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VOL.
Measles Epidemic
Sweeping County,
City, Say Officials
Guy Walthall
Dies In Accident
In Portsmouth
i
Funeral Held Yesterday For
Son of Roxboro Woman, i
Funeral for Guy Branford Walt
hall, 35, of Portsmouth, Va„ until
a year ago a resident of Roxboro
and Danville, Va., whose death oc
curred Thursday in King’s Daught
er’s hospital, Portsmouth, from head
injuries received there on the Suf
* folk highway on the previous Thurs
day night in a traffic accident, were
held Sunday afternoon at two
o’clock at Glenwood Presbyterian
church near Danville, with inter
ment in the church cemetery.
The deceased, reportedly, was
struck by a car on the Suffolk road
about nine o'clock at night enroute
to his home shortly after he had
left work with a shoe company. A
1 companion walking with him is being
held in jail pending an investigation
after an autopsy. Walthall, report
edly, was thrown about twenty feet
by the impact and landed in a field
on his head.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Miss Clara Arnold, and one daught
er, Ramona, both of the home, his
mo'her .Mrs. Pearl Walthall, of
chuPt’ilTsuVeC. Roxboro, three oroth-
I ers, Bernard, of Portcmouth, and
James Edward and Robert, both
of Roxboro, eight sisters, Mrs. J. W.
Cox, Mrs. E. L. Taylor, Mrs. J. A.
Hamblin, Mrs. James Bradsher, Mrs.
E. J. Wilson and Miss Mary Bailey
Walthall, all of Roxboro, Mrs. P. A.
Williams and Mrs. Roy Davis, both
of Durham.
Another brother, David, was killed
in action overseas in World War two.
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Farm Security
Program Given
At Rotary Club
I Thursday Also Day For An
nual Meeting Os Families
Concerned.
Discussion of the Farm Security
program, with special reference to
its operation in Person county, was
presented Thursday night at Rox
boro Rotary club which met at Ho
tel Roxboro, with Miss Elizabeth
Fuller, of Asheville, western arear
supervisor, as speaker. Miss Fuller
was introduced by J. Y, Blanks,
club member and FSA head In Per
son county.
Miss Fuller, who cited figures to
show the progress of Farm Admin
istration work here, also gave an
overall picture of the work.
Held in Roxboro on the afternoon
of the same day was the annual
Pei son FSA meeting with some ten
to twelve families which arc opera
ting under the program in atten
dance. The session began in the
morning and continued through the
afternoon. Given at the meeting
were reports as to land payments
and canning and conservation work
indicating a most successful year.
Council To Mark
Anniversary Soon
Members of Longhurst Council of
the Junior Order are planning tliMr
anniversary supper to commemorate
the founding of the local unit on
Thursday, February 28th, it was an
nounced this morning. Attendance
of one hundred or more is expect
ed for the affair which will be at
the Recreation Center at seven o’-
clock at night. A number of brief
I talks are being planned and an in
teresting program is being arranged,
to Marvin Clayton, who
says ticket sales will continue
through next Monday night. Tickets
may be secured from- any member,
says Clayton.
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North Carolina is one of 11 sta&s
exempted from the nation's new set
aside program for pork and lard.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Many Milder Cases Listed, But
Care Should Be Observed.
Miss Evelyn Davis, senior staff
nurse of the Person health depart
ment, reported this morning that
an epidemic of measles is being ex
perienced in this City and County,
with as many as sixty cases having:
been recently reported to the health
department.
Nineteen cases have been reported
in one grade in school, according to
Miss Davis, who says it is probable
that tltal number of eases in this
area stands at above one hundred
and twenty, since measles is not a
quarentinable disease and reports to
the health department are not com
pulsory. Receipt of such reports is,
however, appreciated and all coop
eration with doctors and with the
department will be appreciated.
Spread of the disease was first
noticed in county communities sev
eral weeks ago and a statement was
issued at that time by Miss Davis
containing suggestions as to early
diagnosis and traetment. First no
tice of the disease in epidemic stage
was observable in the Virgillna road
section, but it has now spread to
Helena, with some eases at Hurdle
Mills and Bushy Fork, as welLas in
the City of Roxboro.
