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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 MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DRIVE GETS UNDERWAY FEBRUARY Ist Victory Clothing'Driv e To Be House To House This Sunday Starting Time One-Thirty. ! Full City-County Coop eration Asked. Planned for this Sunday after- j noon, January 27, beginning at one- j thirty o’clock, is the house to house j collection of Victory Clothing for i the destitute in war stricken areas abroad, according to Fred Long, Person chairman, who urges all householders in the City area to have clothing ready early Sunday afternoon. County collections will start to day (Thursday) with various county merchants having their stores as collection depots. Collections from these county depots will in turn be made on Friday and Saturday of next week, the merchants being ask ,ed to bring clothing to tire central depot in Roxboro, the Reynolds to bacco building, near Wade Grocery gompany. Auxiliary city collection boxes will also be placed at Hotel Roxboro, at the Court House and in the marques of the Kirby-Ledbetter building. City areas to be covered Sunday are Roxboro proper, Longhurst, Ca-Vel and Somerset, all concentrated in a one day drive, but County areas will the Court House and in the marquee the job. Good beginning in collec tion here has been made by Leg gett’s Department store from which has been received two hundred pairs of shoes, according to Mr. Long, who says he hopes other merchants will be cooperative in a similar fashion. Good, warm clothing for all ages and sexes is wanted. Donars are be ing asked to place in the clothing L note containing name and redress ill \he s?nder as a gesture of inter national goodwill. Clothing does not have to be dry-cleaned as that will be taken care of at central head quarters before final packing and shipping. County merchants asked to have stores as depots are: S. P. Gentry, A. P. Tuck, A. C. Gravitte, C. A. Wrenn, John Q. Yarborough, D. M. Cash, W. W. Peed, Luther Blalock, J. D. Morris. H. A. Teague, Mrs. J. W. Oakley, T. G. Brooks, Buck Ad cock. D. L. Whitfield, C. G. Wilson, Frank T. Whitfield, R.. F. Clayton, C. A. Long, W. E. Rudder, T. T. Duncan, H.. F. Long and J. Bryan Boswell. o Parcel Post Bids In the proposed establishment of City delivery for Roxboro the Post Office department desires to employ some competent person with a truck or car to deliver the larger paroel post packages in the City, it was announced today by Postmaster L. M. Carlton, who says the work will require approx imately four hours per day. Any one desiring this work is invit ed to sec the Postmaster and make a bid for the performance of such service on an hourly, dally or monthly basis. Such bids should be made as soon as possible, says Carlton. o W. W. FOX IMPROVING William W. Fox of Roxboro, Rl, has returned home from the hospital where he spent sometime. While lie has not fully recovered his condi tion is very much improved. Seek Revival For High School PTA Being again discussed among par ents of students in Roxboro high school is possibility of the revival of and reorganization of a Parent- Teacher association for that school, which has been without the services of such an association since early in .the years of World War 11, when meetings were abandoned under the of curtailment of meetings In an effort to promote conservation of gasoline and tires. A spokesman for the group said to be interested in the revival of a Parent-Teacher association for the high school has pointed ou that there now exists no formal, organ ized. method or means for consulta tions- between parents and teachers on mutual problems connected with the school program. Such confer ences, if any, are left to chance, to an effort to promote conservation of plea of curtailment of meetings in J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Numbering For City Mail Starts Conservation Os Soil Club Topic ForJ. R. Adair jj. R. Adair Proposes Prize ■ Plan To Exchange Club At Night Session. j J. R. Adair. Person soil conserva tionist, with the Dan River unit., j was speaked at the meeting of the j Exchange Club at s he Hotel Rox j boro last night. Adair Used as Ms j subject ’Strip Cropping’ which is | one of the newer methods employed 1 by agronomists in their fight against | erosion. | The speaker employed lantern slides to illustrate how strip prop ping can be usq' on sloping sur faces to conserve moisture and to i prevent fields from washing during | periods of heavy rainfall. Strip cropping consists of planting alter i pate strips of row crops, such as I to.* s-'j or t .ii , and strips* of some | sod crop, such as lespedeza or small j grain. i By following a program of crop | rotation and strip cropping a fann er is able to hold tile contour of his fields and also increase the natural : fertility. Several of the farmers i along route 501 north of Roxboro : have already begun preparing their J fields for tMs improved manner of ; tending their crops this spring.’ Proposed by Adair was a plan i for civic Clubs to give prizes in com i nection with soil conservation, which | will be considered by the Exchange j club. o Postponed j The tri-cqunty meeting of library | boards scheduled for this afternoon at Hillsboro, with Miss Marjorie 1 Beal, head of the State library com- I mission as speaker, has been post- I poned until Thursday afternoon of next week, it was announced this morning. o • - j Polio Slow Only 5215.30 has been received 1 in the Polio fund drive as of this i rooming, according to Miss Dor ! othy Taylor. Slowness of reports | from schools is believed to be a factor. The drive, of which the Rev. Daniel Lane is chairman, closes next Thursday night with a benefit ball to be at the Recrea tion Center under sponsorship of the Exchange club. Quota for the drive is 5'2,080. It will be recalled that during the last school year an attempt was made to reorganize the PTA at Rox boro higli school, where one or two meetings were called, but with small and disinterested attendance. The matter was then dropped and noth ing has been done about it since until this week. No formal meeting of any interested group has been planned but it is hoped that such a meeting can be arranged. Last president of the high school association here was Henry E. O’Bri ant, and previously active as an ad ministrative head was Mrs. R. H. j Shelton. The proposed new associa- j tion would be independent of but 1 cooperative with the association now in operation at Roxboro Cen tral Grammar school, which is ex pected to have its January meeting next Tuesday night at seven- thirty at Central school, f she Courier-Uimejs i : Some Delav May Come In Be ffinnintr Service, Says Postmaster. Although the numbering of houses jin connection with the establish ment of City delivery of mail here is now in progress and although | tunny persons have filed applica- I tions for civil service examinations ! for the positions of mail carrier, i Postmaster L. M. Carlton said this I morning that institution of the new I delivery system may be delayed a ‘few weeks beyond the official date jof February Ist. Employed by the City of Roxboro to number all houses and places | of business and to install numbers is Robert E. Whitten, veteran of ; World War two. who began duties i the first of this week. Whitten says that numbers have been ordered and ! will be on sale at the City Hall of fice. where a complete file of the numbers assigned will be kept. Resi | dents who wish to know the numbers which will be assigned to them may obtain Qiat information at the City I Hall. Applicants may put up their own , numbers if they wish, but Whitten ! will also be glad to install or tack !up the numbers for an additional i nominal fee of twenty-five cents, j Cost of numbers is to be twenty live cents, making, the complete lee for Whitten’s services fifty cents. ! The numbers have not yet been re ceived and may be delayed two weeks, according to Whitten, who is now going from liou.se to house chalking up designated numbers. In that connection lie: reports that many questions are being asked, i some of which were answered this morning by Mr. Carlton, who says I that boxholders who have boxes at I the Post Office may retain them if j they wish. The Postmaster also says | no Sunday city delivery of mail will ! be made except for special delivery. 'Persons who retain boxes at the Post Office will have Sunday service as usual, but persons who retain boxes at the Post Office will not be ; expected to also receive mail by City delivery unless mail has street and numbers address. Before City delivery can be estab lished each house must have a box affixed to the wall near the front door. Such boxes are now on sale by a local lumber company. The City ! delivery service is expected to cover I practically all sections of Roxboro i within City limits. The three ctfc ! riers who will begin service will be a I first on a temporary basis, pend ing announcement of civil service examination reports. Pay is said to begin at $2,100 per year, with stated increases thereafter for a period of years. It is said that as many as thirty-five to forty persons have made application for the jobs. —— o- Hunter Named On Committee ! j Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro. ‘president of the State Bankers' as | sociation, has been named by Gov. I R. Gregg Cherry as a member of a ! thirty-three man committee to work out plans for the guidance and de velopment of rural industries «and services in North Carolina, accord ing to announcement made today. Chairman of the committee is Dr. L. D. Baver. director of the N. C. State College Agricultural Experi ment station. The committee is com posed of representative business and professional men. First meeting will ' be on February 15th. Tax Time Short Henry David Long, Sr., and Alex Bass, tax-listers for the City and County, respectively, have report ed today that only twenty percent of residents here have listed taxes I and that only one more week re- I mains in which to complete llst -1 ing, which is required by law. The number having listed so far is considerably below what it was last year at this time. Both Long and Bass have offices in the Coun ty Court house in the Grand Jury room. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA Stockholders Os Peoples Bank j Get Good Report Deposits Make Net Gain Os $1,800,000 During Fast Year. The stockholders meeting of the Peoples Bank was held in the direc tor’s room yesterday afternoon at 2:30, at which time G. C. Hunter, executive vice president, reported that the year 1945 was one of the best years the Peoples Bank has ever had. Deposits made a net gain during the year of $1,800,000. During the year $20,000 was transferred from Undivided Profits account to the i Surplus account; thus, making the Surplus account SIOO,OOO or equal to the capital of the bank. The volume of checks and depos ! its handled during the year las large. Tile total amount of clearings a i mounted to $39,783,248. During the year the bank made j 2684 new loans, totaling $954,946 and had loans repaid totaling $1,030,770. I Every investment held by the bank j was reported on the approved list jof the banking department. j The trust assets oi the bank a ! mounted to $116,764.04. The bank lent a helping hand wherever possible to further the war i effort, by helping sell War Bonds, [assisting in ration coupon banking. It was .oparted that Person County went over the top bn every War Bond drive, and that the bank actually sold more bonds up to July .! 1, 1945 than there was money on deposit: the amount being in «ax . j cess of $6,000,000. , i During the year the bank handled | ration coupons for:' 374.000 gallons of fuel oil; 1,717,000 gallons of gas oline; 3,943,655 meat coupons; 2,320.- 471 food cou’pons; 20,493 pairs of |i shoes; 789, 289 pounds of sugar. All the old members of the boa i d were re-elected. At a directors meeting held iiii -11 mediately after the adjournment of , the stockholders; all the old officers were re-elected for the ensuing year as follows: W. H. Harris, chair , man of the board; R. L. Harris. President; G. C. Hunter. Executive Vice President; W. D. Merritt, Vice- President; D. S. Brooks, Cashier and Trust Officer; J. B. Riggsbee, Asst. Cashier; J. C. Brooks, Asst. Cashier; Hazel P. Long. Asst. Cas hier. A divident of 4'. was declared payable as of June 30, 1946. LOW BID FOR LOOP ROAD LISTED AS $301,419,10 Low bids submitted by contractors on a dozen highway and bridge building projects in as many coun ties totaled $l,BlB 985.11, it was an nounced Tuesday by Chairman A. H. Graham of the hiighway and public works commission, in Ra leigh. The bids were opened in the hall of the honse. Graham said several bids were submitted on each pro ject. LEGISLATIVE REQUESTS Washington. Jan. 24.—President Truman presented a number of new legislative requests to Congress in liis state-of-the-union and budget message itlonday. 11l addition, he renewed requests for enactment of 21 legislative pro posals he has submitted to Congress since last May 28 and which are still pending. Here are the President's major new requests: 1. Extend selective service, by thr end of March, beyond the present May 16 expiration date, unless the campaign for volunteers produces enough manpower to maintain 2.000,000 men in the armed forces through 1946. 2. Extend the price control act a full year beyond its present June 30 expiration date. 3. Continue food subsidies, witli a stipulation that they be removed as soon as it is indicated that the cost of living will decline from its present level. 4. Extend the second war powers act beyond its present expiration date of June 30. 5. Act immediately to provide authorization for ceiling prices on new and old houses and act as soon as possible on a permanent housing program. 6. Consider legislation to replace the 1937 sugar art which expires tliis year. 7. Provide a permanent federal srhool-lunch and milk program by the start of the school year in September. 8. Provide adequate protection for the health and safety of federal workers. Including unemployment compensation and provision for return to their homes from wartime service at government expense. 9. Provide means for Hawaii to acquire statehood, with similar action in regard to Alaska as soon as it is determined that this is what the Alaskan people desire. 19. Provide a greater measure of self-governmCnt for the people of the Virgin Islands and the people of the District of Columbia. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1946 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Further Details -■ - - —— ■ IP!!ll|!' w L. M. CARLTON Further details are given today by Roxboro’s Postmaster, L. M. Carlton, concerning the operation of the City's system of free deliv ery of mail, which is expected to begin here soon. Four Os Person Scout Leaders Gain Recognition Kant*. Green. Lane And Mer ritt Among' Office Holders And Award Winners. J. W, Green. Person district chaii - mail, George W. Kane, J. S. Merritt, and Rev..