Practically ALL of the daUfoa. end many of the weeklies have seen fit . to raise subscription rates. So far The Courier-Times has been able to meet the great increase in the cost of making a paper. But, be wise and renew, or if you are not a subscrib er do it today. VOL. LXV Sum Os S9OO Appropriated For Assistant Home Agent Commissioners Continue Study Os Budget; Other Money Is Allotted Continuing their study of the 1946-47 County budget, Person County Commissioners decided on sevefal appropriations Monday af ternoon but failed jto complete the budget. They will meet again next Monday at 2 p. m. for further ac tion. The health department appro priation was increased from $4,200 to $5,400 —which was S6OO short of the amount requested by Dr. O. David Garvin, district health offi cer. Dr. Garvin had said the higher figure of $6,000 was necessary to maintain the present health pro gram. An appropriation of S9OO to em ploy an assistant home agent was ap proved by the commissioners. The sum of $540 was allotted for an ad ditional clerk for the farm agem's office and the whole extension pro Folger Will Speak On Tuesday Night Congressman John H. Polger of Mt. Airy and Washington will speak in the Person county courthouse at 8 o'clock Tuesday night, June 18, it was announced shortly before noon today. Mr. Folger was contacted in Washington and accepted the invi tation to come here and speak. Sev eral days ago he announced his in tention of speaking in all seven counties in the Fifth District prior to the run-off primary on June 22. posed by Thurmond Chatham of Winston-Salem, who led Mr. Folger by 59 votes in the May 25 primary. Veterans, Farmers Invited To Meetinq "Keeping Agriculture Financially Sound” will be the theme of a special banker-farmer meeting to be held in the main auditorium of the Person county courthouse beginning at 8 p. m. Wednesday, June 19, Veterans, farmers, their wives, and all other interested citizens are invited and urged to attend. Problems of the returning vet eran will be discussed by L. D. Brooks of Charlotte, who is con sidered the best, informed man in North Carolina on the subject of agricultural loans to veterans. Re • turned servicemen are especially invited to come and ask questions of Mr. Brooks, so that all details may be cleared up for everyone. Soil conservation will be the sub ject of a talk by Herbert White of Caswell county, chairman of the Dan River district of the soil con servation service. Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice president of the Peoples Bank and past president of the North Caro lina Bankers association, will pre side and will talk on building fi nancial reserves. E. L. Durham, farm management specialist from State ''College Station, Raleigh, will discuss farm land values. Agricultural and banking 'lead ers of the Town and County are anxious for as many farmers and veterans as possible to attend the meeting. The general public is also invited. Sgt. E, H. Rudder Spends Furlough In Philippines Baguio, P. I.—(By Mail)—Staff Sergeant Elgin H. Rudder, Route 1, recently spent an 11 day furlough In Baguio, Luzon, summer captial and playground of the Philippines, as a guest of Camy John Hay’s recreation center. Sgt. Rudder entered the Army July 29, 1944, from his home In Semora, N. C., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rudder, reside. After at Camp Gordon Johnston, Fla., Sgt. Rudder embarked Decem ber 18,1944, for overseas duty in the Philippines. Sgt. Rudder has been awarded the Good Conduct medal and the Philippine Liberation ribbon, with two battle stars. He is now serving with the 368th Transportation Corps, Harbor Craft, on Luson. , < J. W. NOELL, EDITOR gram. Miss Evelyn Caidwell, home agent, was voted SIBO additional compensation per year; Charles J. Ford, Negro farm agent, was voted an increase of SIOO yearly; and An nie Mae Tuck, Negro home agent, an increase of $l2O. The increase which had been requested for the Negro home agent was SIBO Main item of business discussed Monday was the schpol budget, especially capital outlays which have been authorized or which are con templated. The commissioners were unable to make a determination about the school budget until the tentative County budget is more nearly completed and an overall picture is obtained. It is expected that the commiss ioners will take final action and set the, 1946-47 County tax rate