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DO VOL' • Want to buy something • Want to sell something • Want a tenant or renter • Perhaps lost something. Try a Courier-Times WANT AD! VOL. LXV Cooperation Urged For Numbering Os Houses In Roxboro Named Auditor j Chairman For 11 WOW Group 1 Husband Os Roxboro Woman Long Leader In Fraternal 1 Circles. Omaha, Nebraska, February 28. (Special Courler-Time6)Charles A. Hines, Attorney of Greensboro, has been appointed chairman of auditors of the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society. Mr. Hines succeeds William E. Mooney, of Omaha, who was ap pointed general attorney for the so ciety following the resignation of Rainey T. Wells, of Omaha, gen eral attorney for the past eleven years. Mr. Hines, a na tional director and auditor of the I Woodmen Society Hr ' HH since 1938, has H held many offices |*^|H in the society since |» - becoming a mem bor 32 years ago. He was elected to the North Carolina head camp in 1915, and has served as a member of the o-...iw. Sovereign Cemp since 1917. His public service in cludes terms as city attorney of Greensboro, state senator, chair man of the state board of elections, Judge of the municipal and superior courts, and a presidential elector. In 1929. he was awarded the Greens boro Citizenship Trophy for “most useful and unselfish service to his city." ,Mr. Hines also has served as presi- ' dent of the North Carolina Fratern al Congress, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Community Chest, Open Forum, Executives and Civltan clubs. He is a director of Cone Memorial and Richardson hospitals, president of Gate City Budding and Loan as sociation and chairman of the board of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical college. He and Mrs. Hines, the former Miss Ida Win stead of Roxboro, have one daughter and two sons, o Pulliam Report Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton said this morning that nothing further has been heard of Tom Pulliam, 76 year-old Negro, of the Hyco section, who has been missing since January 26. What has proved to be a false i lead in the case was reported first of the week. Pulliam disappeared : one night after having taken a bus i from Roxboro to his home. More To Chaplaincy Than Pulpiteering Tlic duties of a chaplain in mod ern warfare are of inflnate variety and include much more than preach ing and praying, according to the Rev. T. Marvin Vick, Jr., former local Methodist minister, who was guest speaker Monday night at Rox boro Kiwanis club at Hotel Roxboro, where he was introduced by Dr. Robert E. Long. The Rev. Mr. Vick, a former member of Kiwanis here, who during the war served with the famed “Timberwolf” division and is now pastor of the Methodist church at Bahama, just across the line in Durham county, received a warm welcome from his Roxboro friends and associates. Theme of his talk was the cooper ation practiced between chaplains and the American Red Cross, as an example of which he cited a Rox boro case handled by him and the agency with assistance from the home service division, Roxboro, with the result that the man In question was returned home and Is now hap pily readjusted to civilian life. The minister also mentioned cases from other sections pf the eountry, HOSPITAL DRIVE EXTENDS THROUGH MARCH All Numbers Listed At City Hall. But Some Residents Indifferent To Plan. Request that all citizens of Rox boro cooperate in the house num bering program which is being car ried on here as a preliminary to the beginning of City delivery by the United States Post office, was made here today by Roxboro’s City Manager Guy E. Whitman, who points out that the numbering job which has been in charge of Robert E. Whitten is virtually com pleted and is expected to be ended next week. Chief difficulty is that there is no regulation or law under which the City can compell residents to tack up their assigned numbers on houses, although instructions from the Post Office department clearly Indicates that such numbers must be displayed before the new pro posed free delivery of City mail can be instituted. Whitten, on his part, reports that some residents have displayed In difference to the numberin' pro gram and that in several instances he has simply left off tacking up numbers at certain houses where objections have been raised. He is out of town today, but expects to return by Monday and will then be gin his final round of checkovers, likely to take two days. Plea