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PAGE TWO The Courier-Times Roxboro, North Carollha PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY Oaurier-Ttroes Publishing Company The Roxboro Courier Established 1881 the Person County Thncn Established 1938 7 W. Noel]. Editor _ J. S. Merritt and Wm. S. Humphries, Associates wi:iA7a*W M. C. Clayton. Advertising Mgr. #1 Year $8.50; 6 Mouths $1.40 S Months 75e, Out of StVe 1 Yr $3.00 Member Os Audit Bureau Ol Cl'culatlon ADVERTISING RATES; Display~Ads, 48c Per Inch; Reading Notices, lfc Per T ine The Editors Are Not Responsible fo~ Views Expressed By Correspondent,* Entered at Th# Post Office at Roxboro, N. C. As Second uiasi, Matter SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1916 • HOW ABOUT A CELEBRATION TO HONOR COUNTY’S VETERANS? How about a homecoming day celebra tion in Person County in honor of all return ed servicemen? Some celebrations of this kind have been held in the County. Sunday, Cavel and Providence Baptist churches will honor re turned GPs of those two communities. Yet, so far as can be determined, no one here has yet suggested or planned a huge County wide celebration in honor of all soldiers, sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who have returned home. Other counties are planning or have held similar events. Several weeks ago, nearby Vance staged such a celebration, with much success. On last Thursday. Memorial Day, 3,000 Onslow county veterans and their families joined in a homecoming and victory celebration in one of the largest civilian gatherings ever held in that section of the State. People of Kinston and Lenoir cpunty are planning a mammoth event for return ed servicemen on June 19. Other sections are mapping plans for like occasions'. Person county’s annual Hospitality Week, given up during the war, will not be revived this year, because of the fact that the na tion still has not recovered satisfactorily from wartime shortages and controls. However, we believe enough progress’ has been made from war to peace to make it possible for the County to stage a mam moth one-day celebration in honor of its veterans. The program could be held on'a Wednesday sometime in July, when farm work reaches a slack period. Events of the day could include a parade, an address by an outstanding speaker, a big County-wide picnic lunch, softball games, and other en joyable affairs, with possibly a dance to climax the whole celebration. The Courier-Times proposes that steps be taken immediately to plan such a celebra tion. What’s your reaction to the idea? o • MODEL MEETING Proof that Person county can be a hospit able host was furnished here this week, when local home demonstration clubs enter tained members from five counties at a meeting of the eighth home demonstration club district. Some 300 or 350 women were present for the meeting, and reports indi cate that they were highly pleased with the hospitality which the Person ladies showed them. The visitors went away with smiles on their faces arid a favorable impression of Roxboro and Person county. The picnic lunch which was served in the Roxboro high school gymnasium was some thing to see. The large crowd ate and ate, but still they could not consume anything like all the chicken, ham, sandwiches, pies and cakes, and other types of foods which were spread before them. Altogether, the whole meeting was a model by which similar affairs might be planned. We congratulate those who were in charge. o • WAKE FOREST LIBRARIAN RESIGNS News that Mrs. Ethel Taylor Crittenden has resigned her post as librarian at Wake Forest College after 32 years will recall to the minds of many former Wake Forest students the help and the inspiration which they received from this devoted lover of books and culture. Almost all, if not all, students at the College knew and loved Mrs. Crittenden, and called upon her when they needed help in the library, and she was glad to aid them in any way she could. Under her leadership the library grew in sW, in number of volumes, and in usefulness w* the College and the State. Her successor, Carlton West, will fill the posjjsion capably, but if he live* up to thestandard set by Mrs. Crittenden he to put forth his best efforts. M WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING • SURELY—NO OFFENSE MEANT Durham Morning Herald We have enough headaches of our own creation and responsibility not to get mixed up in the argument of Person County with ! The News and Observer. In what was intended as “an innocent aside,” the Raleigh paper printed a com ment on the large vote in Person last Satur day. The Person County folk took it as a reflection on them. Well, after reading the original state ment, the reply made by R. L. Harris and others of Roxboro, and then The News and Observer’s explanation Thursday morning, it is easy to see why offense was taken, but it is also easy to see that no offense was meant. It’s one of those funny repercussions of this language we speak, and that some of us try to write. It is especially tricky when one tries to be witty or wise. o • TO CREATE CITIZENS Sanford Herald The tremendous flood of veterans into ! colleges and universities is offering these i educational institutions a wonderful oppor tunity to turn out the balanced and well [ rounded citizen that is increasingly called for in this age of specialization, when too | often a man having useful and admirable skill in his immediate occupation is not qual ified to take his place as the thinking person needed to fulfill the promise of the demo