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Two Reported As
Improving From
Wreck Injuries
Two out of three persons injured
in the past week-end or so in traf
fic accidents in and near Roxboro
are reported as improving, it was
revealed this morning.
Miss Marion Barnette, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Barnette of
this city, who was injured last
Wednesday in a crash at Camp
Butner and who received a head
injury and a cut over one eye, 's
now much better and may be able
to return from Duke hospital in a
bout another week.
Miss Barnette was first rushed to
Camp Butner hospital, but was re
moved to Duke hospital Thursday
afternobn.
Also a patient at Duke, where he
continues to improve is John Mit
chell Ferrell, hurt about two weeks
ago on the Longhurst highway when
he was struck by a passing car as
he was crossing the highway near
Solomon's Service station.
No reports, however, have been
received here concerning the condi
tion of T. G. Perry, Jr., a soldier,
Hampton, Va., who was somewhat
seriously hurt last Thursday night
when he lost control of a car near
the farm of Kitchen Harris. Perry
was token to Camp Butner hospital.
Investigation of the accident was
by State Highway Patrolman John
Hudgins.
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Egypt Against
British Policy
| Cairo—Three Egyptian cabinet
ministers resigned from the coali
tion cabinet tonight in protest a
gainst the government's severity in
quelling anti-British riots by stu
dents. At the same time, workers
joined students in the latest clash
with police.
Finance Minister Makram Pasha,
War Minister El Said Selim, and
Minister of Supply Sibaie Bey re
signed. declaring that “these stu
dents could have been treated bet
' ter than the way they have been
1 treated."
Scores of students have been in
| jured by police in their demonstra
tions demanding withdrawal of
British soldiers from Egypt.
The anti-British activity by stu
dents spread today to Zagazig, 40
miles north of Cairo, and two stu
dents were said to have been killed
in a battle with police.
A worker's district meeting in
observance of the birthday of Mos
lem prophet, Mohammed, turned
into an antigovernment rally, and
workers joined students attending
the meeting in shouting for evacu
ation of British troops in the Nile
valley.
E\)t Couner-®tntes
Local Labor On |
Farms About All
Expected For Year j
F. S. Sloan Say One Out Os
Ten Veterans From Farms
Return To Them.
Labor which farmers themselves
can supply or draw from adjacent
communities must suffice in the pro
duction of North Carolina crops
this year it was announced by F, S,
Sloan, state program leader of the
State College Extension Service, who
said that outside help from mi
grants, foreign workers and "Bo
hunks'’ will be exceedingly short as
compared with the volume available
in war years. No prisoners of war,
who worked 312,485 man-days in 58
North Carolina counties last year,
will jx> available for farm labor after
June 1, Sloan reported.
Meanwhile, it appeared doubly im
perative that state farmers pool ma
chinery and available labor on an
exchange basis especially in perish-,
able crops because of the prospect
that farmer labor will demand high
er pay as industry ups its wage scale.
Sloan also reminded that many
older and physically-handicapped
persons who filled in at farm work
during wnrtime, now are leaving the
farm in increasing numbers. Os the
9,661 bqys and girls under 18 years
of age who worked on farms in the
state last year, many will not return
this year because the patriotic ap
peal enhanced by the, war now has
been lost.
On the basis of figures available
i thus far, Sloan declared, it is ex
! pected that less than one in 10
former farm boy veterans will re
; turn to farms in this state. Bruns
!wick County Agent J. E. Dodsop re
ported that of 16 farm lads who en
tered the armed services during the
j war from one community in that
I county, all have since been dis
> charged from service but only one
'has gone back to the farm.
"Tlie only encouragement I can
offer in connection with the farm
labor problem this year," Sloan said,
“is to urge farmers to increase effi
ciency by pooling resources."
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State Guard
Asked To Stay
!On For Time
Raleigh, Feb. —Adjutant General
!J. Van B. Metts asked the state
guard to .'carry on” until its work
is officially completed, and disclosed
that the annual summer, encamp
, ment might be held at some place
I other than Fort Bragg so that ade
quate recreation would be available
| after daily training periods.
