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'I Help Person Go . Over The Top In The Mighty Seventh VOL. LXIV. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 58 Accident Takes Life Os First Local Man In Europe Since V-E Day Silver Star Is Given To Person Man In Europe Lam berth Gentry Gains Rec ognition For Valor. With The 6th Armored Division in Europe. Pfc. Lamberth C. Gentry, 34117950, Battery "B" 128th Armed F A Bn, of Route 2, Roxboro, re cently was awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Gentry, Route 2, Roxboro. The citation reads as follows: Private First Class Lamberth C. Gentry, (Army Serial Number 34117950), Field Artillery, Battery “B", 128th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, United States Army. For gallantry in action in the vicinity of Audigast, Germany on 14 April 1945. When an ammunition trailer attached to his gun became ignited by an enemy shell, he cooly and courageously extinguished the fire. His fearless action under heavy en emy fire prevented the ammunition from exploding and causing any casualties and reflects great credit upon himself and the United States, Army. Entered the military service! from North Caorlina.’’ Pfc. Gentry has three brothers in : service. St. Sgt. Marshall Gentry is at Fort Benning, Ga., Pvt. Thomas P. Gentry is at Battery General hospital and Cpl. Ircil N. Gentry is with the U. S. Marine corps in the c.-w Urvc-' PifiWii, o Curb Market To Continue Program The Person Curb Market will be expanded through the summer by club members from the twelve Home Demonstration Clubs taking separ ate Saturdays to be responsible for the sale of produce on the market, according to Miss Evelyn Caldwell. The food will be contributed by the clubs for each Saturday's sales as a means .of increasing the Treas-! ury of the Home Demonstration County Council. According to the schedule as made up to date the clubs will sell as fol lows: Helena, on Saturday, June 23; Bushy Fork on June 30; Providence, July 14; Olive Hill. July 21; Mt. Tir zahi, July 28. The schedule for the remainder of the clubs will be worked out later. Beginning Saturday, June 23, the market will not open until 8 a. m. | t> j Association’s Young People To Meet Soon Associational young people's meet ing of Beulah Baptist Association will be held at Mill Creek Baptist church near Roxboro on June 29. The afternoon session will bqgin at 3 o'clock. The meeting is especial ly for Y. W. A.'s and G. A.’s, all counselors, all young includ ing churches that have none of these organizations and any interested people. Special features will be inspira tional talks, talent hour, stunts, conferences, singing and a twilight service. Baraca Class Has Outing At Long’s The Baraca class of Roxboro First Baptist Church Sunday School had an outing Tuesday night at Louis Long’s home where the members and special invited guests enjoyed one of Mr. Long’s famous barbecued chicken dinners. A. M. Burns, Jr., teacher of the class, was master of ceremonies on this occasion, where he was greeted by forty-six, consisting of members, their wives and special guests. o Prayer Service Prayer service for ’ < Rook Grove Baptist Church will be held Sun day night, June 24, at eight o'clock at the home of Mrs. R. Ft Clayton. The public is invited. St. Sert. Cov W. Gregory Loses Life In France. May 19. Staff Sergeant Coy W. Gregory, 26, of Timberlake, Route 1, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gregory, of that address, was instantly killed May 19, near Nancy, France, when a truck he was driving struck a tree, according to information just re ceived by his parents from the War , Department and from Sgt. Gregory's commanding officer, Capt. Walter C. i Allen, of the Signal Corps. 