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#SMjMbr ALL of th« teUIM, *nd nuny of the weeklies have kacn flt to niM subscription rates. So far The Courier-Times has been able tc meet the great increase In the cost el mating a paper. But, be wise and renlw, or if you are not a subscrib er do it todgy. VOL. LXV Folger, In Speech Here, Asserts Chatham Not A True Democrat Congressman Says His Opponent Fought Roosevelt Plans, Policies Rep. John H. Folger, campaign ing for reelcction to Congress from the Fifth North Carolina District, spoke in the Person county court house Tuesday night before a crowd of more than 300 persons. Others on the program included Mayor S. G. Winstead, who introduced the speaker, and P. W. GUdewell, Reidsville attorney. In his speech Folger lashed out at "the very patent plan to pick out enough reactionary Republicans and Tories among the Democrats (or professed Democrats- to carry us back to the days of Special Priv ilege. leaving the average man to scuffle as best he may." He referred to his opponent, Thurmond Chatham, Winston-Sal em blanket manufacturer, as a dis senter from the. Democratic party who supported the Liberty League In its fight against the plans and policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “It has been urged,” the Repre sentative declared, ,‘that one has the right to vote his convictions. Allied Church League Unit Formed To Fight Whiskey Woods To Attend Chapel Hilt Meet June 23 To 29 W. Wallace Woods, executive sec retary of the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce and a director of the State Chamber of Commerce Sec retaries association, will attend the third annual Southeastern institute to be held at the University of North Carolina June 23-29. Mr. Woods will serve as song leader for the group. The local of fice has prepared 250 copies of song sheets to be used at the in stitute. Lester Rose, secretary of the Raleigh office, will be accom panist. * A number of experts in Chamber of Commerce work from all over the South will conduct first-year and advanced courses and deliver general lectures. o Dr. Johnson To Hold Clement Revival Series Dr. Walter L. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist church, Philadel phia, Mississippi, will be the vsiit ing preacher at Clement Baptist church for revival services begin ning on the fifth Sunday. June 30. Services will be held at 8 o’clock each evening throughout the week. A Bible class will be held for all young people for one hour preced ing the revival service’ Dr. Johnson is well known as a forceful and attractive speaker. The public is cordially invited to attend the services, according to the pastor, the Rev. L. V. Coggins. Clock's 13-Year Silence Is Broken “Aunt” Mutchey Mary Owens, colored woman who lives near Brooksdale Methodist church, doesn’t expect everyone to believe the tale; but she came into the Courier-Times office this week and declared that the following story is true: In New York In 1930, a friend gave her a small alarm clock, which she brought home and used until 1933, when It- stopped running. Aunt Mutchey simply left it on the man tel In the dining room, and Tt le mained there, motionless and sil ent, until— About. 7:45 Monday night, the a noisy alarm dock to let her know dock which had not tickad eventhat her time has come. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR He has, but shall we put the stamp of approval on these convictions, and endorse such votes? “I propose and purpose to be fair to the wealthy and the poor alike, but I confess that as heretofore my watchful eye will be looking out for the farmer, the small business man, and the man. whether with a white collar or in overalls, who works for a living. “I am a Democrat, spelled with a capital D and small d. To these all all I make my pledge.” Folger also warne dagainst cor rupt elections and attempts to buy or coerce voters. “One who seeks to produce such fear, or to practice such by the offering of monetary inducements, is a danger and an enemy to our democratic form of government, God pity the man who knows no better than to threaten or attempt to coerce any man to vote other than the way he sees fit,” he told a cheering audience. The candidate also related his experience as a member of the North Carolina legislature, where Boyce Brooks Named Leader An Allied Church League in Per son county was formed last night for the purpose of fighting both legal and illegal whiskey in the County, it was announced today by the Rev. Auburn C. Hayes, secre tary of the new orgtfhizatiin. The League, which now has 67 units in North Carolina, was or ganized at a meeting at the Rox boro First Baptist church which was attended by ministers and se lected representatives from various churches in the county. The Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pas tor of Roxboro First Baptist church was named president of the Lea gue. H. K. Sanders was elected vice president, W. Wallace