cratic form of government; The very fact that such great numbers of veterans have chosen to enter general edu cational institutions, rather than specializ ed or trade schools, shows that many of them must be seeking a more diversified cultural menu than can be found at the specialized schools. It should be pointed out here that no re flection is cast on trade schools, or others of that type. The point we are making is that both students and educational leaders alike seem to be thinking more and more that the aim of education is far wider than to develop the skill by which a living can be made. And some day, we believe, all schools will,seek to nourish the whole wide range of human values that often lie undeveloped in a mind concentrated on one specialized study. In a short volume entitled “The Humani ties and the Common Man,” recently pub lished by the University of North Carolina press, Dr. Norman Foerster points out that state universities have a particular respon sibility in fostering the sense of relative values to be achieved through a study of many subjects. “For the state,” Dr. Forester writes, “needs citizens more than it needs shopkeep ers, carpenters, bankers, lawyers— needs men who are more than instruments in the work of the world, who experience life in many ways, develop many interests, play a role in the development which is the real government of a democratic state, and at tain a morale high enough to sustain the state in peace and war.” We are not suggesting that a new age fit universal enlightenment and wisdom is about to be ushered in bv.the veterans now in college. But there is an opportunity here, if the colleges and the veterans themselves seize it, to create for this nation a greater proportion of well-rounded citizen-leaders than we have ever had before. o • HANDWRITING ON THE WALL News and Observer The chief lesson of the Democratic pri maries is seen in the fact that wherever capable and acceptable candidates had serv ed in the war they won out if they had a good organization behind them. It is not easy to win against the “ins” or an old organization, but veterans overcame these hurdles when united. This is a prophecy of many more changes in 1948 than were witnessed in the 1946 primaries. The only county in which the veterans had a GI political organization and put out a full ticket was Buncombe. The candidates were without political experience and were opposed by the most compact organization in any county in the State, headed by Bea , con Greene and Don Elias. It felt itself so unbeatable that it announced an “organisa tion ticket” and most people regarded opponents as doomed to certain defeat. But the people rallied to the GLboys and defeat ed the “organization” ticket. There were other victories by Gi’s in oth er contests, but in most counties few veter ans were candidates. But the victories at 194fi were handwriting on the watt for * \ \ THE COURIER-TIMES Price, Quality Up. On Underwear Consumers will pay slightly more , for knit underwear and hosiery made from wool or cotton, or a 1 combination of both, Theodore 8. Johnson, OPA district director, said today, but they will receive better quality in these essential items! and more of them. Increases are a result of special | adjustments to manufacturers per mitting them to add increase ini direct labor and cotton yam costs | to their "freeze" prices of staple I LEGAL NOTICE ORDEIT AUTHORIZING $22,000 ~ SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS WHERAS, the Board of Education of Person County has certified to this Board a resolution passed by said Board of Education on May G,, 1946, showing that it is necessary in order to maintain the constitutional I six months’ school term in Person i County to erect and equip a three i room addition to the Roxbjro High i School building; and j WHEREAS, said resolution repre sents that SB,OOO is available for | such purpose but that no other j funds are available and no provision has been made by local tax or other wise for the remaining funds neces sary to erect and equip said ad dition, and requests this Board to take all necessary steps to issue a sufficient amount of bonds of Per son County to provide the remain ing funds; and WHEREAS, this Board has care fully examined the facts and has determined and hereby finds as a fact that said statements of said resolution are true and that it has become the duty of the Board of Commissioners, acting as an admin istrative agent of the State in pro viding a State system of public schools, to order the issuance of a sufficient amount of County bonds to provide the necessary funtfs so that the addition to said school building may be erected and equip ped in order to maintain the con stitutional six months' school term; now, therefore, BE IT ORDERED AND RESOLV ED by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Person: 1. That, pursuant to the County Finance Act, as amended, bonds of Person County be issued in an a mount not exceeding $22,000 for the purpose of paying the cost, with other moneys available therefor, of erecting and equipping a three room addition to the Roxboro High School building, jn order to main tain the constitutional six months’ school term in Person County. 2. That a tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest of said bonds when due shall be annually levied and collected. 3. That a statement of the County debt has been filed with the Clerk and is open to public inspection. 