THE KIDS all know where the
schoolhouse is, but just the same
the school bell rings. Many people
know where your business Is; ad
vertising is the bell you ring.
VOL. LXIV.
HOUSING RELIEF
IN ROXBORO MAY
BE FORTHCOMING
Leading Role In
'Play To Be Given
To D. Frederick
“Patsy Strings Along”. New
Production At City High
School.
'» “Patsy Strings Along," by Len
Hollister, has been selected as the
Senior Play at Roxboro high school,
aceording to announcement made
today. A modern comedy-drama in
three acts, it promises to work up
into a highly enjoyable entertain
ment.
Dailey Frederick will play the lead
again this year, not in as a malad
justed adolescent role such as he
">played last year in “Galahad Jones”,
but is a distinguished absent-mind
ed professor, who is headmaster of
a Boys' Academy-
Janice Rimmer plays opposite
him as a highly sophisticated vaude
ville actress. They will be supported
by Eloise Rimmer, Betsy Taylor, F,
O. Whitt, Jr., Bobby Booth, George
Wilson. Nancy Willson, John Harris
Blanks, and Nell Pulliam.
This play will be presented Tues
day night. May eighth.
Tax Changes Os
Assembly Cited
,3y W. W. Woods
a- . --•-
Certain Advantages Indicated
By Commerce Secretary.
W. Wallave Woods, secretary of
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce,
today announced to druggists, seed
and feed dealers and service re
pair shops that there have been
certain important changes by the
General Assembly in the Sales Tax
law. The changes were adopted by
the Assembly prior to its adjourn
ment on March 20.
The charges read as follows:
Sales of medicine sold 01 pre
scriptions of physicians, or medi
cines compounded, processed or
blended by the druggist offering
the same for sale at retail or sales
of drugs or medical supplies to
physicians or hospitals or by phy
•».• sicians and hospitals to patients in
' connection with medical treat
ments.
Sales of seeds, feeds for livestock
and poultry, and insecllcices for
livestock, poultry and agriculture.
Sales of repair parts and acces
sories for motor vehicles and air
planes, and lubricants and other ar
ticles used in servicing motor ve
hicles and airplanes, when hade to
the owner and operator of fleets of
}as many as five or_ more vehicles
or airplanes, shall tie classified as
wholesale sales, and therefore only
subject to the wholesale rats of tax.
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Central PTA Will
Elect Officers At
Tuesday Session
. Election of officers and the plan
ing of a comprehensive program
for next year will be chief business
to be carried out at the April and
final meeting for this school year
of the Parent-Teacher Association
of Roxboro Central Grammar
school, Tuesday afternoon at 3:15
o'clock at the school, according to
announcement made today.
Presiding will be Mbs. R. P.
Burns, president, who urges a full
)) attendance and requests that each
member come prepared to discuss
ideas for the general over-all pro
gram to be developed during the
coming year.
Chairman of the nominating com
mittee is Mrs. W- H. Adair. The
president will also call for regular
commißt.ee reports. The meeting
will be held in the school.
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'’i Theresa Services
Services at Theresa Baptist
church have been changed to eight
o'clock at night, with Sunday school
at 7 P. M.,'according to the Rev. B.
B. Knight, pastor, who says singing
will be in charge of T. O. Sanders,
with Miss McFarland as pianist.
Services at Mitchell’s Chapel will be
at the usual hours.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Limited Number Os Apart
ments Can Be Built Here
Through Conversion.
“Due to a critical lack of housing
in the Roxboro area, and as a result
of a survey recently made, the Na
tional Housing agency has approv
ed a conversion program consisting
of twenty-five units for Roxboro,"
says Jack H. Brown, of Greensboro,
State director for the National
Housing agency of the Federal
.Housing administration, who yester
day revealed the first break in ail
acute housing situation here which
developed during early days of the
war and has grown steadily worse.