Woods treasurer, and Mr. Hayes secretary. In commenting on the meeting, Mr. Hayes said: “This overflowing crowd met and expressed their desire to stand be hind their pastors and laymen in offering their support to fight leg al or illegal liquor in Person coun ty. The group not only promised their support in fighting the peti tion for ABC stores in the County, but to support any move to stamp out alcohol in any form. "It was inspiring to see the ov erflowing attendance. Many of them drove many miles through the rain last night to help prevent and protect the youth of our coun ty from having liquor stores cast upon them and into their faces.” Guest speaker at the meeting was the Rev. R. M. Hause of Shel by, educational director of the Al lied Church League in Nroth Caro lina. The audience included six representatives of the High Plains Indian community in Person coun ty. one time since 1933, and which had not been worked on at all, sud denly alarmed. Eight or ten min utes, It began running, and has con tinued to run all right, ever since. The sudden and unexpected alarm, after 13 years of silence, frightened Aunt Mutchey and other members of the family. A next door neighbor advised the owner to get the clock out of her house, and put it in the yard. Aunt Mutchey’s comment was that if the Lord is going to call her to she wishes he would use some other method than ®he; Courier-®ime:s HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT he said he put up a determined fight to promote the public school program. He also related part of his efforts toward education as a member of the State School Com mission The Reidsville attorney, Glide well, who described himself as “a Roosevelt Democrat,” stressed Chatham's connection with the Liberty League and said, "John Folger is the only Democrat can didate running for Congress in the Fifth District—so let’s nominate him.” Glidewell quoted a statement to the effect that “the only dishonest thing Chatham never did was to pose as a Democrat.” Chatham, he said, admits voting for Landon in 1936 and Willkie in 1940, but says he voted for Roosevelt in 1944 because of the war. “In other words, it took a World War to get Chatham is first vice president of ticket." Glidewell said- “Do the people of Person county want to turn the Democratic party of the Fifth District over to a Liberty Leaguer? The attorney also soid that Chatham is first vie epresident of the National Association of Manu facturers. "who vowed they would destroy all New Dealers and Roose velt followers." Kiwanians Have Music Program Monday Night Roxboro Kiwanians were enter tained Monday night with a pro gram of music rendered by Miss Anne Bickford of Narberth, Pa., ■who is a student at the Curtis In stitute in Philadelphia. Miss Bick ford, who played the viola, was accompanied at the piani by Ki wanian Robert Edgar Long. Numbers played included tne al legro movement from a concerto !by Handel, “The Gypsy,” Ah. I Sweet Mystery of Life," and "Ava i Maria. ” Miss Bickford is spending about two weeks here with her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Long, Sr. Two Kiwanians, J. W. Bolick and L. R. Wilson have returned from Atlantic City. N. J’. where they attended the convention of Kiwanis International. They were accompanied by Mrs. Bolick and Mrs. Wilson. About 315 kiwanians from the Carolinas attended the convention. Total attendance was about 9250. The Roxboro club received an achievement award for 1946 mem bership. A North Carolinian, Dr. Charles Armstrong of Salisbury, was elected vice president of the international organization. He is the husband of the former Mabel Harris, daughter of Mr. W. H. Harris of Roxboro. The new international prseident is J. N. Emerso nos Pullman, Washington. Baxter Hobgood of Murfreesboro, iTenn., formerly of Roxboro, at tended the Atlantic City conven- I tion, and came by Roxboro on his ! way home. He was present at the meeting of the local club Monday night, and made a few remarks. COMING UP.... FRIDAY First day of summer, longest day of year. 2:00 Beulah Baptist association young people meet, • Roxbiro First Baptist church. SATURDAY 6:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. Polls open for run-off primary between Thurmond Chatham and John H. Folger for Congress. 8:15 a. m. Curb market opens, USO building. MONDAY 6:15 Kiwanis, Hotel Roxboro. Marking potato chips last year called for 650,000 pounds of potatoes and the employment of 18,000 peo ple. