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WANT ADS in this newspaper «(U bring you good results. Use them to sell, buy, rent or hire. The cost Is smell the results good. VOL. LXV Roxboro Leads In Old Belt Average In North Carolina For Past Season Leads State In Old Belt And Is Fifth In Entire Belt. With an official average of $44.06, the Roxboro market lead all North Carolina marts in the Old Belt in the scasn just clsed, it was revealed in U. S. and State Departments of Agriculture reports from North Car olina and Virginia Saturday. Pounds sold in Roxboro by the same report were 11,049, 304. The 1945 Roxboro report was also a considerable improvement over the 1944 figures here when sales were 8,764.892 pounds at an average of $42.76, For 1945 Roxboro on the basis of averages was fifth in the en tire Old Belt being exceeded only by Danville, Va„ $45 for, 66,790,- 662;Kenbridge, Va„ $44.30 for 8,291,- 266; Petersburg, Va„ $44.13 for 6,264,976; and South Boston, $44.07 for 28,238,416 pounds. Roxboro topped, too, the Old Belt State average for North Carolina, which was $43.42. State average for the Old Belt in Virginia, however, was higher, at $44.32. Roxboro aver age also was higher than the Dur ham average in the Middle Belt, which was $43.74 this past year. Scout District To Hold Special Session Caswell Town Has Program To End Shortages Citizens Organize Corporation To Best Housing Shortage. Yanceyville, Jan.—Steps were tak en in Yanceyville Saturday night to relieve the acute shortage of houses m the countyseat. Lack of houses has been felt for several years but since the end of the war the short age has grown acute. Numbers of people have been seeking places to live but no houses have been avail able. and persons with houses or apartments for rent have long wait ing lists. Some people have moved away and others working here have had to procure living quarters in nearby towns and drive back and forth to work. A group of interested citizens met here Saturday night and formed the Yanceyville Development company, a corporation authorized to build —(See CASWELL Page Six)— Murdock Back For Court Term Person SuiKrior Court with Judge Leo Carr, of Burlington, resident judge of this district presiding, opened this morning at ten o’clock. On hand again for the first time in many months was Solicitor William H. (Bill) Murdock, of Durham, un til recently with the U. S. Navy, who has resumed duties as a court officer. Acting solicitor during Murdock's absence was Judge R. H. Sykes, also of Durham. Following the charge to the Grand Jury, work on the crim inal docket, said to be light, was be gun and at noon the case being heard was that of William Bumpass, frequently in court and now charg- 1 ed witjj malicious maiming in a j fight in which he allegedly bit his j opponent. This court, scheduled for one week ■ for trial of criminal and civil cases, is, incidentally first Superior Court for A. M. Burns, Jr., in capacity of I clerk. o Wade Leader With Sterling R. Wade, Jr., as leader, seven young white men from here left this morning for pre-in duction examinations at Port Bragg under Selective Service. 2n addition to Wade, those going down were, Bert Harris, Robert Archie Clayton, Bud Gaither Lowery, Edwin Brad ley. Cothran, Arthur Seate tod Jack WIIIU maoVnn J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Highest average in the Middb Belt was reported from Oxford, with $44.29. The Old Belt flue-cured tobacco crop just marketed was the largest in poundage and market value in history, totaling 298,548,191 pounds and averaging $44.02 per hundred' the U. S. Department of Agricul ture Departments of North Caro lina and Virginia announced today in a year-end report. At the same time the cooperating agencies reported total sales of 155.