1 Mrs. Gregory, mother of the dead . soldier, said that a War Department [ 1 telegram giving reports of her son’s ' j death was never received by her be- j cause the message was sent to an j Oxford address, the address that was on the Person soldier’s dog-tags.! The Gregorys, it seems, lived at an i Oxford or Granville address at the j time their son went into service, but j • they subsequently moved again to j ■ Person County, where they now live, j Sgt. Gregory was driving a vehi cle full of soldiers returning from [ a movie when the accident happen-1 ed between Gondr'eville and Toul. I S_gt. Gregory, who was educated at J Berea high school. Granville rounty, I entered the Army on January 7, j 1942, took basic at Camp Gordon, j Ga., and went overseas, where he; had been for the past two years. He : j was with an M. P. unit. 1 In the letter from Capt. Allen is j a sinrWe tribute to the work that I Sgt. Gregory did and to his ability | | to get along with his fellow soldiers, j |He was buried in a cemetery at; Limey, Lorraine, France, with full military honors. Among survivors,| in addition to his parents, are two ! brothers in military service, Cpl.[ Elmo Gregory, in Italy, and Pvt. 1 ; Isaac J. tiiegorp, also tn France. So far as is shown Sgt. Gregory's death lis the first among Person soldiers I from an accident occurring after V-E day. j Also surviving are two sisters, I Misses Helen and Evelyn Gregory . and a brother, Troy Gregory, all oi I the home. o I Helena Cannery j About Ready | L. C. Liles, supervisor of the Hel ena Cannery announced this week that the cannery would be ready for caning by July 15th. Mr. W. A. Wil son will assist Mr. Liles with the \ operation of the cannery. The new cannery building is about' ready and will be complete as soon as the contractor gets the roof on the structure. The new building cost about $5,000 and the machinery will cost in the neighborhood of $2,000. Again this year, meat as well as j I vegetables will be canned. / t Mr. Liles is very anxious for the ■ i general public to use the cannery , all that they possibly can this year. The need for canned goods is great j and the local cannery can handle' a large amount, much more than I last year or any previous year. Supervisor Liles has just return- ! ed from a cannery school at Stovall | where he served as an instructor. o Timberlake Gets New Postoffice C. H. Mason, one of the last postmasters to be appointed by President Roosevelt, and now post master at Timberlake, N. C„ is hav ing built at Timberlake a new postoffice building. The size of the building is not so large—l 2by i 22 feet but is ample to care for j the needs in this community. At the present time Postmaster Mason is operating the postoffice in the store of Garland Chambers where it has been for a number of years. He expects to move as so in as the new place is ready. o — Seventh Loan In Person Aided P. T. Whitt, sales agent, at Rox boro, announced today that Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey had purchased war bonds in the amount of $500,000.00 in North Carolina in connection with the Seventh War Loan Drive. In line with the Com pany's policy of allocating this pur chase among the 100 counties of North Carolina in proportion to each county's quota Person County has been alloted $2,000.00. ®ht CouriED®(me? Shopping On Taka Banare First purchase of Japanese goods with American occupational yen and sen notes was made on Taka Banare Island, six miles <ff the Pacific Coast of Okinawa. Tile Marine purchasers arc Private First I Class George W. Poppc (left) of Shaltuck. Okla.. and First Licu j tenant Caroll It. Wilson of Dubuque, lowa. The Spanish speaking Okinawan storekeeper is Seig Toytmaga. Veterans Office Plan Approved Aid Sought Id USO Center For i Supper Programs _____ r • Dr. R. E. Long Sav.s Church Groups Should Help. f Members of church auxiliaries or |Cf other church or social groups in-,1 i terested in furnishing and serving j picnic suppers for the remainder of (the Summer session for the Roxboro USO Service Center are requested |to get in touch with Dr Robert E. ; Long, chairman, at once. ! Many of these Sunday nigh, sup pers under USO auspices are being ' served now at. the Fred Long cabin, 'Chub Lake, where soldiers, the ma- 1 i jority patients from Camp But.ner i I convalescent hospital, frequently en- i j joy afternoon outings such as those which have been so successfully held j for the past several weeks, says Dr. ! 