■ '{ : ry,-’ , ’;, > \ ■ HOSPITAL DBIVE EXTENDS THROUGH MARCH DO YOU • Want to buy something • Want to-sell something • Want a tenant or renter • Perhaps lost something. Try a Courier-Times WANT AD! VOL. LXV Symphony Program Being Arranged By Teacher Groups Free Concert For School Chil dren To Have Wide Appeal. Expected to be turned in tomorrow are ticket sales, reports for the North Carolina Symphony Society concerts scheduled to be given hero on Friday, March 16th. Two per formances of a twenty-one piece unit of the orchestra are being ar ranged, with the first one, for school children, planned for the afternoon at one-thirty o’clock in the auditor ium of Roxboro high school. Second concert of the 15th will be at night at eight o’clock in the same auditorium and will be for adults and high school students in older brackets. The tickets which are be ing sold arc for the adult perform ance. as that one for the children in the afternoon will be free. Sale of tickets, of one, five and twenty five dollar denominations is in the hands of a committee headed by W. Walla'ce Woods of the sponsoring Rotary club and composed of public school music teachers, private in structors in music and other inter ested teachers. Tile meeting of teachers who arc conducting the sale was held last week in the office of Superintendent R. B. Griffin, where illustrative ma terial dealing with the afternoon concert was distributed. It was agreed that pupils of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades in schools should be asked to attend and that special arrange ments should be made for younger pupils where circumstances warrant. Interested teachers are making plan' »)> bold ; tlh«f-afive classes so that the young people will become famtlar with both instruments and selections. The program for the children's concert in the afternoon will be as follows: Miniatures from. Symphony No. V in B Flat Major, Schubert, a. Alle gro. b. Andante con moto, c. Men uetto (Allegro Molto), d. Allegro vivace. Demonstration of instruments; Perucussion, Brasses, Woodwinds, Strings. The School of The Fauns, Pierne; Child's Play, Stix-Ormand.v; The Whistler and His Dog, Pryor; Meadowland, Knipper, and Cripple Creek, Stringfield. The amount to be raised here has been placed at six hundred dollars. Lester Brothers Out Os Service With U. S. Army Two brothers, Harvey J. Lester and Charles G. Lester, both of the Army and both from Roxboro. have received their discharges, it was an nounced today. Both served in the Pacific theatre. Harvey J- Lester, who served thirty-one months with fifteen ov erseas, has the American Theatre service medal, the Asiatic-Pacific medal with three Bronze Stars, the Philippine Liberation medal with two Bronze Stars, the good conduct medal and the Victory medal. He served in the New Guinea, South ern Philippine and Luzon campaigns and was with occupation troops in Japan for five months. Ho was dichargcd last month. Charles G. Lester, who received his discharge last December, was in service thirty-four months and overseas for twenty-three months, He also has the Asiatic-Pacific medal with four Bronze Stars, the Philippine Liberation medal with One Star, the good conduct and the Victory medal. He took part in air offensives against Japan and was in the New Guinea, Southern Phil ippine and Luzon campaigns. o Change Jobs Ruffin White. Sr., who has been in Milwaukee, Wis./is spending a week here with his family before going to ■ Long Island. New York, where he will be with the Veterans Administration company. Another member of the family, Joseph Ruffin White, in, who has been with a to bacco company in Lebanon, Ken tucky, for the past year, has enter ed Naval service and is stationed at Williamsburg, Va., where his ad dress is Joseph Ruffin White, 111, 992-27-31, Co. 92, Ave. A.. 8 Brks. 170. U.S.N.T., c. D., Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Va. