THE KIDS all know where the
schoolhouse is, but just the tame
the school bell rings. Many people
know where your business is; ad
vertising is the bell you ring.
VOL. LXIV.
New Presbyterian
Minister Advocates
One-Day Grouch
Gaddy Issue In
Second Stage
Dunn Board to Reconsider Re
signation. Former Roxboro
Man Involved.
Dunn, June 9. —The County Board
of Education has unanimously pass
ed a. motion that members of the
Dunn School Board, who have tend
ered their resignations, be requested
to reconsider their actions and con
tinue to serve the remainder of their
terms.
Dr. C. L. Corbett, chairman of the
local board, who with other four
members of the board resigned on
May 30, was reappointed this year to
a three-year term. Henry Tyler's
T. Profit, acting superintendent of
Harnett County schools and secre
tary to tlic county board of educa
tion. Whether the local board mem
bers will act individual or as a
body on the request was not known.
Mr. Gaddy, it developed was ac
cused of not being a good disciplin
arian. For two years he was district
Superintendent in Roxboro, but re
signed.
term of office expires in 1948. J. H.
Hodges and Worth Stewart will be
up for reappointment in 1947, and
L. A. Tart in 1946. The resignation
of the local board as a collective
unit was prompted by a controversy
over the principalship of the Dunn
high school, of which has been head
ed by H. C. Gady, formerly of Rox
boro.
Letters requesting the board to
reconsider were mailed to each in
dividual member and signed by G.
Brother Os Loral
Resident Killed
After more than twb and a half
years, the Navy Department has
advised the family of Claude Hu
bert Breedlove, fireman second class,
that he was killed In action off
Sazo island on Nov. 14, 1942.
He was a brother of E. E. Breed
love, of Roxboro.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Breedlove, of Middlcburg, have re
ceived a citation from the late
President Roosevelt, which states
that the young seaman lost his life
in the sinking of the U. S. £>.
Barton. He has been awarded the
Purple Heart posthumously.
Breedlove joined the Navy in
September, 1940, after attending
Middleburg High School, anti re
ceived his training at Norfolk, later
being transferred to the west coast
and from there to active sea duty
in the Pacific.
E. E. Breedlove, of Lamar stieet
said yesterday that Claude Hubert
Breedlove was his youngest broth
er. Another brother, also in ser
vice, met this brother just the day
before G. H. Breedlove was re
ported killed.
Robert E. Hamlin
First Lieutenant
In California
The promotion of Lieut. Robert
E. Hamlin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E. Hamlin, Roxboro, to the
rank of first lieutenant was an
nounced this week by Col. Earl C.
Robbins, commanding officer of the
Victorville Army Air Field, Victor
ville. Calif., where he is actively en
gaged in the highly intensified
training program there.
Lieut. Hamlin enlisted in the Air
Corps in March 1942 and was com
missioned as a bambardier follow
ing graduation from the Midland
Army Air Field. Midland, Texas, in
Sept. 1943. Prior to hU transfer to
Victorville, he was a bombarier and
navigation instructor. His brother,
Capt. Edwin J. Hamlin, Is stationed
at nrmy Air Force Headquarters,
Winston-Salem.
A graduate of the Roxboro High
School, Lieut. Hamlin was a tobac
co buyer for the Dixie Leaf To
bacco Co., Kinston, before he en
listed.
The Victorville Army Air Field, a
station In the Western Flying
Training Command, is located in
the Mojave Desert approximately
100 miles from Los Angeles, Calif.
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Requirements for textile bags are
up 20 per cent from 1944 and allo
cations of textiles for bags are
down 5 per cent.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Reception - Dinner Planned.
Vacation Bible School
Opens Today.
“People ought to have one grouch
day a year and three hundred and
sixty-four days for thanksgiving",
declared the Rev. G. W. Heaton,
new minister for Roxboro Presby
terian church, speaking yesterday
morning on “Thanksgiving', topic
for his first official message here.
