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 Dr. Meyer’s Address To Be Heard By Local Civic Clubs Chairman Os State Recreation Commission To Speak Here Friday, April 5. As climax to a study of recrea tional opportunities and possibilities in Roxbdbo and surrounding terri tory, Dr. Harold D. Meyer of Chapel Hill, sociology professor at the Uni versity of North’Carolina and chair man of the North Carolina Recrea tion Commission, will speak here at a joint meeting of civic clubs to be held on Friday evening, April 5, at Hotel Roxboro. The Person County Council of So cial Agencies, whose members have been studying recreation for the past several months, will meet joint ly with the Exchange, Kiwanis, Ro tary, and Business and Professional Women’s clubs of Roxboro. It is ex pected that the visiting speaker, who is an authority on recreational problems and opportunities, will have a timely and interesting message for his local audience. Prior to the dinner meeting, which will begin at 6:30, Dr. Meyer will hold a discussion with city and county officials, school leaders, min isters, and other civic leaders. This conference will be held at 5 p. m., at the hotel. A discussion of commercial re creation in the City and County was given yesterday at the Council of Social Agencies meeting. Speaker was W. Wallace Woods, secretary ot the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, who said present local recreation facilities include motion pictures, pool rooms, skating, softball, golf, fishimg, public dances, hunting, the Kiwanis Horse Show, and aviation. Mr. Woods said softball games represent one of the most whole some types of reereation, as well as one* oi trie most interesting. About ten teams, with 15 players on the squad of each team, participate in this sport each summer, and they should be given all possible en couragement, the speaker declared. Aviation is one of the fastest grow ing forms of recreation in the Coun ty, Mr. Woods pointed out. With five planes at Roxboro Airport, and five more expected there soon, there are about 50 student fliers, includ ing eight girls, now taking part in aviation activities in the County. Already there are 15 licensed fliers, and five more will receive license within the next month or so. Roxboro Airport has a good dirt runway, 200 feet wide and 2800 feet long, the speaker said. Commercial recreation needs and possibilities were listed by Mr. Woods as: public swimming pool, park, ten nis courts, bowling alley, riding club, YMCA and YWCA, night clob, plays, and orchestras. Presiding at the meeting, in the absence of’ the chairman, the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, was Sid Marsh of Collins and Aikman. Guests included Miss Lake Allen, Miss Ann Margaret Long, and Miss Susan Rice. Dairy Queen Bows As New Champion This is a portrait of Vinchelez Ann, dairy queen, glamor girl of the butterfat beauties. Vinchelez Ann, 1100256, a Cataw ba County Jersey cow, bred by L. H. Seitz, Newton dairyman, and sold to W. R. Lutz, also of Newton, has been awarded the Biltmore Cup of the North Carolina Jersey Cattle Club as the state’s champion but terfat producer in 1945. She set a 305-day production record last year of* 10,992 pounds of milk and 657 pounds of butterfat. In one month last year Ann’s test record showed 103 pounds of but terfat. The American Jersey Cattle Club, incredulous, called for a re test. The very next month the Ca- champion turned out 701. pounds of butterfat to ■ convince club officials that the high mark was no fluke. Both sociologists and dairymen say that “breeding will tell” and Vinchelez Ann has the blood of a “duke”. She is the grand-daughter of Vinchelez Golden Duke, 3291135, and the daughter of Vinchelez Ox ford, 357089, sire of many other high producers such as Duke’s Lady Rosette which once posted a year’s record of 11,277 pounds of milk and 613.4 pounds of butterfat. Ann’s great-grandma. Impress Dutchess of the Valley, 497012, also is an exceptional blue-bipod, enter ing of M*rlt at six years of age with the ’Skstoundlng record of 14,468 pounds of milk and 859.98 pounds of butterfat In a J. W. NOELL, EDITOR College Trustees Favor Accepting Reynolds Offer Announcement in Raleigh, Mon day night that the Smith Reynolds Foundation had offered Wake Forest College up to 40 million dollars if the College would move to Winston- Salem, was received with a great deal of interest by Baptists and other friends of the College in Per son County. The College Board of Trustees, meeting in a special session at Wake Forest Tuesday, was reported unani mously in favor of accepting the offer, since it involved no change in the name of the institution and