'Long, who points out that the sups ] per for last Sunday was servqd by .'the Lewell T. Huff Post auxiliary of ! Veterans of Foreign Wars, with :C. C. Garrett, James Jordan j and Mrs. T. T. Mitchell in charge, i Social activities were aided by Mrs. ! Mitchell. Junior hostess group No. 13, with Miss Lucille Oliver as lead-i er. also assisted. The same program at the lake, with swimmihg. water sports and vespers and supper will be repeated : ithis Sunday afternoon, with Junior ! hostesses from group No. 4. Crowd lon hand for the program last Sun day was larger than usual, says Dr., Long, and included in it were numb ers of Butner men as well as other visiting soldiers. Need for assistance from auxil iaries and church circle is really I great, according to Dr. Long, who [points out that numbers of such organizations helped in the past land did good work. o Revival To Begin i At Grace Church I Revival services will begin at Grace Methodist Church. East Rox ! boro, Sunday night. June 24, at 7:30. j Services will be conducted each day, June 24-29, at 9:00 a. m., and 8:00 p. m. Rev. Alvin C. Young, Pastor of Ca-Vel Methodist Church will preach. The public is cordially invited to come and worship ac cording to the Rev. C. C. McCarvei'. pastor.' Highway Board Reveals Super Road Plan: The State Highway Commission, meeting yesterday in Raleigh, an nounced the adoption of the State’s portion of a proposed inter-state super-highway” system, linking, for example at Emporia and Wise, Vi and announced at the same time that the “closed door" policy with regard to reporters would be aban doned, effective with the July ses sion, except “at such times as it is deemed advisable to go into execu tive session." Motion to open the doors to re porters was made by T. Max Wat son, of Forest City, and seconded by George W. Kane, of Roxboro. In a day long meeting crammed full of organizational work, the commission followed Governor Cherry's recommendation and ap pointed George B. Patton, of Ma con, as general counsel; named W. H. Rogers, Jr., as assistant to Com * HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Person May Re Am on if First In State To Have Such , Program. Expected to be established here at some time in the near future will bo a County Veteran's Administration bureau, headed, probably by a vet eran of tlie World War Two. Approval of the plan, originally sponsored or suggested here by Lest- ' er Blackwell Post, the American Le | gion, was given yesterday by the . Person County Commissioners who have an appropriation of $2,500 for the purpose in their new budget. Amount originally sought was 53.000 to 53.500. The Veterans Administration sys tem here will be one of the first county ones to be established, it is said, and it is expected that the county unit will work in coooera- 1 lion with a State Commission au thorized at the last session of. .the General Assembly. At a previous meetig of the Per son County Commissioners strong representations were made as to th. need of local ,administrator to work with returning veterans and hand!, their affairs. It is proposed that tin) person to be employed will work on a full-time basis and be prepared to give vocational, financial and gen eral business advice, as well as to as sist with purely administrative prob lems. o— Gen. Duncan Here Fcr Few Hours Gen. Early E. W. Duncan. Person native ana brother of Virgil Dun can, now of Durham, who has for the past several months been com mander of the Air Base in Iceland, was here last week for a few hour with his brother. Gen. Duncan a! time of his visit here was enroute to Santiago, Chili, where he will hejjd a. military mission for the Uniats States government. FIFTY FIVE THOi NEEDED IN WAR! The E Bond total of the S.*\u nearly $193,000 against a quota 0.l this week for about $13,090 \vhi< I PERSON COUNTY people in the • additional to make the quota. IT No person or group of persons can t responsibility. The goal should be reached rot Person CN.III ~ mission Chairman, A. H. t Sandy > ' Graham, and appointed H. H. Hon • ; | eycutt as director of the Slate's, prison system. ! Patton, a former assistant at , ’ torney general, will succeed Charles I Ross, general counsel for 18 years : and acting chairman for the last year. Ross will be retained on the [commission's legal staff during pending litigation on a fee basis, i Patton's salary is $6,000 a year. I Rogers, now assistant motor ve | hides commissioner, will take over [a post created at the first meeting 'of the new board and will have charge of personnel: His salary was set at $4,800. Honeycutt has been acting direc tor of the penal division since last December, when he was appointed |to succeed Oscar Pitts. He is a ; veteran of 44 years of service with ! the prisen department and fpr COUNTY TAX RATE REVERTS TO HIGHER BRACKET OF 1943-44 I lebacto Group ; Scheduled I U7 Next Week | : Halciah Meet To Fix Relt Opening: Dates. leiidcrson, June 20.