The Rev. Mr. Heaton, formerly of
Springfield, W. Va„ arrived Wednes
day with Mrs. Heaton and their
seven-year old daughter. Harrietta,
and the family is now at home in
the Manse. Attendance at yesterday
morning’s service was unusually
large, according to Thomas Dixon,
a church official, who said that
members of the church are having a
dinner and reception Friday night
at seven o’clock at Hotel Roxboro to
honor the new minister and his
family. It is urged that reservations
for the dinner be made at once.
Now in progress under the spon
sorship of the church is a Daily Va
cation Bible school, directed by Miss
Mary Catherine McCormick, of St.
Pauls, a special young topics’ work
er in the Presbyterian church. First
session was held this morning at the
church, with opening exercises, but
the group then’transferred to Rox
boro Central Grammar school, where
meetings will continue through Fri
day. Hours are from 9 o'clock until
11:30 each morning. An attractive
program is being given and parents
are urged to send their children.
The Rev. Mr. Heaton succeeds as
j pastor here the Rev. Paul K. Ausley,
Duke University Divinity school
student, who is now graduated and
is Chaplain with the armed forces.
Plans for the proposed $45,000 new
church and Sunday school building
for the Ih-esbyt'crfatic here are still
being considered, according Mr.
Dixon, who said today that final de
cision has not been made as to the
architectual design. Some seem to
prefer a modern design, according
ito Mr. Dixon.
L. A. Wagoner
With Medics In
German Area
Pfc. Lambcrth A. Wagoner, with
Medics of the 111th Medical
battalion, veterans of combat in
Italy, France and Germany, helped
treat their 46000th patient when
they supported the 36th “Texas"
Division and its allied arnlor and
artillery in breaching the Siegfried
Line facing General Jacob L. Dov
ers' 6th Army Group in Germany;
Litter bearers and ambulance
drivers of the 111th braved intense
enemy fire to transport casualties
from the Siegfried battlefield to the
battalion's clearing station. Here
medical officers administered aid to
wounds and prepared patients for
evacuation to hospitals a few miles
behind where detailed surgical cr.ie
would be given. Men who received
minor wounds were treated and
held for subsequent return to duty.
This action marked the U. S.
Seventh Army unit's second anni
versary overseas with over 365 days
of combat support. Many medics
have been wounded and 29 have
been killed while performing the
dangerous task of battlefield eva
cuation. Over 200 Purple Hearts
have been awarded while heroic ac
tion has won for them 20 Silver
Stars and more than 200 Bionze
Stars.
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T. W. Regan To
Return To City
After nearly two and half years
service in the Southwest Pacifis
theatre, most of it in combat zones,
T-5 Talmadge Woody Regan, of
Route 2, Roxboro, will return to
the United States early in June for
a 5-day furlough from the Philip
pines.
T-5 Regan is serving with the
542 d Engineer Boat and Shore reg
iment, a part of the Second En
gineer Brigade which has been in
action against the Japs since June
of 1943.
He participated in the British
New Guinea, Netherlands East In
dies, and Philippine Campaigns.
He is authorized to wear the As
iatic-Pacific Ribbon with on bronze
star.
His sister lives at Route 2, Rox
boro, North Carolina.
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®he (tourier=®ime?
No Rate Yet
Person County commissioners,
still in session at noon today in
special gathering to consider bud
get matters and appropriations,
have not yet fixed new tax rate
for the fiscal year, it was reported
by Auditor T. C. Brooks, in whose
office the officials are in session.
Church Related
Colleges Have
War Bond Plan
Plan Worked Out For War
Bonds As Gifts To Colleges.
