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War Bond Dollars Are Double Duty Dollars VOL. LXIV. Person-Caswell * Teachers To Meet In Joint Session Mrs. J. R. Simms *Dies In Durham Former Person Woman’s Rites Will Be Held In Durham. Funeral services for Mrs. John R. Simms, 77, of Durham, wife of the late Sheriff John R. Simms of Per son County will be held from the "home of her daughter, Mrs. Hubert 1 T. Warren, 505 Milton Avenue, Dur- ! ham, this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.! Interment will be in the old section j of Maplewood Cemetery. Dr. Stan- j ley C. Harrell, pastor of the Con gressional Christian Church, will conduct the services. Active pallbearers: Edwin L. Har- 1 ris, Charlie E. Pleasants, Harris Lawson, R, p. Jourdan, Luther Craig, S. O. Brewer. Honorary pallbearers will be: Cris Hibbcrd, Wyatt T. Dixon, J. D. K. Richmond, Dr. George T. Watkins, Ernest Wilkerson, Hassie Long, Wy att Monk. Hnrold N. Wilkerson. Ce cil C. Wilkerson, John C. Markham, L. A. Dixon, John T. Craig, E. C. Craig, J. F. Barefoot, and Claude May. Mrs. Simms died at the home of ► her daughter Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock, following a long period of declining health. She was born in Person County, the daughter of the | late John E. and Hassie Villines j Hnrris. She was educated in the i schools of Person County and the i Hobgood Private School of Oxford, i After the death of her husband she came to Durham to live with her daughter, Mrs. Warren, about thirty . five years ago. she was a member “of Temple Baptist. Survivors* are orfe daughter, Mrs. Warren, with whom she lived; two granddaughters, Mrs. Billie Warren Southernland, and Miss Hassie Lee!: Warren of Durham; and one broth er, N. D. Harris of Roxboro. o— ———- ' ! • James A. Stanley i Takes New Job WEST JEFFERSON, Aug. 13. The naming of Professor Zeb Dick son as principal of West Jefferson high school by the committee com pletes the list of principals for the coming year, B. H. Duncan, super intendent of the county schools, an nounced this week. Other high school principals and . their respective schools include James A. Stanley at Elkland. Stan- ! ley was' formerly at Bethel Hill, j Person County. Riley R. Tuck ; At Grand Island Pfc. Riley R. Tuck, son of Mrs. j Lena R. Tuck of Route No. 2, South ! 5, Boston, Va„ has been assigned to 1 one of the most distinguished of' the units of the Army Air Forces, I the 376th Bombardment Group, Grand Island, Neb. His wife Molly W. Tuck and gon live at Route No. 1, Yanceyville. Pfc. Tuck was an Aircraft Me- I chanic at Glenn L. Martin, Balti- ' more, Md., before entering the army October 19. 1943. He has attended ( the Boeing B-29 school since en- 1 * trance into the army. His present j duty assignment with the 376th 1 : Bombardment Group is Airplane !i Mechanic. o Concentrates for livestock feeding i in the next year will total about 153 i million tons as compared with 162 < million in the 1944-45 year. t Mothers To Head Recreation Project A recreation program or party for groups of young people in the sixth and seventh grades, first of a series of such programs, will be held here 1 on Thursday night, August 16, from 7:30 to 9:30 at the Roxboro USO Service Center, it was announced today by a group of Roxboro moth- i ers who have children in the ; grades enumerated and who are call- ] ing the first program a “Get Ac- 1 quainted Party”. i Plans for the new recreational i program for the children concerned ’ wery made August 2, by a Recrea r J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Other Dates Include Annual Visit From Dr. Clyde Erwin. Caswell and Person school prin cipals will have a joint meeting here in the Library of Roxboro high school on August .25, at 9:30 in the j morning, with Miss Hattie Parrott, State supervisor, and Paul Reid, State comptroller, as speakers, ac cording to announcement made to day by R. B. Griffin, Person super intendent, who said the joint meet |ing, one of a series of sessions prior ■to the opening of Person schools, | August 29, is first of joint, meetings ’to be held. ! Three days