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Victory Bonds Will Speed Them Home VOL. LXIV. B. J. Bowen Will Be In Charge Os County Home Will Succeed Alvis Clayton— Two Others Applied For Job. B. J. Bowen, of Moore's Mill, near Rougemont will become keeper of Person County home, succeeding Al vis Clayton, who several weeks ago resigned the position, effective from December 1, 1945. Selection of Bowen, one of three candidates for the position was made this morning by the Person County commissioners, who at noon today were still in session. Also approved by the Commissioners was a plan to over-haul and repair the water system at the County Home, where the well will be dug deeper. Work will be started immediately. Bowen, a man of middle age and well known in Person county, will serve a two year term as keeper of the home and will have residence there. In the home at the present time arc eigteen inmates. Some are whites, some Negroes, and a few are classified as feeble-minded, ac cording to records obtained from the Person Welfare department. One white woman has been in the home since 1907. Many of the inmates have little or no education, but one wo man is a college alumna. Keeper Clayton and Mrs. Clayton, who has acted as his assistant, have been officials at the home for many years and are now retiring, chiefly because of Mrs. Clayton's ill health. Mr. Clayton has several times pre viously sought to resign, but has up to now retained his post. Salary for the new keeper will be $l4O per month. Old salary for the Clayton's was sllO. Bowen, who was until recently operator of Moore's mill, the dam of which was destroy-; cd a few weeks ago, will have with! him at the home, besides his wife,: his 'teen-aged granddaughter, a high school student. Other appiitariie for the position, who appeared before the commis sioners this morning, were Charlie Oakley, of Ceffo, and John D. Long, of near Virgilina. o- F. 0. Carver, Jr., Is Publicity Specialist At a meeting of the Highway Com mission last week, at Chairman j Graham's suggestion, authorized 1 employment of a publicity specialist | and the publicati'on of a weekly j “house organ" carrying news of ( highway and prison activities. At the chairman's further suggestion F. O. Carver, Jr., was employed at $250 per month, to report for duty j upon his discharge from the Navy. This is our young man, who in 1942 joined the Navy. For about ten years he served as assistant editor of The Courier and had the pleas ure of seeing many of his editorials copyed in many of the State papers. The commission made no mistake in this appointment .and we predict tile house organ will be a newsy sheet, and the good things done by tile commission will receive due pub- ( licity. o——— National Week For Newspapers Being Observed The Courier-Times, beginning to day is observing National Newspaper week in cooperation with other papers throughout the nation. Ex pressing appreciation for services rendered by newspapers, Gov. R. Gregg Cherry, of North Carolina, recently issued an official proclam ation concerning the week, which is observed annually in the United States. Published on the editorial page in this issue of the Courier-Times under the “What Others Are Say ing" column is a statement concern ed with the place and the spirit of newspapers in this day and time. J. J. Barnett Is Long Time Courier Reader J. J. Barnett of Roxboro today renewed his subscription to Cour ier-Times and stated that he had been taking the Courier for thirty two years. He also stated that he would be glad to pay for the paper now thirty-two more years if the officials here would guarantee that he would get it for that number of years. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR New Minister l.v s ■ Ip'* - f REV. A. C. HAYES Rev. A. C. Hayes, shown above, is new pastor of Longhurst Bap tist church, succeeding the Rev. R. IV. Hovis. resigned. The Rev. Mr. Hayes, a former Army chap lain, came to Longhitrsl Irons Texas, but is a native of Robe son County, North (.irohn.i, W. H. Brown, 72, Dies In Orange Hold Rites For Person Native, Father Os Roxboro And Longhurst Women. j William Hpnrv Brown, 72, of .Mefcanc, J. Uu„ Carr's store, Orange county, died there Friday j morning at the home of a son, | | George, with whom he lived. Ana- j tive of Person county, he was ill j i eight weeks. Death was attributed , ito complications. Death occured ■at five o'clock. : Funeral was held Saturday after ] noon at four o'clock at the residence |of a daughter, Mrs. Casey Beaver. I at Longhurst, by Rev. J. N. Bowman