Davidson, June 11. —Rapidly
mounting interest in the War Loan i
Drive of the North Carolina Council j
of Church-Related Colleges is re-:
ported by Dr. P. H. Gwynn, Jr.. Di- [
rector of the State-wide Campaign, j
The purpose of the Drive Is to pro
mote the purchase of war bonds in j
order to bring the struggle with |
Japan to a swift and successful con- j
elusion. Those who buy bonds are j
urged to donate them to the col
leges participating in the Drive to
be used for the building of Chris- j
tian character in the days of peace.;
Prominent citizens throughout the ]
State by letter and personal com-1
ment are giving their enthusiastic
endorsement to this unique idea, j
with its combination of patriotic |
and educational values. Dr. Zeno i
Wall, great North Carolina Baptist I
leader, says: "Your appeal for war [
bonds for our colleges is a timely i
and wise one."
Dr. Julian Miller writes in an ed
itorial appearing in the Charlotte j
Observer: “We not only, therefore,
commend this movement of the 23 1
church-maintained colleges in North
Carolina, but urge our people across j
the State to give serious concern to j
the appeal which they are unitedly :
making and to support this good [
cause to the full limit of their fi- 1
nancial abilities."
Colleges united in this combined
(Continued on page six)
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Ray Parrish
To Leave City
On Leave From Plant E, He
I Goes To Thomasville
BrOom Company.
V. Ray Parrish, of the Chub Lake
road, for twelve years a Roxboro i
resident, connected with Collins and j
Aikman, Plant E, and a civic lead- j
cr here, will leave Friday for,
Thomasville, where he has half-in
terest in Thomasville Broom Com-
I pany. He has leave of absence
■ from Collins and Aikman and it is
expected that he will remain with
the Thomasville company.
With him will go Mrs. Parrish j
and members of his family. The !
residence here is to be sold, ac- 1
cording to Mr. Parrish, who is a j
native of Randolph county and a j
graduate of Guilford college.
Mr. Parrish is at present fore
man of the drawing room, Plant E, 1
but was for two and a half years
assistant director of personnel. He
is a member of Roxboro Rotary
club and of Edgar Long Memorial
Methodist church, being secretary
both for the club and for the
church board of stewards.
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Pvt. C. G. Allen
Describes Battle
Pvt. Charlie G. Allen, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. G. Allen, of Route 1,
Roxboro, who was wounded on
April 8, in Germany, says in a let
ter to his parents that his injury
was received on a Sunday morning
when the men in his company were
making an attack at dawn, near
Stein. Participating were three
tanks, one of which was quickly
knocked out. The two that were left
had to turn around, leaving the in
fantry unit to which Allen was at
tached.
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Second Man
Probably the second Person
soldier to be released under the
point system is Tech 5 Rainey
Carver. Pacific veteran with 39
months of overseas service. Car
ver, now at home has 109 points.
Carver, who is 29, Mid last week
he does not know what he will
do. In civilian life he was a
truck driver. In New Caledonia
and in other points in the Pa
cific he was with a number of
Roxboro men, among them Ar
thur Davis, Jr., who Is now in
California.
Closest scare Carver had in ser
vice was when he was near cases
of dynamite when a bomb fell
close by.-
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Scouts Leave For
Cherokee Week
Some sixty Person and Roxboro
Boy Scouts left here yesterday af
ternoon to spend a week, the op
ening week for the season, at Camp
Cherokee, the official Scout Camp
for Cherokee Council, near Went
worth, according to C. A. Harris,
who said this morning that about
forty boys went on a truck. Others
went in private cars.
Assistant leaders from here in the
group include Jimmy Street and
Joe Featherston. Also in the group
are Dr. Robert E. Long, scoutmaster
of Troop 9. and David Gray Moore,
of Bushy Fork, assistant for Tribe
Four.
Special Honors To
Be Given Swansons
Closer Home
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■WILLIAM SPENCER
Cpi. All Spencer, shown above,
s<m of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Spen
cer, who has for many months
been in the Army Air Forces
Ground crew, gave his mother an
expensive moment Wednesday
night when he called her long
distance from Porto Rico, but Mrs.
Spencer did not mind, since Porto
Rico is much closer home than
France and England, where Cpl.
Spencer has been for about two
years. Now in Roxboro is A. J.
Pleasant, Jr., of Bushy Fork and
the Army, who has recently seen
the Spencer soldier. Pleasant is
with the ferry command.