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Person Farmers Get Over Twelve Thousand For Milk Dairy Production Payment Plan To Be Continued Says AAA. Tlie Dairy Production Payment Program will be continued through June 30, and rates for the April- June period will be the same as those for the corresponding period for last year, C. T. Hall, Chairman, Person County AAA Committee, an nounced today. Under the program, Mr. Hall said, the milk rate that will be paid to North Carolina farmers for April is 90 cents per Hundred-weight for whole milk produced and sold and 17 cents per pound for butterfat. For the May-June period, the rates Will be 55 cents per hundredweight for milk and 10 cents for butterfat. The AAA Chairman pointed out that the payments will be subject to termination or revision in the event of any general increases in price ceilings for milk and its pro ducts. According to the Stabilization Di rector’s announcement of January 29, the general level of returns for milk producers will be maintained riving 1946 at (be 1945 level, either by subsidy payment or increase in price ceilings should the subsidy be eliminated. The Dairy Production Payment was designed to make pay ments to farmers on the milk and butterfat they produce and sell to offset increased dairy production costs and to encourage a continued high rate of milk production. The program has been in opera tion since October 1943, and over six million dollars has been paid to Tar Heel dairy farmers through lo cal AAA County Committees. Os this amount $12,650.99 has been paid to Person County farmers. Greens To Face Trial Tuesday A coroner's jury summoned in the Richard Green, Sr., case, on Mon day afternoon reached a verdict that Green should be held on a charge of murder in connection with the shooting of his son, Richard Green, Jr., 20, who died Saturday night. Hearing for Green, Sr., and for his wife, will be held Tuesday in Person Recorder's court. His wife, a step-mother of the dead youth, is being held as an accessory before the fact. It is alleged that she had the pistol and willingly turned it over to her husband when the argu ment started between the father and son, a dispute said to have arisen over the ability of the father to drive his car after he had allegedly become intoxicated. Both Green, Sr., and his wife, Rachel Green, are being held in jail. Funeral for the dead youth was held Tuesday. Thompson Elected Commerce Leader E. G. Thompson, insurance busi ness man of Roxboro was elected president of the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce for 1946 at a meeting of the directors on Tuesday night of this week. Thompson is a Roxboro native, attended the University of North Carolina, has his degree from this school and has been in the in surance business here for a number of years. For the past three years he has been in the United States Navy and had reached the rank of Lt. Commander when released last Octo ber. Present at the Chamber of Com merce meeting were the following directors and others, W. W. Woods, secretary David Brooks, retiring di rector; Robt. Whitfield, retiring di rector: T. T. Mitchell, director; E. G. Thompson, now president; L. R. Wiison, director; 6. T. Kirby, dl-j rector; Earl Brndsher, Jr., dieector; | ®jie Couner-HTtmeis Rotary Speaker iv:^K DR. JOHN GLENN The Rev. Dr. John C. Glenn, of Duke Memorial Methodist church, Durham, who is preaching this week at Concord Methodist church, will be guest speaker tonight at Roxboro Rotary club at six-thirty o'clock at Hotel Roxboro. A. H, Crikher, Person Native, Dies In Greenville Andrew H. Critcher. 86, a native of Person County and a resident of Greenville, died there at his home at 602 East Fourth Street, early Sun day morning following an extend ed illness- Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. Robert W. Bradshaw, pastor of Jar vis Memorial Methodist Church. Burial was in Cherry Cenetery, Mr. Critcher was born in Roxboro. the son of the late Capt. Critcher, pioneer businessman, and Mrs. Crit cher. He came to Greenville in 1890 as an instructor in the growing and curing of tobacco. In 1891 he became associated with the late G. F. Evans and Ola Forbes in the operation of the first tobacco sales warehouse in Greenville. He was for many years connected with the warehouse and tobacco business, supplying tobacco curing barns over a large area. He continued in this business until several years ago, when failing health forced him to retire. In 1891 he was married to Lillie Evans of near Greenville. She died December 2, 1945. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. C. B. Rowlert, Mrs. Gertrude Tay lor, Mrs. L. B. McCormick and Mrs. J. C. Whitford, all of Greenville; Mrs, O. B. Peatross of Danville, Va . and Mrs. F. H. Gray of High Point; one son, G. E. Critcher of Green ville; and eight grandchildren. The deceased brother of the late C. C. Critcher, of Roxboro, arid visited here last summer. o Out Os Navy John B. Crumpton, Mo. M. M. 3-c, USN R, husband of Mrs. Rosie Avcrette Crumpton, of Roxboro, Route 2. has been discharged at the Naval Separation Center, Charles ton, S. C: after having served eighteen months, eleven of which were spent overseas. He wears the American Defense and Victory rib bons. Before entering service Tie farmed. D. D. Long, direector; Floyd Peaden, retiring director; Dick Woody, di rector; J. W. Green, director. Georg,; Currier, director, was absent. Other officers elected for the coming year were—Dick Woody, vice president and David Brooks, treasurer. Wallace Woods was re elected secretary and Miss Dorothy Taylor was re-elected as his assist ant. Plans were also made at this meeting to conduct a membership drive at an early date. It was point ed out that the Chamber now has 116 business members and 29 pro fessional members. It was also de cided to hold the regular meeting on the first Tuesday in each month. The Chamber of Commerce then went on record as endorsing the Kiwanis sponsored horse show that is to be held in Roxboro on April 20th. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA C. E. Winstead, Sr. Dies In Hospital C. E. (Charles Edward i Winstead, Sr., 81, of the Concord church sec tion, Person county, member of a well-known family and for many years a prominent farmer, died this morning at 12:01 o'clock in Watts Hospital. Durham, from a stroke of paralysis and complications. He fell Saturday night at his home injury ing his back, and was taken to the hospital Sunday. Funeral will be held Friday after noon at three o’clock at Concord Methodist church, of which he was a member from early manhood. Ministers in charge will be his pastor, the Rev. Daniel Lane, assist ed by the Rev. J. H. Shore, a form er pastor, and by the Rev. John C. Glenn, of Duke Memorial Methodist church, Durham, who is now con ducting a series of services in Con cord church. Interment will take place in Concord church cemetery. Mr. Winstead’s wife was the late Miss Minnie Lee Stephens, of Mil Good Ship Person Aids Drive Aqain j Despite the fact that Stuart Ford’s 1 : j Red Cross liner, "Person County”,! i lis being pulled across the court j i house “sea" for the third successive 1 ! year, the little tugboat which is do- l I ing tlie pulling is having rough ! weather in the 1946 Red Cross drive, 1 : if current reports of totals are indi- i ! eative. it was revealed this morning. , I Quota here, in a drive which be- i I gan Monday morning, is $5,400, but jif this amount only $2,101.97 has : I been reported so far. Break down; ‘ |of figures shows that the initial < I gifts committee headed by George - 'W. Kane, has turned in $1,863.50; i | that $193.12 has been received from ] ! the business district division headed ! ! by W. Wallace Woods and that the Woman's division headed by Mrs. t Bill Parker, has on hand $45.35, with 1 all sums being reported to Roxboro ( I Chamber of Commerce office. ; I The quota here this year is con- t Mrs. H. M. Beam Heads PTA Group Election of Mrs. H. M. Beam, of this City, as president of the newly formed Roxboro high school Parent- Teacher association formed a high spot of organization meeting held Tuesday night in the high school auditorium, where a varied and in teresting program was presented. Final feature before the social hour, was a round-table discussion on problems pertaining to students and parents, with Fred Bishop as chairman. Mrs. Sally Vaughan, Mrs. r, H. Shelton and Mrs. JUle Woody as participants. Topics discussed in cluded tlie signing of report cards by parents, the wrong psychology of taking sides with children against teachers, the lateness of hours and the number of. nights Children be permitted to attend parties or remain away from home, and the number of hours they should study. Most heated discussion was shown in the question of lateness of hours of staying out, with Mrs. Woody contending for ten-thirty o'clock for younger students and eleven o'clock as latest for any students of Hospital Benefit Dances Planned By Exchange Club Plans are being made for a May Day dance to be sponsored by the Roxboro Exchange club, according to dance chairman Dolian Long, who said last night that the event will feature a popularity contest with all financial benefits to go to the Memorial Hospital drive now being held here. Under tentative consideration is a similar benefit dance, also for the hospital fund, on March 22nd. Full details as to both affairs will be made later. It is also possible that a dance will be ar ranged in April for the same pur pose. • Discussion