilkerson, who has been
seriously ill in Watts hospital, Dur
ham, is reported to be slightly im
proved.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD /7/ ,^
Beulah Speaker
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REV. H. G. HAMMETT
The Rev. 11. G. Hammett, of Dur
ham. pastor of Temple Baptist
ehurrh and well-known in Person
County and Roxboro, will be speak
er Tuesday night at seven-thirty
o’clock at a meeting of the Beu
lah association to be held at Rox
boro First Baptist church, where
it is expected plans will be made
for other meetings of the associa
tion. which is composed of Sun
day school groups throughout the
County and City.
Fred Bishop, Os
High School, Cites
Recreation Needs
Bible Teacher Tells Kivvan
ians That Gymnasium
Needed Here
h lied Bishop, ol tlje Bible depart
ment. Roxboro high school, Whß had
charge of his own program at Ki
wanis club, of which he is a mem
ber. repeated for the club Monday
night at Hotel Roxboro an address
on "Recreation in the Schools”,
which he first gave several weeks
ago at a session of the Person
County Council of Social agencies.
Displaying the same vigor he used
in his Agencies address. Bishop out
lined the needs of providing differ
ent types of recreation for different
types of students of all ages and
backgrounds, both boys and girls,
and again he emphasized the point
that there is a crying need for a
new gymnasium at Roxboro high
school, where considerable improve
ments. but none for a gymnasium,
have been proposed.
The pressing needs cf planned
recreation for boys and girls and
young men and women in the
schools, according to Bishop, are
not properly understood or appre
ciated by the general public. Pro
vision has been made for the aver
age athelete, who can find outlet
in baseball, football and basket
ball and softball, but at the present
time little or nothing is being done
to provide recreation for others,
either in school or out.
Recreation, he said, can be paint
ing or music or some other form of
artistic expression, but the only one
of these avenues open here now' is
that of music, although there has
been some slight interest shown in
art. Presiding at the club session
in the absence of President J. W.
Green, w'ho was away on a business
trip, was vice president, J. M.
Dempsey.
Burns Talks On
City Progress
R. P. Burns, guest speaker last
night at Roxboro Exchange club, dis
: cussed muncipal government in Rox
boro and presented an analysis of
future prospects for growth of the
I City, which he sees as good. Part
of (his discussion was based on a re
, view of past history here. Presiding
was C. C. Garrett. The meeting was
■at Hotel Roxboro, where attendance
[ was curtailed because of snow and
: sleet.
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4-H On Radio
Members of the Allensvilie Four-
II club will go to Raleigh Satur
day to participate in a WPTF
Four-H broadcast, beginning at
12:45 p. m„ it was announced to
day by Miss Evelyn Caldwell, Per
son leader of the clubs. Theme of
the broadcast wilt be, “Four-H
Steps of Progress". Participants
will be Clyde and Maury Gentry
and Misses Katie Lee Curt-in and
: Helen Hall.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Signing Os Loop Road Contract
Will Add To Housing Shortage
TRAINED LEADER TO SPEAK AT
NCEA MEETING HERE
Miss Sarah Foust, formerly teach
er in the Charlotte public schools
and now a field representative for
the North Carolina Education asso
ciation. will be speaker at a meeting
of the Person chapter of the NCEA
to be held here Wednesday night,
January’ 23. in Roxboro high school
library at seven-thirty o'clock, it
was announced today b.v Miss Zer
finia Burton, of Olive Hill, president
of the Person chapter.
Miss Foust, a graduate of Wo
man's College, the University of
North Carolina, is a daughter of
Schools Closed Bv
Snow Until Monday
City Schools Attempt To Open
But Only Small Num
ber On Hand.
1 Person County was treated to
snow and hail Wednesday Utter
noon and all night Wednesday to
a depth of between three and four
! inches by early Thursday morning;
i and at nine o'clock something was
still falling, either sleet, hail of
snow.
Schools in Roxboro attempted !o
open but alter it was seen how lew
pupils were present all schools were
closed and will remain closed until
Monday. It is presumed that county
.schools did Jhot attempt to qpen as
|it was next to Impossible for a bus
to get along on the highway. Coun
ty schools will, of course, remain
closed until Monday.
