Victory Bonds Will Speed Them Home VOL. LXIV. Civic Clubs Help But Band Needs Cash For Journey Fifty Dollars Additional j Sought For Trip To Tru- I man Exercises. Three Roxboro Civic Clubs, Ro tary, Klwanis, and Exchange, have agreed to contribute $25 each to ward the fund needed to take Rex- ' boro high school band to States-' ville, Friday, where it will plav I during the Truman Day celebration, it was reported last night by Jerry' 1 L. Hester, supervising principal of ; 1 Roxboro high school, who said, 1 however, that additional funds will; 1 be needed. • 1 1 It is estimated that at least fifty dollars more will be required to take : the forty-four piece band, the mem • j bers of which, with Miss Mary Earle , i Wilson, director, will leave here i, about four o'clock Friday miri'ingi in two busses chartered through the", courtesy of L. B. Newmon, of this j city, operator of Silver Fox lines. | Mr. Newman will drive one of the 1 * busses himself according to Mr. Hester, he has made special rates j at a lower price than was first con- [ 1 templated. Persons desiring to supplement t.ie civic club funds, which will total | $75, arc asked to get in touch with; Mr. Hester at once. Members otij I lie band have been advised from I Statesville as to the wisdom of j bringing their own fcod with them | and ;t is expected that Miss Opal Brown, of the Roxboro high school homo economics department and her assistants will assist with lood preparation for the local group. Also to go to Statesville arc many local citizens, including political leaders, some of whom wi'.i leave here Thursday, spend: Friday in Statesville and then double back to be in Raleigh r £r the resident's night appearance there. 1 o Food Program For Truman Day Being Arranged W. Wallace Woods, secretary of .Roxboro Chamber of Commerce lias received from C. D. Stevenson, of Statesville, chairman of the food committee for the Truman day celebration Friday a statement showing that what is hoped will be adequate preparation to take care of feeding the expected crowd is being arranged. Stevenson writes: "Approximately forty food booths are being set up in different parts of Statesville. A number of these booths will be located on Court Street which Is In the center of the town next to the Court House and this street will be roped off and used for pedestrians only on this day. Booths will be operated on the High School campus and at the High School stadium, where the President will speak, and the High School cafeteria will be In opera tion at the school building." "These booths will be operated by Women's organizations from the town and County and they will have large supplies of food to serve at reasonable prices. We have placed a ceiling price on these booths and all foodstuffs and all drinks will be sold at reasonable prices. They will be stocked with large supplies of hot and cold sand wiches, hot and cold drinks, home made pics and cakes and many other articles of foodstuff." - o j Stew Wednesday Brunswick stew to be held by Roxboro Country club will be given at the Club on Wednesday night at six o’clock and not on Thursday be cause of conflict with a football game scheduled Thursday, it was announced this morning by Curtis' H. Oakley, of the club. o i Three Discharged Three members of the W. A. Ber ry family, of Timberlake, have re cently returned home from military service. Newest arrival Is S. Sgt. Lambert Berry, who has been >n Europe. Also at home is his broth er, S. Sgt. Willie Berry, who has been in the Pacific, and a brother in-law. S. Sgt. Landon O. Whitt, who has likewise been overseas. All three h*ve been discharged. — o To get the best hash brown pota toes, cook over a low heat and do not stir the potatoes, say home eco nomists of the Extension Service at State College. Jj W. NOELL, EDITOR Person OPASeI To Close Within Next Thirty Days i Raleigh.