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Victory Bonds Will Speed Them Home VOL. LXIV. Crestfallen Band Marches Without Its Blue Uniforms Kiwanis Head xssßfiSflK j§g; +.'': 'ji^^^pp: I M > ■ 3. YV. GREENE J. W. Greene To Become Head Os Kiwanis Club Popular Roxboro Civic Leader To Guide Club In 1946. President-elect of Roxboro Kiwa nis club is J. W. Greene, of this city, who is expected to be install ed at the first meeting in January 1946, and will succeed J. A. Long, Jr., present huti of the civic club. Greene, a Roxboro jeweler, is also head of Person Scout district, mas ter of Person Lodge 113. a member of the Roxboro school district board and active in leadership at First Baptist church. His election as in coming head of Kiwanis occurred at Monday night's meeting of the club at Hotel Roxboro. Other can didates for the position were R. H. Shelton and Jerry L. Hester. Winner as new vice president is J. M. Dempsey, resident manager of Plant E, Collins and Aikman, while runners-up were Leon Wilson and L. C. Liles. Treasurer-elect is Thomas Hatchett, who won over John Merritt and H. Dewey Young. New- directors will be Fred Bishop, teacher of Bible in Roxboro high school, Frank Wright, co-manager of Bruce's department store, Dr. Robert E. Long, dentist, Coleman King, manager of Long's haberdash ery, and Preston Satterfield, Jr., of Roxboro Lumber Company. J. A. Long, Jr., as immediate past pres ident of the club, will also be a member of the new board of direc tors. Others who were candidates were: Bill Minor, L. M. Yates, Mac War ren, Oscar C. Reynolds and Has sell Fox. Because of business ses sion, no formal program was pre sented. Now returned to active membership in the club is Earl Bradshcr, Jr„ until recently in ov erseas service in Europe with the United States army. MT. ZION YARD Members and friends of Mt. Zion church are asked to meet Friday af ternoon, November 2, at 1:30 o'clock to clean the church yard. Leaders Plan For Camp Session Mrs. T. Miller White, of Roxboro, chairman of the Camp and Hospital community service committee for Person Chapter of the American Red Cross, together with other members of her committee, is expected to be in Chapel H.ill on November 7th, to attend a district session of Camp and Hospital committees interested in planning the Christmas gift pro gram for service men now in hospit als, it was revealed today. Mrs. White, who presented a tentative report of the plan for her committee here last Thursday night at regular monthly session of Per son chapter of the Red Cross, said that cooperation is being planned with the American Legion, as was done last year and that packages are to be in committee hands by J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Mitchell Calls Off Whole Statesville Affair At Last Moment. “We ain't gonna march. w>c ain't j gonna march to Statesville", W’as the | minor-key theme of Roxboro high j j school band this morning as it par- j j aded down Roxboro streets to pro- i mote tonight's football game with I Hillsboro. an event which had been ! shifted from tomorrow night especi ally for the purpose of allowing full Friday representation of the band at Statesville. And that's not all. The forty-four bandsmen marched this morning without their blue and gray uni forms, th ? most of which were at the cleaner’s or at home being pressed and spotcri and made ready for State Senator Hugh G, Mitchell’s event, that did not come off and j never will. Last minute announce- ! ment from him last night cancelled j all arrangements for the Statesville j gathering of tomorrow, alter Presi dent Truman previously announced ! his inability to be present. And that's not all. Miss Mary | Earle Wilson, band director in Rox boro. together with her players, is, going to have to go to the trouble) I to refund to the givers cash received | I from them for the “trip fund" of I j the band. That won't be such a hard) jjob, since a list of individual givers) was kept. The money will be refund- j ed, right down to the last dime, j Much . of it, from the three civic ■ clubs. Kiwanis, Exchange and Ro-. tary, never had been passed: any how. and will be a matter of book-! keeping on paper, but the other stuns, a lot of it collected from folks! in the warehouses here will have ! to be returned individually. It will be. The forty-four bandsmen here arc disappointed. A good many of the other official guests-to-have-been, ( are not, although some thirty of them had received written invita- j See BAND Page 8 E.G. Thompson i 1 Now Ranked As Navy Commander Not every service, man who re- ! | turns to reserved status officially I; receive promotion after having been i, placed in reserved ranks, but that j, is what has happened to Eugene!, Graham Thompson, Roxboro bus-I ] incss man, who was called back to ! ■ Washington Monday, where