no change in control of policies. Under the terms of the offer, the 112-year-old Baptist institution would receive: the 300-acre Reynolda estate near Winston-Salem; eight million dollars for construction at the new site; an endowment of eight million dollars; and the prospect of a greatly enlarged endowment which would give the college an income of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The total amount of the gift was estimated at between 25 and 40 mil lion dollars. Final action on the offer will be taken by the Baptist State Conven tion at its 1946 session next November. The trustees, in their meeting Tuesday, passed a resolution stating that “more definite information is essential before ans specific recom menfiafton i.\m'be utadfe,*’ and pro viding for the appointment of a committee to investigate the offer more fully. Revival Continues So much interest is being shown in the revival at Mitchell’s Chapel Baptist Church that services will continue throughout this week, with the Rev. Auburn C. Hayes of Long hurst doing the preaching, the past or, the Rev. B. B. Knight, announc ed today. Mr Knight reported good attend ance at services this week. He said Mr. Hayes was bringing powerful messages to the people. Hubert Yar brough is leading the singing, and Miss Ruth Shirley Hudgins is play ing the piano. o Mt. Tirzah Charge The Mt. Tirzah Charge of the Methodist Church will observe Lay men’s Day at Mt. Zion Sunday. W. L. Hampton, a layman from Dur ham, will speak at 11 o’clock. There will be a basket lunch at noon, and a special program of music in the afternoon. The Mt. Tirzah Charge includes Helena, Hurdle Mills, Mt. Tirzah, and Mt. Zion. W. D. Long, the Charge Lay leader, will be in charge of the program. Everyone is invited. Agent Gives Plans For April Meetings By EVELYN CALDWELL • Home Demonstration Agent “Proper Care and Cleaning of the Sewing Machine” will be the theme used in each of the 12 home demon stration clubs during the month of April. Making, Making over, and mending are three big peacetime as well as wartime jobs; and a sew ing machine in good running con dition can help do all three. It thus helps the family pratice the conservation and thrift so essential at this time. All well-made sewing machines, new or old, used constantly or idle, can be made to run easily and sow perfectly. Occasionally parts may need replacing; but a machine will seldom wear out, if periodically cleaned, olltkl and adjusted. The purpose of a demonstration of this type is to give the home maker the necessary information that will enable her to do this pe riodic cleaning that will help to keep her machine in good running order. Project leaders were selected in January by club members to give this demonstration at the regular club hour in April. A training ®he Courier HOME FERStfT, ABROAD NEXT ■ts:. §R||| i Jl '■JpllPl mk JW 1 TO SPEAK HERE—Dr. Harold D. Meyer, chairman of the North Carolina Recreation Commission and sociology professor at the University of North Carolina, will speak here at 6:30 Friday night, April 5, at a joint meeting of Rox boro civic clubs. Farming Outlook In State Is Dull Raleigh—A shortage in farm workers, unless alleviated by July 1, will cause production losses in every crop produced in the State this year, with heaviet toll in fruit and vegetable area around Henderon ville. That was the conclusion reached by a State farm labor advisory committee at its first meting with its acting chairman, Dr. I. O. Schaub, director of the N. C. State College Extension Service. “We believe," a ommittee spokes man said, “there is sufficient labor in every farming section except Hendersonville, but most of these unskilled workers have elected to accept, .unemployment pay rather tnan work on the farm". Indications are, it was said, that tobacco growers will plant all of the 10 per cent increase authorized for the 1946 flue-cured crop but the dearth of labor will cause losses “even if the weather at harvest time is most favorable." Leaf grow ers need workers most during the July 1-Sept. 20 period. o Delegates Named For Kiwanis Meet The Roxboro Kiwanis club, in its meeting Monday night, elected Leon Wilson and L. C. Liles as delegates to the national Kiwanis convention to be held in Atlantic City in June. Alternates will be Jimmie Long and Jack Strum. The program consisted of a talk on soil conservation given by Miss Margaret Ann Hawkins of Hurdle Mills, runnerup in the recent county contest. She was introduced by Mrs. O. Z. Gentry. John Dempsey had charge of the program. Education Board Next regular meeting of the Coun j ty Board of Education will be held jat 10 a. m. Monday, April 1, in the Board of Education