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DO YOU • Want to bay somethinf • Want to sell something • Want a tenant or renter • Perhaps lost something. Try a Courier-Times WANT AD! VOL. LXV MISS DAVIS QUITS HEALTH POSITION HERE Miss Evelyn Davis, senior staff nurse of the District Health depart ment, has resigned her position here to accept a post as nursing super visor with the city health depart ment of Danville, Va., it was an nounsed today. Miss Davis, who has been with the Orange-Person-Chatham health department since 1940, has been located iry Roxboro since March of 1143 except for a few months which she spent at Chapel Hill. Her home originally was in Graham, Ala mance count. She will leave Roxboro on March 23 for a short vacation prior to as suming her new duties at Danville, which will begin on April Ist. No successor to Miss Davis has as yet been selected. Although no official announce ment has been made, it is expected that, for the time being at least, the present staff will continue to function as it is. Only white nurse left is Mrs. Sarah Allen. The colored nurse is Catherine Woods Lawson. Miss Davis, in announcing her resignation, expressed her appreci ation for the splendid cooperation which the people of the county have given her, and stated that her stay in Roxboro has been very enjoyable. o Postmasters Os Fifth District Hold Meet Here Postmasters from the seven coun ties of the fifth congressional dis trict, holding their annual dinner and business meeting at Hotel Ror- V-c Frida? r.ighl, heard Leii'o Hensley, president of the North Carolina Postmasters Association, discuss pending legislation which would affect the postal system. Twenty or more postmasters from Caswell. Forsyth, Granville, Person. Rockinyham, Stokes and Surry counties attended the mating. Also present were some postmasters from the fourth congressional district. Presiding was J. Bryan Boswell of Wqodsdale, chairman of the dis trict. o PTA Membership Drive Sponsored At Roxboro High A Parent-Teacher association membership drive at Roxboro high school is being sponsored through the school, it has been announced by Mrs. Charlie Stewart, chairman of the membership committee, who revealed that each home room with a minimum parent attendance of 75 per cent as members will be given a half-holiday from school work as a prize. A previous report, which was incorrect, stated that the room with the largest attendance of parents at each meeting would be given a half-holiday. The Roxboro high PTA, only re cently reorganized after a wartime period of Inactivity, is headed by Mrs. H. M. Beam as president. Much interest has been shown in the or ganization by patrons of the school, and it is expected that the current membership drive will be very suc cessful. o t Fletcher Carver Released By Navy Fletcher Hall Carver, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher H. Carver of Route 1, Roxboro, has been released to inactive duty by the United States Navy, in which he held the rank of Lieutenant tjg), Lt. Carver, who joined the Navy in September 1942, expects to enter school. Serv ing on a landing ship (tank), he saw action throughout the Pacific, including the Caroline Islands, Leyte, Luzon, and Okinawa, and later he was with occupation forces in Japan. —: o *- Mcßroom Infant Graveside rites were held here Friday afternoon at three o’clock in Burchwood cemetery for William Bernard Mcßroom, day old infant son of Mr. and Mrs. B, W. Mcßroom, of North Main street. The chila died Thursday morning at twelve thirty o’clock in Community hospit al. Commitment rites were ip charge of the Rev- Ben Houston, of Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church. Only survivors are the parents. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR gfll MPk'&yWWk . ■Mm y?HSHHESiMI "'' i/ mtß'. » 1.1 Tj HIV fljjV 3JET V JM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO PLAY HERE—The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, a portion of which is shown above, will prrsent two concerts here Friday, March 15th. First performance will be at 1:30 in the afternoon and will be for school children, while the second concert will be given at 8 o'clock. Both events will be presented in the Roxboro high school auditorium. Conductor of the orchestra is Dr Beniamin Swalin. Spare Stamps To Be Used For Canning Sugar No Formal Application Is Needed. OPA Director Tells Housewives. Raleigh.