do you — • Want to bay something • Went to sell something • Went s tenant or renter • Perhaps lost something. Try a Courier-Times WANT AD! vot. LXV House Addresses Scouts; s Currier Gets Eagle Badge Burch Becomes Fourth Candidate For Commissioner i James T. Burch son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burch of Roxboro, Route 3. filed with the Person County board of election Saturday as a candidate for county commissioner, thus becoming the fourth contestant for the office. Three commissioners are to be elected. Previously announced candi dates are W. H. Gentry and John B. Hester, incumbents, and John R. Jones of Mt. Tirzah. Mr. Burch, who lives in the Paynes Tavern community, is a farmer and warehouse employee. He is married and has one daughter. A. M. Burns, Jr., who had previous ly announced his intention to be a candidate for clerk of Superior court, filed for that office with the board of elections Saturday. o Virginian Nabbed Here Friday Night For Auto Theft Frank Newton, about 35, of South Boston, Va., and Richmond, waived extradition rights Saturday and was returned to South Boston by Virginia State Police to face hearing on a charge of stealing a South Boston taxicab and driving it across the State line. Newton was apprehended by Rox boro police and sheriff’s officers on the Oxford highway near the Rox boro city limits, at about 10 o’clock , Frickiy .night officers said, he wos operating the vehicle under the influence of whiskey. o Strawberry Crop Starts To Market Raleigh.—-The North Carolina strawberry crop has started moving to market. First sales were at Chadbourn at the present ceiling of $10.56 per 24- quart crate, D. S. Matheson, fruit and vegetable marketing specialist in the State Department of Agricul ture, reported. General marketing is scheduled to begin Monday in the Tabor City-Chadbourn-Wallace section and on April 15 at Mt. Olive. The producer ceiling on straw berries will be $10.56 through April 15. SB.BB until May 2, and $7.80 for the rest of this State’s season. Matheson said prospects were for a crop about the size of last year’s. o PROMOTED Cpl. Reuben C. Bowes, who is now stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga„ was recently promoted to this rank. o ..... James T. Conner, Jr., a Mississippi native, has joined the staff of the State College Extension Service as entomologist. Native Son Returns After 47 Years “Year ill arid ytar out, Roxboro and Person County are just as good as the best of them," according to a native son who returned to the City this week after an absence of 47 years. Irving Barnett, the man who made that statement, should know, for since leaving here in 1899 he has lived and worked in many different places all the way across the conti nent. Mr. Barnett arrived in Roxboro last week to spend several days. While here he is staying with Miss Katie Sue Pointer at the old Jones place on North Main Street, where he was born. From Roxboro he ex pects to go to Oklahoma, where his son, Walter, lives. Now' retired, Mr. Barnett has done many different kinds of work dur ing the 47 years since, at the age of 17, he left his home town to seek Jajs fortune. First, in March, 1899, he went to South Boston, Va., and became con nected with the Barber Buggy Com pany. A few years later he moved to Oxford and worked for the Taylor- Cnnnady Buggy Company, and after J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Speaker Says Love, Study, Practice Needed To Do Great Things Robert B. House, chancellor and vice president of the University of North Carolina, was principal speaker here Saturday night at the eighth annual Boy Scout father-son banquet, at which Bobby Currier, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Currier, received the badge of an Eagle Scout. More than 180 Scouts, Scouters, fathers and friends of Scouts, and special guests attended the event,' which was held at Hotel Roxboro. Toastmaster was J. S. Merrittt. C. A. Harris, originator of the local father-son banquets, had charge of the program. Enthusiasm, study and practice will result in success in any field, Chancellor House told his audience. Using as an illustration his hobby, which is playing the harmonica, the speaker said he was born loving great things such as music, but that it took love for harmonica playing, many hours of study, and long periods of practice for him to master the harmonica to such an extent that he could enjoy it and bring enjoyment to other persons. Energetic action, preceded by stu dy and inspired by love, can accom plish great things, the speaker said. "There is enough talent right here in this room to make a brandnew sort of State out of North Caro lina," he declared. Three obstacles to the accom- Four Top Ratings Won By Musicians Helena Students To Present Play Neil Friday Night The eleventh grade of Helena High School will present a three-act play on Friday night, April 12, at 8:30. The title of this comedy-drama is "Mary’s Castle in The Air,” by Lillian Mortimer. The cast follows: Mary Estabrook, the air castle girl, Joy Mae Clayton; Mrs. Jenkins, a neighbor of the Estabrooks, Made