He said he would like to dispel
j ideas “on the part of some that the,
| guard may be disbanded in the very
near future, giving way to the re
organized national guard."
"No one, at the moment," he said
in a letter to each guard unit, "can
say when the national guard will
be reorganized to the extent it may
take over the duties of the state
guard. Until such time, it seems to
me, the respective local communi
ties in which we have state guard
units should realize the seriousness
of disturbances which may arise in
which local authorities may find it
necessary to call upon the state for
assistance.
“The state must have a protective
force ready, in strength and train
ing, subject to the call or order of
the Governor in any emergency.
The state guard is that force.”
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Has Promotion
L. Bradsher Pulliam has recently
been promoted from Mo. M. M. 3-C
to Mo. M. M. 2-C. He is now on
duty aboard L. S. T. 1043 as chief
engineer, operating in the vicinity
of the Solomon Islands.
Petty Officer Pulliam has had
previous duty aboard the French
Submarine La Nex and P. C. S. 1380.
He is expected home in the near
I future.
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Grange To Meet
Person County Grange will meet
Thursday night at seven-thirty
o'clock in the USO Service center,
it was announced today by Erroi
Morton, master, who says there will
be an election of officers and chief
speaker will be Henry M, Melton,
district deputy at large for the
Grange. A full attendance is re
quested.
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
Jap Supreme Commander’s Swords Come in a Box .
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130,000 JAPS HAD BEEN KILLED by Admiral Mountbatten's South East Asia Command at the time
of the Jap surrender, when Field-Marshal Count Terauchi, Jap Supreme Commander in that war the
atre, pleaded to be excused surrendering his sword because be was stricken with paralysis. The British
Admiral granted this plea, but said that the Jap Field Marshal Was to make formal surrender as
soon as he was able. Time passed, but Mountbatten stuck to his order, and Terauchi is picljred here as,
with the help of an aide-de-camp (left), he bowed low and handed over to the Allied Supreme Com
mander not one but two swords complete with their case. High-ranking officers of the Allied Command,
in which every 83 men in a hundred were from -the British Commonwealth of Nations, witnessed the
ceremony held in Saigon, French Indo-China.
Miss McCain Will
Speak Wednesday
Miss Madeline McCain, of Raleigh,
1 State president of the Classroom
i Teachers' association, will be
i speaker Wednesday night at seven
! thirty o'clock at regular monthly
I session of Person chapter of the
i North Carolina Education associa
tion in tfie library ol Roxboro high
j school it was announced this morii
' ing by Miss Zerfinia Burton, V>:
: Olive Hill, unit president.
Program is to be in charge > i
t Mrs. Robert L. Hester, of Bushy
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Bank Holiday
Peoples bank will he closed oil
Friday, February 22. in observance
cf Washington's birthday, a legal
holiday, it was announced today
by bank officials. Business will
| resume as usual on Saturday.
Funeral Held For
W.W. Tripp, 51,
Os Longhurst
Funeral for W. W. Tripp, 51, nig.lv,
| superintendent of Longhurst plant;
‘Roxboro Cotton Mills, whose death
| occurred Friday night at his houv
j from a stroke of paralysis which h.
suffered Monday, was held.'Sunday ’
afternoon at two-thirty o'clock at
Longhurst Baptist church of which
he was a member. Rites were iii
j charge of the Rev, Auburn C. Hayes,
i his "pastor, and the Rev. Clyde G.
MeCarver, of Longhurst Methodist
church, with interment in a ceme
tery at Mebane, his former home
Mr. Tripp came from Mebane
about two years ago. Surviving .are
his wife, of the home, one daughter.
iMis's Lois Tripp, of Burlington, 'five
sons, James and Bud, both of Me
| bane, Lester, Howard and W. W.. Jr
| all of: Roxboro, and a number of
! brothers and sisters.
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Rink Opens
Skating during week-day hour,
has been added as a recreations;
feature at the Recreation Center, ‘l,
I was announced today by T. A. Clay
ton. manager, who says the hour ■
j will be from three to five in the
j afternoons and seven to eleven a!
i night. The square dances will be or.
i Wednesday and Friday nights, not
j Saturdays, at the usual hours.