at their meeting next week. The official vote was: Chatham, 21,282; Folger, 21, 223, Since the third candidate, Joe J. Harris of Winston-Salem, received 806 votes, Rep. Folger legally was permitted to call for a run-off, and he did so immediately after the State Board of Elections certified the of ficial returns. Mayor S. G. Winstead of Roxboro will preside Tuesday night and vyill introduce Mr. Folger. Sam Byrd Winstead, Person county campaign ■manager for the Folger foroe&JjjMg other supporters and friends are ex pected to attend the meeting. The public is invited to be present. V : Annual Meeting r Os WMU Held At Shiloh Church t 1 [ The 44th annual meeting of the . Woman’s Missionary Union of Beu- T lah Baptist Association was held at * Shiloh church, Caswell county, June 5 7. Presiding . was the superintend . ent, Mrs. J. F. Funderburk. [ Theme for the meeting was . "Christ for the World.” The principal speaker was Miss Katie Murray, ■ missionary to China, who spoke * during both the morning and the afternoon sessions. Mrs. J. S. Farm er, State president, was unable to attend: 1 Principal item of business was the 1 passing of a resolution opposing alcoholic beverage control stores in Person county. The resolution was : approved unanimously. J Next meeting will be held at ; Yanceyville Baptist church on the 1 Friday before the second Sunday in June. "* New officers elected were: Asso ciational superintendent, Mrs. J. F. Funderburk of Roxboro, Route 2; associate superintendent, Mrs. R. L. Wilborn of Roxboro; young people's leader, Mrs. L. V. Coggins of Semora; mission study chairman, Miss Ella ‘ Thompson of Leasburg; personal • service chairman, Mrs. Nell Garrett j of Semora; stewardship chairman, Mrs. W. T. Baucom of Yanceyville. s Training school chairman, Mrs. Boyce Brooks of Roxboro; Margaret > fund chairman, M"s. Norman Up » church of Yanceyville; literature , chairman, Mrs. W: F. Hurdle of • Burlington, Route 3; secretary and • treasurer, Mrs. Hugh Barnette of ■ Roxboro, Route 2; R. A. counselor, 5 the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks of Roxboro; White Cross, Mrs. c. D. Allen of 1 [Semora; nominating committee, * Mrs. Clyde Allen, Mrs. Ryland Wil 5, burn, and Mrs. L. A. Goodson. , Approximately 150 women attend ed the session. ®he Courier-tEimes R y gfl m . JSpj|||i JR DISTRICT COMMANDER—C. C. Garrett, above, has been elected commander of District 5 of the North Carolina department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Adair Speaks On ImprovemenS Os Woodland Great progress has been made in woodland improvement, strip crop ping, pasture improvement, and home beautification along the 13- mile front on Highway 501 from Roxboro to the Virginia line, J. R. Adair, soil conservationist with the Dan River unit, told members of tne Roxboro Kiwanis club Monday night. Mr. Adair was invited to speak by the-Kiwanis committee on woodland improve ment. The conservationist said that Per son county has already gained con siderable fame because of the 501 project. A full-page advertisement which appeared in the Courier- Times last January attracted the at tention of Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation service in Washington, D. C., and Dr. Bennett used the advertisement as the basis for talks he later made in Gastonia, Miami, Fla., and possibly other places. Also, because of the improve ments on 501, the Progressive Farm er magazine placed Person county oh its Roll of Honor for May. Members of the Kiwanis club, which is sponsoring the woodland improvement project, were told of the pressing need for this type of work. Mr. Adair said that, if lumber demands now lead to unwise cutting, forest resources of the future will be imperiled. He pointed out that about 50,000 cords of wood are used annually in Person county for tobacco curing and for fuel wood, not to mention wood cut for timber. He urged that farmers use selective cutting of tress, spreading their cutting out over several acres and cutting only the dead, crooked, diseased, and un- 1 desirable species of trees. The Kiwanis club voted to support the summer concert program of the Roxboro high school band, by con tributing SSO to the project. Other civic clubs had previously approved the project. Guest at the meeting was the Rev. R. K. Redwine of Mt. Airy. Tommy Hatchett gave a report on the dis trict meeting held at Chapel Hill at which