Clayton; Jane Jenkins, her flirta tious daughter, Elizabeth Garrett; Bill Bronson, Jane’s chauffer suitor, Louis Rogers; Lenny Taft, the gro cer’s boy, Judson Rogers. Daddy Al den, a village philospher, Billy Clay ton; Mrs. Estabrook, Mary’s mother, Agnes Cooper; Jim Ruggles, a young attorney, Mac Rogers; Mimi Carlyle, a spoiled daughter of fortune, Syl via Mooney; Edward Carlyle, Mi mi's father, M. B. Garrett; and Delia, a colored servant to the Estabrooks, Cleo Gravitt. Library Board The Person County Library board will meet at 2 o’clock Friday after noon, according to Miss Dorothy Wightman, tri-county librarian. that he was an employee of the Durham Buggy Company in Dur ham. All of these companies are dissolved now, in the march of progress, but Mr. Barnett still re calls vividly some of the many ex periences_ he had in the three towns mentioned. Some years later he experienced a desire to travel, and ended up in St. Louis as an employee of Adams Express Company, shortly afterward, in 1917, he moved on to Oklahoma and started to work in a leather factory, later leaving this job to be come a railroad employee. He stay ed in Oklahoma until 1936, at which time he decided to go even farther west. Soon he was located in California, and not long afterward he obtained employment with the Douglas Air craft Company at Santa Monica. All during the war, right up to October of last year, Mr. Barnett continued working in a mainten ance section of the Douglas plant— and he didn’t want to stop even then, but his health gave out and he was forced to retire. He has done —(See NATIVE Page Eight)— Courier' -tEimcjs plishment of great results, Chan cellor House said, are: Boredom, or a ‘‘What’s the use?” attitude;" stage fright.” or hesitancy in taking responsibility and trying to do a good job; and losing touch with God, the Power House of the uni verse. He urged the Scouts and others present to be on the lookout for these obstacles, which are all inside us, and attempt to over come them. Eagle Scout Curriers badge was pinned on him by his mother. The award was presented by George W. Kane, who was a leader in organi zing Boy Scout work here and who has taken an active interest in it ever since. Introduction xis the speaker was by R. L. Harris, former Lieutenant Governor and now candidate for the State House of Representatives, who urged the Scouts to be proud of their town, county, and state and nation, so that the town, county, state and nation could in turn be proud of the Scouts. (See RECREATION Page 8) | The girl's" trio, the mixed fhorus, ; and the girls; glee club of the Rox ! boro High School glee club all won ratings of “One” in the district music contest held at Duke Uni versjtifcffiytom. Friday, and these groups are eligible to participate in the State finals to be held in Greensboro on April 23, 24, 25, and 26, Edriel Knitgh, pupil of Mrs. Wal j lace Woods, won a rating of "One” in -the piano contest, and will par ticipate in the Greensboro contest festival. The glee club's mixed quartet | won a rating of “Two”, the second ; highest rating possible. I Five ratings are possible for the j entrants in each event. Ratings were given on a non-competitive ' basis. Miss Mary Earle Wilson, instruc tor in glee club and band, ac companied the students to Durham last Friday. Mrs. Woods also at tended the event. The trio was composed of Mona Grachel Clayton, Jacqueline Abbitt, and Junt Woods. Members of the quartet were Misses Abbitt and Woods. Clyde Crowell and Clifton Boyd. Roxboro was entered in the Class B division. Numbers played by Miss Knight were: “Two-part Invention No. 8,” by Bach; "Sonata, Opus 14, No. 2,” by Beethoven; and “Prelude 1," by Gershwin. —o Lady Astor Backs Large Army, Navy TRYON.—Lady Astor, in an inter view with representatives of the western North Carolina army re crutiijg service while visiting at Tryon, addressed a word of salute to the army on Army day and cau tioned that mothers and wives in democratic countrien should want to see an army sufficiently large to show totalitarian countries that they (the democracies) are prepared to keep what they now possess. Bailey Improved The condition of Senator Josiah W. Bailey is much improved and he no longer is in danger, it was re ported by his son, James H. Pou Bailey, who returned yesterday from Washington, where he has been at the bedside of his father. , Senator Bailey has been ill since Thursday, when he was stricken in the Senate restaurant while eating lunch. He was taken to Doctor’s Hospital, and his physician, Dr. Wal ter Blodorn, at first described his condition as “serious". Young Bailey said yesterday that although his father now is out of danger, the doctors so far have not been able to reach a satisfactory diagnosis of the Senator’s illness. “The doctors aid say that his heart was not involved, and that he did not have a stroke," Bailey stated. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA ... CANDIDATE IN FIFTH—Joe J. Harris of Winston-Salem, one of the three candidates for Congress in the Fifth District, was a visitor in Roxboro Saturday. Firms Thanked For Cooperation In Cleanup Drive Miss Zelle Harris, district health department sanitary inspector, and Collin M. Abbitt, City of Roxboro engineer, said today that they wish ed to express their thanks to the merchants of the town, and other citizens, wro have been cooperating so well in trying to make Roxboro a cleaner city. Back alleys and other places are in much better condition now, due largely to the increased cooperation which merchants are showing, Miss Harris and Mr. Abbitt said. “If Roxboro is to be a clean city, we must have the cooperation of everyone,” they declared, urging that in the future all merchants pay particular attention to how they dispose of trash and garbage. Cov ered containers should be used, they said, so that flies ’and rats will not be attracted, trash will not be blown around, the fire hazard will not be so great, and unpleasant odors will not be so prevalent. o* Roxboro Woman's Uncle Succumbs In Laurinburg Dr. Albert W. James, 52, widely known surgeon and an uncle of Mrs. W. Wallace Woods of Roxboro. died Thursday night at his home in Laurinburg. Mr. and Mrs. Woods attended funeral services Sunday afternoon in Laurinburg. Dr. James was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Jefferson Medical College. About 15 years ago he established the Laurin burg Hospital and operated it, until last month, when he sold the prop erty and retired. He served as a Naval officer in World Wars I and 11. Surviving are his wife a daughter, a son, two brothers, and a sister, o Allgood Becomes Drug Firm Partner Announcement is being made to day by Hambrick, Austin and Thomas, Inc., drug firm, that W. W. "Buddy” Allgood has purchased an interest in the business. E. E. Thomas has owned and op erated the store since the deaths of his two previous partners. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Allgood will con tinue to do business under the name of Hambrick, Austin and Thomas, Inc. Allgood is a graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina Pharmacy School, and has just returned to Roxboro after wto years of service in the Navy Prior to entering ser vice he was a partner in the AB Drug Company, which he lattr own ed and operated alone as the All good Drug Company. ■ Ala+Uf, Way ■ A new club should be formed in Rcxboro—The name of that club should be “Retired Gentlemen of Captalist Rank". There are several men who are eligible for membership and we think that they would have a good time if they could get together every now and then and talk and play. Here are the members that I propose. Earl Bradsher, Sr. recently retired from the hardware business. Preston Satterfield, Sr. recently retired from the lumber business. Mellie Satterfield recently retired as helper to Preston Satterfield and Wheeler Newell who has retired a long time. Os course Wheeler still comes to his store but he gets there at ten in the morning and when he goes back home to lunch he hardly ever comes back before three and lots of times he does not come back at aIL Os course Mr. Bill Harris has been ‘eligible for membership a long time on the basis of several things but he does work a little in his garddh. That might bar him from membership. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1946 [Spelling Contest For Five Schools Is Staled Friday A county-wide spending contest for grammar grade students will be held at Roxboro Central School on Friday, April 12, at 1 o'clock, Supt. !R. B. Griffin announced last week. Tile fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the various schools will select grade winners who will meet in preliminary competition for the privilege of representing the school in the county contest, Mr. Griffin said. Schools participating arc: Gram mar grades of Roxboro High school, Roxboro Central School, Longhurst. Cavel and Helena. The winner in the county contest Will be eligible to take part in the .State finals in the Reynolds Audi torium, Winston-Salem, at 3 p. m. Saturday, April 27. The State win ner will compete in the national contest in Washington, D. C. at a later date. Sponsor of the State contest is the Winston-Salem Journal-Senti nel papers. The county winner and chaperon | will be guests ae a luncheon in the ! Robert E. Lee Hotel, Wniston . Salem, at 12:30 on April 27. Pronouncer for the county con test will be W. S. Humphries of the Courier-Times. Recreation Is A ‘Must’ Meyer Tells Local Group Urges City To Create Commission, Get Started On Planned Program Roxboro, in recognizing the constantly increasing need for recre ation in the life of any community, should take steps ‘at once to establish rqpreation commission, with a full-time, dynamic, lender xp help set up a planned program. Dr. Harold D. Meyer, chairman of the North Carolina Recreation Commission, declared in an address here Friday night. He spoke to more than 125 mem bers of the Person County Council of Social Agencies and the Rox boro Exchange, Rotary, Kiwanis and Business and Professional Women’s clubs. Challenging his hearers to think, not in terms of 1890, but in terms of the needs and opportunities of today, Dr. Meyer said that