Conversion units referred to mean
adaptions of larger houses to
apartment purposes, according to
Mr. Brown, who said yesterday in
a letter to the Courier-Times that
Ihe is “sure that such a program
j will meet with enthusiasm.” The
I program as it is now set up in
| Roxboro will mean the creation ol
i twenty-five additional units through
the medium of conversion, a phrase
I that is given fuller explanation in
another paragraph of Brown's let
ter, which reads in part as follows:
“Briefly, the program contem
plates the conversion of existing
structures, whether they be pres
ently used for residential purposes
or not, into one or more living units.
1 in other words, if a person owns a
large house he, under this program,
can obtain priorities to convert the
unit and in doing so create addi
tional living units which will help
relieve the critical housing situa
tion in Roxboro. Without the pro
gram, construction restrictions
would prohibit the conversion
work.”
Applications for the construction
of conversion units or apartments
can be obtained from his office, in
j Greensboro, says Brown.
1 It Is .not knovp how many build
ings or houses jn Roxboro are suit
able to or available for conversion
| plans. In the still more acute
Greensboro area arrangements have
been made so that persons who are
forced out of apartments or houses
and cannot obtain others can build
whole houses, but no such liberal
ization is included in the conversion
plans proposed for Roxboro. It is
thought that the twenty-five units
! referred to means units rather than
houses or buildings used in con
version. In other words only twen
ty-five such apartments can be
built in Roxboro.
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Appeal Made
(For One Case
Fifteen or more cases were dis
posed of Tuesday in Person Record
er’s court before Judge F. O. Carver,
with R. B. Dawes as solicitor. One
case, involving drunken driving and
possession was appealed to Superior
Court and may be tried there at the
next term, which opens on Monday,
April 23.
Case on appeal is that of Winston
Ben Taylor. 36, who has posted bond
of $l5O, appealing from judgment
by Judge Carver, who in his own
court imposed a SSO fine, with
license revoked on the drunken driv
ing charge and $5 and costs for
possession. Taylor, charged with the
offenses indicated above, was arrest
ed several weeks ago by Patrolman
John Hudgins and Deputy Bob
Whitt. The case had previously been
continued twice.
Other cases Tuesday were:
Willle"s6tterfield, 24, Negro, care
less-and reckless-i driving, $lO and
costs; Willie Clayton, Negro, 50,
same charge, some judgment, plus
a speeding charge; Charles Ellis, 22.
Nefero, no operator’s license, and
speeding, suspended with costs;
Henry Scott, 28, Negro, no operator’s
license, suspended with costs; Hen
ry Springfield, Negro, 39, no chauf
fer license, suspended with costs;
Luther Irby, 30, no operator's
license, $5 and costs.
Also, Burns (Pete) Day, assault
with intent to commit robbery, pro
secuting witness withdraws warrant
and pays costs; Junior Kiser, no op
erator’s license, continued; James L.
Yarbrough, 19, drunken driving, SSO
and costs, with license revoked;
Josh Jones, Negro, 25, careless and
reckless driving and speeding, $lO
and costs; R. J. Jordan, Negro, 21,
assault with deadly weapon and dis
turbing. peace, $5 and costs; E. W.
Lunsford. 22, of Burlington, speed
ing, suspended with costs; Archie
Johnson, Negro, 18, speeding, sus
pended with costs and Jack Burton,
Negro, 18, no operator’s license, sus
pended with costs.
®lje CouritD^imes
* LimiTT! FIRST ATiROAn MPYT
Singer
■ \
Ulk'- wH# Jill
.Mp I
A. E. LYNCH
A. E. Lynch who will lead the
singing at the coming revival at
the Roxboro First Baptist Church.
Revival Meeting
At Baptist Church
Beginning April 291 h And
Through May 6th, With
The Pastor in Charge.
As previously announced there
will be a series of sermons at the
Roxboro First Baptist church, be
ginning April 29th and running
through May 6th. The pastor. Rev.
j J. Boyce Brooks, will do the preach-
I ing and Mr. A. E. Lynch, of Camp
j bell college will lead the singing,
j Services will be held twice daily.
| the morning service will be at nine
o’clock and the evening at eight
o’clock.