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1946 CONTESTANTS IN RUN-OFF PRIMARY—Above are the two oppon ents in the run-off primary which will be held Saturday. They are. left, John H. Folger of Mount Airy, and right. Thurmand Chatham of Win ston-Salem, both of whom are seeking the Democratic nomination to the Fifth District seat in Congress. Polls will be open Saturday from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. RECREATION PLAN HEARD BY BOARD Request for SI,OOO to employ the Roxboro high school coach as a summer recreational director in Roxboro was presented before the City commissioners in their June meeting yesterday afternoon. The delegation included R. B. Griffin, superintendent of schools, Jexry L. Hester, supervising principal of Roxboro high school, and Mrs. H. M. Beam, president of the Roxboro high Parent-Teacher association. Mr. Griffin spoke also for the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, chairman of the Person County Council of Social Agencies: who was out of town. The group requested S6OO as sal ary for the coach during the sum mer. and S4OO for purchase of sum mer recreational facilities and equipment. They also asked that the City set up a department of recreation as a part of the munic ipal government. National Leaders I nspecT Project State and national farm leaders, making a five-day tour of North Carolina and Virginia, Spent tues- j day afternoon in Person county in specting the soil conservation "show j window” project oh U. S. Highway] 501 between Roxboro and the Vir- j ginia line. A. E' Jones, chief of operations.' Soil Conservation Service. Wash- 1 ington, Carl Hamilton, assistant' administrator, Rural Electrification 1 Administration, Washington; and: William A. Minor, assistant to the J secretary. U. S. Department of. Agriculture. Washington. were; among the agricultural leaders who [ came here. Also included in the group were: !' Dr. F. W. Parker, assistant chief, I: Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils J a n d Agricultural Engineexing,! Washington; William C. Laßue, as-j i sociate editor, .Progressive Farmer magazine. Raleigh; Dr. H,. B. Mann, southern manager. Ameri can Potash Institute, Atlanta, Ga.; Harold Severson, associate editor, I ; Southern Agriculturist magazine, 1 Gl Insurance Bill Awaits Passage I After thorough discussion and j study wth experts from the Veter - ! ans Administration, veterans' or ! ganizations, and private insurance - companies, the House of Represen ! tatives recently approved and sent to the Senate, a bill which if passed will make GI Insurance an even better investment, according to Wilbur A. Smith, VA contact man with the Roxboro office. Although the House of Repre sentatives has passed the insurance bill, it will now take some time for the Senate to study the provisions and get it ready for passage. When the Senate passes the measure, it then goes to the President for his signature. It is impossible for the Veterans Administration to know what the new changes will be. Nor can the Veterans Administration tell how long It will be until the final bill becomes law. The Veterans Administration re quests veterans not to write the Veterans Administratlin about the HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT The -commissioners, according to reports, responded very favorably to the ideas presented by the dele gation. Hiwever, some commis sioners raised the question as to where the money is to come from, and also desired to know whether the public really wants such a pro gram. No action was taken on the requests in the meeting yesterday. Another request presented to the commissioners by letter yesterday was for S6OO for the district health department which failed by S6OO to get the increased county appro priation which it had requested. At present the City pays $2lO per year as part of the rent on the health department offices. The request for the S6OO was taken un der advisement. The commissioners will ..meet again next Wednesday for consid eration of the budget for the new fiscal year which begins July 1. I Nashville, Term.; Robert H. En gle, National Fertilizer assiciation, 'Washington; J. C. Epting, assist ! ant agricultural agent, Seaboard ! Airline railway, Savannah, Ga,; ] Dr. T. S. Buie, regional conserva tor. Soil Conservation Service, Spartanburg, S. C.; Leon Sisk, in ' formation specialist, SCS, Spartan burg; R. Y. Bailey, chief, regional Agronomy Division, Spartanburg; ]E' B. Garrett. State director of : conservation in North Carolina, ' Raleigh; Lyman Carrier State di rector in Virginia, Richmond; and 'a. N. Hudson, assistant to the Vir ginia director. Richmond. | Those who joined the party lo- \ •cally were J. M. Parks, district con-j I servationist of the Dan River unit.' ;Reidsville; J. R. Adair, C. A. Neal, I and Bill Bland, all of the Persin j county office of the Dan River dis-. trict; Gordon C. Hunter, executive vice president of the Peoples Bank; W. Wallace Woods, secretary of the I Roxbiro Chamber of Commerce; i and Bill Humphries of the Courier- ! Continued on Page Three new provisions as unnecessary cor- j respondence will bog down other j work. The Veterans Administra tion will give out full information as soon after passage as possible. Veterans will be informed by ra- j dio and the press when and if the bill is passed and becomes a law. Meanwhile, Mr. Smith said, here's the best thing veterans can do: "Keep that GI insurance in force. When this bil lis passed there will j be important changes that will as- j feet every policy holder. If you ( keep your insurance pad up. you' will be able to take advantage of the new law. Those provisions will j make your GI insurance an even j better investment than it is now!”