Mac Clarke, Os
Durham, Guest
Speaker At Club
Mac Clarke, 'of Durham, district
governor for Eastern Carolina of
the National Exchange Club, spoke
before the Roxboro Exchange Club
Wednesday night at their regular
meeting at Hotel Roxboro, where
a general outline of the working of
the Exchange Clubs throughout the
state and some of the many civic i
improvements accomplished was the I
topic of his address.
Crippled children's benefit, a part!
of every Exchange Club aim, was
discussed by Clarke, who explained
fully how the work of caring for
the children was carried on.
Other guests of the club were Al
bert Weeks, president of the Dur
ham Exchange Club, John Riley,
state treasurer, Durham, and Frank
Hester of the Durham club. Presi
dent Joel Lewis presided. Next reg
ular meeting will be at Hotel Rox
boro this Wednesday.
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Nearly 10,000 pedestrains are kill
ed in traffic acidents in the United j
States every year.
■ AlotUf, Way «
Marvin (Doc) Carver former citizen of this city but now a
resident of his home town, Rougemont, is gradually recovering from
the effects of playing a baseball game about a week ago. It seems
as tho Doc went to see Rougemont play a game and when he ar
rived at the scene of the game Rougemont did not have all the
players that were needed. Some of the Rougemont players re
membered that Doc played ball for Trinity College about 1924 and
25 and so they asked him if he wouM help out the team on this
day. Os course Mr. carver could not let the boys down so he got
a glove and went forth to battle. He played the entire game and
we think that it was the first game that he had played In about
fifteen years. How well he played we do not know but we under
stand that he was so stiff and sore the next day that he spent the
day on the bed or dragging around the house.
There must be a moral to this Let the old and tried re
main that way Why try to stage a comeback?
P. 8. I do not expect to be In the office when Doc. comes
to see me the next time. 1 . #
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
The majority of the boys will re
main one week, although some will
stay for a longer period. The
group met at Person court house.
Included were boys from Troops
in the city and Ca-Vel, Brooksdalc
and East Roxboro, as well as Busny
Fork. Regular meeting of the Per
son District'council will be held as
usual this month, the date being
Tuesday, June 19, at 7:30 in the
Chamber of Commerce office.
Planned also for that night will
be a meeting at eignt o’clock at
Person County Training school for
the Negro division. Time will oc
eight-thirty.
Asiatic - Pacific Campaign
Medal To He Posthumously
Awarded.
Posthumous presentation of an
engraved Purple Heart for the late
Sgt. James Warren Swanson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Swanson, of
Hurdle Mills, who was killed in ac
tion. March 2, at lwo Jima. will be
made soon, according to a war de
partment message just received bv
his parents, who have also received
a letter from their son's command
ing officer, Lt. John Murray Fox.
I Sgt. Swanson, of the Marine
j Corps, will also be awarded post
| humously the Presidential Unit Ci
| tation, awarded to the Fourth Mar-
I ine Division, Reinforced, for action
against the enemy in the Marianas,
and the Presidential Citation Unit
bar with stars, together with the
Asiatic-Pacific campaign medal. The
| last named medal, however, will not
■be presented until after the war.
I- Message concerning the honors
won by Sgt. Swanson was received
from Col. A. E. O'Neil, of the U. S.
Marine Corps, Washington. The
Purple Heart award carries with it
a certificate.
Lt. Fox has written Sgt. Swanson's
parents that the young Marine was
killed instantly and suffered no
pain. He was killed while leading an
attack on a heavily fortified position
in the face of heavy fire and was
shot by a sniper. Burial was in the
1 Marine Division cemetery, lwo Jima,
I with full military honors and the
rites of his church, according to
Fox.
Lt. Fox adds that Sgt. Swanson
had been an integral member of his
company ever since joining it in
1942 at New River. He was known
to us all as “Swede", says Lt. Fox,
who adds that when Swanson was
made Sergeant he accepted a big
cigar and "caused much hilarity
among us”.