of the City Manager is that residents whose numbers have not yet been tacked up get their numbers from the City Hall or elsewhere and put tnem up or make arrangements will: ,Whittcn to do the iob. Date of actual starting of City Delivery was expected to have been March Ist, but illness of L. M. Carl ton. Roxboro postmaster, has made it impossible to determine details, although Mr. Carlton is said to have names of the newly designated carriers, who are to serve ot: a temporary appointment basis. With completion of numbering, it is not. however, expected that institution of the delivery system will be long delayed. All residents, incidentally, are urged to provide suitable metal mail boxes for their houses. o At Concord Dr. John C. Glenn, pastor of Duke Memorial Methodist Church, Durham, will assist the Rev. Dan iel Lane in a series of evangelistic services at Concord Methodist Church, beginning Sunday night, March 3rd. The night servioes will be at eight o'clock. Hour of morn ing services will be announced Sunday. Dr. Glenn will bring a singer with him. The public is cor dially invited to attend. o—> RECEIVES CHARTER Jackson Refrigeration Service company of Roxboro has been grant ed a charter to deal in electrical equipment. Authorized capital stock (50.000, subscribed stock $3,000 by M. C. Stegall, M. H. Burke and B. Ray Jackson. involving mainly domestic harmony between husband and wife, or a clearing up of misunderstandings with parents back home. Men in service come to their chaplains with every conceivable type of problem and with a frankness which would have shocked the average pre-war civilian minister, said Vick, who had with him at the club only a small portion of his voliminous files kept through four years of war service, much of it overseas in France, Bel gium and Germany. Byway of preface the Rev. Mr. Vick reiterated his personal pleas ure at being home again, close to Roxbofo, where he was for four years engaged in pastoral work. Presiding was president J. W. Greene. Guests included William Hoyt Davenport, Oscar Hull, a Ki wanian just returned from service, Bickford and Richard Long, broth ers of Robert Edgar and J. A. Long, Jr., and also recently released from service. Press representative was Tom Shaw. Warm felicitations were extended to D. R. (Jake) Taylor, prhose son, "Jake, Jr". was born Sunday. ®fje Courttr-lßties J. W. NOELL, EDITOR . Agency Head 0i REV. J. BOYCE BROOKS The Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, of Roxboro First Baptist church, yesterday was elected chairman of the Person County Council of Social Agencies of whicr he has been an active member since coming to this City. , Speeding Charge; Melts When Hit i Car Is Repaired | Jack Wolf Pays Small Fine 1 Under Many Counts In Countv Court. i Thirty or more cases were dispos ed of on Tuesday in Person Record er’s court befois Judge F. O. Carver, Sr. Included oil the docket was the case of Jack Wolf, charged with speeding, careless and reckless driv ing, hit and run and damage to per- : sonal property, who paid a fine of ten dollars after It had been shown that car of the prosecuting witness nad been repaired. Other cases were: Warren Will iams, alias Warner Williams, Negro, assault with a deadly weapon, sus pended with costs; Mitchell Stern, no operator's license, nol pros with leave; Ralph Owen Murry, speed ing .suspended with costs: George E. Crumpton, abandonment and non-support, appeal to Superior court under (500 bond after rejec tion of judgment of lower court that he pay $22.50 per week to his wife and children. John M. Hunter, speeding, sus pended with costs; Cooper Jones, as- I sault and battery on female, $lO and costs; A. C. Tate, assault and I battery with deadly weapon, war- j rent, withdrawn by prosecuting wit ness who paid costs; Gene Knott, possession $5 and costs; William Jefferson Woods, Negro, larceny, not guilty; Bertha Parrish and Dorothy Fuller, Negroes, assault with deadly weapon, not guilty; Alexander Rog ers, Negro, non-support, 12 months, suspended on condition that he pay SSB to Edgar Brewer and costs, with ten dollars per month for twelve months. R. L. Adcock, possession, suspend ed with costs; David Humphrey, possession, suspended with costs, prayer for judgment continued; ; Bernice Mooney, possession, $5 and j costs; Joseph Parrish, earning con cealed weapon, $lO and costs; Odelle ' Clayton, Negro, careless and reck- j less driving and injury to property,' suspended with costs. John