and Rev. S. F. Nicks, with interment jin Burchwood cemetery annex. I Surviving are three sons, five daughters and twenty-one grand children. j Sons, in addition to George, are Bradsher Brown, Person County, and Clyde, of the Navy, Gamp Perry, Va., while daughters are, Mrs. Lula Clayton, Oxford, route .2, Mrs. Ger trude Turner. Hurdle Mills, Mrs. (johnny Johnson and Mrs. Florence Bowen, both of Roxboro, and Mrs. Beaver, Longhurst. ! O- —— White And Negro Youths Register For Army Service | Five white youths and two Ne groes registered here last week J with Selective Service on reaching I the age of eighteen, it was an jnounced today by Miss Jeanette j Wrenn. chief clerk, who said that chief business of the Board for the past several days has been reclassi fication of all men over twenty-six years of age. No men in such classification are being called up. The youths who have recently registered are, Elbert L. Oaklev, Robert A. Clayton, David B. Denny, Laurence Cozart and John D. Pain ter, Jr., and two Negroes, John Robinson and Alfred Allen; o Newman Reported Slightly Injured Safe in Milton is L. B. Newman, owner-manager of Silver Fox Lines, who early Friday morning reported ly had a wreck at Hyco creek bridge near Semora, Person County. New man was said to have been slightly hurst, but general excitement was created Saturday in Roxboro wlien reports got around that Newman had disappeared after his car was found at the bridge by a Silver Fox line driver named Baker, who re ceived a telephone call to get the machine. Fact that Newman was safe and 'well was established through a tele phone call to Milton, where he was staying at the home of friends. His car was still parked on the Semora highway late Saturday, according to State Highway Patrolman John Hudgihs. ®lje Courier=®ime? Annual Stew A! Collins-Aikman Attracts Many Chief Cook For Huire Event Was Henry. David Lonir. Jr. 1 ' i Employees and officials, of Collins and Aikman, Plant E, together with many specially invited guests, had -their annual bruriswick stew near | the main gate, where a large crowd estimated at close to two thousand j gathered for food and fun. Program was in charge of Sidney March, personnel manager for the plant and the food, prepared in a huge steam kettle, was cooked un der direction of Henry David Long. Jr., assisted by other Collins and Aikman men and women. Music was furnished by the Person County Serenaders, a string band, and an amusement feature was a series of side-shows. The stew was prepared in a huge i kettle in the plant. Some reported as much as five hundred pounds of it was prepared at. one time. Resi dent manager of Plant E, is J. M. Dempsey, who was also on hand. Festivities began at four o'clock in, j the afternoon. Lt. Thompson Now Placed On Inactive Duty Lt. E. G. Thompson, who has been in the United States Na-.y for the past three years and two months has beeh placed on inter iv-: duty by tile navy and has returned to | Roxboro to resume his business ac j tivities in the insurance fielj. Lt. Thompson volunteered in the Navy and was given a commission as Lieutenant Juni r grade. he was advanced to full lieutenant and retained that status until given his release last week. During the time that he .was in service his office was manage I by very efficient employees including Miss Mamie Love Barnett, Miss Sue Frederick and Mr. Walter James. Lt. Thompson has already started to work and stated that he was in deed glad to be able to come back to Ferson County. o Roxboro Woman's Brother Dies In Veteran's Hospital Funeral for George Richard Ward, 52, of Fremont, brother of Mrs. Huck Sansbury, of Roxboro. who died in the Veterans' hospital in Fayetteville Friday, was conducted Sunday afternoon in the home of his sister, Mrs. M. T. Flowers in Fremont. Interemnt was in the Fre mont cemetery. Mr. Ward was a veteran of world war I. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. E. D. Ward of Fremont; three brothers, and four sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Sansbury were in Fremont yesterday for the funeral. ——m- Sgt. Bealer Moore At San Antonio Tech. Sgt. Bealer Moore, of Rox boro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Finley Moore and husband of Mrs. Clara Garnell Wilkins Mooie, who recently spent several weeks here, jis now in San Antonio, Texas, at | the District AAF Personnel. Distri i bution Command center, where iic will remain for two weeks, pending reassignment or discharge, a radio operator and gunner, ho served thirteen months 1 in the SUvrpoau theatre, received tile An Medal, the Purple Heart and Presidential cita tion and was a prisoner of war in Germany for several months. Rotarians Have Stew At Long's Roxboro Rotarians, together with their wives and other guests which brought total attendance to one hundred, dispensed with formality : Thursday .night and went to the i I.ouis Long farm for a chicken bar . (becue supper served by the Longs. : Invocation was by Rotarian Rev. i Daniel Lane. Many in the group remained until dark. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA PERSON SOLDIER BEEFS AT LONG DISCHARGE DELAYS Allegations that soldiers with long i overseas records are being unwai - rantly retained in the Pacific area and that the excuse of lack of trans- j portation to bring the men back ( home is invalid, are being made) by a Roxboro soldier who has had ( over three years of service in the ' Pacific theatre and is now at Okin- | awa. The allegations, expressed in strong terms arc contained in a let ter (apparently uncensored) and; sent to his father here. The more than slightly peeved j Person soldier is Cpl. Eddie F. Zim- ! . merman, of Roxboro, whose father j l E. B. Zimmerman, of the State j Prison camp staff here, has attest-; led at the bottom of a letter from j : iris son confirmation of the fact! ; that Cpl. Zimmerman lias “spent his j fourth Christmas overseas". The j ! lather adds in his statement, “I would certainly like to have (him); ;spend this coming (Christmas) with; me, as I feel he has done his part , in this conflict which we have ex perienced". Zimmerman, the father, says he is going to send his son's letter to i Sen. Josiah W. Bailey and other i high government officials. Cpl. Zimmerman says in part, “I am on Okinawa now and have been since the first of May, and I may Juniors In Two Events Next Week Over Two Million One million pounds of tobacco , were sold during the past week on j the Roxbcro market, with an av- i erage of s4l, accenting to reports received here today. Sales of the previous week were close to a mil lion and a quarter piwmls. Qual ity of offerings continues from poor to medium. Talmadge Long Receives Award Flight Officer Talmadge H. Long, pilot, 312 Holloway Street. Durham, and Roxboro. has been awarded the Air Medal, it has been announced by Brig. Gen. William H. Turner, commanding general of the Indie- China Division Air Transport Com mand. at Calcutta. Flight Officer Long is a son, of Mrs. Mary Hunter Long and a grandson of C. H. Hunter, both of Roxboro. His Wife lives at the Dur ham address. Tlie award was made for partici pation in aerial flights in transp- aircraft over the dangerous and difficult India-China air routes., where enemy interception and at tack Was probable and exhorted The air trail over the Hump, famed route through the towering peaks of the Himalaya Mcu'ihvns, blazed by the Air Transport Com mand, is recognized by airmen as the world's toughest. The citation accompanying the award adds; Flying at night as well as by day, the high altitude over impas sable mountainous terrain through areas characterized by extremely treacherous weather ponditiMns necessitating long periods of opera tion on instruments . . . requiting courageous and superior perfoi 111- ance of his duties to overcome . , he accomplished 1 .is mission with distinction.” ——o— here two days Capt. and Mrs. Roy P. Lacy, of, Seymour Johnson field. Goldsboro, arrived last night to spend two days with Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Burns. Capt. Lacy is a nephew of Mrs. Burns and has seen active ov erseas duty for several months. -■ Alo+uj, Way I had a letter this week from my old friend Robah F. Baynes who is now living in Fairfield, N. C. As many readers of this paper know Robah lived here practically all liis life until several years ago. He was working at the Collins and Aikman plant prior to leaving Roxboro. Os course he is now retired and living the life of a Southern Gentleman. I wish to report to both of tlie readers of this column that he is planning to do quite a bit of hunting this winter. Robah ordered three dollars worth of land ptwled signs and that is a splendid indi cation of the fact that he is going to spend the winter hunting and that others had better keep off his land. However we are sure that all Roxboro and Person County hunters will be welcome on his reser vation. So here is your Invitation to go down and spend a week or two with Mr. Baynes and enjoyllife to its fullest extent. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT be here for another year, for all I know. I have done all T can to get home, but can't seem to do any good. ... I have been overseas for three years and eight months and in the Army for four years, and as you know, I have not been home at all. “They keep giving us the same song and dance. It is always 'No transportation', but I talked today to a captain in the Navy and he said he wanted to take some men back to the States when he goes, but they Would not give him any. He said 'there were tweive ships out. there, just waiting for a load of men, but, could not get any. “I have one hundred points, but. would be just as well off if I did not have any. There are about three hundred and fifty men in this out fit, with eighty-five points and over, up to, one hundred and sixty-four. I have done what I came into this Army to do, but I want to get. back home." ( Zimmerman then goes on to.say that perhaps people at home can do something about it. He adds that i Clifton Jones, of Longhurst, is with I him. that Jones came over three months before he did, blit has been home once since he came over, Zimmerman also complains about i the quality of food served. j Members ,of Longhurst Council, j Junior Order, have two impor t-pit I dates on, their calendar next week; ( according, to Marvin. Clayton, 1,-ari jer of the local organization, who ! Said t iris morning that a district j gathering is planned for Wednes ; day night, October 10, in Chapel ; Hill, and that a local supper will |be served to the Longhurst. coun cil on Friday night, October 12. !■ The district meeting at Cl.-.i del Hill will attract members from <h>-et .counties. Orange, Person ac«l Dur ham, comprising the nineteenth dis trict, and speaker is expected to be Clyde Green, State officer of the Order. Time for the 'gathering will be' seven o'clock. Hosts will be Davie council. The Supper planned here for ■ Friday of next week will by in tire •; Gymnasium at Roxboro nigh school land served by women of me Mount ' Zion Methodist church society of ■ Christian service. Time for that gathering will also be seven o clock. . A good attendance is desired a* both events, says Mr. Clayton. Thomases Talk To Son In Lucerne , Cpl. Gene Winstead Thomas. I husband of Mrs. Margie Monk . Thomas and son of Mr. and Mrs, • E. E. Thomas, talked to his folks Saturday by long distance from , Lucenne, Switzerland, where he is . on furlough from occupation duty. . The call was put through from Rox - boro about twelve-thirty in the af i ternoon and contact with Cpl. Thomas was made by eight that - night. Conversation lasted six minutes, long enough for the Thomases In - Roxboro to find out that their hus- i 1 band and son is well and in good 1 spirits, although he may .not be re el turned home until next February or I later. Time difference between the .■United States and Switzerland is • six hours. i Home Canning Second applications for Sugar for Home Canning from families who [ still have fruit to can will be ac , cepted at the local Board through i October 10. No Applications will be . accepted after that date, t Home canning coupons will be - valid for. use through November 30, 1945. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE SIO,OOO United War Fund Drive Starts Tomorrow Roxboro Circuit To Observe Rites Os Communion Rot. C. (J. McCarver An- j nounces Special Services For i Sunday, October 7th. j , i Tile Roxboro Circuit, composed of i Longhurst Methodist find Grace! Methodist churches, will observe; j Worldwide Communion Day. Sun-- I day. October 7 The services will be ; j at 11;U0 A. M. at Longhurst and I i7:30 P M at Grace. Tin- pastor,! Rev. C G McCarver. has express- J j ed a desire that all the friends and; j I relatives of the men in the service I from these communities be present. I There will be a roll call of these men, and tile families and friends ; will take communion in . honor of i their respective serviceman. A sped ’ a! program has been worked out for these services. Everyone is cordially invited to attend all services of these churches. The Communion service will include everyone, but. special 1 honor Will be given to the memory of our’servicemen, says the minister. On this particular day Communion will be observed by ‘all tin- churches . in Methodism, both in live United 1 . States -and abroad. Servicemen ev erywherewill have an opportunity . to observe, this sacrament at the 1 ] , same time that we are observing it I here at home. "Do this in rememb- j erance of me ” ’ i Germany Seems Best Nation To Roxboro Soldier i i Germany is more like the United 1 States in