time two awards were pre- , School Repairs Being Carried Out Repair work is now being done at schools throughout the County, Supt. R. B. Griffin said yesterday. The repair program started at Roxboro high school last summer is being continued and will soon be completed. However, the addition originally planned for t.he high school —consisting of three class rooms and a cafeteria —has been changed because of the high cost of construction. What was originally estimated to be a $25,000 job was found to cost $40,000. Therefore, the Board of Education and the County Commissioners, acting upon the ad vice of the architect, Watts Carr of Durham, decided to add some rooms to the high school without a case - teria. The addition, as revised, will probably consist of four classrooms and a toilet, and will coat approxi ■ ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946 Hovis To Preach During Revival At Lea Bethel The Rev. R. W. Hovis will be visit ing minister in revival services at Lea Bethel Baptist church from Sun day, June 16, through Saturday, June 22. Services will be held each evening at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend these services, according to the pastor, the Rev. L. V. Coggins. Bible classes will be held for ail age groups for one hour preceding the revival service. Elizabeth Hale To Speak Friday Al Beulah Meet Y. w. A.'s, G. A.'s, R. A.’s and Sunbeams of the Beulah Baptist association will meet in annual ses sion next week at the Roxboro First Baptist Church. The date is Friday, Jue 21, from 2 o'clock in the after noon to 8:30 in the evening. Speaker of special interest will be Miss Elizabeth Hale who returned only two months ago from China, where she spent two and one-half years in a Japanese internment camp—which she describes as a “rich experience”. As a missionary, she felt it was just as important to stay for any help she might render the native Christians as it was for business people to stay to protect their property. Also present to help with the pro gram in various ways, will be Misa Hilda Mayo. State Girls’ Auxiliary worker for North Carolina. Several trained leaders will also direct re creational periods. It will be a meet ing of information, inspiration, fel lowship and fun. i A large attendance of young people j and leaders from all the churches of i the Beulah association is expected. ! All are asked to bring supper to which th@ hostess church anil add cold drink. Visitors also invited. o Services Held Al Ml. Zion Church For Mrs. Moore Mrs. Emily Blackard Moore. 75, wife of John R. Moore of Roxboro, Route 3, died at her home Tuesday morning. She had been ill for some time. She was a native of Person coun ty and had been a member of Mt. Zion M. E. church since early girl hood. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Floyd G. Villines at Mt. Zion church Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Interment was in the church cemetery. Surviving, in addition to her hus band, are two sons, L. Arch Moore of Raleigh and Claude O. Moore of the home; four daughters, Annie Mae Moore, Mrs. Coy Holeman, Mrs. Algin Allison of Roxboro, and Mrs. Jack L. Wilkerson of Raleigh; one brother, J. T. Blackard of .Roxboro; three sisters, Mrs. Ann Whitfield and Mrs. Bannie Wilson of Roxboro and Mrs. Cleo Cooke of Mebane; 11 grandchildren, and one great-grand child. sented to the Roxboro club—one to the club for having fexceeded its attendance goal during the past quarter, and one to Jimmie Long for his outstanding service as 1945 pres ident, T)f the Roxboro Kiwanis club. mately $25,000. In rural schools, most of the re pair work is being done at Hurdle Mills, Olive Hill, and Lee Jeffers, with some painting at- Central school in Roxboro. Minor repairs are being made to the buildings, furniture and other equipment at all, the schools in the County, both white and Negro. Supt. Griffin said that of the more than $17,000 which the Federal government has agreeed to lend for the di-awing up of plans and speci fications for school buildings in the County, half of that amount nas been received. It will be used to plan the whole proposed building program throughout the County. The money must be repaid without interest, when contsruction actually begins. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Recreational Plans Are Talked: I __ 3 Year-Round Coach Is Proposed f m I - l k. . Wm METHODIST SPEAKER—Gov ernor Thomas L. Bailey of Mississ ippi will speak on “The Mission of the Rural Church” over WPTF and other radio stations on the Meth odist Hour Sunday morning at 8:30. He will be introduced by Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia. Numerous Teacher Changes In County; Vacancies Exist Numerous changes in teacher per sonnel of Roxboro and Person county schools have occurred within the past few weeks, Supt. R. B. Griffin said yesterday. At Roxboro high school, an addi tional commercial teacher has been! .employed. She is Miss Camilla Boone, ' 1946 graduate of Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. An additional English and history teacher will be Miss Rachel Bright of Apex, a graduate I of Meredith College in Raleigh, who lias previously taught at Hurdle Mills and at Wakelon school in Zebu lon. Miss Nell Hoover of Crouse, who 1 has been teaching at Mt. Airy, will 1 be a seventh grade teacher at Rox Will Demonstrate Canning Os Food Miss Margaret Murphy, well known home economist,- will lec ture and demonstrate home can ning in the home economics depart ment at Roxboro high school on Tuesday, June 18, at 3:15 p. m. Tile meeting is arranged by Miss Nettie L. Day, associate supervisor of Farm Security Administration, and Miss Evelyn Caldwell, home demon stration agent. All interested homemakers are in vited. Sponsors of the meeting feel i that, since the busy canning sea- Garrett To Head VFW District 5 C. C. Garrett, of Roxboro. veteran of World War I, has been elected commander of District 5 of the North Carolina department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The dis trict embraces several counties. Mr. Garrett, who was elected to the post at the 16th annual State encampment held at Winston-Salem June 8-10, has been active in the local Lewell T. Huff post of the VFW for sometime. He is a past commander of the post. New State commander of the VFW elected Monday, is James H. Hayes, Jr., of Winston-Salem, who served in the Marine corps in World War 11. o Homecoming Day Slated At Griers Griers Presbyterion church, near Hightowers, in Caswell county, will have homecoming services Sunday, June 30, with preaching at 11 a. and dinner on the church grounds Everyone is invited to come and bring lunch. Revival services at Griers will be rth Sunday, June 23, and continue through June 30. Services V4U to 1 held each evening at 7:30, $2.60 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Agricultural Fair Is Suggested; Band Concert Project Abandoned Proposals for a recreational pro gram in Roxboro are being discuss ed by civic and many other interest ed citizens in Roxboro this week. Several ideas have been proposed, and many conferences have been held—some of them behind the scenes—in an effort to get definite plans formulated. R. B. Griffin, superintendent of schools, and Jerry L. Hester, super vising principal of Roxboro district schools, were to have gone before the City Commissioners with a pro posal last night, but the meeting was postponed because some of the Com missioners were out of town. Their proposal, which will be presented at a later date, is that the City set up a department of recreation as v part of the City government an i that an appropriation be made to employ a coach at Roxboro high school 12 months in the year. Three of these months would be spent su pervising summer recreational ac tivities for all age groups, particu larly boys and girls in their teens. boro, succeeding Miss Hazel Carver, resigned. The eighth grade vacancy ; created by the resignation of H. Dewey Young will be filled by Miss I Eunice Jackson, who has taught at Asheboro for several years. Mr. ! Young will devote his full time to I insurance. Miss Doris Davis, who j resigned as eighth grade teacher,j will be succeeded by Mrs. Penn Noell, I who has been teaching at Leasburg. 