- 971,731 pounds of leaf on the nine Middle Belt markets, all of which are in North Carolina. The season’s average of $43.61 was only 20 cents per hundred higher than in 1944, but the season total topped last year's by B,6oo,ooopounds. Old Belt markets, 11 of which are Virginia and eight in North Carolina, thus topped the former 1939 record in value of sales and the 1944 record in value of the crop. The general average was second only to the 1919 price. Gross sales last year were approximately 4?,- 800,000 pounds more than in 1944, and returns increased by approxi mately $22,300,000. The general av erage was up $1.20 per hundred. Practically all grade averegts were up from $1 to $3 per hundred over last year, but the majority of green tobaccos jumped $4 to $9 per Advancements And Awards -A4> Htih*>r Court Listed. Planned for Tuesday night, Jan uary 29, at seven-thirty o'clock is a meeting of the Person Scout distrist, it was announced by J. W. Green, chairman, who in a letter mailed to members said the session, which was postponed from Tuesday, January 15, will be held in the Chamber of Commerce office. A full attendance is requested and all who have not iegistered with national headquart ers for the new year are urged to do so at once as final registration report must tp in the National Council headquarters by Tuesday. Fee of registration is one dollar, but persons registered with a troop are not required to pay an addition al fee. Held Friday night of last week at the USO Service Center was Jan uary meeting of the Court of Honor with Gus Deering. chairman, pre siding. Other leaders in attendance were George Currier, Dr. Robert E* Long and Lawrence (Red) Moore, the last named a former Eagle scout now student at Elon college and re cently discharged from military ser vice. Reported at the meeting were a number of advancements made by boys in Troop 49, of which Dr. Long is scoutmaster. These advancements included, tenderfoot: Bobby Bums, Jr., Haywood Simpson, Jr., Philip Thomas, Jr., and Garland Pass, Jr., and in second class, Hugh Beam, Jr., Ruffin Woody, Henry Walker, Jr., John Murray. Jerry Johnson and W. L. Dudley, Jr. Parents present included R. P. Burns, Mrs. H. G. Simpson, Mrs. Philip Thomas, Garland Pass, Sr., Dr. H. M. Beam, Mrs. Walter Woody, and W. L. Dudley, Sr. Service bars for hours of oivic ser vice were also presented. Wiinners were Henry Walker, Jr., W. L. Dudley, Jr., and Ruffin Woody for 75 hours each, and John Murray, 30 hours. o Blue Baby Story Interests Family !" _ - I Among most interested readers of [ the account of the successful opera ; tion recently* performed on a “blue [ baby" are Mr. and Mrs. William Earl Thomas, of Roxboro, whose son, Earl, Jr., three and one half years of age, is also a “blue baby”, that U one whose veins and heart are incorrect in functioning. The Thomases feel that they, too, will have to have their son operated oh he is to ever be in normal condition. The child is thought to be the only “blue ha by” in Person county. Eht Courier=®ime;s hundred, and wrappers were S 4 to |7 higher. A few losses of 50 cents a hundred up to $4 occurred, the most pronounced of these occurring in low quality primings. The reporting agencies said the quality of the 1945 crop was slightly inferior to the previous year’s crop. The percentage of leaf was less but this decline was offset by larger proportions of smoking leaf, low and fair cutters, fair and good lugs, and nondescript. Complete Old Belt pounds and averages (1945) for eleven marts in Virginia and eight in North Caro lina were as follows: Virginia Brookneal, 4,167,456, $43.22; Chase City, 6,987,149, $43.69; Clarksville. 6,799,609, $43.11; Dan ville, 66,790,662, $45.00; Kenbridge, 8,291,266, $44.30; Lawrenceville, 4,- 044,006, $43.24; Martinsville, 6,918.- 872, $42.79; Petersburg. 6,264,976, $44.13; Rocky Mount, 2,465,814, $41.61; South Boston. 28,238,416, $44.07; South Hill, 10,106,824, $44.05; Total Virginia, 151,075,949, $44.32. North Carolina—Burlington, 9,- 119,704, $43.67; Madison, 8,665,874, $42.71; Mcbane, 8,083,290, $43.40; Mt. Airy, 16,897,989, $43.62; Reidsville, 15,564,756, $43.83; Roxboro, 11.049,- 304, $44.06; Stoneville, 7,936,283, $43.26; Winston-Salem, 70,155,942, $43.85; Total N. C., 147,473,142, $43.42; Grand Total 298,548,191, $44.02. Foster Efforts To Save Feed For Livestock Restriction'lssued As To Use Os Protein Meal In Feed For Stock. In an effort to prevent shortages in large livestock feeding area of the Nation, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has issued an order re stricting the use of protein meal in the manufacture of mixed feed for livestock and poultry, C. T. Hall. Chairman, Person County AAA Committee said here this week. "Necessity for the order," Mr. Hall explained, "arises from the heavy drain on supplies of protein feed caused by the large number of poultry on farms, near record vol ume of cattle feeding during the winter, and the feeding of hogs to unusually heavy weights." “The restrictions are a reinstate ment and expansion of manufactur