if RATION DEADLINES ,
MEATS—Red: Q 5-85, Mar 81; T -
X 5, Apr. 28; Y6-Z5 Sc A2-D2, June
2; E2-J2, June 30.
S FOODS—BIue: X5-Z5 Sc A2-82,
Mar. 31; 02-02, Apr. 28; H2-M2,
June 2; N2-S2, June .30.
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VOL. LXIV. I J. W. NOELL, EDITOR ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 34
SCHOOL HEADS
TO MEET NEXT
WEEK AT CENTER
Patton, Burke Superintend*
ent. To Speak. School Open
Houses Planned.
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City and County school board
members, along with school com
mitteemen from each school in the
District and County system, are to
be guests of teachers and principals
on Tuesday night, April 3, at eight
o'clock in an informal gathering at
the USO Service Center here, where
principal speaker wiH be Bob Pat
ton, of Morganton, superintendent
of Burke County schools, it was re
vealed today by Person Superin
tendent R. B. Griffin, who at the
same time announced the beginning
of a series of open houses for vari
ous djhools.
Tlie open house program, intend
ed to be equally as informal as the
Tuesday gathering of school offici
als, will begin on April 14, and will
continue through May I, perhaps
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Pulliams Find j
Second Friend
Mac Winstead, Iwo Jima Cas
ualty, With Jones And
Twins.
Mac Winstead, 20, of the Marines,
nephew of Mrs. J. J. Winstead, of
this City, and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Winstead, of Newport News,
Va., formerly of Roxboro, was re
cently wounded in the Iwo Jima
conflict and is now in hospital In
the Marianas, according to a report
received here by Mrs. Henry Pul-
Uaro. Pulliam
who. with his twin brothef, Bruce,
is with An Army medical corps unit
in the hospital.
Mrs. J. J. Winstead, aunt of Mac
Winstead, said today that her
nephew, together with Pfc. Robert
Jones, previously reported as in the
Marianas hospital, is improving and
that Talmadge Pulliam has written
. that both Winstead and Jones have
r recovered enough to join the Pul
liam twins in attendance at chapel
services.
Winstead, who has been in ser
vice about two years, is also report
ed to be enjoying reading back files
of the Courier-Times kept by the
Pudiams. Winstead's mother, short
ly before lie sailed for overseas ser
vice rushed to California to see him,
arriving there while he was on ship
bboard and all but ready to sail. They
saw each other for two hours, how
ever, according to Mrs. J. J. Win
stead.
Here Sunday
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REV. PAUL K. AUSLEY
The Rev. Paul K. Ausley, of
Duke University and Greensboro,
I who recently resigned the pastor
ate of Roxboro Presbyterian »
church in order to become a
Chaplain in the United States
Navy, will return to Roxboro on
Easter Sunday to preach at the
eleven o’clock morning service In
his church here, according to an
nouncement made today by a
church official, who said that
Communion will also be observed,
t Since the resignation of Mr.
Ausley. the Presbyterian pulpit
here has been filled each Sunday
by visiting ministers, chiefly from
Union Theological Seminary,
Richmond, Va. Planned for to
morrow, Good Friday, Is a union
service of air Protestant churches
in the City and County, an
nouncement of which is oafrled
in complete detail in another col
. umn in this issue of the Courier
' Times.
Rev. L. A. Nall |
Will Be Guest
Speaker, Ca-Vel
Burlington Minister Will Be
Revival Speaker For
Week Here.
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The Rev. L. A. Nall, of Burlington, i
pastor of Calvary Baptist church, ||
will be revival speaker at a series!
of meetings to begin Sunday at
Ca-Vel Baptist church, according to
the Rev. J. N. Bowman, pastor, who
will himself be speaker at the first
service Sunday morning at eleven
o’clock, while the Rev. Mr. Nall will
make his first address at the Sun- ■
1 day night service at 7:30.
i Services during the remainder of
I the week will begin each night at
'7:30 o'clock with the Rev. Mr. Nall j
as speaker.