—This year's tome can- I tiers will not have to fill out appli | cation forms for canning sugar, OPA State Director Theodore S. Johnson reminded North Carolina housewives today. OPA District Officials, which now handle sugar rationing, are not equipped to process the millions of requests that would result if users were required to make formal ap plication for canning sugar, as was formerly the case, he said. Canning sugar this season will be obtained through use of spare stamps contained either in Ration Book Four or on the sugar ration sheet now being issued in lieu of a complete ration book, according to yip OPA announcement. First spare stamp to be used especially for canning sugar is No. 9. which becomes valid Monday, March 11, for five pounds and re mains good through October 31, Johnson pointed out. This and an other stamp to be validated some time in June or July will provide this year’s allocation for home can ning sugar, he said. "Our national sugar supply is still extremely tight, with no signs of immediate improvement,” Johnson said. “It is still uncertain how much of the Cuban sugar crop will be available to us; and this, along with the requirements of war-strirken areas, makes it impossible to be very optimistic about the outlook on sugar,” he explained. Those who customarily sell home canned fniit butters, jams, jellies and other foods, however, may file an application with the State OPA Office for the necessary canning sugar, Johnson said. The amount granted will be either the amount requested, or the total used by the family for this purpose in 1945, whichever amount is smaller, John son said, adding that the previous limitation of a total issuance of 250 pounds to a family unit will still ap ply. A record of the amount and kind of foods put up with this sugar must, be kept by persons doing home canning for sale, he said. The use of spare stamps for can ning sugar makes no change in the regular consumer sugar rations, wrlch remain at five pounds for each four-month period. The next regular stamp becomes valid on May 1, Johnson pointed out. "The critical state of our supply makes it necessary for every house wife to budget her use of sugar carefully,” Johnson said, and appeal ed to homemakers to see that their canning sugar is used only for the purposes for which it is intended. o Scout Banquet Will Be jn April Date for the annual father-son banquet of the Person Boy Scout district has been tentatively set for the first week in April, according to C. A. Harris, who is in charge of plans for the evening. ■ /UoHf *lUe Watf - Burleigh Clayton always raisfes a good garden and his two neigh bors, Jack Strum and Clyde Bowen always have none. However they are ever on hand to praise Burleigh and hang around his garden like a couple of hawks watching a chicken. Os course these two neighbors would not steal. Far from that they just hang around watering at the .mouth when those fine vegetables start coming in. Jack and Clyde are already trying to get Burleigh to start his garden early in order that "WE” can beat the other fellows. Always its “WE” when garden time comes and neither of the two would bend to pull a weed out of the garden unless they had an Idea that the vegetables would soon be coming in. Then it would be a hard matter to get them to pull weeds. ®f)E Courier=®imes Symphony Concerts Eagerly Awaited Roxboro and Person County music-lovers today were awaiting with considerable interest the ap pearance here Friday, March 15th, of the 21-piece unit of the North Carolina Sympnohy Orchestra, i which will present two concerts here lon that date. f Advance ticket sales to the Friday ] night concert, which will begin at 8 o'clock in the Roxboro high school auditorium, were reported to day to be good. Interested citizens who do not yet have their tickets were reminded today that the price of the tickets will be advanced when they go on sale at the door Friday night. First appearancp of the Orchestra will be at 1:30 in the afternoon, in a program exclusively for school children, who may attend free. W. Wallace Woods, chairman of the music committee of Roxboro Rotary club, the sponsoring organi zation. today pointed out that pur chasers of tickets may use these same tickets to see full performance Board To Meet Regular meeting of the Person County Library board will be held Friday afternoon March 15th, at 2 o’clock. W. C. Pixley Dies Al Age Os 75 Warren Clark Pixley, 