■ /UodUf 'lke. Waif, m
Definately in the Big Shot class now is Claude Harris, prosperous !
business man of this city. He has. now installed a loud speaker system
in his plant. Any time he wants someone from the rear of the plant to
. report to his deck he just calls their name over the loud speaker which
goes all over the shop and that person reports at once. This speaker
saves Harris a lot of time- and time is money to that fellow
However, I can remember when Well I guess that I had better
not tell what f remember about him because he would possibly like
to erase those times from his memory. |
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT •
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1946
~ Fork, and Miss Hazel Carver. Rox- ;
i j boro high school, while host schools .
: j will be Olive Hill, East Roxboro and
• j Cunningham, An interesting film 1
i ; dealing with an educational subject I.
i i will also be shown.
- jijfhe meeting, this Wednesday wi'U !
\ ’Yellow; in less than a week the
- NCEA leaders' session held at the
high school and it is expected that
some further discussion of the pro-,
posed legislative program present
ed at that time will take place
Three Meetings
Os Scout Leaders
To Be Held Here
Executive Hoard And Two
District Sessions Planned
Leaders of Cherokee Bey Scout
■unci! will meet in quarterly session
n Friday : night. February 22. in a
iinner session at Hotel Roxboro at
even o'clock. To be included in the
croup will be a number of repre
sentatives from Person district, ac
cording to John B. Oakley. Jr., of
Reidsville, council executive. Presi
dent of Cherokee is H. E. Latham,
who will preside.
Another Scout session to be held 1
here- will be the Tuesday night
meeting of Person Scout district at
even-thirty in Roxboro Chamber o£ i
commerce.' Divisional meeting of the ;
. aide unit will be held next night: i
••i seven o'clock in the office of C.
J Ford, negro farm agent;.
In Reidsville last Friday night lor
meeting of Cherokee officers were
J. W. Greene arid Tom Shaw. Exe
cutive Oakley at that time reported
chat the house‘in which he lived
sad during the previous week been
destroyed by tire, although almost
II of his furniture and personal
■ fleets had been saved.
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Dr. Foust Dies ;
i
Greensboro.—Dr. Julius I. Foust.
HC. president emeritus of Woman's !
- College of North Carolina at Greens- j 1
, boro, died in a hospital at Lakeland, j 1
Fla., Frid&y. after an illneiss of sev-!'
era! years.
Funeral services were held from
;! he First Presbyterian Church in i
1 Greensboro, Monday id ll a. m. j
Dr. Foust had spent the past sev- i
oral winters in Lakeland.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Soil Conservation
Prize Plan Will
Be Discussed Soon
Meet ini; Will Be In Agricul
tural Building at Bethel
Hill.
[ j Farm residents -of the Bethel Rill,
; i Woodsdale and South Boston high-
. 1 way sections who are interested in
. soil conservation sis practiced under
the Dan River Soil conservation
service will meet Friday night at
6:45 in the agricultural building at
Bethel Hill high school to receive
more detailed information concern
ing the'civic, club prize program be
ling arranged for conservation parti
cipants, it was announced today by
J. R. Adair, of the Dan River unit.
Four Roxboro civic clubs, Kiwatiis
Rotary, Exchange and the Business
and Professional Woman's club, ar
each offering prides totaling thirty
dollars per club. First prize from
each club will be fifteen dollars,
white second prize will be ten dollars
"each and thirds will total five dol
lars, Expected to be present for the
gathering are representativse front
each club.
The prize plan was devised by Mr.
Adair, who has prepared posters
showing the "Show Window" pro
jects which are now in progress. Al
so to be displayed at the meeting
Friday night are colored slides deal
ing with the program A Bethel Hill
Basketball game is scheduled im
mediately alter the conservation
' session.