The Rev. Mr. Brooks needs no in
troduction as his messages for the
past six months have been heard
by large congregations, in fact he
has been greeted at almost every
morning service with a packed
house. Mr. Lynch is director of
music at Campbell college, having
! been a member of the Wake Forest
{Glee Club when’a student at that
! institution.
From every indication if you want
|to have the pleasure of enjoying
these services it will be well for
| you to come early.
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Squadron Has
Citation For
Heroic Work
The following item of news con
| corning a Roxboro boy is, received
from his mother, Mrs, E. G. Long,
| of Carthage:
: Knowing how much you like to
! know how the Person County boys
are progressing, I felt that you
would like a bit of good news from
ione more of your town boys.
We had quite an interesting let
ter from George today,
i In his letter he wrote that his
j squadron has received the Presi
jdential Citation. He said he felt that
j it was well earned. There is quite a
j bit of work connected with winning
'this citation and that it was quite
an honor to have it.
He, with a group of the men in
his Squadron have organized a
dance band and they have traveled
at good distances playing for differ
ent outfits. He said that Captain
Taylor told them he would guaran
tee them a good job after they get
out of the Army if they would stick
together. But George is more anx
ious to complete his education and
says he prefers going to college.
I thought you would be interested
in this bit of news from him.
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Happy Ending
“I am safe and well. Hope to
see you soon. Writing soon,”
these words, in a cablegram,
brought pleasure to Mrs. Lonnie
Blalock, of Timberlake,' who last
week received the message from
her son, Pvt. Bunnie Blalock, pre
viously listed as missing in action
in Europe as of January 25. Still
better to Mrs. Blalock, was a V-
Mail letter she received this week
from her son, dated March 28.
with nq explanation, although he
said he was glad to be back with
his own men, presumably in Ger
many, from where previous Ger
man Radio propaganda reports
of Easter Sunday had him on
record as a prisoner of jvar.
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LT. HUMPHRIES *
Lt. William Smith Humphries,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Hum
phries, of Bethel Hill, is reported to
have been seriously wounded in
Germany, March 30, according to a
message received here yesterday.'
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Ronald Perry Will
Face Charges Os
Murder In Wake
Bryant's Patch
, Story Revealed
iln More Detail
Soldier Who .Made Headlines
YVrites To Wife Here.
Pfc. Willie G. Bryant, of Roxboro.
who got his name in headlines all
over the United States several weeks
{ago because of an Associated Press
i story from Cologne. Germany, con
cerned with his ability to eat his
j “patch”, gives the low-down on that
.story in a letter just received by his
(wife, Mrs. Ruth Adams Bryant, of
| Roxboro, formerly of Durham.
I Starting off by saying he thinks
I the war will soon be over (in Eu
jrope) Pfc. Bryant tells of his Roer
j River “patch-eating” incident as
! follows:
“Enclosed is a clipping that was
taken from a Buffalo, New York
paper and was sent to one of the
( soldiers here who gave it to me.
His wife sent it to him and it so
{happened that he is our mess ser-
I geant and was staying upstairs. To
! explain we were in this night attack
i and after crossing the Roer river
|( I know that you have been reading
about our crossing it) and going on
j through two more towns and right
| through a field for at least 2 miles
and were right in the town, we were
moving in under artillery and had
to keep low.
! Just as we were about to enter
ithe Jerries started to firing upon
us. I hit the ground and rolled over
and over to get back to a shell hole
for cover, this patch Was one of our
div. and I had taken some white
, thread and sewed F. D. R. and un
| der that S. S., that’s what Hitler
{had named our outfit. I knew that
if I was captured with that, it would
be curtains for your Willie. ! had it
in my bill fold and could never
j think to send it to you. I didn’t
think that I could ever get it out of
my bill fold. I was covered with
mud, I started to throw it away and
then I thought that it would be
wiser for them not to even find one
if any of us were captured so, I put
jit in my mouth and started chewing
*and before I knew it I had eaten it.
| “You’ll do a lot of things at a
| time like that. When the jerries
j started firing I was trying to roll
i back to cover and out of observation
I into the hole that I mentioned be
\ sere which was near a hay stack
that we had stopped to rest, we
didn't even think of the stacks being
i hollow. They were, and the Germans
i were in them with machine guns,
{rat-a-tat, is the way it sounded ov
' er 'and over and I felt just like they
i were firing at me. It was hot and I
j had to get clear of that place. That
same night I' was lost from the
j company. I hid anct stayed hid un-
I til I was certain about which way
to go. I' got with the outfit about four
hours later, none the worse fojr the
experience.