later, August 28, Dr. Erwin. State Superintendent of Pub lic instruction, will address all Per son and Roxboro teachers in county wide gatherings, the first, for white teachers, to be at ten in the morn ing at Roxboro Central school, and the second, for Negroes, to be at I two in the afternoon on the same date at Person County Training school. Other Person meetings are plan- 1 ned as follows: Principals meet in Board of Edu cation office, Chub Lake street, August 20, at ten A. M. Mrs. Bill Pleasants Flythe, of Safety Dj>ision of Highway group, to meet new Negro truck drivers, August 21, at nine A. M., at train ing school, and new white truck drivers August 20. at Roxboro high school. Principals meet again, August 23. at ten A. M.. in Board of Education office, and at the same place, at 10 on August 27th, when truck drivers meet again at nine A. M. at Roxboro high school to get permits. Teacher vacancies now existing here are: First grade and third at Olive Hill: Ene'ish and math at Bethel Hill; commerciaC at' Helena; Home Economics and Science, at Hurdle Mills, and fifth grade, Long hurst. Teacher changes: Miss Carolyn Brooks from second at Olive Hill to same grade at Mount Tirzah; Mrs. jC. L. Shuford, to second at Bushy I Fork from Allensville; Miss Rachel j Walker to 6th and 7th at Hurdle (Mills from Danville, Va.; Mrs. L. D. Wellons. second and third at Bethel Kill, and Miss Annie Lee Rose, music at Bethel Hill, return ing after a stay in New York. Principals in high schools are on a ten month pay basis this year, working two weeks before and two weeks after school seasons. Janitors, who are having pay boosts of ten to fifteen dollars per month, will work nine and one-half months, or one week before and one after the school season. , jLee County On | Way With Plan For Hospital Unit ! Sanford, Aug. 13.—The Lee Coun jty Hospital Board has obtained per mission from the county board of commissioners to enlarge the hos pital sufficiently to accommodate 40 iadditional beds. The arrangement also includes the construction of a central heating plant. The commissioners have author ized the issue of SIOO,OOO in bonds, which, with the $97,000 surplus now on hand practically will cover the (cost of improvements, estimated at more than $200,000. In addition the •Duke foundation has pledged SIOO,- ! 000. j The Lee Hospital was opened jn 1931 with supplies bought on credit, and with a service of 50 beds. Since its opening, the hospital has granted 44.299 free care days to patients with limited financial resources. tion Planning committee. Commit tee hostesses for this Thursday are Mrs. R. P. Burns, Mrs. H. M. Beam and Mrs. B. B. Knight. All sixth and seventh grade boys and girls are invited to attend and it is hoped that the series of parties can be continued throughout the year, say the sponsors. A similar program for older young people has been sponsored in the past by offi cial of Roxboro high school and still another recent recreational venture here has been undertaken by Roxboro First'Baptist church. ®he Courter=®imeo Rail Official Has Civic Club | Talk And Film Norfolk And Western Man, W. E. Austin, Speaks To Rotarians. W. E. Austin, of Roanoke, Va., of 1 the advertising department of the Norfolk and Western Railway com pany, was guest speaker Thursday at Roxboro Rotary club for Lee Umstead, club member, who is Rox boro agent for the Norfolk and Western. At the meeting, which was held at Hotel Roxboro, Mr. Austin's ad dress was emphasized by a film (ail ed, "The Coal Burning Locomotive", j Construction of the locomotive, as I shown in the film, was in the Nor folk and Western shops in Roanoke, and performance of the locomotive, j with a speed up to one hundred! I miles per hour, was demonstrated. Additional guests of Mr. Umstead ; were several Roxboro staff member;! !of the Norfolk and Western, C. A. j ; Bowen, D. Clyde Swartz and J. A. Conner. Mr. Umstead always has a Norfolk and Western program when his turn comes on th .