75. well known farmer of the Surl commun ity, died at 6 A. M. Sunday after having been in declining health for about a year. He had been ill for one week. Heart trouble was listed as the cause of death. Funeral services for Mr Pixley were held at 3 o’clock this afternoon with the Rev. E. C. Maness of Brooksdale Circuit in charge. Inter ment was in the Moore family cem etery near the home. Mr. Pixley was the husband of Mrs. Minnie Moore Pixley, who sur vives. as do three sons, Walter of Crewe, Va., Alfred and Bert, both, of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Annie Lunsford of Roxboro. Route 3, Mrs. Mozelle Peed of Angier, and Mrs. Alice Clayton of the home. Also surviving are a half-brother. Roy Pixley of Roxboro, Route 3, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Norwood of this city and Mrs. Annie Gurley of South Carolina, and twelve grandchildren. o- Money Is Granted For Wine Control Raleigh iU.P>—The State Alco holic Beverage Control Board has been granted an additional $33,139 to carry on its work In enforcing the wine control act, passed by the 1945 General Assembly, it was announc ed today. Regular appropriations were not made for this purpose, the Legis lature having authorized the use of funds from the contingency and emergency fund when necessary. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA |of the 5-piece Orchestra at a later ; date, since only the Little Sym phony, composed of 21 pieces, is to , | perform here. Sponsors of the Symphony hope to , | raise $600.00 here through gifts and j sale of tickets, it was pointed out | that the sale of tickets alone will | not support the organization. The | legislature has appropriated $4,000 ■ 1 for the Orchestra, and North Car -1 olina thus became the first State in j the Union to give support to a State* ; symphony. Frogram for the evening perfor -11 mance Friday has been released as j follows: I. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Ma j jor, Schubert—a. Allegro, b. Andan |to con moto, c. Menuette (Allegro jMolto), d. Allegro Vivaco. Intermission. ■ | 11. Night Soliloquy, Kennan, Win > | ter’s Past, Barlow. 111. Deep Forest, Daniels, Romance j Wieniawski, Child's Play, Stix-Or- I mandy. Waltz, "Vienna Life", I Strauss. Speaking Contest Is Slated Friday , All six high schools in the county j j are expected to send speakers to! I participate in the soil conservation j | speaking contest which will be held j Friday night at 8 o'clock in the audi- j I torium of Roxboro Central school. | First prize in the county contest j will be a SIOO.OO war bond, with a j | $25.00 bond as second' prize, j Winner in the elimination con- j test held Friday at Roxboro high i | school was Miss Mary Ellen Owen. ! j a junior, while runner-up was Law-1 I rence Evans, also a junior. Miss ; ! Owen will thus represent Roxboro jin the county contest. Bethel Hill i I high school representative will be j j Stanley Wilborn, a freshman. o Rev. C. F. Hudson, Religious Editor Os Herald, Dies Funeral services for the late Rev. j Charles F. Hudson, Religious editor jof the Durham Morning Hearld. were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Baptist Church, j Durham, with the pastor, the Rev. j J. Winston Pearce, presiding. He! was assisted by Dr. C. Sylvester I Green and the Rev. C. E. Byrd. The j . body lay in state at the church one! J hour prior to the service. Interment followed at Lystra j j Church, several miles south of j i Chapel Hill, where the deceased had ; ! served as pastor for nine years. Hi* I ! was a member of the local Civitan I Club and President Hugo Walker j j and the club members attended the I services in a body, j The Rev. Mr. Hudson died at a j j local hospital early Friday morning J 'after an illness of a few days, al-j j though his health had been pie- j j carious for some time, j The Rev. Mr. Hudson was a in- I tive of Morganton. He graduated j I from Wake Forest College and thej ! Southern Baptist Theological Semi- i 1 nary. During his years at Wake j j Forest he was pastor in Henderson, | i and while studying at Louisville j I served churches in Kentucky and j Illinois. j After graduation he was pastor iat Washington and at the Pullen I Church in Raleigh before coming |to the West Durham Baptist , church in 1927, where he served until 1935. Since that date he has been : church editor of the Durham i Morning Herald, and pastor of sev- 1 eral churches near Durham. He was pastor of Bethany Baptist i HOME FIRST. ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1946 Mrs. Riggsbee ! Dies Os Heart Attack Friday > Services Held at Home Sunday For Last of Four Sisters. i Mrs. Roxie Bray Riggsbee, wife of ; the late James William Riggsbee, died of a heart attack at her home , on North street, Roxboro. at i 3:40 o’clock Friday afternoon. Mrs. Riggsbee had been in declining i j health for several years. She was ,« 74 years old. Funeral services were held from . the home Sunday afternoon at 4 i o'clock, with the Rev. Ben Houston, pastor of Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church of which she was . a member, in charge. He was assist i ed by the Rev. C. E. Newman of Virgilina, Va.. and the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pastor of Roxboro First Bap tist church. Interment was in Burch wood cemetery. , Survivors include one son. J. . Brodie ’ Riggsbee of Roxboro, and three nieces, Mrs. T. H. Owen. Mrs. Shirley Wilkins, and Mrs. Rasa Barker, all of Cunningham. Mrs. Riggsbee was the last of four : sisters, all of whom have died Since i August 1942, a period of less than , four years. All five lived together in Roxboro. Flower-bearers consisted of W. S. C. S. Circle No. 1. to which she be longed, and close friends. Active pallbearers were: Claiborne Lawson A. W. Clayton, Sr., Wallace Harris. I J. Y. Monk, G. C. Hunter and C. A. Harris. j * Coley To Hold Revival Services i Rev. John L. COlcy, pastor of Cal vary Church. Raleigh, and former i pastor of North Roxboro, Providence. I and Cavel, will hold a revival for one ! week at Mitchell’s Chapel Baptist : Church, beginning Sunday, March 17th, it was announced today by the Pastor. Rev. B. B. Knight. Services j will begin at 7:30 P. M. each night. There will be regular services at 11 j A. M. next Sunday with Rev. C. E Sullivan, Charlotte, in charge. | Mitchell's Chapel has made rapid progress, having organized a Baptist Church with over 50 members, which is now in the Beulah Association. Members of Mitchell’s Chapel have j purchased three lots on which to j build a new church near the site of I the old church. Ground will be brok j en for tile new church in a few days. I Tile people there wish to thank | every one for what they have done ■ toward building this church. They ; 1 will appreciate any gift or sup- ! 'port that anyone can render, i Work at Mitchell's Chapel was j ; kept alive by the keen interest of j the late Tom Wrenn. He secured a I great number of good men to carry 'on the Sunday School work there. | I It was only about a year and a half j ' ago that the people decided they I wanted a church there. They hope ; i to go on now with the prayers, sup- 1 j port and cooperation of the people. I ! . 0 Fish Violators i j Raleigh.—North Carolina’s game j protectors are on the prowl. Banding ! together In search of illegal fishing, j District Protectors Alex Fields, Dan Short, and Tom Rollins, took nine large nets and five fishing traps from waters of Lee. Chatham, and Moore counties this week. Church in this county, having served it for fifteen or twenty years, and was greatly loved by every member of the church. He had many admirers and friends In Roxboro, having supplied the pulpit of the First Baptist Church on many oc casions. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Bob Whitten Named To Serve As Veterans’ Service Officer Clyde Satterfield Is Presumed Dead } Mr. and Mrs. Clyde T. Satterfield of Route 1, Timberlake, have re ceived a letter from the War De- I ; partment notifying them that their j son, Staff Sergeant Luther G. Sat | terfield of the Army Air Forces, is now presumed dead “since no infor ! motion has been received which would support a presumption of Ids' ; continued survival." i Sgt. Satterfield was reported miss ing in action in the Pacific on I June 23, 1944. He was an aerial gun i ner of a B-24 Liberator plane which 1 departed Los Negros Island on that date on a combat strike mission to bomb shipping off Yap Island. As ! the formation of planes came from I the bomb run, Satterfield's plane was seen with one pf it's engines smoking. At about the same time the plane was attacked by enemy planes and fell behind, losing alti tude. It fell into the water and Called Off The meeting of residents who are interested in forming a Per son unit of the National Farm [ Bureau which was to have Dren I held Wednesday night, March 13. | has