—A joint . nilc! it::; of tite board of governors Tobacco Association of the States and of the board of l —..'a Belt Warehouse associa te ■ ill be held in Raleigh Oil V. day and Thursday of next, v - Final decision will be made jOt •p.-aing dales for the start cf •n auctions in the several to- ' ~ 1 ■ i lifts of the south. Fred Kc.v ■.i Henderson, president of the 1 ’••xrchouxe group, and member of 1 1. iA. U.B. board, said today. 1 - :o i ransportation restrictions, it : :1 meeting of T. A. U. S. has 1. it < mceiecl. and the board of r- ... will meet in lieu of the , ;::>mui gathering. ! I F'.ir.cipul business before the two a ■ Will iie approval of oiiemng c s fur the tobacco belts. TenUt . t "O'.s were set two weeks ago ;ty <• sales committee of T.A.ij.S. a. ! .itv.iik’, Va, and were substan- It: !.■• same as last year, with a.. he same spread between the dihieem areas. hat time, some criticism h veloped, particularly in tile .o'. . ■ where it is feared that tne : . :op in Hie southern belts will l disposed of in time to permit s'■ ■ ■■ d openings in the later n.. i . . . This dissatisfaction may f. . . • xpresslon at tile gatherings ! n : week in requests for earlier .• .ns m the south. Wires And Poles Being Wcrked On A inajof repairs and renovation program for wiring of the Carolina' Power and Light company here is. now in progress, first such under taken since about 1940, according to ■ T. Miller White, resident manager, ! who says. that, clearing up the lines and simplifying equipment will ..really benefit tile service here and will take care of increased loads in ihe down-town district. The Work may be completed in the next week or so and should also re ult in some beautification of th?, [ down-town section,; since numbers j of extra wires are being removed. Materials, have been on hand for the program for several weeks, but the j problem, according to Mr. White,! has, been securing work crews. o NOW AT HOME Gtts Holeman, of Air Corps, who has been in Italy, came home this reek, and will be here for several •reeks. tISAND DOLLARS LOAN PURCHASES oath War Loan has now reached j of $248,000. Wc have had credit i "!i represents purchases made by I services, We need to sell $55,000 : i can be done. It must be done, take them all. It is a community j :>l later than July 4th. unty War Loan Committee many years was warden of central prison. His salary is $4,800. The commission renounced its closed door” policy in the form of t resolution which was adopted nianimously. Introduced by T. Max Watson, of Forest City, the resolu tion said that at its May meeting the commission felt that "the many" •natters pertaining to organization could be better handled in execu tive sessions and adopted suen a policy. Beginning with the July meeting, the resolution said, "it will be the policy of the commission to havil its meetings open to the public, except at Such times as it is deem ed advisable to go into executh'e session. Reporters were not admitted at Thursday’s meeting, but a summary of the commission's action was lianded to the press in the form of I Rale Restored To Level Os ! Two Years Ago. Increase Expenditures Cited. j ' j Tentative tax rate for Person i County for the new fiscal year yes- • terday was placed by Person Com missioners at $1.30. while the City of Roxboro rate, although not yet officially acted upon, is expected to remain at $1.35, according to opin j ions of City Commissioners, who ; ! met Tuesday afternoon in regular j : session and who will meet again i next Wednesday to give further con sideration to budget matters. County Commissioners, on the other hand will not meet again: Uri- 1 til time for their regular first Mon- j day of the month July session. The new county rate, because of a num ber of increased demands, goes up | again from the present rate of $1.20, j ' but in so doing will only reach the [ rate of $1.30 set for two years ago. ] ] the fiscal year, 1943-1944. j County officials at their session! j yesterday authorized the auditing firm of Ashlin and Hutchins, Dur- j