N. Mangum, non-support, capias issued; Medford Oakley, re fusal to support illigltimate child,! i SBOO and costs; Charlie Cozart and Swanson Ridgeway, gambling, fine of $5 and one half costs each; Hu bert Rudder, careless and reckless driving, non-suit; Marvin Harris, Negro, assault with deadly weapon, suspended with costs; Joe Harris, Negro, assault and battery, suspend ed with costs; Edmund Walker, Ne gro. drunken driving, not guilty, William Rudder, drunken driving, not guilty, and Stacy Oby Budd, speeding, suspended with costs. o At St. Mark's e The Rev. Henry Nutt Parsley, of Durham, Episcopal minister for stu dents in Duke University, will be speaker Sunday morning at eleven o’clock at Saint Mark’s church, Roxboro, where Holy Communion will be observed. o Red Cross Instructors taught first aid and water safety to many mem bers of the armed forces during the •World War K. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1946 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE CHRISTMAS IN EPINAL; THE RED CROSS WAS THERE, SAYS LONG American Red Cross service as he has seen it, both at home and while in action overseas in Europe, is de scribed today by Dolian Long, of Roxboro, in a personal communi cation to Dr. Robert E. Long, chair man of the Person County Chapter the American Red Cross, for which the annual fund gathering cam ■ paign, with a quota of $5,400, will begin Monday, March 4, under leadership of G. Lemuel Allen, fi nance chairman. Mr. Long, who was twice wounded in action, calls the American Red Cross, “Home and Friend in a Strange Land", and writes as fol lows: "Before I was inducted in the armed forces I was a little uncer tain about the activities of the Bed Cross. I had never doubted tile worth or purpose of such activities, but I was not too familar witn their j operation in peace-time. "After my induction in the U. S. Army I soon learned to appreciate this fine organization. After serving overseas I appreciated it even more. The Red Cross has been a friend and home to me and to mil : lions of others separated from fam Rev. J. Boyce Brooksi New Agency Head Wives Os Service And Ex-Service I -» Men May Be Aided ! Maternity And Infancy Care Available Made Public By j Authorities. The Person unit of the District; Health Department has today reteas- 1 [ed the following information re ceived from Dr. G. W. Cooper, As sistant State Health Officer, rela tive to maternity and infancy car? of service am ex-service men’s wives: "The wife of a veteran may make .application after her husband has been discharged, provided she was already pregnant at the time of his discharge. The law states that any woman whose husband at any time J during her pregnancy was in one of i the eligible pay grades is eligibl" | for maternity care under EMIC. I: | also states that any child whose father was at any time during the first year of life and during the pre natal period was in one of the four lower pay grades is eligible for med ical and hospital care until it is a year old." ! “Since October 1, 1945, we have had provision in our plan to pay ior home and office treatment, as well as hospital care, of sick infants tm : der one year of age of any service man in the eligible pay grades. The rate of payment for home treat ments is $3.00 per visit, and $2 00 per office visit, with a maximum of ; both of $24.00 for the first three j weeks treatment. This applies only to sick infants, as there is no pro ' vision for paying for routine check , ups and immunizations." Immunization can either be se ! cured from the private physician or the health department, j o Rimmer Speaker For Exchange Arthur Rimmer, of Roxboro Ex , change club, who has recently re , turned from a business trip to Vir ginia. Maryland and West Virginia, was speaker last night at the club , here which held its meeting in the , | Recreation Center. Rimmer discuss . : ed for the club visits he has made ■to Exchange clubs in the states in I which he has traveled, j General committee of the club is to meet Monday night to arrive at. a decision relative to date for the : next club sponsored benefit dance. Presiding last night was President ■ Ralph Tucker. i o HAS DISCHARGE i S. Sgt. George I. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Harris, received his discharge last Thursday at Fort , Bragg, after having been in. service for three years. He expects to be i associated in business with his father. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT ily and friends. “The Red Cross assisted service men in so many foreign lands in so many ways that it would be lire j less for me to attempt to explain ; all their activities, but I would like to relate one or two instances when . they (the Red Cross) served me i wonderfully. "It was Christmas Day, 1944, Epi nal, France. The earth had been covered with ice and snow for days. The Germans were pushing back on the 7th Army front. We were in sound of the heavy guns. The Bat tle of the Bulge was in great pro gress for the Germans. Everything J was rather blue and discouraging | < for us>. I walked down the icy ! streets of Epinal, thinking about ; how nice it would be to spend Christmas at home. "There were no Christmas trees or lights in Epinal, and the shops had no Christmas goods. It was just another day in France—until I saw in English a sign—American Red Cross. “I walked into a huge building that reminded me of a large hotel lobby. There were Christmas trees (See EPINAL Page Two)— I Miss Wijfhtmnn Talks. Plans I Beine Made For Civic Club Address Bv Dr. Harold I D. Myer. j Unanimous election of a new I chairman, hearing a talk on recrea j tion and libraries and making plans I for a city-wide civic club gathering ! at which a nationally known author ; ity on recreation is to speak, occu j pled the attention yesterday of j members of the Person County Council of Social agencies at Hotel ; Roxboro where the February lunch | eon meeting was held. I Dr. Harold D. Myer, of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, is the recreational authority who has accepted an invitation to speak here on invitation of the council and tentative date of Fri day, April 5. has been set, pending confirmation by each of the four civic clubs, Kiwanis, Rotary. Ex change and Business and Profession al club, the presidents of which are being contacted. Dr. Myer’s talk is expected to bring to a climax a year-long series of talks on recrea tion which have been sponsored by the Agency council. | New chairman of the Council is j the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, of Rox | boro First Baptist church, while {vice-chairman is S. F. Marsh, and secretary-treasurer is Miss Nettie Day. Tlie Rev. Mr. Brooks, succeeds Tom Shaw, of the Courier-Times, and Miss Day succeeds Mrs. R. B. Holeman, who has held office since ! 1939. Election of all new officers was iby acclamation, following reports from a nominating committee com j posed of Mrs. Holeman, W. Wallace Woods and the Rev. Clyde G. Mc- Carver. Speaker of the day was Miss Dor othy Wightman, of the Person Coun ty Public Library, a resident of Rox boro. who serves as tri-county libra rian for Person, Orange and Caswell counties. Miss Wightman, introduc [ ed by Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, program j chairman, discussed the role of libra ! r ies in the stimulation of recreation, [said that reading is of itself a re i creation for many people and indi | cated that the library could help by i furnishing information on recrea {tional programs and plans. I Miss Wightman also said that the library here now has as its greatest . need the addition of more books and . that the institution should now be gin to plan for expansion of rural j service by thinking seriously of buy i ing as soon as possible a larger book . mobile. She mentioned the library ■ here as a place where citizens may i meet., where they may browse be tween meeting and shopping or oth ; er business, and where they may v obtain technical knowledge. "The ■ library", said Miss Wightman, “is glad to serve the community, wheth , er for business or pleasure, and it especially needs the backing of such organizations as the Person County Council of Social Agencies ’ Next meeting of the Agency group will be held March 27. with the new chairman, the Rev. Mr. Brooks, pre siding. Appointment of the nom [ inating committee was made in Jan • uary at request of the retiring chair, man. Need For City Community Center Involved In Fate Os Local USO Building Hospital Drive To Continue In March Due To Bad Weather And Roads Has Been Impossible For Solicitors To See Peo ple. All Urped To Give As Much As Is Pos sible. R. L. Harris, chairman of the Per i son Countv. Memorial Hospital Com j mittee, announced today that tlie ■ financial drive for this building had j been extended through the month of March. Previously it had been • (stated that this drive, the general j drive, would last through the month ; of February but due to so much bad j