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Mitchell’s Chapel
Has New Seats
Members of Mitchell's Chapel
Baptist church and their pastor,
the Rev. B. B. Knight, of Roxboro,
have received from Olive Branch
church and the pastor, the Rev. J.
B. Currin, a gift of pews or seats
for their church, according to an
[ nouncement made today by the Rev.
i Mr. Knight, who says that he and
his church members wish to ex
press their deep appreciation for the
gift, which will be put to effective
use during a revival scheduled to
begin at Mitchell’s Chapel on Sun
day, April 29, when the Rev. R. W.
Hovis will be guest speaker.
Singing during the revival will be
in charge of T. C. Sanders, of
Roxboro, and the public is cor
dially invited to- attend. Olive
Branch church has installed other
new pews.
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Hovis To Hold
Antioch Revival
The Rev. R. W. Hovis, pastor of
Antioch Baptist church, will begin
a series of revival services in his
church on Sunday night, April 15,
with services each night at eight
o'clock that will continue through
the Sunday morning service, April
22. Preaching will be by the pas
tor and the public is cordially in
vited to attend, according to an
nouncement made today.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Arrested Here. He Is Taken
To Raleigh For Murder
Count.
Ronald Perry, about 35, of Rox
boro, formerly of Richmond, Va.,
j was taken to Raleigh Tuesday night
after his arrest here that after
{ noon on a charge of murder, it be
ing alleged that Perry killed Wiihe
| White, a Negro, of Wake Foresl,
{’there about three or four years
1 ago.
Perry, a truck-driver for the Pat
Brown lumber company here, was
arrested by Person Sheriff M. T
Clayton, who declined to discuss
the tip-off that led to Perry’s ap
prehension. Perry was picked up
i on a downtown street in Roxboro
' by Deputy Bob Whitt, who took him
1 to Sheriff Clacton.
Kept in jail from about one
' o'clock in the afternoon (Tuesday)
i time at which he was charged with
1 murder, until Sheriff Numa F. Tur
-1 ner, of Raleigh, arrived to take
him to Wake County, that night
i about 8 o'clock, Perry denied know
ling anything about the alleged
j crime and repeatedly said that Per
son officers “Had the wrong man.”
Otherwise, he declined to talk.
Sheriff Clayton said yesterday
! that Perry during his stay in Rox
boro had given officers consider
able trouble of the disorderly type
and that about a year ago, while
working with Short's Lumber Com
pany had seriously cut a white man
named Rhew. Officers of the City
Police department said yesterday
that Perry’s reputation was none
too good here.
Perry has a wife, reportedly an
employee at Somerset Mills, Little
information was known by Person
and Roxboro officers as to the cir
cumstances connected with ‘lie al
leged slaying of White. Perry,
however, is said to have lived in
Roxboro, for the past three years
and before that spent a year in
Richmond. He is said to lane
eluded officers in Wake ever since
the alleged killing. Indentification
of Perry as the alleged murderer of
White is said to have been con
firmed by a deputy who accompani
jed Sheriff Turner to Roxboro.
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First To Buy Bonds
In Seventh War Loan
r
First to buy War Bonds in Person
County that counted in the Seventh
War Loan quota was Miss Eglantine
Merritt, formerly of this county, but
now living in Laurinburg Second to
buy bonds in the county that count
ed in the Seventh Loan was Cap
tain H. K. Sanders, Jr., who has
[been in foreign service for over two
(years but was recently home on a
{leave from European Service.