—ln line with OPA's de ' clared policy of reducing the numb- i ; cr of War Price and Rationing j boards as wartime restrictions are [ removed, seven local boards in East j ern North Carolina will be abolish ed, effective October 31 and 23 other ; boards will be closed probably by November 30. Activities of these ! i boards will be absorbed by centraliz 'cd price control boards in nearby | towns. OPA District Director Theo- ; dorc S. Johnson announced today. ! Johnson said that mergers, when complete, will reduce the number of j boards now operating in the Raleigh \ district from 64 to 24, a reduction of 40. Area rent offices are not af fected by the change. Boards to be closed and merged October 31 are those in Graham, j I Chadbourn, Tabor City, Halifax, Scotland Neck. Liilingtqn and Red j Springs. The consolidations scheduled for | November 30 will cause the closing of offices of boards at Yanceyville, Hillsboro, Chapel Hill. Roxboro. Louisburg, Oxford. Wairenftjn, Jack- ] son, Gatesville, Swan Quarter, Nash ville, Tarboro, Windsor, Columbia. Plymouth, Camden, Edenton, Cur rituck, Manteo. Hertford, Raeford, Pittsboro. Siler City, Carthage, Eli zabethtown, Southport, Burgaw, Beaufort, Snow Hill, Trenton, Lau rlrhu.rg and KenansviUe. v „ The 24 offices to be retained will be known as Price Control boards, their locations and the area to be served by each are as follows: Burlington, serving Alamance and Caswell counties. Durham, serving Durham, Orange and Person. Henderson, serving Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren. Raleigh, serving Wake. Johnson said that present plans contemplate retaining rationing pan els and a skeleton staff of rationing clerks for a limited time in areas where boards are closed to assist in administering the rationing of tires, meats and shoes in order to make the transition as smooth as possible. All price control activities will be transferred automatically to the new headquarters location at the time oi the closing of each board. Price control boards will be under the direction of Guy W. Rawls, dis trict price board executive. He will be assisted by Clyde R. Miller, as sistant district price board executive and six price board supervisors. Four Discharged i —: — D'Arcy and Earl Bradsher, Jr„ ; both officers in the U. S. Army and recently overseas in Europe, have received discharges and returned home, as have Bob Whitten, of the Army, and Basil Riley, of the Coast Guard. Scout Court Held Held Friday at the Roxboro USO ; Center was regular meeting of Per son Scout District court of honor, where one boy, Bobby Crews, pass ed tenderfoot rank. Presiding was Gus Dcering, chairman, assisted by Joe Guffey. Many boys were pres ent for the court, however, and it is expected that awards will be more in number next month, according to Mr. Deering. I ° Two Wrecks i Robert Fox, about 19, was slightly hurt last night in an automobile collission on South Boston highway, it was reported this morning. He was brought to Roxboro for medical attention. Also reported was a crash near Roxboro Airport Sun day, where two cars smashed fend ers against each other. In one province in Holland where 13,000 homes were damaged by bombing and looting, Hollanders sal vaged what remained and succeeded in building and equipping some 150 farm houses, iays American Relief i for Holland, a member agency of the National War FunA ®l)e Courter=®unej3 Person Victory Loan Drive Starts Here Today Victory Bonds, the official campaign for which op'ncd Sunday over the nation and which started here this morning, bear a portrait rs late President Franklin D. Rcosevelt as their most outstanding decora tion. Shown above is one of the Victory Loan bonds in S2OO issue. Co-chairmen for the Person and Roxboro drive, which has an overall quota of 5397.000 and an inclusive E Bond quota of $149,000, are R. L. Harris and R. B. Griffin, with Miss Claire Harris as head of tile Woman's Division. District chairman is Gordon C. Hunter, also of this city. The Victory Loan Drive, which is intended to help bear expenses of bringing men heme and providing hospitaiizat’on and benefits, together with discharge pay, will continue through December 8, day after the anniver sar.v of Pearl Harbor day. Two Out Os Town Speakers For Zone Mrs. J. E. Rogers' Father Passes Funeral To Be Held Today For Father Os Roxboro Woman. Charles Edmond Temple. 