office. school for these leaders was ncVi on March 22 in the Home economics department of Roxboro High School, where the Home Agent gave the ( leaders the same type of demonstra tion that they will give to their fellow club members. During April, while these leaders have charge of the organized club metings, the Home Agent has an opportunity to get adult 4-H Neigh borhood leaders trainel to help with the 4-H club program in their re spective neighborhoods during the summer months while school is not in hession. It also is an opportunity to work in unorganized sections of the county to help with Food conservation problems. The meeting places and leaders for each home demonstration club during April will be as follows: Tuesday, April 2, Chub Lake Club, with Mrs ..A L. Davis as leader and hostess. Wednesday, April 3, Helena Club at the school with Mrs. R. B. Brooks and Mrs. H. K. Garrett as leaders. Thursday, April 4, Providence Club with Mrs. W. A. Dunn as leader and hostett - -(See AGENT JjPage Eight)- ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA Acting Pdstmaster May Be Named Soon Atom Bomb Tests Are Postponed For Six Weeks Washington— President Trumans has ordered a six-week’s post pone ment of the atomic bomb test against warships originally sche duled for May 15 at Bikini atoll. The delicate international situation was said to be a major factor in the surprise decision. The May 15 test, in which an atomic bomb was to have been ex ploded some 1200 feet above a Guinea pig fleet of 100 United States and enemy ships, now will be held July 1. It probably will be; combined with a second test ori ginal scheduled for July 1 when an atomic bomb was to have been exploded at the surface. Truman’s order was transmitted by telephone to Vice Adm, W. H. P. Blandy, commander of the joint army-navy task force charged with conducting the vast erperiment. Notice went out to all key offici als involved in the test, including Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the so-called Manhattan district project which developed the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiro shima and Nagasaki. Though it came as a somplete surprise to army and navy officials, the decision was reached by Tru man only after lengthy and exhau stive consultations among top-level officials throughout the government. Significantly, the postponement was ordered only three days before the opening of the united nations security council meeting at New York Monday. : The current world crisis, epitoin | ized by the Russian-Iranian dispute, was said to have been the determin ing factor. Truman was understood to have felt that such a test mi-,ht have a bad effect on already deli cate international relations. He is said to feel that the post ponement will have a reassuring ef fect on the New York meeting. Only Wednesday, a Moscow broadcast accused the United States of “brandishing the atomic weapon for purposes which have little in ! common with the peace and security of nations.” It referred directly to the atomic tests on naval vessels. Some members of Congress also have criticized plans to hold tests on grounds they would serve no useful purpose in the task of try ing to achieve permanent peace. When the tests originally were announced last January, there was considerable debate whether for eign observers should be invited. Plans Were being made to invite members of the united nations a tomic energy commission, but no final decision had been made. i" 1 o—- Folger Decides To Stay In Contest In Fifth District Sharper lines began to form Tuesday in the fifth district Dem ocratic congressional race with the announcement by Rep. John H. Folger, of Mt. Airy, that he has de cided to remain in the contest. Folger’s statement, released in Washington, preceded by one hour an announcement of withdrawal by Lawrence E. Watts, of Reidsville, who resigned his job with the Gen eral Statues commission, Raleigh, to become the fifth man In the race. These two developments left Thurmond Chatham, Elkin indus trialist, Sheriff John Taylor of Dan bury, and Joe J. Harris, of Winston- Salem, still In the fight for Folger’s seat in Congress, but with the like lihood that at least one of them may yet withdraw. Taylor, who also serves as trea urer of Stokes couhty, where he is reputed to have a strong follow ing, said that he could not comment on the Folger announcement pend ing conference with “my folks." He would not say definitely wheth er he planned to continue in the race or to follow the Watt example. Harris, Winston-Salem lawyer, said the Folger statement “doesn’t affect me in the least. I will con tinue in the race.” Chatham has never wavered pub licly since he announced his inten tion to seek the nomination during the closing days of the filing period. Chatham’s announcement followed by one day a statement by Folger to the effect that he was consider ing withdrawing if contest develop ed. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1946 Victor E. Clayton, who holds permanent appointment as assistant postmaster of Roxboro, is perform ing the duties of postmaster for the time being during the vacancy creat ed by the death of Postmaster Luth er M. Carlton, Sr. Appointment of an acting post hiaster is expected to be made by Representative John H. Folger in the near future. Next permanent postmaster will al so be appointed by the Fifth District Congressman, from a list of three ejigible candidates submitted to him by the Civil Service Commission af ter all candidates have been given competitive examinations. No date has been set for the ex aminations, nor is it known exactly when Representative Folger will make the acting postmaster appoint ment. | Several persons have indicated in terest in becoming postmaster. To be eligible, an applicant must re ceive his mail within the City of Roxboro or on one of the Rural Routes served by the Roxboro office. The permanent appointment car ries a salary of $3,400 per year, and since it is under Civil Service, is a lifetime appointment so long as the duties of the office are performed satisfactorily. Mr. Carlton was postmaster from September, 1939, until his death. Mr. Clayton has served as assistant postmaster under several Roxboro postmasters. o Movie Contest For 4-H Announced Four-H club leaders and mem bers in Person county have an ex ceptional opportunity to gain nation -(fade recognition and receive valu able 'awards by participating in the new National 4-H movie contest, C. C. Jackson, assistant county agent said today. Any adult or junior local leader actively engaged in leading a 4-H club, and club members enrolled this year, are eligible to participate in the contest. i The 4-H leader who submits the best story idea and the 4-H boy and girl chosen 'to play the leading roles in the movie will each re ceive an all-expense trip to : he 25th Anniversary National 4-H Club Con gress in Chicago. Nine runners-up in each division —leaders, boys and girls—will receive U. S. Savings Bonds. The winning story written by a local lucb leader will be used in the production of the new 4-H movie and his or her name and address will appear in the film. The story may be based on fact or fancy, or a combination of the two, and should not exceed 500 words. No at tention-will be paid to literary stylfc or construction. All entries must be postmarked not later than April 15, and should be mailed to National 4-H Club News, 59 East Van Buren Street, Chicago 5, Illinois. The new 4-H movie will be spon sored by the Sears.-Roebuck Foun dation. It will be produced in co operation with the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, the State Ex tension Services and National >i-H Club News. Complete information regarding the contest may be ob tained at the county agent’s office. o Father Dies Mortimer Eugene Hobbs, 85, fath er of Mrs. John Whitman of Rox boro, died in a Goldsboro hospital Tuesday afternoon following an ill ness of four weeks. Funeral services were conducted Thursday morning at 11 o’clock from the home of Col. E. H. Bain of Goldsboro, with interment in Willow Dale cemetery. Mrs. Hobbs died nine years ago. COMING UP . TONIGHT 6:30 Rotary, Hotel Roxboro. 7:45 Wiring demonstration Rnd speech, Courthouse. SATURDAY 7:30 Young people’s recreation pro gram, First Baptist Church. MONDAY Veterans’ Service office opens, Court house basement. 10 a. m. County Commissioners, Court house. 10 a. m. Board of Education, Board office. 6:15 p. m. Kiwanis, Hotel Roxboro. TUESDAY 7:45 Chamber of Commerce direct ors’ meeting, Chamber of Com merce offices. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE .^HUbhl 'm REMAINS IN RACE—Congress man John H. Folger, above, an nounced Tuesday that he would remain in the race for Represen tative in the Fifth District.