Service Sunday night at Provi
dence Baptist church will be omitt- j
ed because of the opening of the;
Ca-Vel revival, but Sunday school
at Providence will be conducted as
usual on Sunday morning at ten
o'clock, with choir practice follow- j
ing, a preparation for the Provi- ;
dence revival, scheduled to begin
there on Sunday, April 22.
The Rev. Mr. Bowman in an
nouncing the coming of the Rev. i
Mr. Nall as guest preacher at Ca-
Vel, said today that the visiting
minister Is a speaker of power and
forcefuiness and that all interest
ed persons are urged to hear him
r.and.-to im it making the service
■ series a, success.
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Maj. Miller Tells
Boys What’s What
I Members of a Fifth Marine Divls- ’
ion field artillery unit waiting their j
turn to hit the beach on D-Day at
Iwo Jima were given a timed ac- i
count of the progress of the first j
wave of infantry by Marine Major
William M. Miller, 26, of Greens- j
boro, formerly of Roxboro, battalion J
, executive officer, their ship's public
address system, it was announced
today.
Major Miller, a graduate of the
1 U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Md„ and a veteran of Guadalcanal
and Cape Gloucester, lives at 118
1-2 South Mendenhall St., Greens
boro, where his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Miller now live.
Soldier’s Car,
School Bus, Hit
Miss Frances Winstead, 18, of
Leasburg, student In Roxboro high
school and driver of Person School
Bus No. 39, was Involved in a slight
wreck Monday afternoon in colli
sion with a car driven by Cpl. Loyd
W. Averette, of Allensville and Fort
Bragg. The incident occurred on
North Main street while Averette
was attempting to park his ma
chine. Miss Winstead said today
that Cpl. Averette has agreed to pay
for the damages. Investigation was
by Police Officer Page Brooks, who,
however, declined to make a state
ment.
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Easter Mass In 1
Local Church
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Father James H. King, of Hen
derson, will conduct the Easter
Sunday morning mass at St. Mary’s
and St. Edward’s Catholic church,
In Roxboro, at 10:30 o'clock, accord
' Ing to announcement made today.
There will be no services at the
local church on Good Friday.
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Court Os Honor
Person Scout District court of
Honor, with Gus Deerlng, chair
man, presiding, will be held Fri
day night at 7:30 o’clock at Per
son Court House.
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Dr. Winston Speaks
Dr. Ellen Black, Winston State
Commissioner of Public Welfare,
Raleigh, wil speak tonight at Hotel
Roxboro to civic club and social
agency groups at 8:30 o’clock. Many
interested citizen* are expected to
attend.
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®he Courter=®imes
At New Goal
Still going strong is the Person
and Roxborq Red Cross drive,
with total contributions as of to
day placed at 312,294.10, according
to W. Wallace Woods, of Roxboro
Chamber of Commerce. Original
quota was $8,900, while unofficial
new goal was $12,000.
B. R. Whitfield,
I Veteran's Son,
Reported Killed
Former Commander Os Sons
Os Legion Loses Life In
Germany,
Pfc. Bernard Ross Whitfield, 18,
osn of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Whit
field, of Roxboro, was killed in ac
tion on March 16, in the European
(Theatre of war, according to an
official War Department message
received by the parents Tuesday
morning. It is thought that the
young soldier may have been in
Germany at "time of his death.
Pfc. Whitfield, whose 19th birth
day falls on April 18, went to Fort
i Bragg last August 21, trained at
Camp Croft in an Infantry unit, j
was at home for his final furlough
jat Christmas, and sailed for over
jseas service around the first of Jan
uary. Before going to the Army he
; sought entrance to the Navy as a
(volunteer, although he was unsuc
cessful in this attempt because of
more rigid Navy requirements.
The last letter received from Pfc.
i Whitfield was on March 8, accord
ing to his father. The young soldier
reported then that he was very
busy, being at that time with Pat
ton's Third Army. A graduate of
Roxboro high school last Spring,
: where he was a member of the
Band, Pfc. Whitfield was also a Bov
j Scout in Troop 49, and a member
of Roxboro First Baptist church. He
was until last July Commander of
the Roxboro Squadron of the Sons
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Sgt.J. A. Hall
Has Bronze Star
I
!