been called off. according to Claude T. Hall. Mr. Hall said that j the meeting will be held at a later date, and at that time R. Flake Sahw, of Greensboro, state leader of the Farm Bureau, ui'l be principal speaker. Shaw Accepts Post At Concord | Thomas J. Shaw, former associ j ate editor of the Courier-Times, who I resigned last week from his position ; with this paper announced over ! the weekend that he had accepted ; a position with the Tribune at Con (cord, N. C. and will report for duty ( in that city on Thursday of this 1 week. Mr. Shaw will serve in the capa city of assistant editor and rep irirr. The Tribune is a daily paper with a circulation of approximately 3,000. stated Mr. Shaw. The paper is print ed in the afternoon. o — — Two Inducted, Four Examined At For* Bragg Induction of two Negro men, Flint Franklin Johnson and Ran dolph Alexander Nichols, with John son as leader, at Fort Bragg last week has been reported by Miss Jeanette Wrenn, chief clerk of the Person Selective Service board. On the same day, Miss Wrenn reported, 1 the following four Negro men re ported to Fort Bragg for preinduc tion examination: Gladys Royster, leader, Edgar Burton, James Thom as Outlaw,'and T. C. Williams. Officers Report Wreck And Fight j Roxboro and Person County law ‘ enforcement officers today reported : one fight, one minor automobile wreck .two cases of speeding, and nine cases of drunkenness over the week end. The fight, according to Roxboro police, involved Gooch Cameron and Raymond Dickens, both of Long hurst. who became engaged in a brawl in a local pool room Satur day night. Evidence, police said, was that Dickens kicked Cameron, who then knocked his assailant out of the front door with his fists. in Mayor’s court today, Cameron was adjudged guilty of simple as sault and fined (10.50. Also in Mayor's court. Reginald Yarbrough. 16, charged with speed ing and careless and reckless driv ing, was bound over to County court, and Lawyer Williams, Negro man, 1 quickly disappeared. Battle cuntii . tions prevented immediate search, and no trace of any of the crew members has been found since that time. Young Satterfield, who would have > been 21 last October, was a graduate ■ of Mt. Tirzahr high school, class of 1 j 1940. He entered the Army in March »1943, and after basic training in j Florida he attended a mechanic’s ■ i school in Mississippi. He received i his wings in Texas. Sgt. Satterfield was last home at i Christmas 1943. He went overseas l j the following April, and was re > ported missing in action just two > months later. He was based on the i Admiralty Islands. 5 He was a brother of Miss Marie * Satterfield of Roxboro, an employee ‘ of Western Union. Other children ' of the family are Geraldine and • Clyde Woody Satterfield, both of i the home. j Davis Services Are Held Sunday At The Home Funeral services for Devereaux Davis, 73. prominent retired farmer of near Payne's Tavern. Roxboro, Route 3. were held Sunday afternoon at the home with Elder L. P. Mar tin in charge, assisted by Elder L. W. Turner of Erwin. Interment was in Burchwood cemetery, Roxboro. Mr. Davis, who was the father of Dr. Oscar G. Davis. Roxboro Veter inarian. died of pneumonia at his home Friday. He was well known i throughout the county. 1 Survivors include his wife. Mrs. Carrie Leath Davis; one daughter, I Miss Mae Fannie Davis of the home; three sons. Noah of Roxboro, Route 3. Dr. Davis of this city, and Burch ; of Hurdle Mills; three brothers. C. J. of Clinton, N. C., R. V. of Park ton, N. C„ and W. T. of New Hill, N. C.; and three sisters, Mrs. C. L. Bostic of Raeford, N. C.. Mrs. J. S. Raynor of Castle Haynes. N. C-, and Mrs. C. E. Stevens of Kenansville. N. c. Nine grandchildren also sur vive. Bethel Hill Boy Winner Os FFA Speaking Contest Stanley Wilborn. member of the j freshman class at Bethel Hill high j school, won first place in the Fu- ! tuie Farmers of America public i speaking contest of the Person and Granville Federation which was held recently at Helena high school. Us ! ing as his subject "Soil Conserve -1 tion,” he competed with FFA speak ■ ers from Stem. Creedmoor, Helena and Wilton. He will represent the Person-Granvllle Federation in the district contest to be held later in j Raleigh. was bound over for speeding. The automobile wreck, according to the Sheriff's office, occurred Sat urday night in the Gordonton sec tion, near the Caswell county line, when cars driven