. The local contact office of the j Veterans Administration, located, at 117 1-2 Abbitt Avenue, Roxboro,! is prepared to answer questions re lating to re-instatement, conver sion, change in beneficiary desig nation. and other matters relating to U. S. Government and National' Service Life insurance. 1 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE County Tax Rate Remains Same Despite Increased School Needs Commissioners Retain $1.30 Figure By Cutting Other County Funds Person county commissioners, in! session Monday afternoon, tenta-j tively set the county tax rate for j the new fiscal year at $1.30, the j same as for the present year, in spite of the fact, that capital school outlays will call for $42,800 in 1946-47 as compared with $24,097 during 1945-46. Os the 51.30, schools will take 54 cents as compared with 41.5 cents last year; county operating expen ses will take 62 cents as compared with 71 at present; and social se curity will take 14 as compared with the present figure of 17.5. Light Vote Expected Here For Primary On Saturday Urges Dealers To Place Orders For Pea Seed Person ''county -seed dealers de siring to ' furnish. Austrian winter pea seed to farmers as conservation material under the AAA purchase order Contract, plan or to self peas jat a rate not to oxceel the fair | price Were urged today by Claude ]T. Hall,. AAA chairman, to place | their orders immediately. | A discount o;; 20 cents per hun- I tired pounds will be made on or ders placed, requesting delivery not later than June 30, he said. * Due. to recent floods and strikes preventing the current crop of peas becoming available in time for fall seeding and. the great need for ex panding their use as a soil builder, I the Government is offering its en tire stockpile of 36,0000,000 pounds for sale to seed dealers. This offer is limited, to purchasers agreeing Ito furnish seed as conservation ma terial under the AAA purchase or der plan or to sell seed at a rate not to exceed the fair price of $6.50 per hundred pounds. The total approximate cost to North. Carolina dealers for top grade peas, in 100-pound bags, shipped in minimum carload lots oi 60,000 pounds is $5.44 per bag. Since the demand for these seed greatly exceed th supply Mr. Hall urges all Person County dealers interested in purchasing Austrian winter peas in this manner to con tact the Person county AAA office for detailed information. Farmers in Person county have indicated their; desire to seed 24,- COO pounds of Austrian winter peas this fall. o Grocery Concern Suffers Fire Loss Fire which is believed to have originated from an electric water heater or motor in the meat mar ket department caused heavy dam age to Clayton and Stewart Groc ery company in the heart of the Main street business district, about 4 a. m. Wednesday. Fire Chief Henry E. O’Briant es timated the damage at SB,OOO to SIO,OOO, and other sources indicated it might run even higher. The stock of merchandise, damaged by smoke, water, and heat, was vir tually a total loss. The intense heat cracked the front windows of the store. A. L. Watson, policeman on night duty, turned in the alarm, and the City fire department ans wered the call and subdued the blaze in about 30 minutes. The Cavel fire department v also answer ed the summons. Many residents if Roxboro, awaekned by the alarm, came to the scene. The firm carried insurance. o Failure to top and sucker tobac co results in the loss of about 179 pounds per acre, says the Tobacco Branch Experiment Station at Ox drd. ■ ' r ... l: • I Thus county operating expenses j and social security money are be ing reduced in order that increased I capital school outlays may be matte without an increase in the overall tax rate. Amount lor the school debt ser vice is being reduced from 13.5 cents to 12. and for the remainder of the county debt, service, a re duction from 36 to 30 cents is- be-. • ing made, The increase in school money was necessitated by many repairs . throughout the county and by the buying oi sites for both white and . j Negro schools . The public library appropriation Chatham, Folger Are In Run-Off A comparatively light vote is ex pected in Person county Saturday m the run-off primary for Congress between Rep. John H. Folger and Thurmond Chatham. Elections Board Chairman W. H. Harris. Til, ■said today. The official predicted that the vote would not greatly exceed 2,000. or about 50 per cent of the more than 4,100 ballots cast in the Coun ty during the first primary on May 25: v Polls will be open from 6 30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. at the 17 polling places throughout the County. Mr. I Harris urged that precinct officials