• club calendar. Presiding was the club president, | Dr. John Fitzgerald, Program for r 1 this coming Thursday is scheduled to be in charge of Louis Stanfield; I lof the fellowship committee. Motorcade Show Has Big Crowd A large crowd, jamming the court room to capacity, was on hand Sat urday night for the "Wood For War" motorcade show and film, the corps of which reached here Saturday ! afternoon. "Experience talks" by re turned veterans started the show off and the film, dealing mainlv with aspects of the war in Italy, closed the performance. The vet ! elans spoke briefly, but were re ceived with gppausc. The audience, in the main, was composed of saw mill and lumber company officials and crewmen, the program being designed to em phasize the importance of wood pulp and lumber production for the ' war effort. Despite the then per * | sistent rumors that peace with Ja pan might come at any moment, there was standing room only at ■ the court house. In the crowd, also, - were many women and boys and ; girls. O 7 Increase Seen In Weed Crop 1 Raleigh, Aug. 13—North Caro lina's tobacco production, based on the condition of the crop on August 1. will total approximately 794,550.- 000 pounds, the State Department of Agriculture said yesterday. The total would be five per cent greater than last year’s crop and nearly three per cent above the July ' estimate. The State's three types of flue cured leaf will produce 775,650,080 pounds, while hurley prospects point to a yield of 18,900,000 poundh, or 13 per cent greater than the 1944 crop and three times larger than the pre-war average. Excessive rains in Eastern North j Carolina during the growing and! j harvesting season resulted in con- 1, siderable field loss and production ( ,in that area showed a drop of | around 10.000,000 pounds from the July estimate, the report said. An ! increase in prospective production ' in the Old Belt of nearly 30 000,000 pounds over last year was forecast. The crop in the Old and Middle belts was estimated at 291,900,000 pounds, seven per cent greater than last year. A yield of 1,050 pounds per acre, 20 pounds mpre than in 1944, is expected. Head Os Waves Weds Minister 1 Jaffrcy, N. H„ Aug. 13.—Capt. Mildred H. McAfee, head of the 'WAVES and president of Wellesley j College, and the Rev. Douglas Hor | ton, noted New York Congregation j a list, were married here today. Only immediate members of both families attended the wedding which took place at the summer home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Cleland B. McAfee. The couple were married by Rev. George W. Brown, of Prince ton, N. J., a brother-in-law of the 1 45-year-old bride. o HAS AWARD Cpl. Charles T. Horton, who was recently promoted to this rank, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action on Iwo Jima. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA HOLIDAY CLOSING FOR V-J DAY WILL BE SAME AS V-E PLAN ! ~~ 1 ! Closing times for Roxboro and i Person business houses, offices and firms for V-J day. if and when it 1 ’ comes, will be the same as the j hours observed for V-E (May 6,' when the German surrender was re- 1 ported l according to Roxboro 1 , Chamber of Commerce officials, who had an executive session Saturday ! morning. The session was called by R. D.! Bumpass, Chamber of Commerce j president. It is understood that Mayor S. G. Winstead has prepared ’ an official V-J Day proclamation, I which will be issued when the day j comes. Editors of the Courier-Times last! night were prepared to go to press with an extra about the Japanese) surrender and waited anxiously at ! the office for about two hours after-: | the premature UP flash cam e at 9:30 o'clock. •« ' Fast Money Their money went for a ride, but two Roxboro jjirls, who' placed i their pocketbooks on the running; board of a car while they posed for kodak pictures in front of the Roxboro Post Office, are happy now', and all because of the quick 1 honesty of a Negro minister. The girls are Mesdames Virginia Bradsher and Rachel Landis, em ployees of a Roxboro drug store, and the honest preacher is the Rev. G. S. Gant, of the Methodist church, who drove his car about a mile to his home before he discov ered the pocketbooks as he was • getting out. It happened Friday and was quickly solved when