ing and distribution controls origi nally issued in December 1943 and terminated in 1945 after the feed situation improved,” he said. The recently issued order prohib- Jits manufacturers from using more 1 high protein meal in making feed for feeding li#stock other than poultry feed than the quanity used for that purpose iri the correspond ing calendar quarter of 1945. The order provides that no person may use a larger quantity of protein meal in the manufacture of poultry feed than the following percentages of the quantity so used in the cor responding month of 1945: January and February, 100 percent; March 95 percent; April, 90 percent; other month, 85 percent. This limitation is in line with the national 1946 goals calling for a 15 percent reduction in the production of eggs and a 17 per cent decrease in the number of chickens raised on farms. The order prohibits acceptance of delivery of protein meals by a user in any quantity which will cause his inven tory to exceed a 30-day supply based upon his use or sales during the corresponding calendar month of 1946. As a result of authorization to impose set-aside requirements, if such was deemed necessary to ac complish the purpose of the. new cider, the initial set-aside for the remainder of January, beginning on the 16th, is.s percent of the pro duction of soybean, cottonseed, lin seed and peanut meal. Announce ment regarding the percentages that processors will be required to set aside in February is expected abou* January 25t.h o At Press Meet In Chapel Hill and at Duke Uni versity Friday for, the annual meet ing of the North Carolina Press association were 3. 8. Merritt, M. C. Clayton and Tom Shaw, of the Courier-Times. Also at the sessions were T. C. Wagsiaif, of Roxboro, and E. D. Stephens, of YaneeyvUle, ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Beatty's-Lion Cub Visits Polio Victims a# JHK imM j, ■ -'qffPkkflp 'i&f*, When Clyde Beatty, famous animal tra'uci and circus owner, brought his pet lion cub to visit poiio victims at the Charlotte Memorial Hospi tal, he was greeted with delight. One ycung patient who is making rapid progress with treatment furnished in part by the annual March of Dimes was not a bit afraid of petting the cub who seems to be in tent on the photographer. N Possibilities Seen For Forming PTfl County Council Meetine Planned Next Month. Two Other Education Gath erings Listed. Plans for formation of u Person , County Council of Parent Teacher | associations will be discussed here: at a meeting to be held on Tuesday. February 12, at Roxboro Central Grammar school at three-thirty in the afternoon, with Mrs. J. S. Blair, of Wallace, field worker for the j North Carolina Council of PTA as-, sociations, it was announced today ' by Person superintendent of schools 1 R. B. Griffin, who at the same time revealed plans for a number of oth-1 er school meetings planned for this j week and next month. In discussing the coming of Mrs. Blair. Mr. Griffin said that all officers of PTA units in both Coun ty and District schools are expected 1 to attend. Only schools listed as not having PTA groups are Roxboro high school, where a revival is be ing discussed, and Mount Tirzah. Said to be inactive is the Associa-j tion at Bethel Hill. Formation of a County Council of PTA here is ex pected to unify and bring together the various units and their pro- 1 grams. Planned for Wednesday night ol : this week, January 30, at 7:30 o’clock in the library at Roxboro high school is monthly meeting of the Person chapter of the North Carolina Education association with Miss Sarah Foust, field representa-1 tivc of the Association as chic: speaker. President of the Person,’ unit is Miss Zerfinia Burton, of Olive Hill. The meeting was origin ally planned for last Wednesday night but was postponed because of weather. To be held here on Wednesday, February 13, at Roxboro high school at four o'clock will be a leadership conference sponsored by the NCEA which will be attended by delegates! from eleven units including Person. Dinner will be served in the cafe teria at six o’clock and the session * will end that night at nine o'clock. In addition to Person, the unit* to be represented will include tlio.se, from Vance, Granville, Durham, ] Orange and Caswell counties as well; as the City of Durham. Oxford and Chapel Hill, together with repre- j sentatives from the University of I North Carolina and Duke Univer-1 