- Class X'Added To Horse Show The second annual Kiwanis-spon sored Horse Show in Roxboro will have a new class for pleasure horses from Person and adjoining counties this year, it was announced today by J. J. Woody, chairman of the event. It will be known as Class X, and will be restricted to pleasure horses belonging to residents of this coun ty and surrounding territory, Mr. Woody said. Pleasure horses with out set mane and tail will be jud ged. Another feature of the show, which will be held here on Sat urday, April 20, will be a mule race, the chairman said. Contestants from Person County will be entered ar.d will be ridden by the owner’s or the owners choice. Seats will be run in the afternoon, and finals in the evening, with a cash, prize to ba awarded to the winner. R. D. Bumpass, chairman of local entries, reports that a number of local horses have been entered, and many more are expected to take part. Local exhibitors are request ed to contact Mr. Bumpass as soon as possible, so that programs, when printed, will be complete. Several Roxboro merchants have agreed to display “spectator fashli ions” during the week preceding the show, in line with the new fash ion interest in this section. Robert Long, chairman of the concessions committee, said two large booths will be operated at, the show, to sell sandwiches and drinks to the spectators. The ticket chairman, E. B. Craven has announced prices for the after noon and evening performances as 50 cents for children and 7b certs for adults. However, school children purchasing tickets before the show can get them for 35 cents. o Quarterly Meet The Beulah Baptist Association will hold its quarterly Sunday School meeting at Yanceyville Sunday aft ernoon, March 31, at 2:30 o'clock. All teachers and superintendents of the Baptist Sunday Schools in the association are urged to attend. Permanent State Fair Is Planned Dr. J. S. Dorton, head of the North Carolina Fair, said recently he was confident that the long range planning program for expan sion of the fair into a $3,000,000 permanent State exposition would be carried through to a successful completion. “I’m not going to rest until the exposition is a reality,” Dorton said. “It’s a chance for North. Carolina to really have something big, some thing progressive, and I’m deter mined to do everything possible to see that it’s completed.” Dorton said a government grant had already been requested for $40,000 to perfect the plans for the mammoth exposition. The money would be refunded after the work was completed. "We’re going ahead with plans to make the fair this year the big gest and best we’ve ever had,” he added, “but we have our eyes on the future exposition." Dorton estimated that it would take from three to five years to build the permanent State expo sition, which would be open all year to the public. “It would be more or less like a museum," he explained, "where ex- hibits of agriculture, Industry, etc, occasion. l i •. • -jt • \.V *' ** ifi f lftll ' frifift V • 1 Whitten Will Open Veterans Office Monday Morning Beattie Fealheri Optimistic About Grid Prospects North Carolina State College alumni, meeting with the Roxboro Exchange club at the Recreation Center last night, heard a talk by Head Football Coach Beattie Feath ers on prospects for the State foot ball team in 1946, which he said were good. The team next fall. Feathers said, will be up to the pre war level, and the 1947 team will be even better. Col. J. W. Karrelson, chancellor Os State College, introduced the speak ■er, who, after his talk, showed movies of last year's State-Wake Forest football game. At a later business session of the alumni association. Col. Harrelson discussed building needs for the col lege. Newspapers, he said, have play ed up the dormitory shortage at .State, but additional classrooms and teaching facilities are needed just as badly as rooms. To illustrate this fact, he said classes are now held in some buildings from 8 in the morning to 8 at night. Bill Bland, Joe Adair, Bill Daven i port, Miss Lura Penny, and Elbert Moore became new members of the alumni club, of which L. C. Liles is president and C. C. Jackson, secre tary. Also present at the meeting last night was Lt. Woodrow Jones, USNR, ! of Roxboro, who will receive his dis charge in May and who will be on the State College football coaching j staff next fall. o Students Inspect Farm Programs Miss Mary Ellen Owen, county winner in the soil conservation speakers' contest, and three other Roxboro High School students. Miss Mary Ruth Moore. Lawrence Evans, | and John Robert Hester, took a field | trip Tuesday to Caswell and Rock | ingliam counties to inspect soil con- Iservation projects first-hand. I J. Herbert White, district super visor of the Dan River soil conserva tion unit, and J. R. Adair, of the local office, accompanied the stu dents on the trip, and J. M. Parks, district conservationist, made part of the trip. Two of Mr. White's farms in Caswell were visited. In Rockingham. the farms of Amos Butler and Alton Wilson were in spected. . Miss Wilson will represent the County in the regional speaking con test to be held at Elkin on April 25. I Her subject will be “Soil Building Practices." Sponsor of the region al contest is the North Carolina Bankers’ association, of