I get their returns in to the court- I hiuse as promptly as possible after the polls close and the votes'are counted. Returns will be made, as on May 25. to the main auditorium of the courthouse. Where possible, pre einct officials are urged to tele phone returns in. calling 2924 in the judge's room of the courthouse. Elections officials hope that all returns will be in by 9 p. m. or shortly thereafter. There are no local contests in Person county in the run-off pri mary. It is solely a contest between Thurmond Chatham and Rep. John H. Folger. in the first pri mary. Chatham received 21,282 votes and Folger received 21,223 in the Fifth District. In Person coun ty, Chatham received 2,603 and Folger 1,345. Long Memorial Church To Hear Dr. H. C. Smith Dr. Harry c. Smith, district su perintendent of the Durham dis trict, will preach next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the Long Memorial Methodist church. This is the first appearance of Dr. Smith in Roxboro during this conference year. There are 46 pastoral charges in the district, and the district su perintendent pays from two to four visits to each charge during the year. Dr. Smith is an outstanding preacher and leader and is well known in Roxboro. There will be no quarterly conference held at this time, the fourth quarterly confer ence to be held in the early fall, The public is cordially invited Whitmans Leavinq Roxboro Friday Completing almost two years as city manager of Roxboro, Guy Whitman will relinquish his duties at City hall at the close of business today. Mr. Whitman, who came here August 6, 1944, submitted his resig nation last February, to take effect at the end of the fiscal year, June 30. However, since he desires to take a vacation before returning to Goldsboro, he asked yesterday that he be released effective today. He and Mrs. Whitman, who have resided at- Hotel Roxboro during 2 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1946 DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 57 | remains at 51.450 and : munity hospital appropriation at SI,OOO. The welfare appropriation was increased from $8,260 to $8,306. | The Veterans Service office will | continue to get. $2.500. Previously, the commissioners j had increased the public health ap- I propriation from $4,200 to $5,400; j appropriated S9OO to employ an as ' .-istant home demonstration agent and $540 to employ an additional j clerk for the farm extension pro gram; and had increased the sal jaries of the home agent and of j the Negro farm and home agent, j County Auditor T. c, Brooks I said that $13,000,000 valuation of j property in the county was used as l the basis for the budget figures, jHe said all figures given are teu jtative and are subject to final approval by the commissioners at 'their next meeting July 1. Applications For AAA Payments Must Be Signed Only 95 percent of Person Coun ty's farm operators have signed ap plications that will entitle them to receive payments that they have earned by carrying out app’-oved practices under the 1945 Agricultural Conservation pro - gram, Claude" T. Ha!!, ebrirmun. Person County AAA committee, said here today. ' The Person County AAA Com mittee is most anxious for every farmer in the county who earned a payment through the program lass' year to receive his payment at the earliest possible date," Hall sard in Urging the 68 who have not yet signed their application to call' by the Person County AAA office lo cated at the Court House and sign at once. . "Applications are being proces sed as rapidly as. possible after sig natures have been affixed,' he stated, “and approximately 100 per cent of the farmers who have sign ed their applications have already received their checks.” ; ' " ; ————O —— 'Marfield' To Be Ice Cream Name Name selected for Elko Dairy ice cream is 'Marfield,” combining the names of the owners. L. Jack Mar tin and Jack D. Crutchfield. The dairy had offered $25 for the best name submitted. However, five persons turned in the name “Mar field." and the owners liked it so well that they are paying each of the five persons $25, or a total of $125. “Marfield" was submitted by Mrs. J. J, Woody. Mrs. Chester F. Vogler, Mrs. V. R. DeGrasse. Heath L. Cooley, and Mrs. E. D. Paylor. ——o Martin To Speak At Providence Tlie Rev. A1 Martin, former chap lain. will preach in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. J. N. Bow man, at Providence Baptist church at 11 o’clock, Sunday morning June 23. their stay here, expect to visit Al* abama during the next few days. Meanwhile, the Courier-Times learned that the post of Roxboro city manager has definitely been ■ offered to one applicant. His namo was not released but he is troe& J out of town, and he was not in- g eluded in the previously pul)Ual»d | list of applicants. When offered . the post this week, he requested : %j| few days to cossider the offer be« fore making a final deciaiin. Mr. and Mrs. Whitman plan (ft leave Roxboro Friday