-Daniel- Lane all of Rox boro. gained recognition or were elected to positions at the Cherokee Scout Council dinner held Friday night at Draper, according to a re port received here from John B. Oakley, Jr., Cherokee Council exe cutive. H. E. Latham, personnel director of Marshall Field, was elected presi dent of the Cherokee council. Latham, who resides in Leaksville. succeeds W. Ernest Thompson, of Graham. H.;> and other council offi cers were chosen Friday night in a special business session which pre ceded the annual banquet and meet ing of Cherokee council held in the gymnasium of the high school at Draper. J. S. Merritt. Roxboro. and E. S. (See SCOUTS Page Eight) Included in the bids were one for the loop road project in Person County for grading, concrete pav ing and structure. 2.204 miles on U. S. 501 from a point approximate ly 460 feet south on N. C. 57 in Rox boro to intersection with N. C. 49; Nello L. Teer company of Durham, $301,419.10. In the report front Raleigh no mention was made of acceptance of the low bids published. All Commiiiee Chairmen And Members To Meet At Hotel Jan. 29th For Supper Preparatory To Starting Campaign To Raise Funds For County Hospital. Solicitors To Call On Individuals In County During Month of February R. L. Harris. chairman of the Person County Memorial Hospital Committee, stated this week that the hospital drive to secure funds for the erection of the hospital will begin Februbiy Ist and will continue that month. Case, Market Grades Given By Person Officials Dr. Garvin And Miss Harris j Release Reuorl On Sanitary Ratings. Dr. O. David Garvin, District! Health Officer and Miss Zelle Har ris, Sanitarian announce the sani- ; tary ratings of cases, hotel, and meat markets of Person County; There was one public eating, place : to rate grade A. and three meat' i markets. Tlve grades on eating places are ■ as follows: Miss Molly's, 91.0, A; Shanks, (Re inspection) 87.5, B; Eatwell, 86.5. B; OBriant’s. 86.0, B: Blue Bird, 86.0 B; Royal, iRe-inspection). 83.5, B: Munday’s, 82.0, B; Barnette’s. 80.0. B; Victory Diner. 80.0. B; Moon Glow, 77.5. C; Recreation Center. 'Reinspection) 75.0, C: Roxboro Ho tel. 70.0. C: Gardner's Boarding House. 05.5, closed to Transients. All eating establishments . receiv ing a rating of 90 0 or above shall be given grade A. 80.0 to 90.0 grade B, ' 70.0 to 80.0 grade C. No restaurant receiving a rating of less than 70.0 is allowed to operate until require ments are met. Meat Market Grades Longhurst Merchantile Co.. 93.5. A; Short's, 9015, A; Moore's, 90.5, A: Owen's.: 88.0. B; Pender's. 86.0, B; Wilkerson’s 85.5. B; O’Briaiit’s, • 84.0. B; Vanhook’s. 83.5, B; Stewart and Clayton, 83.0, B; D. C. Johnson, : 80.0, B; Hasson's, 80.0. B; Wilkin’s, 80.0 B: South End Grocery, 80.0. B o- Dr. Francis Gaines Speaker For Baptist Hour Dr. Francis P. Gaines, a layman of Lexington, Virginia, returns to the Baptist Hour for a message ; next Sunday morning, as disclosed by the Radio Committee. S. B. C.. S. F. Lowe. Director, Atlanta. G.i,! ; His subject, "Courage for the Tests of Peace.’’ will be of particular in terest to young people, especially ' returning service men and women. Dr. Gaines, a South Carolinian by birth, aii educator by training and ; profession, has served as President of Washington & Lee University for I sixteen years. An effective leader i in the educational and civic fields. | la* has held responsible positions j [through the years, according to Mr. ■ Love, having served as Chairman of ( tlie Alfred I duPont Radio Award ! ; Committee, President of the Assu- j i elation of American Colleges and Virginia State Chairman of the War j : Finance Committee, t '■ '.l Mr. Lowe states that because ol' j his abiding Christian faith, his ex | tensive knowledge of people, and his I unusual ability as a speaker. Dr. I Gaines is one of the most effective j radio speakers in America. An attractive feature in these i I broadcahts is the music by the Bap- ! | tist Hour Choir of Atlanta, John D. j Hoffman. Director, and George L. I | Hamrick. Organist. The program can be heard in j ! North Carolina over Radio Stations j WWNC, Asheville, WPTF, Raleigh! and WSJS. Winston-Salem, 8:30 i a. m. o— More Heat Officials of the First Baptist j Church stated today that altho this j church had been cold for the past one or two Sundays that it would be warm this coming Sunday. Ar rangements have been made to take care of the heat from now on. The drive is to be of a personal nature with solicitors calling upon individuals asking them how much can they give The total amount | that was to be raised was two hun-I died and fifty thiusand dollars, i Many of the larger contributors have already been seen by members ot the committee and have made their contribution. Others are expected to lie seen. The committee is very well pleased with the campaign to date but much remains to be done. It is also thought that the Duke Foundation