weather and especially bad condi ! tions of roads all of the ]>eople who | would want to give have not been ] seen. Therefore this drive has been I given another month j Amount of money to be raised is ! | $250,000 and at this time it is not known how much of this money has [been raised. The solicitors have not | made a recent report and lor that j reason a check-up has not been made. Chairman Harris stated that ev-i I ery effort will be made to contact j [those who have not been seen by! j committee members and that he j hopped the response would be lib | era 1. He also stated that if there ' were some who had not been seen and desired to make their donation j now that they see G. C. Hunter at j I the bank and transact that business j I with him. Mr. Hunter is the treas urer of the hospital fund. The fact that the drive lias been extended is intended in no way to ! j lessen the responsibility of thosp j who have not made their donation. [ The need is urgent and those in [charge of the drive would like for j the money to be raised as early as i possible. o juniors To Change Time Os Meeting By Next Month Members of Longhurst Council of [the Junior Order, who will have din jner tonight at seven o’clock at. the i Recreation Center art expecting at- I tendance of over one hundred mem bers and guests. Meeting time foi iiegular sessions of the council, be ginning Monday night. March 4th. will be at seven-thirty o'clock in stead of at seven. The new schedule will continue through the month of March, but starting April Ist, and continuing to October Ist meeting time will be eight o’clock, according tto announcement made today. | Change of hour of meeting is being [made for convenience of members, some of whom find it impossible to be present at the early hour of seven o'clock . Abbitt Attends Conference Os Waterworks Group Collins Abbitt, city manager, was i in Asheboro Saturday for a meeting •of the executive committee of the j North Carolina Waterworks Opera j tors association. Mr, Abbitt is a member of the nominating conunit- I tee for 1945-1946. ] Chapel Hill was named as place [ of meeting for the annual operators training school, to be held June 10th through the 15th. Tlie school will be under instruc tion of the School of Public Health of the Uinverstiy of North Caro lina and examinations will be given Jat the close of courses to allow ; students a proper registration in the State. Cooperating with the operators i association in holding the school are the North Carolina League of Municipalities, the Sanitary Engi neers Division of the State Board of Health, the Extension Division of the University, and the Institute 'of Government. Tom Ellis Gets Those Letters And Many Offers Cedar Grove Man Under National Spotlight. Cedar Grove. Feb. 28 'Special to Courier-Times) Just to prove I Ralph Waldo Emerson was eternally right about building mouse traps.; the world beat five hundred paths, , to Tom Ellis' door at this Caswell crossroads over the weekend. Or' perhaps it just proves again the; power of tile press. Five days after thc appearaitc: in Saturday Evening Post of a little [ piece about Tom and his dollar-a week bookkeeping business written i by Carl Sink of the State Advertis ing Division, Ellis had received over 1 500 letters and telegrams, a large desk drawer stuffed full, with mori coming. Most of the letters wanted "in" on the business which requires a dollar bill attached to weekly bookkeeping ! page-reports, for Ellis has tauuh his 1 system to almost 600 cohorts throughout the Nation. But some of 1 the writers were insistent that they i get exclusive territory, offering sub stantial sums for rights in entire States. One man wired that Tom should come to New York, all ex penses paid, to discuss an inter national organization. But Tom. he just keeps on build- ■ ing mouse traps. To be specific, he just continues to keep up with his bookkeeping business and to catch ip on the 1.400 income tax reports he is behind to his regular clients : before the March 15 deadline. The best he can do is to promise to con sider all offers by May 1, figuring he’ll still be a month behind in his bookkeeping when the income tax rush is over. Three Grass Fires Three grass fires, one Monday and two Tuesday, have been report ed this week. One blaze was near Short's Planeing mill and another on a car lot. Depot street, below the Courier-Times office. Fire Chief Henrv E. CBriant in making a re port of these fires has a word of caution to residents