by Clinton Tru man Smith of Burlington and Rob ert Artie Beasley, Negro of Orange county, collided. There were no in juries. Both men, Sheriff M. T. Clayton said, will be charged with careless and reckless driving. Drunkenness cases in Mayor’s court, all of which resulted in con victions and fines included Robert Newman, 31, Negro; Willie T. Lloyd, 24, white; Elmore Gregory, 29, white; Haiold Stone, 24; white; Robert Latta, 22, colored; Janies Phelps, 30, white, who was also bound over on a charge of resisting arrest; Charlie Terrell, 36, white; Frank Day, 50. white; and Baxter Hargis, 26, white. a. . ■,V ; ■ . Of* WATCH YOUR PLANT BEDS FOR 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 28 Commissioners Name Roxboro Youth In Special Meeting Today. j Robert, Whitten, of Roxboro, ; World War II veteran, was thia j morning selected as Veteran’s Serv j ice officer by the county commis sioners who debated the merits of | nine candidates at some length, i Whitten has been in service with the ! army since January or 1943 and serv j ed with the air force in Africa and ; Italy. He received his discharge in October of last year. Prior to his | army service he attended school at 1 the university of North Carolina- Other candidates for the position were Thomas Bowles. Donald J. Do j rey. Oscar C Hull, Samuel C. .TUI ! mail. Reade Gentry, Norden B. Schloss, William A. Wilson. Jr. and ; L. M. Carlton, Jr. Tins position calls for a salary of $200.00 per month and ail office will jbe opened in the basement of the j court house. $300.00 will be allowed ■on the opening for office equipment and supplies. The office however will not be open until April Ist, stat jed the-county commissioners today. Holder of this same position until today’s appointment had been Dr, ! O. G. Davis, who had held the job on a part time basis. Dr. Davis, a veteran of the first World War, was , not a candidate for the full-time I position. [ Commissioners present today at ■ the meeting were J. A. Long, chair man. W. H. Gentry and John Hest -1 er. ; Much interest had been shown in . tile appointment of a Veterans’ Service officer here. At a previous meeting last week the Commission ers considered the qualifications of i several applicants but postponed de finite action because of the absence •of Mr. Hester, who was m;. o Dr. Glenn Is Rotary Speaker The Rotary club at its meeting : Thursday night accepted an invita ! tion from Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff of j the Social Agency Council for a I joint meeting of the civic clubs on April sth to hear an address by Dr. Harold D. Meyer, chairman of the Recreation Commission of North ! Carolina. It is possible that the date may be changed, but it will be in the neighborhood of the above men tioned date. After the business matters were I cleared up the club had the pleasure jof hearing Dr. John C. Glenn of Duke Memorial Methodist church. He was introduced by Rotarian Dan 'Lane. Dr. Glenn used as as a basis for his address the Sermon On the Mount, and indeed and in truth it i was one of the outstanding ad j dresses the club has had the pleas ! ure of listening to in many moons. ;He told his audience that he was not going to preach to them, but j just wanted to talk heart to heart j with them. Dr. John Fitzgerald, president, who j was a little late, presided. Attend j a nee for the past two meetings has been very good, showing quite 3 pick up from recent meetings. All Tobacco Acreage To i Be Measured To further strengthen compliance j with the Marketing Quota program, all acreage of flue-cured tobacco grown on all farms in 1946 will ba measured by AAA committeemen oi others workin guilder the super vision of committeemen, it was an nounced today by C. T. Hall, chair man. Person County AAA Commit tee. Due to the manpower shortage, the AAA found it necessary to dis continue measurement' of all flue cured acreages during the war, and this will be the first year since 1943 when all acreage will be measured.,^ The system of reporting their individual acreage by fanners, them-’;- selves, and subsequent spot-check ing was the best means of acresgo determination during the war. How ever, a return to measurement of att '. acreages is essential in order make the marketing -quota prograil|§ ' effective. j Flue-cured producers ot ViMH County have been notified of lMffi acreage allotments Jw their ttißl The county's tota£ereage ment for toft will amount mH