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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. _Q 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. ®he Courter*®tmes Club Candidate JRPljfe Jpjp " wi m> 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. o 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. —o 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 * < 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 —o 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 g'v'. iS&ffiSrcfllffe . <>.*■ .'A ■ liwlH 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. —o- 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. o— 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. o 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. * - .—o— 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. ■o ■ 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.