ham, to make an audit of the clerk ■ of the court's office, the audit being | required by law because of the death [ of the late clerk, Miss Sue C. Brad sher. Philip W. Hutchins, of the above named firm, presented to) Commissioners a bound copy of a j similar audit made after the death j of County Auditor J. S. Walker. ‘ Memorandum attached says tha t ] Mr. Walker’s accounts were "well and truly accounted for". Tentative County budget for the new fiscal years calls for overall ap propriation of approximately $200,- 000, against $185,000 for the year just ending. Included in increased j expenditures for the coming year 1 are appropriations of $5,000 for the], Helena cannery, $7,800 for repairs I at the County Home; $2,500 for the 1 1 new Veteran's Administration. Also to be taken care of this year is the , paying off of $17,000 in County i I bonds and $12,850 for paying off of school bonds. Vacation School i. ■ / Finals Planned t Tite Vacation Bible School which •' began at Mitchell's Chapel Bap-'’ tist Church on Monday morning got off to a good start under the.’ leadership of the Rev. Luther i ' Morphis and will continue through ’ Sunday. ! Those assisting are Misses Lu- ■’ jcille Davidson. Edriel Knight and Nancy Daniel. :'j Twenty-one were, present on the . \ I first day, with an increase of four t jon Tuesday. f It is felt that by the end of the week a fuller knowledge of the Bi- ] ble. a deeper appreciation of re- j ligious music, and much benefit , from character stories and rharac-, < ter problem discussions will have f been gained by both tjie pupils 1 , and the teachers. It is the earnest desire of the j pastor. Rev. B. B. Knight that \sv- ~ ery parent in the church give their ( ; children this wonderful opportunity f being afforded them this week. . The commencement exercises will ; be held Sunday at 11 a. m. jj o _ j Service Center [ List Revealed I £ : l i Hostesses to serve at the Roxboro USO this week-end will be as fol- ] lews: Saturday, 4 to 6. Mrs. Torn! 1 Woody and 6to 8, Mrs. Elizabeth ! ( : Bowles, Sunday, 12 to 2, Mrs. Woody j Brown, 2to 4, Mrs. Rufus Harris,! and 4 to 6, Mrs. W. H. Adair. t < a statement by Graham. ( Under the proposed interstate j •super-highway" system in which j j approximately $34,500,000 in federal j ( ' funds alone will be spent in the! [first three years immediately at- t ter the war, these North Carolina . sections of highway will be used ' as links in a chain spanning' every section of the continent. 1 c Over United States 301 from Em- 1 1 poria. Va., entering the state near ! s _ Weldon, to Rocky Mount, Wilson, i e Fayetteville, Lumberton and into f I South Carolina at Dillon. Over United States 1, entering the j state at Wise, Va., to Henderson 1 and Durham; from Durham on United States 70 to Burlington, i Greensboroe, High Point, Lexington and Salisbury; from Salisbury over United States 29 to Concord, Char- o lotte and Gastonia to the South a (Continued on page eight) ti The ‘Doc’ Treats A Patient * HU pKliliilillgl I? JilPiwi'H? > ‘i? JlllEillil Navy Pharmacist's Mate Second Class I.oren Douglas of Princeton, Did., is shown treating his favorite patient, injured slightly during the pre-invasion bombardment of Okinawa. The young lad in the foreground is being treated by the Japanese equivalent of a Girl Scout. Navy corpsmen are performing medical services usually ren dered only by registered physicians in the C. S. because of the large number of Okinawans injured or suffering from illness, aggravated by long periods of cave dwelling. Music Teaching To Be Re-Arranged J. K. Wood, Sr., Dies Suddenly In Petersburg Former Person Resident Mov ed To Petersburg Eight Or Ten Years Ago. James Kenneth Wood. Sr... 61. of. Petersburg. Va.. formerly of Rox boro, died suddenly Mpnday after noon at fout o'clock in Petersburg while at work, it was learned here yesterday. He was the father of James K. Wood, Jr., of Roxboro: Other sons are Thomas V.. in the South Pacific, and Louis 0., in Cal ifornia, both in the Navy. Another son, William A. Wood, also of the Navy, has been missing in action since November 1942 Mr, Wood's wife is the former Miss Delia Owens, of Petersburg, j who also survives, as does a daugh ter, Miss Louise Wood, also of Pet ersburg. Other survivors are two brothers,! Dr. D. Vincent Wood, of Millsboro, Del., and Frank Wood, of Ridge wood, N. J, one sister. Mrs. J. W. Simmons, of Farmville, Va.. and a' granddaughter, Miss Delaine P.; Wood, of Roxboro. Funeral arrangements are incom plete, but rites and interment will take place in Petersburg, probably today, depending on arrival of a son j from California. Interment will be i in Blanford cemetery, The Wood family while living here had residence near Rock Grove ! Baptist Church. Mr. Wood was en gaged in farming while in Person, but for several years had worked in an office in Petersburg, where he had residence at 130 Summit street. 