ol the above plans oc cupied most of the time of mem bers of the Exchange club last night at a meeting held at the Recreation Center, where President Ralph Tuc ker presided. i HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946 ton, to whom he was married in 1885. Mrs. Winstead died about twenty-two years ago. The couple had fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters. Surviving are six sons, C. E., Jr., of Roxboro. M. T„ of Akron, Ohio, A. J/. of Roxboro. Sidney L., of the United States Army, Greenville, S. C„ and Harold M„ and Howard, both of Roxboro. Daughters surviving are, Mrs, C. F. Winstead, Leasburg, Mrs. Roland Register and Mrs. J. B, Iler, both lands, Mrs. a. L. Hcrndren, Rober lands, Mrs. A. L. Herdrcn. Rober sonville, and Mrs. J. G. Pass and Mrs. Linwood Bradsher, both of Roxboro. Another daughter. Mrs. M, D. Dunkley, died at Scottsburg. Va., in 1918. Also surviving are eleven grand children, five great-grandchildren and one brother, John D. Winstead, Sr., of Roxboro. siderably lower than it was in form er years, probably because war needs are lessened, but one of the firmest believers in the value of work done by the Red Cross is former S. Sgt. R. J. iJimmy) Alderman, of Rox boro. now connected with City Ice company, who was for many months a prisoner of war in Germany. Ac cording to Alderman the supplies which came to prisoners from the Red Cross were in many instances responsible for the saving of lives of ration-short men. Greatly effec tive in keeping up prison camp standards, too, were inspections by Red Cross officials who came from Switzerland. Finance chairman of the Person and Roxboro drive this year is G. Lemuel Allen, who is asking the support of all citizens. School drives are under supervision of Superin tendent R. B. Griffin. high school age. There was general ! agreement on the other three prob- I lems. Mr. Bishop in discussing time j devoted to study, seemed to think 1 two hours per night enough. Devotional reading was by the Rev. Ben Houston, of Edgar Long i Memorial Methodist church, who |. selected as his text a passage from j First, Kings, Chapter 20, "As they I servant was busy here and there, he ' was gone”. Speaking from this vant j age point, the Rev. Mr. Houston I observed that parents have a defi- Lnite responsibility towards their I children not to be too busy to give | them the best in spiritual and so- Icial guidance during the few years J in which young people are in their care. Other nominations, in addition to Mrs. Beam, and all elected by ac clamation following report of the nominating committee headed by Mrs. Kynoch, were vice prseident. Mrs. R. H. Shelton; secretary, Mrs. Joe Burke, and treasurer, Mrs. Dew ey Bradshcr. Other members of the nominating committee were Mrs. Charles Stewart and Mrs. Shelton. Winner of attendance at the meeting with most parents present was Miss Hazel Carver’s home room. |lt was announced trat an attend jance award will be given each time j there is a meeting and that the I winning home room will be granted a half-day holiday. * Mrs. Beam, the new president, an nounced appointment of the follow ing committees: Program, Mrs. Kynoch. Mr. Bi (See MRS. BEAM page eight) Close To Home Two small grass fires with little damage were reported here over the week-end by Fire Chief Henry E O'Briant, who, however, on Satur day afternoon answered a call to the residence of his mother, Mrs. J. M. O’Briant, where a blaze develop ed in the bedroom of an apartment ih the home. Damage was estimated at 8150. Mrs J. M. O’Briant, incident ally, lives next door to her Ffre Chief son. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Sunday Speaker DR. L. H. C AMPBELL Dr. L. 11. Campbell, of Buies Creek, president of Campbell col lege, will be guest speaker Sunday morning at eleven o’clock at Long hurst Baptist church, it was an nounced today by the pastor, the Rev. Auburn C. Hayes. Tom Shaw Resips As Associate Os Courier-Times Thomas J, Shaw. Jr., since 1939 a resident of Roxboro as city editor of the Person County Times and as an associate editor of the consolidat ed Courier-Tunes, this morning an nounced his resignation, effective today. He will be succeeded by Lt. William Smith Humphries, of Rox boro. a former asociate editor of the Courier, who is returning to his position under provisions of the G. I. Bill of Rights. The resigning editor, a native of Greensboro, made no announcement of future plans, but expects for the present