82 , of 439 Mount Vernon Avenue, Ports mouth, Va:. father of Mrs. Jesse E. Rogers, of Roxboro, died Saturday afternoon in a Norfolk, Va., hos pital attar a -tong illness Funeral will be held this after noon at 2:00 o'clock at SneUings Funeral home, Portsmouth, with in terment in Oak Grove cemetery there. ' Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, who were called back to Portsmouth be cause of Mr. Temple’s death, only recently returned to Roxboro from Portsmouth for residence, where they have an apartment in the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Gil liland, Sr. Mr. Temple, a native of Prince George County, Va., had lived in Portsmouth fifty-tv.o years and was until retirement connected with the Navy yard. Survivors, in addition to his dau ghter, Mrs. Rogers, are his wife, another daughter, Mrs. R. I. Gould, of Portsmouth, two sisters, a bro ther and a grandson. K. T. Shotwell, Os Woodsdale, Dies At Home Kenneth Thomas Shotwell, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Shot well, of Woodsdale, died last night at the home of his parents after having been ill all his life. Death was attributed to epilepsey. Funeral will be held Tuesday af ternoon at three o'clock at the home by the Rev. Daniel Lane, of Rox boro, with interment in Burch wood cemetery. Surviving in addition to his par ents are three brothers, James and Clarence, of the home, and Pfc. Elmer Shotwell, of Camp Gordon, Gn„ a member of the military po lice, and five sisters,. Mrs. J. W. Pulliam, of Allcnsville, Mrs. Gracie Paul of Ca-Vel, Mrs. Early Tuck, of Woodsdale, and Misses Christine and Millie Ruth Shotwell, of the home. Bronze Star Sgt. James A. Shell, of Harlan, Ky„ husband of Mrs. Ruth Tatum Shell, of Roxboro, has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious ser vice while in Germany. Sgt. Shell, who is now at Camp Phillip Morris, France, holds the Purple Heart, Good Conduct medal, and the E. C. T. O. ribbon with three battle stars along with the Bronze Star. o MILL CREEK DAY Annual Harvest Day will be held at Mill Creek Baptist Church, Sat urday, November 3rd. Brunswick stew will be served at one o’clock, and pies and other desserts will also be sold. An auction sale will be held after lunch. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA Mrs. A. H. Borland, of Durham and Mrs. S. F. Nicks of Hillsboro | formerly of Roxboro. will be guest [ speakers Sunday afternoon ht two thirty o’clock at Ca-Vel U‘" hodist j church at a meeting of •be Person ; Zone, according to announcement' made today. Also on the program will be a number of local speakers, among them. Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, of Con-: cord Methodist church, who will dis cuss "Study,"; Mrs. Daniel Lane ! wife of the pastor of Person cir cuit, who will talk on “Christian Social Relationships and Local Church Activities," and Mrs. C G. McCarver, wife of the pastor of Lon^hurstand Grace Methodist churches,Who will discuss, "Work With Children." Presiding at the session will be Mrs. Rainey Crumpton, zone leader, who is urging a full attendance. I Person zone is composed of women in all Methodist churches in Per son County and Roxboro. ThisW'.i be final session, of the zone prior to the ending of the church confer ence year and much important bus iness is scheduled for discussion. _o— . [State Leaders Close Meeting Os Recreation Raleigh. The four-day North. Carolina Recreation Conference, w'hich began here was concluded with a session of the North Caro lina Recreation Association. Election of officers and talks by Ray Carlson of New York, National Recreation Association representative, featured the Session. Four bodies participated in the four-day conference: the NorthCar [olina Recreation Commission, its ad- Jvisory committee, ex-officio consult -1 ants, and the North Carolina Re- I creation Association. At the final session members of the association elected Barbara Vin al of Burlington as secretary and Tom Ipock of Gastonia as treasurer. The terms of the president and vice president are for two years, and President Jesse A. Reynolds of Wilmington and Vice-President Llyod B. Ejathway of Winston- Salem have another year to serve. Association members also voted approval of their organization's be coming affiliated with the Society of Recreation Workers of America. Carlson, who spoke on "Nature and Recreation," and “Nature Crafts," presented an exhibit of nature crafts. m Alo4Uf *74e Waif, m Now that it has been announced that my old friend Coleman King is going to get married I am wondering what is going to happen to another batchelor friend of mine, none other than Gene Thompson. It was rumored that Gene complained bitterly when told that Coleman was going to marry. "How can you do this to me?”, is what he said when advised of the coming event. He just couldn't believe that Coleman had been able to get his girl to say “Yes." This, as some readers will remember, makes Gene a lone wolf until Charles Wood and Dolian Long come home from the wars. Then he will have two other men over 40 who will still be In the single ranks. Os course Dolian could bring home a French wife but we doubt lt. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1945 k Highest Yet Highest average yet reported this season for the Roxboro market was reached Friday when 970 pounds brought an average !of $46.62. Thursday sales were j19©.624 pounds at $45.62, and total sales here for the year now stand at r>.528,886 pounds at an average jpf $42.72, it was reported here to day . Fermat induction Rotary Feature Four Men Received Into Rox boro Club. Lunsford Is Speaker. Formal induction of four recently elected members featured Thurs day's program for Roxboro Rotary Club, where Fred Long was in charge: with Nathan Lunsford mak : ing the formal address of welcome to the new men. Those presented for induction were c. C Jackson, J. R. Adair, J. S Fleming and Hubert Eggleston. Also seated with them at the neophite’s table were Alvin Warren and L. G. Stanfield, who were inducted sev eral months ago. Induction of the four new men at one time was car ried out under a new policy of hav ing such exercises at stated inter vals rather than for each individual l at election time. Introduction of Mr. Lunsford was by Mr. Long as chairman of the Ro tary information committee. Key note of Mr. Lunsford’s address was his quotation of Kipling's famous , poem, "If", which the speaker cited ■ as a good rule of living for Rotar , ians to follow. He also mentioned that the Roxboro club has been in existence for slightly more than half of the forty years which have passed since the founding of Rotary International. On the motion of R. B. Griffin the club voted to give $25 toward expense of sending Roxboro high .school band to Statesville next Fri ' day to participate in the celebration there for President Truman, j Presiding at the club session was Dr. John Fitzgerald, president, and i used for the first time by Rotarians was a loud-speaker system installed in the dining room by manager Karl Burger. A special guest was Bobby Blanks, son of Rotarian Joe Y. Blanks. o Ca-Vel Revival Revival services at Ca-Vel Bap tist church will continue through the week, beginning each evening at seven o'clock, Rev. E. W. Bailes, of Durham is preaching, pastor of the church is the Rev. J. N. Bow man, who extends a cordial welcome ; to the public to attend. The ser vices began last night. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE R. A. Bullock, Court Clerk , Dies This Morning After Short Period In Hospital Needs $2,258 $2,258 more is needed to com- I plele the Person and Roxboro United Community War fund j which has a quota of 510.050. ac cording to a report tabulated at I noon by J. A. Ixing, Jr., coehair ' man for the drive, who said that it , will continue all this week in an j elfort to reach the goal. Total con- 1 tributed thus far says Chairman , Long is , $7,792.29. Lt. Col. Mussell, Person Speaker, Heads Chaplains i ■—- ~' l . Roxboro’s Armistice I) a v Speaker, Now Head Chap lain At Butner. j Lt. Col. Paul C. Mussell. who is’ to speak in Roxboro. Saturday,; ' November 10. at Armistice Day ex-j ! ercises, has assumed the duties of: i post chaplain at Camp Bittner, ■ , according to an announcement by j Col. Herbert M. Pool, post com-j I mstnder. He replaces Maj. Samuel' Overstreet who is being discharged! from the service: Colonel Musseil's military career j began in November, 1941, when lip became attached to the Fifth Ar- i mored Division at Fort Knox. K.v. j After serving in several different, camps and attending the Chaplains’' School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ijjd., he joined the 104th Infantry., Division upon its activation in Sep tember, 1942. A full-fledged member ' of the "Timberwolfs" he served j with them during their training in j the States, through their European | campaigns, and returned with tie division in July. The chaplain particularly reme.i.