Staff Sergeant John A. Hall of
i Route 1, Roxboro, who is with the
102nd Infantry Division in Germany,
’ | has been awarded the Bronze Star
; medal for crawling from man to
i ' man to spreading confidence and
' 1 issue battle instructions, according
I| to official War Department an
i nouncement received here today.
The low cast citation, a descrip
tion of the incident for which he
was awarded the medal, reads as
follows:
j “On 1 December 1944, when his
squad was pinned down by heavy
enemy fire and the din of battle
prevented the issuance of orders,
Staff Sergeant Hall left his covered
position. Without consideration for
: his personal safety, he crawled from
man to man spreading confidence,
and instructing them for the con
t tinuation of the attack. His cour
i ageous action and brilliant leader
l ship insured the success of the op
; erations.’’
Sgt. Hall's wife, Mrs. Magdalene
Hall, lives on Route I, Roxboro.
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Methodists Plan
Full Program
Edgar Long Memorial Methodist
’ church will mark the Easter season
' on Sunday with appropriate ser
vices, according to the pastor, the
Rev. W. C. Martin, who says that
the church school will be held that
at 9:45 o'clock and that a
reception of new members will be a
feature of the morning worship ser
vice at eleven o’clock, with special
music by the choir. Subject for the
• sermon will be, “Immortality".
; Morning offering will be for the
, Methodist orphanage. At three in
the afternoon there will be an ad
ministration of the sacrament of
1 baptism for infant chlldken, and
that night at 7:30 the church ser
vice will be in charge of young
people. A cordial welcome is extend
ed to all who may come to the ser
vices, says Martin.
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NO JUNIORS TO TRIP LIGHT FANTASTIC THIS YEAR
Roxboro high school Seniors and
Sophomores—there are no Juniors
this year —will have their dinner,
dance on April 6, Friday of next
week, in two places, it was revealed
! today by members of the faculty
, committee.
1 The dinner proper, In accordance
1 with custom, will be at Hotel Rox
' boro at seven o'clock that night,
> While plans are being made to have
the dance at the Recreation Center,
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Leasburg's Sick
Pupils Puzzling
Health Officers
Nearly one hundred children,
about fifty percent of the school
population of Leasburg Elementary
school, Caswell County, just across
the line from Person, are reported
•to have been made ill in the past
two days at the school, the illness
taking the form of nausea and up
set stomachs, possibly from infect
ed drinking water, according to re
ports received here today.
Miss Frances Winstead, of Leas
burg, student in Roxboro high
school and driver of Person school
bus Number 39, said this morning
that twenty of the Leasburg pupils
were reported to have become ill on
Tuesday, and about seventy more
yesterday, making a tqfal of ninety
reported as affected.
Person Sanitarian W. B. Taylor,
at noon today, reported after a visit
I to the school at Leasburg. that fif
teen pupils became ill on Tuesday
and sixty-four on Wednesday, mak
; ing a total of seventy-nine, and that
i investigation is being made by Dr.
Drake, of the Caswell Health De
partment, Yanceyville, who has tak
en samples of food served Tuesday
in the school cafeteria, and of wat
Easter Monday
Will Be Holiday
• Public schools, in both the City j
: and County, together with many j
. public offices, business establish
. ments and stores, will oberve Easter
f Monday as a holiday, according to
; a tabulation made today.
Schools will close Friday after
noon and will not open until Tues
day morning at 8:45 o'clock, accord- 1
ing to Person Superintendent R. B.
Griffin, who points out that the new
opening time for the remainder of ,
the Spring term is thirty minutes
| earlier than it has been. Opening
• time is shifted back and forth in
Fall and Spring seasons because of
f daylight saving time.