industrial development 1 and culture than any other nation 1 in Europe and thd German people are more like Americans than any 1 : .others, according to Pic. Norman * Brown, of Roxboro, who last week 1 received his, discharge and has re- 1 , turned home. Formerly a taxi op-' '- , (Tator here. Brown is brother ot 1 Mr's, Myrtle Gentry arid a soft of Mr. and Mrs, J. Y. Blown, ol Rouge- ’ . mont. ' 1 Pfe. Brown, who was in France . for the D-Day invasion, also was in Belgium. Holland and Germany and has a citation for the Saint Lo bat tie. HO also has four battle stars Biggest, job now, he says, is the. oc- ( eupation of defeated countries, add- ‘ mg that, he is of opinion that men . should continue to be drafted, un less there are enough volunteers to replace veterans of one year or more of overseas service, Pfc. Brown, who is 26, says that the German people are easily per ( suaded, but he thinks that just as . they were led by Hitler, they can be lead by others, by American be lievers in -democracy, for example. The Germans, lie says, were and arc far more courteous to Americans ' than others. o Fire Damages i News Plant In South Boston, Va. j - Fire is reported to have dcstro'-v , 'ed or greatly damaged a South Bos ton. Va. , newspaper office ' this morning, according to reports re ceived here from L. T. Carroll, of , South Boston, bookkeeper i.ir the Roxboro office of Export - Tobacco 1 j empany. Aecrding to Mr. Carroll j 1 j fire broke, out about two-thirty this j '(morning and was under control by 1 j seven o'clock. Damage was thought to have : been mainly from smoke, according J ' | to Carroll; who is next door neigh- | -; bor of a member of the fire de- j jpartment. Published in the plant! are two newspapers, the South Bos ton News and the Record-Advertis- ; er. Editor is Morrell Clark. Cause ( of tlie blaze was not. known accord- j ing to Can-oil. o Henry Winstead j Henry Winstead, former resident, j of this city and now a resident of ( Baltimore, Md„ spent several hours j in Roxboro last Friday. While liera] he visited friends of many years j) ago. Mr. Winstead is now in tlie tooa:- co business in Baltimore and over the state of Maryland. Dies In Service . rrr JOHN M. < lIKONISTER John M. (’hroiiister, 26, soil oi‘ Mr. and Mrs. Jolin ('lironister. of Longhurst, recently was reported as drowned in India while doss ing a river, according to War Department message received here by his parents. Details of tlie aeeident are not yd known. '■ v-“-" | C. C. Clayton's Rites Conducted At Eno Church Cornelius C. Clayton, 65. farmer of Oak Grove Township, off the Wake Forest Highway, men at his home Wednesday night at; 9 o'clock. He had bene in declining health for the past two years and for the past five days had been seriously ill from a complication of diseases. Mr, Clayton was born and reared in Person County, son of Albert and Ettie Jones Clayton and had been engaged in farming all his life. He moved to Durham County in 1917 and in 1922 moved to Oak Grove. He was Os Primitive Baptist faith. In 1907 he married Miss Jennie Manguiii Os Person County who sur vives. as do two daughters. Mrs. E. E. Fletcher and Mrs. E. P. Royster, both of Durham; a half-sister, Mrs. C. C. Oakley of Bragtown; and one j hall-brother. Walter Humphreys of i Roxboro. Funeral services were held'- Fri- j day from Elio Primitive Baptist | Chinch; Elders E. L. Cobb and A. L. ( Holloway officiated and burial was] in the church cemetery. Seal Sale Plans Begin As State Chairman Named Raleigh. Oct. I.—Plans for the 39th annual sale of Chris' bias seals got underway in North"-Carolina-, today as Kemp D. Battle, prominent;' Rocky Mount attorney, .assumed his duties as -chairman' o. the *943 drive. Battle's appointment b.v the i\e cutive committee of the North Car olina Tuberculosis Association was announced today b.v Di'. David 1. Smith of Duke University, president of the Association. The 1945 goal of $285,000 an nounced by Chairman Battle is an increase of $13,000 over the 1544 Christmas Seal Sale, Meanwhile, the 171 local tubercu losis ' associations and ,commit,ees throughout tlie state are mapping (plans for the campaign which '.opens oil November 19. Roxboro elvhcman (is Mrs. R. H. Shelton. i o jj. Flint Nichols Contest Winner i | James Flint Nichols, ten months-, j old son of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Nichols, of this city, wai winner of i first place in a baby contest in "P'eo Parade," the shew recently | presented here under auspices of It he Sons of the Legion, Lester .Blackwell post. Prize was five dol lars, based on 2.065 votes at one j cent each. Second place winner was Jimmy Shull, son ot Mrs. Ruth I Shull. His father is now serving - overseas. Second performance oi Pep Pa rade" was presented Thursday night. Fatal Highway ~ Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1848 DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 87 Annual Appval For Scout, I SO And Relief in Europe Being Made Here. Being launched here tomorrow (Tuesday) is the Person County and Roxboro United War Fund, with Janie.