the preacher took his finds to the Po lice Department. One of the pock etbooks had dollars in it. The gratified owner gave the preacher five dollars as a reward. Many Boys Put Names On List Over Thirty-Five Reach Aire " Os Eighteen In Last Month. More than thirty-five white and Negro young men from Person County and Roxboro registered last i month with the Person Selective Service Board after reaching their eighteenth birthdays, it was an nounced today by Miss Jeanette Wrenn, chief clerk of the Board. White youths who registered were. Lee M. Gillis, Francis E. Taylor. El lis Elmer Walker, Earlie E. Carr, Frank D. Moore. Raymond H, Gen try, Edwin H. Allen, Richard C. Blalock, Perry F. Dunn, George Ed ward Smith. Ellis Junior Moorefield. Johnnie Mac Long. Jr., Kelly W. Carver, Bernice Cornelius Wade, James Talmadge O’Briant, Ira Lee Bowes, Fillo Bryant Miller, Earlie Preston Bowes, Calvin Potsdam, Joe Carlton Stewart, Guy Roach, James Earl Hester, Jr., Hugh Glance Bla lock, Jr., and Dailey Fisher Freder ick, Jr. Negro men who" registered were, i Charles Lindbergh Winstead, Char lie Jay, Jr., John Boydton Paylorj j Joseph Lincoln Torian, Robert Al- j leu. Quincy Adams Dickens, Wil- I jliam Armistead Hughes, Willie Dan- I icl Goode, Henry Philman Trotter, | James Wallace Bradsher, Warren j G. Fjjlloway, George Washington | Jackson and Ransome Thomas, jr. "Atomic Paper" Second edition of the “Atomic, Bomb” issue of the KnoxviHe Journ al, with a full layout of pictures of Oak Ridge, Tenn., together with in formative articles about the plant , there in which he works, has been ! sent here by Charlie F. Gentry, ! formerly of Roxboro and Collins and //.kman, Plant E. Gentry a son cf Thomas Hasten Gentry, of Woodsdale, has been at Oak Ridge for some time, going there after Fairchild's in Burlington suspended j operations. His wife and children maintain: their heme in Roxboro and Mr.! Gentry comes back as often as pos- 1 sible. At Oak Ridge he lives in i Salina Hall, R-2. - Alo+uj, *7<4e Way Saturday, A. M— A few minutes ago Bill Morrell of the cotton mUls dropped m the office. He sat down to talk a while and immediately stai ted bumming cigarettes. Now if he had borrowed some money that would have been a different thing, but imagine a man bumming smokes these days. After he had smoked a while and talked a while he got up to leave. Then he looked around and asked if he had left anything. I replied—" Nothing except the remainder of these cigarettes, you might as well take them—there's not enough left to do me any good. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945 j Published below are the "if and "when" closing hours proposed by the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce: | If news of victory is received at 'night or during a business day, and before 12:00 noon, all businesses will | close immediately for the remainder cf that day and reopen the foll@w iing day as usual. | If the news is received during a I business day and any time after 1 1:00 p. m. business will cease im mediately for the remainder of that day and remain closed the follow ling day also. j If news is received any: time dur-"' jing Saturday all business will cease | immediately for the remainder of I the day and open the following ! Monday. | If news is received on Saturday; .night or Sunday all business will close the following Monday, and •reopen -m Tuesday as usual. Castor Dixon's Rites Conducted Al Olive Branch | Person Man Dies At Home Aljter Loner Illness With Paralysis. Held Saturday afternoon at three | o’clock at Olive Branch Baptist church, were funeral services for I Castor Lee Dixon, 54., of near Dixon’s store, a native of Person County, ■ who died Thursday morning at one j thirty o'clock at his home after an 'illness lasting several months. Rites were in charge of the Rev. Joe B. Currin, of Roxboro, pastor ■of Olive Branch church, of which ! the deceased: was a member, assisted by, the Rev. E. R. Harris. Interment was in the church cemetery. j The deceased had been in ill • health since the Spring of this year Jand death was attributed to effects jot' a stroke of