sity. o Discharged H. M. Kennedy, manager of the j meat market at Pender's, who re- j cently received his discharge from ; the Navy, has returned to his job at Pender's after, months of active military duty. m /Uo+Kf Waif, m practically everyone in Roxboro knows Edgar Woods, colored man of the city. Edgar is a great hunter end when the hunting season is on he is perfectly happy. But—every now and then he gets mixed up. Some time ago he was going on a big hunt. He got all the hounds that he thought he would need, and that was quite a few, and then drove out to a place where he was to hunt. He let his dogs out of the car and was j all ready to give the rabbits a fit when he discovered that he had left his gun at home. Then another time this same fellow was hunting squirrels. He and his friend chased one in a hole in a tree and could not get the squirrel out. Edgar climbed the tree with a long piece, of dynamite fuse to smoke or scare the squirrel oiit. He was going to light the fuse and drop it down the hole from the (op of the tree. He did tight the fuse but the worst happened. His coat caught on fire and those who are sup posed to know say that Edgar and that coat had one time at the top of the tree. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE | Hospital Drive | Starts Friday Attention is again called to the fact that the Financial Drive of the Person County Memorial Hospital is slated to begin on February ISt and i will continue that month. Altho !.a number of people have already I been seen and have made their con tribution a much larger number i have never been approached. All are ; to be seen in this campaign. This drive will be in the nature of person to person. A number of solicitors will be in the field in the county as well as in the city. A total of $250,000 is to be raised io construct the new hospital, and the committee hopes to have this entire amount raised by the time 1 this particular campaign is schedul ed to close. It is thought that some help might come from the Duke foundation later. R. L. Harris, chairman of the Memorial Hospital Committee, stat ed last week that a supper meeting of all township chairmen and their committee will be held Tuesday night, January 29th at Hotel Rox boro at 7:00. Committee chairmen are as fol lows : COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Allensvillc .... Bradsher Gentry Bushy Fork... .D. L. Whitfield and Mrs. Itobt. Hester. Cunningham Flat River J. Frank Timber lake. Holloway Wm. Jack Woody Olive Hill Fletcher Carver Mt. Tirzah D. M. Cash and J. S. Fleming. Roxboro O. B. Mcßroom Woodsdalc J. Bryant Boswell o Scout Officials Hold Conference District Chairman J. W. Green and J. S. Merritt, council vice pres ident. were in Reidsville Thurs day night for a dinner meeting of Cherokee Scout council, where plans for the sew fiscal year were discussed. The meeting, which was at Hotel Belvidere was called by the new council president, H. E. Latham, of the Marshall Field com pany, Leaksville, who presided. Rep resentatives from each district were in attendance. Named as publicity relations rep resentative for the Person district was Tom Shaw. Holloway OPA Office Ends Four Years Task By This Thursday Clothing And Polio Drives i I 1 Continue Slow ! Citizens Urired To Aid Both | Projects Before Thursdav. | Continued slow response is being! I shown here in two drives for char- i itable purposes, the Polio fund and i | the Victory’ clothing collection, ac-' j cording to reports. Only $682.50 lias \ j been listed in the Polio fund cam- j | paign and of this amount $285.50 I has been turned in at Roxboro J Chamber of Commerce office and, I $397 collected from theatres. The i j theatre collection will be continued | through this week and it is also ex pected there will be an increase i j through reports from schools and | churches w’hich have not yet been j received. | Planned for this Thursday night !at the Recreation Center under ! sponsorship of the Exchange club is I the annual President's Birthday j benefit ball for the Polio fund, i Dancing will begin at nine, with music by the Russ Carlton orchestra, (from Danville, Va. Quota for the 1 drive, which ends Thursday is i $2,080. j Also expected to end Thursday is J the Victory clothing collection, i which started yesterday with a j house to house collection in Rox boro. Being continued through j Thursday is the clothing collection ] in the