will help with tile finan cial end when the campaign here is over. Cainnan Harris stated that a supper meeting of the township chairmen and their committee will be held Tuesday. January 29th, 7:00 p. hi. at Hotel Roxboro and it is, hoped that all members wilt be pres- j ■ens. Chairmen are as follows: COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Allensvilie . Bradsher Gentry Bushy Fork. ..D. L. Whitfield and Mrs. Itoht. Hester. Cunningham— Flat River.. . .J. Frank Timber- j lake. Holloway .... W’m. Jack W oody Olive llill Fletcher Carvrr ■ Ml. Tir/uh D. M. Cash and .!. S. Fleming. Roxboro O. B. Mcßroom W’oodsdale I. Bryant Boswell Tile Memorial Hospital, as read ers of this paper know, is being built in honor of those who served in World War I and World War II and is to be a very modern structure, , Chairman Harris emphasized the. fact that anyone who wanted to I make a contribution before the per son to person campaign started could do so by leaving the contri bution at tlu* Peoples Bank with G. C Hunter. Satterwhite Has ' i. Central Program f Roxboro Central Grammar school j P. T. A. met Wednesday afternoon I at 3:15 o'clock, instead of next week I as previously announced. Speaker was Lt. Colonel E. B. Sal- ; ter white, who discussed “The Essen- i 1 tials of Education’’. He said that all I education mast begin in the home ! and the basic skills, reading, writing. ] and arithmetic, should not be sacra- j ticed to vocational education. Public schools should, however, have as j much vocational training as the! budget will allow. He illustrated his talk with his overseas experiences. It was announced that playground equipment has been secured. $5 was donated to the Infantile Paralysis campaign. Three rooms, Mrs. Bow en’s, Mrs. Wagstaffs and Mrs. Har ris’s, tied for the attendance ban ner. Next meeting in February will oe Founder's Day program. Knitting Work Os Red Cross Ended Having worked for almost four years, the Knitting Committee of the Person chapter of the American Red Cross as headed by Mrs. Percy Bloxam and Mrs. George W. Kane, has ended its program here it was revealed today in joint statement given by the co-chairmen, who have resigned their positions and in so doing have at the same time ex pressed deep appreciation for coop eration received from both City and County women during the long period. First shipment of yarn was made in February 1942, at the formation of the war program of the Person chapter of The American Red Cross. Since that time almost a thousand • MAIN REASON—Of Course there is more than one reason the Courier- Times should be in every home—• but the big reason, is its whole some influence on young and old, alike. NUMBER 15 Baptist Hour DR. FRANCIS I\ GAINES Dr. Francis I*. Gaines returns to the Baptist Hour for the message Sunday morning at X:3O. Three Os Schools Os County Open Reports Griffin Teachers Anxious For Schools To Resume Work. Three Person County scliools clos ed this week and last becaase of bad weather ail'd muddy roads, reopened this morning, one more is expected to resume operations tomorrow and the remainder Will open by next Monday unless further adverse con ditions develop, it was reported to day by Superintendent R. B. Griffin. Opened today were Cunningham, Olive Hill and Bethel Hill. Expect ed to open tomorrow (Friday) is Bushy Fork. District schools of Rox ; boro have been in operation all the i week and attendance has been re ported as good. i Saturday teaching will begin this , Saturday in those county schools which are open, as enumerated above, but no Saturday classes will be held in the schools in Roxboro | district, since the whole purpose of Saturday classes is an evening up i of the number of days lost, which j have been considerably more in thq schools of the county system. | Tlie teachers, incidentally, are aa • , anxious, or more anxious than any- j body else for the resumption ot, schools, since they, the teachers, have received no salary checks sinca ! December 18, and will not get any J checks before the middle of Febru- i ary. Tlie state rule is that teachers, receive no checks unless they have] taught as many as twenty days in a school month. In an effort to aid teachers meet current financial ob ligations Peoples Bank is today an nouncing a borrowing plan open to all teachers in the schools of tha county. | pounds of yarn have been made in* j to approximately two thousand threo 1 hundred garments, which have ins | eluded, sweaters, • socks, mufflers, j watch caps and an assortment a{ refugee garments. On January 16, 1946, the commit*, tee packed the last one hundred and eighty sweaters for shipment to the American Red Cross quarteds in Atlanta. This final ment ended the work of the knttfK ing committee which wishes -jgfj thank each person who has so faith fully helped in this work last four years and riinlilUMhM many hours of knitting. Thank* to Mrs. Bruce Newell who has bMi responsible for shipping. |
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