paralysis. He was a son of the late William Henry and j Maggie Lee Seate Dixon and was an jt.lumnus of the Virgilina, Va., high | school. Twice married, his first wife was Miss Gladys Penn Tuck, to whom lie was married on February 9, 1916. His second wife, Mrs. Eliza Holt Pitch Dixon .of the home, to whom lie was married on Decemebr 4, 1943. survives. j His surviving children are: t Two sons, Guy W., now in Ger jmnny, and Allen T., now in Hawaii, land three daughters, Mrs. Earl D. . Gentry and Mrs. Woodrow Ellixson. both of Virgilina, and Mrs. John | Lewis Yancey, of the home. Quakers Pray L. Bradsher For War Dead Has tar Award | Guilford College, Aug. 13.—North Carolina Quakers, nearing the end jof their 248th annual session, con ! vened here in silent worship, deeply moved, as its members soon indicat jcd. by solemn and profound emotion over the passible end of the war. j Errol T. Elliott, secretary of the Five I Years Meeting of Friends and 'Quaker journalist, called upon I Friends rather than rejoice, to ' weep over thousands that are dead.” Samuel L. Haworth reminded the meeting that oniy by the free co operation of all people in the world can we have peace. E. Franklin Craven, Greensboro, asked that the meeting unite in silent prayer that President Truman may have divine guidance in this hour. o Sugar Stamps Number 37 Sugar Stamp has been invalidated by Washington and will never be used. Number 38 will be used instead. This action was taken because so many people turned in to local boards the No. 37 sugar stamp instead of the No. 37 Spare Stamp last year with home canning applications, the Person OPA office said today. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE E. R. Blalock Dies Suddenly Al Brooksdale Rites Held Sunday For Repub lican Member of Hoard of Elections Here. Edgar R. Blalock. 65. for twenty five years a Roxboro building con tractor. died Saturday at 3:45 at his home at Brooksdale from a heart attack. He first became ill Friday night. A son of the late Mr. and ) Mrs. Wayne B. Blalock, he was born near Rougemont. Durham County, i but had lived in Roxboro since 1920. Funeral was held at , his home 'Sunday afternoon at lour o'clock by Elder L. P. Martin, of Roxboro. and ithe Rev; E. C. Maness. of Brooks riale Methodist church, with inter ment in Burehwood cemetery an nex. Surviving are. his. wife, Mrs. Ara 'Brooks Blalock, four brothers. A. (W. and V. O, Blalock, both of Rox boro, I. W„ of Apex, and Luther, of Hazelhurst, Ga.. anu live sisters. Misses Alice and Naomi Blalock and Mrs. J. B. Jones, all of Roxboro, Mrs. Banks Blalock, of Rougemont and Mrs: I. ;C. Clark, of Mebane. Well-known in both Person Coun ty and Roxboro, Mr. Blalock at time of his death was Republican mem ber of the Peihon County Board of Elections, a position which he had held for a number of years. Pallbearers at the rites were. Coy Holeman, Marvin Clayton, George Bullock, Jesse Whitt,. David S. Brooks arid R. G. HoUeman. Flow erbearers were nieces and nephews. New Head Chosen For Board Os School Leaders Chapel Hill., Aug. 13.—Dr. D J. Rose. Goldsboro surgeon has been elected president of the North Caro lina State School Board Association for the coming year, it was announc ed by Prof. Guy B. Phillips, who has served as executive secretary of the association since it was organized eight years ago. The voting was by I mail. Dr; Rose succeeds President T. E. Powell of Elon College.; Other new officers are: J. A. Ov erton. Sanford, vice-president, and J. Temple Gobbel, Chapel Hill, re , elected treasurer. The two new members of tile Board cf Directors are J. H. Car penter. Rutherfordton, and N. C. English. Thomasville. Continuing members of the board are S. S. Hutchinson, Bladenboro; F. M. Pat terson. Albemarle, and r. l. Noblin. Oxford. Tech. Sgt. Rennie L. Bradsher. of J i Hurdle Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A Bradsher. and in France and ~ Italy: with an Ordnance Mainten ' mice company, has received the Bronze Star medal, according to an ‘ nouncement made today. ’, The citation reads in part as fol- i j lows: For meritorious service in direct ' support