At Central School in Roxboro 85
: out of a 400 enrollment were pres
ent and at Roxboro High 150 out
jof an enrollment of 600 were pres
: ent.
Some cars were operating in L ix
. boro early Thursday morning but
fall were having a rather hard time
i of it. Those with chains were; hav
ing better success. Many were un
able to get out of the garage or
even pull away from the curb where
! they had been parked all night
| Many ear owners took one look at
tlie snow, another at their cars and
! decided to leave everything just is
it happened to be.
This county has had snow on the
ground or rain practically every
day since the first day of December.
There have been a few clear days
but even the old timers have started
talking about the weather. Coal piles
have been going down at a rapid
rate and prices on loads of wood
: remain high.
Stores in the business section of
j the city were open as usual with
clerks and others busy shoveling
snow from the walks. Very lew
: customers were expected until tlie
I streets were cleared.
There have been several snows
this winter and this one makes ;he
second that could be called a large
: one.
Alton Floyd, Jr.,
Has Promotion
Alton Floyd, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Alton Floyd, of Rox
boro. has been advanced to coxswain
while serving aboard the USS
DURIK, a destroyer escort of the
Atlantic fleet. He wears the Ameri
can and European-African-Middle
' Eastern theater ribbons.
Floyd attended Roxboro High
School and was employed by M. G.
Johnson, of Roxboro. before enter
ing the Navy. He has recently been
at home on leave.
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Scout Tickets
Scouters interested in securing
tickets for the Cherokee Council
dinner of Friday night in Reids
villc, are urged to get them at
once at Green’s Jewelry company
according to J. W. Greene, chair
man of Person District.
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LECTURE LATER
The A. D. Stuart lecture on hy
brid corn scheduled to have been
held this afternoon, has been post
poned until later because of snow,
it was reported today by H. K. San
ders, Person Farm agent.
Thomas R. Foust, of Greensboro, re
cently retired as Guilford superin
tendent of schools after many years
of service. Topic for discussion by
the speaker will be the "Retirement
System—Past and Future".
Program chairman is Mrs. J. F.
Funderburk, of the Allensville facul
ty and hostess schools will be Bethel
Hill and Hurdle Mills. Miss Foust is
a teacher and educational worker
witli years ol experience and it is
hoped that tiianv members of the
local association will be on hand to
Hear her. according to Miss Burton.
Farm Building
Information Can
Be Obtained
Person A vent’s Office Has
House And Barn Plans.’
The Person Farm Agent's office
is having more calls in recent weeks
in regard to building and repairing
homes than uvpr befqre,
to H» K. Sanders, agent. Alsu, otli
purpose barns, poultry houses, hog
houses, etc., are coming in for their
share of interest.
Bulletins, plans and blue prints of
a mimber of houses are available
and others can be secured to meet
individual needs.
11l addition to plans mentioned
above, blueprints of milking sheds,
sheep-sheds, storage houses, and
others are available.
To all farmers who contemplate
building or re-modeling it is sug
gested that no one overlook a cellar.
This is the cheapest room in any
house, and probably the most val
uable. Heretofore some farmers have
been hesitating about digging a
basement because of moisture pen
etrating the walls and floors, it is
understood that now there is a pre
paration on the market which stops
any seepage in a cellar lined with
either brick or cement.
The Farm Agent's office in Rox
boro has information about farm
homes or farm buildings and will be
glad to give it to any interested per
sons.
Bank Board
Annual meeting of the Board of
Directors of Peoples Bank will be
held Wednesday afternoon. January
23, at two-thirty o'clock, in the
Board of Director's room at the
bank, it was announced today by
Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice
president.
Church Census To
Be Planned Soon
Ministers of the City and County]
are making plans to conduct an ov- !
er-all church census or religious
survey here, it was revealed today
by the Rev. George W. Heatoh, of
Roxboro Presbyterian church, presi
dent of the Person Ministerial as
sociation, which held its January
meeting Monday morning at Edgar
Long Memorial Methodist church,
with the Rev. Mr. Heaton presiding.