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Rev. T. W. Cox
To Hold Services
The Rev. Truett W. Cox will
{ preach in revival services at Lam-
{ berth Memorial church beginning
[ next Sunday, April 15th at 3 o’clock,
! according to announcement by the
(pastor, the Rev. L. V. Coggins. The
[services will continue daily through
'the week at 6:45 and 8 o’clock be
| ginning Monday, April 16th. Mr.
( cox is pastor of the Second Bap-
Itisi church in Danville, Va.‘
All are cordially invited to at
i tend these services.
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A. F. Yarborough
To Speak Sunday
The Rev. A. F. Yarborough, of
[ Milton,., will be guest speaker Sun
day morning at eleven o’clock at
: ca-Vel Baptist church and will also
preach at Providence church that
night at 7:30. The pastor of these
churches, the Rev. J. N. Bowman,
[will be away Sunday morning and
Sunday night to hold services in
Durham, but will return to Rox
boro Sunday afternoon for a bap
tismal service to be held at Ca-Vel
i church at three o'clock.
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Sweater Quota
Now Dispatched
Eighty-three sweaters, remain -
[ der .of the local 1944-45 quota of
one hundred and sixty-six, have
been dispatched by the Roxboro
Red Cross Knitting division, ac
cording to Mrs. Percy Bloxatr,
co-chairman, who said today that
tho division office is open each
second and fourth Thursday in
the mqnth for distribution of
yarn. Rupt of the surplus yarn is
being knitted now and one hund
red pounds of extra yarn has been
received.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
PERSON QUOTA FOR SEVENTH
WAR LOAN SET AT $544,000
Exchange Club
Formed In City
[ Roxboro's fourth civic club, the
j Exchange Club, sponsored by the
l Durham Exchange club, was organ
! ized here last night at a dinner
| meeting at Hotel Roxboro, where
24 new members and ten additional
members from the Durham and
Henderson clubs gathered to perfect
the local club's formation, which
has been in progress for the past
three weeks.
President of the Roxboro club is
J. H. Lewis. Vice President is P. T.
Whitt, district representative for
Standard Oil. Secretary is E. L.
Sansbury, of the Courier-Times and
I treasurer is Gilbert Oakley, co
owner of a service station here.
■ Next meeting will be on Wednes
| day, April 18, when six members will
be elected to a Hoard of Control, a
i board of directors. Charter night,
! when tile charter will be presented,
will be held on the next Wednesday
night. April 25, and will be attend
[ ed by the members and their wives,
! together with out of town guests.
BOXES FOR CLOTHING BEING PUT
IN PLACE ALREADY IN ROXBORO
Public interest in and response to
the United Clothing collection drive
| which will be staged here Sunday
and in County areas later in the
j week, is already beginning to be
i felt, according to the Rev. W. C.
! Martin, general chairman. The City
[drive, will be bn Sunday and County
collections*wiU be gathered during
the week from Monday through
Friday.
t County interest is particularly
keen and many residents are already
bringing clothing to Roxboro for the
cause. Spured on by this response,
Mr. Martin’s committee members
[have already placed collection boxes
!at the County Court House.
City collection will be by Scouts,
on Sunday, starting p. m.
Other City collection centers are
'the marque at the OPA Main street,
office and the office of City Milk
[and Ice Company, just off of Depot
street, while numbers of County
merchants, operators of stores, have
agreed to designate their stores as
County collection centers.
These stores, their owners and
communities, are listed as follows:
Paynes Tavern. Charlie Holman,
Roxboro; Hester's Store, L. F. Hes-
Pvt. T. B. Pearce
Saves Pigeons,
Guards Prisoners
Pvt- Thomas B. Pearce, of Timber
lake, is one of several members of
the 795 Police Battallion in Westeen
Europe doing everything from
guarding prisoners to capturing
AWOL carrier pigeons, according to
information received here today.
When they first arrived on the
Training School
To Have Play On
Monday Night
The Senior Class of Person Coun
ty Training School for Negroes will
present “Heart Trouble” a p'.ay in
three acts, on Monday, April 16,
in the school auditorium at 8:30
P. M.
The play is expected to be me of
the highlights of entertainment
during the school year.