5 County commissioners are expect
ed to meet as usual this coming
r i Monday since the day is the first
> I Monday of the month. Also sched
-11 uled to meet is the County Board
;\ of Education, members of which will
MARTIN REVEALS COMPLETE
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PLANS FOR GOOD FRIDAY
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•; Complete program for the Good
J i Friday union service which will be
,; held here tomorrow at Roxboro
,! Presbyterian church from twelve
-j ncon until three o’clock in the as
- j ternoon is being announced today |
- iby the chairman for the Person
- Mipisterial association the Rev. W.
C. Martin, of Edgar Long Memorial
; Methodist church, who in the name
: of the sponsoring Association is ex
| tending an invitation to all citizens, \
regardless of denomination, to be
j present.
The service will be divided into'
a series of meditations lasting thir- j
t ty minutes apiece, with various Per- J
t son and Roxboro ministers of Pro
■ testant churches as speakers on the
> Crucifixion theme. Citizens who
t come to the services may enter and
t leave at thirty minute intervals, or
i they may remain for the entire ser- (
i vice of three hours.
Special music is to be furnished
1 by Roxboro high school glee club
: and by two soloists. Mrs. H. Wheeler ;
Newell and Mrs. George Walker.
; Appropriate tljrmns will also be sung,
i Reader of the Passion Narrative i
• will be the Rev. J. N. Bowman, pas
t ter of Providence and Ca-Vel Bap
-1 tist churches, who will also give the
■ opening prayer.
; The program, together with speak
■ ers and music planned, is to be as
• follows:
The Prelude: the Call to Worship;
formerly the Luncheonette, in -the
Kirby building. Dancing will begin
immediately after the dinner and
will continue until mid-night, with
the whole of the recreation portion
of the Recreation Center reserved
for the young high school men and
women and their guests.
At least eighty-three sophomores
and eighty-nine Seniors are expect
ed to attend the dinner and danda,
, as will many faculty members, in A
er. No report has as yet been receiv
ed.
Taylor quoted authorities as say
ing they "Do not know” the cause
of the outbreak. Water has been
processed with cholrine today and
the lunchroom is still in use. About
twenty-five Person county students
attend Leasburg school. Facts as
quoted above were substantiated to
day by Holland McSwain, Caswell
Superintendent of Schools, Yancey
ville, after a conversation by long
distance phone with Person Superin
tendent R. B. Griffin.
Taylor and the Caswell authori
ties expect to check conditions at ■
Leasburg more thoroughly, although
the well and the tank there are ap
parently in good order.
’ A Roxboro physician was called
to treat individual cases in the Leas- .
burg area on Tuesday and yester
day, but could not express an opin- i
ion as to the reason for the develop- |
ment of so many cases of what ap
pears to be food-poisoning or up
set stomachs.
At least one child is reported to
have developed chills and to have
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gather in a quarterly session Mon
day morning in the Board of Edu
cation office, where chief business
will be the namirig of various ;
school c-ommitee men. Also on the
calendar is election or re-election of
the County superintendent.
Establishments, In addition to
stores, expected to be closed on
Monday include: Peoples Bank, the
Person County Public Library, the
City Hall, the Chamber of Com
. merce, the Board of Education office
in the afternoon, and the Health
and Welfare departments.
Listed as not to close are the Se
lective Service Board office and the
Register of Deeds office, while no
definite information as to closing
has been received from the OPA
office.
Among business places to be
closed Monday is the Courier-Times
office.
“Is it nothing to you, all ye that
pass by? Behold and see if there be
any sorrow like unto my sorrow";
hymn 88—“ When I Survey the
Wonderous Cross"; Watts; the Pas
sion Narrative from St. John’s Gos
| pel. Rev. J. N. Bowman; the Pray
er. Rev. J. N. Bowman.
Special Music Selection, by Rox
i boro High School Glee Club, Direc
; tor. Miss Anne Fountain the First
Meditation—“ Father forgive them
for they know not what they do”,
Rev. L. V. Coggins; soprano, solo,
Mrs. H. W. Newell; the Second Med
itation —“Today thou shalt be with
j me in Paradise", Rev. Boyce Brooks;
i hymn 94—" In the Cross of Christ
I Glory," Bowring; the Third Med
itation —“Woman. Behold thy son,
Behold thy mother”, Rev. E. C.