1 Remaining vacancies at Roxboro. jhigh: Coach, public school music, j 1 Spanish and other high school sub- ; jects. i At Olive Hill, a principalship va-«i Icancy exists. Mrs. Emery Winstead ! was reelected as principal, but re signed. However, she will return to Olive Hill as a teacher. The first son is approaching, many house- j wives will be interested in learning) how to get their canning done in j the surest way possible to save food j time and energy. “Food production,” says the spnak j er, Miss Murphy, “and food preser vation are an important part of building the peace. Victory Garden ers and home canners are called on to remobilize at once' to help in the campaign to increase food supplies at home and fight famine over seas." Miss Murphy is a graduate of j lowa State College at Ames where she received her B. S. degree in Home Economics and for several years has been a staff member of the Educational Department of the Kerr Mason Jar Company. Shi has devoted years to the study of .food preservation and making easier the 1 daily tasks of homemakers who are j striving to serve well-balanced and I appetizing meals to their families. In addition to her scientific know ledge, Miss Murphy has a very practical knowledge of the purposes methods and procedures in home canning. All methods of canning will be demonstrated or discussed and no homemaker who struggles with the problem of serving well-balanced meals or who is planning to can the surplus from her garden can afford to miss this oportunity to gain pointers that will be helpful the year around. - Cavel Youth Now Located In Texas Pvt. David W. Yarborough of Ca vel has arrived at Amarillo Army Air Field, Amarillo, Texas, to be gin his flyst phase of Army training. He entered the Army at Fort Bragg on April 3, 1046. At Amarillo, he will pursue a ba sic training progftm for 35 days, during which time he will be ori ented and receive general Army training,. The appropriation to be request ed amounts to several hundred dol lars and under the proposed plan it would be supplemented by other sources, possibly the Kiwanis horse show and the Person County softball league. Part of the money would be used to supplement the coach sal ary, and part—possibly several hun dred dollars—would be used to pur chase equipment for summer recre ational activities. Another proposal made oy seme leaders this week is that an old time agricultural fair be sponsored, the purposes to provide recreation and also to raise money for use along recreational lines. This pro posal was presented to Chamber of Commerce officials, who are asking the boards of directors of trie Ho rary, Exchange, Kiwanis, and Busi ness and Professional Womtn'o clubs, and the Chamber of Com merce, to meet in the grand jury room of the courthouse next Tues day night to consider the agricul tural fair project. grade will be taught by Miss Mary Daniels, who has taught for several years at Landis in Rowan county. Mrs. T. G. Crutchfield will teach the second grade. Bethel Hill needs a fifth grade teacher, a fourth grade teacher, and j 9 high school teacher w r ho can coach. ! Helena has a commercial teacher I vacancy. Miss Eloise Pearce has been elected to the third grade pnsition, and Mrs. Nellie Gravely Rogers lias j accepted a grammar grade position. Vacancies at Hurdle Mills include home economics, sixth and seventh I combination grade, and eighth grade. The second grade vacancy at Longhurst, created by the resigna tion of Mrs. Mildred Long Montague, will be filled by Mrs. Irene Tomlin, i Mt. Tirzah has two vacancies, one , in the high school and one in the : grammar grade department. Mrs. Helen Harkrader James has been elected to fill the fifth grade vacancy at Central schpol, which was created by the resignation of the ! former Miss Elizabeth Raines, now I Mrs. W. C. Martin. At East Roxboro. Mrs. Mavin i Crowder Glenn will fill the teaching ! position of Miss Ruth Sims. Mrs. j Katie Harris Wilkerson will be prin cipal. Miss Sims will take the second grade at Cavel. Cunningham has a vacancy in the primary department. Mrs. Coleman King has accepted a position as home economics teach er at Helena, succeeding Miss Mary Jay Cothran, resigned. Mrs. Venetia Hearne Pentecost will be home economics teacher and Miss Naomi Blalock will be fifth grade teacher at Allensville. At Bushy Fork, Mrs. Helen Webb Wilkerson Chapell has resigned as fifth grade teacher, and she will be succeeded by Miss Huldah Hester. Two Will Attend BPW Convention Mrs. Alden Rogers, president of the Roxboro Business and Professional Women’s club, and Miss fcettie Day will be delegates to the annual con vention of the North Carolina Fed eration of BPW clubs, to be held at Hotel Charlotte June 14, 15 and 16. Representing the National Federa tion will be Miss Olive Huston of New York, who is executive secretary and director of field service of tho national organization and is in charge of the national headquarters office. She will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet to be held on Saturday evening, June 16, and will conduct the Installation service for new officers on Sunday morning. On Friday afternoon. Miss Huston will condupt a panel discussion on the subject, “World Peace Is Our Business,” the other participants be ing Dr. Ruth Shaver of Greensboro, Mrs. Francis O. Clarkson of Char lotte, and Mrs. Martha Milter Paiife of Charlotte. Presiding will be Dr. Irate erson Smathers of Asheville, prate- j dent of the State Federation. 