to maintain his residence in Roxboro, Lamar street. He is a member of Roxboro Rotary club, served two terms as president of the Person County Council of Social agencies and is chairman of the Interracial Committee, Person Boy Scout district. Soybean Price Remains Same The 1946 grower support price on soybeans will be the same as for 1945, according to an announce ment by C. T. Hall, chairman. Per son County AAA Committee. This action, Mr. Hall points out. is a* result of the tight situation on protein meals and edible indus trial oils. The base support price for 1946 crop green and yellow soy beans grading U. S. No. 2 will be $2.04 per bushel, with the same differentials as under the 1945 program for o’her colors and variations in quality. Methods of supporting prices, Mr. Hall said, will be announced later. Savings to motor car buyers as the result of improved methods of shipping cars from factory to the dealers averaged sl2 to S2O per au tomobile annually. In the decade prior to the war. savings totaled $34 millions annually on an average. Kiwanis Picks Date For Horse Show Second annual Roxboro-Kiwanis horse show is scheduled for Satur day. April 20. the Saturday before Easter, it was announced this morn ing by J. J. (Dick) Woody, general ! director, who also had that position jlast year and who. with his fellow members of the Kiwanis club, is planning for a bigger and better show this year. Scene of the event will be the athletic field of Roxboro high school, with both afternoon and evening shows. Prizes to be 1 offered total S6OO, while the number of prizes is placed at one hundred and twenty-eight. Entries last year reached eighty-five and the number expected this year is even larger. Heading the general committee for the horse shew is Mr. Woody, who will have as his assistants, L. Augmented Plan For Recreation Has Tri-Church Help New Dairy Plant To Be Ready By | Tenth Os April ! Crutchfield And Martin Plan New Structure As DaUv Center For Roxboro. Tire new and modern pasteurizing and bottling plant of the Elko dairy j here will be completed by Wednes day, April 10. it was announced to- j j day by L. Jack Martin, of this City, and Jack D. Crutchfield, of Dur-! j ham. owner-operators of the bust- j 1 ness. ! The plant, on North Main street, I near intersection of the Virgilina j highway, will be equipped for Grade ' j A dairy products, including ice | | cream, and will have an up-to-date j i sales room for over the counter ! j service. There will be adequate j ! parking space arid curb service will j 5 be rendered for milk, ice cream and i milk shakes and the like, l : j Martin and Crutchfield said to- j day that, their new plant plans have ! ! been approved by the North Caro- I j lina State Board of health and that j i the structure will be equipped with j I all stainless steel, most of which has , been purchased and is ready for in- j jstallation. | Botli Martin and Crutchfield are l I regarded as pioneers in modern | dairy operations in North Carolina, j j Martin was for several yea;s a lari- j I oratory technician in the Coble I Dairy plant at Lexington and later j j was superintendent of Coble's large ] j plant in Wilkesboro. said to have ; j been the first in the State to manu- j j facture powdered milk and eggs and i largest butter-making plant. Crutch- i | field, formerly with the Pet Dairy \ I company, Durham, has had many j I years of experience in the milk and \ : I ice cream business and was first ice ; : | cream salesman for the Pet com- ' j pariy in Durham and surrounding I j counties. Roxboro for many years has had j 1 to depend upon outside dairies for j its milk supplies, according to the j Elko managers, who say they feel I | the new plant will be a distinct j 1 community asset. Woods Attends Board Session W. Wallace Woods, executive ! secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, was ih Greensboro for \ a meeting of the executive com ! mittee of the North Carolina as i sociation of Chamber of Commerce I secretaries. Mr. Woods is a member iof the board of directors of the I State organization, having been I elected to the position in a recent I meeting held in Raleigh. o ! Has Discharge I Cpl. George D. Whitfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Whitfield of Hurdle Mills, was recently discharg ed from the Army at Fort Lewis, i Wash. Prior to entering the Army ! November 4, 1942, he was a student i at the University of North Carolina, j Sanders McWhorter, Preston