he re- : ceived the rank of Lieutenant Com --i ■ mander, United States Navy. 1 1 Lt. Com. Thompson it is now, and ). advanced from the rank of Lieu- j, tenant, but not in active service. | j The new officer is back at home j, now, conducting as usual the affairs j, of Thompson Insurance agency and j. he expects to remain at home. He first entered the Navy in Oc- ; toberl943, and finally, the elevation ; i to Lieutenant Commander last! 1 month. This last promotion, like 1 the first, was received in due pro- < cess and through regular channels i and the order for it was given be- I fore j/t. Thompson came home, < around the first of October this i year. Only a bit of that official i red tape business kept the order 1 from going through at once, be- ‘ fore the recipient came back to 1 Roxboro. Anyhow’, Lt, Com. Thompson has his new credentials and is at home. December 15, at the latest. Persons interested in assisting Mrs. White are requested to see her immediately after the November 7th meeting at Chapel Hill, as she ex pects by that time to have many ad ditional suggestions for gifts, the need for which is described this year as imperative, since many service men are remaining for long periods in hospitals. Presiding over the Red Cross session in Roxboro was Dr. Robert E. Long, chapter chairman, and a new representative at the meeting was C. C. Jackson, repre senting the Roxboro Rotary club. General reports at the Roxboro meeting indicate that Red Cross work, instead of falling off, has it anything, been increased by peace time problems, asserted Dr. Long. ®he CoutieutEimes All Ready, But Not Yet Hooked Up Is Oxygen Tent ! I II in —I I ftjfl MWik imbb imi * 11 ill in llpllll ■ Roxboro Exchange club, officials and special guests of which are shown above grouped around the oxy gen tent that the club presented last month to Community Hospital, is anxiously awaiting installa tion of Ihe tent, a factor dependent upon the arrival cl a workman from a Greensboro surgical supply house from which the tent was purchased. First delay, after the official presentation, was caused by postponement of shipment of the oxygen itself. The oxygen is here now and that difficulty is out of the way. Those in the picture, reading left to right, are: Mack Clark, of the Durham club, R. P. Burns, Mayor S. G. Winstead and R. L. Harris, guests, Mrs. Guy J. Timberlake and Mrs. Louise Foushce Long, cf the hospital staff, Ralph Tucker, Arthur Kiinmcr aral .1. 11. Lewis, club officials, all of Roxboro. Regular meeting of the club was held last night, but no formal program was presented. Selection Os New Court Clerk Not Expected Until End Os This Week Second Sunday In November Set As Drive Dale Lonarfiiirst Baptists To Start I Drive Then For Recreation - Education Building. . j i Fuller details of plans for con | struction of a $15,000 Service Men’s ! Memorial; building at Longhurst Baptist church to be used for edu | cational and recreational purposes and as. a Sunday school building, ■ were revealed today by the pastor, 1 the Rev. Auburn Hayes, who reports! 1 that Sunday, November 11. will be j date for beginning of the financial ■ campaign. ; . I Some contributions have already l ! been received, according to the Rev. ) Mr. Hayes, who says his congrega- I tion plans the structure as a me morial to their young men who have | served in World War 11. The j building, to be forty by seventy feet {in size, will be known as a train ! ing and educational center for ! youth of the community, and will jbe of brick. It will be the right j wing of a. projected new' church and until a new church can be included jin the plans.the recreational-educa | tional building will be joined to | the present church in the form of lan annex. It is not expected, however, that a new church building, proper, will be arranged for or undertaken un til the educational building is completed. The educational build ing is expected to be completed be fore next Summer and' it will be designed to meet a three point pro gram, for physical, social and spir itual needs of youth. The first floor will contain a dining room assembly room with a seating ca pacity of five hundred. The. first floor will also have movable partitions to form Sunday school rooms. Shower baths will likewise be on this floor, while on the second is planned a combina tion reception center and library living room, and a game room. The Rev. Mr. Hayes, who came to the Longhurst church two months ago from First Baptist church, Pyote, Texas, has had much experience in working with young people and is a sincere believer in the necessity of providing adequate recreational, social and educational outlets for them. —, —o At Saint Mark's The Rev. Henry Nutt Parsley, of Duke University, Durham,- will preach Sunday morning at eleven o'clock at Saint Mark's Episcopal church, where Holy Communion will also be observed. The Rev. Mr. Parsley, Episcopal minister for stu dents in Duke University, has fre quently visited in Roxboro and has preached a number of times here I since the Rev. Rufus J. Womble, | formerly rector, resigned to accept a parish in Richmond, Va. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA Judire Leo Carr. Now In San ford, May Name Appointee Friday or Saturday. Naming of a, new Clerk of Superior Court for Person county to succeed the late R. A. (Dicky Billlock, whose death occurred Monday morning, is net expected to take place until to- ) morrow or Saturday, it was. reported ! here today. The appointment, when made, will come from Judge Leo Carr, of Burlington, resident judge |of this district, who is now holding • court in Sanford, Lee county, and who indicated the: delay in appoint ment yesterday, in a telephone con versation with a Democratic party leader. Mentioned as applicants for the appointment have been at least three ! citizens, A. M. Burns, Jr., of Rox boro. an attorney now with the Fed eral Government in a claims service division; Kenneth Oakley, of Ra jleigh, formerly of Roxboro, and | Lewis YVagstaff. connected with a Roxboro warehouse. General policiy is recommendation of at least one candidate by the bar association. Tire office of the clerk is, in the meantime closed and will remain closed until an appointment is made, since neither assistant, nor deputy clerks are authorized to keep it open in event of the death of a clerk. Present deputy is Miss Nancy Bul lock, niece of the late clerk. It is understood that strong representa tions are being made for retention of Miss Bullock as deputy and that quite a few persons have suggested her appointment as clerk. Office of clerk carries with it the powers of judge of juvenile court: Powers of the clerk have been con siderably enlarged in the past sev eral years and some knowledge of legal techniques as well as of book keeping is expected of applicants, . Wallace Woods Stale Director The State Association of Com-; mercial Organization Secretaries, j meeting Monday in Raleigh, heard addresses by Governor Cherry and a number of other Tar Heel leaders, elected officers, and wound up. with their annual banquet that featured Edmund H.. Harding, Washington. N. C„ humorist, and accordionist. Officers elected to serve in 1945-46 are Janies W. Butler of Goldsboro, president; Harry Barlow of Greens boro, vice-president; and James E. Gaither of Hickory, secretary-treas urer. Directors elected are Charles Me ddlers of Kinston, Harry S. Kritsz See WOODS Page 8 New Chevrolet On Display Saturday The new Chevrolet for 1946 will be on display at the Tar Heel | ■ Chevrolet! Co., Saturday, November 3rd., stated officials of.that com- : pany this week. Everyone is invited to come by j the showrooms of this company!' and see the new car. The show room will be open all day Saturday. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945 Tobacco Market sales here on Monday on a net basis were reported as 2:5.;.7J)U pounds at $46.64. while on Tuesday 122,460 pounds averaged $46.69 and on Wednesday pounds were at 124,074 for an average of $47.06. highest average yet quoted here for the season. Slump in pounds is bused on the fact that many farmers are turning to hay gathering and other activities. Quality of the leaf is, however, constantly better. Lag Still Seen In War Fund As Deadline Passes Over $1,600 Still Needed To .Meet Quota of $10,050. $1,675.18 is needed to complete the Person and Roxboro quota of SIOOSO for the United Community War fund, according to reports re ceived this morning from Miss Dor othy Taylor; of Roxboro Chamber of commerce,, who says that at least one more report is needed. from a unit of tile Woman’s division. Contributions are still coming in. however, and the campaign will con tinue in a final effort to reach the quota: One of the previously unre ported groups is the Theater unit, responsible so far for collection of $191.76. Other breakdowns are: special gifts, $3,472.50; business dis trict, $942.48; Woman's division. $740.72; white schools. $1 820.30; Ne gro schools, $683.85 and industrial ! division, $464.97. Released this morning by Dr. Rob ert E. Long, USO chairman, whose agency is one sharing in nation wide contributions from the War Fund, is a letter of commendation Horn F. Moret, SKDIc, USNR, NaVy Pre-Flight school. Chapel Hill, thanking the Roxboro USO Service Center for hospitalities extended ov er the past several weeks. . The letter reads: “In behalf of the sailors from Navy Pre Flight School, Chapel Hall, that spend a few week-ends in Rox ! boro 2 wish to extend to .you- and the charming girls of tire U. S. O. i Our gratitude for the courtesy ex tended to us. "I take advantage of this oppor tunity to congratulate you and your ■ associates for the fine work you are lining in entertaining the service men visiting your town. There is no doubt that sailors, soldiers and marines that at some time or the other stopped at Roxboro will al ways remember that lovely town of i yours." Co-chairmen for the United War fund drive in Roxboro and Person | county are J. A, Long, Jr., and Jerry L. Hester, who are in complete agreement in contunuing the drive. :If the fiuota for this campaign is | not reached here it will be the first I time in this period that any war inspired drive here has failed of oversubscription. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Pre-Hallowe en Pranksters All But Set Fire To Home | Home Os Mrs. A. M. Loq« Endangered. Many Ex plosives Thrown Into Streets. Little disturbance, outside of un necessary and unlawful explosion of fire-crackers, particularly in Main street areas .marked Roxboro's ob servation of H.allow’e’en last night but fire-crackers were almost the cause of a residence blaze night be fore last when one of the explosiives went off close to the home of Mrs. A. M. Long, Lamar street, and burn ed up a shrub near the front door. Mrs. Long, who said police were called, expressed the opinion that the house would have been set afire if she and other occupants had not been at home to smother the burn ing bush. As it was, she kept watch last night on her porch until late hours. It is thought that the offend ing cracker was thrown by a small boy. Many crackers were thrown in to streets to be run over by passing automobiles. No formal downtown recreation program was planned by the City, but many young spooks and not a i few older pranksters made up as | ghosts, hobgoblins and ragamuffins | and paraded the streets until lute | hours. Fourth Quarter Conference Will Begin On Sunday Rev. H. (’. Smilh Will Be Speaker At Webb’s Chapel This Sunday. ) Fourth quarterly conference for ;the Brooksdale Methodist Charge will be held in Webb's Chapel church. Sunday November 4. The District Superintendent, Rev. H. C. Smith of Durham, will preach at i eleven o'clock and hold the business ! session, of the conference imme ; diately after the sermon. Dinner will be served by the Webb's Chap el. j A good delegation from ; all churches of the Brooksdale charge is expected to be present for . the i meeting. This will be the filial service for Webb's Chapel Church before the meeting of the annual i conference in Goldsboro, Nov 7. ! Final service- for Allensville church for this conference year will jbe conducted Sunday afternoon at three o'clock and closing service for J Brookedale church will be eon | ducted at seven o'clock in the ev ' ening. Visitors are given a special | welcome to attend, i The Brooksdale Charge is closing j another very successful year and I reports are expected both for the Quarterly conference and the Aii ! nual conference, according to the (Rev. E. C, Maness,‘pastor, who will i preach in all of his churches be fore the end of the conference year. - o-- —-: Largest Crowds Al USO Center Largest USO crowd since the 89th Division of months ago, was experi enced last week in Roxboro at the Service Center, according to Die Robert E. Long, chairman of the Board of directors who said yester day that attendance of Sunday was largely composed of men from the Fourth Division, Camp Bittner, anti from the Pre-Flight school. Chapel Hill. Program for the coming week-end j will have Junior Hostesses of Group Four in charge of Sunday night j supper, with. Misses Ethel Newell j Winstead and Mary Alice Thornton j as chairmen. Expected here on Sun- ) day afternoon at two-thirty is a' group of service men from General Hospital at Camp Butner. Similar! groups are expected on each Sun- ' day afternoon in November and! See CFOWDS Page 8 ■ . -o-—-—• Has Discharge Pfc. L. H. Clayton, Jr., son of Mr. j and Mrs. L. H. Clayton, Sr., of Rox boro, recently received his dis charge from the Army, after serv ing two years in the states and eleven months in the European theatre. He was awarded a Campaign Medal with four Bronze Stars, and Good Conduct Modal. Progress Reported On Locker Plant Few Lockers Still Available. Building To Be Completed In December. The Person and Roxboro freezer locker, work on which has been in progress for the past several weeks, is expected to be completed at some time during the month of December, according to reports received here today. Tlie building is now completely closed in and insulation: material men expect to begin their part of the work in a lew days. Part of the machinery is on hand and the re mainder is expected shortly, it is: said. When completed the plant will have a large pork ■■curing room to enable farmers to cure hog meat at any season of the year. Temperature Miss Wightman Accepted By All Three Libraries Librarian Still Plans To Come Here By December 1. Miss