of combat operations from ! V 28th February 1944 to Btll May 1945, j ' in Italy and France. As automotive ! supply sergeant in the unit, Ser geant Bradsher displayed a superior | | knowledge of his duties in stocking j parts preparatory to the campaign of Southern France. While the com pany operated the Seventh Army [ General Purpose Vehicle Pool and Ordnance duties, in charge of the receipt and issue of Ordnance Ma jor items. In this capacity, during a critical period, he displayed excep tional leadership, resourcefulness, j and unfailing devotion to duty even under the most adverse conditions! and strain. The outstanding services ! of Sergeant Bradsher contributed a ! major factor in the successful coni- J pletion of the organization’s mis-j ■ sioti. . MEMBERS MEET Members of Rock Grove Baptist church met last night at the home of W. T. Buchanan, where speaker was M. H. Hicks, who had as his theme, "Laying Up Treasures in Fjraven". The' speaker was intro duced by J. C. Clayton, a number !of hymns were sung. —_o Vance County 4-H, club boys have 103 registered Poland China gilts as a result of a big club chain begun in 1943 with 6 gilts. They have also sold a large number of pigs to farmers. Roxboro Waits And Keeps On Waiting For End Os War j Sunday’s False Alarm Fol lowed Hv Silence, Which 1 1 Is As Yel Unbroken, As • War Goes On. 1 1 Roxboro residents, like those in l (other Communities, heard the 9:30 .(news flash last night about the sur- ] fender of Japan and thought for a (few moments that peace had come. !: There was no premature celebra ■ j tion, however, as. most residents i [ stayed by their radios and heard the denial which came about, three min utes Tater. The day. however, xva., I one of long suspense, a suspense that at this writing. Monday morning, has not as yet been broken, j Bombing expeditions against Ja pan were resumed yesterday; by Americans, the Russians continue to advance in Manchuria and no cease ( fire order lias conic from the : Chinese. At least ohe American ship j in tire Tokyo area was reported yes ' today as hit by a Japanese torpedo. Tile war, too.'all intents and pur ; poses. is still on. ..... Japanese proposals for peace, bas ed on the retention of Hhohito as Emperor, were received in Washing ton Friday and a reply was dis ' patched from Washington Saturday. Diploma tie messages to the Japan ese government art' handled through neutral governments. Switzerland and Sweden and is a long and tor tuous business, at best. Such mess ages are sent m code and must be coded and decoded about twice. Meanwhile, - the war is still in pro gress," Charles Ross, White House press secretary, has said emphasiz ed repeatedly that V-J Day may not come for “two or three days ■after Japan surrender:;—- if she 1 does." . t Mr. Truman will not proclaim V . J Day as soon as the Japanese re ; ply—if. it be surrender—is received, : Ross said. . Tlie "end of the war" will come • when the Japanese government ac tually, signs the surrender terms and not before, he emphasized. "And there might be a gap of two or three days between surrender— it they do surrender —and tile t'oiin -1 ai signing." His press conference statement, made at 5:48 P. M.. Sunday. (EWT>. was the first official White House announcement during a day-long vigil by a tensely waiting world. Mr. Truman had gone to his of- 1 fice well before 8:30 A. M. Sunday. Scores of reporters jammed the White House press room, anticipat ing, that he might have some big i announcement at that hour. But hour after hour passed and still there was no word, either from the White House or Tokyo. 1 Finally, at 5:48 P. M.. Sunday ! said "the word from Japan has not been received." W. B. O'Briant Has Discharge j Sgt. William B. O’Briant son of Mrs. Virgie O’Briant and the late jW. J. O’Briant of this city, has re !ceived an honorable discharge from I the Army as of August 1, He entered ithe Army December 20. 