No date for the starting of the I
census, which will take in a ten mile I
area radiating from Roxboro, has I
been decided upon, but named with I
the Rev. Mr. Heaton as a commit-1
tee to make plans for the Work are I
the Rev. Ben Houston, of Long I
Memorial, chairman, and the Rev. ]
J. Boyce Brooks, of Roxboro First j
Baptist church, representing three
leading protestant denominations
here.
It is expected that the survey,
which will deal with church affilia
tions, non-membership and why, as
well as with Sunday school attend
• NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS:
I will pay my church obligations.
I will pay my bills.
I will renew my subscription for
the COURIER-TIMES.
NUMBER 13
Problem of Where To Move
Will Beeome Acute For
Several Home-
Owners.
Contract for the new loop road or
highway-street back of Lamar
. street is expected to be signed on
j next Tuesday, January 22, and in
preparation for the beginning of
work thereafter, tenants in and
owners of certain residences in path
way of the road have been notified
to move, it was learned here today.
Reliable report has it that movinf
is to be done within one week afte
signing of the contract. One of t.’ ,
, home owners affected by the ord -r
is E. E. Thomas, of court street,
whose home is directly in the route
.line and who last week was noti
fied of the impending move he
would have to make.
According to City Manager Guy
Whitman, it is probable that as
many as a dozen dwellings, includ
ing some belonging to or occupied
by Negroes, sail have to be tom
down. The coming of the new loop
road has long been expected, but
new development in connection Is
an aggravation of the housing
shortage which was not thought of
at the time the loop road was origi
nally proposed several years ago.
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Four More Os
Army Men Come
Back To Roxboro
Riley Whitt, of the United States
Army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Whitt, who has just received his
discharge after many months of
oversea duty in the Pacific area, is
one of several Roxboro and Person
men who have returned home this
wi*ck in .-Bet} include
Toufielk Ameen. soil* of* Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Ameen, who also was in
tlie Pacific, Herbert Long, son of
Mr. and Mrs, J. Martin Long, who
came Tuesday after a stay in Europe
and Harold Clayton, of the Air
Forces, recently in California after
a long stay in Kansas.
The return of Herbert Long means
that all four of the service sons of
his family are now at home t*>-
! gather for the first time in many
years. And in Whitt’s case it means
that only one of three sons now
remains in service, namely, Herbert
Whitt, of the Army, now on the
West, coast.
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USO Center Plans
For Week Formed
Roxboro USO Service Center con
• tinues to have successful week-end
programs despite the fact that the
hospital is expected to close next
month, it was reported here today.
Many service men are continuing
i their visits here and a regular pro
gram will be observed here this
Saturday and Sunday.
Hostesses to serve at the USQ
this week-end are as follows: Sat
urday. 4 to 6. Mrs. R. C. Hall; 6 td
8. Miss Hilda Shoemaker; 8 to Id
Mrs. Fred Long. Sunday, 2 to 4, Mrs.
_J. H. Hughes; 4 to 6. Mrs. Gene
Winstead Thomas; 6 to 8, Mrs. Sally
| Vaughan; 8 to 10, Mrs. W. G.
i Bryant.
ance, will have active cooperation
j from all protestant ministers in thO
I City and County, each of whom wilt
be asked to conduct the survey in hip
own church area and report to the
general committee headed by thA
Rev. Mr. Houston.
Discussed at the meeting was thO
March of Dimes program and the
Victory Clothing collection and
speakers in each instance were thR
respective chairmen, the Rev. Dana
j iel Lane and Fred Long. Cooperß*
tion of ministers and churches w«R
I promised for each cause,
j Speaker at the meeting was the
i Rev .Mr. Houston, who came her*
lin November from smithfield, and
I who on Monday made his first a**
i isterial association talk. Next maMi
ling of the association will bKdft
Monday. February 4th, the dAte be*
ing moved up one week to aBMb
members to attend a Duke UnitePt'
sity conference for all mlnisten M
this area which will be held daftSE
the week of February eleventh IB
Durham.