He showed "outstanding leader
ship in the dark days of Saipan and
Tinian when he took command of a
platoon, and on lwo Jima he con
tinued to display superior qualities
for which he was loved and respect
ed by officers and men", says Lt.
Fox, who also says that his own
deep regret and deep personal sym
pathy in the name of the Company
jis extended to Swanson's parents.
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Pfc. Jack Sparks
Reported Wounded
Pfc. Jack Sparks, 19, of Roxboro,
serving with the 6th Marine Divis
ion on Okinawa, was wounded some
time in May, according to a letter
received by his mother, Mrs. Montie
C. Sparks, Main Street, Roxboro.
Pfc. Sparks is now in a hospital
receiving treatment for wounds in
his right arm and left leg. He writes
that he is getting along very well.
He entered service March 21, 1944,
1 and received training at Parris Is
land, S. C. and New River. He was
jsent to the Southwest Pacific after
4 months of training.
MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1943
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
War Bonds Slow
The Seventh War Bond sale
here is lagging, according to Dis
trict Chairman Gordon C. Hun
ter, who said this morning that
figures are still to close to those
of last week 5154,000 in E
Bonds and $260,000 fer general
bonds—for comfort. Mach must
be done between now and June 30,
of Person's quota is to be met,
says Mr. Hunter. He and David
S. Brooks are to go to Durham
tonight for a district conference
on the G. I. Bill.
Another Person
j Slaughterer To
lace Charges
• Slaughterers Given Federal
Court Restraining Orders
On Meat Violations.
Raleigh, June B.—U. s. District
Judge Johnson J. Hayes has signed
two temporary restraining orders
prohibiting two meat slaughters
from further violation of OPA meat
control regulations following coni
j plaints filed by the Raleigh Dis
j trict Office of Price Administration.
.District Director Theodore S. John
son said today that Dee Andrew
Clay, of South End Grocery, Rox
!boro; and the Piedmont Packing
; Company, of Hillsboro, have been
■ ordered by Judge Hayes to refrain
! from future violation an I supply
records as required by OPA regu
lations.
OPA charged that Clay failed to
keep records of purchases of live
animals and of his slaughtering ac
tivities.
The Piedmont Packing Company
!was charged with paying a Dove the
! average maximum ceiling price for
1 live animals in the amount of
! $495.24 during the accounting per
iod which presented purchases of
j 119,488 pounds of, meat which had
an overall ceiling price of $12,981.78
! and not $13.477.52 as paid by the
company.
j Both cases are returnable before
[judge Hayes at Greensboro on June
18 at 2 o’clock.
Johnson said that the orders grew
[ out of OPA's program to get com
pliance with the current meat
control program.
Veterans Already
Here Says West
Former Roxboro Minister
Praises City And Its
Citizens.
The Rev. W. F. West, now of
• Hartwell, Ga„ formerly of Roxboro
| guest speaker Thursday night at
Roxboro Rotary club, of which, he
i was a member, reassured the mem
bers of the high quality of the lo
cal club, asserted that he "felt at
home in Roxboro," although he does
enjoy both the club and the friends
with whom he is associated in
Hartwell, former home-town ot his
wife.
Also guests at the Roxboro club
meeting were Mrs. W. F. V/est and
the Rev. Leon Russell, who has just
completed services at Edgar Long
Memorial Methodist church, Rev.
J. Boyce Brooks and Ronald Hill.
Getting into a more serious vein,
. the Rev. Mr. West discussed at some
I length the pre sent aspects of the
! war with Japan and men ioned
[peace problems, including th- mat
| ter of readjustment of returning
service men, many of whom are
already returned.
Program for this Thursday will
be the annual "Father and Son"
night.
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Billy Williams
Reported Killed
Billy Williams, son of Dr. and
Mrs. W. C. Williams of H.T.svilie,
Va., was killed on Okinawa on
April 24, his aunt, Mrs. Bess Shipp
of Durham, was notified Saturday.