Maness.
Soprano Solo, Mrs. George Walk
er; the Fourßi Meditation —“My
God, why hast thou forsaken mee",
Rev. R. W. Hovis; duet, Mrs. Walk
er and Mrs. Newell; the Fifth Med
itation—“J Thirst", Rev. Daniel
Lane; hymn 217—“ Jesus Keep Me
Near the Cross”, Crosby; the Sixth
Meditation—“lt Is finished," Rev. J.
H. Shore.
Hymn 281—“ Jesus, I My Cross
Have Taken", Lyte; the Seventh
Meditation—“ Father into thy hands
I commend my spirit”, Rev. B. B.
Knight; hymn 416—“ Must Jesus
jßear the Cross Alone”, Shepherd;
prayer; doxology and benediction.
' eluding Jerry L. Hester, district sup
ervising principal. Traditional din
ner features will include a reading
of the last will and testament and
the Senior prophecy. Table deeora
tions at the hotel will be in Spring
I motif.
Unique feature of this dlnner
; dance will be, of course, the ab
sence of Juniors, a shiftlng'ln the
, school schedule cawed by adupta-
L tion to the twelfth grade system In
Split, But Large
Students in High Plains Indian
school, boys and girls who come
from both North Carolina and
Virginia to get their learning,
have contributed slsl this year to j
the Red Cross fund, says Prin- j
cipal E. L. Wehrenberg, who j
points out that this is a pretty i
good record for a school with a !
student-body of 92. Os the $151,.
$71.20 has been turned over to
the North Carolina fund in Per- '
son County and SBO to the Red \
Cross cause in Virginia. Total
contribution last year from High j
Plains was $135.
Juniors In Red
Cross Receive
Thanks For Aid
(New Projects Cited By At
lanta Leader. Who Points
Out Needs.
j Appreciation for the contribution
of SIOO to the National Children's
Fund of the Junior Red Cross from
the Roxboro Chapter of that or
ganization is voiced in a letter re
! ceived this week by Mrs. Logan
; Umstead, chairman of the Person
and Roxboro Junior Red Cross
chapter, from Frank C. Jenkins, of
Atlanta, director of the Juniors in
the Southeastern area.
| Mr. Jenkins says, “We are de
; lighted to receive your generous gift
of SIOO This amount has
been forwarded to National Head
quarters where it will be used with
gifts from other Junior Red Cross
members in the welfare of children
around the world."
Jenkins then goes on to say that
one of the latest projects for Juniors
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Rites Held For
J. Otis Evans
i
Funeral for Joseph Otis Evans.
, 54, of Knoxville, Tenn., a native of
! Virginia, but for many years a resi
dent of Person County, was held
Friday afternoon at Euchild Avenue
, Baptist church. Knoxville, of which
, he had been a member for a num
, ber of years. Rites were in charge
| of the Rev. Creed McCoy.
Mr. Evans, brother of a number
, of Roxboro residents, died Tuesday
. of last week in Knoxville at his
residence, 1147 Morris Avenue, af
ter suffering a heart attack. Going
■ from Roxboro for the funeral were
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Evans. Mrs. Hat
: tie E. Pulliam, R. P. Woody and
Robert Woody.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.
R. Evans, the deceased is survived
by his wife, the former Miss Mamie
Loftis, of Alton, Va., three sons.
Booker and Bradley Evans, of the
c U. S. Army, overseas, and Starner
! Evans of the Navy, three daughters.
: Misses Mary, Blanche and Ccclia
! Evans, of the home, three brothers.
' Ben L. Evans, of Roxboro, R H
'! Evans, of Asheville, and A. W. Lest
' j er, a half-brother, Jf South Boston,
Va., and four sisters, Mrs. Hattie
' lE. Pulliam, of Roxboro, Mrs. Annie
' | Shotwell and Mrs. Lou Elltr Harri
:! son, both of Asheville, and Mrs.
1 Mary Singleton, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
’ a half-sister.