4. That this order shall take ef fect thirty days after the first pub lication thereof after final passage, unless in the meantime a petition for its submission to the voters is filed under said Act, and that in such event it shall t.ake effect when approved by the voters of the Coun ty at an election as provided in said' Just Received Another Small Shipment Os ATTRACTIVE MAIL BOXES We Also Have a Stock Os "Easy To Read" House Numbers in Block and Brass finish. * ROXBORO LUMBER COMPANY —"Building Materials"— rotect it. fly IIBr J m and ll best protection la earn ft Uon. The next best la insar- Rj -MMHi aneel Don’t risk losing prop k erty and otber * jnBMSCflf Be Sore To Insure With WALKER H& A6ENCY Act. The foregoing order' was finally, passed on the 20th day of May, 1946, and was first published on the 23rd day of May, 1946. Any action or proceeding ques , tioning the validity of said order 1 must be commenced within thirty i 1 30) days after its first publication. W. T. KIRBY Clerk, Board of Commissioners June Ist I i ’ 1 “■ 1 ■ i ii >i »■ 1 NOTICE SALE OF VALUABLE LAND Under and by virtue of a decree ' of the Superior Court made in that 1 Special Proceeding entitled “Paul D. ! Winston, Jr. and Tobie P. Winston by his next friend, W. T. Pass vs. Etta Jones Chambers et als,” the same being upon the Special Pro ceedings docket of said Court, we will, as Commissioners, on Saturday, June 29, 1946, at 12 o'clock noon at the courthouse door in Roxboro, Sell at public auetion to the higli lert bidder for cash, the following | described tracts of land, to-wit: Ist Tract: Lying and being in Roxboro Township, Person County, : North Carolina, and beginning at a I stake on the We6t side of North Main Street, corner of T. B. Woody; thence North 64 deg. 00 min. West 264 ft. on line of said Woody to a rock, corner of W. T. Pass; thence North 26 deg. 00 min. East 594 ft. on J :he line of said Pass to sweetgum in the line of R. L. Wilburn; thence South 62 deg. 30 min. East 469.9 ft. on line of said Wilburn to rock on lie West side of North Main Street; thence South 44 deg. 30 min. West 588.1 ft. on the West side of said Street to the beginning and contain ing 5 acres more or less and being ( known as the dower of Mollle J. Jones, widow of George W. Jones, and being lot No. 1 in the division of tlie George W. Jones land. This tract of land lies within the corporate limits of the City of Roxboro and fronts Main Street. This tract has been sub-divided into desirable building lots and will be sold by lots and according to survey thereof. Plats of the sub-division can be seen in the offices of W. D. Merritt and R. B. Dawes, Attorneys. There is located on this property a service station and 2 dwellings. 2nd Tract: Lying and being in Roxboro Township, Person County, North Carolina, and beginning at a rock, corner of W. T. Pass; thence North 64 deg. CO min. West 957 ft. to pointers, corner of lot No. 4; thence North 26 deg. 00 min. East 462 ft. to pointers in the line of F. O. Carver; thence South 87 deg. 30 min. East 412.5 ft. to rock in said Carver line; thence South 62 deg. 30 min. East 586.1 ft. on said Carver line to rock, corner of W. T. Pass; thence South 26 deg. 00 min. West 613.8 ft. to the beginning, containing 13 acres more or less and being lot No. 3 of the division of the George W. Jones land. This tract of land is presently being farmed but is also desirable for sub-division into good building lots. The tobacco allotment is 2 acres. 3rd Tract: Lying and being in Roxboro Township, Person County. North CaroliAa, and beginning at pointers in the line of F. O. Carver; thence South 26 deg. 00 min. West 462 ft. to pointers; thence North 64 deg. 00 min. West 549.1 ft. to rock-; Election Year Jitters '.' -‘ '' ..." ,'s£it#? thence North 41 deg. 15 min. East ] 297 ft. to an iron stake; thence 1 South 87 deg. 37 min. East 485.1 ft. c on (he line of said Carver to the E beginning, containing 4.22 acres a more or less and being lot No. 4 in 1 the division of the George W. Jones ( land. | This tract is derirame for sub- t division and is being farmed. I c The tobacco allotment is .2 of one acre. 4th Tract: Lying and being in t Roxboro Township, Person County, j i North Carolina, and beginning at a' rock in bed of country road, corner of W. T. Pass (lot No. 5); thence South 3 deg. 00 min. West 336.6 ft, to rock; thence North 88 deg. 30 min. West 759 ft. to rock, corner of B. Smith; thence North 5 deg. 30 min. In watch I* more valuable than ever. Take care of it. Have it cleaned or repaired t By Reliable Watchmaker* GREEN’S The Square Deal Jeweler i YOU MAY NEVER LOSE YOUR TURKEY - Many Have Recovered Stray Mules, Dogs, Wrist Watches, Pocketbooks And Other Valuable Possessions with A Want Ad —IN THE— COURIER-TIMES • The Cast Is Small Far The Results You Get !■■• ' ' - E'ast 336.6 ft. to rock, corner of W. T. | Pass (lot No. 5); thence South 88 deg. 30 min. East 745.8 ft. on lot No. 5 to the beginning, containing 5.8 acres more or less and being second lot No. 4in the division of the George W. Jones land. This tract of land is being farmed and there is located theteon 3 tobac co barns and a pack barn. The tobacco allotment is 1.5 acres. The high bidder will be required to deposit 10 </, of the price bid on any particular tract as evidence of WANTED! Wheat - (on OPEN FOR BUSINESS SIX DAYS A WEEK. Woodsdale Roller Mill MANLY WOODY SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 194% * . | good faith. This 29th day of May, 1946. W. D. Merritt R. B. Dawes, Commissioner June 1, 13 ,20, 27 PHONE 5555 Quality Drj Cleaning Service Dry Cleaners Claude Harris, Owner
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