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Anniversary Os
Rotary This Week
Thirty-sixth anniversary of the
founding of Rotary International
will be observed Saturday and it ..is'l
expected that the program of the j
Roxboro club on Thursday at Hotel
Roxboro will be in part concerned
witli that subject. Many clubs are
planning radio programs in connec-'
tion with the birthday and closest 1
one to Roxboro will be the one to
be staged Saturday afternoon in
Durham by members of the Durham ;
; Club.
President of the Roxboro club is j
! Dr. John Fitzgerald, with the Rev.!
j Daniel Lane, vice president, G. Lem- j
I uel Allen secretary and W, Reaae
I Jones, treasurer.
Article On Ellis
j Tom Ellis, of Cedar Grove, l'ound
|er and operator of the Ellis Busi- !
I ness Service, is subject of an article I
I in the February 23rd issue of Satiu - I
j day Evening Post which will soon j
appear on newsstands. Author of;
,the article is E. Carl Sink, assistant]
jlo Bill Sharp, of the State publicity!
; bureau. Ellis, who was in Roxboro i
i today, had an advance copy of the [
magazine with him and he is already
beginning to worry about the “fan
mail" he will be having by next)
week.
Wartime timber cutting and loss!
in the United States was 50 percent I
greater than annual timber growth. I
Red Cross Total
For Year To Be
Half What It Was
X-Ray Clinics To
| Continue Through
I Tuesday Week
Citizens Urged To Take Ad
vantasre Os Free Service,
Health department x-ray examin
ations in connection with the anti
tuberculosis campaign which has
| been in progress for the past two
weeks, will continue here for the
first three days of this week and,
the first two days of next week, it !
! was reported this morning by health i
department officials, who have is-i
sued the following statement:
. : The X-Rav program now being,
: carried on by the Person County!
j Health Department, through the U. 1
S. Public Health Service, is for ev- i
j eryone. regardless of race, economic '
| status, or place of residence.
One does not have to wait for asi
' card, or get an appointment, just,
| | come to the Health Department dur-
I ing the clinic hours given below.
If anyone who lias received a notice !
is unable to come at the time given,
-: he or she may come during any ]
other clinic day.
Approximately 1,400 X-Rays have'
been taken to date. About 900 of
I these were taken at the industrial
-"plants.
ii ,
r i Tuberculosis is no respector of
. j persons. Many people who are well
t j may have the disease in the early
j. stages,. An early diagosis will help:
B j them get well quickly, and also pre
_ j vents the disease from spreading to :
_ I others. X-Rays also show other ab
_ j normal chest conditions.
Take advantage of this rare op
portunity. get your chest X-rayed
" J now.
I. Clinic hours three days this week
sjare: Mon., 9-12, 1-4: Tue.s., 9-12,
*; 1-4: Wed.. 10-12, 3-6: and next
, week: Moil,. 9-12. 1-4: and Tues.. |
II 9-12 1-4.
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Currie Pointer
l. Dies Today At
His Residence
Currie Pointer, 56, of North Main
street, retired farmer, died this
. morning at his home at one-fifteen
) o'clock from complications after an 1
( i illness lasting twelve days. He had !
1 been in ill health for several months, i
, A son of the late Sam and Mollie i
Barnette Pointer, he is survived by
two sisters, Misses Sue and Kate
Pointer, of the home, and one half- j
brother, Sampson Pointer, of Texas, I
besides numerous cousins.
Funeral will take place Tuesday j
afternoon with interment in Burch- ■
Rites will be at three o’clock at j
' the home and ministers will be Rev.
I ; Beil Houston, of Long Memorial
>! Methodist Church and Rev. J. Boyce !
‘ 1 Brooks, of First Baptist Church, !
1 (J T
! Library Board
Has Session
i ————
i ; Held Friday afternoon at the ■
j Board of Education office was tile !
I February session ol the Person
1 County Public Library board of di- i
rectors at which Miss Dorothy j
Wightman. librarian made a report j
concerning the budget up through |
I the month of January. Also discuss- i
jed was work of the Negro branch i
of which Ophelia King is unit libra- :
rian. Present for the meeting, in ad- i
dition to Miss Wightman were Flem
D. Long, chairman. Mrs. R. H.
| Shelton, Mrs. J. Y. Humphries, R. B.