The cast of characters is as fol
lows:
Robert Roberts, a wealth v mine
owner, Flint Johnson; Robert's ne
phew, Loy Graves; His Pals, Joseph
Drumright and Quincey Dickens;
Otto, the bell boy, Dwight Smith;
Martha Mason, Gertie Blackwell;
Zelda Sanderson, Aldine Baird;
Rosa Rosabelle, an actress, Queen
Jeffers; Roxanne Raymond, a
“Maiden Lady,” Margania Walker;
Josephine Salisbury, Foyleen John
son; Drusilla Gibbs, a woman cf
mystery, Mabel Dickens; Claribel
Baker, Evelyn Thomas and Nolle
Adams, an astrologer, Mary V.
Brooks.
The public is invited to attend.
j chiefly from the Durham club,
i Capt. A. C. Barclay, of Toledo.
,Ohio. assistant director of exten
sion for the National Exchange club,
[ which has around twenty-five clubs
in North Carolina, was here for last
j night’s dinner meeting held at Ho
tel Roxboro. Captain Barclay said
' today that the roster of Roxboro
[membership will be announced later
| Also here yesterday for the meet
ing were Albert D. Weeks and Ver
non E. Rawls, Jr, presidents re
spectively of the Durham and Hend
erson clubs. Five other members
from Durham and three others from
Henderson were also here.
The Exchange club is of the civic
type and has as its purpose the ed
ucation, improvement and develop
ment of the capabilities of the
members concerned and of the cit
izens of the communities, cities and
states in which clubs are located.
Giving of self for the privilege ot
serving others is one of the tenets
of the club.
ter, Hurdle Mills; S. P. Gentry. S. P.
! Gentry, Roxboro; Concord, C. A.
I Long, Roxboro; Hurdle Mills, D. L.
Whitfield, Hurdle Mills; Bushy
Fork, Frank Whitfield, Roxboro;
Helena, Garland Chambers, Tim
[berlake; Moriah, D. M. Cash,
Rougemont; Surl, L. L. Blalock,
! Timberlake; Allensville, John Yar
borough, Roxboro; Streets Store, Al
[ bert Wrenn, Roxboro; Peeds Store,
W. W. Peed, Rougemont; Betne!
Hill, Manly Woody, Woodsdale;
Woodsdale, R. G. Roberson, Woods
dale; Lock Lilly, W. L. Rudder,
Woodsdale; Longs Store, Eddie H
Perkins, Roxboro; Leasburg Road.
Melvon Carr, Roxboro; Honey's
Service St., Fletcher Winstead, Lees
burg; Dixon Store, Mr. Gentry,
Viigilina Road; McGee’s Mill Store.
Clarence Tingen, Semora; Ben
Peeds Store (Somerset) Ben Peed.
[ Roxboro.
Clothing is for the destitute
peoples of the United Nations in
Europe, men, women and children.
Good, usable garments of all kinds,
together with shoes, are wanted. It
has been suggested that it will help
if owners of clothing designate the
[sizes of garments, particularly those
for women and children.
[continent early in August, they
[were assigned to help in the battle
jof Brest. Part of the battalion, which
is commanded by Lieutenant Colon
[el Frederick Whittaker, of Ocean
j side. Long Island. New York, was
[attached to the 29th Division part
;to the 2nd Division and the re
mainder directed traffic to and from
the front.
They formed a tight cordon
around the city as American forces
i closed in and kept Germans from
infiltrating American lines. They
i cared for prisoners taken and es
corted them to enclosure. When the
city fell, this job was their biggest
one for awhile.
Their next big job was taking
charge of the movement of the
French government in exile when
it returned to France, landing at a
northern port and moving on to
! Paris.
Since then the battalion has
maintained order, directed traffic
and patrolled most of the Commun
ications Zone base section in which
they are stationed. One of the men
in the battalion, on regular patrol,
was given a bottle washed up along
the northern coast which contained
'a message from one of the Ameri-
J can soldiers in the North African
(invasion. Aribtber time, one of the
1 795th men found a pigeon which
was AWOL from his Signal Corps
outfit. All in all, one never knows
what will come up in the 795th.