appealing to then! to use greater care in clean ing off and burning over. lots. -—— o Cousin Dies Held yesterday at Southern Pines was funeral service for W. Duncan Matthews, 55, former mayor of Southern Pines and prominent at torney, whose death occurred Tues day in Moore county hospital, after an illness lasting several weeks. He was a cousin of Chester F. Vogler, of Roxboro. New PTA Group To Meet Next Month First formal meeting of the new Roxboro high school Parent-Teach er association group will be held Tuesday night at eight o'clock at the high school, according to an nouncement made today by Mrs. H C. Kynoch, temporary chairman and head of the nominating committee, who says chief business at the meet ing will be an election of officers. It will be recalled that the new PTA unit was formed two to three weeks ago by interested Roxboro women, among them Mrs. R. H. Shelton, Mrs. Charles Stewart and 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 25 Service Center Not Yet Closed And Will Continue Opera tion Until Further Notice. No closing date has as yet bee:! set for tlve Roxboro USO ServicS Center, according to Dr. Robert E. Long, chairman of the board of di rectors. who said at noon today that he is corresponding with Chester D. Snell, ot Richmond. Va.. regional administrative head, concerning fu ture plans for the center, which has been in operation more than two years and lias been actively affiliat ed with United Service Organiza tions for most of that time. USO Center programs are being continued here on regular schedule each week-end, according to Dr. Long, and will be continued until further notice, but considerable com munity interest is attached to what i may be done with the building, which has also served as a meeting I place for civic groups and for young ; people and various farm organiza j tions such as Person Grange. The Center building, once a CCC | camp structure, was obtained for .the USO program and placed on the rear court house lot with the ’ understanding that, it could remain there until six months after the end :of the war. tlie end meaning, of 'course, the official end, which has [ never been declared and must come as an official statement from the . President of the United States or by an Act of Congress. Suspension of USO work here may come about because of the closing ! of Camp Butner, which is expected to take place in the next few weeks. ; On the other hand, it is regarded as possible that the work may be car ried on as a community project. In i line with such a policy is a propos ed plan for State absorbtion of such work, which Gov. R. Gregg Cherry is said to be considering. The Center here has catered to hundreds of service men front all sections of the nation. A register book has been kept since the open ing, which was in the Criteher build ■ ing. Court street, by courtesy of 1 Mrs. C. C. Criteher. Many local resi- I dents gave furniture and equip ment to the Center, but much that is : now in it was purchased with USO ‘ funds. o* Swiss Resident Waits Long Time To Start Asking Raleigh—Tlie Swiss postofflca system and H. R. Kiesinger are at i peace. All because the State Adver tising Division very promptly remit ted a reply to the following letter: "Excuse please the bad English, j but this letter comes from Switzer | land, how you see. In an old Mago zine of August 1939 I have seen »h advertisement of your office with nice pictures. I have read that I can get some official booklets. Send me please "North Carolina. Variety Vacationland, Outdoors in North j Carolina. What's Doing in North Carolina”. "When it is impossible for you, to send me these or other official booklets, send me please a short letter that I do not argue with the post about a letter, which is not coming. I send you still the best wishes for a long peace.” o In 60 years, the American Red Cross has given aid in nearly 3.0C0 disasters at home and abroad. Mrs. Kynoch, who were named as a nominating committee. Speaker at that time was Mrs. J. S. Blair, State PTA official, who also assisted in formation of a County Council ot PTA. The Roxboro high school Parent* Teacher assofciation was formerly in operation for a period of years, but was disbanded during the late war and was not revised until the reor- , ganization meeting at which. Mrs, Blair was speaker, Mrs. Kynoch has an Interesting , program prepared, details of Whlol* are to be announced Monday J ‘""l I ' 1 l'
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