Griffin, Mayor S. G. Winstead and
IToin Shaw.
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Draws Large Crowd
i Regarded as highly successful and j
with a large attendance was the
Thursday night band program given
by Roxboro High School band in the |
| institution’s auditorium under di- |
i i ection of Miss Mary B&rle Wilson.
I Selections of a popular, semi-classic
il al and march type made up the pro
.! gram for this the first formal con
.l cert of the season.
THE GROUND HOG . . .
Saw his shadow and the wise ones
saw their coal dealer. Likewise,
the wise ones who read the Cou
rier-Times will watch their labels.
It is not our desire to cut off any
one, but we are forced to do so.
Be wise, renew today.
NUMBER 22
Polio Fund Over Top By SBOO,
Clothing; Goes Well. Hos
pital Drive Continues.
Setting of a quota for the Red
Cross 1946 campaign here was an
-1 hounced today and at the same 1 time
good reports were received from the
Polio fund drive and the Victory
clothing collection, two other social
service campaigns. No new figures
have been announced by the' War
Memorial hospital fund group, al
though it js said about half of the.
total of $256,000 has been subscrib
ed.
Red Cross quota lor. the annual
campaign wnicli will begin here
March first, will be 85,400. about
! half of what it was last year, it was
j reported today by Dr. Robert E.
: Long, chapter chairman. Finance
; leader for the drive will be G. Lem
uel Allen, insurance man, who is
j now drawing up a corps of workers
| to assist with the program. The re
duced quota is based upon less
| acute needs experienced at National
Headquarters since the ending of
tile war,
'• Complete .success and oversub-
I scription of the quota ol $2,080 by
about SBOO was reported today in ;
| still another social service campaign,
that of tlic Polio fund by its local
■chairman, the Rev. Daniel Lane, who
j lists the total at $2,847.85.
Largest group sum. $1,993.53, was
'received from individual donations,
gifts from firms, industrial plants
and clubs/while next largest! was
$969.60. reported from white. Negro
and Indian schools. Reported collect
ed but nol turned in as yet are gifts
of $19.32 from the schools, $673 from
: theatres and 4162 from Exchange
j club dance.
Coin containers netted $274.14 and
received from a Hi-Y club was
$16.83. The campaign has proved
very successful and the Rev. Mv.
! Lane said today he expresses deep
appreciation to all who helped with
l the program.
Considerable success is likewise
(reported for the Victory clothing
j collection headed by Fred Long.
This drive went by garments col •
lected and final appeal was made
last week. Still unpacked because of
scarcity of boxes are many pairs of
shoes given to the drive,
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Person Youths
Urged To Try For
College Awards
Appeal Made To Four-H Mem
bers By L. R. Harrill.
j Person county boys and girls,
j members of Four-H clubs here are
■ being urged to join other North
I Carolina Four-H members in a com
petition for college scholarships in
1 a nationwide contest being held by
1 the National Junior Vegetable
1 Growers association, it was revealed
today by L. R, Harrell, State Four-
H club leader and member of the
contest committee in the Southern
region.
Outlining the sixth annual vege
: table production and marketing pro
! ject in which awards of $6,000 have
been made available, Harrill said:
"Working with the soil is an edu-
I cation in itself, and the contest la
i designed to give awards as an In
j centive to efficient gardening and
I marketing. Size of project is not a
| factor, since contestants are scored
lon efficiency, improvements in
methods, leadership in community
i and school activities, and scores at
tained in a study course."
Scholarships to be awarded in 194 Q
include SSOO to the national cham
pion, a S2OO scholarship for each of
the four regional winners, SIOO
checks to 33 sectional winners and
the remainder of the award money
in lesser awards within each state.
The contest is open to all boys
: girls between 12 and 21 yearfe of
age.
Complete details and entry bionlCf 1
can be obtained from county agrt* ':4
! cultural agents, F. F. A. leaders,
4-H Club agents, vocational agrl
culture instructors or bjr writing to
L. R. Harrill, North Carolina State
College, Raleigh. Sponsor of thq
contest is A. and P. stores, ~ *