County. No quota has beert | set, but leaders here said yesterday jthat the amount of clothing gath jered yesterday was only about one fifth of what was turned in last j year. Citizens in the City who were | missed yesterday and have clothing I to contribute are asked to telephone i Floyd L. Peaden, city chairman, at i City Milk and Ice company's office. I Also expected to entf by Thursday I is the Christmas Seal Sale Sponsor |ed by Roxboro Kiwanis club. o , Time Extended For Obtaining Commissions j Applicants selected for Regular Army commissions in the current expansion program will be appointed not later than June 28, 1946, under provisions of newly-enacted legisla tion authorizing increase of officer personell to 25,000 it was announced by Sgt. Bailey, of the recruiting Staff, who visited Roxboro Friday. Any male citizen who served as an officer any time between Pearl Harbor and Last December 28 is eligible to make application for a commission. He must have been honorably discharged and must not be overage in grade when appoint ed. Commissions will be made in grades ranging from second Lieu tenant to major, with length of service and age considered. However, applicants will not be eligible for a grade higher than that held during wartime. Maximum age for grades is as follows: Second lieutenant, 28; first lieutenant, 35; captain, 42; and ma jor, 48. Application forms and detailed in formation are available at all Army installations and recruiting offices. Applications must be completed and in Washington by March 1. | Agency Council Meets Wednesday i * C. C. Jackson, assistant Person Farm Agent and Four-H leader and Miss Evelyn Caldwell, Home Demon stration and Four-H worker, are on the program as speakers at the Jan uary meeting of the Person County ' Council of Social agencies which will be held at noon on Wednesday at! a luncheon at Hotel Roxboro. The speakers are expected to continue the series of talks being given on recreation. Miss Caldwell has re cently been ill in Raleigh, but it is hoped she will return to Roxboro in lime to be a speaker. Announcements Being Made So Applications Can Be Secured. Ending more than four years of operation, the Person OPA office, which has recently been in the Court House, will close Thursday, it was announced this morning. Ar rangements. however, will be made so that applications for sugar can, be secured. Keeper of such applications will be the Person Selective Service Board office through an arrange ment with Miss Jeanette Wrenn. chief clerk of the Selective Service board, according to Mrs. John Clay Lunsford of the OPA staff. Miss Wrenn, for public convenience will keep on hand application blanks for Ration Book four which will be is sued to new babies and to discharg ed service men. She will also handle applications replacements for books lost and for sugar stamp service to military men on leave. Persons who obtain any application blanks in the above Measles Spreading In Person Section Symptoms And Treatment of AudlT SpCßnCf Disease Described. " At Rotary Club ißy Miss Evelyn Davis. Senior * Staff Nurse) Many'children in the Eastern sec | tion of Person County have been ill ; recently with measles. The disease j has traveled rapidly from the Vir- I gilina highway through the Allens ville and Mt. Tirzah communities. Measles, and its complications can be dangerous to the health of an individual. Everyone who has not had measles should stay away from homes where the disease is present, and be alert to early signs of measles. The symptoms are those of a severe cold-drainage from the nose, sneezing, and a cough. The temper j ature is usually high for a day or j two before and after the fine red I rash appears. The rash appears the ; second or third day after the early ■ symptoms begin. During the acute stage the eyes may burn, are red and sensitive to light. The rash usually appears around the face, heck, and behind the ears, on the forehead, then spreads to the chest and the entire body. Tire more serious complications of measles are ear and mastoid bone infection, and pneumonia. About 90 per cent of death are due to pneu monia following measles. Rest in bed is necessary through out the acute course of the disease — usually five to seven days. Exclude visitors, including members of the family who have not had the disease. Protect the eyes from direct light. Use Kleenex on paper napkins for drainage from the nose or mouth