Dorothy Wightman, of N;I --sonyille, Ohio, recently elected es Person County Librarian, has also been elected, by library bo ■: u„ m Orange and Caswell counties to serve as tri-county librarian, ac cording to information received here yesterday from Miss Marjorie Beale, of Raleigh, secretary to the State Library commission, who says that Miss Wightman expects to be gin her duties on December Ist. To be held shortly after the arri val ol Miss Wightman will be a tri county union meeting of the library boards of the respective institutions with which Miss Wightman will work. Date and place of the meet ing have not been announced, but the gathering is expected to take place in Roxboro. Miss Wightman, a woman of con siderable experience in rural li brary work, is now librarian at Nei sbnville. She is a native of Minni sota, but has also had library won; in New’ York and Pennsylvania. Her first visit to the tri-county depart ment of Orange-Person and Cas well was made several Weeks ago and the first stopping point was Roxboro. where members of the Person Library board at once agreed to elect her. She succeeds Mrs. Ethel Walker Whetstone, of Hills boro, who resigned after her hus band returned from overseas ser vice. RETURN TO CITY Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff and Mrs. Glen Brandon, official delegates to the Welfare and Human Relations institute in Raleigh the first of the week, have returned to Roxboro. Ten From Person In Oxford Orphanage Person and Roxboro chairman for; the annual appeal for funds for the Masonic orphanage at Oxford is J. Brodie Riggsbee, who said today that the drive will begin this week and that letters to many prospec tive contributors will be mailed soon. Oxford orphanage, according to Riggsbee, now has ten children from Roxboro and Person county living in it, although only two of the ten are identified as the chil dren of Masons. This fact, says Riggsbee, provides effective illus tration of the fact that the orphan age, although a Masonic institution and run by Masons, by no means confines its institutional care to the children of Masons. Head of the orphanage is C. K. Proctor, who reports that the cost per year for each child is estimated at $440 per year, whioh means that the ten children from Person on a cost basis alone, require $4,400 a : , ■ ,'X Fatal Highway J Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN IMI DON’T HELP INCREASE IT! DRIVE CAREFULLY , in this room will be kept just above tlie freezing point. There will be a ! chill room to permit farmers and butchers to thoroughly chill and age all types of fresh meat just as it is chilled and aged by packing plants before going on the local market. Tlie plant will also have a quick freeze room to quick-freeze meats, vegetables, berries and fruits at a I low’ temperature of 20 degrees below •zero, or lower, if necessary. When j meals and vegetables are frozen at iu very low tenf|>eratui'e, ice particles (dp not form:jii the product. Frozen ; foods w ill then be placed in individ -1 ual lockers in another room to con- See LOCKER Page 9 Orphanage Leader *4.. ■ •.• ~ ' . .1. BRODIE KIGGSBEE Motorists Urged To Fix Lights i Patrolman Hudgins Stopping Those With Defective Liehts. Inspection of light of Person and i Roxboro motorists is now being I made by State Highway Patrolman | John Hudgins, who yesterday is- Isued an appeal for united assistance : from the driving public, it being : the opinion of Hudgins that many motorists can save themselve con siderable trouble by having their lights checked in advance at gar rages witli which they regularly ;do business. | Tlie checking by Patrolman Hud gins. which includes both front and ) rear lights, has been in progress (for the past, several days, it was. ! revealed, and motorists w’hose lights | are too bright, too dim, or simply j non-existaut, are being stopped ) and ordered by the Patrolman to | hate immediate repairs. When - See MOTORISTS Page 8 : year for maintenance, foofif and • clothing. The ten children from here who are at the Oxford institution are: Edward D. and Fannie Lee Clfcyton, Raymond Denny, Leroy and Odelia Dixon, Mildred and Gladys Berger son, Pauline. Ida Rachel and Ivory Russell Smith. More children from here are in the orphanage this year than last. Members of the Person Lodge 111 committee associated with Chair man Riggsbee are: Clyde Bowe»> Osbey Gentry and Walter Rmtth*• all of whom will be glad to cooper* ate with- Mr. Riggsbee in receiyijav contributions, either personally, at by mall. Annual visit of Oxford Singing Class is being omitted this yeay fefcJ? cause <Jf transportation dtfsto*alf? ties, but it is hoped that thelf trips can be resumed next year, MgiiiMg Riggsbee, who may be People's Bank, or at hie . .£• t- & " * \ NUMBER 96
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