Dr. and Mrs. Williams formerly
I lived in Roxboro. Billy Williams
! was a brother of Mrs. Wade, of
Roxboro.
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To Thomasville, Ga.
Lt. Dwight L. Gentry, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. B. Gentry, who has been
visiting them for several days, has
returned to Finney Hospital. Thom
asville, Ga., where he is receiving
treatment for wounds received in
overseas service in the European
theatre.
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C. H. Reeves of Madison County
reports a profit of $452 from 07
of an acre of onions, according to
Virgil L. Holloway, assistant county
agent of the State College Exten
sion Service.
Hold Rites Today
Mrs. C. M. Winstead
Gold Star Mother
Prominent Person Woman
Dies Saturday Night
At Home.
Funeral for Mis. C. M. Winstead.
75, the former Miss Dora Wagstaff,,
whose death occured Saturday night
at 10:15 o'clock at her home in the
Concord church community, will be
held Monday afternoon at four
o'clock at Concord Methodist church,
of which she was a life-long mem
ber. Interment will be in the church
cemetery. Officiating ministers will
be .her pastor, the Rev. Daniel Lane,
and the Rev. J. H. Shore, a former'
pastor, both of Roxboro.
Mrs. Winstead died after an ill
ness lasting four months. She suffer
ed a stroke of paralysis six weeks
ago and had been seriously ill for
the past two weeks.
Wife of the late C. M. Winstead,
to Whom She was married, in 1891,
she was a native of Person, a daugh
ter of the late C. M. G. and Sarah |
Paylor Wagstaff and a sister of Dr.
H. M. Wagstaff, of Chapel Hill, who
died two weeks ago. Her husband
died about seven years ago.
She was a Gold Star mother of
World War I, a son Lt. Guy Win
stead, having been killed in action.
Another son died in infancy and a
daughter. Miss Beth Winstead, died
about twenty years.
Surviving sons are, Victor L„ of
Red Lion, Penn , and James L„ of
the home. Surviving daughters are,
Mrs. Maurice J. Daniel, Mrs. B. W
Gardner and Mrs, Robert L. Hester,
all of Roxboro. Also surviving are
two sisters, Mrs. John D. Winstead.
Sr., and Mrs, Fannie Morton, both
of Roxboro .and one brother, Roscoe
M. Wagstaff, of Portsmouth, Va.,
and nine grandchildren.
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Baptist Young
People To Have
Week’s Program
Ba ptist young people of Roxboro,
including members of the Roxboro
First Baptist church, will have a
"Youth Crusade for Christ" week,
from June 17. through June 22, ac
cording to announcement made to
day by the pastor, the Rev. J. Boyce
Brooks, who says that the program
is especially designed for young
people of high school and college
age and that four out of town lead
ers from colleges are to be present.
The four leaders will include two,
men and two women, their names
to be announced later.
The daily schedule of activities,
all to be at Roxboro First Baptist
church, will be as #ollows:
10:00 A. M„ Morning Worship;:
3:00-5:30. Visitation; 7:30 P. M. Dis- i:
cussion Groups, (Boy Meets Girl(: 1
8:30 P. M., Evening Worship; and i;
9:20 P. M. Friendship Circle. 1
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Ice-Cream Long
And Brother,
Stephen, Home
The Martin Longs, of Person
County, who have four sons in mil- i,
itary service, have been very happy [ ]
for over a week. The reason, as it h
might be guessed, is that two of the ,
boys, Stephen Long, and Harvey
Long, are both at home. Sgt. Harvey ;
(Ice Cream) Long, came in Thurs- (
day night from England, while i
Stephen Long, who has for about i
two years been a prisoner of war in
Germany, arrived seven days ahead ]
of his brother.
Sgt. Harvey Long, with many -
months of service to his credit may
be released under the point system,
although he has not yet decided
what choice he will make. While in
England lie was for long a cook and
he gained fame as the boy who
hooked up a jeep to an ice cream!
freezer and produced plenty of de
sert for the G. I.’s. He says that j
many of the English people whom he j [
met were both friendly and courte- j
ous and considerate.