recrea tion is a ‘‘must’’ in the civic life of any community, and it should be put on a legal basis, with govern ment support, just as schools, health police, and fire departments have been legally’ ucognized. He began by pointing out that North Carolina was the first state to create a recreation commission, in 1935. Interest in the work has grown, until today “the whole State is thinking in terms of recreation,” he said. Recreation takes its place along with religion, health, eudeation, and work as an essential part of any well-rounded personality, Dr. Meyer said, but he pointed opt also that too much emphasis can be placed on it, with the result that “you can waste a lot of silly time.” All social, economic and religious trends point to the fact that the need for and usese of recreation are constantly increasing, the speak er said. Industry is opening .wide to recreation ,the church Is on the threshhold of taking hold of recre ation and utilizing it to the fullest, the Army and Navy realize its im portance when they spend more than 100 million dollars yearly on it, and hospitals are coming to employ recreationists more and more, Dr. Meyer pointed out. The answer to "juvenile delin quency,’’ he declared, is “youth adequacy," or a planned program which will help young people utilize time richly, wholesomely, and wise ly. Summarizing what recreation is not, Dr. Meyer stated it is not just for children alone but for all ages, not just for summer but for all sea sons not just to prevent crime and delinquency but to ‘.bring pleasure —(See HOUSE Page Eight)— $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Chub Lake Boy Is Killed In Navy Transport Crash Funeral Plans Incomplete Pending Information On Arrival Os Body Lawrence E. Bryant. 20. fireman first class, U. S. Naval Reserve, who was to have received his Navy discharge at Norfolk, Va., within a few days, wa skilled in an aircraft accident Thursday night, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bryant of Woodsdale. Route 1, were notified Saturday. He was one of 11 Navy personnel at Theresa Baptist Church, near killed fn the crash of a two-engine j transport plane 13 miles southeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tire ship, based at Olathe, Kansas, Na val Air Station, and enroute from Phoenix, Arizona, to Amarillo, Tex as, crashed about 9:21 p. m. (Moun tain time) Thursday. Incomplette reports indicate that the plane did not burn. Eight pas sengres and three crew members were aboard. Bryant had only recently returned to the United States after service jin the Pacific. He had been in the Navy since November, 1943. He at tended Roxboro schools, and was a member of Lewell T. Huff Post No. 2058, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The body, will be returned here for burial, and will be accompanied by one escort. Services will be held Will Preside Judge J. Paul Frizzeile of Snow Hill will preside at a one week civil and criminal term of Person Superior Court open ing on Monday, April 22, it was announced today by Clerk of Court A. M. Burns, Jr., A heavy criminal docket will be heard. Frasier Couple Are Bound Over Arthur and Clara Frasier of Alex andria, Va., who were arrested by Roxboro police about noon Satur day for illegal possession of whisky and illegal transporting for purposes of sale, in Mayor’s court today were bound over to court un der S2OO bond each. It is expected that their case will be heard to morrow.- Ii Seven cases of tax-paid, bottled in-bond whiskey, valued at $340 and representing more than a dozen brands, were seized by police Sat urday from a 1939 Oldsmobile coach parked near Hotel Roxboro on Ab bitt. The Frasier couple, alleged owners of the car and the whiskey were jailed at the same time. There were six cases of pints and one case of fifths. The cases were in the back of the car and were covered with an old raincoat, of ficers said. Also in Mayor’s court today, the following men were convicted of drunkenness and were fined: Whites, George Wesley, John Henry Hargis, Herbert Paris and Hobert Hendrix; Negroes, James Gentry, Oscar Goode Isaiah Goode, Yancey Tennie. Upon request of the prosecuting witness, Margaret Peacock, the war rant was withdrawn In the case of Milton Peacock, who works in Dan ville, Va., and who was accused of assaulting his wife Saturday night. Peacock paid the costs of the case. Hanks Enlists In Regular Army William A. Hanks, 318 Barnett St„ Roxboro, has enlisted in the regular army for three years, it was report ed today by S/Sgt. Edward W. Cha bot, local U. S. Army recruiter. Hanks will be in the Air Corps. He chose the European Theater. The enlistment is subject to phy sical-approval at Fort Bragg. j Chub Lake, with the pastor, the ,: Rev. B. B. Knight, in charge, as : ( sisted by the Rev. Daniel Lane, j chaplain of the VFW post. Members of the VFW will conduct graveside rites. The members are requested to contact Commander Jim AUgood or Adjutant Jim Jor < | dan for instructions. Date for the funeral has not been (I set, since it is not yet known when | the body will arrive. !! Surviving are his parents; five ‘! sisters, Mrs. Mamie Granger of ■ [ Danville, Va., Miss Addie Bryant •] of Greensboro, Mrs. Edna Puddue j and Misses Marlean and Marion . | Bryant of the home; and four bro- I thers, the Rev. Clyde T. Bryant of ) Whitmore, S. C., Bruce Bryant of . | Dallas, Texas, and Wallace and Hu bert Bryant of the home. Board Changes Meeting Hour To Hear Delegation Roxboro city commissioners will meet at 7:30 Wednesday night, the hour having been changed to that time so that members of the Cham ber of Commerce and joint civic clubs recommendations committee might come before the commission ers to present certain recommenda tions in regard to town improve ments, Mayor S. O. Winstead said today. The Mayor said a special invita tion had been issued to the group to be present. Members of the committee, who first planned to go before the town board on February 13, are: George W. Kane, chairman; R. D. Bumpass, J. A. Long, Jr., Mrs. A. F. Nichols, J. D. Mangum, and Ralph Tucker. What Next? Tlie National Patent Council pre dicts that the typewriter of tomor row will be ribbonless. The council says it now is possible to make type writers with keys which hold ink like a sponge, eliminating robbons. The council described the develop ment as powder metallurgy, a pro cess in which the metal is porous enough to permit ink to seep through. Easter Date Varies According To Moon When is Easter? That's an easy one to answer: One glance at the calendar, and you know that this year Easter Sunday is April 21. It isn't always on April 21, though. In fact, it isn’t always in April. Sometimes Easter falls in March. It can vary as much as 35 days, from March 22 to April 25. How is the date determined? There's quite a bit of history back of that question. Here's the story: Easter, of course, is an annual festival observed throughout Christ endom in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ. Its name comes from the name of the Anglo- Saxon goddess of spring, “Eostre,” to whom the month of April was dedicated. The. New Testament makes no reference .to Easter. However, the Old and New Testaments both re fer to a Jewish ritt, the Passover, on which Easter is based. Chris tians, both Jewish and Gentile, sim ply added new meaning to the Pass over, thinking of Christ as the true Paschal. Lamb, and this observance WATCH YOUR PLANT BEDS FOE j„ 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- " pirps it will save us lots of work. NUMBER 36 Mrs. Jeff Long ; Succumbs Today In Local Hospital Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Long, 73, died at 9:20 this morning in Com munity Hospital, where she hfcd been a patient since last Thurs day. Cause of death was listed as complications. She had been ill five months. Mrs. Long was the wife of the late Jeff D. Long of the Concord com munity. He died in 1930. Recently she had been living with Mrs. C. B. Long, in Ellenboro. She returned to Roxboro last Thursday and was admitted to the hospital here. Tentative plans have been made for the funeral to be held at 3 o’- clock Tuesday at Oak Grove Metho dist church, with the Rev. Daniel Lane in charge. The body will lie in the church for one hour pre ceding the services. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are six step-sons, Wood son, Luther and Byrd Long of Busily Fork. Ed Long of Charlottes ville. Va., Charlie Long of the Army and Joe Long, who is now a patient in a Raleigh hospital; one step daughter. Mrs. J. H. Rudder of Con cord; one brother. John Billy Yan cey of near Allensville; and 22 step* grandchildren. T. C. Wagstaff Joins News Staff Os Raleigh Times ‘ ————— V s * T. C. Wagstaff, Jr., son of Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff of Roxboro and a former associate editor of the Rox boro Courier, left Friday for Ral eigh to assume his duties as a news reporter for the Raleigh Times, af ternoon daily. The Roxboro man is covering the State Capitol "beat” for the Raleigh paper. He began his work Saturday. Wagstaff, a graduate of the' Uni- 1 verstiy of North Carolina School of Journalism, received his Army di«'. charge a few weeks ago after sn • vice in the Pacific. o * COMING UP j TONIGHT 6:15 Kiwanis. Hotel Roxboro. TUESDAY 10 a. m. Recorder's Court. 6:15 p. m. Business and Profession* al Women's clubs. Hotel Roxboro. 7:30 Masons. Lodge Hall. 7:30 Lewell Huff Post. Veterans oj Foreign Wars. USO building. WEDNESDAY 6:45 Exchange, Recreation Center, 7:30 City commissioners. THURSDAY 6:30 Rotary, Hotel Roxboro, 7:30 Bushy Pork PTA. became the Christian Easter. There was long and bitter cdti« troversy over the proper date for the observance. The issue was, when did the Paschal feast end? The Jews said it ended on the fourteenth day of the moon at evening, nn d Easter immediately followed without regard .to the day of the week. Tha Gentiles, free of Jewish traditions, identified the first day of the wdeE with Christ's resurrection, and kept the preceding' Friday as the. commemoration of the the cruel* fixon, irrespective of the day nf| the month. With the Jews, the prijfes| ciple was the day of the montlfcSj with the Gentiles, it was the