- bers Nordhausen, Germany, one of j | tile big concentration camps whe ■ i they found nvanv thousands cYa. I; i lrom stravation. This was also 'then site of Germany's largest V-i and; V-2 factories. j He wears the ETO ribbon, thre > j battle stars, and the Bronze Star j Medal. The medal was presented [ him by Maj. Gen. Terry Allen, com mander of the division, for meri torious service in connection wit i military operations in Belgium. Hoi- j i land and Germany from Oct. 23,! 1944 to March 5, 1945. The chaplain's home is Terre Haute. Ind„ where Ills mother no v resides. T— O East Roxboro ! Hears Visitors j The Rev. and Mrs. W. F. West Jof -Hartsville, Ga.. for,net- residents of Roxboro and friends of East Rox boro school accompanied by Miss Katie Murray of Raleigh, a return ed missionary, paid .the school a vis-, it Friday morning at the regular chapel hour. The Rev. Mr. West brought devotional thoughts from the First Psalm and then he intro duced Miss Murray, who taught the pupils several Chinese expressions, (songs, and customs and gave to I them an illustrated "heart" story | which showed the necessity of i cleaning the heart to live the -Jesus' Sway. Mr. West led in prayer. Elwood Holt led his school in j giving The Pledge to the Flag and j Joyce Shields led her class in j singing a special song for the vis- I itors. —o . Sgt. 0. D. Dixon Listed As Dead Mrs. Effie D. Dixon of Norfolk, Va.; formerly of Roxboro, has been | notified that her son. Staff Sergeant Ozzie D. Dixon, died in Manila, Phil ! ippine Islands, on July 2, 1942. He had previously been reported as missing since May 7, 1941, He was the brother of Miss Gladys O. Dix on and Mrs. Delma Dixon Levin of Norfolk, and of Ernest B. Dixon, U. S. Army. His father was the late Ernest F. Dixon of Roxboro. o HAS MEDAL Pfc. Thomas Carver, son of Mrs. E. W. Carver, of Roxboro, has re cently been awarded the Good Con. duct medal. He la now in Austria. Clerk Dies I!. A. HI-LLIK'K | Farmers Urged i To End Program i Person AAA Chairman Wants All Program Records Complete. With the end of the 1945 program i I year just about two months off, | Claude T. Hall, chairman, Person j County AAA Committee, today urges j I all farmers who have obtained con-I ! sefvation materials under, the 1945 Program to exercise every possible i effort"to use these materials in ac- I cordance with good farming prat-- j j rices before the deadline, Dec. 31. ' Mr. Hall pointed out that $40,000.00 • were lost to Person County farmers ! last year because they failed to earn ! the lull amount of their soil-building ! allowance. ••Conservation materials in the ; form of Superphosphate is still | available to all farmers in the Coun ! ty who have not yet taken their full I allowance ill materials for 1945." he j said, "and this material may be ap j plied to winter cover crops and pas tures through December 31." i Upon using all materials, a report should be made at the Person Coun ty AAA Office by the farm operator. | "If all the farm allowance has not' | been taken up in Conservation Ma- i tcrisis and producers are eligible to, receive payments, applications for < payment may be signed at the same time." lie explained. The Triple-A. Chairman also urges producers hav ing 1944 Conservation Materials transferred to the 1945 Program to make proper use of it in order to obtain full credit and avoid a double deduction of the value of the ma terials. —o Famine Expected In North China j The prospect of widespread fam ine in Northwest China, among a population of 60 million people, lias sent grain and vegetable prices soar ing and brought an appeal for help to prevent distress and suffering this winter, according to a report of United China Relief, says J. A. Long. Jr., chairman of the United War Fund here. The situation is imminent in spite of a late rain and what is called a j “catch" crop of quickly maturing grain, because of bad earlier condi j tions, said the report. A long drought : this summer completely ruined wheat planted in the slopes, but wheat in irrigated areas may be saved. . As an indication of the mounting 'prices of foodstuffs, the report cited that ten pounds of rice, the nation's mainstay, now costs more than S3OO a pound. American money. It is estl ! mated that in one province alone 1 500,000 people will have to be fed ; for at least six months which entails transporting 5,000 tons of grain from outside the province, the