1 o German Made Cigars In City Aubrey Painter, manager of a lo cal army store in Roxboro, was pass ing out cigars this week. The oc casion was not one of celebration so much as it was that he had a number of cigars that were made in Germany and he was passing them out to his acquaintances. The cigars were about half as long as an American cigar and look ed as tho they were made from green tips. They were evidently hand made and looked none too appetiz ing. One or two people who smoked one said that they were not too bad but that it was not such a long ! smoke. There was no tobacco wast- j ed in the cigar and you could not! put much of it in your mouth and' have any left to smoke. Painter aAled them Hitler Cigars. ; Applications Third quarter buss and truck gas oline applications may now be made at the Person OPA office, according to announcement made today. 1 Fatal Highway Accident IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 DON'T HELP INCREASE IT! DRIVE CAREFULLY Miss Ann Fountain Resigns. Other Changes Listed. Miss Mary Earle Wilson, band di rector at Roxboro high school for the past several years, will also take over supervision of Glee Club arid choral work in that school above the eighth grade, according to an nouncement made .today by Person. Superintendent R. B. Griffin, who at the same time reported that Miss Sarah Hodgin, of Greensboro, a 1945 graduate of Woman's College, the University of North Carolina, there, will replace Miss Ann Foun tain, resigned, as general teacher of public school music in the Rox boro district. Miss Fountain, of Weldon, is leav ing in order to accept work nearer her home, according to Mr. Griffin. Miss Hodgin will teach music .in grades one through eight :n Roxboro Central Grammar school and through the eighth grade in Rox boro high school. 'Other teacher changes of the past week or so are listed as follows: Miss Annie Boyd Bullock, of Four Oaks, teacher in the Johnston County schools and sister of R. A. Bullock, clerk of Person Superior court, will come to Roxboro for re sidence and will teach in the eighth grade at Hurdle Mills, succeeding Mrs. J. S. Merritt, resigned. Mrs. Emory Winstead, who re cently resigned as principal of Long hurst school after several years of service, said yesterday that she has accepted the position of principal at Olive Hill school, succeeding Mrs. R. B. Dawes, resigned, who is to teach in tire Mount Tirzah school. Miss Nellie Gravelly, for several years at Helena, will go to Bethel Hill to teach in the sixth grade. —o Allensville To End Service Sunday Evangelistic services are still in progress in Allensville Methodist church, with Rev. W. G. Farrar of Pittsboro, preaching. The services will continue through Sunday with , a service in the morning and after- / noon with dinner on the grounds. The Vacation Church school will j continue through Friday. The regular Services for Brooks- ! dale and Trinity and Brookland will • be conducted—at the usual time Sunday Brooksdale eleven o’clock and Trinity Four o'clock P. M, and Brookland eight o'clock P. M., ac cording to the Rev. E. C. Maness. O /’ril Rites Held For Oakley Daughter Funeral for Linda Faye Oakley, | • two months old daughter of Mr. and ! Mrs. Charlie Oakley, of Route two, ~ j (Roxboro, whose death occurred Sat urday morning, was held Sunday at noon at the graveside in the oem* etery at Little River church, with | the Rev. Joe B. Currin, of Roxboro, officiating. Death of the child, from suffocation, occurred Saturday. | morning at five-thirty o'cldbk, ae» • cording to reports received hare. ’| The child was a granddaughter oi : j Mr. and Mrs. Ira L. Moore.
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