Sat terfield. Jr., J. M. Dempsey, Wallace Wright and Stuart Tripp. Chairmen of other committees are Jaek Strum, program; Jerry L. Hester, publicity, light and sound; R. D. Bumpass, en try of local horses; J. A. Long, Jr., welcoming and registration; Dr. Robert E. Long, concessions; J. M. Dempsey, grounds and grandstands; L. C. Liles, entry and horses, and Thomas Hatchett, parking. Director Woody, however, has pointed out that each man in tile Kiwanis club is a member of one or 1 another of the committees. Priz# lists being drawn up and publicity booklets are being prepared. The show last year far exceeded expecta tions and Became one of the out standing attractions of the Spring season. WATCH YOUR PLANT BEDS FOB Blue Mold: also watch your label on The Courier-Times. Many sub scriptions will expire this month and if you will call and renew promptly a few days before it ex pires it will save us lots of work. NUMBER 27 j Three I’rofeslant Churches Combine In Recreation Program. Plans for renewal of a directed j program of recreation for 'teen-aged | young people on an interdenomina tional basis are being made by young peoples’ leaders of three Rox boro churches, it was revealed to day in a report submitted by MisS Vivian Heirs, educational director of Roxboro First Baptist church, where the initial programs will be held, with Miss Hiers as supervisor. First of the programs, scheduled 'for once each week, will be held on j Saturday night, March 16, beginning : at seven-thirty o’clock. Especial ap j peal is to be made to the high j school set, young men and women :of from thirteen to eighteen years lof age, ! Cooperating churches, in addition ito Roxboro First Baptist church, are ! Edgar Long Memorial Methodist i church, of which the Rev. Ben ] Houston is pastor, and Roxboro i Presbyterian church, where the min. | ister is the Rev. George W. Heaton. Baptist pastor is the Rev. J. Boyce ; Brooks, new chairman of the Person ; County Council of Social agencies, |an organization long interested in | problems pertaining to recreation! I , 1 Games and educational and social recreational activities will be pro vided and all young people, regard i less of denominational affiliation or tile lack of it, are urged to attend. Committee members from the inter, jested churches wprkirig with Miss Hiers are, miss Ha ran Hodgin and i Miss Marion Bradsher, of tre Pres i byterian church; Clarence Holeman and H. Dewey Young, of the Bap j tist. and for the Methodists, Miss Lucile Cothran and L. R. Wilson. It will be recalled that similar re creation programs have been tried :here at various times under high school and Service Center sponsor ship and under church leadership, too. but no sustained program has been wot;ked out up to the present time. \ Three Boys Os Troop Advanced Advanced in rank at the regular court of honor meeting of Person ! Scout district last week were three boys, members of the troop at 1 Brooksdale, of which the Rev. E. C. Maness is scoutmaster. Those ad vanced were, Billie Brown, Chuck Oakley and Ben Peed, tenderfoot rank, while Carlton Painter, * won merit badge recognition for athle tics. Present for the ceremonies were the mothers of Oakley and Peed. Those conducting the court w#e. ; Oris Deering, chairman, George Cur | rier and the Rev. Mr. Maness. Mr. | Deering in his report concerning i Scout activities said that the Ca- Vel troop, of which Dewey Bowman is Scoutmaster, had a wiener roast last week and that the troop haa completely registered and paid ug its membership. March meeting of the Person j Scout district will be held on Tues , day. the 19th at seven-thirty in 1 Roxboro chamber of commerce of* i fice. where it is expected that chleft business will be a discussion of plana for the annual district dinner to ho held on Friday, March 22, at Hotel Roxboro. • : m O g ■. An Error In B. And L. Report In the report of the stocnhoktns| meeting of the Roxboro BulldiQa & Loan Association in our last inn ’ there was an error in listing Itrtkf members of the board of directo£rJ the name of Preston Satterfield. JM was omitted. Tht correct list Is Oei’ ; Bullock. R. L. Harris. O. B. Us*' Broom, Dr. A. F. Nichols, Noell, Preston Satterfield, Jr, aiiftji J. C. Walker. '.4-SSlj Or; —-« ||| In the 50-year history of the MM tomotive industry approximatQsj 2 000 makes of passenger car* tuns! appeared on the 1 market, the AutOr mobile Manufacturers flßiirintiM” says ’ .

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