report stat ed. Relief for the suffering people of China is being provided by United China Relief, member agency tof the National War Fund, through contributions to the Person arid Roxboro campaign. \ Fatal Highway ~ Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN IMI DON’T HELP INCREASE IT! DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 95 J Popular Court Official 111 Many Weeks. Funeral Incomplete. R. A. i Dick) Bullock, since June of this year clerk of Person Superior Court and for many years prior to that rime assistant clerk, died this morning at one-twenty-five o’clock in Saint Elizabeth hospital, Rich mond, Va., five days after he had undergone an operation in that in stitution. Mr. Bullock, wild had been in ill health several months, recently spent several weeks in Watts hospital, Durham, for treatment and after his return home decided to go to Rich mond tor an operation, which was performed Wednesday of last week. Hie operation was of a serious na ture and for three days he was in a critical condition following the de velopment of pneumonia to which his death was attributed. He sticceded his sister-in-law, the late Miss Sue Bradslier, as clerk of tlic court here after her death and would have held office under ap pointment until the next general election. November 1946. A graduate of Davidson college, he also attend ed John Graham preparatory' school in Warrenton. He came to , Roxboro in 1913, where he was asso ciated witli his brother, the late W. | C. Bullock, of this City, in Watkins [and Bullock lumber company. Subsequently lie was with Farm ers' Hardware company here, also in association with his brother. Im mediately afe'r graduation from Dav idson lie taught school for one year at Smithlield. In Richmond tind at the hospital with him when death came were liis daughter. Miss Panthea Bullock, his brain*!-. George Bullock, of Rox boro, ills nephew, John Bullock, a sister. Miss Annie Boyd Bullock, all of this City, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. A. J. Bullock, of Richihond. Al so surviving are another brother, J. W. Bullock, of Stovall, and another sister. Miss Sallie Bullock, of Rox boro. 5 His wife, the former Miss Edna Bradslier, died May 9th, of this year) and his brother. W. C. Bullock, died December 7th, 1944. Miss Annie Boyd Bullock, now a member of the faculty of Hurdle Mills school and, formerly of Four Oaks, came to Rox boro after the death of Mrs. R. 4, Bullock and made her home with R. A. Bullock. Miss Panthea Bullock, liis only child, is now a student at , Meredith college, Raleigh. A member of Roxboro Presbyterian,' [ church and of Roxboro Kiwanis club, ! lie was a son of the late John and Panthea Bullock, of Bullock, Gran ville county. He taught for many years a Sunday school class in his church. Funeral arrangements are incom plete, but rites are expected to be held here sometime Tuesday, Members of the family returned to Roxboro this morning. Mr. Bullock, who served as assist [ ant clerk of Superior Court here for ! about ten years, was also judge of | the juvenile court. He was widely 1 and favorably known in court circles as a popular and an efficient ad j ministrative officer and his appoint [ inent as regular clerk by Judge Lea | Carr, ol Burlington, had full sup -1 port from Person citizens. He was ill in Watts hospital when Superior court was held here this month and thus was never able to preside over a Superior court term in his new official capacity, although he had previously filled those duties as an assistant under Miss Sua Bradslier. 0 1 : C. F. Dunkley On Halloran * Charlie Fletcher Dunkley. seaman, first class, USNR, whose wife, Lon nie, lives at Longhurst, serving <M , USS Halloran in a destroyer escort, helped open a strategic harbor Ms the Philippines to Allied shippMjE' | and seaplanes shortly before the e&jft of the war, it was reported tod^K The vessel picked her wa jp through the thick minefield as hip crew, veterans of campaigns in Wm Palaus. the Philippines, Iwo JUMR ' and Okinawa, destroyed 48 aia4s i by rifle and machine-gun fir®, 0 MAXIE BLALOCK OUf I T. Sgt. Maxie T. Blalock, i Mrs. Agnes Blalock of TinUMkMrik 1 recently received his dischagaSwMß 1 the Army on the point sysia® aftef; . four and one half years ot MMkgwv

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