1939 and was at, Fort Bragg, until March 1, 1942. !He spent two years in the South west' Pacific with the American Div ision and ten months in the China- Bur.ma-India theatre. He is the wearer of American De fense. American Theatre, Good Con duct and Asiatic-Pacific ribbons j with three battle stars. E. Pierce Bruce Leaves Cherokee E. Pierce Bruce, of Reidsville, ex-. ocutjve for the Cherokee Council. Boy Scouts of America, has resigned , his position to accept similar work in Georgia and plans to leave Cher okee Council around the first of October, it was learned here this morning from J. W. Green, chair man of the Person District of Cher okee Council, who. with C. A. Har ris, of Roxboro, attended a meeting of district officials in Graham cally ed at the request of Mr. Bruce. / Mr. Bruce, who came here and to Reidsville about three years ago, is returning to Georgia to be near his mother, it is understood. Selection ! of his successor will be in the hands j 2 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1941 DON'T HELP INCREASE IT! DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 73 Men In Groups Go To Fort Bragg One Fails To Report With Examination Unit Friday Morning:. With Ulysses S. Bullock as leader, light Person and Roxboro Negroes left here Friday morning for Fort Bragg for induction to military service under Selective Service reg ulations. Ih addition to Bullock, those who went for induction were j Percy Pay lor. James Obidiah Bolton, Wilbur Jerome Thoinas, James Obie Day, Fraiishaw Clay, William Andrew Johnson and Lepzie Earl Black well. Also reporting to Fort Bragg on Friday; for examination, with Al bert. Tapp as leader. were seven Other Negroes. Robert Edward Long, McDonald Green, Willie Clarence Wilson. Jessie Lewis Holloway, Jr., Goner Williams Peter Byrd Smith, and Ransome Thomas, Jr. One nian, George Washington Jackson, listed ah being from Har mony. Va., gild scheduled to go for examination, tailed to report to Person Board office Friday with the members of his group, according to Miss Jeanette Wrenn, chief clerk. School Repairs Now Being Made Preparatory to the opening of schools, August 29, repairs are being made to various schools, according to Superintendent R. B. Griffin, who said this morning that considerable Interior renovation and painting has been done at Bethel Hill and at Mount Tirzah. Also gone over thor oughly is Olive Hill Negro school. Included oil tile program of reno vations is Helena, where ohe can nery has just been completed, inter ior painting and repair work is also in progress at Roxboro high school, but will not be finished before the opening of school. Repairs to window shades, plumbing facilities and lights and windows are being made In all schools. i ~ —“— —-——o Sgt. Mitchell Home Sgt, Elmo Mitchell, of the Ski Troopers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Traynham T. Mitchell, who has been in the European theatre, chiefly in Italy, for about a year, arrived in Roxboro last night from Fort Bragg and will be here on a thirty-days leave. I :. 0 —. Dr. Davison To Go To Europe Durham, Aug. 13.—Dr. Wilburt C. . Davison, dean of the Duke Medical ■ School since its beginning 15 years ago, has been appointed medical ad t visor for the reeducation program l in the European occupied countries, ; with headquarters probably to be in . Germany, it was learned here today. Dr. Davison was graduated from Johns Hopkins University and holds A. B. and M. A. degrees from Oxford ; University in England, which he at : tended as a Rhodes scholar. He has been active in a number • jof scientific war projects, spending ■ part of each week in Washington. ,of a committee of council officials, j according to Mr. Green. ,j Next regular meeting of white Scouts in the Person district is i scheduled for Tuesday, August 21, but at request of E. Pierce Bruce it is being until August 28, ' so that he can be present. Here last week in. connection With ■ the Graham meeting, Mr. Bruce that a Soap Box Derby for Cub Scouts is being planned for In Sep- ' , tember, probably on the 15th. Elim ination contest or run-off (after lo- ? cal elimination) and finals, will hg in Burlington. Bruce also said that he new has on hand some additional sh»p*r halves for tents for scouts. \ . <
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