2 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1046 DON’T HELP INCREASE IT! DRIVE CAREFULLY Some citizens this week also ex pressed the opinion that Roxboro needs a community center of some kind, possibly a Y. M. C. A. building. Others pointed out that a new gym could be used by the community—or perhaps a community center includ ing a public gymnasium could be bUilt. Proposal for a legal department of recreation and a supplemental salary for a coach was viewed as having two advantages; First, it would enable the high school to employ a good coach wno wants a year-round job; and second, it would enable the City to make a start toward having a recreational super visor. It pointed out that the most pressing need for such a supervisor exsists during the three months of summer' when school is not in ses sion. The high school coach during The past year, Stuart, Tripp, has re signed. School officials are pessi mistic about finding a coach as good as he was unless a year-round sal ary can be offered. It was reported that a Person County boy has been considered for the year-round coaching job, it plans can be worked out. The recreation problem has been discussed here thoroughly for sever 'al months. The Person County j Council of Social Agencies' has studied the problem at some length, i the study cultimating in an address j here in Aprils by Dr. Harold D. Meyer, chairman of the North Car olina Recreation Commission. Dr. 1 Meyer's talk was heard by members of all Roxboro civic clubs in a joint meeting. One idea emphasized by Dr. Meyer was that the City should set up a department of recreation and em ploy a trained, capable supervisor. This proposal was endorsed unani mously recently by the Roxboro Ki wanis club, and other civic clubs may take similar action sood.- At present the City of Roxboro has no department of recreation, nor does it liave a supervisor of rec reation. Oustanding among non commercial types of recreation In this vicinity are softball games played on three nights out of each week, sandlot baseball and softball, tennis on private courts, golf at the Roxboro Country club, and the Sat urday night recreational programs sponsored by the Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches of Rox boro during the past three or more months. Another project which has been under discussion here for several weeks—summer concerts by the Rox boro high school band—has fallen through and will not be carried out, Johnny Thompson, band di rector, said today. He said that so many members of the band have been absent from rehearsals recent ly that the program had to be given up. The members, Mr. Thompson pointed out, are interested In other activities; some have summer jobs, and others are away at camp. Therefore the concerts will not be held this summer, even though the County Commissioners have made an appropriation and three civic clubs have agreed to donate money for the director’s salary during the summer. —o J. J. Barnette, Jr. j Dies In Florida J. J. Barnette, Jr., 33, veteran oj World War II and sen of J. J, Barnette and the late Rosa Shot* well Barnette of Roxboro, died to I a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital at 9 , o'clock Wednesday night Funeral servioes will be held neat Jacksonville at 4 p. m. Friday. jj Surviving are his father and step* ' mother; two sisters, Miss Martha Barnette of Roxboro and Mrs. Rosa Stigall of Olive Branch; one hrateio er, Charles Barnette of Roxbero; two aunts, Miss Mary Willte Mrs. R. a. Willis of Neptune Beach. I near Jacksonville; and one uncle. T James Willis of Otega, Fla. :{S\ I He was living with his Willis, who reared him. o . Four Men Sent To Fort Broa||ii| Miss Olivia Garrett, chief oteglkoi the Person Selective Service Mard. announced today that four * men were sent to Fort Bragg ’ day for preilMUicttan. i NUMBER 66