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( Hospital Here To
> Receive Small
. Sum From Duke
. i Community hospital. Roxboro, un
der the Duke Endowment plan wil!
• receive $152 from the Foundation,
r according to announcement made
, yesterday. The appropriation is
. small, but is worked on a percent
■ i age basis applicable to all hospitals
1 in North and South Carolina which
> receive the grants.
i Community hospital is continuing
. in operation on a limited scale
adopted several months ago when
i it was reopened with Mrs. Sarah
i Grant Allen as superint«ident and
; manager. Mrs. Allen, who recently
. resigned, left Monday with her hus
> band. Pfc. William Maurice Allen,
; for Savannah, Ga., where Pfc. Allen
. is stationed with the U. S. Army.
troduced two to three years ago.
Another consequence will be that
next year there will be no Seniors
and no graduating class, which may
mean that any similar social func
tion in 1946 will have to be on still
another variation, a Sophomore-
Junior affair.
Faculty advisors for the gather
ing pest week are Misses Mabel
Massey, Gertrude Holt and Frances
Be%r*.
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Sons Os Legion
Plan Two Events
Next Few Days
(Bushy Fork Boy
Has Meal With
His Dictionary
Fred Thomas Long Proud Os
American Record At
Bastofjne.
Pvt. Fred Thomas Long, 19, of
Bushy Fork, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. D. Long, already a veteran of
combat, who is with the Paratroops I
and was wounded January 17, in the
battle of Bastogne, was successive- j
ly during that battle a mail clerk, i
( company clerk, telephone and radio
operator and battalion runner,
’ which, as he writes his mother,
1 shows how fast the men were killed J
off in that bloody engagement —one
made famoqs by the “Nuts to You”, I
reply of Pvt. Long's commander,
1 ' Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, of the
! 101 Airbourne Division.
Pvt. Long, an alumnus of State j
College and a graduate of Roxboro
high school was an Eagle Scout with
; C. H. Mason's Tribe 4, Bushy Fork,
. i before he went to the Army last j
; April. He volunteered for Paratroop
, duty and trained at Benning and
. at Fort McClellan before going ov
, ! erseas last November.
What he has seen since that time 1
i and particularly at Bastogne, was
. pretty gruesome, as he says, but he
demonstrates an amazing cheerful
ness in his letters home. Probably
already back on duty now. he made
light of his wound, enjoyed his stay
in hospital and rest camp and took
\ a trip or so to Paris, at which he
marvels for being so gay. The \
French manage the joys of living '
much better than the English, he
! says.
His 101 Division received the Pres
s idential Citation and he himself has
■ the Purple Heart, which he is send
-1 , ing to his motehr, but the story that
’ really sticks, as he tells it, concerns
< an international meal, a half-gallon
■ of fresh milk, and the cooking of I
5 ; French tried potatoes. Fred and a
j companion found the milk, some
apples and rye bread —and the po
’ tatoes, but it took a French-English
> : dictionary for them to tell a French
■ | woman how to cook those potatoes. 1
! ;The lard, incidentally, was German,
■ and so was the coffee.
Young Men Go
To Fort Bragg
M ' v.
With George C. Barrett as leader,
. twenty or more young white men
from Roxboro and Person County
left here this morning for pre-in
duction examination under Selec
" ! tive Service at Fort Bragg.
Bovs who went down, were:
Fletcher Thomas Brooks, Otis
' | Washington Newcomb, Lewis War
' j ren Hawkins, Jr., Ernest Monroe
Oakley, Elwood Louis Harris, Os- !
• j cur Hicks, Robert Julious Jones,
Burley Walter Dunn.
; Wilton Xury Hicks, Melvin Cleave
; Briggs, Billie Radford Garrett, Cal
vin Bernice Wrenn, Maynard Ed
ward Clayton, John Alvis White,
Jr., James Henry Whitt. Brooks
Neal Stewart, Eugene Anderson
Jackson, Early Thomas Harris,
j Medford Preston Oakley, Julius
' Wesley Carver, Elmer Steve Clay
■ ton.