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Rev. Mr. Parsley
To Speak Sunday
The Rev. Henry Nutt Parsley, ol
Duke University, where he is chap
lain to Episcopal students, will speak
Sunday morning at the eleven
o’clock service at St. Mark’s Episco
pal church, where Holy Communion
I will also be observed. Easter mite
box offering will be received.
0 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945
HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
E Bond Quota Is Lamest Ev
er Assigned To Countv
$248,000. Bonds Will Be*
Sold All Day Should
VE Day Occur Dur
ing Drive.
Person County's Seventh War
Loan quota was announced last
night at a meeting of the local War
Bond committee as being $248,000
in E Bonds and an overall quota
of $544,000. This is the largest E.
Bond quota that Person County has
ever had, stated G. C. Hunter dis
trict chairman of the War Bond
committee.
All E Bonds sold in April will
count on thg quota altho the drive
officially opens May 14th and will
continue through the month of
June. Officially the drive finishes
June 7th.
Tentative plans were made at the
meeting last night by which it is
hoped that the Person County quota
will be reached. The payroll saving
plan will be pushed and expanded as
much as possible. A bond booth
will be installed in front of the
Palace Theatre anad there will also
be a lady on hand at the Peoples
Bank to take orders for bonds.
Manager Kirby of the Palace
Theatre is now in Charlotte in an
effort to arrange a premier showing
of some special picture to holders
of War Bond tickets.
Should VE Day occur during the
( Seventh War Loan drive the bank
will remain open for the sale of
bonds on that particular day re
; gardless of the fact that the day
will be a National holiday. This
plan will also be followed any day
that Victory in Europe comes re
; gardless of whether it comes during
the Seventh Loan or not.
Other plans have been made to
; promote the sale of bonds during
the drive that will be put into tf
[ feet as the drive progresses.
Official county co-chairmen of
| the drive are R. L. Harris and R.
B. Griffin who have Uaci this posi
[ tion during all drives.
o
R. E. O'Briant
Person Native,
Dies Monday
Robert Edward O’Briant, of Max
ton, formerly of Roxboro, died in
i Higlismith Hospital at Fayetteville
[Monday afternoon after a brief ill
! ness. He was a son of the late Mr.
( and Mrs. Solomon O’Briant of
j Person County.
Surviving are his wife the former
Miss Ora Wilburn; five sons, Wil
bur O’Briant. with the Army In
Germany. Curtis O'Briant, with the
[Navy, and Donald, Lee and Jerry
O'Briant of the home; a daughter,
Faye O'Briant of the home.
Also three brothers, Henry O'Bri
ant of Red Springs, Otha O’Briant
[of Laurinburg, and William O’Bri
lant of Rocky Mount; a sister, Mrs.
Rosa Gentry of Roxboro, and sev
i eral nieces and nephews.
Funeral service for Mr. O'Briant,
54, Maxton farmer, were held from
the home Tuesday afternoon, with
burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Mr.
O'Briant died of heart trouble. He
was a World War I veteran, a mem
ber of the American Legion and of
the board of stewards of the Max
ton Methodist Church.
i
Sammy Foushee
To Get Wings
A —C Sammy C. Foushee who is
now stationed at Columbus Army
Air Base, Mississippi, is a member
of the April graduating class and
will receive his wings and commis
sion April 15, it was learned here to
day.
Cadet Foushee has been in the
army since November 11, 1942. He
has received the majority of his
1 cadet training in Miss. Cadet Fou
shee and Mrs. Foushee will arrive
in Roxboro, April 19th for a short >
visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Foushee.
“ °
Brake Inspections
State Highway Patrolman Jekn
Hudgins, beginning Sunday, will
inspect brakes of motorists, a na
tion-wide safety inspection, that
will continue through June L be
cause many motorists driving oM
cars have defective brakes. Certi
ficates will be given mrttihdu,
who are to mail thorn beak to
Hudgins when brakes knee keen
adjusted. .
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