Two other brothers are still over- r
seas. j 1
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Employment Office
In New Location
The United States Employment
Service office, effective today, wul
be located in the office of T. Fitz '
Davis, on the second floor over the :
Roxboro Building and Loan office,
according to announcement made
Saturday by Claude Luquire, direc
tor of the U. S. Employment service
in Roxboro. The office for the
past several months has been in ;
the basement at Person County i
Court house.
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Accident
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945
DON'T HELP INCREASE IT!
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 55
Symphony Men
Visit City Today
Person Chairman For Orches
tra Fund To lie Chosen.
R. L. McMillan, prominent Ra
leigh attorney, who is active Chair
man of the North Carolina Sym
phony Fund for the expansion of
tlie activities and usefulness ru the
State of North Carolina Symphony
Orchestra, and Dr. J. O. Bailey of
the University at Chapel Hill. Di
rector for the Fund, will arrive to
day to begin the local campaign.
As ex-officio Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Sym
phony Society, Governor R. Gregg
Cherry has approved the plan ot
the Society to embark upon an ex
pansion program for this purpose
to seek contributions from music
lovers and other public spirited
citizens of the State with which to
establish a substatial Symphony
Fund. Person chairman has not yet
been named.
As Honorary Chairman for the
Fund, Governor cherry is appoint
ing active District Chairmen to
work for the Fund in each of 12
districts into which the State has
been divided, Former Governori
Cameron Morrison. O. Max Gard
ner, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Clyde R.
Hoey, and Melville Broughton, and
Major General John Marston, Com
manding Officer of Camp Lejeunc,
are acting as Honorary Directors
for the Symphony Fund.
The North Carolina Symphony
Orchestra, after playing more than
200 concerts in the communities
of North Carolina, was recognized
as the official State Orchestra by
the 1943 Legislature, which took it
under the patronage and control of
the State and provided that the
Governor should be ex-officio
Chairman of the Board of Direc
tors, that the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction should be a
member of the Board, and that
four other members of the 16-man
Board should be appointed by the
Governor. The 1943 Legislature
also appropriated S2OOO toward the
support of the Orchestra.
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G. D. Burch, Os
City, Has Award
Corporal Technician Glenn D.
Burch, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. H.
Burch, ißute 3, Roxboro, has been
awarded the Philippines Liberation
Medal by the Commonwealth Gov
ernment for his role in the fighting
on Leyte and Luzon.
The award was announced by Ma
jor General William H. Gill, com
mander of the veteran 32nd "Red
Arrow” Division, in which Burch
serves.
Corporal Burch, member of Head
quarters Battery of Division Artil
lery, came overseas in February
fighting in the precipitous Caraballo
mountains in Northern Luzon.
He also is entitled to wear the
American Defense ribbon, the Army
Good Conduct Medal and the Asia-
I tic Pacific Theater ribbon with three
battle stars.
Burch attended High School in
Hurdle Mills. He was formerly 'em
ployed by the G. W. Thomas Hard,
ware Company in Roxboro.
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Linwood Jones
Reported Wounded
Mrs. Linwood Jones has received
word that her husband, Pfc. Lin
wood C. Jones, has been wounded
while serving on Okinawa with the
77th Liberty Division. Pfc. Jones
has been with the armed forces
since December 1942, and has been
overseas 14 months.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jule
Jones of Hurdle Mills, Route 3,'
and has one other brother in ser
vice, S. jSgt. Curtis H. Jones, sta
tioned in Florida.
Mrs. Linwood Jones, the former
Miss Julia Grinstead, and little
daughter now live with Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Grinstead on Roxboro '
Route No. 3.
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To Have Operation 4
Mrs. J. J. Hamlin will enter GotStsi;
munity Hospital this afternoast'fqlfcjj
an operation. The Hamlin's live
the Leasburg Road, - " -J£ta