and burn them. Dishes should be boiled after use and kept seperate from those of the family. Patients with measles should be under the care of their family doc tor, and stay in bed until he advises them to get up. The disease usually shows up in 8 to 12 days after exposure, and can be spread for 7 days after the rash appears. There is no vaccine to prevent measles. There is a serum which can be given after exposure. One should consult their doctor about the ad visability of this. New regulations do not require quarantine for measles, but all cases should be reported to the Health Department. The Health Department ask every parent to cooperate in helping to keep down the spread of measles. o | Small Fire | Fire yesterday afternoon about I three o’clock destroyed a small house [occupied by Negroes, it was reported | today at the fire station. The house, close to City limits, was near the | Plant of Roxboro Chemical company. I Response was made by city firemen. 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 16 classifications will, however, have to fill out the application forms them selves and mail them in to Raleigh to the district OPA office which wil’, continue to function. The present Person OPA staff for the past few’ months has consisted of Mrs. Lunsford, the former Miss Irene Jones, w’ho has been a staff member for three years and two months, and Miss Mildred Carver, who has been on the staff for three and one half years. Miss Carver is expected to become connected with Wilkins' Market, but Mrs. Lunsford, who is expecting her husband to re turn soon from Naval duty, has made no announcement concerning her future plans. First active chief clerk was Miss Virginia Brandon, who resigned sev eral months ago whtn the staff was reduced in size as all rationing but sugar same to an end. Present chair man of the board here is Philip L. Thomas, who has held office from the beginning. First office of the OPA here was in the rear of his store, Thomas and Oakley drug: company, and was opened early in 1942 with rationing of tires and oils and gasoline; Rotarians Expected To Ap prove Soil Conservation Prize Plan. J. R. Adair, club member, repeated for Roxboro Rotarians Thursday night at Hotel Roxboro his address on soil conservation, which he will also give tonight (Monday) to the Kiwanians. H.is talk, concerned with success of the project now underway on farms, located along the highway to South Boston, was illustrated with slides showing before and after effects of soil conservation as prac ticed by the Dan River unit with which Adair is connected. Taken under consideration by the Rotarians was Adair’s plan for civic clubs to offer prizes in connection with the Person to South Boston project. A similar presentation was made last week to members of the Exchange club and it is expected, that the plan will be approved by the members of all civic clubs here. Assisting with presentation of the slides was C. C. Jackson, assistant; farm agent for Person County. Welcomed back to the club was Lt. Glen Titus, of the Navy. Welcomed during the previous week was Lt. Glenn Stovall. A guest at the Adair program was J. M. Wilburn, agri cultural teacher at Bethel Hill. Pre siding was the Rev. Daniel Lane, vice president, who made a brief appeal for the Polio fund of which he is chairman. A similar appeal was made for the Victory clothing collection by Chairman Fred Long. o Milk Shortage In Roxboro *■ There is an extreme milk shortage in Roxboro and in the state of North Carolina, said Jack Martin proprie tor of Elko Dairy qf this city. Mr. Martin pointed out that his supply ' of milk from Quail Roost Farm and also from Durham Dairy had been cut to a great extent and that he was now importing milk from cities other than from his his source el I normal supply. Elko Dairy has a number of cows • but these cows supply only a very - small amount of the milk that la i used in Roxboro. Mr. Martin plans Jj to add to his local herd as soon as lie can acquire more grazing and erect a barn to houpe the cows,, Jj A new dairy building is now J, & construction on the highway bjtgjW >n Roxoro and Longhunt attdU9 this will probably be flnishg| ’jjjHfl soon as weather conditions and unless a shortage of material f forces a shutdown on the WMft, -Wla new building will be equipped with | modern machinery and will greatly clfliry business
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