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! Baby Seal, Joy
’ Os Roxboro Man,
1 Dies In Two Days
» Robert D. Walker, Seaman First:
! Class, of Roxboro, stationed at a
, United States Amphibious Training j
j Base, Little Creek, Va., was pretty !
f excited last week when a baby seal j
was found near the Base and at- :
( tracted national attention.
But Walker was later on as sad
as he had been glad: the baby seal
died Friday night from undeterm
ined causes.
) The little amphibian, probably the
t pup of a larger seal found —and
lost—nearby the day before, took
*’ ATB by storm, and aroused nation-
I al Interest In his discovery on the
s ATB beach. But in spite of the best
y nursing the Base could provide, it
survived only two idayrf separa-
II tion from its mother. Because of
the symbolism implied in the arrival
of this new amphibian during the
'- third anniversary of the Amphi
il bious Training Command, the seal’s
« body to being stutfed for permanent
keeping on the fitae.
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0 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN K 45
HELP KEEP IT THAT WABT
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
Will Celebrate With Social
Event Friday. Sponsor
Duke Picture Monday.
Strongest and largest chapter in
the State of North Carolina In
membership and third largest in
the United States is the record
claimed for the Person County and
Roxboro organization of Sons of
the American Legion sponsored by
Lester Blackwell Post. No. 138, here,
and actively lead by L. K. (Dilly)
Walker, who now reports that the
Sons have a membership of 247,
and who in celebration of that rec
ord is joining other Legion mem
! bers in planning a weiner roast for
the Sons to be given tomorrow
night at the Legion Hut, Chub Lake
| street. .
Claims for the national rating of
the Roxboro Sons is advanced by
the Rev. B. B. Knight, of this city.
State Detachment Commander, for
the Sons, who is also vitally inter
ested in growth of the organization.
Seaond event of the next few
days for the Sons here will be a
benefit showing of the Duke-Ala
: bama Sugar Bowl game picture
Monday night at 7:30 at Person
Court House. All Sons of the Le
\ gion are invited to and urged to
come to the weiner roast Fridav
■ night and to the football film
showing Monday night. The gen
, eral public is also invited to comt
|to the Duke film display, which
was first shown here last month
i as a benefit for the Polio fund and
drew a large audience.
Mr. Walker, as local Squadron
Commander for the Sons will act
as host Friday night at the Hut
and will also have a part in ar
ranging the Monday night film
j program. Both he and the Rev. Mr.
j Knight also w&nt other 1 local, boys
| who are eligible for membership
to sign up at once with the chap
ter of the Sons here. Sons of ex
soldiers and of veterans of both
World War I and World War II
are eligible for membership.
The weiner roast is expected to
begin about seven o'clock at the Le
gion Hut and many fathers of the
Sons will also be on hand to help
along the festivities.
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‘Peachtree’ Sanders
Comes Home
Now at Cherry Point is Sgt. Wil
liam Allen (Peachtree Street) San
ders, of the Air Corps. Marines,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sanders,
of Roxboro, with whom he spent
several days this week after return
ing from Pacific duty at Guam and
Saipan. Gunner on a torpedo
bomber, he has a citation ribbon
for Saipan activities.
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J. B. DUNN, JR.
Home since last yight from &
stay of some seven months in'
' Switzerland, where he was ln
! terned is Staff Sergeant J. Bt
Dunn, Jr., of Rosboro. He brought
with him a beautiful Swiss watch,
very thin and gold, pocket-type,
for his father, and other gifts for
his family, but he cannot tell
how or why he was allowed to re
turn to the U. 3. A. Short and„
stocky, with a two month’s •
growth of blond hair to accent
his weight, Sgt. Dunn expects t*
be here twenty-one days. He will
; then go to Miami, Fla., for raas
. signment, anywhere but Europe.
His parents did not know he was
coming until about noon yaatoir- •_
l day.
Oh, Yes! The family car broke v
down last night, leaving J. B.*>
» Jr., and his tether,
: Mctra hours of handshaking and