which Gor don C. Hunter of Roxboro is presi dent. would be on display for tourists and North Carolinians to see. Os course, we would have a period each year during which midway and shows would add to the festivities.” The eposition as visioned by Dorton, would include a mammoth memorial coliseum, amphitheatre, exhibit buildings and other struc tures. including a hall of fame in which could be placed portraits and brief histories of Tar Heel heroes who died in World War 11. It is estimated that the exposi tion would cost $3,000,000, but Dor ton said that many of the exhibit buildings would be/ built by indus trial concerns themselves for use in displaying their products. Dorton said no other state had launched such a permanent fair, and that North Carolina would be a first in this respect if it could materialize. He said he had talked" with nu merous farmers, 'agriculture organ izations and dairymen, and they all are in favor of building the year round exposition. Meanwhile, plans are going ahead for the State Fair next Oct. 14-19 Dorton added. The fair grounds and buildings are now being put into shape in preparation for the WATCH YOUR PLANT BEDS K* J Blue Mold; also watch your label , on The Courier-Times. Many «ub- J scriptions will expire this month j and if you will call and renew ,1 promptly a few days ‘before it ex* pires lt will save us tots at wane. J NUMBER 33 Will He Open Six Days X Week; Assistant State Serv ice Officer Here. Robert Whitten, World War It veteran and newly elected Veterans’ Service officer for Person County, announced today that he will open his office in the basement of tha Courthouse on Monday, April 1, at B,a. m. Beginning on that date, Mr. Whitt en said, the office will be open six days a week, from 8:30 to 12 in tha morning and 1 to 5 in the afternoon. AH honorably discrarged veterans are entitled to information and as sistance at the office, and they should feel free to come in and ask for it. Mr. Whitten, who has recently re turned from Winston-Salem, where he spent three days conferring with officials of the regional Veterans Administration office, says initial purchase of office equipment and supplies has been completed, except for a typewriter, which cannot ba found. Any person willing to sell, rent or lend a typewriter to the serv ice officer is asked to contact Mr. Whitten. Charles A. Beddingfield, assistant State Service office? of the North * Carolina Veterans Commission, Ra leigh, conferred with Mr. Whitten here yesterday and will return ta Roxboro Tuesday. Veterans may obtain from the lo cal service office information on, and applications for, government in surance, education, vocational train ing, on-the-job training, loans for homes, farms and businesses, pen sions, hospital care, and medical at tention. Other types of assistance S and information can also be Obtain ed, but in many cases—such as re employment, employment and un employment compensation, legal aid, financial aid, State and Federal in come tax, and social security—tha service office will simply refer tha veteran to the proper agency, Mr, Whitten stated. The service officer now has OO hand application forms -for on-the job training for veterans, and al&> application blanks for business firms which desire to be accredited for giving on-the-job training. Mr. Whitten was emphatic in stating that his office cannot and will not state whether a man is en titled to any amount of compensa tion or pension from the govern ment. Tile Veterans Administration decides all such cases, he said. He called attention to the fact that, effective March 15, the regional VA office is now located at North Trade Street, Winston-Salem, and not in Fayetteville as it formerly, was. Veterans wishing to write to the VA office should address theU; mail to Winston-Salem. Posters outlining the opportunities and benefits available to veterans will be drawn up and put on display; at several prominent places in Rox boro, Mr. Whitten said. He also said that plans are being made for peri odic meetings of organizations and individuals especially interested hi veterans’ assistance, such as Red Cross, Chamber of Commerce, Se lective Service Board, Veteran’s Ad ministrator, bank officials, and tha County Service officer. o——— Brothers Home —— .j I Christo Fox, son of Mr. and Mis. E. Y. Fox of Roxboro, Route 2, land ed in the United States last weed and came home Wednesday night. He has been stationed in England and other parts of the EuropeMt theater for the past two years. “ ' Fred Fox, another son of Mr. and Mrs. Fox. has returned home With his Army discharge. He was hM$ stationed on Okinawa. Condition Better ||| Condition of Larry Snow, 5, son