-, A. Long, Jr., and Jerry L. Hester as co-chairmen and with a goal ol $10,050. of which $1,250 will go to the annual fund of Per son Scout district in both white and Negro .divisions. Chairman ,n the Initial Gilts committee is George W. Kane, while head of teams in the business dis trict is W. Wallace'Woods, who will have Us solicitors, Lee tfinstead and Henry Monday. J. C. (Bill) - Walker and Maynard Clayton. E. 8., Craven. Jr, and c. B. Kirby. Jack Scrum and Frank Wright, J. W Green ami O Y. Clayton Sr, Zan Pulliam and Coleman King. Joe Y Blanks and Henry O Briant, David'S, Brooks and Coy Day, Miss Helen I.a!la ami Curtis Oakley. Misses Jeanette Wrenn and Anne Margaret Long., and. for taxi cab operators,. Lob Dixon. Members ol tile general commit - tee are, Mr. Kane, Ml'. Long, Sid ney Marsh, Dr, Robert Long, Law rence Featlierston. Mrs. J. A. Long. Sr, Miss Nettie Oakley. Gordon C. Hunter. R, B. Griffin, Mr. Hes ter and Mr. Woods, with the last named, in charge of publicity. Attention is called to the fact that j the Hind quota here this year is I (ally, seventy-live- .dollars more than it was la t year, although both national and international demands for the fund, which is used for USO purposes „i!id for the relief of des titute residents of war-stricken na tions. is probably greater this year , than ever. The Boy Scout angle to file fund here will i-limnate the, necessity, , ot a separate campaign here for the Scouts. Also, there will be n-i. ideal drive lor the USO Service Center here, which will instead receive its support. 1 nan the national United War Fund, as previously. Local contributors do however, in- that way contribute to USO services, both here and throughput *he na tion and abroad for their service men Who are still inf camp overseas witli occupation forces. In connection with the USD shows program supported through United War Funds, Gen. Eichelbrr ger said recently in Tokyo, “I want to see plenty of USO shows for the men," and he evidently knew- that lie would have strong backing from both Army and Navy officials. Just [yesterday officials of both branches j of the service requested that, eighty six USp-Canip Shows; units be sent ■to the Pacific areal This const!-' 1 rules the heaviest ass-g.anent ever | undertaken by Camp Shows to date. ; Tiifc required units will necessitate leasts totaling approximately 1200 performers. This is in addition to entertainment already arranged for i the European theatre of operations. A spokesman for USO Shows, com menting on the request, said that every attempt will be made to fill the order, since entertainment of this type and with' this seope was in eluded in the USO budget recently approved by the Army and Navy, l Also, lew men have attained such deserved fame for the use of well ' timed slang as Major General A. C. McAulilfe. His classic answer to tlie German commander who de manded the surrender of the badly ; beleaguered American troops at Bastogiie "Nuts"—will long be re membered. General McAuliffe is now tlie commanding general at Camp Mac-kail. From him State Chairman Victor S. Bryant has re cently received tlie following letter: Dear Mr. Bryant: -) "For many thousands of our wounded in hospitals the war is not yet over and will not be over tor many months to come. In ad dition there are millions in wartom | lands who are in need of aid which jis dependent on funds raised ; through organizations such as those represented in the National War Fund. During my service in Eu rope I laid an opportunity to sea ; tile great work that USO-Camp Shows was doing to relieve the boredom and homesickness which the inevitable accompaniment of occupation duties following the war. I feel that the National War Fund is a most worthy cause and I hope that it will receive enthusias tic support.” o »' 1 AT NANCY, FRANCE Cpl. Robert S. Brewer, of Roxborti, now with the Fifteenth Corps in Bamberg, Germany, has been spend - ' ing some time at a rest center afe Nancy, France, according to inform ation received here today from that War Department.